#i just. love romance in paper

[the-acid-pear]

It's not easy to be a guy with a weird gender and complicated relationships with its sexuality and romantic attraction and fat and autistic and traumatized to the bone but someone has to do it

#luly talks #i tried to rb a post but i hit post limit and i lost it LMAO but i find it interesting how my things overlap #bc as some of you might know i grew up as a fat little girl and you know the world fucking hates us #and on top of that autistic although i had the most neurodivergent ppl along w me #i still wasn't like my other friends tho i always was slightly more lonely slightly more disconnected #they were in on things i didn't seem to be in the social spectrum and i never understood that #and one of those things was indeed romance and dating and in my teen years sex too #like by default i was seen as undesirable. just by virtue of being fat and also kinda androgynous #and the autism just. kept me far away from any social circle or interaction that'd bring me closer to an encounter of any kind #and i always yearned lord knows i still dream of Ana but the thing is i... #i just. love romance in paper #i love the idea of romance. i love the yearning i love the feeling #i know the feeling bc i know euphoria! i know the euphoria that comes from love. #but to me that's a very short lived feeling specially when engaging directly with it #i think its part of a matter of being taught what romantic attraction is and how they paint it #it's similar to how you are taught X and Y is hot even before you understand why #like i remember my mother always joking w me about male mannequins' cocks and like sure i played along #bc i thought it was funny and if the adult i seeked approval from did it then i absolutely should too #but she also scolded me once (and btw i was like 15) bc idk i was acting. like a perv? #and it's so bizarre in retrospective bc it might have been before the age of 15 bc i really didn't care about such matters then #I've always been amaizing at masking i love understanding people and why they do what they do and replicating them #so me being positive to sex and romance is to be expected #but at the same time its weird bc i cannot bring myself to hating it but i also just. dont fucking feel it #but at least w sex comes the horror of having a body too like there's a lot man #but my point is that its funny how despite being seen as undesirable for society i was unaffected bc i was oblivious to it

[parrrty-poison]

i have normal feelings about this song

#i never told you what i do for a living #mcr #my chemical romance #u know those songs that you've known forever but suddenly awaken the beast in you? #all the lyrics in this song are god tier #i love editing science papers all day and having this shit playing in the back of my head the whole time #i cant clean the blood off the sheets in my bed #:) #i cant clean the blood i cant clean the blood #i think im going through somethign #also bleeding coincidentally #anyway none of this makes sense im just in a frenzy

[kirkwallguy]

my most evil inquisitor lore is that my trevelyan has a sister who died in the kirkwall circle just before the chantry explosion and cullen had a massive crush on her. she looked just like her. many implications.

#she was caught trying to escape and had to be made tranquil #cullen signed the papers but he warned her ahead of time which gave her a chance to. well you know. #and that was his tipping point turning him against meredith's rule. #he DOESN'T know she was a trevelyan though bc her parents were so ashamed of having a mage child they made her change her name #and he just doesnt make the connection between two blonde girls. he just thinks he has a type. #until. on THE wedding day. hawke is invited (because my trev has a crush on him. and is desperately mad of his tall blonde wife who she saw #when she snuck a glance at his locket one time. she lied about reading tale of the champion.) #anyway bethany sees her and is like. wait. she looks exactly like this woman i was in love with in the circle. #and she puts the pieces together. realises shes marrying CULLEN of all people. and is like oh fuck. #and she like. warns her. but at that point what can you do? the wedding is arranged and trevelyan is a massive public figure #so she walks down the aisle towards a man who is a) possibly only into her because he's chasing the ghost of her dead sister b) possibly the #reason her sister is dead c) actually kind of evil now that she's hearing stories about him from bethany #sorry the dai romances are boring to me i need to inject toxicity and horror into them to be interested. #anyway. all this to say that cullen kisses mary on the forehead when she reaches him at the altar and everyone who Knows (several people #by this point. dorian was there as well so he's been whispering) goes dead silent

[via-val]

i want,,, magnus and alex bookstore dates!!! them just browsing the shelves, criticizing books that are clearly biased, alex reading excerpts of random books out loud to magnus and doing the voices, magnus showing some of his favourite comic issues to alex and (attempting) to do the voices. of course they have to make it competitive at some point so there's also a hidden quest: alex has to find a new comic for magnus to read and magnus has to find a book for alex that she'll like. it turns caothic very fast. sometimes magnus ends up with comics about fart jokes sometimes he gets really good ones. alex almost always ends up with some random novel because magnus is too afraid of giving her something in the romance section and fantasy as a genre is banned on the basis that "we deal with all that on the daily, provide me some good escapism, chase". they go for falafels and coffee after<3

