Once Upon A Time Meme: six Non-romantic Relationships [1/6]      ↳ Belle And Neal

I am fine, I am NOT in tears at the way Robert Carlyle's voice breaks when he says "a home".

Because you see in those eyes he is ready to spirit away to that tower and rescue her. Give her the home. Apologize for his bullshit. Beg her forgiveness, beg to give her whatever she wants, ask her to be his true love, let him be the home she deserves...

Okay several shots of this part of the scene.

First off, she's barely started to fall here. And he's prepped and ready to catch her and cradle her head from safety.

And here she is, I can see the "quick belle think of something... looks like I'm really FALLING for you."

This looks like the cover of a trashy romance novel. Heroine and hero in a compromising position. Her bodice straining, his chest gleaming.

Cant tell if it's the sun or belle blinding him.

On another note his eyes look... hazy? Like cataracts made of the milky way.

The beginning of his disbelieving face in regards to her.

She's just watching him watch her.

*he looked at me, and i looked at him.*

He just looks so shocked at his own actions. That she's in his arms.

That she isn't running away as fast as she can.

Another bodice ripping book cover.

She's so pretty.

You can just see the gears clicking.

Oh

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Anyway,, saw a weyler saying that Enid may have seen Wednesday as prey in ep8 and Tyler could have potentially saved Wednesday from Enid.. and to that I have to say,

does this look like the face of a killer to you??!?! That is a SMILE if I’ve ever seen one. Girly was so proud of herself. She WANTED Wednesday to recognize her, that’s why she stopped. She WANTED Wednesday to acknowledge that she shifted, wanted Wednesday to know that she was protecting her. Like look at her. She STOPPED IN HER TRACKS while fighting a huge ass monster to fucking smile at Wednesday and be like “babe look omg I’m a real werewolf look look!!!!!!!!”

That is a golden retriever bruh. The only thing she would have done to Wednesday is fucking smother her with love or some shit let’s be so fr rn. If bro had a tail it would be wagging so hard.

She’s such a silly lil creature I love her sm

love the way these three sit

Thinking back on Charley's wistful lil "no one ever called me their boyfriend" in season one I hope to god Yuri is an endearments guy. Charley deserves to be called "my boyfriend" but also babe.

Can people please shut the fuck up about how “shipping every male character is harmful to the male friendship representation”

Literally almost every single peace of media has platonic male friendships in it and almost none of them ends up in a canon relationship. So there IS representation. Some people shipping those characters don’t take away their canon friendship.

And it doesn’t only happen to the male friendships. Every close female and male/female friendship you see on screen will always have people shipping them.

Because guess what? That’s how fandoms work. It doesn’t only happen with male friendships.

Are we really ignoring all the people who assume every man and woman who breaths the same air are canonically in love with each other? But somehow it’s only a problem when queer people do it.

Are we really ignoring how we get so little male/female friendships in media without writers turning it romantic at some point?

But we never get to see two close male leads of an action movie kissing at the end do we? So shut up about “friendship representation” You have tons of platonic friendships.

And the thing is, a lot of people who say this don’t even care about platonic friendships or mlm fetishization by straight girls. They’re just trying to find a way to put queer ships down. They never say “I think this two specific characters are good friends so I don’t like it when people ship them”

Instead, it’s always “these characters showed a little pinch of interest to opposite gender so they’re straight. just let people be friends and stop making everything gay”

Because they’re not actually mad about people shipping two close friends together. They’re mad about people offering the possibility of some fictional characters not being straight

Aizawa’s been through a lot of shit but he’s still-

-comforting others permanently. This guy is literally a comforting mashine but in all honesty, the last two panels happened AFTER he went to Tartarus…. How about *he* gets the comfort he deserves? Just look at this lost and broken man still giving hope to others and being a hero in his own way. I just hope one day he’ll be able to let it all out and get the comfort he needed all of those years.

oh my dear zashi if only your creator loved you as much as I do

My Aarmau rant as promised! (This is kind of the part 1 of a big LOOONG rant)

A huge part of why I love Aphmau and Aaron’s relationship is how hush-hush they kept it. Secretive just like Shad and Irene’s relationship. It fell perfectly under the radar but poked up more as it progressed. We the viewers see when their friendship/relationship gets more serious (though, a lot of people in the fandom choose to ignore it because they’re still holding on hope for Laurmau or Garmau).

There are details that highligh the progression of their relationship that I think are BRILLIANT, even without them explicitly saying anything! There are little things right up to the night before Aaron leaves on a suicide mission to get Garroth out of the Irene Dimension unbeknownst to Aphmau. One example of a small detail to look back on later is how their beds are pushed together when they were clearly apart an episode or 2 prior. From the dialogue, we could infer that they were already together by that point, but a staple in the minecraft community is pushing yours and your SO’s beds together! Cute! They’d begun truly building a life together.

There’s something so beautiful about how we don’t see every romantic action in their relationship because their relationship is more focused on learning about themselves and growing as people together. They were both placed in some TERRIBLE situations but found comfort in each other so they could remain proficient in building their new island of peace rather than bottling everything up until they exploded on their unsuspecting friends. Unlike Aphmau’s relationship with Laurance and Garroth where it’s very upfront in the episodes (ex: she’s forced to pick between the two of them while still figuring out who she is), Aphmau and Aaron prioritized the settings/people around them but still maintain a healthy relationship where they talk about everything and love each other regardless of what they say in their deep conversations. Their love isn’t about showing each other off to the rest of the world and claiming eachother! Aaron never fights with Laurance and Garroth to prove how he loves Aphmau, he just DOES.

They also have a playful, friendly front to their relationship which kept people wondering about them for so long. Yes, Laurance and Aphmau also had this friendly aspect to their relationship but a lot of it (from my best recollection) was Laurance’s failed attempts at picking up Aphmau </3 Aphmau teases Aaron about his quiet/mysterious nature and he teases her right back because of her overly friendly/to stubborn to let people help her attitude. This shows as Aaron starts joining the group on long journeys (ex: The journey to find Lucinda; they were at Isabella’s campsite and Aaron let Aphmau know that there were some strange figures lurking about in the camp. She retorted playfully that they’d probably say the same thing about him and he flusteredly shuffled away)(Another example I love is one the Alliance Island when Laurance, Aaron, and Aphmau are exploring, Laurance falls down the hole to the wyvern cave, and Aphmau and Aaron are deciding how they’re going to get down to him. Aaron offers to jump down first and catch her but stops himself, saying “Though knowing you—“ referring to how she’d rather get down by herself and show everyone that she’s capable of doing anything everyone else can do).

Laurance and Garroth’s relationship with Aphmau was highly based on them protecting her, which is only natural because they were her faithful guards. It was attractive but on that same hand, they couldn’t relate to Aphmau’s issues on the personal level that Aaron could, given that he was a lord himself, and one who faced incredible emotional turmoil no less.

Their plot obviously thickens once Lilith is added into the mix because now Aaron has promised to take care of her and Aphmau. They named Lilith Garnet after people they cared for and lost while still making her her own person. If they weren’t close before, they were DEFINITELY closer when they began co-parenting. They just wanted to give their daughter the best life, building an empire around her, going on family picnics, etc.

There are so many other reasons I love Aarmau and I LOVE rewatching MCD and catching the little pieces of dialogue that help set up for the big reveal. It’s so upsetting how they never got their happy ending in any universe (except maybe Mermaid Tales)

Thank u for reading <33