#this is ROMANCE BAYBEE

[kennyyomega]

holy fucking christ hangman

(from the paste magazine interview)

[autistme]

james is now confirmed in LA do you know what that means

thats right baby we might get knife slides 2 electric boogaloo

[plantfell]

Duality of man is setting up a scenario where two people use the same spoon while being absolutely disgusted by the concept of two people having their mouths touch the same thing.

[lemontongues]

while i’m being weird bc i’m up past my bedtime i just. man that post got me thinking again about how i truly just don’t care about sibling relationship content in fandom. i’m the worst batfam/yj fan on the planet bc actually all i care about is shipping sdjdndk 😔

[abitcaughtinthemiddle]

No one can convince me this season was not the most fucking romantic thing I’ve ever seen.

Colin + his (many) love confessions for Penelope

[jellypenwrites]

Also, slightly off topic of PS&S but I am soooooo excited to work on CT. I have ten chapters outlined, and they’ll all be around 1000 words or more, but like. Disabled main characters, man. Both of them bi, both of them willing to figure things out together.

Clear communication… enforced boundaries… having someone love and care about them, despite all of their insecurities.

Accessible homes, deep conversations, age gap romance… I love them all.

[desceros]

Hi! I went to an aquarium for the first time and they had purple jellyfish tanks and I Get It Now

I would absolutely fall in love with a ninja turtle here 💜

Also: 4ft tall statue of 2012 Leo I saw on the way to the aquarium :)))))) ����

i'm TELLING you the jellyfish exhibit 10000000% is the place where Romance Happens Baybee. look at that!!! calm and peaceful and healing and intimate and dark and tucked away and--just PERFECT!

oooh!! i've seen a couple episodes of 2012, but i got pulled into watching 2003 instead since i like those designs a bit better. but i'll watch it someday. tis inevitable!

[kennyyomega]

oh they are not beating the allegations

[will-bite-if-given-the-chance]

Ok so I’ve been reading random chapters of your fic because I’m not patient enough to read stuff properly (undiagnosed ADHD core) but I just wanted to say that I love you.

YOU’RE A LITERAL GOD

Heaven's Secret 1: Revisited

Romance Club: Heaven's Secret

Pairings: Vicky (f!mc) x Dino, Vicky x Lucifer, Adi x Sammy, other pairings tbc

Rating: explicit (swearing, graphic descriptions of violence, character death and smut)

Series summary: This is a completely self-indulgent rewrite of Heaven’s Secret 1. It stays mostly true to the original story, delving into some of the main characters’ motivations and POVs, and more world-building. Expect a Dino-Lucifer-Vicky (f!mc) love triangle and explorations of Vicky's relationship with Malbonte.

Taglist: @rc-catalog

Fic is on Ao3

Chapter 1: Dying

Chapter 2: First Assignment

Chapter 3: Dark omens

Chapter 4: Visiting Hell

Chapter 5: Death of an unclaimed Ⓜ️ (cw: character death)

Chapter 6: Angelic hospitality

Chapter 7: Assignments on earth: Race day

Chapter 8: Satan's Punishment Ⓜ️ (cw: graphic violence)

Chapter 9: Offense is the best defense

Chapter 10: The Flying Tournament

Chapter 11: Push and Pull Ⓜ️🔥 (cw: smut Vicky x Dino)

Chapter 12: An assignment with the Prince of Hell

Chapter 13: A Mexican getaway Ⓜ️🔥 (cw: smut Adi x Sammy; major character death)

Chapter 14: Unable to let go Ⓜ️🔥 (cw: smut Vicky x Dino)

Chapter 15: The Ball

Chapter 16: Aftermath Ⓜ️🔥 (cw: smut Vicky x Lucifer)

Chapter 17: Judgement

Chapter 18: Breaking Point

Chapter 19: The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree

Chapter 20: Harmony? What Harmony?

Chapter 21: Rescue Mission Ⓜ️🔥 (cw: smut Vicky x Lucifer)

Chapter 22: An Unclaimed Christmas Tradition

Chapter 23: A hellhole within Hell

[chemicallywrit]

What a week in audio drama! Happy Audio Drama Sunday folks, can we talk about some episodes????

🎥 @thesiltverses comes through once again with an absolute banger. Val is chilling—Val has always been chilling—but this week seeing her vulnerable was somehow. Worse. Hey Chuck??? Run, maybe? And if you’re lucky a treason charge will be the best you can hope for. Don’t think too hard about the worst.

🌄 @midnightburgr my beloved, I love you Midnight Burger. I adore the Hood’s Pocket crew and how delightfully normal they are in the face of time-traveling cowboy outlaws. This show continues to bring the wittiness and smarts firmly alongside compassion. It’s so beautiful.