#why is thay on ur shelf #idk i just love them smm #id like to imagine alex getting magnus paper girls or some new dc runs magnus hasnt had the time to read since being dead #and magnus in turns spends HOURS turning covers stressing sweating because he wants to give alex a novel that shell enjoy #but also... but also what if he gives her a romance novel and she mocks him for it??? #(she's gonna mock him for whatever book he picks either way) #the first time he does give her a romance book it's one of those trashy wattpad novels and alex bites her tongue hard enough to draw blood #on one hand... she hates it. on the other... magnus is Finally being more forward with his advances #mallory is like alex throws a pot at her head #alex fierro #magnus chase #mcatgoa #mcga #fierrochase

[ch3rryclouds]

Jean Honoré Fragonard + details

#rococo #art history #jean honoré fragonard #Fragonard details make me feel whole #clouds #rococo art #light romance #light acadamia aesthetic #romantic academia #romantic #flowers in her hair #love letters #painting detail #art detail #painting #fragonard #lovecore #I just wrote a paper about him

[marcmorrigan]

once again drawing my OCs half-dressed and draped over each other. as you do

OCs: maive (she/her) | seyva (they/them)

#my art #dailies #my ocs #KatH #maive #seyva #the two tiniest babes in KatH... only an inch apart #i think maive looks taller than she is when shes in her wheelchair (i get the same thing a lot!) #and seyva is so Overall Little that they come across even smaller than they are #but the truth is they are BOTH!!! ITTY BITTY. #i really love their relationship with each other and i dont talk about it as much as i do their relationships with eiden and rauel #but maive and seyvas friendship is the reason ANY of the relationships in KatH are able to happen #theyre also both. huge gossips. maive loves drama and seyva is her plug #girl who loves gossip and romance novels x child emporer who gets a front row seat to all the court drama. PEAK besties #also theyre arguably IN THEIR UNDERWEAR!!! in this art. #maives top and seyvas leggings are actual underwear and seyvas top and maives skirt are... under layers? undergarments... #point being theyre both usually in MORE CLOTHES than this. seyva wearing a belt without their chiton doesnt really make sense but like. #ygotas paradox voice: it makes theiw silhouette wead cleawew what do you want fwom me #ANYWAY. soundtrack for this one is 'colony' by paper bird. on repeat. like so many times. #which is cecils fault btw!!! good music taste haver smh... #OKAY thats enough tags i gotta actually post this. its been literally hours since i finished it ive just been sososo chatty. ILY BYE

[jack-the-fool]

Matthew sees Dream and Hob interact one (1) time and suddenly won't stop humming Jenny by the Studio Killers

#he's 'helping' #the sandman #dreamling #'I can't help it! it's just so catchy boss!' #'........clearly.......' #sandman matthew #sandman dream #sandman hob #matthew fully does not believe it when people talk about dreams previous torrid love affairs #he's just like 'him? that guy? the one who won't acknowledge his crush on the immortal history professor who totally likes him too?' #'love the guy but DAMN he couldn't charm his way out of a damp paper bag. people call him dumbass on the reg and they're RIGHT' #then dream gets over himself and starts romancing hob properly and matthew is forced to admit he gets it now #jack.txt

[shinkai-kaiju]

ah yes baldurs gate 3, where your starting/act 1 companions are:

1. the brain from that billy and mandy voltaire episode (non-permanent)

2. A woman from a species you've probably never heard of but youre now mad you dont see them often in DnD but ALSO man is she mean

3. The most apathetic, indifferent neutral evil cleric you've ever met

4. a wilting pathetic excuse for a vampire

5. Flirtatious Demon Core

6. A man too nice for his own good (and deserves the world but alas his patron is a bully)

7. Tiefling personification of a formula 1 car too rowdy for her own good

8. Drow bootycall that will NEVER call you back despite the crimes youve committed

9. Im starting to think this guy is a bear druid who's wild form is a man

#baldurs gate iii #baldurs gate 3 #my tav is named Lobo n hes romancing the tissue paper pasty boy but im already planning another playthrough #where i romance shadowheart bc ive fallen madly in love with her shes just so cool #ill have to romance gale some day bc hes rlly easy to romance but rn im not super keen on him #(specifically dor the Brand Of Character im playing) #baldurs gate 3 spoilers #wyll too hes so cute n noble i love hiiiim #i also wanna romance karlach but i kinda wished you could pair her off with someone else because. shadowhearts response to her...

[child-of-the-cosmos]

Random Oc sketch go-

So. I'm kinda making this up on the fly, but hear me out....

