“Please,” the protagonist said. “If you actually love me like you say, please don’t do this.”
The royal lifted the protagonist into the carriage, and onto their lap.
“What was that, my dear?” they said with a smirk.
The protagonist scrambled off their lap and onto the opposite seats.
The royal laughed. “You should have seen this coming, darling. I did say, after all, that I would choose the most beautiful of my noblemen’s children.”
The protagonist glared at them. “I’m not going to marry you.”
The royal raised an amused brow. “You overestimate your own choice in the matter.”
“You will need me to say ‘I do’ in the chapel.” It was a struggle to keep their voice even. “I refuse to utter the words.”
“Do you have a lover? Is that it?” The royal’s tone remained jovial, but something dangerous lurked behind their eyes.
“No,” the protagonist said, and the royal’s expression brightened. But it was not the good news the royal thought it was.
“I don’t fall in love,” the protagonist went on. “And I never will. Not with you, not with anyone. I will never wed.”
The protagonist had braced for anger, maybe even threats or violence. The royal’s smug look was somehow worse.
“I know you have a prickly heart, darling,” they said. “I’ve witnessed it plenty of times in my own court. But once you’ve been shown proper love, you’ll change your mind.”
“That is a bold assumption.”
“Which is why it will be so satisfying when I am proven right. Now come here.” The royal patted their lap with a smile.
The protagonist stiffened, but the royal’s gaze left no room for compromise. Limbs heavy, they rose and climbed onto the royal’s lap.
The protagonist stared out the window, as the carriage continued on. The royal played with their clothes, and their hair, blathering on about some nonsense while the protagonist watched their home drift away into the distance.
Eventually, the protagonist turned to the royal. They held their chin high with the confidence of a decision made. “You know what? Alright.”
The royal grinned. “Oh?”
“If you insist. Then fine, I’ll marry you. In sickness and in health.” A plan was beginning to form. They donned the convincing imitation of a warm smile. “Until death do us part.”
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Dating app concept for demiromantic people in which the entire app is meant for finding other queer friends with the subtext of IF you hit it off enough you MIGHT be interested in pursuing a romantic relationship
You create a little profile with pictures of yourself and your interests and whatever else people usually have on a dating app profile and you swipe through other people's profiles and if you match you get to talk to each other
Presumably you go out on a few hang outs, get to know you activities, whatever, and then you become friends
If one of you catches romantic feelings for the person AFTER you've become friends, there's a little button on matched profiles to signify romantic interest
The other person does not get notified when you toggle the romantic interest button UNLESS they have also toggled the romantic interest button
You have the option to toggle the romantic interest button on matched profiles on and off at any given point in time and you'll never know how many times the romantic interest button has been switched on or off, or even that the switch was toggled at all, unless BOTH people currently have the romantic interest switch toggled on at the same time
Therefore demi people who are freaked out at the idea of going into a dating app looking for someone to date have the opportunity to just make friends, and there's no pressure or fear of ruining a friendship made through the app, because you can "confess" without actually confessing, because your confession never goes through unless it's mutual
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Help, is anyone else on here also reciprosexual/romantic? I feel weird for it and I never see/hear of people being the same :(
Basically if you don't know it means that I don't get attracted to someone unless they tell me that they're attracted. So like I have to be dating to love but when it happens I fall hard and fast.
It might vary from people to people but for me that's it
I saw post about people supporting it but none being actively it (does that make sense?)
So anyone else like this?
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Eagerly awaiting Nancy's sexuality crisis over her genderqueer boy. Super here for it.
She completely errors out because her brain literally goes, "I can't be straight, I'm dating Jonathan." And then has to figure that out. Discovers a lot of things about herself along the way too.
It will be much more fluff than I seem to trend towards cause my brain demanded happiness and joy for these two this time :D
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So for my one and only new year's resolution im starting a pain journal.
Also as a side note I passed probation at my work so I have a secure desk job now isnt that poggers
After figuring out I have joint hypermobility syndrome/hypermobility spectrum disorder a lot of things have made sense. Especially the fucking horrifying migraine I had yesterday.
Like, I've never been nauseous with a migraine before but the pain and pressure was so bad I was sobbing and screaming. Like, pain so bad I may have self harmed a little bit in a feeble attempt to focus the pain somewhere else. It didnt work lmfao. "self harmed" i scratched my arm enough to draw blood. whatever
it royally sucked ass though i wouldnt wish that amount of pain on anyone.
But yeah! now im gonna keep track of my joint pain and headaches and everything else of my body that doesnt work to see if theres anything that triggers anything specific. And my mental health i guess. which is normally fine until the fatigue or exhaustion or whatever catches up to me and i get no sleep and nearly fall asleep at my desk at work oops
Thank god for the holidays for allowing me to catch up on sleep because boy i cannot function on a 40 hour work week
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