#it was straight up just tagged romance

[altschmerzes]

i log onto ao3, i see something marked as gen fic and tagged exclusively with Character/Character tags and has “#Romance” in the additional tags section and in the description is like “some established relationship fluff!”

i look directly into the camera and sigh so hard i simply disintegrate into dust

#gav gab #WHACKING SHIP FIC IN THE GEN CATEGORY WITH A BROOM #GET THAT OUTTA HERE!!! GO AWAY!!!!!!! #this one was so direct too lmao it wasn’t even your usual like #‘well they’re GONNA end up together but nobody’s making out yet tee hee’ bullshit lmao #it was straight up just tagged romance #lmfao. gang it’s hard out here. #‘but people don’t know what that means!!’ it’s in a list of things you pick the other options for which #are things like ‘m/f’ and ‘m/m’ and ‘f/f’ #and you have to mark a rating for the fic separately #and the faq is right there if you’re confused #come on now.

[nipuni]

More of these two 😇

#good omens #good omens 2 #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #looking up the trendy ship tags to blend in 🧐 #the last drawing is there twice just to make the post shorter sorry about that! #my art #also yes I watched S2! I'm not really worried! 😆 this show is the most straight-forward wholesome romance they will be fine!

[hoolay-boobs]

“What do you mean there’s still so much biphobia in fan spaces? Bisexuals are like some of the most popular characters!”

Yeah, and they either get treated like this:

Or like this:

“Biphobia isn’t real” neither are your braincells

#bisexuals deserve better #biphobia tw #biphobia #bisexual #bisexuality #listen not to post this rancid post on bi visibility month but part of bi visibility month is venting about biphobia and that’s okay #long tags #bisexual characters are constantly branded as either gay/lesbian or straight because bisexuality is constantly branded as never good enough #yes harlivy are sometimes fetishized by men who want to get off on seeing girls smooch. yes sometimes these men are the writers of dc #no they do not make up 100% of harlivy content. no gross men drooling over harlivy doesn’t immediately make harlivy straight #harlivy have had queer female writers before. a huge portion of their fanbase are queer girls #just because they are occasionally festished doesn’t mean that they aren’t good bi rep #I see where this person is coming from but no. bc REAL BI WOMEN get festishized by men and that won’t make their sexuality any less valid #would you tell these real girls that they’re actually straight since ‘sapphicness isn’t sapphicness once it’s taken advantage of by men’? #glimmer lesbian content makes me sad bc it’s not even like interpreting harlivy or korrasami as lesbians assuming all wlw is solely lesbian #but also erasing her entire romance with bow. degrading it down to comphet and ignoring bow #like I can at least understand mistakening poison ivy for a lesbian but glimmer?? glimmer??! #biphobic #biphobic tw #bisexual hardships #korrasami #harlivy #glimbow #bi #fucking essay in the tags

[bumblingbabooshka]

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 15] At First Sight.

#tuvoktober #excerpt from the novel 'pathways' #tuvok/t'pel #Tuvok #st voyager #st voyager fanart #T'Pel #hey [vibrating from thinking about Tuvok - Vulcan Love & Gender Identity & Sexuality too much] -extends hand- chew through drywall with me #comix #something about how Tuvok's identity is half T'Pel and has been for decades he's spent DECADES growing with half of him being a person #he's not just deeply in love with but literally IS. He literally literally /IS/ part of T'Pel and his children literally ARE a part of him #the SECOND he sees T'Pel Tuvok says 'Being with her isn't enough I need to BE her. NOW.' #that novel had barely anything about T'Pel in it but I'll forgive them bc what they did have (basically just this) ??? showstopping. #thinks about Tuvok alone on Voyager thinks about the unique and alien suffering #[shuddering breath...]ahgh...[cough]....h ey Tuvok!!! What're your PRONOUNS- #Guy who misses his wife who is also him #gu ys....[sobbing openly] g uys...he's INCOMPLETE without them..... #are you picking up what I'm putting down??? #-chokes star trek writers- stop having straight people write alien romance. let insane gay people like me have a turn pleasepleaseplease #bea art tag #[switches out of angst mode for a second] also its SO fucking funny that in this novel's canon Tuvok didn't know about the pon farr until #it happened to him. he literally had NO idea what was going on. His parents didn't tell him. Why?? Don't believe in sexEd??? #it really made me laugh. conservative coded... #drawing elaborate Vulcan head....things? headresses? is fun <3 #suggestive cw

[cherriko-art]

I just finished my nth rewatch of Legend of Korra (due to the live action bringing me back to my atla/lok roots), and was violently thrown back 9 years ago while rereading the original reaction subreddits when everyone was arguing whether korrasami was canon, all bc Nick wouldn't have ever allowed the creators to show an in-show kiss between two women.

