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#2023 was the year of the keychains
thatsrightice · 7 months
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I don’t have a problem guys I swear…
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F/A-18 Blue Angel - US Air and Space Museum (2015)
Air Force One - US Air and Space Museum (2017)
P- 51 Mustang - EAA AirVenture (2018)
Remove Before Flight - EAA AirVenture (2018)
Apollo Spacecraft - US Air and Space Museum (2018)
B-25 Mitchell - EAA AirVenture (2018)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning - EAA AirVenture (2019)
Atlantis Shuttle - US Space & Rocket Center (2020?)
Remove Before Flight (RBF) C-5 - EAA AirVenture (2022)
Red Gulfstream RBF - Fall Career Fair (2022)
Blue Gulfstream RBF - Work (2023)
B-29 Superfortress RBF - EAA AirVenture (2023)
EAA RBF - EAA AirVenture (2023)
“I’d rather be flying” EAA Warbirds RBF - EAA AirVenture (2023)
B-17 Flying Fortress RBF - EAA AirVenture (2023)
Spinning Prop Plane - National Air Force Museum (2023)
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g0dwat3rwritings · 3 months
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Hellooo, Im not sure if ur requests are open, so ignore this if they aren’t, but could i request Obanai x Reader that is like, his adopted little sister, they have similar background etc, act similar (shes a lil softer but yk)? Like, u could really mistaken them for siblings if u didnt know, and all platonic ofc [: Also, If u have the time and want to, you can also make hcs abt what the other hashira think of u, but thats alot of work so i understand if u dont.
Anyways- I hope u have a nice day/night, and dw for not doing this, I fully understand. [[[:
I got this request on November 4, 2023, and started writing it today (June 18, 2024). Man, I am so sorry 😭
I also subconsciously made the reader a teenager, around the ages of 12-14
Tengen's part includes his wives, because I love them and needed to include them some way.
I think I just suddenly forgot how to write Gyomei and Shinobu??? so, their parts are rather short and they only have a few bullet points.
Warnings ;; None.
Relationship ;; Platonic
Type ;; Headcanons
Iguro Obanai ;; The Snake Hashira
Obanai is very protective of you, and even that's an understatement.
He knows you're strong, especially for a kid, after all, you're his Tsuguko.
Surprisingly, you didn't become his Tsuguko just because you're like a sibling to him, you became his Tsuguko because he could recognize your strength. (And you wouldn't stop pestering him)
You're very close to Kaburamaru, and he likes to be near you, just like with Iguro.
When you're not training with Iguro, you're more than likely taking missions here and there, or you're at home.
He didn't really like the idea of you meeting the other Hashira, besides Mitsuri, mostly because he doesn't exactly care for any of them.
He holds very high expectations for you, but at the same time, his expectations are also very low.
Giyuu Tomioka ;; The Water Hashira
Tomioka wouldn't exactly bother getting to know you, or bother talking to you, unless you initially started a conversation.
At first, it would seem like he was ignoring you, but if you kept pestering, he'd slowly open up, day by day, and start talking to you.
If you didn't happen to start a conversation upon meeting him, he may give you a wave upon seeing you, but besides that, you won't get much else.
He's very awkward around other people, especially children.
Even if you don't exactly talk, or if you aren't exactly friends, he'll get you a snake keychain for your birthday every year.
He may not know much about you, but he knows how much you hang around Obanai, so he assumed you liked snakes.
Mitsuri Kanroji ;; The Love Hashira
Mitsuri absolutely loves you.
She loves taking you out to lunches, when she's able to.
No matter the length of your hair, she absolutely loves to put your hair up, or do your hair.
She has a tendency to buy you things from random markets. If she happens to be there, and see something you may like, she's buying it and giving it to you the next time she sees you, with the widest smile on her face.
Sleepovers with Mitsuri are a must. She manages to convince Obanai to let you stay with her for a night or two while you just have a girls night.
Muichiro Tokito ;; The Mist Hashira
This mostly depends on when you meet Muichiro.
If you meet him before he regains his memory, he constantly forgets who you are, just like with everyone else.
He doesn't much care for you, and if you strike up a conversation with him, he's not very into the conversation.
If you meet him after he regains his memory, that also depends on who you are to Tanjiro.
If you're close to Tanjiro, he'll start up conversation with you occasionally, and you'll basically be acquaintances, or friends, if you happen to be lucky.
If you're not, he talks to you occasionally around the base, but doesn't actively try to start up conversation with you.
Tengen Uzui ;; The Sound Hashira
Tengen believes you're Obanai's little sister, even if you tell him otherwise.
Maybe a year and a half after you meet him, he'll slowly start to accept that you're not.
But even then, he still calls you "Obanai's Flashy Little Sis"
Suma frantically worries about you, due to the fact that you're a child, and taking on important missions.
Makio acts like she couldn't care less, but is still kind of worried for the same reason Suma is. You're just a kid, and a Tsuguko at that.
Hinatsuru, just like the other two, tends to worry, for all the same reasons, but she's very sweet about them.
After Tengen's retirement, if you're about to head out on a mission, they'll stop by and give you a few snacks for the road.
They kind of act like protective family members.
Like your uncle and three aunts, in a sense.
Gyomei Himejima ;; The Stone Hashira
Gyomei treats you like one of the children he used to care for.
He, like Obanai, is rather protective, but he's quite lenient about it.
He even gifts you one of his spare beads, hoping they'll protect you on your journeys, given how young you are.
He's almost like a father figure.
Sanemi Shinazugawa ;; The Wind Hashira
Sanemi doesn't much care for you at first.
That's an understatement, he doesn't say a single word to you and simply walks away.
In an odd way, you remind him of Genya. He's also just.. not good with children so he has no clue what to say, or how to act.
If you, some how, some way, get him to talk to you, he's very stiff and very rude at first.
He wouldn't be able to get rid of the thought of Genya while talking to you, so that's how he reacts, as if he's talking to Genya.
Over time, he loosens up and begins to talk to you more often.
Kyōjurō Rengoku ;; The Flame Hashira
Your first meeting with Kyōjurō is very, very loud.
You might think you're deaf for a few hours afterwards.
