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The imagery of the second girl villain laughing about the sheer power of her ovaries as they glow in the dark is my favorite thing
Honestly she could be the weirdest superhero "be destroyed by the light of my ####### ovaries!!"
I'd love to see this weird superhero
" _QUIVER BEFORE MY OVARIES_ "
Real Toast energy (from Bee and Puppycat)
@@exhaustedcompanionsoh my gosh you’re right that fits so well lol
I mean if your ovaries are so powerful that they literally glow in the dark through your skin no less like you are living twenty four seven X Ray that's definitely some kind of bragging right.
Having two scared faces over your breasts on a sweater is pretty iconic
Regina George-esque
YES!@@scouts_universe
seeing the boob faces before the slow reveal of the actual weird description of them is excellent foreshadowing
I WAS JUST ABOUT TO SAY IT@@scouts_universe
@@agressive_miku LMAO SORRY
*women writing women:*
she moved with grace, like a mayflower in the afternoon breeze. she was the breeze, and the sky, the sun, and all other beautiful things. she was beauty ✨️
*men writing women:*
e e l m o u t h 😎
Also men writing women:
"Her cleavage was like two barking dogs, she was hotter than the sun and was whiter than a ghost"
xD
Being fair eel mouth is a superpower to have eel grow from your mouth you can use (there is mutant from marvel with powers to have giant maggots grow from his body he can control but are his only way of eating so it won’t even be the weirdest power in xman series)
The more weird and badass, the better ig
both are equally valid, i think
The “teacup full of hot eels” should be the next “blue orbs”
Absolutely not! Blue orbs is overdone to death and back; meanwhile "teacup full of hot eels" is woefully underutilized for some inexplicable reason :P
We should write a story using _all_ of these descriptions
@@IrregularityRowanHear me out, all of those descriptions, mixed together into one abomination of a character
I HATE ORBS. I don’t care if I describe a characters eyes multiple times and you tire of the word eyes or irises or gaze but I will never use ORBS. (Crescent crown saga) 🌙 ✨
"Her orbs of azure blue"
the fact that i had to read the perfume back when i was in high school, a book about a weirdo with a superhuman nose killing young girls to harvest their smells to create the ultimate perfume, still baffles me to this day
At least that story was meant to be a tragic horror.
Oh my god. That's literally an episode of Criminal Minds, a TV show about FBI agents hunting serial killers. There was an episode about a guy with strong sense of smell who would kill women and take samples of their skin to turn into perfumes. dgydsvfdbhjsgvsdjg
Isn’t that the book that the Nirvana song scentless apprentice was based on?
@@InsanelyADDI'd argue the book came first 😂
he does what-
These poor women… Remember ladies don’t hold yourself to unrealistic expectations, lest you end up a lovecraftian nightmare
Yeah, girls, please don't try somehow lighting up your ovaries, that would hella hurt.
thank you so much
@@syedarizvi7290 😊
Aw man, I really did want them “glowing ovaries”
@@syedarizvi7290 Hm? About conditions in saudi arabia? What specifically, if you mean unrealistic expectations both genders have the same amount. Be more specific.
> describes a fifteen year old
> police sirens
Do you know exactly what the author said? I wanna know lol cause she didn’t say it
@@-napstablook-6:15
@@KetsubanSolo I know but I wanna know what she cut out
@@-napstablook-6:34 it’s on the screen. She cut off the word “virginal”
@@sleppy_pom5737 She cut out a lot more then that, but that was part of it. I don't know what it was exactly, but it was clearly a line or two.
"Her skin color was compared to milk."
"Her name was Aurora Borealis"
Lmao I loved that
Her skin was like a cup of coffee but coffee with a lot of milk bc she was white
@@ashen_rainbows "No one saw her, but me. I saw her"
@@roxassora2706 she was a natural beauty and not like the other girls
“She collected hotel bibles and would cut the pages out to create origami swans.”
Speaking as someone who has spent a lot of time in the fanfiction universe, the "glowing ovaries" thing reads to me like a breeding kink.