Name: Dracy (Drace for short)

Status: King

More info: In this world there are leaders, called Aces. The Aces are born with a symbol on their body that's connects them to whatever group they have to lead. (Heart, Diamond, Clover, or Spade.) And everytime on old Ace dies, a new Ace is born in their place. You can not hide an Ace. People have tried since the Aces are usually taken as soon as they are born to be primed into the new leader. Those who have tried to hide the Aces have all died. Usually by the hands of the Aide.

Dracy basically works as a bodyguard/aide for her Ace (the absolute leader of whatever their card is... which in this case, is the spade.) Drace kinda has to be by her Ace at all times, because if her Ace dies? And it's her fault? She dies, too. No questions asked.

Ahhhhhh I want to put more, but I don't want to fill this thing up by putting too much.

#AYO #NEW OC???? #👀👀👀 #yes #yes it is #kinda winging it on this one #but i got some ideas hehe #story itself has been running around in my head for a while now #finally putting it down on paper #i just really love the story for this one #plus it's not really a romance which is new for me #haven't decided on the genre yet tho #so idk yet #maybe action? #or dark fantasy? #is that a thing???? #just checked what that ment... might not be it #so just fantasy then? #idk still thinking about it #woop I'm blabbing #ANYWAYS #I HOPE EVERYONE'S DOING GOOD TODAY #GIVING YOU ALL COOKIES BECAUSE YOU'RE AWESOME #*tries to backflip away but lands on my face* #my drawing #my art #art #oc #my oc #my writing

[frecklystars]

i dont know why sandy puts up with danny's bullshit in grease btw. frenchy was RIGHT THERE

#frenchy's bubblegum pink hair was so cute and would pair with sandy's pink dress so well #they should have been girlfriends smh #woof #maybe im just craving 50s-70s WLW romance that doesnt have to do with hate crimes. y'know #like i love watching queer media but not when it's constantly ppl wanting them to die bc they're queer #give me a lesbian giving her sapphic girlfriend her black leather jacket and her ring when they go steady #while they eat heart-shaped lollipops and hold hands while sitting on the swingsets #and they're never in danger bc of their sexuality. they are loved and accepted by all of their friends #give me two women in poodle skirts writing love letters to each other on pink paper while spraying their perfume on the pages #give me two women at a 70s diner playing Elvis on the jukebox and sharing apple pie #you know what. just put me in a poodle skirt and any WOMEN wanna come kiss me just get over here #Hey Barbie i will give you my pink ring pop 💍 you wanna go steady with me miss ma'am!!!!!!!!!

[essektheylyss]

I know we're all aware that Lady Sandrilene fa Toren is aroace as hell, but I did forget that she says very emphatically, within forty pages of the first book, that she is not interested in marriage, and that never changes. We stan an icon.

#megs is reading #circle of magic #I know technically that excerpt is suggesting she isn't interested in talking about it lmfao but #it is deeply funny that it's SO immediate of a comment #sandry does not have time for your petty romance bullshit. she has weaving to do. #I love I was gonna be like 'I may be a tris stan but sandry' as if I don't stan every single member of the circle #briar? incredible. daja? icon. #is there a plotline in will of the empress where berenene tries to get her to marry in namorn and she's like 'nah'? I feel like there is #I wrote a long paper on will of the empress and I gotta be honest. I do not remember most of it. #I can't remember if they end up leaving cuz sandry is not having it or if tris is not having it. probably both tbh. #like I do recall them all leaving cuz that scene is badass lmfao but. I don't remember much #also daja having a girlfriend that she had to leave cuz the empress was uhhhh fuckt lmfao #I mean mostly just trying to get them to help her wage war iirc. but anyway.

[youremyonlyhope]

I can't believe we're at a point where every single character is having trouble in their love lives, except for Lady Denham who is the happiest we've ever seen her.

Honestly, good for her.

#sanditon #sanditon spoilers #Samuel and Lady Susan seem ok too but i'm not totally convinced they'll end up in a romance just yet. #but literally everyone else is just... upset about one thing or another. #i just rewatched season 1 over the last couple of days and i got reminded of why i hate edward so much #so hopping back in where he's seemingly turned a new leaf (but i still do not fully trust him) has been strange #i hope Augusta gets out of this unharmed but i'm not so sure from the promo for next episode. #and i went from not caring about Mr Starling's existence to now disliking him. #also poor Arthur but like. this would be good for Miss Lambe on paper. #ideal world would have her marry Harry and then she can pursue love with Otis and Harry can be with Arthur #and since Arthur and Georgiana are such good friends no one would really question it

[hollow-prey]

LOVE LETTERS!!!!!!!!!! WITH JULIAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I COMBUST AT THE MERE THOUGHT OF IT

