#our secret love song

[gordopickett]

🎉 Happy Birthday, Michael Dorman! 🎊

Wishing the happiest of happy birthdays to the incredibly kind, humble, silly, optimistic, versatile, talented man who plays...

...my long-haired foodie landscaper 🪻🌿🌻…

…my extremely loyal babe who makes a great surrogate daddy 🧢…

…my violent bully 🚗…

…my troubled long haul truckie with big dreams 🚛🔧💊…

…my sweet boat captain 🛥️🔺🚢…

…my haunted, grieving college student 💉…

…my drug-sharing, late-night-swimming restaurant cook 💊🏊‍♂️…

…my charmingly disarming babe 🧗‍♂️…

…my island hunter boy 🏹…

…my silly carefree bushranger 🔫🤠♣️🐎💰…

…my post-apocalyptic hunter 🔫🔥…

…my quirky, eccentric lawyer ⚖️…

…my sweet but commitment-phobic babe 🤵‍♂️👰…

…my cocky, jerkwad satellite expert 😎🐍…

…a desperate father determined to save his child 🏥🫁…

…my oft-barefoot cabinet-maker surfer boy sweetheart 🍽️🪚🏄‍♂️…

…my babe determined to help out a friend 📱…

…my debonair first officer 🏴‍☠️…

…my PTSD-laden folk-singing intelligence officer 🎸🐕…

…another desperate father determined to save his child 🍼...

…my wayward troubadour trying to find himself again 🎱🚬🎸…

…my lovable cocky-turned-humble adorably chubby astronaut 👨‍🚀🚀🌖…

…my treasure-hiding pirate boy 🏴‍☠️🪙…

…and my sweet troubled girl-daddy teddy bear game warden! 🤠🐎🍪

(I only added Mikey characters from works I've seen so far, so I know I'm missing a few. 😊)

[jadelemonadee]

to the one friend who stayed after everyone else in the friend group drifted away from me i love you so much ☹️

[bumblingbabooshka]

'I'm the X' is a banger but let's be real for a second Mr. Spock

[angel---eater]

alright. playlist for dave and dirk letsgo. some prefacing stuff cause i have a lotta Thoughts abt their relationship and how absolutely unhealthy it is but also how much they wanna be around e/o, and how thats a constant inherent tragidy between them

first up undertale + game over reference for the cover photo because vibes

there are a couple songs in here that are technically what a lotta ppl would consider love songs, like for romantic couples, but im taking them and spinning them on their heads for the context of how i see dave and dirk

the way i see the striders is that they're both struggling with oppositional attachment problems. dave with his emotional estrangement from bro, and dirk with his idolization and wish fulfillment of how he sees a!bro. dirk loves dave. this is an inarguable, textual fact. dave isnt sure how to feel about dirk, not in totality. these problems combined, outside of the meat+candy timelines, i think would play out as the two of them either remaining painfully foreign to each other or - important word useage incoming - enmeshed

the lalondes struggle with similar estrangement/idolization problems, but theres something about the striders and their specific emotional issues that makes their attachment shit go TURBO

they dont know how to approach e/o in a balanced way. its all or nothing for them both. usually 'all' for dirk, and 'nothing' for dave, which feeds into dirk's 'all' and in turn pushes dave further into 'nothing' even when he doesnt actually want that. its a horrible cycle of wanting to actually know each other but not knowing how to think of the other without seeing someone else. they could be completely hands off and not talk to each other at all for months or literally be sharing pockets and talking about rooming together, and those phases transition into e/o quick. and then those plans fall through and it starts all over again. its weird, it aint right, its painful for them both, they just want to be okay around each other, but they dont know how. theyre far too close to cherubic bullshit for me to pass that one up

[grapejuicegay]

our first introduction to the cast of my school president was in bad buddy with tinn and gun as patpran’s high school juniors. bad buddy is now canon in msp. i swear if they start performing any bbs songs i’m going to lose my mind

[skepticalcatfrog]

what song do you think totally captures ben x mars relationship? (love ur takes!)

I LOVE YOU ANON!!!

I've been having a rough day today so in honor of this very kind ask I'm going to give you MULTIPLE songs:

1. Wish That You Were Here by Florence and the Machine - I think this is very them in early OVE, with all the longing to be together (with Ben thinking Mars is gone forever, but Mars just not being able to reach out).

2. Please Stay by Lucy Dacus - Again, early OVE, specifically Benedikt's POV of being in their apartment alone. (The name of my fic is also from this song!)

3. Ease My Mind by Ben Platt - This, to me, is the aspect of their relationship where they help each other find their way out of the darkness.