He will bring you food entirely unwarranted, you have zero (0) choice in the matter.
He'll also ask if you'd like to eat with him, which you do have a choice in the matter there.
He's a rather silent eater, besides the occasional "Umai!" after every bite.
If you'd like to have a conversation with him, he can talk about anything and everything, and is always willing to.
You tend to remind him of Senjuro from time to time, and when it happens, the widest smile appears on his face.
Shinobu Kochō ;; The Insect Hashira
Shinobu is very sweet towards you, especially when you first meet her.
You remind her of Kanao, in a sense.
If you manage to grow close to her, in some way, she may let her guard down here and there.
She'll never fully let down her guard around you, because she knows you're a kid, and you don't need to know the truths of her life.
She makes it known, very often, that if you ever get injured, she's willing to patch you up, good as new.
No matter how bad the wound is.
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xxkiller-muffinxx · 9 months
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A kiss from a rose
John Dory x mute! 1/2
Summary: (takes place after the band split up, and on) John Dory shows up out of nowhere, but with that he brings trouble, the trouble of the mind and the heart.
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Warnings: one moment of violence, no color coding because JD is the only one who talks in this fic
A/N: Goodbye 2023: Hello 2024! First oneshot of the year and seriously so tired after new years. I thank you all for the support on my Floyd oneshot, you guys make writing worth it! Also I imagine you live in a small house, and not a pod. Just cuz I like the idea. (Side A/N: I wrote half of this at 1 am after new years and I have more written it just turned to gibberish after a while and I had to sleep lmao. So stay tuned for a part 2!) I FORGOT TO ADD TAGS 😭😭😭
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The mysterious man showed up out of nowhere, which honestly startled you and your father. He showed up in an armadillo bus that was way out of whack. You were an only child and a quiet one at that. So from a distance, your dad told you to be his danger surveillance.
Upon further examination, you managed to grip your dad's shirt and send him a message that the strange man needed help. With his kindest heart, he goes to lend a hand to him.
You never understood how your father can comprehend what you're saying, you’ve been mute since birth. Nobody knew why, but you just haven’t spoken a word. In fact, your first “word” was you writing on a piece of paper for the first time.
When your dad came back, all he did was make another plate of food and walk out. This time you watched, and paid close attention. Your dad gave the man food and that’s when you realized. He wasn’t a man at all! He seemed to be around your age. It was strangely exciting to see.
You pulled away from the window and sat down to finish your food. You then heard your dad reenter and he mentioned nothing of the exchange, but you didn’t care. It was your dad, he was almost just as quiet as you were.
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Then a year went by, and your dad made sure to take care of you just right. You were a bit older now, and a bit taller. Your little small town was growing smaller with each passing day, and now you knew everything like the back of your hand. However, a certain someone didn’t.
You walk out of your home to begin delivering your dad’s trinkets around town. Use your roller skates to travel from door to door. Handing in tiny things like keychains, dream catchers, or even shoelaces. Your dad was quite the tinker.
Then your heart dropped when you realized you’d have to give food to the armadillo bus inhabitant. So you rolled in front of his bus and pet the lovely creature a few times, before anxiously heading toward the door.
It only took a few knocks when suddenly out popped a guy wearing goggles and a jacket far too thick for the summertime. You handed him his trinket. Which was a keychain with the word “BROZONE” across the small crocheted add-on.
You were about to leave when his voice cut through the silence. “Woah! This looks even cooler than I thought it would! Thanks!” He grins at you, expecting a response, but when silence follows he pushes his goggles onto his head. “Uh…did I come across too strong there? Or are you stunned into silence because you’re looking at a former member of Brozone?”
Your social ticking time bomb was ticking, it was a common small-town rule to not talk to you because you’d start crying or something, but this is new. This is just discomfort. His words turned to mumbles as you began to go on autopilot.
Suddenly a hand touches your shoulders. A billion thoughts run through your head, you look up at him and see his face coming closer. Instincts kick in and you wind up punching him in the face. Straight knock out right hook into the nose.
The crack made you snap back into reality. He’s on the ground, groaning in pain. you don’t like consequences. So instantaneously, who does? So You run off. Your feet pitter-patter in the ground below, scared of what your father would do if you found out.
You hide away after that moment, your dad did find out, but geez did he find it funny. That was the first time you’d heard him laugh in ages. So he put the shop on hold and decided to teach you how to make trinkets instead. So that event never happens again.
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You were in your mid-20s when you started delivering again. However, you made an effort to avoid the armadillo bus with all your being. However, you caught glimpses of Bus-man looking out at you while you worked. Your nerves nearly get the best of you every time you catch it.
When the end of the day came around the corner you made it home and sat on your porch swing. You swung until the sun went down, but in the meantime, you were looking ahead, then caught sight of the man lazily sitting outside too. But when he caught sight of you he suddenly puffed out his chest and grinned. Wiggling his eyebrows.
You shot him a weird look and looked away. What was that? Was he…flirting with you? You punched him in the face! Why was he flirting? After about an hour you felt something hit your shoulder. When you looked, it was a crude paper ball, you opened it. It said: “My name is JD, John, the leader, John Dory, what's yours?”
You laughed when you saw the crossed-off names, you pulled a pencil out of your hair and wrote your name on the paper. You looked up and looked around. Eyes closed in on him as he tried to act natural. You smirked and threw it back at him, hitting him in the head. You gasped and looked away. Your cheeks become red like fire.
The game of toss continued. You and him having a nice conversation about flowers. Which led to him calling you Buttercup. You didn't know why this made you blush, but a nickname was new for you.
Eventually, you told him goodnight and waved to him. He waved too, but you could've sword-he punched the air in excitement before going inside.
It became routine. Every night you two would be outside neighbors, talking to one another on paper. You’d share one fact about yourself, and he'd share several. He was far more open than you were, and he was fine with it.
Until one night it came to the subject of verbal communication.
You explained to him your situation and he started asking so many questions. It made you sort of uncomfortable. Then in a shocking turn of events, he changed the subject to something debatably worse.
“Why did you punch me?”
Your eyes widened and you turned red again. You heard his loud boisterous laughter at your reaction and you felt a knot tie in your stomach. Your heart fluttered and all your hairs stood on end. What was going on?
