#it's baby rivals to lovers

[jeanne-de-valois]

My book The Hundredth Voice is out in October! It’s a book about a terrible curse and fairies and ghosts and a haunted music school, yes, but it is also gay! If you’re looking for an all ages book for a kid in your life (or yourself!) that deals with a terrible curse and your complicated budding relationship with your musical rival, The Hundredth Voice might be for you. 

You can preorder the book here. Happy Pride month! 

[pawzofchaos]

I feel so sick to my stomach this scene has me in such a chokehold /posssss

THE WAY VAGGIE AND CHARLIE ARE LIKE- HIS WINGWOMEN?? AND SO WAS ANGEL A LITTL BIT AFTER THEY ALL WERE ENCOURAGING THEIR FELLOW NOODLE MAN TO CONFESS TO HIS CRUSH I CANT 😭😭

Him taking off his hat before talking to her as a sign of respect, and then chickening out of telling her his feelings really hits harder when you see him ACTUALLY confess that he loves her later on during the battle right before sacrificing himself because he gained so much confidence since then.

this crush is DEFINITELY not a new thing either- he complimented her bombs and explosives bc he admired them for such a long while since they became rivals and I could definitely see him thinking over and over about how incredible the bombs she made were and how incredible SHE is bc he's a nerdy dork like that <3

HIS LITTLE BLUSHES R SO CUTE TOO and Cherri definitely was feeling SMTH- her seeming a little nervous and awkward as he compliments her and the way she leaned in right before he hurriedly slithered away and the way she looked kind of upset when he just ran away UGHH💖💖

Them becoming friendly and getting along before the battle was already enough to keep me going BUT TGE CONFESSION AND THE KISS IS MAKING ME??!!????! IM NOT OKAYYHN IM DHJKDKAHHAHHENENHANJFURHNANHWHWHHB$heh))$

[choccy-milky]

I would do anything to see Clora clobber the fuck out of Duncan fr

LMFAOO THIS IS SO FUNNY...ITS JUST SO RANDOM IT MADE ME LAUGH WHEN I GOT IT BAHAHA😭😭 so here you go anon, just for you 😌🙏

yes he is!! i headcanon that him and clora grow old together and once clora dies of old age, seb's job of protecting her is finally done so he breaks the horcrux and then follows her soon after 🥲 that means she'd die before him tho/he'd watch her die AND I HATE THINKING ABOUT THAT...SO I DONT....Kat_12739 on ao3 wrote about it in chapters 11 and 12 of every teardrop is a waterfall and in her version/story, sebastian outlives clora AND lewis and celeste, and its only once theyre ALL dead only then does sebastian break the horcrux and let himself die/meets them in the afterlife AND GIRL U BETTER BELIEVE I WAS SOBBING MY EYES OUT WHEN I READ THOSE CHAPTERS LMAOO so yes seb is immortal and will outlive clora BUT WE DONT THINK ABOUT THAT!!!!!! TRALALALALA

yandere anon idk who you are but i love you, the fact that you sent this ask IMMEDIATELY after i talked about which wip i should work on next is so funny. YANDERE SEB IS NEXT JUST FOR U, DW🫵

[sforzesco]

SO this! is about this specific entry in Burchard's Diary--

The Diary of John Burchard, trans. A. H. Mathew

--and the APERITIO ORIS rite (the mouth thing they keep talking about), but it's also a little about Ascanio's friction with the Vatican and the della Rovere-Ascanio rivalry

Politics and Dynasty: Underaged Cardinals in the Catholic Church, Jennifer Mara DeSilva

Popes, Cardinals and War: The Military Church in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe, David Chambers

Ascanio Maria Sforza: la parabola politica di un cardinale-principe del Rinascimento, Marco Pellegrini

[deathsweetblossoms]

Write me a story where there is no ending…write to me and fill my empty spaces.

Iris and Roman, Ruthless Vows

(Ruthless Vows Lovers 1/3)

[applepixls]

watching ren's scootball episode and joel being the aggressive star scootball player? there is so much room for aus and rival scootball team stuff with etho...

[theintrovertedextrovert]

•°•°Moriarty the Patriot°•°•

"you jump, I jump, right?"

(~Titanic, 1997)

[manyu-ten]

I know when it comes to shipping, people like to shrink the age-gap between certain characters and I'm all like: nah. No, don't minimize the age-gap!! The inherent power imbalance that comes with one of the pair being a good chunk older than the other can be so so delicious if done right.

Like, no, you are not in a relationship of equals!!! Maybe you can fight just as good, maybe when it comes to base-book smarts and knowledge you can go head to head, but experience is such a huge part of mental and emotional development. You can see all the signs of a subtle manipulation, but still fall face first into it because the disconnect between what you know and what you actually understand is something that must be kindled through experience.

The older one can have the best of intentions for the younger one, only have their best interests at heart, but they still have to follow through on their own laws of morality, ethics and discipline to make a relationship like that work.

Now to the good stuff:

JayGrant in any setting other than a High School AU has gotta have an age-gap for me.

