#it would be bad romance of course

[i-dont-bite]

"you're basically saying disabled people can't be in relationships!! you're ableist!!!" no i'm not you dumb fuck i'm saying a girl who's been a LAB RAT and ISOLATED FROM SOCIETY since she was born until she was TWELVE shouldn't be thrown into a lifelong relationship with a kid she just met a WEEK after she escaped from the lab when she could BARELY SPEAK and didn't know what a the word "FRIEND" MEANT

#istg milevens are fucking STUPID #they literally ignore el's canon backstory to paint bylers as the bad guys and then accuse US of hating her #i fucking LOVE el #NOBODY says that she's incapable of loving someone of course she is #but she didn't even know how to tell what CLOTHES SHE LIKED how could she tell if she liked a boy or not??? #SHE COULDN'T. SHE DIDN'T. SHE THOUGHT MIKE WOULD BE LIKE HER BROTHER. #SHE LEARNED WHAT ROMANCE WAS FROM TELEVISION #PLEASEEEE #MILEBINS I'M BEGGING YALL TO THINK #anti mileven #el hopper #byler #greatest hits

[singsweetmelodies]

mehehehe.....piarles + 25 or 45 🫶

25 = Green Card Marriage

45 = Vampire and Hunter

hehehehehehehe... let's see about 25 and 45 🤭👀

"It's brilliant, Charlito!" Pierre insists, spreading his arms like he's saying, come on. "I'm a hunter, so I'm allowed to settle in any country I want. If you're married to me, you'll be allowed to settle there too, and you can get that position at Rutgers like you have always wanted."

Charles folds his arms. "I'm a vampire, Pierre," he reminds him, pointedly. "Or have you forgotten?"

Pierre folds his arms, too, mirroring Charles' own pose. "Of course I haven't forgotten, calamar."

Calamar. As always, the nickname takes Charles right back - to that day in the back of his parents' garden, when Pierre had decided to come over for a surprise visit and he'd found Charles. Drinking. It had only been from a blood bag, of course (Charles would never kill a person, and he'd been too young then to know about charming someone to let him drink just a few sips) but it had still been more than enough for Pierre to understand what was going on. Pierre had frozen where he stood, eyes blown wide.

And Charles had thought, no no no, and he'd thrown himself at Pierre before he could think better of it. "Please don't leave, Pierrot, please, I promise I'm not evil and we're not evil, I don't care what they say on the news because it's not true, we don't hurt people, we don't hurt anyone, just... please don't go. You're my best friend, please -"

Pierre had stopped him there, putting a gentle hand over Charles' mouth. "I don't care that you're a vampire, Charles," he'd said with surprising firmness for a ten-year-old. "You're my best friend too. And, anyway, you're less of scary vampire and more like... a clingy little squid."

"I'm not!" Charles had shrieked, but of course Pierre had taken to calling him that every day from that moment on. (Charles never protested too much, because the nickname always felt like Pierre's way of saying I know what you are and you're my best friend anyway; I'm not going anywhere.)

"... Charles? Earth to Charles?" Pierre is asking, waving his hand in front of Charles' face. "Ah. Hello again. Did you go to vampire-planet?"

"You know we're from the same planet as you," Charles says immediately, rolling his eyes. "Or didn't they teach you that at hunter school?"

"Mmm, no, I think I skipped that module," Pierre says, and then he grins cheekily, tongue between his teeth.

Charles swats at him, and Pierre catches his wrist easily, his Hunter-trained reflexes quick as ever. Charles' breath catches.

It shouldn't be hot. It should be the opposite of hot, for fuck's sake - those kinds of reflexes are trained to kill people like Charles.

Except, Pierre didn't become a hunter to kill vampires. No - he did it for Charles. Not to hunt him, but to learn how to protect him from other hunters.

So, yeah. It's seriously hot when Pierre shows off some of those skills of his.

"Are you going to let go of me?" Charles asks, swallowing thickly. He can't help the way his gaze flickers to Pierre's fingers wrapped around his wrist, still holding him tightly in place.

You could hold me like that any time you want, Charles thinks, and fights against his blush. It shouldn't even be possible for vampires to blush, for fuck's sake, but Pierre manages to get Charles to do it anyway.

Pierre, thankfully, seems oblivious to Charles' spiralling thoughts. He winks at Charles, playful and cheeky as he always is. "Nope," he says, popping the p. "Not until you agree that my idea is brilliant."

