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I drew 2 charleses...

the lineart on the miku one was fun to do :3 (dont mind the shading I did that because cool)

what the fuck

the fuck did they do to william

HOW THE HELL DO YOU MESS UP THIS BAD??? AND KEPPEL??

LIKE TF DID I JUST READ

alright @unanchored-ship... going to make this its own post separate from the clinton post, it got kind of long bc i got kind of upset in the middle of it so it's under the cut. heed the tag warnings!

the book in question is Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, which is not rlly a book but more like a series, this volume in particular being called Quicksilver which i have not read allll of admittedly. some parts aren't awful i do have to say that. however i hate how William was handled here

and also i do have to retract that statement in the tags, looking back at the pdf of this book i can't actually verify Keppel's age as i dont thinkkk the author mentions it, but i do know that at the very least he IS possibly implied to be a child just bc he's referred to as a page and those are usually pretty young, and i know he was like 15-16 when he started off as William's page. obv when he got the earldom and all that when the fucken rumors were in full swing he was No Longer a Boy. anyway all this to say i was probably wrong, he might be a little older but still a child in this book!

now Keppel is also implied to be a Dirty Queer and William's lover

(also i love this phrasing sm unironically it's so fucking funny like. historical novels can't say bisexual right off the bat so they're like yeah my man would fuck a fence too)

which itself i really wouldn't mind but again. in this context. how many historical novels am i gonna have to read where gay men are made out to be predators. i seriously thought we were over that myth. and ig it could be argued that oh it's a historical novel and men took 16 year old lovers all the time, he just happens to take a boy instead of a girl, NONONO. yknow how i know he was meant to come off as a predator. boom William does this to Eliza (one of our main characters)

if that was not clear enough bc that's where there's a cut-off, uh yeah William is just implied to have raped her. with Keppel watching. and the comment, TOWARDS A FUCKING CHILD, is just eugh. nasty. that's another reason why i say Keppel is probably a child here-- the statement he makes towards him implies that Keppel is 'inexperienced.'

like this is just proof that most people have not figured out how to properly write William. Bowen's the only one that did it right, he remains completely straight in her novels yet somehow to me as a modern reader comes off as super queer (in the trans direction, but still). uhh thats just my lunatic interpretation tho, obv you can write William as awful as you want but this was not done with good intentions i don't think in regards to the queer rep. this wasn't anything like that this was just saying that William was a predator as part of his sexuality!! i don't need to explain why that's just... a rlly harmful stereotype.

honestly i don't even mind CSA interpretations. obv i have my fair share of them, i kind of have my own version of this in some more historically-accurate-ish AUs (but still highly implausible-- they're just not fantasy/modern ones like my others LMAO) where Marly is a victim of grooming by James, and i always write the Maria/James relationship as starting off by pedophilia on James' part. but, especially in the Marly case, it's not bc James is gay.... it's bc he's James. and the way i see it, the way i write it, is not meant to forward a stereotype, i just think it's an interesting way to go about these relationships! also i've been ehh kinda quiet about it here but as a CSA....experiencer (? i dont like to use the terms victim/survivor lmao) it's just a way for me personally to see this all on paper. obv i dont care if ur not someone who has ever experienced CSA but you still write it, like go the fuck off i dont care anyone can write dark stuff forever. i don't see it as any different from writing whump just bc you find it fascinating

you can just tell that Stephenson did not put this in bc he wanted to explore what this meant. i can hardly fault him for that bc William isn't the main character but... it was SOOO obviously thrown in to make William look worse. and i hate it. it wouldn't even make sense historically. you could've just used Bentinck, which wouldn't have made the whole William's-a-rapist bit better, but...having Keppel there as a young boy is just so extra. it doesn't even make sense for William, like period full stop as interesting as it might have been it just doesn't make sense for him. he's not about that life

anyway sorry this got long, i was just....waugh why can't we have a good queer William. i want my favourite prequel

🏨. Charles. Now.

day three hundred and twenty three: with pleasure.

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Edgy/misc OC ask meme ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Send me a number and an OC, and I'll answer.

What memory would your OC rather just forget?

What's something about your OC that people wouldn't expect just from looking at them?

What is your OC's fatal flaw? Are they aware of this flaw?

When scared, does your OC fight, flee, freeze or fawn?

How far is your OC willing to go to get what they want?

How easily could your OC be convinced to do something that goes against their moral compass?

What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Would your OC ostensibly be able to get away with murder?

Do you have a specific lyric or quote which you associate with your OC?

What's an AU that would be interesting to explore with your OC?

What is your OC's weapon of choice? Have they ever actually used it?

Is your OC self-destructive? In what ways?

If you met your OC, would the two of you get along?

How does your OC want to be seen by other characters?

Does your OC have a faceclaim? If so, who?

What is your OC's pain tolerance like?

What is the worst thing you have put your OC through story-wise?

Is your OC more cold and detached or up close and personal?

How does your OC behave when enraged?

Does your OC have a tendency to get jealous? If so, how does this manifest?

Does your OC have any illnesses or disorders? How do they handle it?

What character alignment would you consider your OC to be?

What emotion is the hardest for your OC to process? How about express?

What is an alternative life path your OC might have gone down? How different would their life be if they'd made those decisions?

What is your favorite thing about your OC?

7 11 17 for either helium or someone from cannibal au

7. Helium hasn't changed much at all, actually! I've always seen her as an aroace and being calm and closed-off most of the time. Something more specific to my current Helium would probably be her obsession with keeping the *entire* noble gas group free of bonding with the other elements, demonstrated by one of her rare outbursts at Argon in this post. I don't really have a reason as to why she's obsessed with this idea yet so there's room for lore :O She's fine with being around the other elements though, just hates it when one of em brings up bonding. Her old design isn't very different either, I just changed her dress a little and gave her earrings!

11. Lets just say Elder William loves using a knife. Like, your average sized kitchen knife. For everything. Cutting someone's head off? Saw through that neck using your tiny, probably unsharpened for the past week knife no matter how long it takes or how loud your meal screams 👍

17. This one is also answering Sheep's Ask :) William in the cannibal au(now known as the Family Feast AU) has gone through some mild-extreme-ish stuff(compared to what I've done to other folks). Like forced cannibalism and being forced to watch/participate in torturing someone. No specific events yet but the intensity of the torture greatly varies so image what you will :P He may go through more as I develop the story but we'll see.