#not enemies to lovers

[fiishbone]

Listen... I believe in narumitsu endgame, but... 😳

[ken-okamoto-official]

*standing at the alter*

do you, ken Okamoto, take stars nolastname to be your lawfully wedded bride?

no 🗣🗣🗣

@flufallo you didn't do a good job hiding who you were btw

[stimmingandstruggling]

i love putting blade and luocha on a team together. it’s so funny to me. blades ultimate half kills him and luocha just INSTANTLY bonks him up to full health. lore accurate blade just cannot fuckign die i’ve got that fucking field up the moment he does his blood magic he’s just healed. immortal man who desperately wants to die is persistently healed by a very annoying necromancer

[fistfuloflightning]

A Souji/Kaoru sketch from a couple years back

[ilovechickencullet]

Trying to get back to drawing after an accidental 2-year break so have some doodles of Simon feeling silly and a cod oc, Gnasher, whose whole schtick is she chomps

[loftedlow]

I will spit in your drink so you are secondhandedly making out with me.

[razziecat]

YES I thought it was just me!

HUGE fan of the enemies forced to work together trope. not even in an enemies to lovers way just 2 ppl who absolutely despise each other being forced to tolerate the others presence and being like once we’re done with this i won’t fucking hesitate. top 10 tropes of all time

[bamsara]

"youve already written that trope" yesss. i like it a lots. i will be writing it again. 1000 stories of the same trope over and over again for ten million years

[i69bea]

"i wonder if we ever think of each other at the same time."

[animentality]

[amaiguri]

OK HERE HE IS:

This is Senator Diacaius. He's father of the year 🥰

He's one of those people that seems smarmy and difficult, but this is just cuz he's confident. He's fairly reasonable, except when it comes to his family -- and then he is extremely vindictive against anyone who even hurts them, even a little or by accident...

Anyway, I love him.

I wanna make an appreciation post for everyone's villain OCs. Please please please tell me about the most nasty, vicious, evil little bastard from your brain.

I promise I'll be perfectly normal about them and not make them my blorbo <3

[babsvibes]

One of the funniest things about enemies-to-lovers ships is how they’re almost always obsessed with each other. Like if a character actively chooses to interact with another character over and over again instead of simply ignoring them? Throw darts at it all you want, but you still printed out a picture of them to hang on your wall

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

[socksandcrocs]

Charlie would definitely make her dad participate in the hotel exercises lmao

[imthefkgsupreme]

Glad that we ditched the "I can fix him" narrative and replaced it with the "i can join him" narrative. Let women be evil!

[greykolla-art]

Alastor: “Now, let’s talk about literally anything else please!”

Me: “Good! Cause I don’t know where you went so I can’t go further with this!😂”