#hootgrowl

[thinksleep]

Just thinking about Rue being a romantic and having always wished to walk arm in arm on a stroll, but the logistics of being 7ft tall and having large wings makes it impossible

Unless they courted an equally tall bugbear with truly ridiculously long arms that could perfectly accommodate a wing

[stonecoldsilly]

goblin boy takes falling in love a little bit too literally, more at eleven

[mothmanmycologist]

the queerness of rue and hob...

rue and the painful fact that when you come out people may not be outwardly nasty and try to exclude you, but being your real self doesn't necessarily mean that you're no longer alone.

hob and being inherently drawn to somebody who is Like You without even realizing that they are like you, feeling an immense sense of pride and love simply because somebody else you know is existing authentically.

the two of them looking at each other and internally feeling Seen, hob feeling immediately protective over them, rue constantly thinking "we are the same!"

fuck... i love gay people...

[dimension20stuff]

I am chewing Rue like bubble gum. They believe in the power of love, but practice it in a way that is ultimately selfish and based on their own experiences, with very little consideration for the repercussions of their actions.

I am dribbling Hob like a basketball. He believes wholly in the selflessness of duty and obligation as redemption. But he practices it in a way that gives no consideration for the repercussions to himself.

They are the same they are opposites they a two people looking at each other in a mirror and never able to embrace because each attempt is matched perfectly by the figure on the other side of the glass, blocked in the attempt to invite.

[respectissexy]

Last night’s “RueHob is A Shrek” discourse led my husband and me down the rabbit hole of trying to find other examples of the trope where the femme/beautiful half of what appears to be a Beauty and the Beast pairing is also revealed to be monstrous, and we would love to be proven wrong but so far we literally cannot find anything other than Shrek. Shrek seems to be the first, and the only. Shrek (2001). There’s not even a trope name on TVTropes so we all just have to keep saying “it’s like Shrek!”

[captainkappa]

i was having ruehob thoughts as one does and i was like “oh man what if they get all the way to Hob’s arranged wedding ceremony and Rue has to bust in and be all ‘i object’ and finally lay out theur feelings in front of everyone because clearly letter writing isnt working”

but then i realized thats even more shrek that ruehob already was...

...so lets just lean into it and imagine Binx and Andhera both outside with Rue arguing about the right time to barge in and shout “I object”

[50shadesofoctarine]

So Hob took off his military jacket to show his broken allegiance to the goblin court. Since fashion is kind of Rue’s thing - what if Hob starts wearing pretty dresses to show his loyalty to Rue???

[conformityvictim]

In the midst of everyone screaming about how Rue made Hob feel pretty.....

how have I not seen anyone connect “You were fine things well.” ??!?!?!?!

Was I supposed to come up with that connection myself?