Now that you say that, I think that's what I was thinking too but couldn't put my finger on it until I read this. It's a bit weird yeah
What a great day to have a breeding fetish
Yeah that is definitely a very strong possibility.
Maybe with a little A/B/O influence too
its most likely trying to say she looks fertile, its the only thing that could possibly make sense to me. but i 100% agree that it feels a/b/o inspired
boy i do hate when my boobs are afraid 💀
hate when that happens 🙄
Ugh they always boobley scream and it makes me soo uncomfortable
@@mirai5451yeah! Even when I’m trying to sleep.. how annoying!
It takes so long to tell them their fine 😮💨
@@TheHuneyAnimator IKRRR they just don’t listen 🙄🙄
You're so nice by not calling these writers bad. Although I think we should all look at their editors since they are supposed to make sure writers don't write things like "A teacup full of hot eels". Why was that kept there?
Depending on when the book was published, the publishers might have only pretended to give the author an editor lol
Publishing these days is hot garbage, and nothing is getting edited anymore because editing costs time, effort, and money, and if you’re self published, you can't afford an editor unless you're already well established.
@@IceRiver1020
That's a bad line to like skim over. I do my own editing and like...that would have never left my brain. In fact I would say "I need to go to bed" and then take it up after a good sleep.
I'm self publishing bc I don't wanna deal with the high bar of entry. I don't wanna have to get rejected 200+ times trying to get into a pig pen.
although i agree with you, it also depends on what the book is about. i've never read that book so maybe it makes sense in context (it probably doesnt but you never know lol)
@@vvitch-mist20 If you were the kind of person who would write it, you probably wouldn't be the kind of person to think it needs editing out lmao
Don't think I would say trad pub has a high bar for entry, just a pretty specific one. What publishers care about above all is marketability, the only question they ask themselves when looking at a book is, "how much money can we make off of this?" Quality is the least of their concerns, and just like any business primarily concerned with money, creativity and new ideas are illogical risks, so they would rather push out more of the same junk, because they're sure it makes money. Until it doesn't.
@@IceRiver1020
It's very high. You need an editor to get an agent and an agent to get a publisher. Not everyone has the time or money to be able to get rejected over and over again either.
"Marketability" really means "Is this book devoid of enough personality to be able to squeeze it into as many pockets as possible"
I have a degree in Business and a thing we learned was LCD. Lowest Common Denominator. Books that have niches or are smaller in audience aren't picked up because it "won't make money".
It's why books like Twilight and Fourth Wing do really well. They have main characters devoid of personality and that people make up their own. This became apparent with Twilight with the cast infamously hating their roles.
The thin waist you could wrap your hands around is always the creepiest descriptor to me.
As someone who has always been pretty underweight, and has tried to do this many times in my life, the closest I have gotten is within a five-inch gap between my middle fingers.
I'd be more concerned for their health (and also, the image of someone being grabbed like that is incredibly unsettling. More horror than anything else).
Legit, character better have body horror long monster fingers if they’re gonna meet in the middle.
my partner who has bigger hands and longer fingers than me, guess what! Also can't hold me like that! Even though my bones are sticking out
Yeah that's incredibly unrealistic. You can have a tiny waist but unless you're dangerously underweight, that's not possible.
@@vibrantgleamalso, organs exist
like girl where are your organs lol
Describing Something As “Like A Teacup Full Of Hot Eels” Is Definitely Something I’m Going Do Someday
you talk like Queen from Deltarune lmao
@@beezwacks ikr 😭
“How’d you like the spaghetti honey?”
“It was like a teacup full of hot eels.”
my hobby
@@beezwacksBE MY BESTIE I WAS ABOUT TO SAY THAT-
The last one was actually from the perspective of a serial killer so it’s intentionally creepy in every way, and I took the being unaware of being looked at as him sort of stalking his prey. But the hard boiled egg line was too funny to not include it in the video 😂
was going to say that! also would love to see the character being in the clothing of the period when it was set.
i was gonna say!! if the really creepy ones are from the perspectives of serial killers or something, it would be a great description actually 😂
*sees the first girl* "Hear me out"
👂👂👂👂
tbh her art style makes it look cute😭
Hold on you might be cooking
honestly real
@@beeeeeeeeeeg honestly eel
I would have made the hard-boiled egg girl as a slime girl made of dark honey, literally, since that's what the description says she's made of. It also explains why she's sticky since she's made of honey.
