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May 2024
29 days later

Shy boi rizz, but still rizz


I could try to be a little less distasteful. I look back at the guy, and force a smile.

“Maybe it’s just because I’ve read so many romances. I have a hard time finding anything really unique that impresses me…”

I should have tacked on a ‘much’ at the end…

“Do you think I could impress you?” He asks suddenly.

What?

I look at him blankly.

“What?”

“I’m sorry,” he kind of laughs and smiles uncomfortably at the same time. “The second you walked in here, I knew I had to try to get your number because you’re just so striking…”

“Alicia?!”

“Sorry, I’m just feeling a little queasy,” I mumble, but I’m not sure my sickness is loud enough for him to hear me.

I take my measurements quickly - almost certainly getting them wrong - and leave the measuring tape on Kattar’s bed. He’ll almost certainly be annoyed - but I have to just deal with that today-

“Took you long enough,” Kattar smiles a little teasingly as I drag myself back into the living room.

“I’ve gained a few inches,” I mutter, sitting at the opposite end of the couch, not looking him in the face.

I watch out of the corner of my eye as he’s washed in-

Worry-

About me, please.

I’m not okay.

“Is that something to cry over, bella?” he smiles nervously, putting one hand to my burning cheek and trying to get me to look at him - and his words start to mesh into each other-

It’s just the accent - But that’s not what I hear.

“-It wouldn’t kill you to gain a few pounds. You’d lost too much weight back then.”

“Aish,” I shake my head trying to shake off my anxiety, but it clings to me like - “You sound like a mother…”

“Ahhhh, that won’t do,” he shakes his head, cringing a little, “What should I say then? I prefer my sweetheart a little softer.”


20 days later

“We’re going to play a little game,” it’s almost a whisper, and he looks at me with a nerve-wracking-ly impassive expression - almost impassive - but in his eyes, I can see that slight light and coquettish curiosity-

“If I kiss you, I steal your memories, and you have to answer one question for me.”

He smiles a little in spite of himself, a slight color coming into his face as he leans back against the sofa arm, shading his doubtful smirk with one hand, squinting suspiciously -

“You wouldn’t…”

23 days later

Dominic is pretty smooth, but Essence doesn't know how to respond to his flirting lol:


“Looks dazzling. Like a picture,” he grins and shades his face as he glances upwards in the direction I'm looking.

“The sunset?” Well, maybe if you like cityscapes, but still… “You can’t see much of it through the buildings and power lines.”

Wait.

I probably should have agreed with him, right?

Mr. Giang just shakes his head, smiling, “I meant you, but the sunset is nice too.”

All of my characters are anything but suave lol. I feel like a lot of us in the LGBTQ community in general aren't suave lol. We're awkward and most of us are nerds since we've often been excluded. So, this is pretty authentic in my books. Two of my characters flirt by cooking and both of them successfully got their boyfriends by hooking them by their stomachs. Boys are easy and the best way to get them is with food. Of course, it was more of a "um do you like food? I made chocolate/cookies..." and the boys gravitating around them because the food is so good and this led to other things. Food = love and family in my books, so it was only natural. Though I bet a lot of real life people express love through food.

Aye, I definitely do, and some of my characters are like this too. Boys aren't easy though, that's really a negative cliche, so I think it's better not to spread it.

"Boys aren't easy though". Lol as a boy, I disagree (sorry, I was being silly).

well, even as a joke, it's often taken as a given unfortunately. no one can speak for the entirety of any demographic, only our own experience.

19 days later

Just realizing it's going to be several chapters before I have any more flirting in "Damsel in the Red Dress."

What am i doing with my story?

19 days later

Kattar smiles, now, just slightly, but sincerely, and I feel a warmth like mild sunshine wash me in comfort, if only for an instant, even as I recognize that sly energy that I pretend not to.

“Fine, do you know what I really want?” He tilts his head with that same subtle smile, crossing his arms over his cable-knit chest.

“What?” I ask slowly, as I cram as much of the pretzel as I can manage into my mouth to try to avoid dropping any crumbs on his couch.

“The other half of that pretzel you’re eating.”

He grins roguishly, and before I can say anything in response, he leans forward across the cushions, and bites off the other half of my pretzel, with a sort of half-kiss that turns my whole face burning red.

“Get your own!” I bluster, embarrassed and flustered in a sort of butterfly-ish flutter as he re-steals the pretzel bag and plops back against his pillows on the opposite end of the couch, “Give me that back!”

“Not on your life,” he grins, placing one of the pretzels between his teeth teasingly. “If you want it, come and get it.”


14 days later

My characters don't necessarily flirt. They bicker like an old couple who've been married for 50 years for like five minutes then it's like, "Do you wanna go to Waffle House?" I'm absolutely in love with their dynamic.The only reason Dallas started arguments with Harper is because he finds her cute when she's angry.

Mines is a webcomic but couldn't pass up the opportunity XD
The back and forth between these two is usually sprinkled with em
here's their 1st exchange

Hmm I’m trying to think if Butter Bee currently has any flirty moments at the moment, and I don’t think it does :sob: to be fair though I haven’t focused on any real romance within the story yet so I guess that makes sense why there are no flirty scenes as of yet.

I think the only thing that comes close to it is this doodle comic, and it’s more like failing at flirting miserably on Geoffrey’s part. Totally cursed :joy: but here’s the scene with Knight Lock and Knight Geoffrey:

lol, poor Geoffrey. My comic's ml fails at flirting a lot too, so he can relate, though romance isn't even the main theme of Sketchy Business. He kind of fails at it from comic one, since the female lead finds it annoying.

(excuse how awful this drawing is, it's the first strip of the comic TT, my art has improved since then)

Omg you know I actually have written this dynamic too :joy: for a different story, one of my first I started working on actually! It’s a really fun style of writing for me, since I’m bad at writing like suave romantic romances so I like writing ones with more banter. Would Dallas have the “argumentative” trait if he was a Sim? XD although I’m not sure if that’s an actual trait, but I feel like it should be! lol

Don’t feel too bad for Geoffrey he’s literally more than 20 years older than Locket so it’s kinda 🤢🤢🤢 stop, drop, and run away!!

but omg Chili is really trying hard oh no :sob: looks like he wasn’t successful either! But he seems way more likeable than Geoffrey, he just comes off kinda goofy and extra :sparkles::nail_care: Also as a side note: how old is this art??! You’ve had such a jump in quality in art, I’m telling you you’re moving so fast with learning!

@Cass at least arguing like an old married couple now will prepare them for later xd.

A romance that was suave all the time would get pretty dull pretty fast anyway imao lol. Most of my couples bicker at least a little bit too I think, it's just different ratios :joy:

Ah yeah! Definitely I see more playfulness in your scenes too that you’ve shared here. But also nothing wrong with really poetic or romantic scenes either! I just don’t know how to write them so I don’t :sob: Everyone has a different strong suit. But whenever the rare occasion pops up where I do write actual romance between characters they’re a bit dorky and nervous themselves.