#like platonically obvs

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Music Game!!

RULES: You can usually tell a lot about a person by the type of music they listen to. Put your playlist on shuffle and list the first 10 songs, and then tag 10 people. No skipping!

I was tagged by @averagebreadslice thank you for the tag ^u^ !

1) I Just Wanna Run - The Downtown Fiction

2) Megalovania - Toby Fox (yes the undertale version dont @ me LMAO)

3) I’m Always Walking As Somebody Else - American Murder Song

4) She’s Quite (Acoustic) - The home Team

5) 4AM - Derivakat

6) A Year Ago - Birds of Bellwoods

7) Constellations - The Oh Hellos

8) Get Jinxed - League of Legends, Djerve

9) Paper Rings - Taylor Swift 

10) Empire - Of Monsters And Men No specific playlist just my Spotify likes on random!  If I recommend anything on this list though it’s Constellations - it’s such a mood for The Commander! Very much one of those ‘‘I’m imagining so many animatics I'll never actually make’’ songs imo. Also going back through who’s been tagged is really funny bc it’s like ‘oh I know all these songs they’re great!’ and I think that’s kind of neat actually

Apologies if you’ve already been tagged (pm me if you want me to remove you too) ! I had a quick scroll through peoples blogs but I’m 1) unobservant af 2) not sure how long this has been going around @where-is-caithe @jorasdottir @little-leaf-man @commanders-sole-braincell @secondscion @gallusrostromegalus @commander-gloryforge @inkberrry @commander-winterberry @herald-of-aurene

#this is a hilarious mix of soft and absolutely hard core #thank you for the tag! #i did replace one song bc it was like #'lmao why is this in my likes?' #normally i like imagine dragons #but friction is kind of a weird song #fr though constellations is such a commander vibe #specifically for amadaria #the line 'and everything you thought you knew/will fall apart but you'll be alright' #is so fucking raw for the commander #the entire song is just #'im trying and things are going wrong' #its SO THEMATICALLY GOOD YO #empire is actually such a good song for aurene and her champion too actually #its a big comfort song for me #so it has sweet vibes #very much that 'face anything as long as you're with me' #vibe to me #like platonically obvs #something about the song feels like a parent talking to their kid or a friend making a promise #others are just the randomiser calling me out LMAO #music game #tag games #me internally: oh god i've been perceived often enough to be noticed time to die

[findafight]

Ohhh fic where Steve and Robin and Dustin and Erica all casually make funny little haha jokes with each other about getting tortured/almost caught by the Russians under Starcourt because they all have that shared trauma and had many a long late night calls reassuring each other they're alive and playing dnd together and fulfilling lifetime supply of icecream obligations.

They do this because sure the rest of the party knew there were Russians under Starcourt but everything they went through in that basement was sorta...forgotten in the aftermath of literal flesh monster. And with Hopper dead and the Byers moving, there's so much happening that whatever happened to Steve's face (lost another fight...) and why he and Robin went from mildly antagonistic co-workers to codependent goobers who couldn't go literally a day without seeing the other or what made Dustin always ask if Erica was going to come for party hang outs are all sort of brushed under the rug. Not a big deal, really. Bigger things happening after everything.

And they cope together and scoops troop is a weird little section of the party no one but them really understands. Robin and Steve are attached at the hip and to a lesser extent so are Erica and Dustin (but they'll never admit it), and they all have mini gatherings together.

So, the casual mentioning of starcourt and specifically what went down with the Russians is commonplace for them. (Erica is quick to remind them she saved their asses, and are they so lame they need her help again? but she smiles and Steve and Robin just laugh and give her a big hug.) And somehow, they forget that not everyone really knows what went down before July 4th 1985.

And I want them to do it in front of everyone. I want them to have their stupid "this was so fucked up but we're alive and we got through it so now we have to laugh or we may never stop crying about it" banter at a big "we saved the world again!" Barbecue. I want the rest of the folks there to go silent and them not to notice.

