hmmmmm

you've heard of "he would not fucking say that" now get ready for "he would not be that comfortable with his own sexuality"

i want to read a very specific fanfic and i’m so mad that i can’t (it’s sitting in my drafts) (unfinished)

so glad this post is resonating with people bc it’s still resonating with me as i am once again not working on said fanfics that i want to read

Sex scene as character study is so good. What is your relationship to your body? What is your relationship to your partner? What lessons have you absorbed from the culture about yourself as a sexual being? How much do you have to trust someone before being comfortable with intimacy? What fears and insecurities come to the fore for you when you take your clothes off? It's so good.

[Image ID: Tweet from sel (bow and arrow emoji) (@/ 4EvaJacks) on May 24, 2024 reading: girls be like "this is my comfort character" and it's a traumatized man who thinks he's hard to love /End ID]

big fan of when you peel back all layers of a character and at the bottom of it there's love

why are they doing this? because they loved someone so much it caused the plot to happen. Grief counts btw

ESPECIALLY a big fan of when this isn't enough to make them a good person

I love characters who are extremely hypercompetent and simultaneously massive losers