#let me romance her too

[progamermove]

The host revealing that she is the volleyball ringer

#romance club #rc the one #the one #she really said yes #I am perfect #let me romance her too

[forcedhesitation]

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

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

[emblazons]

WARNING: FFVII spoilers + ship talk—scroll if you want to skip, because I am simply commentating my own gaming experience & not trying to start a war in the comments

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It’s the way I’m DESPERATELY trying to play FFVII with an openness to Cloud and Aerith because I know it means so much to so many people—and yet even when I go to YouTube and watch alt versions of mandatory scenes I cannot fathom how people are missing the subtext of “Aerith knows and acknowledges Tifa is so much more than Cloud’s friend even as she wants his attention because she doesn’t know if he’s really himself, has been extremely lonely since Zack left + knows somewhere she’s going to die for herself” ☠️

Like I am 3000% for FF ships that have a lot of groundwork but aren’t primary canon, because Square is notorious for building true chemistry between people who are not ever canonically romantic (hello Phoenixflare) but…it’s getting kind of absurd to see how many people are denying the subtext of Aerith as secondary to Tifa solely because they love their ship.

Perfect example: the scene where Aerith goes up on the Nebelheim water tower (a place wholly and entirely tied to Cloud and Tifa’s ongoing relatonship) and asks Cloud about his town…only for us to get this:

As someone who just consumes media generally…the whole subtext of the scene is clearly that Aerith trying to 1) pull Cloud’s actual memories up from the mind muck he’s going through (something she and Tifa both do repeatedly) and 2) remind Cloud of the side of him that inherently has always had a whole ass crush on his childhood best friend to help jog his memory.

Sure, it reads as a cute moment between them if you want that…but if you’re paying attention to the purpose of the scene itself and what’s being said (verbally and subtextually)…it’s astronomically clear this is a Cloud x Tifa recognition delivered to the audience through a Cloud/Aerith moment…and this happens repeatedly ☠️

And then…immediately after having her be upset that she doesn’t have someone the way Cloud has Tifa, and asking to be alone? I…I just. Like it’s so hard to be here in the middle of a war about “optional scenes” when shit that happens to everyone happens just like this 😭

#example of what I’m talking about under the cut #I just. LISTEN. #I fucking love Aerith #I really do #and even though some of her actions are quite curious to me re: cloud romance #I can clearly tell they are setting her up as loving him as a friend more than a romantic partner #and her still feeling so tied to Zack…while knowing she’s in for something terrible. #even with all the whispers shit that’s crystal mf clear—she’s just trying to find joy while she can #and cloud is more than willing to indulge her because he cares deeply for her too! #…and yet #we are so clearly in for a cloud x tifa romance in the long haul #Tifa and cloud love each other. cloud and Aerith LIKE each other—and even she comments DIRECTLY on ‘liking v LIKING’ #I just…whew #ship your ship #but let’s not outright lie to ourselves here LMAOOOO #ffvii analysis #cloti #ffvii #ffvii spoilers #remake spoilers #final fantasy spoilers #the me tag

[bumblingbabooshka]

[TUVOKTOBER: Day 15] At First Sight.

#tuvoktober #excerpt from the novel 'pathways' #tuvok/t'pel #Tuvok #st voyager #st voyager fanart #T'Pel #hey [vibrating from thinking about Tuvok - Vulcan Love & Gender Identity & Sexuality too much] -extends hand- chew through drywall with me #comix #something about how Tuvok's identity is half T'Pel and has been for decades he's spent DECADES growing with half of him being a person #he's not just deeply in love with but literally IS. He literally literally /IS/ part of T'Pel and his children literally ARE a part of him #the SECOND he sees T'Pel Tuvok says 'Being with her isn't enough I need to BE her. NOW.' #that novel had barely anything about T'Pel in it but I'll forgive them bc what they did have (basically just this) ??? showstopping. #thinks about Tuvok alone on Voyager thinks about the unique and alien suffering #[shuddering breath...]ahgh...[cough]....h ey Tuvok!!! What're your PRONOUNS- #Guy who misses his wife who is also him #gu ys....[sobbing openly] g uys...he's INCOMPLETE without them..... #are you picking up what I'm putting down??? #-chokes star trek writers- stop having straight people write alien romance. let insane gay people like me have a turn pleasepleaseplease #bea art tag #[switches out of angst mode for a second] also its SO fucking funny that in this novel's canon Tuvok didn't know about the pon farr until #it happened to him. he literally had NO idea what was going on. His parents didn't tell him. Why?? Don't believe in sexEd??? #it really made me laugh. conservative coded... #drawing elaborate Vulcan head....things? headresses? is fun <3 #suggestive cw

[youdontneedhenry]

Random thought but I miss Patrick winking at Eliza (3x3) and generally being mischievous (all of season 2 and episode 3x6 with William.)

