#this isnt inherently romantic

[time-woods]

later:

teach your local invasive species what emotions are !

i feel like scarab is more into the main plotline of the medieval drama but prismo on the side writes these oneshots between the characters and theyre usually just exploring the characters emotions/ personalities in a free form way. anyways kiss ur local invasive species at dusk

#how tf do you explain what other emotions are to a bug thats only ever known 2 #prohibitedwish #this isnt inherently romantic #just trying to show them what hes feeling is different #being this close to someone in a non combative sense ? never heard of it #emotions are difficult n sometimes those wires get crossed #ouuugh the closeness of another person #prismo the wishmaster #scarab the god auditor #the carmine cavalier #sīdus the fallen star #adventure time au #fionna and cake #adventure time

[spoopdeedoop]

goldenpunk doodle page i did a while ago when i was sad

#my art #before ppl start arguing abt their age they're both confirmed to be teenagers pls leave me alone #pav isnt 13 hobie isnt 20 pLEASE #they're both 15-17 i'd think #and people that age hobie up tend to do it to be super weird so #his age is 100% up to interpretation and if the choices are #either 1. age him up to oversexualize him or 2. ship him with ppl that are hinted to be around his age anyway #i'd prefer the latter tbh #spiderverse #spiderverse fanart #goldenpunk #this isn't even that inherently romantic #pls be nice <3 #across the spiderverse #atsv #atsv fanart #across the spiderverse fanart #spiderman #hobie brown #pavitr prabhakar #goldenpunk fanart #hobie brown fanart #pavitr prabhakar fanart

[sonknuxadow]

on one hand i think it should be mostly games with Actual intentional lgbt rep and themes being tagged as lgbt because tagging a bunch of random games as that makes it harder for people wanting representation to find what they're looking for. and ive also seen a lot of people who dont know how steam tags work spreading misinformation or getting their hopes up for nothing because of people tagging random games as lgbt . but on the other hand i think every new sonic game that comes out being tagged as lgbt on steam is hilarious . sonic lgbt icon forever

#for anyone who doenst know tags on steam are chosen by players #and tags on games that arent out yet are often put there as a joke and dont reflect the actual content of the game #so no sonadow isnt going to become canon because sonic x shadow generations is tagged as lgbtq #because sega didnt put that there. its just fans putting it there based on the title #which. the title isnt inherently a ship thing either lmao whenever sega puts 'x' between two names its meant to mean and or crossover #and doesnt inherently have romantic connotation. theyve done this sort of thing before #like yeah sonadow moment the title is funny people can joke about it i dont care #but i see so many people talk like theres no non-sonadow explanation for this and like. there is..? #you just cant turn your shipping brain off so youre ignoring it #Anyway. yeah of course its an lgbt game. it has sonic the hedgehog in it #yeah of course sonic frontiers is a gay game. look at every cutscene with sonic and knuckles in it

[lycanr0t]

the thing about aplatonicism is that just like aromanticism and asexualism, it doesn't inherently mean you don't want friendships, every individual apl person has different needs and wants in regards to friendship and each person will go about it differently.

I for example am aplatonic and don't specifically feel platonic attraction as in, i don't feel a drive to befriend people. I don't get "friend crushes" or ever get the desire to befriend specific people. I am personally, very open to the possibility of friendship if someone else approaches me and we vibe. I am not platonically attracted to them, but I also do get enjoyment from socializing with others in that way and can become attached to them, etc. Platonic attraction does not equal caring about someone/being good to them. Attraction is not moral in that way. it just is.

Just like how some ace people still enjoy sex, even without sexual attraction. Some aplatonic people still enjoy friendship, and some don't. And that's okay! There are so many types of relationships out there that people can form and explore what makes them happiest and it looks different for every person and that's such a wonderful thing.

