#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

[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?

[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

[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

[perryabbott]

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

[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.)

[llycaons]

like the wu ming reveal was all very nice but since this all happened nearly a thousand years before the events of books 1, 3, and 5 its like...okay? everything about their relationship in the flashback I either found creepy or didn't care about 😭 ik some fans like the idea of a character so loyal he's willing to destroy a whole country on the word of his god slash crush but umm I do not! also hc disguising himself as the child who was hanging out with xl was so weird why did he do that. age gap creepiness aside it was just stupid and eliminated a chatacter I was really excited about. and it pissed me off when he kicked qyz off the sedan chair like let him sit!!! his single-minded focus on xl got so so old and his insistence on inserting himself everywhere was intrusive and annoying! to me. got real tired of his 'fuck everyone else I got dianxia' mindset. immature. annoying. and unfair

[queen-scribbles]

to no one's surprise i'm here to talk about tlbt LMAO but i really do enjoy it!!! xaeryn is an engaging and clever narrator and it is not an exaggeration to say i was losing it over the way you've upped the stakes in the most recent chapter, both with the cliffhanger and with briony's revelations. i adore how you've reinterpreted canon elements as well as incorporating magic into the 20's setting! also the way you write red & the circle crew is incredibly charming and i love seeing new chapters appear on my dash -em <3

Thank you sm Em!!

I love Xaeryn bc she's a bit more... formal and stiff and forthright, a little more serious, than my typical MC in games like this. She does have a warmer/softer side, there's just only a few people Red who can bring it to the forefront, and it makes her such an interesting POV to write for something like this. All the things in canon I've written her have been with Red, so it's really shown more of her more relaxed side. Having her interact with a bunch of different characters in this lets her show of more of who she is and I love it. Poor Shery and her crush tho

It's so fun playing with ways to bring in canon elements and make them fit with a 20's setting. Figuring out which of the cast would lean more heavily into slang, how they'd dress, oh I can nod to Chandry here and put Red's warhammer in the museum since he's not actually using it, and here's a nod to the Equalizers in the Blade/Trouble/Trick/Wen cameo, and here's a way to work in the Faceless Lords when my protag isn't. um. what she is in canon, let's say. (there's at least one, possibly 2-3 more coming >:3)

I've been plotting out/sitting on Briony's revelations for a while now, and I was so excited to finally get to cover that in this chapter. It was supposed to be in the last chapter, before I realized how LONG it would have made what was already a beast of a chapter. And if I'd put that in there things would have gone a different direction and Ryn/Red might not have gotten their Moment while he was patching up her hand. Since I'd been sitting on that scene since I started writing this AU, OBVIOUSLY it had to happen. xD So Briony and Darius got shifted back a chapter and got to have their 4k word conversation/info dump without me wincing too much about the length.

And yeah. That cliffhanger. *cough* I'm equal parts sorry and cackling like a banshee for that. It has pretty much always been the plan. Gotta up those stakes for Ryn, in a couple different ways. I have PLANS for how that's gonna resolve and it's going to be so much fun to write.

I love the whole Circle crew dynamic and the camaraderie and teasing and matchmaking and everything, it's a joy to write. I'm definitely going to write at least Pan and Neon's visit during the gala as a side vignette at some point(Pan POV, I can just tell he'll be fun as a narrator xD), and there's a couple things I'd love to do Red's POV on for this bc he was having Emotions.

[writersmorgue]

gonna lose it /guarantee

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