#before having the actual romance romance

[aroaceleovaldez]

i still think a lot about how technically, it's implied Anubis and Walt started dating each other before they asked out Sadie, and if Sadie had said she wasn't interested they would have gone "Entirely fair have a nice day" and proceed to just go continue to date each other.

Cause like, that was the entire thing. They decided that themselves. That things would work best if they were together (as in both physically sharing a body and also relationship-wise). The "asking Sadie about it" part was secondary. If she had said no, they would have stayed together, because among other things Walt would kind of die if they didn't. Walt and Anubis are technically the first gay couple in the Riordanverse. AND they're in a polyamorous relationship with Sadie. Why does no one talk about them ever.

#tkc #the kane chronicles #riordanverse #walt stone #anubis tkc #sadie kane #saltnubis #< great ship name btw #and for anyone who says ''i dont think Rick intended that'' mind you this book was released like #six months before HoH came out (and. subsequently also. Nico.) #like. Rick was not ignorant of queer stuff at that time. he was actively writing it into HoO/HoH while writing both simultaneously #if Sadie had said no they wouldn't have just gone ''okay Sadie pick one of us and the other will cease to exist on the mortal plane'' #they would have gone ''okay well good luck we have a coffee date scheduled so we're gonna go do that'' #saltnubis is still probably the most entertaining solution to a love triangle in middle grade media i have ever encountered #even some YA media. just ''yeah so we solved both our major problems by dating but like. we know you like both of us sooooo...?'' #also hilarious that meanwhile Carter's romance arc is ''so turns out my first girlfriend was a clone made of pottery'' #''and the actual girl has never met me and this is kinda awkward''

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #er.... i'm too tired to have anything to say..i worked several days on this. #wait.. didn't i say just recently here that i probably wouldn't ever depict 'what if alaira is qifrey's sort-of ex'. What's going on #i don't even remember deciding to draw this..it's all a blur..i'm not sure why i WOULD decide to draw delicate scenes in my head #that i wouldn't really want to share with anyone/discuss so why did i draw it... #some part of me really really wants to draw things that are more and more true to myself... #maybe because of my alienation with most romance/shipping/dynamics the rest of the world depicts. #orufrey really is perfectly suited to me - what i read in the text and what is in my head. well anyway #i am TIRED of drawing poses and angles and..maybe now i will actually take a break from drawing bc of the tediousness of Angles #btw it really is a 'stretch of time' . . . assuming witches graduate age 18-20 #well orufrey are canonically 30-ish. they've only had agott around for presumably about TWO years (?) bc she took the test age 10 #and it feels like oru moving in/unknown atelier acquisition/building (?) .. i guess that could be a year or so before agott at most #(she was the first disciple) so... ????????? What about the other 7 or so years ?!?!?!!?!?! Unemployed Brimhat Hatred era #that time is very nebulous. after qifrey went to the tower i feel like it's been implied he and oru drifted apart a little. #certainly they didn't live together at first... no way. that doesn't feel like how it is based on things oru has said about becoming Eye #idk. I'm tired now. i don't usually think of alaira as necessarily qifrey's ex and this being how things went in that 'sliver of time'. #i usually prefer the idea that they have their first kiss with each other in their 30s cause That's Just The Orufrey Lifestyle #just felt like making a more relatable alternative view of my own Cai Orufrey Canon one time. btw im a big monoshipper and it hurt a bit #let's leave it there. this is surely the most i've worked on a 'single' art - though now i realise just how much longer the fic took :')

[aromantic-diaries]

For some reason I relate to aroallos more than alloaces but I guess it's simply because while I understand why people enjoy sex I just straight up don't understand romance. Also aromanticism feels more central to my identity so maybe that's why

#aro #aromantic #ace #asexual #arospec #acespec #aroace #i have said this before. i can see the appeal of sex. and also it's like something that i know exists #yeah people do that. i don't but i know other people do it all the time or at least want to do it. i know it's real and exists #as for romance... you guys are making that up there's no way it's actually real i refuse to believe it exists they made it up for poetry

[ladysiryna]

Maidservant and witch enjoying their free time. *one of them is going to steal a boat this afternoon, and second one is going to hanging out with ghost* Portia Devorak belongs to The Arcana game, and other character is mine.

