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CONTACT US!
Date: 2024-04-17 09:38 pm (UTC)Re: CONTACT US!
Date: 2024-04-23 01:29 am (UTC)Re: CONTACT US!
Date: 2024-04-23 05:04 am (UTC)(If you have any notes regarding nominations, please let us know in any of the nomination posts rather than this one—this one is explicitly for talking up your ships aka a promo post! We have this comment in case anything in this post requires us to step in, or anyone has questions about promo.)
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Date: 2024-04-18 08:38 am (UTC)Canon: Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure
Ships: Shiratori Yuriko/Takizawa Asuka
Media: Anime
A summary of the canon: Tropical Rouge Pretty Cure is a new-ish entry in the PreCure canon inspired by mermaids and motivation. Over the course of a year, the newest senshis of the sea are chosen by Laura La Mer who wants to become the next Queen of the Mermaid Kingdom which is under threat by a mysterious group of evil doers sapping the motivation from humans to power their cannon they want to fire at the Mermaid Kingdom.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: There's a lot of really cute Tropical Rouge ships but I thought I would focus on Yuriko/Asuka as the hook with it I enjoy most is how its like a fluffy happy G rated version of Utena's Juri/Shiori. Two girls who were broken apart by a third force (tennis, in this instance) who slowly reconnect. The backstory between Yuriko and Asuka, where they went from ace partners in tennis to bitter ex-friends was gripping, especially with the identity porn in the mix with scenes between Yuriko and Asuka's alter ego, Cure Flamingo, makes for a lot of fun as they reconnect over the series. Just an excellent arc for these two lesbian birbs.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'm not sure yet! Probably something using tennis as inspiration though.
Content warnings: None.
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Date: 2024-04-18 07:07 pm (UTC)Warhammer 40,000 is a sprawling media franchise, a grimdark military sci-fantasy setting about epic conflict, every side being horrible, and people generally never getting the chance to act on their feelings. BUT for this exchange I'm requesting ships that require only a single novel's worth of investment each. The key thing you need to know: the central conflict in the narrative is between the Imperium of Mankind (bad, oppressive, treats human life as v cheap) and the forces of Chaos (bad, often mindlessly violent, treat human life as v cheap) with the individuals stuck in this setting doing their best despite systemic horror. So let's go:
Tzula Digriiz/Shira Hagen, from the novel Pandorax. In this novel, a dangerous backwater planet in Imperial hands is discovered to have a mcguffin on it that causes Chaos forces to invade and try to seize the damn thing. The story is pulpy and ridiculous, but goddamn look at these ladies:
- Tzula Digriiz, ex-cat burglar, is a member of an Inquisitorial team (basically a religion-flavored special ops hit squad). When things go wrong for her team she has to join forces with the local military to try to protect the world and keep herself safe.
- Shira Hagen, hotshot fighter pilot, comes to the planet chasing a monstrous demon jetplane (did I mention it was pulpy?) and gets stranded there. She meets up with the defenders and pitches in to help.
The two of them are very different personality-wise and contrast with each other in excellent ways. They work together well. They ALMOST get a hug in a novel where displays of affection are pretty much nonexistent. And despite the grimdark setting, they both get solidly positive endings that leave the door wide open for more development between them.
Content notes: lots of combat violence, character death, magical brainwashing/slavery, brief torture scenes (not involving these characters), plague/decay/zombie-type body horror (the enemy forces).
Ahzek Ahriman/Kydomor Forrix, from the novel Magnus the Red: Master of Prospero. These guys do appear in other books too, but this is the only one where they're together, and it's the earliest one for either of them, so later developments aren't necessary for the ship.
So: this novel is set in the prequel era, when not everything was terrible yet (some things are still terrible; you can't build a galactic empire without oppressing people). Space marines from two different legions are trying to evacuate a planet where increasing seismic instability is threatening human settlements. Ahriman is from a legion of sorcerers; Forrix is from a legion of engineers. They have exactly the kind of personality differences you expect from that sentence. As First Captains of their legions, they're expected to work together and find a way for their joint efforts to succeed. Watching them try to find common ground and learn to help each other was one of my favorite parts of the book (and the "let me hold off all the bad guys while you do your fiddly specialist magic" scene was another one).
