#romance is good

[crazy-fg]

What it could have been like in Wish, if Disney stopped to screw romance like it’s some kind of plague we need to cure😮‍💨

I ✨wish✨ for them to be canon!

Ps. Still working on other fandoms fanarts. But for today I had to make my version of Asha and the star boy!

[mai-komagata]

Look im all for shipping, right

I have my otps and my crack ships and my these two people are hot and all that.

But I think people forget what romance is *for* narratively. I've seen this done by people "who hate shipping" and people who love it. They think if two people get together in a narrative (or if they flirt, or kiss, or break up) it is about fanservice only or pairing up people.

Romance in a narrative should serve a narrative purpose, and I don't mean, advance the plot necessarily (most romance will not defeat the villain, although sometimes, in fantasy, it really does!). It should tell us about the characters and about ourselves. Because romance is part of the human condition. As are breakups. As are "toxic" relationships. It's a way we learn about love and loss. It is a way we can learn about queer identity as well. (even for ace people this can be the case, not all romances are sexual, not all sex is romantic, not everyone is born with a perfect understanding of their sexuality).

Anyway, I've seen people be like "who is this ship for"? Most of the time, the answer is it's for the *character*. Not that this is their happily ever after and they deserve it, but that they need to learn something about themselves from interacting with this person in a romantic or sexual way. Sometimes the audience *should* be cheering for them to break up and this is *intended* by the author. Or the audience should be heartbroken they broke up b/c they haven't learned those lessons yet. Anyway, canon should never stop you from enjoying your ship, doomed or not. And you are welcome to cringe when a romance you don't like is on screen. But remember writers are trying to tell you a story via the romance plot, it isn't pointless fanservice, in fact, it might be the opposite -- a painful lesson the character needs to learn.

(fyi this is how i distinguish in my head "ships i want to be canon" and "just characters i ship", some of them are integral to my understanding and motivations of the characters, and I think the story becomes richer and multifaceted when interpreted that way. Vs. the other is just for fun and i don't give a rat's ass if its canon. )

PS. Also this isn't to say the writers don't get this wrong, sometimes. Sometimes they add or subtract a romance for reasons external to the text. Or they don't notice something added by the actors performances or societal nuance that changes the interpretation of what they created. And that is when it jarring.

[traumszenario]

[darktraumabomba2]

The light in the dark.

[mommyloveyoutoo]

Mommy love to give her slutty daughter her attention and love when we take shower together

Even if her father and her boyfriend in living room I don't care

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The squad of all time has arrived on scene.

[its-your-mind]

[immajinsoul]

Who's a good boy?

[the-fatal-impact]

My experience playing Baldur's Gate 3 so far...

[miss-anaa]

[talesfromthecrypts]

I get so frustrated by "yeah make vampires scary again" stuff every time a vampire movie has a "monster" vampire (Nosferatu, Voyage of the Demeter, etc). It reeks of an attitude that thinks all horror is about something being ugly and horrifying on the outside. If you can't see the horror in Interview With the Vampire, or a Jean Rollin film, or The Hunger, or Carmilla, or the vampire sections of Baldur's Gate because they are attractive that is absolutely an issue on your end. There is such a rich well of themes to dig into with horror and vampires, especially where sex and romance are concerned, but people are so desperate to separate romance and horror. The despair of being frozen as a child even while your mind matures, the loneliness of an eternity alone, the terror of eternal hunger that can't be sated, the awful seduction by something beautiful but monstrous. Trying to turn vampires into just any other monster doesn't make them more horrifying, its just a more kind of overt horror that can only be done so many times and is often covered better by other monsters.

[milligramspoison]

​Hackers and leakers do be giving us more content from the band than the actual members themselves

[traumszenario]

[the-overanalyst]

unmatched ship dynamic: "i've done terrible things in the past" x "all i care about is who you are in the present"

[gleafer]

After all that Angst, I need a “Kiss and make better” moment.

SMOOCH

[risqueraven]