࣪ ִֶָ☾. haji

Shuzo Oshimi’s name is one that evokes a sense of dread in many circles. His most famous work, Flowers of Evil, is legendary for the rawness with which he depicts the most destructive parts of adolescence, centering as it does the toxic, coerced relationship between a boy who steals his crush’s underwear and the girl who caught him.

Oshimi’s work has not lost its raw power and interest in toxic relationships–almost all of his manga have a central relationship that at least starts off based on shared secrets, shame, and the threat of exposure. However, 2012’s Inside Mari marked a turning point: many of his later works explore the experiences of queer adolescents trying to escape from heteronormative, transphobic, and often misogynist ideas of how one should live. Inside Mari begins with a young man waking up in the body of a girl he’d been watching from afar and meeting the lesbian girl who was harboring a crush on her. The one-shot Waltz, published the year after Inside Mari was completed, centers on a girl who comes to feel possessive of her transfemme classmate as the only one who knows her identity. And Welcome Back Alice, his most recent work, stars a trio of characters each struggling to find an answer to what living a life without gendered expectations would mean, triggered by the return of their childhood friend shortly after their transition into an agender, trans feminine identity. All of these works are astonishing in the specificity with which they depict queer adolescence, with Oshimi clearly bringing his experience to them. If anything, they demand a reframing and reconsideration of much of his earlier work, showing us a new way of thinking about his depictions of women.

Oshimi’s work overwhelmingly focuses on adolescent sexuality; often the protagonists are insecure young men on the throes of adolescence, who meet a young woman that inspires in them both fear and desire–Oshimi self-deprecatingly refers to this in the afterword for Welcome Back, Alice as “[trying] to hook male readers by inflaming their libido.” But he goes on, “But I was never satisfied by just fulfilling their desires that way. I think the reason is that I myself felt something unsavory in those desires, and it ate at me that this wasn’t what I truly wanted.” The fan service heavy early moments of his works inevitably become bait-and-switches, evolving into stories that explore anxiety about sex, the gendered social expectations that come with it, and the violence that the characters wind up perpetrating against each other in an attempt to navigate these standards.  

ooooh let's look at those jars!!!

sunflowers from blank canvas

peony (and funky pattern) from knowing the unseen

sakura from wounded hands of course (and two butterflies)

whatever flower this is from pure sense (with the easel too aww)

^tagged by @soctherapy but the post was getting too long

this isnt a win for me.......

LESS FUCKING GOOOO

.................................................................................................OOOOOOOOHHHHHH FFFUUUCCCKKK!!!!!!!!! Pray for me guys 😭😭😭😭😭😭

idk how to feel abt this.

happy? distressed? overjoyed? paniced? all of those??

open tags! (who i'm tagging below the cut) :) /nf

Percy is the next one, very happy about this 🙃

Its @patroclus-is-the-bigger-person draw of stormfly yay dunno if i wanna marry her tho...

i couldnt find a recent one of just one character

me and jackienat threesome when sign me up

This was the only image I could find and its one of my pins I can't

I just changed my wallpaper and I'm not mad at it!

ig itd be this pic and im pretty happy bout that!! two breakfasts sound great lol

That's to say we'll be a boring couple

Some tags cuz I wanna se y'all do it

@weedletum @chaoticallystupd21 @mrecury42 @quantumm76 @galactic-squiddo @phantombegruvia @themeeperscreepers @localcelestialcreature62 @totallynotluna +open tags<333

I mean I take it but I wouldnt wanna get him away from crowley

AINT NO FUCKING WAY. WHAT THE FUCK.

YEAHHHH YESSSS YEYSEYEESYY WAHOOOOOOO I WONT THE FUCKING JACKPOT EVERYONE CAN SUCK IT

OH HELL YES ILL TAKE AKI STYLE MEGUMI ANY DAYYYY

This drawing I had downloaded from Pinterest?? Does that count?? Idc either way I win.

I do NOT know anyone like that on here 💔 so I'll just tag writers I like: