#das diversity babey

[acorviart]

an encounter

[antimony-medusa]

*new yorker accent* hey what’re yous thoughts on uhhh them queer platonic romances? new york numbah one da big apple babey!!!

Oh I love QPRs, I love relationship anarchy. I love the diverse ways that people can define a relationship that works for them, with whatever they need in it, and it can have sex or no sex, kissing or no kissing, sleeping together or sleeping apart, raising children together, buying a house, marriage, pet names, holidays with family— any sort of thing we put into a relationship, and we can pull that apart and reassemble it in a way that works for us, and it can be romantic or not, or sexual or not, but boy howdy it sure is queer.

Okay I have been assuming that this is in a fandom writing context, but the above all applies to them in real life. In FANDOM—

Okay I may be on the outside with this, but I think a QPR can definitely come up to the line of being ship, depending on the QPR, so I don't necessarily agree with the way this fandom has fallen into QPR = not!shipping that's safe to publically do to cubitos whose creators don't want ship.

Cause like, we have clips from streamers saying they're not comfortable with ship, or not comfortable with things being "weird", but they usually don't specify beyond that. In a lot of cases, they haven't specified if there's a distinction between character shipping or IRL shipping, so like in no cases have they specified if the issue with shipping is sex (cause you can have an ace romantic marriage with no sex— does that count as "ship"?) or romance (cause by definition QPRs would not apply) or strong emotional dwelled on bonds that tie them to another player in a tight way (cause like, this is what a fair number of people writing QPRs fall into, cause from the outside if you're not aro some of the QPRs look pretty close to romantic relationship on the surface! I know it's not romance, and you know it's not romance, but is a streamer just scrolling twitter going to see that at a first glance if they come across a snippet of someone calling each other a life partner and going to bed together?) Cause like, trying to put myself in the shoes of the streamer, I could see the problem being sex (makes sense) OR romance (makes sense) or any really tight emotionally-dwelled on life-bond relationship (some of this I don't know if the streamers might still think it's weird to see done to their characters, even if it's technically by definition platonic). So some of this I still don't know if QPRs are something that every creator is going to feel comfortable seeing?

And I don't tend to love the implications of some of the stuff twitter does where it's like "oh, i can't ship, only QPR", like QPRs are automatically like santitized "safe" shipping, instead of their own category of thing that could mean almost anything. Like in real life if you know someone is in a QPR you know they're in a QPR, you still have no idea if that means they're married, or have sex, or make out on the regular, or call each other lovey dovey things, or sleep together, you just know they have a life bond. This fandom treats QPR like it's only one thing, and like it's a lesser, training wheels type of relationship, and that really grinds my gears.

So for me QPRs fall into a category where I'm like, awesome, pog to do, I know we love to take interactions between cubitos and expand them out and it makes perfect sense to take some of these in a QPR way. Go on with your bad self. But unless a creator has explicitly allowed it/canonized it, honestly I'd treat it the same way as I would some of the more hot-button trigger tagged fics (abuse, cannibalism, whump, mind control, addictions issues, torture) or like "instincts driven" family dynamic stuff or extremely aged down family dynamic stuff, where I'm like yes, technically this is fine, but let's just be safe and keep that where the streamer only finds it if they go looking for it. Please keep it out of TTS. This is something for the fandom, not for the streamers.

Just tag your shit and keep it away from the streamers and you're good.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Ahh yeah it's nooot good o.o

Who we calling?

AWWW AAHHHHH :'DDDD

That's so cute <33

I love them so much :'))

Anyway WESLEYY :DDD bc yay and also that's who we're calling lol

Ahhh 😬

Well nothing specifically, but no no one's doing anything yet xd also that sounds like illegal lol

Also he's at home XD

True

Aww Angela :(( <3

Yeah bro's still at home chill a bit xD

AWWW yeah he is family 🥺😭😭❤️

Y'all I love them all so much <3

Yeah don't worry he's got it :))

Not gonna break laws but he got it xD

Where's my "I love you" <3

Hmmm yeah something like that xD kinda at work and much more than normal drama lol

Ope?

Charlie maybe?

Who the frick are you

Nahh I don't trust this guy

Oope, is that the nanny?

Yep 😳

Uhh? Doing what calls?

Oh ignoring

YEAH go off Wesley D:< >:D protect her and your home

Uhhh o.o

Ohh and he said boss just registered that o.o uh ohhh

Ohhh noooo

She better not be spying on them or a man on the inside xd just a coincidence 😳😤😑

"You're just in my way" O.O

Listen. . I love me some Wesley angst but. . . he better be okay xdd

But also AAAHHHHHH WESLEY DRAMA :DDD

xD

Uh??

Computer restarting?? Scuse me???