It really shows how far we've made it in today's society and media. Korrasami shocked us 9 years ago (gay marriage wasn't even federally legalized in the USA till a year after), but if it came out today none of us would've blinked at the queer rep on a kids show (by kids I mean Nickelodeon). It just makes me so happy that it's now (mostly) normalized to have safe and good queer rep in media, esp kids media.

I can't imagine what it would've felt like to have shows/movies like Nimona, Steven Universe, She-ra, etc growing up. Or just media normalizing that queer people exist and are like everyone else (instead of the butt of a joke or a "token gay character").

#cherry rambles #its jarring to think abt media from 10+ years ago vs what we get now #not just american media too #lok #korrasami #remember when yuri on ice happened and also collectively blew our minds? #the only form of “queer” anime was straight up yaoi or that “token drag character” on anime #we couldnt believe what we got with yoi #now we get regular bl romance anime yearly #i hope to see more queer rep normalized in media all over the world and not just “queer shows” #i hope to see a day we stop having separate genres or tags for “queer-friendly” just for shows that have queer rep (but arent queer-focused)

[no1ryomafan]

The straights got me in a chokehold again GOD FUCKING DAMN IT

#meg text #the big o #realize I should’ve tagged my big o thoughts as watch #but I forgot so just enjoy random bullshit for awhile #I can’t tell if hets keep getting me despite being gay because I expect this in older anime #or if it’s because I don’t look into the MLM anime scene so I’m not getting my fill #I should at some point but I never like to watch regular romances #but romance? In my robot show? Even if it’s straights? Sign me the fuck up #Granted the dynamic here is interesting because it’s apart of Dorothy humanizing #despite it only being 11 eps-basically half of the show-it feels like a natural development #especially with how hesitant Roger is about this #he clearly likes her but the awkwardness comes from “this is a robot”

[herearedragons]

WIP Thursday

thanks for the tag, @ndostairlyrium! I'm going to share another snippet of the PoE wip.

At night, as they sit by a bonfire behind the house with cups of springberry tea, Selene says: “You know, I don’t really know how to dance. Think you could teach me?” The question is so out-of-nowhere, and she says it so calmly, that it takes Edér a second to actually get what she’s saying - and then he does, and there goes his attempt to keep a lid on those thoughts again. Anyone else asking him this, he’d assume they were hitting on him. It’s just the kind of question you get asked with a smile or a wink, and if you fancy them back, you say sure, I can show you the ropes, and see where it goes from there. But Selene hasn’t smiled or winked, she’s just sitting there looking at him over the fire, and he’s pretty sure she’s really just asking.

tagging: @solas-backpack-mug @curiouslavellan @layalu if any of you have wips to share!

#pillars of eternity #herearedragons writing #oc: watcher selene #edér teylecg #edér x watcher #the first part of this fic is really just 100% straight up romance which is. interesting for sure #because I haven't written something that romance-focused in A While #also really putting my mental download of edér's voice to the test here #edérene tag

[waluigisgaybf]

My brothers hit or miss when it comes to shit and his views and opinions- but I lost my fucking shit last night cause we were talking about BG3 and about in game romance related things and without Astarion even coming up yet he just goes “Im sorry but I really feel like theres no way Astarion is attracted to women” AND I FUCKING SCREAMED.

