#hard to strike the balance between

[obstinaterixatrix]

hey if you can i was wondering if you had some bl/gl/general manga recs for a particular kind of tonal vibe, given your like. expertise. ok so there's this manga by nemui asada i reread every so often called my little inferno and i really like it but the problem is the beginning is p much unreadable because she throws sa in there for no reason? esp since the sa is so disjointed from the rest of it which is fun and fairly normal beyond that. i wanna read something like it with the same tone but without the sa and longer if i can help it. i liked that it was a situation that was like Off and arguably fucked up but weirdly functional/mutually fulfilling without veering too far into the domestic but finding something like it has been harder than expected

yea lmao I really like asada nemui’s writing but sometimes it’s a little much. for kinda fucky vibes that don’t lean into assault, what immediately springs to mind is Tokyo Hikari Auction which is in progress, kind of similar dynamic with one person being more reluctant and wanting to drive the other person away and the other person Just Parking Here. the setting is… well I don’t get the logistics but it’s a black market auction that the main character runs and the love interest tries to sell himself on.

this isn’t the same tone but it’s the same kind of… weirdly functional relationship with dysfunctional characters, ‘Kiraware Joushi to Perfect Buka’ is a one volume manga about a rancid boss and his younger subordinate that’s infatuated with him. the state of the scans are kind of strange but they’re floating around

this one’s a oneshot, ‘Just when I thought I came here to die’ is really fun horror romcom vibes where it’s kind of off in that the love interest does in fact kill some random people that show up, and the main character starts out terrified of the love interest

actually, I think limo has really similar writing to asada nemui, in that it can get really intense and fucked up and sometimes probably too far for a lot of people. but check out chapter 2 of ‘Soine Lovers’ for something more lighthearted, it’s about a guy with a lot of debt being hassled by his rich classmate who he hasn’t seen in like 10 years. and don’t check out anything else unless you want to spin a roulette wheel of content warnings.

‘Kobamanai Otoko’… well it’s more on the manipulation side of fucky relationships but I’d say give it a go

‘A Declaration of Revenge’. lol. lmao. I hope they break up for real. extremely good weird rancid vibes. I am ignoring all of the police politics tho.

‘Never Good Enough’. has a college student/teacher relationship so depends how much that’ll put you off but I actually thought it was interesting how the writer kind of deconstructs the… framework of the love interest being obsessive and presented as unstable by others?

there’s your starter lemme know if any of em stick. oh wait I just realized you didn’t specifically ask for only bl hang on I got a couple of GL

‘Black and White: Tough Love at the Office’ has office ladies that just beat the shit out of each other and start making out lol

‘"The Villainess" and the Woman Who Would Do Anything for the Sake of Love’ it’s time prison deathloop and the main character gets kind of nuts about it. Might skew too far into the fucky relationship side of things, it does have confinement…?

Hm. Hmmm. ‘Qualia the purple’. not necessarily off and rancid, but I think the intensity somewhat matches. Look up content warnings tho. Okay now I’m done that was more than I thought I’d dig up and I’m off to do something else

[choccy-milky]

OMG I LOVED YOUR NEW CHAPTER ❤️

I just can’t wait to see if you end drawing tortured sub seb, our poor boy was heaving at the mouth!!!!! Also I’m gonna need a visual on freaking Henry I need to look at that mf in the face

Also I did sorta get fooled into thinking the favorite boy was Henry for a second but 10/10 loved the chapter.

AWW THANK UUUU💖💖AND OK i was actually gonna include a link to some doodles of henry at the beginning of the chapter but i couldnt decide on how i wanted him to look BUT I THINK I GOT IT, SO HERE

that smile..................that damned smile ((also we know by now i love torturing seb, and i defs have a wip of tortured sub seb/dom clora in the works too, rest assured👀))

[bionicboxes]

why is it so hard to make a cool robot design. you're already hard to draw can't you at least be easy to conceptualize

[hurricanek8art]

I had to start trying to explain to my mom (strictly a movie/tv fan) why the Jedi are like this at this point in time, and it finally clicked in my head. The perfect way to explain how they're so rigid and strict and have such huge sticks up their butts at this point in time.

The Jedi of this generation are the result of generational trauma.

