#between ships and romantic/platonic

[circusclowne]

they are yuri in my mind

[windwenn]

Stuff i've been thinking about a lot recently (not unrelated to my feelings about star trek)

[achirding]

Sonic finds that there are some definite perks to being the king. C:

[nikoisme]

I absolutely adore all the relationships in malevolent, in their nature. They are all canonically platonic, but they are rooted in love and affection. I think that some people still believe that the word love is reserved only for romantic love, especially in media. So seeing the two main characters say that they love the other, that that love saved them, that they were willing to die for each other; who are so close (quite literally, as they share a body) that it's impossible to tell where one begins and where the other ends. Whose circumstances and experiences are so wildly specific and unique that it would be impossible to strictly define the nature of their relationship. Is their relationship perfect? Hell no, they have deeply hurt each other many times. Often they can't stand one another, but also can't stand being without one another. It's messy, it's complicated, but it's real. They try. And it doesn't really matter what their specific definition of love is - they simply love each other. And it just means so much to me, as an aroace person and as someone who has always valued all the friendships i have or have had in general. To see love between two people who have been through hell and back together not treated as just romantic love or as platonic love or whatever - but as simply love. It's their own. With all the beatiful and joyous and messy and painful aspects of it. To say it's just romantic or platonic takes away all the complexities and charm of it, just as is trying to strictly label a lot of the things in the show.

[legochaotixmechz]

waiter ! Waiter ! More dragonfruit plz.....

[sanasanakun]

I get why JimCurly is popular cause hot yaoi and Jimmy is the MC but it's annoying how Curlya gets villainized as some ungodly immoral ship when JimCurly is far worse in terms of morality. In my opinion, Anya and Curly have the most interesting connection/relationship in the story. There's so much potential for depth, angst, understanding, resentment (on both sides), healing, etc. between them. Easily my favorite duo in the game to study with my microscope lol

[spacewives-in-spacetime]

ooo and/or me!!

can someone send me some prompts for winter/holiday season?

(any ships -platonic or romantic- from doctor who, the librarians [thank you jordan for getting me into that!!!], hamilton, or six <3)

[wanderingmind867]

John Broome or Gardner Fox or whoever wrote this (again, DC needed to credit more people) make Hal Jordan and Barry Allen have a clear bond. Whether viewed as platonic or romantic (or both, since i struggle to differentiate the two), it's clear there's a bond here.

[alistair-blackwood]

genuinely don't understand people who gripe about someone getting into dunmesh for m/m pairings as opposed to f/f when none of them are even close to being the main point of the series

[velvet-games]

shipping jayvik out of spite now smh

[catgirljaneway]

silly tuvok and kathryn sketch

Okay so the vision for this sketch is, Tuvok and Kathryn have been hanging out in Kathryn's quarters. They've been in the Delta Quadrant for a while now. Tuvok is of course still all official in his uniform, but Kathryn is just wearing her undershirt and some sweatpants or whatever. She doesn't care, it's Tuvok. He lets her complain to him about everything petty that's bothering her (something she never gets to do because she's everyone's boss). She gets a bit tipsy and he has to hold her on her way to bed. She's still complaining.

[sherlock-is-ace]

serious question and i mean no offence but can you explain why you consider edwin and charles a qpr when it's clear (and acknowledged) that edwin has romantic feelings for charles? do you consider their relationship a qpr because edwin's feelings aren't reciprocated?

Hi anon! No offence taken, it's a valid question.

Before I go into it, I have to say: this is always my own headcanons as an ace person who is in a QPR and holds the concept of queerplatonic relationships very close to his heart. People can have any opinions they'd like, it's all fine, they're fictional characters, it has no impact in real life.

Ok so, Edwin has romantic feelings for Charles, this bit is true, but with one person's feelings, you can't define an entire relationship between more than just that person. Whether you think Charles has romantic feelins back (or will develop them in the future) that is irrelevant now. Their relationship is not a romantic one.

While it is not a romantic relationship, it is more than what society sees as frienship, it blurs the lines (as someone on tumblr mentioned). It breaks social norms. Like for example, Charles declaring he wouldn't go to Hell for anyone else. That to me means their relationship could easily fall under the QPR umbrella :')

I think in this case at least, their romantic feelings (or lack there of) are sort of irrelevant to my QPR headcanon. If Edwing wasn't in love with Charles, and we didn't have the longing looks and the confession, I would still call their relationship a queerplatonic one.

Just in case, not necessarily for you anon, I'm gonna leave here the AVENwiki entry for Queerplatonic. Cause people might benefit from an actual definition and objective information ;)

[zestylemonsz]

am I the only one that doesn't understand antiship and proship?? like why are antis harassing tf out of the proshippers?

like, just block them? yeah, report if necessary. but you shouldn't bully someone for no reason.

can we make like a nuanceshipper or something?? something in the middle, or something nuanced between the two.

because I don't want to be considered anti due to how rude so many antis are. and obviously I'm not a proshipper.

yeah, I'd be a antishipper. but I'd rather just be not opinionated between it.

I have ASD so please explain stuff in detail/ easy to understand words. thanks

[bungobble-my-balls]

Re-reading the bsd manga and picking up more stuff now and it is an experience.

Because Asagiri and Harukawa wtf is THIS

You can't just drop this and never bring up these two together again.

I know WHY this is here. It's at the end of volume 10 where it's revealed that Gin is Akutagawa's younger sister, so it's art showing the two younger sister's in the Mafia and the ADA.

But WHY do they look so good here! They look straight up devious too like they know something or have secrets?? Naomi I am looking directly at you because you look so suspicious here but I don't know what to suspect you of.

They're back to back and melding into eachother like they're rivals or something too, this single image feels so important but it's literally the ONLY mention we ever have of these two at the same time.

This literally gives me the same feeling of looking at art of sskk in the ying/yang position or soukoku in opposing/matching colours.

I know it's probably because they're the sisters in opposing organisations but why does this art make me feel like this is much less about their organisations and more about THEM opposing/paralleling eachother.

I am now hoping so much that this art is also foreshadowing because whatever this art of them and whatever dynamic it implies is just so interesting to think about.

[m-for-now]

Something that I feel like I should emphasize again about my type of shipping is that I care so much more for the dynamic and depth of a relationship than wether it's romantic or platonic or queer-platonic or some other kind of connection.

Give me the actual interactions and parallels and dynamic and i'm in

[leoleolovesdc]

One of my favorite dynamics in media will always be this one very passionate person going through their personal journey and their silly little hype man who's just there to cheer them on and give emotional support