#also bi4bi my beloved....

[findafight]

Do not look at me I've known for ages starbie is very similar to gertchase I know but it's different I swear it's DIFFERENT OKAY ITS NOT THE SAME

[nothingtoseehere00-00]

Just imagine Steve figuring out he's bisexual and realizing that when he dates a girl, at a certain point into dating them, he's gonna have to tell them that he's also into men. Of course since it's the 80s, the chances of them being okay with that is probably slim. They might think he's disgusting or that he's just gay playing straight.

So he tries dating guys instead, thinking that's safer. And he ends up meeting a great guy named John at a gay bar who he really likes. Things are going strong until they started talking about past crushes and first loves. Steve casually mentions celebrity crushes on women and having loved Nancy. And thus Steve gets his first ever experience of the rampant biphobia in queer spaces. John accuses Steve of being confused and trying to hold onto his "straightness". Steve tries to explain himself by saying that, no, he really does like women, but that only makes things worse. John now believes that Steve is just going to eventually leave him for a woman, if he hasn't already been cheating on him. John ends up storming out leaving Steve devastated.

He goes crying to Robin and explains what happened. He's horrified to realize that no matter who he dates, there's always going to be the risk of them not accepting him, guy or girl. But he can't hide that part of himself, it's too big. It's who he is. Robin is there to reassure him that if someone can't accept him being bi than they don't deserve him. It's able to cheer him up a little, but the damage has been done.

Steve is now very reluctant to date anyone. And if he does manage to bring himself to go on one, he gets complaints of being very emotionally distant or having a fear of commitment.

When Steve inevitably falls for Eddie, he's scared out of his mind. It's clear that Eddie is gay based on his hanky, but, again, that doesn't mean he'll accept Steve's bisexuality. One night, while the two get so high in Eddie's trailer that Steve has to stay over, they argue about sleeping arrangements. Eddie keeps insisting that Steve would probably be more comfortable with Eddie sleeping in another room for some cryptic reason and Steve, who gets incredibly clingy while high, keeps shooting back with them sharing a bed being fine. When Steve keeps asking why they can't over and over again, Eddie blurts out that it's because he's gay. Without hesitation, Steve's says he knows and points at the hanky on the dresser by the bed. Staring at Steve for a moment, Eddie then asks how he knows about the hanky code. This time Steve hesitates. For awhile. It honestly scares Eddie for a moment, thinking he's been vecnad. If Steve hadn't been high, he maybe would have been able to think of an excuse, some way to get out of this conversation, but he can't. So he admits that he likes guys.

Eddie very excitedly starts asking a bunch of questions and talking about how they finally found something they have in common, who knew? When he notices the tears in Steve's eyes, he stops, confused, and asks what's wrong. So Steve tells him. He's not like Eddie. He's bisexual. And he braces himself for the backlash. For loosing his best friend and crush.

But then he feels a hand grab his. Eddie tells him that they still have something in common because he's also bi. Steve points out that he said he was gay, though. Eddie asks if he has ever told anyone that he was bi before, specifically gay men. Steve nods. Then he asks if it went well. Steve shakes his head. Eddie tells him that's why he said that. He's explains how tiring it is to have to explain his existence to people who won't get it and/or react badly to it. So he just tells guys that he's also gay. It just makes things easier. And Steve gets it. By God, does he get it. They spend the whole night exchanging stories and experiences, for the first time able to talk freely about their love life.

And by the end of the night, they stumble over each other trying to ask the other out. They laugh and both say yes.

[animangalover-writes]

Forever torn between the headcanon that Zoro and Nami are gay besties, and Zonami as a ship. This is my curse.

