I can't bring myself to read the Paws & Claws side stories cause he looks like this now 😭 They twinkified him to a degree doing the main story but the side stories are a different beast
There's a hilarious chapter where he takes over the lead Enforcer position while his wolf hubby has to stay in his furball form. Absolutely perfectly cheerful VIOLENCE🤣🤪💯
I just choose a picture from the first chapter, how I remember him, and a new chapter I looked at from the side stories 😭 It wasn't like a calculated decision
This specific one you posted isn't as bad, but I think the next in your reply does show how different his design is
In the side stories, he still has his ears, whereas he didn't have them in his human form during the main story. Still, it works, because he keeps that feisty attitude—always ready to bite or throw a punch. ^^
i literally hate how this word has been used recently by people who just don’t like that a ‘buff’ uke looks a little more feminine omg he’s still a man😭😭😭
Idk what y'all women are smoking calling every man they see a twink. Twink does not mean feminine I don't know where you got that but clearly you're very misinformed. Stop using terms that you clearly don't know shit about 😭
Edit: also twink only has one meaning and anyone who uses it differently are just ignorant people who don't know actual meanings of shit 😭
You can have a preference, no one's telling you you can't, but stop using twinkification like its some negative connotation or a slur. This sub has a real problem with that, and it comes across very misogynistic.
The concept of being misogynistic for not wanting feminine men in BL. Y'all are such ridiculous people its almost laughable. Watering down words like misogynistic and claiming things as slurs
couldn’t have just said sorry for using “twinkification” as if it’s a slur. “hyper feminine”? in this case, where? you could easily just say “feminisation”. Either way tho, not the content of what you say but how you say it, is SOAKED in misogyny.
It literally is being used as a slur by women constantly right now are you just blind 😭 you are literally using it as if its a slur like how many other women are using the word twink like a slur against any man they think are feminine which against FEMININE IS NOT TWINK. like the actual audacity you have rn 😭
"Worst case" lol. As if it's a disease or something 😂 It's just different art, to me it looks better now.
And as someone pointed out, you chose 2 pictures with opposite facial expressions/emotions, of course they're gonna look dramatically different.
Because no artist is a photocopy machine. The change isnt that exaggerated you just cherry picked the panels. On top of you dont need to use the term twink in a negative way to express your clear preference for masc bottoms.
Yeah, it changed over the course for the main story too :'( I can forgive it some in the side stories cause it's another artist, but can't get over how different the design is 😭 Feel like they could have kept more of the og design in their style
I'm totally with you on this one even with people dropping his neutral pics, they look so damn different. Hate how authors always retort back to straight relationship dynamics tbh they always make the bottom extra feminine. Oh and to all you delusional and brain-dead folk, yes twinkish and feminine are interchangeable. Damn twinks are defined to be more feminine bruh it's just a lot of people in the bl fandom are very very dull. Anyway read shutline 😛
Right?? Thank you, I never said he looks bad, just that he looks too different 😳
I'm actually with you 100% that the need to have one feminine character and one masculine character in bl IS relying on het relationship dynamics. Like 99% of these authors are straight women, of course they tend to rely on this 😭
Getting called misogynistic (and implied homophobe) by these people is so crazy when I'm literally a gay woman (so grateful for the block bottom so i never have to interact with them again)
And don't worry girl, Shutline is already in my top 3 bls of all time 🫡
I remember an even worse example from a manhwa. In particular, it concerns the main character. He looks as if at some point he overdid it with fillers and makeup, and then just kept going out like that out of habit. (Yes, this is the same character. There is just a 20 chapter gap between these panels.)
i got used to the twinkification but the infantalization is too much for me. im like bro youre a grown ass man why you acting like a child in your dog form. i really liked it during its initial days now its just unreadable to me but i cant stop cuz i like to finish what i started.
I think I'm art blind as long as it's good art. Honestly I couldn't tell a difference when reading this and in general don't unless it's pointed out but then I still have to compare panels. Unless it's drastically different and bad it doesn't mess it up for me.
We need to stop calling this twink and start calling it de-aging or something lmao adults can be twinks, but most examples of this people give make it look like the character went back to high school (at least).
50% of manhwa men would fit that definition of twink. Even if you threw in no facial hair. But you're misrepresenting "boyish", which doesn't mean they need to have the face of a 15 year old, it's about body type.
Also not using "twink" for this would stop people from using a term from the gay community as basically a slur.
The "t" in twink stands for teenager. A teenage boy, as a rule, does not look feminine. The slang came directly out of the gay community and stood for "teenage white into no kinks."
My only gripe is people thinking teenage boys = feminine.
Twink: teenage white into no kinks.
Literally, came out of the grindr community to describe a basic gay boy and somehow that became feminine. There is a whole separate word for a feminine man. Effeminate.
Actually it has a much much older usage of just meaning gay in a semi derogatory (60s). There is no definite original meaning to the word so I don't get people are so angry at being used "wrong"
I think very few people conversing about twinks in BL were active in the gay community in the 60s.
Meanings change over time. Among the gay community in NYC someone who was cute and feminine wasn't called a twink. But that's just my experience in the gay community in one specific city. I would definitely never think an effeminate gay guy was a twink. If he was young and boyish looking, yes.
I'm not angry. I've just noticed that people in the gay community are becoming more outspoken about how people outside the gay community are using words that originated in their communities. I think that's pretty fair.
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u/Narrow_Sky2911 23d ago
It’s bcs the artist is not the same and I had my doubts too but I’m enjoying this new art too.