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#alex crane#derek jones#dalex#babies#otp: I love you more than anything#star davis#star#star on fox#staredit#season 1#1x03#television#foxtv#color#gifs#mine#**
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#tv: buffy the vampire slayer#btvsedit#bangeledit#bangel#buffy x angel#you can have this scene when you pry it out of my cold dead hands#more than she will ever love anything in this life#and of course xander doesn't remember#he doesn't care#he was selfish then and he's selfish now#the most traumatizing thing buffy ever did was just his revenge on angel for being the one buffy chose instead of him#(yeah i know i'm simplifying things#and no i don't care)#xander harris can go fuck#otp: buffy and angel#things i made
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babe would you still love me if we were superheroes and you were in danger and i went absolutely bonkers and crossed every moral boundary imaginable to protect you at literally any cost?
#would you still love me if i was covered in blood for you?#anywayyyy more superheros going of the fucking deep end for love thanks <3333#this isn't based in anything in particular unfortunately i would simply like to see it#anyway.....people compromising their morals for love!!! doing the wrong thing for selfish reasons!!!#too many people commenting on my betrayal post think its about ur lover changing your mind/making you realize u were wrong#no!!! its about choosing the wrong side in purpose!!! going against ur beliefs bc u love someone more than ur conscience#KNOWING its wrong but doing it anyway in absolute AGONY because what other choicebdo you have!!!#anyway <3#sacrifice ur soul for ur lover or don't waste their time#this has been a shitpost#please tag your blorbos <3#ig this is lowkey and anidala post but i want the superhero version please and also without the totally implosion of the ship and hero#i want the good guy lover to live with the weight of his sins knowing he can never atone but he would make all the same choices again 🤌#devotion to your lover above everything!! past the point of redemption or the ability to forgive yourself!!!#(this is good when the lover is horrified but better when they forgive their lover for the atrocities committed for their own sake)#otp dynamic fr#worm discourse
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Yearning (noun): a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily.
#wednesday#wednesday netflix#wednesday addams#xavier thorpe#wenvier#otp: ravens mate for life#we're really going through it right now kids#also you have to have respect for xavier#he probably never intended for her to see the painting#but he still took the chance to shoot his shot anyway#if this wasn't basically a love confession i don't know what is#boy offered her his heart#and she couldn't run away from him fast enough#even though wednesday NEVER runs away from anything#because she doesn't know what to do with the feelings he evokes in her#and that unsettles her more than anything#they're so endgame coded
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Just in time to become my new obsession while writing Under the Party Tree @commander-sarahs-art has absolutely DELIVERED once again 😭💕
look at how adorable and wonderful Raenor and Wulfwryn look!! They’re so soft and peaceful and happy!! I’ve been obsessed since getting the initial sketch ahfkafhajfh
#thank you thank you thank you once agaiiiiin Sarah omg obsessed every time I get the finished product#lotro#lotro fanart#oc: Raenor#oc: Wulfwryn#otp: sing to me softly#my loves my darlings my soft babs#i love them more than anything#they’re absolutely my comfort characters
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Spotify Wrapped No 69 pls and ty, because.
i was like "oooh nice 69" and then i laughed so hard when i saw what it was.
69. send in the clowns by mandy patinkin
lmfao LISTEN this song is so good. it's so melancholy and depressing it is THEE depression and longing over lost love song. and i love mandy patinkin so much. i needed a male cover of this song for an obikin playlist (because if that ain't fucking them. the fucking clowns themselves.) and i found mandy's version and i simply fell in love. i love his voice, it's so sweet , and the way he just ~floats~ up to those high notes. sir. i love you.
#spotify wrapped#mandy patinkin#send in the clowns#god this song is so depressing i love it so much#also it's THEE 'sad man in a desert waxing poetic over his long lost (unrequited unconsummated!) love' song to me#i'm right about this#it's so important that like the timing was never right you know?#like obi wan always said 'no' and now it's too late and everything is awful and he'd give ANYTHING to take it all back but he can't#hence depression melancholy LONGING#yeah#otp: more intimate than lovers#obikin#music#asks
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I think one night, after the Hopper kids are grown (not out of the nest quite yet, but everyone's grown up enough) Archie's laying against you. His head on your chest, his ear right above your heart so he can hear every time your heart beats. You're in something of his. A well-worn well loved long sleeve type shirt. You've worn it more times than him. (You look so much better in it, he'd say to only your ears.) He's been quiet, and you almost think he'd fallen asleep against you until he stirs a little. He takes a deep breath, exhales softly and opens his eyes. There's a very soft, very tired smile on his face.
