#-how romance works

[spotsupstuff]

JGKSLDMCKLSDMGKLSDM?????

#Spot says stuff #rw #if this bothers u lemme kno funny tumblr user from my tags i shall delete #but God did this make me laugh hard as hell.... 2 thousand kilometers of PURE BOYFRIEND MATERIAL <- boy in question has no idea- #-how romance works #heavens i get u tho i get u. #n hey **I** should be the one apologizing after all who here drew five pebbles in bikini once. the bullshit im willing to draw if it makes- #-me laugh i swear... #-sneakily puts in a 'formers prime reference in a rw post-

[paranoiac1963]

when are we as a society going to nut up and stage a genderbent production of the producers. i have never seen two characters who deserved to be morally bankrupt middle aged women more than bialystock and bloom.

#i cant stop thinking about how well it would work like genuinely #max bialystock: lesbian gigolo is the funniest concept in the world to me #and also ulla and leo's entire romance does genuinely reek of lesbianism as well #theres something really potent here #EYE wanna be a producer #specifically so i can stage this revival #i think we all deserve to have it #op

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Assisting Acquaintance Acquired.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #wen ning #wei wuxian #Ignore how Wen Ning's hair looks here because I messed it up. Let's pretend he just sported a different hair style for a brief moment. #I am not exactly great at consistency but I am trying very hard to work on that (immediately messes up again). #Absolutely *love* how Wen Ning clearly remembers and admires WWX...who does *not* recognize him. #This is the best day for Wen Ning and it means *nothing* to WWX. A painful one-sided crush made worse. #It is bittersweet to realize that we care about someone more than they care about us. Sometime we pour love into a relationship- #-with someone who just can't reciprocate. It isn't always a conscious things either. Some people just aren't aware we care. #And painfully - so painfully - You can't make them aware. No act of kindness or gift or self sacrifice will make someone care about you. #You can martyr yourself for someone and they will continue on unchanged. #I think a lot about the parallels between WN and LWJ. Not foils - just reflections. A theme repeated. #People who give so much of themselves to someone who doesn't have the capacity to give any part of themself away. #I will die on the hill of 'Wen Ning would be the love triangle romance if that trope wasn't being avoided'. #And to be honest - thank the stars above that is the case. I do not know any good love triangles in media. #We are skipping some of the sad Jiang Cheng content because I really want to finish season 2 before May. #Sorry JC emo moment lovers...I'll deliver another time.

[kwillow]

As an eligible young noble of no small fame, Ambroys had a number of arranged courtships and suitresses in his youth, but any nascent marriages always fell through.

It's not that he didn't try; he certainly knew how to court a lady (perhaps too well, according to many fathers and husbands), and when he lacked knowledge on the affairs of womens' hearts, he sought counsel from a young woman who was a dear friend of his (perhaps too much counsel, according to his own father). Nonetheless, all he garnered for his efforts was separation after separation.

Ah, well. Maybe it was for the best.

#been working on this for a while... was just struck by the fact that I don't have much showing Ambroys' character in his “normal” “everyday” #so I wanted to do something “short” and “quick” to try to highlight some of his... quirks #and to contrast the loverman persona I think he's garnered #like yeah he's good at romance but also he's so fucking bad at it #just like he's good and bad at everything to do with interacting with people really #no matter how well you mimic dance steps it doesn't count for much when you don't know what the music is #or something like that... #also wanted to draw Lou (the goat) his girl best friend (with benefits) #who is actually quite important to him and his history but who I haven't drawn actually speaking or having a face yet #comics #my draws #amaranthine #ambroys #anthro #fantasy #unicorn #etc

[asaethiel]

horror movie twins/gansey's magicians/etc

#the raven cycle #trc #pynch #adam parrish #ronan lynch #jun23 #actual art #fanart #digital #showed roomie my bluesey last month and she was like wow i'm surprised u drew them first and not pynch! #and i had to be like. well u see thinking abt pynch makes my heart feel flayed open like a fish so bluesey was easier #anyway tho heres: them ! #i looooooove when they start going off together to do fucked up magic shit. and how they each get to know the other's powers better than #the rest of the gangsey. like. united in the willingness to commit crimes against god and man for gansey's sake 🙏 #&how they work so well as a team once they have that knowledge of each other?? adam scrying from the front seat while ronan drives?? romanc

[thechaoticdruid]

Petition for someone to make a mod where it shows you and your romanced companion snuggling during the long rest sleeping animation.

