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salty-an-disco · 2 months

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Yeah, sure, gonna do this too. Here’s a list of some of my ships and also just some dynamics I’m really fond of:

Gonna start with my explicit romantic ships, ranging from OTP (my personal description of an OTP is a pair I cannot imagine in any other relationship) to ships I’m just very fond of.

ContraHero (duh, my OTP of all time)

ParaCold (smth of a secondary OTP, I’d say, since I also can’t imagine them in any other relationship lmao [at least, long-term])

Foreign Body (Quiet/Stranger) (I can’t imagine the heart not being Stranger, tbh, and also, smth about the both of them having a ‘monstruous’ form aksmdjddj)

Skeptunist (it’d be a slooooooww and LOOOONNNG burn, but I think the progress would be so interesting and the eventual relationship so weirdly sweet)

Ghost Lily (Spectre/Witch) (reaching OTP to me, ngl, as I can’t bring myself to be invested in other relationships involving them lmao)

Sweethearts (Smitten/Damsel) (have no problems imagining them with others, but this is still my primary ship for them)

Eternal Challenge (Stubborn/Asversary) (same situation as above)

Aaannnnd that’s it for explicit romantic pairs I think, I’m. actually a pretty picky shipper akmaksmdjkdmd

Now let’s move to what I call my OTBesties. When you ship them, but in a ‘they’re besties!!!’ way :D

Dark Comedy (Contra&Cold)

Strategy Game (Skeptic&Cheated)

Shining Shield (Hero&Para)

Bare Root (Wounded Wild&Thorn)

Nightmare&Spectre

Witch&Hunted

Hunted&Stubborn

Mending Hearts (Smitten&Broken)

Prisoner&Cold

Spectre&Paranoid

Confined Minds (Prisoner&Skeptic)

Thespians (Oppy&Smitten)

Hunted&Stubborn

Those are the ones that actively takes up more brain space, and ones which I most rotate around my head. Here’s some general dynamics I like exploring:

North Star (Cold/Oppy): their toxic yaoi wouldn’t last a year and be horrible for the both of them (mainly Oppy), and I’m all here for it.

Smitten and Skeptic, while not in OTBesties tier for me, is also a friendship I’m very fond of. I think they’d have coffee in the morning together.

Nightmare’s possible dynamic with anyone would be so interesting to explore, but especially with Tower– just. imagine the chaos

Speaking of– also Tower’s dynamic with Razor. Put her in the same room with some of the most relentless and violent vessels, I wanna see what happens

Wraith and Cheated would be an interesting dynamic when taken out from their chapter’s context tbh– Wraith is resentful because of how she’s been treated and only resorted to those drastic actions because that’s what you left her with. I think Cheated would sympathize with that and realize the hand he played (if you get him in her chapter) to get her like this.

Oppy and Hunted feel like they’d have a weirdly close and strong bond. Not OTBesties or explicitly romantic, but a secret fourth thing

Oppy and Contra have beef at first sight to me. They either completely ignore each other, or swear to make the other day’s worse, whatever they feel like atm

Also– since me and the folks in the discord started headcanon that while alive, Narrator could’ve been groomed by a cult and that’s why he has such a deep fear of death, and think eternal bliss is the best alternative for that– I’d like to see more of his dynamic with Broken. In a what-if scenario where they both got over enough of their bagage to have an actual conversation together, I think they’d have a lot to talk about.

Also, shout-out to my Happily Single Tokens, aka, characters I hc as non-partnering/not interested in romance/‘just not in the mood for it, dude’:

Cheated, Broken, Thorn (aro hc for her caught my the throat and won’t let go, I’m sorry Modeus), Prisoner, Narrator (AroAce and romance-repulsed king, tbh), and Hunted

#not me making a ship/dynamic/whatever this is list in the middle of the night lmao #too tired to draw but still wanna do hyperfixation-related stuff. and this is what came out of it ok?#stp voices #stp princess #not fuckin’ way I’m tagging everything lmao #stp headcanons #Sal Rambles #stp-posting #just don’t add polyships cuz I got monogamistic brain and it’s hard to me to visualize that lmao (love seeing other’s ot3 or more tho)#but Hunted/Broken/Stubborn is a very dear dynamic to me #realized I also didn’t add more than 2 charas in any other dynamic here aimskdkxkd #that’s just because if I start thinkin’ in more than 2 pairs. my brain’ll explode #but just imagine any intersecting pair also being put all together #anyway. it’s late. I’m tired. I should go now byyyyeeeeeeee

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birdmitosis · 4 months

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My Slay the Princess Ships

OKAY it felt like it was time to update my ship list! Since I've been in the fandom for longer and been playing around with more ideas and seeing what I'm really into, more mildly into, just not feeling as much as I thought, and feeling way more than I thought!

My Princess/Protagonist forms shipping is now:

The Adversary/The Protagonist

The Long Quiet/The Shifting Mound

The Protagonist/The Razor

The Protagonist/The Spectre

The Protagonist/The Thorn

The Protagonist/The Wild

The Protagonist (LQ)/The Princess (SM) in that "leave the cabin together" version of the ending, especially with the Stranger variant but really with any!

In all of these, these are… basically what I ship with each other without voices really being involved. They can be there but they aren't part of the draw for these ones.

As for Princess/voice ships, to varying degrees:

The Adversary/Voice of the Stubborn

The Burned Grey/Voice of the Smitten

The Damsel/Voice of the Smitten*

The Nightmare/Voice of the Opportunist*

The Nightmare/Voice of the Paranoid*

The Nightmare/Voice of the Cold/Voice of the Paranoid*

The Prisoner/Voice of the Skeptic*

The Razor/Voice of the Smitten

The Razor/Voice of the Stubborn

The Spectre/Voice of the Hero

The Stranger/Voice of the Broken

The Stranger/Voice of the Contrarian*** (cough)

The Stranger/Voice of the Smitten

The Stranger/Voice of the Broken/Voice of the Smitten

The Thorn/Voice of the Cheated*

The Thorn/Voice of the Opportunist*

The Thorn/Voice of the Cheated/Voice of the Opportunist

Voice of the Broken/The Wild

Voice of the Contrarian/The Wild*

Voice of the Hunted/The Wild

The Protagonist/Voice of the Hero/Voice of the Opportunist/Voice of the Paranoid/The Wraith

(TBH, I am happy to toss Hero into many of those as well… Though not necessarily all of them. I marked the ones I'm happy to add Voice of the Hero to with an asterisk! And honestly, I don't really care about the Protagonist being involved in any of these, that isn't part of the draw for me at all except for the very last one...)

And for Princess/Princess ships, again to varying degrees:

The Adversary/The Beast

The Adversary/The Damsel

The Adversary/The Prisoner

The Adversary/The Razor

The Beast/The Damsel

The Beast/The Nightmare

The Beast/The Wild

The Beast/The Witch

The Burned Grey/The Drowned Grey

The Damsel/The Prisoner

The Damsel/The Spectre

The Damsel/The Thorn

The Damsel/The Witch

The Drowned Grey/The Nightmare

The Drowned Grey/The Spectre

The Drowned Grey/The Wraith

The Nightmare/The Razor

The Nightmare/The Spectre

The Nightmare/The Witch

The Nightmare/The Wraith

The Prisoner/The Spectre

The Prisoner/The Thorn

The Prisoner/The Wild

The Prisoner/The Witch

The Prisoner/The Wraith

The Razor/The Witch

The Spectre/The Stranger

The Spectre/The Thorn

The Spectre/The Wild

The Spectre/The Witch

The Stranger/The Wild

The Thorn/The Wild

The Tower/The Witch

The Wild/The Witch

The Witch/The Wraith

And for most of these ships, I'm happy to ship combos as well when any have overlap, especially if all three do. So, like, it can go without saying that I'd also totally be into Beast/Wild/Witch or Damsel/Prisoner/Spectre.