Content notes: civil unrest, crowd violence, I haven't re-read recently but probably background slavery.
Barsabbas/Sargaul, from the novel Blood Gorgons. A pirate-flavored chapter of Chaos space marines move to protect a world they recruit from, leaving the chapter leadership unprepared for an attempted takeover.
Why I'm feral about them: LITERALLY SOULBOUND. The Blood Gorgons chapter engage in weird magic surgery to trade body parts with a partner (just called a "bond") that leaves them able to feel each other's pain, sense each other's presence, and even access a little of each other's memory. The whole chapter is made up of bonded pairs, often with a mentor/protege vibe.
Barsabbas is the younger of this pair, and starts out uncertain that he's good enough for his more-experienced bond, but he's the main character so he grows into his own as a warrior a lot -- as he makes his way across the landscape of an unfamiliar planet trying to find Sargaul, who appears to have been captured by hostile aliens. Space marines are often framed as not having real human emotions but we get, among other things, this line: "He felt no love for Sargaul, only a need to recover him, like a swordsman who was missing his swordarm." HELLO YES I don't care if you call that love or not, you crave him like a missing part of your own body. The novel does NOT give me the big romantic ending I want, which is why there needs to be fanwork.
Content notes: Lots of battle violence, betrayal (not between ship), torture (some of it committed by Barsabbas), slavery including suggestions of sex slavery (no on-page rape), abuse of prisoners, parasite/disease body horror.
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Date: 2024-04-18 10:36 pm (UTC)Ships: Ace McShane/Yasmin Khan
Media: Television
A summary of the canon: It's Doctor Who. An alien travels in time & space in a blue box that's bigger on the inside.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Ace/Yaz is the ship that I didn't expect to get bitten with half as hard as I did. That's what keeps happening to me - I should just embrace it at this point.
When I'm talking about Ace and Yaz, I'm talking about the Ace we meet in the Power of the Doctor - I feel like younger!Ace would also get on with Yaz... eventually, but the two of them would also butt heads a good deal. One of the reasons PotD!Ace/Yaz is such a fun ship to me is that Ace is a lot more... settled in herself. She doesn't need to prove anything, she doesn't need to fight the whole world the way she seems to need to when she was younger. Younger Ace and Yaz would be a delight, don't get me wrong, but I think the dynamic that really hit me is a post-Doctor Ace.
So I really love Ace and Yaz as a ship for a whole load of reasons. Some of them are, admittedly, very shallow - Ace is hot, Yaz is hot, I would like them to kiss. We know that Yaz likes older women, which... well. I mean. It's kind of funny, since Ace is so much younger than Yaz's LAST love interest, and yet. I feel like they'd still get more sidelong looks.
I really love the idea of Ace *getting* it. 7 and 13 both keep things from their companions for completely different reasons (emotional constipation versus general Machiavellian scheming), but there's that same complicated "I love you and I can't stay with you" which I think they both experienced. Ace was manipulated by the Doctor, while Yaz was more abandoned, but they've both got complicated, painful feelings towards the Doctor even as they love them.
I think it's also... Ace/Yaz as post thasmin, because Yaz knows that someone she loves can disappear forever. Someone she admires can change in ways she can't follow. The both of them know the grief of being the Doctor's close confidante (inasmuch as the Doctor can have close confidantes) and then having to go back to life on Earth. The mundanity of it must take a good deal of getting used to.
Part of it, for me, is that I feel like at least some of 13's basis of... herself is based on Ace. I know some of that is based on the cinematography - thinking of that one shot with the Doctor and the Slingshot in War of the Sontarans, which is a nice mirror of Silver Nemesis. I know that the Doctor takes aspects of themselves from their companions, and the fact that Yaz could see some of the Doctor in Ace would be... it's so much. And Ace could see bits of herself in Yaz as well - eager, excited, seen all those adventures. The recognition of the self through the other, the recognition of the other through the self.