He’s way more professional with her in season 4, for obvious reasons. He’s still fun, and they have fun, but it’s different, which is a testament to how respectful Nash is, contrary to how he’s sometimes talked about by viewers who are simply not paying attention. Also, I don’t think it’s JUST that she’s his employee. I think he caught feelings and is trying to recalibrate how to act with her (less schoolyard teasing and even more sincerity).

In Season 4, Eliza softens and teases Nash more than he teases her (after she wins at the races, the end of the telephone episode). He lets her lead, really, in that regard, because he's not going to cross a line given the power dynamic in their relationship when she works at Nash & Sons.

So we've seen rivals (season 2 with the shift in 3x3) to friends and colleagues (3x6 and Season 4) and now LOVERS (Season 5) ????

I really wonder what Season 5 Nash will be like.

Edit: to add: the natural chemistry and attraction that’s been there didn’t lead to romance yet because they’ve had really clear boundaries: being rivals AND then being colleagues meant really clear lines they didn’t or couldn’t cross- even if they toed them sometimes. There were rules of engagement. Those boundaries will be gone session 5- so their friendship can flourish into something else.

#scarnash #eliza x patrick #msatd #miss scarlet pbs #miss scarlet and the duke #i love them your honor #ps did I just figure out how to make basic gifs?? #not as good as our wonderful gif makers #but I can try #season 3 Nash you will always be famous #since the new inspector won’t work with any private detectives I hope Nash trolls him too #also you know I am so interested in the angst of the situation where Patrick hires her and it creates a barrier to romance #like he had to have some disappointment with that but he did what was best for Eliza and her career #what will they be like when they don't work together AND are friends??? #patrick nash consummate professional #sorry I’m posting this instead of writing more of Sweetest Con yikes #let me know what you think

[exghul]

thinking.

#tbd. #hi! im here lurking! #i havent been writing for no other excuse than D.C Doesnt Know What To Do With My Son #ive been chewing on the insides of my brain figuring out simply where i want to take him next #i really cant rely on c.anon for ideas bc LOL! their stories for him suck rn #why is there robo!broose? #why is dami uber loyal to him? #why is r.as a genie attached to n.ika rn? oh right bc she can talk to dead ppl #but apparently cant talk abt it to her /not-developed-relationship/ bf ? about it? #or really anything ? #sighs i wish they'd get more development #like i like her as a character i think she's neat af - and they're doing . alright w dami's severe lack of affection #.... but THAT SAID- #how are we gonna go from kiss @ the end of rob 21 -> some allusion to Theyre Official by dami talking to broose -> present #present being ' theyre a thing !! look at that BOYF and GIRLF ' !!! #:| at least give me some suspense or something jfc #maybe i read too many romance novels lol this romance is DRY ! AF ! WHERES THE SPICE! !!! THE LONGING!!!!! THE PINING!!!!! #de.monfire wouldnt treat me like this #i digress #my point here today: dami's character is in a limbo and its frustrating #so im approaching it from the idea of / let me just uhh . rebuild him from ground 0 and see where the dice roll / #so i have thousands of words offline in hc dumps ... #but when i get to his timeline around 15- it goes stagnant. sure that's where i'd put his t.itans verse but also ?? the c.anon for it SUCKS #i'll only be pulling characters from it & the /idea/ of the plot is good #m.ara deserves more screentime #so does . m.aya. #sighs #dami isnt allowed to have female friends thanks d.c #scrubs my face #i need to give him a Direction and ik i'll be flooded w muse again

[cashweasel]

As an orc player this chapter was *chefs kiss* we love to see it

#me cheering on the sideline every time we get to use our orcish strength #yes let me hold up boulders and talk about orcish burial traditions #yeah we got to talk about the elves too but I don’t care about them rn kdkskdj #speaking of elves tyril is so hot when he’s mad and worried #give me more of that #🥰🥰🥰 #also imtura is my queen truly all her side quests are my favorite #if it wasn’t for one broody blue man I’d probably romance her tbh #blades of light and shadow #playchoices

[wordycheeseblob]

Prompt idea

Emma gets an aristocratic friend that does not have any ulterior motives. That does NOT try to get to another character through her. That is NOT ACTIVELY TRYING TO KILL HER.