Rude 😭 xD

Y'all this is wild o.o xd this is gonna end up being one of those episodes with a bunch of stuff going on all over the place 😬, like not disorganized but just a bunch of stuff to like everybody, or a diverse group of people anyway o.o but all like, relating/culminating? Idk but it's gonna be wild o.o

AYY WE BACK

Been like 20 minutes because of booting up and then loading and then I was finishing what I was doing in the mean time BUT I'm here :))

That "I didn't invite you in" was so iconic 😌

Yess she isn't

Nahh it is his business

OOP gun o.o

OOAUGHP GO OFF WESLEY

I wanna see Angela worried about him 🥰 <33

Also you're an important lawyer and your wife is a detective xD

And the security system 😎

Y'all are icons <3

STOPPP he's so cool :)))

ICONNN

Girl watching like o.o who am I working for? And why are you so calm in this situation?

XD

YESS go off Wesley 😤😌

OOUPE HI LOVELIES

OHHh right the NDA o.o

So it has come up xd just later than I expected o.o

Ohh yeah their computers and talks about the DA's office o.o

I mean I mentioned being a spy but didn't think about specifics and kinda forgot about it in the light of Wesley <3 xD

Hmmm interesting

Christian Bautista, hmm they seem to recognize him

"You thought a guy in finance had a bodyguard named Headshot" XD real

Ahhh yeah

Oof girl :((

Well at least she didn't want to leave the kids <33

Great job making another high criminal personal enemy Angela xD love that for you guys xD

Kinda do ngl lol

Oop yeah 👀

Ahh

Poor girl :((

Hmm I think she will eventually

Glad she's not automatically like yes! like most of these civilians are though lol

Oop o.o

Imagine if it was one of y'all xD

Ahh probably gonna be Lucy

OOPE?

OOOOPE O.O?

O.O???

My lovelies?

AWWWWW 😭😭😭😭🥺🥺💔❤️❤️

"Are you okay" "I am now" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺💔💔💔❤️❤️💔💔 AAAHHHHHHH

My lovelies y'all 😭😭

The way they said it :')))

Aww hey guys lol

Ah yep :))

SLDKFJLS ANGELA

An icon <333

Aww yeah :'))

Y'all they're my besties (my babeys who are besties that is) :'DD I love them so much <333

He's always like that lol

Nahh not that guy though xD

Y'all better be careful thoughh xd

Yep o.o

Ouhpe? Working on it while working?

Ohhh no :O a PD day!

Interestinggg

Yeah :((

He's gotten there before and she doesn't wanna make that mistake xd

Lol real girl

Straight up saying it's bs xD

Oooupe o.o

REAL girl xD

Ahh yeah he does 😬

Noo he wouldn't

Hmm yeah you can't get that though

Buuut that's when the recording comes out

LOL?

Ahhh is he seeing her xD

Ohh wait yeah :O

LOL this feels almost even mofe illegal xD it's not though

Ahh so he sees that xd

I'm sure he can kinda be helpful though lol

Ope so he's there all the time XD

LOL Nolan xD

Ayyy :D that's how you get him

Hopefully he doesn't realize it's sus xd

Ahh yeah 😬😬😳

And hopefully she doesn't realize xdd or anyone else

LOL Tim's gonna regret that xD

Ah crap yeah o o 😬😭

Not necessarilyyy 😬😬🥺

[vinyl-bf]

(mlm) Types of Boys as Movie Genres:

💥 action: flirty as fuck; can't ever sit still; skating downhill; bottle rockets; bloody knuckles; hardcore parkour; subway trains; fist bumps; keeping the hoodie hood on; having a playlist for everything; "I do all my own stunts ;)"

🗺 adventure: always pumped; climbing up trees; scavenger hunts; collecting postcards; cargo shorts & t-shirts; crooked teeth; taking you to new museum exhibits; Jurassic Park marathons; the jingle of a shop bell

😂 comedy: ultimate prankster; being the center of attention; roller rink dates; clumsy; excellent one-liners; loves to see you laugh; a big softie; really old sneakers; giggling in serious situations; hand behind the neck™

🎭 drama: deep conversations; unafraid of taking big steps; embracing emotions; journaling; passion for cooking; happy tears; writing long messages in cards; woolen scarves; looking at your baby pictures together

⚰️ horror: cryptic phrases; walking places at night; carrying pocket knives; emo phase; split decisions; not easily spooked; conspiracy theories; making friends really quickly; finding comfort in silence; cold hands all the time

👽 sci-fi: big imagination; loves working with kids; into robotics; city person; wearing bright colors; going to amusement parks; rock candy; space aesthetic; info-dumping; "birds aren't real!"

🐎 western: wanting to be a cowboy, babey; owning catci; brown & tan tones; wearing layers in hot weather; going camping; horseback riding; scuffed up shoes; tipping a hat; "fuck da police!"; crushing on someone

🎼 musical: literally singing all the time; dancing with you in the grocery store; diverse wardrobe; eating at diners; thrift shopping; giving compliments randomly; modest & outgoing; skipping down the sidewalk; chocolate dipped cones

Tag yourself and/or your type!