#this can be interpreted as both romantic and platonic

[beifong-brainrot]

Actually, I kinda wanted to elaborate on this and it's a more personal rant because I'm not the headcanon police, which is why it's in a reblog and why I've blurred out the person's username and pfp. Like you could probably find them, but I don't want you to because I don't really care what people headcanon.

This has just been stuck in my brain for a bit now and I wanna talk about it since it adds to my post.

Like gee I wonder why I the woman who hugs her partner out of her own accord and genuinely smiles and looks happy in his arms is with him out of genuine feeling. And the woman who is almost always passively receiving her partner's affection and smiling the most awkward smile might not be super into this.

There is nothing wrong with headcanoning Kuvira as a lesbian. But I'd actually argue that there are some similarities between Opal and Kuvira, and how their relationships are presented. Like they both presumably started their relationships around the same time, and have never kissed on the lips on screen. And in both cases the guy feels so much more into it.

I mean, I've said this in the post above, but Kuvira very obviously loved Baatar, be it familial, platonic, or most likely, romantic. While she keeps her emotions under wraps most of the time, she clearly looks distressed when making the decision to sacrifice him.

Kuvira is a character who struggles with emotional expression, obviously, and doesn't like to seem vulnerable. So we need to observe her closely in the show Also she's more vulnerable in the comics, and she has no reason to lie to him here.

And ok, the ✨️vibes✨️ is a term that comes up a lot in headcanoning, and I get it, and I've probably used it at some point. But I do feel like vibes can also just heavily base around certain stigmas and stereotypes.

Like why is the mean, callous, stereotypically 'strong' and often interpreted as masculine fascist absolutely a lesbian? But the sweet, more girly and soft girl is definetly not a lesbian?

Like what exactly are the ✨️vibes✨️ that we're talking about here?

No actually I find it so weird that people are so insistent that Kuvira simply has to be a lesbian and she never loved Baatar Jr. Like I also am a sapphic Kuvira believer, and you don't have to like Baavira but what is the obsession with Kuvira being a lesbian specifically.

Argumets about Kuvira never truly caring for Baatar ring kinda hollow because he honestly seems like the only person she actually did care for. Oh she tried to kill him? That doesn't really mean she didn't love him. She just valued her empire over him, which is very in line with Kuvira's characterisation thus far.

Honestly it's not that she didn't love him she's just a shitty person.

[chasemywishes]

Regulus and Barty very casually have intellectual conversations at 2 am, in the middle of the night in their dorm, while Evan is snoring loudly in the background

[teshiee]

theyre my comfort pair (if i havent said this already) AGGHHHG my precious. my babygirls..

[velsatelier]

secret hiding place (6 pages).. my thoughts under the cut

this took way longer than i wanted…….. this is only my second time doing a comic of sorts, the longest colored one i’ve done being 2 pages….??? this comic to me is pomni being honest and almost unafraid of sharing her thoughts to ragatha, like she did in gummigoo, and maybe terrified of losing another connection again with the possibility clear in her mind that ragatha could get abstracted any moment (unaware that she already is kind of in the process…) this all happens on the tower on the lake…? so they’re high up, and can see the stars that way. in case there’s any confusion about their designs, it’s just my personal take on it and i’m also very sorry for all the inconsistencies throughout the pages. just don’t squint too hard okay . Okay…

also just wanted to link another comic really quickly about another tadc artist whose work i super duper love, and i found out i had a similar ending idea to theirs way too late into the comic process… their comic is super well written too and their other works are also really stunning and i’m really sorry if it seems like i stole their idea or anything

[skepticism105]

My wife said Aphrodite and Hermes are gelphie coded bcus of their colors so thats what inspired me to draw Apollo(employed theatre kid) referencing Wicked. Also Aphrodite x Ares and Hermes and Ares

[glitter-stained]

I know some people argue that robin!Jason and Dick were never close post-crisis pre n52 because they only interacted a couple of times in canon and I understand that due to Dick living away when they first met they wouldn't be as close as the relationship Dick has with some of his other siblings, but I would also wish we would take in account that for all three of Jason's years, we have like 30 issues of Jason's run. That's exceedingly small. We have batman #416, we have that one moment in teen titans (i forgot the issue) of jason working with the team, and i think the ski trip we found out later about was included in the same canon*. (also, i do feel like even if you didn't know/like eachother before going on a ski trip together by the end of the ski trip this will have changed, and the picture definitely felt like they were getting along even though Jason's face in the picture was comically weird.) I'm not sure if there were other interactions shown or mentioned, but hey, 2-3/30ish isn't a bad score at all! If we're going 3/30, that's a whole tenth of Jason's robin era.