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 tav #bg3 romance #bg3 x tav #BG3 x durge #Bg3 mod ideas #i don't know how to mod unfortunately but I got plenty of ideas for them. 🥲 #astarion ancunin #gale dekarios #karlach cliffgate #shadowheart #Lae'zel #wyll ravengard #halsin silverbough #minthara #Now that I think about it considering all the different body types #This mod would be a shit ton of work probably.

[cats-obsessions]

You cannot tell me Gortash isn’t the reason Orin turned on Durge. In Rivington, if you encounter all her forms from nearest to farthest from your starting point, Orins first disguised interrogation of durge is about who they’re in love with. She assumes durge loves someone. If they haven’t romanced a party member, she pushes it further- surely there’s someone you respect- someone you trust (a partnership built on mutual respect and trust, no?) .

Next, as the smith, she wants to know if you’ll kill those you care about. And we know who Durge didn’t want to turn on in the past- she surely felt personally betrayed by that as well.

Only then as the journalist does she actually get to the more important questions: how did you kill Ketheric and what do you plan to do next?

She may as well say it: she mutilated Durge, she removed part of their brain and did all she could to tear apart their memories but it still is at the forefront of her mind: do they love Gortash now? Do they remember how to trust him? Do they remember being respected? Cherished? Will they still refuse to kill the Banite? It might be semi strategic, but knowing why they’re in the city and what they know of Bhaal would be much more so.

#I really subscribe to ‘Bhaal prompted her to do this as a test and to hard reset durge’ #so I do think Orin wants ammunition against gortash #and she wants to know if she’ll be up against durge or durgetash #but I also think Bhaal might be wondering how well this all worked if Durge didn’t romance anyone especially #they have to check if the reset worked #and I think Orin is so bitter knowing ultimately Durge didn’t care to exclude her from being slaughtered- only Enver would be saved for last #anyways it’s a bizarre line of questioning #orin the red #enver gortash #the dark urge #durge #durgetash #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #cats thoughts

[the-magpie-archives]

"I thought you might be lost." is one of the most delightfully romantic things Jon ever says to Martin.

It's so devoid of blame, of derision. A truly neutral statement, soft, no touch of sarcasm, no hint of cruelty. A gentle hand reached out to pull him from the depths of the lonely.

Such an unusual phrase for Jon, especially at that time. There's no definitives, it's entirely open to correction, open to being wrong. 'I thought' not I knew. It comes from Jon's perspective, he holds himself out to rejection, something that's hard to do at the best of times.

'you might be lost', not you were, not you are. He respects that this may well have been a conscious choice, that Martin really could have chosen to abandon him, preferring the lonely to the lack of certainty in their relationship. But it retains the softness and love, the worry and care. He was worried that Martin might not be able to find his way back, but not willing to drag him out of a place he might have chosen to be.

And that's not even mentioning the softness with which he says it. In an intense moment of great urgency and importance he's able to drop his fear, stress, and anger, in an attempt to reach the man he loves.

It's such an elegant moment of love; in a second Jon is willing to let go of the gravity of the situation and put all of his being into connecting with Martin, and when it comes down to it, it works.

#The magnus archives is a tragedy but how could a thing be painful if it doesn't first lull you with all you could ever want? #The amount of humiliation and failure Martin and Jon have to go through to make things work is far more romantic than love at first sight #Realism in communication doesn't kill romance it ENHANCES IT #tma #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #jonmartin #jmart #tma analysis #tma the lonely #tma season 4 #tma spoilers

[favoredspawn]

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate III #virtual photography #haarlep #raphael #bg3 haarlep #bg3 raphael #to say i was going insane watching this animation would be an understatement #hitting some walls w some of my astarion modding so maybe ill do more shoots of them #problem! in order to get romance scenes to work raph has to be the companion and also a human usually #which is only bad in some scenes bc. i want haarlep to top that man #how could i do not astarion's kiss. when he grabs him. that way #raphael x haarlep #haarlep x raphael

[a2zillustration]

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I thought Gale's romance scene in Act 2 was really wonderful and special and decided to make a whole multi-page comic about it.

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[[ All Croissant Adventures (chronological, desktop) ]]

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#I hope you like it and if you don't just stick around for more of the usual BG3 comic content after this lol #Also please be nice I've been vacillating wildly between- #“I love this thing I made” and “I feel so weird about making a character x tav comic” #but I did think the way this scene was done worked very well with how I've been playing Croissant with the romance #adds another tally on the list of “things to personally thank Larian about in this game” lol anyway sorry for rambling #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 spoilers #gale romance spoilers #act II spoilers #croissant adventures #gale #tav #gale x tav #comics #gale dekarios #breadweave

[lgbtlunaverse]

The thing that really gets me about xiyao. that will never NOT get me about xiyao. Is that they met in circumstances where for just a moment their respective stations in society didn't matter. Not to each other. Their relationship started outside of social conventions. And they spend the next 17 years trying to preserve that time, that relationship outside of society. And society crept in anyway.