And, right. Right. Charles had almost forgotten the reason why they're even here - Pierre's stupid, hair-brained scheme to get Charles his dream job at Rutgers.

Rutgers, which still does not allow any supernaturals onto its teaching staff, let alone Monégasque vampires.

"It's a terrible idea," Charles says flatly. "They'll never let me teach there if they suspect I'm a vampire."

"But if you're married to a hunter, nobody will ever suspect you're a vampire," Pierre points out, triumphantly. "See? It's genius."

Charles has to admit that it's... clever. Absolutely insane, yes, but clever.

Pierre must be able to read it on his face, because his eyes light up like his favourite F1 team has just won a race. "See! You do think it'll work!" he crows.

"I don't think -" Charles tries, but Pierre cuts him off with a dramatic sigh.

"I've done all the research, Cha. Trust me, there's no way that this can go wrong."

There is, Charles thinks, only a little despairingly. It's not so much that he's worried about getting caught - no, Charles is pretty good at charming officers by now. Half of the time, he doesn't even have to use his hypnotism.

What he's far more worried about is the fact that he'll be married. To Pierre.

Pierre, who he's only been in love with since the first time he called Charles "calamar" and stayed when anyone else would have left.

Pierre, who Charles knows would taste sweeter than anyone else in the world. Because that's the thing about being a vampire and being in love with someone: even one tiny sip of their blood will sustain you sixteen times longer than a random person's would.

It's bad enough just like this, when they're just friends, and Pierre throws his head back to laugh or slides his arm around Charles' waist, and Charles has to fight with himself to keep his fangs tucked away - because even though Pierre is so close and smells so good, he is not Charles' to taste or Charles' to have.

It's hard enough to hold himself back when they're just friends. Charles has no idea how the hell he'll be able to do it if they're fucking married.

But as always when Pierre suggests a hare-brained scheme, Charles is helpless in the face of his sparkling blue eyes and half-cheeky, half-pleading smile.

"Okay, calamar," he agrees, and even though he might just have signed the warrant for his own death-by-slow-torture-of-wanting-his-best-friend-too-much, it's worth it a thousand times over for the way Pierre beams at him and uses the wrist he's still holding to tug Charles into a tight hug.

"Rutgers, here we come!"

(50 Romance Prompts Ask Meme)

#50 romance prompts meme #piarles #piarles fic #myfic #vampire x hunter x green card marriage #this is...... WELL IT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING #perhaps not my most coherent something because it's 3-bloody-AM here #but i kind of like it #the vibes are DEFINITELY here i think #and now i kind of want a sequel with them married and charles pining and wanting pierre SOOOO BAD #and pierre obviously wanting him back just as bad because of COURSE he loves charles too #and he secretly thinks it would be *so* hot if charles drank from him... 😵‍💫 he'd be a kinky bastard like that #ANYWAY. so many thoughts! #thank you SO much for this prompt phoebe ilyyyy #🫶🫶🫶🧛

[soulmatesyuumori]

It always makes me laugh when people write Albert as slutty and he tries to seduce Mycroft but he’s thrown out Mycroft’s office at least the first two times before successing. That image is so funny LOL

#alcroft #myal #albert james moriarty #Mycroft Holmes #those two give the impression of a harsh bad romance #which is understable bc they were the two people with power and influence #and they like control #BUT #they showed me they both are soft idiots #Mycroft is a dom but he's also romantic #he would spoil the shit out of albert #also they are friends #of course Im not saying Albert wouldnt be seductive #he was a seductive lil shit with mycroft from day one #but i think hes more like 'look and dont touch #and if you want to touch you will have to win me over #in the meantime just SUFFER

[honeysweetcorvidae]

hm.

#just saw a Post. #like okay bestie perhaps we can get across our point about fanfic not being praxis without the sentence ‘we’re not creating art’- #-said in a rude and patronizing way. #there has Got to be a middle ground between ‘fanfic is leftist masterpiece direct action’ & ‘the work I DO is garbage nothing slop for pigs’ #fanart is art. it’s not High Art Belongs In A Museum but if you looked me in the eye and told me it wasn’t art i would be justified in- #-calling you a tool. what about fic is different from that? where’s the distinction? #there’s no point saying all this i blocked op after seeing Another bad take when i clicked to see their blog but. #ugh. #(also it’s worth saying that if you do actually care about the history of literature calling all derivative work inherently lesser is a #Fucking Buckwild Take #but of course it’s more fun to dunk on people for writing their yaois than it is to think about romance as a genre or the entire history of- #-archetypical storytelling) #whatever. whatever!!!!!!!!!

