#romance stance

[revenant-coining]

Romance-Repulsed

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a personal romace-repulsed flag for me !

@radiomogai , @oneofmanyarchives

[orientation-archive]

PT/Romance indifferent-repulsed flux/end PT

Romance indifferent-repulsed flux

A label for when you fluctuate between being romance indifferent and romance repulsed.

[eye-of-yelough]

the lucanis almost kiss scene with the demisexual virgin confirmation changes everything in the best way possible, because, as an aroace, lemme tell ya. i have had so many times where i’ve SHOCKED myself with my own game. turns out flirting comes very easily when there’s no actual attraction or plans to follow through. and then, once i realise that’s what i’m doing? leading someone on? i immediately have to remove myself. usually much more gracelessly than he does, so good on him.

[ghouloutboy]

POV: you are stuck in a tree and can’t get down

[rabbiteclair]

after that Otherside Picnic post earlier, multiple people approached me to be like 'oh no I totally fell in love with people that hard and fast multiple times when I was in my twenties. did you not?' and I'm just sitting here like oh right if my level of desire for romance and sex were typical then humanity would've gone extinct by now, come to think of it

[roses-are-repulsed]

You are not "Romance negative" for being romance repulsed. You aren't an oppressor for being romance repulsed. Romance negativity isn't really a thing in the current context that it get used in - your personal feelings about romance does not socially effect those in romantic relationships or with romantic feelings/favorability.

You are not actively hurting anyone by talking about your feelings and experiences. You are not at fault when people decide to take your feels personally and make it about them and their feelings.

There is nothing wrong with you or your feelings. Don't let people silence you because they decided to project their idea of you onto who you are. You are better than they say you are.

[frnkiebby]

going insane once again over a regular ol’ middle aged guy who plays guitar~🎃

[lliquidllyrium]

The only complaint I have about Lucanis’ romance being locked after not saving Treviso is if you’re a shadow dragon because by design I think there’s a double standard given who he ends up with if not romanced

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

I think the theme of "home", while not always in the forefront, is something that interests me about the Sonic Movie Universe (in a similar way it interested me during Prime)

For Movie!Sonic, home is where you make it first and where your family is second. After his guardian died, he presumably jumped from place to place, and it was a while before he had a stable home. He made himself a home on earth and fell in love with the land and the culture. But you get the sense that as long as he's in hiding and ostracized all the time, it never fully feels like home. So it's important that he got to really experience earth and living in Movie 1 with Tom. It's important that he made earth his home, and then made the Wachowski household his base. No matter where he goes on earth and beyond, he has a family he chose and who chose him he can come back to and be himself around. "Home" for Movie!Sonic began with necessity, progressed due to his growing attachment to earth and what it offers, and fully settled in with him having a more permanent place in this world and support.

For Movie Tails, I surmise that "home" to him is where Sonic is. He was ostracized (possibly even bullied/picked on) back home for his two tails. After listening to some of his lines in movie 2, Tails read to me like a character who'd been treated as weird or an outcast and ended up isolating himself as a result. I got the impression that when he wasn't indulging in his love of technology/mechanics (or perhaps even at the same time) he was holed up in his base, watching a live stream of Sonic and his adventures, even after the conclusion of the first movie's events. He knows everything about Sonic, down to knowing that he doesn’t take showers, before even meeting him properly. Tails is not at home on earth nor particularly entranced by earth itself (in opposition to Sonic, who became entranced with it). He only even goes there to warn Sonic and to help him out. But Sonic's place—Sonic's home—is on Earth, in Green Hills, with Tom and Maddie, and Tails has formed an actual bond of friendship with the hedgehog he formed a possibly parasocial relationship with used to watch on a screen. Before, I think Tails was just content with watching or being helpful. But now? Now that he's spent time with Sonic, Sonic makes him feel normal. Sonic makes him feel like even "weirdos" can do great things. Sonic makes him feel valued. He's no longer content just watching because Sonic is more his home than the place he grew up in ever was. Home to him is with the people you choose, the people who make you feel at home, the people you want to be around. The Wachowski household is Sonic's home because he loves earth, green hills, and because he has mutually taken Tom and Maddie as his parents. Earth and the Wachowski household are only Tails' home as long as Sonic is there.

