#shiptalking

[blonde-and-cat-suc]

Adora x Lonnie has that yearning from the other side of the battlefield thing that people claim C//A has, but absolutely does not.

It's a shame they have so little fics (maybe I'll fix that one day), most of the ones I found in their tag was Lonnie being jealous of Catra because she had a crush on Adora. Do no get me started on the fic I saw that featured Adonnie as an abusive relationship that Catra had to save Adora from.

For sureeee I’m in love with Adonnie 🩷 As a concept, mostly, because I get why it’s difficult to put these two into practice (Lonnie is a character by the skin of her teeth). I wrote Adonnie only once before and… God, it was nice. It’s hard not to want to see these two together because of the respect they’d no doubt have for each other as people, soldiers, veterans, (as She-Ra)…

Absolutely swing some fics my way (links in inbox or DMs) if anyone wants to share their Adora ships >:)c

It would really make my day to read some sweet, narratively compelling Adonnie! Write those fics, Anon! Be the change you wanna see in the world!

[flowerhead-fh]

Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, GUYS.

I was watching Brooklyn 99 (a show on Netflix, if you have Netflix, watch it, that's an order. It's an amazing show, and you will love it) and I always wondered, if not ship Jake with Amy, then with whom? I was just rewatching the Pimento episode (where Adrian Pimento is first introduced) and it hit me like a TRUCK.

Adrian and Jake, now when I say this ship, what I want you to think of is filthy. This ship would not be for the faint of heart in my head. I mean it probably by default has at least 40% more smut than the average ship, and also the angst potential, the whump, and the hurt/comfort. So many scenes with Jake having a knife against his neck, and if you want more of Jake being tied up, threatened, traumatized, and possibly tortured, then you probably would also like this ship (And I'm not saying Adrian would necessarily be doing all this stuff to Jake, but 'cause of all the mafia stuff he was mixed up in, it's more likely to happen to Jake when he is with Adrian.). I LOVE IT. I haven't checked AO3 for it yet, but if I don't find anything, it's YOUR MISSION to write it here, tag me in it, or send me the link in DM's.

I'll rb this post after I search up this ship on AO3, so stay tuned

Thank you for coming to my ShipTalktm

[mostly-mundane-atla]

harley poe's songs are great! What's your favorite album?

I like Have a Great Life, but if I'm honest a lot of that has to do with the album art lol. It's so ugly but in a way that's fun to look at, and it matches the vibe of the music so well. Have a Great Life also has most of my favorites on it (i think the only song of theirs I'm really into that isn't on it is "What's a Devil to Do?"), so it has that going for it to.

Someone's gonna take this as a recommendation (and I do recommend wholeheartedly) so while I'm here: Amigo the Devil and Bridge City Sinners have a similar folksy vibe, if a little less crusty due to being closer to murderfolk than straight up folk punk. Bridge City Sinners have some really good witchy and occult inspired songs (like "Virgin Sacrifice" and "Witch's Wrath") and Amigo the Devil is a little more grounded and introspective with his work (like "Hell and You" and "Another Man's Grave"). Jet would totally be into both of them as well.

[whatplanetdididial]

praise be unto @earlgreymon for giving us a fun and simple way to contribute to Odaiba day!!!!!!!!! ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

okay but like no kidding, pls message me let’s be frieeeeends I don’t know how to describe myself besides saying I’m a lil awkward and shy... but I like digimon adventure a lot and I promise I’m nice!!!!!!!!

lol at this abomination of lines. so many ships, not enough sea

ugh I know as soon as I post this I’m gonna remember 928474 other recommendations but my brain is friiiiied

posting this bc I wanna know everyone’s hp houses 🙃

[rarepair-haven]

Is Error/Dream/Cross a rarepair? (if so, I call it Delusion)

yep! pretty much all poly ships in this fandom are rarepairs, tbh!

we dont currently have a name for cross/dream/error, but delusion is one of our dream/dust names!

also how have we never considered these three together they’d be perfect what the Heck

-mod fae

[ordinaryxxgirl]

I know I have at least six or seven more drafts to do, but...If anyone wouldn’t mind talking shippy with me, I’m really in the mood for romantic stuff...Or smutty. I’m not picky.

