#love plot

[infamouslastwords]

everything is super super open, not finals but open to ideas. if interested you can join our discord when it drops or message me at aisling#7137 on discord!

[esthergreenwould-blog]

heteronormative love plots + fantasy/desire + the bachelor

1, 6: Suzannah Showler, Most Dramatic Ever: The Bachelor

2: Misha Kavka, Reality TV

3: Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love

4: Roxane Gay, “The Marriage Plot”

5: Elif Batuman, Fresh Air Interview

[crudamoral]

Marx classically notes that the magical autonomy of the commodity form obscures the economic, social, and ideological relations that animate it in the process of its production: so, too, the mass cultural discourse of romance obscures, the way a fetish does, the relations between the hegemonic processes of collective life and what people typically imagine as love. People learn to identify with love the way they identify with commodities: the notions of personal autonomy, consent, choice, and fulfillment so powerful in love discourse seem to be the same as those promised by national capitalism. At the same time, romance is a vehicle for marketing heterosexuality as the very form of fantasy and also the normal context in which fantasy can be lived, but not in a generic way: the heteronormative love plot is at its most ideological when it produces subjects who believe that their love story expresses their true, nuanced, and unique feelings, their own personal destiny.

Lauren Berlant excerpted from Desire/Love

[matty-hawthorne-blog]

Character Request: Love Plot

Name || House || Year: 6th || FC

So, this is very open, as you can see. I don't care what their name is, what house they're in, year should be sixth but I'm flexible, and face claim doesn't matter one bit. Neither does gender, because Matty here is bisexual. Basically anything that I don't throw in here is up to you, and anything that I do is completely flexible~

Okay, so we'll call this person Alex for now, because that's a nice gender neutral name. See, Alex and Matty have known each other for years, really, and have been okay friends, but never too close. That is, up until this year. Matthias is always the kind of person anyone can come to with a problem, he listens, gives decent advice, and it a pretty good shoulder to cry on if you need one. And that comes in handy for Alex, who's going through a particularly rough patch right now. (Reason for that rough patch is totally up to you, could be anything really, death of family member, parents divorce, being disowned, loss of best friend, whatever you want!) So, Alex seeks solace in spending time with Matty, who is glad to help. Eventually, Matty starts to realize he rather likes Alex a bit more than just friends, but he hardly wants to put that weight on their shoulders, so he stays tight-lipped about it. But we gotta spice things up with some drama, right? So, there comes a night where Matty decides to go at the bottle, and gets pretty plastered. And he finds Alex, and a drunken confession and kiss ensues. He scares Alex off, too. Of course, he doesn't remember anything, doesn't even have a clue what he did, and Matty is devastated to find that Alex is avoiding him. A lot of shit goes down. Fighting, avoiding, tears, the works. Eventually, after a whole lot of work, Matty wins Alex's heart. But we can get to that later. I just want someone to snatch him/her up! C:

Matty's Blog || Main RP Blog

Now I will patiently await a response... ;-;