#being out is serious business

[egophiliac]

Ego how do u draw the shroud bros hair? Its so hard 😔

Atp i might as well draw them bald😭🙏

I don't draw them at all consistently (let alone anywhere near on-model), so I'm not sure how helpful this will be. :') but I can share how I break it down, if that helps at all!

standard disclaimer that this is just how I draw them, take from it what you will, et cetera and so on and so forth. I really don't draw them close to canon at all, so this is sorta specific to my process, I guess? (and I am SUPER bad at putting things into words, so my apologies if this all comes off as a bunch of incomprehensible "you just, you know, ~*~*draw it*~*~" nonsense. 🫠 I can make no promises, but I'll try!)

I always start by establishing the shape of the skull and roughly where the hairline is -- the Shroudbros especially don't look anything like themselves without their hair, it's terrifying. :(

really can't overstate how much drawing hair is helped by thinking about it as different sections! even you have a less cartoony art style, it helps a LOT to start out with it as big, simplified shapes and then breaking it down more and more as you go.

the thing about their hair in particular is that the closer it is to their face, the more hair-like it is, and then it gets progressively more fire-y as it goes back. so their bangs pretty much act like regular hair! Idia has long, downward-and-outward-swooping bangs in that classic Yana M-shape, while Ortho's are shortier and spunkier (they kinda, uhhh, "lean" more to his right in general).

Idia also has these little short spiky sections that cover his ears and ring around the back of his head. these also act more like regular hair than fire.

them they have these big sections that are brushed back from their bangs and stick up -- this is where their hair really starts acting more like fire, so it doesn't have to be super consistent, just getting some nice flame-reminiscent shapes. I think of it as being in three sections: a bigger center flame, then two sections of smaller flames that kinda frame that center one. (I tend to treat this bit as being kind of flat/frond-y, although that's probably not really how it's supposed to be. ( ᐛ )

then I kinda just...fill in the back of their heads with more flame-y shapes that layer over each other. Idia does consistently have this one longer curvy bit that sticks out on his left; otherwise I just try to keep his hair feeling brushed back and with that sorta downward swoopiness he has in general, with just the little flame-ends sticking up. Ortho, meanwhile, has shorter clumps with an upward swoopiness (and note that his hair is under his headphones, so it gets a little compressed by them).

Idia's longer hair is where it gets to be, like, just pure fire, so it's all about whatever Shapes I feel like doin'! it kinda just...flows down from the back of his head, if that makes sense? sorta like a cross between water and a stream of fire. (length-wise, it goes down to either the back of his knees or down to his feet depending on which reference you're looking at...it really isn't super consistent, so I'm not either. :')

and that's how I draw their hair! I don't usually shade it beyond that just 'cause I'm lazy, but the shading does help sell the fire effect a lot -- their hair shading uses a lot of curvy and weird shapes that darkens from the center of their hair clumps out, with highlights/transparency on the tips (and just a little bit where hair highlights would normally be, to get the feeling of the curve in there).

SO yeah, hopefully you're able to get something helpful out of all this! 🙇

[winterserendipity]

“Their bond does not exist for our enjoyment. It's theirs. They can share without outting themselves. They can share without confirmation. They can not share without suddenly becoming enemies. They are real people, not characters in stories.”

I love this and Storm has put into a few simple words all my opinions on the matter.

I have some points to make:

1- I’ve seen countless times the argument of “if they are a closeted couple in a homophobic country why would they post X selca or why would the company release a video depicting Y moment” and I don’t think people understand how LGBT couples - or any real life couple - work. Jikook are in a glass closet. Which essentially means they can’t come out, but that doesn’t mean they can’t or even don’t want to demonstrate their closeness and intimacy and there’s a lot that a couple - especially a same-sex couple - can get away with and can be explained by “it’s friendship”, “they’re like brothers” (and funny enough, it works! Look at this fandom!). There’s a phrase that me and my friends always say - “just because a country is homophobic, doesn’t mean queer people don’t exist there and just because a queer couple can’t be fully out it doesn’t mean they have to be completely silent about it”. It’s almost like people place the burden of being “discreet” on the queer couple themselves. Which leads to point number 2:

2- Queer couple have varying degrees of being “out”. Being out is not black and white. As someone who is queer and has been in a sapphic relationship for over 15 years, legally married for 5, I’ll say I’ve had moments when I have proudly shoved my marriage down people’s throats and moments that I didn’t correct someone who thought my wife was a friend or even my sister. Let me tell you: being out is a constant exercise in a heteronormative world and sometimes you just get tired and choose your battles. I see the same with Jikook: sometimes they are loud as fuck and sometimes they just wanna keep their love life to themselves. Being out is not linear and just because a queer couple has been more “explicit” in the past doesn’t mean they’ll be progressively more out. And I’ll talk further about it on point 3:

3- Ultimately, a couple’s relationship is between them and they should set the pace of how much they want to show people and when - which is something even more adamant for a queer not-out couple. And that’s a good thing, because imagine how tiresome it is to have to be wary of every little interaction you have with the person you love, especially after you’ve been together for so long and are so domestic around each other - let alone a couple like Jikook who have every single interaction heavily scrutinized and are targeted with so much hatred. It’s probably a very difficult balance between wanting to be like a normal couple and being cute and funny and sickly sweet together but also wanting to preserve themselves from hate and criticism. So they allow us how much they want us to see, which is understandably VERY LITTLE. How many times have we been utterly surprised by what BTS have been doing and we realized months later they filmed this, recorded that, came up with so and so content while we thought they were at home watching dramas, eating fried chicken and listening to other people’s music (which they also do a lot too lol)? We have the illusion that we know much about their lives bc of the overload of content we get from them, the spoiled fans that we are, but we don’t know about 80% of what they do in the privacy of their lives. And we shouldn’t be because it’s exactly that: their privacy.

