#korrasami is my life

[loklove48]

This is for a new fanfic that I’m not even close to finishing………but…whatever

[strayconstellation]

so anyway yoga gfs

❗️ DISCLAIMER: this was drawn on two bases and was simply done for practice. bases were from pinterest HERE—i tried to track them down and i believe they were made by Ahmed Aldoori. pls correct me if i’m wrong!! thank you for the stunning work that inspired me so!!

[unpersoniverse]

of course my girl is an aries

[enderlord]

Korra S4 flexing on her hallucination

[lanzhans]

makorra is such a fascinating dynamic to me bc i think i land in the tiny population of people who think u can actually be friends with someone u loved romantically

[jade-of-mourning]

i started this korrasami scribble so i'd have an excuse to post music hcs lol (trust)

[thanks-for-the-crabapples]

Me, December 19, 2014: why is the canonization of this queer ship making me so unbelievably happy to the point that I think about Korra and Asami all the time and I can't stop smiling 🤔🤔🤔

Also me: must be nothing 😊

. . . . .three months later. . . . .

Me: oh shit oh fuck

[sarcastic-pun-master]

hello please what is entropy. i always gravitate towards crazy asami.

ENTROPY BY THE_OREO ON AO3 IS AMAZING AND YOU GOTTA CHECK IT OUT, BUT THATS MOSTLY KORRA BEING UNHINGED TBH

BUTTTT if you're looking for crazy asami, id recommend THIS AND THIS

[sweetorangepoptart]

I cannot believe how much and how quickly this assassin fic took over my brain.

I had originally planned when I had multiple fics, to rotate updating them. But then I decided that was maybe putting pressure on myself to update for the sake of people pleasing rather than for the sake of having fun and telling a fun story. So now I'm going to work on whichever story my heart desires and right now it's assassin Mako. But now I'm worried people are going to think I'm abandoning other fics which I'm not!

Sigh what a balance to strike. I write for myself but also nothing give me a dopamine spike like those ao3 emails and I'm like, is this fic flopping? People seemed excited on Tumblr but it doesn't have much engagement on AO3 it feels like. 🫤 I guess it's new and probably darker than some people want to read but still.

I'm overthinking it. Imma just keep my head down and keep writing.

[chaosdoesnotdefineme]

I‘m currently suffering through four seasons of stiff dialogue and wierd random 3D animated scenes for one (1) kiss.

[loklove48]

One of the perks of having a gf is wearing each others stuff

[cxvern]

one big thing that's annoyed me about ATLA universe comics (besides most of them like a lot of bad takes were made in them in my opinion but that is neither here nor there) is that korrasami had to come out not as a fun guess what we're dating but as also a 'look the homophobes are here too!' thing. and then them talking about how the air nomads were very open with this stuff etc just annoyed me. because up until that point i just existed under the assumption that the universe was already queer inclusive and the gays were healthy wealthy and thriving. you can argue 'it's good for kids to see coming out scenes' but also fuck that i want us to just not write homophobia into fantasy settings. talk about them being gfs in the comics and everyone just being like dope

[loklove48]

They definitely woke me up and made me remember who I am.

Korrasami turned me gae 🥹✌️

[lovelooksgudonu]

korrasami "spirity" vacay I've been thinking about this Korrasami concept for the past three weeks. I needed to get it out of my system so I can finally move on with my life.

[upthehillnsfw]

Hello old friends🫶 Hope things are well☀️ Dropping by to specifically ask whether anyone would be interested in commissioning some NSFW Harry Potter art? I need some extra earnings, I miss drawing, figured I could open 2-4 commission slots? DM me if you’re interested!🌶️

SLOTS TAKEN🥹 (I’ll let you know if I open more!)

Details: a two-character, fully rendered, minimal background piece would cost ~80 USD, a little cheaper if single-character or flat color. Must have PayPal to pay. Any questions, DM to ask!🙏🏼

And yes, I’d prefer Harry Potter characters only! Although I’d make an exception for these ships: Catradora, Piltover’s Finest, Korrasami, Villaneve, Zutara.

