#My fav tho is a queer platonic relationship

[ro-ro-bbbi]

Hobie and gwen are besties and they're so cuteeee 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

They would have so many silly fake arguments and fight and then they cuddle and kiss eachother's noses and play together and make songs together and make fun of eachother's crushes and they bond so much bc they're both queer and they have very serious conversations about gwen's dad and her peter and her whole 'no friends' thing and hobie's family and his canon events and he being touch straved and all the trauma that he has that we still don't know about and they have actually arguments about her lying to herself and isolating herself and believing miguel's bullishit and maybe after she made peace with her father she would go back living with him but hobie doesnt agree bc he scared and he doesnt like george bc he literally pointed a gun to her head and he saw how many of his friends have been killed or hurt by the police or by their own parents and he wont let that happen again and he cares so much and he is so protective of his lil drummer and gwen loves him so much but also just wants a father and they would have so many nicknames for eachother and-

[sga-owns-my-soul]

For the ask game A, C, F, H, U

ooh good ones! this one got a little long lmao whoops 😂

A - Ships that you currently like a lot. (They don’t have to be OTPs because not everyone has OTPs.) Friendships, pairings, threesomes, etc. are allowed.

i'm obsessed with a mcshep queer platonic relationship (aroace!john and bisexual!rodney for the win tbh) and a ship i've been thinking about a LOT lately is ronon and woolsey idk why i just. idk that scene in the prodigal at the end where ronon is like 'i know it's not a mission but i made a report' and woolsey laughs at 'michael tried to invade the city. we stopped him. end report' BABES THEYRE SO CUTE

C - A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

john/teyla. i just. i can't. the ONLY time i like it is ot4

F - What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom?

19 years and counting babey!!!! i've been watching stargate since it came out (i was 6 years old!) and i've been a fan of it since i saw the first episode. fun fact i had a little "club house" in a small storage room in our basement when i was a kid and i PLASTERED the walls with art and posters that said "I LOVE _______" with all of the sga characters when i was like 7? 8? something like that?

H - What is your favorite source text for fandom stuff (e.g., TV shows, movies, books, anime, Western animation, etc.)?

i've been in fandoms for lots of different things but i think my favourite is probably tv shows/movies. i just love me some good cinema

U - Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.

absolute all time fav blorbo of forever is Doctor Rodney McKay PhD PhD he always has been he always will be forever and always he owns my heart. i love everything about him- he's smart, he's canadian, he's arrogant, he's hot, he's funny, he's competent, he's an asshole, he's selfless and heroic, he's literally everything. i'm actually genuinely in love with him i would give up my entire life if he asked me to zero hesitation no questions asked

i know it says three different fandoms but i'm also going with john sheppard even tho it's the same fandom bc those two are just so far above the rest in terms of being my fav characters that i can't not include him. john is a disaster human and i love him. i'm like, 95% sure my obsession with putting my friends first and making sure they're happy and comfortable (even at the detriment to my own happiness and comfort) above all else is because of john sheppard. he's selfless, he's reckless, he's charming, he's funny, he's smart, he's hot, he's perfect he's everything i'm obsessed.

and then last i'm gonna go with nick miller from new girl bc (no surprise) i have a Thing for grabage broken men. i fell in LOVE with nick when i was watching new girl for the first time he's such a fucking disaster he's a middle aged drunk who doesn't know what he's doing with his life for half the show and he's so FUCKING HOT IM OBSESSED god i just hnnnnng ugh he's everything honestly i love me a scruffy middle aged garbage man so good always

[smolycule]

important things to know about me

i am a Very queer aspec agender person who is also neurodivergent in many fun and interesting ways

i’ve been a smosh fan on and off since 2013, when it was just ian and anthony and the original main 4 smosh games members. i watched smosh main channel content and other ian&anthony content before that casually but i didn’t really become an avid Fan until smosh games.

