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domokunrainbowkinz · 3 months

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#my art #the apothecary diaries #kusuriya no hitorigoto #jinshi #his cringefail rizzing attempts and 2 faced persona have captivated me #idk man something abt him just made me go ouuuuugh esp after reading ahead in the manga #started the LNs now but uh I’m only like 1 chapter into volume 1 lmao #kinda wish I knew how to read Japanese so I could read the original web novel since I heard it’s darker and focuses more on the intrigue #rather than the romance #don’t get me wrong tho I eventually want him and maomao to make out sloppy style #maybe even throw in a little pegging idk LOL

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transjudas · 4 months

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two crowds, almost 20 years apart. (x, x)

#gerard way #mcr #mcredit #my chemical romance #flashing cw #gonna tag this #f slur #cause for probably the first time on my page it's showing up that way #rather than me calling myself a jolly lil faggot or whatever

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subsequentibis · 2 months

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it's actually just hit me that there's like... not really romance plots in dungeon meshi. they don't pair the cast off arbitrarily at the end. basically any character could be read as aroace/aspec really easily. that's honestly super cool!! it's refreshing to have a mainstream piece of media with the kind of approach to character relationships that emphasizes how important everyone's connections to each other are without making them explicitly romantic.

#ignore me #dungeon meshi #like obviously i love to read romance in bc im a hopeless romantic #but i like having the option to read that in Myself rather than have it forced #and i like that my aro & ace friends can see themselves in the characters in that way #like.... shuro's driven by romance but his stuff is fairly minor in the scope of things all told?#but i think that & chilchuck's marriage are kind of easy to read as moooore like.#societal expectation that you get married & reproduce & etc than like Deep Romance. esp wrt chilchuck #anyway now im just rambling

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spicyet · 4 months

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fem!Shuro from that one panel

#dungeon meshi #shuro #nakamoto toshiro #toshiro nakamoto #shuro dungeon meshi #laishuro #implied anyways #Sam’s doodles of the day #I like to think Fem!Shuro is talking to the other girls about how Laios keeps ‘complimenting’ her when she’s training or using her sword #Or she’s a bit upset because Laios said something close to ‘I need you!’ And while she’s fawning he adds ‘and so does the party!’#Queue her heart shattering bc she didn’t wanna hear the last part #and is complaining to the other girls about how Laios is giving her mixed signals #or just plain and simple Laios compliments her to no end and she’s been waiting for those compliments to turn into a confession #(In my mind Shuro only has romance novels as dating reference lolololol)#Also thank u to my wife for helping with the kanji that makes for fem!shuro’s name #Kiyomine nakamoto #and rather than a mistake she thinks Laios calls her ‘Inne’ as a cute nickname like couples would do #anyways she’s hopelessly in love

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imissthembutitwasntadisaster · 7 months

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Maybe I am actually blissfully offline and miraculously disconnected

#1. who tf is writing romance with a former kkk member and 2. why is this something we need to make articulated call out posts on #rather than just all going dude that's nasty cmon

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butterflysonnets · 5 months

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yes i'm rooting for m*leven breakup because byler is neat but mostly? i'm rooting for m*leven breakup for the sake of el and mike.

to me, their romance was always a puppy love born out of a combination of social pressures, naïve curiosity, and a lack of true understanding regarding intimacy and romantic love and what it really is. it was real in that they do truly, deeply care about each other and they are close friends, maybe even shared an attraction, but a maturing romance is so much more than that. they've grown up and out of being boyfriend/girlfriend, and that's okay! i think television/film needs to show more often that most of us don't have definite "soulmates" or first childhood loves that we spend our whole lives with. it doesn't mean these relationships meant nothing and didn't impact us, it just means they've run their course and that something else is in the cards, and this is part of life!

i've always felt el was at her best and most confident self when broken up with mike, discovering who she was and what she liked alongside another girl her age instead of just relying on mike for mentorship on how to live in the real world. she deserves more of an opportunity to find herself, her autonomy, and her independence, and to love who she is, and she's made it clear she's felt insecure in the relationship with mike because she isn't being loved and understood the way she wants, needs, and deserves from someone who is her partner.

