#ship assumptions

[moonylouwho]

hypothetically, if a show had a character who got his girlfriend pregnant when they were teenagers and married her because of the catholic church and they spent majority of their married years not even in the same country and then she left him and their son so he moved them to another state and started a new life there but then his wife returned and they reconnected but then she died and years later he got a girlfriend but had panic attacks at the insinuation that they were married or that she was the mother of his son so they broke up and he got a new girlfriend some odd years later who happened to be an ex-nun which led to him not being able to ‘get it up’ for her and he uncovered a whole reservoir of catholic guilt he didn’t know he had and then he saw his dead wife’s doppelgänger in a store and he started an emotional affair with her because he was still trying to find someone to replace his dead wife and not finding someone for love oh and through all of that he was co-parenting his son with his male best friend, would it be fair to assume he’s queer?

[hello-eeveev]

I adored the scene between Orym and the Wildmother. I thought it was beautiful. they cannot make me hate either of them. but of course I must take it upon myself to address some responses to it that I’ve seen floating about, especially bc the way some people talk about emotions makes me concerned:

1) an appeal to emotion is not inherently manipulative. it’s a normal part of communication, and treating it as “playing dirty” will negatively affect yourself and your relationships with others. trust me. you are allowed to express your feelings, and other people are allowed to take your feelings into account and adjust their behavior. it’s actually a good thing! that’s healthy communication!

2) “see you soon” is not a death wish, nor is it a firm belief that he will die in the upcoming battle. it’s an acknowledgement that on the grand, cosmic scale of time, their separation is only for a short while. I suppose it would depend on the belief in an afterlife of the people around you, but have you never heard this sentiment expressed? not once?

[fabled-lady-twilla]

How it feels being a ShigaDeku shipper in this fandom. Why is everyone so mean? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[hersterical]

I have a special place in my heart for the ships and fandoms that aren’t MINE but make lovely tourist destinations

[beauregardlionett]

did i rant to my friends about dorian and orym just to be called a simp? yes i did. and i'll do it again.

these two characters? consume my waking thoughts. because just fucking think about this from a timeline/literary point of view for a second with me.

orym lost his husband and his father-in-law (who he always calls dad because he didn't have a dad growing up) in a violent attack on his leader a while ago and whatever magic was used to kill them kept them dead - no reviving magic worked to bring them back. in the space of a single attack, he lost two of the most important people in his life, and now he's a widow who still mourns and loves in equal measure even while far from home trying to save the world. he loves even though he's scared of losing again.

dorian is a runaway heir to a title he never really wanted, a musician for himself, a charlatan hiding behind an easy smile, who has really only ever wanted to see the world in his own time and make real friends for once in his life. and he did that! all on his own! he was with the group at the beginning of the campaign but then they ran into his older brother who was in trouble and needed to lay low and dorian went with him, falling back on old instincts that family by blood comes first. he ran from the group and from the foundations he was building with them. because dorian has only ever run from the things that scare him. but now he's back, re-traced his frightened footsteps toward the daunting promise of tomorrow - not yet with the group, we're getting his side of the story first. and he even said it himself, that he ran from the group and now he's not sure why he did it, why he left, when he stands here now and realizes everything he wanted was already in front of him.

they have sending stones, a once a day chance to say something to each other in 25 words or less. they've been using them, keeping each other updated on where they are, that they're still alive, and kindling this flame even without dorian at the table, without even seeing each other, and liam has been carrying this torch alone for 78 episodes but damn it the flame is still lit regardless!

and orym always updates on their progress and location first, and with whatever words he has left he drops in a sentiment to remind dorian that they still care - that orym still cares. and orym is practical through and through, he's a strategist so he always always always uses his words wisely because he's so fucking limited by this spell but the last message he sent? he repeated himself, he admitted a weakness, he faltered.

he told dorian where they were. he asked if dorian could come their way. he admitted to struggling while his voice broke. he asked again but in a different way if dorian could come their way. he ended the message with the most heartbreaking "fuck, i miss you," i have ever heard in my life.

orym, the man who messaged dorian 52 episodes ago and said "glad you're not here, wish you were anyway." because they're constantly in danger, and he wouldn't wish that on dorian, but he still aches to have him near. orym, the man who confessed 13 episodes ago during a trial with his friends that he's lonely, that he misses dorian and sometimes he thinks it's okay and sometimes he doesn't - because he was married and is still mourning and how dare he have feelings for someone else? how dare he move on even when his husband would WANT him to be happy again? he indicated dorian was missed by everyone in three of his previous messages before the trial, before finally shifting to 'I, orym, me - it's me who misses you'.

and dorian, the one who replied to a message orym sent him with "stay steadfast, sending you fairer winds" in the most longing tone i have EVER heard. dorian, who kissed orym's forehead when they parted ways but that is the closest they have come to acknowledging whatever is between them. dorian, who has been to orym's home between exu and c3 and met orym's mom and knows about orym's husband.

