mike watching will dance with a girl vs jonathan watching nancy dance with steve

both in s2 btw

No but both Will and Amy March think that they won't experience true love and they believe they have to settle for less, Will by not dating at all because he's gay and Amy thinks she has to marry someone she doesn't love because she's a woman and both of these things are influenced by the time period they live in and both of them have been in love with their childhood friend since they were super little and the friend has been oblivious to this... the parallels are so strong with the whole situation 🤭

I really don't understand how "without getting kudos or comments a fanfiction author is going to assume that people who clicked their fic didn't like it" became a controversial take.

I don't know why some people think an author should imagine, or guess that people who click their fic enjoyed it it when nobody is telling them that.

If you're re-reading a fic constantly, or leaving it up in your tab so that it re-loads every day for a hundred days the author is not going to know that unless you tell them. They'd love to hear it. It would make their day.

And if you don't tell them you liked their fic, there's no reason for them to assume you did.

ask and you shall receive

milevens saying we're hypocrites for saying el needs independence outside of a relationship but wanting will to end up in a relationship is so funny bc it shows they have no actual grasp on societal narratives

women have had relationships with men forced on them since the beginning of time. women have been conditioned to believe they NEED a man in their life. they NEED to be dependent on a man. they NEED to get married and have children. and rarely to we get representation of female characters choosing independence from a man. im not saying all straight romance is bad, of course not, but in this context it would be meaningful to see el, who has literally never experienced a single day where she was not dependent on a man, not have her arc defined by her relationship with mike, and instead on her own independence, empowerment, and choices.

gay people, on the other hand, have been deprived of love and the ability to be in a relationship with someone they love since the beginning of time. gay people have been conditioned to believe that they cannot have love. they cannot give in to their desires. they cannot be together. in the 80s, teenage boys who experienced same sex attraction were literally told to ignore it because lots of men dealt with that and it just goes away and you can marry a woman like no problem. i mean do i really need to explain why it would be empowering to see a love story between two boys in a story set in the 80s? have these people never heard of the aids crisis????

its about challenging societal norms. it is normal for a woman to date a man. it is not 'normal' for a man to date a man. it is that simple.

and to those mlvns who say el can both be empowered on her own independent arc and still date mike, please stop pretending to want mike to have a meaningful arc in s5. you want mike to be a sidekick malewife for el, and that is exactly what he doesn't want to be. he doesn't want to be what el comes home to after being a kickass superhero. he wants to feel needed, necessary, and empowered as well. and that is simply not the dynamic of he and el's relationship. meanwhile, will is the one who encourages him and reminds him that he is a strong leader and that he is needed. will is the person mike wants to be a team with. mike and will empower each other and lift each other up and make each other feel capable and needed. they are a team, not a superhero sidekick situation.

if i see one more dogshit take like this i may just lose my mind. like please just stop speaking

FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES SANGIHUN WHO HASNT SEEN

Sangihun week starts February 10th!!! So get ready to post about doomed yaoi! :3

It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Seoul and Gi-hun has exactly six days before the loan sharks come for his kidney.

It's only been five minutes outside and he’s already deeply regretting not taking the hundred thousand won from the salesman. What kind of post-slap clarity had made him refuse the money? Whatever it was, he sure wasn’t feeling it anymore. It’s not like the salesman needed the money either. He was clearly well off if he was playing such games with random men in the subway!

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Gi-hun doesn’t take the money from the salesman. Somehow, everything turns out alright.

It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Seoul and Gi-hun has exactly six days before the loan sharks come for his kidney.

It's only been five minutes outside and he’s already deeply regretting not taking the hundred thousand won from the salesman. What kind of post-slap clarity had made him refuse the money? Whatever it was, he sure wasn’t feeling it anymore. It’s not like the salesman needed the money either. He was clearly well off if he was playing such games with random men in the subway!

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Gi-hun doesn’t take the money from the salesman. Somehow, everything turns out alright.

me rn

wlw and mlm solidarity

yall i beg you PLEASE stop using ai on byler tag. no i don't want to see gemini's opinion on byler. no i don't want to know what chatgpt thinks abt byler. i don't care what any form of ai thinks of it. because it doesn't think it just copies what other ppl said and maybe changes it a bit. i'm talking about everything linked to ai ESPECIALLY those ai byler kisses. please don't post it we have amazing artists for it. i also saw someone post ai michelle?? no no no no stop it plssss our artists already made lots of michelle/willow fanarts you do not need ai for it. it applies also to fanfics. if its written by ai I DON'T WANT TO READ IT USE YOUR BRAIN AND WRITE IT OR DONT POST FANFICTION AT ALL.

genderswitch au.

design of the birthmark is by @imactuallyreallycool

high school sweethearts sangihun au where they dated in high school then broke up when sang-woo went off to college. they drifted apart in the way friends-to-lovers-to-exes may drift apart. their lives go separate directions and gi-hun moves on, marrying and having a kid. sang-woo resents him a little bit for being able to move on while he’s still hung up on him. he can’t figure out what the hell makes gi-hun so special, and he never finds someone else, so he puts his focus on anything but his love life. gi-hun gets divorced, and sang-woo still doesn’t reach out. they’re reunited in the games and the life or death situation brings them closer again but it doesn’t matter, they still have no future together. only one of them will make it out. they already wasted all of those years that they could have had together.

SANGIHUN COMFORT GOING STRONG!!! 5EVER!!!!

Fellas, is it gay to show two male characters who were childhood best friends staring dramatically at each other in concern and desperation while playing a cover of Frank Sinatra’s Fly Me To The Moon, specifically the lyrics “You are all I long for / All I worship and adore”?