#The Arcana #the arcana game #the arcana mc #the arcana portia #portia devorak #the arcana apprentice #fantasy illustration #actually I imagine this two being quite good friends before one of them decided that trying to bring back to life dead person is normal #but I'm going to romance Portia next either way so... #I feel like my MC just have interest only in potential partners in crime #Siryna's art

[sad-endings-suck]

“Why would you even ship that character with anybody?! He’s basically irredeemable to me—“

TO YOU!! He’s irredeemable to you. But some of us are silly geese that like our men to be the sexy, sad, feral, pathetic wet cats that they really are deep down, because we aren’t allergic to joy.

Is that okay with you??!? Is that permissible in the eyes of the Chronically Online Board of Hypothetical Ethics and Human Resources for Fictional Characters That Are Not Real™️®️.

You can go enjoy your curated selection of stale two dimensional wonderbread men in the corner, like the misguided pitiful lost soul that you are. the rest of us will be enjoying ourselves as our pathetic wet rag himbos and twinks kneel on the ground and beg to taste pussy/cock so hard they nearly come, like real men. just as god herself intended.

#but good luck on your pending prosecutions!! #I’ve heard that no one has actually ever convicted a fictional character of war crimes before but who knows!! you could be the first. #and then you’ll know that all those long hard hours you spent typing away were actually for nothing #because ✨real life✨ lawyers get paid but you did all that shit for free. you goofy ass bitch #okay okay #that was all meant to be humours and done in good faith but i MAY have gotten SLIGHTLY carried away. possibly #for real tho this wasn’t prompted by anyone or anything in particular i’m just stoned #🍃 thoughts #tumblr sexyman #bg3 astarion #bg3 gale #bg3 wyll #bg3 halsin #taigen blue eye samurai #taigen #taimizu #bg3 memes #bg3 romance #asoiaf meta #jaime lannister #braime #reylo #kylo ren #klaroline #johnny silverhand #zutara #cp2077 #eric northman #true blood #captain jack sparrow

[galedekarios]

it’s still so... hm. i'm not sure what words to use here tbh.

but to give the one character that has received such preferential treatment through early access development and full release even more new content + new lines even though he already has a wealth of scenes, detailed animations, incredible world responsiveness, that about totals to having a third more content than everyone else...

all the while the other characters, their romances, their stories and the way the world they're in reacts to them are still either a barren wasteland or bugged to the point they can’t be triggered.

#like correct me if i'm wrong but ast*rion is the only have to have lines before / after you kiss on top of everything else and it's like #like ok good for him... as always #he's clearly The Priority Above All Else #can w*ll get romance greetings #can g*le's romance be fixed #can minth*ra's romance triggers work #can h*lsin get some content that actually fleshes him out instead of ppl doing the writing for devs #can sh's romance resolution not completely differ tonally from what you and her talked abt before the final fight #can scenes be added to address the imbalance #idk #text: personal #bg3 critical #larian critical #tbd

[hephaestuscrew]

I'm not the first person to say this, but there really is something groundbreaking about the lack of romantic plotlines in Wolf 359.

Wolf 359 is a story aimed at and about adults. It's partly about what it means to be human. It's partly about how we exist in relation to other people. It's partly about interpersonal connection and understanding. It has character relationships at its heart. It features so many moments of love and care between characters. It takes place across just over two years of the characters' lives, with 61 episodes and a main cast that grows to a decent size.

And despite all this, the show doesn't feature a single canonical 'on-screen' romantic (or sexual) relationship. Perhaps that shouldn't be as rare as it is, but it's one of the many things that makes Wolf 359 special to me.

