#is integral to his character

[iamfuckingsorry]

So I know the fandom loves seeing young Kim as a punk, with leather jackets and combat boots and a million pins and patches and in general fairly anti-establishment and also somewhat openly gay at least within the community

And I'm not gonna lie I love it too

But there's also this idea that I can't get out of my mind, and it's Kim in what is called "epa-kultur" over here. 15 year old kids too young to have a driver's license or a car, but one of the friends in the group has six older siblings and managed to get one of those cars that are only supposed to go up to 40 kmph that you can drive with a moped license, but that can definitely go up to like 150 if you flip the right switches. It's 30 years old and absolutely shit but you all love it anyway. You drive around, a shitty speaker in the back playing terrible electronic music too loud to really hold a proper conversation while inside, nine kids packed like sardines sitting on each other's laps (one of the backseats is taken up by a speaker), ending up in an unused parking lot to get drunk on 3% beer. The car's broken half of the time but that just means you play bad music and get drunk on cheap beer while trying to fix it with random parts you got from a friend of a friend of a friend, always fucking up in some way no matter how hard you try so the car will inevitably break down again within a week. Until you eventually really do get fairly good at fixing it, and then you just end up checking all the bolts and connections all the time instead. And like it's definitely a small town/rural thing over here. It definitely would not be a thing in Revachol, and especially not in the part of Revachol Kim grew up in, where you're happy to have a roof over your head and food to eat and you're probably reasonably rich compared to your neighbours if your family has a car. And while it's very different nowadays especially with younger kids you could still get a lot of the ideas common in more conservative areas, about gender roles and queer people and whatnot.

And I just love the idea of 15-year-old Kim with a group of other kids like this, feeling a tiny little bit like he finally belongs somewhere for the first time, trying to figure out a way to get some money for a car part for his friend's car, drinking even though he doesn't really want to because that's what you're supposed to, casually making sexist jokes that make him strangely uncomfortable even though he doesn't really understand why, fully convinced the only reason he tries to find any excuse to spend time with this one guy that is so impressive and knows so much about cars is because it's the first time he's found a good friend, because why else would you feel this way about a guy

and then after a couple of years maybe he does bring up possibly feeling a certain way about men when he's a bit drunk and he immediately gets made fun of, and when he doesn't react fast enough and say that obviously he was kidding, eww that would be so gross, he gets called a hundred different slurs without hesitation, not just homophobic ones but racial ones too, and he realizes once again that there really isn't a single place in this world where someone like him could truly belong, no matter how it might feel in the moment.

(and then maybe he does get a leather jacket and some patches a few years after that lol)

[noodles-and-tea]

Just some more thoughts on that jayvik dbh au

[k1d1c4rus]

thinking about how armand was turned bc he was dying from being stabbed by a scorned grown man who was in love with him. he nearly died from rejecting unwanted advances. its such a key explicit detail of his origin that teaches him yet again that what he wants is utterly unimportant and even deadly in the face of survival. everything about his character is informed by the fact that he adapts entirely to the situation he is forced into because that's the only way he can survive. he adopts the satanic doctrine for 200 years not because he believes in it but because he knows that is the only way he'll survive and as soon as lestat arrives he knows he can abandon it. for half a millenium he believes he can't get what he wants and also survive, he has to choose one or the other. God.

[qualityrain]

laughing at the implication that akechi played twewy as a kid, completely missed all the blatant messaging and the only thing he got out of it was wow. maybe murder is a love language.

edit: 1k on a shitpost get into twewy thank you

edit 2:

yeah this will also go into my belief system

[straylaughs]

neuvillette is just so peak character to me because everytime we see him do some regular human things i instantly remember that he's literally the hydro dragon sovereign incarnate, one of the 7 elemental dragon sovereigns who ruled teyvat before the primordial one and descenders came, a being that possesses power that far surpasses archons and you're telling me he fell for a marketing scheme

[chloesimaginationthings]

Oooo I love the way you draw Jeff he's cute <333

I hope I did Jeff justice.. gotta love tired men

[emmavakarian-theirin]

it just makes sense to me that lucanis would be the one to kill the venatori mage and he deserves it

[palossssssand]

New character incoming! Ugam is a character I've had for quite some time and finally got around to making his ref. He/she, runs a small clothing store in Splatsville. Ugam is the first friend Kinoga makes on the surface and takes them in when they struggle to make do on their own, collapsing in front of her store.

[glorious-spoon]

my controversial opinion is that i'm fucking baffled by the amount of discourse revolving around tommy from every direction. he is such a nothing character. he shows up, advances buck's storyline, and dips. that's it! the only thing that distinguishes him from every other love interest is that he's a guy. and yeah, buck's bisexuality is a big deal.... for buck. it's not a big deal because of tommy. tommy could have been literally any guy, and the one thing that we consistently see throughout their relationship is that they don't know each other very well at all, because the point of this relationship for buck isn't about him falling in love with tommy, it's literally just about him dating A Guy as part of his process of figuring himself out.

[rimatsu]

why highlight tommy's longing and envy for a family and the family unit within the 118 specifically, not once not twice but THRICE, if it's going to amount to nothing 🤨

[jesncin]

"Kyle Rayner napping while balancing a rubber ducky on his forehead" prompt for DC Gotcha for Gaza (requests now closed). He's napping after thumbnailing a bunch of comic pages :<

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

What a dork

[akisstobuildadreamon]

Happy Pride Month! Thank you Courier for finding grandpa our beloved leader a holographic emitter!

(Mr. House explained but the Courier clicked through everything.)

(original)

[elcucurucho]

look I love the qcellbit skater arc with all my heart but it is so important to me to recognize that this isn’t the start of him being lame and cringe. he’s been lame and cringe the whole time

[ovrrdogg]

Hfjone au where instead of kidnapping people for his reality show he accidentally discovers twitch and starts a stream and becomes the most popular twitch streamer ever. People love tuning in to watch forest man and his wacky antics. They love the “larp.” Twitch keeps trying to get him to come to cons he can never attend. People make wildly popular edits and gifs of him to share on stan twitter.

Instead of getting people to entertain him, he works to entertain people.

[meidui]

so confused when people hate miss agent margaret carter because what do you have against a woman with big beautiful brown eyes who pummels people with her entire body weight