He then yells out to you, as his first time communicating verbally. “It's alright buttercup! I forgive you!” His grin was infectious, leaving you wanting to see it more often.
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When you started visiting his bus, the two of you became inseparable. Seeing as you were nonverbal you'd usually listen to him spout pure nonsense half the time. Sometimes he'd just break out into song.
Your favorite nights are when he'd break into song and ask you to dance with him. You'd always decline. Which always disappointed him but he was just fine dancing all by his lonesome.
“Baby! I compare you to a kiss from a rose on the grey!” he'd fall to his knees and outstretched his arms to you “come on! Ooh, the more I get of you, the stranger it feels, yeah!” he’d continue singing even as you shook your head.
When he kept dancing, on rare occasions you giggled, very quietly. He'd catch it and make a big deal out of it, causing you to blush and quietly giggle yourself into oblivion.
He'd leave you alone for a while, eventually getting back to telling stories. You explored the but a little while he spoke, he watched you, explaining some messes and creating excuses for others. That is until you stopped in a corner, picking up a vinyl. John shot up. Stumbling over to you.
“That uh. That's-” you looked at him and raised an eyebrow. Which may have been the first time he understood what you were saying without you writing on a piece of paper.
He sighed heavily and slumped onto the couch “it’s a pretty boring story.” he huffed out a laugh, crossing his arms as he leaned into the corner of his couch. “You wouldn't like it.”
You frowned, carrying the vinyl over to him. You sat down beside him and looked him in the eyes. Silently asking him to go on, when your hand landed on his knee. He looked at your hand then at you. “Well buckle up because this is gonna be a long one.”
He tells you everything, you don't flinch, make a face, nor do you judge. His story is depressing. He seems so angry and frustrated about it. Something about the way he talks about his brothers made you want to hug him and comfort him with every bone in your body.
His anger rises as he reaches the end. His nose flaring and his eyes widened. “I just wanted us to be great! To be the best boyband there ever was but no! They kept complaining and-” he was cut off by the look you were giving him. His breath hitched at the sight of your eyes so sincere and caring, it was different for him.
He tore his eyes away and crossed his arms. “I just wish. I just wish we were still brothers.” you gripped his hand squeezing it tight and he seemed to get the message. “I know I know. They're my brothers whether they like it or not.”
You nodded, running your fingers through his tall hair then looking him in the eye. There was a moment of clarity there. Your cheeks turned 6 shades of red, when his eyes snapped lower on your face. You stood up and took a deep breath. You awkwardly pointed at the door. A shy smile on your face as you gravitated to the bus door.
You felt bad at the look of disappointment he had, but also you were still friends at this point. You couldn't ruin that. Not because you would hate being with him, but it's too good to lose. His expression changed back to his regular one and he stood up to help you out.
“After you M’lady Buttercup,”
You rolled your eyes, but stopped for a minute to look at him, thinking about what you should do. In your fear and anxiety. You waved him goodbye. Leaving him wanting much more from you.
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To be continued…
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rilakeila · 9 months
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STRAYING OFF COURSE, lorenzo berkshire
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summary it's known that lorenzo's breakup with his first love was the cause of his downhill when it comes to his relationships
sm au pairing f1 driver! lorenzo berkshire x model/fem ! reader warnings cheating, strong language
author's note pls disregard any mistakes with the time ;-;
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ynln 🇫🇷🥖 paris was fun, see you again ! loberskhired
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loberkshired hon hon hon🥖🥖
ynln stop trying to fight me with baguettes 😭😭
lorennzzzoo ahhh they're so freaking cute
dailyyn if they break up, idk what love is
theonott Pls bring back eiffel tower keychain
loberkshired you're here with us in the paris, though??
ynberkshired ughhhh oh to be in paris with my bf
enzoenzoenzo did you guys see the cheating rumors
lovemenotttt enzo is always in cheating rumors even when he clearly isn't malfoytrolls yeah but apparently ppl saw him with some girl a couple months back before the last race riddlemethis according to who? source is trust me bro
loberkshired posted 2 stories an hour ago. ynln posted an hour ago.
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f1wagsnews 1/3/2023 - YN LN, fashion model, was seen walking home alone after what looked like an argument in the parking garage with long term boyfriend/F1 driver, Lorenzo Berkshire. She had apparently surprised him at his job with the help of his fellow team driver, but she had immediately walked out of the building almost in tears. The conversation was spoken softly but despite LN's typical sweet tone was replaced by a very stern one. The conversation included about Berkshire's stressed in his racing career and her career as a high-paid model while touching on the rumors of Berkshire's infidelity. It was unclear to the paparazzi whether YN believes if the rumors are true or if Berkshire had fessed up, but it was certain that the two were not okay.
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lorenberk WTF is this news in 2023? already? the year just started ?!!!!!
ynberkshired mother, father pls say you're okay and it's not true
enzoenzoenzo i think i accidentally brought this to life PLS NO 😭
riddlemethis 😭 LIKE I SAID, SOURCE IS TRUST ME BRO (but this is the most reliable source when it comes to wags)
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tmz sports
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january 10, 2023
Lorenzo Berkshire, F1 Driver is rumored to have cheated on long-time girlfriend of 4 years, Y/N L/N. It was said that he cheated the night of the Japanese Grand Prix on October 9th. It was the same sunday that his fellow driver of McLaren would go on to win the Japanese Grand Prix, which has been the assumption that made Berkshire blow off the steam by cheating.
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An anonymous tip from a news outlet sent this picture in which is Berkshire and mystery model making out on October 9.
Sources from Deuxmoi saw that the infidelity was not a one off on one night, but it was a continuous thing up until the Austin Grand Prix Weekend (October 21 - October 2023). The other party has not been named yet, but it is said that she is a lower scale model compared to Y/N L/N.
Lorenzo Berkshire and Y/N L/N have said been together since 2018. They were schoolmates prior to dating, and they started during their second to last year at their academy. It was also rumored that the two were supposedly going to get engaged during the winter break, but now it has been filled with these rumors.
