#toxic couples

[quantum-bliss]

I never realized I was attracted to self control until you completely lost yours.

[guitarspearmybeloved]

Since so many of you gave so much love to my little toxic blorbos kissing doodle, I decided to rework and refine it. And yes, they still have me in a chokehold.

[heretherebedork]

Cruel ask attempt #2: Top 5 favorite toxic couples? (I'm sorry my brain keeps cooking up cruel asks for you but I mostly not sorry in the slightest)

lol my punishment for having the best friends are cruel asks. :P Y'all reaping what I sow.

Hmm.

I mean, do I list them in order or my enjoyment or their toxicity?

DayItt has to be number one just in everything I love them. Deeply. Entirely. They are so fucked up. I love them. The show knew they were fucked up. Everyone around them knew they were fucked up. But they loved each other so, so much. And so it worked.

MingJoe because i seriously adore them right now and because they're also that just right level of the show knowing they're toxic and still acknowledging that there is and will be love there despite all of that pain and the hurt.

Jiang Jin Ten x Shao Chen are my beloved fucked up little weirdos that the show admitted barely knew each other in their original relationship and then had to relearn each other and lie and obsess in order to end up together and I love them. They deserve a better, longer story.

Segasaki x Yoh because they might have mostly started communicating but I'm not sure I believe they can keep it up.

PayuRain because, frankly, they got better as they went? Started not to my taste but mostly ended up okay. Narrative would never, though, so can't be that high on the list. They're only on here, in fact, because I cannot find another.

Your other list would have been much easier!

[incrackandwhite]

imagine being toxic enough to ship dramione. can't relate.

I don’t get you guys. Do you want to sound woke? Do you like to pretend that you’re the paragon of morality? Do you want to feel smart by throwing hate at random people on the Internet for……..hang on, what was that? Oh yes. Shipping a fictional couple.

But you don’t.

You sound completely ignorant when you say that dark ships cannot exist in fiction. Some of the most iconic couples in fiction have been seething in toxicity, abuse, and resentment. Let’s take a look, shall we?

Heathcliffe and Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights, a book that was written in 1847.

Romeo and Juliet, which was written in 1596.

Anna Karenina and Alexei Vronsky, Anna Karenina, 1873

Charles and Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, 1856

Nick and Amy Dunne, Gone Girl, 2012

Do you think that everyone who reads Wuthering Heights, or Madame Bovary, or Anna Karenina immediately strives to have the kind of relationship portrayed?

Actually, let me phrase that better. Do you think that every woman who reads about two people completely destroying each other wants to have that kind of relationship? Are you so misogynistic that you think women cannot separate between reality and fiction? Are you so sexist that you think that woman should read only rom-coms and fluffy, humorous couples and not venture outside the genre “meant” for them?

To put into perspective, consider this:

Do you tell men not to watch mafia movies a la Goodfellas and Sopranos? Do you tell men that those movies are “toxic” and they’ll end up becoming gun-swinging murdering criminals in organised crime? Do you tell them they need to not be influenced by a romanticised view of the mafia? No? Then what is the issue with women reading about abusive relationships?

If you really do some thinking, you’ll realise that this kind of moral policing and ~think about the children~ hysteria is done exclusively towards female readers of romantic fiction. I don’t know whether you think that’s fair, but it is certainly not very feminist of you to continue to buy into the idea that women need to be “protected” from fictional abusive relationships that they want and choose to read.

I’m not even that mad about the dramione bit, I’m mad that you don’t seem to realise that writing and reading toxic couples is perfectly okay for us to do.

Sweetheart, you are in the patriarchy. You are claws-deep in the patriarchy. I know you want to think you’re being “feminist” by trying to stop people from shipping a “toxic” couple, but you are not. Your misogyny is seeping through the minute you think that we cannot differentiate between reality and fiction, and it’s not a cute look on you.

[synsick]

[daniartist19]

Unpopular opinion: Both Alenoah and Gwourtney are the most overrated and toxic lgbtq ships there are, and there’s no way I should ship them.

Note: please respect my opinion, for my own sake and if you don’t like this post looked away

[slimmwrites]

Love Quinn when Joe closes his eyes for more than a second:

"You thinking of someone else, huh? I'm not good enough for you? Do I need to KILL someone again, Joe?"

[memes-and-things]