#shipping's cool and fun honestly

[purgatory-jar]

Who's excited for tonight's episode???? I am!!!

A lil bit of buck/tommy as a good luck charm for tonight!

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[sysig]

They’re both so cute, what’s up with that (Patreon)

[pucciverse]

When I knock on your gates, would you let me in? I just wanna stay, stay for a bit

Textless version under the cut

[hexgleph]

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[archaalen]

Damn, I'm glad I don't care who Ezra ends up with.

[courtney-deserved-better]

gen 5 ships i starting shipping because of the actual season:

rajbow, prillie

gen 5 ships i started shipping because i went “lol what if... wait actually”:

nichelle/axel, damien/zee (???)

[manic-pixie-dream-dude]

Ngl... while I do understand the strength of a certain ship that is canon, narratively-wise, Lunter hits stronger for me. Like the idea of star-crossed lovers constantly reincarnated and yet facing the same big bad each time who keeps them separate? That's some tasty shit right there 🍲

YEA!!!!! Devouring that shit up!!

From the visual contrast to the parallels between them and Caleb/Evelyn, they're!!! Such a fun pair!! Like I could make my arguments for lunter all I want but in the end, it's just good! it's got so much appeal in many aspects and is SO compelling to me personally. I like em lots. Lunter my beloved.

And yes, same here! I can respect Lumity as an amazing win (plus how unabashedly pride flags and queerness were shown in the latest ep!) while still finding Luz and Hunter to have a much more enjoyable relationship to mess around with in my fanon worldscape.

[mean-scarlet-deceiver]

Hi! Huge fan of your fics, kinda new to Tumblr. Do you ship any of the engines (if you don’t mind me asking?) 

Hey, thanks for dropping a line!

I was a non-shipper for quite a while, then I started dabbling. I'm open to lots of different (and conflicting) ships but some of the ones that I'm most committed to are:

Thomas/Bertie

Edward/BoCo

Henry/Bear

Percy/Harold

Duck/Donald

Douglas/Toad/Oliver

Mavis/Salty

Also, if you trawl my archives long enough, you’ll see occasional references to Toby/Diesel and James/Porter. And you might wonder: Wait, are they f***in' serious? The official answer is that the former is just for a lark (specifically, for a dare)… but the latter I am indeed pretty serious about. ;)

[aro-aizawa]

seemingly the only way i can ever get into any new thing is if i spontaneously decide to watch/read it

[saltinesinsoup]

100$ guitar w free shipping… you are the temptress…

[yamikawaii]

im just really tired honestly

[ei-mugi]

i enjoyed getting heated over something silly for fun but im just now seeing some past distress ppl had over the poll on the blog & i feel a little bad haha i dont actually have any problem with ii or its fans like ive said i was one myself in the past

[singsweetmelodies]

Why are you posting Carlando and even Piarlos content if you don't like Carlos? Math ain't mathing...

well, firstly, anon, this is tumblr dot com, not maths class. i've said repeatedly, and i will say it again, that i reserve the right to be as hypocritical and insane as i want here. after all, it's tumblr - if i can't be insane and hypocritical here, then where can i?

example: anyone who watches my blog at all during a race week will know that i am NO max fan. not in the slightest. and yet i will occasionally reblog maxiel fic recs. why? well, because they're quite often quite well-written. at the end of the day, i'm a fangirl and also a bisexual disaster, so if there's a well-written gay fanfic, the chances are relatively high that i will read and enjoy it. also: i think there's quite a significant difference between fic!max (who i occasionally enjoy) and driver!max (who i despise quite passionately.) fic!max has a lot of background and nuance that can make for fascinating characterisation, and as a writer, i just enjoy that.

now for carlos specifically: please let it be known that i do not hate him the way i hate max. not even close. i am, however, a dedicated chirlie (charles girlie) and anyone who gets in the way of charles doing well is automatically in my bad books. i do try to be at least a little reasonable about it, though, and yes i absolutely do realise that a lot of major fuck-ups this season were ferrari's, not carlos' (see: silverstone 2022.) but yeah, unfortunately the way carlos has handled a lot of interviews this year really rubbed me up the wrong way, and i read one too many comparisons of carlos girlies calling him more talented than charles as well. which.... babe, no.

like i said at the start, i am fully aware that i'm a hypocrite lmao. but i'm not HERE to be unbiased. we are watching a sport - everyone is biased towards their favourites, and i'm not going to apologise for that.

and as for carlando and piarlos - i treat them the same way as i would maxiel. carlos might not be on my favourites list as a driver, but he's an interesting character to explore in fic. i am at the end of the day a writer, and i like interesting characters to explore, so yes, i am quite happy to post carlando or piarlos or very very occasionally even charlos content (because akira is the best and might convert me one day. we'll see.)

anyway! the last thing i wanted to say to you, anon, is just a gentle reminder again of the PURPOSE of fandom. it is an escape from real life, somewhere where we can come to have fun. the same rules and restrictions and - dare i say it - morals that we use irl do not apply here. they just don't! fandom should be about what makes one happy, and nobody really has the right to police that, i don't think.

so tl;dr - anon, i am here to do whatever it is that makes me happy in that moment. if that's carlando and/or piarlos, then that's what i'll do. if you have a problem with that, then i'm happy to point you in the direction of the Unfollow button, lmao - curate your experience! see what you want to see. have fun!

x

[transingthoseformers]

the urge to draw a lot of the RID-adopter's ocs but we know very well that it'd be an arduous process

[demonsfate]

You just reminded me, I used to ship JinNina bc I thought they looked hot 😔 don't judge me lmao (It was during T6), but even then I could tell something was obviously wrong with Jin's character

It's okay! I don't judge people for their ships! (As long as it's not,,, you know. Something weird like Lars x Jin. Then I judge hard) BUT - I frankly don't care what anyone ships for whatever reason. If you wanna ship two characters because you think they're hot, go right ahead lol.

Whenever I complain about shippers here, it's never concerning anyone who's having innocent fun. In fact, that's exactly what I want people to have with ships! But it's more so I've noticed the fandom has a bad shipping problem where there are "toxic shippers." It's when I see people say "JIN'S SOOO IN LOVE WITH XIAO, IT'S SO OBVIOUS. YET PEOPLE STILL WANNA SHIP HIM WITH HWOARANG?! WHAT!!" Or people actively commenting on ship fanart and being like "I don't ship this, she would never betray her boyfriend!" When their ship in question has never been canon. And of course, what I was just complaining about, these shippers actively lying about canon friendships just because they don't want the possibility of anyone else DARE shipping something that isn't their ship!

It blows my mind that people like this still exist. I thought we would've left them behind in 2008. And I know toxic shippers have always existed, anyway. Even now. But liiike... I thought they were more of a minority. Tek is really the first fandom I've been in a long while where I notice people can get nasty and over personal about fictional, noncanon, relationships.

Anyway, as long as it's not anything harmful, (no, shipping something that isn't canon isn't harmful. Shipping somebody who's already paired with another character because you prefer that ship isn't harmful. Nor is shipping two people just because they're hot) - ship what you want, have fun with it, and don't stress out about what others ship. Like it's all just make believe in the end.

[quakiebaka]

congrats to damon maitsu for being very bi but also aroace (no I have not stopped thinking about him lol)