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f1wagsnews — 1/20/23, Y/N L/N was found out and about with drivers, Theodore Nott, Mattheo Riddle, and Draco Malfoy (+ GF Lilianna Snow). Her boyfriend, Lorenzo Berkshire, was nowhere to be found. The two have not been spotted together since January 3rd where they were found outside of the McLaren building arguing.
Close insiders have said the two are no longer together which may have been due to Berkshire's cheating rumors.
All mentioned drivers are said to be in close contact with Berkshire. Though, each one including L/N has unfollowed him on Instagram.
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loveenzo wtf our parents are over for sure
fullofmalfoy omg noooooooo
insideryn ITS THE CHEATING AFTER FOUR YEARS
notnottyn i think yn and theo should have been together
prettyprettyn READ THE MF ROOM (honestly yeah they would be so cute)
riddlemethis this is why draco is the superior cousin
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oh they're fucking.... she's a homie hopper ????????? for context, i imagined that theo is just helping a friend out :p
hope you enjoyed this! masterlist
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yyh4ever · 10 months
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Yu Yu Hakusho Jazz Band
by THE CHARA 🎹🎷🎸
THE CHARA will have a booth in Jump Festa 2024, "THE CHARA BOOTH", where they are selling Yu Yu Hakusho goods in advance. The event is from December 16 to December 17, 2023. They items will also be sold in 2024 on the-chara. The theme is Jazz! It reminds me of the Yu Yu Hakusho x GraffArt Shop "JAZZ" from last year.
Let's take a look at the merch:
Can Badge
Price: 550 yen (blind)
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Die-cut Acrylic Magnet
Price: 770 yen (5 types, blind)
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Clear Card
Price: 440 yen (5 types, blind)
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Double-sided Hologram Keychain
Price: 1,650 yen each (5 types)
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Tenugui
Price: 1,650 yen
A tenugui (手拭い) is a traditional Japanese hand towel made from cotton.
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Microfiber
Price: 770 yen each (5 types)
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Acrylic Figure
Price: 1,650 yen each (5 types)
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Postcard Set
Price: 550 yen (1 set, 5 pieces)
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B2 Tapestry
Price: 3,300 yen
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hyunverse · 2 years
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thinking about hyunjin, and his ways of saying that he loves you.
hyunjin says the three words often, between chaste kisses shared once you awake from the daylight, and when you greet him home from work. hyunjin would say he loves you at random moments — when you’re cooking for him in the kitchen, or when you’re entangled with each other as a movie plays on the television. he means it everytime he says them — you can see the sincerity in his eyes, and the adoring smile he’d plaster across his face at the mere sight of you.
but his ways of conveying his loving emotions isn’t only limited to those three words.
you can see it in the way he would mindlessly draw you. you would be walking into the living room after a shower, and spot him drawing you from memory. at times he doesn’t even realize that he’s sketching you — you’re just always in his mind that sketching your face is like muscle memory.
hyunjin portrays it during the times he’d cut you some fruits. you would be doing your work in your office, and he’ll silently slide you a plate of mangoes, with a fork on it. the fruits are cut the way you like it, fresh and cold from the fridge. at times, he’ll feed you your first bite, cooing at the way your face scrunches up from the cold.
it is routine for him to kiss your forehead. every morning when he wakes up, before he goes to work, once he walks into the door after work, and before he goes to sleep. each kiss is accompanied with a loud, “mwah!” sound, followed by his little giggles.
there are times when you’d flop into bed in exhaustion, work clothes still in tact. he’ll change you into a set of pajamas, tuck you under the duvets. he’ll wipe off your makeup, massage some lotion into your skin. before turning the lights off you’d feel gentle kisses being pressed onto your forehead and your lips.
a big section of his journalling book is dedicated to you. pages occupied with poetry written about you — you know because he spends a little time writing before he goes to bed. you’d be tucked in under the duvets, and he’d still be sitting, scribbling words into his brown journal. smiling foolishly while he’s at it, too — ask him what he’s writing, and he’ll say, “something about you.”
hyunjin shows you he loves you by taking care of you during the times you simply could not. those times when you’d cry more than you eat, when self care is no longer a priority. you'll feel yourself being lifted off the bed, clothes stripped and put into a warm bath. he’ll massage your shampoo into your scalp as he whispers sweet reassurances into your skin. you’re beautiful, he’s proud of you — his assurances will make happy tears run down your cheeks. then, he’ll feed you your favourite food, gentle smile adorning his face serves as a reminder that he’ll always be there for you. always.
you have one too many gifts from him. little things he’d get you when he’s touring — things that he claims reminded him of you. pieces of jewellery, a puppy keychain, (he said that it looks like you) clothes, and many more. it’s come to a point where your friends would call you a hoarder — nightstand filled with a miscellaneous of things, and bed full of the plushies he had given you over the years.
you’ve received many love letters from him too. he would write you love letters from time to time, filling in empty pages with words that could make you cry out of joy. he has a special paper he writes his letters on —because everything has to be special when it comes to you! there’s this thing he likes doing, too — he starts all his love letters with “to my eternal love, y/n,” and ends them with “endless love, hyunjin.”
hyunjin loves you endlessly, and he doesn’t cower away from showing it.
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hey-hey-j · 20 days
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giggling kicking my feet smiling like a doofus because today's movie is Trolls Band Together
look at my blog. Look at my entire art tag the past ten months. Band Together has broken me. Band Together has taken over my life. The other day I almost broke down crying listening to the soundtrack because I was so happy. And that's really it: Trolls Band Together just makes me happy.
there's so much in Band Together that I love and gravitate to, it's almost like this movie was made for me specifically. The tragic siblings. The tragic brothers. A sick cover of Sweet Dreams Are Made of This. A DILF who loves his wife and is color-coded purple. Fabulous villains. A bangin soundtrack. JOHN DORY. I wish I could recapture the feeling I felt watching this movie for the first time, freshly dropped out of college, sitting in that theater packed full of toddlers wearing my Sans Undertale jacket. The last few months of 2023 were such a clusterfuck of stress, anxiety, mental health spirals and uncertainty, but this silly little movie about colorful singing trolls gave me an anchor. Something to hold onto and feel happy about during one of the worst periods of my life. And now, ten months later, here I am, my mental health better than it's been in years, still drawing my fan art, still listening to the soundtrack, still carrying my little John Dory keychain with me wherever I go to keep me company.....
in short, I love Trolls Band Together. It's changed my life in so many positive ways, and I am beyond happy that it exists.