#Wolf 359 #w359 #Obvs there's Minkowski's husband and Eiffel was with Kate #but neither of those are focal points #and we don't actually hear Kate or Koudelka #Before Jacobi declared he liked the menfolk #there were a fair few people expressing frustration at the lack of canon queer rep in w359 #which I do understand cos that's something lots of people go to fiction podcasts for #and I do understand why it matters to ppl #but a part of me thinks that when you interpret 'queer' in that broader sense about questioning/ defying societal norms #there is something arguably queer about making a show like this #and deliberately not having a single canon romantic relationship between the main cast #For a show to ask 'what makes us human?' and not even vaguely put romantic love on the table as a possibility #that's queer to me #At any rate it's really refreshing #When I first started listening to Wolf 359 back in 2017 #there was a part of me bracing myself for a shoehorned-in romantic plotline #I felt like the question was 'who' and 'when' rather than 'if' #because that tends to be the way #It blew my mind when I realised this show didn't treat romance as a necessary ingredient #This is not to knock shippers for doing their thing btw #People can explore possibilities outside of canon #I'm just talking about how I feel about canon #And yes these are feelings I have as an aro person #but I do think it's valuable and refreshing in general not just for aspec people

[hoolay-boobs]

“What do you mean there’s still so much biphobia in fan spaces? Bisexuals are like some of the most popular characters!”

Yeah, and they either get treated like this:

Or like this:

“Biphobia isn’t real” neither are your braincells

#bisexuals deserve better #biphobia tw #biphobia #bisexual #bisexuality #listen not to post this rancid post on bi visibility month but part of bi visibility month is venting about biphobia and that’s okay #long tags #bisexual characters are constantly branded as either gay/lesbian or straight because bisexuality is constantly branded as never good enough #yes harlivy are sometimes fetishized by men who want to get off on seeing girls smooch. yes sometimes these men are the writers of dc #no they do not make up 100% of harlivy content. no gross men drooling over harlivy doesn’t immediately make harlivy straight #harlivy have had queer female writers before. a huge portion of their fanbase are queer girls #just because they are occasionally festished doesn’t mean that they aren’t good bi rep #I see where this person is coming from but no. bc REAL BI WOMEN get festishized by men and that won’t make their sexuality any less valid #would you tell these real girls that they’re actually straight since ‘sapphicness isn’t sapphicness once it’s taken advantage of by men’? #glimmer lesbian content makes me sad bc it’s not even like interpreting harlivy or korrasami as lesbians assuming all wlw is solely lesbian #but also erasing her entire romance with bow. degrading it down to comphet and ignoring bow #like I can at least understand mistakening poison ivy for a lesbian but glimmer?? glimmer??! #biphobic #biphobic tw #bisexual hardships #korrasami #harlivy #glimbow #bi #fucking essay in the tags

[varilien]

(character uses he/they)

recently got to give bg3 a try n kinda just used it as an excuse to work on a design ive been struggling with. reminds me a lot of making murder lizards in skyrim as a middle schooler it's fun :3

#baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #bg3 fanart #dnd #dnd art #dragonborn #fursona #dragonsona #oc #oc: lizal #isekai'ing in my fursona was kind of a joke just to figure out how the game works and NOW i'm trying to make an actual durge #it's. uh. an interesting game to say the least lol #i'm wondering if there's a reason i've heard so much about the romances but not hardly anything about the gameplay #but that might be an unfair thing to say since i've only ever played the same Kind of rpgs before and i've NEVER played dnd #or other games based on its mechanics #i'm honestly just glad i can try it for free on my brother's library cuz i wouldn't have been interested otherwise hfgkfdg #''what characters do you like'' the durge. that's it. i like this freak and only this freak so far.

[cycle-hit]

0610 is so funny because mahiru is determined to be a housewife/maternal figure and kotoko is determined to parallel all the other prisoners' shitty fathers. both of them having the traits of "parental figures" that is a mold/box to be shoved into in and of itself which shows the traditional/black and white aspects of their own families. mahiru is determined to be full of love and give others that same love and kotoko pretends she doesn't love at all and bares her teeth whenever you show her love. mahiru has sun symbolism and kotoko has moon symbolism.

and then instead of ever acknowledging the absolutely insane character foil toxic yuri between those two at all, milgram refuses to let them interact ever again except for one interaction from four years ago at the very beginning and kotoko beating the shit out of mahiru. like. thanks milgram. if YOU wont do anything with your very interesting character foils that can also fall into classic "romance tropes" (which mahiru is obsessed with, cough) with their personalities/stories i guess ill do it myself.

