#rejected bond

[yanny-77]

The golden glow of the string connecting their souls faded until it was nothing more than ordinary twine.

^Sneak Peak at tomorrow’s chapter of A Tragedy of Fawns & Fate.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/40606749/chapters/101738592

#sneak peek #hawthlain #a tragedy of fawns and fate #rejected mating bonds #mating bonds #mating bond #rejected bond #elain archeron #lord hawthorne #acotar #maasverse #crescent city

[stil-lindigo]

call that a gender fender bender

prints

#wordplay! #im so annoying #not ship art btw although i dont have anything against people who do ship these two #i just like them as homies who bond over music and also rejecting the gender binary #i see gwen as a transwoman and hobie as unlabelled fwiw #my scrunklies #spiderman across the spiderverse #spiderverse #gwen stacy #spidergwen #spiderwoman #hobie brown #spider punk #stillindigo art

[kkbardd]

An old western romance 🌵

Cool beauty bartender!Rei x Lone Ranger!Asuka

#asurei #wild west au #based on that one godly official art #my Texan came out in this one guys #u read it kinda in an anti clockwise spiral btw #falls in love -> rejection -> drink sorrows away -> bond over broken hearts -> fight bad guys bang bang -> ride into sunset #asuka x rei #nge #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #rei ayanami #ayanami rei #asuka langley

[stevieharringtonwifeguy]

wayne's newest mug that he gets like the day after eddie and stevie officially start dating:

#big believer of wayne and stevie father/daughter bonding times watching sports and fishing before steddie are even dating #wayne knows it's just a matter of time and he wants to get to know his future daughter in law. and she's great #steddie #transfem steve harrington #stevie sees the mug and immediately starts crying bc 1) wayne loves her and 2) wayne loves HER like not only is he calling her an in law but #a DAUGHTER in law and she's like 🥺 #eddie is as dramatic about this mug as you'd expect him to be #like. BETRAYED. by mine own uncle. i mean i can't fault your taste bc stevie is perfect in every way #but i WILL be prostrating myself around the trailer in throes of rejected agony

[the-valkyries-gwyn-nesta-emerie]

People want a rejected mate trope but fail to realize a lot of rejected mate tropes are just second chance romances for the rejected mate pairing as they work through their differences.

There are very few books where the rejected mate couple stay apart, and usually those are when the guy tries to off the woman & as she's dieing is blessed with a different guy. I can't see that happening between Elucien when Lucien looked at Elain with longing still in ACOSF.

Sarah is a fated mate author. Elain and Lucien WILL be endgame, even if they explore a rejected mate bond.

🎨 is by @rosalynnart

#elucien #no rejected mate bond here #elucien endgame #elain and lucien #lucien and elain #anti e/riel #lucien x elain #elain x lucien #lucien vanserra #elain archeron #they will be endgame #no doubt #sarah is a fated mates author #pro elucien

[aranciafiamma]

the fucking iron grip that KHR has on my ass is insane bc its such an EPITOME of found family - bc its not even the side effect of like a shared goal or mission the way found families tend to be - but because FOUND FAMILY IS THE ENTIRE POINT

its the end goal, its the journey, its the whole story

theres a wholeass emphasis on tsuna's big empty house getting more crowded and more noisy

and not only that, its found family and a found purpose - each of the vongola find an achor in tsuna and vice versa - like fuck everybody else, im with them type a way

its that bone gnawing loyalty where not even the hounds of hell could keep these assholes from having each other's back

not just their relation to tsuna - which is the primary focus of the story but their relation to each other - how they must learn to be together bc again

