#They're kind of made for eachother /Neg

[selfcontainedunivcrse]

big moves in the Guys I've never drawn design department tho i think the demon stuff is more like. perception based ... Evan looks like yr average edgy demonboy BC he was like. Catholic and really bought into the very traditional beliefs of Demon Corruption, that he's a horrible person etc etc and he's got like horns + batwings + red eyes while still keeping it cute BC he's kind of into it. he does unfortunately perpetually look ~15 because he isn't rlly able to conceptualize himself living longer

and kyle gets a sick half-dragon fursona

[harmoonix]

The rose of true love🌹

🌹 (Astrology LOVE Observations)🌹

𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐬 𝐫𝐡𝐲𝐦𝐞

🌹 - Harsh aspects to your 7th house ruler doesn't mean that you gonna have a bad spouse or a bad marriage, rather these aspects gonna reflect on their negative side, everyone has a negative side and the harsh aspects can tell you about your spouse's ones

🌹 - Cardinal Signs in the 7th house (Aries, Cancer, Libra, Capricorn) can be easily indecisive when they're in love, they can have that "Am I in love or I dreaming" kind of feeling

🌹 - I truly believe Pluto in the 7th house is a game changer, because it not only brings transformation in the relationship but also power and control

🌹 - Venus in the 12th house can have the same influence in relationships as Saturn in the 7th house, meeting lovers later in life, but is for your own good

🌹 - If you have Jupiter in the 11th house and you're attracted to men, this indicator can indicate marrying one or your friends (friends to lovers)

🌹 - if you are attracted to women and you have Venus in the 5th house, this indicator can mean that you'll gonna marry or end up in a relationship with someone who really enjoys life and priorities fun over anything

🌹 - 7th house ruler in the 9th house can indicate meeting your lover in foreign lands/while traveling!

🌹 - 12th house ruler in the 7th house can indicate meeting your lover in your karmic path, this can be an karmic indicator, your spouse can be a spiritual person/spirituality lover

🌹 - Sagittarius in the 7th house/Venus in Sagittarius/Venus in the 9th house, you know those mixed marriages where the couple comes from 2 different ethnicities/nationalities, these placements can have the same vibe

🌹 - POF (Part of Fortune) in the 5th/7th or 8th house can indicate luck in love relationships, same can happen if you have Vertex in the same houses which I think is more common than POF

🌹 - Cancer/Taurus/Pisces/Scorpio over the 5th house cusp can be a bit shy/emotional when they make the first contact at a date

🌹 - Something I do appreciate about Mercury/Gemini in the 7th house is that, they adore to communicate with their partners about everything, like there are no secrets here and your love sign can be calling eachother in cute nicknames

🌹 - Sometimes Sun or Leo in the 7th house can indicate that love relationships gonna play a big role in your life, and also focusing a lot on them during this life time

🌹 - Venus aspecting Neptune natives are very creative when they're in love, is like creativity hits them for them moment to create something for the person they love, for example a love letter/love gift/maybe a plushie/toy maybe some sweets

🌹 - Earth Moons/Earth Venuses have such pure love in them, they're like "I made this thing for you, I know you'll like it"… I definitely see acts of service being their love language

🌹 - Venus or Juno in Aquarius can indicate meeting your lover in online, as well as having the 7th house ruler in the 11th house

🌹 - 7th house ruler in the 2nd house can indicate spending a lot of 🤑🤑🫰🏼🫰🏼 money on your partners/lovers like spoiling them you know that phrase "Habibi come to Dubai"

🌹 - If you have Jupiter in Virgo/6th house or at 6°, 18° degrees 😭 this placement is so cute for your husband, he's gonna be so supportive of you and your relationship

🌹 - Juno in Leo/Juno at 5°, 17°, 29° degrees can indicate a very influential spouse/marriage, that also comes with their own benefits

🌹- Because Moon represents touching/feeling the touch/ A prominent moon in your chart can make you to crave physical touch especially in relationships

🌹 - Gemini Venus/Venus in the 3rd house or Venus at 3°, 15°, 27° degrees, i love these placements lol, I know your spouse (woman or man doesn't matter) has the best jokes ever!! You gonna crack at eachother and laugh all day long

🌹- Aries Juno/Venus/Mars can get easily jealous or possesive, like those people who want to hold your hand 24/7, yes they are, and like if you want to relax your hand for a bit they gonna say "Why did you took your hand away?" ...Because I don't my hand to fall off, thank you ..

��- Taurus/Scorpio/Capricorn/Cancer in the 4th house really need that security love check, like always make sure you tell them how much you love them and how much they mean to you

🌹 - Venus in the 8th house and Venus in Scorpio need a lot of reassurance in love, which is not a bad thing, they just wanna make sure you're theirs because they tend to stress a lot about it

🌹 - You know those people who wake you up with kisses?? I just know they gotta have a Pisces or Cancer Venus like, is in their blood to kiss you and stare into your eyes like you're Monalisa or something

🌹 - Libra/Leo/Capricorn/Aquarius Moons, in general people tend to feel in love with your looks and your personality as a whole is wonderful

🌹 - You know those girls who fantasize about getting a mafia boss husband, let me tell you their 10th house has either Pluto/Neptune or Saturn in it (365 days the movie doesn't compare to what these natives desire for a husband)

🌹 - Taurus and 2nd house Venus/Taurus Moons will love to hug you 24/7 they're having a really intense physical love language

🌹 - Capricorn Jupiter/10th house Jupiter gives daddy vibes, if you have this placement, girl you gonna have your own Batman in your house

🌹 - Don't ask my why or from where I know but Sagittarius Jupiter or Jupiter in the 9th house husbands will love to teach you, as like they're the teacher and you're their student, they gonna have more experience

🌹 - Lilith (h12) aspecting the Moon (all aspects) makes the native have to an untamed energy, like they are some anacondas ready to catch their prey

🌹 - Having Venus/Moon - Saturn aspects makes you to the see the good & bad traits and qualities in people, that's what makes them so special, they can see through you and still love you the most (Works better in harsh aspects)

🌹 - Mercury conjuncting Mars or having those planets in the same sign can indicate flirting quite a lot, get ready for the flirt list to be dropped

🌹 - Not gonna lie you at all guys, Venus and Mars aspects (all aspects) or having the those planets in the same sign makes the native to have that love - fight with their partners, and i don't mean "fight" in a bad way is like 1 minute they're arguing the next one they're being lovely with eachother...

