make it a cafe au i need to make a kencyrath cafe au caferath caldane is that annoying customer that thinks the barista is flirting with him or cares about his existence at all beyond "please don't be a dick" jame must make coffee ALL THE COFFEE. WHILE TORI INSISTS ON BEING A PERFECT GOOD BOY WHO ONLY DRINKS BLACK COFFEE LIKE A GOOD PROPER MATURE MAN.
I ship them because they are co-dependent. Nobody else understands them. I was in the fandom from the beginning until season 5 though. I pre-date Castiel and when Castiel first joined the team he was wearing someone else's body which is a much bigger squick for me than consensual adult sibling incest since nobody asked the original owner of the body.
Can we talk about Billford. 1) It almost certainly happened in canon. A bondage scene with a serenade in a Y7 show is the equivalent of an actual sex scene in 95% of all other media. 2) I'm fine with it as backstory because it almost certainly happened in canon. That includes fics about what happened way back when, they can be good (though I sometimes can't handle them) 3) When people write it as something deeply fucked up, I can't always read it because I hate seeing Ford get hurt, but it's still probably good. 4) When it's written as a nice thing in an AU, that's an AU and I don't care and if it's funny I might read it. I will think it's OOC but pfft, I hang out on Gaia as Valiska with Billford RPers from a different dimensional sheaf and she's very amused by the fact that that Bill is nice. 5) When it is written as deeply fucked up and still somehow fluffy that sometimes amuses me. BUT When people write/draw it because they hate Ford and like seeing him tortured and think he deserves it, and don't tag for Ford hate, I find myself wishing they'd just go die in a fire. :( It does happen. Really.
There's nothing lonelier than trying to read HP fic for ships like Harry/Draco when you hate Ron/Hermione so much you don't even want to see it as a background pairing. The only R/Hr I will read is the story of their divorce. He belittles everything she cares about.
Ship tropes I loathe: 1) Genius weirdo paired with person who always tries to make them "act more normal". Charlie/Amira on Numbers made me so angry. Do not want. 2) Competent woman paired with man who makes her life a living hell by being a huge manchild. Examples: Mulder/Scully, Tony Stark/Pepper Potts. Do not want.
I guess it's more of a dynamic than a specific ship but I hate like, realistic angst. Like for whatever reason, I can totally get behind "I've been a child soldier fighting against space nazis my whole life and as such am kind of a garbage person", but not so much "Our love is forbidden because my dad is a homophobe" or some such thing.
People don't need to be fucking to have complex, fucked up codependent relationships. It can be platonic and still ridiculously unhealthy and emotionally intense.
i'm gonna draw a picture of you just chillin in a pile of awful codependent family members tez, just you wait
Really it's more of a fort made out of books and video games and whatnot that contain terrible families.
Most of my ships are codependent family members! For a couple years I was utterly immersed in a father/son ship which only 3 or 4 other people in the world actually shipped or cared about. But one of those people was my bestie, so we had fun. Obviously I don't look at family members in a story and think "they must be boinking". That's almost never suggested by canon. It's more of a "wow, what if... WHAT IF THO" type thing. I do think there are sometimes more sexual/romantic feelings involved in family dynamics, and people in love with family members, than we care to acknowledge. And I pick up on a lot of that in media subtext.
how.........could u do this to me this was so good and so unique?? the troll behavior was well-written as hell and the relationships. god. it's a homestuck fan's dream and nightmare at the same time because it's so good but there will never be more
While I'm not actively upset by sweet and fluffy Jaspis, I also...really don't get the appeal? For me the entire appeal of the ship is that it's fucked up and mutually toxic and terrible. That's why it's interesting, IMO!
I KNOW RIGHT? Every so often I go back into my bookmarks to read it again and then cry into my laptop a little. It's so damn good.
This is a fairly silly gripe, but I really don't like parallel-shipping among Homestuck trolls. Like, I ship the First Ship pretty hard and that put me off Kar/Nep. I don't want pairs with the same signs to be together in the same quadrant in different generations, if that makes sense? I don't think it's an incest-squick thing because fictional incest doesn't really bother me, but then it does bother me when it isn't acknowledged as such, and parallel-shipping isn't acknowledged as incest because it isn't that but it pings me the same way as if it was... I don't know. If they're in different quadrants it's cool though.
i dislike parallel shipping because it tends to be done regardless of the actual characterization like no matter how fucking cozy eridan and karkat are getting w each other dualscar is going to fucking murder signless if he ever comes within 10 feet of him
like, we even have a canon instance of parallel shipping despite actual characterization actually fucking someone up! (meulin & horuss only got together because of nepeta and equius and are fucking awful for each other)