i am a “shipper”, but definitely not in the “i believe these people are truly in a romantic relationship and have feelings for each other” way. i ship in the way that i’m appreciating an already-existing dynamic that really stands out to me as having chemistry by exploring how they show they enjoy each other’s company and how they show each other affection. i just like close relationships!!! platonic or otherwise! so yes, i ship people “as friends” for the most part, but i like to explore intimacy in a way that some may define as more romantic? just cuz i personally have a hard time distinguishing between Platonic Affection and Romantic Affection as an arospec person. so yeah anyway. i promise i’m not one of Those shippers i just like thinking about friends being cute that is all.

i can and will tag relationships between cast members using the portmanteau style of combining names. just because other people use it to mean only romantic shipping doesn’t mean i do <3

with all THAT being said, some of my fav smosh (friend)ships/dynamics are courtlivia, shourtney, shaylivia, spommy, spourtney, shaymien, amangela, shaymanda, courtmien, and changela. just my favs tho i would not be able to list Every dynamic i like

my smosh member favs are shayne, courtney, tommy, arasha, and amanda, but i love all of the cast and especially the original “smosh squad���. i have a soft spot for like all of the former and long-standing members and crew due to nostalgia plus my enjoyment of how they interacted with my fav members.

i literally just do my own thing. i ascribe to very extreme, uncommon leftist ideologies (as a very specific form of ancom) and such and it bleeds into how i act on here. i am invested in social justice issues, but don’t expect me to be a liberal about them. basically i’m here to have fun and treat these centrist celebrities as the commodities for my personal enjoyment that they are!

i am a very asocial + anxious person so be aware if you try to contact me even casually there's a good chance i won't (consistently) respond... bc i get scared. etc. i usually don’t even look at notifs. it's probably not personal i just have brain issues. but if you wanna reach out n be friendly it will make me happy and i will try to respond…!

[post-modern-prometheus]

umh i feel like mike has trouble saying the word cause he is scared, he is afraid of losing el again. he loves her so much to the point that saying i love sounds frightening and it’s something new for them at the same time… but this is just my interpretation i respect bylers :)

first of all thanks for the respectful ask !!

tbh tho i just feel like from the way mike talks about it, he’s not scared of saying it, he’s scared of the fact that he doesnt.

mike loves intensely and recklessly and that is one if the many things i love about his character. so i Can see him saying “i love you so much it scares me”… if he was actually in love with her. like HE CANT EVEN WRITE IT. that is insane to me. and then when he’s talking to will and will says that it’s hard to open up bc what if they dont like the truth. and i get that will is talking ab himself and mike BUT mike NODS. he agrees that the truth he wants to tell el is something she wont like and it’s obvious that she wanted him to say i love you. she was crying and begging but he STILL DIDNT. it’s just like she was giving him the literal invitation to say it. (and it isnt a new thing, she has been saying it for months and he refuses to) she wanted him to say it. SO WHY DIDNT HE ? it’s just bonkers to me and i really feel like it wont make sense unless he’s queer. but that’s just me. i KNOW mike loves el. their friendship is my favorite fanon relationship. my two fav characters !! and he is terrified of losing her again. i think what hopefully this season is going to be ab is platonic love, what with that weird stancy thing going on.

[you-can-be-what-you-want-to-be]

Not to be annoying but I saw a post saying to share aro headcanons and then saw my fav boi so even tho some people might get like angry about it I think Ryan Akagi from infinity train Season four is 1000% aro.

I mean look at this

It’s just the queer platonic flag colors. Their friendship/relationship means everything to me.

Man understands flirting so little he tried to do it with a cat to get what he wanted.

This is literally his flirting face

No force on earth can convince me this is an allo romantic man.

[jesuisrentre]

From the start, Blue Flag was my most fav manga of all times thanks to the way Kaito throughoutly tackle every problem existing, like how they masterly unravel Masumi story (she is my fav now tehee).

But the few last chapters of the story left me really confused.

