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anon asked for jouno with a white cane ft. tecchou and here i am providing it a whole month later

Danmei is a very unique genre of queer literature which both centers and de-centers queerness. None of the Danmei I’ve read have been essentially “about” being gay. They’re just stories of life, of magic, of fantasy, of love, in which the main characters happen to be gay. Which is a kind of representation I have often seeked from western media and related intermediaries because why is every gay story, a coming out story? Is there not more to queer people than that?

However, while capturing the personhood of queer people; Danmei also captures the queerness of people because none of these stories would work if the characters weren’t gay/queer

Wei Wuxian’s absolute buffoonery of misunderstanding Lan Zhan’s feelings in a decade long telephone game in which neither of them open their damn mouth would never work in a non-queer story because between a man and a woman romance would be the natural assumption of everyone around them and therefore wouldn’t leave space for confusion. The misunderstanding of their romance is so closely tied to the plot succession that the plot would be… non existent without it

In TGCF Xie Lian and Hua Cheng’s absolute aspirational love is literally in the backseat and front seat of the story. Not too different from a classic hero’s journey but instead of the hero being one person, it’s two people. They are so intertwined with eo that they become one character and witness a lot of the story together. Witness being a very interesting word choice. Their queerness doesn’t drive the story but replacing one of them with a woman would dampen the effect— it’d remove the uncertainty, the confusion from everyone around them, the genuine slow burn of the romance. There’s also this idea of Hua Cheng falling in love with Xie Lian so far separated from concepts such as gender or whatever which wouldn’t have been hammered home in a straight romance where those conversations aren’t always had between the audience and the story

And Erha.. well obviously. Half of Chu Wanning’s “this is so inappropriate” spiral wouldn’t exist if he was a woman. And, the idea of Mo Ran being a “cut sleeve” builds up the under current of his character being so far dismissed by society because he’s seen as immoral. Which just wouldn’t serve to the same effect if he was into exclusively women because so was every other character.

Not in a single one of these stories is queerness and homosexuality the central theme of the story yet without them, the romance wouldn’t be the same. Liking the same gender as you comes with baggage in our society which is so heteronormative and that effect has to exist in the person characters become for them to be authentic but at the same time, limiting that effect only to produce coming out stories/falling in love stories is unfair. Danmei mends this through a middle ground where the plot is the focus but it doesn’t exist in a vaccum, it exists in queerness itself

atsumance

Jupiter 1991, photoshoot.

sherrytaco

#fanart #vkei art #九条武政 #kiryu #己龍 #jrock

skitskatdacat63

(breaks down your door, out of breath) between spain and silverstone, the ferrari logo embroidery on the chair changes color... could it be?? it's a completely different chair? then who has version one? where is she?!

Oh my god stop it I think you're right 😭😭😭

This is the back of the chair from Pre-Silverstone:

And then this is the back of the chair from Silverstone onwards:

I'm sorry, but it is unbelievably funny if they not only added the booster seat but ALSO made sure to give it silver embroidery too 😭

Like cmon they had to have at least some meeting about this:

"Here are my complaints, 1. Not comfortable enough, I have to slump to get my feet on the ground, you need to add somewhere to rest my feet" "got it, booster seat ordered and shipped" , "2. ...it is not fitting the Ferrari aesthetic enough, you must make that horse more flamboyant and beautiful!"

My theory: Fernando complained about the chair in order to get a new one so he could then kidnap the original chair to his house <3

skitskatdacat63

Re: Chair Lore: Where is the Chair From?

I was joking about the seat looking like a sim chair, but after doing some research, I'm almost 100% sure they just took seats from a 2012 Ferrari 458 and put them on plexiglass platforms 😭

I couldn't find any pics that look *exactly* like the chair itself, but I think these are pretty similar, no?

It's going to bug me so much that I can't find the exact chair UGH, like with the white stripe in the middle, you know? But yes anyways, this is my theory.

*fyi, I'm planning a drawing with this chair and my thought process with finding reference is always "this has to be exactly perfect and 100% accurate" so thats why I'm being incredibly specific and over-detailed about this 😭 please don't think I'm weird

skitskatdacat63

Fernando 2012 Chair Lore (source: me)

So I've been thinking a lot about Fernando sitting in this particular chair in the Ferrari garage in 2012 for [redacted] reasons:

Originally I just wanted to find more pictures of it for reference, and then went down a rabbit hole of 2012 pictures, trying to figure out when exactly the chair came to be. There's so many pictures of him in it, and it's so funny to me to imagine them hauling this super villain chair all around the world for him. And so now I'm obsessed with the evolution of it:

Pre-Chair - Australia to Bahrain:

He just had this little stool, well I should say big because it somehow still manages makes him look small. Clearly not comfortable; to paraphrase @sweatyflytrap, it's not conducive to his inner Shakespeare villain monologues

The Chair Appears - Spain

He suddenly now has this, aforementioned, super villain chair. Several things, why is it like this. It looks like a sim chair almost ngl. And then the weird plexiglass support is confusing me, like where did they get that. It furthers my narrative they just had this chair that they couldn't put in a car so they put that clear bottom on it. Anyways yes good, now he has somewhere to brood

The Chair Evolves - Silverstone

Look!! They gave him a booster seat!!!

The Chair is Now Here to Stay :)

I downloaded a truly horrible amount of pics him in this chair, so now you all must also look at them >:)

*he still had the chair in 2013, but I think they took it away from him in 2014 :( Is nothing sacred in this world??? I hope he got to take it home hahaha

homunculus-argument

Artfully layering an axe bodyspray deodorant and two different perfume oils to create a tasteful mixture of amber, oud, mint, lavender, moss and petrichor, producing a scent that smells exactly like damp, stale, rotting laundry.

dreamsareliminalspaces-deactiva

Reminds me of that tumblr user that made powdered milk with sparkling water and created instant spoiled milk

homunculus-argument

That was also me.

adeline-wheat

Do you know any other ways to speed ruin things?

homunculus-argument

I wish I knew any other way to do anything.

ashta-kaaru

When Machi and Emiru finished smoking and left Kamijo alone in the room

Mana (* >ω<)

#visual kei #vkei #v系 #malice mizer #mana sama #mana #moi meme moitie #my art

Happy Birthday, Mana Sama!!!

#visual kei #vkei #v系 #malice mizer #mana sama #malice mizer mana #mana

nobodynotbymitski

catkingclay

Ooooh, I wish I could go, have fun! Nini came to my city a few weeks ago, but I couldn't go see her (T^T)

#jiluka #visual kei #vkei #v系

ooooh, how was jiluka???

They were great!! I was really close to the stage right in front of Sena. The crowd was really energetic! I wish I had taken videos during the concert, but I was having a lot of fun in the moment, and I didn't want to drop my phone or block anyone else's view. I hope they come back to Canada again someday!

#visual kei #vkei #Jiluka