LGBT manga I read this June i recommend 😊
(first row from left to right: Run Away With Me, Girl, My Love Mix-up, Until I Love Myself. 2nd: Until I Meet My Husband, What Did You Eat Yesterday?, The Summer Hikaru Died. 3rd: Doughnuts Under A Crescent Moon, X-Gender #2, and Wandering Son)
Runner-ups would be: Hello, Melancholic, Ohana Holoholo, and Still Sick :)
These are series I was able to read this month that i enjoyed for the most part and would recommend if you're interested in a series involving lgbt people. I think my favorite for fiction was Run Away With Me, Girl or The Summer Hikaru Died, and for non-fiction was Until I Love Myself.
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I got a sweet ask abt Lace I want to draw smth for but since im taking a drawing break rn and have two other things I have to draw first I will instead talk about him More bc I love him so much
Lace is honestly one of my most fickle and temperamental Papyri. Personality-wise he’s almost somewhere between Edge and Rus but with all of these specific issues brought on by the ridiculous amount of stuff he’s been through. So many of the others have a sort of "behavior baseline", but with Lace, the context of any situation he’s in plays a tremendous role in how he responds.
Since his type of 'Fell' is less straightforwardly violent and more about advantage, he errs so heavily into adaptability, tries to always play his cards right, which significantly exacerbates his Papyrus-y reflectiveness.
Yet at the same time, he somehow has more of a defined sense of self than a lot of the others. Perhaps because in order to know what he isn't, he must know what he is..? It's difficult to say exactly, but he’s good at "playing his part" like Edge, while he’s more self aware like Rus.
Unfortunately for him, that also leads to a lot of self image issues, because of the standards set by their world and trying so hard not just to meet them, but exceed them. Facing the immense pressure to protect himself and the ones he cares about like Edge, but it becoming so personal, it's rough.
But at his core, he really is so kind and sweet. Incredibly sarcastic and silly of course, but you know how it is, a rough stone worn smooth by the hardships. When allowed, he’s really such a big softie. He makes me so emotional, I have such a soft spot for him specifically <3
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my first draft of this post had me sounding like an utter maniac, so this is take two, where i’m going to attempt to not sound as absolutely insane as i am actually on the inside. so the as dusk falls promo trailer took over my life a few weeks back and i managed to stop myself from obsessively (and i mean obsessively) rewatching it for a while, but then i rewatched it twice in the last few minutes and barely resisted the urge to start open-mouth sobbing. because it makes me emotional! and so as not to repeat the mistakes of my last draft i will end that line of thought right here.
there are a lot of things that make me scream cry throw up etc about this trailer, but i am going to talk specifically in this post about the thing that i am MOST composed about and LEAST prone to start vomiting about. which is jim.
it feels wrong to start out with this post, since i haven’t actually talked yet about how masterfully composed this trailer actually is. but tl;dr: everything about this promo is fucking phenomenal and it makes me violently ill (mentally physically spiritually etc). but the one thing that’s really relevant about the composition of the trailer here is the shots they chose for it. and again there’s a lot to say here, but let me just put it this way:
the promo trailer is for whatever game was being advertised in this poster. the only character on this poster that is not featured prominently in the trailer is joyce, and i can kind of get why that is. but it’s important and striking to me that bear and jim are neither on this poster nor are they ANYWHERE to be seen in this trailer. (sidenote & tangent i’m so relieved that bear is not present in any promo materials that i know of, since his inclusion in the story is one that i think was always meant to be shocking and jarring, and having bear in the promo stuff would sort of cheapen that impact. people should not be going into this game going omg sam douglas!! they should be entering this game invested in the story and the characters and then sam douglas jumpscare like a freight train) this is especially true for jim, since there are a lot of scenes in the promo where we know that he’s supposed to be there, but he’s purposely obscured from us. when zoe’s voiceover says “we were on our way to start a new life”, it shows her and her parents in the car, with no indication that there is a whole ass joe biden behind vince.
then, in the trailer, when the family’s approaching the motel, we get this shot:
vs. in the game, where that shot is actually...
... cutely including jim’s ass. and then here, we get:
where the trailer frames it like vince is alone, when in reality, dale’s already knocked jim to the floor. in the scenes where we see vince’s family, it’s always heavily focusing on vince, michelle, and zoe, who seem to be the three main characters of the walker family. (similarly, and this is why i wanted to make the main characters post before this one, but we live and we learn, the holt boys are shown in the promo trailer to be the three main characters of the holt family.)
so jim is just like casually missing. he’s just not there. and that is intentional, imo. because i remember the heart attack this man gave me when vince and zoe are going back to the car and we just see THIS:
jim FUCKING jumpscare. now okay, let me backtrack a little because this is IMPORTANT. when i was first obsessively watching this trailer, obviously the first thing i noticed was this little ditty, set to jay’s voiceover of “it was a long-forgotten secret buried in the dark”:
now obviously my first reaction is (beyonce meme) JIM1?!?!?!??!?!?! because i’ve already played this game and i know that jim admits to being the reason why the desert dream happens. jim clearly has a history with the desert dream and with two rock in general: paul recognizes him right off the bat and slowly remembers him as being a “travelling salesman” that went to sharon’s bar fifteen to twenty years ago. jim also, when he hears jay say that his mother is coming inside, immediately reaches for a cap to obscure his face. if the player chooses to send jim out instead of zoe, jim also stumbles to the ambulance specifically because he doesn’t want dante to see him. and when jim is concussed, if you ask him where he is, he calls the desert dream by its former name. so it’s made really clear that jim’s been to two rock before and that he’s interacted with these characters before. and he’s clearly afraid of being recognized by these people, always dodging questions about him looking familiar and doing everything in his power not to interact with key players like sharon and dante.
