GelatoSushi

@GelatoSushi on AO3

[gelatosushix]

I arrived at the kiss after their little alleyway tryst. I was ready for some action (as was Yuta, my best boy) and then the thing happened.

I gasped out loud, yelled 'Oh no!' and had to stop reading and do some laps around my house.

I just wanna say that I love this AU and I would kill for Yuta and Toge. Just so you know.

Ahhh!! Thank you so so much ^^ I don’t hang a lot on tumblr anymore so I missed this but I’m so glad i eventually saw!! Thank you for reading <3

[gelatosushix]

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Part 2 of wizard!Toge and his tight pants derailing Yuta’s life

[gelatosushix]

Wizard!Toge trying to entice his dumb childhood friend, innkeeper!Yuta into *finally* making a move on him

[gelatosushix]

Why do women love BL and M/M fanfiction?

I was watching a video today on the difference between how men relate to fiction vs women, specifically about the idea of fantasizing

The video argues that men like to identify with the male lead (think the superhero) that gets to play out the power fantasy and get the girl. The fantasy is unilateral, and a self insert for the consumer. For women on the other hand, fantasizing is bi-lateral. That means that for example in straight romances, women will relate with both leads at the same time - they wan to be the male pursuer because it lets them live out a power fantasy they are often denied in the societal constraints of real life, but AT THE SAME TIME they relate with the female being pursued because they want to feel desired and like they have worth in the eyes of someone powerful. Fantasizing is about the dynamic and being in control of it, not just the self insert.

Now let’s add to that societal norms, implicit dynamics in hetero relationships and cemented gender roles and we can see why when thinking of power fantasies many women think of embodying and relating to male characters because very rarely are women portrayed like that (think about why women select male characters in video games often times and I think you might find the answer to be the same…)

So if women can have the male pursuer to identify with as the center of control and power in the fantasy while also being given another man that is the center of affection (and often loving and tantalizing descriptions or art panel depicted from the pursuer’s POV) that’s even better isn’t it? Because the fantasy can go full circle of embodying the one with the power in the relationship while still pursuing a men you as a reader are attracted to and being able to switch it around (in the model of bi-lateral relatedness) and relate to the man being pursued and still feel free of gender norm shackles while being pined on by another attractive man.

Just food for thought.

[gelatosushix]

[gelatosushix]

Before they met each other.

Some more words under the fold.

Before Yuta met Toge he was nothing more than an exile, carrying the heavy weight of his lover’s death. While lady Rika had been extraordinary in life, in death she became a haunting reminder of all of Yuta’s shortcomings - how he loved a girl he should’t have, how his touch left her heavy with child, how his sins cursed her to an early grave. Before he met Toge, there was nothing to fight for, nothing to live for.

Before Toge met Yuta, he was despised and feared as the cursed child of the Inumaki clan. Unable to utter even a single word, forced to forever hide his face, he lived at the edge of his Clan’s grounds, in a small house under the shade of a great blossom tree. Before he met Yuta, he was certain no one would ever wish to know him. Before he met Yuta there was nothing to live for.

[gelatosushix]

[gelatosushix]

Obsessed with Yuta’s scars… there’s a fic here waiting to be written…

[gelatosushix]

Can we just talk a little about the Inuokko dynamic??

I find it fascinating how their relationship dynamic can be summed up in Inumaki Toge would die for Yuta Okkotsu, and Yuta Okkotsu would hands down kill for Toge Inumaki.

Yuta has never had someone care so strongly about him that his life would become a priority. He’s always had people who would rather see HIM die, including himself as at one point he believed he doesn’t have the right to live (not a good life mind you, but live in general). Not even Rika embodies that. Yes, she will keep Yuta alive at all costs, but not by sacrificing herself, but by destroying anything that could harm him. Then, this boy comes along who thinks Yuta is so important, so precious, that thinks Yuta has so much to live for and see that he would rather sacrifice himself so that Yuta can live. Because Yuta is precious and important, something that no one has ever showed him before.