also, it's okay if mike doesn't love her in "the way he should". he is not obligated to love her romantically and stay in a relationship with her just because she's a girl, because she "needed someone", or because he cares about her a lot. he shouldn't be pressured into a romance if it's not truly coming from his heart. he deserves freedom to find out and honour who he is, too, instead of just staying in his non-functional first relationship — one he got into as a child, essentially — and defining himself that way because it's what's expected when a boy and a girl are close. he loves her in some way, yes, but it's okay if he doesn't feel comfortable or secure being her boyfriend anymore, for whatever reason that is. he's felt insecure too, and that's valid and it matters.

they are their own people and are steadily growing and changing every day. they need time to figure out who those people are, and it's become clear (at least in my opinion) that those people aren't meant to be a couple at this stage.

they deserve freedom. they deserve to grow up and be authentic to themselves and not feel like they need to lie for the sake of a relationship. they deserve to move on from this version of their relationship that isn't making them happy and rekindle the best part of their bond: their strong, beautiful friendship. they don't have to be a couple if it doesn't make them stronger and better and happier people.

i think it would be healthy and wonderful for a show, especially one consumed frequently by young adults, to show a relationship starting, progressing, and ending on good terms in this way. sometimes things don't work out, and that is okay.

#eve text #elmike #stranger things #byler #only tagging byler because i feel like yall will like this take lol #tagging tagging tagging WHAT ARE EVERYONE ELSE'S THOUGHTS #god i can't believe i'm making a post about stranger things. this feels like poking a bear #i'm not particularly anti m*leven but like... they'd have to do something pretty special at this point for me to feel like it's viable #i'm seeing the bts of s5 and it's got me Having Thoughts #elmike friendship is something i am so passionate about #even before i ever liked byler (didn't ship at all until s4 even though i knew it was a thing before) i've felt this way about elmike #i always believed they were close friends at heart and needed to break up #the romance part of them felt very distinctly young and very much “he was a boy she was a girl” to me #and it hasn't deepened into anything more mature and i don't see how it could based on the current state of the writing...#the fact that lumax exists — a young relationship that is actively maturing and is healthy — makes that clear to me #and the “love confession” in s4 and how disingenuous and miserable it felt was just the nail in the coffin #also the fact that will (who is IN LOVE with mike) was instrumental in making it happen? ... uh... okay... interesting choice…#fucked up and reductive if they make it another queer unrequited love sacrifice for the sake of pushing the heterosexual agenda YUCK #so i really hope the speculation about a m*leven breakup is real!! i think it just makes sense for their characters but who knows #i don't believe in the notion of love at first sight or one true love and i think the writers don't too???#love to me is an accumulation of experiences and we inevitably choose it at some point rather than fall into it... but idk #tv is so fixated on keeping couples together... sometimes it's just not reality guys especially with young people... LET IT GO...#like i said though i'm not 100% sold that they're going to give up their “golden couple” LMAO #stranger things hasn't historically subverted too many tropes if i'm being honest #anyway i seriously need this season to come out quickly... i'm so bored and getting my master's is crushing my soul #i need frivolity #ALSO btw i won't respond to hateful messages about this so please don't bother. it's not that serious. this is a netflix show

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lunarblazes · 2 years

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love that like literally everyone in double life has referred to their soulmate romantically at least once. except grian. grian referred to his soulmate romantically BEFORE he knew they were scar and then NEVER AGAIN

#he would rather DIE than date this man.#i love that he keeps almost saying relationship and then switching to. soul…bound…#he also continues to romantically refer to bigb #so it’s literally just scar. he just wants to badly to be out of here AHSKDJFK #grian #dlsmp #❤️ mawwiage #trafficshipping #dlshipping #<- this one is a bit more romance oriented than they usually are

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gophergal · 7 months

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Honestly one of my favorite ship dynamics that I never see folks talk about is where they're just... Orbiting each other like satellites. A deep closeness, but not quite something explicitly romantic. Everyone around them has conflicting opinions on their relationship, but they never label it. Heartfelt declarations of trust, love, and friendship are non negotiable

#gopher rambles #ship dynamics #so many ships fit this imo #superbat #k/s #or if you'd rather call it #spirk #and i personally see #subscorp #that way. feel free to talk about your own faves like this #because its great. it always makes me feel so good. theres something about that deep affection and fondness #that trumps any regular 'falling in love' fics. more than friends but not in a romance centric way #they're best friends your honor. they are of one soul your honor. their love is deeper and more complex than you could understand your honor