🌹 - South Node in the 7th house or Libra can indicate you relied upon a lots of relationships in your past life, like they were your comfort

🌹 - Uranus in the 2nd/5th/7th houses can have quite unique experiences when it comes to their love relationships (experiences they'll never forget for sure)

♥️ Do you guys remember my love posts each one being resembled with a Disney Princess?? I thought that type of post is gonna have a return! And I chose Belle from Beauty and the Beast for this comeback, enjoy♥️ Harmoonix

[howlsofbloodhounds]

Thinking about young nightmare and his friendgroup...doing dumb shit....

I saw this a lot that nightmare would be the responsible and completely mature teenager that knows everything(though i havent seen it a lot now, but i also dont read a lot of nightmare centred fics because i get nit picky about it) which kinda gives me the ick i cant lie 😔

I've been thinking about them a lot recently, like nightmare probably got pulled into a bunch of dumb shit and stuff he would've never done if it weren't for his friends

I'm talking vandalism, and not the malicious kind like destroying buildings that 5 century old nightmare does, i'm talking grafitti and accidentally breaking a tree while breaking in a school because they were gonna prank the history teacher. OR when they're a little older drinking games

This man has definitely done some dumb shit, just because he is book smart and immortal doesnt mean he wasnt a teenager and young adult. He definitely both fucked up and has had some embarrassing moments.

I'm also just thinking about them having sleepovers and being in a giant cuddle pile because nightmare is cold, and him just accidentally hitting them with his tendril thingies

Sometimes its not an accident though, shouldn't have made a comment about an embarrassing moment for him 😋

Also just thinking about him and his lover when they were young, like they definitely had some fights and have said dumb stuff. They always made up, either by themselves or like that one time they got locked in a linen closet and forced to make up by the others.

Also thinking about how nightmare is an unknown creature to them, they have never seen a walking skeleton before let alone one covered in...something and tendrils out his back. Also just thinking about him and his lover exploring eachother because well, they're curious, and young so they do dumb shit and accidentally fuck up nightmares hand for a second while trying to figure out how his hands work

Whoops?

Or just nightmare being confused about humans, and why they are warm, why they have eyelashes and stuff. He knows they do, he has seen humans before in the village but he could never ask why they had that. So having someone explain it to him is probably nice and vice versa.

Also thinking about how nightmare is cold so in the summer all of them are frequently seen draping themselves over nightmare while eating icecream. And nightmare is still under a blanket.

Honestly just giving nightmare the teen experience because dream wont be able to because he was in the stone, and seeing almost everyone around you have had that experience, even your own brother must be..well something

Also yk how you make a dumb mistake in your teens and then discourage others not to do that?

Nightmare encourages dream to do the same embarrassing shit he did when young because he thinks it funny. Schadenfreude is something nightmare is very much familiar with

Also probably to make himself feel a little bit better that even his 'perfect' (according to the villagers) brother has embarrassing moments too

You and I are similar in not being able to read many favorite character-centric fics due to being nitpicky.

Although in my case there’s very rarely any Killer centric fics that isn’t just Killer sucking off Nightmare or Cross or simping over someone—usually Nightmare.

(Strange how this fandom used to hypersexulize killer by making him a horny lustful pervert 24/7 and infantilize him at the same time. And still kinda does. Though thankfully people are moving away from that, and i actually find much better fics for me by writers (and artists) over here on Tumblr.) (I had to prevent myself from ranting about killers potential in fics multiple times 🙏)

Anyway! I love that idea, especially the idea of him and his lover exploring eachother and just being really dumb teens. The idea of Nightmare having a teen experience and a life before all the King of Negativity, cult leader labor trafficker kidnapper torturer stuff.

It would be kinda funny and interesting if Nightmare’s lover actually had a red soul—and he kinda attaches to Killer for that reason and sees a lot of them in him (similar to how Chara saw only the “better” version of Asriel/Flowey in Killer, or how Papyrus and the whole multiverse only saw Sans, and keeps with the theme that no one but Color ever saw Killer for Killer.)

And like, Nightmare may or may not have any of those types of feelings for Killer—but he is possessive, because Killer reminds him of what he lost, and he is useful.

And also the idea of Dream having lost out on his childhood/teen hood and having to spend it just training and preparing to become the Guardian of Positivity and keeping the Balance, protecting the Multiverse, fighting/saving his brother, is all so sad. Nightmare got to live and mature naturally (without his family of course, and likely being hated and feared and isolated wherever he went), whereas Dream was forced to grow fast to basically be a child soldier.

{ @brokenramunebottle }

[wolvebonez]

please do dump about your watcher au as much as you want!! I'd love to hear about it!!

YAYYYY THANKS FOR ASKING its autism time Basically um. You know how most the watcher!grian hcs/interpretations have him as an unwilling participant in all this ? Uh, yeah ! Not this grian:3 Well. Kinda. But. Im a TMA Fan and I love FUCKED UP guys so !!!! Watchers feed off emotions. All emotions, but they're especially known for finding fear or grief or other negative emotions the most nutritionally filling/benefital to their health. However: They can't just sit there around someone whos very happy, sad, angry, ect, and then get fed from that. They have to- uh, for lack of better word- latch onto a players "soul," and tear chunks of that from them, dig into their mind and bite into whatever makes them feel and then tear that away. Sometimes, a feeding will cause the victim to be unable to feel anything at all after the feeding, if a Watcher gorges themself solely on them. Most often, when they use restraint while feeding, the victim will loose all feelings they'd had about the previous days, weeks, or even months, and might feel like everythings "dulled down" for some time while they recover. (Younger Watchers usually have to have physical contact with the victim to feed, older or more powerful Watchers can feed without even being on the same plane of existence as their victim, only needing to be able to See them.) Now, that's all kind of similar to a lot of headcanons about Watchers already, and I pulled the "eating emotions" thing from Martyns Eyes & Ears AU (altho in that its JUST fear), but uh... Heres where it differs: The Watchers aren't sentient. Not really, anyway. They're...predators, beings that know they need to feed and will go to great lengths to do so, survival their greatest worry above all else. Think of them like... Smart animals. Corvids, for example, crows especially- they will investigate their own dead to figure out what killed the other bird so they can avoid it, and are extremely good puzzle solvers. Prairie dogs have an incredibly advanced verbal communication system- able to even denote the speed of which a predator is approaching their den (probably the closest we could get to an ""language"" in the animal kingdom). But neither of those animals, as smart as they may be, are considered sentient. Its the same with Watchers. Watchers CAN communicate, they can understand eachother, they can achieve a certain amount of planning, like how squirrels can count what nuts they have & deduce how many they need, or how whales and other marine life are especially prone to being able to plan & use logical reasoning... They can understand the concept of death and... the concept of keeping their food alive for delayed gratification and a continued food source, instead of just going out and feeding on someone until theyre a husk of themselves, unable to provide more food. How, exactly, they got all the players into the life series/how they made the games IS something im working on, but the point im getting at here is that theyre basically like ants farming aphids, except the aphids are sentient people..? yay..? Ah, and Watcher cant reproduce normally. They have incredibly long lifespans, but when a Watcher does come to its end, they... Well, theyll find an player to bite into the soul of, and instead of feeding, they basically do the reverse- shoving all their energy into that being and becoming a parasite that will eventually take over the host and make them a Watcher, similarly without much sentience. Thats what happens to Grian. :3 The exact process of turning is also in the works but basically it starts by becoming unable to eat regular food, slowly focusing all the players willpower into wanting to eat, before they develop the ability to feed from other players. At this stage they might still be able to feel themself, however after feeding from another you tend to loose your own emotions amongst the ones youre feeding off of, and at some point, any remaining emotions the "player" has, is consumed by them for extra nutrition, and in turn they officially become a Watcher.

