you know, like bug-repellent

My most controversial fakiru opinion is normie shit on tumblr but I do think they’re so so SO much better for not being explicitly romantic and not getting together. I see people on other social media sites like omg it’s so heartbreaking fakiru never got together WRONG! WRONG!!!! I can’t think of a better portrait of unconditional love

She can’t reciprocate his affection whether she wants to or not and he never thinks less of her for it. Their relationship is never transactional—he’s not “getting” any sort of romantic gratification for choosing her and yet none of that matters! None of that matters!! He loves Duck exactly as she is and that’s enough. She gave him his hope back and when she’s lost sight of a future for herself he returns the gift she gave him and creates a future her side.

All of this doesn’t have the same punch if he TOLD her he loves her or if they kissed or any other thing to make it explicitly romantic—that’s putting pressure on her to reciprocate.

Idk it matters a lot to me because as a teenager being on the aroace spectrum I thought I’d never be “good enough” for anyone to CHOOSE me over a traditional romance and then I watched princess tutu and it was like oh. Oh. Sometimes just being yourself even if you don’t have the capacity for a traditional romance will still draw the people that matter to you

i love her (this looked so much better as a sketch)

Part 2 of reposting cosplay photos from my insta.

I didn't get enough pictures of this cosplay :( I'll have to make some pretty significant alterations if I want to wear it again but I love Princess Tutu so much that I'll probably get around to it eventually.

[Japanese audio, English subtitles.]

(Princess Tutu Akt 11: La Sylphide)

The She-Bear is from the same Unnatural Love family of stories as Allerleirauh (All-Kinds-of-Fur, Thousandfurs), Donkeyskin, and Little Catskin. Her widowed father, the king, vows to marry only a woman as beautiful as his late wife and is dissatisfied with all women... except his daughter, who resembles his late wife the most. She flees with the help of an old woman, who allows her to turn into a bear. A sickly prince does eventually fall in love with her, as a bear, and her true form is revealed when his kiss makes her drop the wooden piece from her mouth. When they learn her story, the queen rewards her and approves of their marriage.

tried out some tricky lighting w this one so it took a while before i was happy