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ariel-seagull-wings · 1 year

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PETER VENKMAN’S ROMANTIC INTERESTS

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In this comedy franchise about scientists that hunt ghosts to win a buck, the sarcastic and arrogant Peter Venkman was the most outgoing in trying to pursue romance (or at least sexual escapades) with several different women. Sometimes he succeeded in charming them, other times they just weren’t interested in him. Some were normal, some were supernatural beings. Some were good people, and some were evil.

He is the list of ladies that catchet the romantic interest of the Psychologist who becamed the public voice for the Ghostbusters.

DANA BARRETT

Played by Sigourney Weaver as a main character in the first two movies and a cameo in the recent Afterlife movie, also appearing in a NOW! comic book adaptation of the second movie drawn in the style of the Real Ghostbusters animated series and more recently in the IDW Publishing comics, the musician Dana Barrett is shown to be the first lady that Peter Venkman showed an interest that beyond physical desire. In later instalments of the franchises, their dynamic is shown to be of the “on again, off again” kind of fictional romance, but for most people who are exclusively familiar with the movies, thanks in big part to a charismatic performance by Miss Weaver elevating her beyond an one dimentional damsel in distress, she has become the most memorable of the ladies that becamed part of Venkman’s life, and their relationship is considered to be THE end game.

CYNTHIA CRAWFORD

Cynthia Crawford was a TV Reporter created for the animated series The Real Ghostbusters, appearing in the episode Citizen Ghost to interview Venkman about their work in hunting ghosts and trying to understand how Slimer, originally a foe, becamed the mascot of the team. This time, it was only a one sided crush on Peter’s part, because Cynthia was only interested in coming to the Firehouse as a professional to do her job. The episode’s highlight is when Peter watches the news, hoping Cynthia will shower him with praises, only for her to say that Slimer is the most underrated heroe in the team.

LOUISE

A temporary who camed to work as a secretary at the Firehouse desk while Janine tooked the day off to introduce Egon to her family (and people try to argue those two weren’t a couple, but I digress). Once again, this was an one sided crush on Peter’s part, Louise was only interested in doing a favour for her friend Janine, and really wasn’t confortable around people who constantly have to deal with ghosts and other monsters.

WANDA

Originating in a story written for the Real Ghostbusters Marvel licensed comics, Wanda was a villanous mermaid who used her powers of seduction manipulate Peter and later Ray so she could doom the Ghostbusters. Sometimes, there are love stories that aren’t meant to be...

IRENA CORTEZ

A character created for the NOW! licensed Real Ghostbusters comics, A werewolf lady from Arizona who received help from the Ghostbusters to learn how to control her powers and turn into a werewolf by her own will rather than being controlled by the moon or by villains, she later helped the team to defeat an evil demon named Astaroth that intended to dominate the world. She adopted Shannon, the good hearted half-human son of Astaroth, and later started to date Peter.

ILYSSA SELWYN

A character created for the 2009 videogame, where she was voiced by actress Alyssa Milano, Ilyssa Selwyn is an orphan who becamed an art historian and museum curator when she becamed an adult, showing particular fascination with Sumerian Art and Mithology and the cult of Gozer. She is a descendant of Ivo Shandor, the architect that founded the Secret Society that adored Gozer and intended to bring the End of the World. However, unlike her infamous ancestour, she is not evil, and the Ghostbusters have to save Ilyssa when the spirits of the Secret Society intend to sacrifice her in another attempt to destroy the World. Later, she makes appearances in the IDW licensed comics helping the team against other treats following the adventure shown in the videogame. While her relationship with Peter Venkman is not shown becoming concrete, there is a hint that slowly she grows fond of him.

My favorite ladies of this list (specially in relationship with their romantic dynamic with Venkman) are Dana Barrett, Irena Cortez and Ilyssa Selwyn. What are your favourites?

#ghostbusters 1984 #the real ghostbusters #ghostbusters the videogame #idw ghostbusters #peter venkman #fandom musings #dana barrett #cynthia crawford #louise #wanda #irena cortez #ilyssa selwyn #romances tropes #romantic subplots

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iamgonnagetyouback · 1 year

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#romance #tropes #writing #reading #books #fanfiction #this screams jiara #*gege

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whatthehellami · 5 months

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Artwork is not mine.

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the-overanalyst · 11 months

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unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

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catfayssoux · 29 days

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googoogagahearteyes · 11 months

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Just a statistic I’m interested in finding out :)

Like for me it would depend on who it was etc etc but overall still a yes bc it would be funny yknow

#no this is definitely not bc i just watched to all the boys ive loved before for the first time #after bingeing #xo kitty #poll #romance #fanfic trope #but irl #tatbilb #to all the boys trilogy #but also literally all other fake relationship trope media #fake relationship #genuinely interested in the outcome of this #:)

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linecoveredinjellyfish · 2 years

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my favorite romance trope is like. you dont want to hurt me but i am asking you to hurt me. i need you to stab me. i need you to hit me. i need you to carve this out of me. i need you to cut something off of me. this will hurt both of us in incredible ways. yours are the only hands i trust enough to weild this knife. you do not want to hurt me. i am asking you to hurt me.