I can also see there being a degree of jealousy between the two of them - Yaz being jealous of the way the Doctor was so... different with Ace (even the Gallifrey whatnot, if you want to go with the EU), Ace jealous of the way Yaz was trusted (that whole "you can fly the TARDIS!" exchange). I could see Ace having complex feelings about Yaz's Doctorification, being into it and not at the same time. Maybe Yaz seeing Ace's own Doctorification as well?
(The Doctor's story also reflects Ace's with the abusive mother, the outcast status, the chronologically complicated history, which only adds to Yaz's attraction to her, btw).
It's a really fun dynamic in general - the person comfortable in their place after their adventures and the person still getting used to adjusting to life back on earth.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I would love fic of the two of them fitting into each other's lives - Ace showing Yaz what it means to live on Earth as a time traveller, Yaz showing Ace some of how the Doctor's changed via what she's learned. Ace meeting Yaz's parents (that would be hilarious), Yaz getting more integrated & friendly with the rest of the Companion Support Group. Heck, if you just want to have the two of them getting a drink together and fucking/kissing/pining I'd be happy with that! I just really love seeing the two of them.
Content warnings: Age gap. Such an age gap.
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Canon: Star Trek Strange New Worlds
Ships: Una Chin-Riley/Christine Chapel
Media: Television
A summary of the canon: A Star Trek that takes place with Captain Pike, pre-Captain Kirk (although we meet him)
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Una & Christine are both very intensely characters who are invested in putting on a facade. Christine feels very much like she's doing her best to put on the "look at how much fun I am, I'm chill, I'm fun," while Una is working very hard at getting a Good Grade in being human. I love the way that they both get on each other's nerves in interesting ways - Christine has no filter, Una is so carefully constructed but easily knocked off kilter (especially by Christine). I feel like Christine's interest in genetics also makes her interesting, in a world where genetic manipulation is such a controversial issue. When she finds out that Una is an Illyrian, she literally does not care, and I think that they could really... bond over that? I could see Christine being genuinely curious about Una's various modificatiosns, and Una trying to figure out how she feels about it. Also, they're both hot and gorgeous, AND they're nearly the same height, which is a petty thing to find appealing, and yet.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd love just about anything with them, if I'm honest, as long as I got to see the two of them trying to one up each other and pull each other's pigtails. They clearly are both very intelligent & amazing in their fields, they're both also so... awkward, in different ways. Una is just better at hiding it then other people, because she's so damn competent at what she IS good at.
Content warnings: Some intense themes (mostly fantasy racism).
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Date: 2024-04-19 01:19 am (UTC)Ships: Grand Duke Roygar/Garnet Ruden
Media: Webcomic/manhwa (recommend reading the official translation on tappytoon or bato.to, the MTL fansubs on other scanlation sites don't do well with the political scheming)
A summary of the canon: Artezia "Tia" Rosen is the titular villainess/mastermind behind her half-brother Laurence's rise to the throne of the Kratez Empire. Not long after his coronation, Laurence frames her for murder and treason in an effort to tie off loose ends, then has her tortured and imprisoned. She's rescued by Grand Duke Cedric Ebron, who pleads with her to use her tactical ability to help him overthrow her brother and help him rescue the people of the Empire. Unfortunately, although Tia is touched by his respect and acknowledgement, her earlier schemes put Laurence in an unassailable position of power. The only trick she has left in her bag is to sacrifice her life to power a dark magic spell that should turn back time to give Cedric another chance... and it does, by sending her to the past with all her memories of the future, and just enough time to make different choices.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: What if the emperor's younger brother from a backstabbing imperial villain-off schemefest and a sweet, innocent girl who had been deliberately sheltered by her family got arranged married, then fell genuinely in love?
Spoilers!