[bi-dykes]

Girlfriends

[grahamkennedy]

If you wanna know how my mental state is right now I looked at this picture for too long and started crying

[d3ad-star]

Gf who talks a lot X bf who pretends to listen but is zoning out

[avatar-aaang]

I am baaaAAAAaaAaaCk on my dr stone bullshit babbeyyyyyy

[proxythe]

can i get your top glee headcanons??

or any glee stuff you just CANNOT stop thinking about

infodump pls king

i yapped so bad omg i’m serious … anyways here you go!!

i don’t have many specific hcs just kind of general stuff but let me get into this…

- bpd quinn fabray and bpd blaine anderson will always be famous to me

- bisexual finn & sam just real as hell… dare i even add bi4bi hudevans…?

- finntana bffs is literally my favorite thing of all time i fear </3 technically not completely hc since they’re actually friends but in my head they r Best Friends… its a need

- fuinn endgame 🙌 yall gotta stay w me on this ship fr hold on wait-!!!

- also technically canon friends but needed more quinncedes bffism ?? i still picture theyre very close. theyre occasionally lovers in my head as well

- i imagine college finn when i draw him but i love teacher finn bc i would die without the unique & finn dynamic in my head. hes her number 2 fan (kurt and mercedes are number 1). she is his favorite student TO ME!!!

- finn actually being protective and a good brother and friend is technically somewhat of an hc to me. they love acting like he’s an awesome friend but i always feel like it was never properly shown (aside from a few times, to my memory). needed him to whoop some ass protecting kurt at least once i fear!

- artana bffs… artie my beloved lowkey! i know him and santanas convos & texts are Crazy as hell… they love to talk shit it’s true it’s true…

- tina staying emo style wise is huge for me… i loved it so much on her… let her queen out idk.

- same w rachel lowk. her early season looks and outfits were soo cute, i always picture a similar style on her even when she’s older 😭 (honestly a lot of the characters s4-on i thought had kinda basic outfits ?? maybe it’s just me but idk. felt like they had more individual&unique styles in s1-3)

- honestly i mostly have so many friendship thoughts with no further elaboration. blaine/finn, britt/rachel, more mike/finn, more kurt/quinn, artie/mercedes, quinn/blaine ?!?!? def more but my mind is blanking…

- anything furt related i inject directly into my head and heart … siblings hit me in my chest like a bullet every time

- a more unserious one but kurt and quinn are literally sues gay son and thot daughter. her favorites i know this to be true

as for stuff i just can’t stop thinking about… oh you already know the first thing i’ll be bringing up…

- “can i show you something?… it’s my girlfriend. i used to have another photo but i like this one better” “why? she looks terrible” “cuz i think it’s the first one where you can really see her” TURN IT UP!!!😭😭😭

- “you’re the most beautiful girl i’ve ever seen in my life” …yall could never make me hate fuinn im sorry like look at the material

- finntana hugs, fuinn s4 hug specifically, furt hugs … its simple… finn hug = cinema

- quinn wanting mercedes there when she delivered her baby. this was serious for me

- “you’re gonna dance it with me dude” + him singing to kurt will forever live in my heart. mhm mhm lemme not forget my furt

- marley jake & unique. just pure bffism. theyre unique defenders 4L & i think thats beautiful as fuck

- “sam just tweeted that i smell good” “i wont stop til its trending” SAMCEDES!!! 😭😭😭

- sam’s “bring it” & finn’s “brung”

- samcedes, fuinn, brittana, klaine … my ultimate beloveds really. + jarley :-)

- and, lastly: “there’s only one person in this world who can tell you what you are” “me” “no, me. sue sylvester.”

[genderless-crimes]

for the ship ask bingo: Paulkins, Jon x Martin from TMA, & Garfield x Jon? :3

Duoxowl????? In my inbox????? It's more likely than you'd think

Ty for the ask, bbg!!!

