#its not the sexy love interest

[animentality]

I know hunger games is good, I just can't put myself through a sad dark dystopian world where things are sad and dark and suck and everyone hates each other and everyone dies.

Like I could watch the news...

#the hunger games #thg #its why ive avoided the books too #like im sure katniss is a grim faced survivor who also happens to be super hot and sexy #but i dont know man #i know government is bad #you are correct #i agree with you already bestie #dont see what else i can learn from hunger games other than heres how we should revolt but wont bc people will only see thg as fiction #with not practical application irl #plus i cant watch two straight people fall in love #sorry #i believe when people say its good #i just dont think itd make me feel anything personally #i already know who dies anyway #its not the sexy love interest #its the non character

[a-dip-in-the-source]

Something something Bracken's horns always falling into Kendra's hands. Holding a piece of you you thought you lost forever, letting her have it, because now she's a part of you to.

Maybe a story about destiny. Here's a piece of me you found before you even knew me. We helped each other before we met each other. Thank you thank you thank you for returning the favor, I want to help you further.

Maybe its a story about healing. Bracken the hornless unicorn, trapped inside himself. Kendra brings him out of prison, opens him up, helps him retrieve his second horn. Does it again, helps him reclaim his third.

Maybe its a story of realization. She represent all he was, and showed him he didn't need it anymore. Let me cut you some pieces of me, so that my connection to you can last forever.

The horns are so much to me.

#fablehaven #dragonwatch #brackendra #shiponthesource #bracken the hornless unicorn #its sort of. I love the story of Bracken the unicorn #so I wasn't super hyped about him giving up his immortality at the end of dragonwatch because thats what made him super interesting to me #(also he was sosososo happy to get his powers back in kttdp) #and dragonwatch didn't develop him enough for me to excited about what he was developing to #give it up for Bracken worlds first male sexy lamp prize. ! #anyways. going to explode now. #because the subtext story I've been fed could feed me for YEARS

[wroteclassicaly]

Plus sized women are never fantasized about in media (unless they’re a size 4-16. And even that is pushing it, according to the mainstream). We’re the sidekicks, in secret, the background, the jokes. We are never the lead, we never get the hot guy or hot girl, we are killed off in a show, even shows that are supposed to represent us and be the most for us - they always exclude us. There’s no posters of us on any characters walls. Hollywood builds itself around seeing worth in only thin people.

Media, and even other people do it. If you aren’t thin, you aren’t desirable, you aren’t human, you aren’t even clean, according to the standards of media/the world. Doesn’t matter if you are healthy or have a health condition. If you’re a fat person, you’re already on the outs.

#thinking about what st did to it’s only plus sized characters #thinking about all the jk characters that are from the Midwest where plus sized women are respected and admired and more common… #its* #more common but excluded on film because Hollywood sucks #fat people shouldn’t feel less human or less desirable #we are sexy we are beautiful and we are just as worthy to be on walls lead movies or be a love interest #let us have nude love scenes with the hot guy or girl #let thin people take the sidekick role and the background for once #why does weight define anything? #sorry I’m just disheartened today #I shouldn’t have to lose weight to matter #no one should

[fitzrove]

Started watching a "problem with greek myth retellings" video and it began with a blurb montage like "Condemned by the misogynist guys of history, this is the true girlboss feminist story of [A WOMAN]" and like. brb writing one of those about crown prince rudolf. It's ok he's like a misunderstood girlboss to me<3