NOW PLEASE GO LISTEN TO THE SOUNDTRACK OH MY GOD:
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tatsumi-rin · 1 year
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Looking for new goodies this pride month???? owo
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arimiadev · 3 months
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(you can read this article down below or on my blog!)
How to Sell Visual Novels at Conventions
Or, “how do you table at an anime convention and actually get people to stop by your booth and actually get interested in visual novels????”
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Picture this – me, someone who’s never been to California nor flown alone arrived to the Hyatt at the San Francisco Bay, being greeted by several online friends I’d known for years but never met in person. After a great time walking around the surrounding Burlingame area and meeting back up with the rest of our group, we had to actually put in some work for the day.
That is, setting up our booth for the convention starting the next day.
We unpacked box after box, taking turns standing around with our hands on our hips and heads tilted wondering “how the hell are we going to set all of this up?”. I decided to make it my job to set up our keychain display. All I had to do was get a copy of each keychain we had and pin them up – we even had a box from prior conventions that had a single copy of (most) of our keychains, for displaying. But as I opened more boxes, I found more and more keychains…
After threatening to change the password on their Vograce account, I found we had 10+ boxes of merchandise for niche visual novels that we were trying to sell at a vtuber convention. Not an anime convention, not a gaming convention, a vtuber convention! Going to bed that night, already tired, I was sure there was no way we would make a profit…..
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…And yet, we made more on Friday than they had for the entire convention in 2023. By Sunday, we had made more than double that, having sold items to over 100 customers with most purchases around $40 each. We weren’t selling fanart, we were selling a majority completely original art.
We lived the dream of a lot of indie developers – we sold physicals of our indie games and people bought them. But how did we do it??
a little context
Some background – OffKai Expo is an annual vtuber-oriented convention in Burlingame, California, a suburb of San Francisco and just 15 minutes away from their airport. If you don’t know what a vtuber is, just go watch my oshi Gavis Bettel. In 2023, Studio Élan had a booth at the convention as it’s somewhat local to some of our members. We decided to have another booth at the convention for 2024 and I offered to work at it (what’s a booth without a marketer?).
The only anime convention I’ve ever been to was the local one in Memphis, namely Anime Blues Con, but those are….lacking, to say the least. Not much to do, very limited artist alley, waning attendance (which was already small to begin with), barely any new artists nor sights year after year… I’ve always wanted to go to a convention outside my area, to say the least.
But how did we manage to make the weekend successful?
conceits
What we did won’t be entirely replicable for most devs reading this, but there will be some insights and takeaways that I’ll highlight that are applicable to anyone wanting to table at conventions and sell their games.
Our table was for Studio Élan x VirPro – it was a joint table between our yuri visual novel studio and our indie vtuber friend streaming group, Virtuality Project. We sold some merch for VirPro, but I’d estimate that was no more than 20% of our sales – we still would have made a profit even if we weren’t selling that merch.
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this table held our limited VirPro merch. we were able to hang our Élan prints on the wall behind it thanks to our friends at Studio Nekomata allowing us to tape our prints to the backside of their display. we also had a Miho cutout, but she didn’t want to stand up this weekend…
However, it is important to note that Studio Élan is not a new studio. We’ve been around for years, have 15k followers on Twitter, and have several visual novels released. We’re not extremely well known, as we are within a niche within a niche, but we aren’t unknown either. Some people actually cosplayed our characters at the convention! It’s definitely possible some locals came to OffKai Expo just to see our booth & panel (we also held a panel on Saturday where we announced 2 new games).
Another thing to note is that we have a stock of merch from running an online store and having held Kickstarters before. Specifically, we have physical copies of almost all of our games as well as artbooks, soundtracks, clothing, and more. We had tons of keychains and 11×17 prints, sure, but we also sold a lot of merch that is much harder and more expensive to produce.
So, tl;dr, things we had going for us:
We are established developers with a following & released games
We have a sizeable amount of merch already made for our online store, including physical games & artbooks
We were boothing with our indie vtuber friend group and selling their merch on the side
But our main problem:
We were boothing at a vtuber convention, not an anime or gaming convention
Now, with all of that out of the way….
convention standards
First off, let’s look at some basic things you can expect while tabling at a convention. (for the purposes of being specific to visual novels, when I say “convention” I’m only referring to anime & gaming-adjacent conventions—OffKai falls under this as vtubers are both anime & gaming-adjacent)
At a convention, you will typically be selling in either the artist alley or the dealer’s room, which are both referred to as the vendor’s hall. For small conventions, these two may be the same area. The artist alley is typically for artists selling keychains, prints, and more. The dealers room is for vendors that sell larger merch or have more items to sell – this can include artists but also includes people selling imported items (such as anime figures) and companies.
Conventions have a set amount of hours that the events go on and the vendor’s hall is usually not open the entire time. These rooms will usually open in the morning, around 10AM or so, and allow vendors an extra hour for fixing things before opening every day. For OffKai, we had to stay at our booth for about 8~ hours every day, except for Sunday. Sundays are always the shortest days for 3-day conventions, as the convention will usually wrap up around dinner time (if not earlier).
Vendors get time the night before the convention starts (usually Thursday night, with most conventions I’m referencing being Friday-Sunday events) to set up their booths. It took us around 3 hours to fully set up our booth, with 4 of us working on it. Setting up your booth will go a lot smoother if you do a trial run before the convention.
Every convention I’ve tabled at or known a vendor at provides vendors with at least 1 table and a chair. More chairs are usually easy to get, you just need to ask staff before the vendors hall opens up.
tip 1 – bring a friend
Conventions provide tables and chairs, but they don’t provide helping hands! You’re probably going to need help unpacking and setting up the table, but you’ll definitely need to take breaks during the convention for the bathroom, food, and more. You can’t just ask staff to sit at your table and you can’t just hide everything while you’re gone. Bring a friend to help out!