It says that she attracts people but is unaware of it. So I imagine she releases a sweet smell (smell of honey in her case) in a similar way to what carnivorous plants do to attract insects.
Basically yes she's dangerous. Her species is carnivorous. They use their sweet smell, which kinda works like hypnotism, to attract prey and trap them with their bodies, since they're sticky and slimy, in order to eat them.
And even though they avoid it as much as possible, they'll eat humans too if they have to. If they're starving for example, but that never happens to the point where their best solution is to eat a human.
But her, she's doesn't care about attracting anybody to eat or whatever. As the description says, she's young. So she just doesn't understand her powers yet and she attracts people unwillingly.
It says that because she's young, she's smooth and solid, so I guess it means that she's made of solidified dark honey and that, as they grow older, these beings slowly melt.
I imagine that they're considered to have reached adulthood when they melted enough to stop being solid and actually become slimy.
And the kids don't hunt because well, they're kids, but also they literally can't since, despite still being a bit sticky, their solid state prevents them from trapping anything.
The adults do it because it's their responsability of course, but also because their kids are literally physically unable of doing it themselves.
The older they get, the more they melt, and when they're old, they have melted to a point where they can't keep maintaining their form, which is their equivalent of dying of old age.
I think that we've got a great concept for a species here. Slime people made of various kinds of honey.
And in terms of story well... this girl's people usually stay far away from the humans. But she wanted to live alongside them. But there are a lot of complications since she still needs to learn how to control her powers.
mellification
Love it! 😝 I think it would be funny if she entered human society for some other reason (to investigate how humans harvest bee honey? lollll), and didn’t know that humans would be attracted by the honey smell. She starts to realize people are acting funny after a while…
Not sure how to incorporate the hard boiled egg thing tho…
@@sososummer3497 Thanks ^^ And the hard-boiled egg thing is just the shape of her breasts, right ? It's not that hard to implement, though I'd rather just ignore it.
I’m fairly certain this RUclips comment has better ideas and writing skills than all 4 published writers in mentioned in the video combined.
@@sososummer3497 Maybe she heard that human women have bumps on their chest and just stuck two hardboiled eggs on hers in an attempt to fit in
A Teacup Full Of Hot Eels sounds like a sick band name tbh, so does Furnace of Ovaries
You remind me of an anime reviewer. His go-to phrase to describe badly written Gary-Stu main character was "and ofcourse his mere presence makes all females in the vicinity ovulate like an outboard motor"
You remind me of an anime reviewer. His go-to phrase to describe badly written Gary-Stu main character was "and ofcourse his mere presence makes all females in the vicinity ovulate like an outboard motor"
Gonna be honest. A female friend of mine also randomly kissed me, and "teacup full of hot eels" is a VERY good description for how it felt. Like, wet and slimy and unpleasant, because it's a totally different feeling when it isn't consented...
She look like she will be good friends with cube boobs girl from the previous one (both have unusual body parts but both proud about it)
What.
@@Quinqyincy what kinda what?
This is how it feels for me even if it IS consensual
Why would she do that? Wait, where did she kiss you tho?
I love the one abpout the glowing ovaries and the haughtiness because you made her look like "HAHA! OVARIES!" AND I THINK THAT'S JUST SO FUNY BWAHAHAHA you really represented these characters well XD
"AHAHHAHAHA MERE LITTLE MAN, BASK IN THE GLOW OF MY ULTIMATE FUNACE OVARIES!!!"
Perosnally for the first one, i would keep the tea cup but say, "it was like gently pressing your lips against a nicely warmed cup of tea." I should say that i have never kissed anyone before so this was just me think what it would be like 😅
Aww that’s a really cute description! It just sounds really cozy -this coming from another person who’s never kissed anyone lol
As someone who HAS been kissed/kissed someone before, this would actually make a pretty good description!
