#and what he wants is reciprocity

[dianartemiss]

i think what Jason wants (from Bruce at least) is to be loved transcendentally. he wants to be loved with earth shattering intensity, the kind that'll raze the world to the ground when lost and inspire greatness when present. Jason wants to mean something and to matter more than anything except for (maybe) another (worthy) human. Jason wants to be shown love in the way that he experiences love. but that kind of exclusive focus is impossible when your dad is Batman.

#Jason is the pathos of the batfam #Dick is also more pathos than logos but like he also didn't die so #and yes i'm mangling i'm doing it on purpose #Jay would die in a heartbeat for his family #and probably do any number of awful things #and what he wants is reciprocity #I see his as very much the kind to not ask anything of anyone that he isn't willing to do himself #but also expects others to live up to his morals #or standards or however #so he's not exactly fair but not entirely unfair either #idk there's a ton of posts right now on Jason's ideas about love and I also have a ton of thoughts myself #the dude is fucking intense #and speakign from experience #it's fuckign hard when that kind of intensity is one sided #even when you know it's unfair to expect it of the other party #jason todd #batfam

[tomurakii]

I like bloodweave. Okay. But I DON'T like the version of them in fanfic where Astarion is a dick and Gale is like. Whining and pleading for him to be emotionally vulnerable (or just. Nice to him) prior to the relationship being established. Because that is just not accurate. Gale needs the player to express interest in him during his weave-teaching scene before he even considers hitting on them properly. Gale is entirely resigned to his fate and needs someone else to pull him away from it. Gale only starts being sweet and romantic and devoted after you accept his love confession and give him hope for the future. Gale says fuck all and then slinks away to cry privately if you break up with him.

Like he isn't chasing after people lmao. He isn't dropping to his knees and crying about anything much less this dickhead he met a week ago. He is overwhelmingly passive about literally everything personal to him up to and including his own death (provided there are no casualties/there is a good reason) until after the player expresses that they care about him. Astarion is not doing that in any of these fics.

Like Gale is friendly and a dork and doesn't wanna get murdered but he fully has a suicide plan. He thought the artefacts would help him survive but he didn't believe he'd ever truly live again. If Gale confessed and Astarion said/did like one (1) mean thing afterward Gale's romance is closed off forever. He's wandering into the forest to cry. He's killing himself immediately. His fragile ego and self worth can't take it. You have to understand that when we joke about him being pathetic it's not bc he's like. Sopping wet and chasing people down and begging for a scrap of attention. It's because he craves affection but would literally rather die than ask or even hope for it until someone else forces that hope back into his serotonin-deficient tadpole brain.

#i feel like u can tell when a bloodweave fic is written by an astarion stan vs a gale stan lol #because the astarion stans are just using gale as a vessel for like. their sopping wet meow meow #who screams and cries until astarion becomes emotionally vulnerable with them #which gale would not do. realistic bloodweave is astarion tries to fuck him in act 1 and he refuses because of the orb #and then astarion is like “boo what the fuck. change of plans” and gale is like “okay” and they never speak of it again lol #anyway #please god the gale characterisation in this place. half of you make him the soppiest most pathetic loser and the other half make him evil #he's not ACTUALLY a loser. when i joke about it the reason its funny is because its not true #hes just a regular guy with depression lol. hes not out here debasing himself begging for some old twink to care abt him #bg3 #gale dekarios #bloodweave #gale of waterdeep #does this make sense. i havent slept #i just mean that if you want gale to be sappy he needs to have like. prior assurance that his feelings are reciprocated #because if he doesnt have that and astarion is a dick to him he WILL just give up on the relationship #like hes not hunting people down after they deliberately upset him. i see so many fics where they create tension by lime #*like #having astarion openly fuck someone else after establishing a sort-of relationship with gale. for the drama #like hey. gale fully dumps you if you do that in game!! you have no way to convince him not to. he will dump astarion for that permanently

[pxparkerr]

peter parker bisexual moments

#there’s a lot of evidence that wade likes peter so I wanted to shine light on some of the times it’s pretty clear he reciprocates #also from the last issue: peter unintentionally pushes wade to kill when he doesn’t want to. and then collapses with his head in his hands #once he realizes that’s what he’s done. he cares about him so much #didn’t include it because that could be interpreated as platonic #BUT the sequence of ‘sure. love.’ then peter’s silence before he fucking hugs him I #out of the blue. #spideypool #peter parker #deadpool #wade wilson #comics #peter parker bisexual moments

