#me feverishly pointing out that his major comic love interests are all artists and restaurant workers/owners

[talentforlying]

💭 + love

he has a tendency to fall in love with passionate creative types: artists, sculptors, writers, dancers. if he was going to dig too deep into it, he'd say he's attracted to people who truly build things, rather than destroying, cannibalizing, and warping ones that already exist like he does. but artistic creation also reminds him that there's meaning in pouring your heart out for something that may never be noticed in the long run: that ideal of sacrifice as something producing beauty. he loves people who shape the world into their own image without it costing anyone else, and people who can turn all the misfiring signals in their brain into something meaningful.

he also has a habit of picking up hobbies / hobby-specific information from said creative type partners, because he's someone who likes to hold a conversation about a partner's interests, and you never know when something like fine detail sketching or metal-etching might come in handy for some delicate bit of spell-work or other. that "magpie of magic" title applies a lot of different ways. he got some basic knowledge of color theory & painting techniques from emma, sketching with pencil & charcoal from kit, and miniature crafts & shorthand note-taking from dani. he's not a master at any of them, but brushing up every now and again is a nice way of remembering the people he loved once he loses them.

@thedipshits / HEADCANON TOPICS ( always accepting )

#thedipshits #me feverishly pointing out that his major comic love interests are all artists and restaurant workers/owners #he's attracted to people who make their life's work about creation and passion and care!! it's true!! #zatanna's a performer! zed's an artist! emma was an artist! kit teaches art! dani's a journalist who makes miniature houses! #angie's a magic inventor of a sorts & oliver was a restaurant owner! he just Loves passionate people!! #( headcanons. ) I'M JUST LIKE THE BASTARDS I'VE HATED ALL ME LIFE. #( answered. ) THIS IS JOHN CONSTANTINE. FUCK OFF. #sched.