[archduke-enver-gortash]

having completely normal thoughts (gortash wotr au)

#yeah. it’s bad. not thinking about inserting zeke but GORTASH #he’d start out as aeon for sure #his opinions on companions are so fucking awful #not nearly as awful as the kingmaker au ofc. he’d call reg a sick dog that needs to be put down because his incompetent owner failed him #anyways. this is a deranged wotr post. #of course there’s no one among the companions fit to be his/equal status #but i’d say he’d have the most positive opinions of regill and greybor. as positive as a guy thinking of them as his tools can get. #towards greybor it’s like. ok you don’t see yourself as more than a weapon and neither do i. you do your job as long you get paid i can wor #with that. #meanwhile regill he’d love to have as a knight devoted to him instead of him being a hell knight #this of course never fucking works gortash’s weird manipulation would not pull through with regill in this matter #no romance of course. except for manipulative sex with wenduag probably. #he really wants that mongrel army! will pop a fantasy viagra if wenduag needs to be ‘roughly subdued to calm down.’ #he’d be a little more into it than usual because he doesn’t need to hold back with her but it’s still not a true subjugation in the end. #until later he’s like ok. i lied i don’t like sex get on the vivisection table #(aro + fucked version of grayace gortash truther if you didn’t know) #tries to refine her and the poison #he’d be awful to her in general. sees a weapon to be refined. she recognizes him as master now but her loyalty is fickle. #he’d earn all the respect flags #but still would punish her greatly for the first sign of betrayal in the abyss #oh and before this gets too long: one more for cam obviously. #sadly i don’t see a world in which he doesn’t immediately see through the mireya story and kill her in act 3 #but if he didn’t. it’d be so juicy. him in act 5 learning the full story. how her father talks about her. #just stands there frozen for 10 seconds with a thousand yard stare #<- to then go no i don’t think you should kill him you should [REDACTED GRUESOME TORTURE METHOD THAT KEEPS ONE ALIVE & AWAKETHE ENTIRE TIME #in the end he’d execute her anyways but. hm. he’d get triggered for sure #i have more thoughts but i’m gonna shut up now lmao

[girlmadeofclockwork]

I think the potential hilarity of Durge/Karlach is not capitalized on enough, cause imagine being Gortash, the subordinate you sold to the devil ten years ago is back foiling your methodically laid out plans and out to kill you in vengeance for what you did, and then just to add insult to injury she stole your murder-girlfriend as well. L’s up on L’s for this man.

#bg3 #it’s in my brain because I’m doing my Durge run and romancing Karlach as well so #I sure look forward to Karlach being hit with the information that her GF fucked her former shitty boss #(will be news to Sirris as well but ah) #there are certain things that is very nice because I’m playing a repentant Durge so Karlach being so unrepentantly good is influencing her #and having godly entities controlling the course of the their lives and taking away their bodily autonomy #forging them into weapons who can never be close to anyone ever #(Karlach by literally not being able to touch anyone and Sirris (my Durge) being pushed to kill anyone she’s ever had fond feelings for) #it’s something they got in common and while no recalling her life some part of Sirris heard oh I can’t be with people from Karlach #and whent “man I don’t know why but same hat #I have many feelings about them #and then old Gortash is in the sauce as being a guy they both at one point we’re close to and trusted but also he’s the representation of #like a dark time in their lives and I think killing him wont be as satisfying to them as either of em hope #killing him wont make it so Karlach won’t die and it won’t undo all the hurt Sirris has brought on the world #also in the bad end when Karlach dies I think Sirris would legit just off herself rather then live on and potentially becoming #as much of a monster as she used to be and she believes she won’t be able to be as good without Karlach at her side #anyway I will stop rambling now

[ask-ursa-tonypeter]

[fic: wicked love] Soooo, iirc, Peter does call Tony "Dad" in bed. Tony and Peter, if that's ok to ask, - how does that makes you feel? Does it make the situation more awkward? Does it hurt? Does it feel right? Is it a turn off or a turn on? And just generally i wonder if you've discussed this aspect of your relationship at all.