(Spoilers for episodes 1 and 2 of The Acolyte, Phase One of the High Republic books, and some barebones setting spoilers of Phase Three under the cut. Also a big wall of text because I never know when to shut up 🙃)

So I'm behind on Phase III of the High Republic books (got a few chapters into The Eye of Darkness when it came out, brain farted out on me on reading ability, haven't gotten back to it yet 🙃😖) but I know enough to know that things are really going bad. The Nihil are rampaging, the Nameless are turning people to stone, the Stormwall has cut off like a third of the galaxy from the rest of it. It's a lot! It's really bad! And we see how it's affecting our heroes. Avar and Elzar are reeling without Stellan. Vern's questioning about how the Jedi are responding to this threat throughout Phase I has led her to become a Wayseeker. Padawans like Bell, Burry and Reath have been elevated to Knighthood a lot sooner than any of them expected to be. All of them are incredibly traumatized.

But that's just the Jedi we've seen. The heroes, the big names. Imagine being a nobody at this time. An extra. A child.

Imagine being a youngling in this era. There are literal nightmares hunting you. People are dying right and left, they're being husked and turned to stone or just plain shot/stabbed/whatever. The outposts are being closed down and everyone's being recalled to Coruscant, and that's the ones who've survived so far. They knocked the Starlight Beacon out of the sky, something that was supposed to be impossible. And less than five years ago, this was a golden age of peace, of light and life and great works that were bringing the galaxy together, a united front. That's horrible, that is terrifying.

We as the readers know it's going to work out, because it has to, because this is a prequel. They don't know that. They're just kids, and the world has suddenly turned upside-down, and the galaxy is big and scary and dark.

So everything works out, the day is saved. But these kids, they have to live with this trauma for the rest of their lives.

And when they grow up, and they train Padawans, those Padawans are going to carry the lessons they learned onwards. There is no lesson a Master can teach in this era that isn't going to carry the grief of the Nihil or the Nameless. There is no lesson any Master will ever teach again, from the moment Loden Greatstorm was captured by Marchion Ro all the way to Luke's temple burning to the ground, that won't somehow, in some way, be touched by this. It haunts everyone, everything. Those lessons are passed on, and on, and on.

Yord Fandar is intense about protocal and following the rules and making sure he's the perfect Jedi, because a hundred years ago maverick Elzar Mann played fast and loose with the rules while he was stationed on Valo, and then the Nihil turned the Republic Fair into a bloodbath. Sol is worried about Osha's (so far) inability to put her grief to the side and remain objective in chasing Mae because Imri Cantaros lost control and nearly murdered the Nihil who caused the death of his master during the Great Disaster. Vernestra Rwoh is refusing to charge into this without talking it over with the Council because she remembers what happened when she kept information from them a hundred years ago.

These aren't isolated incidents because they happened to the heroes, every Jedi of that era has some story like this, where the lines blurred in the fog of war and they made or nearly made horrible mistakes out of fear. And now, every Jedi is going to want to rise above that. To not make those mistakes, because that past is past. It's peaceful again. They're better now. But that trauma's lurking under the surface, just like the Sith. The Nihil won't win, but the Order isn't going to, either. Because what the Nihil did changed them, permanently.

The plot of the High Republic books is supposedly unrelated to the show, because it's a hundred years later. But the plot of the High Republic books explains everything about the Jedi in this era of the galaxy. They're carrying the trauma and grief of an entire generation that was brutalized unlike anything the Order had ever seen before.

And the Sith have watched, and waited, as that trauma has become so internalized, so central to what the Jedi are. The Jedi might not even realize that's what's happened to them. But the Sith see it.

And now it's finally time to begin the grand plan.

[cuntylestat]

i do think it's funny that people always write this super flowery purple prose dialogue for lestat because he doesn't really talk like that most of the time

[qourmet]

i was sold on @rmoonberry 's yin hufu twins the minute i saw them

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

weirdly a thing I've been coming back to lately is like, being afraid that I can't tell between my own imagined scenarios and reality? like, what if I'm wrong about what's real and what's just my anxiety/on occasion the dreams you have while half asleep? anybody else feel that or have I just had anxiety my whole life and I'm unfortunately letting it take the lead this week :(

[lovvecherrymotion]

there's some people over on twt who dislike the UM karaoke (especially now because it's getting pretty long) so i guess i'm just wondering how everyone else feels? i don't mean to cause any discussions around it, i'm really just curious 😅

[linksconverge]

[tentatively slides in here] New Links Meet AU...new Links Meet AU...new Links Meet AU...!