[chandralia]

any genuine iteration I try to imagine of Ochako’s confession is her being like “you inspired and motivated me, I thought of you to guide me through my battles. But I kept it from you so I could focus on being a hero”

and Deku’s just like “oh my god I’m in love with Kacchan”

#the realization hits him like a brick ! #I just feel like no matter how you look at this… Deku’s reciprocation to her crush is lacking SEVERELY #HE IS NOT GONNA SAY ‘ME TOO’ WHEN SHE CONFESSES BE SERIOUS. #at the very least he’ll be surprised and it’ll be a ‘you shouldn’t bottle up your feelings’ thing… and then what?? #’I’m so glad you told me. let’s go out’ ??????? REALLY??? #THAT’S IT???? THAT’S THE CONCLUSION TO THIS DETRIMENTAL ARC OF HIDING A CRUSH FOR THIS LONG????? #😭😭 #THIS is what people want? the bare minimum…? #bkdk #dkbk #bakudeku #dekubaku #:’)

[t4tmetalsonic]

How it needs to go:

Sonic sacrifices himself to save the shatterspaces

While he's fading away, Shadow tries to save him

(The world is already saved, he doesn't need to do this if he hated Sonic. He's doing it because he cares)

Shadow makes it just in time, but doesn't realise. He thinks Sonic is gone, that he's dead (and so do we)

He says some corny sentimental shit like "come on Sonic, you can't die here. You were right, I DO need you" because who's gonna hear, right?

Sonic wakes up. He heard, and cracks some stupid joke about it

Shadow punches him

(And then hugs him)

#look this is the bare minimum of what i want. but it's POSSIBLE #shadow saying some sentimental bullshit is v important. bc this is our sonadow fuel #the hug also BECAUSE it calls back to sonic's hug which he didn't reciprocate before #who's ready to be queerbaited lol!!! #sth #sonic #sonic prime #sonic prime spoilers #sonadow #<- yknow. #fenn.post

[doodleodds]

Happy Valentines, Akira. Happy Valentines, Asshole.

If you can’t read what Akechi’s secondary inner-dialogue says cause I obscured it too much behind his regular dialogue, here’s a transcription in panel order: Hello, you fucking- Ah- Hello, Akira! Fuck off, why should I tell you- Just a soda- there’s a new flavor.

I don’t want your shitty gift. Oh- haha! You’re so sweet.

I hope I choke. They’re lovely, thank you.

Like hell. Likewise. There’s no way it’s just a coincidence. Still though, it’s a funny coincidence.

#p5 #akeshu #akechi goro #kurusu akira #wow- me?? posting a valentines comic... actually on?? valentines????? wack. absolutely wack #it's a short one! I purposefully tried to keep it short. it was a challenge and it still ended up being 3 pages. but i blame my canvas size #also in case u can't see what akira is holding out to akechi: theyre chocolate covered strawberries on sticks! #i saw them irl and was like oh god i want those. i am going to project that feeling on my favorite characters so help me god #and now! here we are! but my shitty-ass coloring & line quality make it hard to discern them so. sorry about that lmaooooo #ANYWAY i don't do enough post-maruki stuff so. i made this one a little bittersweet. :) #why did i put akechi's scarf in a bow? honestly i dont know! i think i saw some art a while ago that did that too and i thought it was cute #well. plus i guess there's the symbolism of 'akechi being alive and reciprocating your feelings (however involuntarily) IS a gift' part #hence that hes wrapped up in a bow. like a present. :) #also god. the first panel is supposed to be akechi's reflection in a vending machine window. I could NOT get it to look right #so for reference!!! just so you guys understand!!!!!! thats what that panel is supposed to be!!! he is NOT in fact a ghost. (sigh) #hope you enjoyed and had a lovely valentines!! for my part i have eaten nothing but sweets today and hoo boy will that have been a mistake #ALSO in terms of the audience-participation comic...hopefully coming soon. if i can ever gain the will to draw it. #but at least tumblr has polls now so i can do the audience-choose-y bit without needing to use a separate website! so thats good i guess #anyway anyway anway thanks for listening to me ramble if you made it this far! have a lovely rest of your day and hopefully see u again soon

[finnitesimal]