Peter: Oh-- we really didn’t talk about it? It’s just… he’s my dad. I don’t even think about it, really. It got to where it didn’t feel weird calling him ‘Tony’ when I was Spider-man, but that was… It felt different. He didn’t see me as his son then, and now he does. And I… I mean-- don’t take this the wrong way, but-- I like that he’s my dad? That part is important to me, too.

…But I don’t know. I do kind of… Things did feel different between us when I was Spider-man, and I kind of miss some of that? He cared about me, but he wasn’t... trying to take responsibility for me like he does as my dad. Maybe changing what I call him at home could help us get back to that, but-- I don’t know if that’s even possible, really…

Maybe I should ask him what he thinks about it.

-----

Tony: He calls me that because I’m his dad. There’s not really any point to trying to pretend it’s anything other than what it is.

#fic: wicked love #wicked love: peter #wicked love: tony #ursa interlude: #I had them answer this one separately because they wouldn't be honest in front of each other #tony as always still requires further explanation #he both prefers that peter call him dad and would be resistant to changing it for the reason he said here #because he would see it as an attempt to hide from the reality of the situation #I joked on another post that if they ever roleplayed peter meeting wild young tony he would be super into it and then feel bad about it #for that reason of... of course it feels nice to roleplay something less complicated than what they have #but then that's not “”“taking responsibility”“” for it #so there's that like. self-hating aspect to not wanting to change it but then emotionally he also! loves peter as his son! #that relationship is super important to him! he doesn't want their romance to overshadow or subvert their familial one! #even if it was just an in-bed thing he doesn't want to deny their father-son bond out of a genuine emotional attachment to it either #so obviously the conflict there is that they CAN'T have a genuinely equal romance while they're both clinging to the familial tie as well #but while peter can feel the strain he's too young to realize how significant it is #and tony kkkknows but doesn't think the relationship will last long enough to justify jettisoning their father-son dynamic in favor of it #woof. big question!!!

[eyes1nthewoods]

watched nimona. it was ok.

#(i'm very mean in the tags sorry :() #i havent seen the comic so my criticism is purely of the movie. #idk just kind of a mid kids movie. balister is very cute i liked him. #nimona......i want to like her but idk. i think her backstory should've had more attention put towards it. more hints about it #instead of the really abrupt scene near the end that explains everything. that was stupid. #(honestly better yet don't show anything have a big heartfelt outburst where she half explains what happens #(gross crying optional but preferred) #and leaves the rest to the audiences imagination. maybe a scene with voiceover that doesn't quite reveal everything) #the setting is pretty cool. story didn't make much sense to me. #''the wall is there to protect us against monsters!!'' but there's literally only one monster and it's nimona. #which could have been ok if the movie had been...better written i guess?? #like do the guards just sit around doing nothing. is it a police state?? i mean obviously they're cops but. they don't do anything. #they aren't even shown to be especially bad or anything just incredibly incompetent #uhhh the romance is cute. it's nice. i wish it was more fraught and bitter. #the passage of time isn't clear it seems like it happens over the course of like a day??? #balister learning to accept nimona was clumsy and rushed #the message of the film is nice. would be better if the movie was good. #i think the movie could've been longer and it would've fixed most of these things #i REALLY liked the animation though. the eyes being permanantly dilated was ehhh but forgivable on account of balister being very cute.

[mar64ds]

looking directly at the writers right now, why would you make them say this, what are you trying to say :)

#i am not blaming the characters. i love these two. they would never say this #i need to pause this movie right now oh my god this is so bad #where do i even begin #'close friendship are of course toxic. you only need romance. thats healthy' #httyd3rewatch

[gatun-gatunesco]

...

#that post about meeting people in the wild reminds me what my therapist said #“you should meet another person. after some healing of course” and at that time i did not thought so much about it #i was crying and sobbing so bad for me to process that information #but now that i remembered. how the hell will i do that without using a dating app? #imagining that i am already healed without trauma and willing to open my heart again for someone else #how would i: an asexual neurodivergent introvert. would find a compatible person in the wild? that is kind of impossible! #using a dating app? ugh. that is very wack. i do not know a single person who had a good experience using one of those #and truly. would i ever be fine to have romance again? the remaining romantic love i have is dying #the trauma changed me from greysexual to fully asexual. after years of self hate i was comfortable with my naked body #now that i am sex repulsed. i can not tolerate see my body. even in this hellish heat of summer i must have clothes. showering is a torture #would not be better to be Aroace and that is it? being free of all that partner stuff? just having more friends would not do the trick? #i can try to find a way to change and not want to have physical affection nor physical love. It always brought me trouble #but i doubt my therapist agrees. she was kind of serious about having another person with me #why i am not strong enough to do everything alone? why do i have to be prone to sickness? why the hell do i need physical love?! #is so gross and awful. i hate my body so much. why do you need that fucker? we can hug ourselfs! settle for that

