#that's MY queer projected relationship

[leafsfromthevine]

y'all better be so fuckin fr with me rn

[cookiecaker]

'cause after all is said and done, i need you here!

[hacash]

ok new game - if your current writing project (original or fic or whatever) was published tomorrow, what about it would make booktok denounce you as problematic? rb with answers in the tags

[looselipssinkships-x]

"i just want my childhood back/i just want my childhood dead"

"you should have raised a baby girl/i should have been a better son"

[mintaikk]

Me reading a fic where the person had an identidy realization that they were in he aroace spectrum and now they were figuring themselves out(I finally found something that understood me and a romance I could relate to after all these years)

[marinetteplztakeabreak]

“Adrien made Kagami realize she’s a lesbian because she was not attracted to him” is boring and overdone.

Kagami made Adrien realize she’s a lesbian because she called him her “boyfriend” and he flinched and she was like “oh shoot what’s wrong” and he was like “i dont know, boyfriend is a really weird word for some reason” And because she’s Kagami, instead of being like “oh he clearly doesn’t want me” she just sat him down immediately and started googling Other Words and trying All of Them, and then she tried “do you want to be my girlfriend?” on a whim and he was like “holy shit this has awoken something in me.” And then kagami was like “oh huh i may be a lesbian.”

[potatobugz]

i appear with doodles of the Ideas in my Mind

[krogerkryptid]

As an asexual aromantic person I ADORE John and Sherlock QPR truthing bc I want what they have but I also truly love the idea that John is actually in full gay love with Sherlock and Sherlock thinks he has a friend for life. Man is ready to risk it all to stay Watson’s friend bc he’s so excited to have someone who’s with him through it all and meanwhile John is actually shaking at the fact Sherlock wants to spend any time with him at all bc he’d kind of like to kiss him on the mouth maybe but only if Sherlock wanted to of course

[yuripira4e]

I want to preface this post by saying that I love the cat king as a character, especially one that has such a major impact on Edwin and his relationship with his queerness and learning to be okay with it; HOWEVER, I also believe that everyone that genuinely believes he should be a love interest for Edwin should read this. (Also if you just like the cat king as a character and want to understand his character better and why his and Edwin’s relationship is not something that would be healthy or “real” for either)

[dawnexpanse-central]

Relationships in the Dawn Expanse

The native inhabitants of the Dawn Expanse have never had a need for romantic or sexual attraction. Instead, stemming from the cosmological concept of the Dance of One, there are several known types of close relationships and possibly many more unknown. The four most commonly used delineations are Fluidic, Crystalline, Ethereal, and Self-Defining.

Order and Entropy

The Dance of One is the cosmological principle, held as both a scientific truth and a spiritual one, in which all things— living and nonliving— contain both entropy (the ability to exist in multiple states and to increase in complexity over time) and order (the tendency to self-select for those states that are functional and contribute to the greater harmony of the whole), and that these are not opposing tendencies, but the same tendency.

People are not inherently order or entropy aligned. It's not like binary gender. One becomes aligned as a response to one's environment, including those with whom one forms a strong connection, and one's alignment can change based on who one is with as well as in response to environmental conditions.

Fluidic partnerships are symmetrical order/entropy dynamics, built on the acknowledgement that each party has something to teach the other and finding balance with another person can promote balance within oneself. In as much as there is an "ideal" interpersonal structure within the Dawn Expanse, it is the Fluidic pair, which is said to be most reflected in the Dance of One itself.

Crystalline partnerships are asymmetrical order/entropy dynamics in which the order-aligned partner takes the more active role. This interpersonal structure often emerges as an adaptation to stress, during which time focus and precise planning can help to ensure the survival of both parties.

Ethereal partnerships are asymmetrical order/entropy dynamics in which the entropy-aligned partner takes the more active role. While the Crystalline structure is often a response to high stress, the Ethereal structure, by contrast, is a response to low stress and high potential for growth. An Ethereal partnership, at its most harmonious, tends to be a very creative one, with a high level of idea generation.

Most order/entropy dynamics move naturally between Fluidic, Ethereal, and Crystalline states.

Self-Defining partnerships are any interpersonal relationship that doesn't fit with the established structures. They aren't considered any less important or less committed than Fluidic, Crystalline, or Ethereal partnerships. No one in the Dawn Expanse has to sacrifice social legitimacy for personal freedom.

The emphasis on two-person bonds doesn't and shouldn't be taken to imply an emphasis on monogamy. Such a concept doesn't exist in the Dawn Expanse. Two-person bonds are simply the smallest unit of interpersonal connection. Most communities in the Dawn Expanse are networks of pairbonds, of which most people have multiple.

