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--- pairings [2025/07/04 07:33] – [Table] scumsuck
+++ pairings [2025/07/08 03:33] (current) – [Yaoi? Yuri? Het?] scumsuck
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 ====== Pairings ======
-Here's some characters I like to see interacting together in some sort of relationship, whether it's romantic, platonic, enemies, or otherwise or all of the above.
+Here's some characters I like to see interacting together in some sort of relationship: whether it's romantic, platonic, enemies, or otherwise or all of the above.
-I personally prefer the term "pairing" over "shipping", because "shipping" often connotates romance in current usage.  Though the term "pairing" is imperfect because I like trios of characters as well...
+Everything on this page is personal and just applies to me.  You can do whatever you want with your ships and ship names.  I don't care if you have opposite characterization opinions or think name order is weird.  I know I'm a weirdo with weird ways to enjoy smashing my barbie dolls together.
-I am a multishipper, so in the interest of saving space, the main table will contain the pairings that occupy more space in my mind.  Smaller pairings will be noted elsewhere.
+I personally prefer the term "pairing" over "shipping", because "shipping" often connotates romance in current usage.  Though the term "pairing" is imperfect because I like trios of characters as well.
+I am a multishipper, so in the interest of saving space, the main table will contain the pairings that occupy more space in my mind.  Tertiary pairings will be noted elsewhere.
 ===== Table =====
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 | {{https://wiki.scumsuck.com/_media/pairings:terrybruce.png?100}}   | [[~TerryBruce|Terry Mcginnis x Bruce Wayne]]  | Batman Beyond.                             |
 |  | Marik Ishtar x Rishid                         | YGO, aka Ruseshipping                      |
-| {{https://wiki.scumsuck.com/_media/pairings:yamiyugi.png?100}}     | Yami x Yugi                                   | YGO, aka Puzzleshipping                    |
+| {{https://wiki.scumsuck.com/_media/pairings:yamiyugi.png?100}}     | Yugi x Yami Yugi                                   | YGO, aka Puzzleshipping                    |
 | {{https://wiki.scumsuck.com/_media/pairings:goblincest.png?100}}   | Green Goblin x Norman Osborn                  | Spider-Man, aka Goblincest                 |
 | {{https://wiki.scumsuck.com/_media/pairings:harrynorman.png?100}}  | Harry Osborn x Norman Osborn                  | Spider-Man, aka HarryNorman                |
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 ===== Flavor Profile =====
+{{ :pairings:shippingmeme.png?200|}}
-Inspired by [[https://mappapapa.neocities.org/shrine/list.html|spillingdown]], and merged with my "GET TO KNOW MY SHIPPING PREFERENCES & SHIPS" answers.  {{ :pairings:shippingmeme.png?200|}}
+Inspired by [[https://mappapapa.neocities.org/shrine/list.html|spillingdown]], and merged with my "GET TO KNOW MY SHIPPING PREFERENCES & SHIPS" answers.
 These are not hard rules, but I do look back and observe my unconscious patterns.
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 ====Mono or poly?====
-Although **I am a multishipper** -- that is, I like to smush various characters together, or the same character with lots of people -- most of my ideas revolve around a very intense one-on-one relationship.  Think two guys in a room, like SAW.  The more characters there are, the harder it is for me to focus my attention
+Although **I am a multishipper** -- that is, I like to smush various characters together, or the same character with lots of people -- most of my relationship ideas revolve around a very intense one-on-one relationship.  Think two guys in a room, like SAW.  The more characters there are, the harder it is for me to focus my attention
 I do enjoy **threesome or moresome** pairings when I have the brain power to balance the dynamics!  A couple I can think of:
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   * Dean/Hank/Brock (Venture Bros)
-Another evil third option: I enjoy **third-wheeling A->B/C**. character A loving character B, while character B is in a monogamous relationship with character C.  It's not cheating, it's not polyamory, and it definately isn't even an actual relationship between A/B.  But A loves B a lot, they might be sad but they're mostly happy to see B/C happy.  I like to focus on the intensity of emotion between A/B, and and I often neglect to explore B/C.  Some examples:
+Another evil third option: I enjoy **third-wheeling A->B/C**.  Character A likes character B, while character B is in a monogamous relationship with character C.  A loves B a lot, they might be sad but they're mostly happy to see B/C happy.  I like to focus on the intensity of emotion between A/B, and and I often neglect to explore B/C.  Some examples:
   * Tomoyo/Sakura and (??)
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 **Yaoi:**
-A large portion of my pairings are male/male from the start.  A lot of popular media features a sausage-fest of a cast with 90% male characters and one token girl.  I also think it's funny to delve into the mind of a dude who's been told his whole life to behave like a dude, and think about performing masculinity for an expectant joker society.  There is also some element of escapism in making dudes do other dudes - especially when a LOT of my pairings involve very bad no good things like violence/abuse/death happening to the characters.  I usually prefer these very bad things NOT happen to girl characters, that makes me feel bad 😔 so I make M/M pairings to rotate in the Hellraiser lament cube.
