#bc i still want a girlfriend

[carpathiians]

dug up my oldddd tiny wacom i used to draw with as a kid </3

[artistlara]

Redraws of the whiteboards and the doodles of this post

Disclaimer: I'm not updated on what's happening in the fandom since I don't consider myself part of it or check for new stuff anymore, so if I've drawn a mod that has some controversy/discourse around it- please know I don't support it and only did this for redrawing purposes only.

[smoshidiot]

just 2 boys making videos 🌱

[possamble]

I'm not allowed to be on social media for more than two seconds today but I just wanted to say that Laios will absolutely have his own reaction to all this as someone who would die for Falin but has also imprinted on Marcille as his Emotional Support Comphet White Girl Not-Girlfriend along the way

[epiphainie]

i don't see us getting further information about bucktommy's relationship in 7x10 (like calling each other boyfriends or haphazardly breaking up) simply because i don't think they know what they want to do in season 8 yet. they tested the waters with tommy's first four episodes and brought him back for the last two episodes to establish his presence a bit more but why would they write themselves into a corner with no farsight yet when they could instead leave it at this ambiguously good place which gives them more creative room for s8?

this way they could direct that storyline any way they want depending on what they wanna explore with it - maybe they'll wanna pick it up from the dating stage or it could be that they're established boyfriends once they come back. they could go with tommy being buck's big love or that despite buck wanting to exploring this with tommy it not working out etc. i think they have a lot of more things to consider with buck's romantic arc now, not to mention for how much and how long lou can commit to the show, that they'll want to take their time figuring that all out.

[sukibenders]

Something that still doesn't sit right with me while being a part of the HOTD fandom is how Laena was done so dirty, from being placed as a "second" option for Daemon and having him keep her from returning home, from having her daughters see Driftmark, from seeing her own brother and parents before she died! That added on to the fact of how Daemon just sucked at loving her the way she deserved makes my blood boil. And to make matters worse, to drive the knife further, is during her funeral (added on to him laughing during it, which wasn't appropriate at all no matter the context or what anyone says) where she and her unborn son were only just recently placed at the bottom of the sea, Daemon and Rhaenyra sleep together and then marry each other all within the span of the same episode (don't even get me started on how they went heavy into the romantics of the moment but couldn't even bother to show Daemon be affection with Laena like he was in the books I believe).

And some in the fandom reaction to all this can be such a turn off. Because you can have people, mainly black fans, rightfully call out problems with this plot change, with Rhaenyra and Daemon sleeping together only right after Laena's funeral and will be met with so many heinous responses (a lot in which tie in with centering Rhaenyra and going "oh so you hate her" type beat) and it's so frustrating. That, and how we barely see Daemon interact with his daughters, let alone be affectionate as well as protective over them---that scene where the girls are bruised from a fight and clear in distress and yet Daemon doesn't even move to check on them nor go into a rage at the fact that his daughters were harmed, let alone the fact that his now dead wife's dragon was claimed by another on the day of her funeral. None of that. But will stand protectively by Rhaenyra and her sons' side without second thought. Make it make sense.

[sealochs]

half the things i made in pottery this past term were christmas presents for his parents. what the fuck am i meant to do with them when they come out the kiln. i made a coffee pot for his dad, a paint pallet for his mum, a dog bowl for their fucking dog. i feel so mortified & so angry & so so sad.

[dustteller]

I think modern au Zhu SHOULD be the lesbian best friend trope to Ouyang except that its because this man is her pet project and gODDDAMIT she's gonna FIX him she's gonna MAKE him be BETTER she's going to SOLVE EVERYTHING and he will RESPECT HER (she is actively making him worse). She has a whole complex about it and everything. She has based a part of her identity on dragging this man up from his toxic funk and is fully convinced that if she tries hard enough he will eventually come to his senses and be an equal participant in this relationship. They have a terrible wonderful toxic loving codependent relationship that's neither a romance nor a friendship nor a rivalry but a secret fourth thing.

Predictably, this does not go well. The character arcs would be Zhu learning she can't fix a sinking ship and letting Ouyang fail by himself, and Ouyang learning to not be a shit person, actually, and coming out of his bubble of self-centeredness and working on himself instead of unloading his emotional labor onto the people around him. And they should both get to develop a healthier relationship with each other than what they had in canon bc queer solidarity is great and its even better when it's in the shape of some weird bullshit some gay people built out of the corpse parts of heteronormative romance (affectionate and completely unironic)

[psychicthepsychic-daily]

hood is the ceo of “other people have it worse” /HJ

[x-rds]

That post about huge red flags from exes is going around and I’m like well mine requires some background reading

[aeolianblues]

it is literally not about legality, if you’re in your late 30s literally what are you hitting up 21 y/os for. Don’t you have investments to make.

[hauntingblue]

Jayce telling vi she won't make it on her own.... okay mr. projector...

[chemicalarospec]

I feel like I've only learned half of what the aplatonic community has to teach me and it's already been life changing. Aplatonics "do it alone" like nobody else: Do it alone, and don't hope for anyone to join you. Do it alone, because you enjoy being alone. Do it alone by choice.

They take "self-partnered" to the next level -- sometimes it reminds me of autoromantic/sexual self-relationships, extending it to platonic connection -- you can be your own best friend as well as your own partner.

They taught me the idea of aros "replacing with their friendships" is wrong and toxic; you DON'T have to elevate your friendships if you're unpartnered/a non-parterning aroace if you don't want to. Whoever you are, it's okay if your friends don't mean the world to you.

At the dance I went to, they played a slow song and I didn't get off the dance floor. (Another, separate shoutout here to my youtuber classmate who made a video about going to prom alone, including slow dancing by herself.) I saw a group of three friends holding hands -- I wondered for a second if I should move near them, but I didn't need other people's friends to validate me; we were all already complete as we were, and alike in our subversion of the slow dance. Near the end of the song, someone from the extended friendgroup approached me, asking if I wanted to dance -- I think worrying I was lonely and wanted to dance with someone --, and I was confused for a second about why she was interrupting my dance, why she thought that was necessary.

That was the moment I realized that the aplatonic community and its ideas had changed my life. <2 thank you guys so much

[iliveinprocrasti-nationn]

i love getting calls going “hi we’re a cancer support group at the hospital-”

[sillyfreakx5]

WHY THE FUCK IS EVERYONE FROM CALIFORNIA

[upsidedog]

a little over a month after max ended things with lucas a girl in her spanish class aproched her and asked if “lucas sinclar” is single. apparently she thinks he’s cute and has seen them hanging out. “no, he isn’t single” is what max wants to say because if she sticks to her plan of mourning their relationship for the rest of high school so should he, even if max was the one who broke it off. but max is a good person so she says “yeah he’s single.” but not that good so she adds “he just got out of a relationship though, and he’s not over her” and since she’s already crossed that first line “i actually wouldn’t even try.”

max only lasts an hour or two before she feels so guilty she tells lucas there’s a girl in her spanish class that he should ask out cause she thinks he’s cute. lucas is a little offended that his ex is trying to play matchmaker on principle but also because he was sort of planning on mourning his and max’s relationship for the rest of high school