Jemma

She/Her, Italy, Mainly Fraxus, A place for my writings

[jemmahazelnut]

Hey! I finally created a carrd, if you want to know me better here is the link: my carrd.

If you are just interested in browsing my fanfiction in a (hopefully) more orderly way here is the link to all my fanfiction.

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[bluessom1]

Fraxus Week Day 7 : Family

This is clearly my fav prompt for this Fraxus Week !

This panel was pretty clear in my head when I read the prompt list, I needed to give these two an adorable little girl… who can destroy the guild with the others children 🤭 I think she is a good mix of Freed and Laxus !

Her name is simple, but I’m proud of it 😌

[iwaoiness]

just thinking about iwaizumi making tiktoks. nearly all of his videos feature homemade recipes, from vibrant yogurt bowls to stunning pieces of sushi. only his hands are ever shown, skillfully handling knives, carefully peeling garlic, easily pouring the chopped vegetables into the pot, stirring mixtures in pans by the handle, cracking eggs with one hand, rhythmically beating the mixtures with a whisk, kneading dough with firm precision.

he has an overwhelming number of followers and tens of thousands of comments on every video. but despite the frenzy he’s caused (especially since he did a face reveal a few months ago), everyone knows that Iwaizumi is completely taken because in each video is always the same caption that says 'pov: your boyfriend wants this for breakfast/lunch/snack/dinner.' and, in the last few seconds of each video, his boyfriend, Oikawa Tooru, always appears—happily smiling as he takes a bite before giving his stamp of approval with puffed cheeks.

[bluessom1]

Fraxus Week Eve : (Dancing in the) Rain

Here we go again ! Happy Fraxus week (eve) everyone !!

It’s my first piece for this year and I already feel sorry for the pain/confort 😭😭

I have a theory about why Freed feel so sad but I let you have your interpretation for now ! Don’t worry, Laxus is here to support ans confort his husband ❤️‍🩹

[bluessom1]

Fraxus Week Day2 : Sport

Freed helping his boyfriend with his training 😌

[bluessom1]

“Learning letter magic”

[moonsundra]

i could have continued the wholesome sketch with Laxus and Freed as children, but you-all are horny, i’m too, so here, take it. this tank top is so iconic how could i not draw it. also inspired by “Hand-to-hand combat” from “Fraxus Week 2022” by @jemmahazelnut, love her so much ^w^

[selfawarecobalt]

fuck it. thunder legion headcannon notes page reveal as i nearly accidentally deleted it last time i tried to update it and its slowly delved into more and more hyper specific madneas with each new addition

*Bixlow is an incredibly picky eater, but Freed will eat just about anything.

*Evergreen stress shops, Freed stress cooks, and Bixlow stress eats. very efficient system. noone cleans. less efficient

*obviously freed takes rules EXTREMELY seriously, but only the ones he agrees with. he does not give a fuck about general laws, but he does care about ones imposed by a figure of authority he respects (not many)

*on that note, hes infamous with the rune knights because they literally cannot apprehend him. the second they blink, hes undone the jutsu shiki and is outta there. they’ve basically given up at this point

*freed has perfected the irish goodbye, and trained the thunder legion in it too. laxus however, is a hopeless case. he’ll just turn around and walk away mid conversation

*thunder legion? ideal blunt rotation. theyre yappin for hours. any weird ass question you think about? freed could probably answer it. evergreen’s your BESTIE who will back you up and die for you on any hill. bixlow becomes the single greatest comedian in a 50 mile radius

*freed and bixlow share an apartment together. evergreen technically has her room in fairy hills but that spare bedroom has enough of her stuff in to be considered hers

*bixlow uses he/it pronouns. he came into my house and told me

*evergreen is a trans woman and came out shortly after meeting freed and bix. one advantage to being such an outsider in the guild meant noone realised she’d transitioned. not many people know, only makarov, laxus & the thunder legion, and elfman. she wouldnt mind other people knowing but it never really came up and what does it matter really. shes still the prettiest

(when she came out to elfman she was extremely nervous about what he’d say (or that hed say something about it being manly) but he excitedly told her that it was “so womanly!”)

*they can all sing to some degree. evergreen still has the “teenaged girl showing off” voice and freed’s is like butter (seriously have you heard junichi suwabe sing? if i wasnt aro id be deeply in love with that man). bixlow, however, actively chooses to sound awful

*echolalia. they ALL have echolalia. its a nightmare sometimes

*evergreen is the single most talented braider in the entire guild

*bixlow is the only one who can correctly portion out pasta. he chooses not to.