#my husband and i are both aplatonic and it manifests in VERY different ways for each of us but like. its neat its cool #i don't have many friends bc i don't seek ppl out but i love talking to people. i am a very social anf i like to think friendly person #i also have incredibly strong morals about treating people with kindness and trying to make the world a gentler place. #bc platonic attraction does not determine how good a person is or their morals #you can have 0 friends and still be a good person who treats people well #we NEED to get away from the idea of 'person with no friends = bad' #bc like. its a bad concept. its inherently flawed and bigoted and shit. tbh #the power of friendship isnt the most powerful thing actually its not any worse or better than any other relationship #friends arent worse or better than romantic partners or family or coworkers or strangers #its just another relationship and subset of attraction and putting it on a pedestal isnt a good thing actually #just how ​ace advocacy that relies on claiming romance is the best thing in the world is flawed #aro advocacy that claims friendship is the most important thing is just as flawed #all are equal. theyre not better or worse just different #rot posts #anyways unprompted apl post its just been on my mind

[houndfaker]

i know ive touched on it before but it really is just so appealing to me how like, probably what makes me so crazy about kym is just kind of where each of them stands in relation to mitsuru.

you have yukari who is an unexpected match to mitsuru. they are reflections of each other and it takes both of them incredibly long to actually come to terms with that.

and then you have kikuno who is like. an echo of mitsuru. mitsuru's one goal in life was doing absolutely anything in her power to protect the thing that mattered to her the most: her father. kikuno's one goal in life is doing absolutely anything in her power to protect the thing that matters to her the most: mitsuru.

mitsuru omits important information about shadows that she's aware of for the sake of her goal. she isnt fully honest with her teammates, her eventual friends who she has to trust her life with in battle. kikuno deceives for the sake of her goal. mitsuru is the person she cares most about, and she betrays her for what she perceives to be her own good.

mitsuru insists on the belief that sees is only united by the goal to eliminate the shadows, despite the love she's come to have for them all she clings to what feels like logical fact because the idea of burdening them with herself when she cant offer them anything anymore is so scary. kikuno insists on the same exact belief, that sees was only united by the goal to eliminate the shadows, and for that reason its foolish to return to them. to return to battle, where she could die just as her father had.

and while mitsuru is the one who presents the idea that theyre both incorrect in that belief in the first place, its yukari who changes kikuno's mind. yukari is proof that mitsuru is correct to have faith in her friends, to love her friends, to be stubbornly loyal and protective of them despite the present uncertainty of what brought them into each other's lives in the first place. (and yukari is the most active in showing mitsuru that, too! we see as much at the kyoto riverbank.)

and kikuno has a particular fondness of yukari as a result of that, even if its usually accompanied by teasing, she has gratitude towards her for being the person that opened her mind.

and yknow. it is mutual. eventually. however brief the moments are.

idk idk obviously the circumstances for each of their actions are very different but i will never get over just how much the way that mitsuru carries herself influences kikuno whether either of them realize it or not.

shes watched mitsuru tear herself apart to protect takeharu longer than anyone. its no surprise that shes so snappy and intense and protective of her the entire time she's home. she positions herself as the person that takes care of mitsuru where mitsuru doesnt care for herself.

and you have to consider beyond the overall 'she loves her that is the person she would die for' she just watched mitsuru shatter from pursuing and failing what she saw as the meaning of her life. and kikuno takes extreme measures to ensure it wont happen to her next.

and just ohh kikuno finally back to being completely in her element with the reassurance that mitsuru is safe that mitsuru has someone trustworthy looking out for her. its a sliver of faith despite all the risks. its learning what mitsuru had to learn, taught to her by mitsuru and the one who taught mitsuru, too. its insane. i wish they'd all explode. that's all

#quinn moment #p3 #persona 3 #p4au #kikuno saikawa #yukari takeba #mitsuru kirijo #kikuyukamitsu #this isnt Inherently me making a case for the polycule because none of this has to be romantic these strong connections between the #characters still carry extremely important meaning beyond romantic connotation (even if the connotation is kind of undeniably strong when i #comes to kikuno and mitsuru) #but also yknow this whole thing backing up their stupid yurisms is why its so appealing to your friend quinn here. #idk why its so bad like ik logically what i enjoy about them but this is hardly the most profound of gay relationships one can pull #'quinn its because youre autistic' i know iknwo iknow #SORRTY I MADE A LONG POST TREADING THE SAME GROUND AGAIN I WAS THINKING TOO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[doctorhoe]

thank god I grew up with doctor who and never got into differentiating between platonic and romantic relationships.

