Volann

she/her | not a minor for anyone concerned | @volann-art is my art account, this one is for reblogs and thoughts on media

[volann]

Hi hello I'm Volann and I usually draw my ocs so writing an introduction for a blog for everything but the thing I usually do is very weird. To get it out of the way, @volann-art is where I post my art! I'm also @/volann_art on instagram and telegram (this one in russian). I always reblog my fanart here and sometimes other stuff, especially if it's like a several page comic, but mostly this blog is my thoughts on all kinds of media and reblogs. I sometimes reblog art I like even if I have absolutely no idea who the characters in it are or if I'm not a particularly big fan of a ship. I love people who draw ocs, I also love yuri unconditionally (men have to want to kill each other ig), so obviously people who draw yuri of their ocs can have my heart and hand in marriage (I'm aroace though). The only thing I've ever been consistent in is obsessing over my ocs so I have no idea what I'll write about next.

I love talking, if you ever want to talk to me please do!!!! I can speak English obv, russian and Bulgarian. I also studied French at school, forgot most of it, but you can still try your luck.

Oh yeah currently very into gachiakuta but everyone who followed me recently did so after seeing my gachiakuta posts so I think you already know that. I rarely speak about fandoms enough to justify putting them into an intro post, but tma pops up often enough when I talk to people so it'll be an exception. My other random interests include historical fashion and dancing. I'm also currently studying book illustration and design at uni.

[genderkoolaid]

hey boy don't kill yourself. green's dictionary of slang is available online and allows you to explore 500 years of english vulgarity. you can search by part of speech, source, time period, etymology, and usage. there's a whole category for gay slang. they even have specific citations listed so you can see the exact context for yourself. boy did you know that in 1927 "to kneel at the altar" was slang for "to sodomize"

[genderkoolaid]

some other hits:

Princess: an effeminate and relatively youthful male homosexual or lesbian (1931-4)

Daffodil: effeminate young man (1925)

To throw a fuck into: to have sex with (1919)

Top sergeant: a masculine lesbian (1939) [‘she takes command of the girls’ privates’]

Lily: penis (1919)

Wolf: sexually aggressive man (1847); a homosexual top (1918)

Soul kiss: a deep kiss, involving putting one’s tongue into one’s partner’s mouth (1907)

Tom: a lesbian (1909); [in 'old tom'] prostitute catering to lesbians (1966)

Church mouse: a male homosexual who frequents crowded churches in order to fondle any potential sex partners. (1941)

Discover one's gender: to accept or acknowledge one’s homosexuality (1941) / Lose one's gender: To return to living as a heterosexual

Minty: a masculine lesbian (1941)

Also a lot of early 20th century vulgarity is recorded in Letter from My Father, which is a collection of letters published by a man who's dad was, in short, a major slut and human disaster who wrote about his sex life for his son. It's insane. You can find copies of it online & it's a wild fucking read (literally!) and I think a really interesting look at the life of a person who goes against our stereotypes of what people in the past were "supposed" to be like.

Anyways feel free to add y'all's favs to this post. & if you use this for gay historical fanfic please share with the class

[genderkoolaid]

#OH THIS IS EXTREMELY EXTREMELY HELPFUL#writing#resources#saving for later#maybe i should move my 1920s story from '25 to '27 because..... bro..........

note for writers: these are dated to the first time they were recorded, not necessarily to their first use. I imagine for many of these, they came about naturally through spoken language before they were written down anywhere. This is especially true of more underground slang because it's probably being recorded (in ways we still have) the least. So if you wanna use a term but it's a little off date-wise, give yourself some wiggle room.

also gonna take this moment to highlight two more i found recently:

Best boy: a sweetheart, a boyfriend, a husband. (1893) [w the obvious equivalent term 'best girl']

Honeydripper or honeydrips: a sexual partner (1917)

Like. Honeydripper?????? That's so horny I can't stop thinking about it. We need to bring THAT back

[ianthewife]

have you guys heard that they expect you to complete *assignments* at uni????????? disgusting. their cruelty knows no bounds

[cheeririo]

It's my birthday today!

As always, warm words and shares would be greatly appreciated ❤️

[torstherapy]

[tinsnip]

Per @spoonstrek

[octoberended]

Interspace

[ackee]

sigh. i miss everyone's ocs. can everyone update me on what their ocs are doing rn. or if you've made new ocs in my absence. thank you

[mynqzo]

oh these two wanna kill me with how much theyr in my brain

[linachuu]

COMMISSIONS OPEN!