[unproduciblesmackdown]

fascinating lens on taylor's goings on in s6 there re: Romance. epic win that they have rian turn them down but i'm also really not sure why they did. oh you know, rian who's always defined by being so prudent [montage of actually pretty much everything seemingly defining rian has been pretty anti prudent] like ok w/e

but we start out with taylor Particularly Unmotivated By Work and instead watching a The Bachelor beach proposal which involves extasis through this Reality(tm) pastiche of romance. i am assuming. wherein the journey Ends with this transcendent all-consuming joy upon the realization of said Romance for one contestant. then when their somehow still bestie mafee (relevant tangents about how all taylor's relationships seem to involve their having an approach where they have low standards like "well but i guess this is all i can get / expect" including that they can't even necessarily expect shit they like/enjoy/are at all supported by, while readily accepting whatever blame/reproach from others) is like "gee but are you really happy" they're apparently inspired to pursue happiness by pursuing romance. which they seem to consider is possible only through rian, intriguing here when the entire basis of their dynamic seems to be [trapped in work hell together] like boy we have nothing outside our jobs? i sure hope we can be Everything to each other then :) and how it's even more baffling that rian is completely unbaffled by this development when you might operate on some assumptions like "you should have ever seemed to enjoy any interactions you've ever had" to consider choosing more vulnerability and more time / effort spent on this relationship, and "you also don't need to have Found Fault with someone / otherwise have some grievances or dislike of them to not want to date them" especially if rian's apparent sense of responsibility for taylor's theoretical negative feelings about rejection supposedly doesn't involve thinking about any power dynamics, she just feels the need to repeatedly reassure them she'd actually Love to date or have sex but she's just so set on not dating through work, b/c of the complications, that she's never considered not having casual sex with bosses and also never mentioned this stance to turn down winston nor done anything but revel in how he might feel about even being rejected as a conversational partner. too prudent to mention it. certainly also a relevant matter that it Need Not Be Explained to anyone that winston for one is excluded as a potential Romantic partner for pretty much everyone i guess. whilest as this potential mirror to taylor, he's not only considering specifically rian w/"we're similar; let's hang out; i'd like to have sex maybe even" (though winston's sexuality, like his communicative capacities, is also simply Not Allowed) but also seems to be like "i guess this is all i can get / expect" or hanging on for a long time to the possibility of Otherwise at his own expense or taking blame / whatever pretty egregious treatment like. taylor being willing to talk to wendy still is akin to winston still being willing to talk to rian. though maybe that's changed by the end of s6; it'd be very warranted after the pretty make or break [rian & winston Share An Interest; hang out outside work about it] moment there and also after Everything Else on its own, just like how it'd be very warranted if taylor expecting Nothing Better from wendy could turn into their hardly being willing to interact

anyways, sure is fortunate for taylor (or is it???) that Work becomes more enriching for them suddenly, and through someone with whom they have this promising personal dynamic with, a Peer with whom, in fact, they do both seem to find reward in interacting with each other / want and choose to do so, imagine, while [reiterating for emphasis]: they are both finding reward in interacting and feeling Complementary rather than only seeing exactly themself in each other, while having this respect for each other and flexibility and knowing they don't Have to work together, and may not always be doing so.

but most to the point it sure is something that the season starts off with taylor being dissatisfied with their work situation and responding by not being at work and instead watching people be overjoyed about their (also, relevantly, Peak Normal Correct Cishet) romance, though they don't outright claim to straightforwardly enjoy this. then they Do outright claim to us repeatedly, if ever begrudgingly, that everything rian does is worthy &/or sympathetic (and totally comprehensible and consistent so as to believably retain any sense of Character....) while every time they interact, it's a business meeting and one or both of them is unhappy about some part of it. but then once taylor's asked to think about their happiness Beyond Work they apparently are simply motivated to go ask someone out, and it may as well be rian For Lack Of A Better Option really, but then there's the wrench of "for some reason rian is unsurprised and not at all put off by this, or even just somewhat confused" and "for some reason rian's like 'sorry but no. fr im soooo sorry'" with these perspectives of [happiness Outside Work = romance] and [someone deemed Objectively Worthy = you'd of course at least consider romance, or else you must think actually they're Unworthy in some way, or have some more general Reason you'd reject others categorically in just the same way] (rian rejecting winston for unworthiness so much that she doesn't even need to bother actually telling him as much; rejecting taylor for [i don't date through work] with followups to reassure them it's Not the unworthiness) (that on and off paper winston & taylor have no reason to not be kissing but i think we can assume that won't happen, b/c billions itself may also assume we understand that [winston is unworthy] is just true. &/or that anyone Worthy understands as much)