Also, I'm gonna do this a bit differently from the character ask bc I wanna put gifs this time

First up, we have the one and only

Paulkins (Paul Matthews x Emma Perkins)

the straight couple of all time. Definitely bi4bi and t4t. I love these two so much for their cringefail flirting and the way they defy fate to be together. Bonus points since their lives become so much weirder if they're apart. Bonus bonus points since their doppelgangers were so down bad for each other that they murdered half the town (Robo Emma and Paul 23 my beloved). Absolutely iconic. 14/10. My only critique of this ship is that it's led to a lot of fans only viewing Emma as an attachment to Paul when she's amazing in her own right. Still love them, my fav Hatchetfield ship

Jmart/Eyecloud (Jonathan Sims x Martin Blackwood)

GIF by @samwise1548

FABRIC RUSTLES

I love these two so much. Ultimate enemies to lovers but they're not actually enemies. I will never be over these two. I need them to be happy. I need people to get freakier with the Eldritch elements of both of them. I need to bite bite bite bite bite bite--

16/10 love it

Finally...

Lasagna Lunch (Garfield x Jon Arbuckle)

Duo when I catch you--

Horrible ship. I don't think Jon should be a pet owner, let alone a lover. -6/10

[jiabeewrites]

ATLA Pride Headcanons, but cleaned up a bit/updated from this post

stan the cabbage man

AANG 😇 - hoo boy - i still stand by my position that this smol child is aroace - but he's in a qpr with katara - bc yeah they're kinda cute - probably pan in terms of attraction - cisn't - genderflux. yes yes yes genderflux aang - probably doesn't give a shit about pronouns - and literally glows whenever someone calls him they/them, esp on days where the male-ness is low - because yay! ur right! - he's so precious aghsklfdjslk

KATARA 🌊 - she's also aroace - stfu - *proceeds to aroace the entire atla crew* - qpr with aang - they are very cute but not in the romantic sense - i feel like she'd be bi in terms of attraction tho - pan aang 🤝 bi katara - cisn't - genderfluid! all waterbenders are now genderfluid, change my fucking mind - any/all pronouns :)

SOKKA ⚔ - my friend said that he was the straightest one there - I DISAGREE - he's so BI - BISEXUAL DISASTER SOKKA MY BELOVED - i ship sokka and zuko so hard it's not even funny - but sokka and suki are also very cute so i kinda can't choose - extra heapings of internalized homophobia - bc he thinks it makes him less manly or some shit - i like to think that toph smacked it outta him - i said before that i was waiting for him to get smacked in the face with gay panic when he sees zuko, and like i mean get an ACTUAL GOOD LOOK AT HIM - sadly it didn't happen - anyways - cisn't, i think he's also genderfluid - genderfluid sokka would be so FUN omfg - pronouns change depending on the gender

ZUKO 🔥 - he's so GAY OH MY GODDDD - but i still feel like he'd be asexual - massive ace vibes throughout the entire fucking show - also demiromantic - sokka was his gay awakening fucking FIGHT ME ON THIS - bc you will see my corpse on that hill - and you'll realize that i was right - cis(n't) - i feel like he doesn't care enough to figure it out or put a label on it

TOPH 🪨 - I FUCKING LOVE HER OMG OMG - that being said - her favorite color is green how can she not be aro - giving me aroallo vibes tbh - probably sapphic oriented - cisn't - i headcanon that she's enby as well as transmasc - probably she/they pronouns

AZULA ⚡ - oh dear - i love her sm - she's a lesbian - like how can she not be smh - she's so gay - asexual in the "fuck you but not literally" sense - cis - azula and zuko are the perfect example of wlw & mlm hostility and i love them - they're like this

MAI 🔪 - aroallo mai aroallo mai AROALLO MAI - mai is aroallo and i will DIE ON THIS HILL - probably omnisexual if i hafta specify - prefers females - cisn't - agender. mai has no gender. fuck you.