If you have to go alone, make friends with the people boothing next to you and ask them to watch over your table if need be. Be sure to keep your money and payment processors with you if you ever have to step away. And bring snacks & water!
our merch
Like I said, at Élan we have typical merchandise for our visual novels like keychains and acrylic standees, but we also have physical copies of our games for PC & consoles, artbooks, soundtracks, and more.
We had these types of merch:
Acrylic & wooden items
Keychains
Standees
Pins
Print media
PC discs
Console discs & cartridges (Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5)
Artbooks (game artbooks, limited edition anniversary artbooks)
Soundtrack discs
4×6 prints (CGs, key artworks)
11×17 prints (key artworks, exclusive convention artworks)
Clothing & fabric
T-shirts (4 designs, 1 color each)
Hoodie (new collaboration design, for all of our games)
Scarf (new collaboration design, for 1 of our games)
Fabric flags (key visuals)
Misc.
Grab bag (misc small items)
$5 bin (misc small items)
Pencil bag
Mousepad
Enamel pin
Plushie (limited Makeship leftovers)
Some of these were items we’d never sold before such as the hoodie, scarf, and 11×17 prints. Some of them were also much more of a hassle than others.
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In terms of storage and cheapness to make, prints and stickers are by far the winners (we didn’t sell stickers at OffKai but plan to in the future). Prints are basically the best thing you can sell for production cost:profit, as a 4×6 print can cost you $0.20 but sell for $5+ and an 11×17 print can cost $0.60 and sell for $15-20.
On the other hand, t-shirts can be some of the most difficult merch to work with. They take up a lot of room (we had at least 2 boxes of just shirts/hoodies) and require you to have multiple different sizes. The plushies were great & easy to sell, but at the same time they cost a lot per unit and take up even more space than shirts.
The physical copies sold great, but the cost to produce & room to store them makes them unwieldy for most developers. I would recommend them over more bespoke merch like clothing, though—several people came to our booth, having never heard of our games, and left with a physical game. CD discs rather than DVD cases are much easier to store and can be handmade, although ours are manufactured.
tip 2 – be selective with what merch you make & bring
Unless you’re lucky enough to have a convention down the street from you, chances are you’re going to have to travel to the convention. That means packing everything up, possibly shipping it, etc…. You need to be picky with what you bring if you don’t have multiple cars to throw it all in.
My merch recommendations:
4×6 prints
Ours were $4-5
Dirt cheap to print, easy to store
Easy for people to buy because of the low price point and ease of carrying
Idea – these are so cheap to print, at the very least print some of your key visual & logo to hand out to people for free
Stickers (die-cut or sticker sheets)
Dirt cheap to print, easy to store
Easy for people to buy because of the low price point and ease of carrying
Idea – some conventions won’t allow you to hand out free stickers. For conventions that don’t, I would sell either singular die-cut stickers or sell them in packs
Keychains
Ours were $12-15
Cheap to print, not very hard to store
At this price point people want to have an attachment to the characters before buying
Idea – if your game is relatively unknown but you still want to print keychains, consider packaging them with something else like the game or a sampler CD of the demo / soundtrack
Physical CD disc games
Ours were $30
Not cheap to print, not very hard to store
People will buy copies of games they’ve never heard of because it’s an interesting item to own and seen as more value than a digital copy (even if physical is more expensive)
Idea – it doesn’t cost much to get a 50 pack of CDs, the cost comes from the packaging and time to make the entire thing. If you don’t have a finished game yet, consider printing your demo out on CDs in paper slips to hand out for free
our booth
Now that I’ve talked about basics for conventions and what merch we sold, what did our booth actually look like?
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We didn’t have a pre-convention trial run, so we were essentially winging it. With all of the merch I outlined, could you believe we crammed all of the display copies on 1 table, 2 shelves, and 1 clothing rack?!
Our main focus was making sure each of our physical games were visible. After all, we were at a vtuber convention where most attendees didn’t know us, so we wanted to have a way to show off our games. We spent a lot of real estate on showing individual game copies and having brochures spread out.
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tip 3 – have an idea of how you’re going to display things before the convention
We also brought several items to display merch. For keychains & pins, we had a simple corkboard leaning on a photo stand / easel. For acrylic standees, we had a clear nail polish stand. For physical copies, we had photo stands and bookends. For clothes, we had a small clothing rack. For physicals, we had 3 small bookcases. These were all extremely helpful, but they are added costs and more things to carry to the convention.
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here’s a better look at our 2 bookshelves. the purple ladder one was at the back of the booth highlighting some items and storing various artbooks & bundles and the smaller one was at the front left of the booth by the VirPro merch, basically in the walking aisle
The corkboard and various photo stands were must-haves, regardless of what you’re selling. A corkboard makes it easy to display anything on it, whether it’s keychains, stickers, mini-prints, announcements, posters, and more. Photo stands were also super helpful for propping our corkboard on but also showing off individual physical copies.
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this was me trying to arrange the corkboard and acrylic stands. photo stands and art easels can in handy!
Along with the display stands, we also brought some decorative items like pink table clothes and flowers. These aren’t required, but help make your booth more noticeable.
A few miscellaneous items I plan on bringing to our next convention are a hand sanitizer dispenser, a small air purifier, and fliers. I always keep hand sanitizer on me, but it’s easier to use it when it’s in a convenient bottle and place. Several of us got sick after the convention (despite me wearing a mask), so I’m also bringing a small air purifier to keep some germs away from the table. I also want to bring small fliers for our upcoming games—while brochures are wonderful, I want something that’s easy (and cheap) to hand out to anyone who looks at our booth, not just the people we talk to.
tip 4 – be aware of merch thieves
We arranged our table in a way that we didn’t have to worry much about people stealing merch, though that is a problem at some conventions. As you might’ve noticed from the pictures, our smaller items like the keychains are at the far back of the booth, right beside where we sit. That allowed us to keep a better eye on it.