*autism

[bluessom1]

Vampire Freed x Hunter Laxus

Inspired by the fanfiction « Meetings in the night » (AO3) by @jemmahazelnut

Vampire Freed is definitely a good thing, I really loved this fic !

(Also, Mirajane and Minerva would be perfect as vampire queens :3)

[bluessom1]

MiraFreed Summer date

I tried to color this drawimg several times but I wasn’t satisfied…So finally screentone version is fine 😎

Bonus : Their boyfriend’s in panic

[pencilequipped]

I finished my Juvia piece! I had a few options from the batch of thumbnails I did, but I wanted to give her her own piece to shine without Gray.

[intelligentbiscuit]

Self indulgence took over today and I am perfectly content with that <3

Not the full demon form but mid transformation, this was fun to work on XD I couldn't leave his form out of my AU

[selfawarecobalt]

i gotta say, whist fraxus is easily the most popular freed ship, and one i have always loved, recently ive started preferring bixfreed, if only due to the fact that it’s one of the only gay freed ships where he’s not made into the “flamboyant one”. thats bixlow. noone is out flamboyanting bixlow, and he never loses any masculinity despite it.

ive always hated how common it is for freed to be completely mischaracterised (not even flanderised hes just straight up not the same character anymore) in most gay ships. people seem to really love making him a “damsel in distress” type, especially with fraxus, i can only assume because laxus is so stereotypically masculine.

this really seems to only be an issue with gay ships including freed (although it is especially egregious with fraxus, and a LOT of old miraxus media. no im not getting into that.)

ive never seen a ship involving freed and a woman that has this issue. he’s almost always presented as this suave intellectual, a gentleman, someone independent, but who chooses to help others. (i personally headcanon freed to be gay so its always a little annoying seeing him being characterised so much better in many of these straight ships lol)

anyway back to bixfreed

its always fun seeing freed have to act as the straightman (lol) to bixlow, and it further helps bixlow’s own character. its so good to see a man be presented as wearing typically feminine things (his skirt and nail polish), and be so willing to be silly, to goof around, to hang off ceilings, and yet not once is his masculinity compromised.

I’ve seen a great deal of fanart of freed where i genuinely thought he’d been genderbent. Freed is still a masculine character, but so many fans just see his eyelashes and hair, and throughout the series mashima just fed into this, especially in the anime, with multiple “gags” of him fawning over laxus, to the point where fans started comparing him to juvia (also someone who was flanderised to the point of being unrecognisable.)

im not even sure what my point in this rant is anymore im just so tired of this mischaracterisation. you can have a character be gay without forcing stereotypes onto them so much it becomes homophobic. im BEGGING just leave this in 2016

[fuckyeahfraxus]

Oh buddy, believe me, the pain is real. I love Fraxus with all my heart, thanks to canon material not least, but this struggle has accompanied me all along the way of shipping this ship and I bet there are many other ships out there that end up having the same problems and being slandered by the fandom for the sake of stereotypes.

I must say it is interesting that you mentioned Bixfreed because from what I remember the ship suffered the same problems in fanart and fanfic; that Freed was robbed off all of his character traits and got made into the 'soft shy uwu whiny-bottom boy' while Bix got robbed off less character but still in a way of making him 'blander' so he could fit a stereotype as well. It's what turned me away from this ship completely because as opposed to Fraxus I had no 'passion' for them as a romantic ship. If this has changed or you've seen other portrayal of it nowadays then that's amazing, however! It's been years since I've looked into it so there might really be much better stuff out there by now!

Actually yes, it does seem to be an issue for gay ships involving Freed. I love to hc him as gay but I've also been drawn to Freed x female character ships, one reason being that the portrayal seemed to be much more accurate and pleasant to see/read through. But with gay ships it seems like people see a man with long hair and turn him into a wifey whereas they see Laxus (if we take Fraxus as example), who is a bulky man and powerful and aloof most of the time, and make him top-whore-beast-man without taking much else into consideration.

But Freed? Freed has not much bulk but he's all fucking muscle as well. Freed is fucking powerful as well. He's also aloof but he's become more comfortable showing other sides of his character in his path of growth.

As has Laxus- just slower.

We've talked about Blue Pegasus before. Laxus was fucking uncomfortable and awkward. He doesn't deal well with social settings, especially not one like this where you have to be a host and do flirting. Freed, on the other hand? And Bixlow for that matter? They both flourished. They enjoyed mixing drinks and be hosts. Freed has also always been the one being more comfortable with initiating touch. But he's also always been one of the only people not afraid to scold Laxus and stand up against him.

All of it forgotten because #stereotypingTM.