#NASJASKSDFKDSLFDGJDFJ #joking. since those retellings seem to be often bad #fun fact i do have ideas for like a black teen comedy series with mary as the protagonist where the ending is like a harrowing twist #like you think it won't go that far but it does and the point is that she had historical agency and her own problems and personal journey #but in the end it spiralled catastrophically due to both crown prince rudolf related events and others #unfortunately writing one would draw the ire of both misogynist rudolf conspiracy theorists (how dare you suggest women have agency) AND a #certain type of feminist media critiquer person: (1) how dare you cover a topic like that flippantly 2) how dare you make rudolf anything #but an inhuman monster of a r*pist murderer gr**mer or whatever in the story #like idk man.. other male characters portrayed as romantic interests in mainstream media are toxic r*pists all the time. like omg i hate ho #'the great' handles p*ter and catherine because i was rooting for them to remain toxic and for catherine to kill him or whatever but then #she starts falling in love with him in s2 and everyone in tumblr is like omg hot sexy toxic romance. like cant we have ONE series where #straight romance doesnt inevitably become the overbearing focus?? i had wlw ships for that show.. they never pulled through... #anyway um yeah. the way i would portray rudolf in that is that mary sees him as this romantic hero which is emphasised in the way its shot #but he's constantly acting in kinda offputting and strange ways and is occasionally pretty pathetic and weird ASHDJFJF #^^ that's never been a deterrent to anyone ever. most rudolf biographers want to [redacted] him this has been proven by the way they write. #the only ones that dont are me (well not a real biographer but a rudolf enjoyer nonetheless) and brigitte hamann /hj #(she actually doesnt salivate over his appearance like frederick morton does xD only quotes 2 contemporary women commenting on it)

[boxwinebaddie]

this ask about whether ravenstan ever gets to read jerseykyle’s letters from his special stan notebook is taking me a while because i’m in the writing mood and want it to sound really nice, but there’s this soul crushing part i just finished writing abt kyle often not even using the journal to write stan letters, but rather, as a utility tool where he takes down notes of things he needs to remember or…grocery lists for things the house needs.

and i wrote this little stream of consciousness about how kyle feels in grocery stores that broke my heart a little and i wanted to share it with all of you because i think it speaks a lot to how he’s struggling and how his broken psyche works and whirs almost robotically. anyways there is a large tw for ed, please heed that warning and read with caution. i promise i never write from a place of shock value, my work is always written as a cautionary tale and an authentic depiction of just how much our warped perceptions can alter out real lives.

#nina writes sometimes #i wrote about this in og rm6 #but i feel like i like this much better because its v poignant #and really shows you how much kyle goes thru each day #how much he punishes himself and how imperfect he feels #how he seems so hardlined and regimeted #but little fantasies of stan keep him grounded #that he is a romantic loving and gentle thing at heart #even if he pretends not to have one and thinks that he #is not made for something like love #idk i can never tell if the things i write are well written #but i wanted yall to get a glimpse into jersey's psyche #because i find him extremely interesting as a protagonist #because i feel like a lot of protags are very like i'm a smol bean lol i'm sweet good and likeable; i like that jersey is so unpleasant #i like that he's a very unreliable narrator whose narration is very shrewd skuewed and negative #i feel like it subverts that genre and flips the whole troupe on its head which is kind of what rem(ember) is all about #i espec wanted it to feel that way when we learned stan isnt a smarmy sexy suave rockstar but is actually super awkward #idk i like my weird little au world i hope you enjoy this

[aniseandspearmint]

tbh what kills me about this whole Rings of Power mess is that, if they had just done this RIGHT they would have had a home run hit. Every Tolkien fan I know would have watched it and made art and fic and bought merchandise and urged their friends and family to watch it! It would be the lotr movies again. It would have hit like the first couple of MCU movies were. It would have been ADORED.

But they chose to cheap out on EVERYTHING and to CHANGE everything to make it ‘sexy’, chose to have their stuntworkers perform dangerous stunts with not enough safety equipment, chose to take beloved characters like Elrond and Galadriel and Celebrimbor and twist them into barely recognizable caricatures... I would be here all day if i tried to list all the things wrong in the short clips we’ve gotten.

It’s gonna fail, and they paved the road themselves. We could have had it all, but instead we got Amazon.

