#because it’s a romcom

[doublel27]

P’Jojo: Let me tell you about all the realities of gay life that exist in Thai BL and how we used to make that reality apparent when BL was just gay for you high school stories.

Also P’Jojo: The Heart Killers doesn’t show the reality of gay life, just the fantasy of gay life.

[muffinrag]

yknow I saw that gifset of Garak's actor before I ever started watching star trek - you know the one, the interview gifset - so I knew going in that there was going to be gay subtext. but holy shit, you guys. Garak doesn't just wanna fuck Bashir. that man is a whole entire homosexual. that man is a queen. or like. a princess at minimum. the actor put his whole pussy into being a gay lizard and he's going to heaven for it

[proxythe]

sorry im really obsessed with this pair … 🧚 u guys must understand… i have a rare pair addiction …

[manny-jacinto]

AUSTENLAND (2013) dir. Jerusha Hess, Jared Hess

[pharawee]

Love is like starlight in the dark. The stars will guide your heart to find your soulmate. They're not far away. Just look and you will find them.

[ceilidho]

been on a "frazzled english woman" kick and now im thinking........frazzled english woman reader x gaz........bumps into him on her hurried walk into work (publishing assistant in london) and her papers flying everywhere.....and then they keep meeting over and over. coincidentally.

[seabiscuits-us]

I have this idea swimming in my head for an agatha all along au (that I will never write for Reasons) where Nicky parent traps his divorced moms, mostly because I love the concept that Agatha and Rio get divorced but fundamentally cannot get rid of each other.

They’re at every parent teacher conference together. Weekly family dinners because Nicky’s therapist said it would ease the transition. Rio was Agatha’s date to Jenn’s wedding and the three of them shared a hotel room. They still go on family vacations together (stretching the therapist’s advice to its logical outer limits). Nicky is tired of watching them flirt every time they two glasses of wine at dinner. Also hearing them talk about each other (out of nowhere while they’re driving somewhere Rio will be like “you know your mother is the most beautiful woman i’ve ever met” and he’ll be like ok……)

But then something something Agatha starts dating again and Nicky tells Rio and Rio is finally like. Enough of the charade. I Am Going To Win Your Mother Back.

[dramashii]

We've been friends for years.

LOVE NEXT DOOR (2024) | Ep 6

[huachengsromcom]

My favourite Hua Cheng is actually during the Black Water arc when everyone around him is fighting for their life but San Lang’s flying on a magic sword, holding his Gege round the waist having the best day he’s ever had in his life ✌️

[ladylightning]

the creature from lisa frankenstein is quite literally the embodiment of "no grave can hold my body down// i'll crawl home to her"

[buggachat]

"augh, this [media] sucks. it's all about shipping"

romance is a genre, harold

[fictionadventurer]

This AV Club comment is making me so desperate to write a romcom, you have no idea.

[whetstonefires]

I know I talk about mdzs modern AUs a lot, but it's just somehow become a fascinating adaptation process to me, all these people making their personal calls about the nature of reality.

And a thing I keep coming back to is all the people who deliberately decide to give modern!wwx Mo Xuanyu's build.

To preserve the strength contrast that's leveraged for horny, which like, yeah that's fair, horny is an acceptable reason to make a story choice. I respect that, sometimes grudgingly.

But as a result of noticing this being done, oftentimes it seems without any reflection about why, I've developed this minor obsession with the fact that wwx in his own body at its adult height was fractionally shorter than lwj.

And this was the height he reached after a multi-year period in childhood living on scrounged garbage, plus the three months starving in the mass grave toward the end of his growth period.

Meaning that by all normal logic, a modern AU wwx who did not experience these periods of intense privation--which is most of them; it's quite rare for children to experience that particular form of total neglect in modern developed nations and modernAU!wwx's life ruining circumstances only occasionally involve intense physical torment--is going to be significantly taller as an adult.

Like. Add a few inches on there.

Where are all my adequately nourished six-foot-four Wei Wuxians???

[i-got-the-feels]

listen no romcom is a romcom without angst. running through the airport to stop beloved from boarding their flight? happened because of some angst. watching your crush who also liked you get together with someone else because you didn't confess sooner? textbook romcom moment filled with angst. declaring objection at your love's marriage or asking them to run away with you? angst. romcom is not romcom without angst because angst shows you care and that's the essential part of romance the com is just to make the angst bearable. as long as the angst is resolved and everything ends on a happy note it's a romcom (twenty five twenty one was never one) , don't confuse romcom with fluff

[gunsatthaphan]

Coming December 13th!!!! 🥹🥹🫶🏻

[eddieblrs]

had this one dancing around my brain for a minute before deciding i'm probably never writing it so i'm releasing it into the world in case it sparks something in someone lol

bucktommy actor au

evan "buck" buckley is an up-and-coming actor. he's been acting since he was 18 in minor roles in tv shows and movies but finally gets his big break at 26 when he lands a supporting role in a cowboy comedy where he plays a character named "buckaroo" which earns him his nickname. after that he starts getting typecast as eye candy and comic relief even though he knows he can do serious work until he manages to get signed to 118 MGMT and his new agent, bobby nash, lands him a role in a serious queer drama. this is the opportunity buck has been waiting for his entire career

the only problem? his co-star is no other than tommy kinard, famous action hero actor better known for playing a superhero in a blockbuster franchise before he decided to leave the franchise to start making more serious, critically acclaimed movies (and who came out as gay not that long ago, taking the entire industry by surprise); whom buck might or might not have a huge crush on since he first saw him shirtless, all those muscles out in display in all their oiled glory, in some cop action film when he was a teenager

and everything would be okay if tommy was anything like the rumour mill says he is (offhand-ish, kind of an asshole, too self absorbed) but buck quickly finds out during pre-production that he's actually nothing like that. he's sweet, and kind, and a huge dork. he's got a dry, deadpan sense of humour that may come out as overly sarcastic and rude to some but buck understands perfectly. and he's so nice to buck, always checking up on him in between takes for the more emotional scenes and sharing his acting tips with him. when they have to shoot the sex scene tommy has a 30 minute conversation with buck about boundaries and how he doesn't want to do anything that would make buck uncomfortable, how buck feeling safe is tommy's top priority because as an older, more experienced actor this is old news to him but this is buck's first time shooting something like this and he just wants to make it as comfortable as possible for him

so now buck inevitably falls in love in between shooting, hanging out at each others' trailers, and their dinners that initially were to know each other better before the movie started filming and then became a regular occurrence because they like hanging out with each other. and now buck has to figure out a way to not break his own heart when the filming ends because tommy certainly can't feel the same way and he doesn't think he would be able to get over him before the promo and press cycles begin, especially when all everyone talks about is the chemistry between them

(unbeknownst to him, tommy is having a similar internal battle, berating himself for falling in love with his younger co-star who clearly only sees him as a friend and a mentor)

it all gets resolved at the movie premiere when buck confesses his feelings to tommy during a fit of jealousy over tommy's date. tommy kisses him about it for a long time before revealing that his date is actually his very straight best friend and assistant.