#love equation

[shitvixxsay]

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#vixx #vixxedit #n #cha hakyeon #gif #soft hakyeon hours #love equation

[zegalba]

#heart #lovecore #love #red #equation

[regulusrules]

Guys. Guys only look at Merlin. LOOK.

Look at how he's so in tune with every movement of Arthur's that his eyes immediately trained on what's wrong with Arthur when nobody else noticed there was something amiss.

Look at how he instantly takes the mantle, steadies and strengthens Arthur by literally hauling him up on his shoulder the next scene, carrying him and his pain so willingly.

And you wonder why some fic writers (🙋) are never able to write Angry!Arthur about the magic reveal? Well, because this is what we imagine would've always been on the forefront of his mind. Not Merlin's golden, "traitorous" eyes, but Merlin's loving, healing ones.

Sick, sick, sick of them

#merlin #god these two #no ship ever shipped the way those two shipped #merthur #bbc merlin #arthur pendragon #Been hyperfixating on Arthur's love for Merlin for a while #and said have to equate the sides. #LJ metas #regulusrules metas

[apollos-boyfriend]

captainsparklez is so funny to me because he’s literally Just Some Dude. and if you asked him he probably would say he’s really nothing special. but you look at the shit he’s done and it’s like. had an official pizza hut collab/pizza. was on the disney channel on multiple occasions. is the only youtuber with his picture on the official minecraft wikipedia page, to the point where his picture is the First to show up under the article. has collaborated with minecraft itself multiple times. all while just being Some Guy. incredible

#icarus speaks #he’s Just Some Guy!!!!!! #if you watched him without knowing anything about him #you would not equate him to worldwide fame and official brand recognition #because he’s just. a dude. #i love him so much this is a slash pos he’s so silly

[kafk-a]

#im the 7 yo who loves horses in this equation btw if you care

[uncanny-tranny]

Good news! You aren't required to make your hobbies and passions "marketable." In fact, your crafts, hobbies, and passions don't even need to be public if you so choose. You don't have to spend all of your energy becoming perfect if you aren't enjoying the process. You are not a product, you are a person, a creative, and your work also does not need to be a product.

#positivity #yet another post that's like... thinnly-veiled as being for myself #i find myself freezing with anxiety when i think about the things i used to do (writing especially) because... #...i had felt this force to make it ~content~ and ~marketable to an audience~ and it was so fucking daunting... #...it felt like being a gladiator in a coliseum #even now i fight the urge to equate being marketable to being acceptable and worthy of admiration and praise #i wish i hadn't burnt myself out of writing by doing this because i'm simultaneously grieving my writing and hating it #and it sucks the life out of what makes you feel like a person and it takes the art out of art #so be free! pist your art or don't! you are beholden to nobody!!! #(obviously this is not the case for professional artists who rely on their art to keep them alive) #(and i criticize heavily the idea that audiences are entitled to an artists labour) #(i understand that this isn't universal and if it doesn't apply to you then you don't have to take me seriously) #(if you are a professional artist or what have you i hope you are able to feed and house yourself off of that career!) #(i hope you are able to live a happy life and be able to keep loving what you're doing)

[l-just-want-to-see]

Let’s talk again about how Hermes tells Percy in TLO that immortals can’t change and then Rick hits us with Bob and Damasen. And then after we’ve cried over “say hello to the sun and stars for me” he hits us with an entire series about people breaking out of the narrative where the protagonist is the god of prophecy.

#:( #from Frank and Hazel breaking out of their own curses #Harpocrates and the Sybil falling in love and making their own choices #Lu giving up her immortality #The only person who falls to the narrative is Jason and Apollo promises to remember him. Jason is the exception that’s why it matters. 😭 #Jo and Emmie leaving the Huntresses for each other #lityerses #the pandai #I could go on and on but it’s just so. #pjo hoo toa #trials of apollo #jason grace #bob the titan #hazel levesque #frank zhang #ALSO THE NARRATIVE IS HEAVILY IMPLIED TO EQUATE THE CYCLE OF ABUSE #it’s about breaking out of cycles like head in hands #lester papadopoulos #lester (apollo)

[pinkd3mon]

Bandee is the favorite son (actually is Kirby but it's a secret)

Day 6 of drawing kirby shitpost for every day of October

Bonus old sketch:

