Love is...

Just for fun I thought we'd discuss the lessons our pet fandoms taught us about love. Thought we'd do it in the style of the classic "Love is" strips just for fun. You can use fanon and canon. Try not to just use Twilight. Please cite fandom for the confused.

Phantom of the Opera

Love is threatening to blow up an opera house full of people and threatening to kill a childhood friend in order to get the girl of your dreams.

Harry Potter fanon (Draco Malfoy)

Love is constantly insulting and belittling and using horrific slurs towards the girl you love.

Every Legomance fic ever written:

Love is falling for somebody for no reason whatsoever, following a few conversations in which next to no character development actually takes place, and joining them on a highly secretive and dangerous quest, during which you will either be forced to bed the person due to some strange illness that can only be cured by sex, or have to try to work around the father of said love interest who refuses to allow the match.

Love is sexual abuse---nearly every M-rated fic ever written.

Love is leaving everything you've ever known for someone you've barely met. - Titanic

Love is ... Stockholm Syndrome (just about every fandom).

Love is ... stalking someone (many fandoms, but especially Twilight).

Love is ... giving up everything for someone, even if it means the end of the city/country/planet/galaxy/universe/etc.

Hunchback of Notre Dame*:

Love is singing about how you want to burn alive not only the person you love but everyone she cares about as well.


*In the interest of being honest, I've only seen the Disney version. By all accounts, the book is fucking depressing and I'm not interested in that scene.

Love is...never having to acknowledge that people could get locked up in insane asylums for being homosexual in the 1950s (Team Fortress 2)

The ShadAmy concept: Love is letting a badass drive you home then inviting him in for coffee.

The Slavery Fic: Love is for sale.

Love is abusing someone relentlessly and then acting like your 'dark, tragic past' is a good excuse for it.

Kuroshitsuji:

Love is being willing to commit multiple horrible murders to impress your beloved who you suppose will totally appreciate that kind of thing.

Love is being willing to murder a thousand innocents for the sake of your beloved and keeping careful count so that you don't accidentally murder too few.

Love is brutally murdering your beloved when your beloved no longer fits your fantasy.

Love is making weapons of mass destruction together.

The people involved in the pairings who inspired those lessons are all different, by the way.