Thank you either way!!❤️ I miss you all so much you have no idea😭😭😭

Also, since I’m here, here’s a quick personal update:

I’m doing ok! A little rough on the edges, but ok🫡 I’ve been in a pretty bad autistic burnout for the past 2-3 years (yeah, official ‘tism diagnosis acquired🏆), so my limited capacity has been exhausted by working, settling into my new home, therapy, and just generally trying to figure shit out🥴 But art is still a huge part of my life, though now I’m dabbling in a multitude of other hobbies (abstract drawing/painting, crocheting, beading, clay, writing, etc.). Nonetheless, I still think about the fandom and the characters frequently, just don’t have enough time and energy to actually create or finish projects I had already started🤧 I wonder how many of you have also moved on during the recent years, probably a lot… Feel free to drop a hello if you’re still here, it’s always lovely to hear from you❤️🌌

[maybe-boys-do-love]

It's wild that the whole global trend of gay-focused happy ending romance shows and movies has only been going on for *looks at calendar* a measly ten years!

Just ten years ago. 2014. That's when you get the discovery of a market for queer romance series and films with happy endings. That year the OG Love Sick in Thailand came out. Brazil puts out The Way He Looks, which deserves so much more credit than it receives for influencing the aeshtetics of the genre. Looking premieres on HBO, and although it had low ratings, it's an important touchstone. And, despite Nickelodeon’s censorship and shifting the program from tv to its website, the Legend of Korra confirms Korrasami in its season finale.

The next year, in 2015, we get Love Sick season 2, and China, pre-censorship laws has a few options: Happy Together (not the Wong Kar Wai one lol), Mr. X and I, and Falling In Love with a Rival. Canada, premieres Schitt's Creek. In the US, Steven Universe reveals Garnet as a romantic fusion between two female characters, and will proceed to just be so sapphic. Norwegian web series Skam premieres and sets up a gay protagonist for its third season, which will drop in 2016 and entirely change the global media landscape.

Then, 2016! This is the MOMENT. That aforementioned Skam season happens. Japan puts out the film version of Ossan's Love and anime series Yuri!!! on Ice. China has the impactful Addicted Heroine, which directly leads to increased censorship. The US has Moonlight come out and take home the Oscar. In Thailand, GMMTV enters the BL game and Thai BL explodes: Puppy Honey, SOTUS, Water Boyy, Make It Right, plus, the Thai Gay OK Bangkok, which, like its influence, Looking, is more in the queer tradition but introduces two dramatically important directors to the Thai BL industry, Aof and Jojo.

By 2017, Taiwan enters the game with its History series. Korea’s BL industry actually kicks off with Method and Long Time No See. Thailand’s got too many BLs to mention. Call Me By Your Name, though not a happy ending, makes a big splash that will send ripples through the whole genre, and God's Own Country offers a gruff counter-argument to problematic age differences and twink obsessions. This is also the year of Netflix reboot of One Day At a Time bringing some wlw to the screen, and the Disney Channel has a main character come out as ‘gay’ on Andi Mack ( I’m am ready to throw fists with anyone who thinks the Disney Channel aesthetic isn’t a part of current queer culture). And I'd be remiss not to mention the influential cult-following of chaotic web-series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo: "Sometimes things that are expensive...are worse."

All this happened, and we hadn’t even gotten to Love, Simon, Elite, or ITSAY, yet.

Prior to all this there are some major precursors some of which signaled and primed a receptive market, others influenced the people who'd go on to create the QLs. Japan has a sputtering start in the 2010s with a few BL films (Takumi-Kun, Boys Love, and Jujoun Pure Heart). Most significantly in the American context, you have Glee, and its ending really makes way for the new era that can center gay young people in a world where queerness, due to easy access to digital information, is less novel to the characters. And the QL book and graphic novel landscape was way ahead of the television and film industries, directly creating many of the stories that the latter industries used.

There's plenty of the traditional queer media content (tragic melodramas and independent camp comedies) going on prior to and alongside QL, and there are some outlying queer romance films with happy endings that precede the era but feel very much akin to QL genre tropes and goals, many with a focus on postcolonial and multicultural perspectives (Saving Face, The Wedding Banquet, Big Eden, Maurice, My Beautiful Launderette, and Weekend). I don't mean to suggest that everything I’ve listed ought to be categorized as QL.

Rather, I want to point out how all of these new-era queer romance works are in a big queer global conversation together, in the creation of a new contemporary genre, a genre that has more capacity and thematic interest to include digital technology and normalize cross-cultural relationships than other genres (there's a reason fansubs and web platforms are so easily accepted and integrated to the proliferation genre).

You're not too late to be part of the conversation. Imagine being alive in the 1960s and 70s and participating in the blossoming of the sci-fi genre. That flowering is where gay romance sits now. Join the party.