Of course I’m happy for Touma and Taichi even tho I didn’t expect it at all because in the beginning I thought that it was a shoujo like any other (Taichi x Fubata). At that time the story was at chapter 30-40? Honestly, reading new chapter every week was kinda hard for me since I tend to forget the previous one and don’t know wth is happening.

And the few chapters near the ending was hard to keep up with. It was weird, somehow different from the beginning or the arc before that, I don’t know why it just didn’t sit with me. I really thought Touma and Taichi would remain friends to emphasis on how human relationship with each other is complex in every way and friendship is not necessarily to end because one holds a desirable for another or something like that blah bleh.

I questioned myself am I homophobic since I didn’t like that last chapter but I am not! Now I know why.

Many say the reason why the story went on so weird is that Blue Flag was on Shonen Jump. Kaito must had faced many hardship to be able to make that ending a reality. It’s understandable.

But tbh I should read more stories containing platonic relationship since I view Taichi blinky eyes at Touma as pure admiration and I was hella wrong... :) Blue Flag is still in my top list but at least after this piece now I know it is not homophobic to not like the ending that much.

[captain-flint]

Hi how are you? Hope you are doing alright. What are you fav current interest? Also I see you like 911? I have seen a lot of that on my dash for so long now and i finally reached the edge, so pls do you mind telling me what it is about and how queer is it? :D thanks if you do answer but i dont want to bother you either so i totally understand if you dont have time or dont want to answer. Dont worry about it. No matter the choice, have a great day though and thanks for having such a cool blog. I really enjoy seeing it on my dash :)

hello! :)

(sorry it took me a while to reply to this, lately im either asleep or at work where im not allowed to use my phone hgdfhg)

to answer your questions... i've been better tbh and my current interests are........ at their lowest. i'm still mostly keeping track of supernatural and 911 but i dont have time to be as invested as i want to be simply bc life is kicking my ass these days. thank you for the sweet message tho, im glad you like my blog. i really appreciate that!! :D

as for 911, it's a show about first responders (firefighters mostly, 911 dispatchers and less so police officers). basically it tells a story about their lives as individuals and as a found family (platonic/romantic relationships) while they go through minor/major emergency events. it's very diverse and progressive in every sense. there's several poc and queer characters (both in the main and side cast, and the background characters are usually poc/queer) and they're developed wonderfully. it comes off as an easy, fun show, but it doesn't hold back when it comes to discussing social/political issues, trauma and emotional journeys. all in all, i would definitely recommend you give it a try, especially seasons 2, 3 and 4 because, unlike other shows like it, it's so much more than just a procedural show. you can easily fall in love with the characters and get deeply invested in their storylines :)

have a lovely day!!

[throwing-summers-at-the-walls]

Hello again ☺️Yes, that would have been really cool! I already read two of your recomnendations and i love them so thank you again for sharing! I can understand you being unsure of your writing but i bet there are people who will love it. Judging from how you answer your asks and how much you love John i have no doubt that i would love it. But if you dont wanna post it anywhere i would completely understand too. (1)

Im glad i came around to like Root cause otherwise it would have been hard to watch season 4 & 5 cause she appears a lot. I think part of it is cause i watched it witch my family and my dad loves her so i started to like her more too (you know who you love sth cause someone else loves it?) and then eventually i liked her to. Shaw i loved from day one and i loved her sibling energy with John. The John and Shaw dynamic was one of my favorites. I love their teasing and their chaotic energy (2)

As for Shoot i think its kinda cool that the writers just went with it cause of the chemistry and i like Shoot a lot. John and Harold would be amazing too (i mean whats better than one queer couple? Two queer couples!) And there are some parallels between the ships so there was room for both of them. Eventhough Harold and Grace is cute too. And i feel John has chemistry with almost everyone (not always romantic chemistry but also platonic chemistry if thats a Thing 😂) and (3)

in Addition to rinch i also really liked John with Zoe. The only one he had zero chemistry with was the theraphist imo. That ship was just weird. I wish they would have used that time for more Rinch scenes instead. -- yes someone who agrees about the happy end! I dont understand people who wish for a sad end. Like John is my fave character ever and i just want him to be happy with his newfound odd family and maybe someday adopt a cute baby with Harold or become an uncle or idk just be happy (4)

