#no more romance baiting.

[hang-on-lil-tomato]

It’s awesome! I love supernatural, but one of its flaws was the bizarre way they dealt with Destiel, including actors telling fans to stfu about it.

the OMFD KISS™️©️®️ felt like such a triumph. 🥰

I saw two humans in love, not two men. It transcended that.

no more BS. They’re in love. Period. NORMAL!

David Jenkins really gets us!

Bravo to Taika and Rhys who performed and developed the characters with such skill.

i saw this tweet ( @forpiratereasons ):

i immediately started sobbing. i truly can’t put into words how special Our Flag Means Death is to me. but, i’m going to attempt it anyway.

i was trying to figure my sexuality during the height of my fandom days. being mocked by the cast and creators of shows that were actively queerbaiting us, only to have them try to make us sound stupid when we called them out on it. it really did not help. it fucking sucked.

i had to spoil OFMD for myself about half way through, because i couldn’t handle a show doing that to me again, and in 2022.

instead, i found a show that not only follows through, but whose show runners, cast, and crew celebrates the queerness surrounding it. embraces the fandom. loves the show as much as we do.

that is so fucking special to me.

[juniperhillpatient]

I’m gonna be so for real right now I really genuinely think my favorite brand of “ship” has always been & will always be the kind that’s always building & never stops because it’s not like they could ever be endgame but it’s also not like they could ever stop caring. Like. I can think of many tv shows even just off the top of my head that lost any & all appeal once my otp got together. Like the best relationships in fiction are always gonna be in a constant state of friendship slash “hey was that romantic?” slash drama or discord & conflict slash “platonic love isn’t a downgrade” slash “buuuuuut…. Still. maybe just maybe it is romantic after all” slash “if they ever actually become a couple & get happy & stable I’ll be immediately bored I don’t even exactly want that also it’s so unrealistic & would never happen” like. Give me that insanity before giving me a stable romance any day of the week babey

[distance-does-not-matter]

thinking about Wuthering Heights again. and the immeasurable disservice that was done to it as a work and to Emily Brontë’s intentions when it got marketed as a romance

[goldenappledelicious]

Man, Villain or Morally Grey Glinda is SO fun to me as a concept but they always give her such lame or weirdly heterosexual motivations?? Why are y’all doing my girl like this? 😭

How is the “Glinda orchestrated events to become the uncontested ruler of Oz” theory for the movie better than most actual villain Glinda depictions?

[incorrect-web-novels]

Resetting Lady is truly the most mental manhwa/webnovel ever because the reveal that the main character locked her fiancé in a room with hounds to try and kill him when they were young is. Like. Not even a fucking worry for her. It's dramatically revealed by someone trying to convince her she's been brainwashed and then isn't even addressed between her and the fiancé. It hasn't even come back up again, and we immediately move onto her convincing her father to commit suicide

[arolesbianism]

Sometimes I just look at Isabeau and just know that if isat came out and I got into it when I was like 16 he would be my favorite character and I would've gone absolutely buck wild over this man and feel like he was laser targeting me. But alas Odile has a grip of steel on me rn due to her virtue of being a middle aged woman

[sieglinde-freud]

open fire emblem fates > go to the records hall > open supports > click nyx > click laslow > read > cry > close game. girl who will be okay

[always-a-joyful-note]

One thing about Idolish7 is that there is SO much love between the characters and it's not romance baiting, just deep sincerity

[lukaskyle]

not gonna lie it feels extremely biphobic to make every small physical interaction between buck and eddie into something sexual atp. buck has always clearly been okay with physical intimacy with his friends, eddie especially, and it's really discouraging to see post-coming out affection solely reduced to buddie. just because he understands he's into men now doesn't mean every time he touches eddie he wants to fuck him

[llycaons]

yoi was cute but the russian yuuri was literally the only character I cared abt lmao. also that one guy's performance was rly gross 😭 it was also way too shiny animation-wise for me but the rep was objectively laudable and it was the only piece of media that ever made me care about a sport. when yuuri collapsed and cried at the end of his piece...yeah I felt that

[loxare]

Anyone have any romance light* fantasy novel reccs? Preferably ones not set in modern day. I keep reading fascinating blurbs and then immediately lose interest when they imply there's going to be some good ol' fashioned Het Romance in it and I am so tired. So tired.

*romance light here meaning like. The romance is at best the D plot. Or non existent, that's also good. Or it's very very slow, not because the characters spend all their time pining and will-they-won't-they-ing, but because they're getting to know each other and eventually falling in love, or they have better things to be doing right now. Think Graceling, or Earthsea, or the Six of Crows duology

[agalnamedlunasea]

Me watching futabas confidant Unlock scene: aw this is so cute, they're so siblings. I love this :3

*the thought passing through my brain reminding me she's romanceable*

Me:

[mazojo]

It’s the girlboss x loser ship I am gonna like this one

[sheogorad]

you know i've got it bad when i come back to tumblr to rant about my fucking stupid baka life. i am just. i'm chewing and munching and crunching on my own limbs. i had therapy where i talked about [redacted] and that seemed to help it a bit. but i feel like a big stupid idiot that talks too much and lets too much info slip. i feel so vulnerable and i don't even get to be held and loved. i'm getting nearly all the anxiety and pain of being vulnerable and honest in love WITHOUT THE LOVE. i literally want to fucking choke myself out. i want to run into the woods and bite trees like a fucking beaver. i hate how much bigger he is than me because every time i think about it i feel like i'm going to die because i KNOW. i know. how good it would feel to be his little spoon. his hugs are already insanely good. they already make me feel small and held. i just lay here every single day. every single night. and just fucking Yearn bro. i just. imagine. being spooned. and i feel like crawling out of this 3rd story window so i land head first on the concrete. then i might be put out of my gay misery. i shouldn't have to suffer like this, during PRIDE MONTH. catching feelings is homophobic

[robocracker]

casualty twitter account dropping a preview clip of ryan advising cam to try mirroring jodie to get close to her and ryan and cam are literally mirroring each other as he says this, i swear to god if this tedious excuse for a love triangle doesn't end with ryan and cam getting together i'm gonna start a riot

[penultimate-step]

I think from that oshi no ko post from a couple days back some people are getting the impression that I dislike Aqua/Ruby as a ship, so I should clarify I actually am a fan of it. I just don't want it to happen in the actual manga and am sure the story isn't going that route. I can see a strong story with that ship, and I appreciate fanfic authors who go for it! But that strong story is very clearly not Oshi no Ko, lol. The way the story has been written is just very much not setting it up at all. How they interact in the actual story is at odds with the main themes of the manga.

I can see it working all the way through to the end of the LoveNow arc, but you'd have to rewrite a big chunk of Tokyo Blade, and then literally everything from Miyazaki Return onward would need to be thrown out. I think the ship is cool, and if it were actually the focus, I would love to read a story like that. But as it stands, I would be angry if the ship was endgame, because it would mean the author was just completely contrasting everything that was set up, and the story would be worse for it. If I had to make a prediction I think Aqua will likely end up with Kana, if he ends up in any romance at all. (That's kind of a shame to me, just because I find Kana the least interesting main character of Onk, but it is what it is.)