It goes very very badly for them, of course, since Roygar and Cedric/Roygar and Laurence can't both be emperor and both lives' timelines are the Artezia Rosen Show. Roygar and his faction do their share of scheming, murder, and plotting, but Tia is playing 4d chess the entire time with the benefit of years of foreknowledge and she knows exactly how to use both Roygar and Garnet's weaknesses (being greedy and a cheater/being basically a shoujo protagonist stuck in the wrong genre) against them and their family. The way both of them, in the end, turn to self-sacrifice to protect each other and their children, and particularly Roygar's PTSD flashbacks as he uses his last gambit, make me want so much more for them. I need them to be happy.What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: I'd like some happy fic for them, whether it's a missing scene from a good time in their lives or even AUed or isekaied into another, kinder world/canon.
Content warnings: Character death including murder, assassination, suicide, and execution; violence; torture including limb removal; brief discussion of abortion; implications of sexual assault/abuse (not between main characters or requested couple)
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Date: 2024-04-20 07:38 pm (UTC)her latest book the familiar also has a main romance that deserves way more than just three (3) fanfics on ao3 as of typing
Canon:
The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
Ships:
Luzia Cotado/Guillén Santángel
Media:
It's an adult historical fantasy novel, ~ 400 pages long.
A summary of the canon:
For the Sephardic scullion witch Luzia, an invitation to "perform her miracles" before the royal court of King Philip II may be the only chance she has to escape getting caught by the Spanish Inquisition. Her magic tutor for the royal tournament is Santángel, a mysterious immortal who ages ago used to be a prince. He had made a magical deal for immortality, with the catch that he could only maintain it if he became a henchman to his former servant, and to all of his descendants like the evil nobleman Víctor de Paredes. As the tournament gets closer Víctor offers Santángel a chance to finally leave his magical contract -- a decision which would ruin the growing feelings he and Luzia have for each other....
What do you love about this ship?:
You'll like this ship if you liked the two main romances in Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. This is also a headstrong girl trying to help a tough-but-secretly-sensitive guy break his ages old magical curse while he acts all "It's not like I LIKE YOU or anything" about it. Except in this book they actually canonically SHOW that they LIKE and CARE about each other, unlike in NN's book where all the romance is mostly implied. (Note that I have nothing against NN, it's still a great book).
Side note but another detail I loved is that the scene when he first realizes he has feelings for her and thinks she's beautiful, is the first time he sees her thick curly hair taken out of its tight braid. If you're someone like me who grew up with the "thick curly hair is ugly" trope in fantasy media, it's a really sweet moment :')
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Fairytale AUs! Especially since Luzia is canonically a witch and Santángel is a (former) prince. If they married, would that make Luzia a princess? Have them follow the storyline of another classic fairytale like The Little Mermaid or Rapunzel (also like in Tangled Luzia does have healing powers 👀)
Content warnings: Discussions of the Spanish Inquisition and various other forms of conquest and oppression that occurred during Spain's "Golden Age."
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Date: 2024-04-20 07:54 pm (UTC)WandaVision
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Ship:
Monica Rambeau/Pietro Maximoff
Media:
TV / Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) show
A summary of the canon:
Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch, copes with the loss of her robot boyfriend Vision by creating a magical Hex world bubble in which the two of them make a happy sitcom family throughout various sitcom decades. But the Hex ends up taking over an entire town, and attracting the attention of both secret agents and of much more evil magic. Monica is one of those SWORD secret agents (and later Photon / one third of The Marvels) sent in to investigate the Hex. Pietro Maximoff is Wanda's dead twin brother who mysteriously shows up inside the Hex one day.
What do you love about this ship?:
Canonically they only have 2 big scenes together. One where he locks Monica in Agatha's villain lair to keep her from saving the day. The other where she tries to fight her way out of the lair against him. All while he lightly flirts with her, calling her "babe" and responding to her fighting skills with "Meow she's feisty!"