#they love each other isnt that enough #all romantic love is inherently platonic. all platonic love is deeply romantic. its all human connection to me. #bla. #dw

[rometabss]

girl who has a romencken playlist that consists of 50% religious songs

#idk what it is abt them like #theyre honestly kinda loustat coded #the god/devil image of one of them #and the devotion the other has for them #the inherent terror that comes with thst devotion #like if ur love isnt me and the devil hell and you you want it darker glory kiss me son of god not strong enough big god the killing moon #and ethel cain is it really worth it #smth abt finding religion in one another #or more specifically too finding a god AND devil-like figure in someone and devoting urself to them #its very sexy like what can i say #“to fall in love is to create a religion that has an fallible god” #“love for you is larger than usual romantic love. its like a religion. its terrifying. no one will ever want to sleep with you” #roman roy #jeryd mencken #romencken #roman x mencken #succession

[chronicowboy]

no but the fact eddie could have done the will reveal by talking about how good buck is with christopher and how much he cares for him (which he does obviously) but instead he uses it as a way to reaffirm buck's importance, not just in his and christopher's lives, just that buck is important, its the way the will says "there's nobody in the world i trust more with me son than you" but eddie says "this is a legally binding document that means i love you and i need you and i know you feel like you shouldn't even really exist but i am infinitely glad that you do"

#sami rambles #like the will isnt inherently romantic as its been said but the fact that its done like This #this is romantic #eddie u made some very interesting choices care to explain them perhaps #911 fox #evan buckley #911 #eddie diaz #christopher diaz #911 show #buddie #buck x eddie #buckley diaz family

[benjibots]

team 344 are cowards (/j /lh) so i made this

#this took like 5 minutes lmao #also the implication isnt inherently romantic lol i just thought itd be cute #underworld office

[ayatoscupid]

hey. hey you.

write a physical letter that your f/o would give to you.

go all out on it! if they’re the fancy type, buy pretty-looking paper. if they’re the casual type, rip a page out of a notebook. try to write in handwriting that’s not your own. think about what they’d say to you, how they’d express their love and care for you in words, and write it down. it can be one sentence or a hundred, simple and heartfelt or a whole damn novel.

put it in an envelope, or fold it up into a paper plane. scrunch it up if they’d be too shy to send it in the first place. wear lipstick and kiss the back of it. spray it in a scent that you think they’d wear. if you can and if they would, put a wax seal on the envelope.

now put it somewhere safe. somewhere you might forget about for a while. and you’ll find it again when you need it most—your f/o’s truest, most loving words for you that you can touch, smell and read, over and over again.

that they adore you, more than anything.

(psst- if they can’t write, say they hired a scribe just for this! if they’re a robot, type it out! the possibilities are endless, and love letters are timeless. treat yourself, and let yourself be loved by them. ♡)

#selfship #self ship #selfship community #f/o community #f/o #selfshipping #again: this post isnt inherently romantic!! write some letters from ur qpps besties family u name it #long tags ahead! #idk if someones suggested this idea before- probably have. im not a very original person LOL #but love letters are one of my absolute favourite things in the world n this idea has been STEWING in me #so. so. time to buy the fanciest stationery bc yato Would! ok! #(dont buy stuff if u cant afford them; the content of the letter matters more than what its made of!) #ok these tags r getting long. my bad HGKDHDK #💘.writing

[loveydive]

i just finished reading giovanni’s room and i am curious about the immense amount of ‘room’ imagery in the novel. i mean duh, a novel called ‘giovanni’s room’ is going to use that analogy. but ive seen people interpret giovanni’s room as soooo many things but none of them felt satisfying enough for me.

