#romantic competition

[goldrushreads]

[sabo-torao]

dumb thing i made while trying to fight artblock

[bixels]

Be honest, what are your thoughts on appledash? Do you hate it or its more of not a big deal

Not a big deal to me. I like it, I see all the appeals, I just personally like Rarijack more.

[bigmilkwet]

hi tumblr, do you think they've explored eachother's bodies?

gale and wyll being widely slept on rn 😭

[fanfictionroxs]

20 year old drug addled Daniel had a better reaction to Claudia than her centuries old immortal maker/dad and coven leader. And of course older Daniel clocked it in a second that Louis had a DAUGHTER (and not romantic companion, y'all hearing this Lesmand?!). Louis can you please marry Danny and just dump everyone else? I'm sure with the combined power of your and Daniel's faildadism, you both will manage to scrap out enough good dadism to raise Claudia.

[espresso-ships]

200 followers celebration time!!

CLOSED

Thanks for participating <3

I've never done a GA (gonna short it down to GA so Tumblr doesn't filter this post out LOL) but now I wanna try creating one! :D

To celebrate 200 followers, I wanna give something back, as a thank you! I know my art isn't "top quality", but I do like drawing self ships and spreading love, and now I wanna do so! <3

The contest will be open for a week, and I’ll choose by random one winner who’s OC/self ship I’ll draw in Chibi style!

Keep in mind this is the first time I do this - and I have Adhd and dyscalculia etc so might take a while with counting etc etc... - so bare with me LOL

I really enjoyed ArtFight, and how happy people were when I drew their OC and ships ahshsh, so I thought this could be a nice GA!

I will draw the winners' self-ship - Chibi style!

Ofc, I won't draw, nor let pr0/c0mshippers participate.

I only draw humans tho, sorry! 😭

(Ok with drawing "occults"/vampires, elves, fairies etc)

How to participate

Like and reblog this post

Follow me on this account @espresso-ships 

Reblog 1-2 of my previous art posts, using #espresso self ship GA (so I easily can find posts and entries for the giveaway!)

Comment “Done” so I can keep track of participants! (Important)

Optional - Tag 1-2 selfship community friends!

That’s it! You’re now part of my giveaway :3 Good luck <33

Rules

For self shippers ONLY

No proship/comships or NSFT accounts allowed!

You need to be following me to participate

I only draw humans/non-complex characters. Sorry! :( I wanna learn to draw non-humans and furries but don’t feel comfy with it just yet 💕

Check DM’s! I will contact the winner here on Tumblr for details about the drawing, so keep an eye on messages in case you win! :)

The chance to participate lasts a week!

You can enter the GA until 14 August, 12AM in Central European Summer Time (CEST)

I begin school again next week, so I'll fix everything up and contact the winner during the weekend!

I don't know how long it will take to draw the art for the winner, so have patience with me! <3

That's all!

If something is unclear, or if I've explained something poorly - please let me know!

And don't be shy to ask if you have questions if needed

Thanks for reading, and good luck!

[sirlancenotalot]

the fact that people still use the "no one would talk to a friend that way" "no one would grieve for someone like that if it was just platonic" etc arguments to prove a ship is canon is so annoying to me. yes i get it, we got queerbaited hard but where does it say that romance has to be higher than a friendship or no one said friends couldn't also be lovers or vice versa....? i normally say "popular media tropes that usually are for romance" when i talk about fiction but pulling a blanket statement like "NO ONE talks to a friend that way" is so invalidating to so much of our queer experiences. the beauty of queer friendship literally lies in the emotional fulfilment we get from our friends in a way that i don't normally see in cishet friendships for whatever reasons. so idk it's just been bothering me to see these kinds of posts every now and then. "you wouldn't do [x] for your friends" i would actually. i would sell my soul for them. i would kill for them and kill myself for them. i would do anything for my friends that i would do for a partner. the "proof" for a ship doesn't have to be by invalidating their friendship. also like aren't most of the ships so powerful when they're also each other's closest friends? do y'all not think of your partners as your best friends?

[ihateitthankyou]

Alenoah World Tour story idea

Same idea as any other World Tour Alenoah AU but Alejandro’s flirting and charm actually doesn’t work on Noah. Not “Noah pretends like it’s doesn’t effect him,” but genuinely “Noah is not effected.”

It drives Alejandro crazy. No one has ever been able to resist his charms! Not even Heather, no matter how much she denies it. It’s even worse because Noah is gay so it’s not the issue of sexuality, and even then, sexuality was never really an issue. So why did his charm not work on him???

