#southbound

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SOUTHBOUND 2 CHAPTER IS OUT YAYYYYY

So excited to start drawing the third chapter...I don't know if I should make this comic a bit explicit or nor, since I want to publish it on an editorial and maybe making it nsfw it's a bad idea. Anyways. Hope you enjoy it. Let me know your thoughts in the comments!

One of my absolute favorite themes in this fic was how you explored and displayed kink spaces within the framework of an admittedly questionable relationship (conflict of interest, age gap, and manipulation abound). Even though Sukuna is a ruthless businessman in this iteration, keeping with the core of his character, I loved that he never let any extenuating factors compromise his role in the kink community he built around himself. He never let his frustrations or anger compromise his principles as a dom, and that, I think displays a deeper understanding of who Sukuna is as a person both canonically and beyond.

I also loved that you emphasized safety, consent, patience, and due diligence when it comes to navigating kink spaces. You didn't try to sanitize it, and yet the picture you painted was so realistic (I say this as an active member in my own local kink scene). From an environmental storytelling standpoint, The Shrine became one of the best set pieces for the entire story because it wasn't just a focus on Sukuna and his relationship with MC, but a study of everyone in the scene. We learn more about the ensemble cast in this setting than we do anywhere else.

And in a way, that's also very in-character for Sukuna. His seat of power--the jewel in his proverbial crown, as it were--is The Shrine. It is the epicenter of everything he is, and to enter it is to be stripped down your barest truth, to dredge up your deepest desires no matter how oily and dark. And we see all kinds of people revealed: the seasoned subs who move with confidence and grace even as they bend to the whim of who holds their collar; the manipulative and potentially dangerous members who infiltrate the community and violate consent boundaries; even the younger pups whose repeated exposure to the scene leads to their own individual journeys of self-discovery. There's a sense of sonder in the way you write, in that all of these background characters have a significant weight in the fabric of the story: they have their own journeys they're on, their own reasons for submitting to Sukuna's yoke, and all of them different.

Sukuna himself is menacing and seductive all at once--just as he is in canon. I loved every interaction because you write him the way he's supposed to be written: no matter where he is on the page, he's stealing the scene. His presence is felt in every line of dialogue

All of this and you still managed to make your Reader-insert a fully-realized dynamic character. An absolute masterclass in storytelling. I said this on AO3 already but you deserve love here too. I also made notes and highlights of some of my favorite parts with more details. 😭

Every time you compliment me I feel like a little farmer being praised by a godlike entity that descended upon my lil farm to tell me my lil crops are fire 🥹

a thing I'm keeping in mind about a character I'm making is taking what I have learned from an irl friend who has the same hair color and type (blond and straight)

like for the character I'm specifically developing (still in its early stages of writing) I made him have blond layered hair dyed with this deep red color at the start-ish of the story (its to me one of his most memorable features to me)

the irl friend I talk to who has had dyed their hair red on multiple occasions has told me about how every time they get their hair dyed red it tends to fade into oranges and pinks after just a few washes