#boy's got too much on his mind

[turtleblogatlast]

“Haven’t You Noticed (I’m a Star)” from Steven Universe works so ridiculously well for Leo

[devotioncrater]

"no hints were dropped" ok not to be that person but here are the hints that were dropped regarding Colin and Trent being gay:

1. Colin mentioning Grindr in a joke

2. Trent touching the arm of a man in the background

Here is one of the hints that Keeley was bi (even though I do believe she's been canonically bi since season 1, but not everyone sees it this way)

1. Her desktop background was in the colors of the bisexual flag

Here were some of the hints that Ted was bi:

1. Bisexual flag colored triangles above his head in the hallucination sequence

2. Inverted pink triangle next to him in that same sequence (and you can't tell me the creators didn't know, when the Homomonument is based on that symbol)

3. Countless (countless!!!) comments about men's physiques ("huge muscular thighs all caked in mud", whistling at a picture of Pep, "look at that head of hair", "he's strong", "he looks like a Rodin sculpture in cleats", etc.)

4. About a man (Higgins) and a woman (Rebecca), he had to say: "that's a crowd I don't mind being smack-dab in the middle of"

5. Him checking Trent out in the pub in 2x07 (his eyes are up there, Ted!)

6. "It could go either way", "I contain multitudes" and other comments in this vein

7. Bi lighting as he entered the Yankee Doodle Burger Barn

8. Giving similar looks to the female waitress and the male waiters in that restaurant (including a waiter in a cowboy costume that looked like he belonged in a gay club, who tipped his hat at Ted when greeting him)

9. "That's cause you were put into a box", "That box ceases to exist today", the box in the hallucination sequence breaking into triangles (as in the bi triangles and the inverted pink triangke), "we've been playing too rigid", "our guys need freedom", "fast, fluid, free, with full support", the "box that one needs to break out of" being a prominent motif in season 3

10. Wishing Beard called him pet names ("Honey, is that an ingredient or something you just called me?")

11. His crush on Pep

12. The connection between Ted and Colin: "my whole life is two lives, really", both wearing orange in Sunflowers, "I just want to kiss my fella" (Colin doesn't say "fella" , but Ted says it all the time), Ted just needs to get inspired and Colin's play is "inspirational" after he comes out, as per the commentators

And so much other stuff that, had Ted not self-identified as straight (*cough* put himself into a box *cough cough*) , you could make the case that he was canonically bi.

Here are some of hints that there was a romantic connection between Ted and Trent:

1. They hit a lot of romantic beats, and not in the jokey self-aware way in which Roy and Ted hit them in "Rainbow", but in an organic and sincere way

2. They both checked each other out: Trent checked Ted out when Ted was changing in front of him, Ted checked Trent out when Trent came up to him in a pub and hit him with a pick-up line while his date that looked a lot like Ted waited for him outside

3. Did I mention that Trent was on a date with a moustachioed man who dressed in a similar style to Ted? Let's mention it again

4. In that very bar, during a 50 second long conversation, Trent managed to say the word "love" three times. I searched the word "love" in the transcripts of the episodes. There's no other instance in which its frequency is this high

5. "Love our chats" incomplete rule of threes

6. "Sport, it's quite the metaphor" (implied: a metaphor for love; see also "love's a beautiful game" from the song Ed Sheeran wrote for Ted Lasso), "Also makes for a heck of a nickname", "Good night, Ted", "Good night, sport"

7. The soft, romantic, melancholic song playing in the background of this scene, while Ted and Trent are the last ones left in the office, with lyrics such as "When your words begin to crumble like the sidewalks all around this crummy neighborhood / From the chalky cliffs of Dover / I'd come over, I'd start over if I could"

8. Trent wearing sunflower colors in the episode "Sunflowers" and in the finale; sunflowers symbolize Ted's home (it's not subtle). He's the only character dressed like that. I'm still looking for any other explanation other than "Trent is Ted's home"

9. Their constant flirting and the way they look at each other with incredible fondness

10. The entire episode "The Strings That Bind Us". It's structured around Ted and Trent's relationship, and the way Trent changed because of Ted (in season 2, Ted defined a soulmate as someone who changes your life forever). The red string metaphor. Ted points out that soulmates are connected by a string tied to their little fingers. Ted and Trent both extend their little fingers out in similar shots. They are connected by a huge block of red in their last scene of the episode. Ted makes several comments about other men that apply to Trent ("Look at that head of hair", "Frames his face nicely", "My favorite one, he was clean shaven"). Many more details that lead back to Ted and Trent: Nate tells the restaurant owner to tell Jade he said "Hello". Immediately after, Ted and Trent say "Hello" to each other. The map that Nate's father used to ask out his mom has the number 1.3 written on it and an illustration of two people at a table in a restaurant. Ted and Trent went to a restaurant together in season 1, episode 3. The last scene of the episode mimics a "Race for Love" scene from a romcom, with Trent chasing after Ted. Trent also does not say a word to anyone other than Ted in the entire episode. He is completely focused on Ted

11. "Trent, what do you love? Is it writing?" and Trent ends up writing a book about Ted and naming the manuscript after Ted and he only cares about Ted's opinion on it (he leaves the room when Beard starts reading, but stays in the office after hours just to watch Ted read. "I just wanted you to like it.")