From left to right (plus bonus fact that doesn't really matter but is fun all the same):

Patches (ALBW/TH) got into dying their hair with Irene's influence sometime after their first journey. The pink was half-accidental and half-intended to be a prank, but he liked the look of it so much that he's kept it ever since.

Dusk (TP) has an iron gut — second only to Knight's — and the favoured Chu Jelly flavour to show for it (purple).

Knight (AoC) is an older sibling and has Complicated Feelings about it. To be fair, they have Complicated Feelings about a lot of things at the moment—

Sailor (WW/PH/HW) is an experienced participant and enjoyer of special handshakes and high-fives. He's great at clapping games too!

Linh's (ST) handwriting is the best of the party. This doesn't mean as much as they'd like it to.

Grasshopper (OoT/MM/HW) does not keep any bottled fairies in his inventory. Emergencies are handled either with potions or the hope that a fairy fountain is close by.

Cori (MC) has been banned from using Roc's Cape in conjunction with his Pegasus Boots in so many areas of Hyrule Town that he's taken to only wearing one or the other out of habit.

[yours-the-author]

Chapter alert! We're doing something a little different today, as you'll see in the cover art, which is just below the cut! And just to make it clear, everything in this picture is relevant to the chapter. In case you were wondering.

...Totally relevant. You can trust me, for real.

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: Point of Impact (1.1, LWT, 1972)

"I thought they'd lumber you with it."

"Did you, why?"

"It's a touchy one, isn't it?"

"There's a policeman involved."

"Yeah, unpleasant."

"Always."

"You were bound to get it."

"Thank you."

"Would've never happened at all if it hadn't been for that blasted Law and Order Brigade turning up on the scene, bloody reactionaries."

"Look, spare me the catchphrases, will you? I don't understand what half of them mean, I don't suppose the people who bandy them about do either."

"Well, I happen to know what a reactionary is."

"Good. You must explain it to me in great detail. Some other time."

[arlathen]

there is nothing like. when you're dming. and you're laying all these hints about what's going to happen. and your party in character starts actually predicting the plot. in like an "aha this is what i think is happening" way. it's a delight. like yes i have laid the hints appropriately!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[noblebs]

I was going to go on anon just to be funny and then Royston decided he had a burning need to throw in a question.

How many partners has Orion had at one time? (Yeah yeah polyamory is great--I'm talking FUCKIN. Appendages in orifices.)

Given his nerve situation and general stoniness, how would Dev feel about getting whipped by another person for sexual purposes?

Royston would like a "word picture" of Dev's monster dong.

HERE WE GO!! and thank god for Royston, because I have so many um. thoughts, about that one and I don't know how much of it will stay in EWT

three or four by that qualification (who can really keep track of whose hands are where at that point?), but there would have been more people like. nearby. he attended an orgy or two in his younger days. between being on the run for a while then working for Annex, he hasn't really had any such opportunities in a very long time :(

he wouldn't be thrilled tbh. not only would a person's arm probably get tired long before whipping would really have a significant effect on him, but he's not very into impact play regardless. he would say yes to it if a partner really wanted, I just don't think either party's going to get much from the experience haha

okay. I've pulled a lot of inspiration from various reptilian anatomy for this... as they say, write what you know, I guess. did you know alligators are always erect? so anyway!! there's a pocket, sort of an internal sheath, so it's not even visible when not in use. 7-8" and very girthy and sort of...bulbous? as in it doesn't have a distinct head, imagine almost a bean-like shape. there's a very small groove along the length on top. dark gray and fleshier than the rest of his body; it's not layered in stone but it is covered in small spines that are...basically harmless. if you're careful. is that satisfactory detail should I add more?

[melloryn]

been a few weeks since i posted any progress on this. i'm having so much fun working on this thing. look at the lil guy move

[citruscore]

if doodle requests are still open then perhaps Lark and/or Sparrow,,,? you can draw them at any point in time i just really, really appreciate them and need more of them in my life

here's some of my thoughts on their s2 designs!

[lightnersdream]