#Absolutely golden take from my brother audbdofnfkfnfnd #He was like #I know sexuality and people just be like that #but that guy is a fucking homosexual #ALSO NO ONE TAKE THIS THE WRONG WAY #IM NOT SAYING ANYTHING BAD OR NEGATIVE ABOUT HIM BEING WITH WOMEN AND GALS #AND ROMANCING HIM AS A GAL N SHIT #BUT HE REALLY IS THE MOST FRUITY ASS MOTHERFUCKER #AND WITHOUT ME EVEN POMPTING IT TO HEAR MY BROTHER GO #Yeah Im sorry but that guy is just straight up gay #WAS REALLY FUCKING AMUSING #bg3 #Astarion #personal #hot take from Billiam #THE billiam #from my Show Billiam tag #that I also clean out everytime I actually get to show him the post aidbfkf #he hates when I call him Billiam

[garfield-milk]

if i see one more straight woman writing only mlm romances im going to set myself on fire

#girl shut the fuck up you don't know shit #i don't know why is this considered a controversial take #look im not saying that every gay romance book written by straight woman is bad #not at all ive read a lot of them and yrah they are good #but i want queer books that connect with querr people and their experiences #at least withe mine #i guess that's the problem to me #idk im just annoyed because id love to have more queer media to chose from #queer books either feel not deep enough of too political #i just want queer people falling in love and being queer #i guess that why i prefer film (EVEN THOUGH THERE'S NOT THAT MUCH QURER CINEMA EITHER) #look im bisexual and i should enjoy hey romance but i just don't #that's not me #uhhskskd #im just being annoying im sorry but i hate it #i have to look around for days to find good queer media #and then theres 4000000 shitty straight Christmas fils that are the same #I WANT MY 300000 GAY SHITTY ROMCOM MOVIES..... #uuujjjfjkkkkk #sorry again #vent post #kinda #in the tags #jesus i hate straight people #ok andres shut the fuck up in the tags challenge go #also idc that much about woman writing mlm romances it's just that ... #they sre usually so... dull #and sometimes kinda fetishizing #ughh

[aaronymous9]

The WOF Love Interest slander has made me think about it. What would be my ideal love interests for each Wings of Fire protagonist?

Clay - Keep him without a solid one, he can have minor flings but honestly I like how the books kept him single and made it pretty clear Peril’s crush was one-sided. I don’t personally headcanon him as aromantic or anything I just think him not having a love interest is more useful and interesting to the character dynamics and the story than having one would be.

Tsunami - As I have previously stated, pathetic malewife ( gender-neutral as usual for the bisexual queen ) or equally as tough dragon who has a soft spot for Tsunami and she has one for them. I like how Riptide is the first person Tsunami meets but not in the way the books portray it, it shouldn’t just be “first male of the same tribe as her now they are dating” I feel “this was the first person I felt I could relate to on all the things I never knew why I did and you taught me so much but never used me for being a princess or forced me to be a certain way thank you”

Glory - Okay girlboss and her hitman bodyguard is cute, kinda reminds me of Yor and Loid Forger in a way but also the age gap has to go Tui how’d you fuck up the timeline that bad 😭😭 I don’t actually like how Deathbringer is written either I kinda would want more of a serious to outsiders but playful slowburn when alone with eachother. I feel like Glory wouldn’t actually get with anyone until she’s an adult because she would be so focused on her career BUT GOD GET A MAN OR A WOMAN OR WHATEVER IDC WHO IS YOUR AGE PLEASE DONT MESS UP THE TIMELINE AND IMPLY STRANGE AGE GAPS IT RUINS SHIPS

Starflight - Tbh… I love him and Fatespeaker nerdy quiet boyfriend and his bundle of energy nerdy girlfriend, just crank it up to 11 I want more I don’t care if she’s annoying it’s fun I just wish they did more with it it was so cute :(

Sunny - The aromantic queen.

Moonwatcher - Everytime I heard her worrying about “oh gosh oh me should I choose the nice funny guy who is nothing but kind to me or the nasty racist man who keeps telling me who hates me because I’m a nightwing” makes me want to rip my hair out. If you can’t tell love triangles are often poorly written and both choices are not equal. Solution: Give Qibli more apparent flaws and maybe don’t make Winter dragon racist it makes the bad boy character a lot less of a bad boy and more of “why are you giving this man the time of day Moon he hates you” energy. That was a rant and a half but basically balance it out more and in the end I don’t want her to decide. She can have some romance drama on the side but I feel like she could never choose, or she could go poly or open relationship but who knows. If I could throw Qibli and Winter in the love interest trash bin I would give Moon a quiet gf with an interesting backstory or something like that, someone who doesn’t have a bombardment of thoughts and is calm and peaceful and Moon can just chill with her. Or honestly if Arc 2 wanted to focus on plot more, discard love interest for Moon until Arc 3.