Found Family Is The Mission

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #bonds bonds bonds #this emphasis also on tsuna growing as a leader #their hearthfire and lighthouse #their home and final resting place #and how this shounen ass protags whole character arc #its not about being hokage #its not about becoming the greatest hero #its not about becoming pirate king #its not a goal to strive for #its a service that tsuna must learn to give #its a role that tsuna must learn to play #there is so much emphasis on how tsuna learns to take care of the people around him #because thats his job and their job and they all must work together to take care of each other #its so good? #also bc lbr the final boss is tsuna's own inheritance #which he is slowly being raised to have #and yet must violently reject in order to make that true and final transformation #to be the best of himself and the best of himself for others #tsuna is at his best when hes protecting someone #likewise tsuna shines the most because he is protected and loved and adored in return

[yaralulu]

”We want a rejected mates trope !!” who the hell is we 🤨⁉️.I cannot think of something more depressing to read about than two mates rejecting their bond.Especially when one person still longs for the other and has already lost the person they thought was their mate in such a tragic and brutal way.Now their actual mate wants nothing to do with them to the point where they want to reject their mating bond? Fucking ouch.Just something about two people whose literal souls are tied to one another ending up with other people doesn’t really read as romantic to me.

I understand that sjm might want to explore the rejected mates trope but why does lucien have to be the guinea pig?? I cannot think of one character less deserving to go through this trope than lucien.Not just because of his history with jesminda but because he genuinely hasn’t had a moment of peace since the beginning of this series.He does not deserve to have his mate reject him on top of everything else he just doesn’t.I want elain to be happy but if that’s gonna cost my favorite character his happiness and possibly his sanity then i’m allowed to be a little annoyed.

If elain really does reject the bond with lucien I don’t wanna be here to read that scene and I definitely don’t want a lucien pov of that.Can you imagine the fucking anguish and heartbreak of a scene like that yeah no thank youuuu.

#fuck rejected mates #i hate that shit!! #acotar #a court of thorns and roses #lucien vanserra #pro lucien vanserra #pro elucien #mating bond #sjm critical #sjm give lucien a break pls #anti elriel

[ruporas]

one final attempt to convince you otherwise

#axel #xion #kingdom hearts #kh fanart #drew this awhile ago when i was Losing my mind over kh 358/2 days and temporarily ignoring kh3 #xion and axel's bond w one another Has always felt a little underrated but #ive read the novel recently and it delved into their characteristics a lot more... they're always on the same page #but its the way they accept/reject the situation on hand that differs #Ugh. EUGHHHH im going to get feelings again #ruporas art

[wakeupthemembersofbylernation]

The idea of Mike “gently rejecting” Will in S5 is such a silly concept to me. It truly would make zero sense from a narrative perspective or from a character arc perspective. That’s why many Mlvn diehards don’t even really believe it will happen. They believe the show will move on without ever really addressing the Mike-shaped elephant in the room. They believe Will’s happy ending will simply consist of his friends and family accepting him and giving him a hug, and that’s it. And maybe he’ll get an unnamed bf in the finale. (That is, unless the show makes Will a secret villain and kills him off. Then at least he’d be interesting).

Some even take Will’s words at facevalue, believing that El truly commissioned the painting or at least that the intense romantic feelings Will described really belong to her. Now that Mike has confessed his love, they believe that S5 will finally consist of happy Mlvn couple moments, so there won’t be any time for Mike and Will to be together even as friends to talk about any lingering feelings. And why would there be time, since it’s the apocalypse after all, and Will is just a plot device and isn’t really relevant to anything? The Duffers must be exaggerating his importance to S5. The Core 4 is Mike, El, Lucas, and Dustin. Will’s romantic desires are meaningless.

They have to believe all this, cause if they don’t, and they still want to believe in Mlvn endgame, they have to conclude that Will’s emotional desires will be central to the plot of S5, Will’s feelings are the glue that put Mlvn back together, the painting will come up again because El didn’t actually commission it, Mike and Will will be close enough in S5 to have meaningful heart-to-hearts, AND Mike is 100% straight and will…. gently reject Will and promise to always be good pals; he just sadly doesn’t swing that way?

Silliness, objectively.

Anyway, Byler endgame.