In the show it's later revealed that this is actually just a human actor pretending to be Pietro/Quicksilver (sigh). But if it was REALLY Pietro all along (still a popular fan theory), then these two would make a really fun ship. Monica's light spectrum based powers give her the ability to fly at the speed of light, which is why another ship name for them is LightSpeed. Other than similar powers, they have similar backstories of estranged relationships with their parents. And the dynamic of "Type A rule follower x chill slacker" is always super fun.
Content warnings: None that I can think of off the top of my head, unless someone else would like to reply below with possible ones. But this show did leave out the Maximoff twins' Romani Jewish heritage from the comics timeline, which you can learn more about on this Tumblr post here: https://bobbimorses.tumblr.com/post/642563883351031808/embed .
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Date: 2024-04-21 01:22 am (UTC)Ships: Harumi Masahiro/Sengoku Tetsu
Media: Manga
A summary of the canon: Harumi and Sengoku are friends and single dads who decide to live together to make the daily life of parenting easier. Cooking for their preschool-aged children proves to be a challenge, so they start taking classes and learning new recipes.
It's a cooking manga, so every chapter features a meal being prepared and eaten (and everything looks delicious), and the plot is a chill slice-of-life about the challenges of parenting and the value of choosing who to make a family with. I love the quiet, low-stakes atmosphere, cute family dynamics, and the sincere moments when characters deepen their understanding of each other.
The art is lovely and expressive (it's by the same author who did Cherry Magic!), and you can read the three volumes that are out in English so far (pay to read) here on MangaPlanet.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Shockingly it's NOT BL, but with a setup like this how could I resist!! Harumi and Sengoku have a delightful mismatched, odd couple dynamic. Sengoku used to be a delinquent and still has a rough, aggressive demeanor, while Harumi is an easy-going, soft-spoken manga editor. I love the deepening intimacy of two people living together who aren't a couple to start off, and especially the potential for two guys who are shown to get mistaken for a gay couple wondering if all those people might be right.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Getting-together and first times; characters grappling with sexuality; drunk sex; rushed, quiet sex while the kids are asleep; anything expanding on the way that they've become family to each other. And of course anything focused on food, cooking, and sharing a meal.
There are currently zero (0) fanworks for the fandom on AO3 and the tag doesn't properly exist yet, so if you're the type to enjoy kicking off a new, tiny fandom, please come join me :3
Content warnings: Parents getting angry at/frustrated with small children and punishing them (these incidents are always resolved afterwards); one instance of a character talking about past domestic abuse.
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Date: 2024-04-29 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-04-21 03:06 am (UTC)Ships: He Jiong/Sa Beining, He Jiong/Bai Jingting, Sa Beining/Bai Jingting, He Jiong/Sa Beining/Bai Jingting
Media: Chinese Variety TV/Various settings in various genres (incl spies, lawyers, cruise ship, inception-style dream, war, college, etc.)
A summary of the canon: Who's the Murderer is a variety tv program, so there's two layers to this - the actors and the characters. Sa & He are successful hosts with a long friendship and a long history. Bai is sometimes like a tagalong to them. The characters change every episode, and He & Sa & Bai are only in Seasons 1-6, and Bai is not in all episodes. The tv show has the premise of a murder occurring, a detective showing up and interrogating the convenient five suspects, and unraveling everyone's extremely dramatic and intertwined pasts. People are often secretly related in these episodes. The genre, characters, and tone can change very dramatically from episode to episode - some are on the lighthearted end, some are very serious, and some are very horror heavy.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: For He/Sa I love the long and reliable nature of the relationship. They're always teasing, in and out of character, and always think very highly of each other. For Bai/He or Sa, I love the mentoring nature of the relationship. He & Sa are a bit high strung about it, but they always mean well, and I love the contrast between the world weary and the innocent.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: There's one episode I love, 6x11, where I would love to get anything based off of He & Sa's characters in that episode and their tragic backstories. The RPF versions of the actors would also delight me, and I like reading about dynamics on set and having a happy ending. I am also fascinated by the boy band version of their characters, NZND, whose lore is scattered across many seasons, and I always want to know what's going on between those episodes.