UMMMM YEAH!!!! Thats all the worldbuilding I have :3333 Theres uh- a story in my mind, but its not as fleshed out? I also MIGHT make it a fic (heavy on the might) so idk how much i'd wanna spoil. But uh, yeah, Grian'll be a bit of a special case in that his turning takes... a lot longer than normal. ^_^ I put him in the torture world sorry

[magnetothemagnificent]

Sorry if this is an inappropriate or rude question, you don’t have to answer.

I’ve been dealing with internalised negative feelings about religion, due to being raised by very Christian family, when I’ve never believed what they said. It made me think that religion is an awful thing, a cult by sorts.

A few years back, I made a friend who is Jewish and he’s really cool and I respect him a lot. I also am trying my hardest to respect that he is religious but I can’t help that voice in my head, saying he’s corrupted. I don’t think I believe it anymore but I kind of want to ask, a reassurance I guess, what your views are in religion as a whole? Why do you believe it’s good?

First of all, it is not marginalized people's jobs to prove to why they deserve humanity. If you had asked any other Jew this question, they would have every right to ignore this quesiton and/or call you out on it.

However, I do put myself out there and try to educate people, so I'll answer your question.

Religion is part of human culture and history. For as long as humans have been humans, we've always had symbolic representation, taboos, and imagination. Paleolithic humans burying their dead with body paint and bead ornamentation- that's an example of spiritual belief. To be human is to be illogical, superstitious, and imaginative. Even other animals can sometimes act according to superstition or seemingly illogical motives. Humans are incredibley intelligent, and with our intelligence comes questions we cannot answer and fears we cannot explain. Where are we from? What is death? Where are we going? What is our purpose? These are all answers we seek, and having a religious belief set can help answer these questions. Religion is just a world view in the same way Western science is a world view, and they're not incompatible with each other. Many scientists are religious, I myself am a student of science and am religious.

Religion has brought people together for all of human history- it allows the sharing of ideas and resources. Harvest festivals, weddings, coming-of-age ceremonies, funerals, all these religious events serve to reinforce the bonds in a community. A relationship must be maintained and reinforced, or it becomes stagnant. Having a shared spiritual belief system and coming together for ceremonies reignites communal bonds. Religion also allows for a community to have a shared moral system. While religion isn't necessary for morality, it definately helps define the values and morals of a person and community. If a community can come together and agree on a system of values, then there's less potential for violence due to incompatible values. Religion is a social contract. Religion is also a comfort, and can help with the immense wait of loneliness we face. If the trees and water have spirits, then you are not alone. If your loved one goes to an afterlife after death, then they are not alone.

Religion has as much potential for harm as any world view. Just as there have been countless atrocities committed in the name of religion, so too have there been countless atrocities committted in the name of science. Does that mean we should just toss out all of science? No. In the same way we shouldn't get rid of religion.

Additionally, "Religion" isn't a monolith. It's not one world view, but a category of world views. There are many forms of religion and each religion is different. Monotheism, polytheism, animism, ancestor veneration, etc- these are all different kinds of religion that can overlap with eachother too. A bad experience with one religion doesn't define all religions. With all due respect, your experience is anecdotal, and you can't apply your singular lived experience to every since religion in the world.

And for Jews, our religious identity is deeply important to us. We've been persecuted for thousands of years for our identities, and we've miraculously not disappeared from the face of the earth. You don't have to understand why your friend is religious, but you need to unpack why you think he's corrupted and why you think you have the right to apply your experience with religion to every religious person. The fact that you were raised Christian might be another contributing factor to your bias towards your friend- antisemitism is often deeply ingrained in aspects of Christianity.

[bandtrees]

Also Mingus. Of course

SEND ME A CHARACTER!!

MINGUS!!!!!!!! OF COURSE. under the cut lol

Sexuality Headcanon: bi :] it's ourple just like her. i don't think she especially cares for romance or ponders her sexuality much, but in less of an "arospec" way and more of a "forming human connection with her is a losing battle" way. i usually love arospec hcs and do see aro mingus somewhat often but it's just not something i really see myself.

Gender Headcanon: generally cis woman but i feel like if she learned what being nonbinary was she would try and release and trademark her own neopronouns and make people pay to use them. i do also see her being interpreted as transfem sometimes and i think that's a really interesting reading but not one that i actively subscribe to.

A ship I have with said character: ghghnmnnormingus. it's been really fuckin funny watching the tides change in the fandom on this ship - for a while i'd pondered it but never said anything, and then there was the time period where it was considered a weird cursed minority and i got vagueposted about it, and THEN mich came and singlehandedly pilled the masses and now its just, like, a ship. funny how that goes. but all of that talk aside, i just think they have so much potential in, like, every stage of their dynamic. the timeframe where norm's consumed by his completely one-sided obsession (/neg) with her is SO fun to think about, as is the idea post-canon of them forging a more normal relationship and possibly more. they're two of dialtown's most intricately-written characters imo, and it really shows in how layered all of their interactions are :'] there is so much baggage between them and simultaneously so little (with the point of "norm cares way more about her opinion of him than she even thinks about him") and it just makes the final confrontation of ch3 pay off so damn well. listen to nemeses by jonathan coulton it's THE normingus song to me. ⬇ SOOO ch3 norm @ mingus to me

A BROTP I have with said character: god her dynamics with all the mingling are so funny, i could listen to that group of people babble on literally forever. i wanna hear them talk about non-green related issues i want to hear what this room sounds like when its time to argue about, idk, taxes

A NOTP I have with said character: dialtown does not have that many options for edgelord proshittery but i have seen efforts at the one(1) they have. Unfortunately .