Canonically, there's like 6-8 years between Dick and Jason (and I always go with the 8) and Grant is supposed to be about 1-3 years older than Dick (and I always go with the 3).

That's an 11 year age gap. There is no way in hell that alone isn't an inherent power imbalance. I love the little idea that Jason's death marked Grant's resurrection, so Grant would have been dead about two to three years. Physically, he'd probably be about the same age as Dick once he comes back but chronologically, he's still three years older.

And I need that to be a huge problem for Dick. He'd lose his goddamned mind. His own very complicated issues with his brother aside—thats!!! Still his baby brother!!! With Grant Wilson??? Absolutely not. Ain't nobody a bigger JayGrant hater than one Dick Grayson. He will pull out every problematic piece of information against Grant he can in order to fuel propaganda against this man.

Grant knows damn well the power he holds over Jason. I mean, anyone with decent eyes can see that Jason desperately wants someone to lead him, love him and protect him. If he wasn't so pathetically obsessed with the boy, all of Dick's biggest fears would be even more legitimate. The problem is. That Grant is so genuinely down bad for Jason its equal parts utterly endearing and absolutely embarrassing.

Like. Sir. That kid is 21. You are 32. Please get a grip on yourself. (Don't get a grip on yourself the shit thats wrong with you is so fucking funny ).

Like, Grant is the type of person to count the number of eyelashes on Jason's waterline as he's sleeping. He's that type of fucking freak. He'd be ecstatic when he realizes Jason has way more eyelashes than the average person.

Grant is the type of person to bring Jason the neatly dismembered body of one of his enemies the same way your cat might bring you a dead mouse as a token of their love.

And anyone with proper mentors in their life would see those crimson red flags a mile away and make the nearest exit. Jason, a mentally disordered, recently out of their teens young man with daddy AND big brother issues longer than the golden gate bridge, who also failingly tries to show love and affection for people through horrible actions (i.e. Brothers in Blood even though that was a lowkey shitty comic) would SWOON. He's falling head over heels so fast he's gonna give himself whiplash.

They have a Sicko4Sicko dynamic that everyone is mildly disgusted, infinitely disturbed and uncomfortably attracted to.

[lovebrushed]

clarence doodles from zoning out in class 👊 ps: i gave him earrings!

[alienglowgarden]

I shouldve been asleep HOURS ago, instead I did the exo tierlist....

[touchbased]

closed starter for @blcssom !

"if you're implying that my success is a product of anything other than my hard work, then you might as well just come out and say it."

[thranduel]

⊱ kaelin ⊰ half-elf | the storm-born sorcerer | chaotic good | ♡ astarion

[cerisia76]

Hi, 1 and 12 for the ask game :)?

Hey! Sorry for the delay ;) 1. List 3 shipping tropes you love Won't surprise anyone with this one but I'm a sucker for Friends to Lovers. Like the tension of realizing you're developing more than friendship for someone, interpreting every single interaction, wondering if the other feels the same way. And when they are finally together, they have to work on their relation to make it work and not be just a friendship... There is an history between them so to me it's when the relationship can be the more powerful!

Another one I love is Rivals to Lovers... To me it's the best "ennemies-to-lovers" sort of trope because there is no the hatred factor of ennemies. There's also the fact that I just like to see people bittering like an old couple!

And for the third one I would say Seductive x Shy baby. I just love to see someone flirting so clearly with his loved one and the loved one, being either to shy to answer or suddenly discovering they can flirt (Hello Floranagan)... I also love how the seductive character generally raises Shy baby character's self-esteem. It's so important to me!

12. List 3 ships you currently love Gosh that's so HARD... I will probably use the first question to answer the second one because it's easier and makes sense.

Gwen and Duncan, Total Drama aka Friends to lovers but also Stefan and Caroline, The Vampire Diaries

Have they been done wrong? Definitly. The cheating part is unforgivable from the writers and from the characters. But WT episode 15? That's what you find next to "friends to lovers" in a dictionary. You also find the whole Steroline story because THAT'S a Friends to Lovers done perfectly even if in the end... She suffers and he dies.

Dan and Blair, Gossip Girl aka Rivals to Lovers

They are also a good example of how a relationship can do a full circle in the different possibilities. Lovers, Friends, Best Friends, Ennemies, Strangers, Rivals, Tolerate Each Other, Unrequited Love... THEY DID EVERYTHING. But how I love their rivals to lovers relationship... Please juste give me a valid reason why the writers destroyed them for the toxicest relationship of all times? Chair for those who don't know.

Flora and Anagan, Winx Club aka Seductive x Shy Baby

They are ennemies to lovers but come on this trope fits them so much better! She has never been as flirty as with him and he made her have fun in battle which was something she never experienced! They would have been everything and I love them.

[whoblewboobear]

My long dead gen 2 sim’s wife Lacey really does look like Leah and I can’t stop seeing it 🤧 I was going through old screenshots and it just hit me in the face full force

[holysweetcherryorchardtree]

Sometimes I think about how the former captain of Canada’s women's hockey team is married to the former captain of USA's women's hockey team and I think we need a movie about that love story tbh.

[devoti]

anyways if anyone crossed off yuuji it's on sight