#and NO I don’t mean just romantically

[st-hedge]

I can’t believe they’d managed to animate kusuriuri’s insane character design and then decided to make it even more insane. The most character ever

#mononoke 2024 #mononoke kusuriuri #I love his new (old???) scene kid get up so much #it’s absolutely insane #I know what I drew is inaccurate I tried to piece it to together from screenshots #and sorry for posting thr process pics and then deleting them I realise I finished the painting an hour later #but anyway I seriously feel like I could write an essay about this guy #I wish I knew a lick about Japanese literary tropes #cuz there’s such insane romance to this series and the character of kusuriuri #and I don’t mean like romantic love #I mean like a courtly romance #and UUGGHHHHH A #ITS JUST FASCINATING

[bigothteddies]

one thing I particularly love about polyamory and how I engage with it is the ability to form romantic and platonic relationships that aren’t simple and definable as such. I love having friends that are more than friends but aren’t really romantic partners either. I love having people I would move mountains for even if we don’t think we’ll ever actually be together. I love sexually bonding with friends to a point where we interact like a couple, even if we consider ourselves single. I love taking care of someone like they’re the love of my life, even when we’ll never be in the same country. I love the idea of being a platonic rock in someone’s life, someone they come back to every time when their relationships don’t work out and they still need to feel cared for and loved by someone who isn’t going to hold them to the same standards a romantic partner will. I love telling my friends I love them. I love falling in love with my friends. I love loving and caring and fucking and falling and flirting and everything in between with all the people I care about most in the world, regardless of what everyone else tells us our actions mean.

#unimportant thoughts #and thats so hard for monog people to understand #‘what do you mean she’s single but she calls you daddy and you call her yours and you interact with each other like a romantic couple and #have romantic interest in each other and sexually interact with each other but youre not dating and shes open to a relationship irl where #she is?’ #i mean…just that #its what works for us #we arent dating #we are friends #we’re more than friends #but we’re also not #and i think its beautiful #i love the way we love #i love the way we don’t conform to what you want us to do just because we love each other #anyways #this is about a bunch of people close to me #but the tags are specifically referencing the mutual I’m going to see this summer <3

[anintrovertedechoe]

“im sorry im so hard to love” vs “loving you comes more naturally to me than breathing” my beloved. just. yeah.

#obey me #obey me Lucifer #obey me mammon #obey me leviathan #obey me satan #obey me asmodeus #obey me beelzebub #obey me belphegor #obey me diavolo #obey me barbatos #obey me simeon #obey me Solomon #obey me luke #I don’t even mean in a romantic sense. just like..ANY type of love #obey me MC #obey me x reader #x reader #mammon x reader #both ways #lucifer x reader #leviathan x reader #satan x reader #asmodeus x reader #beelzebub x reader #belphegor x reader #diavolo x reader #barbatos x reader #simeon x reader #solomon x reader #x you

[teddy-bear-d]

Okay maybe the Coral Isles brainrot has got to me already…

#limited life #limited life smp #coral kids #mean gills #scott smajor #martyn inthelittlewood #i love them #they just have perfect vibes for any pirate/sailor and mythical sea creature trope #I feel like their pairing just fell perfectly into my rats SMP obsession and my pirate au that I’m working on #just aligned perfectly #also am I scared Martyn might see this #maybe #mostly just because I know this might be read as shippy #and it’s not really that #I mean you could read it as platonic or romantic #I don’t care #I just make cute arts #and then freak out inside #heheheh

[misslovasstuff]

THIS MOMENT RIGHT HERE

#I’m actually sick to my stomach cause #literally the apple of his eye #words can’t describe how much Usopp admires Sanji #I don’t ship them romantically but respect people who do #but Sanji and Usopp brotherly friendship is just so precious to me cause like #they are both men with self esteem issues #mirrors of themselves #lending a helping hand to the other is like lending a helping hand to whatever screams inside them that they are not enough #it’s so beautiful because Sanji doesn’t really let it show #his insecurities i mean #because he’s always so selfless helping other people up #but I think Usopp recognises that in Sanji #that’s why he looks up at him so much #and trusts him with everything he’s got #and the emotional intelligence of Sanji #to say the right words at the right time #beautiful bond #one piece #sanji #one piece sanji #op sanji #black leg sanji #sogeking usopp #op usopp #straw hat usopp #enies lobby

[soup-scope]

hey y’all the relationship between warden and vega fucking fascinates me

cause honestly i have absolutely no idea on how to characterize it

like yes he calls them ‘darling’ yada yada but he almost takes a paternal(?) role when it comes to nurturing them????

he rescues them, he feeds them, he tries to reconnect them with the demonic habits they were shamed out of expressing, he teaches them and tries to subtly influence their behavior towards a possible corruption arc and just

this isn’t me trying to make their relationship weird or smth i’m just saying i have absolutely no idea how vega and wardens relationship actually works between them… not every listener and character are destined to end in a romantic relationship so that’s why i’m thinking that the relationship between warden and vega won’t become romantic and more of that weird friendship you have with your 50 year old coworker who smokes 2 packs a day.