I want someone to mention Steve not getting a black eye this time, congrats! and Robin going "the only reason why I didn't get one last time was because the Russians said-"

And Steve, who is lying with his head in her lap, reaches up to gently cup her cheek and says in a terrible Russian accent "don't worry, we will not ruin your pretty face!" (everyone is quiet around them, they do not notice)

She laughs. "And punched me in the gut a few more times. I peed blood for like, three days."

Steve goes "ewwww" only to be pinched by robin.

"you peed blood too, dingus. You got it worse than me and my pretty face."

He giggles and opens his hand up for a high five "pissing blood buddies, hell yeah!" And shifts in her lap. "But they bruised my pretty face. Rude."

"aww. It's okay, Stevie, your face is still so pretty. Prettiest boy in Hawkins."

"thanks Robin."

"at least Dustin and Erica got us out before they started ripping out fingernails." She shudders.

"or used the bonesaw"

"mmm. Unfortunately not before we got funky truth serum drugs though."

He leans up, looking at the two "y'all couldn't have been a bit faster?" But he's smiling, teasing. A well worn joke.

Dustin and Erica respond simultaneously with "I'm missing bones, Steve, what do you want from me?" And "I was ten and my legs were short as shit. Beggars can't be choosers." Respectively.

It is at this point an Actual Grown Up butts in.

"what. What do you mean ripping out fingernails?"

Robin and Steve look towards Joyce, who asked.

"like. To interrogate us? Because we just kept saying we worked for scoops even with the truth serum."

"because they thought we had to be superspies to get into their creepy lair and not a bunch of kids."

"mmhmm"

Hopper jumps in "wait. You were tortured by them?"

Robin and Steve give him eerily similar looks that express how obvious the answer to that is.

"yeah, duh."

"I don't go looking to get brain damage every year, you know."

Hoppers eye twitches. "Why didn't you say anything?"

#steve Harrington #robin Buckley #erica sinclair #dustin henderson #scoops troop #the party #stranger things #platonic stobin #stobin #i want eddie to be the only one who knows bc they were assigned to fill him in on the upsidedown so obvs it came up #and he is like that is so fucked up but i guess it works for you? hopefully? #steddie #mayhaps....if i ever write more of this lmao #finda writes stuff #finda's rambles

[captainshazamerica]

Guys, every single close male friendship in shows is not queerbaiting!!! Like please, let men be close and open with each other plantonically😭

#im scared to tag what i wanna tag lmao #already scared to post this but im tired of shows getting viciously ripped apart and accused of queerbaiting every platonic male frienship #imma do it. imma tag the show im ranting about in particular. but its also just in general. #loki #anti lokius #Like obv feel free to ship it loud and proudly #but just stop accusing and attacking the writers and showrunners

[sapphosboy]

Oh look a well written, deep, loving and meaningful platonic relationship! Gee I sure hope no one simplifies it to “that intensity of love can only exist in romance” and diminishes the importance of a meaningful soul connection without the obligation of romance

#doctordonna #donna noble #tenth doctor #doctor who #I will probably add more tags to later but I’m high and soooo sleepy #they really are the blueprint for a perfect well fleshed out platonic relationship #they give it the same amount of love and respect as they would a romantic relationship except they make it very clear there’s no romance #like you can ship what you ship obv but I feel like you water down the meaningfulness of how deep their love for each other is

[halfhissandwich]

I have an abnormally large appreciation for royality tbh

#sanders sides #patton sanders #roman sanders #royality #platonic or romantic #they’re so cute #I need them to kiss and make up right now #like obv you know I love moceit the most but also… the cuties <3

[fuctacles]

He's capable of charming god

For @steddiemicrofic September prompt "Charm", to which my brain screamed Hogwarts AU, sorry not sorry. T | WC 548 | CW Slytherin!Eddie | Hogwarts AU

“Yellow is capable of charming god.” - Vincent van Gogh, my insane little yellow lover whose quote I’ve found while looking for a title and it was oh so fitting

Steve had a crush.

