Gay Anti-Monarchy propaganda

my final act of love will have casualties

hm so i'm binge-reading baraou no souretsu and while its art is gorgeous and the plot is engaging, its decision to consistently make its most ambitious and agentic female characters so villainous is grinding my gears like crazy. margaret is an abusive wife and rapist, not to mention sexually abusing her son by commanding him to consummate with anne when he clearly doesn't want to; cecily is the classic abusive mother to richard and the only female member of the family who is coincidentally also the only one to be disgusted by him to such an extreme degree; elizabeth woodville is the manipulative schemer who fools everyone around her with a delicate facade. like it no doubt has a solidly written female cast but man the vilification is frustrating to say the least

there's a pretty good story in requiem of the rose king if you just delete buckingham

ive talked about "childhood friends gone wrong" on here before right

there's probably already a name for this but it's a trope i coined for a very specific type of dynamic that im consistently obsessed with. give me two people who grew up together and played together and were each other's best friend and then Something Happened and now everything's fucked up but they're still friends. or they want to be at least. you look so different now and everything is so much more complicated now than when we played in your backyard but literally who else knows me better than you. who else could i ever call my best friend

first base is love bombing second base is having sex third base is going no contact & fourth base is having sex again