ive seen ppl call it a physical cage for davids idea of masculinity, or a place of freedom and love where david can love who he loves away from society’s expectations, or a toxic and claustrophobic place that forced him to stay in the closet. but i feel like the room can be all of these at once. in my eyes, the room analogy is amorphous and its meaning changes throughout the story because my take on it is that giovanni’s room is giovanni.

when david first sees the room, he remarks that it is organised by ‘punishment and grief’ (p. 78). and he thinks that his role is to ‘destroy this room and give Giovanni a new and better life. This life could only be my own, which, in order to transform Giovanni’s, must first become a part of Giovanni’s room.’ (p. 78). the implication is clear - he must become a part of giovanni’s life and to destroy the grief that wracks giovanni and give him a better life.

but its important to highlight that giovanni never saw his room like david did. because when david asks him why he has buried himself in ‘that hideous room’ (p. 104), giovanni doesn’t agree with him. he rebutes:

‘The world is full of rooms - big rooms, little rooms, round rooms, square ones, rooms high up, rooms low down - all kinds of rooms! What kind of room do you think Giovanni should be living in? How long do you think it took me to find the room I have? And since when, since when’ - he stopped and beat with his forefinger on my chest - ‘have you so hated the room? Since when? Since yesterday, since always? Dis-mois.’ (p. 104)

if you consider that the idea that giovanni’s room is giovanni, this conversation is essentially david calling giovanni hideous and giovanni having to justify his existence, his humanity to him. giovanni simply lives in that room, he never thought of it as stinking or dirty like david did. because unlike david, giovanni ‘is not afraid of the stink of love’ (p. 125), to him this is simply the reality of love and being human. and when he asks david when he has started to hate the room, it prompts the reader to question of when he has started to hate giovanni himself.

this discovery is all the more heartbreaking when giovanni says this monologue when reuniting with david after hella’s return:

‘Sometimes you were here all day long and you read or you opened the window or you cooked something - and I watched you - and you never said anything - and you looked at me with such eyes, as though you did not see me. All day, while I worked to make this room for you.’ (p. 121-2).

and yes i did cry at the bolded section. it just reminded me of the man called ove and how in that novel love was shown so much through building. how ove builds a ramp for wife so she can go to work, builds all the tables in their houses lower for her, builds bookcases after bookcases. and thats what giovanni was doing for david. he was working to make that room for him. to make himself for david. and when he lost his job, he found other ways to show his love for david through the room and david knows this:

He had some weird idea that it would be nice to have a bookcase sunk in the wall and he chipped though the wall until he came to the brick and began pounding away at the brick. It was hard work, it was insane work, but I did not have the energy or the heart to stop him. In a way he was doing it for me, to prove his love for me. He wanted me to stay in the room with him. Perhaps he was trying, with his own strength, to push back the encroaching walls, without, however, having the walls fall down. (p. 102)

the room where these two have spent so many hours in had begun to feel smaller when they were struggling with money. giovanni recognises the desperation of the whole situation - that he has nothing to offer david anymore. he has no job, he is no longer entertaining enough to pique davids interest, and davids fiancee is coming back. the room has become smaller and boring - he has become small and boring. so when he begins pounding at the brick wall, it was as if he was trying desperately to change himself so that david would stay with him.

but david doesnt. when david first kisses hella upon their reunion he describes her as a ‘familiar, darkened room’ (p. 108), almost as if he is imagining kissing giovanni instead. but when she makes up her mind and they agree to marry, when they make love, he describes her as a ‘strong, walled city’ (p. 110) - david has already learnt to forget giovanni. because no matter how hard he tried, giovanni’s life was so much smaller than hella’s, he could never hope to compete. hella is a city, giovanni is just a room.

and when giovanni was caught, he was caught ‘no farther than the Seine’ (p. 135). giovanni never even left paris even though he knew he would be arrested. he remained there where david had left him - like a house; like a room.

the room was never just a room - the room is him; he is the room. and he could not make himself into a city for david as much as he wanted to try.

