#and yes it was romantic as hell

[hislittleraincloud]

It was in the eye of awe that I saw her, her smile a litote of a simile, assimilating me like the quietest white Northern Light; far less ruined, but instead as whole as the sky allowed.

— Jonathan Miller, 11/2023

[skateboardtotheheart]

there is just something about the difference between edwin's love interests and having the cat king's reaction to edwin in hell being "i'll be waiting when he gets back" vs charles "no version of this where i don't come get you" rowland convincing a powerful trans-dimensional being to open a door to hell just so he could get him back

i am insane

[technically-human]

Ooh, now that we’ve seen N!Edwin and DP!Edwin talk about Feelings could we see the same with N!Charles and DP!Charles?

As simple as that.

Edwins version

ko-fi

[tategaminu]

It's a criminal offense I haven't found this scene on tumblr so here you go

[writesology]

"Ace, just take it already! Or it's off with your head!"

"A-aha, just gimme a second, rosebud..."

HAPPY POCKY DAY 2024 TO THESE GAY LOSERS!!

[nomidreams]

something something about dead boy detectives what edwin's and charles' friendship is actually works in show so half of fandom won't even care if they end up romantic or stay friends. (almost won't care. we all love queer stuff. can't judge.) I, personally, just love their whole dynamic and for me it's totally understandable that charles went into hell for his friend and stayed on earth as a ghost so he can be with edwin. and I think edwin actually meant it when he said "he did not feel the same way but i think we're better friends because of it".

idk for me they're just love each other so purely. what's even a difference between romantic and platonic love?

[lynxfrost13]

LSTR-S2301 and the maintenance tunnel ARAR are best friends to me even though that Elster was only on sierpinski for a seemingly brief time, they’re bros who fuck around on the clock during work. I think Elster was probably more willing to put extra time in however she’s also very “okay you’ve given me a list of tasks I did them. They’re done and done well. That’s it, my time now.” Whereas I see Ara being more of a slacker (very valid of her) or at the very least just a bare minimum type of gal when it comes to work.

Idk I tend to imagine them fucking off in the middle of shifts to go find weird lonely corners of sierpinski to hang out in. They don’t even talk half the time but they love it.

[bleezebrew]

It's very funny to me that the Nimona Goldenheart fanart on here actually tends to make Ballister less built than he canonically is to...how to put this delicately...make him fit in Ambrosius' arms?

Dude is wide--wider than his bf, look at the gif of them standing at the memorial for Nimona. He's a literal rectangle. Ballister is the proverbial brick shithouse. He's shorter than Ambrosius but I would bet anything that he weighs more and it's just. All muscle. I'm not saying Ambrosius is weak but I am saying that Ballister is probably physically stronger. Where is that character design study of Ballister, everyone needs to see that post. Mans is a physical powerhouse and I love that for him.

[necrotic-nephilim]

there is not enough femslash in batcest circles. the girls deserve to be just as weird about each other as the boys are. if BruDick gets to be weird father/son/brothers/lovers/friends/rivals/soulmates then it is only fair that Babs/Cass get to be mother/daughter/sisters/lovers too. Something about that deep intrinsic but undefinable love that is born out of trauma, especially if you consider Cass not knowing what healthy love looks like in the first place. i think it's fun and deserves just as much fandom content.

besides that, you can get even more niche with rarepairs like Helena/Steph. Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma is already a fantastic comic and even though it's their only real canon interaction it has so much potential. very comparable to TimJay in how Helena tries to get Steph to understand her morals and the corruption you could play with it.

batman: huntress/spoiler: blunt trauma (1998)

that comic also highlights on how both Steph and Helena are outcasts of the Batfamily and don't have the approval of Bruce to be doing what they do in "his city". I think there's so much Potential in Helena taking Steph under her wing because Bruce won't let her in and it becomes a weird codependent toxic sapphic mess. I think the protectiveness Helena feels over Steph from the get-go is so clear and the way she wants to look out for Steph, wants to make sure Steph understands the real world? I love them. Helena should be allowed to steal Steph, actually. I think it'd be fun.

there are a lot of other possibilities too like Babs/Steph or even getting weird with Helena Bertinelli/Helena Wayne and the existential question of "is it selfcest or not." But these two specifically live in my head rent-free, especially Helena/Steph and one day I'll convince everyone else to ship it too.

