do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely
like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day
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I do sort of wish western anime fans would analyze anime and manga from a framework of japanese historical and cultural context. Specifically a lot of works from the 90s being influenced by the general aimlessness and ennui that a lot of people were experiencing due to the burst in the bubble economy and the national trauma caused by the sarin terrorist attack. I think in interacting with media that’s not local to our sociocultural/sociopolitical sphere it’s easy to forget that it’s influenced and shaped by the same kinds of factors that influence media within our own cultural dome and there ends up being this baseline misalignment of perception between the causative elements of a narrative and viewer interpretation of those elements. It’s a form of death of the author that i think, in some measure, hinders our ability to fully understand/come to terms with creator intent and the full scope of a work’s merits
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because i enjoy numbers and random stats, heres all of my more major interests, how much DIGITAL art i did for them, and how long i've been/or was into them :3
keep in mind the numbers are likely lower than they should be, because i might have missed something, or there's digital art i no longer have access to that couldn't be counted (this mostly applies to warriors and jojo).
also of course a reminder that this is only digital art, and there is probably a lot more traditional art for these things :)
monster high - 17 (12 years, 2012-present) (this is probably because i mostly collect the dolls, so despite being such a big part of my life, i haven't drawn much for it)
warrior cats - 112 (3 years, 2014-2017)
fantasy life - 11 (9 years, 2015-present) (like mh, this is another big part of my life - this is literally my favorite game of all time - but not much to show for it in terms of fanart!)
undertale - 51 (1 year, 2016-2017)
splatoon - 6 (5 years, 2019-present)
jjba - 166 (4 years, 2020-present) (most of this art was made during 2020-2021 though! which is. kind of crazy. i was so obsessed with jjba i literally had to force myself to draw anything else)
genshin impact - 18 (3 years, 2021-present)
ace attorney - 33 (3 years, 2021-present)
madoka magica - 7 (2 years, 2022-present)
revolutionary girl utena - 16 (9 months, sep. 2023-present) (this feels like the thing i've made the most art for since jojo which.. may not be true considering aa and gi, but. idk. it almost gives me the same feeling)
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my main advice for writing an enemies to lovers relationship is to resist the urge to make the characters' loathing and attraction mutually exclusive opposing forces. it's okay if they're getting weirdly into it and having Thoughts whilst also sincerely wanting to kill each other with hammers.
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