Aaaand finally, what I am most fannishly active with: VOICES SHIPPING. The voices that I ship to varying degrees are here (and I am including Narrator ships at the bottom for Reasons):

Broken/Hunted

Broken/Smitten

Broken/Stubborn

Broken/Contrarian/Hero

Broken/Hero/Paranoid

Broken/Hunted/Stubborn

Cheated/Hero

Cheated/Opportunist

Cheated/Skeptic

Cheated/Smitten

Cheated/Contrarian/Opportunist

Cheated/Hunted/Opportunist

Cheated/Hunted/Stubborn

Cheated/Hunted/Opportunist/Stubborn

Cold/Contrarian

Cold/Hunted

Cold/Opportunist

Cold/Paranoid (OTP)

Cold/Skeptic

Cold/Smitten

Cold/Contrarian/Hero

Cold/Contrarian/Hero/Opportunist/Paranoid

Cold/Contrarian/Hero/Paranoid

Cold/Contrarian/Opportunist/Paranoid

Cold/Hunted/Paranoid

Cold/Opportunist/Paranoid

Cold/Paranoid/Skeptic

Contrarian/Hero (second OTP tbh)

Contrarian/Opportunist

Contrarian/Skeptic

Contrarian/Hero/Skeptic

Contrarian/Opportunist/Paranoid

Contrarian/Opportunist/Skeptic

Hero/Hunted

Hero/Paranoid

Hunted/Opportunist

Hunted/Paranoid

Hunted/Stubborn

Hunted/Opportunist/Stubborn

Opportunist/Paranoid

Opportunist/Smitten

Opportunist/Skeptic

Opportunist/Skeptic/Smitten

Skeptic/Smitten

Contrarian/Narrator

Hero/Narrator

Hunted/Narrator

Narrator/Opportunist

Narrator/Skeptic

Contrarian/Hero/Narrator

Hunted/Narrator/Opportunist

Narrator/Opportunist/Skeptic

As a note, unlike with my Princess shipping, I listed out all the OT3s+ that appeal to me, except that I also could get behind a whole big complicated polycule situation. I'm totally here for that!

(I do also ship The Long Quiet/The Narrator a little, but not nearly as much as LQ/SM or any of the above.)

#a lot of these i ship in really minor/low-key ways but #i could be into any of them for sure!#slay the princess #slay the princess spoilers #they're hidden under the cut tho #shipping #ship list #stp shipping #i didn't bother to update the dynamics... at this point i just find ALL potential dynamics interesting tbqh

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zvtara-was-never-canon · 8 months

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Not a Zucest shipper (more into Maiko) but that scene where Azula isn't wearing makeup and she and Zuko are in her bedroom and she's all touchy-feely towards him was honestly more sexual and intimate than the Zvtara cave scene. Honestly I would argue that Azula is a lot more on his mind than Katara, who only comes to mind when she's convenient for tracking down Aang. Heck, I would even argue Zuko has more chemistry and investment with Aang than he does with Katara.

Maiko might not be my OTP but it is still a personal favorite because MY GOD, these two are clingy with each other and it's so fucking cute.

Zuko and Aang's friendship is legitimately one of the best parts of the show, and, ironically enough, their dynamic is the closest the show ever got to the fanon zutara idea of "this hero can tell the bad guy has a heart and wants to offer him the chance of being a better person", only without the romance part - but it could have totally made for a perfectly reasonable endgame if just a few details had been changed.

Plus everything about them meeting the dragons was absolutely iconic, from "I don't care what people said, you're pretty smart", to Zuko suggesting they think about their place in the universe, to AANG ASKING ZUKO TO DANCE WITH HIM, to Zuko looking Aang straight (hehehe) in the face and going "You are source of my fire by the way. No homo."

I just love it whenever these two are on-screen together.

As for the bedroom scene between Zuko and Azula in the awakening... oh boy, did my mind go straight to the gutter the first time I saw it (and every time after that too).

Grey Delisle, iconic voice actor, former stripper, and former narrator of trailers for porno movies, really took a look at this scene of her character's older brother coming to her bedroom in the middle of the night and thought "Wouldn't it be really funny if I added some incest vibes here?" (not that the animation itself made it all that difficult).

And yeah, Azula was definitively in Zuko's mind ALL THE TIME. Like, this boy was trapped in a cave during a snow storm, Aang's soul had literally left his body and, for some fucking reason, he just... starts venting about the sister he has not seen in years. Like, I KNOW they are just setting up Azula as the villain of the second season, but that came out of nowhere!

And him imagining her as the blue dragon that represents temptation and is whispering in his ear stuff like "Just give into it" and asking when he will be going to his bedroom, even after he said he doesn't feel like sleeping... buddy. Buddy. What the hell is this?

Also I can't find that video anymore, but there was some panel Bryke was at in which they were "suggesting" many ships to the audience - and one just happened to be Azula and The Blue Spirit. If someone has a link to it, please send it to me because the audience's outraged reaction was the funniest fucking thing.

In case any of you want to see Grey being chaotic as fuck, and making Dante all embarrassed (and flirting with him) I recommend you check out these videos because they are HILARIOUS!

#anti zutara #zukaang #zucest #grey delisle

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thegirlwhowrites642 · 1 year

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Jilly and hinny

You are going with the big guns here.

I ship both of them.

I've always loved both, but my first obsessive love was actually jily. I'll never forgive the marauders fandom for becoming such a toxic community that I can't even read jily fics anymore.

And hinny, I mean, hinny is the OTP. It's art, poetry, literally the perfect match.

Jily

What made you ship it?

You know, I genuinely don't remember. The marauders always attracted me as an interesting intellectual exercise: rebuild the whole story using the explicit and implicit information left in canon.

Plus, when I was younger I found the whole enemies to loves thing far more fascinating than I do now. And the extremely cool thing about jily is that it offers an enemies to lovers without making it toxic.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

The tension, the banter, the whole context around it, the symbolic implication of them being soulmates (you guys know I'm a sucker for that). Both of them are really good intelligent students, so you know equals, I love that.

And it falls under what I call the turning-tables trope. One is in love, the other isn't, the first apparently moves on, and then karma strikes. I love that so much, it's maybe my favourite trope, the universal punishment of it all but with a happy ending (as happy as an ending there can be for James and Lily).

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

It's absurd how under-used is the academic rivals' potential of these two.

Hinny

What made you ship it?

I don't have a specific moment, the movies unfortunately took that away from me. I was supremely confused by Ginny and hinny in the movies, and then I discovered that they were completely different in the books, and that's honestly the main reason why I read the books. It was all love from there. Also, besides the whole Harry and Ginny being a perfect match thing, it always attracted me the fact that it's a literary relevant narration. Rowling wrote it as a mystery to solve for Harry's brain, how cool is that? And Ginny is a true equal to Harry, which is such a rare thing for a character that it's so obviously the hero of the story. She is not his helper and her identity and trauma are not a tool for Harry's quest. I can't go into detail now, but Rowling basically invented a trope with them.

What are your favorite things about the ship?

You guys know how much I love them for many different reasons but, to avoid writing a book, I'll stick with number one: their falling in love does not depend on their story.

Harry starts to fall for Ginny when Ginny allows Harry to see her for who she is, that's it, that's all it takes.

They experience together a hyper-traumatic thing but it takes them two years, arguably two years and a half to become friends. Their relationship does not depend on shared trauma. Even after the lucky you scene, it's just Harry being reminded of who Ginny is in her entirety, it's not like after that they spend every waking moment together.

They share a sense of humour because they just do, not because they are constantly around each other. Even in PoA, when there should be so much awkwardness between them, they make eye contact and share the inside joke.

They understand each other because they just do, again, it's not about them constantly being around each other. It's just instinctive. It's part of who they are. It doesn't even depend on their shared trauma. Besides the fact that they get each other really well even in CoS, the first time Harry realises Ginny can basically read his mind it's something about Ron.

