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hello!! i'm guessing you're talking about this drawing,

it's a drawing for an au where they're "happily married". johnny needs to be carried because of the movement restrictions that aurelio put on him (for further reading, you can check out footbinding and hobble skirts). he's not stupid, he knows that if johnny could run he would, so he can't :_) weird weird man aurelio is

johnny doesn't have chronic pain disorder in canon, but he does have mobility + sensory issues (limited mobility and heat sensitivity to be precise) in his top half when he's older, owing to his burn scars. he was also temporarily disabled while they were healing

i feel like i want to chat so i would be very happy and appreciative if you sent some oc-related asks, i'll answer in text form く⁠コ⁠:⁠彡 feel free to ask anything character-related, i'll answer as they come

Thank you and keep up the great work, I love seeing your stuff on my feed!

aww thank you very much!! i'm happy you like it and that it inspires you to take up some reading for yourself :]

since i'm trying to be a bit more comfortable talking about my ocs, i'm trying to specify which events exactly i'm referencing in specific drawings. it's not perfect, as i'm pretty shy and have trouble sharing things :_)

a lot of stuff you see with johnny and aurelio that i do is from the 1500s when the debacle between henry viii and the eventual anglo-spanish war took place (those events are heavily related yes). more recently, i've been drawing johnny in more modern times – for example, the most recent animatic i did, the hate monologue, takes place in the 19th century, although it's not related to any specific event – hs clothing is more modern and he behaves more "maturely" so to say

a lot of stuff i pick up from general reading that you can find in e-libraries like the internet archive, anna's archive or academia dot edu – obviously, i mostly interest myself in whatever's related to england, since that's my favourite topic. some reading is in other languages that i know though, so you might have to use translators for those

some things i personally read, enjoyed and can recommend:

~ "that sweet enemy. britain and france: the history of a love-hate relationship" by robert and isabelle tombs (book)

~ "the boer war" by thomas pakenham (book)

~ "the west end front" by matthew sweet (book)

~ "how to be a tudor" and "how to be a victorian" by ruth goodman (books)

~ "marriage and sexuality in medieval and early modern iberia" published by routledge and edited by eukene lacarra lanz (book)

~ "сакура и дуб" by всеволод овчинников (book)

~ "datos para la historia de las relaciones hispano-inglesas" by josé a. muñoz rojas (article)

~ "a fine romance: anglo-spanish relations in the sixteenth century" by alexander samson (article)

i have read more but i unfortunately can't recommend everything i read for various reasons. i hope you like whatever you decide to read though

that year was the great fire, he got caught up, just an accident

it left him temporarily disabled and he trained to use his left hand for everything but he thinks it's pretty much fine since then – it's limited his finger dexterity in his right hand and overall mobility for a while, but exercise made it better

hello! thank you very much, you can translate and reupload them with source!

They're so cool

omg thank you ♥️♥️♥️