#i’m a romantic what can i say

[floatinyourorbit]

i miss old romance tbh, receiving flowers, getting a love letter, going on cute dates holding hands, going out at night to look at the stars or watch the sunset together, dancing around together, playing and kissing in the rain, making each other small but meaningful gifts, dedicating songs to each other…

now with the entire hook up culture you don’t even see these anymore and that… kinda makes me sad not gonna lie, i too want to live the kind of romance you see in movies and books

#rant #everytime i see a couple do these little things my heart warms so much for them i want to cry i love it #all of those are my fake night scenarios honestly #stargazing while cuddling on a blanket laid on the floor and just talking about anything and everything my lord i would melt #i’m a romantic what can i say

[sen-ya]

Still was probably reading early Dressrosa when I did this one. It’s wild looking at these drawings tbh lmao.

#this was when i was almost out of denial that i was gonna ship em #cuz i was very firmly in the camp of aroace luffy #but what can i say i am a bitch for this kind of ship dynamic #and I’m not NOT still aroace luffy tbh #i generally go ‘Demi-romantic ace luffy’ #but also I’m just like idk man they’re queer #which is funny cuz that was my own vibe lmao like i was like I’m ace! I’m biromantic ace! I’m….queer!!! #anyway what kinda tag rambling is this #my art #lawlu #law x luffy #luffy x law #lulaw

[skeletal-butterflyy]

Mike loves taking care of people. He loved taking of el in season one, and he loved taking care of will in season two, he loves feeling needed. He desperately wants to be the knight(paladin) that will sees him as. Mike and el love each other but not the way that mike and will do. Mike was only able to say he loves el because will told him that “el” would always need him no matter what:

Mike even says that he knows el doesn’t need him and that’s why they’re having problems. It isn’t mikes monologue that gets her out of Vecna’s vines, it’s max. We even see it in the last scene of s4 where el is separated from the rest of the group. She’s become independent, doesn’t need just mike, as a romantic interest, she’s not a damsel in distress. What she does need is the support of her friends and family.

You know who does need mike though? Will! He makes it clear through the painting and his monologue in the van scene, and we see how happy this makes mike, to know he really is needed. That’s why byler works.

#this is so incoherent and there’s so many holes in what i’m saying #can you tell i’m trying so hard not to say anything bad abt milkvan #I don’t hate the ship it’s just clear what theyre trying to do with this #we see that wills always had his platonic relationships but what he really needs in the end is mike (his romantic interest) #and that el has always had mike(the romantic interest) and what she needs in the end is her platonic relationships #duffers love subverting tropes and the shy tortured gay kid not dying and ending up with his love interest will be the perfect example #again incoherent but whatevs #byler #byler endgame #byler proof #byler s5 #byler evidence #byler nation #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #st5 #st5 speculation #milkvan is bones #william byers #michael wheeler #stranger things 5 #don’t come for me yall it’s 2 am and i don’t make sense 🙏🙏🙏🙏 #mike x will #miwi #cleradin

[sciderman]

You said that if you dated Peter or Wade it would make you miserable. Which– Okay fair, Wade does have a history of purposely hurting the people he loves.

But what about Peter? Why do you think dating him would make you miserable?

because I’ll always know I had the option to climb a 6’8 cyborg and I passed that up for a sweaty little twunk that I perpetually have to remind to bathe (sorry peter)

#I don’t know. I don’t think peter is good boyfriend material. I think his insecurities would get exhausting. #Wade has bottomless patience. me… I don’t know. I don’t think I could. I’ve got my own stuff going on. I don’t want a Project. #peter is definitely a project. and he needs someone with shed loads of patience and perseverance. #me I just. I wanna have a good time. so. come to me my big beautiful time traveller. whisk me away. #take me to the beach. you can disappear after I don’t mind I’m not needy. just spend a beautiful romantic week with me. #sci speaks #I don’t really know what kind of person I’m compatible with really actually. #all my relationships have been. pretty short. #and I don’t think it’s any fault of my own really. and I don’t feel any loss over them at all. like at all. I wish I did. but I don’t. #a sci has so very thankfully never felt heartbreak. #but it makes me kind of question what kind of person I am when it comes to this sort of thing. #because I really don’t know. #I don’t know if I want commitment. I don’t even know if I want sex these days. #I … weirdly… am so devoid of yearning these days. like I feel content right now on my own. I don’t even feel lonely. #I used to yearn but I think I’ve moved past it. and I kind of just want to have a good time. #and that doesn’t even . involve a relationship or anything anymore. like I don’t think I want one actually. it feels like I’m Over it. #it’s kind of great because I’ve never felt so calm in a long time. all because I decided that I don’t. actually Need anything. #I don’t need anything more than what I have. and that’s brought me rest after So Long being restless. #but if a massive time traveller came and whisked me away on sexy adventures how could I say no

[hazelnut-u-out]

Now that s7 is finished airing, I’m gearing up for yet another season of hoping for a throwback episode for The Flesh Curtains OR a musical episode.