#ikepri #aristocratic friendships are partnerships yada yada #aristocrats are humans too dammit #yall telling me I cant marry who i want at least let me have a friend or two of my choosing #its not all insidious game of thrones up the hierarchy some are just pompous golfing hedonic rich guys #heck what if she didnt romance any of the princes and still ended up at the court because some aristocrat fell in love and married her #despite being a commoner #like SURPRISE ITS ME IM BACK

[queenerdloser]

reading baldur's gate fic is so funny to me sometimes because almost every single tav i've read is like. a nerd. awkward. stuck in a library/commune/forest and doesn't know How To Do People. combat unready. a wee paper slip of a person. self-doubting and uncertain.

whereas i am out here with my bard who dumped all her stats in charisma and perception and therefore is no longer able to fail a persuasion check. and my personal backstory for her is that she's an insanely well known frontman for a rock band in baldur's gate so literally everyone they meet knows who she is. nonstop flirt. clocks manipulation left and right because seeing through performances is like half of her skillset. oh yeah. and she can fucking oneshot you by being mean in your direction.

#all tavs are created equal obvs but if you are not making your tav so op it's funny what is the point #i wrote some quick drabbles bc as always im irked by the way i cant tailor responses in rpg to match my characterization #and like. the funniest scene i have is when they go to the grove and literally EVERYONE there knows who she is. #it's like. if fucking beyonce picked up a rapier and a group of raggedy ass nobodies and said Let's Fucking Go #also making astarion have NO clue who she is was deeply funny to me. that old man doesnt listen to hip young music #he's too busy being traumatized and gay #bg3 #im truly not being mean i love the awkward tavs too #it's just so very far from how i characterize my own i have to laugh #that said i want to do a durge run & HIM i plan to make awkward and uncertain #this rockstar persona all came about bc i want a canon reason to give her purple hair btw #and to dress her in slutty little shirts with tit windows #me playing bg3 as a dress up romance game as god intended #im saving the astarion romance for my durge run but they WILL be best friends. and yes. she falls for gale of all people

[forcedhesitation]

I love that the bg3 guys are all written to have this intense adoration of karlach and lae’zel’s abilities to absolutely eviscerate their enemies. they’ve all got the same taste in women, which is “she could gut the big scary man chasing me, and then princess carry me to safety in her blood spattered arms.” and I respect and relate to that, as a bisexual man myself.

#bg3 #thoughts about media #I actually love all combinations between any of the guys and lae or karlach. all very good pairings. #honestly hard to choose a fave... but I do quite like wyll & lae and star & karlach. #idk. something about a guy exiled by his own father and then alienated by fiend’s blood with a girl entirely outcast by her people. #in both cases they are punished despite doing the right thing all because they questioned someone of a lawful alignment. #and then star and karlach... both stripped of their autonomy and treated as nothing but a means to an end... #and the unique romance cutscenes they can get with each other!! actually so sweet. #but don’t get me wrong. I still do love all the other combos too. #and it goes without saying that lae & karlach is a great pair too. nothing like a warrior’s bond. #meanwhile my approval the m/m ships is...well. limited. #I love wyll & star together. I like gale & wyll. I am okay with halsin & any of the boys...but he has to be written better. #and by better I mean give him a little more character and make it less about sex only. because the game largely reduces him to sex alone. #no shart mention because I never take her anywhere unless I have to. #sorry. I do not hate her but she just isn’t interesting to me. #and although there’s writing to acknowledge shartstarion as a possible pair. #I think it’s the worst companion/companion pair and I refuse to think about it. #I mean seriously. it’s a combination of two polyamorous bisexuals and yet the pair feels heterosexual. #please don’t to that to my darling vampire. let him be princess carried by the hot warrior gals.

