#but Luke is aro

[legolasghosty]

if this doesn't scream boggie, i don't know what does: They smell like sparkles and sunshine and I want to kiss their stupid face so bad

Bobby slammed the apartment door behind him, heading straight for the couch. He didn't slow down until he was flat on his stomach, his burning cheeks hidden by a Gayosaurus throw pillow ("Like a normal gay, but more awesome!") that Willie had found somewhere six months ago. Bobby wasn't ever sure where he found this sort of thing. He'd given up on asking when they were still in college, the two of them and Alex randomly paired up in a freshman dorm.

"What happened here?" the previously mentioned pillow finder said from somewhere above Bobby.

The soft click of Alex closing their front door properly was followed by the drummer's sigh of, "Reggie, what else."

Bobby felt the couch dip near his feet as probably Willie sat down. "You wanna talk about it, dude?" they asked. Bobby couldn't decide if their tone was sympathetic or teasing.

"No," he mumbled into the pillow.

Look, dating your bandmates didn't work out well. Reggie and Luke had been together for a bit when they were all in college and it had burned hot and fast. Bobby had been sure the band would break up for good when they called it quits. It had taken a whole new person, Luke's now queerplatonic partner and their band frontwoman Julie, to get the two of them to talk it out and become friends again. Even then, it had been a rough couple of months for all of them.

So, no matter how pretty Reggie was or how sometimes Bobby thought he leaned a bit closer to their shared mic than necessary, they couldn't be a thing. It wouldn't work.

"Dude, you can't just keep ignoring it and hope it goes away," Alex sighed, now sounding much closer. "Remember how I tried that and it failed? Epicly?"

Bobby lifted his head just enough to shoot Alex a glare. "That's not the same thing," he protested. "No offense, Willie."

"None taken," they chuckled. "But Lex has a point. Shoving it down doesn't work, and it might just turn out better than you think."

Bobby dropped his face back down to the pillow and flipped them both off. "No."

He felt a foot nudging his shoulder, indicating that Alex had found his perch on the back of the couch above him. "Bobby, Reggie likes you back, you guys just have to get your acts together and talk about it."

"Hypocrite," Bobby mumbled. But he groaned and rolled onto his side, glancing up at his roommates and best friends. Maybe talking it out would help erase his stupid crush on his bandmate. "I know he maybe thinks I'm cute or whatever, but it wouldn't work. The band almost broke up when Luke and Reggie did, and I can't be responsible for doing that to you guys. I just can't."

"Okay, I get that," Alex began. "But what makes you so sure the two of you wouldn't work? I mean yeah, Luke and him didn't go so well, but there were a lot of reasons for that."

"Very much including the fact that they were 19 and neither of them had actually been in a serious relationship before," Willie added. "And I love them both, but their communication skills aren't the best now, let alone two years ago."

"You and Reg are good for each other," Alex continued, giving Bobby that heavy, open stare that he usually masked behind several layers of sarcasm. "He gets you out of your routine and trying new things. You help him slow down and talk things out."

"You're both better people for being around each other," Willie agreed, one hand resting on Bobby's ankle. Then the corner of his mouth quirks up. "Not to mention the fact that you guys practically make out at the mic every other song."

"We do not!" Bobby insisted, forcing himself up on one elbow. "Mic sharing is totally normal."

"Mic sharing, yes. But you two take the phrase 'eat the mic' a little too literally," Alex laughed. Then his amusement faded. "But seriously. You like him. He likes you. And we're all semi-functioning adults who can at least pretend to be emotionally mature. At least talk to him."

"Even if you decide not to give it a shot, at least you'll have been honest with each other," Willie said.

"But what if it messes everything up?" Bobby asked, hating how small his voice sounded. "I mean, yeah, he smells like sparkles and sunshine and I wanna kiss his stupid face so bad, but I don't want it to destroy the band. Or our whole... family."

Willie's expression is now solidly in the sympathetic zone. "But what if it makes it better?" they countered. "I mean, Lex and I were great as friends, and we're better as partners, and we're both better friends to the rest of you because of being together."

