#MAYBE TO HET ME INTO IT

[bakatenshii]

angel pls come out of retirement 🥺

I WOULD LOVE TOOO idk if my brain is sahara’d out BUT I GENUINELY GENUINELY WOULD LOVE TO AHHHHHH IM MAYBE?? gonna make @theygottheircages hold me to it

WHAT ARE WE INTO RN WHATS THE COLLECTIVE BRAIN ROTTING OVER RECENTLY

#urusai! baka #I ACTUALLY REREAD SOME OF MY WIPS TODAY #AND WAS LIKE #HMMMMMMM #I HAVE A FWW LIKE 50% DONE #MAYBE 70% EVEN #I JUST NEED TO WRIT ELIKE THE MAINSMUT AND STUFF #THERES SOME WIPS I DONT EVEN REMEMBER ALSJOAJS BUT #BUT!!! I WAS THINKING ILL #MAYBE TO HET ME INTO IT #I REALLY WANTED TO TRY EXPLORING DIFF WAYS AND FORMATS LIKE #MAYBE A SERIES OF DRABBLES #TYPE OF STUFF?? #NOTHING CRAZY OR CONCRETE JUST #LIL CREATIVE BRAINDUMPSBYA KNOW #BUT BUT IM SO HAPPY THAT #U R THINKING OF ME <3333 #TEARY EYEEEED #THANK U MY LOVEEE I WOULD #LOVE TOOOOO #IDK IF MY BRAIN WILL LET ME BUT #ALSO JUST WHAT R WE VIVING WITH AND #COME SHARE UR BRAINROTA AND THIRSTS WITH MEEE #JOG UP MY CRANIUM XXXXX

[tryingonametaphor]

mike has canonically vocalised feeling like he’s not worthy in his relationship with el. he can confess his love to el a hundred times over, but she’s never actually ever said anything to him to make him feel worthy in the entire course of the show.

if all he needed was her “i love you too” at the end of season 3, why did he spend the entire time away from her before s4 feeling worthless and being unable to say it back after she said that? she hasn’t had a grand confession. she hasn’t talked to mike about how he makes her a better person or how he makes her feel special and loved. she didn’t even affirm him after the fight against vecna telling him that he did indeed give her the strength to fight on.

but will has told him all of that. he’s not even with mike - doesn’t expect to be with mike - and he’s given him a grand confession that made mike feel loved. and in the confession, will also said that he feels loved and accepted by mike as well. the best part of that confession is that will expects absolutely nothing in return from mike. he simply wanted mike to feel worthy and loved. i guess stranger things has shown me more than it needs to tell me.

will’s monologue will always be the most romantic monologue to me in the entire show and he didn’t even use the word love once.

#byler #i understand the appeal of het relationships with a boyfriend who worships his girlboss gf #but it’s isn’t fun anymore if the boyfriend says he feels inferior in that relationship #idk maybe that’s just me #being in love with someone should ultimately feel like you are their equal.

[femmesandhoney]

male socialization is wild to me because when men deviate it by generally being nice to women and then get womens attention by being friendly and normal to us other men get mad and punish them for it bc they're actually meant to be domineering, rude, and misogynistic to us and if a man doesn't do that they're either gay or trying to unassumingly get with one of the women. like it blows mens minds that they can actually try and be normal and nice to women for no sexual gain, and then they punish men for deviating from it. they're like we see you're getting female attention without abusing the women?? thats wrong and also we hate u for it. like jesus men are so fucked up as a whole.

#witnessed this in my class group #two of the more 'manly' men were saying shit about one of the guys and its like #i obviously know this is common but as a girl who grew up w male friends who were always seen as gay for preferring female company #seeing it repeated in the world always still catches me off guard #like you'd think logically for het men especially maybe being nice to women would get u farther #but male socialization and the patriarchy are so insane #to be nice to a woman is to acknowledge she is human and not just a sex vessel #so when they see other men treating us like humans they get both mad and probably jealous idk what goes on in their heads but its wild

[leojurand]

i'm 60% into busman's honeymoon (enjoying it immensely) and it's so refreshing to read about a couple who adore each other and have endless chemistry, who follow each other's thoughts because they're both witty and intelligent... a couple who you read about and think, yeah, i get why they're together and why they're in love!

