hehehe.

YEAHHHHH KISSES FOR EVERYONE

they spent a solid 10-15 minutes arguing about the ramifications of every potential text response they could send back and then ended up leaving her on read for a day. THEYRE SO FUNNY. guys its literally a nonissue

ITS ACTUALLY SO FUNNY TO ME i think they're going to have their whole world turned around once they figure it out (and it's not even that hard to figure out HELP ME)

not that dakota would care that much actually. the lion does not concern himself with people who believe in rumors about him

i think it's a super big coincidence that i named her just out whim and then later i do find out that her name does mean "friend"... it's really sweet to me...

paisley and dakota's relationship is written from my own beliefs about intimacy and love and care and human connection so yeah it makes sense,,, dakota is written to be someone who would be so genuinely and dearly your friend and that's really important to me... +

super silly but while her queer boyfriendism is a result of me co-developing her with paisley it also just comes from like. a personality that i'd find comforting if i was going through a hard time. which is why shes like my boyfriend. +

the thesis of her character is about persisting and fighting for what you believe in and it's a lot about hope. you wouldn't know by looking at her but if i wrote about her more it'd be a lot more evident... +

i went down a really long rabbithole of research because usually when you look for asian inspired clothing it's very predominated with chinese fashion (and then kr/jp). even when you look up viet clothing you get a LOT of cn

this chart wasn't meant to be legible for anyone but me but this is like. the universe divide. giggles. the expy thing is like. they're kind of expies but they're not. it's complicated.

being able to approach things with an intersectional perspective as a person of color is also really healing i find...

fundamentally, i think about my stories and ocs and their stories so deeply (because it's a space of exploration and conversation for me) that it becomes impossible to talk about because to ! even talk about a facet of it is to write a 3k word essay. i am a thinker.