#also the age gap is weird

[thequiver]

Me, a Pietro Maximoff fan who thinks that Monet St. Croix is a lesbian watching everyone else go nuts bc they're interacting again: ......sure would be cool if they didn't......

[pin-poo]

i find Ashley girlcrushing on Ada a cool concept that i must share w the world

[vaguely-concerned]

having seen at least the rough outlines of all the romances now I have to say that I think emmrich's is probably objectively the best in terms of coherence and completeness of story arc (with the understanding that ultimately the 'best' romance is whichever one makes YOUR heart sing anyway so objectivity is a silly thing to claim that way, it just felt like it's the arc with the most well-paced focused content and the least dangling threads)... but lucanis' is my favourite haha. just. the whole kneeling before your beloved full of reverence but without any of the distance that usually implies??? his complete undramatic certainty and calm in every scene with rook after this, having spent the whole game caught between fear and longing???? mr. lives in a pantry but it says nothing about my psyche don't worry about it it's purely for tactical reasons that I keep myself contained in a small dark room not entirely unlike a cell, love among the parsnips -- finally coming to rook in their room and it's so comfortable and comforting???? after all the times rook supports and comforts him through the game he's finally able to return the same to them when they need it while being so calm and steady and it's so fucking sweet and feels so effortless and with no price attached?????? he basically assigns himself the role of your bodyguard and he WILL stab a god over it??????????????? the turn to protector (which was in his heart all along longing to get out and find a place) of it all????? he sounds like he's found himself unexpectedly stumbling into such a soul-lightening state of revelatory existential relief, full on 'you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves' mary oliver style, and he goes and he shares that with rook and protectively envelops them in it when they're hurting??????????????????????????? hello for the maker's sake hello can anyone hear me?????

[gunsatthaphan]

match: found. ✔️

[eleanorose123]

i've been letting some of the gx dub play in the background while I work and i dont know what compelled me to meme with this bit at 1AM but i sure did do that

[r0semultiverse]

The whole Lila & Five season 4 situation can be summarized by this tumblr post

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

I have gaslit myself so hard that whenever I'm doing a Deep Space 9 rewatch and I reach season 5, I always get straight up jump-scared by the Ziyal/Garak romance 0_0

[venti-death-watch]

so glad the hearth timeline is like… slightly more understandable than before. previously i had freminet down as being given to the hearth at about 5, arle killing the previous knave when he was about 8, and the twins being taken in a few months later at about 12 when he was still 8. for my au, that makes them about four years apart, which feels slightly large of an age gap but ultimately it works better than making them a year or two apart.

apparently, canonically arle was 16 when clervie died at 16, 17 when she killed the previous knave, and then spent an unknown amount of time in prison before becoming a harbinger and taking over as the director of the house of hearth.

freminet was taken in during the year between clervie’s death and crucabena’s death. the twins were taken in a few months after that.

if freminet was taken in at 5-6, the twins taken in around 9-10, that keeps the age gap between the trio as well as explains the ~10 year gap between this and canon. that would make freminet 15-16 and the twins 19-20, which fits them really well. i wish arlecchino was older, though; she definitely feels older than ~27.

[wickjump]

i think there is something very nice about ships that are "traumatized guy that hates himself" x "himself but from the not-all-too-distant past who isnt as messed up because of some sort of stressful event"

also this is totally about classicsci because im thinking of them a lot. its self care really. and also literally. its just not-edgy scifell which i like a lot about them. its "oh boy you havent dealt with even half the stress ive gone through. im gonna take this as a chance to make sure you dont go through what i did cause i now have a second chance to prevent bad things (ie gaster falling into the core) from happening that all this time ive blamed myself for. and then we kiss about it a lot for comfort idk." ive got ideas about them

theyre kinda like classicgeno (do they even have a ship name) now that i think about it. geno x classic x sci poly when. and theyre also kinda like classicdust too. i think i might have issues regarding my love for the trope of "guy loving a less messed up version of himself in the way he was not able to be loved and in the process working through his own issues and healing from his trauma". i may have a lot of issues actually