It turns from Alejandro trying to manipulate Noah to Alejandro becoming obsessed with Noah. Every chance he gets, he flirts with him, trying to get a reaction. And every time, he gets shot down. Some of the other contestants are jealous that Noah is getting so much attention from Alejandro and he doesn’t care, while others find it absolutely hilarious and use it to make Alejandro jealous/get on his nerves. (It works every time)

To make matters worse, Noah seems to enjoy the attention from no one but Owen. So it drives Alejandro’s hatred for Owen even further.

I’m the end, it turns out that Noah does like Alejandro. He feels like he can be honest with Alejandro and doesn’t need to sugarcoat or keep quiet about his actual thoughts. But he knew that Alejandro flirted with people to manipulate them so he just chose not to react to it or to shoot him down until he was sure that Alejandro actually meant what he said (if he ever did which he reeeaaally does).

[saltyfilmmajor]

I think the HeiShin dynamic is great but imaging a love confession between them is nigh impossible because Shinichi wouldn’t confess without great provocation and heiji would be in denial for his feelings or actively forget to confess

[total-drama-brainrot]

Alenoah Week 2024: Day 3 - "TDWT Ending Rewrite"

The trek to the top of the volcano was, in layman's terms, agonizing.

Searing heat, somehow simultaneously swelteringly humid and suffocatingly dry, blistered at every inch of Noah's exposed skin and burned through his lungs like hot coals with every laboured breath. The sweat that would've been dripping from his exhausted body like a faulty faucet didn't even have the opportunity to form into pearl-shaped droplets before it evaporated against the overwhelming force of just how fucking hot it was.

And yet he'd made it.

He'd gotten there first, too.

Noah had somehow managed to out-slither the slippery fiend whilst the two were stumbling across the skipping stones of a lava lake, despite the weight of his pineapple dummy causing him to falter after almost every step.

The maw of the volcano bubbled and spat embers at his feet, just a few measly inches from the cynic himself. It was time to end it; the competition, the show, his… rivalry with Alejandro.

As if the mere thought of the Spaniard had somehow summoned him, Noah heard the tell-tale clicking of heeled boots against rock behind him quickly followed by harsh, laboured panting (not nearly as desperate as his own wheezing, but a far cry from the womanizer's usual composure). Alejandro's ponytailed hair rose from the plateaued peak of the volcano, followed by a pair of thick eyebrows furrowed against sweat-sheened skin, then a pair of furious sage green eyes- and sage was the most appropriate description Noah could think of, since they burned with a competitive fire comparable to the all-encompassing heat around them.

"It's over, Alejandro. I have the high ground."

Noah's voice was a hoarse, painful rasp, though whether it was from its unbearable dryness or the tenseness of the situation, he wasn't sure. He stood firmly at the edge of the volcano, searing light illuminating the edges of his form like a foreboding halo as he held Pinealejandro almost covetingly in a bridal carry, hovering the dummy over the scorching cavern of its imminent demise.

Alejandro- the human one, not the pineapple one- continued his unwavering ascent to the volcano's peak until he was but a few insignificant feet away from Noah. His shoulders visibly rose and fell with each huff of magma-scorched breath, and the barbaric snarl he bared towards the bookworm twisted his handsome features into something wild, alight with a passion that burned at white-hot as the lava below.

Then he roared.

"You underestimate my power!"

And lunged towards Noah, carelessly discarding his own pineapple dummy (comparatively twiggier and more feeble looking than Noah's own) as he cleared the space between them in the blink of a cinder-dusted eye.

"I will not lose to someone as infuriating as you!"

Before he could process what was even happening, Noah found himself scooped away from the edge of the volcano and lifted a few extra meters off of the ground, held victoriously above the latino in an overhead lift like he was some sort or glorified barbell. The shock of which inadvertently caused him to drop his own dummy, sending the construct tumbling into the bubbling, gaping chasm below until it plunged into the awaiting magma with a barely audible 'plop'.

For a brief tension-paused moment the two remained eerily still, almost frozen in place with disbelief (an impressive feat, considering it was far too fucking hot for anything to freeze atop the volcano).

Well.

That was that, then.

…It was sort of anticlimactic, really. Noah was almost disappointed.

"Um," The bookworm began, quickly schooling his surprise at being lifted and brandished like a javelin into his usual apathetic countenance, "Are you going to put me down, or…?"

Noah's enquiry was met a bark of high pitched laughter, a sound so entrenched in sardonic humour it was practically swimming in animosity.