#romance tropes #fic tropes #jonmartin #because of course this is at least partially about them #it is very late and i have Feelings #angst trope #it speaks!

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urfriendlywriter · 8 months

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friends to lovers heart fluttering moments:

(feel free to use<3 i miss being active :') TAG ME WHEN YALL WRITE PLSSS WOULD LOVE TO READD )

running into their arms after being away for too long !!!!

leaning into each other when laughing.

casually linking arms, holding-hands, sharing hugs that lasts a teensy tiny bit longer. AHHHHH

them watching you do ur own thing with so much admiration [I've one want in life-]

"why?" "because it's you." (like them doing smthng espeviallyyforu)

"I'll do anything, as long as it's with you." n they nonchalantly say it.??? ( MA SONGG OMG)

spending more time together than usual

having your parents tease you and ship you together > ~ <

teasing them and they actually blush???

getting physically close during the denial phase. IMAGINE KISSING AND FREAKING OUT SAYING, "friends... kiss. right?"

getting ur breath hitched whenever they're too close.

imagine lingering with ur mouth slightly parted while both of ur noses brush, eyes fluttering just wondering---where this is going.

^ AND WHEN THEY SAY, "fuck it. may i kiss u?" but their voice is so low, yearning so hard.

getting noticeably shy after going a lil too hard on the kissing--"it's ok, we're still friends, right?"

a third person NOTICING IT AND going, "oh SO yall are the type to kiss and nOT TELL?" "WhAT NO, WE DIDNT-" "YEAH WE DIDN'T."

^ but one if one of them is an idiot n they go, "HOW DID U NOTICE?" "ha, so i was correct. yall mfs-!!!"

and the realising phase of how much you like them

and not being able to wait until u see them. so u can confess, get it out and about.

or what if? they end up ur house at 4 am in pouring rain and say, "i know we're best friends, but i want to be more. Let me be yours forever please, and not just as friends this time." AAAAAAAH.

SCREAMING N FIGHTING KISSING IN THE RAIN, ITS 2 AM N UR LOVIN THEIR NAME SO IN LOVE BUT U ACT INSANEEE N THATS THE WAY U LOVE THEMMM

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me-writes-prompts · 2 months

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-:“Can we please just talk?” Post argument make-up talk prompts:-

(You know who needs this? YOU KNOW WHO NEEDS THIS?! AZIRAPHALE AND CROWLEY! *sobs*)

By @me-writes-prompts

"Look, I'm really sorry for shouting at you. I just...I just lost control. But it wasn't your fault, it was me. Please forgive me?"

"We really shouldn't have fought over a piece of dumpling, don't you think so?" "Yeah, that was rather a vague topic to argue over." (Vmin, anyone?)

"I'm really sorry, I wasn't in the right mind and vent it out on you."

"Are you still mad at me? I mean, it's okay if you are. I'm mad at myself, too."

"Can we talk?" "Yeah, yeah. Let's do that."

"I didn't mean to say you're not enough, okay? Because you are, but I am not. I am not enough to appreciate a person like you."

"I really wasn't thinking straight, now was I? I'm sorry. You shouldn't have to put up with my shit. I'll be better for you."

"Are you calm now?" "Yeah, sorry. Needed to take a time out."

Kissing as apologizing but then also expressing it in words.

Angry cuddles, because they are cold. Definitely not because they want the warmth their partner provides.

"That was a really silly argument we had last night, right?" “Hmm, yet we couldn’t stop the topic.” They try to joke.

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obsob · 10 months

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happy and proud!!

✷(print shop)✷

#mine #original #sm how managed 2 miss pride month....but its pride month every month in this house hold #ive read two bad YA books so far this month as a break from th 2nd farseer book but now.....i am back.........i am reading th 3rd one #its gna make my brain explode i can feel it #n then idk what i will read. maybe th hands of th emperor #could i read smth other than 800 page epic fantasy pls #the YA books werent too bad for YA but they hve that YA cringe 2 it. idk how u people read it constantly #if i hve 2 read th word 'heck' one more time #also theres always like. disney channel vibes. like i read gay YA romance n its so sanitised n vanilla. its so superficial #like i get this is for 16 year olds but were is the longing. the yearing. these guys are fanfic tropes stuck 2gether 2 glue.#also. what is with nearly every mlm romance / fantasy being YA not adult fiction. whats up w that #anyway hve a good evenin im gna do knitting!!!!!!!!!!!!