And for Knuckles... He has the set up to fall in love with earth in a similar way Sonic did. He grew up/was born in a similar place to him. And yet, all of the beautiful nature on earth doesn't matter to him. Knuckles, as of the beginning of the Knuckles series, had adopted a different approach to Sonic. Sonic tried to make home for himself wherever he could, no matter how many worlds he'd jumped to. In contrast, Knuckles never bothered to do this. He only pursued the mission, never bothering to make a home when he'd be off to the next world soon enough (especially if it seemed trivial in the face of his life's mission). And it's pointed that although he's able to participate in what earth offers the same way Sonic is in movie 1 (Knuckles learning how to bowl or Sonic going to a bar), he is not at home because of those things. He's able to slow down and appreciate what earth offers, the same things he couldn't bring himself to acknowledge before, and yet he's not at home on earth because it's beautiful or because it has food he likes or whatever. He very pointedly makes a connection with Wade and his family. The Whipple family is home. Not the earth, not even the house itself. He feels comfortable when with them, he enjoys the time on earth he spends with them, and he is able to appreciate Earth better when he experiences it with them (in contrast to Tails, who never had any sort of arc of appreciating what one can experience on earth to me). Home to Knuckles isn't easily quantifiable (more of a feeling really), but it’s about the people who make you feel at home. It's about the people who helped him relax and feel more comfortable not always putting his focus into the mission.

Sonic, who can make home anywhere, who always appreciated what was great about living on earth, and whose "home" was finally made permanent when he spent time with Tom and Maddie.

Tails, who never truly felt home until he spent time with Sonic, who doesn't particularly care for what earth has to offer, whose home is wherever Sonic is.

Knuckles, who never allowed himself to feel at home or tried to make a home until he began to travel with Wade and open up to new experiences, who began to enjoy earth and yet considers his home with the Whipple family specifically.

Sonic would protect the earth he lives on even if everyone he cared about was gone. Tails would protect the earth he lives on so long as it's Sonic's home. Knuckles would protect the world he lives on not just to keep the master emerald secured, but so long as this place is home to the Whipple family, with whom he enjoys experiencing Earth with.

Do you... Do you get me?

[fuzzpetalz]

she’s very polite but will beat you up tho

[revenant-coining]

Romance-Favorable

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a personal romace-favorable flag for me !

@radiomogai , @oneofmanyarchives

[mercysought]

quick before I forget: stell reblogged this earlier today and I adore the scene and it just hit me like a thousand trucks as I was writing something else.

Solas: It isn’t always that easy… but I wish you luck. I will stay then, at least until the Breach has been closed. PC: Was that in doubt? Solas (elf mage PC): I am an apostate mage surrounded by Chantry forces and unlike you, I do not have a divine mark protecting me. Solas: Cassandra has been accommodating, but you understand my caution. PC (Flirt): You can trust me. - PC: You came here to help, Solas. I won’t let them use that against you. Solas: How would you stop them? PC: However I had to. Solas: Thank you.

crazy to me that this is a romance only option, like, lads, this sentiment is just plain decency for not anyone focused in a pure andrastian / templar path

the same way that a inquisitor that has promised to save solas, at the end of veilguad, can keep his promise. A romanced lavellan has layers, especially given the wording of it all, however - a solas that has seen people turn against him, people that he has trusted and loved again and again and again to actually see someone put the (very limited number of) years behind that pursuit, despite betrayal, pain, the lies and actually follow through. A Inquisitor that has said this (a romanced one since it is locked behind that option), can technically follow through their word and indeed stop them (Rook and co, and I guess you could even say that as stopping Solas from once more going through with something that would not ultimately fix the hurt he is attempting to heal) however they had to.

And I will once more bang on my post about the proof of love not only for this world but for solas that an Inquisitor (such as Asharen, in my case, the only one I feel comfortable talking from) would leave a more stable live to once more dive into a world that is always so set against chewing them up, spitting them out and forgetting they ever did anything good

Also, nice tie in if you then later say "I would have expected you to trust me!" in trespasser

[spicypussywave]

sailom denying like there isn't a hickey on his neck

DANGEROUS ROMANCE | EP 10

[apollos-boyfriend]

what happened with jaiden and shipping?? /gen ive seen a lotta posts about shipping and stuff

OOPS sorry that one was my fault. i just made a post talking about how i hope qjaiden and qniki have some sort of romantic relationship bc as an aroace person i’m tired of ppl treating every aroace character as extremely repulsed/averse to romance and sex and it’s just kind of spiraled. literally nothings happened ccjaiden has never spoken about character shipping i just flew too close to the sun again

[holydrakes]

Honestly Soul and Maka really should have been the stars of a romance manga since I feel the whole 'no romance allowed' stance SE has really hindered how complex their relationship could have been with the backgrounds they had. Like SE is a pretty generic shonen otherwise but the SoMa fanfics often utilize their potentials to the better, like the whole parallel to Maka's parents thing? The arc about improving their communications and trust that's integral to every relationship especially a romantic one? How understanding each other, finding middle ground in their differences, and trusting each other is what determines how strong their resonance would be? How adding a romantic element to that bond might give the relationship extra challenges and more opportunities for developments? Yea. But I suppose that's why SE managed to have a large fanfic community in the first place since fans saw all the potentials in an otherwise very generic shonen.

[wayfinderships]

Hmmmm....Romance Repulsed 👍