#mdzs #lan xichen #meng yao #jin guangyao #xiyao #rs: i wish it could've been you #it's the TRAGEDY of it all #oh god maybe this is why cql xiyao doesn't do it as much for me despite the fact the fact they are just. so gay. #because SO MUCH about xiyao and how they work can be traced back to how they met #like down to xichen's stubborn willingnes to always believe the best in jgy and his 'i believe you had your reasons' mentality #because that? 'sometimes the wrong thing to do is actually the right thing because the situation is desperate' #that's a lesson he had to learn ON THE RUN FROM THE WEN. he had to leave his own people to die. that's a lesson he learned WITH MENG YAO #and that line of thinking thereby becomes irrevocably tied to meng yao #and changing their first meeting and pushing back that little wartime romance changes so much #it's still tasty but it's not THIS

[littleteenagethings]

And darling, you need to be patient with yourself. The pain does not vanish overnight. You heal one day at a time, one step at a time. And maybe, just maybe, in six months from now, you will find yourself enjoying a day where the pain ceases to exist. Be gentle on yourself, allow the healing process to take place.

Excerpts from the book I’ll never write #411

09.04.2023

11:17 pm.

#little teenage things #my words #my work #my writing #the girl with the flowers in her hair #the girl with the flowers on her hands #the boy with the devilish smile #prose poetry #fictional writing #healing #love #heartache #how to walk away #how to move on #self love #self healing #unrequited love #unrequited affection #unrequited feelings #unrequited romance #written thoughts #spilled thoughts #spilled emotions

[aroaceleovaldez]

im really not a fan of Rick's recent trend of recycling bits of his writing that got a good reaction the first time and acting as if that's a valid substitute for. actually bothering to write something original a second time around. It's clearly just there as a callback and nothing more.

It's "Nico's rage exploded" and "Percy's rage exploded" with the exact same paragraph formatting. It's CoTG having titles like "My Singing Makes Things Worse, and Everyone Is Totally Shocked" (reference to TLO, when Percy says he thinks his singing would cause an avalanche) or "Pretty Much the Best Good-Night Kiss Ever" (reference to TLO "Pretty much the best underwater kiss of all time") or any other number of near word-for-word references to the first series. It's Nico calling Percy "seaweed brain" in Un Natale Mezzosangue (when Percy says in TTC that anybody but Annabeth calling him that is a major offense). It's Nico and Will falling into Tartarus in TSATS word-for-word referencing Percy and Annabeth in House of Hades, despite it not making any sense for their characters (and otherwise being written as Percabeth 2™). It's the show making huge changes but keeping random "fan-favorite references" (mostly overusing "seaweed brain" and "wise girl" and emphasizing percabeth) only because they're popular in-jokes and considering that a faithful enough adaptation to market it heavily as such. It's lazy writing.

And it's a disservice to the series and to the audience, because it clearly shows Rick doesn't have original ideas anymore (though given all his writing is heavily derivative to begin with, it begs the question how much was original in the first place and how much he has difficulty when he doesn't have a structured mythological plot to work from) and that there is an expectation that the audience will just sit down and accept that behavior hook-line-and-sinker. Everything recently is clearly such lip-service to the audience, either in retcons that are overt speaking-to-camera acknowledgements of things he's been criticized on or wink-wink-nudge-nudges of community in-jokes that have no business in the actual text (see: over-use of ship names in canon). Especially since Rick tends to be about 5 years behind on the fandom uptake. It's just so disappointing to see.