#pls lemme know what y’all think about this cause i’m going crazy. #i mean i wouldn’t hate it if it becomes romantic i think their relationship as is just fascinates me #and i don’t really. want it. to go too much further than it already is #i feel like warden is like a mini project for vega or smth lmao #literally every warden and vega video has a [MANIPULATION] warning so #idk how to really feel about them #so i’m very excited for any future vega update that explores the intricacies of their relationship as a whole #i’ve also been indoctrinated to enjoy old man yaoi in the form of brachium and vega #brachium and vega after accidentally adopting and completely altering the life of an innocent bystander 🫣🫣 #anyways #redacted asmr #redacted audio #redactedverse #asmr boyfriend #boyfriend asmr #redacted vega #redacted warden #redacted darling #redacted incohate #redacted carpe deus

[qtubbo]

Fit and Tubbo attract Pac with their autistic swag

#Qsmp #morning crew #I don’t even mean this necessarily romantically autistism just draws him in

[adastra121]

Every once in a while, I think about how MC and Rime’s dynamic is the funniest and saddest thing ever.

Because…MC stole his life. Then his weapon. Then his job. Then his boyfriend. And then, depending how you play it, MC also steals his heart.

#it’s hilarious #I just feel so BAD for rime the entire time #can you imagine being him? being in his place? #well I mean I guess you can because you do exactly that in Felix’s route ahem #but the one you love robbing you of a peaceful and dignified death — only to fall in love with the stranger they summoned by accident #and then that stranger ends up in possession of your power and your weapon and your role in the team #all while YOU’RE STILL ALIVE — I mean YEAH you might have come back WRONG but damn #you are RIGHT THERE #if anyone cared…they probably don’t — they seem perfectly happy with your cheap knockoff #yeah that would make anyone a little bit spiteful #and then the punchline is that you never end up getting revenge for any of that because you too become enamoured with said cheap knockoff #that’s so tragic — and so funny #I love the path where we become friends because that’s essentially how it goes #stealing his heart either romantically or platonically — both work #I miss fictif’s last legacy #I kind of fell out of the app before dorian so I don't know if they ever finished that story #fictif #last legacy #rime solano varela #rime varela #felix escellun #felix iskandar escellun

[wind-rider]

The aroaspec experience of ‘Is this romantic attraction or just platonic. What even is attraction. Where is the line. Help.’ and then proceeding to question societal norms of attraction for a while without coming to any actual conclusion to your question.

#it’s just #it’s weird man #the line feels simultaneously very thin and blurry for close friends and like this massive leap #I wonder if it has something to do with the whole demiromantic thing #like #I haven’t romantically liked every person I’ve been close friends with #but every person I’ve romantically liked I’ve been close friends with #if that makes sense #I don’t really get crushes #it feels more like some line being jumped between close friend and More #but I cannot for the life of me figure out where that line is #and sometimes shuffle back and forth over it #there’s no real set of rules for what’s what when it comes to romantic-platonic I feel #because people go ‘cuddle your friends! kiss your friends! platonic love can still mean those things!’ #but when those things are also shown as indicators of romantic love #where the hell is that line #what’s the DIFFERENCE #idk man #I’m just rambling at this point #asexuality - at least my flavour of it - feels pretty clear cut #that’s easy #but the rest? especially when it’s not solid aro and it’s Demi or gray or whatever one might have? #the lines feel so very blurred #asexual #aromantic

[try-set-me-on-fire]

Me: this one will be a slow burn I think

Eddie Diaz: no actually i need to tell him i love him immediately

#calm down sir #i was driving home thinking about how to continue the scene i just posted and was like well what if Eddie’s like. #we’re partners in every other way why not try romantically. haha. (so nervous he’s about to vomit) #you dont have to raise this kid alone because i didnt have to raise my kid alone. i had you. #and buck is like Eddie. Eddie…….. #you have to know I love you but i dont know if i can do that right now #if I’m about to adopt a child- #i mean first i haven’t even been approved yet and I don’t know what a new relationship does to my chances #second everything’s going to a mess for awhile i dont want Us to immediately be put under so much pressure #and they;re just like :( at each other #and buck’s like is it awful to ask you to wait for me #and Eddie’s like of course not. of course i will. #and you’re still not going to be alone. I’ll be here for you however you want me. #and then they have to go back in to the dinner party and try to be normal! good luck!