A random headcanon: always has some kind of headwear on, whether it be her trademark little hat or other ones she has made for her, or headbands or headscarves or whatnot. it's mostly cuz her head looks really off to me without the hat so i work in substitutes when im drawing or imagining her in more casual settings

General Opinion over said character: the height of dialtown's writing, her and everything to do with her. dialtown is already a good game but it goes from good to great when mingus takes center stage, imo. she's so interesting and also funny to watch - i think "seems silly but actually has deeper stuff going on"-type stories are best when the silly and the serious are tightly interwoven and you can't really distance them from eachother, and mingus is a great show of that as an inherently super tragic but also super funny character. there's not a word of dialogue she speaks where you don't get the impression of how pathetic and overcompensating she is, and that works both for humor and for sadness really well. i also like, in general, when typically "sympathetic" character flaws are played to be difficult or dangerous - in mingus' case her insecurity and desperation to follow in her grandfather's footsteps, and her compassion in wanting to be one of the only people left who still really care about him, it's objectively very noble- but less so when it becomes everyone else's problem rather than just hers. she has this in common with her grandfather 👍

[theterrancrowe]

I don’t really like Zootopia, not one bit…

I mean, I used to like Zootopia when it first came out, but I was very young and naïve at the time and I didn’t really understand (or more accurately, care to understand) the problems that plague the actual film.

And I’m not talking about how it essentially uses the same cookie-cutter plot of most Disney films at the time, nor am I talking about the shitty twist villain, Assistant Bellweather, or even the god-awful pop song, ‘try everything’ by Shakira. No, I am specifically referring to the political messaging of the film.

In a nutshell, the racism allegory of Zootopia doesn’t work because of both the mismanaged use of animal symbolism (specifically the LACK of symbolism of meaningful use of it), and the complete unwillingness on behalf of the writers to explore the nuances of racism in any way.

The concept of 'race' is really just a colonial construct just made to serve the interests of colonial powers in Europe and to justify the abhorrent actions they were doing to literally everyone else, and only has a weak connection to actual ethnicity. Like, the reason why Irish and Italians were not considered "white" back then, but are now, or how people group eastern asians as a 'seperate kind of people' than south and southestern asians because they're not brown is all the same, its made up.

And because the writers dont seem to really understand this about race (and also because theyre both white), they completely misrepresent race as a concept by depicting it as just a real and biological way that people are structured as, instead of the wibbly-wobbly bullshit that it really is, it's like how a lot of cis people like to treat the gender binary. But at the same time this supposed 'biological truth' is just pushed aside as just a slight difference, like how in the actual film, no one actually addresses what predators eat or how they actually are different.

This contradictory nature is also the reason as to why they have to 'go savage' in order to actually stir up the bullshit race war that Assistant Mayor Bellweather wanted (just because i guess? Her motives are never explained.) This movie talks about racism like its just people hating eachother for a justifiable reason that they just made up, and then bending backwards and saying that its completely nonsensical and we should just get along anyway.

I think the reason as to why this is, is because the actual writers just don't know shit about racism. They're both white, and they don't seem to make that many political stances anyway, so its safe to assume that all the nuances of systemic racism have just not stuck to them in any way, and that their understanding of it just boils down to "some people are just mean to others because their skin is brown."

Racism in real life is based on cultural ideas on how certain 'races' behave mostly in a cultural context. Theres a reason why black people often have negative stereotypes depicting them as robbers or violent rapists, or of them eating fried chicken and watermelon like animals. Because black people have a history of enslavement, followed by racist systemic oppression after the abolishment of legal slavery as an American institution. These stereotypes are bullshit, but they exist, not as a product of some innate human quality of tribalism, but as a product of a white supremacist culture. The same goes for all other 'races' too, with their own specific cultural contexts.

There's so much potential in using furry imagery to convey a political message, but what this movie does with it is to just tell a neoliberal story about a half baked racism allegory that doesn't even make a lick of sense under scrutiny

[jmrothwell]

Fake dating prompts! wearing eachothers clothes publicly to 'keep up the image' for the Julie (clothes thief extraordinaire) pairing of your choice!

also for @bananakarenina who asked: FAKE DATING MY BELOVED wearing each other's clothes to keep up the image, rulie

This was absolutely absurd. Julie could hardly believe what she was reading, not to mention the audacity to push this kind of decision to them via email. She and Alex were really the only ones who even regularly checked their emails so she wasn’t even sure if Reggie had even seen this and she really did not want to be the one to break this particular bit of news to him. 

He had already acted weird enough when all the tabloids and even slightly more legitimate magazines and websites had latched onto the rumor that she and Reggie were dating. 

Hot on the heels of their recent Grammy win Julie Molina, frontwoman of Julie and the Phantoms, seen hand in hand with bassist and fellow phantom Reggie Peters while sporting his signature flannel. Are we seeing the sparks of a new romance? Anonymous sources near the pair…

Sure, just ignore how she had borrowed Luke’s fleece and Alex’s hoodie twice earlier that same week or how she, Flynn, and Willie had all ended up in some particularly compromising positions at the skatepark. 

When the PR team said they’d come up with a plan, Julie had foolishly thought they meant some sort of damage control. Maybe their typical ‘ignore it and continue on with their lives until the gossip rags find a new fascination’ approach. Not this nonsense. 

And her attempts to protest the decision by calling Andi were completely useless. 

“They're not saying you have to actually date each other.” Andi said, like she wasn’t one of the ones pushing forward with this stupid decision. “The rumors are already there, the label just wants you to lean into them to try and boost interest in the new single.”

“By lying to our fans?” Julie snapped back, rolling her eyes at the BS reasoning Andi no doubt was parroting from someone else about how since they weren’t putting out an official statement, just letting the rumor mill spin a little longer, it wasn’t lying. 