when orym died 58 episodes ago, he went limp and the sending stone slipped out of his hand because he was trying to message dorian before he died, before he ran out of words and breath. before he was revived, there was a moment he stood in the beyond and saw his husband and he told orym "you're not done," and orym said "i really wish i could stay," and then his husband said "i'll still be here," and orym said, heartbroken, "oh, i miss you so bad."

he told dorian, "i've really missed you," and "fuck, i miss you." i miss you is orym's way of saying i love you.

they're so close. they are so close. and orym fully died 19 episodes after dorian left, but he was revived and then never told dorian via sending that happened. part of me wants dorian to find out and the other part hopes he never has to feel like he failed orym by leaving. because nothing could have changed that from happening, not even dorian.

they are so close to reuniting, orym has needed dorian back for WEEKS and he's so close. i'm begging them to hold on so they can hold each other again.

and, again, from a literary point of view, you know the wildest part about all of this?

none of it is scripted.

[ninja-knox-ur-sox-off]

I support feral girls and their slightly repressed feral mentors who enjoy naps

[virune]

i forget that there are folks who genuinely get pressed over fictional ships. imagine thinking about people kissing and getting mad about it, except the people don't actually exist. i spend so much time focusing on what i enjoy and having fun that i legitimately forgot i live in a world where this happens regularly

[antiadvil]

When I get home I need to put all the weekly ship stats for the year into a spreadsheet or something bc even though we’ve never hit number one we’ve been consistently on the list since April and a lot of the ships that have been beating us have been much more seasonal 👀

[aroaceleovaldez]

out of curiosity, because i like random statistics and data collection - would anybody be interested if i made a blog in the style of those "do you like this song" blogs except it runs polls on submitted riordanverse ships? like people can submit whatever riordanverse ship and then people vote on it and then we tally up all the stats to see like, fandom's most liked or disliked ship(s), most neutral ships, most voted ships, ships with the best and worst ratios of like-dislike, etc etc.

[bbyshifts]

I love my F/O(S/O) so much. It hurts to not be with him like…

I physically crave him. I hope I am not the only one like that! ;-;

[ace-and-ranty]

Murderbot contradicting itself is all over the series, of course, but my favorite continues to be the short span of time between "MY FRIEND IS DEAD!" and "Bots don't have friends, absolutely not, not ever, I was never friends with ART or any bot else ever."

[foxett]

suntan family..

Using your designs because for the life of me i couldn't design my own :3

[reallyneedsalife]

"there's no platonic explanation for this" is coward talk

let people love each other in new ways, let characters love each other in news ways.

putting your life on the line for someone doesn't mean you're romantically in love with them, that's feeble at best. sure, maybe they're locking lips, but until it's canon and happens on screen they're best friends in my heart.

[pterygoidwalk]

gonna be real it's hard to not take kimjean hate personally considering 90% of the kimjean content that exists is from me lol

[jealousmartini]

I am a firm believer that it's okay for your man to be a turn-off sometimes. Not too much tho. And this reminds me of how I came back to youtube, making my first appearance since 2022 through a random livestream.

In the live, I revealed that not only are me and my best friend whom I swore I was not in love with for years, but I had also lost my virginity one night and this was literally after Rodrigo had done a disastrously cringe reference in the middle of the stream

[Rodrigo] "...isn't that the sound where a bunch of people were dancing like this?.."

[Lucia] "..no stop that😦. What the fuck are you doing you turn-off☹️." *throws several pillows at him*

[Rodrigo] *He laughs, shielding himself and continues dancing*

[Lucia] *pulls an absolutely disgusted face and chucks another cushion at him, turns to camera* "yknow what😐, I actually can't believe THAT😒 is the same man who took my virginity last night"

[Rodrigo] *He finally quits dancing and walks up to his seat, reading the live chat* "Lmaoo and your not getting it back eitherrr😝😋"

[Lucia] *Punches his arm jokingly,* "You know what, I should probably clarify that I am a firm believer that it's okay for your man to be a turn-off sometimes." *pauses and glares at him from the side of her eye before emphasising* "SOMEtimes"

This was to my 9.8 million followers after not showing my face since 2022 so we had an irresistible glow up, only irregularly posting bits and peaces of art on tumblr and very rarely on tiktok. Consider this our official return to youtube. And the 3rd biggest shock of 2024.

our fans predicted we were going to end up getting together

[jetkostorm]

as a jetko fluff enthusiast personally the fluffy parts of jetko just would just not hit for me if they didnt have their regular canon angst setup. and i feel like the rare times where they ARE given fluff it is under the inevitable context of angst which just makes it hit harder dykwim. even in AUs where its mostly fluff it hits that like. they suffered in another world to have wholesome moments in this one . do you feel me

i love them so much bc they are DEVASTATINGG so every fluffy moment they have is either in the context of impending angst or angst they overcame either in that life or in a previous one and it is so so delicious