Then we have Toge. Toge who is feared because he could end someone with a word. Toge who is forced to stay silent, separated from others, never connecting enough to ever create the kind of bond where someone would look at him and think “I will protect you. I will give you everything.” Toge goes by his life alone, because up until he met the second years and Yuta, he was alone. Then, Yuta comes along who adores Toge so much that nothing is out of the question - he looks at Toge and doesn’t see a monster, a curse, a killer. No, he sees a sweet little rice ball that needs to be protected and taken care of, that needs to be shielded at all costs. If people look at Toge and say he can kill people because he is a curse, Yuta looks at him and thinks I will do the dirty job myself because Toge is too pure for that.

That’s it. That’s the dynamic.

[mana-jjk]

yes !!! you get it !! i’m on my hands and knees omg please excuse my rambling but i love talking about them so much 👉👈🥺

yuuta as a character is so inherently selfish and self-aware, and so intrinsically tied to the idea of love in this series. he quite literally embodies it in himself and his technique, despite his own reference being so skewed. for yuuta, love has always been colored with blood, violence that saturates the way he digs his nails in and refuses to let go.

in a lot of ways, what we see of rika is exactly the type of love yuuta embodies. blindly loyal, encompassing, almost possessive and suffocating in nature. two damaged children alone in the world clutching butterflies tight enough to nearly pierce their wings, afraid of letting go, never knowing if it’ll return. the issue is that their love is so explosive that they suffocate each other, bombs that explode back and forth with damage that goes far past just themselves.

and then you introduce toge to the equation, but make no mistake that he is just as damaged. yet, with rika and yuuta they have always held this desperation that transcends life, obsession and importance tied into their fibers, ensured self-destruction if only to never walk alone. with toge, he has no regard for his life, except in what he can sacrifice for others. he lives because it’s convenient, he lives because he’s still useful to their world that requires his own bloody hands to grip his throat and endure.

and yuuta looks at him, this bloody mess of a broken weapon that was never taught self-regard, and somehow holds his broken pieces as if he’s a work of art. stained glass in the sunset instead of broken bottles pointed at quivering throats. yuuta burns for him, everything overwhelming and and dark that he tried to convince the world was a product of rika instead of himself, and he’s so afraid. afraid of the red hot fire that spills from his fingertips and consumes everything in its path, afraid that one day it won’t be enough. so afraid to chase away the only person to see the shadows in his eyes and blood on his hands and still think he was worth protecting. even so he’d showcase himself again and again, if only to ensure this precious boy who has lived his life unseen, unheard, unwanted, knows that yuuta would become everything terrible for if only to see him smile.

and toge burns for it just as much, feels fire flicker in his chest and spill like lava up his throat in words that he desperately uses just to ensure his monster of a lover is safe. he’d char and crisp and burn to ash if it meant that the smoke of his dying breath would protect what’s left of his world, if it meant he’d never have to watch yuuta disappear like everyone else. he’d die a hundred times, and some part of him knows that every time, yuuta would drag him back without regard to rules or nature or even his own capability, he’d find a way.

ok sorry for word vomiting ! their dynamic is so so good and i’m always so excited to find someone who sees it in a similar way to me !! i’m also loving your fic and art, and can’t wait to see what else is in store !! 🥺💞

[gelatosushix]

Can we just talk a little about the Inuokko dynamic??

I find it fascinating how their relationship dynamic can be summed up in Inumaki Toge would die for Yuta Okkotsu, and Yuta Okkotsu would hands down kill for Toge Inumaki.

Yuta has never had someone care so strongly about him that his life would become a priority. He’s always had people who would rather see HIM die, including himself as at one point he believed he doesn’t have the right to live (not a good life mind you, but live in general). Not even Rika embodies that. Yes, she will keep Yuta alive at all costs, but not by sacrificing herself, but by destroying anything that could harm him. Then, this boy comes along who thinks Yuta is so important, so precious, that thinks Yuta has so much to live for and see that he would rather sacrifice himself so that Yuta can live. Because Yuta is precious and important, something that no one has ever showed him before.