But in my Imagination he didnt die and someday he and Harold retired and started their quieter Happy life with Bear. --- yeah poi Reddit loves the later seasons and hates the first and i noticed they can get a bit mean with people who dont agree (thats why i only read and never write anything). Also said you could skip most of S1 which is just sad cause its a great season 😔 i will accept that i lost validity (is this even a Word?) for liking Root 😂 also yea 4x20 is the ep with the carter hallucinations so check it out. But a warning: Root appears :D sorry this ask got so long, but i just love talking to you and i always look forward to your replies :)

Hi !! Happy to see you're back :)

Glad you liked my recs ! I think there's quite an amount of fics with suicidal John out there actually. Not that surprising since it's canon.

I appreciate your support ! In the long run idk if it's healthy for me. Like a few months ago I fell back into ace attorney and I read a lot of fics about Miles being suicidal and it affected me negatively. Sometimes I purposefully seek out suicide fics. And it may not be the most healthy thing to do. So I'm not sure about that fic. Bc I do wanna write it, but idk if it'd be healthy, as catharsis, or unhealthy, as rumination. I mean I've been writing that body horror fic with some projection of my body issues and it's fine. But yeah I'm pretty sure that if I ever finish it I think I'll post it – after all I posted a fic in which John jumped off a bridge a long while ago before I got suicidal (foreshadowing my own life here lmao). I also wanna try to work on my other wips

Yeah I see, that's understandable. Ngl Root makes me not motivated to get to these seasons during my rewatch (which technically wouldn't be a rewatch). It's wild how I feel nothing for Shaw (she do be kinda hot tho,,,, muscles,,,,,) but I think it's mostly bc I wasn't that interested in her back then and it's been so long since I watched the show I don't remember shit about her. She'd be able to grow on me I think. Yeah I've seen a lot of posts about that "mayhem twins" dynamic around here it does sound cool. Also it's refreshing to have a male/female relationship that isn't turned into a forced romance. But I'll always have a soft spot for S1 and its four core characters.

It's nice if they have chemistry, I didn't feel like they did. Yeah I'm still disappointed that they didn't go for Rinch too. I mean come on their chemistry is so painfully obvious ! I dislike the word queer but mood pls just give me canon Rinch I'm fucking begging hhhhhhh. I'm quite sure the notion of chemistry works with non romantic relationships as well. John is definitely good with people. He looks scary and brooding but he's just a good man who wants to help people ! I love him so much and same he's my fav character of all time !! Also I love seeing him interact with kids he's so good with them. But I also love when he's being an absolute badass. Damn I always forget about Grace gkjdfkjfd I don't have anything against her though, Harold and her are cute together. (Not much into the grace/harold/john OT3 tho, I've seen it around after return 0 but :/ not my thing. But hey good for people who like it.)

I liked John and Zoe too. Even if he had chemistry with Iris it's so cringe, didn't think poi would fall as low as portraying such a relationship between a therapist and a patient. Guess that shows the decrease in quality in the later seasons. Sad they did that shit when as you said they could have showed more Rinch. Like come ooon Rinch is just. Right fucking here. Just make it canon you cowards.

