Queering Relationships

This is a place for people to learn about relationships outside of monogamy and heteronormative romance!

[dogpuppy]

[shewhowatches-stars]

tori + michael meet solitare vs. heartstopper

bonus tori

[liberalsarecool]

Every racist MAGA/GOP/KKK slippery slope prediction is worthless.

[theconcealedweapon]

[merelsuniverse]

happy pride month <3

[politijohn]

Source

Happy Pride Month!

[reasonsforhope]

Holy shit!!!!!!! HUNGARY DID IT!!!!

-via the Los Angeles Blade, June 1, 2026

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[birdiefspring]

they are back and so am I. can't believe the movie is almost here. nick & charlie forever 🍂

[okjohnrich]

revising the last chapter and having many john/tyler thoughts. spoilers it's a romcom they become romantic partners

I was reading a GQ article on how big celebrities slowly introduce who they're dating to the public. Tyler tells his agent that he's seeing someone, it's pretty serious, and that person is famous YouTube personality and cover artist for the NYR, John Rich. His agent (who he's had since he was 20) just wants Tyler to be happy, but also knows because of how viral John and Tyler's interactions have been, this has the potential to be a big deal. (She also knows that Tyler has a history of dating fucking assholes and is a little wary of John, but she's not Tyler’s mother and it could be *worse.* Tyler had a two-month thing with a shit indie director with a massive ego...anyway.)

John has a panic attack when Tyler gently suggests the idea of them doing a pap walk. A pap walk! Just him and Tyler cozied up while getting groceries or kissing at a cafe or coming back from the gym holding hands ("Gym???" "No. I'm sorry. Just a suggestion—" "—this involves me doing deadlifts??")

John doesn't want to do a pap walk. He doesn't want to be part of a bunch of subtle instagram posts that millions of people speculate over. He also doesn't want to sneak around New York and Los Angeles, and has no idea how famous people do any of this! (Tyler internalizes all of this, lol.) He kind of just wants to get it over with. They're dating. They like each other. You're gonna see them arguing about Run Club Savannah on the streets of New York City and it will sound like a legitimate argument; who cares.

Tyler eventually goes "fuck it" and (with John's permission) makes an Instagram post on John's birthday. It's a bunch of loving candid photographs of John with the caption

"happy birthday, my love. You make me laugh more than anyone else."

(Does he turn off the comments or does Jules leave a comment that says "I FUCKING KNEW IT" that gets 10K likes?) Meanwhile John comments with "lucky for me you're an easy laugh". And idk they disappear for 4 weeks while the internet breaks.

[ooppo]

The beginning of the end for every digital artist

[ploobytumbls]

I took a bus to a conference today and the bus driver fully stopped the bus to identify and chastise a person who was playing music out loud on their phone. That is how you get me to actually complete the customer service survey specifically so I can give you top ratings

[ploobytumbls]

It's days later and I'm still thinking about this man. Full ass bus pulled over to the side of a state highway with the hazards on, stalking down the center aisle intoning "ALL RIGHT. WHO'S GOT IT. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ON SPEAKER." I want to commission a statue of him. a hero. a king.

[jimmysownworld]

cliff marleau and ilya rozanov are best friends not because they’re teammates or marleau was assigned to look after roz when he first got to the raiders, but because, even though it takes so much alcohol to get him drunk, when ilya gets drunk he can only be described as white girl wasted and marly is the EXACT same way. they are in the mens bathroom in front of the mirror like “is my shirt unbuttoned enough for people to look at my tits?” “yeah man your boobs look GREAT! can you tell me if these jeans look good on my ass i think i saw a girl eying me” “marly your ass looks phenomenal and you can trust me on this as i am a well known ass man” “aw man rozzy you’re making me blush”

[gingerpolyglot]

Give me Shane awkwardly trying "queer culture" things that Ilya and Harris try to introduce him to and hating it.

Give me Shane "hates clubbing and bars" Hollander not minding Kingfisher in the afternoon but refusing to go at night. Give me Shane never understanding the slang (he's never online) and being overstimulated by drag brunch (it's so LOUD and nothing fits his diet even once he loosens it a little and brunch as a concept throws off his entire routine) and utterly bored by any TV show that isn't the latest game replay (is this reality TV? Is it a drama? He can't remember and he can't tell the difference but honestly he'd rather be watching hockey) and unable to remember the difference between Lady Gaga and Cher (he never listens to music anyway) and completely disinterested in changing his wardrobe (for fancy events he wears whatever his stylist tells him to but not anything adventurous, because he just wants to look acceptable not make a statement).

Give me Shane feeling alienated from gay culture the way he sometimes feels alienated from Japanese culture and being so frustrated that being himself, exactly as he is, still isn't good enough for anyone.

Give me a Shane Hollander who doesn't want to be "the gay hockey player" the same way he doesn't want to be "the Asian hockey player" but he'll suck it up because he's such an inspiration, don't you know how many kids look up to you? Don't you know how much it matters to them to see you out there loud and proud?

Give me Shane finally snapping at Ilya that clearly he's not "super gay" if he's so bad at it, because he's sick and tired of everyone being disappointed that he's not up on whatever the latest queer culture trend is and he does not want to be a "gay icon," he just wants to play hockey and love his husband, and he's not magically a different person now that everyone knows he's gay.

Give me Ilya reckoning with how coming out has only put more expectations on Shane's shoulders and noticing the roles Shane is always forced into - the Asian player, the gay player - and understanding a bit more why privacy seemed like a better guarantee of freedom to Shane than openness.

Give me Ilya promising Shane that he loves him exactly as he is, jocky and offline and dedicated to hockey, that he never has to change anything about himself to seem more palatable to anyone, and fuck anyone who thinks Shane isn't *anything* enough, because he's always been perfect for Ilya.

[imjunebitch]

actually fucking disgusting that glasses cost any money like if you actually think about it for more than a few seconds it is so unconscionably inhumane. this goes for things like insulin and mobility aids and hearing aids too ofc but fuck man, fucking glasses? the thing you need to fucking see? its genuinely sickening and inhumanly evil that those cost ANYTHING.

[mercyandmountainwater]

Once upon a time a group of idiots (The Boston Raiders) decided to steal their captains phone and prank call his girl.

Shane (Home sick with a horrible cold) (Bored) (Missing his boyfriend) replies in a deep gravelly voice: Hey, how’s my baby doing?

The Boston raiders then hang up the phone and never talk about Ilya Rozanov’s secret boyfriend who they all assume must be the gruffest biker/lumberjack/bouncer in the world.

[wingsseni]

yuna and baby shane 🐞

[godmotherpm]

The craziest thing about this whole situation is that Ilya thinks in Russian and in Russian ‘lovers’ LITTERAL TRANSLATION is ‘возлюбленные’. Which ACTUALLY MEANS ‘people who feel love and attraction towards each other’. MY BOY WAS CONFESSING HIS LOVE TO SHANE AND LOST IN TRANSLATION GAME. HE WAS SO PURE ABOUT IT AND ONLY GOT ‘No, Ilya, that’s gross’. MY SWEET LOVERBOY.