They spend time with each other because they want to. It doesn't happen after the chamber, it doesn't happen because Harry is constantly around the Weasleys. It happens because now Harry knows who Ginny is. They are not even in the same class, and they don't really have the same friends. On the Quidditch team, there's no reason for them to interact so much with each other besides the fact that they want to.

Ginny actively tries to get over Harry but she can't.

Harry actively tries to stay away from Ginny but not even the risk of losing Ron's friendship is enough, because she is Ginny and he is Harry and that's really all it takes.

Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

Probably I have many.

Let's go with: during HBP, if you take away the Voldemort-related stuff, you'll notice that Ginny becomes Harry's best friend. And again, if there hadn't been Harry's need to keep Ginny's safe that led him to not even think about involving her in the Voldemort-related stuff, Harry would have noticed too.

#jily #hinny

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princesssarisa · 2 years

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Character Ask: Fet-Fruners/Făt-Frumos, the Princess Who Would Be a Prince

Tagged by @softlytowardthesun, in honor of Pride Month.

Here's a link to Andrew Lang's translation of the tale from The Violet Fairy Book.

Note: I'm describing the character with "he/him" pronouns, even though the story's narration uses "she/her" pronouns until the end. He happily ends the story as a man, so I can only assume that male is his preferred gender.

Favorite thing about them: Besides the simple fact that he's (arguably) a transgender or genderfluid fairy tale hero, I have to admire his sheer courage and array of skills.

Least favorite thing about them: His sexist machismo in the end, when he asserts that when he and Ileana (or Iliane, depending on the translation) are married, he'll be the one in charge: "it will be the cock who sings and not the hen."

Also, by modern standards, the fact that he has to be bodily changed into a cisgender man in order to live happily ever after with Ileana/Iliane. But of course in the time and place the story was written, the alternative would presumably never have been tolerated. Especially because they're going to be monarchs, so naturally they'll be expected to produce heirs.

Three things I have in common with them:

*I'm slightly androgynous.

*I'm a good cook.

*I'm (partly) of Eastern European descent.

Three things I don’t have in common with them:

*I'm not a warrior.

*I have no skill with horses.

*I'm a cisgender female.

Favorite line:

"For your sake, father, I would cut the devil himself into small bits, or even become a devil myself."

brOTP: The two helpful horses. In crossover-land, Ivan the Fool from the Russian tale of The Little Humpbacked Horse: they're basically variants of the same tale, except that the Russian story has no gender-bending and the hero is a peasant instead of a prince(ess).

OTP: Ileana/Iliane of the Golden Tresses.

nOTP: His father, the giant, or the emperor.

Random headcanon: He was always a transgender boy, or at least non-binary, never really a girl in disguise. This is why he's instantly overjoyed to be "cursed" with a sex-change in the end.

Unpopular opinion: His story deserves to be better known, and deserves to be retold in ways that tone down some of the gender essentialism in the original text. Not that this is an unpopular opinion among people who know the story, but I call it unpopular because it's such a little-known story in general.

Song I associate with them: None.

Favorite picture of them:

These illustrations by Henry Justice Ford:

@ariel-seagull-wings, @superkingofpriderock, @the-blue-fairie

#fairy tale #character ask #ask game #fet-fruners #fat-frumos #the princess who would be a prince #the girl who pretended to be a boy #lgbt+#romania #romanian fairy tale

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phantomhydeoftheopera · 1 year

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I posted 17,291 times in 2022

25 posts created (0%)

17,266 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@fabulousvelociraptor

@stupid-lemon-eater

@patchworkbluejay

@enjaami

@zhangpdf

I tagged 2,316 of my posts in 2022

#dmbj - 446 posts

#mdzs - 146 posts

#guardian - 50 posts

#heihua - 41 posts

#the untamed - 33 posts

#xiaoge - 26 posts

#yin yang master dream of eternity - 25 posts

#hei xiazi - 25 posts

#fo ye - 19 posts

#save for later - 19 posts

Longest Tag: 138 characters

#40 year old kitchenaid mixer i love you but you’re so messy…… i have to stir around the flour a bit so it doesn’t get all over the counter

My Top Posts in 2022:

all the prime numbers on that salty ask list, just to make you do math on a saturday morning >:3

........................ man come on

Okay fine we're doing all the prime numbers on this list. I'll humor you.

2. Any popular fandom OTPs that you only BroTP?

Fuck idk uhh I was never really a fan of SangYao romantically?

3. Have you ever unfollowed someone over a fandom opinion?

I will just say yes and leave it at that.

5. Has fandom ever ruined a pairing for you?

Pingxie isn't that bad and I see the appeal behind it but some of y'all are too much there I said it.

7. Is there anything you used to like but can’t stand now?

I mean... those of you who have known me for a while probably know that I used to be into h*talia but keep that shit away from me now.

11. Is there an unpopular character you like that the fandom doesn’t? Why?

Not really? No one is coming to mind.

13. Unpopular opinion about XXX character?

I think we should let Xiaoge be a weird little guy. He's been through enough shit he should be able to do whatever the hell he wants he can't be sexy all the time.

17. Instead of XYZ happening, I would have made ABC happen…

Instead of The Entirety of Yi City Happening, Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen stay together and wander the world and eventually settle down and found a sect together I think that would be nice.

19. What is the one thing you hate most about your fandom?

Oh boy. *cracks knuckles*

I was not looking forward to this section but I think some of you need to chill. Please. We're here to have fun. This may be a hard pill to swallow but sometimes you gotta accept that people didn't ask. They didn't ask for shipping opinions, they didn't ask for watchlists, they didn't ask to have the same fandom experiences as you. And sometimes things that are canon are worse. There's more to a show than romance and more to romance than two conventionally attractive people making eye contact. Thank you.

23. Unpopular character you love?

Song Lan did nothing wrong.

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for the character bingo: qingming~

QINGMING……

Bisexual legend, foxy boy, my beloved, my rotten soldier, my sweet cheese, my good time boy. When I say he doesn’t have enough screen time I mean that I nEED THE SECOND MOVIE.

AND HIS CHARACTER ARC………… FINDING SOMEONE HE WANTS TO PROTECT………. (chef kiss) Delicious. I love him so much. My darling. My funny man.

Thank you for asking!!!!

4 notes - Posted August 20, 2022

Tag Trope Game

I was tagged by @forerussake, thank you friend!

found family or soulmates || slow burn or established but complicated || enemies-to-friends-to-lovers or best friends-to-lovers || love at first sight or get back together || morally grey character or unreliable narrator || sunshine character or sarcastic character (both, and I think they should kiss) || self-sacrificing or teamwork || fire-forged friends or childhood friends || description-heavy or dialogue-heavy || fluff or angst || high school au or college au || flower symbolism or color symbolism || hero from the start or reveal the hero near the end || body swap or gender swap || bed sharing or clothes sharing (both) || magic au or human au || de-aged or future fic

This was fun! Tagging @pangzi @bi-disaster-wei-wuxian @psychic-waffles @beanmaster-pika @enjaami @scaredysap @cuterocks @tinydragondreamer @s1utspeare

4 notes - Posted September 22, 2022

for the fandom blorbo ask thing did you already get dmbj?? if u did that one already then i'll take a shovel and dig out any memories of bnk characters you've got

My dear friend my beloved thank you for giving me another opportunity to dump more of this bullshit on you.

Blorbo: Pangzi my beloved my everything. He's supposed to be the fat guy comic relief but carries the series honestly.

Skrunkly: I'd say Zhang Rishan but just the bright eyed young man he is in Mystic Nine, not yet the Juimen President and weirdo that he is in Tomb of the Sea. Off topic but it's very important to me that I tell you about this one scene from Tomb of the Sea in which he and Liang Wan, a miraculously still alive female character and his love interest are leaving the desert and she tells him "hey I'm still kinda in love with you" to which he responds "sorry. I've dedicated my life to Fo Ye, my dead boss from the 1930s." And then she blasts him with pepper spray. In the desert.

