#dissonance of attraction

[maxfaiden]

Dissonance of Attraction: Act I - Counterpoint, Scene 1

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[greighish]

[KagaKise] Dissonance of Attraction - Kise's Apartment (ver. 1)

The idea was an apartment from the beginning, so I figured I'd get a head start by using an existing one. However, even though I bulldozed the place, I couldn't quite match the feeling I had when I wrote the fic. It wasn't even fully fleshed out in the story, but I knew this wasn't it. I played the lot a number of times, but it never quite worked.

[kagakisestories]

COMING SOON! Dissonance of Attraction -- SimsComic

Take another ride with Kagami and Kise as they grumble, laugh, sing, and yell their way to "Yes."

Dissonance of Attraction is being adapted into a SimsComic by yours truly. It is an adaptation, so there will be some minor changes to suit the medium. If you like the KagaKise of my heart in prose, then I hope you'll give them a chance when I bring them to you in color. Thanx in advance.

If you've never read the fic or want a refresher, check it out on AO3.

[kurishiri]

02 . . . happy birthday, darius! ˗ˏˋ🪽´ˎ˗

— this translation may not be 100% accurate or may contain creative liberties for characterization or narrative flow purposes. if you enjoy, please consider reblogging, but don’t repost or claim these as your own!

— cw: none, things are getting interesting though ..

Kate: The scones in that shop over there are really good.

Darius: I happen to dislike foods that leave a lot of crumbs though.

Kate: Then what about the gelato over there?

Darius: I’ll pass — I’m not in the mood.

Kate: T-then, how about those sausages? They were imported straight from Germany!

Darius: All they did was throw it on a grill though, right?

(Oh, right... Darius does lean more toward foods that seem difficult to make or take a lot of time.)

In direct contrast to the way I was racking my brain, Darius wore a calm expression as he stopped in his tracks.

Darius: Hmm, as I thought, there doesn’t seem to be anything that really stands out to me...

D: Do you have any other recommendations up your sleeve?

I was searching around for places we could have a slightly belated lunch, but there didn’t seem to be anything that caught his eye.

(Could it be that Darius is actually quite selfish...?)

It was as though my repertoire was practically nonexistent.

Darius: But I am feeling hungry now. And to think you would leave guests all the way from Germany with nothing...

Kate: I-I’ll take you somewhere, right now!

(At this rate it might really become an international problem...)

As I thought hard, I remembered the menu of a certain restaurant.

(It is a bit on the pricey end, but their dishes all take quite a lot of time to make, and it may have things that he’s more familiar with.)

Kate: Actually, I just remembered a place that sells some time-consuming dishes!

K: Since we’re all the way out here already anyway, why don’t we pay that place a visit?

Darius: Hehe, sure thing. I’m looking forward to it.

With him in a merry mood, we headed for the restaurant——

Darius: You choose.

And having been told so, I felt anxiety wash over me as I placed the order.

Darius: ...Oh, is this goulash?

Goulash was a German dish where beef tendons and a variety of vegetables were put in and boiled together.

Kate: This place lets their goulash boil for a whole two days.

K: And besides, they only serve ten of these at any given day.

K: Well, don’t you think it’s fitting to call it a time-consuming dish?

(When I first ate here, I remembered it was so good that I felt my cheeks relax.)

At my words, his hands, which were on his chin, reached out for the cutlery——

Darius: Indeed, it does sound like something I’d be taken to.

He started to eat with a smile, and I felt relief wash over me——

Or, that’s how it should have been.

Kate: Wha...

Splat.

Seeing him grab the meat with his hands and carrying it like that to his mouth, I felt myself stiffen.

Kate: U-um...

Around his mouth was stained, and he licked the soup that had dripped down his wrist.

It was a bit hard to call him the ‘leader of Vogel,’ even as flattery...

Darius: What is it, did something happen?

The way he held his cutlery was strange, to say the least, and he held the knife in an underhand grip.

Kate: Ah, uhm, it’s just that I didn’t expect you to, well...

(Especially seeing that, at the dinner party that was held to deepen our relationship, you weren’t eating then like you are now.)

For how much he looked like an angel, his way of eating seemed like he was pulling a practical prank, and all words escaped me then.

Darius: You didn’t?

While wiping his mouth, he calmly spun the knife.

Darius: I was being considerate at the dinner party, but humans can be a bit troublesome, you know.

D: Just what’s so wrong with defining on your own what ‘table manners’ and eating the way you like?

His cold eyes then turned to the food on the plate.

His answer had me a bit taken aback, and I remembered a certain memory.

Kate: Before, William had also told me that he wouldn’t mind me eating the way I’d like to, without worry.

Darius: There, see?

Kate: But still, I wanted to get along with many people, so I had him teach me manners in the end.

K: Just like how we remember the words the people we want to get along with use,

K: I was thinking if I could learn manners, I could get along with someone else over a meal.

Darius: ...Ho-oh?

With his eyes turned to me, his hands stopped.

Kate: At that time, I could easily follow his teachings, and...

Darius: And how did he teach you?

Kate: Huh?

He set the knife down as he cut off my words, giving off a bit of an eager air.

Darius: I’d love it if I could receive a lesson or two on manners from William.

He now seemed like a different person from before, and while I felt a bit perplexed at that, I nonetheless straightened my posture.

Kate: So first, he——

—— Time skip ——

Darius: So something like this?