And he goes to talk, his hand reaching for yours, brushing your fingers before he holds it gently. His wife's hand. The hand of his kids' mother. His happy ending. He tells you softly, that sometimes he can't believe he got this life. He made so many mistakes before... so much happened during the years. But you... You've always been there. He closes his eyes for a moment and squeezes your hand just a little. He tells you that if he had too again? Ever? Even one more time? He'd go through another curse just to stay with you.
You've given him everything and anything he could want. His perfect life. With the person he loves the most. His smile just grows wider as he says he loves you. Loves you as his happy ending, as his wife, as a mother, as everything you've grown to be since getting together.
He keeps talking, and tells you with such love in his voice that he can't wait to grow old with you. He never thought he'd have that. Not with who he used to be.
But now? As the years go on? All he can think is how much more beautiful you get every year as the two of you grow older together, raise a family, see your kids growing.
He tells you he loves you. And it comes from deep within his heart. He never does let go of your hand. Even as the two of you drift off to sleep... Archie never lets go.
And he never plans too. He carries your heart in his own. - Hyperionshipping
I… *sobs*
@hyperionshipping
#IM ABOUT TO GO TO BED DAMN YOU#IM GONNA READ THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOREVER#OH MY GOD THATS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ANYTHING I COULDVE WRITTEN#TRICKS YOU BASTARD YOU DID IT#(tbh I could never be self indulgent enough to write something like this but just know you’ve confirmed every secret desire I’ve had for how#Archie sees me. and now I’m crying)#favorite#demon loving mutual#my conscience#otp: happily ever after
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they don't make romances like this anymore
#THE EMPEROR'S HUGE YURI HAND#baldur's gate 3#bg3#bg3 spoilers#the emperor#badri the starstorm#i love them more than anything#otp: You protect me; I protect you
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I'm so confused about chenford! The articles say they're going to sin city and an another says they enter a secret relationship. Ahh what to believe. What do you want to happen in the premiere?
i live under such a rock i haven't seen either one of these articles lol.
i don't really know what i want to happen between them in the premiere, per say, but i do know that i do not want them to enter a secret relationship — (at least not by the end of the first episode). personally, i think that would be the most out of character thing for them to do. lucy started her career in a secret relationship, and the stress of that relationship really took it's toll on her mentally and emotionally. however different her relationship may be this time around with tim, i'm afraid that anxiety could creep back up on her again. plus, there's the fact that tim has dated a coworker before. i'm sure in the beginnings of his relationship with isabel they both had to deal with quite a bit of backlash, and she took the brunt of it of course. so, i know tim would be hesitant to pursue a romantic relationship with lucy due to those past experiences. especially, what with the difference of him growing up alongside isabel in the police academy, and him having actually trained lucy. he wouldn't want to build her up, only to bring her crashing back down on account of being a lovesick puppy.
like i've said countless times before... i want the yearning!! i want the scorching, blistering hot, painful burns that come with shipping a slowburn couple. longing gazes from across the room, shy smiles, stuttering through their conversations, awkwardly tip-toeing around when they bump into each other.
idk... i just feel like a fake relationship — (as much as i love the trope) would ultimately be a mistake.
#anon#answered#the rookie#the rookie season 5#tim bradford#lucy chen#chenford#otp: you know me so well#like.... you know what i mean????#i want them to be together more than anything in this world!!!#more than i want my mental stability!!#but for the love of god don't do this to them!!!!!#plus how would they even be able to pull off having a secret relationship? i mean come on#these bitches are so transparent#everyone's going to see right through them
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charles+hawkeye, charles+margaret
I combined your first request with some others, but thank you for the additional one!! We love biodiversity <3 Ok so. CharMarg huh.