#it does piss me off a bit honestly. kotoko and mahiru are both very fascinating characters that have a ton of interesting potential- #for interactions. and then milgram just goes “yeah theyre not interacting ever again. lol. lmao. fuck you”. THERES SO MUCH POTENTIAL!!! #AND YOU SQUANDER IT!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE YAMANAKA LET THEM INTERACT BEFORE MILGRAM ENDS!!! I DONT EVEN CARE IF THEYRE NOT TOXIC YURI!!!! #THE ROMANCE ISNT NECESSARY!!! PLEASE JUST LET YOUR TWO MOST INTERESTING CHARACTER FOILS INTERACT!!!!!!! #AAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHH. WHATS THE POINT OF MAHIRU TELLING US MULTIPLE TIMES ABOUT KOTOKO IN HER T2 VD IF SHE NEVER ACTUALLY INTERACTS WITH HER. #WHATEVER. #milgram #kotoko yuzuriha #mahiru shiina #0610 #this gets maintagged i guess. idk. i want people to see my 0610 visions even tho this post is also full of frustration

[thepoisonroom]

that post that's like "learning social skills helps with social anxiety" applies to dating also btw

#i guess they have a circular relationship because also going on lots of first dates was really trial by fire for me in learning lots lf #new social skills #meeting new people was never my strong suit and i was very afraid of it and would avoid it but like! #when i first tried going on first dates i learned a lot about how to meet people and met types of queer people i'd never met before #and actually it was good for me even though it was often weird and stressful #and it was a lower-stakes way to practice social skills that i otherwise would've just avoided using until they atrophied #anyway whenever i see a dating profile that's like 'i'm afraid of talking to women lol' i'm like ok relatable but what's your plan to learn #i think also just like it doesn't have to be through dating but it is good for you to meet other gay and trans people offline if possible #when i moved to wisconsin i only knew my coworkers who were mostly also twentysomethings who'd been hired straight from college #and it was good for me to meet and make friends with other local gay and trans people who were involved in different stuff #idk i just don't know how many more 'i'm obsessed with romance but scoff at the idea that i should do anything about that' posts i can read #like if i said i wanted to run a marathon but i never practiced running people would fairly be like okay that's prob not gonna happen #idk i know it's no skin off my nose i'm just like. if you never take any steps towards expressing your desires #how do you think they're going to just happen to you #personal nonsense

[foxx-queen]

image taken moments before disaster (orin appeared, got her new romance bug) but I love her so much

#baldur's gate 3 #tav x minthara #baldur's gate 3 spoilers #minthara romance #minthara #this is actually a line i havent gotten before usually she just says fine #i also got extra dialogue with her afterwards? about keeping her safe from orin. which hadnt happened before #and was after the bug? #so im not sure if the bug happened but we're still in a relationship? and theres no way to tell because i have no kiss option andjsja

[shentunans]

“Being free to choose love, choose a new family - this is my own way.” - My Durge [Bhaal Babe] Barbara & her husbando.

#took 3 months and several restarts to finish this game x_x worth it because I have never played a crpg before #astarion gifs #bg3 durge #astarion edit #astarion romance #astarion ancunin #my gifs #astarion baldurs gate #astarion x durge #astarion x dark urge #gamingedit #bg3 astarion #that’s the first genuine hello darling he has ever given my Durge Barbara because it’s so sincere #they went to the Underdark built a fortress and took care of all them vampires spawn he saved #she’s actually called Barbie because reasons … #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #Baldur’s Gate 3

[antiqua-lugar]

Gale: I've missed them. I've missed this.

