#top ships

[dashboarddiaries]

Shipping is a vital part of fandom culture and, let's be real, the central pillar of Tumblr's religion. This month, Cher and Lauren bring lesser loved ships to the table and pitch Tumblr users on why it's going to be their next fandom fixation.

Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.

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[veg-hotwings]

I'll never shut up about this.

[runawaymarbles]

personal top 5 ships

This hurts me because what are we DEFINING this by. Best ones?? Ones I read the most?? Most formative???

Dean/Cas. I've gone most of the summer without thinking about them much but im sure I'll relapse soon enough. You all know. This is the destiel website.

Silver/Flint (Black Sails) look. Look. Look look look. A story is true a story is untrue I will stand here with you for an hour a day a year he's my friend too I reached back into the past I don't know if this is a warning or a welcome you know all of me I can bear to be known you chose now live with it you gave it all up here in this moment I don't care. Okay???? Okay???????

Charles/Erik (X-Men). It's like. Love isn't everything and love isn't enough and yet. And yet!!!! You know that line from the Hamilton Mixtape when Angelica is like "what have we done with our lives, and what did it get us?" This is DOFP old!cherik and I'm fucked up over it. Love doesn't conquer all but it does keep you company in jail a couple times a month.

Spike/Buffy. I'm sorry, this was fucking formative for me. Toxic ship of my heart. How to hate yourself into a relationship that makes your life worse and you can't let go of and also can be good eventually if you let it. When I tell you that I love you it's not because I want you. I've seen the best and the worst of you. No you don't but thanks for saying it. Deceased.

Max/Anne (Black Sails). You ever decide the best solution to a woman wanting to kill you is to seduce her and then accidentally set off her gay crisis then immediately U-Haul while telling yourself she's going to leave you creating a self-fulfilling prophecy and planning for this eventuality while telling yourself that it's for the best anyway because you have career goals while never getting over her and then at the end of the day realizing half that shit doesn't matter??? Yeah me either these two are crazy. I love them.

Honorable mention: the version of Buck and Eddie that the 911 fanfic writers see. It's the BECAUSE, EVAN of it all.

Other honorable mention: the version of Clarke and Lexa in @entirelytookeen 's brain

[zenmasterlover]

My top 5 ships!

1. Jackie and Hyde (That 70s Show)

2. Blair and Chuck (Gossip Girl)

3. Bella and Edward (Twilight)

4. Brooke and Lucas (One Tree Hill)

5. Rory and Jess (Gilmore Girls)

[very-feral-lesbian]

wow byler is the #1, steddie is the #2, and ronance is the #5 ship of the year on tumblr

i love repressed homosexuals in the 80s

[str4wb3rry-guy]

the fact that steddie ranked #2 of the top tumbler ships of 2022 is insane to me given that it only started at the end of may....these gay tumblr ppl (me) are determined

also byler and ronance being in the top five woot woot

[fandomshatepeopleofcolor]

The A03 top ships of 2023 is out and the ships that include people of color the most are/were mainly east Asian characters from anime, K-Pop, Genshin Impact, and east Asian media in general. There was only 4 ships that included black characters on the list and one of those character's is Afro-Latina, Luz and she looks more Latina than black. There was 6 ships that included Latinos. Besides having alot of Asian characters and Asian celebrities it had white characters the most. It just goes to show that people are ignoring black characters cause there are alot of great ships that include black characters. It also shows that the only time people care about characters of color is when they're east Asian especially light skin east Asian cause those characters are very light skin. Outside of all that this years list was very white like it feels like people are purposely ignoring characters of colors, purposely ignoring ships that include characters of color especially ones that include a black character.

Hey thanks for this! This is devastating tbh.

mod ali

[karihighman]

CHENFORD ROSE ON TUMBLRS SHIPS LIST!!

[titspodcastreal]

IT'S HERE

The first episode of our show The Idiots Talk Show Podcast IS UP NOW!!! On this episode we talk about our top 5 ships (some might shock you) so check out the video version or audio only version. And please subscribe we will love you forever and ever

[dashboarddiaries]

We're back and going monthly! But first, time to catch up on all the top shows, ships, and communities of Tumblr in 2023! Some old standbys and some surprising new contenders; plus, our personal highlights and a burning straw goat.

Credits and transcript in our reblog. You can find transcripts for this, and every other episode, here.

Find the posts discussed in this episode in this tag!

[lydia-yougowith-stiles]

Hi, I still exist. Just been busy. Here’s some of my latest ships from what I’ve been watching:

[ash-and-starlight]

humble contribution

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

[allykatsart]

Losers Baby

Have I mentioned this ship is just heartwarming? Like not just the song but the casual domestic feel of it?????? Like I don't care if they fuck, but if they just held hands or some shit I would be going wild. So have these huskerdust sketches!

Commission me

[biscuitboba]

I just think that they are neat

[mygeekcorner]

You know those "write badly!" posts that sometimes makes the rounds to encourage all you lovely writers that it's okay that not everything is a masterpiece?

Yeah, those.

I just want all you authors out there not feeling good enough to know that i just decided to reread one of the worst fics I've ever read. Because it's one of the best fics I've ever read.

The plot is simplistic at best. The language is horrible. The pacing is nowhere to be found behind all the "and then!!!" the author peppers their writing like a carbonara with.

But

The characters. The insights into their motivations is fucking master thesis level. I cry just thinking about the way the author predicted where canon was headed years ago. And the way they Preemptively fixed all the ooc-ness the mangaka is now struggling to wrap up.

It's been living in my head rent-free for years and i wouldn't want it any other way. Just with slightly less "and then!!"

So yes, write badly.

In three years time some sucker will come back for seconds because they loved it for all the things you Did manage to do right.