[dishsaop]

does anyone have recommendations for fictional media that has like. actual lesbians in it. not like supergirl Two White Skinny Girls, One Blonde and One Brunette Kiss media, or "its implied lesbianism!!!" but just regular fucking lesbians

#i say lesbians but i guess i mean sapphic #im just like. tired of gnawing #and of men also. sorry men in my life i love you but on god if i have to pretend one more man is butch just to get #content that isnt m/m or m/f im going to turn into a horse and run into the wilderness until im saved from the glue factory by a plucky #young woman except instead of letting her have her formative summer where she trains me and bonds w me and wins a competition w me #im going to commit horse suicide in front of her & change her life forever. just because im so tired of bland CW-marketable women kissing & #digging for scraps in a refuse bin while brushing aside 7002993829292929939292929399394 gay and het romances #m text #i will also take nonfictional lesbians if its like a story #not to be whiny on main but one of the hardest hurdles i had to jump wasnt realizing i was a lesbian. i came out to myself and to friends a #lesbian multiple times. but i would always walk it back when a friend would express doubt or a male friend would ask me out #bc i dont and especially then didnt know very many lesbians in person. and so i had to turn to examples #and all i fucking had were fictional women who liked men. or fictional lesbians who were so cleaned and sanitized and prettified #(you all know what i mean right. the 2 skinny white girls one blonde one brunette. im not crazy right) #and i would be like. i dont feel things when i look at these fictional lesbians so i guess i belong back here #(this is also bc my gender ended up being fuckier than i realized but shhhhh) #I WAS GOING SOMEWHERE WITH THESE TAGS but theyre too long and im lost. #anyway the point is if people werent so fucking weird abt fictional or onscreen lesbians maybe thered be a lot more people comfortable bein #out as lesbian #like sorry but this awful ouroboros of 'all lesbians onscreen have to be cute and sanitized' meaning that people write and believe wlw has #to be cute and pure and sanitized (OR a 'badge of honor' bc good for u u doodled two women together or had it as a background in ur fic) #meaning that therefore all portrayals of lesbianism continue to be like this. is just #and im also gonna be honest theres probably a lot of good sapphic media im just in the wrong circles to have stumbled into lol. so #yknow. personal viewer bias here #but i still like swing wildly between overly brandishing my dykeness as a badge to feel like im proving im lesbian #and like. backing up under a blanket bc i dont wanna be weird or annoying or freak people out #but if people just Saw Normal Ass Lesbians. aough. #im going to watch revolutionary girl utena one of these days even if i struggled w the writing style the first few episodes #I JUST WANNA SEE AN OLD BUTCH ONSCREEN GET SOME PUSSY. #like it also doesnt help im mostly femme4butch so seeing 2 femmes on screen is like. okay cool so what. but only femmes are 'marketable'

[statementlou]

"A SOURCE" this fucking fandom I swear- the source is the tabloids (and before that Liam's PR team) but the real omitted info here (other than WHERE, WHAT SOURCE, WHY) is that the articles are primarily focused on Liam and his influencer girlfriend Kate Cassidy announcing a split, for anyone actually wanting to keep up with all the Liam news; yes they will have done that to get the music news into the papers but it is also information that exists and I would like to be informed about. The articles say that she moved out of his house and back to the US.

#liam payne #remember like a month ago when he was like I can't wait to get old with her #oh liam #oh honey #obviously album news is important too and yes they announced it sandwiched in with romance news for a reason #it wouldn't have a got a headline otherwise #but god I wish UAs would just give us the updates and let us sort out what we think about it and what parts of interest #for ourselves #I am not a child I do need you to chew my food for me #anyway the original source is the sun so clearly the story was given to them by liams team #it was then picked up by other outlets such as the one I linked

[juniemoe]

i miss isabela

#my lesbian awakening......... #god i would let her do anything to me #i wanna play da2 and kiss her it's been too long since i romanced her #💬 chatter

[lixbf]

it rly makes me go ??? when ppl say shit abt astarion being evil or how you have to be rly evil to get w him like. no? hes not a wyll-level good person by any means but hes not just evil either. and rly just like w all the other companions all you rly gotta do to get on his good side is yknow support him as a person, accept his boundaries and let him do some kinda maybe not perfectly moral stuff thats important to him like letting him kill gandrel or letting him drink your blood or letting him take that necromancy book

#hes like. chaotic neutral over all id say? idk im not the most experienced w dnd alignments #but to me hes basically just a jaded and traumatized guy who feels betrayed by gods and heroes alike at the beginning of the game #does he approve of some morally questionable choices? yeah but thats always like. 1 approval. you dont have to do that to make him like you #sure playing in a way where you only pick the stuff he approves of might not uh. end well. #bc hes just like 'ooh this would be fun to do rn' and it's like letting marcus take isobel from the last light inn #but doing that w shadowheart or lae'zel or even gale (and in some instances karlach and wyll too) wouldnt end well #lfucking hell wyll wants to murder karlach when you first meet him. lae'zel is fully ready to let shadowheart die or kill her multiple times #in conclusion. if you wanna romance astarion. #you just have to either say youre not gonna help an npc and then still help them. #or help an npc and them expect a reward for it. #and hes gonna be a-okay w everything you do even if you go around just being very heroic 24/7

[thedeadthree]

what is lineage, if not a silver thread of pride and guilt?