@@spectscrawlz_ heck yeah!! >:D
I am SO stealing this description!
If the author had actually kissed someone before, well... it's embarrassing that someone who hasn't can describe it so much better
I honestly find it disturbing how predatorial some of these are written, especially with the one with the 15 year old girl. It honestly disturbed me before you mentioned that the man of the pov was older... I'm honestly really glad I haven't come across such author's, though I am only typically reading from one author (James Patterson). It's still disturbing how whoever wrote those books saw nothing wrong with what they wrote much less now predatorial it comes across.
I truly do hope that they have it pointed out to them and offered advice on how to write it better so they are better to improve their writing and not have to worry about whoever the pov is from doesn't sound like a creep. Though this is sort of just wishful thinking. It is nice to think my wishful thinking has indeed happened and the author indeed took that advice and it improved the book.
It is in all honesty off-putting to read such descriptions of a girl/women and people in general, I'm honestly curious... Have they ever actually seen a women in real life? Or are they just that bad at becoming with a description? I understand that writing a description for a character can be difficult I've written books myself to know that it's honestly difficult... But there's Google's to help with coming up with how to describe people
(Not so) fun fact, the last one with the hard boiled egg breasts was also about a 15 year old. And a dead one at that. I'm the one who posted it to the sub reddit! So cool seeing it here
I'm wondering if the entry for the 15 year old was intentionally creepy. Hopefully the narrator is supposed to be an antagonist in the story.
@@coppersdnd7943whattt WHATTT 😭😭😭😢😢😢
@@coppersdnd7943Omg 😨😭 what
@@coppersdnd7943I ded (literally) 💀🪦
If I had a nickel for every time I saw something like “She had ivory black hair, skin as white as snow, the softest lips ever, and the most dazzling blue eyes.” I could spend it all to watch Snow White in the movie theater 10,000 times.
P.S. If you know where that almost exact description is from your cool
Could this be Ebony Dark'ness Raven Dementia Way? She who is 'not like other girls'?
Fun Fact: when I was 14 my mom found me a shirt with an anime girl on it that said I'm not like other girls. She was dressed in Punk Goth clothing and holding a riding crop. I do not think it means what she thought it meant.
No it was a reference to Maze Runner, but I will now call it “Ebony-Darkness-Dementia-Raven-Way Syndrome.” Also 14 year old you was cringingly cool
The fact that ivory is white-
@@satanic_nightjar_xoh my god I read Maze Runner when I was younger because all the other middle school girls were really into this YA post apocalyptic genre. I also read The Hunger Games and Divergent at that time. I _think_ I liked them? I read every single book. I don’t remember how I felt too well.
@@genesisofthebetween Weirdly enough, "ivory black" is a shade of black. So yes, actual ivory is white, but there we are.
You should do women writen men that would be interesting
The guy would probably be one of those half demon half angel hybrid alpha 7ft tall OCs with an 6 pack, with a name like Luke or Oliver 😂
Second this!
@@caniaskyoukindofaweirdques7053 Me who's below 6'0 and seeing 7'0 OCs: "It never began did it?" 😢
"Caleb Vatore: a 6'0 vampire townie, is a foodie, is bisexual (with a preference for women), his eyes are as blue as the bluest crayon. His hair is brown like a poodle, but straight like a noodle. His fringe was straight and pointy like a knife."
Ditto that!
As a writer, I’d love to know the thought process behind some of these descriptions…and how did they pass the editors 😅
they were the editors!
@@george3660 self-publishing perhaps? /j
As a writer, I wanna know what in the Wattpad they were scribbling down in their first draft😭😭
@@Bunny_Bill I bet the first draft was a lot worse then the final 😭
@@y2kayh- Generous of you to presume there were drafts of any sort.
"Teacup full of hot eels" is so fucking unhinged that it swings back around to being amazing. This one is going in the lexicon for future use.
THE FURNACE OF HER OVARIES??😭
I went “what” irl when I read that. Bonkers.
you know, where the little clay babies are burnt before they come out of the oven
@@happytofu5 kinda metal tbh
The confident laugh and stance with the blinding ovaries has to be the most hilarious, fun character yet.
