#the ship that came out of nowhere

[wazzi2ya]

Absolutely love how RadioApple has, in less than a week, spawned almost as much fanart as the other ships that have been going around since 2019

[xan-the-emo-trans-man]

does anyone else think Huntlow is overrated or am I the only one

[kinnoth]

The fuckin garbage thing is that radahn/miquella should have been a use-the-force-luke guided missile right up my specific fucking alley, I mean:

- fatalistic ideologue + devoted vassal? 👍

- literal star crossed lovers?? 👍👍

- gods cursed to fates they simultaneously strive for and yet do not fully understand???? 👍👍👍

- brotherfuckers?????? 😮

And yet there is so little substance to this ship that I can't even make up something to do with it. It's just. A dead end of zero buildup, zero interactions, zero environmental details, just a couple item descriptions that are totally exclusive to the AU bubble of the DLC and not foreshadowed or hinted at anywhere else

Like it would not have been difficult to include .... Literally anything that tied radahn personally to miquella in the base game. Give him a single haligtree crest on his armour somewhere, have him use even one of miquella's miracles, sneak in there somewhere that he's got mysterious beef with mohg, have him wearing a golden lock of mystery hair in his-- like, fromsoft, this is literally your whole deal, this is the reason your games have a whole category of games named after them, if you are not supposed to be the kings of environmental storytelling, who the fuck is?

Like I still cannot reconcile the HUGE FUCKIN PLOTHOLE that is radahn NOT throwing the fight with malenia. Like if he was a willing participant in this 5D chessmaster plan, surely the whole point of the whole war was that radahn ACTUALLY DIES at malenia's hand. But he doesn't fucking die. Radahn resists malenia for real and he doesn't fucking die. He does not throw the fight, he does not let her kill him. Like how are we supposed to reconcile that very concrete plot point with "radahn agreed to die so he could be miquella's consort"? He didn't fucking die!

Headcanon: everything related to radahn in the DLC is miquella's propaganda campaign to paint a pretty story ahead of his ascension to godhood and radahn's forcible ascension as his elden lord

[hazelkjt]

On Vacation

[vanitas-vanitatum-mortis]

Show making jokes about Viravos and their "canon" child, Aaravos literally trolling Viren when he is about to die yet again-

Things happening around Sir Sparklepuff were probably the funniest part of the season, I SWEAR HIM DANCING TO THE JAZZ MUSIC SCENE? ICONIC.

Or when he first screeched BLOOD OF CHILD out of random? (Which wasn't that random in the end)

Me and my friend with whom I watched entire 5th season yesternight were literally crying out of laughter when Aaravos came and went like "You know what Viren? It's communism time, it's our child now"

LIKE VIREN'S FACE WAS HILARIOUS.

[valiantstarlights]

Please don't fall in love

with me. I am an asshole

and a sad wet cat.

- a haiku by Dream of the Endless

[theladyvalkyrieskyeart]

Claire represents Carmy's toxic family ties and the life before Michael's passing

Syd represents Carmy's freedom from his toxic family ties and life after Michael's passing.

The narrative is literally hand holding you at this point, guys come on.

[my-cabbages-gorl]

alright, look. i stumbled down a sokkaang hole, solely inspired by @praetorqueenreyna's DELICIOUS fic series that starts with defense mechanisms and then ends with enough to eat. the second fic in the series absolutely ravaged me, i can't stop thinking about it. so here's a doodle of a kiss from this gorgeous story i hope you read it and let it change you

[sheepie-self-ships]

Yippee big drawing :D

This was inspired by this post by @selfship-quotes, uhhhhh ye :3 if you saw this on my Aqua.bats blog or instagram shhhhhh 🤫 this is the selfship version (non text bones is under the cut! I’m pretty proud of how he came out :D actually I made him before the comic could you believe that /lh)

[icarus-enthroned]

omg the scene of rowan + malakai chatting at the bunker in 2.01 is so perfect

troye sivan soundtrack + soft bisexual lighting 😌

plus, malakai gently toying with rowan's hands

[muppetjackrackham]

chess summary for people who haven't seen chess

[crescentmoonrider]

Also also smoker and crocodile valentinessssss <3

arrangement

yes !!! them !!! did i ever tell you that Sir Crocodile was the first character to awaken my attraction to fictional middle aged men ? i just decided to binge one piece in two weeks and by the end i was just sitting there like "fuck me, Crocodile was actually kinda hot huh"

but yeah anyway i just kinda whipped up some clothes for the love of cleavage and man boobs 😌

anything for my mans Sir Crocodile 💖

(also partly bc i refused to look at refs while sketching lmao)

[narwhalandchill]

its been like. nearly a year (How.) already but i cannot lie theres Still a part in the back of my brain occupied with and being thoroughly entertained by the way that childes confirmed 4.0 complete self-awareness over waking up the narwhal at 14 recontextualizes some key liyue things leading to some very funny self indulgent scenarios in my head

like yes chili is old news its basic please excuse me for predictable popular ship crimes (do NOT however associate me w the crimes of fanon against their actual range. theyre peak to Me) but i just keep replaying the imagery of zhongli and childe back on their homoerotic Professional Working Relationship bullshit where their flirting passed the jkjk unless treshold of even remotely plausible deniability like 8 exorbitantly priced business dinners ago and theyre just like. doing that whole song and dance now neither committing to a move except zhonglis presently feeling moderately conflicted (but nonetheless fairly unfazed at) by the prospects of actually developing some sort of a thing for the harbinger hes supposed to puppet master into executing the major story climax of his 67-step retirement plan bc he turned out to be quite the strangely charming ginger specimen (to His weird fucking 6000 year old tastes at least. they deserve each other) with some fascinating life ambitions he cant help but be enraptured by.