TY LEE 🌸 - ty lee is a lesbian - like how can she not be tell me now - i kinda ship her with azula (mainly bc of this fic you should def go read it it's so GOOD) - cisn't. - ty lee is genderfluix/fluidflux but never tells anybody her pronouns because she likes to fuck with people that way. - mai always seems to know which ones to use tho

SUKI 🤺 - she is also bi - suki & sokka are bi4bi and i love that for them - pretty sure the kyoshi warriors are just one giant polycule but whatever - suki is trans fucking fight me - transgender suki transgender suki TRANSGENDER SUKI - she's also asexual :D

APPA ☁ - lmao there's nothing for him - i just love appa sm

[vampireghostlawyer]

ok i’ll take one for the woman likers. any KARIN headcanons!!!

karin sauer my beloved <3

-can handle spicy food and bitter alcohol well because she trained herself to to seem tougher

-doesn't use conditioner. if she was alive rn, she would be breaking out the axe 3-in-1 every shower

-the little strands she leaves out of her ponytail are the only parts she curls. she doesn't bother trying to curl her ponytail or do an updo because she is terrible at doing hair and won't ask for help learning how to do it

-hates the idea of having children but actually really likes kids (also animals)

-i know it's not like discussed at all in modern man BUT karin is bi to me. (im a bi4bi daarin truther but i doubt this is a surprise)

-wears a surprisingly girly perfume. my personal hc is vanilla or amber

-i'm a big fan of karin being a sweater girl, but idk if it counts since it's possibly canon ? but basically they were a subculture of women who wore turtlenecks and other sweaters with no bra or with bras that showed more than was considered proper at the time.

-this one is partially thanks to @synvelesow but i think karin is a loud ass sleeper. she is snoring and sleep talking and getting up to pee or get a drink or move every two seconds.

-i think karin has probably worked pretty hard not to speak with a bremen accent, but like i mentioned with daan, it DEFINITELY is still coming out when she's angry. i think tbh her accent probably comes out a lot more than daan's.

[rotiaftermath]

gen2 sexuality headcanons

Hm ok here we go

Staci… I haven’t really thought about it all that much but I feel like she’d have some kind of microlabel??? I don’t know enough about microlabels to give any specifics but I think she’d like explaining what it is (her aunt invented microlabels yeah)

Dakota is so bi to me. Also arospec (maybe demiromantic)

B… another one I haven’t thought much about?? Hm pan I guess

Dawn… unlabeled but some flavor of girl liker. Might also use a microlabel though

Sam is also bi t4t bi4bi samkota my beloved

Brick… I kinda switch between gay and bi but I’ve been leaning gay lately

Anne Maria is so so bi to me

Chester… that old man is gay

Vito is aro bi

Svetlana is a lesbian

Manitoba… I saw someone say whatever lets him cheat on his wife and like. Hard agree

Mal… on one hand I kinda see aroace but I’ve known like. Two or three gay emo edgelords who are just like him so y’know

Mike is bi ace

Jo… another one I switch between lesbian and bi but I’ve been leaning bi lately. She has a preference for women though

Scott is bi but oh so very deep in the closet

Zoey is a lesbian. Dealt with a lotta comphet and cycled through like a dozen labels though

Cameron… not really sure tbh. I’ve seen a few different things and I think I lean towards bi. I do like nb lesbian Cameron though so???? He’s definitely nb though is that anything

Lightning… on one hand token het on the other. I think it would be funny if he found out he was bi when Jo went I’ve never even kissed a guy and he thought what if we kissed… that sounds sha-nice… but in that scenario he’d also go phew lightning is straight when he found out Jo’s a girl while someone else is just 🤨🏳️‍🌈?

Thanks for the ask!!

[epersonae]

20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @yerbamansa, thanks!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

169 😅 150 of which are for The Adventure Zone (I wrote a LOT of small fic for TAZ, and just a lot of TAZ fic in general)

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

604,338, which remains absolutely wild to me. I hit the half-million mark this year.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Currently Our Flag Means Death, but previously The Adventure Zone, and I have one Star Trek (TOS movies) fic.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Sea of Love (Our Flag Means Death (TV)) (6,697 words)

Phoenix Fire (The Adventure Zone (Podcast)) (2,031 words)

Commit to the Bit (Our Flag Means Death (TV)) (2,471 words)

Dinner & Conversation (The Adventure Zone (Podcast)) (826 words)

I have begun to long for you (Our Flag Means Death (TV)) (4,185 words)

Yeah, ok, some fun reunion porn for the big fandom and a collab with two pretty popular writers for the small fandom make sense for that top two in particular.

