When two characters are in love with one another, but they’re both playing a role. They’re interacting exclusively with each other through masks and personas and dances of lies and half truths. And the line between the mask and the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
dodobro: shadowy-dumbo-octopus: unclothed-i-shall-return: ardatli: sunhatred: Do you guys remember how kidnap fantasies were popular on wattpad because young girls and queer teens were both made to feel shame at the thought of their own sexualities, so the fantasy of being[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love it when characters who are romantic partners don’t have to live together. I love it when characters who are romantic partners don’t have a traditional domestic relationship. I love it when characters who are romantic partners are part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
kentucky-fried-goth-attire: “let’s run away together” trope fucks me up bc it’s almost always doomed. but what if it’s not this time.
megaphonegirlk: What if we killed one another in a tragedy of our own making? Jk, jk….. Unless 🤔
With regard to a self-ship imagine ask that we got that framed F/O’s actions explicitly with the word “abuse”– basically as soon as you bring the word “abuse” in to describe a toxic relationship (be it self ship or otherwise)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
really, deeply in love with the term “hatchet man” for someone’s personal killer. It’s evocative. It’s personal. It’s a euphemism, but not a delicate one. “my hatchet man.” “i’m his hatchet man.” 😳😳😳😳 — hatchet man (plural hatchet men) A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
stale cigarettes, cheap whiskey, bad aftershave, leather, gun oil, sweat and a more than a trace of blood. The ideal smell of romance.
eatsleepandsing: another great ship dynamic is “characters who are deeply traumatized and haunted by nightmares are finally able to get a peaceful night of sleep in each other’s arms”
7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them? The fandom straight up put us off of ever watching the new She-Ra thanks to the way they all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forever changed by the paralyzing realization that when we finally destroy the nemesis we built our life around defeating, we also destroy an unimaginably large part of ourselves. Unfortunately, this revelation came while reading unfinished Invader Zim episode summaries when[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cemeterything: “consensual but not safe or sane” is my favourite fanfiction tag because it’s like prefacing something dangerous with the warning “don’t try this at home!” but instead of a risky driving manoeuvre or whatever it’s a scene where a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Character who was never taught to speak the language of softness. They were only taught the language of blood and fire. Still, they love. They express that love the only way they know how.
I love enemy romance, and rival romance, and blackrom in general because (among other reasons) there is no layer of pretending that you’re not going to hurt each other. There’s no pretending that you’re not trying to hurt each other.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
poly ships made up of the members of a paramilitary/military organization are simply the very best ships there are. romance and sex growing out of the intimacy of being responsible for one another in life or death situations. willing to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love it when there is something menacing about a romance. When there is awe, and more than just a hint of horror.
really, how can you not eroticize violence, and horror, and decay, and destruction, and oblivion? It’s called the little death for a reason.
sex from a man who hates me and can’t quite bring himself to kill me.
Consider the sheer spiritual and physical intimacy of doing brutal violence on one another.
partywithponies: partywithponies: One of my FAVOURITE ship dynamics to write or read in fics is when two characters are basically already a couple but they just haven’t realised it yet. They call each other up at like 3am, they cuddle,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“I can fix him.” No, but I can walk the same bloody road that he does, day by day, a step behind in his shadow.
I want to keep being reincarnated forever, so I can continue inventing new and worse types of toxic relationships to be in with my soulmate(s).
Rival lovers/enemies to enemies who fuck– when one of them tries to walk away and the other grabs them like “this is over when I say its over.”
The best thing about creating a fictional dystopian society with complex and rigidly enforced social hierarchy or caste system is that you have more narrative opportunities to create romances and relationships which abuse the power of, or pervert and disregard[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s nothing quite like a character yearning for a relationship that they’ve already long destroyed. Nothing quite as alluring as the idea that maybe the smashed pieces really could be put back together. And this time, this time they think,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
laurasimonsdaughter: Came back wrong this, came back monstrous that What if they came back loving? What if they came back in love. What if the necromancy worked and you cheated death and it’s everything you’ve ever wanted, but now they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
homunculus-argument: A reverse Hallmark christmas movie, where a simple small-town guy has to go to the big city in order to do a thing, and encounters a serious no-nonsense businesswoman who has never celebrated christmas, not once in her life.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prettyboybloodyteeth: Fauxcest kink? Oh so the emotional neglect of your parents left you deeply emotionally lonely? You wanna feel the love of someone who’s known you forever and loves you regardless? You want them to love you so much, they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
my personal favorite themes: actually, yes, you can fight fate. You can in fact punch it in the face until it gives up. I used time travel to fix things and after lots of work everyone is alive and happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
in my personal opinion, hero x villain, or villain x villain. There’s almost nothing I like better than the “i didn’t know where else to go” trope where the hero winds up crashing with the villain after he’s destroyed himself.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
laskulls: Old man yaoi hits different when they’ve been pining for like decades and never did a thing about it. Especially when the stakes around them are high and day to day life is dangerous. Like what are you doing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
gh0stbeeee: love when they’re two messy halves of one awful whole. like yes, be the worst in eachother, make everyone else miserable
Ask for OTPs and Self Ships copied from a now gone post and blog: original url https://glitter-and-gasoline-deactivate.tumblr.com/post/687208822931095552 TW: angst, suggestive content, etc. Who would end a heated argument by defending their actions with ‘because I love you!’ ? What would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
spacesweepers: [holds your hand] doomed by OUR narrative
Enemies to Lovers things 🔪 The character collapsing wounded on their enemy’s doorstep because they didn’t know where else to go. 🍆 That awkward moment when they realize during physical combat that they’re really turned on. 👊 That moment of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The villain with their hands around the hero’s neck, finally in triumph. And suddenly the strong, proud, damnable hero who’s beaten them time and time again is fragile and delicate and breakable in their grasp. And all that fury just[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
imsorryimlate: hell yeah man 🥂 darkheart-despairs https://ift.tt/zNrkJnS
imsorryimlate: hell yeah man 🥂
ems-smoll-sanctuary: The whole “we both know we’re on borrowed time but we fall for each other anyways” trope is one the most romantic things ever and here’s why: That trope is basically saying “I know this will break my heart[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ems-smoll-sanctuary: The whole “we both know we’re on borrowed time but we fall for each other anyways” trope is one the most romantic things ever and here’s why: That trope is basically saying “I know this will break my heart[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I love you so much that I will re-order time to spend more of it with you. Nothing can keep me from you forever. darkheart-despairs
I love you so much that I will re-order time to spend more of it with you. Nothing can keep me from you forever.
zee-zeppeli: The ideal build for an OT3 is A Traumatised Himbo, A Borderline Cryptid and A Straight up Bitch who only likes them. darkheart-despairs
zee-zeppeli-deactivated20230806: The ideal build for an OT3 is A Traumatised Himbo, A Borderline Cryptid and A Straight up Bitch who only likes them.
Who knows you better than yourself? Who knows what you want and what you need? Who hates you more than yourself? What is love but a dark mirror through which everything that possesses and disgusts and enchants us is reflected?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Who knows you better than yourself? Who knows what you want and what you need? Who hates you more than yourself? What is love but a dark mirror through which everything that possesses and disgusts and enchants us is reflected?
Forbidden romance is the most romantic for the same reason that the best horror is the stuff that shows the monster the least. The romance is in what is left unsaid. It’s in the longing It’s in the lingering. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
azuremist: I think that more fanfiction should be written with the aim to tackle the original meaning of hanahaki. Because when the concept of hanahaki disease was originally created, it was intended to be a metaphor for suppressing one’s feelings.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…