so hoping that taylor has Some kind of enriching lasting relationship with philip, truly, which was the hopes for winston and rian but the updated hope is his enriching lasting disengagement with rian, f

#winston billions #AND rian having some of the worst material re: sex billions has ever inflicted upon us. impressive. sorry to this character #(and like.................has she Not prior had casual sex through work while she's been willing to do so / hasn't had nights & weekends??) #that makes no sense either. it's for winston's sake i'm glad she hasn't tried to be fwb there #wouldn't it be fun if we got s7 genderfluid rian. but we won't. fr it's like....why'd we get this character at all lmao #would've made more sense if she left at the end of s6 too. while the best thing we've gotten is taylor getting to further distinguish #themself from axe in of course good ways. the associated [philip seems so much more like A Character than rian despite also being new] #difficult to work in ''rian would be abusive towards winston if they were dating b/c she Already Is as (sometimes) work friends'' when #another issue is that rian's material isn't really being Examined when every character can only remark abt how cool & correct she always is #ultimately; at least....taylor you caaan't actually be mad at rian; gotta be some Other issue you're having bad feelings about.... #that winston being introduced so peripherally it was meant to be a oneoff & while (as viewed by other characters) being Incorrect and #Unsympathetic has created the conditions for someone who does end up w/this stronger sense of Being A Character #he's even autistic....while rian is adhd and hostile like ''at least i'm allistic and meritous'' #like yes i Will talk to you more than others maybe but offscreen & i Will also be bullying you b/c i am willing to and i certainly can. #dunno what to say about winston and tuk b/c we've still seen so relatively little & idk what we'll get for winston in s7 #that it's will's updated foul play website bio that Confirms he'll be in s7 at all; but i'm still not supposing he'll def get more than an #episode or two or w/e. or i suppose he could be sent off & return; they're still in production mode over there after all #i would really doubt canon would give us that romance but it would be....i dunno. earthshaking really lol haven't given it the most thought #canon might also think that would be insulting to tuk or something.... #or say As Much w/that continual threat of ''improving'' winston by making him Choose to be more normal now (: #everyone's always giving him the organic aba (abuse) either way but umm the Least you could do would be absorb it & Stop Bringing It Upon #Yourself....still supposing it's possible that their being Friends is considered to be dragging tuk back / dooming him to Loserdom #but as or more likely: he got to talk to tuk in the last ep to get him out of the way. it will never get focus #oh i went off track up there: finishing the thought to say i suppose it's assumed rian would not be shitty towards taylor like she would be #towards winston b/c they're Worthier; not supposedly inferior to her even as winston is considered to be #hence that rian Can give winston shit whenever she wants but just so happens to Not be that way towards anyone else. makes you think #mfw i run out of room writing on one page abt cam stone like ''i could've been more clearly relationship anarchist with it :(''

[honeybeeshepherd]

Need everyone in the romance novel fandom who claimed they were super sex positive and progressive,,, at the same time as making sure everyone knew they considered regular porn gross and icky and problematic,,, that you helped contribute to this in your own tiny, fucked up way. (source)

#romance novels #romancelandia #reading tag #romance novels are of course not the intended target of these new attacks #I’m making this in response to intra-fandom discourse that I’m still mad about #I mean imagine siding with anti-porners #(which is bad enough on the face of it) #but then claiming that it would never affect your particular interest in novels with detailed designed to arouse descriptions of sex in it #ENTIRELY predictable outcome #honey bee shepherd original

[seven-saffodils]

