Long time lurker popping in! I felt the need to add to the reminders from the other newbies to STAY POSITIVE! Unless the devs specifically say Varric's not a romance option, we NEVER give up hope!
I mean, I remember when ME3 came out. When a few people got the early copies of the game and were releasing info the devs hadn't about romances they had found, they were all saying Kaidan wasn't available for m/m romances. There were a lot of tears. But then the game came out, and everyone else got it and... Ta-Da! They were wrong (turns out the couple of people that had posted had just missed the trigger for the new romance with him) and Mr. Alenko was available to both M!Shep and FemShep!
So you know what, don't listen to the other people. It doesn't matter if others outside this group are being nay-sayers or downers. No matter what they say, unless the devs explicitly say "No," there is still a chance - and a fairly good one, in my opinion - that we will have the opportunity to romance the paragon of manliness himself.
So...

Varric deserves that much from us at least.