xenmageddon

in dreams i dance with you, though our bodies are made out of wood

[somberdragoon]

intro post!

hey, i'm somber/xen and this is my tumblr account!! i mainly repost fandom stuff and post art + fanfic i make

current interests:

american psycho (my fave!) > patxpaul shipper!!

house md (im on season 4..........)

sunset blvd musical

chess musical

about me:

9teen

fem4fem cis lesbian, she/her

asian-am!

a pretentious new yorker

music taste: take a look! :)

read my american psycho fics here!

purchase some of my merch on etsy! (currrently stocking american psycho and house keychains <3)

contact me on discord @somberdragoon!!! i promise i don't bite. much. if we're close enough, i'm more active on my irl insta :)

obviously don't talk to me if you're a terf, general dni criteria, blah blah blah we get it right

navigate: #myart - stuff i drew

#mymerch - stuff i sell (reviews, interest checks, shop updates)

#myhcs - my headcanons and character studies

[prim42]

Patrick and Luis from that one chapter in American Psycho novel

[somberdragoon]

i have been off of tumblr/fandom for a MINUTE, but i snuck paulpat into my school newspaper :)

[leoblooms]

Super fun collab with @somberdragoon !! We each drew our versions of Paul n Pat, then she drew the background and I colored it

[somberdragoon]

so fun doing this with you!! :)

[somberdragoon]

i just got gifted this house keychain as an early christmas gift and i absolutely adore him!!! he will replace my previous dr house keychain that fell off of my bag and vanished.... 10/10 i would give this a rating on etsy but alas i am not the person who purchased him !!!

wow i found this hella late, but im glad you liked the keychain!! :))

[somberdragoon]

never got around to posting it, but i made fanart for the jamie lloyd sunset boulevard revival! im still extremely brainrotted about it and its so bad because theres like no fic or anything

[somberdragoon]

they got a happy ending :)

paulpat photobash!!! i made their fankids a while back so i thought it was only fair to make patrick and paul themselves

typing jared leto’s name into pinterest for photos for this was pain inducing

[seasickcecilia]

these erasers suck

(i lowk don’t like this but whatever this took 40+ layers)

[seasickcecilia]

can your paul

(Also, PatrickPou)

(THANK YOU @/VICIOUS-LOSER)

[somberdragoon]

patrick needs to be neutered (my paulpat fankids!!!) i have ideas for fic with them as well, i’ll get it published eventually finals are killing me 💀💀

i did a photobash of middle aged paulpat as well but it’s like 1:50 am rn and i need to sleep (posting tmrw!! hopefully!!!!)

this takes place in the late 90s, after paul and pat have settled comfortably in their marriage :))

[lanativite]

This Is Not An Exit

[teki-s]

i love nnn so much bc i get to draw wild...........

[somberdragoon]

happy halloweeeen!!! obligatory patrick bateman cosplay

cant believe they turned bateman into a teenage lesbian asian girl. theyre really scraping the bottom of the barrel being all woke here ☹️

[somberdragoon]

dont shoot me if this is an ass take but im thinking about genderswap patrick bateman again and imagining him as one of those “subverted hysterical female leads” you see a lot in feminist literature. in a way, patricia’s feelings of being overlooked and utterly indistinguishable from the rest of her crowd can be exacerbated by her being a woman. she attempts to take back some agency maybe via masochism (???) (sort of like angela carter’s the bloody chamber? maybe?????). because patrick in the original work is a man that feigns absolute control being submissive can be a way for patricia to try to conform to societal roles. whereas patrick takes a more aggressive role because he’s a man and subject to toxic masculinity, patricia takes a submissive one because she’s meant to be the perfect trophy wife.

she’s easily angered by any suggestion that the other women in her circle have more than she does. she covets. she kills. not much changes in that respect — she remains extremely neurotic about those material things. she probably wouldn’t be a high-powered businesswoman, maybe an art graduate instead because that would fit her desperately trying to appear more cultured than she actually is

[soyboywenzie]

i say this with a grain of salt but…

a gender-swap american psycho will never work because patrick batesman is not someone who can easily be swapped to a girl and be the same character. batesman is a red pill incel loser and that’s why he works, a satirical commentary of patriarchal capitalism and toxic masculinity.

they could go the tradwife route but a tradwife isn’t a red pill incel loser. there’s a lot of things they could do but already the necessity of turning patrick into a woman is already against them.

[somberdragoon]

totally agree with this tbh! genderswaps are fun and they don’t have to make sense in fandomspace but narratively speaking it would never work in american psycho’s context because of how it’s a satire. the world american psycho satirizes is deeply entrenched in toxic masculinity/patriarchal constructs so “patricia bateman” would have to be heavily restructured to fit.

i’ve heard the book “tampa” by alissa nutting mentioned a lot in extreme horror circles due to its similarities to american psycho, and i do feel like this is a good way to go about a genderbend. it’s that same gender critical commentary, conveying it through extreme horror, showing double standards in society. like you mention tbh patrick would have to diverge so much from his original concept he wouldn’t really be recognizable lol but it’s still a fun concept to play with

[somberdragoon]

The keychain is soooo cuteeeeee!!! It goes well on the PB ita bag 🧡 ALSO THE THICKNESS OF THE KEYCHAIN IS SO TASTEFUL

omggg so glad it came to you safely!! looks great on your ita bag. thanks for the order :)

[leoblooms]

[2021] HUGE blast from the past resharing this but I had to for today lol PLEASE pretend I put the 23rd I didn't realize at the time of making the comiC JDJDKFK