Astral Anesthesia

I’m well into my 20s and WAY too old to be engaging in shipping and fanfic culture …but here we are

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stumbling across mpreg by accident has gotta be one of the top ten scariest jumpscares get that shit OUTTA HEREEEEE

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This is me when I’m searching for an average fluffy BL manga at Barnes and noble when I’m thunderfucked by that omegaverse shit

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Sleepy boys . . . 🥹🥺

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It’s been ten years and I’m still not over Hide x Kaneki.

Especially because the creator of the manga said Kaneki was supposed to be gay initially.

I’m also aware that there wasn’t much of any queerbating in this case, but I will admit that Ken and Hide’s relationship (especially in the manga) did confuse me at times due to how close they were and how certain lines got blurred.

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Nothing to see, just two casual friends being bros🩵💛

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Yearning. . . But in the iconic warm lighting✨

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I saw someone theorize that ‘Hikaru’ is really just the embodiment of the og Hikaru’s true emotions and love for Yoshiki and I haven’t been the same since.

It makes a crazy amount of sense considering that the last thing on his mind as he was dying was Yoshiki.

I guess I’ll cry in the corner now. . .

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Y’all want a genuinely amazing Hikaru x Yoshiki fanfic?

Heliotrope on Ao3. Just read it and tell me I’m wrong. I’ll wait.

Chapter 12 was literally the hottest chapter of any fanfic I’ve read in all my days.

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Aaah our boys are so beautiful together, I cannnnnnn’t✨😭

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Some Yoshikaru sketches I found to give you life🌸

I’m curious what everyone thinks in the comments. We know that Yoshiki canonically has feelings for Hikaru, but do you think that “Hikaru” is the same way? I’d personally love to think that the og Hikaru shared the same attraction when he was alive.

I will say, having read the manga series thus far, the dialogue in the anime relies on much more ambiguity compared to the story in the manga. The language in the manga is a lot more straight forward—which, in my opinion is very much needed for a story about growing up queer and in love.

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Some of my favorite panels from TSHD that scream YEARNING. Ya’ll really need to read the Manga. I swear it’s even better than the show.

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This anime literally changed my brain chemistry.

Goddamit Yoshiki!

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This was me watching this entire fcking anime.

I was literally screaming “KISS” at my tv screen every time they got close like this.

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Welp—Just finished binging the Summer Hikaru Died…

Now I fear I’m going to go catatonic for a week.

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Mike “Possessive” Wheeler

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This will forever be canon in my head.

Those damn Duffers can’t erase real connections between two characters, nor can they write out romantic chemistry.

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ok so someone coming out to like 15 people at once and all of them accepting him in the 80s is realistic but him getting with the guy he's been pining for since he was 13 and who was giving him the signals his queer mentor told him to look for isn't. ok good to know

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Realism in queer cinema is dead apparently.

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I have to say, I love how the horrible ending of stranger things has brought together our little Byler community. It legit warms my heart to see all the art and writing projects that have been inspired by these two characters.

These characters genuinely deserved WAY better than they got. I believe that with my whole heart.

And it’s so healthy to turn our devastation and disappointment into creative endeavors, and that’s exactly what I see y’all doing. I’m so proud of us lol.