#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #stranger things 5 #‘but sometimes unrequited love just happens! didn’t robin lovingly/gently reject steve?’ #okay but you see how that’s different right? #you see how a character we just met rejecting another character with a crush within the context of one season because they are a lesbian #is very different from a boy finally confessing his feelings to his childhood best friend #after 5 seasons of building up how special and distinct and different their bond is #and after devoting his entire arc in the penultimate season to making those feelings clear to the audience #without actually addressing it/directly having him confess in said season #only to finally confess his feelings (that he and most of the audience already believes are unrequited) #and get ‘gently rejected’ by that best friend who is straight and that’s all there is to it #you see how that’s completely different and makes no sense narratively right? #yes you do #that’s why you downplay will’s feelings #or you downplay will as a character #because that’s the only thing preventing your house of cards from crumbling

[animezinglife]

I don't think the comment about the rejected mating bond I keep seeing is about Elain and Lucien.

Taking my shipping goggles completely off (and I truly am open to the narrative taking different turns), it would be an incredibly odd move from a writing perspective on the individual level.

Let's completely take Elain out of the equation or forget we know her. Does it really make sense for Lucien--a male who's been rejected constantly and in multiple capacities throughout his life, who has no "home" to turn to (not by his choosing), and who lost his love tragically and horribly--to go through all of that only for a mating bond to snap and for that bond to be rejected?

Let's do the same with Lucien. Let's forget we know Lucien. Does it really make sense for Elain--a woman who's just had her entire life ripped from her, including a future with a man she thought she loved only to be cruelly rejected by that man--to go through of that only for a mating bond to snap with a good man (male) and for her to reject it?

I'm not stating it couldn't happen. It absolutely could. Yet it would be a strange narrative choice, especially after going through the trouble of writing that bond in the first place, elaborating on the care Lucien takes in selecting her gifts, his extremely intentional, careful distance with her, etc. It would be a strange narrative choice for them to not get the happily-ever-after--or at least the happier ever after--when so much of their characters as individuals and as a potential couple seems to be building the foundation for a story on healing.

On overcoming heartbreak, devastation, and having a life stripped away.

On choosing the courage and challenge of loving again.

On finding a simple sort of peace in that love.

I don't think a rejected bond will have anything to do with them. Not with Elain and Lucien, not with Azriel, and not with Gwyneth.

#elucien #just my thoughts #elain archeron #lucien vanserra #(I taught writing for years) #acotar #I truly think the rejected bond will turn out to have been Mor and Eris (understandably). It's right under our noses #or Helion and LoA (also understandably in a sadder way) #If it were Mor and Eris #it could be a powerful narrative on choice #and the exact mirror opposite of how one between Elain and Lucien could develop #just saying

[yanny-77]

New Chapter!

#a tragedy of fawns and fate #acotar #crescent city #crossover #elain archeron #hawthlain #sarah j maas #acotar fanfic #acotar fanfication #crescent city fanfiction #a court of thorns and roses #cc fanfic #cc fanfiction #crescent city fanfic #lord hawthorne #maasverse #the golden thread #rejected bond #rejected mating bonds #fate #there’s smut #AToFaF

[gwyns]

sjm is literally known as the fated mates author of today's fantasy space. she loves the trope, nearly every single one of her endgame ships are mates, and if they're not confirmed it's highly speculated they are (manorian). hell, even her human ships can have magical bonds that tie them to another person, for better or worse (chaorene). she likes her characters to have this connection, for them to find their own, special person that was meant for them and to help them grow and flourish. even if she has elain reject the bond, i can totally see her making her fall in love with lucien anyway, because that would be playing with it, right? and giving readers something unexpected, something e/riels claim they want

but at the end of the day, it's not about the bond, that's just a device to get characters closer to each other. sjm has always been about choice and like it or not, lucien is a choice for elain. she's been making choices, no one has stripped that from her since hybern kidnapped her. stop acting like shippers are taking away a fictional woman's rights for wanting her with her mate

