#beyond just romantic relationships

[stimmingandstruggling]

actually don’t understand how people hate renheng like obviously you don’t have to ship it but aren’t you fascinated by them? don’t you want to see what they were? what happened to turn them from “the closest” to this? aren’t you entranced by the tragedy of it all? dont you want to see them heal and reconcile, regardless of romance? to see the bitterness run dry just like their relics say it will? dan heng finding out about the bracers, a real gentle conversation between them, both meeting in the middle and letting go of and accepting the past? isn’t the potential there devastating?????

[thursdaylast]

shout out to shadow sun chapter 9...... huge win for aroaces everywhere

@authorjessowen

[redmemoirs]

do the obizen "power dynamic" decriers know that obi invented that dynamic. do they know he started calling zen master unprovoked from their first meeting. do they know he's the one who chose to come back to zen when he let him leave. do they know the only one thinking of him as a servant in this dynamic is only obi himself and everyone else is just waiting for him to catch on to the fact that zen has never once looked down on him that way. do they know obi entrusted his reins in zen's hands not expecting anything in return but zen decided to take hold of those reins, make him one of his people, trust him unconditionally and love him and want him in his future. do they know,

[oifaaa]

Tim, for the askgame

How I feel about this character

Despite how much I bully him I genuinely do love Tim I really like annoying characters and Tim fits that perfectly

All the people I ship romantically with this character

Steph, Kon, Bernard, Lonnie

My non-romantic OTP for this character

Tim and crashing out <3

My unpopular opinion about this character

If Jason never died Tim would not have become robin

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon.

I wish he'd Stopped being robin completely after Damian came onto the scene

[starryeyed-seer]

if you scroll down the next person to comment is also saying 'this isn't about them' and that person is me.

[atlasisntdead]

Can people stop asking dumb questions like "Which one of these women is the best romantic fit for Joe Goldberg?" none of them. Literally that's the whole point no one is a "fit" for Joe except for jail. How do some people miss the point so badly. I don't understand.

[lloydfrontera]

no because i can't believe it took them this long to bring thia up but it doesn't matter i'm just delighted it got included at all!!

javier!! actually finding lloyd funny!! and being so mad about it!!

it's just. it's delightful. it's such a small and yet important part of their relationship, how despite his best efforts to the contrary javier does find lloyd funny and compelling and genuinely fun to be around. lloyd makes javier smile and laugh more often than anyone else in the world!! being around him is not,, a painful chore he wants to get over with or something he dreads at all times. he's annoyed about it but he actually likes him!! he throws a tantrum because he can't help but be charmed by him even when he doesn't want to be!!!

i just. i love them. they're so fun <33

[incesthemes]

"their relationship is romantic" "their relationship is familial" "their relationship is platonic" you're thinking too narrow. their relationship goes beyond labels. the family is inherently queer. their platonic love is romantic. the erotic is familial. each one is the other and the other is them

[redgearsmovin]

I think I never shared my mii version of Nina's friends here. The gals!

[kycdai]

WHICH SUBTLE WAY OF SAYING ' I LOVE YOU ' ARE YOU ?

arriving early because you know they will, too

you might not feel like you can ask anyone for their time, but you do appreciate sharing yours with them any chance you get -- so you arrive early whenever you know they'll be there, too, just so you can get a few extra minutes with them. maybe you lie about it, tell them there was less traffic than expected or you miscalculated the time you had to leave home. but maybe you open up about it and tell them. i think you should, i think they'll love you for it. you don't feel like you're worth anyone's time, but you do feel like they're worth yours. have you ever considered that the person who arrives early, too, might be there for exactly the same reason you are?

"Hm. Can't say I'm surprised. Not exactly the lovey dovey type though."

Tagged by: @thuganomxcs Tagging: @hitsfirst, @hadobreeze, @ardauntly, @succudie, @allthatisleftinthedark (Sino) and you. Yes you.

[waitineedaname]

orv is making me feel like I've been put in a food processor so I'm coping by constructing the kimcom polycule configurations in my brain

[themotleymirage]

Convincing Glass Heart moments as a member of the newly converted:

Suvi writing her name on Ame's hand and taking the time to tell her why she chose her name cloak, forehead to forehead. Choosing to tell Ame about the worst night of her life for the first time in that moment.

Suvi entering the bar and being greeted by Ame and Eursolon, calling Eursolon brother while thanking them but calling Ame by her name. And I know they were in front of people and have been maintaining that Suvi and Eursolon are related, but they were doing this by allowing the wizards to make assumptions and neither confirm nor deny. Both Suvi and Ame repeatedly call Eursolon their brother behind closed doors, to themselves, and each other, but refer to each other as best friends despite having spent more time together that summer than either spent with Eursolon.

