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[elminstersapprentice]

[veganpussyy]

i have butterflies in my stomach :(

[superman-creampieing-batman]

hh you say its not targeted towards anyone or not to shit on any writers, but then go on about mentioning the general spice level being salt, numbers of dark fics being underwhelming, and there not being anything going on but overused tropes and them getting rapidly stale

and then you keep mentioning how stony has so much more of everything

its really disheartening. im sorry

:(

Hn, I've been letting this ask marinate just to find the proper words on how to address it.

First of all, me, sharing my personal opinion on anything doesn't automatically make it a targeted hate towards anything/anyone. It's true that as long as one doesn't force their opinion on anyone they have full autonomy to speak it out.

Second of all, as I've said before, my post was obviously not shitting on any writers or their work, I was simply pointing out what's been missing in this fandom, since forever. Be honest and tell me how many of those AUs that I listed in my last post would you be able to find in the fandom?

Considering how old the fandom is, i really thought there would be more of everything. Don't get me wrong there are noncon/safe not same/dddne fics here, but you'd really have to looking for it or else you'll never find it. There are only 100 fics in the fandom that fall under the non con warning which contains bottom Bruce. Which again given how old the fandom is i had hoped would be more.

And tho I did mention about tropes getting old, I also said that it's not a completely bad thing, I, myself read them again and again. The problem is that there's so much more to explore too that gets ignored pretty often. There are 1000s of comics/shows about them with different characterization of them, yet still there is not much fic material of them. And pointing that out is not a bad thing, or a thing of hate, it's just an observation.

And every fandom has it's blank spot, no fandom is perfect. And the comparison of superbat to stony wasn't to shit on any writers,and it also wasn't against all the fics in both fandoms. I was specifically talking about the safe not sane/noncon fics. That wasn't a comparison about how stony has better fics than superbat, you're just getting it wrong.

Again this or any of my other posts weren't to target or shit on any writer, I'm sorry you feel disheartened about it. But it's the truth that I find something lacking in the fandom, but that doesn't mean I am going to shame any writer or force them to write it. It was just to hopefully get people's attention to all the unused content in the superbat universe.

<3

[spaceorphan18]

12 hours later....

let's see if I can get this scene written

[strrvnge]

Aesthetics (in the tsh)

I’ve talked before about people (and Richard) cosplaying the dark academia aesthetic and how only Richard was performing it — but the more I think about it, the more I realise I was wrong

Aesthetics are not only one of the main themes in the book but a major part of our lives. We see Richard make choices that alter his life because he was chasing an idea, a symbol, one he was certain he lacked and the rest of the group had.

First of all just to get that clear Donna Tartt didn’t exactly invent the dark academia aesthetic— not exactly at least

(historical flashback bc I’m a nerd feel free to ignore)

In Ancient Greece and Rome philosophers had simple cloaks, bare feet, certain hair to signal detachment/ virtue, with Medieval monks the OG dark academia with their minimalism, robes, candles, books, aristocrats in every era fashion manners, interior design, leisure activities, all of it was curated image, the romantics long coats, melancholy, ruins, poetry- a rejection of English tenement rationality, the victorians, youth subcultures pre internet punks, goths etc.

Aesthetics have always existed. Humans have always used symbols, style, and curated appearance to express identity or aspiration. However that is rooted under a certain need and that’s a sense of belonging because aesthetics are a way to fit neatly into a world. There are packages, not identities and now more than ever people quite literally (with fast fashion, social media) people use aesthetics to try out identities without fully committing.

It’s like emotional cosplay:

“Who am I if I wear this, read this, listen to this?”

People don’t pick aesthetics at random.

They pick the aesthetic that reflects the part of themselves that feels missing, repressed etc.

Which is exactly what happens with the greek class’

Every trend is a mix of genuine appreciation, compensation (my life lacks x, so I build it visually), class signaling, performance (I want to be seen as someone who embodies x). It doesn’t exist outside of class and aspiration.

And it’s usually a way to externalise feelings/desires you might not be able to articulate. Richard longed for beauty, for meaning he could have expressed that by trying many different activities, reading many books etc instead he chooses to adopt/perform an aesthetic that signaled those things

meaningful learning +intellectual community +emotional intensity +a slower, more deliberate life +beauty + melancholy in daily routine + tweed jackets and black coffee = black academia.

Aesthetics are a beautiful veil. Even your uglies side can be beautiful if marketed correctly which is exactly why Francis’s melancholia turns charming, why Henry’s ignorance to the outside world is a sign of superiority. Aesthetics become a very forgiving filter through which you can have a version of reality, the world and yourself that you can stomach.

So there isn’t such a thing as fully, genuinely embodying an aesthetic which the rest of the group was pretending just like Richard. What changes is the place in the societal hierarchy which determines how much of the seams of your “social costume” are seen. Richard was sloppy in his cosplaying, Francis not so much—which is why I don’t think anyone actually believed Richard’s lies.

(I could go on about Bourdieu but I won’t put anyone to sleep just yet unless you crazy babes want it)

a second part is on the way explaining the role of camilla based on aesthetics

ps this is in no way an analysis or even a proper research, just notes of my understanding of the subject

[frostedclock]

Okay soo... I've never participated in a DTIYS before but when @the-other-soup was hosting one for their follower milestone. Well I got excited as all fuck.

This was a lot of fun as I normally don't draw lacey lingerie. I didn't want to pressure myself to much and just had fun with it.

Anyway here's my entry!

Go check out her stuff if you love Lucifer ( be warned she does do spicy and nsfw stuff. But it's like in a beautiful way. )

[violetlunette]

I wonder if one of the reasons Silver was so safe as a child from other fae is because of Lilia’s blessing, and his hair just radiates with Lilia’s magic which acts like a beacon that says, “you mess with him, and I [Lilia] will fuck you up.”

[kathy-rah]

Magnus the Red - showing off his magikk, Tizca.