i'm allergic to m/f usually both because i prefer gay shit and because so many authors put zero effort into writing the romance in their novels (this is especially true in speculative fiction, from my experience). but when i read a romance like this it's really like wow. maybe i'm not as heterophobic as i thought maybe i just want a good fucking romance!! an amazing discovery

also, for the love of god, we need more married couples in fiction. i love slow burns and will-they-won't-theys as much as anyone else but. give me more husbands and wives. AND also exes

#currently reading #peter and harriet are sooo perfect truly #up there for me with nicholas and gelis (who will probably always be my favourite het marriage) #romance in fantasy is honestly so fucking bad so often. maybe it's good in other genres and i just don't know! #will investigate further.

[seagreenstardust]

I’m gonna say something that’s probably not going to be well received in certain circles so let me start by saying this: I believe, with only a few rare exceptions, that you should be able to ship whatever speaks to you the most. And just because I don’t ship something doesn’t mean it’s wrong for anyone else to ship it, and the same for things I do ship, no one else has to ship it too. Who you do or don’t ship will never be a reason I pass judgment on you, ever. Live your best life.

That being said, I want to talk about Horikoshi and straight ships.

(And bakudeku.)

Here’s the thing: Hori has written straight ships into MHA and he’s done it so masterfully that it’s made me ship them without even realizing it. I don’t know if we can call them canon because as far as I know no ship is actually canon yet, but what is canon is the care Hori put into building these relationships.

Kirimina. Hori wrote in a backstory that parallels bkdk that I just adore. There is something about Kiri looking up to Mina and being so inspired by her bravery that it shapes the hero he becomes that is such good content. They’ve had multiple mid-battle moments of protecting and helping each other. I ship Kirimina so hard because of the canon Hori gave us.

I am a low key Denki/Hitoshi shipper but season six kinda hit me in the face with whatever we’re calling Kyouka/Denki these days and now I guess I’m a multi-shipper???? That is how hard Hori hit me with the Kyouka/Denki feels. And he did it the same way as Kirimina, because we have years of content of Kyouka teasing Denki mercilessly, plus the cultural festival band, so when they’re separated in Season 6 and Denki has this intense moment of realization that she’s who he needs to be brave for and it actually works??? I’m a goner.

Heck, I ship todomomo too you guys though I can’t blame Hori for that one, that’s just me being me. The point is that I ship it because the characters Hori gave me struck a chord inside.

But there is one straight ship Hori never once made me ship.

Every time izu*cha showed up I just kinda endured it? It just wasn’t for me. I didn’t see two kids with chemistry, I saw two kids who didn’t know who they were or what they wanted fumbling their way through a will they/won’t they without either of them seeming all that invested in it.

In six seasons and nearly 400 chapters and multiple times revisiting the story I have never once felt any inclination to ship izu*cha

Hori can write straight ships. Hori made me ship his secondary straight ships nearly effortlessly. So if izu*cha was meant to be canon why have I never once felt the chemistry?

You know who has the chemistry? Bakudeku. But here’s the thing: I wasn’t thinking about Katsuki as a possible love interest for Izuku the first time I watched the entire story. I honestly wasn’t paying much attention to him at all, he was everything I didn’t like on the surface so I more or less ignored him despite Izuku holding onto him for dear life. Katsuki never once colored my opinion of izu*cha, they did that all on their own.

It wasn’t until after my first watch through, when I was hungry for more and trolling around tumblr, that I realized people shipped Katsuki and Izuku and it was literally like something out of alignment popped into place in my head.

Oh. Duh. That’s the ship.

I went from zero to a million in a handful of seconds because the chemistry was there, the backstory was there, and boy are Izuku and Katsuki loud about how obsessed they are with each other. Just like Kirimina, just like Denki and Kyouka, Hori planted the seeds throughout the entire series so that when it was brought to my attention everything about the narrative and character development supported it.

And I have to take a moment to explain my dislike of Katsuki at first: I honestly fell for the surface-level interpretation of his character and then kinda wrote him off without much more thought. Which is insane to think about because you can’t really understand MHA without Katsuki, he is so integral to the story as a whole that any version of it without him is skewed so far out of alignment that it’s not even the same story anymore. But I just saw angry boy who yells for no reason and put Katsuki in a box and left it at that.