Also, probably a really fun person to be friends with, as long as you're fine constantly having bright lights in your eyes.
I do have to lightheartedly defend the description from Perfume with the fact that the POV character is a pretty creepy serial killer - and yes, in the original, her skin is specifically described as sticky in the sweaty sense, since the killer is attracted to her body odor!
omg I've heard of that book! I actually really wanna read it, it sounds interesting
@@randomgoats word of warning: You are gonna be a completely different person after reading it.
@@randomgoats its quite entertaining and taught me to live in the moment and not plan too far into the future because you'll never know what will happen (regarding his caretaker, I don't want to spoil the story so I'll just leave this hint)
Folks, if your ovaries are burning, you should probably see a doctor! Also the line about the POV guy wanting to be reincarnated as the secretary's bra sounds like the premise for a new isekai light novel.
I love how scary the ovary lady looks, if she was in my office I'd always be scared that she was planning on burning it down with a blast of fire or something
I kinda want a sweater with two horrified faces on it. It looks weird and funny 😂
you could try to embroider the faces on one
@@happytofu5 Unfortunately I'm not very good at embroidery. I have been meaning to try "painting" with bleach on black shirts, maybe I'll try with that 😆
@@shauxuhrwilsongrim good luck! I think you might have a bit more control with a fabric pen in case painting does not work. And I too want to try painting with bleach for a while now. I got the bottle but I am afraid to poison myself with the fumes 😝
I actually love the second girl! Aside from the glowing ovaries she looks like a fun character and her expression was giving Power from Chainsaw Man vibes. She just looks confident and mischievous
"what a charming child" that's WILD, it takes the cake and a LOT MORE. Im think in a van.
My boobs would be scared too if some guy described me like that
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I am so floored that you covered Perfume! I just finished the book, and that passage about dark syrup girl stuck with me for the same exact reasons lol. You're right that the description is intentionally on the weird side ( all the passages in that book are, really ), but it still doesn't make it any less uncomfortable.
My only complaint is that the book takes place in the 18th century so I was hoping for some historical clothing. But it's not like that specific passage really shows that so I can't blame the more modern outfit choice.
As a fan of Perfume (I love how creepy and somehow tragic it is) can I ask you a favour? It's been around five or six years since I read the book and, although I love it, I can't place this "irresistible dark honey lady" in the plot. I can only remember the yellow plum girl and Laure Richis, and they are both redheads. Could you please give me a hint of who this "sticky lady" was, or in what passage of the book she appears in? I've tried to google "Patrick Süskind Perfume descriptions" but nothing of interest comes up... Thanks!
Hi, I got the book myself, and while it was hard to find where the description is again (and searching on Google was hard enough 😅), I did manage to find it:
It’s in Chapter 40 page 201 (in my edition of the book) and as far as I know, she might be one of the first women he k1ll3d (don’t know if I’m allowed to write the word uncensored, just in case), and I remembered that it was a brief description to show the type of people Grenouille tried getting the scent from. It’s right near the end of the book.
Hope this helps. 👍
@@laliclaudesol2350Luckily, I have my copy right here! Yeah, like the other commenter said, the dark honey girl is the first victim, and her passage can be found at the very beginning of chapter 40 ( on page 194 in my copy ), near the end of the book.
Teacup? Full of hot eels? 😭😭😭😭 WHY A TEACUP? WHY HOT EELS?
I thought the teacup was for her mouth and the eels represented her tongue, but why plural??? Does she have multiple tongues?? 😭
@@ariesdork5283
Maybe really bad at kissing and the tongue just darting around? It's such a gnarly description.