#cin.txt #giovanni's room #james baldwin #dk if this makes compelte sense #but i was thinking about it SOOOOO MUCH at work #theres still so much in ths book to analyse #like the use of mirrors and windows #masculinity and feminity #the idea of feeling free by being committed #but this was the thing that was the most on my mind #and i just wanted to write it down SOMEWHERE so i could make my thoughts makesense #oh and the theme of shame #baldwin says that the work isnt inherently homosexual; that is abt being unable to love someone #which i agree #but i find that the shame that david feels in being unable to love someone #and the almost disgust he feels in inherently gay in nature #just because of how society has constructed gay romantic love to be sinful and disgusting

[sonknuxadow]

please tell me people are joking when they say sonic prime is queerbaiting with sonic and shadow. that is not whats going on here please be serious you guys just see sonic and shadow interact in any way and become unable to turn your shipping brains off

#and even if it is a joke its still kinda annoying because people get the definition wrong all the time and this sort of thing isnt helping #queerbaiting is when they On Purpose hint at characters being gay just to appeal to gay viewers with no intention of making it official #NOT ''these characters read as gay to me but thats not what the writers were actually going for'' #NOT ''my favorite ship didnt become canon'' #(whatever happened to just liking a ship without expecting for it to become canon anyway) #you can think sonic and shadow are gay if you want to i literally do not care #unlike most other sonic and shadow interactions i can definitely see why people think some of their scenes in sonic prime are gay #but i highly doubt the writers were intentionally trying to hint that theyre in love like . come on. #nothing they do is inherently romantic whatsoever some of the sonic and shadow moments that get labelled as gay #are things sonic does with his other friends too and people dont freak out nearly as much in those cases #why is it always the so/nadow obsessed people who are annoying about this stuff #like sonic and knuckles are gay as hell but i never see people accuse sega of queerbaiting with them

[aroacettorney]

perhaps the reason why aup ended like *that* is because it was not supposed to have a happy ending in the first place, but sayren didnt have the guts to deal with readers' backlash for when they finally kill off the main character so a half baked happy ending is what we get 😔

#for a happy ending of a story to be narratively satisfying the characters gotta actively work hard for it #this happy ending feels empty because quite frankly speaking ludger did nothing to deserve it #he has zero character developments from the beginning to the end and has always been the same #well except for his emotional state getting worse over time #bc instead of making any attempt at all to healthily address it like a mentally mature 40yo adult he let it swallow him whole #(not that im necessarily blaming him but its quite frustrating to see him remain unchanged if aup is meant to be a redemption story) #his OPness is inherent #his genius is inherent #(this is not to say he isnt hardworking / only relying on his inborn talents but the author repeatively failed the 'show dont tell' checks) #(bc it was only implied in the past and we've never truly seen it in the canon present timeline either) #his kindness is inherent #ngl dad!ludger content doesnt appeal to me as much as dad!edgeworth cuz the latter is the fruit of the character's growth and hard labor #while the former is well... its just who he is #usually i love found family content but in aup it bores my mind out bc his interactions w the students + owens are so static & predictable #it was heartwarming at the moment of adoption but later on i find it as tedious as reading generic established romantic relationships #was it because of the lack of tensions and conflicts i wonder #they all became his yes men and no one ever actively challenged his unhealthy mindset or behaviors #anyway id have been more interested if he recognized his biases/favoritism/prejudices towards some certain characters & worked to change it #but welp. that would require character growth which is too much to expect from him ig #he has learnt quite nothing from his journey and tbh aup would ironically feel more meaningful if it ended on a tragic note #ofco i got noblesse'd again 😔 #would i kill for aup to have a happy ending? yes #would i rather have a sad ending over the half baked and empty good ending we get? also yes #if it must burn then let the whole world burn. cuz at least it would be more much memorable and impactful that way #and i wouldnt have to feel this disappointed and lose all of my interests in one of my only two beloved aroace MCs in aup </2 #rant