To get it clearly out of the way: Canon CharMarg Bad. Both because it was just atrociously quarter-assedly attempted in one of the most pathetic pseudo-storylines ever scraped together, an embarrassment to put into such an otherwise quality show, and more importantly because any attempt to make these two get together in canon would always be bad no matter what, because Ms. Swit and Mr. Stiers did not want to do that and if anyone tried to make either of them do something they didn't want I would kill that person and then myself.
But there is one thing worse than canon CharMarg. And that is fanon CharMarg. Because obviously basically nobody actually ships these two, but there are many people, particularly of the mainstream h*wkbeej variety (#notallh*wkbeejers and certainly none who would be in the general vicinity of my blog at this point, I don't think), who like the idea of Charles and Margaret in a lavender marriage.
I love the recent interest in lavender marriages in fandom recently. Now everyone can do the same Pair The Spares maneuver fandom has always done with characters it doesn't care much about, but now they can do it even when the idea of the spares being in love is completely laughable. And it sounds so much cooler, too!
Man I'm sorry I don't know why this irks me so, but alas! It does. The thing is, a lavender marriage would do nothing for either of them anyways, in terms of "playing at doing what society and family want them to do", which is after all the entire purpose of such marriages. Margaret already basically had a test run of marrying into a family like Charles' when she tried it with Penobscott and she HATED it and they basically rejected her for not being the perfect Aryan race anyways. And that's beside the fact that what Charles' family want from him more than anything is children, and Margaret is at the very LEAST extremely on the fence about having kids. So she'd be as miserable as ever, obviously. And with all this, it's fair to say that the Winchesters would be hardly any more satisfied with CharMarg than they would be with Charles just staying a bachelor, so what the hell would he be in it for either???
So it's a no for me on that. So why did I put down that it's "better in fanfic"? Well now we must discuss not canon CharMarg, not fanon CharMarg, but a secret third thing. Hypothetical CharMarg. Essence of CharMarg if you will. The CharMarg that exists only in slight little glimpses in scenes where I'm like you know what? If they hadn't forced it, if they hadn't tried so hard and so badly, if they'd done nothing at all, if they'd just given us all these quiet little moments of friendship and kindness and smiles and affection and never implied anything else and then I’d seen that last scene with the book.......... I’d have been like yeah. I see that.
And then the fandom could have done Pair The Spares normally, without pretense. And the thing is, I actually always loved fandom pairing the spares, putting every set of characters in groups of two (or three or four, if we really wanted to have some fun and get silly with it) and never leaving anybody behind, making sure nobody was alone. Even if they didn’t care about the spares much, really. It was always hell on fans of those less popular characters, of course (been there!), but it seemed to come from a place of awkward, fumbling love. Nobody gets left behind.
(Aromanticism?? Characters not needing a relationship to be fulfilled?? What’s that lol this is 2014 era Tumblr. Romance shipping LOCKDOWN.)
But of course they did force it and they did ruin it and now it’s hard to even write CharMarg as friends, sometimes, trying to parse out what their friendship is really like when they’re allowed to be people instead of two barbie dolls smashed together.
They’re still great together though. It is great whenever they’re on screen hanging out together and being narrative mirrors and trying to figure out how to have a friend for the first time in their lives. God I wish they’d gotten to talk about their fathers together, about expectations and never being good enough and having to keep themselves apart from everyone else and repressed anger and repressed love and repressed loneliness. I wish everyone would stop smashing them together like two barbie dolls and just let them be great together.
In conclusion society would be fixed if Loretta Swit and David Ogden Stiers got everything they wanted forever
#idk if this makes sense I'm behind on absolutely every single thing in my life I can't think or do anything#did not expect my anti charles margaret lavender marriage thoughts to all spill out here but oh well#Starky loves answering questions#marley-manson#I was always the person who really loved the pair the spares pairing. like way more than the mainstream OTP it was meant as a side dish for#:')#mash#charmarg#I'm so tired. ough.#thank you for the ask!!!!