Thankfully for Andi, Julie got distracted halfway through that particularly banal drivel by Alex and Luke letting themselves into her apartment. Unfortunately for Julie, they were dragging along a particularly beleaguered Reggie clearly trying to act like nothing was wrong. 

So they’d all definitely read the e-mail then. Julie didn’t have the time or headspace to try and navigate why Reggie’s understandably negative reaction made her insides twist up. 

There was also no way she was going to be able to out maneuver the prepared PR answers Andi had been given. Last time she tried had not ended well for anyone. 

“I thought the Grammy stirred up plenty of attention?”

“Cam is worried that all the focus would be on your last album,” Andi started to say but Julie quickly tuned out. Ugh, Cam. She was going to strangle whoever decided to hire Cam as the new head of PR. 

“Well, ask Cam,” Jule started hearing her bandmates echo her sentiments, “How does a fake relationship put any focus on the album at all?”

It was no good, the loop began anew and Julie was not in the mood to talk circles for the rest of her morning. She handed the phone off to Alex to see if he could manage to talk some sense into anyone since he’d had the most luck with it in the past. Luke handed her a warm mug of coffee as she settled on the counter while Reggie quietly fussed around with her coffee maker. 

“Good news, bad news.” Alex said, after finishing the call with Andi and after some sense of normalcy had returned to the three in the kitchen–Reggie had managed to lighten the mood with some theories behind Cam’s credentials. 

“They’re planning on releasing a more appropriate marketing campaign for the single.” Alex said as he handed Julie back her phone.

“But?” Luke was the one to prompt, though Julie already suspected what the bad news was and going off the look she exchanged with him, so did Reggie. 

“But they still want you two to “look the part” of a happy couple.”

*

Reggie had an idea, which given past experience had the potential of ranging from absolutely genius to extremely downright worrying. Julie was really hoping this leaned more to the former than the latter since she honestly didn’t know what else to do. 

She sat waiting near the bus stop where they agreed to meet.

“Hey, Jules!” Reggie’s voice carried to her from down the street, and all of her overthinking was swapped out as she looked up to see him heading towards her, typical black pants and leather jacket. Standing out amongst his ensemble however was the bright yellow smiley face shirt he was wearing. 

In all the time she’d known him the most color she’d seen him wear was red, maybe the occasional muted or dark brown or blue, but mostly he stuck with his black and white. The shock of seeing him in such a bright color was so much it took a little too long for her to even register it was her sweater. She hadn’t been able to find it and was almost certain she’d lost it. 

“This is your idea?” She said, finally getting the gears in her brain to work again.

“Yeah,” He smiled down at her, bright as ever, looking down at the sweater then back at her.  “Hope you don’t mind, you accidentally gave it to me when you returned my flannels last week.”

“And it fits?”

“Mostly, the sleeves kind of bunch up funny under my jacket.” He grimaced, then pulled said jacket off handing it over to her, pushing the sleeves of the sweat up to his mid forearm. Then waved off her efforts to hand his jacket back. “You wear it.”

Her brain froze again, trying to think of any other time Reggie had willingly let any of them borrow his jacket. He laughed, no doubt at what must be her gobsmacked expression. 

“But I will be taking it home with me.” He said, throwing an arm around her shoulders once she donned the jacket. “Now, I think you still owe me pizza from last month’s game night.”

Julie attempted to blink back the surprise of the past few minutes, not sure why her thoughts were so eagerly trying to run away from her.

[sunny6677]

Lavender.

Summary:

Skid goes about his daily life in the care of his adoptive father, Kevin—though of course as always with him, shenanigans ensue.

Chapter 3: The Stars - Part 2.

TWS FOR SA IMPLICATIONS AND ROYS UNCLE

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Mr. Wonder sat upon the chair of the living room, darkness filling the area around him as he watched with a blank smile. His granddaughter was busy in her room, and his grandson had gone out to play. So for him, there was nothing much to do.

..that was at least.. until he heard a knock at the door.

Mr. Wonder slightly stared in the direction of the door. Had his grandson returned?

Slowly standing up from his chair with a minor groan, he turned around and began to make his way toward the dark door of their large home. And once he made his way close enough, he gripped the doorknob and twisted it so he could see who stood outside.

As he slowly opened it, there was—

"Ayyy!"

"A—Aghhhh..!"

Mr. Wonder gripped his chest. He felt something sharp in his heart as he stood, struggling to catch his balance as his other hand struggled to grip the door-frame. His legs trembled, and his head felt fuzzy as two unfamiliar white and orange figures stood before him.

"It-sa spooky month!" He heard them say.

He winced, yet through his pain, he smiled. "It-sa spooky month?!"

Throwing his hands from side to side, he began to dance as his bones cracked. Not noticing the red and white figure watching while holding a balloon from the distance.

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Skid and Pump raced along the sidewalk. Now that Pumps grandpa knew that it was the spooky month, they could spread the news to the other residents in the town! Though they were both a little unsure of who they were supposed to go to.

"Who should we tell now?" Skid asked with a grin.

Pump hummed in thought. "Hmm.. I think we should—"

"Hey, losers!"

..they both stopped, and felt a pang of a negative feeling slowly wash over their hearts. Their eyes widening in minor terror ad they saw three familiar figures grinning down mischeviously at them, they frowned.

"..hi, Roy." Skid and Pump sadly said in unison, glancing away nervously. Roy, the brown haired boy with a mischevious smile stood before them with his arms crossed. Ross, a boy with black hair stood beside him. And Robert, a boy with poofy blonde hair and a goofy smile stood on the other side. Both Ross and Robert towered over Roy as they grinned down at the two children.

They then felt something damp hit their eyes. Furiously and in slight pain from whatever entered their eyes, they wiped atmtheir sockets. Though they then felt a sharp pain enter their feet as Robert and Ross stepped harshly upon them—and they winced as they gripped their feet. And then, Roy delivered a swift whack to their heads, causing them to feel dizzy as they groaned.

This was the usual routine with these three, and the only thing they could do was pray to god that they'd leave soon.

After Roy lifted his hand, he mischeviously giggled. "Hehehe.. what are you two doing here?"

Skid rubbed his head in slight pain as Pump smiled back. "Because it is the spooky month!"

Roy laughed. From behind him, his friends smiled at eachother, moving their hands slowly from side to side while he wasn't looking.