+A large portion of my pairings are male/male from the start.  A lot of popular media that I grew up (and thus imprinted on) with features a sausage-fest of a cast with 90% male characters and one token girl.  It's hard to make yuri with just one girl.. but that's when I make genderbends of the dudes to make yuri with the girls.
+I also think it's funny to delve into the mind of a dude who's been told his whole life to behave like a dude, and think about performing masculinity for an expectant joker society.  There is also some element of escapism in making dudes do other dudes - especially when a LOT of my pairings involve very bad no good things like violence/abuse/death happening to the characters.  I usually prefer these very bad things NOT happen to girl characters, that makes me feel bad 😔 so I make M/M pairings to rotate in the Hellraiser lament cube.
 **Yuri:**
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 Also sometimes for fun I see a **hot (g)MILF** character and I'm like damn we should make a pairing with (character) x hot gMILF because that's fucken awesome.  Bonus points for divorced or widowed older woman, employee/boss, and other such matronly things.
-**Genderbends:** Inevitably, I make girl versions of my M/M ships, and turn them into F/F with the estrogen ray.  This isn't a cis-swap, nor a trans headcanon.  This is a third evil thing of "maybe we live in a cooler society that does not make a distinction what genitals you were born with."  I just like seeing what these characters would look like with different hairstyles or fat distributions!
+**Genderbends:** Inevitably, I make girl versions of my M/M ships, and turn them into F/F with the estrogen ray.  This isn't a cis-swap, nor a trans headcanon.  This is a forbidden fantasy of "what if society didn't make distinctions in women based on the junk they were rocking when the doctor slapped them out of the mom?  What if having an innie or outie belly button didn't change the way people treated you?!"  I somewhat rotate "what if society expects them to perform a certain womanhood", but I mostly like seeing what these characters would look like with different hairstyles or fat distributions!
 I feel like I'm more comfortable making OCs that are in yuris, than making yuris from existing characters.  Maybe because I like my girl characters more than a lot of goilz in popular media :P
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   * Girl x pet monster (some reversal?)
-I prefer the dude submissive and bottoming in most circustances.  Straps and penises be damned.
+I prefer the dude submissive and bottoming in most circustances.  Straps and penises be damned.  But when MILFs are involved well... Sometimes I am the stupid dude tryna rawdog the mountain.
 Sometimes I like big uggo monsters x girls.  This is usually a hentai thing in this direction.  I feel like if the monster has more of a humanized character, is meant to be handsome, I want the monster to be submissive and breedable.  It just depends on the characters!
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 For a lot of stuff I enjoy, I like it as it is!  There is nothing that tickles my brain from rotating character dynamics.  Stuff like Binding of Isaac, Diablo, Starcraft, Fallout - I could def nerd out about characters or story beats, but I couldn't fujo out.
-Some stuff like New Vegas took a VERY long time to steam up and for me to see a yaoi dynamic to attach to.  Like my latest playthrough I was like "but Dog/God/Elijah tho".  But overall I have favorite characters I wanna smash like House, but I am content just 😏 at them as-is, and I don't particularly like shipping the player character and making it into an OC cuz actual self-inserting gives me existential dysphoria LMAO.
+Some stuff like New Vegas took a VERY long time to steam up and for me to see a yaoi dynamic to attach to.  Like my latest playthrough I was like "but Dog/God/Elijah tho".  But overall I have favorite characters I wanna smash like House, but I am content just smirking 😏 at them as-is. Amd I don't particularly like shipping the player character with existing characters, or making it into an OC, cuz actual self-inserting rather than projection gives me existential dysphoria LMAO.
-And then, not all my ships are romantic.  There are things I KNOW have l tension, but I don't have my own emotional investment to ship it.
-There are some shippy stories I know and acknowledge and enjoy the basically-canon ships, like NBC Hannibal or Breaking Bad, but I am very satisfied with what the story gave me.  So I don't make too much art or writing for the pairing.
-I think the pairings I have the most thoughts for, are the ones that I really want to see more for!
+And then, not all the pairings I acknowledge are romantic or sexial.  There are things I KNOW have tension, but I don't have personal investment in.  There are some shippy stories I know and acknowledge and enjoy the basically-canon ships, like NBC Hannibal or Breaking Bad, but I am very satisfied with what the story gave me.  So I don't make too much art or writing for the pairing.
+But when I do find a spark for drawing dank yaoi... You know that's the only thing I'mma draw for the next year.  Most of the fanwork I go out of the way to search for is shippy stuff, to scratch that itch that won't be scratched "in canon".
 ====Sexo?====
 I LOVE yaoi sexo and no-yaoi sexo.  At the same time 😎
 I think it's the coolest if there's the threat of sex lingering but never being touched.  I'm into that tantric blue balls yoga 5 dimensional yaoi.  I like sex-as-a-metaphor for intense feelings, and the tension as a way to get people to do things too!!  It adds a lil chain between characters that is fun for me to play with, and some blocks to build onto so many different things...Sex (and the lack of!) can link to body image, self image, how the view others, how they move through the world, how they present themselves, how society treats their sexuality.