sickens me to my stomach. how dare this guy get to live my dream.
Protip that parent of human children HATE to hear: Practicing positive reinforcement and behavior redirection in dogs makes you excellent at utilizing positive reinforcement and behavior redirection in children because they have much better language and reasoning skills!
gonna post my entire stickman reaction pic collection
hi i hope this is ok to add on to but here are some i noticed you didn’t have also my phone is running at like 2fps trying to type this so i hope this goes through…
is your opinion of Daan depressed man who misses his wife or is it depressed femboy twink who misses his wife?
both can be true.
for a serious answer abt how i view daan’s gender: i think gender doesn’t play a huge role in society for sylvian worshipers, since we see that they don’t really seem to have traditional gender roles at least when it comes to sex. so daan probably grew up a lot more removed from gender roles than a lot of other men in the 1920s/30s.
daan’s role in his backstory is also really unique from a gender perspective. while the “attractive servant marries into wealth and security” is a really old trope, it’s traditionally women who fill it, especially back then. the fact that elise married down in station to be with daan is a big deal and also puts him in a traditionally feminine archetype. additionally, his actual role in the dutch family is pretty unique. daan seems to have very little power in the household, even after the engagement. rather than taking on that stereotypical patriarch role after getting with elise, it still seems very much that eihner is filling that role, and that both he and elise have a lot of power over daan. this wouldn’t have been common for a man in the 40s, but would have been very common for a woman in the same time period. that’s not even mentioning the fact that his main abilities and talents are all centered around very stereotypically feminine things.
before becoming a doctor, he cooked and cleaned. then, in the game, his main skills focus around healing and sexuality, both of which are video game roles almost always given to female characters. even during the game’s development, he was specifically based on jack the ripper, a killer known for having many theories speculating that he may have been a woman.
so i think there is a lot of interesting canon exploration of daan subverting typical gender roles and expectations. it might be because daan is queer coded, it might be further emphasis of his lack of power and agency in his family, it might just be an inconsequential part of his lore, idk.
BUT. i think if daan were alive today… estrogen wouldve saved her😌
One very stupid thing that bothers me in historical romances and fanfic is the fact that male characters often take off shirts but stay in their breeches. The breeches aren’t the last layer of underwear, the shirt is. The shirt is the body linen— that’s the thing that goes against the skin and is the first thing to be put on and the last thing to be taken off— that’s the thing that is sewn by hand by wife/ sister/ daughter/ mother partly out of a lack of extensive manufacturing but because it is the most intimate layer of clothing and you don’t want a stranger’s work against your skin.
Is it just because to modern eyes it would look silly? Is this a case of “I got too interested in the material culture of body linens in the Regency era and now I know too much to enjoy myself”??
bless 2020 emma for giving us a scene of mr. knightly dressing (it was short but loved that it included his valet - upper class men also had help dressing and undressing! - and proper dressing order and him tucking his shirt between his legs as his breeches/trousers go on **infinite chefs kisses**)
we often get scenes of women dressing in period pieces but similar scenes with men are very rare and it’s a damn shame.
What kind of teacher do you want to be? Like what subject? Become a professor? Etc.
i want to be a professor! my background/education/skillset is probably best suited for business, but my life dream would be to be a history professor. that being said, i’d probably need to get another doctorate for that, which doesnt seem like the best financial decision 😭 so i will probably stick with business lol
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the tag "the inherent horror of daan starting a story with both eyes" [paraphrased] on the vampire cowboy au .. his wife is already dead what more do you want from him man
hello i have been following your blog recently and come to the conclusion that you do not deserve daan von dutch . /reference
^ all silly toned love ur work
me and miro have something in common (we love torturing daan endlessly).
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rereading mmtm and only just now realizing how arocoded karin is .. chews on her
omgg i hope you’re enjoying your reread!!! writing karin was honestly one of my favorite parts of working on mmtm :’) she is such a fun character to explore, i feel like she has so many facets and so much insight that really makes her unique to write from the perspective of. when i was writing mmtm, i imagined karin as aromantic bisexual (she’s got a little crush on abella that i didnt really have the time/space to get into in the story lolol), so i’m happy you picked up on it ^^
