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dragon-business · 7 months

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Kiryu and queer customs + Nishida’s touch

Oh, Kiryu learning about queer culture. Code phrases, secret language like in spy movies are all cool of course. But also have the context of the invisible wall, and hiding in plane site, and loneliness and fear. Kiryu knows a thing or two about all this already.

But there’s also the camp, the bars, and safe-spaces, and the relief of having someplace you can just relax and be. And also there’s anger of outlining yourself on purpose, just by not conforming to expectations.

Kink is welcomed at pride and in Majima Constuction ✊ Not cops, tho. Unless they are officer Majima 👉👉

(Nishida struggles 101: is it appropriate to cite your boss's fashion as an example of camp for Kiryu?) (Majima is high camp, expensive af, bright, leather, shoes too cool for this world)

– Kiryu, looking at straight porn: *cringe, disgust, looking away* Kiryu, watching naked men engage in the passionate manly bathhouse battle: *smiling, leaning in, tilting the head*

I feels like after discovering queer scene Kiryu’s tolerance for heterosexual stuff dropped. Can’t even sit through porn with a straight face 👉👉👉

Like, why even care, when martial arts movies exist. No more obligatory blank face sit through girl on balloon action :’D

Discovering he doesn’t have to do it (or enjoy it) was probably a relief, too. Unspoken rules of this world are weird and complex, but sometimes it works out.

(Remember how Kiryu immediately ranted to Rina about how boring the typical routine talks with cabare girls are? How tiresome it is to keep playing this game?) (And after that Kiryu told Goromi, that he doesn’t need to pretend with her, and it’s very freeing)

– In Kiryu’s brain, complimenting Goromi is how it’s Supposed to Be, you say nice things to ladies. But he’s still trying to understand what the rules are around mlm stuff. Gotta approach it right.

After many struggles and frustrations, Kiryu might ask Nishida for advice. His help is very needed. Someone gotta tell Kiryu that giving compliments is alright, and gender should not stop him.

Kiryu “gender is not important” Kazuma should get a moment of enlightenment there. Since childhood he has learned to compliment only the ladies. He made Nishiki and some other boys really uncomfortable a couple of times when growing up, and got told that boys don’t really say nice things to each other like that (it makes them feel vulnerable and defensive).

But still… Even if he and Nishiki would always talk all brotherly, and “hi, assface” eachother, Kiryu will always tell other people that Nishiki has the best taste in everything, great hair, and amazing karaoke voice. Because all of this is not compliments… it’s objective reality.

Kiryu himself doesn't really react when hostesses give him fake compliments, but gets super lost when approached on the street, or when girls poke at some unexpected topic. Like when Rina said he would be popular among men.

Kiryu is an orphan with social issues, he would’ve loved to hear something nice, even if he doesn’t think he does. But he did tell Rina that he would like to be wooed and praised for once, not the one doing it.

Meanwhile, Majima suddenly got self-conscious about sending Kiryu a gift after Kiwami. Even if he did so much to surprise Kiryu, to train him, to get him to smile as well (it was an unexpected bonus at first, wasn’t really planned, but after the first one Majima started to chase those smiles like the fights)

Majima, holding a cue as a weapon: I came to challenge you! Translation: Kiryu seems to like spending time playing games. Also he smiles more when he is relaxed. Not gonna say anything about the fights then, we’re just gonna play some pool. We’re being chill. This can also be a lesson, right? Probably.

Meanwhile, a year later Kiry is watching construction boys flirt at the bars, and some mlm couples being all gooey: ……??? >C *is a bit sad now*

He missed so much, apparently. A whole world of things. And Majima is in his denial arc now. Hitting on those “unwanted” feelings hard.

Is there some segway to be so at ease with yourself, to be openly affectionate? Is there a milestone he needs to pass? Kiryu can’t discern it >c It seems to just happen for everyone, and it’s upsetting.

And here Nishida’s help will be needed. Coming to Kiryu smoking outside the bar with a big sad frown on his face.