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just remembered a fic on AO3 (or more likely LJ because it had that distinct late 00's experimental vibe) that appeared double-spaced oddly, in that some paragraphs would be spaced normally and others would have double or even triple spaces in between. it was about one half of the otp getting over the other's death (or coma, can't remember which), so all the comments were about how poignant the use of visual spacing was as a means to convey all the emotional holes in the character's life.
and then the author replied like... *giggle* guys it's NOT double spaced. try selecting the whole text
and we were all like "no WAY"
but we selected the text, and yes!!!
the "holes" in the story? they were actually lines and actions from the dead/coma character's ghost, rendered invisible to the eye by the simple trick of coloring the text the exact same as the background, revealed by nothing more than a click and a drag of the mouse
a story about the profound loneliness of losing your the partner of your life and having to make do without them, without anything to fill the holes they'd left behind, suddenly became a story about the profound helplessness of seeing someone you love suffer from your absence while you are right there, unable to do anything about it, unable to communicate that you love them enough to suffer unseen and unheard with them, just to keep them company they'll never know about
it was then that I truly realized how *superior* the digital medium is to plain printed paper, how the medium and the format can add to a story.
I think about that fic about once a year. I wish I could find it again
EDIT: FOUND IT!!!! UPDATE HERE
#probable fandoms for it (that I was in at that time): naruto Hikaru no go deathnote maybe?#definitely not Harry Potter or BBC merlin. I can't recall what else I was into back in 2008-2009#God I miss those Fandom days. everyone was doing such NEAT things both coding and writing wise#fanfic#pretty sure it was LJ#UPDATE: IT WAS LJ AND THE FIC IS BBC SHERLOCK 🤮#but still worth reading
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Thinking about YouTuber Steve who’s gaining a lot of popularity with his weekly vlogs. The routine is very similar: he goes to work, hangs out with friends, acts silly for the camera, cooks for his roommate, watches movies with his roommate, goes out with his roommate.
His roommate is there a lot.
His new growing fanbase doesn’t take long to divide into factions regarding Steve’s dating life and sexuality; There are ships, OTPs, people who want him single so they can date him, and a surprisingly small portion which questions his heterosexuality, which gets always shut up by the following compelling arguments:
“stop assuming he’s gay.”
“Steve doesn’t look gay. He’s just a guy, a former jock, who loves to cook and hangs out with friends. A friend more than the others, but it’s his roommate so it makes sense, right?”
“And yes, they do cuddle while watching movies, but who doesn’t love a cuddle? You don’t have to be gay for that.”
“Sure, they hold hands when they go out but the city is crowded and they might lose each other.”
“Since when two male friends can’t be close without assuming that they’re gay?”
“Have you ever seen them kiss in ten minutes of weekly vlog? No, so drop your gay agenda already.”
And Steve Harrington, who started the whole vlog thing in the first place because he wanted to update his friends who live miles away and still doesn’t know how he got this much heteronormative bullcrap in his comments, has had enough.
One day, Steve Just-A-Guy Harrington, wakes up and chooses violence.
He replies to a tiktok comment that says “stop assuming he’s gay” with another video.
It begins with Steve glaring at the camera “oh yes please, stop assuming I’m gay.”
Then there’s a quick motion and Steve is pulling a curly haired guy into frame: Eddie, his roommate/platonic friend/totally not his boyfriend of 5+ years.
Eddie yawns, looking sleepily at the camera “are you vlogging?”
“I’m proving a point” Steve replies, then kisses him. They almost get lost into it, but Steve is a man on a mission, so he pulls back and turns to the camera.
“This is Eddie, my boyfriend. Not a friend who’s a boy, you delusional homophobes, we are together, a couple, in a relationship. We haven’t been just friends for over 5 years. We live together, he isn’t just a roommate.
And even if he was just my roommate, do you think I would live with this” he squeezes Eddie’s cheeks between his fingers and zooms in to show his face up close. Eddie blinks a couple of times, but let’s Steve do whatever he wants.
“Do you seriously think that I would live with this 24/7 and stay straight? Like, are you insane?” He gives Eddie a quick smack on the lips, leaving him blushing and more confused than ever.
Usually, it’s Eddie the one getting almost feral over Steve, not the other way around.
He doesn’t complain.
“So yeah, stop assuming I’m gay. Because I’m bi, you homophobic little shits.”
