#the other is opposites attract

[iceagegems]

If I had 1 nickel for every Landin brother that is insanely shippable with their best friend Lasse, I'd have 2 nickels which aren't alot but do consider there are only two Landin brothers in this equation.

[sadisthetic]

the madness frustration loneliness of the dissonance of a mismatch of the rotten heart to the rest

allosexual aromantic swag happy pride *peaces out*

[superbat-love]

Good Cop/Bad Cop

[thestobingirlie]

reasons why your complaints about stancy are dumb: steve’s dream edition

the six kids thing isn’t literal. it’s very obviously a reference to the party.

nancy has no canonical dreams for her future that steve’s dream could intervene with. we know nancy does not wish for a loveless marriage, and she seems to like journalism and wants to go to that specific uni that i cannot remember the name of (emerson! shoutout shan 🫶). but at no point does she lay out her dream life and have it stand in opposition to steve’s.

the MOST IMPORTANT part of steve’s dream isn’t the kids. or the winnebago. it’s that nancy is by his side. if nancy wants one child, if she wants none, if she wants to live in hawkins for the rest of her life, or move to a different country; it doesn’t matter. his dream is just that. a dream. what matters to steve is that nancy is in his future.

sometimes couples have contradictory little fantasies. one would love to live in the countryside and have chickens or whatever and the other hates that idea. doesn’t mean they can’t be together, so long as they both know and recognise the others feelings. they aren’t automatically incompatible.

if you don’t like stancy, cool! you can ship whatever you want. you don’t have to try and fucking moralise it with points that just make you look media illiterate.

[sailorkamino]

i see a lot of crosshair fics with a sassy or cold reader (which are amazing!) but what about the opposite? a frustratingly patient, conflict avoiding, idealistic reader?

you're so nice crosshair feels bad for being mean. but like any emotion he doesn't want to deal with he turns it into anger. you make him acknowledge his shitty attitude and he hates it. how dare you guilt trip him with your kindness? you think you're so much better than him, don't you?

he doesn't talk to you but oberves you a lot. he finds himself jealous of your friends/family. which is infuriating because he only has himself to blame for your lack of a relationship. to get close to you he'll have take on his hardest mission yet: being vulnerable.

edit: for all the kind reblogs asking me to write this

[tinseltownie]

The thoughts I am thinking

[anxiouspotatorants]

Actually you know what I need to rant about this: while literati is technically a good girl x bad boy dynamic it is written so incredibly well and avoids so many pitfalls and stereotypes that it makes a good girl x bad boy hater like myself (I’m only half joking — I don’t think any trope is inherently good or bad but I tend to dislike most pairings with this dynamic) fall head over heels for their story and relationship.

So much of what makes the two of them work is the contrast between how others perceive them and how they truly are. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who understand who Rory is as a person (Lorelai, Lane, Paris, Richard and Emily to a certain degree for starters), but she's constantly met with the expectation that she just does good and is supposed to make everyone proud 24/7. Stars Hollow as a group especially are big on this, as seen f. ex. through how Taylor takes Rory's one comment about an inappropriate DVD and twists the whole thing into a censorship crusade and makes Rory its poster-child even though she wants nothing to do with it and tells him so repeatedly. But instead of hearing Rory disagree with him (like he would Lorelai and Luke) he assumes that she actually agrees with him - and why shouldn't she when she's the perfect sunshine paragon of good who would never disagree with her elders? Also her grandparents treat her as incredibly fragile and childlike, like she must be too innocent to ever do anything wrong and so whenever she does something it has to be somebody else's fault (usually Lorelai, but occasionally Jess or whoever else was present). Time and time again Rory is treated like something innocent and naive and weak — but not by Jess. He sees her as a person.

And it obviously goes the other way too. Jess is treated like shit by pretty much everyone else. Either people hate him unprovoked or very much provoked (he did do a lot of pranks in his first few weeks and while I'm a Dean-hater I'm not blind to how much Jess picked fights with him), or they’ve simply given up on him. He tells Rory himself that every authority figure he had back in New York gave up on him too, from teachers to principals to his very own mother. But Rory doesn’t treat him like a lost cause, she treats him like the smart, brilliant and asshole-ish teen that he is. By having faith in him she also often holds him more accountable than others. Where f. ex. Lorelai or the other adults just roll their eyes, Rory physically drags Jess into doing his shifts at the diner. While others write him off, Rory chews Jess’ ear out for not helping Luke more and for willfully making enemies out of the Stars Hollow adults.