I could imagine a very intence French kiss could feel like an eel wiggling inside your mouth... now why would someone find that so appealing that they would dedcribe a great kiss as having _multiple_ eels on your mouth, that's another story
every time i thought it couldn’t get creepier it got so much worse 😭😭 it’s hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that these descriptions were probably meant to be super alluring and mysterious and stuff
All except the last one. That book is about a serial killer with an hypersensitive nose so every description is gross and stinky
@@Mario_Angel_Medina OH 😨
@@fiishgirl "Perfume: Story of a Murderer" by Patrick Süskind. Its a good book if you like an story about an 18th Century French psychopath that borders on Magical Realism at times
The very first one you drew legit looks like it could be in some fantasy series and it would look so cute 🥺
Lovecraftian but cute mythos vibes fr
For the second one I completely, I completely missed the part where they were supposed to be "afraid" and thought you put the little ghost faces there to express your horror at the terms the author used to describe her body. But now you've also made a cute sweater design, cause who wouldn't want their boobs to me more expressive for giggles when lounging at home.
I actually love the first one’s character design!! Very Medusa! Maybe she has a similar story, and if you try and kiss her without her permission, the eels appear and shock them, turning them to stone.
that last part went from menwrititng women to how to catch a predator
How would the writer know what a teacup full of hot eels would feel like?
As a male writer, im now embarrassed of my own species… WHY.. JUST WHY 😭
Just so you know, men and women are not different species.
That's kinda pick me dog stop that shit it's pathetic
I really loved the girl with the eel lips. it's so funny but cute. I love your drawings of these girls using the descriptions of these stories lol
I know this is off topic, but I just recently read her comic "Unfamiliar" and its really good!
for me the best part of it is a characters and visuals i just enjoy those as well
A face with secret places... like a magician pulling a coin from behind your ear maybe?
Personally, I'm more concerned about her perhaps having an orbit of ghosts from her soul-gravity thing.
I actually unironically love these girls you always manage to make them look so cute and charming, even with the ridiculousness of the descriptions
this series is really starting to grow on me
also ive noticed with a lot of these that the reason theyre so odd is because of the large amount of adjectives used to describe the women. like yes its not good to be vague with descriptions, but when it comes to these i feel like less is more, and i say that as a writer myself.
i started watching her videos for fun but i’ve actually become a way better artist because of them!! thank you !
So glad im a visual artist and not a writer
I just had an idea. There's an OC of mine, who's a man turned literal god, trying to achieve happiness, and they differ from normal people phisically, but also mentally, on a level, where mind-reading powers only pick up white noise from his thoughts. My idea is that I should write their story in a way that I never tell the audience their thoughts either and only what they say and what people decipher from their face, which is funny, because they are a compulsive liar, and also, there would be plot significance of how much they're telling abut their past. This idea stemmed from the thought "there shoulld be more main characters, who don't describe anyone beyond how much they need to", so I thank you fo inspireing me, LavenderTowne!
The Perfume by Suskind is a popular classic book. It's an amazing book, but indeed the young girls' descriptions were disturbing and gave me the ick...
6:53 The absolute HORROR I felt whilst hearing that passage. I actually feel ill 💀
Man here, and honest-to-God even I'm baffled by these descriptions. "From the furnace of her ovaries"?! "Breasts half afraid"?! I can't even fathom what either would look like, outside of some terrifying Reddit induced Vladimir Chebakov-esque feverish nightmare.
The last one is intentionaly creepy since the pov character is an absolute creep.. the hard boiler eggs are a wild descriptor tho
*Magical girl transformation insues* I will defeat you, not with the power of friendship.. but with the power OF MY BOMB ASS OVARIES!!
it's giving hisoka
I mean there is a sailor moon attack called Star Gentle Uterus so your not too far off.. 😭😭
@@PawsWithClaws_how tf does that work???
No one:
Absolutely no one:
"A girl of only 15 or 16 appeared in the department store next to me. Her skin was fair as milk. Chocolate milk because she was black. She was fat as a tree trunk, if the tree was really young because she was skinny. She had modern clothes and ripped jeans. Her hair was as straight as a circle, it was curly. Her legs were thicker than her waist, she looked like she was straight out of the anime "One Piece." She was hotter than Nami. Her rizz was greater than Gojo's. I stared wide-eyed at her for a totally appropriate amount of time. No more than 20 minutes. She smiled to herself, nobody seeing her. But I saw her. Then I got arrested because I made the moves on a 15 year old, but the memory of her will keep me company in jail while I serve out my 20 year sentence.