The video ends with Eddie pulling Steve for more than a quick peck on the lips, and Steve throwing the phone on their couch, face down.
Somehow, under Steve’s video, there’s still someone that comments “I mean, this doesn’t mean anything. It’s just bros helping bros, right?”
Steve is too busy making out with his “bro” to read it.
#idk what is this#but Steve will not stand heteronormative bullshit#sometimes the queerness is painfully obvious and ppl still refuse to see it#and if they have to they would just assume ‘gay’ and nothing else#because all the other letters in LGBTQIA+ are silent apparently#idk what got me in this mood lmak#I’ll go work on my other queer shit now#peace#steddie#steve harrington#eddie munson#steve and eddie#stranger things#steve x eddie#bi steve harrington#sbc writes
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~ BLACK CAT X GOLDEN RETRIEVER ENERGY ~ OTP PROMPTS
requested by: @moondrop-gummies
request: Can you do grumpy sunshine where she’s the grumpy but doesn’t believe she can be loved and he’s the sunshine who treats her like she’s the best thing in his life and they’re roommates? Thank you in advance! 🎀
Feel free to use and reblog!
Part 1: ~ GRUMPY X SUNSHINE ~ PROMPTS
grumpy being unable to accept anything kind that sunshine tries to do for them
sunshine just admiring anything grumpy does
sunshine staying at home despite being invited elsewhere just to spend more time with grumpy
sunshine doing the things around the house that grumpy dreads doing
grumpy being snarky about the nice things sunshine does but they both know grumpy is actually enjoying them
sunshine having endless patience with grumpy because they know/hope that they'll come around eventually
sunshine making sure to tell grumpy that they deserve the world
grumpy warming up to sunshine and being in a bright mood in sunshine's company
grumpy being patient with sunshine and listening to their long, colourful stories but that's the least they can do when sunshine does everything for them
grumpy's love language is telling sunshine that they deserve more (than grumpy could ever give them)
sunshine's love language is showering grumpy with affection until grumpy snaps
grumpy trying to push sunshine away to guard themselves from developing serious feelings
grumpy hyping sunshine up when they find out that sunshine has a crush, not knowing that it's them
^ and immediately changing course when they find out (because sunshine shouldn't throw their love away on someone as undeserving as grumpy)
sunshine not paying any mind to grumpy's self-depricating rants and just keeping up their high level of affection and warmth
grumpy being able to let their guard down and accept the love because of sunshine's unconditional and unwavering support
grumpy 'you're an idiot to choose me' & sunshine 'I would be that idiot in any universe and you love it'
grumpy being seriously worried about sunshine having developed feelings for grumpy ("you can't be sane. you should see a doctor.")
grumpy being the biggest sunshine stan but they adore them too much to be willing to expose them to the madness that means grumpy
sunshine doing everything with grumpy that want but nothing more and nothing less because they know how important it is to respect grumpy's boundaries
#black cat x golden retriever prompts#black cat x golden retriever#grumpy x sunshine prompts#grumpy x sunshine otp#grumpy x sunshine#writing prompts#prompt list#prompts#otp prompts#otp#fanfic prompts#writing inspiration#writing ideas#writers on tumblr#writeblr#fluff prompts#setting prompts#scenario prompts#20 prompts
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It's 2024. Are you still thinking about movieverse!Cherik? Because I am.
For the past several months, there's only been a very slow trickle of posts/fics in the xmcu cherik tag. Let's try to breathe some life back into this incredible pairing!
With one clear winner of my poll, here's thirty prompts for the thirty days of April. (This is a super chill, laid-back event---do these in any order, interpret them as loosely as you like! Create in any medium! Fic, art, gifs, meta, incoherent screaming about the otp…all winners in my book.)
The only rule here is to cherik too close to the sun. Alright. Here are the prompts.
Mutual Pining
Doesn't really even need elaboration! Write that horrifically slow slow-burn. Gif every time McAvoy made insane fuck me eyes on screen. Make a playlist of songs about impossible love.
2. Alternate Meetings
There are endless quotes about how these two complete each other in a way no one they'd met before or after ever did. How else could they have met?