It wasn’t until I was willing to give his character a second look that I started understanding him, and more importantly, his relationship with Izuku. And it helped that when bkdk was presented to me as a ship that my brain understood immediately why it worked. The canon source material supports bkdk at every possible moment.

I really don’t think it does the same for izu*cha.

#bkdk #bakudeku #I’m being very deliberate about not including actual ship names for the one ship I’m arguing against here #because the shippers for that ship deserve to have their tag filled with positivity and I am not trying to rain on anyone’s parade #mainly I’m just word vomiting something I’ve been thinking a lot about while tumblr lurking #and I guess you could say that Hori doesn’t actually know how to write a solid romance and mistakes his way into it three separate times #but izu*cha reads to me like the token het ship for the main character that Hori doesn’t want to write but has to #there’s no care being put into it except how it highlights the other ships for the two characters #anyway #good for you if you made it this far in to my rambling #or maybe I’m sorry is the better thing to say 😂

[57sfinest]

pov you walk into the precinct 41 break room and the heterosexual life partners are discussing a case

#ref is an always sunny screenshot LMFAO i just. needed to do this #harry du bois #jean vicquemare #i hesitate to tag this jeanharry because that's not quite what this is. even so. #jeanharry #kiwipost #my art #dont ask me quastion i am 2. #chester: ....why are you sitting on mullen like that #jean: not enough room on the couch. mind your fucking business #truly and genuinely they both are like why do you guys keep calling us gay. we're obviously het. wdym het guys dont do this #are they fucking? maybe. not important. theyre still het. and hate each other etc etc #sorryyy its rough i will never clean up art ever

[death-limes]

wish i could participate in Welcome Home fandom but i have yet to find ANYONE else who thinks julie and frank would be a cute ship and you just KNOW i’d get pounced on with “you know he and eddie are canon right” and “stop forcing ur het bullshit” or like. “the show’s forcing them together theyd be miserable” as if anyone ever cares about canon under normal circumstances & as if they dont already have a cute dynamic like come on they got dem opposite personalities thats my JAM

#also they dont have to be het OR monogomoys. frank has two hands #welcome home #i hope this is actually just me being paranoid #what would their ship even be called? like ive tried to find ship art of them before #frulie???? jank???? like come on #maybe like. frankly joyful #idk

[singsweetmelodies]

the way i just got stupidly emotional listening to an afrikaans christmas song, of all things... 🥹

#NO BUT HEAR ME OUT. you could piarlify it so well #it would be the kind of thing where you sob from happy feels by the end #(or maybe just me because i'm severely unwell about them) #but like. it's that time of the year #time for something that's perhaps a little cliché but SO achingly nostalgic and happy-beautiful at the end... #WAHHHH #''in 'n brief van later jare skryf ek liewe kersfeesvader; elke meisie het 'n spesiale wens... #vir 'n man so soet soos suiker en 'n motor sonder duike; en soen hy jou dink jy dis net 'n droom'' #AND THEN #''ek stap toe op 'n aand laat met 'n kêrel van die vrystaat en al bestuur hy 'n ou bakkie sê ek kersfeesvader dankie!'' #*AND THEN* #''hier's ons kinders om die boompie... hulle wag nou vir die oompie.. my dogtertjie is net 'n bietjie bang'' #what if i CRY #i know none of you understand me #and it's alright 🥹 #but i just think it would be THE most gorgeous nostalgic lovely thing. WAHHHH #🥹🥹🥹❤️

[alchemiclee]

I hate that whenever there's a gay ship, people immediately het-ify it. people are so obsessed with making one the "man" and one the "woman" when that's completely unnecessary, because they are both the man or the woman. It's extremely annoying. these people will completely mischaracterize a character to fit into their stupid little het roles they force on them.

for example, you don't need to make one man the "wife" and feminized him to the extreme and fit him in a traditional "woman" role so the other man can be the big strong masculine manly man. they can both be masculine or both be feminine or both be both at the same time! they do NOT need to be gendered opposites to fit het roles. crazy, I know! it's like no one considers it a possibility! or sees how good it can be to have them be equals without gendered nonsense.

