#no i'm here to write my Yaoi MLM Men Boys thanks

[drawbauchery]

the asks better be careful or they just might genderbend the girls.

now there's an idea

[goblin-the-clown]

Here's some step by step instructions on how to not make your MLM OC's look like a yaoi manga written by a straight woman!!

(Quick disclaimer, I'm not a man nor am I attracted to men, this is purely just for fun and to give advice on how to design male characters better with my experience as an artist. None of this is mandatory, it's just my own opinion and it's not a strict guide. Please enjoy! This post might be a long one.)

1. They don't have to look like they've never seen the sun.

Don't be afraid of interracial relationships, it's really not that hard to draw a black person. You'll find that they do in fact exist everywhere no matter where your story is set. This applies for all races.

2. They don't have to be the skinniest men you will ever see.

This one's very very common. I understand finding it hard to draw different body types but just practice and I swear you'll get better. Mix it up a bit, they can't all be twinks.

3. Give them interesting and different hairstyles.

As someone who loves drawing and designing hair, if I see another anime boy with THIS fucking hairstyle I will eat a gun.

Just any variation of this hair, short messy hair (especially if it's brown) is boring. Other hairstyles exist, don't give them both this hair just in different colours.

4. Body/facial hair is not the end of the world.

Everybody has body hair (yes, even women, shocking ik). Nobody's going to attack you if you draw a man with armpit hair kissing another man. Same thing with facial hair, most men do actually grow it so even if it's not a lot it's ok to give them some.

5. They don't actually have to both be men.

A gay relationship is when someone who doesn't identify as a woman is in a relationship with another person who doesn't identify as a woman. There's an infinite amount of genders out there that don't fall under "woman" so include them in your writing, don't be shy.

6. Taste in fashion?

Even if they're in school uniform you can make their style clear through accessories. Give them cool outfits please I'm begging youuu. If they don't have interesting hair give them interesting clothes and make their styles distinct.

7. Stop making one of them look like a child and the other a thirty year old man!!

Please tell me I'm not the only one who keeps seeing this trope everywhere, it's extremely annoying. If they're teenagers make them look like teenagers, if they're adults make them look like adults. Stop.

8. They can be older, men do age.

Actually I don't know if this one needs to be said as middle aged man yaoi seems to be quite popular on here but still. There are gay old men out there, but it's usually more fun to write about young people so I do understand.

9. Stop treating your female characters like shit.

This really has nothing to do with designing but I feel like it needs to be said. If your story revolves around a MLM relationship, don't have the female characters be jealous, straight, bitchy fujoshi's. In fact, make the girly's queer as well, please. I promise you most women are not jealous of gay men in happy relationships.

10. Don't sexualise teenagers.

If your story is set in a school, stop and think before you draw something weird. Also nothing to do with designing but it's weird.

THANKS!!!

[achilleanscribe]

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Hey there! If you're reading this, thank you! Here's basically what I do with this blog:

I write one-shots, drabbles, and pretty much anything along those lines. Most of my content will be queer and shipping centered. I mostly wanna be a good source for MLM/NBLM fanfiction. Let's face it, there's not a lot of fan content for masc and nb fans, and a lot of what exists isn't even written by masc or nb individuals. Don't get me wrong, I'm not gonna AVOID writing wlw/nblw, nblnb, or het content, I'm totally down for that, but I want most of my content to be for MLM and NBLM.

I'm in A LOT of fandoms, such as Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Star Trek, The Dark Crystal, Overwatch, and MANY more (some listed in the tags, i fit what i could). Like I said, I'll be writing a lot of shipping (especially queer ships) content, as I'm a multi-shipper, but will also write a few drabbles centered around various characters (mostly comfort characters), whether they be angsty or comfort or whatever. I'll also share various headcanons and theories and such.

You're probably wondering if I take requests. The answer is YES. I do. Sometimes. I'll always be sure to leave in my bio when I am or am not taking requests, but I'll be keeping my ask box and DMs open a majority of the time. Sometimes my ask box will be open, but I won't be doing requests, if that makes sense.

Some things I'll be writing and accepting requests for are:

• ships (obviously)

• xreaders

• hurt/comfort

• angst

• AUs

• smut (though i'm not too sure about writing wlw smut, as i'm not wlw)

• fluff

Some things I will NOT write are:

• pedophilia

• incest

• DDLG, DDLB, MDLG, MDLB (daddy dom/little girl/boy, mommy dom/little girl/boy)

• omegaverse

• cis mpreg (as in cis men getting pregnant. pregnant trans men is ok though, but not if its fetish-y)

• rape/sexual assault (though I'm not against making comfort content for victims, as I'm a victim myself)

• certain kinks/fetishes that personally make me uncomfortable, such as daddy/mommy or breeding/pregnancy and a few others

• lewding minors

BEFORE YOU FOLLOW:

I sometimes need/use tone indicators, as I have ADHD and struggle with tones/social cues, also tone is just hard to interpret over text anyway. In case you're confused, here's a Tone Indicator Guide that I often look to.

I'm definitely gonna project a lot lol

DO NOT INTERACT:

if you're a fujoshi or anything along those lines. my sexuality is not to be fetishized, and unfortunately, there are a lot of women/fem presenting/aligned people who fetishize MLM relationships. i'm not saying you can't read BL or my MLM content or interact if you're a woman/fem presenting, youre very free to do so, BUT if you ACTIVELY look for MLM smut or "yaoi" because you think it's hot or scandalous, stay 60 feet away from me. block me, even. that is no different from a man jacking off to wlw porn.

if you're a pro-shipper. pro-shippers tend to make excuses to ship disgusting ships that are literally pedophilia and/or incest, and often sexualize/lewd minors. that's disgusting and i want none of that near me or my content.

if you're racist, queerphobic, anti-semitic, ableist, etc.