#someone tell me how to flirt

[f4nd0mlife]

I spat out my coffee

[rottengurlz]

try to be gentle when you are ripping me apart 🔪

w/ @kashisun

[quartzthequat]

I love Seward, but also what the fuck is wrong with him????

[fadedrainbowbookshelves]

I'm not saying this method of flirting isn't working, just maybe next time skip the fact he could be outrun by sharp-eyed butterflies, Frank.

[mars-ipan]

biggest fear as someone who takes my crushes/squishes/whatever-the-fuck-they-are-big-feelings to the grave is feeling like that about someone who feels the same way about me but also takes that shit to the grave. and neither of us tell the other person and thus neither of us do anything about it forever and ever and ever

[sbeana]

okay I'm gonna be so fr the way girls approach friendships sometimes just straight up pisses me off. I've been conventionally ugly my whole life and that is just a straight up fact. During my time in middle school and highschool my friends were not physically affectionate with me like they were with each other and they in fact shirked my attempts to be platonically affectionate with them too so I simply assumed my role of not being touched or complimented. that is how it has been for years. I'm simply the guy who shows up and acts stupid for everyone to laugh at. so you have to imagine that when one friend suddenly shifts her treatment and starts complimenting my physical appearance and being touchy and talking about romance with me more, you might expect there to be a shift in the relationship. if she didn't act this way platonically for years and years, what has changed now. You understand? It's not crazy to think there's flirting going on. So when you find out that you are in fact the fool for thinking that way, you might understand why I'm a little upset with how lightly people use typically romantic and flirtatious things on their friends just to. What. Fuck around? I apologize for crashing out over something so trifle and ridiculous but being vulnerable rn I'm just saying I haven't had much experience with flirting and dating and I think if somebody close to you knows that and still messes around without being clear that they're messing around, you have a right to be a little bit mad about it

[starflungwaddledee]

been working on answering a prompt i received in an ask the other day, and so i'm back thinking about... the Thing... 💖🎀 and thought maybe prompt doodles might help me work through this a little?

so uhhh.... if by any wild chance anyone has any ship suggestions for starstruck...??? feel free to send them through!

[yourgamemasterthewhiterabbit]

Of my 2% capacity to be attracted to anyone, my type is like 90% women, 5% pretty men and 5% men you would swear are super fucking manly, and never questioned being straight and cis, but are now suddenly *stressed* that they can't figure out why their attraction to me [fully socially interpreted as a woman and labelled that way up until relatively recently] feels incredibly fucking gay

[sexologii]

Listen I think Leah’s reaction to Quinn is a little overdramatic but unwanted attention is kind like eek you don’t really know how to feel about it but I just wish someone, anyone would tell this guy hey she doesn’t like you, she doesn’t even like engaging with you, just don’t even go out of your way to speak with her

[throwmethroughawindow]

sometimes i go through little phases where I find Bakugou one of the most attractive anime characters ever and I love everything about him and then a couple weeks later I wanna gouge my eyes out for thinking that and I wanna scrub all my fics of him off the internet

[itsmistyeyedbi]

And the kiss! (in addition to this)

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I'm not tagging this because the tags are just me rambling about my thoughts on what a says here. I guess it could be t/w/c critical? But barely I think lol.

[toadboatt]

Sooooo... im a chronic overthinker.

If you know anything about me you know thats not surprising but also DHSKDKHDSJDKFUCCK

[walkerrenee]

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[autisticlee]

i'm aroace, sex repulsed and don't get traditional romance or find the need for it, but I still often think how it would be neat to have a gf/partner for other purposes that arent romance and sexual. but it seems impossible to make someone want to date you if you take out those things????

sometimes I think it would be nice to have a gf to do cute gay cosplay photoshoots with. there would be mouth smooching and you usually can't do that with a friend and I don't really want to either, so a gf would be useful for that.

then there's hating showers because they exhaust me and it would be nice to have a gf to wash my hair and stuff for me??? can't call up a friend to do this every time I need to shower. that won't work and I doubt they'd want to/be comfortable doing that.

most friends will end up putting all their priority into their partner and/or family they create. I want someone that will make me their priority and not run off with someone else they start dating and abandon me??? something like that. their priority is cleaning our home together, hanging out together, going shopping and other domestic/partner stuff. they don't do that with someone else or use me temporarily until they can find a partner. so it's essentially dating/being partners. but it looks different from your typical expected romance and partnership.

doesn't matter how aroace I am, I have accepted that a relationship is beneficial in many ways and there's certain things that you can't expect friends to cover and they can't fill. but I have zero interest in looking for a partner in traditional ways that requires small talk/flirting/dates/etc. so that makes me realize i'll most likely not trick someone into partnering with me lmao

the internet seems to call this kind of thing "queer platonic relationship" (did I remember it right?) and you just need to find another sroace person to do it with. but either way, there's no textbook to study for how to get that and where to find these people. it seems harder than the puzzle that is regular dating tbh.

there's that saying "there's other fish in the sea" but i'm a worm in a puddle the other worms got out before they drowned. there's no fish here lmao. my options are so limited that I haven't met a single option yet in my life. there's barely any chance the first aroace person I meet irl will be compatible, or the first compatible person will accept a relationship with an aroace. you know what I mean? any other aroace that's interested in some kind of relationship/partnership and feel like you don't get that whole sea to choose from like everyone else and only have a dried up puddle? 😅

[rouge-the-bat]

MAN. the dynamic of "just wants to be loved and desired and wanted" x "fantasizes about locking you up so i can have you all to myself forever" HOOOOO

[ickypuppi3]

i do think it’s funny how, canonically, billy is kinda shitty at flirting and has the most god awful pick up lines but it just works for him because he’s pretty