[francesderwent]

most powerful moments in Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I remember off the top of my head in no particular order:

Angel’s “am I a thing worth saving?” and Buffy saying “I know everything you did because you did it to me” and still offering him love

Spike turning from his sin and undergoing trials to get his soul back/“can we rest now” on the cross

class protector at the prom—you think everything you’ve done hasn’t made a difference but it HAS and for one glorious moment you get to see the fruits of all your labor

Faith saying “because it’s wrong” as a joke until it gets into her bones and she says it because she means it

“I know that I’m a monster. but you treat me like a man”

[energeticpoltergeist]

FE Secret Santa (10/10)

Robin(male) for @silversongmsp

My final submission of the year for the @feshippingpolls secret santa event

[jensensitive]

I really do love and am kind of totally heartwarmed by the fact that we know the cast is so close and so affectionate that we see a couple kissing and don't see a difference between that and the way the rest of the cast are generally as friends. Like that's actually really really sweet and says a lot about how much they all love each other I think. I feel like I really had the ideal reaction (meaning the best to experience not morally the best), which is essentially that when I saw the picture of them kissing, I had figured they were probably friends kissing each other, and then when I found out they were together it was a wonderful surprise. But it is interesting to think about the people who are always so defensive about non-toxic masculinity and platonic male affection to the point of being outwardly defensive against the idea of two men being together romantically. I just wonder about that and wonder if people like that see something like this and have that realisation that it's not about assuming anything definitively one way or the other, that it's not about assuming two guys kissing are together or not together, it's just about allowing the possibility of affection between anyone without any judgments. Yes two dudes can kiss as friends, yes two dudes can kiss as fiancés. Two dudes can kiss as something in between, it's all good.

[cruelplatonic]

ruminating on 'the vees died despondent nobodies' thoughts

velvette interrogates vox after she hears him give various conflicting and bombastic accounts on air. a selection of these include: blew his brains out on live television, administered the death penalty for killing his "bitch wife," a tragic accident involving two shetland ponies, dubiously legal iranian yogurts, and a whole lot of cocaine. the actual cause was shockingly ordinary- a heart attack in front of the television, alone, his corpse only recovered after two weeks passed. he was watching a game show and his last mortal regret was never even learning who won, because he died during the commercials.

[danwhobrowses]

I still can't believe Critical Role in the span of 2 weeks went 'hey remember that ship you like? Well we have this whole episode endorsing it which is awesome' just to suck me in and then this week go 'now that we got the table invested, Taliesin will now whiplash everyone like Imodna did with the sisterzoning but also maybe denial or gauging reactions' and then leave us on that FOR THREE WEEKS

[greenerteacups]

favorite relationship (non romantic or otherwise) in the hp canon? one thing I love about lionheart is Harry and hermione’s friendship - criminally overlooked in the books imo pidgeonholing hermione into only the “nagging mum” role for so much of it ! these two are siblings!

interesting parameters! my favorite non-romantic relationship in canon is ron and harry, actually. i think that hermione has great friendships with both of them, but the sheer intensity of the bond between ron and harry is unmatched anywhere outside romantic pairings in the books. harry latches onto him basically at first sight and imprints like a baby goose, and goes, "excellent, at last, a Friend; i will now spend all of my time and attention on you Forever." what's that? hungry you say? sad you say? i will buy you All The Food. then draco "definitely homeschooled" malfoy rocks up with his hilariously incompetent friend overtures and harry says right that's cool, but you threw shade at ron, so you can fuck right off forever. i've had this weird little ginger in my life for less than a day and if anything happens to him i'd kill myself. bye.

and ron drinks! it! up! because he's never had it! he's never been First for someone before, and he LOVES it! and he responds by becoming an instant ride-or-die for harry. that's not a reading, either, that's straight up text: in book 3, ron says, verbatim, "if you want to kill harry, you'll have to kill me." and he's thirteen!! takes him about five minutes to get there, too — in the ten weeks they've known each other before christmas break, eleven-year-old ron weasley tells his MOM about his new cool friend, and whatever he writes is so glowingly effusive that molly knits harry a goddamn family sweater (if you knit, you Know) without having stone cold met the kid! not to mention — ron (at eleven! eleven years old, ron weasley!) decides to pass up his only chance to see his parents until june, not to mention missing his family christmas, so he can stay at hogwarts and keep harry company! because harry potter will never be lonely if ron weasley can help it!!

basically. ron and harry are the original platonic soulmates. they ARE the catherine-heathcliff "he's more myself than i am" dig-up-his-grave-so-you-can-lie-in-it type of love. they are each other's destiny and each other's choice.