This is universally not talked about enough😭

Yuki WHAT ☠️

Destroying your wall so you can have a shared office with your puppy dog-eyed best friend >>>>

Found this in my drafts and the math is matching

Thinking about eachother ❤️

“Queequeg,” said I softly through the key-hole:—all silent. “I say, Queequeg! why don’t you speak? It’s I—Ishmael.” But all remained still as before. I began to grow alarmed. I had allowed him such abundant time; I thought he might have had an apoplectic fit.

“Queequeg!—Queequeg!”—all still. Something must have happened. Apoplexy! I tried to burst open the door; but it stubbornly resisted.

“Wood-house!” cried I, “which way to it? Run for God’s sake, and fetch something to pry open the door—the axe!—the axe! he’s had a stroke; depend upon it!”

“He’s killed himself,” she cried. “It’s unfort’nate Stiggs done over again—there goes another counterpane—God pity his poor mother!—it will be the ruin of my house. Has the poor lad a sister? Where’s that girl?—there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with—“no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;”

Ishmael can’t get into his and Queequeg’s room and just assumes he’s had a stroke. He tells the landlady and she assumes he’s killed himself. Ishmael, buddy, my pal, my guy, I know he’s your husband, but calm down. He’s just fasting and sitting silently. I think this also points to what a sorry mental state Ishmael is in. He makes a genuine connection and is feeling less alone. And the outlandish thought that that person he just met and cares for deeply might be gone drives him into a frenzy.

Camilla Hect carefully removing splinters from your palm

it feels really pleasant. the slide of the wood you couldn't get out as it finally breaches the correct side of your skin.

she gently holds the back of your hand as she gently uses the tip of her knife so carefully as to not cut deeper than the splinter, and then tweezers to pull the wood away. it's as sweet as hand holding, and feels much more intimate. when she finishes she pulls back and holds your gaze.

"all done," she says, the air charged between you as your eyes catch on her lips.

you lean in and press a soft kiss to those pretty lips. "thank you," you reply

Close enough welcome back Ethel Cain in the song Gibson Girl specifically

Some sketches tonight

Ian jazz hands Gallagher

Hemlock Grove 3x09 Damascus

Dawn of the Dead, 1978, dir. George A. Romero

One of the many things that I've been doing instead of writing are these damn manwha binges and Villain To Kill is literally so funny. The comic premise is straightforward action, think Tokyo Ghoul meets Solo Leveling - local Genetically Superpowered Superhero Cop working for corrupt Hero Organization gets #betrayed and #murdered and is reincarnated into the body of a Genetically Superpowered Villain Teenager so now he has to join up with all the other villain superpower people to get justice.

It's so 5/10. Cassian is extremely OP and the story isn't well-written enough to pull that off well. The worldbuilding is so incredibly nonsensical and weak that it falls apart if you think about it for more than five minutes (tried to write fic for it and failed because I would have had to rework the entire world - which, I could have, but that's a lot of effort for Villain to Kill). The plot is mostly any OP action hero plot where guy gets increasingly powerful by fighting increasingly powerful guys. Cassian himself has almost nothing going on internally, to the point of elegance. And it is somehow the gayest manwha I've ever read.

It's the fucking character designs. And like its narrative but it's the fucking 100/10 character designs. The entire cast's design and characters slam. There's not that much depth but we don't care. You know if we don't like somebody if they look vaguely straight, and you know that we like somebody if they look like they were set to tumble dry in the queerness washing machine. The (great!) women are high femme or hard butch. The corrupt institution assassinated a man Cassian loved and framed & murdered him, at which point he was adopted by a rag-tag bunch of flamboyant homosexuals deemed unacceptable and undesired by society who all teamed up and decided to villainize society in exclusively funny ways and spend most of their time gossiping or hacking the Pentagon. An AFAB character dresses as a man and goes by he/him pronouns half the time for no good reason. Cassian is physiologically incapable of thinking about anything but violence so the heartwarming found family scenario's going over his head, but his Painfully Het Hero Foil Indoctrinated Into Homophobia caught the found family ball and now he's dancing in their gay bars and dressing in drag. There's only a few characters who are explicitly gay but this is gayer than that.

I talked a while back about how important a decent supporting cast is to a good story, and this is yet again good proof. Looking at this, I think I'd go further and say - it's an action manwha, we're reading it for a reason, we don't need character-driven story arcs or really complex characters. I think it's just charisma. A story can go really far on characters with charisma.

TV Shows that are carried on the lead actor (Columbo I love you) - it's because the actor has charisma. You watch it to see the actor hang out being himself. That's way way harder to do in fiction, but I think that "a complex character" isn't necessarily a "charismatic character". I'd rather have a cast of only charismatic characters rather than only complex ones. A story of any genre needs a strong cast of charismatic characters. They can be deep or they can just be chaotic lesbians. Charisma invests the reader in the story and the characters. It's simple but it's really powerful. And it is fucking hilarious how sometimes all you need to do on that front is "Rupaul this shit".

I can't genuinely recommend Villain to Kill and this is not a recommendation. But random stuff always interests me like this, and I really had no idea that I would read 120ch of a manwha bc the designs fuck so hard. Also, like, this is queerest manwha I've ever read. Somehow. Fucking somehow.

[coming down from general anesthesia] kerapin is so canon...

If you are ever in doubt wether my posts with demo and soldier interacting are boots n bombs or not i promise you it is intended to be fully and utterly homosexual

sometimes you will see a post that's like "what's gayer, gay sex, or whatever these 2 have going on" and you just have to say "the gay sex" out loud before moving on.

oh my godddd bad is trusting forever with dapper’s room and they’re setting up secret codes between each other in case anything happens and vowing to tell each other when they’re going on dangerous adventures can they PLEASE just kiss already