Scrimblo bimblo: Ba Ye. This funky little man. I've only had him for three episodes of Mystic Nine and I love him.

Glup shitto: Kanjian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't know what has made my brain latch onto that slingshot himbo but I don't care. Highlights include teaching Wu Xie how to use a slingshot so he can cheat on a test and a guy dragging him into a meeting like "hey I found this guy outside can we keep him?"

Poor little meow meow: Wang Can I guess. He's an asshole but by god was he fun. And Hei Xiazi, who only falls under the pathetic category.

Horse plinko: Liu Sang. He gets whumped to hell and back and we love to see it.

Eeby deeby: Oh absolutely Chen Pi. I've only had him for three episodes of Mystic Nine and I hate him. The living embodiment of "I also choose this guy's dead wife" and a freak (derogatory) among freaks (affectionate). Crimes include wanting to fuck his master's wife and putting Zhang Qiling in a basket.

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My #1 post of 2022

I have been working on this one for a couple months, and I’m really happy with how it turned out. This movie was one that I watched nearly every day as a kid and it was fun to combine it with heihua, so please give it a read!!!!!

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Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →

#tumblr2022 #year in review #my 2022 tumblr year in review #your tumblr year in review #long post

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dangermousie · 3 years

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Mousie’s absolutely subjective, very biased Top 10 web novels list

Please note that this is hardly aiming to be objective, if one can even be properly objective about a work of fiction. It is 110% based on my preferences, which means this list is heavy on the angst and has nothing set in the modern day. It is also heavily danmei-centric, even though I read way more het romance than danmei, because for whatever reason, most of the danmei I’ve read has been insanely good.

10. Return of the Swallow - one of the two non-danmeis on this list. Smart and nuanced and with a large cast of characters. Our heroine is a long-lost daughter of the family that is brought back in and has to cope with familial struggles, crazy royals, court intrigue, invasion et al. It’s SO GOOD! There is romance with the sexy smart enemy general but honestly, it’s the heroine that is the main selling point for me.

9. Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator - the only other non-danmei novel on this list, this was my very first web novel and what drew me into this insanity. This is just a ton of fun, probably the lightest novel on this list, not an ounce of angst to be found. But it’s hilarious and features competent heroine and tsundere hero and I will always love it for opening a new world to me. Anyway, our heroine transmigrates into the novel as the female lead. Unlike the original lead though she doesn’t want to seek adventures and angst - she just wants to comfortably live with the wealthy, nice husband heroine has. Alas, said husband is no longer nice since he has previously lived this story where he was betrayed by FL and then transmigrated/reincarnated into the past. Oh well, the heroine opens up businesses and makes friends. And eventually, her husband realizes his wife is way different this time around. This actually doesn’t have much romance, not until close to the end, but this is so fun I don’t care.

8. Lord Seventh - I am only partway through this so far, but it’s already on the list because it’s smart and somehow intense AND laid-back (not sure how this works, but it does) and is honestly just a really really solid and smart period novel, with the OTP a cherry on top of a narrative sundae. Plus, I love the concept of MC deciding he is not going for his supposedly fated love - he’s tried for six lifetimes, always with disaster, and he’s just plain done and tired. When he opens his life in his seventh reincarnation and sees the person he would have given up the world for, he genuinely feels nothing at all. (Spoiler - his OTP is actually a barbarian shaman this time around, thank you Lord!)

7. Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (MDZS) - oh come on, how are you even on this tumblr if you don’t know MDZS/The Untamed? This was my very first danmei and it’s so much fun! I love everything about it - the unreliable narrator, the looping structure, the main OTP, Wei Wuxian’s laidback, traumatized insouciance, everything. Anyway, the plot in the event you somehow transported here from 2005 is that the Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Wei Wuxian, was defeated by the righteous sects over a decade ago and fell of a cliff to his death. Only now that same Wei Wuxian opens his eyes in another body and everything that was supposed to stay in the past starts again.

6. Heaven Official’s Blessing (TGCF) - people either love its meandering narrative, picaresque structure and cast of thousands, or find it a detriment compared to much more compact MDZS. I love it even more than MDZS for those very qualities. It does have a rock-solid, darling OTP, but what really elevates it to me are the MXTX trademark combo of snarky/light tone hiding a ton of trauma underneath, the insanely intricate world-building, and what it has to say about the nature of grace and goodness. Xie Lian is one of my top 5 web novel characters and probably in top 10 from anywhere. Oh, and while MXTX’s stuff is not as angsty for me as Meatbun’s or even Priest’s, there are always exceptions, and there is one chapter in this novel that pretty much broke me and sometimes I still flashback to it and feel unwell.

Anyway, what is it about? There is a commotion in the heavenly realm - Xie Lian, the Crown Prince of a long-destroyed kingdom, has ascended to Godhood. That in itself is not so exciting. However for Xie Lian this is the third time (!!!!) as he’s ascended and lost his godhood twice prior. And now, the biggest joke of the divine realm is back, throwing the heavenly realm into chaos. And elsewhere, Hua Cheng, one of the four most powerful demons of that Universe, sits up and takes notice.

5. Golden Stage - my perfect comfort novel. Probably the least angsty of any danmei novel on this list (which still means plenty angsty :P) It also has a dedicated, smart OTP that is an OTP for the bulk of the book - I think you will notice that in most of the novels in this list, I go for “OTP against the world” trope - I can’t stand love triangles and the same. Anyway, Fu Shen, is a famous general whose fame is making the emperor antsy. When he gets injured and can’t walk any more, the emperor gladly recalls him and marries him off to his most faithful court lackey, the head of sort of secret police, Yan Xiaohan. The emperor intends it both as a check on the general and a general spite move since the two men always clash in court whenever they meet. But not all is at is seems. They used to be friends a long time ago, had a falling out, and one of the loveliest parts of the novel is them finding their way to each other, but there is also finding the middle path between their two very different philosophies and ways of being, not to mention solving a conspiracy or dozen, and putting a new dynasty on the throne, among other things. It always makes me think, a little, of ��if Mei Changsu x Jingyan were canon.”

4. Sha Po Lang - if you like a lot of fantasy politics and world-building and steampunk with your novels, this one is for you. This one is VERY plot-heavy with smart, dedicated characters and a deconstruction of many traditional virtues - our protagonist Chang Geng, a long-lost son of the Emperor, is someone who wants to modernize the country but also take down the current emperor his brother for progress’ sake and the person he’s in love with is the general who saved him when he was a kid who is nominally his foster father. Anyway, the romance is mainly a garnish in this one, not even a big side dish, but the relationship between two smart, dedicated, deadly individuals with very different concepts of duty is fascinating long before it turns romantic. And if you like angst, while overall it’s not as angsty as e.g., Meatbun stuff, Chang Geng’s childhood is the stuff of nightmares and probably freaks me out more than anything else in any novel on this list, 2ha included.

3. To Rule In a Turbulent World (LSWW) - gay Minglan. No seriously. This is how I think of it. it’s a slice of life period novel with fascinating characters and setting that happens to have a gay OTP, not a romance in a period setting per se and I always prefer stories where the romance is not the only thing that is going on. It’s meticulously written and smart and deals with character development and somehow makes daily minutia fascinating. Our protagonist, You Miao, is the son of a fabulously wealthy merchant, sent to the capital to make connections and study. As the story starts, he sees his friend’s servants beating someone to death, feels bad, and buys him because, as we discover gradually and organically, You Miao may be wealthy and occasionally immature but he is a genuinely good person. The person he buys is a barbarian from beyond the wall, named Li Zhifeng. It’s touch and go if the man will survive but eventually he does and You Miao, who by then has to return home, gives him his papers and lets him go. However, LZF decides to stick with You Miao instead, both out of sense of debt for YM saving his life and because he genuinely likes him (and yet, there is no instalove on either of their parts, their bodies have fun a lot quicker than their souls.) Anyway, the two take up farming, get involved in the imperial exams and it’s the life of prosperity and peace, until an invasion happens and things go rapidly to hell. This is so nuanced, so smart (smart people in this actually ARE!) and has secondary characters who are just as complex as the mains (for example, I ended up adoring YM’s friend, the one who starts the plot by almost beating LZF to death for no reason) because the novel never forgets that few people are all villain. There is a lovely character arc or two - watching YM grow up and LZF thaw - there is the fact that You Miao is a unicorn in web novels being laid back and calm. This whole thing is a masterpiece.