3. Erik Has A Telepathy Kink
This is basically canon. Let my boy get freaky!
4. Canon Fix-It
All the times Fox fucked it up. There are endless options.
5. Hurt/Comfort
Put them in that Situation. Put them in that Blender. Break them apart and put them back together ❤️🩹
6. Canon Compliant
Draw that missing scene! Gif your favourite cherik moment!
7. Beach Divorce
Make it worse. Make it better. Show it to us exactly how it was. Break it down in a 3,000 word meta. Go wild!
8. Domestics
Sometimes you just want to see them doing normal couple things. Erik put the gun down.
9. Found Family
The real heart of x-men!
10. Time Travel
There are SO many possibilities here. Stick them in a time loop. Give them a chance to change their past.
11. AU
Love a good AU!
12. There Is Only One Bed
Had to get this one in here. What better way to amp up the tension?
13. Genosha
By some miracle, cherik actually did end up together at the end of 2019s trash bag disaster Dark Phoenix. We aren’t making a big enough deal about this.
14. Declaration(s) of Love
Who says it first? How do they say it and when? Have they said it…without saying it?
15. Jealousy
Need I say more.
16. Reunion
These two have absolutely no chill.
17. Soulmates
Classic prompt, had to get this in here too.
18. The DOFP Aircraft
The TENSION here. Break it down for me. How does Charles feel about his injury? How does Erik feel about his injury?
19. Gay Mutant Road Trip
You already know.
20. Body Swap
SO fun when people have superpowers.
21. First Kiss
When? How? Who initiated it?
22. The Mansion
Mansion!content is a genre of its own.
23. Conflicting Ideology
Give me your theses. Who’s right? Can they ever reconcile completely? Write a fic where it drives them apart.
24. Sebastian Shaw
A trope unto himself.
25. Team As Matchmaker
They had to have known something was going on, didn’t they?
26. Cooking
Charles deserves a good meal. Also, imagine Erik using his powers in the kitchen. The sheer domesticity…
27. Hurt No Comfort
Plenty of scope with these two 🥲
28. Growing Old Together
Giving Sirs Ian Mckellan and Patrick Stewart their props as well!
29. Making Up
*pushes chess board across the table* sorry babe
30. Charles Xavier Did More For Mutants Than You'll Ever Know
Rising to each other’s defense. Only I can insult this man.
I will be tracking #revivecherik to reblog stuff! Here’s a fic collection for the same. Let’s get this ball rolling! Please feel free to send me an ask if you’ve got anything to say! And most importantly, let’s all have fun 😁
*I know a few of you preferred something like a gift exchange because of the commitment factor—I’m super down to organise a tiny one for the handful of us! If this promptathon doesn’t flop horribly, we can hopefully do a whole bunch of stuff :)
If you read this post all the way through, please reblog for reach! Thank you! Hoping you participate come April.
Shoutout to @inmymagnetoera for reaching out and helping with this!
#revivecherik#cherik#charles xavier#erik lehnsherr#xmfc#james mcavoy#michael fassbender#x men days of future past#x men#charles x erik#magneto#professor x
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Writing ROMANTIC TENSION!
When you're writing romance, you need to have TENSION. Your characters need to pull your readers into the story with not just their dialogues, but also their chemistry.
What is tension, you ask? It's quite simple. When two people are attracted to each other, or like each other, or are in love with each other, it causes a certain shift in the air. When these two people come together, they seem to outshine everyone else in the room and make it just about themselves (in a good way ofc). This shift in the air which hooks you into the scene is called tension. The chemistry that your main characters carry, will infact carry the whole story --- if you're writing romance, i.e.
How do you write this romantic tension? Well, as someone who's been writing romance for 4 years now, here's a few things I do to show the chemistry between my characters.
Show, don't tell:
This is probably the most common advice you'll ever receive. And spoiler alert: IT IS TRUE. Any scene that includes an emotion will require you to show it, visualise it for the crowd instead of just writing it down. Romance, love, is a sensitive emotion. The readers need to SEE it happening, instead of just reading about it. Eye contact, long stares, switching their gaze from the eyes to the lips & back to the eyes, coming close for a few seconds, banter-turned-flirting are some ways you can show the chemistry.
