Book names + authors under the cut

Neil Josten/Andrew Minyard- All For The Game by Nora Sakavic

Jesper Fahey/Wylan Van Eck- Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Wei Wuxian is a secret author and wrote two romance books: 'No Apologies and Thank Yous' and 'Our Song'. He based these stories on his own love life from him and his husband.

What he didn't expect was that his nephews and son would fight over which couple was superior in a poll.

They would write pages on pages of evidence of why the couple they were supporting was superior. Even though he felt happy they loved the book that much, there was no need to go to such lengths because in essence they were both made from the same people.

When he told them as such, Jin Ling was frozen, Ouyang Zizhen jumped in glee because he always had such suspicions, Lan Sizhui was unsurprised (he secretly voted for both ships) and Lan Jingyi fainted.

Hello everyone! Do you have an enemies to lovers ship you just can't get enough of? Of course you do!

Do you want to see if the world agrees? Then this is the right place!

Rules:

Submit as many as you want. Canon, headcanon, whatever you want!

No Harry Potter! I think you can guess why.

I have the right not to let a ship in (but i'll be reasonable!)

It doesn't matter how small or obscure your ship is!

Don't exclusively send a shipname! i might not be able to find them that way

Submissions close when we hit 124! (81/124)

Any questions? Just send them to me!

distraught over the results of the andreil vs moshang posts.

aftg is *not that good* for many reasons including that the main antagonists were a japanese family who were portrayed in a kind of icky stereotypical way, and personally i don’t think that andrew and neil were even the relationship that was at the center of it. like they’re fine. sure, they help each other deal with their trauma but for both of them all they really needed for that was the team, like that was the whole point of it that through this team they were all able to heal?? ‘he stopped when he said no’ guys that is consent 101. or not even consent 101, it’s like the first line of the ‘consent for dummies’ book. also, if we’re talking ships in terms of queerness, i would say that aftg just as a series is not as queer as it could be, mostly due to the focus on naming sexuality (thinking of nicky here), and also tbh i do not remember if it passes the bechdel test because there were sooo many men in it

but moshang? scum villain? you do not get more queer or campy than scum villain. scum villain is about taking a shitty straight power story and turning it into what the author wanted to write and didn’t because he sold out, which is a narrative about a gay man who is absolutely fucking obsessed with his teacher and just loves him so much. moshang is all of the physical violence of andreil that y’all seem to love so much and all the saving too but their relationship is just so much more innately queer. shang qinghua did not write his perfect man, get transmigrated into his own novel, get wifeplotted into being with this man constantly, and call him ‘my king’ to lose to some scrawny white boys.

and during asian american pacific islander heritage month too. (for legal reasons i’m joking but as an asian i always vote asian and i think everyone else should too during the month of may)

I love your polls and it’s great you try to be on both sides to give fair chance to everyone, but the way you talked about shanks/buggy is crazy They’re fine together but in canon they’re brothers and your shipping googles got so tight you actually sounded like you could believe they’re anywhere close to canon which is u know stupid af

lmao, okay, this came out of nowhere 😂 Like... I talked about that months ago. But okay.

Anyway, Shuggy is canon. They're making out behind you right now.

semifinals

The semifinals approach. As they do, I keep wondering... what tournament should I do next?

Since we're nearing the final round of our romantic tournament, I'd like to do a quick plug for the submission form to the second major tournament, which will be focusing on platonic relationships! I'll likely look at running a mini-tournament (femslash ships or ships that are also just words) between the end of tournament 1 and the start of 2, primarily to give everyone time to submit as well as give me time to set things up for our second go-round.

The Anime Binge-Watcher's Queer Anime Ship Tournament!

The first round begins! Will it be the steamy Chinese exorcists or the lo-fi lesbians who desperately need a season 2? Place your votes now, and feel free to reblog for as big a sample size as possible!

All Round 1 Match-Ups

Rules and Full Bracket

Book names + authors under the cut

Wei Wuxian/Lan Wangji- Mo Dao Zu Shi/Grand Master of Demonic Cultivation by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish- The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

R3: @ultimate-soup-showdown VS @queer-ship-tournament

Classic lit and queer shipping go together like Achilles and Patroclus. @the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever finds the very best couple.