Content warnings: Highly dependent on episode, let me know if there's anything you are specifically worried about, in general murders/death, some unrealistic blood and gore, general unquestioned sexism - usually patronizing
Where It Can Be Found: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpyyStXzz6h8TvfL04q6M__oT-2K7O0iL This playlist has Seasons 5-8 with subtitles, and the first four seasons with subtitles can be found in other places. Absolutely please reach out if you have any questions!
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Date: 2024-04-21 04:51 pm (UTC)Ships: Kurt Sivers/Paul Körner
Media: Film (silent, partially reconstructed)
A summary of the canon: Paul is a famous violinist. He's also gay. In 1910s Germany. It's illegal.
He and Kurt (a fan who becomes his student) fall in love, Paul is blackmailed by a Franz Bollek and, when he finally presses charges against Bollek, his secret comes out anyway. He dies.
One of the first positive portrayals of gay men, even if it ends in tragedy. Co-produced by Magnus Hirschfeld (no joke). Paul is played by my beloved (queer) man, Conrad Veidt.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: Nothing explicit is ever shown, but the way Paul and Kurt look at one another, how relaxed they are with each other, letting their guards down in a world that doesn't understand them (and does not care to). Paul conceals all the blackmailing because he's afraid he might get roped in, and Kurt still doesn't know how dangerous it is for them. And yeah, it's tragic. Angst ahoy.
It's still ballsy, for 1919.
Also Kurt definitely had a crush on Paul since waaay before they met proper and I love that.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Probably angst, but I need to see them happy too, dammit!
Content warnings: Period-typical homophobia, suicide, teacher/student relationship (both are adults).
Also it's a 1919 film; while progressive, there's quite some stuff there that we since moved on from.
Where To Find It: It's on YouTube and the Internet Archive. Simply searching Anders als die Andern will get you there :D
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Date: 2024-04-22 06:51 pm (UTC)Ships: George Emerson/Lucy Honeychurch
Media: Films
A summary of the canon: Chirpy Lucy Honeychurch meets a bohemian - an intellectually-curious but monoslyobic and depressive young man named George Emerson - while on holiday in Florance in roughly the spring of 1908. Staying at the same pensione, the young couple are inadvertently thrown together when George's unconventional father suggests Lucy and her chaperone trade rooms with the Emersons so the women can benefit from a view neither man cares much for and which Lucy craves.
Lucy and George - though they hail from completely different classes - are drawn together by mutual curiosity, loneliness, the beauty and art of Italy, and an act of heroism by George. It culminates in a sudden kiss in a field filled with corn and poppies during a day trip. They are torn apart by propriety - particularly the concerns of Lucy's older chaperone-cousin Charlotte.
Lucy returns home to Surrey and accepts the suit of Cecil Vyse, a mama's boy who lacks George's passionate nature and fails to appreciate Lucy for her true self. It seems as if Lucy's set for a passionless borgieous marriage - but then a mean-spirited trick by Cecil results in the Emersons moving into a vacant cottage on Lucy's very street. Thrown back into George's orbit - and leaning that the dithering Charlotte had not been circumspect about witnessing George and Lucy's kiss - young Miss Honeychurch finds herself caught between what society expects of her and what her heart and soul desire.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: You can cut the UST with a knife in this one, and the characters are adorable and sweet and worthy of the ending they get. It's star-crossed romance combined with comedy of manners, and it's lavishly shot with great acting.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Anything from fluff to smut - I have a very long request list for the two of them.
Content warnings: Some extended cis male nudity; a scene where a background character is stabbed to death onscreen in a bloody fashion.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose
Date: 2024-04-29 08:28 am (UTC)Ships: Minezawa Izuru/Ike-P
Media: Video Game on PC, PS4, Switch
A summary of the canon: A vocaloid learns about human emotion via the songs people make her sing. She realises people are hurting and wants to help them, but her understanding is limited. She creates a virtual world where people can live and be happy, free of their trauma. However, to live in this world, the people fall into a coma in the real world. On top of this, managing everyone's problems and taking them on as her own is having a major effect on her own well-being, causing her former partner to become concerned for her and wanting to end the project for her sake. Some people in the virtual world start to become conscious of the fact it isn't reality and have to decide if they want to go home or not.