#i fail to see how sexy it can be when there's a sixty year old man playing an elf tbh #i don't get sexy choices on a good day but i can say with full confidence that that dude is NOT it #rings of power #ugh #its such trash #this show is a travesty #one of the reasons people love the lotr movies is they are intimate without being about sex #the lotr and the silmarillion don't NEED sex to be interesting

[craycraybluejay]

If u want to hear our nasty confessions..

I kept getting bought cocktails and champagne at the neon bar last night and got so floaty I had to lie down. I thought I could feel something pressing against my bits and something warm in my mouth but I was too out of it. This morning I woke up in a random guy’s bed and when one of my boyfriends came to pick me up, he could hardly conceal his hard on. When we got home he took me to the bedroom and started undressing me, and then touched me up as he showed me pics on his phone of three different men r4ping me at the neon bar. Because I was still a bit drunk my boyfriend took the opportunity to get me to suck him off before wiping my face and tucking me into bed. This afternoon he took me to the STI testing clinic and took the vaginal swab himself, making it all sexual…and then filled me up in the testing centre bathroom. Then he went to work and I spent half the day cumming in bed ♥️

Ive got loads more stories if you’re interested!

Cute.

#anon response #nsft #r@pe kink #tw medical #idk how a vaginal swab could ever be sexy but good for u anon #confessions #stories #true r@pe stories #tw r4p3 #idk i feel kind of on the edge of ok and not sexualizing this but since anon is doing that themselves its alr #their experience means their rules #anyway #i am interested #in more stories if you want to share #this is a safe space and if u send me something u specify not to be sexualized its safe for that too #all confessions welcome forever and ever #i love hearing everyone's stories and learning a little more ab other people

[links-hella-fine-booty]

The whole "ascended vs spawn" debate on whether or not you're a decent human on what you decide for a fictional man or that you don't actually like him is tiring. He's not real and not fucking you either way

Tiktok sucks

#you can like a character with flaws when recognizing flaws #im so tired of people saying if you like ascended astarion that you dont like him #bitch BOTH are so interesting i love how he slowly becomes what he hated #not because “sexy vampire” but for seeing another pov of his character #also so what if someone else likes him because of those other scenes #FOCUS ON YOU IGNORE THEM YOU LIKE HIM FOR YOUR OWN REASONS #its giving danganrompa and i wont elaborate #dont even get me started on other topics revolving Astarion #yall just stay in your lanes and dont worry about what someone else is doing #although i do feel hypocritical trying to defend his feelings on poly but thats for another time

[todayisafridaynight]

would it be okay if u told me why u like aoki😭/gen😭😭😭😭BEEN TRYNA LIKE HIM FOR SO LONG I JUST CANTT but i love ur art so much so i still consume it otherwise lol

i liked tohru adachi in high school and tbh i think that alone is enough of an explanation for why i ended up liking aoki

#snap chats #haha see i told you last post's tags were relevant #anyway vLKVJEVLKAEJVLKJ IM CRYING ANON youre so funny. this is the funniest ask i coulda got thank you so much #i dont know why i like him either <- yes i do #fine lets get Real Talk about it #well first off all i thought he looked hot rolling out the elevator and i was playing the eng dub and i think his voice sounds hot there #and thats like. not athing that happens to me ever <- literally thought sawashiro was hot two frames into the game but anyway #i like politician characters. or characters that are in a position of power ESPECIALLY if they have to act like they dont suck balls #like i very much love the idea of the power of charisma and that type of thing not to mention the 'strategizing' as aoki puts it #that comes with politics. LIKE HE SUCKS DONT GET IT TWISTED HE SUCKS BUT //shrug emoji// #like its why i love the mine rggo stories i like seeing mine's thought process and how he uses his intelligence #smart's sexy to me idk what to tell you but moving on #its fun watching him lose his cool too ESP IN HIS FIGHT LMAO HE STOMPIN HIS FOOT LIKE A TODDLER SHUT UP #i also really love the arakawa family in general and thinking of aoki's relationship with each of them makes my brain explode #especially him and sawashiro that shit is painful to watch and i love it so much #i also thought him going from goth to republican was the funniest shit in the world like i howled at that AND i was distraught #aokis so interesting to me from the notion that he IS loved by his family but he has so much hatred for himself it eats him up #and as a result he cant be happy no matter what he does- how hes constantly seeking validation even if it's nothing meaningful #his lil. Dog-Eat-Dog world world belief to ichi also appealed to my edgy depressed high schooler brain. sorry. #his speech at the lockers also got to me. unfortunately. sorry everyone i empathized too hard it got too real it wasnt funny anymore #like as much as i complain bout the very end the ending is what solidified me liking aoki if not also cause of ichi's impact in those scene #plus... analyzing him and the environment around him is so much fun too.... #idk reasons for why i like aoki also boil down to personal reasons. he still sucks tho so i cant be upset when people hate him LOL #i probably have more reasons or could elaborate more i love rambling but i mean. who really wants to read all that 💀💀 #maybe for a character that WASNT the worst but. aoki is so LMAO #thank you for loving my art regardless :) im sorry i have to be attached to the worst guys ever