[pinkfey]

finding out harding comments on the age gap between you and emmrich when they write her to get with taash of all ppl is crazy

[alaskan-wallflower]

personally i don’t have an opinion of either ship. obviously ship what you want, i really couldn’t give a shit less-but how come people are so pressed on people shipping cherry and ponyboy romantically because cherry is sixteen going on seventeen and pony has been fourteen for a month but no one bats an eye at people shipping johnny, who would canonically be almost sixteen and a half, with ponyboy who’s been fourteen for a month? it honestly doesn’t make sense.

[magpod-confessions]

@ doorkeay-disliker anon

You do know that most doorkeay shippers were shipping it before knowing anything about the age gap? And that these are two consenting adults in at least their 30s? And that after that information showed up, Jonny came out saying he fucked up the timeline like an idiot? That he fucked it up many times? Nobody in that group of people wants that age gap, and shipped them before knowing of said age gap. The general timeline of TMA has so many mistakes, and so many Michaels. The Michael that worked with Eric could've been a different one, or he could know about Michael because Mary told him after binding him to the book to make him feel bad.

If you don't like. A ship, that's fucking fine. It's not your thing. Nobody's telling you that you have you like it. But you need to get over yourself with this whole righteous bullshit. If you actually read what people write for doorkeay, you'd notice they're always making them healthily consenting adults.

Moreso. I've never seen a doorkeay shipper harass anyone, or cause any fights. But people who claim "doorkeay has a problematic age gap!" even led harassment campaigns and told artists and writers to off themselves repeatedly for weeks on end for shipping it, when said artists and writers made it explicitly clear that they had always seen the ship as being about 2 to 3 years different maximum.

I hate when people come after ships between fucking grown adults. Why are you so fucking obsessed with it?

Care when they're shipping a minor with an adult.

Gerard Keay is not a child, he's in his 30s, and before we got his birthyear from Protocol, he could've been born anywhere in the 80s. Including 1980. No matter how much you whine, he's in his 30s. That's an adult worldwide as far as I'm aware in this dimension, bucko.

If we didn't get the exact year, he could've even been 43 at the oldest today (1980 to 2023). Doorkeay shippers have been under this understanding since forever (timeline's fucked. Play with it). And they almost always picture Michael as being close in age. Hell, I know someone who made a whole timeline trying to catch all the options that the mistakes cause and found that there's a chance Michael could've been a year younger than Gerry (before getting the set year from Protocol. That timeline was made over 2 years ago)

And the few times there's been a larger age gap, the authors/artist always make sure to clarify:

THESE ARE TWO CONSENTING ADULTS, NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF EACH OTHER, AND CAPABLE OF LEAVING THE RELATIONSHIP IF THEY NEED TO.

Smh. G/d forbid girls like anything

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[boysborntodie]

What’s everyone’s super obscure Outsiders ships? Like genuinely a crackship, a ship that makes people go ‘wait that’s a ship???’

[rookflower]

also for the record I am way more lenient with weird ships when they are already canon and clearly accidental or apathetic on the team's end. Breezeheather is fine because there's nothing I can do about it. Swiftbright is not because i can. yknow

[macking-cheesie]

me when people choose not to ship outsiders characters because it’s a story about the intricacies of friendship and brotherly love when you are pushed to extremes and changing it to romantic changes the connotation of the story 😁😁😁😁👍👍👍

me when people don’t ship the outsiders because “it’s the 60s.” (Gay people existed in the 60s and way before, believe it or not. Don’t be weird???)☹️☹️☹️👎👎👎

[crafteeauthor]

There's a handful of people on the internet rn who LOVE talking in circles about supernatural age vs "physical" age and whether or not real people deserve to be harassed on the internet for it but to be completely honest. First of all there's no winning there just block these people. Second of all that's like the least weird least concerning part of like ANY of the relationships in the show no matter which one they've decided is problematic for it