PRINCESS ELAENAERA OF HOUSE TARGARYEN

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#oc: elaenaera targaryen #tv: house of the dragon #hotd oc #hotd ocs #asoiaf oc #asoiaf ocs #leg.edit #leg.ocs #hotd spoilers #she and her beloved got the edit treatment this fine day/evening! here’s the baby girlie! #also! if y’all would like to be tagged in things let me know ✨🥺 i forgot who wished to be tagged and y’all are always so sweet 🤍🥺 #i am forever grateful to my hotd ocs for bringing me out of my months long creative DRAUGHT ✨🥺❄️ #me? making content regular(ish)? unreal! and they have me writing too which like I’m so excited about ✨😖 #her dragon is named after the valyrian moon god! and the god of other things as well! and one of those is the moon! my lunar babies! 🌙🤍 #and nocticula bc pathfinder still has a VICE grip on me and i thought it was lovely akjzjxjx🖤🖤 #what isn’t mentioned in the edit that should also be noted is that she was in winterfell for about? a year to less than? maybe 8 months? #whirlwind romance between her and yoren! and then with her dads health progressing she was asked to return to kings landing! #it was only supposed to be for six months but then things got caught up for her and that turned into six years ✨😵‍💫 #so there will be a LOT to unpack and a lot of resentment to work past for her when he comes back into her life! #i am actually thinking that he shows up to dragon stone and she’s caught OFF guard ajzjjxhx #and he has a dragon to boot! the dragon found him fascinating and they were bonded :) #he may have valyrian ancestry though his mom who’s from lys? before the doom from one of the other families likely im thinking? #or it could have been from a ritual like una and iovanna or just from merit i haven’t figured that part out yet skxjhxhx #she wishes things didn’t have to be like this between the other side of the family! #she didn’t particularly care for court? (she did but it was like there was little to hope for that she would ascend the throne u know?) #GOD THIS TURNED LOVELY ✨🥺 the coloring that was already included was so pretty and worked so well for her 🤍🌫🥺 #*ocedit #HOTD SOUNDTRACK IS FINALLY OUT BESTIES 🤍🤍😌 it’s so good it’s so good i love it #these got LONG again so if you read that you made my day honestly 🥀❣️🥺 ty ty!

[merevide]

thinking about killing eve again. thinking about eve. and her inhabitions and how she was so repressed and unfulfilled and her only true escape from that was her extensive research into female assassins and through that and getting fired and then rehired she meets villanelle and they basically bring out the worst in each other obvi but that’s also kinda their best selves because all villanelle wants is to be understood and that’s also what eve wants but she denies and denies and denies and she basically keeps denying everything until it’s too late and she’s left alone, again, screaming out in the water.

#like this shit is tragic IF ONLY IT WAS WELL WRITTEN. my god #i haven’t even rewatched this show ever since the last episode aired how do i have all of this just stored away in my brain #eve is such a wasted character because she’s literally so interesting #and then they just kinda fuck it up because they couldn’t really commit to her and her desires #which is also reflected in the show through her character bc she denies and denies and denies until it’s too late #too late being villanelle ending up dead and villanelle was basically the personification of all of eve’s dark desires #like villanelle kinda fucked up her life and killed her best friend and hurt so many of the people eve loved #and eve still was in her orbit because. BECAUSE!!!!! #i’m literally ranting right now and i don’t even know why #like i could go on and on but none of u wanna hear that #like eve is alone in a mental sense in the start and she’s alone in a literal sense in the end #like lol. this isn’t even talking about the romantic aspects of it either #don’t even hit me with that their obsession went deeper than romance sit they wanted to fuck each other let’s get real #i kinda need a reboot of killing eve but with good writing all the way through #i dunno. i dunno why i’m even talking about this #like i’m gonna be 80 and still babbling about killing eve and toxic yuri madness in the nursery home #this show wasted literal years of my life i’m never gonna get back…. #BLEGH. sick sick sick sick sick sick sick SICK #killing eve #my text