Winter and Qibli - Stated before. Honestly would prefer if Winter didn’t have a love interest at all and worked through his own issues with his friends where as I’m a little more open to Moon and Qibli personally I’m not the biggest fan. I think Qibli is another character like Clay that I can’t see any story reasons to actually give a love interest until after Arc 2.

Peril - Realize she doesn’t need Clay to love her to be worth anything and slowly come to realize to learn to love herself, maybe she gets to be with someone as an adult but after lots of healing and being able to separate her worth as a person from a partner’s love. <3

Turtle - I like how he has a crush on Kinkajou and how Anemone kind of ruins it but I don’t want it to go anywhere and I want he and Kinkajou to have more discussions about it and for them eventually decide not to get together. Or something like that I can’t really see Turtle with anyone but I liked that storyline.

Blue and Cricket: I actually really enjoy this ship and I want them to be happy, make it less sudden though Tui I stg they went way too fast but I do enjoy pathetic little boy x nerdy girl it is a very cute dynamic and made arc 3 tolerable in the first half for me.

Sundew: No complaints. Willow is amazing, I just wish she had more of a role in the story.

Snowfall: I think she and Lynx are cute but they do also work as friends, I don’t think she needs a love interest. Single girlboss.

Luna: I like Luna and Swordtail a lot actually Arc 3 had pretty good romance for Wings of Fire standards, I just wish it was fleshed out more before Luna’s POV book. Her thoughts and memories of Swordtail also made her book tolerable I’m ngl the plot was lacking but Luna and her awesome thoughts and mind and memories was super cool!!

I could also include the humans, the winglet characters and Darkstalker but I don’t want too!! Fuck the humans I hate them!!! Also I acknowledge I didn’t include any MLM ships in here at all but that’s kind of just because most male characters have pretty solid ships already which are primarily straight, which is sad that there isn’t a lot of LGBT rep in Wings of Fire besides Sundew x Willow and side characters Pineapple x Jambou(? He is so irrelevant I forgot his name help 😭 ) and arguably Sky/Peril. Maybe after Winter works through his angst he can get an emo boyfriend that would be my heart and soul.

#aaronymous ramblings #wof #wings of fire #i say im not into shipping but thats just because theres not actually a lot of good ships in things i like #and when i see a charavter usually i think of the most canon version of rhem in my mind which usually includes their horrible chemistry witg #basic love interest number five #but I am a proud enjoyer of romance comedy anime and im inserting tropes into wings of fire #spy x family komi cant communicate kazuya sama love is war tomo chan is a girl and so on #shame theyre all straight well honestly theyre all bisexuals thats my headcanon #pov me when my wings of fire post tags turn into anime posting #anyways make more good cheesy comedy romance about bisexual mlw or to spice it up just any comedy non offensive mlm wlw or hopefully #nbl literally anyone WHERE ARE MY NON BINARY ROMANCE ANIMES #Spongebob cryinf gif that is heavily edited is me rn

[spider-man-2o99]

everything that miguel knows about the present day comes wholly secondhand from xina because they spent twenty years of friendship taking turns infodumping at each other over old star trek reruns. miguel doesn’t know who ben hurr is, but he heard the name from xina at some point so for the sake of the “her? / no, ben hurr!” gag, he’ll go ahead and make the reference anyways. he is not as worldly as he talks himself up to be he’s just pretentious (affectionate)

