Day 23: I continue having no time to draw, so! I mentioned that crossover RP in an earlier entry, right? Jukola, a word that gets tossed around a lot in my blog and even in my main comic? Well, I'm no closer to actually explaining what the hell it even is, but I sure am going to toss some miscellaneous (and old) doodles your way:
Here is a comic I once did a as a bday comic for @piilopirtti and it has several of mine AND her OCs, mainly Aginwald
And here is Tessi (@piilopirtti's wonderful nongical girl OC) and my X, as seen a couple of days ago! Translation below:
X: AATESSIFINALLYYOU'REAWAKE!! I wanted to tell you about this new Jukola theory I cooked up last night!
T: Can this wait till any other hour other than 6am
Gale (in window): Tell me, X!
X: It's 6am Gale, piss off!!
T: Pot and kettle and all that jazz…
And I guess I could share so much more but maybe this is enough spam for now?
"remaining closeted or not might be less of an individual choice than we like to think" would you care to elaborate?
Hi anon, these are my thoughts in general and not specifically connected to yi/zhan.
It’s about how some people talk about being closeted and about coming out as if the responsibility for the closet lies on the closeted people themselves. They talk as if choosing NOT to come out is a sign of cowardice and selfishness. They talk as if NOT coming out if you’re famous means you’re only interested in money and remaining on top, more or less ignoring that for many people there probably are valid reasons to believe that coming out might affect your ability to succeed in their job (and talking as if being ambitious and driven to succeed is somehow a flaw).
You see it whenever someone semi-famous says something like ‘if I actually HAD been gay I definitely would’ve come out and told the world’, and what they’re actually saying is either a) homophobia is not a real problem in the entertainment industry/the world at large, or b) homophobia might be a problem, but I would’ve been courageous enough to ignore it and rise above it - pretty much saying that those who don’t come out lack the courage/morals to do so, implying that the responsibility lies on closeted people themselves. (Of course a reply like this can also be a defense by someone actually closeted but that’s a somewhat different conversation.)
When I say that remaining closeted or not might be less about an individual choice than we like to think, I don’t mean there’s no choice at all, and people are of course different. What I mean is that if you work in the entertainment industry there will often be risks to coming out (risks of different kinds depending on where you live, what type of ent industry, where you are in your career etc). It’s not necessarily as easy as simply mustering up the courage to do what you according to some people “should” do (come out), and then everything else will fall into place.