and something i have always noticed about jim is that whenever he’s outside, the shots he has usually include the water tower. and i noticed this because... well <3 the sniper that shoots at dale is on the water tower. so it was interesting and important to me, so seeing it in the background of, like, every jim shot was a little interesting. they are not really subtle with it! like, we see it in a bunch of different places for jim. we obviously see it in the jim jumpscare, and then we see it again when he’s approaching the desert dream:
and then if you decide to go talk to jim instead of michelle, you get this shot right after vince and jim walk out of the motel room:
and i can’t find a playthrough on youtube where someone lets jim go, but i have a feeling they include a shot of the water tower there too. so when im seeing that person digging something and they’re kind of tall and lanky and the water tower is in the background, i am like. that has to be jim walker right. like it has to be. but then im looking at this picture and i’m like ... no wait that TREE. i recognize that TREE too. and what do you know! right after zoe finishes her opening monologue in book one, what is the FIRST shot we get?
TREE.
WATER TOWER.
i’m like oh my GOD. the rest stop. the FUCKING rest stop on route 66 that weird ass abandoned little rest stop.
in the GROUND?!?!?!? under a TRE???e?!?
JUST TOT THE THErEE?!?!?!
and then. and t. AND. look at this. these are the shots from the trailer.
tell me why the tree is so emphasized. tell me why the water tower is there. do you know what we get in-game? do you KNOW?!?!?!?!
NOTHING. NOTHING. THEY PURPOSELY PUT THE TREE AND WATER TOWER IN THERE TO SIGNAL TO YOU THAT THE TREE AND WATER TOWER ARE A WALKER CURSE. AND THEN THE FUCKING WATER TOWER CAN KILL DALE. THE WATER TOWER IS LITERALLY A DEATH OMEN. IT IS L.
like my personal theory is that jim killed someone and he is digging a grave in the trailer. like he does offhandedly mention to zoe that he had a car he really loved and he just got rid of it one day, and as dusk falls experts (aka bluffmotel dot tumblr dot com) have theorized like okay maybe he moved the body in it so he had to scrap it. and it would make sense since it parallels jim to bear, since bear um ... killed someone! and then buried him alive! or at least tried to. like idk it says something TO ME that the only two characters who must die in every playthrough of as dusk falls are dale and jim, and both of them are heavily defined by the water tower. IDK! i think jim killed someone. and that something related to them is buried under the tree in two rock by the rest stop. and idk who the stalker is. maybe it’s eddie.
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okay so look i truly believe that the person formally known as dusk could be actually in love w laudna bc a) look at her and b) she’s an undead woman made of death and ichor and blinding sunshine with a lich in her head and too many teeth in her smile and a voice made of thousands upon thousands of shuddering echoes like there’s no way that a fey assassin doesn’t look at her and go oh fuck everything about you is super hot
that being said
au where dusk seduces imogen instead. bc look okay there is no world in which laudna ever says yes to dusk she’s too full of guilt to notice anything outside of imogen and too full of self loathing to believe anyone could want her that way, but imogen? imogen temult who is so angry at laudna after the rock that she can barely look at her? who is so unbelieveably repressed that she can’t even admit to herself that she likes laudna? who is still coming down from whatever addiction the gnarlrock induced? who hasn’t seen any evidence of laudna being affected by their fight and has a deep deep vein of jealousy and pettiness and thrumming burning angry pain that she’s spent years repressing?
imogen would say yes to dusk. and immediately regret it, probably, but she’d say yes and she’d watch laudna break and hate herself for it, even as a part of her thinks good
dusk with her quiet head who isn’t scared of any part of imogen who is cute and sweet who looks at imogen with too bright eyes and hungry teeth and can’t quite hide the way they lean forward every time imogen loses a little bit of that hard won control in battle
(and then of course dusk is evil of fucking course dusk is evil except are they? she’s just a person with a job and yes she lied about some things but who’s to say fearne’s parents are good? why should she trust fearne with her six years ninety years, stealing everything she can, lying like it’s breathing? laudna breaking her heart breaking her trust and maybe if imogen gets out now she can leave before the rest of the bells hurt her too. dusk is evil but they look at imogen and say i want to eat you up every part every burning angry part and i want you to do the same i want you to set me on fire and send lightning through my neurons and never ever have to hold back ever again and they’re gonna hurt her but at least they’re not gonna lie about it. dusk is evil but all she has to say is i won’t hurt laudna and maybe just maybe that’ll be enough to make imogen take their hand anyway)
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Hey. Pssst. I got something cool *opens jacket to reveal this*:
She's my take on Twilight's version of Nightmare Moon or Daybreaker! Her name, as you can see, is Dusk Vacuum. She has the armor, an absolute must for a villain princess; the fun eyeliner; the physically impossible flowing mane and tail; the fangs (if you squint real hard lol) and ofc her cutie mark!!! it's got colors to represent each of her friends but hers is blacked out, and like Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker's it's on a splotch
*opens the other side of jacket*:
And what would any version of Twilight be without a version of Spike, her Very Best Pal? His name is Shard now! His Star-Wars-esque medal has been replaced with Twilight's emblem; his fangs and talons are bigger; his tail is sharper and his wings are larger. Okay really I just made everything...spikier (ahahaha) but he looks so cool, especially the magenta parts of his eyes.
I actually had lore for them but I don't remember 100% what it is. One of the villains had Twilight's friends and she went dark and scary to save them or something, but in a revengey way that's not standard Twilight. She transformed Spike to help her because he was the only one she still had with her. Don't worry, in the end the Power of Friendship fixes everything, once Twily gets her pals back, but in the meantime she looks super cool!!!
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