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corvase · 1 year

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enemies to lovers midpoint prompts

as the request stated, that ‘i am trying really hard to keep hating you‘ phase, or what i like to call the reluctant friend stage. feel free to use :)

“i think we’re friends now.” “God, don’t say that.”

“everything is just a competition for you… isn’t it?” “isn’t it for you, too?”

“h—” “don’t talk to me.”

“i’d pay good money for you to admit you tolerate me.” “tolerate being the operative word.”

“why can’t you open up to me?” “why do you want me to?”

they’re so used to hating each other sometimes the snide remarks just slip out LMAO

like “should i get you something too?” “you can get out of my fa— woah, hehe. sorry.”

“you’re still on that?” “still on that..??? STILL ON THAT?????? I CANT STAND YOU???!!!(!;!”

a whispered moment between them ; “i’m trying so hard to hate you.” “why?”

they’re trying hard to hate each other then something happens (plot) and they’re stuck together which makes it ten times harder

“be honest with me.” “but why? why would i do that?”

“stop.” “stop what?” “being so kind to me.”

remember… they hated each other a couple chapters back. what changed? why did it change? who did it start to change in first?

the moment where your character asks themselves; “when did this nuisance become so important to me?”

#y’all already know… anything w enemies to lovers is my jam #enemies to lovers prompt #friends to enemies to lovers ?#writeblr #writing #writing tips #writing advice #writing prompts #writing romance #dialogue prompts #romance prompts #romance writing prompts #imagine your otp #childhood friends to enemies to friends to lovers #enemies to lovers tropes #enemies to lovers prompts #imagine your ship #otp romance prompts #romance tropes

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prompt-heaven · 6 months

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some reactions to a love confession

"..."

"...what?"

"What? Are you serious? Right now of all places, you really think it's the time to just blurt something like that out? You fucking-, urghh...."

"Wait, what?"

"...oh."

"Cut the bullshit, what do you really want? Because you should damn well know by now that kind of talk doesn't work on me."

"Excuse me?" *fucking clutching my pearls*

"Oh, no..."

"No, please don't. Please don't do this."

"Please stop saying that."

"Just don't."

slap them.

"I hate you."

"I hate you." (affectionately)

"No you don't. I know you may think you do, but you don't, not really."

"Okay."

"...okay..."

"Oh, okay.... uh.... look, I care about you too, so much, but just not like that. I'm really sorry."

"Alright. Tell me again when you finally mean it."

"Tell me again when we make it out of here alive."

"Ah, sure you do."

"I thought I was always just a friend in your eyes..."

"Since when?"

"I had no idea... why did you never tell me before?"

"I'm sorry, I can't... I want to, but I can't..."

just kiss them instead of finding the words.

kiss them as soon as they confess and thereby shut up whatever else they wanted to say.

"Took you long enough."

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"I love you more."

"Ditto."

"I know."

start tearing up.

start full on crying.

start crying happy tears.

start crying angry/confused/frustrated tears.

"Shut up."

"Shut up." (affectionately)

"Seriously?" (hello early seasons of grey's anatomy with all of the seriously's ♡)

"Say it again."

"Oh my god, it all makes so much sense now!"

start giggling uncontrollably.

start laughing uncontrollably.

goes nonverbal.

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catfayssoux · 1 month

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lazycranberrydoodles · 7 months

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i do not remember the plot of scum villain because i read it in 2020 and it feels like a fever dream now so my characterization is entirely based off of the fanon on my dash.

hualian are my favorite but i do feel that bingqiu deserve the win. tgcf is VERY yuri, but svsss has gender as a main theme and both characters keep getting compared to maidens. overall there are more explicit references to women regarding bingqiu.

#this is the first time ive ever scumposted yayyy #theyre also more toxic and weird and reserved about each other. in a good way.#to anybody else hualian is insane but compared to bingqiu its an honest and straightforward relationship #both have complex facades built off of society and trope expectations but hualian drop theirs immediately #and to this day sqq and lbh are still fighting tooth and nail #in my experience yuri can be. a horrible spiderweb of expectations and assumptions and not wanting to make assumptions #hualian have the plausible deniability right up until the end (their romance is literally SO lesbian coded) but . after like 15 minutes #they can tell when the other person is lying #and honesty is less yuri than whatever bingqiu is going through at all times #tgcf #svsss #my art #i guess lmao #art #hualian #bingqiu #guy yuri poll #mspaint #ms paint #cringetober 2023 #cringetober #lmao

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the-modern-typewriter · 4 months

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Would you be willing to do more enemies to lover tropes in hero x villain?

"You have a date?"