2. Stains of Filth (Yuwu) - want the emotional hit of 2ha but want to read something half its length? Well, the author of 2ha is here to eviscerate you in a shorter amount of time. This has the beautiful world-building, plot twists that all make sense and, at the center of it all, an intense and all-consuming and gloriously painful relationship between two generals - one aristocratic loner Mo Xi, and the other gregarious former slave general Gu Mang. Once they were best friends and lovers, but when the novel starts, Gu Mang has long turned traitor and went to serve the enemy kingdom and has now been returned and Mo Xi, who now commands the remnants of his slave army, has to cope with the fact that he has never been able to get over the man who stabbed him through the heart. Literally. This novel has a gorgeously looping structure, with flashbacks interwoven into present storyline. There is so much love and longing and sacrifice in this that I am tearing up a bit just thinking of it. If you don’t love Mo Xi and Gu Mang, separately and together, by the end of it, you have no soul.

1. The Dumb Husky and His White Cat Shizun (2ha/erha) - if you’ve been following my tumblr for more than a hot second, you know my obsession with this novel. Honestly, even if I were to make a list of my top 10 novels of any kind, not just webnovels, this would be on the list. It has everything I want - a complicated, intricate plot with an insane amount of plot twists, all of which are both unexpected and make total sense, a rich and large cast of characters, a truly epic OTP that makes me bawl, emotional intensity that sometimes maxes even me out and so much character nuance and growth. Also, Moran is my favorite web novel character ever, hands down.

Anyway, the plot (or at least the way it first appears) is that the evil emperor of the cultivation world, Taxian Jun, kills himself at 32 and wakes up in the body of his 16 year old self, birth name Moran. Excited to get a redo, Moran wants to save his supposed true love Shimei, whose death the last go-around pushed him towards evil. He also wants to avoid entanglement with Chu Wanning, his shizun and sworn enemy in past life. And that’s all you are best off knowing, trust me. The only hint I am going to give is oooh boy the mother of all unreliable narrators has arrived!

The novel starts light and funny on boil the frog principle - if someone told me I would be full bawling multiple times with this novel, I’d have thought they were insane, but i swear my eyes hurt by the end of it. I started out being amused and/or disliking the mains and by the end I would die for either of them.

#cnovel #2ha #yuwu #to rule in a turbulent world #lsww #sha po lang #golden stage #return of the swallow #transmigrator meets reincarnator #lord seventh #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #heaven official's blessing #the dumb husky and his white cat shizun

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starvels · 2 years

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3, 6, and 9!

hi cassabee! thanks :')

from this fic-reader’s ask meme

3. one otp or mix-and-match?

mix and match! i love stevetony of course lol, but outside of s/t actually, most of my main ships have been poly ships and not single OTPs 😂 and i'm not married to only stevetony. i would love if more fics were about them being poly together! esp with like, jan or thor etc.

i think what i find compelling in pairing is actually the exploration of how characters fit together and are, as themselves.

in that vein, here's some nice historically-set assorted pairings for ya.

Blood trust by unknownlifeform

Alucard knows his traveling companions probably do not trust him fully. He is half vampire, and humans don't like to have creatures around them who could drink their blood. He isn't exactly enthusiastic of them, either. Except, it turns out he is fond of them. And they, for their part, do not mind having a dhampir around them. With everything that comes with it. Or: Alucard's developing feelings, narrated through blood and its effects on him. (Castlevania, Alucard/Sypha/Trevor)

Confidence Artists by Fahye

The grey light of Spain carries their history with it, and it's gleaming through the cracks. // Two long cons, in thirteen conversations. (Road to El Dorado, Chel/Miguel/Tulio)

counterflood by Saathi1013

Wherein Duncan Idaho is devoted to his Duke, Jessica schemes, and Leto is wary of abusing his power. Set pre-movie on Caladan, before Paul is born. (Dune, Duncan/Jessica/Leto)

and an og femslash knights for you, cass hehe

Beyond the Sea by thedevilchicken

At the ten-year tournament, Errian of Elentar is her homeland's champion. She has a reputation. There is no doubt she'll win.

There's just one problem: no one thought to tell her what winning would mean. Not for her and not for Kerra, the crown princess of Stellan.

6. favorite AU?

one of my faves is a sci fi au! i love it so much, especially when its speculative like doing a firefly au !! here's a classic stevetony that i never tire of for that, an underappreciated stevetony:

Catch a Falling Star by tsukinofaerii

When Tony was sixteen, he got to meet his hero, Captain Steve Rogers, the Empire's not-literally-golden boy from the Continuity Wars. When he was twenty-seven, the aforementioned Captain turned Pirate picked him up at the outer edges of space. It would have been a good time to appreciate the abundant nudity that came from spending too much time with space colonists, but Tony had bigger worries than even Rogers' amazing hip-to-shoulder ratio. Something was sending the star-encircling computers that power the galaxy into a tailspin, and it was going to take a lot more than luck and skill to clean the mess up.

A Timely Rescue by vorkosigan

"Sorry?" Steve said. "What did you say?"

Yes, Tony wanted to sleep with Steve. He also wanted to hold him in his arms all night, and to talk to him for hours, and to play with his hair. Love, he thought, makes you utterly ridiculous. And it hurts like a branding iron, to boot.

"Nothing at all, buddy," Tony said cheerfully. "Nothing at all."

Tony saves Steve's life, but if neither of them says anything about how they feel about each other, Steve will stay in Timely and Tony will fly away to gallivant among the stars, and they may never see each other again. A Firefly AU.

and an a:tla one, very found family

Big Damn Heroes by Damkianna

Katara pushes past the curtains that block off the bridge - they have got to get a new door fitted - and stops behind Toph's chair. "I take it we didn't drop out of hyperspace on purpose," she says. (Aka THE GAANG IN SPACE.)

9. rec an angst fic

here's two stevetony i enjoy for being interesting conceptually!

Your Face in Tomorrow by WhenasInSilks

You are lying on your back in a bed three thousand miles away from your home.

You are ruining your life.

What Lies Beneath by asktheravens

All Tony wants is to make amends after a thoughtless reaction leaves him in danger of losing Steve, but a mission intervenes. The Avengers travel to a laboratory in a remote part of Appalachia expecting a routine job, but an ancient evil slumbers within Old Crow Mountain that will test much more than their relationship.

(disclosure, i haven't finished this one but it's a compelling premise!)

a witcher one that deals out some good realism

Something You Somehow Haven't to Deserve by Dira Sudis (dsudis)

What good would a one-footed witcher be to anyone? (The Witcher Games, Eskel/Geralt)

thanks cass!!

#fic talk #fic rec #our talk #fic reader ask meme #cassabee

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snickertoodles · 4 years

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Megalist of Tropes and Themes to Tag Your Story With

If you’re prone to staring at your tags on AO3 wondering “what the hell do I put here?”, knowing you want to add a tag like “friends to lovers” or “found family” but not remembering all the popular tropes and themes everyone is into, this is for you. I basically spent an entire night on this so I hope it helps.

Notes:

I tried to keep it general and avoid really obscure tags no one would ever use.

This is made for AO3 and thus there’s a lot of fandom or fannish stuff in here.

I didn’t include any “inappropriate” tags. Feel free to make your own list.

