in contrast i can see beforus eridan x eridan BEING psuedofather instead of selfcest because beforus actually has a rudimentary concept of family (even if it is just guardianship) that highbloods r pretty much forced into
theres another fuckin great aspect of cronus selfcest that is so frequently ignored in favor of 'friendly clone orgies reeking of desperation' (and im guilty of this myself tbh, love me a good friendly clone orgy reeking in desperation) and thats that cronus would fucking despise clones of himself whats interesting is that he could probably learn to accept the existence of the clones (after all, a reasonable scapegoat for everything he does ever) but he would hate the clones themselves not bc of any uwu secret self hate like ray wishes but because 1. hes no longer the Most Special and 2. he doesnt see them as being an extension of himself so much as DISGUSTING COPYCATS who are SULLYING HIS IMAGE this is the closest hes ever going to get to self awareness bc hes able to pick apart a clone with ease but not consciously recognize that Hey, that applies to Me too
hello its ya boy john with more Useless Ship Whining todays ship of focus is karkan aka 'is she his mom or are they makin out. fuckin pick one' mc'what is kanaya getting out of this huh'
Oh i thought you meant kankri at first Yeah karkan is really boring and usually ooc to make it "work" >k>
karkan feels to me like it only exists as a parallel to the sufferer and the dolorosa, instead of something coming from karkat and kanaya's interactions in canon
also boring and usually ooc: beta ot4 i s2g the only way it works is if your characterization is permanently stuck in act 1
thought re: the parallel shipping with trolls I kind of like seeing how it plays out re: enforced aspects? Like okay say the Condesce and Orphaner were <> for each other, so it's Hereby Decreed that every )(eiress must be <> with her personal Orphaner and then of course everything goes to shit when people rebel against the enforced pairings but I'm a terrible person who likes seeing what happens
i feel like you can make it work up through act 4, and in aus that take off from that point/don't include the trolls it works alright
jadevrisrosekanrezi is objectively better than vrisrosekanrezi to me bc the latter is all goth. i need prep representation in my ships to relate to
I really dislike Keith <3 Lance and it's really popular and that has made me dislike it more I can see it as auspistice KISMESISTUDE. I feel like that's close to what it is in Canon. But every interaction they have it is painfully obvious how much they find each other inherently annoying and intolerable. All their traits piss each other off. Everything. Fic I have read for them is often OOC and reduces them to "slightly angst Keith" and "loudmouth/emotionally oblivious Lance" and just that. It would also be more fine if it wasn't so often lumped together with Keith <3 Shiro. I like that an ot3 is this popular but I am torn that it's made up of my OTP and my NOTP (edited to fix quadrant)
No joke as a middle schooler I harbored a somewhat intense hatred of emo because it was some sort of imposter on the things my mother taught me. I mean I still listened to their shit because I'm trash. But. they were not of us IMPOSTERS I was an awful child.
to make it worse i was a weeaboo and i wore a naruto headband thing around my neck because my fav was hinata
