#and the romance centric thing

[nullians]

About that misogyny in fandom post. I think it’s like… a complicated enough net of “what people want to see in fan creations”, “what people can relate to in fan creations”, “what kind of people make up for most of the creative side of fandom” (remember that “all men do in fandom is make power level tiers and theories” post? It’s bad but like. Shows the general sentiment), “what will give an author interactions”, and “how do people approach each other about their favourite things”. Like there are many factors, and I think sexualisation and fanservice should be counted in too, and the diversity offered to male vs female characters. I’ve said it once before but it’s generally much harder to find a female character who has the same freedom of expression as a male character. And a lot of them are not made with the same enthusiasm as the male ones. Like yeah, that is misogyny but I think it’s not like. A fandom-root problem but a source material problem too? And imo the audience will subconsciously or not react to that.

Plus, maybe this wouldn’t be so visible if fandom wasn’t mostly ship-centric… Because as it stands, even if there is a voice to explore non-romantic and sexual relationships oftentimes it just ends up being a very sad/isolating experience still. Hmm

[imfinereallyy]

What’s different about Eddie, Steve realizes once’s he figures out he has feelings for him, is that they are genuinely friends first. Steve’s always thought romantically from the get go. Nancy, Hedi, and the long list of girls’ names he has tried very hard to remember (head injuries were no joke), we’re all firmly placed in the romance column in his brain when he first meets them. Hell, even Robin moved quickly from coworker to extremely misguided romantic interest. She’s his platonic soulmate, his other half (non romantic), but he still had those thoughts at first. And sure, he usually ends up friendly or even friends (looking at you Nance) with these once romantic interests, but it was always after.

With Eddie, it had been a long journey from strangers to friends (and briefly rivals). But Eddie was first and foremost his friend. It made him different, it made him special. Steve thinks it should have been the fact that Eddie is a guy to throw him off, but it isn’t. Instead, it’s the fact that if he could lose one of the best people his ever had the pleasure of calling his friend.

They learn each other slowly, without purpose without intent. They learn each other just because. Just because they can, just because they want to. They may have been pushed together by circumstance, but they stayed for the pleasure of just each others company, and nothing else.

Eddie is perhaps not his other half of his soul such as Robin is, but instead the other part of a set. Not matching, but cohesive. Strange, but fitting. A separate piece, but important to make him whole once again.

It was risky. He will be risking his comfort, his home for the slim chance that Eddie feels the same. He will be risking the first person to make him laugh, making him smile without wanting anything first. It isn’t about sex, food, a ride, or for him to “do your job dingus.” Eddie makes him laugh because he can, maybe only wanting (if anything at all) his time.

Steve will be risking the one person who never asks, and the one person Steve will give anything for anyways.

It should scare him that he is so unequivocally Eddie’s even without him asking, even when they are only friends, but it doesn’t. No, what scares him more is the risk he will be taking if he decides to push his luck. Luck he historically doesn’t have.

But hell…Steve Harrington is a known risk taker after all.

[tanneradell]

JORDAN BAKER

beverly hill's resident pretty boy being a simp for LAYLA KEATING

[sonknuxadow]

okay sorry for having opinions on sonic shipping but . the more popular a ship is the more likely i am to be annoyed by it so its probably for the best that my favorite ship is one of the not as popular ones . but also the way sonknux gets talked about (or not talked about) as a result of it being less popular drives me up the wall . what do you mean it doesnt make sense. hes literally not staring at the moon and thinking about him💔

[squuote]

I think my main issue with fandoms that become ship centric or otherwise centured around the attraction to a particular character is that there’s just such an overwhelming abundance of it. and then you get like, nothing else. it’s just weirdly isolating when you’re into something so much but everyone else seems to only be into it in one particular way

[lenievi]

finished the Covenant of the Crown. a little bit of good mckirk at the beginning and some good spones in the second half.

[mahikamihan]

Hanahaki AU where pre-YT Dream used to have so much love to give but growing up he has to keep it inside so he starts growing flowers and he has had to get them clinically removed often before it grows to dangerous levels, but once he starts meeting munchymc and eventually doing YT with George and Sapnap, he learns to let out some of that love to his friends and fans, slowly... little by little... and then all at once... it's hard to do so, esp when the weight of hatred grows more upon his shoulders but by his example, everyone arounds him also learn to support and love more openly (and maybe that's what saves his heart from bursting more flowers dangerously)

[gifti3]

Hmm dont get mad but

Not really into this whole everyone spilling their guts to me under the mistletoe thing

[entropy-sea-system]

if you dont believe romance negativity is a thing fuck you actually.

[chazuramen]

friends, i am watching movies this weekend

[majorbaby]

there are downsides to being from a culture that is so puritanical and sexually repressed that the public will riot over chaste, consensual kissing in romance films (while not blinking at gratuitously shot rape scenes in blockbuster hits) but because i know that the flagship het couple is certifiably in love when they sing together with a beautiful landscape in the background what the hell else was i supposed to think was happening with jai and veeru sholay (1974)

uh huh

maybe if this were a western movie and i was being "queerbaited" because they don't kiss. but i'm literate in south asian cinema, so i know that when they sing together it means they're canonically in love. rare gay W for us.

[fan-dot]

hate how gus and hunter have scene after scene after scene together as friends & brothers and yet everything is about willow & hunter as a romantic ship

im glad for the shippers but im begging people to stop sleeping on gus in general

[rotisseries]

@byler-song-anon here!

please share your favorite byler coded song and the most byler coded line from the song

responses will be added to a spotify playlist for all to enjoy!

hi! ok, so I know damn well the playlist is already full of taylor swift and conan gray, so I'm gonna rule those out as well as the other obvious choices, so my song choice is next to me by assuming we survive! this entire song is very byler coded, very end of s3, but I think my favorite line is this one:

[eatyoursparkout]

The Hero and the Crown by Robin Mckinley or any of the books from Tales of Inthya by Effie Calvin :3c

added to TBR | on my TBR | couldn’t finish it | did not enjoy | it was OK | liked it | loved it | favorite | not interested

ooh, interesting! neither of these were on my radar before. I’m picky about what I read in terms of YA fantasy these days but I’m tentatively putting them on my TBR for now for when I’m in the mood…

[edraculation]

bitches after becoming fans of The Romance Media: but why does there have to be romance tho :/

[hoedameron]

my sister told me that she doesn't want me to play any gay movie whenever we hang out and i'm like damnnnnnnnnnn i'm running out of cishet films i can show her..........