Yeah fuck sad endings (John didn't die obviously) I want my men to be happy and in love and live a good life together with their dog is that too much to ask. Like sometimes I read fics with MCD bc why not but most of the time I just want happiness. Fluffy domestic Rinch is so good ! Gives me so much life. I have a soft spot for married Rinch as well. Also while we're at it let me rec this domestic fluff fic:

Yeah not surprised. And you're right don't waste your time arguing on reddit lol it's not worth it. It baffles me when people say S1 is boring like ??? Where ?? There's literally soooo many eps I love in this season !! 📣📣📣number crunch is the best ep📣📣📣 Glad they stay over on reddit with their last seasons and their shit opinions about S1 smh. Like imagine being a fan of a show and disregarding the season that created the basis of the show and developed characters and relationships. Big brain time uh

I'm quite sure validity is an actual word, and that's how it be if you like root :/ I don't make the rules :/ you're the half valid anon now 😂

Oh well I shall endure root if it's a good ep ^^

It's cool !! I love your long asks !! I hope I didn't get lost in my own reply lmao

[yb-cringe]

1 - 30 FOR ARO ASKS I WANT TO KNOW ALL YOUR PERSONAL BUISNESS

I have a guess as who sent me this— ANYWAY—

I’m gonna say NOW that this is a long post. I’ll skip 17 and 18 cause I already answered them.

i dont know how to do the [MORE] thing so. Sorry! I’ll keep it brief.

1. I’m aromantic! No romantic attraction here baybeee— cant have shit in detroit.

2. (Sexual orientation?) not applicable! I’m a NON-SAM aro!

3. (Romance repulsed?) nah I love romance in fiction!

4. (Voidpunk?) i think voidpunk is SO COOL but I just don’t vibe with it as im very. Cottagecore, i think?

5. (What types of attraction do you experience?) fuck if i know. Platonic, sensual, aesthetic, etc. who knows man not me.

6. (How do you show platonic love?) hmm usually by sending memes and hugs— mostly I’ll “adopt” people bc I love to care for people!

7. (Single forever?) thats the plan! A life partner is fine but im not planning for one. If one happens in my life, thats cool! But i’m down to be a single dad :)

8. No dream partner! A dog, if that counts, as my partner in crime >:000

9. (Which flag is your fav of aros) i love the newest one with the white stripe. The orange one is problematic and the yellow one is a lil visually wrong imo. (Tho i have a fondness for it bc i joined the community when it was at its peak)

10. (Opinion on soulmates) i’m gonna be honest folks, i’m not educated enough on this topic to give a good clear opinion on it. I’ll get back to you on it.

11. (Opinion on shipping?) I think its okay! As long as its not real people. And also if you ship a canon arospec character with someone and make them not aromantic i have a bone to pick with you. *cough cough caduceus clay is aro stop fucking shipping him with people in a romantic matter*

12. (Only romo shipping?) nah man, i love that found family shit! And ahh I always want people to be friends if they talk bc how cool would that be! I ship romo couples and platonic couples!

13. (Are you out irl?) mm... not really... no one knows except some college friends. And i dont think they know/understand non-sam aros so i dont bring it up. And my family can... probably never know.

14. (How did you come out) irl i came out to my college friends with a flag on the door. Anyone who asked about it got the answer and people who didnt either knew what it was already or didnt care so! I also did a powerpoint presentation once- whoops. ONLINE however... is a story I’ll have to save for later cause its long. But i came out 3 times to the same people bc i forget the previous times i did it.

15. (Do you know any irl aro people?) after my aromantic presentation, yes! I was so mad over the lack of aro information given to my queer friends so after a long presentation- some of them realized they were aro! Or arospec, at least. It made me so happy to know I helped someone figure out another part of who they are, and that they arent broken. Thats my dream.

16. (How do you feel about being aro?) i love it! Its hard as balls sometimes don’t get it twisted, but I love it all the same. It’s opened me up to so many new experiences and people, opened my eyes to so much more of the world/a new perspective of the world. I honestly think if I forgot everything I knew now, forgot I was aro— I’d come back to that conclusion anyway.

19. (When did you know about aros) I have no idea. Its in that space of time where everything is a little funky. My guess is that I found asexual, became aroace, found out what being aro was, and somehow latched to that more? Probably through AVEN.