Then we have Toge. Toge who is feared because he could end someone with a word. Toge who is forced to stay silent, separated from others, never connecting enough to ever create the kind of bond where someone would look at him and think “I will protect you. I will give you everything.” Toge goes by his life alone, because up until he met the second years and Yuta, he was alone. Then, Yuta comes along who adores Toge so much that nothing is out of the question - he looks at Toge and doesn’t see a monster, a curse, a killer. No, he sees a sweet little rice ball that needs to be protected and taken care of, that needs to be shielded at all costs. If people look at Toge and say he can kill people because he is a curse, Yuta looks at him and thinks I will do the dirty job myself because Toge is too pure for that.

That’s it. That’s the dynamic.

[hanaverse-blog]

i need u to understand mother nature is beating me up in a dark alley rn so im that close to crying reading about this wonderful dynamic they have

also smth smth toge and rika are alike but more like two sides of the same coin (rika destroys everything to protect yuuta, toge would willingly destroy himself for yuuta) and idk i just think that's also very neat

also i really need to read your fanfic but i feel like it's gonna be so good that imma end up floating in imaginary space between every chapter

im scared that it's gonna be so good it's too good yk?? because i know it will be

so yeah gimme like a week to prep myself and then im binging it

ANYWAY INUOKKO DYNAMIC RULES 🗣🗣🗣

[gelatosushix]

Rika and Toge are alike, but different sides, totally!! That’s such a good point!

I see Rika’s love for Yuta as the more obsessive kind - it burns high and fast and it destroys everything. It’s uncontrollable and passionate and left such a mark on Yuta’s life before Jujutsu Tech.

Toge’s love however is the more subdued. It starts slow and shy, but it grows everyday until it becomes the blissful, peaceful, reliable and tender kind of love where you just feel like someone loves you whole…

Anyways, haha, I’ve hot no idea if the fic is your thing or not, but I so admit it’s a slowish burn so there’s that. Even I get trigger happy and just want to get to the parts where they kiss already dammit!! But to my point above, I feel like slow and steady suits them better…

[gelatosushix]

Can we just talk a little about the Inuokko dynamic??

I find it fascinating how their relationship dynamic can be summed up in Inumaki Toge would die for Yuta Okkotsu, and Yuta Okkotsu would hands down kill for Toge Inumaki.

Yuta has never had someone care so strongly about him that his life would become a priority. He’s always had people who would rather see HIM die, including himself as at one point he believed he doesn’t have the right to live (not a good life mind you, but live in general). Not even Rika embodies that. Yes, she will keep Yuta alive at all costs, but not by sacrificing herself, but by destroying anything that could harm him. Then, this boy comes along who thinks Yuta is so important, so precious, that thinks Yuta has so much to live for and see that he would rather sacrifice himself so that Yuta can live. Because Yuta is precious and important, something that no one has ever showed him before.

Then we have Toge. Toge who is feared because he could end someone with a word. Toge who is forced to stay silent, separated from others, never connecting enough to ever create the kind of bond where someone would look at him and think “I will protect you. I will give you everything.” Toge goes by his life alone, because up until he met the second years and Yuta, he was alone. Then, Yuta comes along who adores Toge so much that nothing is out of the question - he looks at Toge and doesn’t see a monster, a curse, a killer. No, he sees a sweet little rice ball that needs to be protected and taken care of, that needs to be shielded at all costs. If people look at Toge and say he can kill people because he is a curse, Yuta looks at him and thinks I will do the dirty job myself because Toge is too pure for that.

That’s it. That’s the dynamic.

[gelatosushix]

Why do I always get sentimental over Inuokko reunions?

[gelatosushix]

Help me out Inuokko shippers!!!

I drew this cute little pose thinking that these two idiots in love had a super silly argument but fell short on actually finding what would they argue about! Help me out, give me ideas guys!

Did Toge eat all the chocolate because Yuta said he didn’t want any right now? Did Yuta forget to charge Toge’s switch? Did Yaga catch them smooching in the hallway because Yuta was getting handsy??

[n0cturne12]

Fanart for @gelatosushix and their lovley fic, Under the Blossom Snow!

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First official fanart of Under the Blossom Snow!! How amazing is this??

[gelatosushix]

Celebrating chapter 6 with more work on this WIP :o