[doctorsiren]

I just recently discovered and followed you because I love your aus and especially your art, so as a fellow artist who wants to play the ace attorney games but hasn't yet... Who is the hardest character to draw in your opinion? For me, it's Phoenix Wright himself.

YIPPEE!!! It honestly depends on the day. Some days, Phoenix’s dumb dumb stupid hedgehog hair gives me trouble, where other days, I’m able to get it just how I want it instantly. Some days, Miles just…doesn’t feel right. I guess honestly Godot with his mask on?? Because the mask itself is so cool but so stupid to draw?? Also Gregory if I’m drawing him with his fedora (I LOVE fedoras and trenchcoats and stuff but I CANNOOTTTT draw a fedora from more than just a side angle and have it look proper 😭)

#doctorsiren #not art #siren speaks #ace attorney #I think calling Phoenix a hedgehog is cute and it should be done more often 😊 #miles just…referring to him as a hedgehog in like French or something ?? #or some other language?? #and Phoenix not knowing what it means and him thinking it’s some romantic title #only to find out that Miles has been calling him a hedgehog this whole time #i don’t knooooooowwww hehehe

[sickgraymeat]

I think she’s a romantic. I know this scene seems like a huge counterpoint to that lolll but really! I think she’s a romantic who’s also very pragmatic and private about her feelings and personal life, and who’s not very good at romance lmao. She loves ceremony. Like 75% of her career is essentially “making the toys kiss” in both a metaphorical and an almost-literal sense. Getting Hambo back was a grand romantic gesture!! She’s always embarrassed by it / shy about it when it’s personal but who isn’t lol

#adventure time #princess bubblegum #bonnibel bubblegum #bubbline #candy kingdom #this isn’t that deep I don’t know man #she doesn’t get romance but she wants to #which sometimes makes her mad so she acts super not romantic lol #I think there’s so much grand romantic shit buried in that lil gum brain she’s just so stubborn #(I do mean romantic in the romantic partner relationship way but also in others which are more prominent bc she shows them more bc #they require less vulnerability) #jus talkin #like it makes her genuinely happy to do shit like this #I still don’t think they’d want a wedding tho #it seems like there are no legal benefits to marriage in this society #and I like to think Bonnie would know herself well enough by that point to know she’d be a horrible bridezilla #bc it’s like what she does for work and it would be so stressful lol #plus the anxiety of having emotions in front of ppl #maybe they’d have a Nightosphere wedding tho ajjdnsnd #or like elope and BMO is the justice of the peace lol #*wait no Shelby!

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

really wish my one friend would quit flirting with me. and trying to goad me into hanging out more. and assigning us fictional characters that are oh-so-coincidently either couples or with romantic tension. and then interrupting our gameplay to ask me repeatedly if I think they’re “like us” (which they rarely are…). and matching my icon on discord without asking (again, usually by insinuating a couple connection). and giving me random things I do not want and did not ask to receive (and then forcing me to take them???).

#storyrambles #it’s not creepy. just for context. it’s just irritating because I’ve told this person repeatedly that I’m not interested in romance. #this person is also naturally a huge romantic so it is next to impossible to tell whether it’s actual flirtation or just flirting for fun #flirting for fun is cool. I wouldn’t mind that. but if I do it once this person will take that as an invitation to do it an excessive amoun #but yeah after being given 12 roses out of the blue when I said ‘no don’t buy me flowers’. there’s only so many things that can mean #‘it’s nice to see your face you always cover it!’ …I’m masking. because of covid #I’m narrating a game and suddenly ‘I like hearing your voice I should call you every day so I can hear it for 10 minutes’. …no. #‘you have to take the snack I brought you know it’s rude to refuse a gift’ I have never refused a gift. It is rude. But also I didn’t ask. #‘you know this game is one you can play without talking so we can play more often!’ we already play games once a week for usually 3 hours. #‘but it’s not talking so it’s less social energy’ no. that is not how it works. #sorry for the rant im just. tired. #you know those people who are so pleasant to hang out with and then they try way too hard #and that’s actually what makes things awkward? rather than when they’re just being themselves? #yeah. that’s this friend here. #usually I go along with the bit but when I can never tell when the bit is actually a bit #and you insist on me taking on the ‘girl role’ for most of them #I am not going to play along. #UGH don’t get me started on the ‘you’re cute when you’re flustered’ #I wasn’t even flustered. I was trying to do mental math while running on four hours of sleep and he was staring directly at me #it’s uncomfortable. #also. I never want to hear that again. fuck. ‘you’re cute when you’re angry’ ‘you’re cute when you’re upset’ ALL THE FUCKING TIME AS A KID #will I be so cute after I kick you in the nuts? will I? #(for clarity I don’t want to kick him. I want to kick those other people.) #I need a lot of alone time. I really do. I can do 3 hours and then I will be drained for the rest of the day. #‘how did you grow up? did you not talk to your mom for more than 3 hours a day?’ #first of all. that’s different? #secondly we actually regularly do separate things without talking to each other. or go in separate rooms to take some time to ourselves #also I don’t have to be on high alert for if I’m going to be flirted with. so. #ugh. I like him as a friend. I really do. I know this all makes it seem like the opposite. I try so hard to be as nice as possible. #but UGHHHHHH