11. Trent's crush on Ted, confirmed by Jimmy Lance (and also obvious in the show, if you ask me)

Now, why would I believe that none of these hints were intentional? Maybe some could be explained away, but all of them? The hints we got for Colin, Trent and Keeley were so much smaller than this, and those turned out to be intentional.

anon i wish i could offer you the response you deserve, but i cannot stop rereading this masterpiece & focusing on the portions of evidence you provided that i didn't even pick up on until you laid them out. holy shit

[skitskatdacat63]

pretty boy

[doublechocolate]

shinshi fic writers who write shinichi as a complete simp for shiho, you are truly the real ones

[apocalypse-boogie]

I gotta be honest, I don’t engage with the Criminal Minds fandom (despite having watched all of the original show + Evolution and read up on as much of the spin-offs as I could) because I don’t like how prevalent the racism and sexism and infantilization is in the fandom. There’s just enough of all that shit upfront that I don’t want to dig any deeper than I already have. I’m good, I get enough of that shit in fandoms that I’ve been apart of for years I’m not gonna let this shit sully my love for this show anymore than it already has (especially considering the show’s writing itself is not devoid of these faults).

I’d rather just love the show and dissect it and write analysis and fanfic for it and shit on my own.

My fav characters (just cause & kind of in best to least order): Penelope Garcia (she’s literally me, I love her), Derek Morgan, Emily Prentiss, Jordan Todd, Matt Simmons, David Rossi.

[c0rpsedemon]

oh yeah. the reason why i decided to reread tbhk (and thus it was able to hit me like a truck this time around) was actually not bc of mitsukou going canon but actually bc i maybe accidentally started a tbhk book club w my kids at work and wanted to check the contents of it justttt in case before i put the books in their hands

[jinglejanglejinglejongle]

Venti drabble

Ns*fw || minors dni

I want Venti to suck on my tits that's it.

I'm not sure who'd be the first to insinuate it but all I know is that I'd be sitting on his lap, my chest exposed and my boobs hanging in front of his face waiting to be sucked.

_______

Venti wraps his arms around your hips and moves close enough to lay his head on your chest and gaze into your eyes. You nod and he complies to your dearly request. How cute.

He sinks his face into the milk mounds indulging in the softness by rubbing his face into it. He would leave lovebites and trails of kisses wholly worshipping them with his all. How he would love to suck on them all morning making them plump and swollen before everytime you left for commissions. And how much he adored the idea of, crawling under the silky bedsheets with you, his face buried between your splendorous bosoms while you played with his braids.

Gently grabbing the milk melons with his hands he gives them a little squeeze. You shiver from the coolness of his hands. He kisses the tip of the nipple with his supple lips and latches onto it. He experimentally drags his tongue on it, feeling it perk up beneath the wet appendage. He begins to suck, looking up at you with bliss and pure adoration. You hold back a moan from the relief and arousal.

Seeing your reaction, he grins and starts to lightly nibble the teat and pull on it. You gasp and grab his head to steady yourself from the sudden surprise. "V-venti! Aah~ what are you-" before you could even finish your sentence he proceeds to suck vigorously with hunger and desperation. Like someone stranded in a desert who's just discovered the oasis and never wanted to let go, he became like putty to your breasts.

After that intense moment you both gather your breaths. How did such a simple request turn into a hunger fest? You smile, "Didn't know you were that desperate, love~"

"I can't get enough of it." Resting his head on your marked swollen chest he looks up at you with pleasing eyes as he licked his lips. Seeing you marked by him sparked something in his brain.

"Can we do this tomorrow as well?"

[dutybcrne]

The most openly bratty/fussy Alhaitham anyone can ever get is when he is sick, send tweet-

[vanillaglitzz]

i know everyone and their mother hates shun'eis design but looking at it literally kills me . 8975349 more thoughts about it in the tags

[hauntingblue]

I love this movie about.... zoro's past boyfriend being taken over by a curse

[mla0]

also on the topic of alters, i have written shaun as a system before out of pure projection, since i have DID and whatnot (not something i like to talk about publicly, but it does add context for this.) i think when i put more thought into it, it's a little more complex. obviously i think genuine full-on system headcanons are fine and good for most characters, but i think if i wanted to go by canon it's maybe not quite? the same? like.

the way i see it, the shaun from childhood and the one from adulthood are almost like "different people," but i see it more like the "new one" being like a protective shell that can handle living life as a "normal functioning human," and everything deeper than that, all the memories and emotions and trauma from long ago, are pushed wayyyy deep back so that she can't get too attached or hurt ever again. literal shaun on shaun violence, the version of her that wants to survive, murdering the child version of herself that has been broken down, her entire sense of safety shattered by reality- so she mentally cuts it all off to survive, albeit without realizing she did so

it's why she can't remember her childhood at all. that shaun is long dead.

[widowshill]

this fb post that my mom sent me ... only the real ones know the secret correct answer (c)

[bearsace]

not the way motonari route has me by the THROAT rn... and i thought ieyasu was the one who bias-wrecked me for my ikesen replay...

[firefl1ezz]

testing no lineart stuff in the new software im playing around with... i like it a LOT better than the other app thats for sure

anyways Jax for the soul,, plus a red version that i accidentally created and the had to recreate because it fucked so hard

[coffinliqueur]

Hot Take: More RE players should redirect the energy they put into dissecting everything Mia's character has or might have conceivably done in the least charitable way possible instead toward Jack Baker.

[trans-li-ling]

I think we should give Zora a gun and whatever happens to the Shadow Decree happens