"Oh, really?" Roy chuckled. "You know, there's a spooky party in the house on the hill.." He grinned, gesturing toward the looming house over the hill in the distance. "Maybe you should check it out."

Skid and Pump gasped, and then grinned at eachother, practically leaping in the air. "A spooky party on spooky month!"

Without warning, and with excitement pumping in their veins, the two small children dashed eagerly foward onto the sidewalk, and toward the house on the hill in the distance.

Roy grinned to himself, watching the two with a giggle. "..they're really stupid, aren't they?"

"Uh.. yeah.. heh." Ross replied slowly, his voice softening.

Silence fell.

"You know.. thats actually where my uncle takes me. We play all kinds of games there together." Roy uttered with a smile.

The silence remained still. His friends looked at him with slightly widened eyes, their mouths slowly starting to hang open.

Robert spoke up, stammering, "..wh—what?"

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"It is the spooky moooo.."

As they busted the doors open with a whack, their eyes quickly scanned around the area. It was empty. Vast. No one appeared to be inside. And no sound was in the air. The area had a red carpet leading to a large staircase, and the walls were a dark brown as dust hung in the air.

The two glanced around, puzzled. Slowly, they stepped inside. And walked with an arch of their brows.

"..where's everyone..?" Skid asked aloud.

The two then flinched. They heard a click from behind them, and the little light that was in the room faded.

Slowly, they turned around. And.. there was a man with glasses standing in front of the door, a grin curled up on his lips as he laughed in a raspy manner. They couldn't see his eyes from his glasses. He was bald, and looked to be wearing some kind of suit. But.. something about him right then made the two children then begin to tremble.

"Heheh.. hello, kids." The stranger laughed.

Skid paused. "..um.. hi, mister."

The stranger cocked his head as he began to slowly walk closer. "..you know.. I believe you just got tricked. But that's fine. All we're going to do is play a little game.. and then, I can get my treats."

He slowly began to reach his hands out, and the two whimpered, shuddering in slight fear as they backed up.

"..oh no. It's a.. stranger." Pump whimpered with a frightened frown.

"This.. this is not spooky. It-sa scary!" Skid cried.

As they backed up closer and closer to the staircase, they shuddered, not ready to face whatever game he had in mind as his hands practically wriggled at them. But.. then, the two heard something from behind them let out a quick crashing sound.

The strangers smile curled downward into a frown, and a bead of sweat appeared on his face. "..uh oh.."

Before the two children could react, they felt something large wrap around their bodies, and drag them into a hole they hadn't realized had opened behind them.

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The area they were dragged into felt cold as they remained silent. Or humid. Neither were entirely sure. But as they looked ahead, a bright cyan light shimmered into their retinas. Speckles of light flickered at them from above, and from below as they were slowly lowered.

As they slowly became lower and lower to the ground of the area, they came to a stop as the tentacle still held onto them. And before them was.. a large dark pile of mush, with tentacles sprouting out. Cyan eyes stared back at them. Pump felt himself freeze, while Skid only stared ahead.

Whatever it was beared sharp teeth, and growled.

"WHO ARE YOU MORTAL PILES OF FLESH?"

Skid smiled. Wow—whatever this thing was had a really cool voice!

"I'm Skid! And this is my friend, Pump!" Skid gestured to Pump, who's mouth hung open, and who's eyes looked almost cyan. Maybe it was just the light of the area.

Skid then tilted his head. "Who are you?"

The thing snarled. "I AM THE EYES OF THE UNIVERSE."  The area seemed to get brighter as it continued speaking. "AND I WILL SHOW YOU THE END.."

Pump blinked. "..you mean spooky month?"

The thing went silent.

"..IT-SA SPOOKY MONTH?"

[totaleclipse573]

Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening!! The Ask Game made curious so...

17, 18, 19 & 29 for Terios x Rouge

1, 18, 22 & 29 for Whisper x Eclipse

TEROUGE

17. They're the type of couple to watch a ton of movies wrapped up in a giant blanket or something I'll be honest. They'd probably chat a bit with eachother too about whatever, though Rouge usually has to be the first to initiate any sort of conversation. Terios is a bit shy <3

18. Terios wouldn't really mind going anywhere, so he typically just asks Rouge where she would like to go. For some reason I imagined them going downtown or something (does Mobius even have anything like that? Well for the sake of this lets just say a place like that exists) at night. Rouge loves it there and Terios is fascinated by pretty much everything around him. Sometimes it even makes her laugh to see his reactions to even the simplest things.

19. Rouge is more expressive with her love, while Terios is the opposite. I'd say she's pretty affectionate, and WILL do things like hug and nuzzle him. He NEEDS IT. But of course, boundaries are still taken note of, especially in the beginning. Terios does warm up to it though. Terios is the kind of guy to show his love through small hints that can still mean a lot (ex. he can curl his long tail up into a heart shape, thats one way of him showing that he loves something or someone.) Actually I'd say he uses his tail a lot for this kind of situation. Another example being that if he's comfortable enough around someone, he might wrap his tail around them for comfort if they need it. Its essentially his version of physical contact.

29. I think something they can never agree on is the morals surrounding Rouge and her tendency to "borrow" things. She can't help herself! But Terios views it as wrong and keeps that belief. Honestly have no idea how they'd meet in the middle for this one XD

ECLISPER

I feel like their main love languages would be words of affirmation, and quality time. Physical touch is fine for Eclipse, but he knows Whisper doesn't like it. Heck, it probably took a LONG while before they even got to holding hands ONCE.

18. Somewhere in nature, I'd think. Eclipse feels more in his element out in nature, and Whisper appreciates the beauty around them. And they can introduce each other to each thing they like best too. Like Eclipse could just be like "hey I've done that before, wanna see something cool?" and Whisper could help him slow down for a bit to see what's around them.

22. Eclipse hates awkward silence. And he doesn't like the feeling of knowing that someone he cares about is angry or upset with him. But I think Whisper would unfortunately have the tendency to believe she is at fault. But Eclipse would too...so while I'm not sure who would apologize first, I think the way it would happen is by them trying to come to a mutual understanding through words.

29. Eclipse resorts to violence. Whisper does not (usually.) But Eclipse doesn't really see much wrong with it, its how he was taught. I feel like to meet in the middle Whisper would have to sort of be the one to keep him in check so Eclipse doesn't go wrecking things when his negative emotions start to take over.