[gloriousmonsters]

remembering again the boom of authors bragging that THEIR kinky m/f romance was sooo much better than 50 Shades of Grey in the wake of it becoming popular. and then with the exception of more coherent writing every one my brother (valiantly trying to find good kinky books) tried managed to be worse in some way. god bless

#thinking back specifically to that woman who sporked 50shades (do we say sporked anymore?) #and it was part of a whole blog about making fun of/criticizing '~problematic and ethically dubious~' books #and her main romance series had the main character experiencing every symptom of PTSD around the male love interest #and then going 'oh lol but i'm just a silly little woman who's mad for no reason and i think he's sexy so that invalidates my anger' #at least in 50shades ana doesn't have constant panic attacks around christian and then go 'but he has a british accent so its fine' #vic talks

[panicbones]

the divided stance on gaim is fascinating. a good chunk of my mutuals (opinions of whom i respect) despise it. and then i have a scant handful of OTHER mutuals (opinions of whom i also respect) who adore it. hmm

#granted the ones who do like it also like drive and i am never watching that shit #gentos actor being so impossibly sexy in it is not enough to tempt me #i dont judge my friends for liking those 2 shows at all mind u #like can you really judge them if you (other mutuals) like kabuto #well. “like” is a relative term but you know #anyways i am not watching gaim cuz i despise the suits but its just interesting #it seems its a series you either love or hate with no middle ground #skeletal chatter

[horsegirlhob]

Intervention is an episode that I am super normal about.

#dylan says things #btvs #spike btvs #all of buffys love interests must be sexy tortured its a rule of the show

[see-arcane]

I might have pitied this deformed woman

With all due respect ACD why is everyone calling someone with a limp deformed... Also to be honest I would have felt more horror from the story if Gilroy found her attractive and/or charming and enjoyed her company and work relationship but also did not love her for whatever (non-physical) reason, because then there could have been a potential inner conflict and guilt, instead of ''this is out of my hands she is icky-looking and a crone (Gilroy you are 35) so I have no self-doubts about being in love involved on top of it all yay''. Having him vehemently dislike her all the time minus during hypnosis removes those layers.

It isn't 'everyone' in the story who calls her deformed, though. It's just Gilroy. No one else is mentioned deriding her for her disability or her looks or anything else beyond Penelosa's talent.

Considering ACD's comparatively progressive track record with the Sherlock Holmes stories--a series notable for how often it takes the side of oppressed parties, including abused or preyed-upon women--I can't see Gilroy's ageist and ableist views as anything but an intentional setup for the narrative payoff of his disgust as well as his anger and fear.