20. (How did you know you were aro) oo. Uh. Hm. Well this most recent time, I found out DURING a relationship. I just didn’t know why no relationship I had ever... clicked? No feelings of love towards them. Nothing I ever heard from my friends or family. And every “crush” i had was only AFTER i found out they liked me, and my brain kicked into “oh we’re supposed to love them now bc this is your chance to be normal”. After we broke up, BECAUSE i didnt love them, i asked myself why i constantly felt this way. Why i never had crushes as a kid. Or on celebrities. One thing led to another, and boom!

21. (Aro headcanons?) OH SO MANY MAN. My favorite is Sean from Stranger Things 2. Theres an option to choose he doesn’t do relationships or like anyone. And considering you can say he likes girls or boys, I’d like to think he’s aromantic bisexual! Oh! And Sonic the Hedgehog. No i will not explain.

22. (Dream aro canon?) OH ID LOVE just. A normal fucking aro person. Not a robot, not a villain. Hopefully a main character! Where they don’t get a romantic sub plot and no one’s sorry for them. And they get to hang out with their friends and live! And live happily!

23. (Aro icon) uhh... I don’t... really know of any? But I like Yasmin Benoit! She’s mostly an ace advocate but, I appreciate her all the same.

24. (Fav aro song) mm I mean “Crush Culture” bu Conan Gray really sums up my life. But I also like “Better By Myself” by Hey Violet!

25. (Fav movie not focused on romance) that’s a hard one... Nez Ha i think right now! Its a cute movie loosely based on chinese mythology! Also the power of friendship saves the day, whats not to love?

26. (fav tv show not based on romance) OH oh I LOVE KIPO AND THE AGE OF WONDERBEASTS!!!

27. (What popular romantic relationship do you see as platonic?) OH man oh man ohhh man.... don’t hate me but I see Jester as aromantic, so all the jester ships uhhhhhh... :/. Sorry y’all dont kill me.

28. (Squishes?) Nah i dont think so? I mean ive wanted people to be my friends...?????

29. (Aro pride merch?) yes!! I have an aro flag! And I’ve made my shoes aro with some embroidery floss.

30. (Advice for any aros?) GOD where to begin... ok so you’re gonna have a panic phase where you think you’ll die alone but you won’t. And check to make sure you had romantic feelings BEFORE someone admits their love for you. So you’re doing it out of actual love, not expectations. Its hard to avoid.

[alltomevibes]

I posted 300 times in 2021

46 posts created (15%)

254 posts reblogged (85%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 5.5 posts.

I added 142 tags in 2021

#alltomevibes - 22 posts

#the big leap - 16 posts

#fanfic - 15 posts

#911 fox - 14 posts

#eddie diaz - 14 posts

#ao3 link - 13 posts

#ao3fic - 13 posts

#911 on fox - 12 posts

#ao3 - 12 posts

#victorious - 11 posts

Longest Tag: 123 characters

#stop acting butthurt cus ur fav looks miserable while zayn is our here living his life with his baby and his other baby pls

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

me: writing and editing that carlos fic so I fan finally post some new chapters

brain: yo, but what if eddie & buck were in a queer-platonic relationship?

me: ...but the UST-

brain: 👁👄👁 they're in a qpr :)

me: ... *opens new word document*

17 notes • Posted 2021-03-15 07:23:22 GMT

#4

my "the big leap" thoughts (SPOILERS):

- paula, my heart, my darling.

- not the cane

- mike is freaking adorable plssss

- oh wow, gabby is absolutely gonna break reggie's heart

- mr.a 🤮

- the way nick pushed that chinese food tho had me goneeee😭 his "oops"? pls sir-

- mike + friends j loveeee it

- I want more mike & paula neowwww

- more reggie in general pls

- naw, but the homecoming ask scene? we stan/love simon

- gabby's dnce hit different, I feel like she's a better choreographer than dancer 100%

- just everybody. even brittany. chick needs serious therapy but like, all the characters on this TV show make me laugh and they're just real.