[kierancaz]

I wish we got more of Legolas being weird in the movies. Like I haven’t read the books yet but I love the way the fandom describes him as being a little shit and like actually really fucking weird and I just wish we got more of that and also that it came across more in fanfics.

#lotr #lord of the rings #like pls I love love love all the Legolas fics I’ve read but also I wish they acknowledged how much of an apparent weirdo little freak #one post I read says that he would just stare into the woods and said goodbye to a river and I just ???? #In the movies he’s cool #and in the hobbit he’s kinda mean but still hot so I excuse it #in lotr I think he had most of this sass cut but then again I haven’t read the books so idk #but I wish in fanfics there was more of him being a weirdo instead of like a romantic #he is a weirdo and a shit and I love him and I don’t even know anymore #I need big dumbo dummy Legolas idk what to say #enough ranting #the hobbit #gandalf the grey #legolas x reader #legolas x y/n #legolas fic #legolas lotr #lotr legolas #legolas

[waterberry-strawmelon]

just gonna go ahead and say this in advance—

if Riz does indeed come out in junior year, and he says, “I’m ace” or “I’m asexual” when referring specifically to his lack of romantic attraction, aromantic people are allowed to be upset about it.

#because yes of course some people irl say ace to mean both bc that’s how they personally identify #but in fictional media the distinction is necessary. especially with how few canonically aromantic characters even exist in ANY mainstream/ #popular media. #I assure you I’m not invalidating anyone who is ace and they mean that to include lack of romantic attraction. #But to look at this from a MEDIA PERSPECTIVE its irresponsible to do this w/out clarification that they also know the word aromantic exists #because otherwise that’s just a conflation of asexual and aromantic without any nuance #and an erasure of aromantic people who are not asexual. #Plus—name a single fucking time a character in mainstream/popular media has said the word aromantic. #Because I can name several instances where they say asexual. But I can’t think of ONE where they say aro or aromantic. #(Maybe that Isaac kid does in season 2 of Heartstopper? But I haven’t seen it so I’m not 100% sure.) #anyways. #the way this fucking fandom—and ANY fandom with a canon aro character—discusses the aromantic spectrum #is blatantly just to remove their own personal guilt for shipping that character with other characters and erasing their orientation. #because yes aromanticism IS a spectrum!! But when people talk about fabriz and say ‘he can still be ace!’ (Which is aro erasure) or #‘he can still be aro!’ They never SHOW riz still being aro or having any kind of complex relationship with romance. #I’m angry and I’m allowed to be. #I get that a ship you liked may be hard to let go of or something #But I’d be much less mad if all the fabriz fans said ‘yeah I know Riz is aro in canon and he and Fabian would never get together. #I just like to imagine it sometimes in fiction/fanon!’ Then that would be a WHOLE different conversation #Because then they’d at least be acknowledging that riz doesn’t feel romance in canon. That fabriz is something that actively #Goes against the canon characterization of one of those characters—and that’s fine. Just fucking ACKNOWLEDGE IT. #But most of these people either WANT fabriz to be canon/believe it WILL BE canon #OR I guess feel uncomfortable confronting the fact that they ARE erasing riz’s aromanticism so they don’t even acknowledge it at all. #fhjy #fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 #riz gukgak #aromantic riz gukgak #fhsy

[shorthaltsjester]

taliesin and laura remain truly so fantastic at making characters who… don’t necessarily have something extremely and inherently in common but do have experiences that were caused by similar sources and that lead them to have quite different opinions/ideas about things but in ways that are typically very reconcilable? which is a lot of qualifiers but it’s a through line of vex/percy with nobility, jester & cad with loneliness (and also god stuff but in a different post maybe someday i’ll talk about how actually their god stuff is intensely related to their different experiences of loneliness), and now imogen & ashton with being left behind.