The story does feel slightly karmic at the start and, to give ACD the benefit of the doubt, I agree with you that having Penelosa not be an attractive hypno-dominatrix likely played a part in Gilroy's initial revulsion at her controlling him into playing paramour. I think this was intentional for the character's buildup, but also for the audience's. Even in the present day, there's no ignoring that there are demographics out there who are Highly Interested in the erotic implications of hypnosis. BDSM for the brain, puppet master kinks, et cetera.

If Miss Penelosa had been hot, or even just pretty, I wouldn't have been surprised if the horror story ACD was trying to put together would lose much of its punch in his era's audience. Sure, it's still icky that Gilroy's a man being Controlled By a Woman (!!!), but having her be attractive would 'soften' it for them. Still, all this is only in play if ACD was really truly adamant about selling the horror of 'A Stranger Now Owns My Free Will and Is Planning to Violate My Life in Intimate Ways.'

It could also have just been intended as an eerie scientific*** what-if adventure applied to a then-popular (and wildly overestimated) practice of the time. Or maybe he meant it as a straight-up supernatural escapade in the vein of vampiric mesmerism from a psychic monster. I don't know, I can't ask him.

All of that said, the horror is soured a bit by Gilroy being a haughty skeptic snob who had some comeuppance heading his way in the first place. Similar setups are common in horror flicks today, where we get to cheer at least once in a movie when the Big Villain takes down a more commonplace bad guy. There's no scare there, just vindication.

And me being me, that's not enough. Because I am all about two things.

One, adding more horror to everything, always, forever.

Two, making life harder for Jonathan Harker.

Jonathan 'Holiest Love means I Will Walk Backwards into Hell to Protect/Stay with My Wife Whether She's Mortal or a Literal Monster' Harker is not about to shit on anyone for a bad leg or some crow's feet.

More importantly, we've already seen his reaction to sexy sexy undead ladies trying to hypnotize him into compliance so they can take certain bloody/eternally conscripting liberties with him.

To judge by the 1000+ Dracula adaptations that show the directors' fetishes in full view, Jonathan being preyed on by the hot vampire Brides is seen by many people as...you know. Hot. Enough to rewrite and bastardize his character every time to make him seem like he was genuinely tempted by them.

But He Was Not.

He was being hypnotized into artificial attraction and paralysis so the ladies could take their turns with him without his fighting back or trying to run. Which he does later! More than once! Every time this voluptuous trio tries to hypnotize or corner him again, Jonathan catches on and sprints in the other direction. He is not into that shit no matter how pretty you are, ladies.

Specifically because, as I and Bramothy Stoker cannot stress enough, Jonathan Harker is strictly Minasexual. All Mina all the time. 24/7 Mina lockdown 365 days of the year. Mina, Mina, Mina. Mina? Mina. (I personally headcanon him as demisexual with shades of biromanticism and ace, but that's beside the point.)

The point is, even if Penelosa was a knockout, Jonathan wouldn't notice. He wouldn't care. Just as his love would not have been stopped by Mina turning into an actual monster; he would rather be damned and in love than slay her and be holy. You can bet your ass if Mina suddenly had a handicap he'd still be enraptured with her to the point of blasphemy. You know he's going to still be heart-eyed as they grow older. Jonathan Harker is made of unconditional and extremely focused love. It is all-encompassing and yet it belongs to a single person. It's the kind of love we all wish we had for ourselves.

It's the kind of love that someone like Penelosa--who latched onto a random handsome prick of a professor after she had known him LESS THAN AN HOUR and started plotting to groom him into her personal Ken doll--would do anything to have for herself; Jonathan Harker, the true Prince Charming, the gallant beloved, the guileless charmer who holds the One He Loves above himself, above God and Devil and the world itself...being wasted on some pretty young thing who hardly needs such a treasure.

It isn't fair. Mrs. Harker will never appreciate dear Jonathan like other, more deserving women would. Not like her. She would show him. Help him through the motions until he learned better; learned to love in the right direction.

Her direction.

Only if given the opportunity, of course.