(And I'm talking about their relationship from Dick's pov since it's the one in question here but it's clear to me in Jason's run, even post-crisis, that Dick is often on his mind and important in his life (with a certain inferiority complex the little siblings of very cool people know well) with stuff like I think Batman #410 or Jason is Legends.)

And even more importantly, 30ish is extremely short for three damn years. That's ten issues per year! Do we assume that Jason was sitting on a shelf for the whole time he's not working with batman in the comics? Do we assume batman was sitting on a shelf twiddling his thumbs all that time during those three years he appears, either? It's perfectly logical to make the assumption that Bruce and Jason were still going out as goddamn Batman and Robin even when it's not shown on screen and having a relationship and interacting together even when it's not seen. In fact it's the most reasonable and logical assumption even. It's obvious Jason and Bruce's interactions extend past what was shown on screen so why wouldn't Dick and Jason? We know from Dick's relationship to his death that Dick cared about Jason. We know how much his death impacted him. Regardless of the (now retconned) terrible mess that was their relationship after Jason came back, they had a relationship, and it was good, and how deep it went is up to interpretation but it doesn't cheapen or lessen any of Dick's relationship with his other siblings to acknowledge that (like, seriously, even though some of them might view it as such in the story, dick's love isn't a prize that can only go to the one blorbo to win the competition. Personally I don't see Robin Jason being his favourite, and that's fine. Probably since, as I only have one sibling to be weird about, this is one aspect of Dick and Jason's relationship that I don't project onto them.)

There's a difference between saying "those are the only canon interactions between Dick and Robin!Jason that we know of" and saying "those are the only interactions that happened between Jason and Dick when Jason was Robin", especially if the next sentence is going to be something like "read a comic". I want to insist that I'm not saying that they have to have been super close. All I'm saying is I don't see, with the knowledge I personally have of canon and the retcons I choose to disregard (because of terrible writing), why considering that they were close wouldn't be canon compliant.

Leeway, nuance and up to interpretation stuff are fun and should matter for evaluating the level of canon compliance of your own headcanons, and I think it's especially important when trying to police other people's interpretation of canon: are you certain their interpretation is fanon and you're correcting it with the right canon, or is it a case of two headcanons clashing in the blank space between comic pages?

I just found it strange to never see it taken in account in the sometimes pretty emphatic takes I saw on the debate around their relationship, so those are my two cents on the matter. All this to say, [theatre joke in coming], when it comes to Dick and Jaybin, we could all stand to be more chill.

* btw i'm excluding dixon's nightwing year one from this conversation because I hate how it manages to shit on every one of the characters i've seen him write in it so violently and also fuck dixon, my jason comes from post-crisis not that crappy weirdo retcon.

[toast-in-a-cowboy-hat]

The universe had to make Ty and Anne enemies lest they become the worlds most powerful t4t couple

[cawslew]

Not sure if you've talked about this before, but what's your opinion on chuuatsu as a romantic and platonic pairing? I've been craving other opinions on this :))

Alrrr, funnily enough, I had shipped Chuuatsu BEFORE I was convinced to ship Dazatsu (I say convinced because I shift the blame to my dear friend, who kept filling my head with ideas about them), so I enjoy this ship QUITE A LOT.

I am a firm believer that Chuuya's and Atsushi's relationship would be a bit of a mess, chaotic, and it's definitely NOT an instant click. And all that is exactly the reason why it works so well. Like, to be fully real, they would NOT get along at first. Chuuya is brash and absolutely doesn't sugarcoat anything, and Atsushi is quiet and self-conscious, but nonetheless has moments of clarity where he would snap back. Even looking at the relationship between him and Akutagawa, you can tell Atsushi wouldn't take anything Chuuya says to him lying down. And that's exactly the kicker: Atsushi isn’t just some timid kid who lets himself be walked over. He’d only put up with Chuuya’s attitude for so long before throwing out some sass of his own.

They would naturally clash, but they also balance each other out in ways they don’t immediately realize. Chuuya’s brashness would force Atsushi to stand up for himself, show his own confidence, and push back against being underestimated (as he’s shown that, however unconfident he might be, he’s willing to do stuff out of spite). And Atsushi’s kindness (his genuine belief in doing what’s right and helping others) would chip away at Chuuya’s tough exterior. It wouldn’t happen all at once, though. It’d take time for them to see beyond their initial impressions of one another.

But what REALLY pulls them together, in my opinion, would be their shared trauma. Both of them have been through so much (Atsushi with the orphanage, years of being told he’s worthless, and Chuuya with the betrayal of the people he trusted most and the weight of being treated like a tool rather than a person). They both would recognize the other’s pain, even if they don’t talk about it openly. Chuuya’s not the type to bare his soul (AND definitely not after he lost so many people. A Cartwright Curse if you must), and Atsushi would hesitate as well because of his own insecurities. But when you've been through the kind of hell that they've been through, sometimes you just don’t need to say anything. There’s just this unspoken understanding between them.