– If Kiryu voices his frustrations, Nishida can explain that yes, society places a lot of weird expectations on people that couldn't possibly fit everyone. And everyone has to follow them even if it's uncomfortable and even if it hurts, just to be accepted, not shut off.

Sometimes to be true to yourself in this world means being alone, and shunned. So it's alright if not everyone can go for it, this is a heavy life to handle. But that's also why people who don't fit in the "rule and form", they need to stick together. Even delinquents form gangs. And queer people have their communities, and tight friend groups. And they make the world where the things that are taboo or different are safe to exist. That's our lot in life – sometimes, to be ourselves (to do just that!), we have to decide to do it. Have to make the world where we can do it, bit by bit. It can be a bar, or a street, or a family, or just another person you are willing to trust.

Because people aren't made for being alone, Nishida thinks. And they can't live with all of themselves locked away forever.

It's a scary path to take, but it's beautiful, too. Seeing the world from a new angle, seeing the new ways you can live and love, seeing beauty where others don't – it makes the world more beautiful, doesn't it?

So yeah, men can compliment other men, just because they want to. It's as simple as that, and also is not – not for everyone. Some rando in the street can still punch you. But also someone out there probably wants to hear these words, because he's also backed up into a corner by what he's supposed to be in this world.

So you can make a new one, safe and accepting world between each other, Nishida says. That's beautiful too.

Nishida's touch needs to be applied to and absorbed by the best of us. Kiryu was telling Rina to be herself, but it came to be a little bit harder to do in practice. Kiryu for sure will come to admire her bravery. Sure, it's more acceptable for women to be affectionate with each other than it is for men. Raises less eyebrows off the bat. But still, she just goes for it. And it's inspiring, in a way.

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#yakuza #kazumaji #kiryu kazuma #goro majima #nishida #majima construction #this is canon now #*holds up Nishida*#praise the best boi

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nemmienimbus · 3 months

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"Ya better be grateful to be gettin' flowers from THE Mammon!"

#how is this my first time animating my best boy #i worked so hard on this please give me praise #valentines day #obey me mammon #om! mammon #fanart #fan animation #my animation #my art

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cookiesonfire · 9 days

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telling him to count how many hickies i give him then shoving my fingers into his mouth, playing with his tongue. when he's unable to count, teasing him with "aww am i making you feel so good and stupid that you forgot how to count? such a cute thing unable to do something so easy" shoving my fingers even deeper into his mouth bc his muffled sounds are music to my ears. using my other hand to pull his head back so i can give even more hickies and mark him as mine and only mine.

#the rumours are true i want my fingers down a boy's throat #love love love the idea of giving a task and actively making it difficult or impossible for him to achieve #and at the end i praise him bc he did such a good job trying his best to count bc that's what i wanted #just a thought #femdxm #subby boys

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nascimentodraws · 7 months

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Started making it.

Had a breakdown

Bon appetite.

#my art #artists on tumblr #fantasy #dungeons and dragons #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #inktober #digital sketch #karniss #drider boy #at some point I didn't have enough references for his body armor so I just winged it the best I could #praise Loth again

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platypusisnotonfire · 3 months

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This is my son.

He won’t let me get a good picture of him at the moment but

he just saved my life

I fell asleep in the bath (with a horrible migraine and a pharmacy of migraine meds in my system)

And he clawed my head above water while I woke up.

