#and obviously romantically coded

[sickofthistoxicshit]

Shadowhunters rewatch,

Malec has always been my favorite,

Going through S1 again, so many little actions and conversations that made me go,

"This feels familiar, where have I seen this before?"

Oh, right, Buck and Eddie.

Aren't we lucky that it only took Malec 3 seasons to get married? 👀

[ghost-kings-court-jester]

Saw something about Hua Cheng always being able to sense his ashes so he can always sense Xie Lian and I just think it adds a hilarious take to him giving Xie Lian his ashes. Like yes it’s a beautiful and romantic ghostly tradition but there is something so funny about him given them to him the moment he has to leave so he doesn’t lose him again after 800 years of searching like someone tagging a bird to track their migration habits. He is not taking no fucking chances.

[starflungwaddledee]

Hear me out…Meta Knight and Starstruck

✧˖°.✧ gravity ✧˖°.✧ ɡravɪti (noun) 1. the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth or towards any other physical body having mass 2. the degree of intensity of gravity, measured by acceleration 3. extreme importance; seriousness 4. solemnity of manner

[yasamlynn]

Despite all the ships I have with Brooklynn I really want her to end up single lol

[nohara-rin-dot-mp3]

can i be a hater for a second. finding good naruto analysis is so HARD because most of analysis either tends to ignore the thematic messages the narrative is based around or blindly accept the thematic messages the narrative is based around. the narrative is a part of the text, and you can't just throw it to the side, but the narrative isn't absolute, and a lot of the things the narrative believes are outright wrong. you shouldn't believe the narrative when it tells you that men are better than women, but disregarding the fact that the narrative does think that men are better than women will lead to inaccurate analysis. there is a space between word of god and death of the author, you know, and that's where good analysis sits. i'm not saying that people can't draw conclusions that kishimoto obviously didn't intend to convey- i'm just saying that you need to understand that backing stuff up with the text means reckoning with the fact that the text has incredibly conservative views.

[itspileofgoodthings]

the way teenagers’ minds are just this direct channel to romance. hilarious and also something I understand on a PROFOUND level.

[chenfordswopez]

Riverdale (TV 2017-2023)

That 90s Show (TV 2023-present)

[stabknives]

I have both legitimate and incredibly petty, silly reasons to hate zelink as a ship-!

[littlespoonevan]

tragic: the song i've been obsessing over for two days straight is actually best represented by buck and abby's relationship and i will never be able to convince someone to have an in depth discussion about it with me and/or make a gifset of it 💔

[skellyjingles]

you’d think that my main ship in my current fandom focus (bunnydoll) would have nothing in common with my main ship in my previous fandom focus (bokuroo) but both actually somehow involve getting unwarranted comments from strangers about how they see them as platonic.

[psychicpuppyarcade]

Okay this hozier lyric but with Obi-wan saying he'd go through all the pain and grief of losing his master and losing Anakin to the dark side if it meant he could watch Anakin grow up again even if it was all the same, just a replay of what happened through his entire life even if he couldn't stop what happened to Anakin he would go through it all again if it meant he could hold his brother one more time

[thrilling-oneway]

Also shout out to the person who said in the tags of that airi post who said that half the debates in this fandom are over gender or sexuality because that’s true and it pisses me off immensely

[selfinflictedgunshotwound]

it actually makes me so mad that some people just don't value romance whatsoever like i'm sorry to all aromantic people but if you really think skip to loafer is not going to include romance then you've lost your mind

[warriorprincesstramp]

stopppppp trying to make sawyer and kate happennnn it's NOT! going to happen!

[cognitiveleague]

Me: Ship what you want, it’s your sandbox and you can play in it however you want as long as no real-life harm is being done! 🥰

Also me: *gritting my teeth while scrolling past straight shipping fanart of queer or extremely queer-coded characters* P… people can like things I don’t like or see things I don’t see in a character and that’s fINE…!!!

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

with all due respect WHAT is going on with the swifties

okay so sincere answer: a lot of people who have spent YEARS convincing themselves that Taylor Swift is a closeted queer woman who's been sending coded messages through her lyrics, Instagram posts, imagery in her concerts, and pretty much everything else. this *is* conspiracy thought, complete with a thought terminating cliche: when pressed, Gaylors fall back on the insistence that Taylor CAN'T come out. their offered reasons seldom make much sense or hold up to scrutiny, but as long as they've been able to hold onto the refrain that Swift simply can't come out, it's possible to maintain the belief that she is signaling queerness but may never be able to confirm it. every boyfriend can be excused as a beard, every denial that she's dating a female friend can be understood as a lie, every insta post can be analyzed qanon-style for clues that only you and your in-group understand.

Gaylors have, obviously, been certain that these clues were being deliberately planted and thus that Swift was encouraging them and WANTED to be understood as queer in some kind of transparent closet situation; the fact that Swift has embraced the aesthetics of allyship with things like her unbelievably tacky video for You Need to Calm Down has been read as approval. receiving even a very mild admonishment - in this case, Swift expressing disappointment that rabid speculation about her romantic life didn't end when she decided to prioritize friendships with other women over dating men - is thus seen as a betrayal, as Swift breaking a contract that, in reality, she never knew about or agrees to. the ensuing social media tantrums we're seeing are what happens when someone has dedicated considerable time and energy to justifying a conspiracy, including building significant social networks around it, only to have that belief challenged by a source that they never thought would contradict them even a little.

in fairness I also never thought she'd do it; I really thought she'd play both sides and keep collecting that Gaylor money forever.