#the secret third thing thats not romantic or platonic
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
starry-bi-sky · 1 day ago
Text
I was actually thinking that Xin Yuan resembled Shen Qingqiu! Same wavelength! I think it'd be so funny if XY had no idea about it up until he actually meets SQQ in person, he's gonna be so insulted. Binghe thought that it was something like an intentional choice on Xin Mo's part, and when he voices this to Xin Yuan, Xin Yuan is appalled.
He doesn't know how this happened but he's blaming Airplane for it. Why did no one tell him he shared a face with the scum villain? No, no, why did no one tell him that the scum villain shared a face with him! He's older, he's existed longer, SQQ is the copycat!
LBH having to play mediator is hysterical. He is the last person who should be preventing his legendary demonic sword from doing a murder on his evil teacher, and yet here he is! Both arms wrapped firmly around Xin Yuan's waist to prevent him from tackling and disemboweling Shen Qingqiu.
SQQ: "Of course the little beast would find someone as beastly as himself to keep company."
LBH: "Hey remind me again, whose the one holding him back from killing you?"
That's a right trash fire happening. Xin Yuan typically tries to keep his grubby corrosive paws off LBH's mind, but when he kicks into a frenzy his control slips. LBH is not having a good time playing peacekeeper.
And yesss, Liu Zhihao!! I love him. He and Xin Yuan were the friends ever. I was very tempted to base him off YQY for the whole 'doomed soulmates' thing and the delicious inverse of roles, where instead of YQY!LZH getting his soul bound to his sword, it was XY instead, and at a much grander scale. But I was on a Liushen kick when I made LZH, so LQG-based he will remain.
Also, if there would ever be a reunion between the two of them post-Xin Mo-ification, the vibes would be the exact same as the "Congratulations, my love!" / "Please, my love!" agathario sound from tiktok.
I think if Xin Yuan's soul hadn't fused with Shā Mó, Liu Zhihao would've eventually kicked down the closet door and they would've ended up together. Either way, there's A Lot Of Feelings between the two of them that still linger even 1000 years later.
Svsss au where Shen Yuan transmigrated as Xin Mo. Yes, that Xin Mo. Obviously Shen Yuan is pissed at this development and tried to kick up a storm but can't because sword so he is stuck waiting for Luo Binghe to show up.
After dealing with the occasional demon and mindless boredom of being just a sword, Binghe shows up. Shen Yuan is just ready to throw himself at him so they can finally get out of the abyss and the rest of the plot to happen. Binghe is surprised to learn the super powerful sword that can rip through time and space is a chill dude that wants Shen Qingqiu's castration a little too much.
Eventually through the power of the system, Soul Eater logic, or straight up complaining to God himself (sqh), Shen Yuan gets the ability to transform into a humanoid form and Luo Binghe officially needs him carnally. Shen Yuan is so happy to have hands again that he totally missed how Binghe was looking at him.
Rest the au goes on with Shen Yuan pushing Binghe to get the plot going, trying to get him to get his empire, revenge, and wives as Binghe is trying to figure out swordception.
#LZH is ascended up in the heavens but rest assured if he caught a whiff of Xin Yuan's spiritual qi he'd be down on earth in literal seconds#makes a Liu Zhihao-sized hole in Qing Jing Peak before fucking off to track down his A-Yuan with the terrifying accuracy of a bloodhound#the way i imagine LZH and XY's relationship is neither romantic nor platonic but a Secret Third Thing: devotion. with no lbh to obsess over#or to remind him of his place in the novel XY could take his attentions elsewhere and steadily acclimate to his place in the world#and begin to see people as people. LZH was his first longterm friend and someone he spent every day with for years. they learned how#to cultivate together. they've fought together. they've traveled together. they grew up together. And since LZH isn't a character from the#book XY doesn't have any predetermined beliefs about him. Giving him a freedom from expectations that LBH does not (at first)#to XY Liu Zhihao is just LZH. He's not the protag. not a LI. not a rival. not an antagonist and not a side character. he's just LZH#LBH is the protagonist. the emperor of the demonic and human realms. wielder of xin mo. husband of 600 wives. half-heavenly demon#LZH is... LZH. Xin Yuan's best friend. Good old Liu Zhihao. Stubborn reliable and untethered by the whims of the plot. And all Xin Yuan's#which makes him LBH's greatest (and only) rival for XY's affections. A rival he can't touch either bc he's one of the few people on#XY's 'off limits' list. Airplane is also on this list. He's also someone who knows XY as XY and not Xin Mo. He's known XY for decades. he#knows all his tells. he knows how oblivious he is. the biggest hurdle is the fact that XY is 'Mildly' Unstable and flush with demonic qi#but that doesn't deter LZH who has waited a thousand years with the hopes of seeing his best friend again. he'll figure smth out#uh oh Luo Binghe you're in trouble. i cant keep talking about Liu Zhihao i keep giving him depth.#tfw your protagonist halo prevents you from wifing your demonic sword#mmmm i think thats all my thoughts on the LZH matter. for now. he is XY's best friend first and foremost tho
1K notes · View notes
kittyphoenix12-xx · 4 months ago
Text
rewatching the finale of white collar and pretending not to be absolutely devastated by the implications of it all
14 notes · View notes
infamously-winking · 3 months ago
Text
hot take on billford is that the secret third thing is obsession with being seen by someone for the first time in each of their lives
175 notes · View notes
mamawasatesttube · 9 months ago
Text
thinking about them (the tim kon bart trio)... they are a set, do not separate. they're aosbcart (assigned "one shared brain cell" at red tornado). they love each other. their hijinks are legendary. there's something wrong with each of them but their issues align with each other's. they invented humor as a love language
76 notes · View notes
niteyorb · 10 months ago
Text
To be abundantly clear: when I talk about FabRiz, I'm ALWAYS talking about it in the most queerplatonic ace4ace way imaginable
49 notes · View notes
canonically47 · 2 months ago
Text
did YOU enjoy that one 2.9k words oneshot of logan spanking remus with the paddle? for. whatever reason??!!