#kirby #kots #kirby of the stars #kirby fanart #hoshi no kirby #king dedede #meta knight #bandana waddle dee #most of the shitposts from now on are probably going to be about dedede and Kirby #i just like their relationship very much #dedede actually loves Kirby so much #have you ever thought about the fact that Kirby will outlive Dedede by probably a fucking lot #maybe that would be the time Kirby learns about the concept of death for the first time #i think about them a lot #you know how gay penguins adopt eggs that are abandoned by their parents #dedede is that gay penguin #and Kirby is his adopted egg #and Kirby's parents are the concept of chaos itself so maybe it didn't have a choice #I'm not sure where Bandana enters the equation #specially because i see Bandana as having a childhood crush on dedede so being his dad would be weird #my hc is that waddle dees are lowkey hivemind-like and all waddle dees go through a phase where they have a crush on dedede #and bandana has trained himself to be more resistant to everyone's combined feelings #the burden of being the representative of waddle dees

[eddiezpaghetti]

It has come to my attention that SOME OF YOU who read my last Byler post remain UNCONVINCED. So I'm gonna tack onto it this:

I'm older than fucking God and air, and I've been out and proud since 2007. Yes, I know what homophobia is, and yes, I know what queerbaiting is. I know about Supernatural and Teen Wolf and Sherlock and blahdyblahdyblah. No new ground is being covered here. I thought I made that clear in the original post, but, clearly, I did not.

I am aware of queerbaiting and homophobia, and I'm still wholeheartedly certain in Byler being canon anyway.

Okay, so there are three types of relationship I want to discuss when it comes to queerbaiting. They're all, like, "queer relationships that could have happened, but didn't".

First off, queer-coding. This isn't really a thing so much anymore, but it still crops up every once in a while. I'd argue it probably happens most with male-male relationships in family shows these days. First example that comes to mind is Mr. Smiley and Mr. Frowny from Steven Universe. You can't make a relationship canon because some shitty overhead bastard overhead said no, so you get as close as you can without compromising the show. Can't make someone gay? Well, now their comedy routine is a blatant allegory for a romantic relationship. Boom-shaka-laka. This is something I don't see being a problem with regards to Stranger Things, but I want it to be there as contrast, a demonstration of one of many things queerbaiting is not. However, one could argue that, thus far, Will Byers is, canonically, queer-coded. It's pretty fucking heavily implied in the show, and the creators have confirmed it, and you're gonna be able to see it if you're not FUCKING BLIND, but word of god is not technically canon which means that interviews don't technically make something canon, blahdyblahdyblahdyblah, technicalities, Robin has been explicitly stated in the text to be queer while Will has, thus far, not, outside of good ol' Show-Don't-Tell. Of course, anyone with two brain cells to rub together can tell that that's going to change by the end of Season 5, but, hey, for what it's worth, I'm throwing this out there.

Alrighty, Thingamajingama Number Two: "Oops, I accidentally made the greatest love story known to man." AKA, a genuine, honest-to-goodness mistake. Unfortunately, we do live in a heteronormative society. Sometimes people who don't think about being gay much write a friendship that's incredibly compelling and don't even consider the possibility that it could have been read as romantic. Something something Top Gun something. This is, again, not queerbaiting. This is Steddie, this is Ronance, this is Elmax, this is your favorite flavor of non-canon ship this week, this is not Byler. The creators know DAMN well what they're doing. They've talked about it. We know this. Nothing new here.

Which brings us to the topic of discussion here. Actual queerbaiting. This usually starts out as an "accidental greatest love story", and then reacts to fan response. And when I say "reacts", I mean like a goddamn chemical reaction. Like bleach and ammonia, bitch. It's noxious and it's gonna kick your fucking ass without mercy. This is when a creator is like, "Hey, let's get our queer audience invested, but we're not actually going to give them what they want because our straight audience isn't here for that/we personally think it's gross/we don't give enough of a shit to want to research a goddamn thing to write a real gay character," blah blah blah whatever excuse they want to come up with this time.

And when you think "queerbaiting", I want you to think "bullying". Because that's what it is. It's lucrative bullying, like beating us up and taking our lunch money, but it's bullying all the same. And it's a real goddamn thing, even if people misuse the word a lot, often when they mean one of the two above, sometimes when they mean "bury your gays", which is another homophobic thing entirely that I'm not going to get into here. Queerbaiting is the thing we're focused on, and it's real, and it's bullying. And here's the reason I want you to think of it as bullying:

They

Think

It's

Funny.

They are actively making fun of us.

That's why Dean had the "Cas, get out of my ass," line in Supernatural. It's why the "Do you like boys?" line happened in Teen Wolf. It's why "Lie with me, Watson," happened in the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies. Because "It's just a joke, mate." "It was just a prank, bro." "You didn't really think it would happen, did you?" "You should see your face."

So here's probably the biggest reason I don't think it's specifically queerbaiting in this specific instance of Will Byers and Mike Wheeler.

Stranger Things has never, not once, made a gay joke. Ever.

Every single time queerness comes up, it's dead serious.

