villainousauthor: “I’m tired.” Hero speaks in a rough voice, exhausted. “I’m so tired.” They repeat like a mantra, a lifeline. One look in their eyes shows that their weariness goes beyond just today’s battle. Villain steps closer, gaze raking up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When two characters are in love with one another, but they’re both playing a role. They’re interacting exclusively with each other through masks and personas and dances of lies and half truths. And the line between the mask and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sjwcringecompilation: sjwcringecompilation: War profiteering but for polycule drama Emotional support side piece strategically hooking up with people who don’t speak anymore building up a psychological profile of everyone’s attachment styles in preparation for establishing their own polycule on the ruins[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The “let me kill for you. PLEASE let me kill for you” dynamic, but the person being asked finally, eventually says “yes.”
So fucking addicted to toxic, messy ships. Give me the angst, the drama, the pain, the longing, the heartache, the frustration. Give me the ‘we can’t keep going on this way, but I can’t imagine ever stopping’.
wiiwarechronicles: I always love when people make a post like “don’t ship this thing, the characters hurt each other!!!” Then uou look at the series it’s from and the entire thing is about people murdering each other
I’m really glad I’m not the only one who feels that way, anon. Thanks for reaching out, it means a lot. 🤝 context link
devine-fem: “why would you ship that? they would be so toxic-“ I KNOWWW, YOU DONT GET IT. THAT. IS. THE. APPEAL. THE TRAGEDY OF IT ALL GIVES IT FLAVOR. AND I nomnomnom- I EAT IT UP EVERYTIME.
there are so many fun m/f pairings that I like, but the fandom emphasis on them settling down and getting married and having babies makes me nauseous and upset so I just mostly stick to slash pairings instead when it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
b5160-8: “my ship kissed!” “my ship held hands!!!” okay. well. my ship had holes in it and was doomed to sink from the very moment of its departure. my ship flipped and drowned all the passengers. my ship had a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s really wild when you look at a pair of characters who interact in canon and your reaction is “oh they’re obviously meant to be a couple” then you go on AO3 and they’re a barely existent rare pair. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
nonasuch: nonasuch: look. i am a creature of simple needs. all i want is a character who seems kind and open-hearted and easygoing, a character who seems angry and cynical and armored, and a story in which the latter is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dubiously moral or outright evil royalty and their unfathomably devoted personal servant/knight/advisor is simply one of the top ships of all time.
“I’d die for you.” “Would you live for me? No, I mean would you live for me? Would you change yourself in every conceivable way to better fit my desires? Would you abandon any principle you ever had and pervert[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
i-llbedammned: They’re not together, not single, but a secret third thing (bound by the narrative).
I’m starting to get really, genuinely frustrated with myself that I just can’t make narumitsu click in my head, independent of Maya. I see narumayo, and I see mitsumayo, but every time I sit down to write narumitsu, they repel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
antlerslayer: that ship is toxic to YOU. to me it’s a complex, multi-layered, essay-worthy dynamic that’d take numerous hours to dissect (during which i’ll spend crying screaming tearing my hair out)
sagegarnish: ALT One of my fave ship dynamics tbh Even tastier when the older one is in a mentor type role
brutaliakhoa: new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years
illmetkismet: Sugardaddy/sugarbaby relationship but the one with money is an annoying 23 year old who like, made a successful app in college or something, and the poor one is a 40-something single dad with medical debt who was just ‘made[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“you only ship poly ships because you want to have your cake and eat it, too” First of all, I ship poly ships because I love messy, expansive relationships, and the different ways people can romantically touch one another’s lives.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
sometimes a comfort ship can be a ship that is so toxic.
elicash: what if there was a repressed blond man in love with a dark-haired maniac
Sounds like a Dark Souls ship. 🤣 Eldritch.
dodobro: shadowy-dumbo-octopus: unclothed-i-shall-return: ardatli: sunhatred: Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of my favorite things about polyamory fic is that, because a character is having different needs filled by different partners (and serving different needs of different partners), you get to see many aspects of their character that might not[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
playlist for my new favorite villain/civilian rarepair When Poets Dreamed Of Angels- David Sylvain Pretty When you Cry– VAST Rule 34– Fish in a Birdcage No Devil– San Fermin Live Forever– Catherine Pierce Fire and Ice– Rasputina Don’t Mess With[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
brutaliakhoa: a situationship actually just means a relationship where one person subjects the other to Situations with higher and higher stakes
I love flawed, morally dubious characters who don’t realize when they’re in the wrong, and have complex, multi-layered, messy romantic and sexual relationships where they make mistakes, have miscommunications, prioritize their feelings over their partner’s sometimes, and accidentally or even[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Actually, simple and clean is in fact the single best yaoi song of all time.
kyliafanfiction: I ship the ship because I think it makes for a more interesting story. You ship the ship because you thing A is the only one worth of B and that they’re ‘soulmates’. We are Not The Same.