but because hes still 100% Locked In on his entire plan zhonglis also just . simultaneously dual wielding his coy-ass "i like you and am taking it slow to Savor this developing relationship (Also bc of the Geo Archon Shaped Elephant In The Room) except am old as shit so my languid sense of time inadvertedly Automatically turns my behavior into an equivalent of the dark souls boss of playing hard2get" act (cue "waddup im ajax 24 and im in fucking agony with this hot funeral consultant". Yes they live like this) AND also meticulously theorycrafting like 12 moves in advance for his 6d chess play of leaving the most subtly crafted trail of breadcrumbs behind for the tsaritsas 11th to follow into the intended & completely "Coincidental" idea of unleashing the one particular sealed sea deity that zhongli Specifically wants momentarily released for his sweet 6k retirement party and graduation test for the nation hes helicopter parented for 3.7k years .

like. this is zhongli we r talking about the guy Absolutely has it planned out down to a fucking art like he has an entire branching path dialogue tree planned and memorized like its a visual novel for every possible way he can conveniently namedrop osial in a non-suspect way and also that he just happens to be sealed right over there across the harbor (what a coincidence!) and also to slip in the intel about the latent power of the sigil of permission etc etc. like zhonglis just out there doing all this massive galaxy brain computational work simultaneously while infodumping on an academic level about whichever subject childes latest random comment of amicable small talk happened to remind him of because in his helicopter parent in remission mind its Absolutely Critical that the idea about releasing osial occurs Completely organically in childes mind it Has to he Cannot risk revealing anything . (hes in remission not in recovery guys.) so like here we are. he requested notes from the tsaritsa Personally on the character of her 11th just to ensure every move was painstakingly crafted to draw him Specifically to the intended conclusion without risking revealing his true identity .

except. the thing . neither he. nor the tsaritsa . would have been informed of . is that this simply isnt childes first fucking rodeo waking up an eldritch city sized sea creature . and he is very well aware of this fact . he woke that beautiful wonderful beloved huge fucking narwhal up by himself had his brain chemistry Immediately and Irrevocably rewired as a direct consequence do you fucking think hes somehow stopped thinking about that singular moment for even a second since then???

yeah . thought so.

so what actually ends up happening in reality is theyll be on another definitely-serious-business-not-just-a-date and zhonglis going to get down to like dialogue selection part 10 of the 86 step conversation tree at Most where hes only beginning to like Vaguely allude to the key pieces of information involved but it turns out Because Hes That Guy (TM) And Has Been There Done That Before childes basic pattern recognition and sense of irony simply proceed to kick in Way ahead of time and hes Immediately perking up like Hey wouldnt it be really fucking funny if i wake up an eldritch sea beast Again . like just in case. as a last ditch effort .

and zhonglis just sitting there seeing the gears turn in his head as they enjoy their cringe fucking picnic (bc they just stare at each other intently like that nowadays its a thing. being in a room with them by this point is essentially a human rights violation) and is just completely fucking flabbergasted and lost on how in the hell childes speedran his way to that conclusion at what amounts to barely a 13% completion rate in his whole overkill fucking plan (just 1 of 3 contingencies btw) and its like yes he has his intended outcome but also precisely 0 idea on how the fuck said outcome was reached the way it was this fast . like hes still winning its His plan thats well underway and ahead of schedule but How

(pov: ur selling the concept of waking up destructive sea creatures to the guy who woke up a celestial body eating cosmic whale at 14)

anyway its truly beautiful i absolutely detest these two and have prime liyue AQ hijinks nostalgia now thank you for the lore drop that allowed this to become canon in my head hoyo

[bungobble-my-balls]

If I had a nickel for everytime one of my crack ships ended up actually meeting in canon and became a legitimate ship I'd have two nickels.

And those nickels are Sigmatsu and Hotwings/Dabihawks

Shoutout to the hotwings fans who were there for the release of chapter 191 that was wild.

[virianhaven]

(VIRIAN) HEADCANON TIME !

So for context, I drew this little portrait of Varian as a warm up since I have a lot of art to work on soon and because I want to practice drawing him more. I also just wanted to mess around with him having wavier hair.

I genuinely think he came out cute, his face is very cute and very pretty! But there’s also a good kind of “weirdness” about it. And I didn’t try to change it at all, because I really liked that! I didn’t intend for it, but I’m glad it happened, because it feels correct and it feels like Varian. Might just be my art style, but still!

Because of this, I got the idea that Varian doesn’t like looking at himself in mirrors or even in pictures, because he doesn’t like what he’s looking at. All he’s seeing is how “weird” he looks, and failing to recognize how that’s part of how actually pretty he is. So I thought back to this rp I’ve had going with one of my friends, and there was one point where Varian looked in his mirror and was basically just “is that really what I look like?” I JUST- (Thank you Blair)

So then it came to me. That one scene in Beauty and The Beast where Beast is like “She’s so beautiful, and I’m…Well, look at me!” I feel so strongly about that being Varian venting to Ruddiger or even Eugene, it just fits.

Violet’s literally so pretty, we know this, and Varian sees that x1000 to the point he’s wondering why on earth she ever considered him. Does he get to flex that he bagged her? Absolutely. But then he wonders how it actually happened and- you know, like it all just goes off the rails.

They both talk down on their appearances but then speak so highly of each other because they take that so seriously. And Violet loves his pretty little face so much it upsets her if he ever says it’s weird looking and it upsets him when she says she’s gangly and “average”. They hate how they look but consider each other the prettiest creatures in the world, it’s beautiful and I’m sobbing.

Ah anyways, here’s the drawing. Literally was a spur of the moment idea simply because of how I drew him lmfao.

Like- he’s pretty!