Little boy

My man

I love you O’Malley

#abraham delacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O’Malley #my son the alley cat #this cat just saved my life #and it’s not his first time #he has saved me from suicide twice.#and he is constantly on patrol to stop my self harm #he literally will come running idk how he knows #this time was 100% an accident and caused by migraine + medicine but he was THERE #HE IS THE BEST BOY #he deserves all the praise

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jjadmanii · 7 months

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doing the “you were a wonderful experience” “you were everything” trend with everlark just proves to me that some ppl read the hunger games with their eyes closed

#just fyi you can praise a guy for being exeptional in all the best ways without throwing his female counterpart under the bus #the hunger games #peeta mellark #katniss everdeen #EVRY FUCKING TIME JESUS #everlark #peeta fr is my best boi id give my life for that man but yall need to quit it #katniss loved peeta just as much as he did the fact that she didn’t admit till late in the game doesnt change that FACT

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whitesheepwrites · 1 year

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The way Brennan played Jack at the end of his talk with Timothy, idk, something something about a boy too clever and too ambitious who was never taken serious, always chased away for his tricks and schemes that were his ways to survive in an unkind land. A Jack who grew up without two loving dads, without Tim who would have found delight in his every trick and scheme, who would've thought him clever, who would have taught him to not run himself ragged for the approval of those who do not know him because all the approval he needed was at home with a father who would always be on his side regardless of guilt or blame. Still too clever, too ambitious for his own sake? Sure, but a Jack who would've died trying to bring fortune to his humble home, not caught in the frontlines of a war of his own making, miserable and angry.

Idk man

#idk if jack was adopted or conceived #but the adopted scenery makes me think of a boy always up to no good with no family #doing his best to survive on his own #then finding a man who already loves children and cares not about what people say of him #who laughs at his tricks and praise his cleverness #d20 #dimension 20 spoilers #dimension 20 #ally beardsley #brennan lee mulligan #neverafter spoilers #neverafter

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unexpectedbrickattack · 11 months

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heehee (pepstavo under the cut)

#arts #mine #saucy #pepstavo #easing everyone in w the cute shit first #can u believe i forgot about this???? CAN U BELIEVE IT ???#this is like one of the first things i drew back in like April i think #i still love it tho #recently i have been drawing them doing some heehee shit instead of the cutesy shit so i need this to stay humble #remember my roots…#anyway if ur still reading this hooray u get bonus stuff like usual w my tags #giving him a huge praise kink. he is doing SUCH a good job he is doing the best job EVER #this would be a bit further in their relationship (pending™️) where the intimacy walls are slowly being worn down #so hes seeking out touch and affection and all that goodness instead of reflexively flinching away #and gus SEES this so hes trying so hard to encourage him like BLEASE….i did not dick around for months for this to NOT pay off #he is a patient man but theres only so much patience one Can have #and that patience IS rewarded #its funny bc i write gus as like. a top. a general Dom bc he is both patient and assertive #and hes met someone he GENUINELY w his WHOLE chest wants to bottom for and he cant do it bc this bigass dude is a lil princess™️#and so for now he is being the big boy but hes like counting down in his head when theyre able to get to a space comfy enough for him #where he gets to get his back blown out (its soon)#i hope that doesnt make it seem like hes only being nice to get dicked down bc he is actually always this nice #and full of love bursting at the seams #which results in endless praise and pdas and being a bit more playful than usual (bc he is a silly lil joyous gnome; its built in his dna)#so peppino will simply have this forever :)#okay mwah #i will slowly upload my stuffs since twitter is exploding and anyone who isnt niceys about this will be obliterated #like for reals

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just-null-cult · 9 months

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noritoshi stansism so true

i love every character in jjk equally, Noritoshi (JR) and not Noritoshis! idk what youre goin on abt

#???#cult leader cameo #but you got me #noritoshi supremacy is so fr here #i love this dude so much #hes so fucking good #he ticks every box for me and YET #I COULDNT FIND ANYTHING ON HIM ASIDE FROM THE FEW BLOGS THAT DID SMTH W HIM #(ily out there i see you and ive most likely lurked your blogs aha)#so im just gonna praise him here #watch me go insane over this guy bc im in love w him #noritoshi stans are so sexy and have W rizz #btw if you couldnt tell i love when noritoshi is confused distressed or grumpy #those facial reactions on him are so fucking good #BUT GOD I NEED TO DRAW HIM LAUGHING #I SAW THIS ONE POST THAT SAID 'I WANT HIM TO LAUGH LIKE A FOOL' BITCH ME TOO #anyway expect more ramblings abt him when hes barely mentioned #p.s. if its not obvious that green thing is my little persona not y/n but you can join me in praise of the best boy of the fucking ever