- mike's eyes in the bar scene. that's jt. they had me hooked.

18 notes • Posted 2021-10-20 00:18:10 GMT

#3

can I just say that I just recently started watching sense8 for the first time and I'm literally only on episode 4 of season 1 but you can bet that I've read through every ao3 fic that makes sense to me canon wise, have written ideas upon ideas for these characters, and have cried for these characters only to find out it got cancelled in season 2. and now there's a book coming out and you can already bet i'm going to buy it because this story has already had me balling my eyes out AND IM NOT EVEN ON THE FIFTH EPISODE OF THE SHOW YET ! anyways, that's all to say my tumblr is, at some point in the future, going to be a sense8 blog.

27 notes • Posted 2021-05-27 22:52:00 GMT

#2

this is so sick - I really didn't hate the episode, I thought athena's storyline was interesting esp. some of the rapist's lines like "ur a cop who happens to be a mother" I wish more people wrote about that because it's so interesting esp. w/ athena's last & her relationships. . and the Michael + Athena dynamic is literally my favorite. and I didn't think Bobby was out of character?? Harry is literally his child + his traumatic backstory with his other children? of course dude wilded the fuck out. I don't know. this episode got a lot of hate (which I understand because of the copganda) but alot of people j wanted to get back to buddie which is annoying. this show is an ensemble and I haven't seen significant Harry & Michael scenes in a long time.

(ALSO HARRY IS REALLY J LIKE ATHENA THAT SCENE WITH HIM AND MICHAEL WITH HIM BEING LIKE "IM FINE" PLS I LOVE YOU BUT NO. DONT DO AN ATHENA, HARRY (AND MICHAEL KNEW IT TOO FKFKKF))

eddie & ana's scene had me in tears - they had more chemistry in those 3 minutes than they're entire relationship and now I want fics where Ana and Eddie stay friends pls. I really feel like they would be bomb buddies. hate on the actress all you want, but I feel like Chris & Ana was amazing. and while I don't hate the fact that the actress is leaving, I do hate the fact that Ana is not going to be mentioned at all after this. I just wanna hear mentions like (buddie-centric since that's all people care about nowadays) Eddie & Buck going on a date and Chris hanging out with Ana for the day or sum like that. and don't even get me started on Maddie & Chimney. That lowkey traumatized me. my heart was literally hurting and then I had to go eat some comfort food because chimney and maddie had my heart breaking. wish maddie didn't go out like that, like other people have been saying, but j do understand why she did it even that doesn't make what she did right. but yeah.

I'm glad the big leap came on afterwards because I needed a reboot and something to laugh at (even tho that episode was wild !!!)

28 notes • Posted 2021-10-05 02:45:57 GMT

#1

anyways, somebody write me a 5+1 fic on outsiders being confused on the dynamics of the Grant-Nash-Hale household PLEASE and thank you :)

38 notes • Posted 2021-11-16 03:25:36 GMT

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[kendrixtermina]

Opinion time: Lapidot is Boring

Disclaimer: This is supposed to be a subjective personal opinion, not the Divine Voice of Truth. This is just what I think and I’m aware of that. I’m not demanding that anyone change their opinion.

So: I don’t care if anyone writes in their fanfics or makes fanart about. It’s none of my business. I most certainly have no problem with wlw (I’m bi myself) and neither does this show (Ruphire, Pearl etc.)

Neither do I really share common complaints about some of the episodes (I liked that Lapis was allowed to be angsty in a non-pretty way and that everyone understood & tried to make her come around gently; Really, she’s always been the angsty one I don’t get why the fandom turned so viciously on her character as a whole)

Thing is, and again, subjective perception, (though this may be what Non-Lauren writers actually intended, a few vaguely shippy frames) I always read those relationships as platonic friendships, especially Amethyst & Peridot, who had this dynamic where Peridot, always a bit of a suckup, tries to get cool with the highest ranking gem and “hang with the cool kids”, (and Amethyst is cool af but could also really use some validation) and then they actually liked each other & had lots in common, jived with their more ‘rough/ edgy’ humor & forged an actual friendship - Like I love both characters and I liked how they became close friends, and how it added to the group dynamics that the three ‘younger’/post-war gems now have this club of their own where they can feel like they belong?