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offkilterkeys · 2 months

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It sucks that Jane and Kanaya got shoved into the mommy friend roles cause they’ve got such potent exasperated older sister and bug eyed younger sister energy respectively

#homestuck #jane crocker #kanaya maryam #like seriously #Kanaya always being the mediator is peak younger sister behavior #Jane always assuming she’s gotta be the one who’s emotionally mature is older sister to the max #I wish people realized that there are more familial archetypes to be filled rather than just “mommy/daddy friend“#btw their inverses are Jake and Karkat #with Karkat being peak exasperated older brother energy and Jake being the bug eyed annoying younger brother #like I know for a fact it was not Karkat who was coming to Kanaya for romance advice on that meteor #Kanaya’s like “But How Can I Be Sure She Wants To Take Things In A Red Direction?”#and Karkat’s eye is twitching and his shoulder spasms because he’s been watching Rose act like an idiot draping herself on Kanaya at every #moment possible #and is like #“I THINK I KNOW WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT KANAYA.”

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notasapleasure · 2 months

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If a character of mine, comparing two medieval ideas, produces a third, more modern, idea, he is doing exactly what culture did; and if nobody has ever written what he says, someone, however confusedly, should surely have begun to think it (perhaps without saying it, blocked by countless fears and by shame).

Umberto Eco, The Historical Novel, from his Postscript to The Name of the Rose, trans. by William Weaver

#umberto eco #always thinking about this tbh #historical fiction #i think i have written romances rather than true historical fiction by his standards. but one can still aspire to it.#writing #quotes #the name of the rose #faves #i am a medievalisn't

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your-funky-human-companion · 5 months

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i just finished avatar the last airbender and wtf

you guys have to pay for your sins

i 100% thought katara and zuko were gonna get together

who the fuck is this mai person too

#we didnt even get a good reason or romance for them getting together #they just were a couple suddenly #i feel so cheated #ugh #i hated them #i thought mai was only with zuko to tie him to the fire nation rather than love #the only reason she was with zuko was for that one time she saved them from the prison in the boiling lake #avatar #zuko #mai #katara #kataraxzuko #lowkey dont even know katara and zuko’s ship name #btw where did that three eyed guy go #i didnt think he died???? maybe he did #combustion man

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hephaestuscrew · 1 year

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I'm not the first person to say this, but there really is something groundbreaking about the lack of romantic plotlines in Wolf 359.

Wolf 359 is a story aimed at and about adults. It's partly about what it means to be human. It's partly about how we exist in relation to other people. It's partly about interpersonal connection and understanding. It has character relationships at its heart. It features so many moments of love and care between characters. It takes place across just over two years of the characters' lives, with 61 episodes and a main cast that grows to a decent size.

And despite all this, the show doesn't feature a single canonical 'on-screen' romantic (or sexual) relationship. Perhaps that shouldn't be as rare as it is, but it's one of the many things that makes Wolf 359 special to me.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Obvs there's Minkowski's husband and Eiffel was with Kate #but neither of those are focal points #and we don't actually hear Kate or Koudelka #Before Jacobi declared he liked the menfolk #there were a fair few people expressing frustration at the lack of canon queer rep in w359 #which I do understand cos that's something lots of people go to fiction podcasts for #and I do understand why it matters to ppl #but a part of me thinks that when you interpret 'queer' in that broader sense about questioning/ defying societal norms #there is something arguably queer about making a show like this #and deliberately not having a single canon romantic relationship between the main cast #For a show to ask 'what makes us human?' and not even vaguely put romantic love on the table as a possibility #that's queer to me #At any rate it's really refreshing #When I first started listening to Wolf 359 back in 2017 #there was a part of me bracing myself for a shoehorned-in romantic plotline #I felt like the question was 'who' and 'when' rather than 'if'#because that tends to be the way #It blew my mind when I realised this show didn't treat romance as a necessary ingredient #This is not to knock shippers for doing their thing btw #People can explore possibilities outside of canon #I'm just talking about how I feel about canon #And yes these are feelings I have as an aro person #but I do think it's valuable and refreshing in general not just for aspec people

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tallbluelady · 3 months

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Guess who had taken this gpose and never did anything with it til now!