The smile Alex gave them for that is enough to make Bobby fake gag and throw the Gayosaurus pillow at them. But... maybe they're right.

"Hug time?" Alex questioned.

Bobby just nodded, suddenly feeling heavy at the possibility of having Reggie as something other than a bandmate. But heavy in a good way, like crawling under his weighted blanket at the end of a long day.

Alex dropped down onto the couch beside him, wrapping his arms around his shoulders and pulling him in. Bobby let Willie resituate both of their legs on his lap. He usually wasn't one for being manhandled by his friends, but it was nice to let them take care of him every once in a while. He tried to focus on the clean and salty scent of Alex's hoodie and the easy movement of Willie's thumb on his ankle.

Maybe, just maybe, they had a point. At the very least, he owed it to Reggie to let him be a part of the conversation, right? Bobby let out a soft sigh. This meant he'd have to actually have a conversation about it with the bassist. But he was getting better at those at least. It was 'healthy' or something. Maybe it would be okay. Maybe they would be okay.

"So..." Willie mused after a while, "what do sparkles and sunshine smell like?"

"Screw you," Bobby groaned, hiding his face in Alex's chest.

[artemx746]

can people start obsessing over queerplatontic ships the same way they obsess over romantic ships

[random-colorpicked-pride-flags]

Pride Flags Colorpicked from Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters (Yu-Gi-Oh!)

[is-the-character-aroacespec]

Is he graysexual and demiromantic?

💜 🩶 🤍 🩶 💜

🖤 🩶 💚 🤍 🖤

Reasoning: In the main content he has no romantic relationships; all his deep feelings are platonic. In the Expanded Universe, he does have one romantic relationship, but he doesn't even get together with this person until years after they first meet and work together. He doesn't seem too impressed or affected by sexuality around him either, though I get the sense he wouldn't necessarily be opposed either

[froglover7789]

dinluke is such an interesting ship to me. there's so many reasons they could work beautifully... and yet so many reasons they would work horribly...

like. both have a complicated relationship with their beliefs. both were suddenly thrust into some kind of destiny/ power they were unprepared for. both care deeply for children. both are competent fighters. both have loved and lost.

but at the same time, both have a strong sense of duty and therefore dont even consider romance to be an option. din doesnt know shit about the galaxy or the empire or the republic or anything and i think that could be a big point of tension. they literally would never see each other? like even if we diverged from canon i cant imagine din being fascinated enough by luke to just hang out at his little temple?

so many fics of them hinge on the idea that din would have a fall in love at first sight moment but bottom line i just dont think theyd work bc if luke acted like himself and not whatever watered down nonsense was in the tbobf, din would think he is SO mf annoying <3

[some---weirdo]

"Do you think we're lovers in every universe?"

"Bro, we aren't even lovers in this universe."

[ernestlaytonpolls]

[edge-oftheworld]

shakes EXACTLY captures the vibe of *longing for what you think is a romantic relationship* *when you look deeper you realise what you yearn for is actually deep connections and for every part of you to be known and healed*

[cabin10diaries]

i love fucking with canon so much that i have friendgroups that dont make much sense or have any canon material except in that au

luke clarisse beckendorf silena chris & jake

thalia nyssa laurel mitchell pollux castor & zoe

annabeth katie travis holly clovis & drew

jason connor & valentina

nico lou cecil celyn & will

percy piper & leo

hazel reyna frank & lavinia (actually. this one makes sense but adding anyway b/c it's a part of the au so)

bianca kayla julia alice lacy & billie

estelle yan harley georgina & meg

[twobellsilence]

tungler is recommending me a blog about something that's always annoyed me. And honestly I think?? enough time has elapsed since the thing's source came out so there's less of a chance that I'll get crucified for this so ima drop a hot take about it.

I think people who genuinely thought / still think L/uca and A/lberto from P/ixar L/uca were on a romantic relationship have severe shipping brainrot and should re-evaluate the way they approach relationships of any kind. Shipping them from a fandom standpoint is one thing, you do you, but I distinctly remember there being massive discourse either about the fact that "they were pretty much canon" or about the fact that the movie was "queerbait" because "they were very clearly a couple but we never got confirmation" and then when some people who worked on the film came out and confirmed they were Not a thing they were blasted as homophobic which. Always seemed incredibly stupid and disrespectful to me.