It reached an all-time peak in his last year, when the Slytherin he was eyeing, who should be far away from his table, had befriended one of his fellow Hufflepuffs.

"Pathetic," Robin whispered as he flipped through his potions textbook without reading, eyes focused on Eddie and Chrissy, who was tying up his long dark hair with her Hufflepuff-colored scrunchie.

"Robin," he wheezed.

"I know, I'm sorry." She rolled her eyes. "Are you gonna grow out your hair now? Share hair accessories with Munson?"

Steve has been considering it. 

Robin slapped him on the arm.

"Dude!"

"I know!" he hissed. 

The sight of Eddie wearing Chrissy's scrunchie was seared into his brain. The contrast of yellow to his dark hair and metalhead shtick buzzed behind his eyes and the idea of him in something of Steve's was growing into a fixation.

Whenever he passed him, hair flowing, Steve's hands twitched to braid them, to tie them with anything, his fucking tie if he had to. At some point, he even got a yellow handkerchief and started wearing it in his pants’ pocket just like Eddie did.

"I know," he sighed.

Capital ‘P’ pathetic.

But all the Robin-induced insults went forgotten when she waved a piece of parchment in his face one November afternoon.

"What is this," he frowned at her flatly. He stilled her wrist to read ‘Eddie Munson’ scrawled on the paper in the ugliest handwriting he'd ever seen.

"Your secret giftee!" she screeched loudly.

"What?!"

"Eddie signed up for Secret Santa and I, your best friend, pulled on some strings, made some exchanges, and voila!"

She was beaming with smug satisfaction, appropriately, but Steve's mind was already racing with possibilities..

"What am I supposed to give him?"

As Eddie opened the box and saw a plain black scrunchie, Steve rushed with explanations.

"I've charmed it so it responds to music. Your hair will change with what you’re listening to."

Eddie blinked at him, surprise evident.

"Like what?"

"Um, it gets flowy with ballads, and for metal, I know it’s your favorite, the hair gets big and puffy. Well, you know. And uh, it's based on a mood-based spell? So their tips get red with love songs and so on." 

Of course he had to mention love of all things, his heart now thudding as he watched Eddie tie his hair. With a scrunchie from Steve. He pulled a strand in front of his face and observed it lighten.

"Yellow means…?"

"Uh, happy," Steve admitted bashfully. At least he knew his gift was a success. Eddie's eyes observed him like a hawk.

"Does it have to be in my hair to work?" He questioned with a weird tilt to his tone. 

"Wearing it on your wrist will work too."

"What’s pink?"

"Affection." He knew the colors by heart after months of perfecting the charm. He had hair ties everywhere and he tested them all himself.

He tested them all himself.

One was currently sitting on his wrist and Eddie… Eddie was looking at his hair.

"And gold?"

They both watched as the tip of his ponytail started shining in the candlelights.

"Charmed."

"Huh. I guess I am," Eddie grinned at him. And the pink of his dimpled cheeks needed no spellbook to read.

#i went like 150 words overboard at first and i lowkey wanna write a one shot #is Steve accidentally flagging for watersports? yes hes a bit f an idiot but we love him #hes good at charms tho bc hes charming and it makes sense #he made scrunchies for elmax initially to help with their communication #and then everyone wanted them to help el with reading their intentions #bc el is autistic obv duh #steddie #mine #steddie hogwarts au #hogwarts au #i think eddie would fit more into ravenclaw but im too fixated on the slytherin x hufflepuff agenda #steddiemicroficseptember #eddie munson #stranger things #ff #steve harrington #st #stranger things 4 #steddie fanfiction #platonic hellcheer

[soldier-poet-king]

'fran can you stop being Like That for 5 seconds?'