#pjo #riordanverse #tsats crit #pjo tv crit #rr crit #< OH BOY A TRIPLE #MCGA's reference to Jason's concussions in the chapter titles is on thin ice but can stay for now #callbacks can work! in-jokes and references can work! see: Percy's dam joke in Son of Neptune #or Percy in the musical making the joke about his singing causing an avalanche as a reference to TLO #or any other number of references in the musical #but you need to know when they belong and when they ABSOLUTELY DO NOT #and when it's a fun nod and when it just feels like you're copying your own homework #a great example actually - i was recently reading an *excellent* fic by @vivitalks #and in it Jason uses the phrase ''you knock me out'' as a fun nod to Jason's ''you're a knock-out'' in TLH #that's a good little reference! that's how you do it! #a character who has already used one phrase uses a similar phrase. because theyre the type of person to say that phrase. #that's already been established. and it highlights something about their character that they return to that phrase #in that fic it highlights that Jason is a total dork especially when it comes to romance #Percy's ''dam'' joke reference in SoN works because it's only used once very briefly and it's very quickly brushed by #and it's literally Percy making a reference to his own past and acknowledging that he's doing that. it's his own in-joke! that's reasonable #it's not reasonable to expect FOUR DIFFERENT PEOPLE to have the EXACT SAME REACTION to FALLING INTO SUPERHELL #especially when they're established to all be EXTREMELY DIFFERENT CHARACTERS with DIFFERENT DYNAMICS #long post //

[forcedhesitation]

astarion origin playthrough worth it just for all the extra moments where he does the "sad wet cat" face

#bg3 #bg3 spoilers #thoughts about media #astarion #*kisses his forehead* my awful little bastard man... i love you and your big sad watery eyes. #IT'S SO FUCKING QUIET THOUGH IF YOU YOURSELF ARE PLAYING HIM GOOD LORD #I'M SO USE TO HIM COMPLAINING TO MY TAV!!!! #OR BANTERING WITH HIM OR KARLACH OR WYLL!!! #I MISS HIS THEATRICS!!!!!!! #not that it's ENTIRELY quiet. until i found karlach i was travelling with shadowheart lae'zel and gale. #and let me tell you. gale and lae'zel do NOT shut the fuck up if they are together. #they were literally having an entire tinder date while we were trecking through the woods to go get karlach. #i NEVER knew they talk so much because while i've travelled with them individually in past saves... #...i've NEVER had them in my party at the same time! #gale is actually pretty nice to lae'zel! he asks a lot of questions but doesn't condescend her as he does others sometimes. #that's probably because he's afraid of her though. I would be too were I nothing more than a wizard with 8 strength. #I do like how you can look at pretty much any two companions and get a well written and generally enjoyable dynamic! #It feels like they considered that a lot of people would want to maybe pair off the companions they didn't romance with each other! #and wanted it to be easy for really any pairing to work... if a person just paid attention to their shared interactions.

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #er.... i'm too tired to have anything to say..i worked several days on this. #wait.. didn't i say just recently here that i probably wouldn't ever depict 'what if alaira is qifrey's sort-of ex'. What's going on #i don't even remember deciding to draw this..it's all a blur..i'm not sure why i WOULD decide to draw delicate scenes in my head #that i wouldn't really want to share with anyone/discuss so why did i draw it... #some part of me really really wants to draw things that are more and more true to myself... #maybe because of my alienation with most romance/shipping/dynamics the rest of the world depicts. #orufrey really is perfectly suited to me - what i read in the text and what is in my head. well anyway #i am TIRED of drawing poses and angles and..maybe now i will actually take a break from drawing bc of the tediousness of Angles #btw it really is a 'stretch of time' . . . assuming witches graduate age 18-20 #well orufrey are canonically 30-ish. they've only had agott around for presumably about TWO years (?) bc she took the test age 10 #and it feels like oru moving in/unknown atelier acquisition/building (?) .. i guess that could be a year or so before agott at most #(she was the first disciple) so... ????????? What about the other 7 or so years ?!?!?!!?!?! Unemployed Brimhat Hatred era #that time is very nebulous. after qifrey went to the tower i feel like it's been implied he and oru drifted apart a little. #certainly they didn't live together at first... no way. that doesn't feel like how it is based on things oru has said about becoming Eye #idk. I'm tired now. i don't usually think of alaira as necessarily qifrey's ex and this being how things went in that 'sliver of time'. #i usually prefer the idea that they have their first kiss with each other in their 30s cause That's Just The Orufrey Lifestyle #just felt like making a more relatable alternative view of my own Cai Orufrey Canon one time. btw im a big monoshipper and it hurt a bit #let's leave it there. this is surely the most i've worked on a 'single' art - though now i realise just how much longer the fic took :')

[frnkiebby]

frank sewing a patch with that little smirk~🎃

#this gif gives me motivation to keep working on my patch pants #gotta get them done by october #they’re just so much work tho 😭😭 #how is he so hot sewing a fucking patch #what the fuck #like??? #frank iero #frnkiebby #mcr5 #mcr #mcrmy #frnkiero #frnkie #my chemical romance #my chem