This Is A Really Good Thread.

This is a really good thread.

Shipping is fun and all but I swear every single time someone makes a comment, whether as a joke or in a legitimate analysis, about there being "no other explanation" for a pair's interactions, I lose just a bit more of my sanity

Like, no, you guys don't get it. Romance is not about the Amount of devotion, it's about the COLOR. the FLAVOR of it all. a character can be just as devoted to their platonic friend as they are to their romantic partner, and they don't love either of them more, just differently.

But because the majority of people still have it stuck in their minds that romance exists on the highest tier of love, I'm stuck seeing endless takes that boil down to "these two care about each other too much for it to NOT be romantic" as if that's the core determining factor to how literally any of this works

In conclusion: stop telling me that I don't understand the story if I don't interpret the leads as romantic, I am TIRED

choose your fav flower friend

One of the Fourth Wing fanfic authors I'm reading (chapter 16 Heart of a Rider by Lalapie (I don't know their tumblr if they have one)) unexpectedly dedicated the Xaden POV of their latest chapter to me and another commenter for our thoughtful comments and I'm melting??

It was so unexpected I'm just. When I write comments my goal is to make the author happy and show them that there's someone who is happy they're sharing what they've written. Getting a reply to a comment I made always makes me beam, I feel like a fan that a celebrity smiled at at an event.

But they put me in their chapter opening notes and dedicated part of the chapter to me because they've liked my comments so much, and I saw it before 8am to start my Monday

I fear that fanfic writers have done Xaden POV better than RY herself 😭

(No because after I finished the bonus chapter I immediately ran to my favorite Xaden POV fanfics and realized how well written they were and how likeable Xaden was)

do y'all also have mutuals whom you’re actually a fan of? like everytime u see them on your dash u just,,,,, “u go mutual that’s my mutual!!!!! i love u mutual!!!! i can’t even believe we’re mutuals i don’t deserve u!!!! keep being u mutual!!!”