[eff-plays]

(same anon about the fun bad begginings with astarion) Your ship posts are very enjoyable! I really like how you've flavoured the relationship between Hiraeth and Astarion, with Hiraeth seeing right through him as someone who's MUCH better at the persona Astarion is trying to portray. Its really fun to read especially because of how different of an aproach it was to mine- less 5D chess and more, two people with terrible maladaptive survival skills fully falling for eachothers very shallow fronts and feeling very strange at the realisation- it's just really interesting to see other people's contextualisation of what's technically the same game

Thank you, it gladdens me to hear!

And I agree, I think one of the nice things about making your own OC and romancing an existing character is that you get so many different and unique dynamics, but it centers around the same little guy so you can still enjoy each other's contributions, even if they're different!

So you take the same canonical events but give them different new contexts, expand or add to them in different ways, and it keeps everything fresh either way because someone else is doing something entirely different, but it can still be inspiring and fun how other people interpret canon.

In this case as well, Hiraeth seeing through him raises a different question of why the fuck they go through with this in the first place, if he's so unconvincing? And that in turn helps develop the character further. I went in knowing I'd romance Astarion for the hype, and when looking up approval guides (cuz I had a pretty negative relationship with him in the beginning and it locked me out of a romance, because I kept being generically good without thought for characterization), I started wondering which of these things Hira might do and why. How someone might be good but still enough of a bastard to get his approval.

And one could argue that it's a bit cringe to base an OC off of game mechanics and an existing character, but I found that it imposed artistic limits in a weird way and made me think outside the box? What kind of person would do some of these questionable things and still be good? Hiraeth was initially based off an existing D&D OC I had, with a similar backstory, but they're basically their own person at this point (I realized they would multiclass into pally independently of anything, because it just made sense, for example), and that's mostly because I was trying to romance Astarion purely based on hype alone lmao.

Anyway, sorry for another ramble! I take any excuse to just say a bunch of bullshit, though I'd also love to hear how you see the relationship work between your barb and Astarion, if you feel like sharing! ❤

[qishylia-adelia]

Putting a readmore for those people who get tired of seeing negative posts about fan's behaviour in the fandom (aka for people like me)

(This post is written from someone who enjoys the idea of lunter but is generally neutral about it.Unrelated but honestly,goldlight is a better ship name tbh)

Yes,this post is directed to someone but I'm making a post for this just in case someone with the same mindset agrees with that certain someone.

Don't get me wrong,I like lunter but it's seems pretty damn clear the writers don't have any intend to write romance between the two.

"luz has two hands!"

"here's an idea on how to make lunter canon :) 1.break up lumity but in a good writing way"

Yeah I get it,I made that "two hands" joke a lot too.But making it canon? I think you should acknowledge the fact that THERE'S LITERALLY TWO EPISODES LEFT.WHY THE HELL YOU'RE SUGGESTING WE SHOULD FOCUS ON MAKING A STRAIGHT SHIP CANON?????

Atleast huntlow is on life support on their huntlow crumbs,that one dana stream,hunter blushing,parallels,hunter and willow caring and protecting eachother (even when most of the time it's pretty obvious that they would react the same way with any of their friends too)

But lunter? No offense but we don't have any official romantic crumbs that we could hold onto.

The idea of lumity breaking up is already dumb regardless if you have a way to justify it.Let lesbians (or any wlw person in general) have a healthy and well thought out representation in a mainstream disney show.

"ok,so what about making luz in a polyamarous relationship with amity and hunter?"

"we will have polyamarous relationship representation and tell people not everyone in a polyamarous relationship has to be romantically in love eachother"

It still suffer from the fact that there's only two episodes left.

What's so wrong about shipping a non canon ship? Nothing.

If people harassed you for shipping it with "they're siblings coded so that makes you problematic" comments,

they are in the wrong,not you.

And no,I don't think shipping a sibling coded ship counts as pr0sh!pp!ng.It's just weird but a harmless kind of weird.

[beautifullychaoticworld-blog]

Dude like your post on Hayley Williams' relationship is fucked up.

Her ex-husband cheated on her and she has held up her hands in the mistakes she's made regarding pursuing him while he was divorcing his first (?) spouse. She has publicly admitted that wrong. And she has also publicly spoken about the years of therapy she's had regarding relationships in her life and why they ended up the way they did due to her childhood and the traumas she's suffered etc.

Yeah, it's a bit worrying that she could be dating one of her closest friends and bandmates because it could affect the band but I don't think either of them will have entered a new kind of relationship with eachother without caution and understanding of the risks. They're adults in their 30s after all.

I understand. No relationship is perfect. She said in an interview she was "the other woman" first, that's a mistake she made because she was too young when they started dating and naive (17ish).

I hope it works out for them. I am afraid it will make the band drama worse if she is dating someone in the band again or if they break up but maybe Taylor isn't like Josh and will handle it with less negative emotions towards Hayley. Paramore has already survived so much shit, they will survive this too. Hayley deserves happiness with her relationships and love. She deserves to have a happy family (of her own). I think that her childhood trauma and being from a divorced family has messed her up a bit but it will be okay.

Sorry if I sounded bitchy or anything, just expressing my opinion based on what I already know or have heard.

[followmythoughts]

tick tock, chico 06/21/23

Time seems to be slipping through my fingers, racing ahead at an astonishing pace. It feels just yesterday when I enrolled for the first time in 3 years due to the pandemic, then suddenly, I blinked and I grew up. I made some friends, had fun, learned, and matured.

But I take a look around at my surroundings and realize - "Oh, it's ending. We're gonna be on our own now." and that thought just scares me so much because I've grown to rely on them and suddenly, they're not here anymore. I know I'll adapt, I'll get used to them not being around but I'm afraid. We fought, we get mad at eachother but will make up.

In a span of 10 months, I got attached to the point where I actually dreaded not having school and not seeing them because these days, the house, the so called home I've grown to love seemed to become so boring, and as they say, 'home is where the heart is' so what does that mean when my heart is with them?

They keep telling me that I have always been so emotional, and I agree. I don't think it's a negative trait. I'm not ashamed to say that I'll miss them, or how they've played a big part in my highschool years. They always say that no, they won't miss this classroom but I'd like to think that there's always gonna be a soft spot inside their heart for us.

Those moments where I refused to take off my mask, those moments where I almost pissed my pants because of how strict the teacher was, how my face burned in humiliation due to getting the answer wrong, and how I laughed so hard to the point where I'd be red in the face with my arm clutching my stomach.

