You're so right! People wanna act like a bi4bi relationship is ~different~ so bad but it's not. An m/f relationship in which both are bi is still a hetero relationship even if the people in it are not. Why would it be any different than an m/f relationship between straight people, after all the sexualities don't change the fact that it's m/f. But people get so mad when you say this because god forbid you point out their relationship isn't ~quirky~ and queer. It's ok to be in a straight relationship.
i think in theory it can be different if the people in the relationship are quirky and queer like i can't lie to you i don't have a guy friend and a girl friend who are both bi and are in a relationship together that i could compare to typical straight relationships and it just also depends on their personalities ig but also i'm thinking about things that aren't just vibes like distribution of household chores mental load weaponized incompetence and stuff like that not just being quirky and queer and yeah i just do wonder. like how different is it is it different i would love a study about bi guys vs straight guys especially because ngl but i don't think a girl being bi would change the typical straight relationship dynamic that much. my original post was more about vibes though because you don't even get quirky and queer vibes at all whenever characters are bi4bi that was my point like people want the vibes mostly but when characters are bi4bi you literally get nothing because it's not fanfic written by a bi person. and back to the studies technically you can be in a relationship with a straight guy who's great and so progressive he doesn't subconsciously think women are innately better at household chores and stuff like that but you know what i mean.
i'm not doing a if you're not in a clockable queer relationship you're not queer thing because obviously you are but when people are like um a relationship between a man and a woman can be a queer relationship because one of the parties is queer i'm like. i'm like nothing i just scroll away but yk. like that meme that's like they are a boring straight couple...unless? and they both have bi flags like. okay. that's literally a straight relationship the adjective is about the relationship not the identities of the people in it? you don't have to be ashamed of being in a straight relationship lol if it's different and quirky then that's great and it just means that straight relationships aren't automatically a curse for women or whatever lmao (i'm talking about the study stuff again even though that and the vibes go hand in hand? kind of) like shouldn't the goal be to make straight relationships better not to say this relationship is good so it's not Actually straight. when people are like well it's not actually straight if a bi girl person is in a relationship with a guy they're trying to be progressive somehow but i don't see it at all isn't the point of being bi that you can be in straight relationships too. and that you're still bi regardless of the type of relationship you're in. it's so weird to me it feels...backhandedly biphobic?
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the "paul is richie's uncle" headcanon is really cute but i really love it in tandem with the idea that ted is surprisingly involved in his little brother's life while paul is more just vaguely fond of his nephew, but doesn't really know all that much about his friends or his day-to-day life
like, the idea of ted knowing all his geeky little brother's friends really well, like letting them chill in his apartment every now and then to watch movies or driving them home when they have their stupid library study sessions or whatever is already pretty fun, just the idea that the Local Bastard has accidentally and begrudgingly been saddled with these two loser highschoolers because they're his little brother's dweebus friends that he doesn't want to admit he has a soft spot for, but it's made doubly funny if paul just has no idea that his nephew's best friend is the little brother of the Worst Guy In His Office. ted comes over to paul's desk one day with a stack of dog-eared manga like "pete forgot to take these this morning, so you give 'em back to richie for me, okay? also, ruth's right, stein and spirit are definitely fucking and i want him to stop fighting with her about it when i pick 'em up from the library" and paul is just like. okay. i have several questions about this.
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I think one of the things that I find so compelling about Minkowski & Eiffel is that I believe that who they each are as people means they have the inherent potential to have immensely positive impacts on each other, but I do not believe they would have even been friends in most possible scenarios in which they could have met. I believe they are uniquely attuned to help each other grow and develop and become better versions of themselves, but for the first year and a half of them living and working together, the prevailing emotion between them was irritation. I believe that they are able to support each other through hardship in a way no one else could, but without the specific kind of hardship they went through, they might never have known this.
And even as I acknowledge that they might never have bonded without the trauma, it's important to me that it's not that they are bonded purely by trauma, in a way that might imply Minkowski or Eiffel could have built the same bond with anyone who'd been up there with them.
They are bonded by the ways in which they care for each other, by the ways in which their contrasting personalities make them uniquely well suited to support each other, by the way Eiffel makes Minkowski laugh when she really needs to, by the way Minkowski would do anything to keep Eiffel safe, by the way Eiffel reminds Minkowski of her moral compass in her darkest moments, by the way Minkowski helps Eiffel understand that some things are worth taking seriously.
But without what they went through together, they might never have seen beyond their surface-level understandings of each other in order to form this incredibly valuable friendship. It's not that their traumatic experiences are all that bond them. It's that the traumatic experiences forced them to break past the initial barriers that prevented them from connecting with each other properly and from trying to understand each other, in order to realise the potential for connection that had always been there.
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Can someone please either validate me or send me to the Corner of Shame? This is very silly but I'm wondering.