(👁)

In short, yeah, Gilroy was not the best option for a sympathetic horror story protagonist who we could feel real fear and empathy for. We only really get a glimpse of that toward the end, when Penelosa escalates enough to start injuring innocents and tries to make Gilroy throw acid in his fiancée's face. A big scary leap, but also too late in the game for a proper punch. Especially with the abrupt copout of the ending. Bleh.

I think we can do better than that. Say, with a protagonist who can balance on the pro-and-con line of keeping the supernatural puppet master of their life happy enough to not act rashly, who knows the value of dancing on eggshells in a tight spot, who could tug the heartstrings of villain and audience just enough to let fuller and far more frightening machinations come to light as time goes by.

Especially with certain other powers lurking in the shadows, which might make a trifle like death a far less permanent end to their ~romance~ than it ought to be.

Don't you agree, Mr. Harker? ❤

P.S. Gilroy's still absolutely getting his ass handed to him in this take, don't you worry. He's been demoted from crush to chew toy to minion. RIP sir, but you're not off the hook just because Jonathan's distracting her with his dreaminess. Get to work.

#I got an ask a while ago that was really focused on whether or not I was 'going to keep Penelosa ugly' #not long after I went into a whole other ramble about how she was Not Described As Ugly #just middle-aged a bit plain and having a limp #a ramble where I also pointed out that Gilroy was the only person who was shown being insulting about her appearance #to be clear: While there will be (unpleasantly) intimate predatory scenes #this is not a kinkfic I'm writing #this isn't 'Jonathan Gets Hypno-Dommed By Sexy Psychic Lady XXX' #it's meant to be taken as a story directly following Dracula's events and happening a third of the way into 'The Parasite' #while also taking some liberties with the amount of time involved rather than killing the story (and Penelosa) unceremoniously #barely a month into the interesting bits #the fact that Jonathan is careful enough to play the long game without pissing off (X) bogeyman/bogeywoman is grounds to let things go on #for much Much longer than Gilroy allowed with his temper getting the better of him and setting Penelosa on vengeance #more time = more dread = Penelosa getting to show exactly how far she's willing to go to own her target's life/love #I don't plan to throw any ageist or ableist shit in the mix #just fleshing out character points we never got to see in focus before #and highlighting the Actual Menace of the premise that Gilroy's plight/personality didn't really sell #'Someone owns your brain and is taking steps to cut you out of your life and make you into their personal doll.' #which is scary! fucked up! absolute nightmare and a half! #regardless if the person making you into a puppet is sexy~ or not #but again: I am not sexifying this story or its characters. Period. #they are who they are and anything I might add to the story will have its roots in the original works #so to any future anons wanting to know: No. No Sexy Penelosa for you. No hot Harker love triangle. The End. #anyway #the parasite #arthur conan doyle #dracula #bram stoker #jonathan harker #helen penelosa #austin gilroy

[misterradio]

ever since finding out about the concept of objectum (attraction to objects) ive been thinking "if i liked objects what would i like..." so i try to find romance in objects but im not really feelin it but i do think that if i was objectum i would be in lesbians with my bicycle. i think my bike deserves a making-out but just not with me

#original nonsense #personal #im rlly interested in what objects people are into bc i know theres a lot of love for electronics.. #but what else? i did see someone post abt how chainsaws r sexy so thats a fun one. #i wonder if electronics are a hot topic bc theyre so interactive that its easy to find character and love in that?

[suncaptor]

Also the way when Sam asks Dean if Amara like forcing him to have feelings for her and kissing him when in reality he wants to want to kill her makes him feel "complicit, weak, evil" is just "for starters, yeah". like yeah for starters he really does feel complicit and weak and evil about what Amara did to him. Screaming.

#sorry to lose it about dean but the 1 time they actually care about noncon kissing on this godforsaken show when its like. engrained in it #amara #dean winchester #love hurts #s.a #spn #incoherents #supernatural #s11 #dean #dean is interesting to me in s11 because hes literally just a sam parallel. and thats so sexy of him

[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.