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to, especially since I don't get that many, and I love getting comments so much that I just want to share my appreciation. Sometimes the spoons are low, sometimes I don't know what to say except "thanks!" and if someone just commented on several chapters I might not do that for all of them.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Well, Phoenix Fire is the Worst Ending, aka the destruction of the entire universe, plus unbearably sad between the main characters, so yeah.

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I do have quite a bit of fluffy fic (Commit to the Bit comes to mind, there's also a Fantasy Costco Kravitz/Taako that's very sweet), but I immediately thought of for the benefit of all the broken hearts, just because it takes an incredibly bittersweet ending of the fic it's fixing and says FUCK THAT, how can everyone get a happy ending instead?

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I've never gotten any, even managed to avoid the twitter wank that WFU got when I wrote fics of it! (long ago, I did get some vagueblogging about some stuff in my TAZ fic, but nothing ever addressed directly at me)

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

That is where I started and why I started (my first smutty fic is pretty bad imho but it was popular, relatively speaking, because for a bit there it was the only unlocked smut for that pairing); my original rarepair was M/F bi4bi in a complicated polycule, and so there's some them+others works in there. (readers of for the benefit of all the broken hearts are nodding along like "ok this tracks") beyond that, I'm just going to say go look at my work.

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written?

Is for the benefit of all the broken hearts (and the rest of that series) a crossover??????? Like I'm legitimately staring into space thinking about the boundary line between modern AU and RPF and........ HUH.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

DO PEOPLE DO THAT

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

183 thousand words in a series: the only life you could save, with my beloved Ryn, when we were "just friends" - started as our attempt to co-write a reconciliation between Taako and Lucretia, and spun out into an entire timeline with themes spanning before the Stolen Century all the way into post-canon. Some pieces we wrote separately, much of it we wrote together. Even the last piece, which I published after Ryn died, includes a section that they wrote, about Taako trying to cope with Lucretia's death.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

Probably Mulder/Scully lol, tho I don't know if I've ever read any fic of them????

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

One of my very first TAZ fics was a Hurley/Sloane backstory fic that was going to be basically a beat-for-beat retelling of The Fast and the Furious (oh, I guess that's also sort of a crossover?), but I only ever wrote the first chapter. I would love to write it at some point, because I think it would be fun as hell.

I'd also love to finish my TAZ Amnesty fic, sweetness follows, which is friends-to-lovers post-canon Minerva/Duck.

16. What are your writing strengths?

Character voice, I think. Possibly a stupid depth of canon knowledge for whatever the canon is, and I think I have a knack for figuring out how to reincorporate those details. Honestly, it's hard for me to say "oh these are my strengths and weaknesses", or at least today I'm having trouble pinning that down.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Punctuation Pokemon, or rather, my sentences do get very tangly. I find endings really tricky, I've done a lot of work thinking through how to stick the landing. (This is one of the ways in which Ryn continues to live in my head, because they could always spot when I hadn't quite made it.)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

Alas my Spanish (high school and college) is too rusty to even try, and I don't know any other languages.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

The Adventure Zone, although I wrote quite a bit of Agatha Christie pastiche in junior high, and a lot of Anne Rice influenced original fiction in high school and college.

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

I love a lot of my fic, it's fun to go back and look and say "oh that!", and The Reckoning Arrives is up there, of course, because I loved writing it, and it saved my life. ("she's survived the impossible before" got me out of my marriage and 2 years later got me through the hospital. "you're here, so be here" got me through what came after that.)

But it does have to be for the benefit of all the broken hearts - she lives in my head, still, and I feel incredibly proud of all the work I put into it, the technical work, the emotional work.

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Not tagging anybody, but PLEASE! if you feel like talking about your writing, do it!