So. I was talking to my sister the other day about movies and such, and she told me of one she recently watched with this one actor. And I casually mentioned how much I hated him. Not in a "he's a bad actor" or "he's a bad person" way. Nothing to do with whether I find him attractive or not. Just in a "he looks the most punchable guy on earth and I have this irrational rage against him" way, to the point that I just can't watch movies with him without being annoyed.
My sister looked at me like I was crazy because, "what do you mean you hate the guy". And I told her yeah? That's normal? Don't you have at least one person you can't stand for no reason?
Sister was like 😬😬😬 No??? Which is wild to me, because I could easily name 50 (which I did - not 50 but we were getting close to 20 before i got too annoyed lmao).
Now she thinks I'm slightly insane (/j) (I made myself angry and may have referred to a few individuals as "stupid" and "obnoxious"), and I kinda don't believe I am the only person alive who feels this way. But also she's an incredibly empathetic extrovert, while I'm a very low empath socially anxious creechur so. There's that?? I guess ?? Idk.
Can anyone relate to this? Or am I the weird one?
Also wait. Little disclaimer: I am not generally a violent person AT ALL. Do i get annoyed and angry easily? Yeah. Do I feel like bitch slapping someone right across their stupid face? Yeah, sometimes, sure. Do I do something about it? Not really.
I can be real bitchy and extra sarcastic and petty SURE, but that's the most I'll do if I am legitimately angry. Mostly I just go to my room and cry 🥺 (crying when angry yes it me). So yeah. Before yall think I have unsolved anger issues.
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wait also when we were watching ep 97 and jester was talking about having "intimate knowledge of [yasha's] bicep" my friend nodded solemnly and said, "I see how that ship became such a thing."
I was a little confused by this at first, then promptly realized what happened and corrected her that while, yes, jester/yasha is a thing for some people, it was not THE fandom infamous ship she was thinking of. that would be beau and jester.
after pointing this out, she looked at me, a deadness in her eyes, and said, "you're kidding me"
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even if I didn't already know that Bumseok (forcing myself to use the korean name to avoid confusion) was going to betray them, I don't think I would've supported their friendship. That relationship had cracks from the very 👏 beginning 👏‼😀
Bryce never understood the fundamentals of a solid relationship. Friendships are not transactional, I do this for you, then you give me love and affection and attention. That's not how it works.
Gray and Stephen (DAMMIT I MEAN SUHO AND SIEUN) bonded because they found a need they were able to fulfill within each other. More importantly, they were willing to help each other, no strings attached. Stephen needed Gray's companionship and Gray needed Stephen's warmth. If Stephen was absent, Gray would worry instead of thinking he was abandoned. If Gray became cold, Step--SUHO WOULD TAKE IT IN STRIDE.
Anyways, Bumseok thought all he needed was money to buy their loyalty. Suho and Sieun never cared about his money; they just wanted him to feel comfortable around them. Unfortuntely, the moment Suho failed to be the perfect friend, Bumseok started turning on him. There is a very thin line between love and hate, and that one mistake of forgetting to follow Bumseok on insta caused Bumseok to dig deeper for more of Suho's faults.
And the really big problem is that he never thought to communicate his feelings. Bumseok does not realize friends aren't mind-readers and a successful friendship is one where there is two-way communication. For example, Suho knew Sieun's parents were mostly absent and thus understood Sieun's loner tendencies. Sieun knows Suho works part time jobs, so he doesn't get upset if Suho falls asleep and misses something they planned.
There was no way for Suho and Sieun to know Bumseok was being abused at home because Bumseok never told them. How was Suho supposed to know he doesn't like being talked down to, and he hates being left out, and all he has are them?
It makes sense that he doesn't understand why he did all those horrible things to Suho. He knows Suho never did anything wrong but he cares about his feelings above anyone else's. He's already abused at home, would it have killed Suho to change his entire personality just a little to accommodate the fact he needs to have his feelings satisfied? He was also angry they would so easily share their time and affection with Young yi even though he was there first. He was there first. They were supposed to be his group of inseparable friends. She ruined everything. It's all her fault.
Well, he knows it's not her fault, but he can't very well blame himself. He was abused at home so to him, he's always the victim in every situation no matter what. Anything he does, he believes he's within his right to do as the victim. He only sent people to beat up Suho because Suho hurt him first. Suho hurt him by not following him back. Suho hurt him by not choosing him over Young yi. Suho hurt him by acting like everything was okay and that their arguments were no big deal.
Suho is straight forward, no nonsense, what happens in Vegas stays there. Sieun is more than fine with that, but Bumseok never was. Everything always had to reach its logical conclusion: with everyone knowing their roles in his trauma (even though HE DOESN'T COMMUNICATE HIS TRAUMA), he'd get a heartfelt apology and in return, he'd keep spending money on them and they'd give him love.
But Suho doesn't really apologize to anyone (not even Sieun) so that friendship was never going to work out, was it.
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