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the-valiant-valkyrie · 4 months

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the thing about the death engine that people don't think about enough was just how uncompromising it was. it was more than a mission. it was more than a life threateningly dangerous mission. it was a fork in the road for both the agency as well as zoraxis.

the death engine remains as, in the agency's own words, one of "the most powerful weapons known to humanity". if it was left to ravage every known agency base on the face of the planet, the results would have been cataclysmic. likewise, the agent destroying it was the first real domino in the toppling of zoraxis' empire. it would go on to cement one solitary operative as zor's personal enemy.

the agency and zoraxis' fates were thoroughly intertwined the day of the death engine mission. but so were the agent and solaris'.

saying that out loud, it may sound horribly obvious. the two of them were in a situation where neither of them expected to survive. of course their fates were intertwined. what else could they have been? but as much as the mission was a crossroads for their respective corporations, it was equally as important for their own futures.

one of them was bound to win, and the other bound to lose. even if both of them died. even if- as we've seen- neither of them died.

"there's only one agent who could have pulled that off, and they died on the death engine". have you ever thought about that? even before phoenix got their name- even before zoraxis knew they were still alive- they were already reveling in the infamy they gained from that moment. even when zoraxis thought they died, the phoenix still won. they destroyed the death engine, and even after their 'death', they continued to haunt everyone who worked there. a cautionary tale. a legend.

do you not think that if solaris succeeded- killed the agent in some way, or let them kill themself with their ineptitude- she wouldn't have been heralded as a hero to zoraxis? not as though she's particularly loyal to the company, but it's clear that even at the position she's in now, she still is at zor's mercy in regards to what she's allowed to design and create.

if the agent died- if the death engine destroyed every known agency base- she would be one of, if not the most lethal operative zor has. that would have come with power, prominence, the freedom to truly do what she wants… and really, that was the only reason she decided to work with zoraxis in the first place.

there was only one way the death engine could have played out. one of them would succeed where the other would fail. one of them was doomed to be a stepping stone for the other's success.

in that regard, from a narrative perspective, the phoenix and solaris are not foils, but mirrors of one another. they have their very stark differences in loyalty and morality, true, but in those ten or so minutes up in the death engine, they may as well have been one and the same. fighting against the same fate, whether they knew it or not.

to this very day, the phoenix's success is propped on top of solaris' bowing spine. it didn't have to be this way.

#ieytd #commander solaris #agent phoenix #okay back to my regularly scheduled solaris posting now #you would think i would run out of things to say by now. people who followed me for dontst@rve know differently though #THOSE ones know i could squeeze water out of a stone if it had a butch's face painted on it #READ MY FLOP POST BOY.#i think a really fun thought experiment is imagining... like. what would have happened if she won?#what would the agency do if they were forced into hiding? if they lost their best agent the second they realized they even HAD one?#what would zoraxis do with the world in the palm of their hand? with no one to stand up to them?#and how would solaris feel about being the cause of something like that? being praised for a herald of zoraxis' domination?#i don't know... its so inch resting. to ME.

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thebirdandhersong · 7 months

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on the good news train today: I have finally finished the last chapter(!!!) of my Inklings challenge story, which marks the FIRST ever Inklings challenge story I've ever completed properly :'D coming in at 30,810 words (yikes) (it did get out of hand, I must admit), it is definitely not a short story, but it IS a piece that I think articulates a lot of what I've been thinking about lately re: love and death, and, considering everything, is probably something I needed to write. I am very happy!! It has been a wild ride, but a deeply clarifying one.