[tamras-shieldmaiden]

Heyo, Lady Oscar! I'm excited to see what you have to share! I'll do a separate ask for each character (six in total), to keep things simple.

So for this first ask... well, I have to start with Kuvira, of course~

Okay! Let’s do the thing starting with my main girl, Kuvira. *cracks knuckles*

1. Sexuality headcanon 

I've been headcanoning Kuvira as bisexual since I began writing fanfics about her. I personally don't see Baatar Jr. as a beard in their relationship because she seemed to sincerely care about him in canon (until she didn't, lol!) I also don't buy the comphet argument because IMHO, it doesn't fit her personality. I think she's demiromantic, and specifically with Asami and Baatar Jr. I can see her as sapiosexual. She surrounded herself with three intelligent people in the likes of Baatar Jr, Varrick and Zhu Li (and a token himbo, Bolin) on her inner circle so I believe she has a thing for intelligence. Fandom usually headcanons her as a top or dom but I see her more of a switch, especially with Asami and Korra, and between them it's pretty much an endless battle for dominance in the bedroom. 😏

I also lowkey ship her with Mako who I also headcanon as bi so it’s a Bi4Bi scenario, and in this case she’s more of a top because I do agree with the headcanon that Mako is more of a bottom. Fun fact: her voice actress Zelda Williams is bi, as it is Janet Varney, Korra’s VA.  

2. OTP

Oooh, this is a tough one because although OTP stands for “One True Pairing” I ship her pretty much equally with both Asami and Korra. With Korra, I indulge in the angsty, dramatic side of things. They have so many parallels that are ingrained in canon that it makes for an interesting exercise to explore the ways they resemble each other and in the ways their differences serve to complement and balance each other. It’s basically a lot of “the sunshine who can kill you and the badass who can kill you” relationship meme with these two. 🤣

With Asami I play on “what if” canon divergence scenarios which make for more lighthearted and flirty situations. They make for such an amazing power couple that is just too darned good. Plus their sexual chemistry is off the roof, a “can’t keep their hands off each other” kind of chemistry that's way too much fun. 😉

3. BROTP

Although he's the romantic interest in canon, I headcanon Junior as more of a second in command/partner in crime than as significant other material and they’re very much BROTP in my stories. Jinora is my other candidate as BROTP for Kuvira in a Republic City setting because Kuvira is a jock/dancer/soldier who is also cunning, smart, and well versed in strategy,  so I can see her bonding with Jinora over books and history. And of course, my beloved Lin Beifong and Kuvira would bond by swapping stories and gossip about Suyin, and boy I bet they both have a lot to talk about Su. I think they would realize they have more in common than they think since they’re both the type to bottle up their emotions and to put their work before everything else, and they both wanted to impress their maternal figures. Lin would be an excellent mentor and friend for Kuvira, since Lin won't take crap from anyone so shr would keep Kuvira in the straight and narrow with her no nonsense attitude.

4. NOTP

I basically don’t ship her with any of the Beifongs but the big NOTP for me is Suyin. I just can’t shake the mentor/protege relationship off my mind to see them even remotely romantic. From an objective standpoint, I can see the appeal with all their drama but it's a big nope for me.

5. First headcanon that pops into my head?

She’s a sleepwalker. Her childhood trauma manifested in sleepwalking which was pretty severe during her first years with the Beifongs but she grew out if it gradually as she grew up. Following the events of Book 4 and Ruins of the Empire which ends with her in house arrest, her sleepwalking came back but not as bad as when she was a child, which it’s fortunate because I can’t imagine the mess she would leave behind while bending in her sleep. 😱

6: favorite line from this character 

"I owe the Avatar my life. Her power is beyond anything I could ever hope to achieve. I'll accept  whatever punishment the world sees fit”. 

This is from The Last Stand. Although the entire scene with Korra and Kuvira in the Spirit World is amazing since we get to witness Kuvira’s emotional breakdown, it's in her surrender that we see what we can consider the beginning of her path toward redemption, meaning that her story is not over yet. 

