a lot of stories treat romance like it makes the relationship between two characters self explanatory and to be honest it doesn’t

story: they're in love :)

me: why?

story: what do you mean? they're in love :)

me: what do they bring to each other's lives? what do they admire about one another? what draws them to each other?

story: love :) :)

me: ok... so what is that going to look like now?

story: like love :) :) :)

me: are their personalities going to clash at all? are they going to have arguments? learn to compromise for each other? will they need to adapt to sharing their life with another person? is it going to be smooth perfect harmony from day one? are they going to be always together? see each other sometimes as their occupations allow? how does this relationship affect their lifes.

story: they're in love :) :) :)

oh i have a name for this.

Heomeopathic Romance, sometimes less charitably Homeopathic Comphet, but lets be fair, in this day in age gay romance can also be absolutely fucked up and boring. Equality! Why Homeopathic?

because what someones done is bonk two characters together, once, then simply stood them next to each other and gone You See? Chemestry has Happened : ), but fucking nothing has happened and the two substances are completely and utterly unchanged by each other and I want my damn money back.

hello, i am the top secret replier! well done for finding me - you may never see me again!

REBLOG OF SHAME since the replies are turned off D:

"And they were roommates"

In this case, the house will be an AT-TE

How am I only just learning this!?

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IT WORKS

Is this new???? I've been wanting wildcard relationship search for YEARS 😍😍😍

My multishipping ass is about to go ham...

helpful info for those who need it

Explanation of what this does for anyone confused!

Never occurred to me AO3 would be using Boolean…

Prefacing with an infinite wildcard (*) is intense on the database though… although I guess there are a fairly limited number of tags in the grand scheme of things.

Anyway - excellent!!! This will make things much quicker!

"No one can love you until you love yourself" is like the worst possible way of articulating "if you don't respect and value yourself, it's very easy to become attracted to people who don't treat you right and then justify their mistreatment, so be careful."

so THAT'S what it's supposed to mean. that actually makes sense.

What a time to be alive.

Happy Black History Month to all and to all a good night ❤️🖤💚

Two perspectives.

The fact that this is 80 fucking years ago but still just as relevant is terrifying.

via @quasi-normalcy

Will you look at that...

It’s wild to me to see transvestigator conspiracy theories online that could be so easily explained by natural human variation. That woman has a deep voice? Yeah, sometimes they do. A woman has broad shoulders?? Maybe she plays rugby or hits the gym a fuckton. There’s a “bulge” in her tight pants?? Maybe her vulva is just fat. All the “markers” of trans woman that transvestigators use to harass any woman aren’t even things unique to trans women.

Transphobes talk about women like they’re Barbies. Have you forgotten the existence of cameltoe? Tiny boobs? Narrow hips? Broad shoulders? Why do you think choirs have altos and not just sopranos? What do you think female athletes look like? Do you think a woman that lifts weights and plays contact sports will look like a 90s supermodel? At what point in history did we collectively forget that human bodies have natural variability???

official anti terf post

ok well this blew my mind

This is also true with filmmakers. Western filmmakers pan their cameras mostly left to right and Iranian filmmakers do right to left.

Time seems such a universal concept and then I find out the different ways people perceive everything and remember “it’s all appearances to consciousness”

But the coolest part of that time-direction study, was there didn’t seem to be a consistent pattern to how aboriginal Australians arranged the images, until it was realized that the issue was where the participant was sitting, because they were consistently arranging them East to West.

something something Soren stabbing the illusion of their father when he thinks it's real, something something Claudia stabbing the illusion of their mother when she knows it's not

ok so this is diabolical

jayce's memory reality

Wait a minute. Hang on a minute. HER SLEEVES, VIKTOR??

Anybody else been flipping back to season one to recognize parralels or is that just me