So Jikook don’t owe us anything. It’s a huge privilege to be able to witness the beautiful bond they have and we should always keep in mind that it’s exactly that: a privilege. We’re not entitled a coming out, an explanation, a confession, joint content or anything else.

As an army and a jikook supporter, all I want from them is to be happy - alone or together, in front of our eyes or in complete privacy, whatever they choose and works best for them.

I don't follow or keep track of tiktok couples who got famous by making their relationship their job. Queer or straight couples, because I think that's a bad idea, but that's a whole seperate post (that we could relate to jikook as well if you want).

Oh please make one. I also think one of the major reason they became so private is to keep their relationship safe,not just from military or anything but just to keep it private and safe as possible. The reason nick and Pierre broke up was they started to feel like their relationship became more of a brand than an actual relationship. Like posting about your partner or private life once in a while is ok, especially if you are at two different places career wise, but making it your whole job and personality is definitely hard as gradually it will be just job and playing out characters for media than actual relationship.

Lowkey, saw this guy Chris from tiktok who said most of what I could say about it, he went through his own tiktok relationship public breakup too, it was awhile ago I believe. A relationship is between 2 people. You can share without giving it up for public consumption. You can share some stories and moments and your love without jeopardizing your privacy if you want to. And that's important.

Your intimacy as a couple together is meant for the 2 of you, not for people to invite themselves into. Tom Holland and Zendaya are a really good more recent example of a couple who does this. Jikook do not owe anyone confirmation of their relationship together (romantic or not) for it to exist. Their bond does not exist for our enjoyment. It's theirs. They can share without outting themselves. They can share without confirmation. They can not share without suddenly becoming enemies. They are real people, not characters in stories. Making your relationship what you base your content on or what you talk about all the time, makes things more fictional (for lack of a better word, it's not quite what I mean, but hopefully yall understand) at times because you don't just get to experience things, you have to turn them into a story for your audience too. And there is pressure to give the audience what they want. No one is owed anything here. From anyone online or from BTS or from Jikook. Everyone's relationships are their own.

I don't want Jikook to come out or confirm their relationship or anything. I want them to stay safe. I want them to only ever come out if and when they feel safe to do so. And if that's never, that's fine by me. I'd love it for the representation given on such a global scale, but I'd hate it because I worry about their safety enough ALREADY. Lol

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Check out. The fully-sexual charged cinematic movement design.

Cnetizens: How did the director come up with the idea to have him kneel on a playing card, adding so much aesthetic energy, is that some kind of genius?

[socialprawn]

I feel like I'm in the middle of crossfire between 'go touch grass' and 'video game projection is my life' people

[letoscrawls]

X-MEN CHRISTMAS EPISODE SHUT UP

[kwangyanese]

seeing a lot of koreans hating on/complaining about the sm game caterers #twinning

[amerasdreams]

I'm sorry but you're either for Ukraine or for russia. There is no middle ground. I don't care what your normal politics are. This isn't about politics. This is about people's lives. About them not being taken over by a country that is not only bombing them but raping and torturing them.

If you don't think we should do all we can possibly do to stop such evil, you are on the wrong side of history.

[fisheito]

If you tracked my eye activity on that bliss promo pic with the tops it would be something like this

Making a major stop at topper

Before crashing into a ditch (yakuya corner)

[journey-to-the-attic]

i know lucifer is the narrative's specialest boy but i hope other brothers get to be instrumental in saving whoever goes ultimate sin mode next

[hellaverse-critical-confessions]

(from this video)

[egophiliac]

Waittt, what did you mean with your last post?? I don't want to spoil myself so I'm waiting for the nightmare before christmas event to arrive on the eng server before diving deep into the wiki. But I HAVE to know; were there hints of Lilia joining in for a rerun or a sequel ??? Your big "OR IS IT???" filled me with way too much hope !! please tell me it wasn't a bit : (

there was a little teaser at the end that implied there'll be a sequel event, though we don't really know anything beyond that! I do think it's likely we'll get the other half of the cast in it, even if it's just wishful thinking on my part. 🤞🤞 NIGHTMARE SUITS FOR EVERYONE!!!!

as far as I know there's been no confirmation on whether it's going to be next year's Halloween event or a separate thing (the snow makes me think it'll be more Christmas-themed, or otherwise more related to the plot of the original movie) so. we're probably going to have to wait quite a while before we find out anything solid. :') they really do love just dropping these things on us and then watching us go absolutely wild with speculation while they watch like

[kenjirose]

Wonderful, my parents fucking hate me I guess

[dailykugisaki]

Day 124 | id in alt

A little bit of a rematch and my opinion on why you never see Mai's six(seven) shooter again.

Read from left to right.

[otaku553]

Some goodnotes oc doobles!

[pastellmochi]

[tabbyrocks]

Old draft i found and wanted to post!!!

monodeku AU fic idea thing where people can fuse (like steven universe gem fusing minus the gems) but ONLY if they have a strong emotional bond.

its their second year of highschool, and the two are friends (monoma swears they arnt). they bonded over their shared appreciation for quirks and such.

At some point they are on patrol and izuku's danger sense goes off for some reason (maybe something falling, maybe a villan idk, haven't thought of the details) so he grabs monoma in a panic to help him avoid the danger.

but instead of moving him they accidentally fuse.

after the initial panic of "oh god what why did we fuse" (mostly from monoma) they have to head back to campus. but the issue is, they don't know how to unfuse.

another thing, i came up with their fusion quirk!!

Its called "copy and paste". basically, it works like copy but the user can give the copies to other people as well as using the copies themselves. the time limit still applies for the copy and the paste.