The fanart thing is also very true. A lot of fanart out there really has Freed look like a genderbent character and it's like they haven't looked at a single official artwork for him. Freed does have the one or other feature that would traditionally be considered more 'feminine' than 'masculine', that being the long hair and lower eyelashes. But other than those? Yea, I'd definitely agree that Freed does present rather masculine in fact! Not only in appearance but character traits as well. But he get deprived of it pretty harshly in a lot of fanart and fanfic.

And it's true enough that the comedy scenes added to the anime have made things much worse. People take these scenes that were thrown in for pure comedic effect and RUN with them, make it the only character trait that matters. Though Laxus admittedly had much less comedy scenes I've never really seen them being taken into consideration. Now I also believe that most people have watched the anime and not read the manga, so they wouldn't know that a MAJORITY of the comedic scenes for Freed do NOT appear in the manga at all.

You've successfully gotten me into this rant but sometimes this is still relevant and it needs to be said over and over again. The mischaracterization of Freed has still to be dealt with. It's also one of the reasons why we've called off Fraxus Love Fest since it seemed to become especially worse as soon as flirtation and sexual acts are involved. People also still get incredibly MAD and defensive when stating that Laxus may just enjoy getting d*ck. Also all because of the stereotypes they have in their head for manly bulk man TM.

We DO feel like it has gotten much better, at least from what we see here on Tumblr. Not sure what it looks like on the fanfiction sides, Twitter & Co but I'd imagine it's still a bit of a battlefield for Fraxus shippers like us.

[fuckyeahfraxus]

was about to ask where the assumption comes from that Laxus may be a manwhore or anything like that but I think we know.

but if one paid attention to any of his character growth/his true character showing more and more as the manga goes on one should really come to the conclusion that this was a mask worn to assert a sense of false power and dominance.

people out there really believing that Laxus was 'tearing shit up' at Blue Pegasus, it's a bit amusing. I'm sorry (I'm not) to rob you of this illusion of Laxus being a big bad womanizer but... I mean all the power to you if you choose this for your portrayal but what we can mostly read out of canon material?

- that man would so much rather be left the heck alone and go on his missions than be involved in any unnecessary social contact let alone hook up with random people he has just met. he's been shown to feel awkward in the whole Blue Pegasus scenario, in fact, and spectacularly so.

people really be out there getting mad and wild about this lmfao.

but we love that for Laxus! makes for a softer side that's certainly charming on its own and actually goes along with his character very well.

[wispzoa]

And you are absolutely right! Laxus has really never demonstrated anything like this except for his first appearance, when he struggled to portray a domineering character. He thought it was the right way to demonstrate it, maybe it was fake, but we don't know anything about his father and mother. It is possible that Laxus was repeating his father's behavior.

Except for this scene (from where, by the way, the ships Laxus/Lucy and Laxus/Kana appeared), he never behaved like this. As a child, he was confused by Mirajane, it is clearly visible.

Once I was asked such a question in the art ASK, where answered on behalf of Laxus and I also drew him irritated and tired of the role of a daring womanizer. He's not like that

[fuckyeahfraxus]

So valid!

It may have been faked and/or he reproduced this behavior because it was what his parents or just a huge part of society showed him.

Fact is, this was never part of his true character and he was never shown displaying a single slice of such behavior as the series went on. Instead it seemed to take the opposite direction even.

But the people claiming the womanizer/manwhore trope without paying attention are usually the same people who deny Laxus could be anything but straight, or that's what I observed at least. There seems to be a pattern.

For all that canon grants us this man could be gay. He could be bi/pan, demi, ace. He could be anything. Go wild! Nothing in that regard is canon.

But the manwhore/womanizer thing still stands in any of it. Point being, Laxus is definitely not one.

[wispzoa]

Bonus sketch with Freed! Color Practice. I just have to draw Fraxus summer kiss hehe~

Thoughts on drawing more summer work or some other ideas. I really love drawing summer, we've had nothing but rain this year qwq

[wispzoa]

Unfortunately, I couldn't participate in Fraxus week. but I decided to draw some summer art with them. Too bad my graphics tablet broke while drawing, so I had to finish with my mouse q~q

I have some ideas for artwork with them, so I'll keep going. And maybe I'll draw another bonus shot of Freed surfing.

[bluessom1]

Fraxus Week Day 7 : Face the past / Imagine the future

« Before and then »

Note : The first panel is inspired by Laxus and Freed’s first meet depicted on the manga Fairy Tail Side Stories Lightning Gods 😌

Also sorry for the coloration style, I was out of time ><‘ I’ll maybe finished it later