#i'm tired of romance

[queermetalgremlin]

I started reading Heartstopper, and i don't think any piece of professional media has ever made me cringe as much as it did. I don't think it's a problem with Heartstopper itself though, it's just that i'm tired of queer stories being so romance-focused. LIke, i know there are queer books of all literary genres, but the great majority of them, along with the most talked about, are almost always "this bitch falls in love with this cunt, they flirt, are shy, they fuck, they argue, they make up UwU" and i'm so sick of romance stories. Where are the non-binary detectives, the genderfluid horror MCs, the gay scientists, the AROMANTIC MCs ffs? Gimme a queer Light Yagami, that's all i'm asking rn

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

I'm on my fourth Woman Married a Loser and Tried Her Best but Died for It and Now She's Back drama (Marry My Husband, Blossom, The Double, Perfect Marriage Revenge) and I love it, I love it, I love it. Because you can feel the feminine rage radiating from the screen. These women swallowed the lie that they were the problem in their marriage. They forgave and excused and bent over backwards just like society told them to and it didn't work. It was never going to work. In the end, nothing they did mattered and their precious lives were still seen as disposable. And now they are back and they are furious and it's great.

[the-writer-of-waterdeep]

If I see one more post treating Gale and Mystra like a genuine couple I will scream

In a game where all the companions are in relationships with immense power imbalances, don't you think Gale is in one too????

It is heavily implied that Mystra (A goddess known in the Forgotten Realms for tricking and deceiving, look up Dornal Silverhand) groomed Gale, being his teacher first and then a lover. He didn't fumble anything, he was the magical equivalent of a high school banging his teacher and everyone (more like in real life with male abuse survivors) treats it like he "bagged a baddie" and "fumbled it"

The most horrific thing is that he STILL doesn't quite realise what's happening, he still believes everything she says and believe she knows best for him.

Also, he wasn't trying to unsup her, that's what Mystra saw it as. He adored her and wanted to be her No.1 special little guy so he did something FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS out of LOVE (because he believed and still believes it's love). Does Mystra have the right to interpret it as an attack on her godhood, absolutely but don't get it twisted with what Gale actually says!

"Not to destroy Mystra, but to prove my love for her"

"I merely sought to return one tiny diamond to an imperfect crown"

Sorry for ranting but FUCK.

[kaliannurka]

[toasted-buguette]

So Ryis is my favorite bachelor to no one's surprise and as I get further into the available game I am enamored with the idea of him and the farmer slowburn falling in love while they pretty much singlehandedly rebuild the town.

Like come on? Those two built that whole general store all by themselves and you're telling me that there isn't any opportunity for a bashful brushing of fingers as they hand eachother tools? No staring at the other person while they're not looking cause they're so involved in their task and they look so cute when they're so focused? Not even a moment where one of them catches the other before they can trip on a loose piece of debris?

If I were a man predisposed to writing fanfic I would, it just a concept I fuck with so hard

[kit4kat]

Cute mini comic turns out not so mini. Took me three days to complete this between shifts. Was it worth it? Absolutely! Had this little idea in my head and I knew it wasn't going to leave me until I got it out! Hope you enjoy!

[beanghostprincess]

i'm aware that due to luffy's more cheerful personality and looks, a lot of people might find it weird to picture him in sexual situations. especially since most of us see him as aroace (as if aroace people couldn't have sex or be in love but, y'know, that's for another time) and it's completely understandable to not feel comfortable around sexual stuff if you don't like it with this specific character. however, being uncomfortable around that type of content and infantilizing luffy's character to the point that you consider it problematic or wrong to put him in romantic/sexual situations is too much and you should let people enjoy characters however the fuck they want. if you don't like something just scroll and ignore it, but don't try to make everyone follow your own moral compass and likes because we're all different and luffy is just a fictional character.

people often forget he's the captain of a pirate crew. he's mature and has critical thinking and if seeing a cheerful/cute character instantly makes you assume he deserves to be "protected" from sex/romance, you are: infantilizing his personality (that may or may not be neurodivergent coded, but that's another story), villainizing sex and romance instead of just seeing those as something you don't personally enjoy but should let other people consume, and using being aroace as a shield from the real world and a stereotype instead of actually being inclusive and truly seeing him as aroaspec. friendly reminder that aroaspec people can have sex and be in romantic relationships because it's a spectrum. that's the whole thing about it. it's understandable to not be comfortable around sexual situations with a character you don't perceive as sexually active, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to write him that way. let people do whatever they want with their idea of luffy and have fun!

