#it was a PRINCESS YEEEEEESSSS

[ventibesito]

the prince she was destined to be with wasn’t a prince at all… 👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

[hello-universe-lovers]

@salty-an-disco

YOU HAVE AN IDOL CONTRA?!

Gimmegimmegimmegimme!!!!

"Then...we throw it out the window!!"

Posting this separately so I can rant about design under the cut

I have colored a few Voices (Opportunist and Smitten) but Contrarian is my first proper ref sheet. She (yes she is a girl) was a lil hard to think of a design for. Her whole point is to be a contrast to most, if not all, of the things happening around LQ in the construct. I personally interpret her as LQ's desire to break free of the restrictions placed on him by the Narrator and, to a lesser extent, the Princess. Hence why she is such a pop of color. I based the look more on idol and cute girly clothes than straight jester/clown aesthetics (not that there's anything wrong with that).

I tried to make it as bright but not too bright as I do not like over saturation as well as over complicating a design since i wanna be able to draw her again later. This is where the masks come into play. I got inspired by theatre masks and came up with the idea of her changing her mask to fit the mood/atmosphere of the route. It gives her something to subtly express her mood without breaking away from her routine. Plus it's fun to come up with what her mask would look like in routes.

And also, this design is specifically for an AU that I still need to draw, hence why she has humanoid features but is still very much bird like. I tried to strike a balance but..eh, it still works. Like how she turned out and I hope you do too.

[oreo-cookies-fan]

Yeeeeeessss we DO need more Top!Martín fics!!! I used to be one of those people who thought Andrés was always the top but upon rewatching the show I started seriously questioning why I had ever thought so. I personally think he doesn’t necessarily give off those vibes in S3 and 4 (S1 and 2 with Ariadna is something else, but that’s with a woman and not a man so, that could be a difference, not in the least because of him and his misogynistic theories)

Martín, however, with the way he calls Helsinki “princess” (when he wants to leave the bank)… I hate him for that, it feels to me like he is saying that Helsi is the “woman” -and believe me, I hated writing that phrase- in their “relationship” and he considers himself to be the “man”. Same goes for the scene after the “bum bum ciao” speech - I just feel like Martín is (or at least considers himself to be) the one in control. I could be misinterpreting here (I mean, I watch with English translation and English isn’t even my first language so the meaning could be lost in translation) but that’s how I interpreted those scenes. And that led me to the conclusion that Berlermo are probably switches and that Martín definitely isn’t the one that bottoms 100% of the time… If anything, that would be Andrés (but that might be linked to the fact that I headcanon him to be a bit of a ‘pillow princess’ -is there a male term for that? Pillow prince??? ‘Princess’ sounds a bit weird to me for when talking about a man?) And of course, other people’s opinions are completely and utterly valid, but I simply for the life of me cannot fathom how people can think Martín is a twink?

Also, after the rewatch I talked about, I read a few bottom!Andrés fics for the first time and 🥵🥵🥵 Let’s say I definitely was convinced then jajaja

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, I hope it was better than Arturito’s jajajaja

By the way, them making out on a table in An Empire for You was hnnnnnnn I have no eloquent phrases for that I just really loved that and it felt very them

(Sorry it took so long to respond)

Yeah, it seems to be a pattern when it comes to Andres. People who watch the show once and don't spend hours on thinking about the characters end up thinking that Andres is the one in control all the time and that he's the manly man in the ship, meanwhile Martin is this Twink McBottom who is under his spell and just waits patiently for Andres to fuck him over and over again. (Lol, that interpretation even fucked up Pedro's and Rodri's appearance to some people. I read some fics in which Andres picks up Martin and carries him to bed and (while I understand that it's fiction and some people find it hot) I'm like ... there's no way on earth Andres is that strong). (Oh, or Martin doing stereotypical woman from a bad romance novel stuff, like always being the one who was abused during childhood, people always leave him, he always is the one to cry the most, basically he needs a strong man to pick up his pieces and put him together)

It's honestly fascinating to see people think that. It either shows the complexity of Andres and Martin or people's tendency to put stereotypical straight traits (for ex. the shorter man is actually the woman in the relationship) on queer relationships.

No one can do a worse TED thank Arturito, don't worry. And I'm glad you liked Empire ❤