Brother if he agrees to the wedding those aren't his boundaries at all

#listen it does not matter to me whether or not qphil reciprocates the romantic part ok im still making my interpretations. #i do not care if he goes yeah i appreciate it m8 but i don't feelt hat way about you but i still care about you in my own way #i get that ive been expecting this outcome since april. #but IF phil decides to go yes my cubito is in bi denial and in love with his husband. then that is HIS decision #what are you gonna do?? are you gonna go philll that's against your boundarieeesss SHUT UP HE CAN DO WHAT HE WANTS. #He knows what the community's gonna do!!! he's a grown man on the internet he knows full well what people are Already Doing!!! #what do you think Im Not Missing Missa It's Fine was about HE FUCKING KNOWS. HE'S IN ON THE BIT

[m-o-o-n-f-i-r-e]

help i’ve fallen for another ship comprised of two insane autistic queers that want each other dead despite also being willing to do literally anything for the other even at risk to themselves

#nygmobblepot #i literally never gave a shit about the penguin and the riddler #but the moment my brother makes me watch a show where they are portrayed by theatre nerds who care about the characters #i become obsessed instantly #i would watch the show out of the corner of my eye while my brother and dad were watching it and see oswald and id just think #that little weirdo is the only thing that makes me like this show its so fun when hes on screen #then ed starts showing up more and i start to love his autistic ramblings and general energy #then ed kills a guy and i think fuck i love this show so much #then i see them interact and find out that they are semi canon??? #like oswald is canonically in love with ed but the show seems to want you to think that ed just doesn’t reciprocate #but he obviously does and just doesn’t realize at the beginning because he thinks hes straight #but by the end that man is NOT hiding how much he loves oswald #like what the fuck was that hallucination scene if not his concince trying to make him realize how much he loves oswald #and there scene in the last episode in the car??? #like that man has finally accepted that hes in love and is finally ready to act on it #anyways rant over they are just like hannigram and danbert and i will never change my mind #also their actors fucking killed in their rolls i love them #and fun fact: edward was cory michal smith’s first role outside of theatre and it fucking shows in the best ways #him being a mostly theatre person just adds so much to edward and makes him just so enjoyable to watch #now the rant is actually over #gotham #gotham tv

[p4nishers]

let me just say this: if crowley EVER makes an actual move on aziraphale and aziraphale gives even a HINT of reciprocation it's over for him in SECONDS bc u know aziraphale half asses nothing so it'll be like crowley tries to brush their fingers together and aziraphale fully beams at him and interlocks their fingers in seconds. crowley stares speechlessly at their hands for 5 minutes, looks up at aziraphale and faints. crowley gets aziraphale flowers and aziraphale puts them in the very center of his shop where everyone can see and keeps them alive for months. crowley fights a giggle every time he sees them. crowley offers his jacket on a cold night and aziraphale wears the jacket everywhere for weeks and gushes about it to everyone he meets. crowley chokes on his breath every meeting aziraphale is in it without fail. crowley slyly asks aziraphale on an actual romantic date and aziraphale SLAMS down their wedding invitations infort him of like "im so glad u asked, dear, i've been waiting for this" then launches into a rant about flower arrangements and table cloth colors and crowley is left blinking at him and trying not to explode. poor snake.

#i want yall to know that i spent a full 2 minutes tryna spell reciprocation im not kidding #i dont even know if this actual makes sense bc reading it back makes me wanna kms i articulated this so badly im so sorry #i literally just woke up and the coffees hasn't kicked in yet #anyway what i meant by this is crowley is the biggest simp alive with a weak nervous system when it comes to az and aziraphale is #just like 'marry me already u fucker' everytime crowley is agonizing abt if az loves him like that he puts his hand his hips and gestures #wildly their wedding rings then is like 'oh shit i forgot to give u that' and crowley discorporates #bro im so excited for s2 im shaking out of my skin every single minute km not watching it i cant focus on anything other than these idiots #send help PLEASE #good omens #azicrow #ineffable husbands #aziraphale #crowley #good omens headcanons

[vigilantewives]

him having the surgeon's card for half a year means, in the event that jiwon somehow developed stomach cancer again, she can get it treated right away. before it progressed further.