#im just so tired. its annoying as hell that with EVERY OTHER COUPLE people want them to be mates because it confirms an endgame #like fuck im waiting for ariadne and flynn to somehow be mates so i can bask in my ariflynn endgame #but nooooope. when its elucien suddenly sjm needs to switch it up and do a mate bond rejection. so frustrating #antielriel #anti e/riel #tp

[merrimentsmight]

My type is loudmouth redheads with golden eyes and a deep and abiding sadness in their hearts

#gideon nav #cicero skyrim #from a death cult #forms obsessive and unhealthy bonds #makes bad jokes #fights good #parental rejection #dog type loyalty #social isolation #impulsive #i would only have two nickels but its weird that it happened twice etc etc #the golden eyes for cicero is fanon but like very widely accepted fanon #hes anthryn's cav

[jesterwhoreknee]

Not me wanting to do a Chalastor/Radiobelle roleplay but being scared to death of being attacked or mocked in the roleplay community for it 💀

Don't get me wrong I love Vaggie and Charlie together and loved Vaggie's angel look alongside the backstory and how they met, but Vivzie isn't good at writting women and they don't have chemistry at all. Meanwhile I have always had a soft spot for Charastor and the dynamic/potential they had since the pilot came out. I know it will never be canon and don't intend in wanting it to be because I respect the characters sexualities/official pairings. BUT LEMME ENJOY MY FANON SHIP IN PEACEEEEE 😤😤😤

#chalastor #radiobelle #charlie x alastor #hazbin hotel #alastor #charlie morningstar #Vivzie said we can ship whoever we want #is common sense guys #shipping has always ignored canon #live and let live #Alastor doesn't see Charlie as a daughter #He wants to piss off Luci #anyways they aren't actually related and Charlie is thousand of years older so it doesn't make sense and they have never acted like that #shippers just choose to ignore that part and keep treating them as business partners/friends #or they make Charlie reject that fraternal bond while Alastor admits not meaning it because he only wants to piss off Luci (which is true) #if you don't like it it's respectable but stop shamming other shippers #people are just using this as an excuse to keep harassing Chalastor fans because they have always been harassed for years before this #I said what I said #I will get funned omg #bye #roleplay #vivziepop #shipping

[earlgodwin]

“…In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.” — François de La Rochefoucauld, The Moral Maxims and Reflections.

#these two smh #i'm so normal about them #cesare outshining juan by every turn yet juan didn't hate him for it because like i said he doesn't care #juan wanting a close bond with him but he was too afraid of being rejected by him #like his tragedy is that he always terrified he's on the outside #and that makes him act out in resentment and jealousy #now don't let me speak on cesare's jealousy which is fucking irritatinggggg #like oh no your dad gave your younger brother a position that he's incompetent in so let's direct all the anger on the brother #and not the father who actually bestowed him with it and set him up to fail *yawns* #anyway i miss these unhinged bros #juan and cesare #juan borgia #cesare borgia #david oakes #the borgias #theborgiasedit #perioddramaedit #tvedit #francois arnaud #by jen

[landlordevil]

Day 2: Wyll and my Tav Eins! They hit it off right away and were practically inseparable. I like to imagine they'd talk about anything and everything together whenever there was a free moment at camp- swap stories, discuss horn maintenance, etc.. Friends that rebuke hellishly together STAY together!

#and yes... eins was smitten and shot their shot and wyll kindly rejected them... but nothing could shake their warrior's bond #wyllvember #oc: eins #wyll ravengard #bg3 #bg3 wyll #but i loved their friendship sm!! just two blokes who try their best to do the right thing even if it isn't easy #i also think their conversations would be infectious #like if they're chilling by the campfire chatting soon everyone HAS to join in #and they would be so good at taking the piss out of each other #okie if i say more on their friendship i'll make a post about it i will stop using the tags.... neow #my art