Why did these two children having a very, very close friendship have to be interpreted as romantic? You could make the argument that, by this point, they've already been conditioned with society's view of romance and thus their behavior towards one another IS knowingly romantic and not platonic... But have they? They're still children. They still love their friends like, well, children do. And romance was never really the point of the movie, was it? It's about love, yes, but not romantic love, and approaching it from an amatonormative lens defeats the entire purpose. The protagonists are children for a reason; the writers wanted to explore the whimsy of childhood friendship, the bonds and the admiration and the messiness brought on by emotional immaturity and how these relationships can develop and strengthen over time and despite hardship, without any of the social complexities that you acquire growing up. How children, who are less conditioned by society, can find common grounds even with people so seemingly different from them that adults would shun, and how these preconceptions can harm those they're aimed at even when unfounded. Children hug their friends and sleep with their friends and look to their friends in awe and wonder because it feels right for them, because they aren't older teens / adults who by this point have been conditioned to think that doing this is explicitly romantic and would send the wrong message. It is a wholesome, real showcase of platonic love and its role in our development as people during childhood, and reducing it to "uhm actually they were boyfriends" not only shows a lack of media literacy but implies the narrative isn't valid unless the love present between L/uca and A/lberto is explicitly romantic, which is extremely disappointing.

Listen. I'm not saying gay love between pre-teens is problematic. I'm saying that y'all let your perceptions of shipping permeate the narrative and made you think that SURELY they were a couple when that's inaccurate and also missing the goddamn point and then you got mad when the people who LITERALLY MADE THE STORY went "that's not the approach we were going for actually" and at that point it's entirely your fault

[dilf-dr-wells]

star wars aro headcanons, bc it feels like a very aro tuesday:

Anakin Skywalker - demiromantic

Obi-wan Kenobi - bi aroace

Rey - lesbian aroace

Luke Skywalker - aroflux

Ben Solo - demiromantic

Armitage Hux - gay aroace

Poe Dameron - lovequeer

Finn - cupioromantic

Rose Tico - abro

Captain Phasma - loveless lesbian aroace

Ahsoka Tano - lesbian aroaceflux

Din Djarin - demiaroace

Jyn Erso - lovequeer aroaceflux

Darth Maul - heartless aroallo

Boba Fett - aplatonic demiro

Jango Fett - aroace

i have so many more, so i may do a part 2

[littlefankingdom]

this x reader, that x reader...

And when does reader gets adopted into the found family? Mmh? When does reader finally gets some parental figures? A better way to deal with those daddy/mommy issues of theirs than romance! When does reader joins the adventure and develop a strong friendship with the characters, to the point they see each others as siblings? When???

[narcissusbrokenmirror]

aro Luke be like "no, u dont get it. I want a girlfriend...im just so busy with my band that i dont really have time for it."

"Sure making out is hot but i cant get really involved with anyone rn I'm trying to make it big in the scene."

"Of course I'm bisexual, i have chemistry with everyone, i could date anyone who i really like.. I just won't, because my bandmates are the most important people for me."

"Yes i like romance, i like writing love songs and ballads and some of my favorite songs are romantic."

"Okay, okay, I'm not into dating. Sure, i like making out and cuddles but i can do it with my friends."

"All i really wanted was a relationship where we're not necessarily in love with each other but we could still do all the couple stuff, and write love songs together and never get married. "

and he doesn't even realize.

[ernestlaytonpolls]

[soulless-bex]

you know, i’ve started watching criminal minds evolution recently (i actually binge watched the 6 available episodes this afternoon. oops) and that got me to realize something

the platonic relationships. Penelope and Derek. Penelope and Luke. i’ve never seen anything like that anywhere else. like sure, Derek and Penelope flirted all the time (it was platonic and if you think otherwise you are clearly blind), and Luke and Penelope went on a date together once i think? but at the end of the day, they’re just friends

male/female friendships

that honestly only makes that show all the better. respect