👁️ Why must you hurt me, @hellofromthehallowoods? We’ve heard Nikignik in some bad emotional spots before, but this ep was three kinds of heartbreaking. Can we talk about the sound Nikignik made—

🚬 I feel like @radio-outcast’s strength is their expert combo of the surreal and the tangible, and that’s doubly true when our heroes are trapped in an illusion as they have been for a minute. It makes it all scarier what happens to Helix at the end of the story, and all the more a relief when the happy ending comes. For now. Enemies abound and surround our heroes, but they will carry on.

🐍 There’s no show like the Magnus Protocol to make me just so so scared of a tiny hole a squirrel made. Like I yelped aloud. That team knows how to hecking GET you. And in the office romance department, I find whatever Alice has going in mighty compelling. I’m sure that will be totally fine.

🚀 I started @jumpleadsscifi this week and I am honestly delighted. I love a sitcom, and I’ve finished episode five, which means we’re to my favorite part of the sitcom: getting just a little bit sad with it. Jump Leads is about two underqualified star trek-like officers whose job it is to fix time and space—though mostly they just mess around. I love it.

🔎 YOU WERE ALL RIGHT ABOUT SHERLOCK & CO. This is what I wish BBC Sherlock was. This means everything to me. I’m obsessed. I’m barely even finished with the first episode. It’s amazing. THE MUSIC.

🐰In Inn Between news, I’m about to ruin all y’all’s lives, and in Re: Dracula news, WE ARE BACK BAYBEE. In The Dead news, Run Rabbit will be back this week! We also are finishing up recording the next story for The Dead, which I’m so excited about. Stay tuned!

For real, this month is looking a little thin, and if you felt like giving me a tip, it would really go a long way. Thank you! See you next week!

[cyber-corp]

An actual summary of Homestuck Act 6's intermissions

by someone who’s a page away from Collide

Let’s do this lightning-round style.

After breaking through the fourth wall on the ship and getting the Gift of Gab (lol), John and Jade prepare for a three-year-long voyage to meet up with the gang, with Davesprite, Nannasprite, and a variety of other faces in tow. They write a letter for the crew.

The Monarch (previously the Mendicant) and the firefly buddy (I've forgotten their name) plead for the Vagabond's life. She takes him to the trolls and kid's rendezvous spot.

The trolls finally meet up with Dave and Rose, who have indeed reached God Tier. Half-dead Sollux and GT Aradia show up as well. They plan to host a "funeral" for Sollux, who is just sort of watching in disgust.

After Karkat's bucket-human-troll-sloppy-fueled breakdown from John's letter, the Vagabond, and the firefly show up, and the gang sets off through the Furthest Ring.

Intermission 2

Hussie, who was taking care of Spades Slick after he fucking killed the world by shooting Snowman, is shot dead by Lord English. I'm sure he'll show up later though. They always do.

It's been about a year in between the intermissions. While Rose explains what the Scratch did, Karkat attempts to explain the troll love quadrants to Dave. They draw dicks, fight, Dave wins by a mile through the suplex

Meanwhile, John, Jade and friends play the Ghostbusters II MMORPG, which is hilarious that that is even a thing in the first place. Jaspersprite sings a birthday song for him, Jade gets dogmad, which causes John to black out.

After getting harrassed by an eepy Roxy, John encounters Meenah (the best character!!!!!) for the first time. He takes a trident from her and wakes back up.

In a dream bubble, Terezi meets Aranea (second best character!!!!), who offers her to heal her sight. In another dream bubble, Hussie proposes to Vriska with a ring. Because of course he does.

Intermission 3 (and some other stuff)

Aranea invites Jake to Meenah's dream bubble, where she finds quite a lot of fighting happening. After telling a story of the Condensce, Jake embarrasses himself by attempting to wallop Meenah. He wakes up after getting whacked, but Brain Ghost Dirk sticks around.

After a "quick" game of Meenah Quest, we get a glimpse of what John and Jade are up to; watching Con Air baybee!!!! Except John has a big freakout over hating the movie, hating Davesprite, and passes out. What a guy.

PM and Noir are locked in chase before they enter a bubble of Jack's own massacre of the Battlefield, before John awakens and fights him. Rose shows up for a brief second and John uses his cool-ass windy powers as well.

After the battle, John wanders into a desert, finds a ring, and finds Tavros (wHO DESPERATELY WANTS THE RING,) and Vriska. She shares her plan to find a treasure that'll defeat Lord English.

