Here's My Piece For Day 3: Courting

"Would you fall in love with me again" but make it a ten-thousand-year wait

happy holidays !

If your boyfriend is so scared of abandonment and vulnerability that he is willing to make you openly weep and let you believe that you hate yourself, leave his ass Jesus Christ. His priorities should not be that shit, I don't care how scared he is of you leaving him, that fear has become selfish.

I'd much prefer he just be in the closet.

That first one is the boyfriend who would rather hurt you now than be hurt later so he feels like he's at least in control. That is hurt or be hurt. Improvement in the end is great, but that's how you write a reformed antagonist, not a flawed protagonist.

Mike being able to say I love you but refusing because HE doesn't want to get hurt is much worse than if he can't say it but tries his best to work around it for her to feel loved.

Selfishly withholding and giving all you can but it's not enough are two VERY different things.

We know only one of those two is consistent to his character. But people would rather claim he would do something like that say his behavior is both in character and queer. They would rather make their fave their most hated than have their fave be queer. I wish I never knew that.

this has been sitting in my drafts for months, i initially intended to post around senku’s bday but never found the energy to finish it but then like a week ago someone posted saturn in gc and WELP here we are

this is like, over a year old and the second remake of this comic i made, i really don’t want to spend more time on a shitpost at this point + last stray panel is a bonus from the first version that i couldn’t fit in the remake but i still love a lot

My Restless Brain at a 6 pm: Shizuo and Izaya were literally Made for each other. Shizuo was created literally For Izaya, otherwise Izaya would move Too Freely on the Plot.

My brain, going on at 11pm: Shizuo and Izaya could easily be each other's true soulmate on literally any soulmate AU, since they complement and fit each other so perfectly. They would have 1003 problems on DRRR!! actual plot but on literally any other plot, they w o u l d work so well.

My brain, constantly, at 2 AM by now: But it makes So much Sense on DRRR!! actual plot, their refusal to akcnowledge each other's as soulmates and their Deep Feelings for each other that seemingly came out of nowhere. It would explain their behavior and animosity due to their refusal to accept destiny and how their first impression was so strong despite not meeting previously. And also how they ultimately gravitate towards each other.

And a refusal to acknowledge your soulmate aches, not only by rejecting but as being rejected, and could easily become hate.

I did some more !! Again, some stuff from  A Cheap Imitation by @spoontasti ~

Chpt 1 // Chpt 2 // Chpt 3 // Chpt 4 // Chapt 5

Chpt 6: part 1 // part 2 // part 3 // part 4 // part 5

THERE HE IS

(You can find this comic on tapas / mangadraft and spoontasti’s fic on ao3)

Mike alternates seasons between El and WIll not just through time spent or who he's fighting to get back to, but in another way I noticed too:

Season 1 Mike and El is about their romance. Season 3 is about their friendship. Season 2 Mike and Will is about their friendship. Season 4 is about their romance.

And this is so important an order for what these stories are, too. El and Mike are the story of two people who date then find that they still really enjoy the time they spend together while broken up and face less conflict as friends. Mike and Will are the classic story of friends who, on that basis of friendship, are able to build a romance.