sideblog of a halfhearted gimmick

since the concept of "romance as horror" keeps getting misinterpreted, id like to propose a much clearer alternative: romance as an instrument of torture

a person who can't stay & a person who can't leave will forever stay my favourite relationship dynamic

it is always narratively correct to make your characters sleep together before they sort through the hundreds of lies and misdirections between them. make things worse make things worse make things worse #i love betrayal #i love lying #i love people feeling bad about themselves

the two most important things that can happen to a man on ao3 are premature ejaculation and erectile dysfunction

The “Legal RPF - Japanifornian 21st c.” tag on ao3 has a 95% crossover rate with the “Gavinners (band)” tag but the things that are happening in that last 5% are fascinating

sometimes u go to a ship’s ao3 page and the top 10 fics are like “what if these guys were 2 completely different guys but had the same actors’ faces and character names”

jean is literally not gregor samsa fr. his function in story is to abandon his coworker who is having a suicidal bender, and come back only to berate him because he thinks Harry can't do his job and only comes around begrudgingly if he's convinced he can. gregor samsa is The Metaphor for ableism and work. if Jean was any character he would be Herr Samsa. they literally share the same function in both of their stories. He's straight up the apple thrower. metaphorically he throws apples at Harry. literally what are we doing.