Lonnie calls Will a fag, and the show is not at all reluctant to show what a goddamn horrible person he is. And when Hopper latches onto that, it's not as "Hahah, is he gay, though?" It's because he's trying to determine a potential motive for Will's disappearance, and even if someone had interpreted it as a joke, Joyce immediately has a line that functions as snapping her fingers in front of the audience's face and yelling "FOCUS" when she says "He's MISSING." Basically outright saying "This isn't funny!"

Troy calls him a fairy, along with targeting Lucas and Dustin for their skin color and disability respectively, and Mike gets damn near murderous. Troy is portrayed as a goddamn monster and the show portrays it as justice when El makes him piss his pants and later breaks his arm.

Steve calls Jonathan "queer" as a slur and gets the shit beat out of him for it.

Billy's father is revealed to be homophobic and abusive in the same breath.

Mike says "It's not my fault you don't like girls!" and we're shown how devastated Will is and Mike immediately follows him to beg for forgiveness.

There is a joke in Robin's coming-out scene, but it's not at Robin's expense. It's at Steve's. Specifically for being heteronormative.

Jonathan has multiple scenes where he's trying so hard to tell Will that he's always going to love him as he is, whether he's gay or not, without pressuring him to come out before he's ready.

Even when there's a little bit of ribbing at Robin's expense, it's always because she's an awkward nerd who's nervous around pretty girls, just the same as Lucas and Dustin are teased when they both first develop crushes on Max, and even then, even then, it always comes as a package deal where they make fun of Steve's girl problems at the same time.

Stranger Things is an emphatically pro-gay show. It may not be the core point of the show the way it is in, say, Our Flag Means Death, but there is nothing less than respect for its queer characters. Its queer characters are always taken completely seriously. No one is making fun of us. They never have. That's why I have serious doubts that this is queerbaiting. It would come completely out of left field for the bullying to start in Stranger Things' final season.

So it's not at all likely to be queerbaiting because queerness is taken completely seriously. The creators have talked about Will's queerness, at least, so it's not an accident. And queer-coding would be silly to expect from this show when it's already on its final season. Like, what is Netflix gonna do? Cancel it? Not to mention all the explicit queerness that's in there already. And no one's gonna "What about the children?" a show that's had sex scenes in it since the first season.

There's no fakeout here. It's gonna happen. Breathe.

#byler #Part 2 I fucking guess. #Wasn't planning on making a Part 2 but here we are. #I seriously just want you guys to feel safe. #I'm not naive. I do not say any of this shit lightly. #But I've been around the block long enough to know what queerbaiting looks like and this ain't it. Promise. #Will's already been confirmed as in love with Mike for fuck's sake. You don't think the other half of the equation's gonna follow through? #There has only ever been one other situation where I've gone 'Okay this is going in gay places' with no doubt whatsoever without being told #And that was with Daja in Tamora Pierce's 'Will of the Empress' when I read it at like sixteen or whatever #and she wound up having whole-ass fuckin' gay sex. #I was right then and I'm right now. I swear.

[himbolithium]

INVINCIBLE MLP AU!!!!

#so happy people are making these #I love drawing ponies #invincible #mark grayson #invincible fanart #atom eve #I had a weird thing in my head that villtumites would try and produce as many alicorns as possible #so mark gets his powers could be equated to turning into an alicorn #I’m it’s doesn’t make a lot of sense and becoming an alicorn is pretty hard but I thought I’d be neat #and obv eve would be a unicorn

[respectthepetty]

I already wrote this, but I'm not moving past it.

Qian does not hug Lili.

Qian corrected San Pang by telling him that he didn't hold Yuan but that Yuan held him.

My man is not a touchy-feely guy. He does not like touching people. He does not like talking about his emotions. He does quick pats and exits. He gives short answers and bounces.

But when it really comes down to it . . .

When it comes to Yuan . . .

He's different.

This is what the light x dark color dynamic is for and seeing Qian be lighter for Yuan is sending me into a frenzy.

#unknown #unknown the series #He touched Yuan once he realized who it was #he put his hand on Yuan's neck #he asked Yuan questions in the cab #Qian is different with Yuan #he is better #he is lighter #he is comfortable #and he never equated that with love #but love is comfort #and Yuan gives him that!

[lar-mx]

writing prompt #7

A new enemy has appeared, nothing they try works. No magic swords, no sacred weapons, no cursed weapons, divine objects. The only way to defeat this new enemy is to challenge him to a duel and whoever challenges him has to use a weapon made "by hand" by the challenger and made of a very specific material. The problem does not "exist"; no one alive knows how to work with said material "manually", only a few with technology. Well, John knows someone not so alive but he only accepts a disciple every so often which is bad, although that moment is in a week which is good. The question is…who would be qualified to be his student?