It feels as though I just blinked, and those moments have transformed into distant memories.

One day, I'm gonna forget all 55 of them, one day, I have forgot about their voice and how they look like. One day, I'll hear their laughter, somewhere and as I look back, I realize, that oh, it's them. One day, I'll be stalking their profiles on their Facebook to see how much they've changed. Before this school year, I was immature, I haven't learned stuff, but then, we encountered our paths, and we made memories. Time may be fleeting, but the memories we create endure, etching themselves into the very fabric of who we are. Sure, I might mature more, I'm gonna learn more, I'm gonna be educated, but I don't think I'll ever forget the roots where this sudden maturity came from. Thanks. Thanks on teaching me on how to sneak out, thanks on teaching me about different kind of point of views, thanks for making my confidence go higher, thanks for make me learn stuff about myself, thanks for the fun memories. Thanks.

June 21 2023 12:41 AM

[boundforwarp]

Real Life Exposition

Long ago, there was a particular set of parents

One of them being my mom, the other being my dad

My mother always babied me, and as a result this was the idea of what love is to me, something so pure and innocent, while my dad on the other hand, also babied me. This set a standard in determining the kind of love I would want in others in the future

But they would drink and do things that children normally shouldn't see, put me in situations that children normally shouldn't be in

Overtime I would have to sort of take care of them, making sure they aren't killing eachother, making sure they aren't destroying everything, making sure that they feel comfortable, preventing them from exploding in a sudden and abrupt drunken rage at any given moment, this would set a standard within myself that seeks to, "fix," others per say, in the form of helping them through talking about their problems, becoming the sole manager of everyone's emotions, this would be my purpose in the future

And then we have the advent of my mother's death, she comprised these two key aspects into my existence, and when she passed away, I was suddenly faced with an abyss. The world stopped making sense purely because the person who gave me purpose, suddenly vanished. I was left atone to find a new way of life, I became lost, and consumed by the world as it is

And within this abyss I was tasked to learn how to live, purely by generating revenue, which to me is something that goes against everything my mother and my father taught me, I started doing meaningless work just to survive

Heart break after heart break, deep down I attempted to search for my mother in others, to no avail, this became the hallmark for any and all relationships, I just didn't know it. It is likely one of the reasons why I find it so hard to keep myself attached to anyone after a certain period of time, the less mother like they are, the farther away I want to be from them

And the curious effect that she provided, convincing me that I'm an important figure in this world devoid of meaning, after her death I felt that my life was no longer important, this is why I began to search for her again and again

And this is why I seem to be so selfish, it is a directly caused by needing to be validated purely because it is the only feeling that is warm and familiar, the only feeling that I ever really looked forward to

My selfish desire to be accepted and loved is derived from wanting to feel like she is still alive, to be able to feel a comfort that is lost entirely to time, my mother was capable of driving away any and all negative thoughts with just her presence alone, a safe haven, but this isn't to say that she was perfect, I inherited certain traits that only made my selfish desires worse

This is why I get impatient with people when they don't seem perfect, or when I feel the slightest tinge of anything that isn't loving me. I become angry that my attachment figures throughout the years would do things like avoid me, or get angry at me because I would expect them to love me in every sense of the word

So I tried to live for that feeling as time went on, to find someone capable of doing such a thing. And I would constantly shift through people, almost like they're disposable, in order to fulfill my wish. I would let anyone love me, and I have so far, and it was subjected to becoming meaningless purely because all I ever tried to look for was my mom again

I inherited a lot of her traits

Her parents were negligent, she had the urge to be seen and loved because of this, so she would shift through people meticulously like they are toys. I remember many arguments she had with them, always telling them that they abandoned her, and that they loved and cared for her brothers more than they ever did with her.

And so she would hurt people, and would make decisions on a whim based entirely around chasing that feeling of wanting to be seen and loved by someone, anyone. I'm a viciously emotional being because of her, all of my bipolar-like-emotions, she would exhibit, it's a lot of learnt behaviour, after she passed away is when it really started to implement itself onto me

I stopped caring for anyone and anything after her death. And I'm deeply guilt ridden for it

Because it then became very apparent that everyone else has had to take care of me afterwards, when I used to take care of others beforehand. Since she died, all I wanted to do was join her

To this day I will randomly feel like death is my only way out, but I know that I can't do it at this point, not after enduring so much and proving that I could try to live without my mother

To anyone I've ever hurt, I am deeply sorry

I really am

[destinyc1020]

I hope the two of them have a good rest they really working hard these days💔💔i’m worries their work affect bad on their realtionship esp now they known as a couple and people make a comments about them and make false rumors if they spread from eachother for a while like the past weekend

I'm sure they're fine :) Honestly? I don't even think TZ see half the crazy stuff that's out there that we fans see lol. You REALLY have to look and dig DEEEP to see any hate about them tbh. And I doubt Tom and Z are even caring one bit about what other people think about them. I don't think they go looking for hateful remarks in other words. They tend to stay away from that kind of stuff. Plus, when you're as busy as they are, you don't have time for that nonsense lol. I honestly wouldn't know half the stuff I do about some of the hateful messages and delusions some fans have about Tomdaya if I didn't run this Tumblr blog. I'd be completely oblivious to most of it. I only know of half of it because of the anti msgs that come into my Anon inbox, or the stuff that fans warn me about in my dms or inbox. But other than that? I wouldn't really know much about it at all. Most celebrities tend to tune out any online articles or gossip said about them anyway, cuz all it does is drive you batty lol. If I were famous, I would actually AVOID any type of online chatter about me, because it would probably be damaging to my self-esteem. I think most celebrities tend to tune it out and purposely avoid it. The good news is that the overwhelming MAJORITY of people actually LOOOOVE Tomdaya and love Tom and Zendaya together. 🥰 Even the media has been surprisingly pretty respectful towards them.

They're actually an anomaly couple to me because even the media hasn't jumped on them or made any types of negative remarks on them that have gone "viral". It's almost like the media is trying to protect them at all costs because they know that they're decent people who are just two young actors in the business trying to do their job and have a private relationship w/each other. They aren't attention hogs, they don't speak badly about other people, they're gracious with their fans and the media, etc. Like, they really are getting protected real well imo, because by now all kinds of crazy rumors would have ben swirling around just for clicks. I think people are happier and realize that them being a couple period is more "newsworthy" than any kind of made up nonsense about them lol.