crazy how productive u get once u start drawing gay kiss
[ID: messy drawing of joe and nicky, from the bust up, kissing. nicky is cradling joe’s face and joe is holding nicky’s arm. both are smiling with closed eyes. the background is a red circle.]
a little detail i love about nicky and joe’s relationship is the amount of time they’re not glued to each other’s sides, the times when they’re sitting at opposite ends of the table or in different parts of the car, because they don’t NEED to be at each other’s sides all the time. they’ve been together for 900 years, they are INCREDIBLY secure in their relationship. it would’ve been really easy to make the mistake of having them be Super Affectionate All The Time to indicate how deeply in love they are, but they’re clearly past needing that, with the obvious exception being when they’re first captured and very frightened. the rest of the time it’s just a little wink, a forehead tap, banter full of private jokes, which conveys the depth of their love so much better because it all clearly says “i’ve been here for 900 years, you and i both know i’m not going anywhere”
Joe as the artist who followed the evolution and development of art over a millenia but maintained an interest in mathematics and physics and Nicky as the doctor and scientists who watched the evolution of medicine as well as the musician who learned to play the oud and then the guitarra… Joe as the artist who’s been irrevocably influenced by the styles of the Italian and Christian culture and Nicky as the medical scientist who’s been irrevocably influenced by the science and culture of the Islamic world…. i have THOUGHTS