And then for the last two, Out of the Woods and Jump Then Fall by Taylor Swift because Chloe Gong herself said that they were Ben and Mars respectively. <3

[thegayneurodivergentagenda]

Cat & Dog (by TOMORROW X TOGETHER) × Bad Buddy The Series

Turn me from a cat into a dog

Now I want you to take me on a walk

Watch me be the loyalest of all

Ok baby, here’s the leash, purr purr purr

-

Baby baby you give me a halo

I was far from cute before, now I’m an angel

So make room for me, I hope you don’t let go

Cuz I’ve been such a good boy, I hope you don’t say no

(But) oh my gawd

What is this new emotion?

Now I’m such a puppy when you hold me

Feed me love, it’s perfect & you know it

Follow you in circles and no that is not a joke, babe

I’ll walk over the obstacles and be there till the bitter end

I just hope you understand (purr purr purr)

-

I'm the one you can’t keep your keep your paws off

Go fetch, when you say that, I'ma dog walk

Fight for you, In the biggest pack of wolves, They be racing but I’m comin’ in first (woof woof)

Yeah, I like it when we cuddle,

Come to me!

When you get yourself in trouble, I’m everything.

From the soft side to the tough stuff,

Til we cross the rainbow bridge, I’ll be the one you always dream of

Bet nobody else speaks the lil’ language between you & me

I don’t wanna be just friends

It’s no coincidence, it’s a kitty-incidence

They be testing out your patience but I’m here for it

Boy, I promise, so get used to it

Ain’t no stopping me when you walk in

Got me acting up all crazy, let me be your pet

Baby make a lil' room let me get next to you

I was messing, Now I’m thanking you

I learned my lesson

Let’s play forever I just wanna be your dog

BONUS: CRACK!

Cuz I’ve been such a good boy I hope you don’t say no

Cat & Dog (by TOMORROW X TOGETHER) × Bad Buddy The Series

BadBuddy× my Playlist 11/n

[good-beans]

🌻

[talkingbl]

which characters from my completed bls are the greenest of flags?

Ultimate Green Flags: Green means GO!

Tian (1000Stars) - an angel

Kao (KMA/DBK) - a good boy that stays caught up in bad situations. the Ashanti to Pete's Ja Rule

Xi Gu (MODC) -

Sean (Not Me) - he's just out here trying to survive

White (Not Me) - we love a supportive twin 😤

Kim (Unforgotten Night) - just trying to get his life right honestly

Pharm (UWMA) - worst thing he ever did was learn his soul mate's name. It's like I can still hear him calling for him to this day... "p'dean! p'dean!!! p'deeeeeaaaaaan~"

Yellow Flags: Not bad but do tread lightly...

Salawat (2gether) - I don't know man he might actually be a red flag now that I think about it...

Tine (2gether) - he pretended to be gay to get rid of his GAY MALE secret admirer. he might not be dangerous but he does lack brain cells

Pat (Bad Buddy) - for no reason at all, he healed from a gunshot wound in 1 episode. never trust a man who can't die

Pran (Bad Buddy) - friends with Wai

Siwon (Blueming) - when he's miserable, so is everyone else around him

Pi (FUTS) - unchecked anger issues

Daon (Blueming) - when he lies through his teeth like it's nothing

Neua (SCOY) - is okay with his boyfriend collecting his trash and bodily fluids

Sangwoo (Semantic Error) - not too bad but maybe a little vindictive and inconsiderate

Khai (TOL) - the first 6 episodes never happened[.]

Third (TOL) - the way he iced Khai was telling TO ME

Dean (UWMA) - not green enough to be green, not red enough to be red

Phupha (1000Stars) - nah cause the way he just tossed Tian to the side like that and turned the whole village on my mans was slimey af

Haoting (MODC) - relentlessly bullied a guy, then fell in love with him a week later. if that's not the hallmark of a well-adjusted human being, I don't know what is

Absolute RED Flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩

Pete (KMA/DBK) - this grown ass man bullied a teenager lmao

Mork (FUTS) - has no clue what boundaries are

Toh (SCOY) - he steals his crush's trash and makes shrines out of it

Jaeyoung (Semantic Error) - the lengths he went to just to piss Sangwoo off should tell you that this man is capable of some fucked up shit

Kamol - I feel like I don't need to explain why forcing a stranger to LIVE WITH YOU b/c he has a phat ass and looks like a cherub when he cries is red flag behavior

[cannibalismyuri]

(song added by me)

[gordopickett]

My sweet teddy bear boy. 🥹🧸🥰 I will protect these characters at all costs. 💙💙💙

[gateskp]

This is a story followers from Twitter and BSky know, but since I'm getting into Tumblr, I figured I'd share.