THIS MAN

#marry my husband #kdrama #the level of love he has for her #I NEED THAT RECIPROCATED FROM HER ASAP #and i've said it time and again he doesn't care if he's in it #he just wants her to be happy in this life #girl what is their to misunderstand lmao the ex is an ex #she don't EXist anymore duh

[astrobei]

oh boy do i have some news for you

#quotes that make me want to slowly peel the skin off my body like a pomegranate #everyone talks abt mike’s need to be needed n wanted n loved #which is so true so valid so real #but like #can we circle back to will for a second . #bc it’s not just that he wants mike and can’t have him it’s like #for him this kind of love isn’t even in the picture #when he says ‘i’m not gonna fall in love’ knowing he already is #what he means is that love won’t ever be reciprocated #he can’t have what nancy and jonathan have #the kind of love he says is so gross !! #he thinks no one wants to hold his wrists and kiss his palms and smile at him !! #oh #head in hands my sweet baby boy #pls don’t tag this or make additions w ‘this but mike actually’ YES I KNOW MIKE ACTUALLT #ILL MAKE A BILLION MORE POSTS ABT MIKE #I PROMISE #BUT RN WE R TALKING ABT WILL ok that’s all #like #for him it’s mike or no one #and knowing he’ll never be able to have an easy teen romance like mike n el #or lucas and max #or jonathan and nancy or even dustin and suzie #:( #‘im not gonna fall in love’ meaning #‘i am in love but no one will fall in love with me’ #will byers #mike wheeler #byler #/astro posts

[shima-draws]

Slamming my head against the wall god fucking DAMMIT I'm so in love with Sanlu I am GOING to explode.

#One Piece #Sanlu #Sanji #Luffy #IDK WHAT IT IS!! IDK!!!! #Still love Zolu with all my heart but oh my GOD Sanlu. They are everything. #I might be reading too many fics bc it really feels like a fanon thing that Sanji's actually like #Really insecure and has low self-esteem #OR MAYBE THAT'S CANON IDK!! #But hnghhh Luffy being the one to be like. Hey I like you for you and not for your past #And I love everything about you and that's a FACT and not a lie and I want to keep you with me forever #AND I WILL NEVER REPLACE YOU WITH ANYBODY ELSE. YOU ARE MY COOK AND I DON'T EVER WANT ANOTHER #And Sanji craving affection and validation and praise SO bad that whenever Luffy gives it to him he wants to cry #BASHES MY HEAD INTO A TABLE AUUGHGHGHG SHUT UP!!!!! #MAYBE THAT'S FANON SANLU BUT YOU KNOW WHAT. I DON'T CARE IT'S SO GOOD #SLURPS THAT SHIT UP #Sanji especially feeling that he's not worthy enough for Luffy and thinking it'd be impossible to have him #So when Luffy actually does reciprocate he's in SHOCK bc how. How could Luffy pick HIM of all people #Cut to Sanji feeling like the LUCKIEST motherfucker on the planet bc he gets to have Luffy. SCORE. #Luffy blowing away all of his insecurities and anxieties and worry just by being himself and being so #STUPIDLY in love with him is just #HOLLERS AND SMACKS THE TABLE REPEATEDLY #ALSO IT DOESN'T HELP THAT OPLA MADE IT SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS TOO #Luffy complimented his cooking one (1) time #And Sanji was like okay yup packing my bags for the Merry as we speak #When he smiles and looks a little flustered at Luffy's attention. #Oh my fucking god. Strangling myself. #THEY ARE EVERYTHING!!! #Shima speaks

[theloveinc]

Shinsou had a crush on you since like, young kids days and never thought you noticed him, but that was good cause maybe you thought he was a weird kid, so once he beefed up and finally got the confidence to talk to you it gets shut right tf back down when you're like "Of course i remember you!"

I don't know which part is worse............................ Shinso being so absorbed in his own supposed loser-hood in his youth that he essentially ignored you for 5-10 years while he was working out his self esteem issues ... or the fact that you not only DO remember him, berry well at that, but don't really think anything of it because you thought HE was kinda... a jerk for never being nice to you back.

(Cuz on one hand, you're so sweet, smiling at him when he approaches you, genuinely, just like you did back when you were both under ten and you'd smile at him from the other side of the park... but on the other hand, you don't hesitate to turn right back to your own friends after he barely manages to answer your "how have you been" question and you give him pity eyes like you still think he's a shy headass.

