yup im procrastinating again

I don’t generally write for uhhh public consumption, but here you guys go-

Lup cuts off Kravitz’s hair. It’s an accident, of course, but… @sisterlich helped me plot this out!

Certain things about you may mean everything to you… and be asinine nothings to everyone else. Perhaps not so harshly downplayed by the minds of most, but when things happen to something important and no one understands why you feel how you do, defensive attitudes that it shouldn’t matter tend to warp how things are taken. But if you never open up and let people know what things are important to you, how in the hell are they going to understand?

Kravitz had a lot of hair. A lot of hair. With the heavy braid swinging behind him at a rough seven feet long, it was surprising nothing happened to it sooner. But then, he’d always been alone, keenly aware of his surroundings and the work he was doing. Ever since he’d taken the two liches under his metaphorical wings, the reaper had been having… well, a hell of a time.

like, did queen elizabeth lie in bed late sometimes thinking ‘VERILY I CANNOT EVEN FOR MERCUTIO HATH SLAIN ME WITH FEELS’ 

was caesar like ‘ET TU ODYSSEUS’ 

here’s a thing; the printing press was invented in 1450 and whilst it was revolutionary it wasn’t very good. but then it got better over time and by the 16th century there were publications, novels, scientific journals, folios, pamphlets and newspapers all over Europe. at first most were educational or theological, or reprints of classical works.

however, novels gained in popularity, as basically what most people wanted was to read for pleasure. they became salacious, extremely dramatic, with tragic heroines and doomed love and flawed heroes (see classical literature, only more extreme.) books in the form of letters were common. sensationalism was par the course and apparently used to teach moral lessons. there was also a lot of erotica floating around. 

but here’s the thing: due to the greater availability of literature and the rise of comfy furniture (i shit you not this is an actual historical fact, the 16th and 17th century was when beds and chairs got comfy) people started reading novels for pleasure, women especially. as these novels were highly emotional, they too became…highly emotional. there are loads of contemporary reports of young women especially fainting, having hysterics, or crying fits lasting for days due to the death of a character or their otp’s doomed love. they became insensible over books and characters, and were very vocal about it. men weren’t immune-there’s a long letter a middle-aged man wrote to the author of his favourite work basically saying that the novel is too sad, he can’t handle all his feels, if they don’t get together he won’t be able to go on, and his heart is already broken at the heroine’s tragic state (IIRC ehh). 

conservatives at the time were seriously worried about the effects of literature on people’s mental health, and thought it damaging to both morals and society. so basically yes it is exactly like what happens on tumblr when we cry over attractive British men, only my historical theory (get me) is that their emotions were even more intense, as they hadn’t had a life of sensationalist media to numb the pain for them beforehand in the same way we do, nor did they have the giant group therapy session that is tumblr. 

Alexander the Great and and his boyfriend totally RPed Achilles and Patroclus. Alexander shipped that hard. (It’s possible that this story is apocryphal, but that would just mean that ancient historians were writing RPS about Alexander and Hephaestion RPing Iliad slash and honestly that’s just as good).

And then there’s this gem from Plato:

“Very different was the reward of the true love of Achilles towards his lover Patroclus - his lover and not his love (the notion that Patroclus was the beloved one is a foolish error into which Aeschylus has fallen, for Achilles was surely the fairer of the two, fairer also than all the other heroes; and, as Homer informs us, he was still beardless, and younger far)” - Symposium

And to add my personal favourite story: after reading Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa in the 18th century, Elizabeth Echlin decided that she was NOT HAPPY with the ending and basically wrote her own fix-it fic. No-one dies and Lovelace (the villain) was totally reformed and became a super nice guy. It’s completely OOC and incredibly poorly written and it’s beautiful. 

Also, so many women fell in love with the villain, Lovelace, and wrote to Richardson about it, that he kept adding new bits with each edition to highlight what a hideous person Lovelace was. So it’s almost unsurprising that reading novels in this period was actually considered dangerous because it gave women unrealistic ideas about men and made them easier prey for rakes. 