#i need a screenshot tag #aether and anatomy #rowan argentas #urianger #urianger x wol #so like #in my head this is probably a cheesy romance novel that rowan picked up and imagined them on the cover #rather than a cover of them #((((he would definitely read it aloud to her)))

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dramaticpeony · 6 months

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Personal headcanon that Gabe met his mate (David's mother) during a security gig.

He and Gregory were 20 something roommates living in a cramped apartment in the shittier parts of Dahlia.

Surviving on ramen and cigarettes and cheap beer.Talking about their future packs and the territory they would claim one day.

But the money was tight, so when a listing for shifter bodyguards popped up (with pay neither of them had seen in their lives), they sign up right away.

I imagine it's on the east cost. The gig concerns the daughter of some old pack. The alphas daughter to be exact. And they're like ancient; they could trace their lineage back to the 1400s.

And their employer, the Alpha, makes his views about them, and where they land in the hierarchy very clear. They are runts who are there for only one thing; keeping an eye on his sickly daughter. No talking, no fraternizing and the pay would be theirs. Plus a little extra, if the Alpha felt like it.

Gabe and Greg grit their teeth through the whole speech. Trying not to sneer at the words "runt" and "pup". They make it out of the assholes office without punching him.

Gabe expects his daughter to be just like him. Haughty and insufferable, despite her weak disposition.

And she is, except not in the way he imagined.

She tried to run away. He finds her on the snow covered ground on Christmas eve.

She bares her teeth at him, hair a mess, white silk gown torn, blending with the snow. She spats something-insults or threats maybe, he cannot tell- and he mesmerized by the sound of her voice.

The glint in her eyes makes him go wild, the scent of her perfume and anger mixed in the air makes him dizzy.

And then... then she shifts.

And her wolf form is unlike anything he's ever seen. Smaller yes, but lean. Her movements are elegant. Her jet black fur shines, reflecting the moonlight.

One look at him and she turns dashing into the woods of the giant property, disappearing in the darkness.

And Gabe stays there for a second slack jawed. Still reeling from it all, his wolf right beneath his skin, screaming at him to follow her.

And then it hits him:

Gabriel Shaw is in love.

Gabriel Shaw is about to lose his job.

#have had this in mind for a while lol #princess x knight type romance #except they are both hard headed people that would rather drink bleach than admit they want to kiss each other #redacted asmr david #redacted asmr #redacted asmr Gabe

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jahiera · 9 months

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some of the astarion HCs that cross my gaze are trying to make him sexier + classic romance novel lead than he is Im afraid…… before he will be your sexy protector dominate boyfriend he’ll probably be like “babe do you think you can help me with this” “but that sounds like soooooooo much woooork… fine 🙄🙄🙄🙄” love him at his whiny twink self come on now

#every time I see a hc that reads directly out of Every Bridgerton-esque Novel Ever attributed to astarion my eyes glaze over a bit #obviously I’m also caricaturing him here but come now. come now #even when he’s protective he does it in a specifically bitchy way….#’THAT BETTER NOT BE GOING DOWN YOUR GULLET 👉👉👉’#anyways I am just having a laugh & such I just like that the game never tries to pretend he’s not whiny or petty or annoying. as a person.#he stomps his foot like an actual toddler sometimes! I love him ❤️#so the ultra beefy romance lead vibe… is so dissonant for him in my head….#HEADCANON AND THRIVE to your hearts headcanon content by the way I don’t care #just giggling imagining him trying to do anything like that but with sincerity rather than … like #for the bit. I can see him do it for the bit perhaps

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heretherebedork · 1 year

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I love this new trend of Korean BLs having characters that are already queer and know they're queer and have had boyfriends in the past. It's so nice to see and so encouraging.

And watching Seung Hyun walk into a what is obviously the PRIDE group and make friends and be supportive and everyone talking about their relationships just... so good to see. Also, rainbow rice cakes? My entire heart.

Between this and Seo Jae Yun and his long term crush on his friend and the fantastic bi realization in Oh! My Assistant along with one character just being out and gay and Happy Ending Romance being about breaking up with your boyfriend to find your new boyfriend... there's so much queer energy here and it makes me gloriously happy.

It's just so nice to have queer babies everywhere in a bubble of acceptance because it isn't gay for you, it isn't just this one guy, it's this man is gay and he likes men or he's bi and he's realized he likes men as a whole. I love it here.

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