like vex was this character who technically had a claim to nobility due to her blood but at the same time was burdened because of that same claim. and percy who was born into and raised by nobility but that nobility ended up making his family the targets of a massacre. and then vex who lets down her walls and Do I Look Like I Come From Money? and percy giving her the title grand mistress of the grey hunt because it has nothing to do with blood, or his love for her, or anything aside from the fact that it’s something she can prove herself worthy of simply by virtue of who she Is, not who someone makes her. and percy and vex’s conversation about forgiveness and it’s necessity for growth as probably two of the characters most inclined to hold grudges.

and caduceus clay who gets left behind with nothing but his Belief while his family goes off into the world. and jester lavorre who gets shut inside with no company except her Belief as her mother protects her from the world. and they both get the burden of loneliness and the understanding of love’s nonmalicious imperfection. and caduceus having a panic attack on a ship and jester telling him that the world is a lot bigger than his cemetery and that means he has to break out of his comfort zone to find his path. and caduceus telling jester that he doesn’t think she gets as much credit as she ought to and she deserves more pastries. and jester thanking caduceus for showing her how cool it is to actually heal people and caduceus asking if she wants to use his shield while he doesn’t need it.

and ashton who was left broken and dying on the ground and was given inescapable pain as their means of survival. and imogen who was left behind by the only person who could provide true understanding of the pain she’d one day come to feel. and ashton who’s a barbarian, who wields their rage casually and unapologetically and who sees the Shittiness of the world but is unrelenting in his version of optimism. and imogen who is weighed down by pessimism she doesn’t Want to have but hasn’t cracked how to undo and who doesn’t admit her anger until it comes up again and again and again and carries it like a burden or like guilt, who we only see really Grasp and feel Confidence about her anger being something good in front of others when she has those conversations with ashton. and like. ashton who looks at imogen and sees a superhero. imogen venturing through ashton’s mind and holding his bleeding and exhausted head and saying i’m sorry. i’m sorry. and imogen who looks at ashton and sees someone special. and fucking “we got him killed.” and “no, we didn’t. don’t you dare. […] we are not what fucking killed that man. […] we are his eventual victory. we are his fucking revenge.” and “i’ll be his revenge.” and “i have no fucking doubt.”

and in general rp wise they both tend to make some of my favourite characters (also typically the ones i find most frustrating) because they both tend to make flaws that are easy to hate and they make those flaws very central to their characters but i think that’s also what makes their character interactions so deeply compelling because so frequently it’s like. yes yes these two characters have like. a helix of things they have in common but also things they deeply disagree on but they’re going to spider-man point at the things that are the same and they’re going to honour their differences while doing so. and it’s just. i always enjoy it so much and i was psyched when i heard about an imogen and ashton side pit stop in last nights episode and i was not let down when i watched the episode today.

#also gotta emphatically say that i Do Not Mean their characters understand each other better than others or completely #i just think those two consistently have characters that have opinions that would perhaps naturally be the most at odds but then #they always craft these dynamics that like. web together pieces of sameness so that their characters end up having deeply #meaningful relationships with one another. #but like. ashton and imogen really do Not get each other in a lot of ways. cad and jester were very opposite in a lot of ways #percy and vex i think probably had the most in common but also like . they had and have vast differences . #idk this probably is worth a longer post that lingers in my brain about how relationships between characters whether romantic or not #are actually Much more compelling and rewarding when characters Don’t just click and have perfect matching experiences #because. to have to Choose to want to understand someone and what they’ve experiences and why they differ from you #if actually a much stronger act of love than searching for your reflection in everyone you meet. #someday i’ll string together that post but. until then. tal and laura my beloveds. storytelling duo truly #cr3 #cr2 #jester lavorre #imogen temult #vex’ahlia #caduceus clay #ashton greymoore #percy de rolo #cr1 #critical role #cr spoilers #no molly and jester input here because i haven’t watched early m9 in a Long time but. i’m sure there’s similar scenes in there. #honestly even like. jesters Earnestness with her still manipulative trickery vs. mollys much more . not necessarily Cruelness but just. idk #there’s something there with the way that when they meet jester is all in for the tarot cards for the experience that they both get out #of her choosing to believe what molly says vs molly going in to get something out of jester? yk. #but they’re still bestie icons. jester still tears a man in half in the hopes of saving molly. molly still died trying to help get her back. #anyway. beloveds #laura bailey #taliesin jaffe