Eel mouth is honestly so badass though, and creepy guys wouldn’t hit on you 🫡
i'm sorry, the furnace of her OVARIES?!?! 😨
She doesn't call it her "roast beef" for nothing 😤
Girl got piping hot eggs in her!
The Animal Crossing secret places marks is so genius 😂 I quite liked some of that passage, especially the “whiplash” of her eyes. But the EGGS-
lady #2 looks like shes working someplace in kill la kill and having the time of her life and ngl im here for it. i wanna see what shes about lolol
I was thinking of starting post on this subreddit after seeing the second part of this series. Considering I had been reading one hella weird book written by a man, I decided to take the plunge. All the while thinking, "it would be so funny to have this drawn out."
Fast forward to today, I'm on my break watching this very video, and I see my post! (The perfume one btw if anyone's curious) Wish fulfil!
So LavenderTown if you manage to find this comment in the sea of others, thank you for making this series! All your videos are so entertaining and I look forward to everyone. It shocking how small the world is when you can spark inspiration the very same person who inspired you
Is it bad that I think I deciphered the hot eels one the more it was discussed? 😂
Eels are big, so they won't fit in the teacup. You'll have to squeeze them in, so they'll be bulging. I think your one wanted to say her lips were basically really big/plump and warm (also glossy and shiny from how they're slimy) but I never would've come to that conclusion just by reading that ngl 😭 always remember it's not illegal to speak normal
Fun fact! "Susan Delange" is a very subtle vampire story. The "young girl" is the vampire. That's why the "milk" skin tone--it's meant to signal that she's undead.
as a perfume enjoyer (and maybe defender from the looks of these comments?) I wholeheartedly believe the creepy descriptions of the girls are creepy with a purpose. the very first sentence describes our main character as an abomination, and the book never lets up in its utter contempt for its protagonist. we're never meant to root for Grenouille (whose name literally translates to frog), we're meant to be disgusted by him, and yet utterly unable to look away. he is a pathetic predator and this is just one example of how the book communicates this. taken out of context, of course, takes away the purpose of such lurid descriptions.
I defend the choice so strongly simply because, in the section immediately before this one in the video, I literally thought of perfume as an example of gross creepy descriptions done well/with narrative purpose 😅
This! You can do works of art on disgusting topics..write a book about a disgusting person. It just has to be done right! And from what I’ve heard this book DOES do it right..this is the kind of description you’d EXPECT from a predator and serial killer..and it does everything to point him out as disgusting on top of that.
Out of context of course it sounds much worse than it is, but in context it makes sense and isn’t actually glorified
I actually love the teacup eel girl. She looks so cool
the eel lips remind me of zoidberg xD
Aw no! I was excited to see what you would do about the eye "whiplash" in that last one! It was such a visceral and specific description it really stood out to me.
Honestly, I think both men and women have been guilty of writing creepy descriptions of young people 😅 Like you said, unless it's somehow relevant to the story (ex. police are investigating a "grape" and the perp is a p*do), then that weird imagery is not necessary!
The glowing ovaries passage had me rolling 🤣 10/10
this is most obviously an accurate description of how it feels to ovulate 6:13
The sheer power of Secretary Ovary lady drawing is incredible I love her
The "Perfume" novel is horror so it make sense that the discription is creepy as well as the syrup thing is her sweat where the character want to obtain her scent. The secret places is her pores.
i just finished watching one of your videos and went back to your page to see another amazing piece to watch. thank you, i really love your artstyle, and art itself. also your voice, your creativity and your kindness
Ok but in defense of the perfume its set in urgh when was it? 18th century, maybe? I dont remember well, and a sense of disguest in the descriptors is pretty essential, and same for the pov of the main character. So in this case I'd argue its a stylistic choice, it's supposed to evoke unease and disgust in the reader.