I'm very much in love with my best friend from college. He is the unrequited love of my life. I refer to him as The One I Love. And tonight I fell in love with him all over again.

In college, people thought we were dating because we were (and still are) so close. We did have class together every single day for a full semester and then class together multiple times a week for semesters after that. We'd hang out in the bio student lounge and watch TV on his laptop together. I made him a Pokeball birthday cake for his 21st birthday because he is a ridiculous nerd and loves Pokemon (no shade, I'm also a ridiculous nerd). When we had evening classes that ended at 9pm, I'd drive him home to make sure he got home safe and quickly. He made me laugh and smile and enjoy, y'know, living, which was something I didn't always enjoy in college.

We...did a lot of things that could definitely be construed as couple activities. But we were not a couple. Just very close, excellent complements of each other, with a hint of feelings on my part.

Side note: It's actually fairly entertaining to look back on because in our practical lab classes, our professors deliberately paired us up because we worked so well together (the assumption being because we were a couple).

Side note 2: He is a very attractive guy imo, and I semi-jokingly call him a ridiculously hot nerd. I'm queer and fall somewhere in ace land, so I do enjoy admiring him but there's nothing sexual about our relationship. Which I think has helped it in a good way.

He calls me every week and we talk. Like. For 2-3 hours *every week*. This has been going on for literally 2 years. Originally he started calling me to talk about shows we were watching, but now we talk about anything and everything. There's a lot of venting about grad school (we're both PhD-ing) and just...being there for each other. I love it. He listens to me ramble and he tells me stories and interesting tidbits and whatever. It's very give-and-take. Our weekly calls strengthened and cemented my feelings for him.

He knows my feelings because 2 years ago (?? how has it been that long) I wrote him a(n 8 page) love letter conveying my feelings and that led to a very awkward conversation about how feelings were not returned. I still think we use different language to describe similar things BUT ANYWAY. I respect that we don't see things the same way, much as it may hurt. That's what it means to love someone, respecting their feelings and experiences and personhood.

Side note 3: I have this secret fantasy about what our future could look like and I'm not going to let it go until there's no hope at all. He is one of the most important people in my world, and I truly only want the best for him. His health and happiness is tantamount to nothing, and whatever role I play in that, so be it. If he found another person who brought him even a fraction of the feelings he brings me, I'd officiate the wedding myself. What matters more than anything else is that I have my closest friend in my life and we remain close. Whatever it takes...

What's amazing(?) is that our relationship...it's gotten even stronger since then. That conversation was...A Lot...but I think it made whatever we have even stronger. It definitely didn't get worse.

I look forward to to our calls. They're part of my routine, I deliberately set aside this time on Thursday nights for him. I do not allow things to be scheduled for Thursday nights. Thursday nights are for The One I Love and no one else.

When we're talking to each other...I feel connected to another person. The world exists outside of my day-to-day bubble. I feel like...when I talk to him, I feel like there's a person who cares about what happens to me.

One night a couple of years ago I told him about my mental health struggles. It was something I don't think he fully recognised I was dealing with in college. But I was really struggling and having a hard time and I just couldn't pretend everything was okay on the phone. So I asked him if I could tell him, he said yes, so I told him everything. And it was really hard for me to do that, there was a lot of starting and stopping and stuttering (I stutter a lot anyway, this was worse). And at the end of it all, I told him that I knew what I just said was a lot and I understood if he needed some space or didn't want to talk for a while or whatever, because that's how people reacted in the past. There have been people who've decided to stop being friends with me because this is too much, and I understood if he felt that way because it's a lot. I wouldn't hold it against him.

And he just said "I'm still here." He said he wasn't going anywhere. And he hasn't.

More than once I've made self-deprecating jokes because how else does one deal with their terrible mental health and he reminds me that he cares. He has confidence in me when I don't. Once I texted him on a Friday night and told him to tell me something good that happened to him that day because I was having a really tough night and needed to hear something positive was happening in the world. He responded by calling me and being there for me.

We trust each other with things that no one else knows. It means the world to me that he'll tell me things that he won't tell anyone else, and I will take his secrets to the grave. Trust is...complicated for me. But I trust him. He won't hurt me. It's something I've had to really come to terms with, here is someone who I can be vulnerable around who won't hurt or manipulate me.

Last year I saw him for the first time since 2017 and it was like no time had passed at all. We spent 4 days together. I took him to see his first Broadway show, Hadestown, which was the only show he's ever been really eager to see. He took me to see SPACE at the Illuminarium because he knows how much I geek out over space, how awe-inspiring I find it. He talked me out of dropping $700 on a Flash comic, which was extremely wise. I tried and failed to cook, which he doesn't let me forget. He got me hooked on anime, which was apparently his deviously secret plan all along (which shocked me but I absolutely love it). I "made" him split half a gallon of Blue Bell ice cream with me because I hadn't had it in years (it took 0 effort, the man has no control when it comes to sweets and I tease him about it constantly). We helped his friend move. We sat on the couch on our laptops silently enjoying each other's presence.

