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

[waverlyyhaught]

Favorite Marta and Fina Moments - Part 143 Sueños de Libertad, Ep. 265

[the-shifting-long]

I intended for the post these tags are on to be the last thing I say about fandom misogyny for a While because I felt like I covered everything already but oh my god YES I agree So hard

In general, while I do think Princess/TLQ are permanent partners, they're also not...human. they certainly act human, but they don't carry the same societal baggage that we get saddled either by virtue of being born surrounded by other humans.

And then "marriage" as a concept is one that is so vastly different in so many cultures and time periods, and at least for the kinds of marriages I'm familiar with, there are a Lot of benefits for abusive partners and Especially men to obtain legal and financial power over their partner through marriage. Like, so much of marriage, on top of its symbolic and romantic value, is also its legal and financial ones, as well as social positioning/maneuvering-"wife" carries more weight than "girlfriend", serves as a status symbol. I don't think the Princess and TLQ would really care for that.

HEA doesn't touch on the complicated socioeconomic issues that come with marriage, especially traditional/heterosexual marriage, but it does touch on so much of the domestic unhappiness that comes with it, especially in regards to how you, the player, and the Smitten keep her in this unhappy, stale situation she's Supposed to be happy with. Opportunist even calls her "our queenly wife."

So like on top of marriage being a distinctly human construct/invention I'm not sure those two would vibe with when they can literally merge their souls together at any given moment. HEA in particular would fucking hate it. She's already Been trapped with a partner in a situation all too similar to the Traditional marriage. I could see arguments for other princesses. for a modern-AU Prisoner using marriage for tax benefits and secretly being delighted when she signs the papers, for Tower or Nightmare to make the player legally her pet in a similar fashion, for the Wounded Wild to accept it...

Never HEA. And yet the majority of StP marriage content is HEA, because she's their favorite and she's wife. Never mind how much she hated it. Never mind that her whole route is about how much she hated it. She's wife! We love her! She loves us! Of course she'd marry us, there's no other option! We HAVE to symbolically own her and tie her to us forever! Right???

[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.)

[gingersnaptaff]

Have a vague idea for a Gwenhwyfar/Guinevere essay in my head focusing on Gwen in The Mab and *maybe* her like idk early origins? (Or, at least, her name. Like where it's most popular. Thank u Joseph Clancy for ur Early Welsh Poems notes about the name Gwenhwyfar because it made me ring my head like a bell.) I'll probs type it up before my bday as a lil treat. :3 I'm super excited about it because I'm idk refuting an essay I read where it was like 'Gwen is nothing within The Mab. She's treated supremely badly.' I think a more idk nuanced take can be made.

[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)

[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)

[yther]

let me just take a sec to be the horrible person you might have convinced yourself I am.

If you're reading this, and you can fly a plane, and you're really tall....

Consider increasing your life insurance policy because your brother deserves it. 👍

[disarmd]

Nooooo, I can't believe I asked for horny and you gave me more Oscar heartbreak instead and stopped rigtht before the horny part 💔💔💔💔💔😫😫😫😫😫 (No but thank you, many new things to consider and I will start praying right now that 0.01% chance comes true and you write it 🕯🙏)

re the Oscar and Mark of In Anticipation verse

hahahhaah, i'm sorry, nonnie, the specific type of horny in this world requires we start at a point of heartbreak. to ramp things back up to horny, one of the things that i think would happen would be that oscar and lando would talk about how no one has ever eaten out lando 😈 and maybe they would have to 😈 make a plan 😈 to earn it from daniel 😈 so oscar could get to try 😈

[astracora]

I'll genuinely never get over the fact that Gin's alter is him wearing a binder and stilettos but stylised. I was sat looking at him like... ok a binder is really specific, but it's gotta just be a design thing that they thought looked cool... BUT NO! Then they hit me with not only 'I'm p sure I'm trans' but 'you could even be nonbinary if neither male or female feel like they work for you' in a jrpg... I ... 😭 but with actual research into the terms 'maybe agender fits, or you could be genderfluid!' (Not exact wording because it's been ??? 3 years since I played fully or something) And Gin getting room to explore that knowing he's not doing it alone...

Also it probably helps that I was playing it while recovering from top surgery. So I was lay on a sofa in Spain, grinding away in the killer music based dungeons, when Gin hit me with the emotional side swipe, and I had to take a minute (5 hours) to stop crying because it really meant the world.

GO PLAY CALIGULA EFFECT I SWEAR TO GOD ITS GOOD!!! 😭😭😭

[green-mountain-goose]

why're things so fucked upppppp~

[snkts]

Writing anything in the origins comic time is a pain because NOBODY KNOWS HOW OLD ROSE IS

[athalantan]

Actually though that breaks my heart more? Knowing that it wasn't just one period of El's life in which My.st.ra caused them to beget children without their knowledge or consent. She has quite possibly done it many times over El's considerable long life. Maybe even before she birthed the Seven Sisters. All part of a plan to breed potential Chosen and otherwise worthy agents. As well as an eventual plan to groom a successor to El who, though still serving admirably, cannot and should not go on forever.