[meramu-meramu]

I've actually wondered before how well Giorno's speech pattern is even conveyed or understood, like in general across the multiple localizations, to non-Japanese speakers. Iirc a lot of the English tls don't even take his keigo into consideration, sometimes for valid reasons like lack of space for speech bubbles or lack of reading time in subtitles. However, if translated, I do think that because of the differences in how polite English versus polite Japanese is utilized, he's a lot more likely to come across as arrogant in English whereas in Japanese there's instead this odd contrast between his assertiveness and his humble politeness that really stands out. Tbh I've sometimes wondered if this is why so many English speakers call Giorno boring, like, idk, there's an argument to be made that he's more strange and unpredictable to jp readers. Also?? I forget how they phrase it but whole thing about Giorno being withdrawn or whatever that the other characters keep commenting on, I feel like that's definitely one thing that's a bit lost in translation.

Also in jp I feel like the times he's NOT polite stand out way more. Giorno spends the whole white album fight speaking to Mista in perfect keigo, life or death situation but he is still conjugating those verbs! But at the very start of part 5 he quite rudely tells the girls bothering him to "get lost" lmao

[taemcains]

every single wlw player on this app deserves 1mil in cold hard cash for bearing witness to that scene

[tavina-writes]

I'm not exactly sure how I want to phrase this yet, but I think a lot of the utterly weird takes I see sometimes float by me on our cursed blue hellsite (esp when it comes to mdzscql fandom) is coming from a refusal to meet the genre where it's at.

Like, why are we trying to interrogate classism in MDZS society, MDZS is a romance, the societal worldbuilding is just enough to support some general big ideas and the provide context for the romance. We can't get ANY kind of read on general classim/sexism/anything else from. this source material. if you think you can get granular when your sample size of characters from various social and gender strata are so small and we don't know how the vast majority of people in here live you are making stuff up.

Like, meet the story where it's at: it's a romance novel.

[like-pixie-dust]

Okay, so I saw the theory that the four men in the "Opera" video are actually MCR in prosthetics, so obviously I lost my mind for the next 20 minutes analyzing and trying to decide whether this was plausible or not. This is what I come back with.

1. The two men on the left look VERY MUCH like Frank and Mikey, no doubt, so if it is NOT the boys in prosthetics, that would be an insane coincidence.

2. The most compelling evidence to back this theory is teeth. You can get super high-quality prosthetics and do really good photoshop, but teeth are gonna be hard to fake without it looking obvious.

If you look at these two, I think most will agree that their teeth are VERY similar. (apologies for the low quality Frank pic, i think the mcarmy will understand it's tough to find photos of them that are more than three pixels)

3. The other thing that's gonna be hard to fake/mask is eyelashes. You can't exactly remove them, and as we know, Gerard has very long thick eyelashes.

We will ignore the eye color because that could probably easily be changed with good contacts and editing. but the eyelashes line up here. The man in the video even has the curl that Gerards lashes do.

4. One of the things that breaks the immersion of this theory is their heights. By all means, Ray should be the tallest here, yet he seems to be the shortest? he is slouching quite a bit, but even so, at 6'1", he shouldn't look that short compared to Frank, who is only 5'6 and also seems to be slightly slouched.

Other than that, it just seems too realistic to be prosthetics? I thought this theory was completely delusional until I started looking deeper into it, so I'm basically 50/50 on whether this is true or not. If you bothered reading all this, please share your thoughts!!! I'm so confused.

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[hashkath-skies]

this is how old I headcanon the bachelors/bachelorettes

[namtanlovesfilm]

23.5 pairing godji & golf, long time friends & trans icons together, IS THE MOST ICONIC THING EVER!!! I swear this show has the best characters, I love them all so much 😭😭😭

[pinkwarden]