Romance tropes and themes at the bottom. (Not all of them have to be romantic, but if they’re generally associated with romance and there are very few gen fics with that tag, it went there.)

Under cut because I’m probably going to edit this often and I’d like reblogs to be up to date. Please suggest any ideas you have.

Genre: Action, Adventure, Apocalypse/Post-Apocalypse, Contemporary, Comedy/Humor/Parody/Satire, Coming of Age, Crime, Cyberpunk/Steampunk, Drama, Dystopian/Utopia, Fairy Tale, Fantasy/High Fantasy/Low Fantasy/Urban Fantasy/Isekai, Family, Friendship, Gothic, Historical Fiction/Alternate History/Period Piece, Horror/Slasher, Mystery/Murder Mystery, Paranormal, Philosophical, Poetry, Romance, Slice of Life, Supernatural, Surreal, Suspense, Sci-Fi/Science Fiction/Space Opera, Spiritual, Thriller/Psychological Thriller, Tragedy, Urban, Western

Genre (Fandom): Angst/Light Angst, Case Fic, Crack Fic, Crossover/Fusion, Dark Fic, Fix Fic/Fix-It/Deconstruction, Fluff/Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Kid Fic, Podfic, Missing Scene/Gap Filler, Self-Insert, Shipping, Sickfic, Songfic, Whump

Length: Drabble, Ficlet, Flash Fiction, Short Story, Novella, Novel, Epic, One-Shot/Two-Shot/etc, Series/Duology/Trilogy/Saga/etc, Long, Short

Pairing: M/F - F/M - M/M - F/F - F/F/M - You get the idea. Also [Character] x [Character], Slash, Yaoi/Yuri (if people still use those...)

POV: POV Alternating, POV Multiple, POV First Person, POV Second Person, POV Third Person, POV Outsider

Ending: Happy Ending, Sad Ending, Bittersweet Ending, Ambiguous Ending

Diverse Characters: Gay Character/Nonbinary Character/Asian Character/Disabled Character/Autistic Character/Jewish Character/etc.

AU/Alternate Universe: (I do not have the time to list out Coffee Shop AU/High School AU/Canon Divergence/What-If/etc, I assume if you’re writing one then you already know to tag it lol)

Abuse

Adoption

Afterlife

Aftermath

Aged Up

Alcohol

Aliens

Amnesia

Androids

Angels

Animal Transformation

Anti-Hero

Awkwardness

Babysitting

Backstory/Origin Story

Band of Misfits

Best Friends

Betrayal

Blood

Bodyswap

Bodyguard

Bonding

Bounty Hunters

Bromance

Bullying

Canon Compliant

Character Development

Character Study

Childhood Friends

Children

Chosen One

College/University/Higher Education

Corruption

Criminals

Crying

Curses

Cute

Death

Delinquents

Demons

Depression

Destiny/Fate

Disability

Domestic/Curtainfic

Dragons

Dreams/Dreamscape

Drugs

Education

Ensemble Cast

Epilogue

Fanon/Headcanon

Father Figure/Mother Figure

Feelings

Feels

Fights

Flashbacks

Forgiveness

Found Family

Freedom Fighters

Frenemies

Future

Genderswap/Gender Change

Ghosts

Gods

Good Versus Evil

Gore

Grief/Mourning

Growing Up

Healing

Heartwarming

Heroes to Villains/Villains to Heroes

Holidays

Homesickness

Hospital

Hurt

I Wrote This Instead of Sleeping (A very legitimate tag.)

Imprisonment

Injury

Introspection

Illness/Sick Character

Immortality

Isolation

Jealousy

Kidnapping

LGBTQ/LGBTQ Character/LGBTQ Themes

Light-Hearted

Locked In

Loss

Love

Mafia

Magic

Magical Girl(s)

Major Character Death/Minor Character Death

Manipulation

Medieval

Medical

Melancholy

Mental Health Issues

Mentors

Merpeople

Mind Control

Military

Misunderstandings

Modern

Monsters

Morally Grey/Ambiguous Characters

Murder

Mythical Beings & Creatures

Mythology

Neighbors

Next Gen/Next Generation

Nightmares

Original Character/OC/OCs

Orphans/Orphanage

Out of Character/OOC

Parenthood

Past Lives

Peggy Sue

Pen Pals

Pirates

Platonic Relationships/No Romance

Platonic Soulmates

Plot Twists

Politics

Possession

Post-Canon/Pre-Canon/Mid-Canon/Bad Ending/etc.

Prompt Fill/Prompt Fic

Protectiveness

Rags to Riches

Rebels

Recovery

Redemption/Redemption Arc

Regret

Reincarnation/Resurrection/Rebirth

Rejection

Relationships

Religion

Rescue/Rescue Missions

Restaurants

Reunion

Revenge

Revolution

Rivalry

Road Trip

Robots

Roommates

Royalty

Sad

School

Secrets

Secret Identity

Self-Discovery

Self-Harm

Shapeshifting

Siblings

Single Parents

Slow Build

Soft

Spies

Spoilers

Substance Abuse

Suicide

Superheroes

Sweet

Sympathetic Villain

Teamwork

Team as Family

Team Bonding

Team Dynamics

Teenagers

Tension

Time Loop

Time Travel

Training

Trapped

Trauma

Travel

Undercover

Unreliable Narrator

Vampires

Villains

Violence

War

Weapons

Wedding

Wilderness

Witchcraft

Worldbuilding

xxx to Friends (Rivals to Friends/Enemies to Friends/etc.)

Zombies

ROMANCE TROPES

Battle Couple

Blind Date

Breakup

Confessions

Dating

Divorce

Dorks in Love

Drunken Confessions

Established Relationship

Eventual Romance

Falling in Love

Fake Relationship/Fake Dating/Pretend Relationship/Pretend Couple

First Kiss

First Love

Forbidden Love

Heartbreak

Idiots in Love

Long-Distance Relationship

Long-Term Relationship

Love/Hate

Love at First Sight

Love Confessions

Love Potion/Love Spell

Love Triangle

Marriage/Accidental Marriage/Arranged Marriage/Marriage of Convenience

Marriage Proposal

Mutual Pining/Pining

OTP

Pregnancy

Rarepair

Secret Relationship

Sharing a Bed

Slow Burn/Slow Romance

Soulmate/Soulmate AU

Tsundere/all of the other -deres

Unrequited Love/One-Sided Attraction

xxx to Lovers (Enemies to Lovers/Friends to Lovers/etc.)

#tagging #archive of our own #ao3 #tumblr #tropes #trope list #tag list #tag ideas #writing #writing resources #toodles talks

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random-autie-fangirl · 2 months

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Y'know what here are the voices in Frisk's head that i've got for the flower prince (undertale/slay the princess au with Asriel as prince(ss), Frisk as slayer, and Chara as narrator)

Voice of the Human to replace Voice as the Hero as the main one

Voice of the Brazen with the Damsel prince

Voice of the Curious with the Prisoner prince

Voice of the Crybaby with the Nightmare prince

Voice of the Hero (not like stp hero) with the Spectre prince

Voice of the Angel with the Witch prince

Voice of the Determined with the Beast prince

Voice of the Monster with the Adversary prince

Voice of the Ambassador with the Tower prince

Voice of the Player with the Razor prince

Voice of the Spiteful with the Stranger prince

#slay the princess #undertale #hey look! I did a thing #the flower prince #Frisk's voices can range from just a more childish version of the quiet's ( like skeptic and curious) to almost completely the opposite #(like ambassador and broken)#some ended up accidentally swapping over (player vs cheated/contrarian vs spiteful)#and these names can be quite subjective like hero being called hero cause that's what narrator thinks of them #but basically...#the voices are Frisk's individual memories #a bunch of different things they've been and perspectives they've had across a bunch of timelines and moments #and each respective prince being what they thought of/remember from Asriel #because...initially neither Frisk nor Asriel remember who they are #but they're gonna make themselves (and the prince) whole again!#anyway...I split the blorbo in ten #Enjoy!#I...need to go to sleep #otp: not letting go #just so everyone knows this is Friskriel lol