when there's a gay relationship, you have the perfect opportunity for the couple to stand on equal ground. they get to be equals who are just as strong and just as soft as each other. there's no faulty power dynamics where one is above the other (because let's face it, society unfortunately deems masculinity > femininity). one doesn't need to protect the other. they can protect themsleves, fight aide by side as equals. one doesn't do all the housework. they share that duty equally. one isn't weak and pretty, while they other strong and manly. they both are strong and pretty, or masculine and weak at the same time.

equal relationships are amazing and need to be explored more and appreciated. there can be more understanding and working together. i'm bad at explaining what I mean, but I prefer these equal relationships over forcing them into opposite roles to mirror het relationships, which are usually extremely unbalanced and unequal. especially because these not het relationships! so why must they look like one? they can and should look different! so why does literally every shipper and writer out there make them so het coded?

I don't understand why people do this. do they actually believe all romantic relationships must mimic het ones to exist and thrive and purposely force that on them? or have they genuinely just not fathamed that they can be different and dont need to follow the expected het standards?

I wonder, it feels like no one actually knows how non-het relationships are meant to be and how they could work, since het ones are always forced down our throats since birth. it becomes The Standard that everyone thinks they must follow. maybe it's all people know since they don't see any other possibilities. their preferred dynamics for their ships are what we are taught and nothing different, because they don't know it can be different. i also think people might be obsessed with that whole "opposites attract" trope. but that opposite doesn't have to be the traditional het-fueld feminine vs masculine or wife vs husband characteristics. it can be other personality things like one is loud and one is quiet, one is dumb and one is overly smart, one is rich and one poor, etc. it doesn't have to be masculine vs feminine!

BREAK OUT OF THE HET NORMS!!!!! TEAR DOWN HETERONORMATIVITY!!!!!!!!! FREE THE GAYS

(disclaimer, not saying masculine vs feminine ships are all bad/shouldn't be done ever. but it doesn't need to be 100% of the time either 😅 can't think of one ship people dont do this with lol)

#cant even say its only het shippers because lgbt shippers do it too #i enjoy the ships i see more as equals. like cynonari and xingyue for example #first ones that came to mine lol #everyone feminizes the shit out of nari calling him cynos wide constantly but they're both strong leader types with a soft side #wife* #THEYRE SO EQUAL???? AND THAT MAKES THEIR RELATIONSHIP SO STRONG???? #then xingyue is funny because ive seen people frame BOTH yingxing and dan feng as the “wife” at different times. proof theyre equals! #maybe not proof lmao but you cant say the arrogant craftsman and proud dragon arent equals who get along super well #they arent het opposites at all imo. not even close #i just really enjoy balanced equals over unbalanced opposites. because the feminine is always seen as lesser and weaker than the masculine #and that always bothers me a lot lmao #im probably the minority here. im giving benefit of the doubt that people just never thought about it and do what theyre taught #but if everyone actually orefers this and its on purpose.......please reconsider 🤣 #prefers* #lee text #lee rambles #gay #lgbtq #gay ships #one relationship i felt was presented as equals (from best of my memory) was korrasami #they balance each other out and i see them as equals. one doesn't lead over the other. they're both leaders in their own ways. and carers #one reason i dont date is because most people are ovsessed with this unbalance opposite gender roles thing and i cant stand it lmao #obsessed* am tired of tag typos i miss until after i hit enter hfhfhdhdjdjsjs #this was long and rambly but i suddenly had many feelings and needed to say them #*

[heavnlyhetfield]

i am so normal about this

#mf is such a romantic #metallica #james hetfield #papa het #leaves me to wonder about the F tattoo but maybe he’ll just keep it

[coquelicoq]

[Image description: Panels from special episode 17 of the Natsume's Book of Friends manga showing a conversation between Nanase and a teenage Natori. Natori: "My name is Shuichi Natori." Nanase: "Nice to meet you...I've heard about you from the young master." Natori: "I see...nothing good, I presume." Nanase smirks and looks at him out of the corner of her eye, saying, "Maybe. I'd like to have a nice long chat with you sometime. See you." Natori turns and starts talking to Takuma. /end ID]

[ID: A panel from the same chapter. Matoba is walking away from Natori and saying, "Oh, and Shuichi. Don't tell Nanase about this." Natori says from out of frame: "Ms. Nanase...?" Matoba: "See you." Natori: "Hey." /end ID]

so what i'm getting from this is nanase knows all about matoba's crush and he knows she knows and doesn't want her getting any more ammunition.