After another game of Meenah Quest (where she unsuccessfully gets no one on her team), we go back to the meteor, where Rose drinks and forgets her date with Kanaya (best couple. fight me) and then falls down the stairs. They warned her, dog.

John wakes up with the ring, soyjaks, and the intermission ends.

Intermission 5 (CALIBORN TOOK uP THE LAST SPOT)

Dave and Karkat intervene Terezi, who is a massive wreck because of her degrading romance with Gamzee and letting Aranea heal her eyesight.

John, Vriska, Aranea, Meenah and Aradia find a big green cave in a dream bubble, where they also find a juju. It's the Homestuck House! John sticks his hand in it, his arm appears throughout multiple points in the comic, and then voops out of reality completely. He has an INTENSE STAREDOWN with Caliborn and wakes up on LOMAX, Jake's planet.

I don't usually do this but

(skips many, many important bits and pieces)

Vriska comes back (thanks to John's time shenanigans), plans out everything to come and verbally abuses her ghost self, Dave and Dirk have a feelings jam, dead pre-retcon Terezi and Ghost Vriska rejoice in facing the end, and everybody just about gets ready to

Collide.

This has been by far one of the most bonkers pieces of fiction I have ever read, and nothing gets me more excited than to see all of it come together and wrap all of it up, I hope. Also Caliborn and Calliope are one of the best "Jekyll/Hyde" characters I've seen in a long while!

Whatever lies on the other side of that hyperlink, I sure hope it'll be good.

[the-rad-menace]

I know that a lot has changed about how relationships between men are typically portrayed since 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea was written, but there's some real chemistry between Captain Nemo and M. Aronnax.

Like if someone wanted to do an adaptation and make it a romance, there's so much to draw on.

Aronnax upon meeting Captain Nemo:

"The second stranger merits a more detailed description. I made out his prevailing qualities directly: self-confidence—because his head was well set on his shoulders, and his black eyes looked around with cold assurance; calmness—for his skin, rather pale, showed his coolness of blood; energy—evinced by the rapid contraction of his lofty brows; and courage—because his deep breathing denoted great power of lungs. Whether this person was thirty-five or fifty years of age, I could not say. He was tall, had a large forehead, straight nose, a clearly cut mouth, beautiful teeth, with fine taper hands, indicative of a highly nervous temperament. This man was certainly the most admirable specimen I had ever met."

Aronnax and Nemo develop a relationship of great respect and admiration for one another - throughout the book, he seems reluctant to leave The Nautilus, while his companions are continually plotting their getaway. Aronnax even thinks that the worst outcome of a failed escape would be hurting the captain's feelings! 😩

"The idea of failure in our bold enterprise was the least painful of my anxieties; but the thought of seeing our project discovered before leaving the Nautilus, of being brought before Captain Nemo, irritated, or (what was worse) saddened, at my desertion, made my heart beat."

Captain Nemo brought Aronnax to see the sunken city of Atlantis. Just the two of them. Insanely romantic. And Aronnax's reaction to seeing the city is a desperation to know Nemo's thoughts and feelings in the moment.

"Whilst I was trying to fix in my mind every detail of this grand landscape, Captain Nemo remained motionless, as if petrified in mute ecstasy, leaning on a mossy stone. Was he dreaming of those generations long since disappeared? Was he asking them the secret of human destiny? Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live again this ancient life—he who wanted no modern one? What would I not have given to know his thoughts, to share them, to understand them!"

That's love, baybee.

In conclusion, kissing a man could have saved Captain Nemo.

[unohanadaydreams]

SEN, YOU ARE SO RIGHT!! Mayuri would not care about the morality of stealing you from your life or even care about your feelings on the matter. What matters is that he wants you in R&D with him and the moral quandaries are bypassed entirely (as always). <3

Just imagine, you're all giddy about Mayuri (finally) agreeing to exchange numbers and suddenly you're being woken up by the man himself looking even more odd than you're used to before you realize you see your body on the bed still. And Mayuri is going on and on about how carbon monoxide poisoning is simplistic but at the very least is effective. And did you know it happens so often it'll be written off as an accident? Which is pathetic, but don't worry! He can show you must better. And he will!

Haha I was thinking some more about the batshit concept of meeting Mayuri irl and whether I could bag him. And got to thinking about like.. what he would do if he happened to take a liking to a human? Like imagine he meets you during some vacation? Research jaunt? Some short period of time where he's posing as a mortal. And imagine that time draws to a close and he has to go back to soul society... but what about you? He probably won't have time to visit you again for another... oh, fifty, sixty years.. and you'll be a bag of bones by then.

