I keep seeing people making fun of using growled, hissed, roared, snarled etc in writing and itās like.
have you never heard someone speak with the gravel in their voice when they get angry? Because thatās what a growl is.
Have you never heard someone sharply whisper something through the thin space of their teeth? Or when your mother sharply told you to stop it in public as a kid when you were acting up/being too loud? Because thatās what a hiss is.
Have you never heard a man get so blackout angry that their voice BOOMS through the house? Because thatās what a roar is.
Have you never seen someone bare their teeth while talking to accentuate their frustration or anger while speaking with a vicious tone? Because thatās what snarling is.
Itās not meant to be a literal animal noise. For the love of god, not every description is literal. I get some people are genuinely confused, but also some of these people are genuinely unimaginative as fuck.
Fanfic in general is so funny because you can read a fic thats set completely in the canon of a show and the characters will be wildly ooc but somehow a 24 chapter 114k word mafia college bdsm au manages to encapsulate their dynamic and archetype perfectly
a lot of newer vampire media has abandoned "can't stand sunlight" as too cheesy or too big of a limitation but it's good it's so good i forgot how good it is. vampirism comes at an immense cost it's both eternal freedom and eternal confinement its unending vigor and beauty are a thin veil over the brittleness of something already dead!!!! fuck yeaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!
Now, Iām not saying romantic relationships are inferior, or that theyāre useless, or that you being in one or that you shipping some characters romantically is Bad or something off the walls like that. What Iām saying is that two people (or characters, since weāre talking shipping here) can be just as devoted to each other, love each other just as deeply, mean just as much to each other while being in a platonic relationship. The end point of caring about someone doesnāt have to be romance.
Friendship isnāt a stepping stone between strangers and romantic partners, itās a different path. And you can follow that path as deep into the wood as a romantic one if you want, and neither is inferior to the other, they just have different views.