Suvi choosing to bring Ame with her to cool down after overhearing other wizards shit-talking Eursolon, when Suvi herself has acknowledged that Ame doesn't always have great impulse control.

Suvi's choice to avoid "she's just a friend" -ing Ame while clearing the air with Silver, and instead explaining it in terms of who Ame is felt very significant to me. "Ame is a witch, and apparently that means witch things can happen at strange moments."

Ame and Suvi's various heart-to-heart chats over the ep at various levels of sobriety mostly consisting of them reassuring each other. Suvi literally walking to her hookup thinking about Ame and wishing she'd had more time to talk (as Ame goes to sleep hugging Grandma Ren's shawl that smells like Suvi's incense) took me out.

Even in the previous ep when Eursolon told Ame that Suvi had been by her bedside, after Ame had already recognized Suvi's presence by her smell???

Hey Suvi girl, I know you're getting great sex from a pretty man but I think you're maybe in love with your girl next door witch friend

[beevean]

Me having a normal one: OUHGUOHGOUOUOGHOGUOUGH the way Hector speaks so softly to Julia when she asks him to free Isaac of his curse... he apologizes for getting angry at her (hint hint) and empathizes with her...... he bows like a gentleman...........

why is the residential gigachad so fucking cute

[sol-dial]

Some people just...change your life. Doesn’t have to be in a romantic sense. But friendship, platonic, beyond. The person you instantly connect with, you learn about each other and are somehow the same soul. You become so close, not without the positives and negatives of course, that it’s dizzying how deep the connection goes once you reflect on it. How. How did you bare open your heart, have it be stared at, judged, and yet, accepted? To be able to be your true self, that you hid even from yourself, and learned to love yourself? To be seen and to be loved? To have your little quirks, your passion, be mirrored in whole?

How do you bare your heart open like that again? To another? With the uncertainty that this other person won’t be as accepting, as understanding? Maybe overthinking is the secret killer, but it also stems from some kind of logic, doesn’t it? Sometimes. But it’s irrational as well. Perhaps, be content with the idea that if it happens, it happens. Some things are meant to be, meant to happen. Just be comfortable with the fact that things just happen, and live life. The people who are worth it will make themselves known.

[willowbirds]

I want to specify about me shipping Callowmoore!

Similar to how I shipped Imogen and Laudna Queer Platonically, I also ship Fearne and Ashton Queer Platonically. However, unlike Imodna where I ALSO shipped it romantically, I DO NOT ship Callowmoore romantically.

Fearne has always come off to me as Aro or not wanting to be in monogamous/dedicated relationship, and Ashton has really seemed like he doesn’t want to be in a relationship.

My interpretation of the ship stems from their already existing one. They have a playful stealing contest, they both deeply care for each other and missed each other when they were separated, just your good ol platonic relationship.

After the most recent episode, when Fearne nonchalantly jumped into lava to go help Ashton and Ashton saying that Fearne should be the one to bare the power of the fire Titan, their relationship still does not feel romantic to me in any way.

The two are a duo, there is no denying that, and their relationship will definitely grow with them sharing a similar power, but I highly doubt it will be romantic and I hope it won’t be.

Imogen and Laudna really came across as a genuine lesbian romance, while Fearne and Ashton don’t feel like a relationship that would come across as anything other then platonic. Unless the players want the characters to be a romantic couple (and based on how Ashley is playing Fearne and Tal with Ashton it doesn’t feel that way to me) these characters are perfectly fit for an open QPR.

As an AroAce, although I am really happy Imogen and Laudna got together, I really do wish we got a QPR with some of the characters. It is probably just me projecting onto Fearne, but I do really hope that her and Ashton’s relationship stays platonic.

[flow2024]

look i haven't seen deadpool and wolverine and won't for another month if i see it at all (i'm not paying for it) so this is all conjecture but i find the fact that its marketing has been heavily focused on implying that deadpool and wolverine are/will be in a relationship, which is like clearly not going to happen this is the mcu lmao, and the fact that it has been pushing this so hard for a character whose queerness has entirely been reduced to essentially making gay jokes for extra edginess points while refusing to ever engage with it more deeply (i admit i haven't seen the first two deadpool movies in several years but he is in a long running relationship with a woman and just like. makes jokes about finding colossus hot to my memory) than that, Not A Good Look, you could say. and like come on it's 2024 this is textbook queerbaiting and for a movie that seems to be pushing its supposed potential queer relationship in all of its marketing all of the jokes have always just felt vaguely homophobic to me. maybe the movie will make me feel differently but like. i highly doubt that