7. One way in which I relate to this character 

We're both familiarized with military service and the concept of discipline and service to the nation since I also served. I also relate in the need to prove ourselves, something that is evident in the way she ends up emulating her mentor Suyin and in having strained relationships with siblings, like the one she had with Opal. Come to think of it, having strained relationships with siblings seems like a very Beifong thing to do. 🤔

8: thing that gives me second hand embarrassment about this character

The whole having her foster brother end up as her fiancee thing is kinda weird so I totally get Opal when she was all weirded out with the news of their engagement.

9: cinnamon roll or problematic fave?

Both! 🤣

[airasora]

I was the anon with the suggestions and I'm glad and happy to have given some food for thought at least.

I personally was obsessed with Thomas for some reason because from what I remembered from your hollina aus you made him a stern yet anxious military boy, and so a character like Miguel seemed fun to me (because I could see him being like almost too relaxed, as in a "hippie" so to speak lol), but granted, idr much about it and I don't wanna force you into any of my suggestions. Plus looking back I think Thomas may be the younger brother and Miguel defintely doesn't feel or look like a teen still so it may be a tad creepy granted.

But I also like Pocahontas as a choice, especially cause she gives me queer vibes as well usually, like technically I view both as more gay, but they could be a bi4bi power couple as well lol

Actually, you're pretty close to why I "can't" ship Thomas with Miguel and it is indeed because of my Hollina AUs! Could I just ship them on their own? Sure, but that's not how my brain works lolol xD But it's because Thomas already has an entire character arc in my Hollina AUs and adding a lover, no matter their gender, would mess it up - so any lovers he may have would be AFTER "Hollina" has been established, so to speak.

To give just a quick idea; Thomas is the oldest brother of the three children where Lina is the middle child and Jenny is the youngest child. Thomas looks up to his military father to the point where he almost copies everything he does, including following him into the military etc.

This varies from Hollina AU to Hollina AU, but in the High School AU, Lina's father is very homophobic causing Thomas to learn some of that behavior. When Thomas discovers that his beloved little sister (whom he is extremely close with) is in love with another girl, it causes a complete paradigm shift in him that he struggles with for some time; he suddenly feels like he has to choose between his sister and his father.

And that's all I'm gonna say about his character arc for now. Adding a lover to his story would deviate from the paradigm shift in the way I want to write it. And if it were to be a man, then his paradigm shift would start overlapping with Lina's story and that's not the direction I want to go with either redhead Cx

I absolutely agree with you that Thomas and Miguel would be fun with those vibes! Perhaps I can sneak Miguel into a Hollina AU where homophobia isn't as much of a theme so that his character arc could be different from Lina's character arc. It'd be fun to experiment with Thomas having always been attracted to women, suddenly feeling attracted to a man, and then questioning everything: Is he bi? Is he gay? Is Miguel's casual view on sexuality just rubbing off on him? What's happening??? xD

And it'd kinda be fun to make Miguel one of Holli's friends or something, like you mentioned too, so that both Benson teenagers fall in love with a sexually free-spirited blonde pffft xD

[crossover-enthusiast]

Heheheh

I see Radford also being black and having a bit of vitiligo. And I could also see him being transmasc, and either bisexual or pan. He is also probably neurodivergent, like adhd most likely.

I see Bob as.. I don't know actually? On one hand, I could see him being a cis male who is straight. But I could also see him being aroace or possibly being interested in men. I also just headcanon him as being American.

I see Carmen and Richard both being bisexual and being American, but I could see Richard being trans ftm.

I can see Rick being light-skinned, but being Hispanic. I can see him being a cis male, but I'm not too sure about his sexuality?? I think the most I could see him being possibly is him being gay or bisexual with a strong male pref. Also he definitely has depression lmao.

ADHD Radford my beloved

Honestly yeah Bob is either the straightest Texan or a Southern male kisser /j

Rich bi4bi power couple /j

I headcanon Rick as ace and bi :> Also yeah he is super depressed