They don't put each other on pedestals or below each other. Jess doesn’t try to make a sinner out of Rory and she doesn’t try to make a saint out of him. There’s genuine respect between them. They expect each other to have integrity and treat others with kindness and honesty, and the rest is good old chemistry and common interests.

I particularly love how in so many of their scenes (especially pre-relationship) when they spend time alone they just get to be these goofy nerdy kids. They argue about controversial authors and dig through records shops and eat hot dogs and make fun of each other and try to make each other laugh. It’s not just sexual chemistry as it too often is in a dynamic like this (and often uncomfortably sexual when writing teenagers - looking at you Gossip Girl), and not just well written intellectual chemistry — they have platonic chemistry too. A hell of a lot of it actually.

While I don’t think ASP wrote them through a purely deconstructionist lens on the good girl x bad boy dynamic (if she did plan on writing the dynamic at all), there is something to be said about how where many around them treat them like stereotypes they treat each other like people. To so many people, Rory is a perfect small town princess, a little miss sunshine with booksmarts for days but too delicate and sweet for anything with grit and weight. To a lot of the same people and many more Jess is a pathetic brutish and maniacal lost cause, hell personified in a chainsmoking leather-wearing teenager. But to each other they are actual human beings. Kind and mean and flirtatious and scared and reckless and smart. Rory really thinks that with the right motivation and mindset Jess can be the kind who does (and at the end wrote) incredible things. Jess really believes that with a little more practice and support to step out of her comfort zone she can be the amazing journalist she wishes to be.

They don’t have this stupid «we’re so bad for each other but we can’t stay away» thing that too many trope users rely on and don’t even justify in the plot. Everyone else might think they’re not fit for each other, but they knew they were each other’s person from the very first day.

[bumblingbabooshka]

[Tuvok & Janeway: Control, Distance, Duty & Connection.] Sources: St Voyager Transcripts / Mitski 'First Love Late Spring' / Disco Elysium

[littleyellowtangerine]

Realizing I like the sunshine x grumpy trope way too much

[cacturnia]

can't believe Shadow asked Sonic out on the latest Tailstube that was soo crazy

[scrumptiousstuffs]

In a world where idols/actors try to portray their perfection, it’s always refreshing to see an actor who is unapologetic himself 🧡

[tobydoeswrite]

Do Opposites Attract?

Page 1- Opposites

I wanted to do this comic idea for a while! I lovee these guys and when I realized the potential!! aaa- But yesss Nina and Ocha <3

[superbat-love]

Thinking about how Batman and Superman mirror Megara and Hercules — the mistrustful black cat and the loyal golden retriever who wins over their trust.

In the beginning, the fiercely independent black cat would rather deal with sticky situations on their own than receive help from others.

Their golden retriever partner ends up helping them anyway because it’s in their nature lol

Fueled by a distrust stemming from their traumatic past, they plotted against their superhuman partner, convinced they were no different – out for themselves just like everyone else.

But eventually, the idealism of their partner wears down their cynicism, and they learn to trust. Megara learns to trust men, and Bruce learns to trust others, especially metahumans.

And now they're convinced that their partner is a big softie who would never hurt them; nobody gets to pick a fight with their partner except them, of course!

Superbat Master Collection

[electric-plants]

cyno: why did you turn down being a sage?

alhaitham: i can’t think of a job i would want to do less. wait no i would hate your job more actually

dehya: hey alhaitham watch yourself that was kind of rude—

cyno: actually that was…kind of hot….

[avernusreject]

The urge to rename my Lavellan Athim, which means humility in elven, just to juxtapose Solas' name translating to pride. Metagame in that subtle foreshadowing that these two were never meant for a happy ending.

[dapper-lil-arts]

my friends thought i shipped pinkiedash for literal months until I reblogged a ton of twipie art. When I asked why in the world they thought I shipped pinkiedash, I realized. My two pony dolls of pinkie pie and rainbow Dash (currently sitting on my work desk) had their muzzles touching. They thought I was making them kiss. I've since banished them to two separate corners of my desk

eh thats just common courtesy of pony dolls, youve gotta make them kiss regardless. Also funny, why would they think one ship stops the other? people multiship all the time Also funny that you went nohomo and separated them