valentine’s day with shuri ❤️
i wanted to write a full oneshot but my exams are coming up so y’all get wholesome head-cannons instead <3
- aight so shuri in all honesty nearly forgot it was valentine’s day up until the night before
- and she started panicking cuz she knew you deserved the best valentine’s day ever
- so you best believe she ran out to get whatever she needed to make the day memorable for you
- usually you guys would go all out, get dinner at a fancy ass restaurant
- but you reached a point in your relationship where you didn’t really care what you guys did, as long as you got to spend quality time with your girlfriend
- both of you made an agreement before going to bed the night before valentine’s day, saying that you’d surprise her in the morning and she’d surprise you in the evening
- which was perfect for shuri since she got time to think about what you’d want to do most
- you woke up extra early to make shuri a fancy breakfast
- you made eggs, bacon, pancakes, and you even cut up some of her favourite fruit
- she got so happy and started kissing you all over your pretty face
- “happy valentine’s day baby, i’m so lucky to have you,”
- you gave her your present, which was a silver chain with her name spelled out in diamond encrusted letters
- it definitely made a huge ass dent in your bank account, but it was for shuri, so you didn’t mind at all
- after breakfast, both of you got ready to go out for the day
- you may or may not have showered together
- shuri thanked you for the breakfast by eating you out in the shower
- y’all could seriously get nasty anytime anywhere
- you went out to this garden and spent the day there, reading books, making each other flower crowns, just stupid sapphic shit
- shuri got ayo and aneka to distract you for a few hours while she got her surprise ready
- she took you to another room in the palace where she set up a crafts table
- y’all spent the night wearing comfy pyjamas and making cute things for each other
- she even managed to snag a jewelry making kit
- she made waist beads for you cuz she knew you love those
- you made her a shit ton of bracelets
- like seriously shuri has a whole drawer in her vanity dedicated to all the bracelets you made her
- she’s already decided that she’s gonna wear them all the time
- “i’m so lucky to have you sthandwa, i was so scared you wouldn’t like what i had planned,”
- “are you kidding me?? this was the best valentine’s day ever, as long as i’m with you i’m always happy,”
- y’all are such simps for each other
- seeing shuri get all excited when you made jewelry for her made you realise that you’re gonna spend the rest of your life with her
- and you wouldn’t have it any other way
@locoforshuri come over so we can recreate this
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flash back to one of my gay-coded friendships as a young girl:
I spend quite a few minutes trying to describe the way she smells to her— I say things like ‘you smell like the colour pink, but more powdery, like how a cloud might smell when the sun’s setting, or maybe like candyfloss’, and then I ask her what my smell is. She sniffs, and just says ‘Lemons’. And that was my first lesbian heartbreak
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In Princess Aster's world, bunnybirds live in contented isolation, keeping themselves detached from the world in order to practice magic. Nothing is ever wrong, and no one is ever angry...even as Aster's people seem to be slowly disappearing.
When her father is next to vanish, Aster resolves to find and rescue the missing bunnybirds—even if it means journeying over the rim of the world itself!
My middle grade graphic novel is officially available for preorder! Bunnybirds is a story about trauma, friendship, and my experience with autistic masking. It was drawn entirely with Prismacolor colored pencils and Pandafly markers, with Photoshop applied for color enhancement and text.
Check it out maybe! :D
That last panel with Carlin (the brown bunnybird) facing the corner was directly inspired by this wonderful TMA comic by @nubs-mbee!
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the problem is that being single is seen as the consolidation prize, and not the natural neutral state of being-a-person. at the end of the movie or the book or the poetry, there is a person waiting for you at the altar, and they love you. if the play is a comedy, everyone gets married. the metaphor is about how you are not-whole. the metaphor is about how everyone is going to be happily-ever-after. the metaphor is that romantic love is the most important resource on the planet, not just all-love. all-love is not a thing, that is a disappointment. the treasure is not the friends we made along the way. the treasure is the girl you landed.
the metaphor is that you cannot be alone, that means you are broken. are you getting over someone? that is acceptable, you can be getting over someone, but not for long. you must be single because you would rather not be single. you must be single and looking to not-be-single. you must want to date, eventually.
friendship and community are never seen as being equal-to or even-better than romantic connection. that person is your one! you need to find them. you need to hunt through the sand particles until you can shift out some kind of gem. this is regardless to your own experience of the beach and the sun. you need to be somewhere with someone.
if you are taking this time alone to heal, that is so sad. everyone gives you this little pitying look. the understanding is that you are not actually happier than you were before you were single. it is seen as a sort of pity - oh, you are choosing yourself, making yourself the priority? - that isn't quite right. you must mean that you are making yourself ready for the right person. you are just laying the bed better this time. open up your heart. you'll find them, we promise!
what do you mean you're really-truly genuinely-very happy? you are probably misremembering what it was like to be in a relationship. and besides, once you meet your person, that time will look grey and bland and wasted. your person is the only way for you to see in color. so what if you have taken this time - for the first time in your entire life - to actually-for-real do the fucking work. you can be proud of yourself, sure. but the way we need to know that you got better is that you get a partner. you're healed enough for the next bad part!
people don't choose to be single, they just say they're choosing to be single - they actually mean "nobody wants to date me." it doesn't matter how many people you have gently rejected or how many times you've talked it over carefully in therapy. what matters is that you are single, and by all accounts - that means you are something worth our pity. your successes and life all seem pale in the sunlight. sure, you have done amazing things and finally found your way in life. what matters is that there wasn't a person in the room with you while you did it.
you want to tell them - that's the whole thing. i didn't know how to be alone in the room. i didn't know how to handle the silence. every moment was so sharp, and i kept choosing the wrong way to close the door. i have spent my entire life in the empty well, living in the ricochet of someone else's cruelty. for once i have built myself a ladder. for once everything i taste is all mine, every bite of sunshine and laughter. i have learned how to sleep out in the open with my memories. recently, they have started to purr.
your father rolls his eyes. listen. this isn't about you. i just want a grandchild in my future.
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The main reason for the decline of shoujo anime for me really is that girls/women will still consume shounen while boys/men will not consume shoujo as much, so for producers if you have to choose between a shoujo or a shounen you will go for the shounen because you know you will be able to get both audiences while with shoujo the audience will really be majorly female and you will be losing money from half your audience. And that is also why shounen these days incorporate a lot of shoujo tropes into their stories (ikemen, romcoms, etc.) but still do it in a way that is mostly targeted for boys (male protag, big boobs and heavy sexualization of female characters that is not as present in actual shoujo stories), they do it to make sure they will grab both audiences. That is not to say that seinen and shounen can't do great animes like these (just look at horimiya and skip to loafer), but it also means we get a lot of anime that is trying to do the same but in a very harmful and sexist way (just look at shows like rent-a-girlfriend and the millions of bad isekai that come out every season). So, shounen is stealing shoujo tropes and making them worse (most of the time), and we're eating that shit up simply because there is no actual shoujo coming out as often as it did before.
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we were robbed of gay emily prentiss in so many ways but one that hunts me the most is how we missed out on morgan and her bickering over girls
i mean CAN YOU IMAGINE IT?
them going out to bars and betting on who can get more numbers?
showing up to the BAU one morning mocking each other's moves?
one of them trying oh so hard to get a girl only for the other one to pick her up effortlessly and walk out with a shit-eating grin?
both of them on battle for the same girl only to find out she's already on a relationship and was only having fun at their expense? their faces when the girl walks off with someone else entirely and they're both rejected?
SO MANY POSSIBILITIES!!!
ffs they're already so insufferable siblings coded, this could've been so much fun!! I will never get over what we never had
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