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man ive been crazy busy, i havent even been able to write for the fic. ough.

yeah im also getting kinda sick of the format, so dont be surprised if the look of the comic changes a bit

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WHO ELSE WAS SUPER GEEKED ABOUT MICKEY BEING ABLE TO GROW HIS HAIR OUT DURING THE END SCENE?? That’s like oddly one of my favorite little bits in the whole movie :-))

expendable space guys and their friends (kinda)

also grace and colt seavers are twins 🙂‍↕️

close ups under the cut!

Phase 1 (Stereotyping and intelligence degradation): stereotyping him and treating him like an uneducated fucking moron who doesn’t know how to do basic things or even how to read just because of where he’s from (Eden)

Phase 2 (discrimination and scapegoating): discriminating against him because of where he’s from (Eden) and making it very clear that they don’t care if he lives or dies and that he “deserves” this they are actively putting him through a fate worse than death for something that wasn’t even his fault actively treat him like scum just because they made him a scapegoat

Phase 3 (enforce insanity and dismissal): his insanity. That they caused and him practically having to BEG them to believe him and make him go insane trying to get them to believe him Even one of them says that “he would say anything” thinking he’s lying and that he’s not worth the risk of saving.

Phase 4 (Anonymization and reduction to a label): the C.O.I didn’t even bother to learn his name. And all they see him as was “the butcher” despite him trying to help them. They sent him down there to die and they didn’t even bother to learn his name or anything about him

Phase 5 (False Hope and Animalistic subjugation): giving him false hope and saying it was “worth it” for him to die and that he wouldn’t get his freedom he died in pain,suffering and fear like an animal in a cage

All of this he went through and how hard he fought just to die in the end anyway and the C.O.I get to be the hero’s that saved the stars thanks to him.

In conclusion my goat deserved so much better I love you Simon

I dislike the reoccurring pattern of old protagonists in yaoi either having "getting raped" as their plot, or having a young man/teenager as their love interest instead of someone that's their age or close to it. Sometimes both of these tropes pop up in one comic and it's really aggravating. Obviously not all comics do this, but a lot of them are guilty of it.

Note that I am specifically talking about original (non-bara) yaoi comics, not the fandom ones or other gay media.

I know the phrase "don't like, don't read" exists-- but when the only options you're given is rape for dinner and incest for dessert, can you really blame the readers for getting mad about it?

Do you know how small the number of comics are with old yaoi protagonists who actually look and act their age?

Very few.

Can you imagine how irritating it is to search for comic recommendations about old yaoi protagonists only to be met with a character who doesn't even look like he's above the age of 25? Or when they act so childish and immature, it takes you out of the story? How about times when you see a really handsome looking older man in a comic cover, only to witness him getting assaulted not even a few panels in to the 1st chapter with zero content warnings? How about times when you've anxiously wondered if the young man the old protagonist raised and treated like a son would turn out to be his love interest?

As someone who has experience digging through dirt and mud just to find older men in yaoi, it's already hard enough trying to find ones with my type of old men in it, but it's borderline impossible to find comics that don't feature these cursed tropes one way or another.

You might be asking, "Kat, why not just draw it?" Well here's the thing. I have been doing that for years already. And also, wanting to be an artist and wanting to be a consumer are two separate things.

Do you have any idea how exhausting it is to constantly have to draw for yourself just because you can't find a specific niche that you like? For years?

I'm not even asking for much. All I want is a middle-aged gay love story with no rape & both partners being age appropriate for each other & consenting without being forced to.

That's it.

And it's outrageous that most of these comics can't even do that!

Please note that I know there's this whole other conversation in the community regarding dark-shipping and all that, but that's not my topic for today. I'm here to talk about how there's genuinely almost no comics about gay older men that's not about them getting assaulted or being (forced) into non-con/pedophilia/grooming/incest. THAT'S what I'm really upset about.

The number one big reason why I like being in fandoms so much is because these are the only spaces that exist who don't treat their gay older men like trash. And the canon media doesn't even have any confirmed gay characters most of the time! The fans just headcanon them as gay and ship them, and it works!

... Maybe I'm just looking for what I want in the wrong places… Maybe I'm the silly one for trying to look for something normal in the yaoi market considering (not all but) a lot of them are really into dark-shipping...