#I'm not even sure I want to get married

[a-murmur-of-a-prayer]

All day long I have been oscillating wildly between two feelings: one, feeling like I'm actually pretty okay without a boyfriend/partner for now and even the rest of my life, I'm pretty chill living alone, I'm independent, I'm enjoying myself, not super depressed...and two, feeling desperately alone, that I wish someone could wake up next to me and dote on me, remind me to do the things I need to do and just be there for me in case I needed them to be, without being asked and is it that crazy to want that?

I can do both of those independently. I have in fact experienced them independently. But can my brain just PICK ONE?

[rockethorse]

The basegame wedding dress has a pregnancy morph??

[what-is-it-to-be-pk-esque]

Ok I know I'm heavily biased here but like I kinda love that Astarion's romance is one of the few in this type of video game where you basically end up canonically unmarried and childfree in his "good" ending? Just travelling the world??

Like it's honestly the millennial dream lmfaoo cannot believe i chose what would undoubtedly be my favorite option, first try

[coreene]

What if Withers was the one to officiate the marriage between Astarion and Lorelei? I'm guessing it'd be either of them (or Karlach, feels like something she would do) annoying him into doing it.

It's not even his job? Well, it's too bad! He should've thought that when he kept them all alive! Now he's gonna be the grandpa Withers to everyone!

[istharoth]

Sometimes I think of RuiEd angst and like Ed talking to the MC about Rui like:

"If I were a woman, I would've loved him by myself for a really long time."

IN FUCKING SHAMBLES.

Imagine Ed falling in love with someone, a human, after his previous human lover died. Vowing to himself that he would never love again, never go through the short-lived love ever again, then Rui comes into the picture and it's like spring has come.

(bonus if it's unrequited.)

[chickenisamazing]

The pressure around getting married sucks

[maxdurden]

currently obsessed with everyone's reactions after kristen blurts out that she wants to marry tracker (who she's presumably only been dating for a few months)

[janiedean]

nothing like seeing people still saying jon/ygritte was an abusive rship in my *recommended* posts in the year of the lord 2024 anyway I had missed instant blocking people just scrolling the dashboard

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

It's Pride Month! How would Pep and the others celebrate?

(Happy Pride month!!!

We will get into how the others celebrate pride later, but this would technically be Pep's first pride, and he's still figuring that out!

(Spoiler alert: He'll be queer in some way, bc everyone here is, hehe)

[jack-daww]

I am thinking about marriage a lot for someone my age (and considering I have been dating my partner for two years, known zhim for three)

[yoonstudios]

oh my fucking godddddd i wish i could come out to my parents

[eggmacguffin]

I don't think it's going to be a good christmas this year

[unopenablebox]

doing evil behaviors (looking up different methods of engagement ring sourcing to try to identify the most ethical one)

[the-sage-libriomancer]

try as i might, i simply can't make Kyoko and Katsuya's relationship work right in my head. Katsuya was apparently just an intern teacher when they met, so you could say that he was 18-19 at the time (even if it's a stretch bc he's implied to be in his mid twenties), but that still leaves Kyoko 15 going on 16 which is definitely not great. i just don't see how Katsuya would realistically fall in love with Kyoko unless he was a creep, which is obviously not the sort of person he's being portrayed as. it also makes Katsuya's family look a lot more sympathetic for opposing their relationship because uh. that actually is the sort of thing you would realistically have a problem with.

judging from the series' themes, the point of the age gap is likely to show how pursuing a relationship that society disapproves of can isolate the couple and cut off all potential support, thus sticking with the theme of cruelty creating more cruelty, or in this case simply more trauma. Tohru ended up taking on a huge emotional burden because apart from Katsyua's father, no one was around to help Kyoko through her grieving process, to the point that 3 y/o Tohru was literally all that she had.

(it might also be a semi-deconstruction of another shojo trope: the high school protagonist marrying her adult love interest. in this case, being a teenager who marries an adult isn't as easy as overcoming a parent's disapproval. you won't get any support from the rest of the family, especially not extended family, and you'll likely be treated as an outsider for the rest of your time with them. if something happens to rupture your idyllic life (like oh, say, your husband's untimely death), you won't have a safety net and life will get extremely tough. definitely not the triumphant leap into womanhood most teenage girls are dreaming of.)

anyway, i think if i had the opportunity to change one thing about Fruits Basket, i would reconfigure the age gap. the plot-mandated scandal is the biggest issue, but that could've been accomplished just fine by making Kyoko an 18 y/o high school student and Katsuya an 18-20 y/o intern teacher or tutor. still a bit iffy, but at least it's believable that they'd pursue a relationship and doesn't paint Katsuya in an unforgivably bad light. the fact that Katsuya is courting a former student (one who hasn't even officially graduated high school yet) would be enough to make tongues waggle, especially with her delinquent past. no need to make it any squickier than that.

[green-mountain-goose]

why're things so fucked upppppp~

[deadrlngers]

i was tagged by @shadowglens and @risingsh0t to make some ocs in this picrew. thank you so much besties, i loved this picrew so much!! <3

vesper moxley (cp2077) • victoria gray (cp2077) joelle knight (fo4) • nina bower (fo4) selene (oblivion) • hiraeth (skyrim)

tagging: @uldwynsovs @arklay @devilbrakers @nuclearstorms @morvaris @girlbosselrond @indorilnerevarine @moiragf @cultistbase @faarkas @steelport @nokstella @reaperkiller @malefiicarum @brujah @calenhads @lightwardens @aelyosos and whoever else wants to do this or that i missed bc i'm terribly forgetful sorry!!