WELL GUESS WHAT!! A SECOND PART HAS HIT AO3!!!!
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
READ HERE !!!!!! :D
and stay tuned for when they fuck confess. who said fuck. who s- YOU. GET BACK HERE (chases after myself)
THIRD PART HERE !!!
15 notes · View notes
unsat-and-strange · 6 months ago
Text
silly fic idea i might write: post coffin daisy and jon go to the gym
10 notes · View notes
cruyffista · 9 months ago
Text
Tumblr media
when luis figo joined barcelona he did an interview with a newspaper about how he would watch pep's matches with barcelona while he was in portugal and how it was one of his dreams to meet him... and pep talked about how flattered he was with figo's praise and how mature he seemed for his age
10 notes · View notes
br1ghtestlight · 7 months ago
Text
thinking about my belchoeder fake dating fic again..... When its finished then u will understand. it's not even romantic but it is inherently very queer
8 notes · View notes
bmpmp3 · 2 years ago
Text
one of my favourite character relationship dynamics, platonic romantic or anything, is when two characters are absolutely the bestest of best friends and when one is hurt or something the other will scream and cry and wail and explode and when the other is in danger then the first one will go on some kind of silent terminator-esque rampage about it. besties (do no separate)
#i havent watched more than season 3 of x files but i rewatched season 2 recently#and that entire season along with the first half of season 3 (where i am now LOL) have been entirely this#literally like. mulders the screaming crying throwing up type and scullys the terminator one#its awesome#another far less obvious and possibly less intentional example but recently ive been reading some villainess manwha called#a villainess no more and like. the romance is kinda sweet and gentle and cute and all but like#i kind of really loved in the early parts where they kinda just became besties at first sight#like bro......they are BEST FRIENDS#rn in the story ive gotten to the point where theyre best friends And lovers which is sweet#its interesting though normally im a huge sap who loves romance in like everything but like...i kinda preferred them just as besties?#not something that happens to me often (nothing wrong with purely platonic relationships im just a romantic dweeb)#(theres exceptions of course. speaking of scully and mulder i like them best not as romantic or platonic but a secret third thing)#(theyre relationship is: scully and mulder. you know. thats their relationship status)#but this is a case where i really loved the platonic married besties dynamic a LOT#are there any comics or something about two besties being married platonically. maybe im craving something i never knew i craved#besties wedding. besties wedding#but i guess its no surpirse that i love besties dynamics if you remember all my complaints about certain routes in certain sengoku era otog#i think shingens route should have had more goofing around. i think mc and shingen should have become besties before romance#sometimes i cant buy romance unless they become best friends first. become BUDDIES before u put a ring on it#if that makes sense. who knows what im talking about. hold your besties real close tonight.....for me#(a transparent version of me smiling is overlayed over the night sky before i fade away into stardust)
89 notes · View notes
chilpilled · 9 months ago
Text
i have a really weird and intricate chilaios vision that i cant put in words and can only write a fic about but i also need that fic to not suck that badly so im wrangling it like laios trying to milk that minotaur. squeezing milk into a google doc
11 notes · View notes
little-devil-town · 7 months ago
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
they are so important to me,,
5 notes · View notes
the-gayest-sky-kid · 1 year ago
Note
qpr/qpp skk lives in my head rent free
see you understand. you get me. we are holding hands
9 notes · View notes
balestrra · 1 year ago
Text
Tumblr media
Splatoween but its Troy and J
12 notes · View notes
goomyloid · 5 months ago
Note
PLEASE explain your thoughts on kriselle in full detail
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS 100% UNPROMPTED ASK! I SHALL EXPLAIN
i hate toby fox. why did he do this to us. he really put it better than anyone else. not really romantic not really platonic but…. something else… some secret more sinister more heartfelt more absurd third thing
i wonder at what point should i clarify that i dont even really seek out kriselle in a romantic context… DONT GET ME WRONG i have zero issues with the ship whatsoever and all of the krisellers out there are living their best (most painful) lives and i SEE THE APPEAL. BUT when i rotate them in my brain i dont need them to kiss or anything like that i just need them to sit down and sadly hold hands and stay like that forever and ever. in case you couldnt gauge that from my art so far
tldr i dont think i ship them in the traditional sense at least …. the things that i usually fixate on for any romantic ship are not there with these two. there are no romantic feelings there In my mind. and all at the same time i start screaming and throwing up and killing myself (all positive) whenever i see them even in the same image together. hngh
ive tried explaining this to people before and they usually suggest something along the lines of a QPR and even that doesnt feel right to me. truly the best way i can put it is… that red string of fate man… which i almost hesitate on saying too because i dont actually know if noelle is Quite an important enough character to the story to warrant a connection like that. WHICH IS A CRAZY THING TO SAY. I KNOW. DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT GETTING ME WRONG i think dess and her connections to gaster and her usage as a stepping stone into the weird route are all VERY important… but in my brain its just not kris/knight/asriel/every other mysterious main focus of the story Important. i didnt mean to get into deltarune theorizing here i hope nobody’s blood is boiling rn
so yeah in the end. toby fox once again put it best. they are friends, but they are also something else.