According to incomplete estimates, A Dream of Red Mansions spawned over 20 spin offs, retellings, and alternate versions (in the form of operas, plays, etc.) during the Qing Dynasty alone. 

In 1979, fans (albeit academic ones) started publishing a bi-monthly journal dedicated to analysis (read: meta) on A Dream of Red Mansions. In fact, the novel’s fandom is so vast and qualified and rooted in academics of Chinese literature that there is an entire field of study (beginning in the Qing dynasty) of just this one novel, called 红学. Think of it as Shakespearean studies, but only on one play. This field of study has schools of thought and specific specializations (as in: Psych analyses, Economics analyses, Historical analyses, etc.) that span pretty much every academic field anyone can think of. 

can i interest you cool cats in the first chapter of an entirely self-indulgent taakitz beauty and the beast au?

So I’m pretty sure most everything about Kravitz is generally fanon? Canon things we know-

He wanted to be a conductorIs a very Handsome man with dark hairTransforms into a skeleton with glowing red eyes ( unspecified skeleton :D )Works as a bounty hunter for The Raven QueenCan possess inanimate materialsDresses fancyLoves TaakoIs probably undead (Ie takes double radiant damage)Spent his time alone working on voices, accents, and sound effects 

Otherwise i think everything is just peoples’ interpretations.So! Yeah, my Kravitz is uhhhh a reanimated half-drow who was a follower of TRQ before his untimely demise. I don’t really want to spew my headcanon guts all over but he IS a corpse so no, his hair WILL not grow back. He spent a millenia making sure nothing ever happened to it while he was on the job. Sure, he regenerates when damaged, but regenerating is not his same anything, it’s new.So sure, he can probably have it regenerate but! It won’t be the hair that he took care of for all that time. So it won’t be the same, iit won’t mean anything anymore.I’m almost done with the thing about it, and while it’s not super deep (cause I’m not great at being super deep) I hope people enjoy it when I post it!

I never ever ever thought that I would be making this post! I’ve been running an art blog off and on for the last almost 10 years. and 2017 gifted me with the most productive and supportive time I’ve had thus far! On July 29th, for the first time ever, after several art blogs and a few mishaps, I hit 1k followers! And today, on January 1st of 2018 I hit 2.5K! That’s a lot of followers!

I know I have the TAZ fandom to thank for this, thanks for giving me a place to feel welcome after years of avoiding fandom pretty heavily. It’s nice to feel welcome in a community!

Onto the prizes and rules + additional information!

*First Place Prize:* 

1 Single Character Fullbody fully lined, colored, and shaded!

*Second Place Prize:*

1 Single Character Halfbody/Bust (depending on complexity) fully lined, colored, and shaded!

*Rules:*

Must be following me, NickLeerie! I will check!

Reblogs and likes both count; reblog as much as you want!

No Giveaway blogs! I will check this, too!

Ends January 31, 2018 at 11:59PM EST!

Usagi Tsukino: Straight as a Ruler

I’m going to take this lovely ask you’ve sent me to just gush some more about my beautiful nb wife @sisterlich who I love so very much.

I always associate her with the moon when I talk about her, but you know what? She’s more than just the moon in my sky, she’s my sun and my stars, the wind in my trees, every beautiful shade of color on my earth. I wish there was a strong enough means to explain everything that she is and does for me.

I say it every time, but I wouldn’t be me without her, she’s helped me learn myself, and to love myself, and proven to me that no matter the good and bad (because there’s always bad) I’m still a person who deserves good things. And it took me a long time to realize this, and I don’t know if I ever would have if she hadn’t stuck around with me through my weird life. I like to think that she made me capable of helping her too, and other people. I really think she opened me up to empathy and compassion and just… caring. 

And I’m not perfect at it, but she’s someone I can pour all of me into and know for a fact that I’m capable of being a good person if I just think of her.

So thank you. I hope we have long happy lives too!

(15+15=30

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