#dp x dc #dc x dp #dpxdc #dc x dp crossover #By the way #the blacksmith is Danny and he has super wild hair with a physique very similar to Dan. #Although on the one hand I would love for Cass or Steph to be the student #because a teacher student romance would be fun #but it would also be interesting if it was wonder woman or zatana #on one side of the equation but on the other side having dick or jason has a good hit #It would also be interesting if it were flash or martian manhunter #mala escritura #When someone questions why the chosen person was selected #he only responds “things are as they should be” and does not say anything else. #Metal also works best if it is worked by hand and is infused with the desires and emotions of its creator.

[captainhysunstuff]

22 more images below the cut (Warning: Less than moral discussion ahead):

Light leads L to a particular stretch of woods that he calls "neutral ground" and demands to hear L's conditions for him to work with Kira. L tries to explain in a way that will convince Light to accept his assistance. It appears to be successful...

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Big Disclaimer here: I, personally, don't condone the "Kira Plan" in any way, shape, or form. I don't even believe that there is a "correct" way to enact it. I am very firmly on the "Anti-Kira" and "Light is a Tragic Character with Bad Coping Mechanisms/Self Delusion" teams. I don't want to spoil too much of what's left of this story, but I do have a plan/explanation in the future~.

#drawn by me #my fanart #my fancomic #Death Note #The Chain #Light Yagami #L #lawlight #morally dubious and pretty darn reprehensible discussion and negotiations #L trying to get into Light's good graces #trying to criticize Light's approach without immediately damning himself #good thing Light’s practically head over heels for him already~ #forest and trees #I apologize for the disclaimer there but I find it necessary so people don't get the wrong idea about me #I may love Light to bits but I do think it's an immoral plan that's just plain garbage and an excuse to absolve himself of guilt #and I enjoy watching his and everyone's antics in a Ryuk-esque way because it's an entertaining fictional series/franchise~ #this is part of the reason that I was a little nervous to post this entry: that people may try to equate my views with what is written her #henh sorry for the serious stuff in the tags but serious stuff is being discussed in the comic

[exigencelost]

everyone telling me that it's not fair to talk shit about peter animorphs needs to raise their bar on relationships

#not just romantic relationships! human interconnection. #'how could he have known she was infested by an alien slug' who cares that is seventeen miles from the point. #the Point is that there was a woman named Eva #and he loved her but sometimes they fought. and then there wasn't a woman named Eva and they never fought. #and he preferred the second scenario. #literally what about this equation is not clicking. #animorphs #visser #if you screenshot my tags transcribe them so help me god.

[sketching-shark]

Been a couple of years, but I still think fondly of Grace Monroe from Infinity Train for achieving that very rare redemption arc narrative of "the people you hurt are allowed to sever all ties, and you can still become a better, happier person."

#grace monroe #grace infinity train #infinity train #in a sea of demands that you must always forgive the people who hurt you no matter what #it was nice to see a plot that gave good weight to feelings and motivations on both side of the equation #hm. #come to think of it #it seems a lot of redemption arcs usually go the route #of redemption through death #or very quick if not immediate acceptance into team the people you traumatized #much more rare to see a redemption arc #where the one on the journey to redemption has to accept that at least some people they've hurt can't or won't forgive them #but that this doesn't automatically mean they can't become a kinder person #hell in grace's case it was pretty shocking/refreshing to see that it was precisely because someone set a hard no-contact boundary with her #that she lost someone she loved but still hurt #which really forced her to reconsider what she was doing #it was a true 'oh no not the quencies' kind of story #but also a 'you will accept the quencies and go forward with your life & hard gained knowledge' narrative #redemption arcs

[katierosefun]

insane to me that if harvey had been even an iota less insane, he probably could have gotten mike to be a lawyer the more normal way. i mean, man is a big shot attorney who graduated fifth in his class at harvard law school and probably has a gazillion connections and he absolutely could have just gotten mike into harvard law school (and talked harvard people into looking the other way about how he got kicked out of college . . . worse people have gone to law school tbh), and then harvey could have just negotiated with jessica about not having a personal associate for another three years or just have had mike become a summer associate or something and then hire mike onto pearson hardman, but noOOoOoOoOOoOOO, harvey was so impatient to get his hands on mike that he had to go through this whole fraud thing. gay behavior

#caroline talks #suits #marvey #like the hilarious thing about harvey is that like. there was a FULLY legal way to get mike to work for him #he could have just waited. or negotiated. #it's funny because like. jessica pulled harvey out of the mailroom and just said 'i will sponsor you to get through harvard #and then u can work for me.' #but harvey isn't jessica. harvey is. well. he likes playing with huge risks and also unlike jessica #harvey was the one who fell in love. VERY fast #like i don't think suits makes much sense if we take love out of the equation. #i don't care what anyone says but you don't do something as insane as THAT unless you were like. toxically drawn to someone