[robocracker]

i see d*stiel trending, i immediately start running-

[bayside-smoking-blues]

JyuJiro AU where Jiro gets a fake ID to go to some gay club with his friends. Jyuto sees him there and thinks he's attractive and the fact that he's a minor doesn't even cross Jyuto's mind bc to be in that place guys should be at least 20yo. So Jyuto approaches and flirts with him, and Jiro responds positively. Jyuto ends up taking Jiro home and fucking him. Jyuto goes to work the next day and Jiro leaves. The week passes and Jiro can't take Jyuto out of his head, so he ends up going to the same club the next weekend hoping to meet him. Well, he does meet him, but Jyuto is cold to him and acts uninterested. Jiro insists and Jyuto smirks and asks if he was his first and if Jiro is in love with him now. Jiro has no reaction, but Jyuto just laughs and tells Jiro to forget about him, that he was just playing around and he's not one to settle down with a partner. So Jiro asks for just one more night with him, which Jyuto hesitates but ends up accepting bc he thinks Jiro is cute. They go to Jyuto's place again and get it on. Afterwards, this time, Jiro asks a lot about Jyuto's life, and Jyuto answers most of his questions without thinking twice so Jiro learns that he's a cop in Yokohama, he's 29 years old, he has ties with Yakuza, etc. But Jyuto decides to ask him things too, and Jiro is so into the conversation that he forgets Jyuto thinks he's over 20. He ends up talking about school and revealing his age and Jyuto gets furious. He pretty much kicks Jiro out of his place.

A few days later Jiro shows up at the police station looking for Jyuto bc he wants to apologize. Jyuto is still mad at him and tells him about how what he had done was dangerous for both of them, that it could have ended Jyuto's career even. Jiro apologizes more and more, and tells Jyuto that he won't be going to those kinds of places anymore... as long as Jyuto gave him a chance and they started to date. Jyuto was lowkey shocked by the proposition and after they talk more and Jyuto notices Jiro wasn't kidding about going to other clubs to fuck other guys Jyuto ends up accepting, although not even he knows why. But there's a few conditions like keeping their relationship a secret, as well as the way they first met. So they start dating. At first Jyuto tries to act uninterested so Jiro would give up on him asap, but soon he notices he's getting attached. Their relationship evolves from there.

[bungou-stray-controversy]

aaaahhh im sorry if this seems all awkward, but,,,quite honestly, ive been wanting to look for rarer ships to like (which is hard because of everyone pushing two certain ships in everyone’s faces) since ive mostly just been sticking to dazatsu, as it was my very first ship. and i love it with all of my heart, its a comfort to me! but i also want to show appreciation to the ships that dont get very much attention, yknow? i hope this makes sense shdjsdbd

Are you asking for ship recommendations? That's not awkward at all! We're glad you came asking us.

The general policy of this blog is that everything goes and we don't want to shun any ship at all but naturally, we can't name every single ship in existence. It also depends a lot on what kind of ship dynamics would you like to see.

If you're looking for the rarest of the rare, we advise to look for crossovers. They are so rare they're not even allowed in the rarepair week! Interesting kind of policy, isn't it? This area is without any limits and you can either look for someone working on it or even come up with your own very original crossover ideas!

Another very often ignored area would then be oc ships. Many people in the fandom have a great number of witty, likable and brilliant ocs but only a much smaller number of people is open about their ships with canon characters, mostly due to the possible backlash they're afraid to get for "ruining" other people's ships.

If you're looking more for something closely in-line with canon, there's also plenty of ships that are canon or almost canon but the fandom chose to ignore them or deemed them not interesting enough to get more than maybe five or six fics and around ten pieces of art. Among these, you could count most Guild ships but also for example Kouyou and her mysterious past boyfriend, VerRim or AkuHigu. Those are just a few examples though and this area still needs to be much expanded.

Lastly, if you want to support the often insulted ships, the best would be to reach in the dusty shelf of heterosexual pairs or ships with Mori. A very special category here is also ChuuArt (Randou/Chuuya).

However, please don't forget to have fun. You shouldn't feel obliged to ship something just because it's not getting the attention it deserves. Shipping is all about putting together who you think fits. Shipping is about having fun and enjoying content, it shouldn't be a war, nor a guilt-trip because a certain pairing isn't getting that much attention.