Internals

Internals are those who have a self-regulating balance of order and entropy, and do not require co-regulation. When not in Self-Defining partnerships, they tend to be completely non-partnering. When they choose to integrate into a community, they are fully accepted and often grow over time to be respected counselors and advisors. Others choose to live nomadically, either traveling alone by land or with others as part of a riverfolk clan.

So, where do babies come from?

Inhabitants of the Dawn Expanse will be surprised that this segment is in this document, rather than a document on communities or settlements. However, those in realities where interpersonal relationships and reproduction are closely connected— in particular, those who inhabit realities where reproduction is determined by sexual acts— may be confused by how it works in the Dawn Expanse.

The precise workings of this process are a mystery even to those who study the natural sciences, but what is known is that once a sufficient connection is formed between an individual and the place in which they've settled, the spirit of that place will reach out to them, often in the form of a waking dream. It will then give them a choice of whether they'd like to bring a new life into the world. If they choose to do so, they will be compelled to bury a series of sentimental objects— the nature of which can differ depending on the person and location— in a specific place near the edge of the community, and wait for approximately six months. At the end of that time, the child they chose to contribute to the creation of will come to them, usually in the middle of the night.

The children created by this process appear to be around five years old by human standards when they first appear, and tend to look fairly similar to their contributing parent, but with minor differences that are often clearly inherited from those to whom the contributing parent is closest— friends, pairbonds, and mentors who live within the same community.

[gibbearish]

maybe this was common knowledge and ive been severely out of the loop but the fact that russel t davies is gay is kind of rocking my world rn?

[nitroish]

sorry if this is in bad taste but the wording of your last post makes it seem like someone thought u and quirkle were both link irl and were upset at the idea of two real life people dating which is hysterical to me

anon you quite literally hit the nail on the head. they saw me go by legend, saw me call quirks my partner, and called our Real Life Relationship ( that is ENTIRELY Platonic by the way !!!! ) linkcest. it blew my fucking mind.

its hysterical tho ur right. moving from the fact quirks and i arent even Dating nor are we romantic and therefor cant be considered linkcest by default, can you imagine their reaction to my two partners that i Do kiss gayly? my boyfriend and my partner that i Do kiss ??? woof . they called the wrong relationship i have linkcest if they want to be loud and weird about me being Gay and kissing someone behind a dennys

[bibereangelum]

i literally have no way to put it but sometimes mattelektra has the vibes of like. a lesbian’s first relationship. ur irrevocably in love, ur going to do years worth of psychological damage to each other.

[non-un-topo]

God I have a mighty urge to write more Joe-centric stuff

[cowgurrrl]

hi friend 🩷 i am a huge fan of your joel x reader fics. i have a question that is kind of personal, so please feel free to ignore if you are not comfortable answering. i didn’t realize you were a lesbian until i saw your post for lesbian day of visibility. i am just wondering if/why you enjoy writing joel x reader or any other male character x reader romance/smut stories as a lesbian? or is it like not something you personally are into, you’re just writing bc someone requested it? i truly hope this does not come off as offensive - i am a straight woman so i am truly just curios. again, feel free to ignore if this is too invasive. love you so much, thank you for sharing your stories with us!! 🫶🏻

Hi! I’m so glad you enjoy the fics and this is such an interesting question!!

I do really enjoy writing for Joel and other male characters even as a lesbian!! In my head, I’m writing more for consumption by women (I use this term very loosely to include my friends beyond the binary) and pleasure for women. I grew up reading and writing straight stories (either fic or literature) and so I’ve never really felt strange about reading or writing it now! I think if I’m really drawn in by the story (The Last of Us, Narcos, Daredevil, etc.,) it feels more like an exercise in analyzing character/story details and writing things that I’m personally interested in like I wrote OFTM because I like the idea that Joel could’ve been in a band and they could’ve been successful and then how would that change what his life looks like? I don’t ever feel obligated to write anything and have definitely passed up some requests because I wasn’t comfy writing whatever it was at the time but I genuinely love creating loving, healthy relationships (and making them work a little hard for it) in my stories

For reading male character x reader romance or smut, it’s a thing of knowing it’s, more than likely, written by a woman and a direct expression of female sexuality which is not only empowering but it’s also HOT so while I’m not keen to have sex with someone with a penis irl, it’s still fun to read my silly little smutty stories and kick my feet in bed

I hope this answered your question and thank you so so much for reading and sticking around!!

[lesbianriverphoenix]

also the iwtv event was such an emotional throwback for me personally like oh wait it has been a minute since i've been at a purely fan driven event attended by a few hundred very excited shrieking women. when the panel moderator made some comment about the one direction levels of mania happening that was personal 🫣