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#wish i could go back in time and stop 3ish years ago me from reading that tumblr post abt how not all romance books are bad #i've found the very specific microgenre i like and unfortunately there are about 3 authors who are good at it and available thru the library #maybe a handful who write decent books and like one of each is at the library #several whose sample pages are promising but i cannot be in the habit of buying them bc i do not work full-time #and just an absolute boatload of trash #whether it be sexist or racist or homophobic or rapey or just so cringey #if i could just go back in time and stop myself from reading about 70% of the available good stuff within the span of a few months #i wouldn't be stuck now reading it all again and again until i've half-memorized it #DDDXXX #of course if i had that kind of wishing power i'd wish that everyone who wrote good lgbt+ historical romances had all the time and money #so they could just have fun making nice things that then per my very detailed and airtight wish would be available thru my library #time to win the lottery ig

[fucktheroyals]

I love media that's based on real life events but it's romanticized to the max. Like it's the best if everyone knows it's bullshit too. I love historical fanfiction. the more unrealistic the better. let's strive to make unrealistically nice and friendly "period" pieces.

#I understand period romances now guys #world hard period romance pieces soft #I think I've grown as a person #my feelings areeee unrealistic period pieces feel more imagination & dream driven then period pieces that r more realistic #funny though because I'd shove this train of thought under a bus to explain why I hate the greatest showman with a passion #but also I would try to use this same line of thinking to explain why the greatest showman doesn't fulfill it. in a MUSICAL. #The way they didn't romanticize it enough in a MUSICAL. How can u fail that bad (of course they didn't tho many people love this movie)? #but they did fail that bad

[spacedykez]

one day more people will know about aspecs. one day :(

#the otter splashes #the otter ventposts #i. i want to come out to my parents but i just. #my anxiety is so bad around it #like. i have identified as aroace for. god. how long now? i have no clue. its been uh. over six months at least #my parents: #1. are supportive of the queer community and would not be homophobic (i have been actively keeping note of this/scoping things out) #2. do not know anything about aspecs #3. assume i am simply a late bloomer like my mom. or dad does at least. he did not take the very obvious hints i tried to drop #i literally told him i was surprised that ppl my age were thinking abt romance bc ive never been interested and he just went 'oh yeah your #mom was like that' #and im here like. uh. mother. have. have you heard of the word aromantic- #of course she Hasn't but. like? the more i learn abt her the more im like. uh. you seem very arospec to me tbh. #im. i wonder if i could somehow like. teach them abt aspecs? is there some way i could subtly nudge them into learning about us? #google search how 2 teach ppl things without them suspecting u :sob: #how do i start a conversation like. hey have u heard of this thing. called asexuality. #IM TOO AWKWARD FOR THAT #i Think i could maybe. try. talking to my mom about it. in like. three months. maybe. #hhhhhhh #im so. I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT #i wish i knew what to expect but i DONT and thats the worst thing

[musical-chick-13]

I am CONFLICTED, because I don’t even know if I’m going to watch The Last Episode on October 23. Because on one hand, my beloved is back, I am mentally scrawling hearts with his name in them on the inside of my brain, and also we get more interactions between the Complex Friend(??)ship of All Time; but on the other hand, I absolutely cannot watch footage of 13/Y*z be canon on my screen, I will actually lose all of my remaining brain cells.

#I REFUSE #this '''''romance arc''''' is actually making me dislike 13 and when I say that hurts me...... #I actually do like this era a lot!!! so of course I want to watch its send off #but I'm just...I can't do it y'all #I would consider just waiting until it's over to see how bad it is and then choose whether or not to watch accordingly #but I know that The Discourse™ and spoilers will be unavoidable and the fandom is going to be /insufferable/ #and I do NOT have the energy to deal with that #(I say that like I have any faith that cbnll will end their story WITHOUT them being Together™ in any way) #(because. he will. the fandom wants it so he'll cave because that's what all creators do) #(I know that because the executive producer OUTRIGHT SAID that this '''''''''romance arc'''''''''' wasn't ever planned) #(and that it only came about because they heard about how popular with the fans it was) #(which. WHY it's popular is anyone's guess least of all mine I have literally never understood the hype for a pairing less than this one) #(even if there are ships in and of themselves that I dislike more) #it's also so frustrating because the only people I've seen criticizing this pairing either a) ship something else or #b) hate everything chris does. and again: I LIKED THIS ERA. I DON'T DISLIKE THIS SHIP BECAUSE IT'S HIM. I DISLIKE IT BECAUSE I DISLIKE IT #In The Vents #to be safe... #I'm going to tag #anti chibnall #just in case #in addition to #anti thasmin