If you are interested, DM me in any social media or email on [email protected]

If you have any questions, feel free to message me!

link to my VGen

my carrd for more info

[crowwkui]

mollusk lady knights 🐚 starting a new project (งツ)ว

[volann]

Will you allow me one very stupid joke. No it's not even funny so I shouldn't be calling it a joke, it's not creative either, but I have to say it somewhere, please (ch 167 spoilers)

They say that those who reject the etchings of time will themselves be etched but um actually as someone who's done both etchings and woodcuts I'd like to say that Enjin's scar looks more like it was done with a chisel, specifically the rounded kind. So time is actually a woodcut type of gu- entity? Anyway. I rest my case.

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[volann]

Gachiakuta 167.2 spoilers

Enjin's scar is literally highlighted right before the disturbing panel

Also the fact that the neck injury Enjin receives is more or less symmetrical to the one he gave to Mymo

I mean it's vaguely on the side kinda above the arm? Mymo's anatomy is weird... Anyway since the Mymo panel is right after the Enjin panel, that leads me to believe that they're really supposed to be related, so I guess whenever Enjin uses the clock to fight someone, he receives an injury that's symmetrical to the one he caused. Back to the scar. The shape of it looks pretty similar to what would be left if the neck injury healed so I think it might've been a consequence of Enjin using the watch before?

With the second thing, I'm not sure if it's storytelling or a stylistic choice to make the panel more disturbing. So throughout the chapter, Enjin's anima is rendered as a white object while his actual body is colored (as colored as it gets in a b/w manga). The disturbing panel (yes I'll keep using this to refer to it) is also colorless However. Pure anima didn't have the vest pattern. So I'm more on the side of "this is a stylistic choice". However. Right before it is a panel of Enjin's actual body and Idk but maybe the difference between them is meant to convey something? Like the injury isn't uuuuugh physical?? Which would make it less lethal maybe??? Is that how soul injuries work??? Or maybe it's like to show that the injury comes from the anima? I'll be honest I have no idea but here's some food for thought.

While we're here remember how Enjin said that he doesn't like fighting humans? Well, here he wanted to cut the string of the watchman pendant or whatever that thing is called I don't remember and ended up almost cutting the whole head off so uuuuum yeah I think he should keep not fighting humans, that seems dangerous. Plus if the head scar is really a consequence of using the watch once before, and it did mirror the other person's injury, then it's been a consequence of fighting a human. Unless evidence that disproves me is provided, I'm choosing to believe that since making Umbreaker his jinki, Enjin has only fought humans with it twice (with this fight being the second one) and both resulted in really bad injuries. And this is why he doesn't like fighting humans. This seemed funnier in my head sorry.

[volann-art]

I finally managed to draw a full artwork with my favourite oc (this is a joke I don't have a favourite, they all rotate in my mind)

(Thea is a mage that ran away from mandatory work, she can control light and likes being flashy so big flashes are exactly her thing)

[yuukels]

i know the end

[volann]

Someone reblogged my post from 2024 today with now 9 notes, it had 7 before getting liked and reblogged by that person, wow... this can only happen on tumblr. How did they find it? How do they feel about me writing that hopefully the next part of that will come out sooner and abandoning it right after (I don't think they care tbh)? We'll never know, but this surely was a blast from the past (I was writing about how everyone in tgcf is a foil character. I still have the notes for everyone I planned to talk about in the future. It's kinda sad that I abandoned it. I believe I had some good points about blackwater arc and fengqing. Maybe others too. I won't reread my notes to check. Don't read under the cut if you don't want to see Opinions tm)

I think the biggest problem is that I was rereading the book to make sure I'm not misrepresenting anything, and since I mostly liked the book for the secondary characters, the romance was okay the first time but whenever it focused on the main ship during the reread, I wanted to skip so much... But ofc the book didn't want to move on bc it's the main ship. I'm not tagging this. Also I was reading from hardcover books and it was hard to bring them anywhere. (Meanwhile I reread and rewatched all the fengqing parts 92362926 times lol. As well as the scenes with Shi Qingxuan before trauma bc I love him. I'm telling you, the secondary characters!!! Quan Yizhen is also up there btw)

[orphetoon]

hello everybody! today's the launch day of my webcomic, no kings live here, available here! it updates with three pages every friday!

below is a preview of some of the pages!

[electricpurrs]

its so difficult to draw anatomy. and objects. and backgrounds. and clothing. and colors. and lighting. i honestly dont know how i ever managed to draw anything in my entire life