It was truly the best long weekend I've had in who-knows-how-long. If the rest of my life looked like that weekend, I think I would be happy. Genuinely wonderfully happy and enjoying life.

The day I had to leave, I completely lost it. He gave me a goodbye hug and I completely broke down on his shoulder because I'd just had the best weekend in living memory and was going back to my quickly-approaching preliminary exam and having issues with my advisors. He knew all of this. I sobbed on his shoulder, and he held onto me. He didn't let go until he knew I stopped crying and was safe to drive. (I cried on and off the entire 7 hours drive)

I have pictures of us from this trip on my desk in lab, and they always make me smile, they have so much positivity associated with them. They also made it onto my Christmas card.

I'm going to see him again next month when I run the marathon in his city. We have a growing list of things to do which is entirely dessert places he wants to take me to, because we both love dessert and sweets. Tonight we were talking about when I might come down. I told him it's completely up to him because he has to put up with me and my bullshit. The race is on a Sunday, so I'd come down as early as the Tuesday before.

He doesn't know his schedule yet because science and experiment timing can be tricky. But he might be taking Wednesday off. He said he already plans on spending all day Thursday with me.

Tonight I fell in love all over again.

[summercourtship]

first off, obligatory thanks to you for writing STB, it's maybe the luckiest find I've ever had on ao3, very few fics have me lurking in wait for updates - I noticed in the tags you mention every relationship has a different vibe, I was wondering (unless it'd be spoilery) what vibes/tropes/etc we might be expecting with Edward? Any neat obvious-or-not-obvious foils to the dynamics with other two? (can u tell I Love Him)

thank you!

I won't be as in depth as I could be because I don't want to potentially spoil what I have planned (which is hard bc there's a plot point that happens which is the true catalyst for their relationship lmao) BUT I definitely think of Edward's relationship w/ the reader being 'enemies to lovers, but it's actually only one of the characters who hates the other until they're forced to reconsider due to events happening around them'. It's a secret relationship because the reader won't want either Bruce/Batman or Jonathan to know that she is involved with Edward in anyway. (But at least one of them will find out about it eventually 👀)

Also, Ed still views himself as a form of justice and will gladly guide the Reader into finding more information while he's locked up in Arkham (because he knows about certain going ons). He does the same thing he did with Bruce in The Batman where he views you as a team though the other person doesn't quite realize it.

But he has an unfortunate habit of obsessing over people and putting them on pedestals and then being incredibly disappointed when they don't do exactly what he wanted them to.

And the reader... well, the reader is just trying to deal with some complex and changing emotions about this guy.

[asteracaea]

i haven't listened to midnights in the car in a while so it was surprising to hear hits different instead of the great war !

[psychedelic-soul]

Interesting FACT: This song was featured in the tv show Reservation Dogs about a few indigenous teenagers in Oklahoma.

[ohnoitsmysideblog]

i’ve been really into apple and onion lately. but like in an “overly analyzing every interaction, set, and prop” kind of way. like in a “thinking heavily about the theming and moral lessons” type of way. like i’ve been thinking a lot about the “not funny” episode and it’s been overlapping with my thoughts on mirrors and reflections and the times in my life when i’ve wholeheartedly convinced myself that my friends were going to abandon me and i might as well get used to being alone and maybe i’ll just be alone on purpose to spite them and it’ll be great because i can totally be my only friend and by viewing myself not as “myself” but as some kind of hard-to-explain separate Thing then i will never have to deal with loneliness ever again.

and okay sure yeah maybe at the end when falafel calls his friend and tells him “tea is hot but not as hot as the sun” as a way of reaching out despite the time that’s been lost i cried a bit. yeah. like that’s a pretty rad message for a kids show I’d say like yeah it actually is important to remember that everything is not black and white and people are capable of forgiveness and i’m a person who can be forgiven.

and i didn’t mean to write this much but fuck it, i love that the character arc for apple wasn’t “onion would never replace me because i’m his best friend” but instead “i love onion and i love being his friend even if that means i’m his millionth friend.” and of course apple isn’t replaceable but u get what i’m saying. i’m sorry but themes centered around love are and have always been my absolute favorite. love ur friends love ur family love ur pets love the earth whatever. ok i’m done now. i just wish i’d found this show earlier but i guess i’m glad i found it now when my life’s a mess.