#whatEVER dude

[h0use-fly]

still tweaking his design but aauuuh he kinda pretty tho

[creaman]

Tag a friend whose always bleeding from the jaw

[kyyuuuy]

GAKI

[zukoupy]

gay people can't just say "i love you" they've got to say some shit like "you were never broken" "there's beauty in imperfections" "in all timelines in all possibilities only you can show me this" "because i promised you" "we finish this together" "all i want is my partner back"

[sophiethewitch1]

to everyone in my inbox asking about what we wants next chapter im really sorry it's been ages and there's been basically nothing but radio silence. i dont really have any excuse i just havent felt as interested in writing for it recently and whenever i do write for it i find myself struggling to get anywhere on the next chapter and writing for future stuff instead. for example the published wc is under 50k i think but the actual amount ive written for it is at 75k lololol. its definitely still being worked on, and definitely still a priority, i just can't really promise anything rn :/

[caprart1]

Goin thru it rn, embracing my cringe

I think we all should draw ourselves with our favorite characters when the going gets tough

[scariddler]

i’m so bored i want to die

[kantuh]

i hate them so much

[nortsauce]

Morning after robe, and the Mourning after robe.

[gojinka]

Switching to my right hand while scrubbing the warmer and referring to it as “my jack off hand” was not a hit with my manager

[chromakill-mp3]

wtf fresh sans in 2023 (drew this for a buddy)

[kyyuuuy]

and for my next trick i will draw beast koujaku once again in the same type of pose and expression

[s1ck-pupp3t]

Lord almighty its 5 am.

First Impressions

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[pathologising]

just me and the 60 year old man that is able to articulate feelings surrounding my childhood better than anyone else even myself but also he literally does not know I exist

[marzipanxx]

friend gifted me an orange shirt. she brought it from germany. exchange student. love it. i wear it, put my pajama pants on. leave my room, so sleepy, want to make my tea.

big mistake. little shitboy of a brother (i love him dearly) looks up at me, sitting crisscross on the floor of the kitchen. "go back to camp half-blood bro. lamo. what are you dressed like percy jackson for????" proceeds to rag on me for two solid minutes.

can't have SHIT in this house

[mermaidsirennikita]

I really hate the thing where if you critique any romance novel for having a weakly written heroine, or a problematic sexist storyline, the response is "YOU HATE FEMININE WOMEN"

Like never mind that "feminine" is just... a really debatable term...

If we are going with the traditional feminine aesthetic, and let's just look at it like that: an aesthetic... I fucking LOVE traditionally~ feminine heroines. I love heroines who love to wear dresses. I love heroines who are soft and cry. I love heroines who WANT to be bossed around in the bedroom, and enjoy the hero who smells of sandalwood and sweat or whatever, I love the dainty manners and the embroidery and heroines who want to have babies and dream of the fairy tale and whatever

What I do not love is a narrative wherein the conventionally feminine heroine has no or reduced agency, is not prioritized in the narrative, is not given the opportunity to grow, does not have a personality, and essentially exists as a shell upon which readers can project themselves.

And that last part is very much a thing, and I don't think it's good writing. I kinda feel like we should hold romance novels to a higher standard that "thing upon which I can project myself" because writing a romance novel is creating art. I believe in well-written characters in romance novels, who can exist in a story like any other characters in any other genres.

It often feels as if any critique of a blank slate character who has very little agency is combatted by "YOU HATE FEMININE WOMEN" which... in the context of certain arguments about certain books... is often problematic in itself. Because I can think of super feminine trans heroines who probably wouldn't be accepted as "feminine classic" by those making that argument. I can think of heroines of color who wouldn't be accepted as "feminine classic" by those making that argument.

And I don't know. I don't begrudge people who want to read simply to project themselves onto characters, and I think you can project yourself onto a well-written character, too; because that's you. But I do have an issue with any critiques voiced about a certain type of character being shut down with "you hate feminine women" "you don't want feminine women to be represented".

Because let's be real, there's also an undercurrent of a conservative sensibility there. White, cishet conventionally feminine women have been WELL represented in many genres throughout history, though their femininity can be dependent on the era and the culture. We're not, historically, suffering from a dearth of feminine heroines. We have suffered from a lack of feminine characters being allowed their agency and validation. We have suffered from a lack of feminine characters who get to develop and grow for themselves, whether or not they fall in love. But feminine characters have BEEN HERE.

And again—bigger picture, what even the hell is femininity?