#doesn't even need to be romantic

[insurged]

smack that ❤️, if you'd like something cute (soft things) 👉👈

[cutie-melon]

i wish i had a partner

[unreadpoppy]

Manifesting that Minthara will say something besides "you wish to consult me" with patch 7

[greatwyrmgold]

If they (and we) are lucky, maybe Denji and Asa can get the kind of dynamic where they each point out each other's self-destructive bullshit, dragging each other kicking and screaming towards a healthier headspace neither could find alone.

the thing with asa and denji that makes them so compelling to me besides the hilarity of their dynamic as loser teens is like, their opposite ways of dealing with the exact same kind of trauma. they feel the same kind of guilt, the same kind of despair, the same disillusionment with the world, the same desperate want to find someone ANYONE who'll connect with them and love them even in a shallow way because it's more than they both believe they deserve. and asa's response is to shut down and let herself drown in her thoughts and agony, and denji's response is to find anything to drown out the despair and refuse to stop to think about it, and both are shitty coping mechanisms but it's all they've ever been allowed because they're both been utterly failed by the system and adults around them. so yeah the world doesn't care. but like. sometimes someone sees you in that exact same agony and clumsily tries to reach out because they recognize themselves in you. if the world doesn't care if the universe is a cruel place then all we have is each other and it's time to try to break that barrier. asa is unable to reach out for anything or anybody because she's terrified of getting hurt. denji reaches for anything and anybody he can despite having been hurt. and like if they end up together i doubt it'll be like, a wholesome cute romance or a Magically Fixing One Another thing at all (especially since they're gonna end up as enemies) and that's actually what i want. i don't want them to be lovey dovey or for a relationship to magically fix either of them but i do want them to be able to find these moments of sheer understanding and of carefree fun with no ulterior motive like they did in the aquarium. i want asa to be able to break out of her passivity and her endless restless thoughts and i want denji to be able to slow down and process things, and maybe they can help each other with that until the world eventually comes to an end. after all there's no such thing as a life free of bad things. and it's all worth it for one good movie in a sea of terrible ones.

[beanghostprincess]

Luffy not knowing about Zoro promising Sanji to kill him if he ever ends up losing himself makes me go feral because that's something they can only know about. Because Zoro's respect for life and death goes beyond anything, and Sanji knows he understands. Sanji knows that if somebody has to kill him, it's him.

And I don't even think it's because Sanji assumes Zoro's opinion of him is hatred and it would hurt less for him to do this, but because Sanji knows only Zoro would be able to treat the promise as it is. Because he would put Sanji's wishes before any feelings he has for him. It's not that Zoro doesn't care, but I think he respects people's ideals and decisions to the extent of being able to kill Sanji if he so desires.

That being said, he'd do it if there's no other way to fix it. If it's either dying or living as an emotionless machine, which is the same as dying for Sanji, Zoro would fulfill his promise. And there is just... Something about Luffy not knowing. Their captain. The man they're devoted to the most as if he were their God. Luffy doesn't know. It's something only the captain's wings are aware of and the thought of these two keeping this from Luffy until the end is just insane. Not even trying to make it romantic here, but the bond and respect these two have for each other is crazy.

Maybe it's the poetry of it all, too. Somebody like Zoro, who has looked at Death in her face multiple times and said "no", ending Sanji's life, who wants to give in to death to not experience a fate worse than death for him.

[canisalbus]

If Machete and Vasco were roommates before they became a couple, there had to have been moments of innocent touching/body contact, followed by deep gay panic.

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[reluctantbylerblog]

call me crazy and controversial but I don't think nancy did anything wrong, nor is she fundamentally a bad person for what happened to barb in s1, and I absolutely do not think she needs to be redeemed. the end of her character arc should always be about reaching a point of self-compassion and forgiveness—specifically by healing enough to allow herself to move past her guilt and belief that she caused barbs death by letting herself become close to others and form intimate friendships. especially with robin (who imo she was cagey with in s4 because of her trauma around barb)

[br-disaster]

growing old together...

[undead-moth]

I know I've been on about this for a while now and I'm being a hater but you're telling me SydCarmy was "always meant to be platonic" even though there are two seasons of writing making use of tried-and-true explicitly romantic tropes, themes and writing signals, and SydLuca is going to be romantic because...he was nice to her on screen for a few minutes?