2. We still have each other. That's all I ever need.

Gale: I'm not sure I'll ever get over my good fortune in that respect. You are the happiness I never dreamed I could deserve.

Apparently you only get this line if Tara is busy around camp when you talk to Gale. To really hammer home how Gale really wasn't happy even before the Orb and thought he would never deserve *check notes* ...the happiness of someone loving him as a person.

...anyway if you pick option 4, he admits he would like to write down a book on all that happened! Perhaps with some embellishments! Yay!

#antiqua plays bg3 #bg3 epilogue spoilers #gale #bg3 spoilers #like I know it's mentioned before he wasn't happy but like jesus #brain hamster running frantically on his wheel as I focus on that deserve bit #the game mostly focuses on his ambition thing but I am glad they still try to flesh out that gale wasn't unhappy just because of that #gale himself is like imagine that i wasn't satisfied being an arch mage and Chosen of Mystra and lover of the Goddess of Magic #he wasn't just unsatisfied he was actually unhappy and he apparently thought he deserved that #probably because on paper he should have been happy! but he wasn't! so clearly something was wrong with him for being unhappy! #society truly took a child and fucked him up #his writing is so good when they want it to be I am eating glass #jesus fucking fuck #I know this is all implied in his romance but these lines hit me #bg3 #galemance #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep

[spooky-activity]

Going insane over this Makoann fic because I’m gay with big feelings sometimes

+bonus I always forget how awful it is to be Makoto in the first bit of the game. Girl can’t catch a break. EVERYONE be bullying her

#makoann #ann takamaki #makoto niijima #persona 5 royal #p5r #fanart #mine #my art #the fic is Makoto's pov and I can't believe how well the author nailed her voice #I'd KILL for Ann's side of this fic too #but I'd rather die than ask something so presumptuous of the author #so I'll just say it in my tags because this is my space #the pic with Ann having a crisis to Maruki didn't explicitly happen in the fic. but it was implied so I drew it anyways #I don't often indulge in fics about romance but when I do i go hard #sometimes you gotta put your Blorbos in a pringles can and shake them real hard before they realize they like girls #and then talk about those feelings #also consistent style? don't know her lol #it's fine this is just for fun for me #it does bother me a little #but YOU have to deal with it because it doesn't bother me enough to actually try to draw consistently lmao

[vaguely-concerned]

I am so mad about how desperately into pan I am. he was specifically made to fuck me up. they dangled him in front of me like 'hey would you like to see a sad clown trickster with emotional intimacy issues and a heart of, if not gold, then some mysterious alloy with qualities not at all unlike those of gold at the end of the day?' and I went 'boy would I!' and now I'm lost. I'm on my knees he's like if reyes vidal was actually redeemable instead of just a 'release my man he did do all of that but I don't care' situation

#the way he seems so genuinely *delighted* by grace finding her voice and wants her to be able to make her music again #even when she's not the muse anymore............ what the fuck that is the sweetest thing I've ever heard in my LIFE dude #low-key grace's biggest fan musically at least fhsajkd #stray gods #stray gods pan #(this is not a slam on reyes btw the fact that he's unconscionable is part of the appeal in that specific case lol) #I went into the game mostly blind and from what I had seen I fully intended to romance freddie #and then... this bitch shows up for literally one song and I have to restart the whole thing before I even get to challenging a queen #because I now desire the goat guy carnally and I want to duet with him for the rest of forever thank u #also I don't think I can ever not romance him now seeing the contrast between what he gets up to in the endings #what do you MEAN if you don't romance him he just goes off and no one knows where he is. he's still just so alone??? no not on my watch #(if freddie is dead ( :( ) and you romance him there's an *adorable* part in the epilogue where he tells you hekate has him running around #getting lost relics back in a series of distinctly indiana jones-esque misadventures and it sounds like he's having the time of his life #if this is what it takes for him to actually talk to his family without anyone being complete dicks about it I must solemnly accept #the terrible burden of kissing him on every single run through of this game. it cannot be helped it's out of my hands now)