"Ah, but Noah," Alejandro preened indulgently, as if he were speaking to a small child, and his snarl curled into a manic grimace. The archvillain's eyes were widened to their extreme, dying wisps of ember light flickering across his gaze which trailed from the waifish nerd held above his head to the boiling magma below.

"I still have a dummy to discard of."

In other words,

THROW THAT TWIG

INTO THE VOLCANO!!!

[goldentriowins]

Thinking about how all three of the trio are really jealous (and also a little insane).

Thinking about them finally realizing they like one another and being hopelessly confused and jealous and afraid of ruining their friendship or being abandoned if the other two got together.

Thinking about them actually getting together and feeling like they’re inevitably going to break up or someone is going to feel left out.

Thinking about how they grow into the relationship and their feelings and learn how to communicate.

Thinking about how the dynamic is rough and tense at first because they’re insecure teens learning how to express themselves, and how it gets healthier over time.

Thinking about how they become so comfortable that they stop needing to communicate as much with words because they trust one another and feel safe and secure. And they just GET one another

Thinking about how nothing including death can separate them because platonic or romantic or whatever they’re soulmates

[shititsarobyn]

Here’s my submission for the 2024 my hunted darling drawing competition!! I couldn’t choose which of the lovely vamps to draw so in the end I just asked my gf which one she found the hottest-

Hope y’all like her :3

[solardriftx]

damon maitsu and diana venicia character study drabble

i love writing dialogue. i have trouble with motivating myself to do anything else. so have this lil thing from my notes app that encompasses a lot of my thoughts on these two! (this assumes they’ve spent time together and have become a little closer)

[shorlinesorrows]

qpr jean and neil. that's all i'm gonna say.

do you see my vision?

[noahtally-famous]

can't believe this hasn't been said before but unhinged!scarlett and unhinged!dave would be an iconic duo. shame pi didn't get a second season bc these two in an alliance would basically succeed in destroying the island, they'd wipe everyone out

the fact that they're both versions of the nerd character so they're already smart in their own ways, the fact that they have absolutely zero fucks to give anymore, their individual darker sides have come out (whether it was hidden consciously (scarlett) or unconsciously (dave)), and they've each attempted to kill/seriously injure one or more contestant(s) (and mess up the island in the process) just to reach their end goal. imagine if these two found a common goal somehow, literally nothing could get in their paths (except possibly each other)

[quietwingsinthesky]

anything with the eighth doctor and grace (for h/c. maybe have grace freak out over. well. All Of It. maybe she went with the doctor and got overwhelmed by the Everything)

:3 more eight/grace for you my friend <3

This was a mistake.

She knows that. She knew that. From the moment she met him, she was right, he's crazy. Telling the truth about every little thing, but crazy nonetheless in how he chases danger like he can't get enough. And then there's her, who got in a box with a man she barely knew and let him fly her halfway across the galaxy, shooting back and forth through time with the flick of a button. Her heart is pounding, and her mouth is dry, and she thinks she's going to fall over as she clutches onto one of the columns encircling the console and listen to the Doctor hum as he puts them back into flight.

"I'm sorry, Grace," he says. He moves like he belongs here, where she thinks she might always be out of place. "Someplace quieter next time, I promise." How is she supposed to feel safe here? Anywhere? When no matter where they go, there's always something in the shadows waiting to pounce, when there's aliens and cyborgs and creatures she doesn't dare put words to- "Grace?" He's stopped, voice soft. And she is shaking. She's back in med school, in the office of the one professor who bothered to know her name, trying not to cry even as he says the moment will pass, it happens to everyone, it happens to him, but all she can feel is the slow wash of humiliation at not being able to handle it.

The Doctor approaches slowly. He takes her hand from the column in both of his to lead her away.

Take me home. She knows she should ask it now, before this rush of clarity is gone and she thinks she's built for the stars again.

The Doctor brings her to the chair he keeps by the console and coaxes her down into it. She sinks into the comfortable cushion, the firm back, and swallows breaths down as soon as they will come. He doesn't let go of her hand as he settles down in front of her on his knees. He kisses each knuckle. In her head, she counts them, naming bones she hasn't had to memorize in years. Distal, middle, proximal. Distal, middle, proximal. The Doctor's lips on her skin and the little shushing sound he makes when he hears her try to choke down a deeper breath before she's ready. The TARDIS's air moving from some unknown source, alive and cool as it drifts over her skin.

The little voice begging her to go home gets quieter and quieter. The Doctor takes her other hand and begins a new journey of kisses without hesitation, like it isn't any trouble at all for him to sit with her.

If he is a mistake, then it's one she'll keep making.