Kate: Just like that. It’s like I’m looking at William right now.

His manners had emulated William’s so perfectly that it was as though William was the one eating.

(So, in reality, he is proficient in table manners... but he chooses not to use them.)

The way his eyes would sparkle whenever the topic was on William stood out to me, and so I opened my mouth.

Kate: You really respect William, don’t you, Darius?

Darius: Well, there isn’t another person who holds as wonderful of an ability as him.

D: That is, he is wonderful as a Cursed one.

(As a Cursed one...?)

Darius: Anyway, thanks for the meal. Where should we go next?

The moment I tilted my head at those words that seemed to instill some sense of discomfort in me, he quickly changed the topic.

Kate: How about we choose a present next then?

Darius: Oh, I like that. Do choose something you think will make me happy.

And so, we went around to many different shops, but...

(There’s nothing around that Darius likes...)

We had gone here and there until the sun set, but there was nothing that seemed like something he would want.

Darius: Some things just can’t be helped. You can get me a present next time.

Kate: ...I will keep mulling on it though.

Darius: Then I’ll look forward to it.

I was pretty exhausted as he pulled me along, but then he suddenly stopped.

Kate: What is... ah—

Before our eyes was a man on his knees before a lady with a surprised expression, holding a bouquet of flowers.

Man holding a bouquet: I promise to make you happy for life, so please marry me!

The lady, her eyes wet with tears, nodded, and the crowd around them cheered.

Kate: Oh, it looks like the proposal went well!

Looking at someone who was handing the crying lady a handkerchief,

I then turned to look at him, when——

Darius: People really are unbelievable.

to be continued…

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[lycandrophile]

i’m going to be starting a job soon where it looks like almost all of my coworkers/bosses are going to be cis women and i am…terrified. especially since this is the job i’m going to have to get time off from for top surgery.

if there’s one thing i’ve learned over the almost ten years of my transition, it’s that a situation where i’m the only guy there is one where my gender is guaranteed to not be respected. it really feels like far too many cis women realize they’re alone with a trans man and just see it as an opportunity to act out some sort of power fantasy where they get to stick it to the big bad evil men by taking out their anger on the first man they see without the power to fight back. that or they decide you’re “just one of the girls” and will not hear otherwise, but honestly, given where i’m at in my physical transition, i have a feeling the former is more likely.

there was a time when i felt safer around cis women than around cis men, but now it’s just a different kind of threat.

[eddiegettingshot]

let me be shady w no context

[6okuto]

one day people will stop looking at misogynistic men and saying they're secretly gay, and finally realize implicitly associating non-queer men's hatred with queerness as well as disregarding the patriarchy's pervasiveness helps (checks notes) literally nobody

[saiwola]

Certainly a bad time to recall she's got a thing for pathetic men...

[thefatfemme]

Mathilde 'Tillie' Ingellvar, aka Rook, Mourn Watcher and Taash lover

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

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[divinekangaroo]

Thoughts from a sidelong chat: fiction / shows that tell stories in a way that make the audience realise how impossible certain power fantasies are tend to lose a large part of their audience along the way.

[maxfaiden]

Dissonance of Attraction: Encore: Betwixt the Bamboo /END

Lights Out

Shibori, Shibari

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Closing thoughts under the cut.

This concludes Dissonance of Attraction (and possibly my fanfic career). When I decided that I was going to tell my original story through the Sims, I figured I'd throw myself into a crash course on turning prose into serial art. I originally wrote this fic back in 2015 and I still love it. I thought it would be perfect for a crash course: it was short, ran the gamut of emotions, and, most importantly it was complete.

I had to revise the story to work within the confines of the game itself, but not to the point that it became unrecognizable. I had fun, learned a lot, and I'm pretty happy about how it all turned out.

Thanx to anyone who liked, read, or commented on the story; I appreciate that you chose to spare some time for it. Particular shout out to @igotsnothing for always cheering me on and being quite adept with the ts4 editing skill which continues to inspire me; and @cinamun for leading by example and confirming for me that my story about messy people doing questionable things and questionable people doing messy things can and should be told. Just reading Things Fall Apart urged me to finish up this project so I could really get my hands dirty with this story of mine whose first iteration is old enough to drive.

That story is Keystone, and it will begin "airing" before the end of the year. It is completely different from the angsty fluff of Dissonance and will be full of all the things life throws at you and more, so I hope you'll stick around for it as well.

In the meantime, in preparation for Keystone, I'll be updating my game, updating my mods, updating reshade, and building up a storm, so keep an eye out for all of that too!

-Himi/Max

[greighish]

COMING SOON! Dissonance of Attraction -- SimsComic

Take another ride with Kagami and Kise as they grumble, laugh, sing, and yell their way to "Yes."

Dissonance of Attraction is being adapted into a SimsComic by yours truly. It is an adaptation, so there will be some minor changes to suit the medium. If you like the KagaKise of my heart in prose, then I hope you'll give them a chance when I bring them to you in color. Thanx in advance.

If you've never read the fic or want a refresher, check it out on AO3.

[zemnarihah]

i hung out w my roommate and a couple of her friends last night and it was fun but it was a little surreal they were just... so different. from me.

[edwardseymour]

one must laugh

[bookwyrrm]

I love that Fjord gained one iota of muscle and Nott immediately started flirting. The woman knows what she likes!