Idk i read Das Parfum years ago in German class and its one of my favourite books we had to read 😂
5:03 despite the disgusting description i actually really love how you drew her, she looks so pretty and confident and maybe a little insane, kind f reminds me of haruhi suzumiya! I just reeally love this facial expression :3
I'm reading a book called 'Solaris' atm and while it isn't the worst thing I've seen but twice so far women's boobs have been described unnescerly, the first case was a woman who walks around with nothing on but a straw skirt and her "breasts flopped" or something, and then a 19yo dead woman is described to have her dress "wrapped tightly around her breasts" and she is also depicted to act rather child like which is a tad odd, it was written in the 60's I cant be too surprised
Not to defend the eel guy but eels are a pretty frequent heritage food across northern europe so 'lips like hot eels in a teacup' ends up being the most british-sounding insult i can imagine
YESSSS!!! I WAS WAITING FOR THIS, I LOVE WHEN YOU DO THISSS
I NEED PART 4!! I love seeing these beautiful drawings and hearing interesting little insights!💖💖💖
if you want some better descriptions of women made my males, i'd suggest Percy Jackson (Written by Rick Riordan), his descriptions are honestly pretty realistic and i love his work.
Btw lovely work as always from you
i love this series sm
I'd love to see a "women writing men" video, for some variety. Surely, it exists, right? But I'm a little concerned you might have to read bad erotica for that. Which is always harder to read than normal bad writing.
There's a sub for it but it wouldn't make good content. It's all either men having weird behavior/inner monologue, or a writer who has no idea how male genitalia works
Yeah, that subreddit exists
ngl it would be the same cliche stuff over and over
@@D3UberD3 Surely there are some women out there who get really weird with it?
@@bluelfsumafemales make men look weird to cover up for themselves being the weirdest i men they sexulize everything and they are the most narcissistic human beings know to this universe i mean how cocky can you get see what i mean?
I was just watching the first two of these videos last night, so I'm thrilled to have a new update to watch!
"Furnace of her ovaries" TOOK ME OUT XD
"The furnace of her ovaries" literally made me tear up, I couldn't even laugh, I just started crying 😭
Awesome! I love this series!
This series has definitely helped me thing about I describe characters. I try to mention what they’re doing or at least a basic outfit if it makes sense for the scene.
This series is both horrifying and hilarious. I enjoy seeing every time you post!!
I love this series
This series is so wild, I am *OBSESSED* ☺☺☺
I couldn’t help but notice that you’ve been a lot more energetic in your recent videos❤
12:20 but there’s a thing: girl might think people is looking out of judgement, not because she looks pretty. It’s a matter of perspective and social circle. Pretty girls is often bullied, y know. How would she know?
Yay!!! Love this series!
6:52 I literally got the PETA youtube add on this exact moment about bear Bosko just died or something 💀💀💀💀 The timing is on point I laughed so hard🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Was just binging your videos and you posted at the perfect time
Omg the skillshare ad, draaag them jsjhsgdj amazing xD
I hate the words those people have chosen to put on paper, but this is helping, taking them less serious and watching an artist at work, awesome :)
I loved Perfume, it was originally written in a language that isn't english, wonder if the description is the same in its original version (I read it and 100% recommend)
As someone who read the entire book in german - yes the descriptions are all as weird and creepy as they are in the translation. While I don't remember the boiled egg comment in particular, I do the dark syrup one. I think it greatly adds to the eerie atmosphere and twisted protagonist, since it's also mentioned several times, that he doesn't care about their looks or personhood one bit and isn't attracted to them, but is only drawn in by their scent.
I slightly disagree about a girl being unaware of everyone looking at them being unrealistic. As a neurodivergent person, I've had those moments. It's possible a neurodivergent girl could also have that moment, especially if she was distracted by the fact she was inexplicably sticky. That'd definitely take top priority in my mind over what other people were doing, because that sounds like a sensory nightmare.
Yeah but the girls are usually not implied to be neurodivergent. Sounds more like the fantasy of being incredibly beautiful yet humble/unaware about it. As if putting effort into your appearance and knowing how good you look makes you vain or something
I love these seriessss omgg 😭
i love this series, i think it's hilarious! your art is also really nice, keep it up :)