sskk fans (me) really won with this chapter i will never get over it.
“And then… and then…” AND THEN WHAT AKUTAGAWA? YOU FELL IN LOVE??
(Old art, Arialogy used to be my username)
You know
Sometimes I just love to read a happy sskk fic
Like, I love when their relationship is angsty or messy or complicated, because that is how it is! But sometimes the hurt gets too painful and I adore how tragic they are but I need happiness
Sskk may not be the softest ship, but it's so refreshing to just read a fic where things are...peaceful. There's no miscommunication, there's no death, there's no tears or despair. It's the aftermath, where Atsushi and Akutagawa have learned to love each other without fear
Where they're together and they're happy, where they can wake up next to each other and walk around the city together and give each other goodbye kisses that aren't actually goodbye
When everything's okay
And sometimes, things are so happy it makes you sad anyway. It makes you sad that Sskk is happy together because you know it isn't true, so while it soothes your soul with the fortune, it also reminds you of canon Sskk and how many doors that they can't walk through
I truly do love the heavy, angsty Sskk fics with all the heartbreak and anguish and forbidden, confusing love that they have with each other. But the fics where they're together, and they have sweet nothings shared between each other is also so wonderful, where things are soft and magical and it's all okay still have a place in my heart
I love the perspectives of their relationship from both sides
Technically a redraw of an official beast art that Harukawa did (you can find it in the beast light novel) but I altered it by kinda a lot
I'm fond of drawing Bsd characters in my style but for this specific art I thought it'd look better if I leaned more into Harukawa's original style<3 you can still see bits of my style peeking through lol
Atsushi's beast design though UGH IT'S SO GOOD
And yes the angel wings are supposed to look messy, in a contrast to how put together Atsushi himself looks, his white angel wings/his morals on the inside are messy and not as clean :D
remembered this line from Beast and now I have to kill myself
Something i really like about these panels, is the fact that both Atsushi and Akutagawa show emotions, we've not seen before. (i think)
It's the first time we see Akutagawa be gentle and the first time we see Atsushi be for a lack of a better word smug af.
While being both of their last moments.
Help imagine married sskk 😭
Atsushi: Ryuu honey can you do the dishes
Akutagawa: I already did them last night
Atsushi *with his hands on his hips*: I did not get stabbed by Amenogozen to save you just to have a lazy husband. Now go do the dishes
Like there's not even much of a joke here I just love what married sskk in their happily ever after would be like. They'd be so imperfectly perfect, and also it'd be funny to see them bicker, especially with their pasts
Sometimes they're annoying, sometimes they're not. A random dump.
Speak Now World Tour
March 2, 2012 - Perth, Australia
she/her, minor, BSD fan, sskk shipper, enthusiast, and stan, traditional/digital artist, fanfic writer, swiftie
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