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friendofhayley · 3 years

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thank you @theonly1dyouneed for tagging me to do these questions! I love tag games, so keep 'em coming :)

MUSIC

fav genre? Alternative and Musicals

fav song? Currently Bezos I by Bo Burnham

most listened song recently? POP/STARS by K/DA, my girlfriend got me into LOL music haha

song currently stuck in your head?- Bezos I and Bezos II

5 current fav lyrics? (I'm also including lyrics I find interesting)

"Maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties" - 100 Bad Days

"I tripped on my ankle and fractured my elbow But doesn't that mean that the tour's gonna sell though?" - Karma

"They are rumors we have to face I prefer sooner than after late I seen actors after BAFTA's be more straight" - Calamity

"They say I'm up and coming like I'm fucking in an elevator" - You Need Me, I Don't Need You

"I love everybody because I love you When you stood up, walked away barefoot And the grass where you lay left a bed in your shape I looked over it and I ached" - Strawberry Blonde

BOOKS

fav book genre? Historical fiction or fantasy

fav writer? Neil Gaiman

fav book series? Heroes of Olympus, the better series in PJO

comfort book? American Gods by Neil Gaiman

perfect book to read on a rainy day? Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

fav characters? Granny Weatherwax from the Discworld Series and Nico di Angelo from PJO

A quote from your fav book/s that you know by heart?

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” - Coraline by Neil Gaiman

TV AND MOVIES

fav tv/movie genre? fantasy or anything gay

fav movie? Stardust

comfort movie? Little Women

movie you watch every year? Corpse Bride

fav tv show? Game Changer

most re-watched tv show? Glee (before everyone died)

ultimate otp? Malec

5 fav characters? Alec Lightwood, Stiles Stilinski, Derek Hale, Magnus Bane, Kieran Walker

I tag @talkingflowerlei @fkinavocado @cheshirelourry @punk-lou and @eighteendead

#tag #me #theonly1dyouneed #song rec #book rec #movie rec #tv show rec

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eevee-nova · 3 years

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Kaito !!

Ahhh yes!!! My favorite space boy Kaito! 💜🚀 Apologies in advance that this is so long lol I just have a lot to say about him!

Favorite Thing About Them: how interesting of a character he is. There's a lot of layers to Kaito and he's so good at hiding them (esp in the pov of an unreliable narrator) so it's very easy to overlook those if you don't pay attention. He's fun to pick apart and analyze and explore the potential of. His hero complex might be unhealthy but it makes him all the more of an enjoyable character.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: the goatee nah maybe the toxic masculinity thing. He respects women, (canonically) but sometimes he's a little too happy to say things about how men should and shouldn't act and it's like, relax babe, it's fine. Just be yourself.

Favorite Line: Right before his death- "Alright then! Let's end this with a bang! A special punishment suited to the Luminary of the Stars!" God that's so badass lol

BrOTP: Shuichi, their friendship is so pure (and a lil gay), but I also really like the idea of him interacting with Rantaro and Kaede.

OTP: Oumota 100%. The dynamic is fire, the potential is so so interesting, theyre prob the best developed characters in v3, the narrative flows naturally when it focuses on them. Also bro, that height difference. 👌 (And I'm a sucker for the enemies to lovers trope.)

nOTP: There's none that I'm totally against really, but I guess a ship I don't fully understand is kaimaki and mainly cuz it comes off as one sided to me and also incredibly unhealthy from her pov. (Just reminds me of myself a lot and how I would "fall in love" with men just cuz they made me feel special but I didn't really love them I just loved being loved lol)

Random Headcanon: I'll give ya one of each: Pregame Kaito smokes Marlboro reds, Non-killing Game AU Kaito didn't have a lot of friends prior to HPA cuz he was a bit too hyperactive and weird, Post-Game (VR AU) Kaito leaves his hair down and looks better for it.

Unpopular Opinion: Not sure if it's unpopular, or even an opinion ppl have lol, but when I first played thru v3 I always felt that Kaito was the protag in my heart. It felt more like his story. (Not to mention Kokichi as the antagonist was literally a foil to Kaito and antagonized him way more than Shuichi)

Song I Associate With Them: omg there's so many lol. But top 3?

Heroes by All Time Low: (It sort of reads like a rivalry song with Kokichi that descends into his own insecurities of wanting/trying to save everyone. The final verse/chorus just hits on that self realization that he's been lying to everyone around him and he has to accept he's not who he pretends to be)

Crash by Sum 41: (Listen to this song and tell me it is not a Kaito death song lol)

Bang by AJR (I like to think Kaito had fun in the exisal. This song gives a campy vibe for the trial and it just fits the little theatre kid we all know he is.)

Fave Picture of Them:

I was in tears during this trial and then this mother fucker jumps out the exisal and it's the most bittersweet moment! 😭 (Plus he looks cool af and he knows it lol)

#thank you for the ask it was fun!!#asky thingys #danganronpa #kaito momota #danganronpa spoilers #drv3 spoilers

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ariel-seagull-wings · 3 years

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FICTIONAL CHARACTER ASK: THE VALIANT LITTLE TAILOR

TAGGED BY: @princesssarisa

@superkingofpriderock @astrangechoiceoffavourites

Favorite Thing About Them: His confidence, cunning, wit and sense of adventure. How can one not like a guy who genuinelly believes that killing seven flies with one slap automatically qualifies him to kill giants and capture unicorns and boars, and the best part is that its not just boasting: he really can do those things. In adaptations and retellings, he tends to become a frightened reluctant hero, wich also is another character archetype that i enjoy.

Least Favorite Thing About Them: Let’s face it: the original ending to his tale aged poorly. In that ending, he is once sleeping and dreaming with his work as a tailor. The princess who married him, whom we may simpathize with due to the fact that she is unhappy with being given to him by her father as a reward, while still being conscious that she is contributing with the classist and toxicly masculine ideals of her society, complains about it to her father, and the two plan to kill the Tailor if he dreams again of working as a tailor (never mind that he just saved their asses of giants, a wild unicorn and a boar and maybe deserve some rest of battles). Fortunally for the heroe, the King’s armour-bearer, who is his friend, warns him of this plot, and the Tailor pretends to sleep and dream of battles and saves his skin. I read this and am like: “Dude, you are clever enough to seek fame and fortune somewhere, maybe you should get away from those classist ungratefull assholes”. Thankfully, most adaptations cut this altogether, make the Princess (and sometimes her father) know he is a tailor and not care, and develop his relationship with the Princess as a genuine confidence and consent based love story instead of trowing her at his arms as a reward.

Three Things I Have in Common With Them:

Sense of humour.

I enjoy bread with jam.

I believe that sometimes lying is needed in order to preserve our lives.

Three Things I Don't Have in Common With Them:

I have no patience for sewing, and can barely be efficient to hit one flie, imagine seven.

I am not brave to face wild mithological creatures stronger than me.

Like i sayed, i wouldn’t want to continue living with a royal family that wanted to kill me.

Favorite Line:

This line from when he kills the Giants.

‘The work is done; I have finished both of them off, but it was hard work! They tore up trees in their sore need, and defended themselves with them, but all that is to no purpose when a man like myself comes, who can kill seven at one blow.’

This line from when he receives the mission of capturing the Unicorn:

‘I fear one unicorn still less than two giants. Seven at one blow, is my kind of affair.’

brOTP: The Armour-bearer, who is loyal enough to warn the Tailor of the plot against his life.

OTP: In the original tale, also the Armour-bearer, who genuinelly likes the Tailor as a person and is loyal to him. In adaptations, the Princess with whom he develops a genuine love story.

nOTP: The Princess in the original tale. It is clear that was not a happy match.

Random Headcanon: There is a variant of the story from Portugal where he is a cobbler named ‘João’, wich is the portuguese version of the name ‘John’. So, John is my name for him.

