#hands held

Cecil Rowntree

Artist: Thomas Cantrell Dugdale (British, 1880-1952)

Date: 1924

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

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to be brutally honest i don’t hooooonestly see it - just, like, it’s one of those ships i don’t immediately get anything from so i don’t usually think abt it

when i do think abt it, though, i do think their dynamic is fun and love writing dialogue between them. i can’t really imagine that extending into anything romantic unless it’s like, very highly centered around bkg working through this weird new experience where he’s not only having feelings, but he’s having feelings for a Complete Total Stupid Idiot. like this! this is cute. i can imagine a lot of very peak ‘guys being dudes’ and kaminari overplaying the jokes to hide that he’s also flustered and them watching movies together and having dumb arguments, all of which could be sweet. but even though i can see it i guess i just don’t think abt it much 

One Year With Beatrice & Emi (also posted on the @hands_held site)

It’s been one year since Hands Held in the Snow began serializing on the internet. One year since Emi and Beatrice first laid eyes on one another and our beloved narrator asked us, was it love at first sight?

It feels like an eternity ago. That’s kind of what 2020 was generally like, though. I started writing the book over three years ago, and now it’s finally out for everyone to see, for the…

New blog post - ATL Season 2 + Pride Month Celebrations

Two big updates:

ATL Season 2 has started!!!

The ninth story, The Dial-Up Demon, is now out, all thirteen chapters. The posting schedule for this season is going to be a bit different than Season 1’s three-times-a-week clockwork style, which I hope will be better for y’all binging types. You can start reading here!

Don’t you wanna read it? Art by hellspawnmotel.

Chapters are gonna be……