[nyxi-pixie]

im so tired of the straights😭😭 they rlly committed to the "mike wheeler isnt gay" thibg theyve got going on and its like??? do u guys watch the show??

mike 'i cant tell my gf i love her also i get super jealous when my bestie bro pal Platonic homie paints/draws for other people😁😁' wheeler is one of the gayest mfers on the planet

im tired of hearing the straights deny it. even mikes struggling to deny it. mike 'king of obliviousness, denial, and badly performing heterosexuality' wheeler is struggling but you guys arent???

like. read characters how you want but please ensure not to forget your fuckin reading glasses.

#nono guys hes loves el so much!! hes not GAY #mike wheeler is never beating the gay allegations #not from me #i know what you are michael #hes a whole pride parade #and people just #like? he cant even sign off letters w it?? #and signing off letters w 'love x' isnt even inherently romantic?? #oh the wheeler siblings and their inability to say ily unless its true #so quirky of them #byler #stranger things s4 #stranger things spoilers #stranger things season 4

[pekodayz]

having myself go back into ainis profile and is forced to see my oso and aini art

#i start forcing my vision to see blur as I type into her character permissions #eyes roll into the back of my head as i start slamming my head on the keyboard #omg yes i love dynamics that arent normal at all omg i love staying up at night drawing ghem and crawling back into bed #rocking back and forth. #i like stuff that isnt inherently romantic ugh ew i think that’s why everyone is beating each other up #u never know what’s happening

[rpvlix]

Open starter. Vampire Kenny.

It's normal to see a little blood on the streets every now and then, sure. But this is fresh, wet, and it looks like someone has been dragged, still bleeding, deep into a dark, silent alleyway. Something is moving back there, but without stepping closer, it's impossible to see what.

Even a few steps into the alley, it's hard to see in this dark. The trail leads to a small pool of blood, and in that pool, a man, although he barely moves like one, hunched over another. If it weren't for all the viscera, this could almost be mistaken for an intimate moment with the clear passion, lust, in the way he's latched to that neck.

'Should I take another step forward?' Thinks our onlooker, perhaps, or something to that effect. Maybe its all a trick of the low light, maybe nothing untoward is happening here at all?

Stepping closer or not, their decision doesn't matter. A shuffling in the street, a rustle of leaves, some sound draws this man's attention up, his eyes meeting those of his voyeur with an animal-like flash of light. Something inhuman about that gaze.

It seems to take effort for him to pull himself back to his feet, as though his body is heavier than expected, or perhaps is drawn to the mess below him like a magnet. Regardless, he stands, a bit taller than most but still sort of hunched. His height, unchecked, would have been intimidating, maybe he's trying to seem less threatening, despite his reflective stare and his being covered in another's blood, some of which he wipes from his lip with his thumb. He doesn't let that go to waste of course, a quick swipe of his tongue collecting it. He's wasted enough blood for one night, and far more than he usually likes to. "Desperate times, and all." So he can speak.

He's slow, but stepping closer and closer to the glow of the streetlights, closer and closer to this person intruding on his private moment here. He gestures to the scene behind him as he steps over the body, like it's an object. "I'm assuming you like what you see, you've been staring a while, haven't you?" His voice crackles every other word, like an old radio. "Curiosity killed the cat."

#r:open starter #v:ekentros #teehee. vampire kenny :3 #no au page or bio or anything this is an off the cuff type deal bc he is chewing on my brain #THIS IS LONG FOR AN OPEN I DONT USUALLY DO EM THIS LONG I WAS POSSESSED I THINK #we'll pretend this is for halloween i guess #its not but the timing is close enough huh #open starter #open rp #rp starter #open to anyone btw #kenny likes boys but its ok if ur a girl or other bc he just ate a boy so he will be fine ♥ and this isnt an inherently romantic idea #well. i guess that would depend on who you ask.