Intimacy is key:
Proximity. Closeness. Coming together.
Put your characters in situations where they have to work together. Show their differences/similarities in handling tasks and make them argue or slightly quarrel if there's any differences and show them rejoicing if there's an agreement. Intimacy lies in more than just the body, bring out a quality in your characters, preferably a good one, in your characters when they're together. Make that quality their strong suit that drives them closer.
Words are sexy:
Dialogues can create tension better than anything else (in my opinion). Notice how every time your ships/pairings are bantering, one of them ends up saying something sexual or romantic in a frisky way and we end up blushing like crazy? Yep, that's the goal. We absolutely love it when the guy says "oh yeah?" or ends up calling the girl a cute nickname while bantering. Dialogues can reach out to readers in a more personal way because they are the direct interactions between your characters. Make your OTP interact and have fun (pun intended!)
Add restraint:
Sometimes, when the characters are almost about to kiss and someone interrupts them, we feel like throwing the book away. But at the same time, we want more because we want to see our characters kiss, or confess, or even get down dirty ;).
You have put your characters in each other's close proximities, given them a driving force and added a razzle-dazzle with the dialogues and flirting! Yet, something is missing and the romance feels too....predictable? Put a constraint. This is especially important for slowburns. Personally, I love me a slowburn - it creates higher tension, emphasises on a foundation between characters and makes the kiss/confession/sex even more hot (again, my opinion). I suggest, a hint of a barrier won't do any harm. When you've reached the level of tension where it's normal for your characters to kiss or make-out, your readers are more focused than ever. Adding a restraint will make them crave the romance more and hence, stay hooked into the story.
HOWEVER, DON'T STALL THE PROJECT. Just because your characters got interrupted in chapter 7 doesn't mean they can't kiss till chapter 15 or something. If they don't kiss in this chapter, they kiss after maybe 2-3 more chapters. You want to delay the romance only by a tad bit, so that your readers are still interested.
That's all I have for today! I hope these help you guys!
- ashlee.
#writer#writerscommunity#writers on tumblr#romance#romance books#romance genre#writing#books#romancebooks#write#writeromance#writingromance#writingtips#writing tips#female writers#tips and tricks
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What is soft launch? (Carlos Sainz)
Part three
Summary: Max Verstappen’s ex girlfriend moves on with none other than Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz and they’ve managed to keep their relationship under wraps until now. Part one | part two |
Face claim: Cindy Kimberly
Type: insta au
Pair: Carlos Sainz x reader x ex!Max Verstappen
Warning: this is all over the place, fluffy Carlos, Lando Norris all up in the comments lol, salty max
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YourUsername posted a story
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Username shots fired!
Username the pettiness is real🫢
Yourbff and he always remembers not to cheat!
YourUsername: girl stop 😭😭 you know what I’m gonna delete this
Yourbff 🔪
DanielRicciardo Carlos might as well have bought the whole flower shop lmao
YourUsername don’t give him any ideas 🫣
LandoNorris this will cause more drama with Max😑
YourUsername he started it, he should’ve never posted that story in the first place!
LandoNorris I know, I scolded him for it trust me
CarlosSainz55 anything for you princesa
YourUsername 🥰♥️
MaxVerstappen1 I’m sorry
YourUsername just let me move on in peace
MaxVerstappen1 I just don’t know why it had to be Carlos
YourUsername we fell in love, simple as that.
YourUsername deleted their story
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F1Wags Carlos Sainz and Y/N arriving at the paddock for the Barcelona Grand Prix. This is the first time the couple are seen in public after recently confirming their relationship (after secretly dating for one year). I wonder how this will go down after Max’s insta story a few days about Y/N caused some drama.