[kinqemperor]

Pfft I imagine Emperor leaves hickeys on Gloves purposely visble for everyone to see. Also are hickeys in the splatoon world purple or the ink color of the other?

Oh my 👀💦

Honestly I like the idea of stuff like hickeys being the ink color of the other because

yes.

[itsladykit]

I agree and disagree with you about spicyhoney. I do feel like it's an overused ship in the papcest part of the fandom. Like, you want to read a papcest fic? There are a lot of spicyhoney ones, but not that many for other papcest ships like mappleblossom or Pap/Stretch (I'm not even sure of the shipname for this one). (1/2)

I get what you’re saying, and I don’t necessarily disagree with you. What I do disagree with is the idea that, because Spicyhoney gets more attention in the Papcest sphere, it is now less deserving of attention than other Papcest pairings. On the occasions when I’ve heard someone say they think Spicyhoney is “overused”, that seems to be the implication, and it usually seems like the speaker is casting shade on the writers and artists that choose to focus primarily or exclusively on Spicyhoney. (That’s not what I think you were saying, Anon; I’m just clarifying my position.)

Creators are in no way obligated to create for pairings or characters or enen to use characterizations they aren’t interested in—whether because a ship “needs” more content or because it’s a fan favorite. Which, sadly, does mean some things will get less representation.

But, if you look at something like Spicyhoney, a huge percentage of that content is produced by only a handful of people. It’s arguably still a rarepair if you look at fandom on the whole, but I think it’s really wonderful what these people have done for their ship; it’s not only more popular than it was a few years back, the way it’s portrayed has changed drastically. (For example, a lot of the tropes I was playing with and poking at in Broken Bones just aren’t as common anymore; for new readers, I have to imagine it just doesn’t read the same.)

So, lol, the moral of the story is—create things you feel passionate about. Not only will you be able to create more, you’ll be happier doing it. Discard fanon if you don’t like it. Hell, tweak the canon if that’s what’s holding you back. Create the fic or the artwork that you want to exist—chances are, no one else will.

(Btw, the pairing you’re thinking of is Honeyblossom. It actually does have a long fic for it—“Honey, You’ve Blossomed” on AO3. I wouldn’t call this a rec because I haven’t actually read the fic—I’m not really into Tale/Tale ships—but I wanted to point it out for any interested parties.)

[mingulay-archive]

i dont subscribe to many steadfast moral laws but one thing most sacred to me is that the captains duty is first to her crew, to protect em all from any harm that befall her packet and ensure their safe return, and should any be taken in a wreck it should be the captain before all. and george w dow tore 17 entrusted to him from their homes and children with his pride, and still ensured that he above the others would survive

[crownconstellation]

Uhhhh idk how this work fully but thoughts on Laslow/Peri? I feel like it's a rare case of very great writing personally, though that might be bias cuz...OTP haha

oh, i definitely agree with you on that tbh. it’s a rare case here. at this point f8s shipping is for me probably like… a 98% miss / 2% hit ratio, and very much personally pieraswald definitely falls under that 2%. i have a big, big old soft spot for it… especially because it’s one of about Two Or Three entire supports that don’t do pieri a massive disservice.

she’s definitely a divisive character, and for understandable reasons – intsys’ inability to write characters a lot of the time or really just any sort of steady growth or understanding combined with what they chose for her gimmick – but her support with laslow is one of the only times you actually see pieri as a person who’s able to be mature and understand things maturely. and as someone who actually really likes pieri (a lot of for what she could have been tbqh, thanks intelligent systems), i like that a lot. the fact that laslow’s the only person you learn pieri’s backstory from is a bonus for their particular dynamic even though it’s a shame on pieri’s end, and their buddy / pal interactions are pretty cute and charming even before that. laslow is understanding of pieri’s trauma and the way she responded to it even though he’s very Understandably Horrified at all of it & is very Also Understandably Determined to get her to stop what she does, and it gets through. laslow treats pieri like an adult and helps her deal with her situation like one instead of ignoring how she acts (cough cough randy xandy) or just spoiling her whims while ignoring both the cause and the effect (COUGH COUGH HER DAD), so she learns to stop acting childish and step forward because she’s actually got someone willing to tell her no and that she needs to work on being a better person while also looking at the shit that made her this way. i like their dynamic.