So the solution? Well it's simple! He can just bring you with him<3 (he kills you and no he does not ask your permission)

[shieran]

so uh, i pretty much never use this platform to post actual personal content (reblog machine baybee) but...

i wrote a book?

and it's, like, real, and on the internet and everything?

this is shamelessly written to be the kind of story i like to read, so if you like dorky queer romance/urban fantasy where the romance is easy and drama-free, and the story is fast-paced and full of supporting characters, maybe check it out. or don't, i'm not your dad.

[devotioncrater]

two wolves live inside me:

being okay with tedtrent going canon without an onscreen kiss. either it is an ambiguous open ending type thing where they allude to these two starting something new, OR it is not that ambiguous at all and they confess to each other how they feel. either would work for me because sometimes a story doesn't require explicit physical depiction of a romance in order to convey that the romance is there. also a bisexual character is still bisexual even if there isn't onscreen "proof" of them swinging both ways

really needing wanting an onscreen tedtrent kiss also implied sex scene because it would be a huge release of whatever homoerotic tension is going on between them. also ted has only ever kissed sassy onscreen & i think the juxtaposition of a passionless kiss with someone who doesn't view him romantically vs a passionate kiss with someone who does would go stupid, go crazy. trent has expressed wanting to kiss his fella after a won match, too, and i think he should get the chance to have his Big Gay Smooch. it would also be fun to watch conservatives have a meltdown that their favorite fictional coach is bisexual in a way they cannot erase or dismiss. out and proud baybee. moreover, in a show about romcommunism, the main lead should get an iconic romcom kiss

[tonberrykins]

Hey, I get I've been raving about Astarion a lot but, like, are there ACTUALLY people out here who hate Gale and are calling him an incel? Is this a thing? Thank God I apparently curate well bc holy fucking shit I would be having heart palpitations DAILY out of SHEER ANGER.

So, like, we're always going to make fun of our faves and whatnot bc lbr "bro, you were banging Mystra and fucked up that bad?" THOUGH TO BE FAIR, if you're a wizard it isn't that hard to bang Mystra. It's kind of her thing. P sure her banging Elminster as many times as she has is the main reason he's still kicking and out being the Faerûnian Gandalf that he is in-game. Mystra's bodycount aside (especially since that has ZERO bearing on ANYTHING least of all her portfolio and purpose), like, Gale is a very intelligent man. He is also what we would consider as an objectively good person. Save the kids, help the tieflings, be kind and compassionate to those the average "good" aligned folks would consider "worthy" and yeah. He is literally the Alistair Theirin of BG3 if you Fusion Danced him together with Awakening Anders.

That being said, he is also very deeply flawed in that he KNOWS he is brilliant and in that brilliance, knowing his own talent, he thinks he knows better than even his own goddess BUT-! But, but, but, he is mortal, is young enough and in an age to not be able to wrack up the accomplishments of, say, Elminster whom he clearly knows on a fairly personal level so, like anyone who knows they are capable of doing great things, he feels INFERIOR bc he hasn't, in his mind, PROVEN that he is as great as he knows he is. And that's the hubris of mortality.

Objectively, LOGICALLY, he knows that he's more than proven himself capable. Mystra wouldn't have started a relationship with him otherwise, and she never asked him to prove himself. It was his own desperation to prove that he was worthy of her and thinking he knew EVERYTHING that lead to his terrible situation. Is he very clinical and logical about it? Yes. Is he squirrelly about it in the beginning? Very much, yes. Hell, I would be. No one wants to be friends with a literal ticking time bomb and the man is VERY lonely. Hell, that's the name of the game baybee! Baldur's Gate 3: These Bitches Need a Hug; YES EVEN LAE'ZEL, I WILL FIGHT Y'ALL!

Back to Gale, your friendship with him is something he very much treasures and when he starts all his finger wiggling and magic talk he's like any nerd sharing the thing he is most passionate about. He is also the first to admit he fucked up. HOWEVER, that does not (imo) warrant him needing to sacrifice himself all for Mystra's forgiveness, and even Elminster isn't on board with that. And, like, when he talks about Mystra it's never in an accusatory manner towards her. He clearly still loves her, likely always will, but that never negates his love for the PC who chooses to romance him. He is also very much prone to falling into the same pitfall of hubris that got him before and very clearly needs guidance that, yes, Mystra clearly did neglect in giving him. But he never outright blames her, at least he's not in my playthroughs thus far even after having spoken with her in the temple. He's just a sad, lonely nerd and that does not automatically make him an incel; y'all just don't know how to read, listen, or understand nuance. Apparently.

tl;dr

Gale deserves as much love as Astarion but bc he isn't evil "babygirl" material that's "fixable" he's just called an incel when he can be a very genuine friend, but what are those nowadays I guess?