To be fair, even if one rereads it multiple times, I’ve noticed the rape itself is rather distracting. More penis in butthole focus than what Jin prefers between clay vs silt vs sand.
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Unfortunately for you, and fortunately for me(because it’s fucking hilarious) it has indeed always been crayfish butter. I know this because it was one of the few details in LoV that had never been changed since inception. I had a document listing out specific details I needed to keep track of, and that was one of them. In fact—and this may or may not help your devastation—I am confident I can pull up previous versions of the epilogue that can confirm this is the one detail I have never changed.
Now the question is: what the hell did you think it was before?
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Damn. A shame you’re anon because you got it, and I’m pretty shocked that someone was able to get it this quickly. I underestimate my readers it seems.
Pretty much everything you mentioned was spot on, including the oilfield thing that for obvious reasons most people wouldn’t notice. The one thing you saw that I didn’t was its proximity to Washington state; the tech bros comment was me being bitter.
Another thing I took into account was real estate prices, and—I’m wondering if you know me personally—it was partially inspired by a guy at work who’s been in the process of moving to Idaho over the last year. His reasons are that it’s cheaper, it’s less woke, and weed is not legal. At least he’s happy.
From a more zoomed out perspective(and this is where the “loosely based” comes in) I created the setting with the intention of isolating Jin as much as possible, while providing an environment that Mariam could use to her full advantage. When she’s raped during the winter break hike, Jin’s comment on the distant town being both too far away and being able to see her intimately is a good summary of my intentions. The town is full of people who would turn a blind eye to her situation, but also relatively small, somewhere Jin couldn’t hide.
I had a short story(incorporated into Seeing Stars now) following an older bystander who happened to come across one of the videos, bringing it to the police and saying they recognize the girl in the video from around town and that it’s extremely concerning. The police ultimately convince them that it’s consensual, that young people these days do some extreme stuff, that it may be gross but it’s none of their business.
That person leaves feeling a little relief—perhaps they are a well-meaning boomer who wants to release some of the biases they’ve had for so long—but can’t help thinking of Jin differently when they do see her again, because, well, she’s “agreeing” to be raped and tortured on camera, and that’s not something that can easily be erased from your mind.
It really is a “perfect storm of tragedy.” Not only is Jin trapped in an abusive and exploitative relationship, manipulated and coerced into what is essentially sexual slavery to someone she deeply trusts and is hopelessly entangled with, completely reliant on her financially and emotionally, but she also has to live in Idaho.
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Every time them league of villains come on my screen I groan like I don’t feel for those Mfs at all pls go die!!!
Only person who gets my sympathy is oboro bc he was dead and he isn’t acting of his own free will everyone else and that little freak who sa deku who everyone seems to to fw can blow the hell up.
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Jin was intended as someone rather repressed, including in her butchness. I don’t think she fully considers herself one until the epilogue, and even then there’s a lot of humiliation(from herself and thrust upon her) for the way she lives and presents, and the way Mariam abuses her, which makes it very difficult for her to say “I’m butch” to anyone.
In her mind, to be butch is to be someone who can handle herself, who tops, who doesn’t get taken advantage of(whether or not that’s true) and though she manages that in some aspects of her life, the fact she spends most of it serving sexually and being under the control of someone she sees as superior to her is a source of great shame. Mariam does take advantage of this insecurity—the epilogue touched on it a bit, but she tends to intensify Jin’s torment after or during a period in her life that should otherwise be making her more confident.
That makes the blackmail more effective over time. As Jin establishes herself in the world, and at the same as her sexual abuse continues and even worsens, she becomes acutely aware of how awful it would feel to reveal herself as “lesser” or sexually depraved in a way she doesn’t want to associate with the strength and confidence she has in her professional life.
Multiple(yes, I know) spinoffs are in the work, and I’m keeping especially the most developed one a secret, but that one does reveal the collar was granted to her just prior to earning her bachelors. She was, then, forced to wear it to graduation, making a day meant to celebrate herself and her own strength into yet another forceful debasing and degradation at Mariam’s hand, another reminder of where she belongs, no matter what she may look like to those unaware of the going-ons in the Den.
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>:{ that doesnt MATTER because i write about jin getting RAPED(evil(unless youre saying rape isnt evil??? hmm???))
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I apologize for not making it clear sooner because I didn’t want to embarrass anyone who was enjoying my work and making me smile and all that, but uh…Jin is 100% not femme. sorry
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Mr. Compress asking league what they would do if someone offers them drugs (he’s the dad of the league shhh)
Toga: stab em!
Dabi: give them more drugs to assert dominance.
Twice: take it! No! Yes!
Shigaraki: ask them to join.
Kurogiri:
Mr. Compress: .. no.
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“Goodbye Touya, I hope you died knowing how much we loved you.”
Happy birthday to the LOML 💙Alternate versions under the cut.
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No this doesn’t mean I’m going to stop drawing Dabi ha ha! I love him too much, I fear.
It’s not often that I am actually okay with a favorite character dying; usually I stop creating content for them (I look at my old WoW days) - but, at the end of the day, Touya got what he wanted: to spend time with his family until the bitter end (or perhaps it’s wiser to say it was a melancholy end for him). He got the attention he craved.
I wasn’t satisfied with his death per se, my heart breaks for the fact that Shoto didn’t get to physically save his brother, but I do think Shoto saved him in other ways. Wish we would have gotten more of Shoto visiting him, or even Fuyumi, and Natsuo. I’m sure Rei went with Enji every time.
There was some debate with myself if I wanted to draw Touya crying while laughing, but I chose not to. Him laughing while he heads on his way feels more authentic to his canon character.
This (slightly modified) fit of his from the PLF arc was my favorite of his, and I’ve always found the scarring in his design to be visually pleasing so I went with post-Jaku Raid scarring. It’s how I choose to remember him.
Anyway, you’ll see him again when OC x Canon week rolls around, and you might see another OC version of him that I make because I will eventually have to let him go. What a wild ride loving this character has been. I doubt there will be another.
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Listen, I KNOW the League were dangerous. I KNOW there were plenty of more targeted routes they could and should have taken to air thier grievances. I KNOW someone had to intervene or else much of Japan would have ended up a fine powder.
But the narrative gave them SUCH a sympathetic framing for reasons even I don’t really understand, TOLD us they were doing bad shit rather than bothering to show us At All, and made it so clear they turned into this fucked up little found family of hurting outcasts that NO SHIT I and many others got attatched. They feel human in a way most of the Heroes just… aren’t. So of course watching them get thoroughly and brutally destroyed physically and mentally at the end made me and others miserable
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me when i remember all my childhood and sadness and all of everything around my parents yelling at me and yearning for sweet sweet blood and being really thirsty all the way up to killing saito
yk what i DONT remember? ALL OF MY TIME WITH THE LEAGUE. I REMEMBER A LITTLE BIT OF MY DEATH, BUT THE LEAGUE? NO LEAGUE FOR ME. I HAVE TO BE STUCK WITH TRAUMA AND DEATH
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ah yes
me
the young student half my age i groomed and manipulated and raped over the course of months to become my sex slave, abusing her so severely she has become completely dependent on me in every manner, including financially
and her giant plush tardigrade