I feel like a mindblowers esque clip show episode for Rick and his old friend group would be soooo good. So much history there.

#rick and morty #what can i say? i’m a hopeless romantic

[simcardiac-arrested]

i don’t think we’re ever getting out of the “we’re just friends” “oh yeah those characters are such good friends (sarcasm)” “they’re not friends they’re gay” etc etc hole. we’re never getting out of that hole

#yes it’s bad when people try to erase gay relationships to portray them as friends and nothing more #that is NOT what i mean. i’m talking about when people do the Opposite Thing and decide that when characters are romantic togethr #then suddenly they’re not friends anymore! or if they say they’re friends they’re lying! #like … i was watching nimona with my friend yesterday and like. if you’ve seen the movie you know how obviously gay and in love bal and #ambrosius are. and then there’s this one moment where ambrosius says ‘i have lost everything the man i love my best friend’ and at that #moment my friend was like It’s sad that they decided to censor their relationship even though this movie is still rly gay :( and i was like #WHAT are you saying ? these two men are clearly in love with one another BUT they’re also best friends. Like those are things that can #coexist!! and DO coexist!!! there are many cases where people consider their romantic partners their best friends . or even refer to them as #their best friends more than just partner!!!!!! LIKE WHAT ARE YOU SAYINGGGG . does anybody get it #does anybody understand #i’m so sick of amatonormativity i’ll start eating drywall #yes i love making ‘oh they seem like really good friends’ jokes because i know how most people interpret those jokes. but to me it’s like #well. they ARE really good friends. they’re just also romantic/gay about it. ghhehghh #maybe one day friendship will stop being seen as something lesser maybe one day people will realize that most romance is also friendship #and your partner can be and in most cases is your friend or your best friend even #and maybe one day we’ll stop acting like friendship & romance are two mutually exclusive things #and maybe sure that gay character is calling their love interest their Best Friend because of denial and repressed emotions and whatever #but have u considered that it’s just true and they really are best friends ?? like when crowley calls az his best friend sure that might be #gay denial but they also literally Are best friends i don’t know what to tell you. and they will always be best friends #DOES ANYBODY GET IT !!!!!!!! js any of this making sense i dont know. I love complaining #crammerposting

[the-unconquered-queen]

Currently thinking about how amatonormativity probably isn't a big thing for elves in the Blades universe. See, they value two things in interpersonal relationships: emotional compatibility and sexual attraction. Romance is completely excluded from sexual attraction, which is why it's not the person you're sexually compatible with that you marry, and sharing both bonds is taboo.

But then romance would fall under emotional compatibility, and as we saw with Tyril and Kaya, it's canon that a deep friendship also falls under this umbrella just as much, to the point that Tyril states that he and Kaya would have made a great marriage pair despite Kaya being a lesbian and him not being aromantic, so then despite both of them experiencing romantic attraction for other people, they possibly would have ended up in a QPR anyway.

I just think it's Neat that the Blades elves don't seem to make a hierarchy of romance and friendship when distinguishing deep bonds.

(They also could've chosen to lump romantic compatibility in with sexual attraction instead of with platonic compatibility, so instead of Kilvali being platonic OR romantic intimacy, it would only be the former and then Dinvali would've been romantic OR sexual intimacy, but I'm glad they decided that romance is more an emotional bond than a physical one.)

Though then I wonder if allonormativity does exist among elves, because they don't place a particular importance on romance but they DO place a particular importance on sexual attraction through Dinvali (even if they put emotional compatibility above sexual attraction) and there's a culture of having multiple sexual partners, so I have to wonder if not sharing Dinvali ever and not taking sexual partners is about as taboo as being monogamous. Ik the monogamy thing is because it was blasphemous to try to have both with someone they way the gods did, but if you share Kilvali with someone and then Dinvali with no one you're technically monogamous. Maybe it's not as frowned upon since it's not that they're sharing both -valis, so then could a controversial couple that does share both escape public criticism by pretending they're both ace and therefore they're monogamous but in a gods-honoring way?

Also interesting on the note that if you marry someone over Kilvali because you're romantically compatible you're not supposed to have sex with them??? Because, again, sharing both is taboo. Are (sex-favorable) ace4ace elven couples the only ones who could uncontroversially have sex with their partners? Because Dinvali is described as sexual ATTRACTION in the lore tablet. and if the attraction is not there, it's not Dinvali, so it's not both and the gods (and conservative elves) don't get pissy.