#natori assumes matoba doesn't want him to tell nanase because he thinks the youkai they sealed was nanase's old servant #but that's because he doesn't have all the facts. which are: matoba is obsessed with him. #don't tell nanase that i came all the way to your cringefail family's house to exorcise the demon that was haunting you #and then picked you up and carried you in my own arms back to your house after you fainted #she will roast me soooo hard bro i will never hear the end of it 😅 #natsume's book of friends #natsume yuujinchou #nanase #horrible exorcists #my posts #f #exorcist flashbacks #nanase: i'd love to talk to you sometime. figure out what about you has the young master so het up #maybe show you some embarrassing baby pictures

[tankwolf]

side eye 🙄

@lostinanothersmemories made a post about quinn in a rabbit mask and tank in a wolf mask, but I got too invested in just tank's mask and suit and tired myself out :^)

#u can see me gradually giving up as i het done with the mask and move onto the suit #intensive shading vs flat colours ough #n e wayz. arm hurty so ill draw quinn later maybe #redacted asmr #redacted audio #redacted asmr darlin #redacted audio darlin #redacted asmr tank #redacted audio tank #mistakes were made mistakes were made. if i could do it all again i wouldnt have spent so much time on the mask. #the texture looks off too :/ L

[ladychlo]

x

#me making a post trying to explain that liberal white feminism defocus you from the structure inherent issues and making focus on this #individualistic feminism that focuses on a specific elit of women and we should always have space to criticize this bc the most medisa #media* #focused feminism is this liberal white feminism #and instead of going all ragey about an actress not getting an oscar for a movie that preaches basic 101 feminism #MAYBE you should get outraged that an actress was fired and fropped out of her movie because she spoke about Palestine #but well what white redfems will crack a nerve about #beside their transphobia and coming at my they/them pronounces #if you feel offended that white liberal feminism is nothing but a capitalistic ideology that does nothing but #benefit a cis het patriarchal system #then I'm sorry for you

[occultopossum]

I still can't fathom that straight people have this consensus that someone being friends with their ex is a red flag

#Like i've seen it mostly straight/het centric stuff #like it would worry me more that someone is on bad terms/ect with their exes #like def maybe my bias but #def feels more common in queer spaces to remain friends w/ an ex #(granted things did not end dangerously/toxic)

[jaarijani]

Dutch post below, apologies loves 💕

zijn er nog andere mensen die overwegen om naar eurosonic noorderslag te gaan overmorgen puur en alleen voor de boys or just me and @funzige-gedachten

#joker out #het lijkt me int algemeen wel een gaaf evenement maar het is niet echt goedkoop #en om nou alleen voor een uurtje joker out naar een heel festival in groningen te gaan ...... #maar aan de andere kant joker out ........ #anyways voel je vrij om te dmen als je het ook nog overweegt en maybe samen wil #ik kan stevie sws meeslepen door alleen de woorden “bojan zal er zijn” te zeggen dus hmu #mine*

[pa-pa-plasma]

look i'm gonna say it. some relationships are not queer, & that's okay. you don't have to cling to the idea that it's only okay if you can somehow make it queer. it's okay to be in a cishet relationship. the type of relationship doesn't make you less queer & it doesn't make cishet people inherently like. evil or something. chill out

#i keep seeing posts implying that only queer relationships are okay & seeing people being so afraid to be considered cishet #like. some queer people will get confused for being cishet. that's fine. you don't have to get angry at that. simple mistake #like i understand what you guys are saying but it just looks to me like you guys are shitting on straight people #there are trans het & cis gay people in the community. saying being cis or het is bad & should be avoided & argued against is just weird #like i 100% get you guys are trying to do some positivity thing but. does it have to be stupid #i get that some relationships that appear cishet are actually queer but if both people are cis & of opposite sexes & genders then like #i don't see how it's a queer relationship #you can BE queer & out & proud but a het relationship is a het relationship #if i started dating a guy i wouldn't say it wasn't #idk maybe i'm tired & confused but like. het relationships are not evil & it just makes it confusing to describe if you claim it's gay #like it's fine to joke i get that but when people start saying shit about how much they hate cis or het or cishet people fr like. shut up