Jstor I love you and also I would like to sincerely thank you for having Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature by Jeffrey Angles available on your site because it’s a good piece and I think the citizens of tumblr at large would enjoy it very much
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Here's the book this anon recommended in case anyone is interested :)
Jason: … the bed’s too small
Clive: Oh! I can get a bigger one. Actually, we can probably just sleep in the same room from now on. Turn your room into a study because it’s smaller. More more efficient for storing documents.
Jason, internally: … oh no
Jason: What if we have guests? (And they see us sleeping together)
Clive: We’re married.
And now Clive is offended
A modern day AU where Clive is a lonely researcher and Jason works part time at a dumpling soup shop and at an office supply store.
Clive only goes out for three things - food, office supplies, and basic necessities. Somehow he runs into Jason doing all three of these. And somehow, the chef/server who will let Clive rant about his research, coworkers, the university (all while looking very interested), remembers his name and says hi to him every time they see each other.
Jason singing “I can show you the world” to Clive except instead of riding around on a magic carpet over a city, they’re on a cloud vehicle as Jason shows him advanced and rare Astral magic
Can we talk about how canonically some of the UA students probably have fanfiction written about them in their universe?
Heros are so publicized that fanboys (like Izuku) probably write fanfiction about them. Couple that with the coverage that Class 1-A gets, their internship with pros where they’re seen by the public eye and the sport’s festival and some hero fan 100% writes fanfiction about them.
This is them, in my imagination
(From Chemistry by Weike Wang)
I might have to make a Chemistry (by Weike Wang) AU for Clive and Jason. A short one, but an AU where Jason asks Clive to marry him.
(I’ve only read the sample on Amazon because I am waiting to go to a book store to buy it but I think it kinda fits. I like the analytical-ness of the narrator)
Humphrey having a daddy kink was NOT part of my expectations for this book
Am I going to grow to like Zara?
Spoiler for book four i think!! Since I have no internet this is as good as it gets for now 😭 book five destroyed meeeeee
But alas a drawing of one of my faves! I honestly keep picturing her with short hair idk why creative choice I guess 😅 ever since she said she loved jeans, I keep doodling her in modern wear lol
Jack: "Spencer... what are you doing?"
Spencer Middleton, who is actively burying a body: "Hot girl shit."
yi city trio musician au? what genres would they be in, what would their fandoms be like?
Awww yeah, love a musician AU!
I have thought about the Yi City quartet as a literal string quartet before: Xiao Xingchen on first violin, A-Qing on second, Song Lan on cello, and Xue Yang on viola (lol). But in terms of more popular music?
Xiao Xingchen and Song Lan made a name for themselves as a duo, playing melody-driven indie pop/rock with poetic but thoughtful and socially conscious lyrics. Their later work included more love songs. Xiao Xingchen plays synths and does most of the lead vocals, and he tends to bring a dreamy, almost shoegazey quality to the music, but he also is known for artful, complex electric guitar work. Song Lan also plays guitar, as well as bass and other string instruments as necessary; favorites are erhu and cello. He'll sing backup with the occasional feature vocal, but they also have a fair number of solid instrumental tracks.
They got quite famous (at least within their genre) but refused to sign to a major label. Fans actually ranged a fair amount in age. The most vocal fans did skew younger, and the most annoying of these were the hipster crowd and music snobs ("they're so intelligent/progressive/underrated," "they were better before they got popular") as well as the obsessive, borderline stalkerish ones who also loudly shipped them. (Song Lan and Xiao Xingchen were a romantic item eventually, but that was not public knowledge.)
Unfortunately, they had a messy personal and professional breakup, and they both sort of dropped off the map for a while, to an honestly impressive degree. Song Lan went back to school and would occasionally put out a stripped back, broody single on his personal page with zero promotion, but Xiao Xingchen disappeared.
Xue Yang, meanwhile, works thousands of miles away, and he's an underdog, loud punk rocker, guided less by any political philosophy and more just stirring up a reaction. Main instrument is electric guitar. He's performed with a handful of other artists over the years, but the stints tend to be short. His fanbase is small but dedicated, including a lot of angry young people who resonate with his "message" and/or his looks.
And then, he has a new band, and they're putting out music that is a little less screaming, a little more melodic, with a more consistent, left-leaning message? Sometimes? The drummer is an energetic teenage girl who was busking with a set of buckets on the street before the bassist/guitarist took her under his wing and they both eventually joined Xue Yang's act. The guy hangs around at the back of the stage, sunglasses indoors and mostly not facing the audience, playing bass to complement Xue Yang's guitar most of the time -- and Xue Yang and A-Qing have enough stage presence that he can fade into the background just a little. But especially when he's on guitar, shredding a fancy solo, he's impossible to overlook, and the rumors that Xiao Xingchen is playing seedy clubs with a punk group begin to seem less and less like conspiracy theories....
AU ask game