Rather than sitting behind our tables, we arranged our booth to be where people would walk inside it. This allowed us a way to talk to people easier. We also made sure to hide our card readers, phones, and more when any of us left the table, though this was easy because we almost always had 2-3 people at the booth at any time.
my advice
If I were an indie dev looking to booth at a convention and had the time and spare change, I would if it were close enough to drive to and the booth cost under $500. Unless you’re an established developer or have a popular artist working on your project, it’s hard to justify that cost.
tip 5 – don’t forget to budget for…
booth costs
extra badges (most booths come with 2 free badges)
hotel
travel
food
merchandise manufacturing
any shipping fees (your luggage, merch, etc.)
display items, extra things for your booth
While you may find a booth for $250, you also have to remember the travel fees, cost of food, all of the extra items you’ll need aside from merchandise, and more. A $250 booth for a 3-day convention could easily end up costing you $2,000+, and that’s if you don’t pay yourself or coworkers for their time at the booth!
If you’ve never been to a convention before then definitely go to one as an attendee before becoming a vendor. Get a feel for the place and have some fun, even if it means you won’t be able to booth there for months or a year.
tip 6 – be sure to bring…
Some kind of handout for people with your game & logo on it (fliers, business cards, brochures, etc.)
Small stationary merch for your game (4×6 prints, stickers, etc.)
Corkboard to display things on and something to prop it up
A way to take card payments and cash for change
Hand sanitizer
Pen/pencil and sticky notes
Clamps
Tape
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this is the inside of our old brochure! it details our different games and highlights some upcoming titles
I’d also try putting your demo on CDs to hand out to people who seem really interested if you can. CDs are pretty cheap to get now, and even if you just get a 50 pack that can run you around $12, which ends up being $0.25/CD. Not a bad cost for getting a potential fan, if you hand them out only to people who are really interested or package them with other merch and sell them.
Your main effort if you’re not an established developer, however, will be awareness. Talk to the people who stop by your booth. Tell them hi and explain to them what you make. I had several people clearly not understand what visual novels were, but I had many more who became interested once I mentioned we made these games. “Wait, you actually made them?!”
tip 7 – talk to people!!!
People at conventions think art is cool. They think indie games are cool. Be honest with them and show them your hard work. Yeah, this means you have to put on your extrovert cap for the weekend. Just don’t treat it like you’re a car salesman—you’re a game dev first and foremost and enjoy this line of work so much you want to share it with strangers at conventions. Let that shine through in your words.
All in all, conventions are stressful, tiring, and a lot of fun when they’re run well. If any of this sounds interesting to you and you find a convention close enough to you or one that will be relatively cheap to attend, I recommend trying it out.
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OffKai Expo was so, so much fun and I’m so happy I was able to attend. It was a well run convention, our booth did amazing, I got to meet actual fans IRL, and I was able to finally see a lot of my online friends in person. I was scared leading up to it but I’m so glad I pushed myself to go. Having an in-person panel there where the room was almost full absolutely blew me away—I kept asking “do they know what room they’re in? Did they get lost?” If you came to our panel or booth, thank you!!
— Arimia
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ultrainfinitepit · 1 year
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Hello Tumblr followers, it's October and a lot is happening! First and foremost, the Eldritch Saints leftovers are finally listed. New pins, prints, stickers, and keychains are available now in my Etsy shop. Many of these items have been sent to my stockists as well.
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Speaking of Kickstarter campaigns, if you missed the Angelology III campaign, the pre-order store is open until October 14 2023. Lots of pins, stickers, and keychains - including some awesome guest artist designs - are available for pre-order. If you miss the pre-order, you will have to wait until any leftovers are available after the campaign.
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Back to new shop items: in addition to the Eldritch Saints pins, I have even more new pins available! Charity pins for the Maui Strong Fund and Assistance Dogs of the West are now available. My Film Noir Monsters are also available: there are a limited number of full sets, individual pins, and blind bags. 
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This month's seconds pins are Penemue, Percy de Rolo, Archangel Samiel, and Mistress of Darkness. 
To make room for all the new pins, older ones have retired from my Etsy shop. You can still find them with my stockists. If you're curious about what pins I've made, I've updated my pin catalog. If you have restock requests, you can make those in this Google form. I generally don't reprint any pins once sold out, but if a design is popular enough I'll consider making a new variant. So if you have a variant idea, you can include that in your request.
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Anyway, returning once again to new shop items: new stickers are also available! Rat Kings, Biblically Accurate Barbie, and a glitter version of Original Character Brainworms are now listed in my shop. New keychains are available too, including Be Not Afraid Jon, Biblically Accurate Barbie, Throne Angel, Little Guy Seraph, and Angelic Messengers keychains.
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On to more general news for October. This month I am working on drawing original angel designs for Angeltober 2023. You can follow along on social media. Some of these designs might turn into pins next year! So you can let me know if you like any in particular.
Since we're in the last stretch of 2023, I thought I'd do a recap of my upcoming plans.
First, let's look ahead to November, where I anticipate a lot will also be happening. November 24-25 2023 I'll be at the SJMade holiday fair, so I'll be working on items for that. The Cowboy Monsters, Trigun Cowboys, and a few other pins weren't quite ready in time for this update, so I'll be saving them for November. I also have some recolors of pins, including Wolf Knight and Deadwale, that might be ready by then. My plan for these November items is to a list a small quantity as usual at the beginning of the month, and save the rest for the fair. Any leftovers will be listed right after the fair, so you can expect two shop updates that month.
Looking ahead to the rest of the year, I will be working on crossing off some more pins from my self-funded to-do list: including original designs, and more fanart pins for Spiderverse, Better Call Saul, and Trigun.
I'm planning to close my Etsy shop December 8 2023, and reopen it sometime in 2024. That will be your last chance to grab any last minute gifts. My stockists will remain open so you can purchase from them while my Etsy shop is closed. 
Next year I'm running my last two planned Kickstarter campaigns: Angelology IV: Angels of Extinction, which will feature designs inspired by endangered and extinct creatures; and Pride Angels, featuring angel pins in the colors of different Pride flags. This won't be my last Kickstarter campaigns ever, but probably my last for a while.
I will also have a much shorter list of pins I'm planning to self-fund in 2024: it includes some more fanart pins, the rest of the Zodiac and Astrological Putti, and a series inspired by the angelic hierarchy. I'm considering making a pin club on Ko-fi so I can share those plans and help fund those pins, without relying on Kickstarter. I would also post manufacturer reviews and merch previews. Let me know if that would be something you'd be interested in!