Either way, just. Shoutout to Blades!elves. They girlbossed so hard in normalizing the split attraction model that they denormalized having sex w the person you're in love with and that's kind of hilarious.

#unrelated but on the topic of emotional compatibility #the tablet says elven society asks for emotional loyalty in a marriage #and I get that as far as people whose Kilvali is romantic but what about people whose Kilvali is about friendship? #can they not have deep friendships with people who aren’t their spouse or else they’re cheating? #I’m not sure how it works there

[seagull-scribbles]

All nighter before a deadline

#tiny toons #buster bunny #wb kids #tiny toon adventures #tiny toon looniversity #idk what else to tag this as #I’ve been falling asleep at my desk every night this past week #only a month left I know I can do it but it’s also the hardest month these past 5 years have thrown at me #but yeah vent art I guess #I found out busters a twin now so that’s something I can relate to him with #and while I know younger me would have loved that for us #I really liked the contrast between babs and busters home lives and how they where still platonic besties #so I’m grieving the loss of that I guess #and before you say they had romantic undertones that was only in the prom episode and for a few odd jokes and music videos #I flirt with my besties constantly

[buddiebuckley-diaz]

Honestly at this point, in 6b, I don’t even need romantic!Buddie I just need friends!Buddie and partners!Buddie back 😩 I miss my boys being besties

#not saying I’m not still dying for romantic!Buddie #but I’ll take what I can get #and I really just want to see them being friends again #i can wait until season 7 for something more #I’ve waited this long already #I waited 15 years for destiel #I can wait 7 for buddie #evan buckley #911 fox #911 show #911onfox #eddie diaz #buddie #buddie 911 #i love them your honor

[small-gremlin-thing]

*swings bat at hornets nest* anyways i’m right

#note: these are subject to change based on the fanfic/au but this serves as a basis ig? #amphibia #sasha waybright #marcy wu #anne boonchuy #sashannarcy #sashanne #marcanne #sasharcy #do i feel bad using ship tags for QPRs? no not really lmao #i still enjoy the romantic ships plus this is just my own opinion #this can also be subject to change based on canon too #what i’m trying to say is don’t take me seriously i am a clown that doesn’t even know how relationships work jsjdhdhd-

[arrozwmilk]

Y’all….I’m not gonna lie..but I think gaanaru is so freaking cute or at least gaaras slight(very obvious) crush on naruto

#I’m a multi shipper! what can I say?? #I think many dynamics can be cute #it doesn’t even have to be romantic!!

[nothingweirdhere]

bro i’m 🥺😭💞💞💞

#godddddd i love when he calls me baby #it does things to my brain chemistry istg #especially because he doesn’t say it often. that and ‘i love you’ are only used on special occasions #(when he’s being especially sappy or sometimes when we’ve been arguing 💀) #and fuck ok i didn’t rlly think he’d say happy valentine’s back? #like i was trying to kinda play it off as a bit of a joke just in case #because technically we’re just fwb? but it’s… a lil bit more complicated than that i think #he once described his feelings as ‘not romantic but something close to that’ so like #good enough for me lmao #aNyWaY tldr i’m gay xD #not sure i’ll see him this week tho which is a bit tragic but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ what can u do #jx.img

[loveoaths]

i am very weak for a specific kind of din-centric romance that i’ve yet to see anywhere (probably because it would be tedious to write). i want din to have an Arthurian romance where his Creed and his besk’ad are not obstacles for his partner to vault over into his arms, but part of him, more of him to love. i want din to have a romance where they will love him whether or not they ever get to see his face, or touch his skin, because when din said the helmet is my true face he meant it, and when his paramour said they loved all of him, they meant that, too. the Creed is his blood and the besk’ad his skin and his heart the steady tattoo blasterfire and his soul is the manda and to love a true mandalorian is to love them because of the old ways, not in spite of them. din may walk the galaxy’s gray meridian but his faith in the Creed is absolute. to love him you have to love him for that faith, too.