back to the actual pairing though… sometimes i think im going overboard and overestimating how close kris and noelle were as children because noelle will go and say things like “i wonder if we were ever really friends at all.” which is kind of a fair statement considering the circumstances. sure they played together and all and tagged along with their siblings to do stuff together but when dess went missing… it all kind of stopped. kris is just a kid, they dont know what to do or even how to process it, much like noelle. asriel is probably dealing with his own feelings, he just lost his friend and likely old enough to understand the weight of what happened. while noelle and kris cant say much to each other at all.
im always back and forth on speaking headcanons for kris but the one that i always seem to come back to is selective mutism… to me kris had a lot of trouble communicating well as a child and could only grow comfortable around certain people, asriel and noelle being clear examples because they’re both so patient with them. maybe because of this noelle felt like they could understand each other without really needing words, and just physical interaction was enough to achieve some form of closeness… or maybe that was all just on her end, she thinks when kris goes to play the piano. but if that’s the case, why does it feel like a concert just for her…?
jesus dont even get me start on them as teenagers either. noelle has lost her sister, and now kris has lost their brother… but not in the same way. they look at each other and wonder if they’re the same now. or, maybe thats too cruel. maybe its not the same thing at all. asriel’s coming back soon, after all. it will all be over soon, kris won’t have to feel this way for much longer, right? so then, why does kris look so miserable, sitting in the corner over there? all noelle feels like she can do is sit next to them quietly. to be there, and to somehow, vaguely, messily help each other. the misfit kids that dont really know how to talk to each other and yet understand each other regardless
thats why the dark world feels like such a dream to her. these crazy city lights, fantastical creatures, susie’s there, and she actually might have the means to defend herself and stand her ground, whether it be verbally or… otherwise
and most of all, much like with kris offering an adventurous haven to susie in ch1, the same is extended to noelle. by kris’s side, no less. it feels like theyre doing things together again, and its fun, and nostalgic… she wants to bring dess. and i think its okay to assume kris wants to bring asriel, too. recreating the make-believe world they lost so long ago… is it really possible?
no… how can it really be possible, when this isnt kris? something is wrong. its almost perfect, except kris… it’s them, but it’s not. she sees their face, their expressions, their laughs, their worries. and yet the voice that comes from them… isnt them. and it scares her! even if nothing particularly bad happened as a result. and if something bad DID happen, well…
she just wants what they had before back. is it really so impossible? can they reconcile after all these years? does kris want to? is kris capable of doing so? maybe they just need to hug again. will it feel like a real hug? the person she thought she understood is acting in ways she doesnt understand. they’re telling her to do weird things. they cycle through actions as if they just want to know what happens. and they cant even play piano anymore.
71 notes · View notes
true-squid · 8 months ago
Text
ok but you dont fucking get it. i love you and it doesnt mean what you think. its not heteronormative and its not nuclear and it cant be described in a way that has words. there arent words for it. its not queerplatonic. its not romantic. its not platonic. its none of those things. its incomprehensive. its unwordable. its not because youre my lover or my mother or my sibling or my friend its none of those things. you dont fucking understand. we fuck and we share our feelings and we abandom the status quo and part of the point is that we dont make sense. isnt it? isnt it?
i feel alterous. thats the best word for it because there isnt one thats better and i dont think there ever will be. its not about not wanting to be romantic or sexual its about being different. its about a new fucking category, a secret third thing, yes and no, what happens when you mix everything and nothing together.
its because i see love differently. ive recontextualized it, made myself to view it in a way that is outside of the general conception of love. i want to explain it to you but i just cant. i want to but i dont know how. you need to feel it. you need to know what its like to be alien
im aromantic and im asexual
68 notes · View notes