It's just... he doesn't want to fuck it up a second time and lose his momentum... but all the confidence he put into the moment deflated the second he realized you were even more beautiful and more kind than he remembered you and it got him tripping over his words)

ANYWAY then there's another 2-4 months of him trying to get your number just to be a fool over text before even managing to convince you he's worth a fucking damn LOL.

(And he is worth a damn, so much more than a damn because he's willing to give anything and everything up for you but... doesn't know how to say it in a way that wouldn't scare you off for good...

Not to mention he's so fucking bad at texting. Yes, his dry humor is funny as hell but he's not trying to be funny with you, he's trying to WOO you and so the whole thing is just him making excuses to reach out to you even tho texting first for him is like plucking ass hair.)

#shinso #no bc shy people.... i love them but ... put in the work y'all i am doing all this talking for what??? #to be silently appreciated? no. I have my own issues too !!! and u don't see me hesitating to speak !!!!!! #<- how i imagine this reader bc shy ppl grate on me sometimes with feeling unable or scared to talk #so anyway being shy bites shinso in the BEHIND bc he didn't realize he wasn't just... a loser nobody saw... #but a loser everyone saw as being... mean. for not wanting to talk to them #even tho i know you were kind and gentle to him #he was never able to reciprocate out of feeling like he wasn't good enough #DISASTER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #anyway he's sexxy af now but you just think it's made him more self-absorbed #until you actually get to know him again and it turns out you were wrong too #LMAO I LOVE THIS DISASTER RELATIONSHIP #sorry if this went in a totally weird direction anon i couldnt help myself !! #caitie things #anon #gen

[lighthouseas]

yes i admit i am manifesting the "person a leans in to kiss person b and then pulls back thinking they fucked everything up so they keep saying sorry over and over until person b pulls them back in to kiss them more passionately" trope for byler and what about it

#and i want person a to be will. because. to me. that makes the most sense #like he's 98% sure mike reciprocates but oh no what about that 2% he hasn't accounted for #so when he sees mike standing there dumbfounded he thinks. oh fuck. oh fuck i need to stop doing this and taking the intiative i just fucked #-everything up. and there are tears in his eyes as he says “i'm sorry i'm so sorry i shouldn't have” over and over until mike finally Snaps #-Out Of It and pulls him in and they make out sloppy because they're smiling too big. and anyway. this would send me into cardiac arrest i #-think. #byler #st.txt

[luvbug724]

jerejean warriors i respect and i love you i truly do but how did that pairing even get so big while jeanee has 45 fics total. again i truly love and respect u however i wish i could take some of the jerejean fame and transmute it to jeanee.... i want what u have

#AGAIN I SEE THE VISION #i just can't get into jerejean bc i do not care about jeremy as a person at all right now #hes a disembodied three lines with bleach blond hair #jeanee..... you will always be famous to me im sorry #jean seeing renee and short-circuiting mid bitch rant #renee reciprocating and genuinely wanting to talk to jean even knowing what a mess his life is... jean finding #for the first time since kevin left #a beacon of light that causes him to reach out in what he thinks could be his last moments. renee driving through the middle of the night #to save him #renee “im a bad person trying very hard to be a good person” walker's friendship saving someones life even though none of them know what #would've happened to jean if they never became friends. not even jean #ill most likely be a jeremy warrior once tsc comes out and he becomes an actual person i promise

[agentark]

finishing up the JR route and trying not to cry about Reese Verner

#i love him your honor #fernweh saga #james breaks my heart but reese shreds it into pieces #god he wants so badly to be chosen by someone because it's him and not because of his name #reese 'it has to be perfect to make up for the fact that it's me' verner #the way he rarely touched my mc in his route but the jr route had him grabbing her hand multiple times #or you know - reciprocating mc's hand holding instead of just brushing her wrist #reese 'slaps on an irreverent smile as hastily as dousing a wall in a bucket of paint' verner #reese 'sets aside his own candy bc james picked your favorite flavor' verner #he is so painfully aware of the bond that already exists between mc and james #and how that's so different from the relationship he has with mc or james #he Will Not beg for attention from either of you but man does he want it #reese 'i will not say goodbye' verner #I see right through you mister verner and I am holding your hand anyway #i'm the opposite of no thoughts head empty about reese #many thoughts head full #you know what's really funny - my actual irl school rival had the same first name #he had a crush on me and I couldn't stand him 95% of the time lmao