#this is my joker. i am going to wind up writing some absolute longfic for this man because I DON’T WANT HIM TO IMMEDIATELY DROP THE ARMOR! #romance and desire are built on longing and denial and someone wanting him #initially wanting what’s under the beskar until they realize he is the beskar too; that the reason he’s so emotive through the armor is #because he wears it like skin; maybe some pseudo magical bullshit about inhabiting beskar long enough infuses it with your soul yadda yadda #idk what i’m saying here but. for a series where hope plays a huge role i just think it’s a shame that din’s hope/faith are bypassed so #quickly in fic sometiems when that’s where so much of his character and love potential lies! #imagine the ways of showing love and care for the LI! #shining his armor! adjusting it for him when he’s hurt? finding ways to care for wounds without bypassing armor? #the chivalry and trust of turning your back on a deadly warrior so he can take care of himself? #THE CHASTITY? ITS SOOOO ARTHURIAN ITS SOOOO LITERARY ROMANCE #i’m frothing at the mouth. watch me write the gayest most romantic longfic that is about faith and desire and longing and lust and doubt #that no one but i will read because i’m crazy about this shit #idk what i’m saying. but. religion. interesting. faith. sexy. doubt. delicious. #din djarin #the Mandalorian #walkie talkie. #fic tag.

[forgetme-eternally-blissfully]

Me reading a cool new novel: hah wow this is cool it has a neat premise and a promising plot line let’s see our protagonist level up and learn how to use his new power in interesting and cool ways—

*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and defeats her

*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and impresses her

*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and rescues her

*MC meets a beautiful powerful girl and defeats her PT 2

Me: Ah nvm it’s a harem novel god damn it

#it was cool at first but now I’m grinding my teeth like wtf #I was okay with it at first bc like. he defeats the beautiful cold hearted prodigy by a hairs breadth and we get this sad backstory for her #which could be better’d by the MC who doesn’t fear her and can teach her how to socialize and become a brighter happier person through their #developing friendship and potentially romantic relationship and it could have led to character development for both of them as they struggle #through the feeling of being cast aside as an ‘other’ by society and learning how to stumble through a relationship that involves #communication and admittance and honesty #something our MC and FL can’t get through their mentors #instead we get her genuine attempts at becoming friends being brushed off by him who assumes she’s going to eventually want a romantic #relationship by the end of it and ARGHHXHHD she’s a shy person!! she’s trying her best!!! you asshole!!!! and then the author has the #AUDACITY #to make her continue yearning after this guy who doesn’t give 2 shits about her and she’s only used as a support character for the #ensuing battle and then he promptly leaves her behind for his own adventure #and don’t even get me STARTED on the lack of compatibility with the other women in this story #they aren’t even being used as potential love interests they’re just there so the author can say he added strong female characters and then #IMMEDIATELY turns around and makes them fawn over this 19 yr guy who cAn pRoTeCt ThEM AnD HEs sO cOoL FUCK #I was holding out but now he just annoys me dude this is why I don’t like reading male lead perspectives if there’s a DROP of romance #it ruins it! romance is dead no one knows what chemistry is they only want to be fawned over by women to stroke their egos #not a reblog

[fatestitcherr]

write a birthday card to my crush without it sounding like a love letter challenge (extreme difficulty)

#bwahhhhhh i just want to tell them how much i care them #but i Do Not Know where the lines lie between platonic and romantic #but actually. what’s the worst that can happen #they look at it realise i love them they say something we fight we never talk again #cool that’s not Awful. i mean it is but i’m in a good mood so

[rosicheeks]

What would be your perfect date? 😊

First date? Probably just a classic dinner at a restaurant or homemade meal. I want to get all dolled up and they actually dress up too and we spend the time getting to know each other.

#perfect first date and perfect date in general would be different though #I’m a hopeless romantic so I have plentyyyyy date ideas 😂 #the one that comes to my mind right now is a paintball date #(specially thinking of the scene in 10 things i hate about you) #but really??? #truthfully? #I want them to plan a date by themselves and just tell me when to be ready for them to pick me up #i wouldn’t really care what we did #just the thought of having someone actually spend the time planning and getting a date together? #that would blow my mind tbh #i wanna say I’ve been on like 3ish ‘real’ dates and I’m pretty sure I had to decide for each of them #if you know me you know I HATE decisions #so I think having someone know that about me and decide for me and plan it all so I don’t have to lift a finger?? #yeah that sounds like a dream #for the first date I like the idea of just a classic dinner date so then you can kinda feel out the vibes #if we can talk over dinner and constantly have something to talk about (no awkward dead silences) then I’m sure I’d have fun #doing anything else with them #** also I was trying to reply to this ask while I was at work but it didn’t go well 🤦🏽‍♀️ #every single time I looked down at my phone or started typing something would happen in my yard #so I had to set my phone down and take care of it 🤦🏽‍♀️ #only one more shift left and then I’m outta there 👌 #lol this is all over the place I’m sorry #I don’t wanna go back and redo any of it tho so here we are 😂 #I just really want to go on a date in general 😭😭😭 #I want to flirt and blush and get swept off my feet 😤 #thanks for the ask sweetheart 🩷 #ask #lovely mutuals