"If you don't want me to date other people, screw me yourself."

There was a beat of absolute silence. The hero abruptly realized what they'd said. They whirled to face the villain, eyes wide. "I didn't mean - that is - I don't know why I just said that."

Everyone around the room was gaping at the two of them.

The villain's head tilted, oh so slowly, to the side. Their gaze burned into the hero.

"I was being flippant," the hero said.

"Mm."

"You know, because you're possessive."

"Am I?" The villain's voice was silken.

"So I was just getting in there before you said something snippy."

"Oh? Is that what you were doing?"

The hero glared at them, face hot, stomach fluttering.

"Leave us," the villain said.

Everyone around them scattered.

The hero cleared their throat, not speaking until the last door had fallen closed. They wrenched their gaze away to anything, anywhere, except them. "It's not a serious date. I mean - they're not you."

The thing, whatever they were calling it, that they had with the villain was infinitely complex. Consuming. They were the most important person to the villain, and vice versa, and they both knew it but...

But they'd never kissed. They'd certainly never slept together.

Sure, the hero would probably get antsy if they thought the villain was going out with someone who might become first priority. But it wasn't - they weren't - the hero hadn't even been the one to bring up the bloody date!

The villain rose to their feet.

"You're walking dangerously close to one of our lines, hero mine," they warned softly. They sauntered closer, seemingly lazy, except that was the one thing that they never were. "You look startled enough that I can believe it was an accident. We could forget about it."

The hero watched them, a little mesmerized, heart pounding. The villain stopped in front of them.

The hero opened their mouth.

The villain tapped their lip. "Ah, ah. You're not getting away with another flippant comment after that. Think."

The hero closed their mouth. They swallowed.

It was a truth universally acknowledged that when the air between them began to crackle, the hero would say something snarky or careless to diffuse the tension. Nine times out of ten, the villain went along with it. Eight times out of ten, the hero didn't say something quite so dumb in a room full of witnesses.

It wasn't fear. It was terrifying, but it wasn't fear. It would have been so much easier if they were simply scared.

The villain set their hands on either side of the armchair the hero sat in. The hero let themselves be bracketed in with the same slow deliberation as the villain had approached them.

The hero exhaled a breath.

"Good," the villain murmured, studying them. "Now. Would you like to take that back?"

The hero said a lot of crap to the villain that they never took back. They were the only one who did. They watched the villain for a beat, every atom wondering what it would be like if the villain's hands slipped from their careful placement on furniture onto flesh.

The dates weren't like that. The dates were never like this.

But, lord, it would be such a stupid thing to do to cross that line.

The hero tipped their chin up, holding the villain's gaze again. "Do you want me to take it back?"

"If you don't, I'm definitely taking what you said as a challenge."

"Ah, yeah. That's fair." The hero wet their dry lips. "Fair warning."

"So?"

It had happened before. A threshold moment. A teetering. The villain's eyes would go dark, like they currently were, tracking everything. They'd let it go, though. If the hero asked. They always did. For all of their obvious possessiveness, the villain was never the one who brought it up.

"So," the hero dared, before they could stop themselves.

The villain's eyes notched another inch darker, more molten. Their nails dug into the upholstery.

The hero shivered; delicious and awful all at once. Intoxicating.

"So you were being flippant?" the villain prompted.

"So flippant. Unforgivably reckless. I mean, we're a terrible idea."

"The worst," the villain agreed. "Your dates are much sweeter."

"You can be sweet. When you want to be."

The villain clicked their tongue, warning.

The hero grinned back at them. Wild. Drunk, perhaps, on the vertigo of such reckless possibility, such foolish wanting.

They were at the line again. The hero was boldly brushing it with their toe, smudging at it, taunting.

The villain waited.

"You're sweet to me," the hero said. "Despite yourself." They leaned in, and up. "Tell me to stop."

"Do you want to stop?"

"No."

"No," the villain echoed. Then they grabbed the hero by the hair and kissed them.

#i don't know if this is a trope but I THINK IT SHOULD BE #enemies to lovers #hero x villain #villain x hero #romance #writing #story #short story #heroes and villains #villains and heroes

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maypearlss · 7 months

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kinda obsessed with the idea of quiet enemies-to-lovers, actually. i feel like so many enemies-to-lovers ships are so loud, there's so much banter and snark and backtalk, and there's nothing wrong with that; but i love enemies-to-lovers where the loathing is in dark glares and the tense silence enveloping the two, where "i despise you" is conveyed with one look. where, lurking in the quiet, there lies an understanding of hatred—and, eventually, an understanding of something else, entirely.

#ugh good shit #my thoughts #enemies to lovers #prompts #romance #writeblr #writers of tumblr #hate to love #tropes #romance tropes #writing #creative writing

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