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Reading The Gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue is like watching the most inept D&D party scramble their way around Europe with no money, no items, no weapons (save for an indestructible violin) and very few useful skills and I love that for them

OC Smash Or Pass!

@jezifster made this an open tag, so fuck it, let’s do this. Going with Kunio because I know him best (And also because the print version of The Tengu And The Angel is coming out this year! Not sure when. Ebook is available now, with links on my pinned post)

Anyway, here’s Kunio Yoshioka, MC of my novel, The Tengu And The Angel:

So, a few basic details:

Pronouns: He/him

Orientation: Homoromantic homosexual

Age: 18

Pros:

-He’s a great cook, mostly of Japanese food. He has a folder full of family recipes that he inherited from his grandpa, and while he tends to stick to making Japanese food because he grew up with it, and it’s what he knows best, he’ll gladly experiment with other cultures’ cuisines. He’s also pretty fond of Italian food, and I mean authentic Italian food. If he makes you spaghetti carbonara, he will use eggs, guanciale, pecorino Romano, pepper, and spaghetti. No cream, or onions, or anything that would make it inauthentic

-He is a thoughtful gift-giver. If he knows that you want something, he will 100% get it for you, and he’ll stop at nothing to give you the perfect gift for special occasions

-He’s a skilled ballroom dancer, and he can swing and jive very well. Ever wanted to feel like the main character of a 1920s romance movie? Well, you will when he takes you dancing

-He’s an exceptionally talented sculptor, and he will make a lot of things for you, sometimes for no reason at all. He will make you custom figures of your DND character, or design a dragon keychain catered exactly to your tastes

-Big on pet names, but he will use a unique pet name for you based on whichever fantasy being you remind him of the most. He calls his boyfriend, Nathaniel, an angel, because he’s selfless, kind, and pure of heart

-Are you a hopeless people pleaser who can’t say no to save your life? Not anymore! Kunio will help you stand up for yourself, and he’ll stand up for you if you don’t have the courage to do it yourself

Cons:

-Hates being touched. Don’t so much as attempt to hold his hand without his express consent

-Has extensive trauma and PTSD from his childhood, and though he’ll try to hide it as best he can so as not to worry you, you’ll know all about it anyway. He will likely wake you up, screaming and thrashing about from night terrors, and absolutely do not smoke around him or he will dissociate

-Hope you like bottoming, because Kunio HATES being a bottom. He will never bottom for you, ever

-He has a massive ego to compensate for a complete and utter lack of self worth. He wants to be treated with the highest possible amount of love and affection, but if you show him any genuine affection, he won’t know how to handle it at all. Give him a compliment about anything other than his art or cooking skills, and he will implode

So, what do you think? Smash or pass?

Contrary to popular belief spandex capris pants can and do work out for men. Check out this gym hottie. Whether they look better on the floor still debateable. Chris said no word yet on tan lines or tats. The front desk says Mr Capri is apparently visiting from out of town so no one knows what’s below deck.

Brad then relayed the jealous woman with the super flat tummy who was walking out of the room when he walked in said Mr Capri here has been going at the current routine in front of the three way mirror for twenty minutes. She’d stick around for the rest of the show but needed to pick up her daughter from school.

Brad thought enough to get her number to text updates. He wasn’t Luke with his private eye but would catch what he could on film. Brad couldn’t remember if he mentioned he liked her moody green crop top but felt he would properly connect it as a driver of his actions in about three days time while chopping up a kale salad for lunch.

As for now, Mr Capri’s abs were lit. Yum … oh and those colorful shoes. Adorbs! Chris lusted over their size then wondered if the man might be Brazilian. Brad then asked if those pants might technically be capris? They could also be quarter length. No one doing cardio on the balcony overhang with a clear view could agree as to what either meant.

Chris missed the comment as that’s when the lunges started. Brad let out a faint gasp.

I ain't got much, but I've got an excellent collection of books. 🦆🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Some excerpts from “Stone Butch Blues” that really spoke to me as a transmasc nonbinary person

guys I think this is actually blatant homophobia

EXCUSE ME?

When we wake up together in Brooklyn, we are three thousand miles away from our daily lives on the West Coast, and I already know that I am in love with her. We have slept facing East, and sunrise, Jerusalem, farther; the morning light streams in through thin curtains, and when I open my eyes I can see her smiling at me. We have grown close to one another, and then closer; I look at this smile of hers, and I think that maybe she has started to see her future in me. That night we celebrate Shabbat with her family, and then we return to bed, to celebrate with each other.

This is a simple jewish story and a simple love story. A nice Jewish boy meets a nice Jewish girl in the woods, and they start what seems to be a summer camp romance, only it holds, and through the campfire flirtation, they become an us. But the story here is also between two queers, and this infuses each layer: My butch self ot her femme self, my tattoos against her bare skin, the glasses that we each have to take off when we kiss, my white T-shirt against her black slip, and my palms, pressed into hers, fingers entwined; all of the ways that love has threaded itself between us, the most simple and complex revelations.

Before we know each other well, and before we tell each other our stories, and before I am hers, and she is mine, there is the beginning, and in the beginning I walk across the room to talk to her. She is on one side, and I am on the other, and I am immediately drawn to her, compelled. And then there is also the act of standing near her: there is this deep flash of recognition between us, this low hum just below the surface. There is this feeling of familiarity, and ease underneath all the words that we are saying, and all the words that we are not saying -- and this feeling between us is like speaking a second language, like speaking the language of our homeland, uncovered. Right from the start, this standing near her, it leaves me wanting more. "

"What We Know To Be True", Sasha T. Goldberg, On Butch and Femme: Compiled Readings, (edited by I.M. Epstein) (2017)

forever floored by folks who refuse to read anything not tradpub when it comes to queer books cause let me tell you there is so much in indie or smaller publishers being written that would blow your socks off AND theyre not beholden to censorship of tradpub as they try to "keep things nice for their image" (which is ironic considering the kinds of cishet romances that get put out)

here are some queer indie books that ive been reading that yall should check out