iwaoi.
strangers to lovers
demon hunters au
modern fantasy
multichapter & complete
rated e read here: ao3.org/works/35201593
or: oikawa tooru, 27-year-old assistant professor, specialized in mythology, and heir to the oikawa group thinks he’s haunted. iwaizumi hajime is a (tired) demon hunter who’s definitely not getting paid enough for this shit. chaos ensues.
big milestone - i enrolled in classes for the spring!
it's noteworthy because this is my third time attempting a first semester at college, but assuming i pass all of my current classes, this will be my first time actually continuing on to a second semester lmao
not me JUST now realizing that I completely forgot about the teeth I had sculpted for my mask prop and I may have accidentally tossed them when i cleaned up the studio
HERES THE FIRST MOCKUP OF MY MUSHU INSPIRED TWST OC
arrogant lil fucker <3
His general personality is mostly worked out, backstory....not so much
I quit on his clothes and started another sketch bc i was frustrated with his pose and also bc i couldn't find any references on the time period accurate clothing from when Mulan took place
(partly on me bc im rlly bad at searching for things online and partly bc it might be too niche of a subject to find specifically noble/royal mens clothing. i kept finding womens clothing but barely any for men)
I have no idea what I’m doing, I downloaded video editing software with no knowledge of how anything works and spat this out in under an hour. Sorry the subtitles don’t look great, sorry it’s not 100% accurate to the Japanese, sorry for the stupid watermark that I only found out would be there AFTER I WENT THROUGH ALL THIS TROUBLE…but whatever, here, I don’t wanna look at this anymore, take it.
[love as the sole object of your reverence — nothing about you is holy, but maybe your love for another is] When Sappho said “in the crooks of your body I find my religion” and when the cast of les mis sang “to love another person is to see the face of god” and when Halsey said “I found god, I found him in a lover” and when Katherine Philips wrote “to the dull angry world let’s prove there’s a religion in our love”
Charlie x Rafe
love as being known
[ love is knowing all of someone and loving them anyway ] when tim kreider said "if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" and when joe wright said "The idea that these two people know each other, knew each other when they first saw each other. That they recognized each other from their future" and when micah nemerever said "it was a relief and a horror to be known so perfectly"
Annie x Jacob
love as tenderness
[ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too"