fluten tag

1. Sickfic

2. Novel-length canon-compliant romances

3. Very specific AUs

Maya May 2026 day 22~

The mundanity of certain details of their lives. The fact that even an archnemesis character brushes their teeth, eats a meal, probably has a pet or two to feed. The almost tedious normalcy that unites them in some disturbing way with the rest of us.

I usually get stuck on hair, maybe because I'm a portraitist painter. Like here is this person who mains by the thousands, still bothering to wash, cut and style their hair. I'll use Doctor Who as an example. Simm Master has bangs! While he's taunting Cyber-Bill or ordering the Toclafane to slaughter countless humans, he's got bangs that have clearly been carefully styled. And Dhawan Master, he had to button up that shirt, and he has an undercut and has curled his bangs. Gomez/Missy spent forever painting her hails back and styling her curls into an updo. Look at the precision of Delgado's beard! They're not immortal demigods. They're capable of so much harm, and also, on some level, just people. What do we do with these mundane details? Are they endearing, or do they add to the horror? Or are they just sensory details that make them more "real?"

But in all seriousness yeah I love that too. It's actually why I tend to draw villainous characters laughing. I don't really post my drawings much anymore but back when I did people could have noticed that I very often just doodled portraits of this or that character laughing or smiling. I find genuine laughter to be something that everyone experiences at least once in a while and simultaneously something that is usually not given to antagonistic or villainous characters. I don't think like this consciously when I draw, but I think that that's the reason why I do it. That I view laughter as one of the most genuine expressions of emotions and I also like to think about the everyday normal things characters do.