You play as a member of the "Go-Home Club" - a group dedicated to going home - and are up against the Ostinato Musicians - vocaloid producers who don't want to go home. That isn't to say you have to side with the Go-Home Club.
Overdose introduced a second story line for you to befriend and side with the Ostinato Musicians, allowing you to see both sides of the story and the things that make them want to stay in the virtual world. It's highly recommended you play this route to get the full story.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?:
Ike-P is living that Wile E Coyote life painting tunnels on walls and watching Izuru walk straight through them. Then Izuru turns around like what a nice guy telling me about this shortcut but Ike-P is shaking with rage. What's he even mad about? Izuru is prettier than him and he's all he can think about and clearly the solution is to kill him. Absolutely losing it at this stoic pretty boy that's infested his brain. Meanwhile, Izuru is like, yep, that's Koike, he's cool. I'll support his endeavors. Clapping and praising him all the time.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Post-canon stuff. I really want content with Izuru's scars particularly.
Content warnings: Transphobia, Fatphobia, Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, Suicide, Survivor of ASD specific abuse, Family death, Burning alive, Sexual harrassment, bastard cop. Context is available here and mirrored here
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Date: 2024-05-01 07:21 am (UTC)Ships:
B. J. Hunnicutt/"Trapper" John McIntyre
B. J. Hunnicutt/"Trapper" John McIntyre/Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce
Media: Live-Action TV
A summary of the canon:
To use any fewer words would be doing you a disservice, so I'll keep this as concise as I can.
M*A*S*H is a drama. It's a comedy. It's 25 minutes an episode, except for the finale which at a whopping 90 minutes is still one of the top 10 most watched events in American TV history. It perfected the concept of a show having an A-plot and B-plot to heighten both the comedy and drama. It's hilariously snarky and incredibly serious about the social and political issues they grapple with. It has a canonical gay character, Schrodinger's bigoted gay man, and an incredible amount of playing with sexuality, gender, and relationship dynamics for that era on cable television. Time is so fucked up during this show that many argue there's a subtextual time loop/time distortion occuring throughout which would explain the canonically psychic character.
The show ran from 1972-1983 starting just at the tail end of the Vietnam War irl. It satirizes daily life at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital during the Korean War 1950-1953, using Hawkeye Pierce - a surgeon drafted at some point before the pilot episode - as our main lens through all 11 seasons. As other doctors leave The Swamp (Hawkeye and his fellow doctors' living quarters) and enter it, Hawkeye remains, steadfast but deeply miserable about his role in the military industrial complex and medical ethics.
Trapper McIntyre appears on screen for the first 3 seasons as Hawkeye's partner-in-crime (and maybe in life) who is one half of Piercintyre (as their C.O. once called them). BJ Hunnicutt is introduced as Trapper's replacement at the start of season 4 in what can only be described as a real romcom role reversal. While Trapper starts the show already cynical, we see BJ through from his first day in Korea all the way to his last as a fundamentally changed man.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?:
1. Hawkeye Pierce falling in love with his married best friend (who is sleeping around plenty) who clearly loves him back in some way. Then, when Trapper is no longer at the 4077th, he meets a new married man; BJ falls into Hawkeye's orbit immediately, trying to impress this guy he just met and Hawkeye calls him his best friend too.
2. BJ and Trapper both being upstanding and funny and smart enough to be Hawkeye's best friend, while having different personalities and approaches to coping with the war. They're both married with 1-2 children back home and read as incredibly gay to a modern audience in different ways. Trapper is always referring to himself and Hawkeye as a couple or 'Mom and Dad' or 'your aunt and uncle' on top of being a self-proclaimed 'pervert'. BJ meanwhile grows out a hideous 70s style mustache that read as very gay-coded as the show was airing, wears a lot of red faded to pink as an explicit homage to Hawkeye, and is clinging onto the idea of his wife (and heterosexuality) and returning to heteropatriarchy to cope with the idea that the world is just as chaotic as all the horrors he's being exposed to here, as opposed to order back home.