“Hey, sorry I murdered your loved ones and tried to murder you. That was pretty fucked up of me, huh? Would you like to have an inappropriate sexual relationship with me about it?”
Yesterday I talked a lot about the gay subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Today, I’m going to talk about the het subtext in Ace Attorney– it exists, and there’s lots of it. Honestly, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s not pedophilia or inherently predatory to ship an adult woman character with an older adult male character. It just isn’t. You can be grossed out about it all you like, and you don’t have to ship it. No one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“But why does it matter if they’re attracted to more than one gender– they’re already partnered with (character)!” Ya’ll are so fuckin’ monogamous.
“how can you headcanon that character as bisexual– they’re so obviously gay!” Easy; I don’t believe that what a person acts like or dresses like, or their mannerisms or habits of speech correlates to who they’re attracted to. A character[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love it when characters who are romantic partners don’t have to live together. I love it when characters who are romantic partners don’t have a traditional domestic relationship. I love it when characters who are romantic partners are part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ships can always be improved by adding another character to them. 💖
really, deeply in love with the term “hatchet man” for someone’s personal killer. It’s evocative. It’s personal. It’s a euphemism, but not a delicate one. “my hatchet man.” “i’m his hatchet man.” 😳😳😳😳 — hatchet man (plural hatchet men) A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
notquiteaghost: notquiteaghost: notquiteaghost: once again opening a ship tag on AO3 and opening a dozen fics and closing out of almost all of them immediately because they would not fucking act like that why is it – i know why.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
eatsleepandsing: another great ship dynamic is “characters who are deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares are finally able to get a peaceful night of sleep in each other’s arms”
Character who was never taught to speak the language of softness. They were only taught the language of blood and fire. Still, they love. They express that love the only way they know how.
I love enemy romance, and rival romance, and blackrom in general because (among other reasons) there is no layer of pretending that you’re not going to hurt each other. There’s no pretending that you’re not trying to hurt each other.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
poly ships made up of the members of a paramilitary/military organization are simply the very best ships there are. romance and sex growing out of the intimacy of being responsible for one another in life or death situations. willing to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love it when there is something menacing about a romance. When there is awe, and more than just a hint of horror.
sex from a man who hates me and can’t quite bring himself to kill me.
Domme who communicates entirely in facebook wine mom minions memes and forces you to play really bad video games while she laughs at you.
sangled: shipping win! they have different but equally terrible coping mechanisms
alexis-royce: spicy-vagina-tacos: frankaiden: thismanhattanman: omghotmemes: Happy 80th wow i didn’t know they got married congrats love wins Hate the glorification of toxic relationships on this fucking site
galaxy-of-me: hi, i love dynamics that r like “we make each other worse” on the surface but when u look deeper it is actually just “we understand each other on a level that no one else does and nudge each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Consider the sheer spiritual and physical intimacy of doing brutal violence on one another.
“I can fix him.” No, but I can walk the same bloody road that he does, day by day, a step behind in his shadow.
lettering-is-my-music: sailoreuterpe: babsvibes: One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I want to keep being reincarnated forever, so I can continue inventing new and worse types of toxic relationships to be in with my soulmate(s).
Rival lovers/enemies to enemies who fuck– when one of them tries to walk away and the other grabs them like “this is over when I say its over.”
The best thing about creating a fictional dystopian society with complex and rigidly enforced social hierarchy or caste system is that you have more narrative opportunities to create romances and relationships which abuse the power of, or pervert and disregard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s nothing quite like a character yearning for a relationship that they’ve already long destroyed. Nothing quite as alluring as the idea that maybe the smashed pieces really could be put back together. And this time, this time they think,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
problemnyatic: “I would kill for you. I would die for you” would you take a break for me? Would you sit down and rest? For a day, a week, a year? Would you let others take care of your needs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
daz4i: enough about top/bottom discourse. who in your ship constantly has cold hands and who has warm hands. discuss
brutaliakhoa: new ship dynamic called schrodinger’s divorce where characters are simultaneously bitterly divorced and fondly married for twenty years
homunculus-argument: I think the funniest dynamic for arranged-marriage royalty would be a queen who came here 100% prepared to murder her future husband and rule as a widow queen in her own right, only to discover that the king is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
hetamyuist: hetamyuist: hetamyuist: see the thing that annoys me a lot about so many self-professed dark fiction enjoyers is the like the. implicit belief that because a romance is predatory or meant to be read as horrifying means that all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
my personal favorite themes: actually, yes, you can fight fate. You can in fact punch it in the face until it gives up. I used time travel to fix things and after lots of work everyone is alive and happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
