#not even romanced btw

[strawberrysamara]

Why is Emmrich's last companion quest unironically the hardest choice I've ever faced in a video game?

[castielsprostate]

breaking the sign in two by how hard im tapping it

[persbadart]

and don't even get him STARTED on lady bugs

[danikatze]

[ID in alt text]

Guys he's so pretty..

[bigolialragu]

they have something weird going on

[namarikonda]

oh, wyll... the literal prince of my heart

[bean-spring]

Mark and Helly can fuck all they want on company time and he won't get fired because he's Lumon's little meow meow but oh if the gay older men touch foreheads it's suddenly "an unsanctioned erotic entanglement" and they NEED to get fired

[altschmerzes]

honestly i just think I will fundamentally never understand the very common (and sometimes posited as universal which i don’t love) sentiment among aromantic people/communities that like. oh one part of aromanticism is Not Understanding Or Caring About Or Getting The Point Of the line between friendship and romance, the distinction of different types of relationship. because for me as an aromantic person that line and distinction is actually Extremely important and clear and it feels… weird and bad to consistently see it posited as this like. Prominent Aro Thing to not understand/care about that.

ACTIONS will never inherently be allotted to one type of relationship or another, and the only feeling that is inherently romantic is romantic attraction/love, but the like. labeling itself of relationships and feelings and actions based on the person or people involved… idk. THAT is very important to me. it is Very Important to me that it’s extremely clear that none of my relationships or actions or feelings are or ever will be romantic and it’s important to me that those labels are seen and respected. it’s important to me in my personal life, and it’s reflectively important to me in the stories i tell and the ones i interact with.

idk. people are obviously welcome to the sentiment and i dont begrudge them having it and maybe im misunderstanding what this means when people say it. but it does make me feel a little anxious and once again the odd guy out in my own community to constantly be seeing this posited as like. An Inherently Aromantic Quality to not understand the difference between types of relationship or the point in differentiating. it will always be critically important to me that romance has and will have no place in my life or relationships. once i learned it was possible not to feel romantic feelings or attraction - and i accepted that it was true for me - everything became very clear to me at that point. ‘how do you Know’ i just know. I Just Know. and that matters to me.

[sophtzs2]

#07 time travel! I wasn't sure if time travel literally meant them traveling through time or just them in other time periods, but since I love period pieces, I did one of my favorite dynamics...princess and knight! (I got the idea from @/morifinwess on Twitter) :33 (couldn't find the original artist of the ref img :/ if anyone recognizes it, feel free to tell)

[ruushes]

not generally a fan of how the game implements terminology like this but this is so funny to me it’s almost worth it. shut up lucanis i need you to be listening and learning rn

[silliestlittlecat]

this line is about fun ghoul and party poison btw. party poison is the only friend that makes fun ghoul cry && fun ghoul is a heart attack in black hair dye. if u even care. whatever.

[twistedappletree]

Why is one of the homophobic dudebro arguments against hansry always “Theresa is the canon romance, she’s Henry’s true love” ???????

Like ok, fine, if that’s how you wanna play your game then by all means, go for it. But considering she wasn’t in the second game at all besides a few casual mentions, it’s pretty clear she wasn’t meant to be the dev canon romance. It also doesn’t negate the fact that Hans and Henry have been through the most together. They probably know each other better than anyone else in their lives.

Falling for each other was pretty much inevitable, either in a platonic or romantic way—so even if Warhorse had restricted romance options to only Theresa, Hans and Henry would still be the canon Relationship™️

[chergeegee]

these two are everything to me

[boyfriendsmalec]

Will isn't going to have a secondary love interest in Season 5. He's already involved in one love triangle (Will-Mike-El) why would the writers develop a second one?

I could make a lot of narrative arguments as to why I don't see this happening but ultimately it boils down to this: There's no time.

The show is in its last season. The Duffers have already said they're shifting away from adding new romances (Byler is not a new romance, it's been built-up over the whole show) and new characters (few exceptions like Linda Hamilton have been added). They need to wrap up storylines for at the very least 12+ main characters (not to mention side characters). Point being: the cast is stacked enough as is. They don't have time to create a new love interest for Will, especially if it's not a character he's going to end up with in the end. If they wanted to add a new love interest for Will, they would've started it in Season 4.

Will is the main character next season, and he already has a lot going on:

His connection with Vecna and the Upside Down (this will largely take up most of his plot since it'll be the central plot line)

Will getting Upside Down flashbacks from 1983 (like El did in S4 with her flashbacks of Hawkins Lab)

New friendship/mentorship with Robin (and Vickie)

Coming out arc to his family and friends

Contending with his love for his best friend (including the painting lie reveal coming to fruition)

Will has more than enough going on this season.

Also narratively-speaking, I'm sorry but there's no way Will is going for a jock who's bullying Dustin and likely him and his other friends by extension (for being associated with Dustin/The Hellfire Club). That's just wildly out-of-character for Will. And they have zero time to develop some tertiary bully character.

Also adding a secondary love interest for Will at this stage would undermine the central focus of Will's love for Mike, which they're building up over the course of the whole show. We know this isn't a crush, Will is in love.

The most we'd get is maybe a scene of a male character expressing interest in Will, to see Mike's jealous response, or to have Will turn him down to reassert to the audience Will's love for Mike.

TLDR; The ST writers are in crunch time with the final season and don't have time to waste on a secondary love interest plot device.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i still think a lot about how technically, it's implied Anubis and Walt started dating each other before they asked out Sadie, and if Sadie had said she wasn't interested they would have gone "Entirely fair have a nice day" and proceed to just go continue to date each other.

Cause like, that was the entire thing. They decided that themselves. That things would work best if they were together (as in both physically sharing a body and also relationship-wise). The "asking Sadie about it" part was secondary. If she had said no, they would have stayed together, because among other things Walt would kind of die if they didn't. Walt and Anubis are technically the first gay couple in the Riordanverse. AND they're in a polyamorous relationship with Sadie. Why does no one talk about them ever.

[absolutelyzoned]

"my dinner 🤤" this "our dinner 🤤" that. i want to be THEIR dinner.