they shouldn’t be having kids right away because this is war and no one in this game is ready to be a parent at all whatsoever because of those stupid babyrealms but even with that pieri is, based on her dlc convo, a really good mom to soleil, too. by this point you can tell she’s definitely hit Good Character Development (if only the way the support system is currently structured didn’t sabotage the possibly of that showing up in the maingame,)

Peri: “You should go ‘ey!’ only to the bad guys. Murdered people have families, too… Remember that someone’s definitely gonna be sad if that person dies.”  Soleil: “M-Mom? Yeah, I understand. I was just trying to sound a little forceful or…something, I guess.”  Peri: “No. You shouldn’t even joke about that… Peri doesn’t want Soleil to turn out like Peri.”  Soleil: “Mom…?”  Peri: “*sniff* I’m so sorry. Soleil’s personality is a little bit like Peri’s. But unlike Peri, there’s a grown-up who will get mad at Soleil. There’s someone who will tell you that what you’re doing is wrong. So right now, I want you to hold back your desire to kill.”  Soleil: “Yeah… I get it. So, what should I do? What do I do when I’m really, really mad…?”  Peri: “Take a deep breath. Thank about flowers. That’ll make it go away a little.”

,and through this i think it works really well as a family and as a pairing.

bonus: this isn’t about the ship i just like talking about what fire emblem could’ve done better and like i said i do actually like pieri, and i think she would’ve been much easier to handle in a non-divisive way if they took her Writing And Focus in a more nyx-y way. as in, by this point she’s already learned to cut it for a Long While, now, and she’s just got to live with the weight of those Big Whoopsies on her back. meanwhile she stays keeping up her bubbly kee-hee personality as a cover for that, and she’s still working on how easily keyed-up she gets because she spent a long time making that servant -> murderer association.

also that could even work with her love of cooking. this is how she gets out her frustration issues from the start.

[genericgalaxyspy]

dirk is kiki shapped, rose is bouba shapped

explains why one is super into a dude and the other is super into a girl, but like, in the most gay way possible

[slugtranslation-hypmic]

Hi slug! It seems everyone including me is curious about shiptalk now haha. I suppose while we're on the topic, what do you think of the Samatoki/Rio and/or Jyuto/Rio dynamics? I feel like the former in particular is pretty underrated. You can answer for either platonic or romantic, I don't mind!

Yeah, today's a day for shipping questions I guess.

As I just mentioned, I don't think about shipping MTC all that much, but in terms of their overall dynamics... okay, so here's the thing about MTC. It's a group of babysitters. Riou and Juuto are babysitting Samatoki for obvious reasons. Samatoki and Juuto think they're babysitting Riou whenever they go out to his camp, and Riou thinks the exact same thing but in reverse. Juuto doesn't know it, but he's being babysat as well whenever he goes off on one of his emotional outbursts. So Juuto/Riou is very much, "Let's cooperate [in looking after our troublesome manchild], although our methods [of parenting] may be different" and Samatoki/Riou is very much, "Let's let the toddler tire himself out while we adults sit outside." They all think they're the responsible one in this relationship. It's very funny to me.

[jikookisrealerthanmylife]

Wait nobody told me that vlive was a sarcastic hell for jimin ? I just watched the whole thing in my free time now and 😃 tf

He was literally left out when they filmed their own ad? Was being ignored while talking because tae had to use phone and text his manager to call other members??? Why ,wasn't jimin being there enough?

Did those idiot staffs just arrange for a vlive to feed shippers including a script which had playing pepero games?? What they wanted , both to kiss oncam ? So jimin being there ruined their plan .

Jimin's intuition was right . He must've left as soon as he came .

The look of betrayal in his eyes when the Christmas Eve spoiler was brought up , seems like even jungkook wasn't aware of it. He kept looking at him but couldn't explain anything to him right there else fans would catch up . Sorry jimin , you forgot there's a script to fulfil known only to other twos and they have a job to make a "THE SUBUNIT" spoiler to stir shiptalks in fandom . Vmin vlive was a big expectation in the fandom but tae wanted to use the script made as it is and didn't want to change ships ig . What happened to improvisation