I don't even care if people ship SydLuca, or if they just prefer it, but you can't honestly tell me that you believe Carmy was always meant to be a friend but Luca is an obvious love interest.

Just because Syd and Carmy haven't kissed or confessed their love to each other doesn't mean that isn't very obviously the direction this show is going. The Bear has already shown you who is endgame. It has shown you every episode of the show so far.

Honestly I really don't think The Bear fanbase understands this show or cares about these characters or the story being told here, which is unfortunate because this show is shockingly well-written in comparison to most shows right now, and we should be so grateful for it but all we're doing is complaining that the writers led us on by not making a ship canon fast enough. It's just. Sad.

[yardsards]

people love an "i'll take care of you" "it's rotten work" "not to me, not if it's you" character dynamic until the character who needs to be taken care of is disabled. then it's supposedly fucked up and toxic for a person to have to take care of someone else.

[pinkcrittertomb]

I find it truly beautiful that with every Usopp pairing, doesn't matter who it is, they always go crazy about their love for Usopp

[incesthemes]

i can't stop thinking about the first episode of season 6, when sam tries to convince dean to come with him, to come back to hunting. he says "it's just better with you around, that's all." it's an interesting line because sam is soulless, obviously. and even though he doesn't understand the details yet, he knows something's wrong with him.

"it's better with you around" he says, citing dean's compassion and care for others as the reason why. and how interesting is that? sam's working with plenty of other hunters who still have their souls—they're all more than capable of caring about the people they save. but sam needs dean specifically. he knows he's missing something, and he sees dean and recognizes that something in him. even cold and calculating and unrelentingly logical, sam recognizes that dean, alone, can "complete" him, give something back to him that he's supposed to have.

in episode 8 he tells dean he "needs his help." he doesn't elaborate; he never explains what he means by that. he has a whole family of hunters who'd be willing and able to help him, but still he needs dean. even without his soul, his hyperrational mind knows he needs him.

soulless sam isn't capable of caring about dean. but he doesn't need to care to know they need to be together, no matter what—to know dean is good for him, dean completes him, dean needs to be there for him.

it's like a sick reversal of season 1. sam drags dean back into this life because he can't keep going without him. because he needs him. because when you think about it logically, and sam has no other choice, there was never any other option for them.

[dedicatedfollower467]

okay maybe a hot take but like. people going "spirk is canon now omg!!!" after that short film that just dropped - you do realize that like. it's not any more canon than it has been for like, forever, right?

they held hands and watched the sunset together. big whoop.

yes vulcans have a whole hand-holding thing, but like. kirk and spock have held hands before, this is not? any different? than any of that???

like people are out here screaming "OMG SPIRK IS CANON AFTER 57 YEARS" guys if holding hands and staring into each other eyes while the music swells is good enough to call it "canon" then spirk has been canon since the motion picture came out in 1979.

[neoncherryblossom]

I think the reason why I like Metamy so much is because of how much I want Metal Sonic and Amy to interact in a meaningful way. Like this girl is one of, if not the kindest character in the entire franchise and she's one of the only characters who were genuinely just, nice to Metal even when they didn't have to (the other being Shadow in Sonic Rivals 2).

And that flower she gave him in Sonic Mania Adventures (ep 6) to give to Eggman? Eggman takes it but doesn't keep it and Metal does, because that's probably the first gift anyone has given him and he keeps it, even when he's shown to have 0 care for nature but he keeps this one because this one was given and no one's done that before and I think that means a lot to him.

I like to think he still has it somewhere, to remind him that someone cared enough about him to drag his heavy body all the way back to Eggman, even after he hurt her. Maybe it's laminated and hidden somewhere safe because he doesn't want any Badniks to touch it, because this is his thing. And I like to think if they interact one on one again, Metal would remember that and treat just a bit gentler, be far more lenient towards her than anyone else not because he doesn't think she's not capable, but he remembers when she was kind and decides this time, he'll repay it in little ways.

(I liked what Amy's anniversary comic did for her but I didn't like what it did to Metal Sonic. She got her chance to shine and it was great but I'm allowed to be a little salty about Metal not getting the same treatment but also I might have gotten my hopes too high in hindsight it was very obvious.)

[merlins-strawberriesandroses]

Freylin lovers… all four of you out there…. please talk to me abt them. I will love u forever

[sherlockholmeshound]

whenever ppl try to come up with some version of 'romance and love isn't forbidden by the jedi, on this one novel-'

i'm just...