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Username honestly I ship it
Username same 😶
Username I can’t believe she’s back 🥹
Username max and y/n are still my one true pair
Username he definitely cheated, that’s not an OTP😑
Username those were just rumors
Username I smell even more drama just wait on it
Username I still can’t believe Max posted that story about her as though he doesn’t have his own family now🤡
Username True. I actually feel bad for Kelly after that
Username maybe he realized the grass wasn’t greener on the other side 🤐
Username 2 years too late for that
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F1world Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen were spotted having, what seems, a serious conversation ahead of the Barcelona Grand Prix. This comes after Carlos and Max’s ex-girlfriend, Y/N, confirmed they’ve been in a relationship for the last year. Max had an outburst and posted a story of Y/N holding flowers reminiscing on their relationship which he deleted after a few minutes. The drivers seemed annoyed and Carlos at some point walked away from the Red Bull driver.
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Username i knew there’d be drama 😭
Username I hope they can get past it seeing they have to see each other all the time
Username same here
Username shouldn’t be dating his mate’s ex then
Username oh to be Y/N and have two drivers fight over her 😮💨
Username She has the grid rizz 😏
Username she’s immaculate
Username tbh she had most drivers on a chokehold ever since she was with Max👀
Username they’re all in her likes and comments a lot of the time 🫢
Username this is Max’s karma
Username ^^ yes
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CarlosSainz55 Podium today, so many good things to celebrate 🙌
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YourUsername proud of you baby!😮💨
CarlosSainz55 we’re celebrating tonight princesa 😘
LandoNorris keep it pg Carlos 😑 there’s kids here
CarlosSainz55 yeah, you!
LandoNorris 🤬
ScuderiaFerrari that’s our boy!
Username the way he included Y/N in his post too🥹
Username he’s simping hard
Username I wonder what max and him talked about
Username it didn’t look good🫢
Username definitely about y/n
Username she looks better with you than she ever did with max 🤤
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Username not carlos liking my comment lmao
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YourUsername Red for Ferrari ❤️🔥
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ScuderiaFerrari Red looks good on you!
CarlosSainz55 I agree ❤️🔥
CarlosSainz55 more like red for me
YourUsername 😏
GigiHadid beautiful!
LewisHamilton so great seeing you again!
Charlottesiine ❤️❤️
Username she’s in love love
Username ok but what is Max doing here?
Username he doesn’t even follow her but is all in her likes all of a sudden?
Username apparently it’s a problem if she moves on but he moved on within a second lmao 🧐
Username someone take Max’s phone away!
Username he’s probably crying in the shower rn
Username red suits you so much better than blue ever did queen
YourUsername 😝🫣
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F1Wags There’s reports that Kelly and Max are taking some time apart after some drama-filled days following Max posting about his ex-girlfriend,Y/N, after she confirmed her relationship with Ferrari driver, Carlos Sainz. Kelly was also pictured taking a solo flight to seemingly clear her mind and figure out the sudden halt of her 2-year relationship.
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Username I called it!
Username it’d be hard to stay with someone who’s still clearly in love with their ex
Username you lose em how you get ‘em 🫢
Username poor Y/N can’t even move on in peace
Username she doesn’t seem to care tbh she’s down bad for Carlos lol
Username as she should 😏
Username lowkey feel bad for her
Username He should’ve fought for Y/N years ago, not now when he has his own little family
Username agreed! 😵💫
Username 20 sec penalty for ocon
Username 🤔
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YourUsername we’re good over here 😌 (that last one is for you guys, you’re welcome)
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LandoNorris that last one was unnecessary 😒
YourUsername I disagree😋💋
LandoNorris 🤢
CharlesLeclerc I agree with Lando
YourBff is it simping hours??
YourUsername always 😶
ScuderiaFerrari giving the people what they want 👏
CarlosSainz55 😘
Username everybody just kind of overlooking the sassy caption 🤣
Username oh we noticed lol
Username my new favorite couple ❤️
Username queen keep giving us Carlos content
YourUsername 🫡🫡
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CarlosSainz55 what she said 🤤
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YourUsername I love us🤤❤️🔥
CarlosSainz55 ❤️🔥
LewisHamilton beautiful couple!
YourUsername🫶🫶
LandoNorris third picture was unnecessary too
YourUsername 😐
DanielRicciardo the last pic on her post left me blind
CarlosSainz55 then how’d you type this?
DanielRicciardo 🫣
MaxVerstappen1 blocked CarlosSainz55 and YourUsername
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Posting so late!
This is all over the place lmao but as always I enjoy making these social media au 🤭
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