Unpopular Opinion: Like i sayed, i would prefer that he just accepted money and half the kingdom as his reward and asked the Princess if she genuinelly wanted to marry him or not. It would have avoided so much trouble.

Song i Associate with Them:

All three songs from the El Chapulin Colorado loving fairy tale parody three part episode, wich combined elements of The Valiant Little Tailor and The Emperour’s New Clothes.

Hermano Francisco (Brother Francisco), where he tells to the Princess (disguised as a peasant) about the kindness of Saint Francisco of Assis

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No me lo van a creer (They won’t believe me), where he celebrates having killed three flies, but people misread him as having killed three local bandits (it was actually a Giant who did that)

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Campeón (Champion), where the Chapulin Colorado, the story’s narrator who is played by the same actor as the Tailor, celebrates the fact that a heroe can come from unlikely places

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Favorite picture of them:

This illustration by Johann Seipp

These illustrations by Hermann Wohler

This illustration by Karl Fischer

This illustration by Daniela Drescher

The 1938 portrayal by Mickey Mourse, wich was my introduction to the character

Mexican comedian Roberto Gómez Bolaños (more known as Chespirito) in the three part Chapulin Colorado loving parody episode, my favorite version of the character

Actress Florinda Meza, who would later become his wife, portrayed the Princess, and their chemistry was really starting to show in that episode

Kostja Ullman in the German TV Movie Series Grimm’s Finest Fairy Tales (2008)

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oh-wow-its-wordgirl · 4 years

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Becky for the character ask meme? X3

AW HECK YEAH HERE WE GO

Why I like them-

Because she’s adorable!! And also is just a really well-written character! She loves the city and wants to help people but she’s also Ten Years Old and gets frustrated when she doesn’t get to live her life! Also I relate to her a lot lol... so many people in the show are absolutely neurodivergent, and the whole show is basically just “a superhero whose gimmick is infodumping about her hyperfixation on words”

Why I don’t-

I’ll be honest I don’t think there’s a single thing about Becky I dislike. I mean sure she has times where she’s selfish or shortsighted but these all make for great character moments and are completely understandable for a kid in her position.

Favorite episode (scene if movie)-

Oh boy this is hard lol... I’m always a sucker for the scene in rise of miss power right after she drops sally back off at home 🥺 that legit made me cry. The subtle validation her mom gave to Becky by comparing her to Wordgirl, even if she didn’t know exactly what she was doing... it’s just so sweet. And don’t even get me STARTED on bunny lovers!! Outside of specials though, I think my favorite Becky episode is “the straw that broke Two-Brains’ back”! We really get to see her frustration about always being relied upon. Also we know from kid math’s episode that she usually just pretends to lose in the first half of most episodes to build tension, but I genuinely believe she was trying the best she could to stop Two-Brains cause she was just so angry!

Favorite season/movie-

It’s such an episodic show, I don’t think there’s one season that can be my favorite. I will say that I think they absolutely perfected her personality a few seasons in.

Favorite line-

TOO MANY MAN! But I have to say I’m partial to “YOU’RE about to be incarcerated :D!”

Favorite outfit-

Might seem a little basic, but I honestly really just like the Wordgirl outfit! A lot of the other ones she wears are just goofy lol. But the wg color scheme is super nice and it being a simple one-piece is just really cute ngl. Also I love the headcanon (supported by ROMP) that Huggy made it and that’s adorable.

OTP-

Oh no I can’t choose! I have been focusing a lot on Becktoria lately, but Vibecky has been something I latched onto in like episode 5. But also I just,, really like Scecky for some reason? Like their whole dynamic is super interesting. She had a crush on him when his entire goal was to basically ruin her career, and she kinda lost it right before he learned her secret and gave that up. (And I headcanon thats when he gets a crush on her) so them getting together any time after that is really sweet to me

Brotp-

Oh her and TJ for sure!! They have the perfect sibling interaction and bicker a lot but it’s so obvious that they do really care about each other! Oh but also her and Bob.. monkey dad. How can you not love that. But ALSO Narrator! His inclusion on its own is just super hilarious but their interactions are adorable! But ALSO ALSO her and BUTCHER’S FRIENDSHIP IS SUPER UNDERRATED!! I really like that he usually comes up when she’s having family issues and is always super kind and understanding when she vents to him about them!

Headcanon-

I think she’s Nonbinary and Bi! But aside from lgbt hcs, I think she started being a hero when she was around 8 years old. And also I think she was SUPER excited when she found out she had a younger brother! She absolutely was the one who taught TJ to read and speak (idk how good at it she was she was still very very young and probably had a short temper lol) I also think she has like a group at school where mostly kids with disorders like dyslexia can come to her so she can either help or read to them. Also On more of a serious note, I feel like she had a point where she was really suspicious about her birth parents. Of course the Botsfords are her real family, but she would absolutely feel a little insecure about not knowing how much her bio family cared about her. The fact that they let a baby wander off on its own long enough to get off the planet is. Not that good a sign.

Unpopular Opinion-

There needs to be way more content of her, Scoops, and Violet just hanging out! I’m a sucker for friend group shenanigans and I adore their little interactions. High five sandwich is like one of the best episodes just cause they goof around

A wish-

That we get a reboot someday 😔 I know it’s unnecessary and the show ran for a really long time but I need more daughter. But in universe, a way for Steven to directly communicate with her while not being affected by Squeaky! She misses him so much and deserves more time with him...

An oh-god-please-dont-ever-happen-

Any scenario of her losing touch with the villains or her friends as she gets older makes me genuinely distressed. They belong together.

5 words to best describe them-

Plucky, powerful, childish, considerate, overexerted

My nickname for them-

Beck, darling, or baby lol. Also sometimes I pronounce WG like “wug”. and occasionally Wordkid when I’m rlly thinking bout her being nonbinary, but also I just think it’s cute to say.

#Wordgirl #becky botsford #hoo boy this took a while lol #but I really really really like talking about Becky so it’s okay #I’ll answer any others when I get off school today

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theymetinthetoihlet · 3 years

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My lovely @genius0flove tagged me

music

fave genre? Pop

fave artist?

fave song? What’s up by 4 Non Blondes

most listened song recently? Un’estate italiana

song currently stuck in your head? Un’estate italiana lmao

5 fave lyrics? I don’t know if I have five 🤔

“Will that make it stop?/If I told you I need you/Is that what you want?” “Well, I've been afraid of changin'/'Cause I've built my life around you/But time makes you bolder/Even children get older/And I'm getting older too” “E con la faccia pulita/Cammini per strada mangiando una mela/Coi libri di scuola, ti piace studiare/Non te ne devi vergognare”

books

fav book genre? contemporary

fav writer? i don’t really have one

fav book? Pay it forward

fav book series? i think i’ve never read a series only twilight

comfort book? The little Prince

perfect book to read on a rainy day? How to analyse people

fave characters? Okay there’s this book I read when I was very very young. Someone gave it to my mum and she gave it to me. It was about this young girl who went through some heavy shit. I lost that book when we moved and I can’t remember the title for the life of me but boy was that girl my hero!!

5 quotes from your fave book that you know by heart? i do not know any by heart

TV AND MOVIES

fave tv/movie genre? drama/comedy

fave movie? Memento

comfort movie? A knight’s tale

movie you watch every year? Home alone probably

fave tv show? Too many tbh OTH, The OC, Dawson’s Creek, Veronica Mars, Gilmore Girls, TVD, Alias, Hart of Dixie, Grey’s Anatomy, Shameless…Currently 911 though

comfort tv show? Friends

most rewatched tv show? Probably TVD

ultimate otp? How can you ask me such a question? I don’t know…

5 fave characters? Brooke Davis, Mickey Milkovich, Buck Buckley, Veronica Mars, Athena Grant

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#sorry jord for stealing some of your answers #thank you <3 #tag games

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