#a-steady-flame

[anaeolist]

I would like to give you more love for large areola Coronabeth and also shout out for making her fat! Your Coronabeth is so incredibly lovely and makes me feel better about my own body because she looks like me!!! That’s me! I can be beautiful too 💖

YOU ARE GORGEOUS!! thanks for lettin me know when my art gives you positive feelings, it makes my heart very very glad

[starrysapphic-blog]

Thank you for doing a shoutout for terf blogs ❤❤❤ thank you for running a beautifully inclusive blog. Also i love my trans girlfriend!!!! Terfs can leave all of us the fuck alone

Im happy i can help! And of course

[korraadora]

Can you do two? April (That's me!) And Necahual (my girlfriend)

yes !! so cute I love it

April: red grapes, shade beneath deep green leaves, cool dirt

Necahual: a warm breeze running through her hair, sunshine, ice water 

[saintjoan]

April

“They sat beside methe ghostsand the bed creakedthat purple-dark afternoonwhen I learned you were leaving forever”

claribel alegria, rain

[mczarts]

Firelight by young the giant (look up the in the open session)

thank you, i really liked this song and most young the giant songs tbh

[marisharayy]

a-steady-flame replied to your post:

CUTIE

<3

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

Yes hello I would like to know about your OCs

I started to ramble, and it got really long. You don’t even need to read this, I just appreciate the platform in which to talk about some of these guys. 

Lafayette is a character who is very upfront with his emotions, and displays them readily. He doesn’t hide behind snarky comments, or a layer of mysteriousness. When he’s sad, he’s sad, and when he’s scared, he’s scared. He is unabashedly emotional, and makes the people around him that way too.

And you do see a good number of characters who are emotional like that in literature or otherwise, but they’re usually women, because we live in a society where women are expected to be in touch with their emotions, while men are not. So seeing a male character be open like this, while isn’t unheard of, certainly isn’t the norm. But if he, were a she, she’d probably be called whiny and annoying. And I’m interested in seeing people’s reactions to him, in this sense.

Now Vivi, she’s pushy and bossy and aggravating because she’s so demanding. But Vivi had to take her life into her own hands when she should have been playing with toys and learning numbers. The gender restrictions still exist to an extent in the story she’s from, and her family couldn’t stand the thought of their daughter getting mixed up in mechanics. They’d make her brutish and dull, for sure. This, combined with an turbulent home life, is why she had to teach herself, in secret, how to do things, how to make things work. And where her parents told her no, she said yes, and was pushy and determined to learn and do. Her relentless attitude is left over from a time in her life where she wasn’t allowed anything she wanted unless she fought for it. But now that she’s in a position of power on this airship, it’s not a spunky tenacious attitude, it’s borderline bullying. Something that comes back to bite at her later.

Iris and Vivi have the shared trait of having their childhood ruined for them as children. But where Vivi pushed away childish things of her own violation, Iris was forced into a world of grown-up against her will. Kicking and screaming, in some cases, actually. Iris was taken as a child and force fed adult things, like advanced learning and politics and etiquette. The moment she was let off her leash, though, the moment she was no longer held in her chair while a teacher droned on in front of her, she ran and never looked back. And in her new found freedom, she picked up the childish habits and tastes and desires that she was never allowed as a kid. So she wears childish clothes and behaves a bit like a brat and pouts and throws tantrums, just because she can now.

It’s pretty easy to say that Iris and Vivi don’t get along very well. While they make an astounding team (otp: Team Shitty Childhood), they get on each other’s nerves almost instantly because Vivi thinks Iris needs to get herself together and do what she needs to, and Iris things Vivi needs to relax and loosen up.

ONE LAST THING THIS IS IT (for now) I SWEAR

Cleophas is a Mamma Bear. He’s caring and kind, and a lot of people mistake that for weakness. They think he’ll just sit around and be nice and brush people’s hair. But there is a very visible line that if you cross, Cleophas will snap. And that line is causing harm or distress to anyone he cares about. I mean, he’s literally killed people that have put his family in danger. And when people find that out about him, they’re generally shocked, as he comes off as this great, nice person. But the thing is, he is, mark for mark, as deadly and dangerous as he is generous and loving. I don’t know if you get to see that in the story that I’m currently writing about, which is a damn shame, but it’s something that’s so inherently him that I just want to walk up to people, take them by the shoulders, look them dead in the eye, and say “Do not underestimate this little dude. I don’t care if he’s in a book club and takes cookies to everyone during the holidays. Don’t do it. Compliment the cookies, they’re good, just don’t threaten his family.”

[sick-jojoke]

 a-steady-flame answered: some people’s blogs are being suspended not deleted if yours is you will get an email from the staff,

huh. that's weird... why on earth would they do that?