#ellie rambles #fortune favored #AAAHHHHHH #some context: I love writing on paper for any reason at all #but I know writing and mailing physical letters to people is kind of a lost art now #because obviously email and text make it a lot easier to reach someone a lot faster #BUT. I love to think of writing letters back and forth with some of my f/os #the sheer romance of it! talking about what we're up to and how much we miss each other! #slipping small gifts into the envelopes! and that sweet fuzzy intimacy of seeing words in their handwriting written just for you #and writing to Julian would be so much fun ooouuugghh 🥺 #the thought truly makes me so soft. I wanna get love letters from the handsome plague doctor #I want him to write about how much he wants to kiss me when he gets home

[papermonkeyism]

Hey, can I request, if you want to recommend me something to check out, can you please tell me something about it too?

I have a pretty bad case of ADHD and my name memory is flat out abysmal (I also do all of my onlining on my phone, so I can't right click search things from the tumblr app), so chances are I'm just never going to get around to checking it out if you give me just a name.

Something like, what's it about? Genre? Important tropes? Is it a funny story or a sad story? (is there queer?) Just. What kinds of stuff can I expect to get out of it?

Otherwise the chances are I'm just gonna forget to check it out.

#shut up paper #I might also be slightly salty about buying a book once on a recommendation that it was gay #What I expected was fantasy knight ladies having an adventure and falling in love during it #What I got was fantasy knight ladies who had been a thing in the past and might be at the end too #Yet the whole book they spent separate in their own storylines only ever interacting in flashbacks #Except the flashbacks mostly consisted on character A explaining things to character B #Like 'oh this thing you're experiencing is called periods this is what that means how it happens and what you can do about it' #'oh youre frustrated about having a tightly curly hair texture? I know this other person who can teach you how to handle your own hair' #'oh I think you're bisexual! This is what the word means here's the etymology and the history of the word' #Just booksmart character explaining things at the supposedly streetsmart character #I know it can be important for some people to have their lables clearly recognized and acknowledged by name #And be hugely validating #I get that #Doesn't work for me #At least not in a 'let's stop everything and pause the story to give the dictionary explanation and etymology of the word 'bisexual'' #I would have preferred to like see the characters involved in this romance to actually have you know a romance #When recommending things please do convince me

[maximus-gluteus]

nothing to see here

#ok plz i wanna rant about how the new season of good omens is making me lose faith in humanity #girl tell me how ive trudged through 4 episodes of this season and i still dont know what the damn hell is going onnnnnn #every time i think we're getting somewhere with the 'story' the show slams the brakes to let me know that there're gay people on screen #does the coffee shop chick ever apologize to the record store chick bc i cant staaaand their romance. #like record store lady. girl. this isnt banter shes just straight up dissing your passion and life's work. #im scared to finish the season bc i just KNOW theyre gonna pull the whole 'i made u leave ur toxic partner now date me immediately' trope #ok so story beats aside my other gripe is how contrived the queer representation is in this show #i am a bi woman! my reaction to seeing wlw on screen should be 'yay! im happy theyre together' and not 'ugh this shit again?' #and also with az and crowley! what happened to their chemistry from the first season??? #like on the one hand the whole 'bickering like an old married couple' schtick is lovely. but. theyre just faffing about most of the time! #remember the first season? when these characters had agency? and a semblance of intuition? #i am convinced that the majority of the characters in this season couldnt find their way out of a paper bag #i get theres a whole memory loss plot device thing happening. but it feels like Gabriel's cluelessness is like fucking infectious or smthn #i feel like an idiot for assuming that the characters i knew from the first season will be just as competent in this season. they arent! #i hated the whole 'continued' story in the wwii era. i feel like it was a pathetic ploy at giving mark gatiss more needless screentime #did they think people would find the nazi zombies amusing or something? why are we playing this off as a joke? #just admit you dont know what to do with the story and move onnnnnnnn #im gonna finish the season bc i feel like im owed the scene of david tennant sucking face with michael sheen. #itll be like reparations for having to slough through the rest of this nothing burger of a story jesuuuuuussss #ok rant over #good omens critical

[poetglasses]

Coping the best I can with the stress of assignments by enjoying terrible romcoms

#if i say i dont want to do my papers i literally stress myself out because the papers need to be done #the papers are due next week theyre literally both 5 pages but like its really stressing me out #and some romcoms are terrible but man i still love them like is the plot of them a little weird? yeah but its a romcom #like i love romance and i love comedy and both very much make me feel better haha #currently watching made of honor and im enjoying it. i havent seen it in such a long time idr how it ends #i had just finished 27 dresses too and i fucking love 27 dresses for james marsden because james marsden hehe