3. BJ's Trapper Complex, as it's colloquially known, shows up on a few occasions as BJ expresses some jealousy about how beloved Trapper was and how close they were before BJ's tenure, as he's cognizant of his replacing Trapper.
4. It's about the initial friction and jealousy and desire for attention and compatibility.... it's about seeing The Horrors together and realizing for sure you're gay/more in love with Hawkeye than your wife during the war. It's about fucking the ex/current beau of the man you love and wish you could get with. Even when Hawkeye isn't physically present, it's usually about Hawkeye.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
My initial signup is already out there for anyone to peruse, but I'll be reading any fic posted for these ships. My top 5 requests though? Smut, psychosexual shenanigans (think Challengers 2024), identity reveals and confessions, canon divergence AUs, and haunting the narrative.
Content warnings:
Search for any specific content warnings here (https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15326?index1=-1&index2=-1), but otherwise the general warnings are: medical procedures, death on and off-screen, period-typical sexism, alcoholism as a coping mechanism, occasional suicide attempts, canon-typical racism (most of which is labelled as wrong by characters we are meant to like), and period-typical sexism that improves as the show goes on/is called out. It sounds more daunting written out than it is on paper, as someone who can barely watch a lot of comedies without cringing at how poorly they've aged. M*A*S*H is of its era but I think its core themes and values have aged remarkably well.
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Date: 2024-05-01 07:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-04 10:42 pm (UTC)Ships: Michael Burnham/Laira Rillak
Media: live action streaming television
A summary of the canon: A prequel to the Star Trek of the 60s, set about ten years before. Michael is Spock's adopted sister, who makes a mistake, then works her way up from prisoner to Captain of a starship. Seasons 1-2 are in the past, season 3-5 are in the far future, 900 years later in the 32nd century. Michael and her crew try to make the galaxy a better place. Laira is the president of the United Federation of Planets, an interplanetary alliance.
Laira and Michael are both in season 4 together. Michael is the star of the show so she's in all the rest.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?: They start out at professional odds with each other and slowly build their respect for each other's skills. They trust each other under dire circumstances and work together to save the galaxy and learn to communicate with a very alien species. There's so much mutual respect between the two of them, and it's fun to watch.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Domestic things. Mission fic. I'm very easy to please, I love it when they talk to each other, or make out, or have to attend fancy parties or deal with diplomats or sneak a meeting between all the other meetings. They have very busy important positions but they could definitely make it work. There's so much potential between them. I would request soft things.
Content warnings: Flashing lights. A few instances of cannibalism, some gore, torture, sex of dubious consent (in season 1). Season 4 has flashing lights, a few instances of violence.
BSD Fans hear me out!
Date: 2024-05-06 06:56 am (UTC)Ships: Kunikida Doppo/Ranpo Edogawa
Media: Anime and Manga
A summary of the canon: Supernatural detectives save the world multiple times.
What do you love about this ship/these ships?:
I mean, guys just look at them. Look at them!
Kunikida looks at him so softly here! Kunikida is someone who really does respect people who are better than him at things without getting bitter and I just love how much he genuinely thinks Ranpo is a valuable part of the team.
Moreover, Ranpo’s deductive skills give him an understanding of Kunikida that most people probably don’t have. Ranpo literally calls Kunikida the most virtuous in the agency. They both respect each other so much and are so aware of each other’s strengths, and Ranpo knows what to say to get Kunikida out of his head without being abrasive in the way that, say, Dazai can occasionally be. It’s such a delightful dynamic. I just need this content like I need a will to live.
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?:
Mostly character studies. They compliment each other so much I just would love an in depth exploration of their psyches and why that makes them compatible.
Content warnings: Canon-typical violence
Re: BSD Fans hear me out!
Date: 2024-05-06 06:58 am (UTC)