And maybe in exactly those moments, the facade would start to break. Chuuya might stop pretending he's invincible (as many fans don’t realize that Chuuya’s brash, overconfident personality is just an act he puts on to hide his own insecurities), letting Atsushi see the cracks in his guard. Maybe he lets slip how much it weighs on him to have something like Arahabaki in him, or how exhausting it must be to put the mafia above himself constantly (of course, it wouldn’t be worded as such, since Chuuya fully believes he's not worth much, if anything at all). And Atsushi? Atsushi would stop trying to hide how much he doubts himself, how he is always fighting to believe he has value too. Both confiding fully in one another, because who’s better to understand him if not another broken soul?

Their relationship isn’t about FIXING each other, but about supporting one another. Chuuya wouldn’t try to “fix” Atsushi’s self-doubt, but rather remind him in his own blunt way of how strong and capable the other is. And Atsushi wouldn’t push Chuuya to be vulnerable, but he’d offer his presence that lets Chuuya know he doesn’t have to carry everything by himself.

[m1n4h]

Already bragged about it on twitter, why not post it here?

Me and my friends were drawing in magma. One of them drew lil hearts on their cheeks.

[maripr]

I think John Ward deserves to break down a little at the end of FAITH bc he just destroyed the cult that groomed him since childhood and abused him and his childhood friend, he's managed to protect everyone he loves, he's realized God's been with him the entire time, he has fred all the souls that were taken hostages in the rite of the second death, and he has been forgiven by the very person he wronged. He deserves to break down a bit, after things have calmed down, as Lisa and Garcia both hold him as his falls on his knees and his shoulder shake and he holds his crucifix close like he's hugging it and he wails like a child and as the tears fall on the cross once bronze, they leave golden streak, cleansing his vision of it, cleansing his heart.

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

meow〜

[dykecory]

:3 could u do zach and chris with christmas hats or doing holiday stuff i think ur art is so so insanely cute

I'M FINALLY DOING THESE.. merry late christmas !!!!

[mrstellmeafuckingsecret]

mary: is your dick big enough for you to act the way that you do?

sirius: yes.

mary: let's see it then

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mary: he can keep acting the way he does

[idiou]

Random TADC AU #1

Where Jax and Pomni knew each other irl, and Jax recognised her when she arrived in TADC. He was really happy, because she was the only thing he remembered from the real world, and now she was there too

[freyfall]

saw a post the other day about how the dsmp fandom doesnt pay attention to any of quackity's relationships other than the romantic ones (also specifically shitting on quacksicle) and tbh while I think it's a valid point to talk about because quackity has so many other important relationships, you do realize that his romantic relationships (at least the arguably canon ones - specifically referring to fiances and schlackity though I guess you could argue tntduo but I'm personally not arguing that) like, completely inform a major part of his character?????????? It's about like. showing vulnerability to people and getting screwed over for it.

AND, perhaps the key part here, is that quackity and slimecicle follow in this pattern of quackity showing vulnerability to someone he has a close relationship with and then that relationship falling the fuck apart. so I don't know if it's necessarily off the mark to say that, in a sense, quacksicle was implied to be the same strain of relationship that q had with schlatt and karl and sapnap (and perhaps also wilbur) and that may or may not be romantic.

like, a platonic reading of it isn't incorrect (in fact it is probably the MORE correct version if I'm being realistic about cc intentions, etc) but like, the subtext isn't NOT there imo. Shrugs

anyways the op was right in that the entire other half of q's character is heavily informed by his nonromantic relationships - like. the entirety of LN (foolish, fundy, PURPLED) everything with the prison (sam, DREAM!) and also the friends he had in earlier dsmp days (tommy, eret, p sure bbh, this list can be added to but I wasn't a big early q watcher so this is all I got). (also, like, tntduo, but tntduo exists in the weird grey area yknow.)

anyways I love c!quackity and all of his relationships. they're all so fucking good

[book-lover85]

realizing that because our society is so deeply ingrained in amatonormativity even more than heteronormativity that most if not all people make many assumptions about interactions and relationships assuming things "must" be romantic or sexual

even as an aroace person I fall into this hole of wondering if I'm reading into characters or people too much or not enough

I have a tendency to just not understand most ships

even the one's I ship because I can't always understand the implied romantic tension that comes with the assumption that all their interactions are romantic and so I sometimes don't see the ship coming or don't understand why it's such a big deal when there wasn't any "obvious" build up (even when there is build up in their relationship it could absolutely be platonic how do I know?)

I can't understand when someone says that my friend has a crush on me without any proof

a friend can be nice to me and not have a crush

but I also sometimes assume an interaction between two people is romantic

and it's so strange

wtf is the world