in my personal opinion, hero x villain, or villain x villain. There’s almost nothing I like better than the “i didn’t know where else to go” trope where the hero winds up crashing with the villain after he’s destroyed himself.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When people– and especially young women– are attracted to “abusive” and “controlling” and “violent” male characters in fiction– The fantasy is not about being abused, or controlled. The fantasy is about a partner who is devoted to you, who takes[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cloudmancy: I have to say it. ‘enemies to lovers’ started going down the shitter when people began treating it like ‘people who kind of annoy each other to lovers’ ENEMIES to LOVERS is about if two girls FOR REAL want[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cicadamn: Having a normal one rn
proshipper-on-ship: partywithponies: partywithponies: The best ship dynamic is actually just. “I love you and it terrifies me. I’m terrified how much I need you and how much I want you to need me. I’m terrified I’m no good for you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Enemies to Lovers: Descent to Darkness 💕 A hero who is so tired of forcing themselves to fight the villain they love every single time, just because it’s the right thing to do. 💕 A hero who is so tired[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gh0stbeeee: love when they’re two messy halves of one awful whole. like yes, be the worst in eachother, make everyone else miserable
In general I prefer to ship myself with a f/o who is romantically forceful or romantically aggressive. an f/o who is romantically shy, or romantically accommodating. an f/o who is neither particularly shy nor particularly forceful. See Results
Ask for OTPs and Self Ships copied from a now gone post and blog: original url https://glitter-and-gasoline-deactivate.tumblr.com/post/687208822931095552 TW: angst, suggestive content, etc. Who would end a heated argument by defending their actions with ‘because I love you!’ ? What would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
spacesweepers: [holds your hand] doomed by OUR narrative
I *primarily* ship my F/Os with myself as I am. an OC/self-insert that I consider strongly based on me. an OC/self-insert that I consider only loosely based on me. a canonical character from the source material who is my kintype.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Enemies to Lovers things 🔪 The character collapsing wounded on their enemy’s doorstep because they didn’t know where else to go. 🍆 That awkward moment when they realize during physical combat that they’re really turned on. 👊 That moment of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Pick your favorite for your self ship(s): friends to lovers enemies to lovers love at first sight See Results
The villain with their hands around the hero’s neck, finally in triumph. And suddenly the strong, proud, damnable hero who’s beaten them time and time again is fragile and delicate and breakable in their grasp. And all that fury just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
petricorah: I love “i would kill for you” ship dynamics but what about “i would stop killing” ship dynamic?? I would lay down my sword for you. I would change my nature and go against everything i’ve known. I would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
zombiesun: I think there needs to be more stories about friends who are almost lovers. who are closer then anything in the world. who can read each others minds. who appreciate how beautiful and impressive the other is. and then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
zombiesun: I think there needs to be more stories about friends who are almost lovers. who are closer then anything in the world. who can read each others minds. who appreciate how beautiful and impressive the other is. and then[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gingerly-writing: “Your boss has a crush on you,” the hero informed them, then added, more gently, “Your boss has always had a crush on you. We all knew that. We all thought you knew that.” “But- no. Me? No. He’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gingerly-writing: “Your boss has a crush on you,” the hero informed them, then added, more gently, “Your boss has always had a crush on you. We all knew that. We all thought you knew that.” “But- no. Me? No. He’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
based on a no longer available prompt by @\grey-wardens-dont-have-dental. 10 prompts have been added, and one has been removed, and the list has been reformatted. –good morning. –goodnight. –hello –goodbye. –where it hurts. –where it doesn’t hurt. –on each eyelid.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Send me a Ship and a Number and I will Write a Kiss based on a no longer available prompt by @grey-wardens-dont-have-dental. 10 prompts have been added, and one has been removed, and the list has been reformatted. –good morning.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love you so much that I will re-order time to spend more of it with you. Nothing can keep me from you forever. darkheart-despairs
I love you so much that I will re-order time to spend more of it with you. Nothing can keep me from you forever.
zee-zeppeli: The ideal build for an OT3 is A Traumatised Himbo, A Borderline Cryptid and A Straight up Bitch who only likes them. darkheart-despairs
zee-zeppeli-deactivated20230806: The ideal build for an OT3 is A Traumatised Himbo, A Borderline Cryptid and A Straight up Bitch who only likes them.
Who knows you better than yourself? Who knows what you want and what you need? Who hates you more than yourself? What is love but a dark mirror through which everything that possesses and disgusts and enchants us is reflected?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who knows you better than yourself? Who knows what you want and what you need? Who hates you more than yourself? What is love but a dark mirror through which everything that possesses and disgusts and enchants us is reflected?
I love ships that are tormented, I love ships that are impossible, I love ships that are star-crossed, I love ships that ache, I love ships that try to hate each other, I love ships that try to hurt each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love ships that are tormented, I love ships that are impossible, I love ships that are star-crossed, I love ships that ache, I love ships that try to hate each other, I love ships that try to hurt each[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forbidden romance is the most romantic for the same reason that the best horror is the stuff that shows the monster the least. The romance is in what is left unsaid. It’s in the longing It’s in the lingering. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ahhhhh!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭 No matter how long it takes they will be united. It will happen. It WILL.