#ALSO i went to watch hadestown on friday and i came out of that a changed person. i will literally never recover from that experience.#hadestown also has significantly shaped this story along with HMA's little mermaid and goblin market and sir orfeo btw #anywayyyy i am going to BED i have midterms to study for tomorrow which i have been putting off for too long!!!!#inklings round 3 #i'm bracing for impact this week (it's gonna be ROUGH) but i am holding to julian of norwich's wise wise words for this one #all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well!#including midterms (of which i have TWO right after reading break. ain't no rest for the wicked and the righteous #don't need none and who knows where i fall) and boy problems and family worries #all SHALL be well!!#why my soul are you downcast! why so disturbed within me!#put your hope in God for I will yet praise Him my saviour and my God #magpie said think of jane austen's wise words too #(friendship is the best balm for the pangs of disappointed love) and she was right :)#im sitting on my little raft and paddling steadily onwards!#thank you for sitting on the step with me through the dusk and blue hours and dark days #all shall be well for pete's sake!!!!! all SHALL be well!!!!!#last year of school log

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porto-rosso · 2 months

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the way a more recent film adaptation of a stephen king book managed to be more racist about its Black characters than the source material on TWO separate occasions is mildly bewildering to me

#^ not me praising king by any means the books have their issues #its just that it 2017 and kubricks shining are so much worse in their treatment of mike hanlon and dick hallorann #particularly mike who is probably kings best written Black character?#one of his best characters in general actually #i think i mightve made this post already its something i think about quite a lot #again particularly mike. the writers of it 2017 are going to hell for what they did to my boy #.log

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champagneandliterature · 1 year

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Smutty Saturday

Well, I wrote something for the first time in months. It's Smutty Saturday, so here's a snippet. Big thanks to @mostlyoptimisticdinosaur for writing with me tonight!!

All of this is because of this art @spikesteaseasalt you're a damn genius.

“You’re so fucking pretty,” Sirius panted into Remus’ mouth, one hand buried in the curls at the nape of Remus’ neck, his other hand applying increasing pressure on Remus’ throat, knees straddled on either side of Remus’ thighs. Remus gasped, his hips involuntarily bucking up hoping for that exquisite friction of Sirius’ weight against his cock. Sirius ground his hips down to meet Remus’ for a fleeting moment before planting both of his knees directly onto Remus’ thighs to hold him down.

“You’re perfect, Re. Gorgeous,” Sirius took his hand from Remus’ throat to grab his chin roughly forcing Remus to look him in the eye. “Fucking look at me,” he growled and Remus squirmed half-heartedly trying to look away. “Say it. Tell me you know how beautiful you are.” Sirius demanded and Remus struggled not to roll his eyes. He heard the sound of Sirius’ palm making contact with his cheek before he registered the sting. His mouth fell open as Sirius roughly pulled his head back by the hair. “Say. It.” Sirius punctuated each word with a rough bite to Remus’ neck.

“I’m pretty,” Remus whispered, not meeting Sirius’ gaze. Sirius slapped him again, only this time, Remus was able to anticipate the delicious sting.

Sirius leaned in, licking Remus’ bottom lip, “Try again. I didn’t quite hear you.” Remus made a frustrated sound. “I’m pretty,” Remus grumbled.

#remus lupin #sirius black #sirius/remus #rough #fourplay #these boys #sirius black has me and remus in a chokehold #wolfstar #I know this is going to be 2k of foreplay before we get to actual fucking #slapping and choking and begging are my love languages #smutty saturday #fic based on the best art #remus has a praise kink #but like also kind of hates that he has a praise kink

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webawee · 11 months

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okay ngl, it's kinda entertaining to see how when i make a single post about ao3 i immediately get like 10 notes

it's so fascinating

it makes me so happy to see that we're all in this together

#ao3 #ao3 down #ao3 outage #we're also all collectively praising the volunteers because they're all doing their best #and i also believe we're all collectively refreshing ao3's tumblr and twitter accounts #because i am at the very least #it's also so nice to see how we're all on tumblr #it's refreshing honestly #i gotta say tumblr is one of the least toxic social media sites and boy am i super happy to be a part of it

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crowning-art · 2 years