And well, Lapis & Peridot were those hilarious wacky rommates & sorta spiting the homeworld system by being two former enemies turned friends, living in peace & growing past their functions a techie & an aristocrat living together & so far it’s nice for a few gags here & there at the beginning of the episodes before the plot really starts. 

But I never really saw the appeal as a couple, though I considered that it might happen & was mostly indifferent to it, though I generally trust the writers to do whatever is best.

But with the fans being obnoxious about it, putting it everywhere & making it hard to find any Peridot fics without it that have like, character analysis, the ship wars and the behind-the scenes drama - It’s particularly the hijacking of someone’s carefully planned project that soured it for me, though I generally liked Lauren’s Episodes, at this point I’m glad that it will not actually be cannon. 

 (I frankly never saw this supposed Arc including a supposed lovers-to-friends dynamic with Amethyst and hence had no complaints, but if it was supposed to be there it was very badly handled, barely there & kind of seemed to give Amethyst’s character no agency (does she ever turn ‘Dot down formally?) and it just feels shoehoned. I just really liked the “Amethyst gets a friend who can relate to her” plot because she felt so isolated & unwanted in the early seasons, and that’s what I chose to see it as.)

But mostly, and again, subjective opinion its just not interesting.

I guess with Amedot I could maybe kind of understand as they have some commonalities & participated in each other’s character developement (still meh tho, especially to shoehorned varieties), even so I think the friendship scenario is more interesting because their arcs so far showed a lot more longing for social validation more than intimate closeness atm and already have sources of such closeness (in the family kind of sense) - like, sure, they don’t have love interests as of now, but it’s not like they absolutely need one, and if they did give them one I’d rather they did that properly in a way that adds to their characters rather than just slap  characters together for the heck of it. 

But Lapidot? Frankly, WHY? Queer relationships, yes, but why snatch those particular characters, other than that they are (or well, in Lapis’ case, were) fan favorites? 

Like, for an extreme example - Even Jaspis is more interesting. Not in the sense that I think it will happen or want it to, or remotely think that it resembles anything healthy, but precisely because of the fucked-up-ness and character contrasts involved, it really has potential in an angsty fic kind of way, in things & situations that could be explored. 

Lapidot is boring. Not that angst is necessary for a ship or that happiness & wholesomeness is bad (see Rupphire, which is consistently played for maximum wholesomeness and has this as pretty much the point of them but also has plenty of depht, history & coplimentarity) 

But, it just doesn’t seem to do anything with the characters. Why those two, what’s the selling point of the romance? What character arcs does it serve, what challenges does it lampshape, what traits do complement each other, what would attract them to each other, what relationship arcs could we do with these two together specifically?

I guess you could have them fuse to show how they overcame their bad experiences/ attitudes toward it, but they don’t need to be a couple for that and that’s not the sort of thing you wanna force or shoehorn especially if they’re sort of playing out this slow & gradual trauma recovery thing with Lapis atm. 

The thing is also that it wouldn’t fit with the general style of the show - All the relationships we see, particularly the romantic ones, are planned out from day one and slowly showed to us in tiny bits and puzzle pieces & gradual reveals, and its gradly incorporated into their character arcs. 

Like, Rebecca has repeatedly expressed a “tease everything, ship & let ship, they’re all my favs” but with the cannon ship there’s a lot of slow burn long game going on (as there is, really, with ALL plot elements)

In some stories, characters will get stuck together because “They just look cute” and that’ll work fine for those stories but this is not one where you can just shoehorn in a major ship.