Unfortunately not. I am a non-person underneath all the masks and personas and the only thing left is an empty void obsessed with depressed christian existentialists, theodicy and the existence of evil, and the nature of suffering

#the duality of fran #be normal be normal be normal #i am. so well. alas #thinking my silly little thinky thoughts #which everyone maybe hates but thats ok #m still thinking #also thinking abt how obvs the early church was like nooo Greco roman paganism bad #but also if u look at the conception of divinity and theodicy in the tragedians and philosophers (and less so in populsr religion) #u see a lot. not the same. but a lot of ideas about like. evil. the nature of the gods as both terrifying and good. both horrible& beautiful #the both/and nature. the awe inspiring in the traditional sense of the word #like obvs it's the influence of platonism and neo Platonism on the church fathers #but also ive given yall my dionysios and jesus ramble before. smthn smthn smthn human and divine #I AM NOT SAYING SYNCRETISM OR HERESY #I AM SAYING. PREFIGURING. I AM SAYING. THE HUMAN SOUL IS ALWAYS SEEKING THIS THING #I AM SAYING THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSIONS AND DIALOGUE OF THE PERIOD #anyway. im normal. im sooooo normal about the problem of evil

[deancanseecastielshalo]

Has anyone done a fic where Steve n Robin are those friends who make a pact that if they’re both still single by 30 they’ll get married (so they don’t have to be alone forever), but then in the year where they start planning everything for real and organising venues and music, they end up meeting Nancy, wedding cake baker, and Eddie, band musician?

#they both fall in love obvs #Nancy n Robin would have a cute baking date where Robin makes a massive mess n they’re relationship would move a little faster than Steve #n Eddies; you see the cake person more than the musician; and Robin would eventually come to Steve in a panic cuz her n nanc were have a #cute meet n she accidentally told Nancy the whole thing was ‘fake’ (they are actually together) and they both freak out #but then when Steve eventually tells Eddie (in a more tired way) Eddies like ‘oh yeah; that was obvious. also me n Nanc are buddies’ #and in the end Robin n Nancy are the ones to get married instead and when Robin throws the bouquet; Steve catches in n looks to Eddie at #side like ‘;;;;;; I mean 👁👁’ and they get married a few months later #(a lot less extravagant n more just amongst close friends and family) #;;;;;;;;;;;; sooo;;;;; has anyone done this or;;;;? #steddie #ronance #dcsch's blabble de blubs #platonic besties Steve n Robin; my absolute beloveds #jenjo blorbo thoughts

[caughtonwebcam]

not a bunny shipper. I hc marj as a lesbian trans girl…

BUT—

#no but srsly their dynamic in my head is interesting #I’m in the middle of shipping them and not #but like it leans more towards the platonic side #to me it’s heavily based on my friendship with my own best friend #like kenny and marj are so close that they might as well be dating #they make flirty jokes but obv not into each other #yk cuz marj is gay and kenny is only attracted to cis women #✨NORMALIZE✨f/m friendships #they trust each other so much that (in my hc ofc) marj came out to kenny first years before she came out publicly (in a post from earlier) #so yeah anyway #that’s how I see their relationship #south park #marjorine stotch #kenny mccormick #south park fanart #doodle #sketch #butters stotch #trans butters #trans headcanon

[pegging-satan]

OK SO LISTEN Tachihara x Tanizaki x Twain

MY FAVOURITE UNDERRATED GINGER BOY ALLIANCE

#they are different people in the same font #mark is probably the least unhinged of them #junichiro is the most feral of them all #Tachihara my boy <3 the perfect balance #it can be romantic platonic or whatever I just feel like they should get together somehow #they’re so slutty! they just are #they would get along pretty well. just upto ginger boy shenanigans #also they all leave their respective organisations at some point yk the ol switcharoo #though for different reasons obv. tachi is a spy tanizaki is like a form of self sacrifice and mark is just because the guild got dissolved #different reasons same consequence but I need them in the same room I wonder how that would go #ykwim? #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bsd tachihara #bsd tanizaki #bsd mark twain #bsd guild #bsd hunting dogs

[resizura]

fully convinced that no one at capcom talks to each other like i was just thinking about how remake a.eon is practically dead but they still have flirty moments?? that dont line up w everything else? like the “i’ll get you that greeting u were looking for” and ada offering leon a ride? (which i never got cause like was she finna talk to wesker w leon and ashley right there lmao??)