#talking tag #spider-man 2099 #spiderman 2099 #miguel o'hara #xina kwan #the biggest difference between xina nd miguel in my mind (besides the obvious) is that xina Knows she is wlw #meanwhile mig has not thought abt his sexuality even Once in his life and just auto-pilots thru romance based on Societal Expectation #but. like. no matter What angle u look at him at i just cannot see him as a straight man i'm sorry but my gaydar goes nuclear around him #/personally/ i hc miguel as gay and aro. i can own up to the not-insignificant amnt of projecting i do w/ this guy tho. anywho #i think if he just sat down a little and actually Thought About Some Things he'd have the Realization. but. well. #too much eldest daughter syndrome and too many layers of Repression for that to happen if one prefers adhering to canon #but im self-indulgent as all get-out like a decadent little hag so that's why i draw him with a piercing in the gay ear <3

[zeawesomebirdie]

This is probably just me not knowing how to utilise google correctly but WHY is it so hard to find Western novels about gay men that aren't romance novels

#vent post #not actually a vent lmao but thats the tag #like look #what i WANT to read is basically just; #gunsmoke. except the marshal is gay. nothing else is different #the rest of the story is normal #the focus is not the romance #and WHY is this SO HARD to find!!!! #like COME ON #yes this is user error i dont understand how to google things since they changed the algorithm to be all ads and whatever #but trying to add queer or mlm or whatever to the keyword searchs just brings up romance #and i will not object at all to romances that are a part of the plot #i just #i dont want to read straight romance #i would like to read about cowboys and gunmen and whatever Wild West things bc that is why i am here #and itd be nice if the romance was gay instead of het #ugh #anyway im gonna have to bother the librarians next time i go to the library bc if i have to write this myself i am going to #throw my laptop into the pond #if anyone has any queer and/or mlm western novels to rec lmk pls i need to read things or i will perish

[voidcharms]

on my hands and knees begging ppl to tag bg3 epilogue spoilers some of us are having issues getting the epilogue to trigger along w some of the pre credits cutscenes

#blease it's only been like 12hrs #can we tag spoilies for at least a couple days #the ending plays out fine up till the last shot of the city then it completely skips karlach's scene and astarion's romance scene #just goes straight to the credits and post credits scene #the boots me to the start screen #everything else works fine for me !! mods are fine the new astarion kiss finally lines up correctly w tavruna #it's just the ending/epilogue #void.txt

[ancientbread]

beauty and the beast (1991) should’ve been lesbians

#I do have an argument to back me up but also u should just accept that I’m right #lesbian #beauty and the beast #Yes it’s a problematic romance but straight people get to be problematic all the time I think the rest of us should get a turn #I am not immune to cute colored pride tags

[pyreshe]

not to start shit on a thursday afternoon but i cannot deal with peeps who are like "this character can't be ace AND autistic, that's infantilizing," .......like there aren't whole ass ace and autistic people out there irl living their lives. u wanna tell them that they're infantilizing themselves by being ace or that they're too naive and dumb to know their own sexuality?

that being said, this is one of the times I think it's important to like ask why the headcanon is being made and in the case of allistic people who arent ace, ask themselves Why they have this headcanon.

like there are for SURE clowns who do actually just wanna remove an autistic or autistic coded character from shipping equations and think asexuality will further cement them as an "uwu soft innocent bean" or w/e who can't get in the way of their otp (even tho. that's not how asexuality works, but I digress) but a good chunk of these headcanons are being made by ace people on the spectrum who are going "what if they were like me :)!" (something literally everyone in fandom spaces does btw) and telling them that they're doing something Wrong for that? not great!

#this is related to no one i follow btw i just have seen this argument around periodically #and the ableism (bc thats what it is. its ableist) of telling autistic people that Actually they dont know any better wrt their sexuality #and that is ALSO applicable to people who see an autistic character (AND IRL AUTISTICS) and immediately assume they dont and cannot fuck #(which again. not what asexuality is. but still.) #i just have a lot of thoughts about how people view autistics and romance and sex or a lack thereof #legit i have had someone straight up tell me that i couldnt be a lesbian bc im autistic. and im like girl what?? #ask to tag #ableism cw #imma delete this soon but i had thoughts to get out and now thays your problem

[werecreature-addicted]

Hi fellow electroshock therapy patient. I was wondering if you had favorite fic or book suggestions!

I cannot read. I'm so sorry.

#scroll through the werewolf x reader tag that's what I like #and then I don't read monster romance books really #I prefer just straight up monster stories/ horror/ gothic stuff #sorry anon