or how the devs were like “no leon and ashley r strictly platonic” but i guess the WRITERS didnt get that memo cause they have ashley awkwardly KINDA flirting w leon but she’s also not flirting??? like they say one thing and then its all good in the games until something opposite happens and now im all confused

#resizura rants #not shipping anything to be clear #but like they rlly said ashley n leon were platonic but whys ashley telling leon how handsome he is #and that weird line where leons all ‘you must be good at running away from creeps’ #which idk if that was flirting but obv implying she’s cute enough to have creepy guys chase after her??? #which wtf was that line?? #IDK IF THIS MAKES SENSE #but there are so many things in re4r where im like ‘why tf did they say that’ #CAUSE IT DOESNT LINE UP WITH OTHER STUFF WE’RE TOLD

[sleepymrshmllow]

I genuinely can't stand the "aww gale is like a father figure to karlach 🥺" every time I watch a clip of them interacting (esp when it was posted for ship reasons)

I can't stand people infantilizing karlach lol

#karlach cliffgate #bg3 karlach #gale x karlach #tp #obvs people are allowed their own views on the companions' relationship dynamics #but when like playing karlach in an origin run you can romance any of the romancable companions/charas SO LIKE pls #we talk about the fandom babying astarion can we pls talk about how they baby karlach too #i dont even ship it but i feel annoyed when someone clearly does and everyone wants to comment on them actually just being platonic #OR i see 'i cant see karlach with a man sorry.' SHE'S CANONICALLY BI/PAN PLS

[lumberjackloverboy-moved]

“let guys show affection towards each other without saying they’re gay!! let them be het!!” can we make being gay not seen as disgusting and emasculating and humiliating so that if a het man is called gay for hugging his mate it isn’t an insult

#like obv platonic pda shouldn’t been seen as a sign of sexuality #but being gay shouldn’t be an insult so it shouldn’t matter if someone thinks you’re gay!

[hoofpeet]

Idk maybe it’s just me but it’s…kinda weird that Ingo called lady sneasler his wife (there’s already people shipping those two unfortunately)

Are there actually ?? like for real people wanting ingo to hook up with the cat

#mailbox #for reference i like seeing their relationship as t4t besties who talk shit about the other nobles together (they're judging you) #ingo calls sneasler his wife in the way that i call him my malewife on twt #+the concept of him being sneaslers housewife is funny (platonically . hopefully that is obv) #he comes home every day with a basket of meat he hunted down like honey ! I'm back from the store :]

[winterprince601]

jonerys is, in concept, very funny. two targaryens left in the entire world x they could have literally anyone else x but no this aunt MUST marry her nephew x targaryens try not to commit incest challenge - EASY MODE- failed x

#it's kind of my guilty pleasure ship #because i am aware of this ridiculousness #but i just sort of think they deserve each other #/pos #obvs that can and probably should be platonically #but we'll see!! it's never stopped grrm before!! #asoiaf #jonerys #daenerys targaryen #jon snow #asoiaf meta #house targaryen #targaryen #cw incest #but like canon-typical #canon typical incest #this isn't anti jonerys btw #like i get it i really do

[waywardvamp]

I have the same two thoughts all day: 1. Jack Kline deserves friends, 2. Jesse Turner deserved better. Every other thought is just the result of knocking those two against each other like rocks until I get a spark.

At this rate, the Jesse tag is just going to be me talking nonstop about how those two should be best friends and the amount of chaos that would ensue.

#spn #supernatural #jack kline #jesse turner #mind you I don't ship them. I know Jesse would be 22 by season 15. Around 19 in season 13. And Jack is a young adult too. But I like it as a #platonic and almost brotherly relationship #best friends and friends in general are very dear to me and I feel like those are relationships fandoms usually disregard in favour of #romance #and yep Jack deserves romance too obvs I mean he is charming and lovable and amazing and kind and a ton of fun #but this is not a romance thing