In 2024, outside of the Kickstarters I'm planning to scale down my pin making to focus on making other merch, I have a long backlog of stickers, keychains, and other items I've set aside this year to focus on pins. Pin making will always be my greatest passion so I don't think I'll ever stop completely, but it does take a lot of time, effort, and money and I think it's time to ease up on it so I can work on other things. I'm also looking to diversify my inventory of items, so if you have any suggestions you can send them my way. That's my early New Year's resolution anyway, we'll see if I follow through!
That's all for this update, which ended up being a long one. I'll leave you all with a link to my About Page/FAQ if you haven't already given it a read; and if you have any questions you'd like to ask anonymously, you can send them to my Tumblr ask box. Have a wonderful week.
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Danganronpa 1/2 ita bag (Kawaii Kon 2024 - Saturday) 🥳
[ Persona 4/5 ita bag ]
[ 2023 Danganronpa 1/2 ita bag ]
YUPP!! I got even more official merch in the bag this time around thanks to my lovely box split lady Harpy's on Instagram. A good chunk of the newer fan merch is actually from various zines.
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Although the layout isn't as creative as last years, I think it looks just as impressive. :J I don't enjoy hanging hard keychains (acrylic, metal, etc.) over the badges, so instead I hung the key of love keychains outside of the bag! Himiko's was attached to her plush and unfortunately Shuichi, Kaede, and Ryoma were left out bc I didn't know where to display them.
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Just like last year, I went to convention with extra DR merch I didn't want in the hopes of giving it to other cosplayers. There weren't a lot this year, but I managed to hand out some stickers, the V3 cast sleeping postcards, and a bunch of keychains + badges to an artist alley vendor.
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mukuuji · 10 months
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My first Legend of Mana fanbook will be released on January 20! ✨
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I am a TES and Starfield person, and also a big fan of Mana series. Those old super Nintendo (and PlayStation) games are still holding my heart.
I made three volumes of Trials of Mana fanbooks in these three years!
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The books can be purchased here:
I'm looking forward to adding my first LoM fanbook to this page.🫶
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May 4th Legends Deals
Happy May 4th Legends fans! Here are some discounts on Legends merch I've found around the Internet. I'm sure this list isn't exhaustive, so please add on anything I may have missed!
Books & Comics Merch
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Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor book cover shirt - available in Boys (S-XL) at Target for $18.99 and Mens (S-3XL) Target $22.99 (through May 4th) or BoxLunch $21.67 (25% off May 4th & 5th)
BoxLunch also has the cover of Dark Horse Comics' 2013 run of Star Wars available as a shirt in Unisex sizing (S-2XL) for $21.67 (25% off May 4th & 5th)
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In odd but cool pieces, we have a shirt from BoxLunch (25% off May 4th & 5th) that features the Hungarian cover art for the novel Han Solo and the Lost Legacy by Brian Daley. The shirt comes in Unisex M-XL, for $21.67,
and a Jaxxon statue for $170 at Gentle Giant (regular $200) discounted May 4th - 8th
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TeeTurtle has a shirt on final clearance for $10 that shows Kit Fisto and "a padawan." Logically I know this is probably supposed to be his padawan from TCW, but at least to me it reads more as Bant Eerin, his padawan in the Jedi Apprentice chapter books. The shirt is available in Women's XS-3XL and Men's S-3XL.
Rock Love has their entire Star Wars stock 20% off May 3rd-6th, including this Rancor Tooth necklace for $56 (regular $75) that is arguably Tenel Ka vibes.
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Chronicle Books has 20% off all Star Wars books and novelty products from May 4 - 20. This includes:
Star Wars: 100 Collectible Comic Book Cover Postcards ($19.96) which covers covers from the 70s to 2023, so it is mixed canon. The description promises Mara Jade, and some of the covers shown are Legends. Common sense (hopefully) dictates that the majority of cards will be from the Legends era since that is ~35 years of publication vs. ~11 years.
They also publish the in-universe guidebooks The Jedi Path ($17.56), Book of the Sith ($17.56), Bounty Hunter's Code ($17.56), and the Imperial Handbook ($17.56). There is also a $64 box set of the four books. These books also straddle Legends and current canon as they were published in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 respectively.
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More items in the category of "we slapped a comic cover on this" that are 25% off May 4th & 5th at BoxLunch include:
The 1998 manga edition of ANH as a unisex sweatshirt (S-2XL) for $33.67,
Issue #7 of Marvel's 1997 run of Star Wars comics that is available in a variety of shirt styles,
and the Infinities ANH #1 cover as "framed wood wall art," whatever that means, for $18.67.
There are some Thrawn items that are stylistic enough there isn't a hard line in the differences between his Legends and current canon looks.
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Funko is Buy 2 Get 1 Free through the 5th and they have Thrawn as a mini keychain ($5) and regular Pop ($12).
BoxLunch also has the regular size Thrawn Pop for $7.74 (40% off with code BLGIFTS). It will be 25% off ($9.67) May 4th-5th, and I don't know if that discount stacks, or if the 40% off will go away.
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BoxLunch also has several Thrawn shirt designs that will be 25% off May 4th-5th.
The Triptych Grand Admiral Thrawn design comes in Unisex T-shirt (S, L-2XL) for $21.67, Women's T-shirt (S-2XL) for $21.67, long sleeve T-shirt unisex (S-2XL) for $24.67, unisex sweatshirt (S-2XL) for $33.67, and a Youth Hoodie (S-XL) for $33.67
Long Live the Empire comes as a Women's tank top (XS-2XL) for $22.40, Women's T-shirt (S-2XL) for $22.42, Unisex T-shirt (S-3XL) for $22.42-24.67, Youth T-shirt (XS-XL) for $15.67, Youth Girl's (XS-XL) for $15.67, Unisex sweatshirt (S-2XL) for $33.67, Women's sweatshirt (S-2XL) for $29.17, and a Unisex hoodie (S-2XL) for $41.17.
The red Thrawn design is available as a Unisex T-shirt (S-2XL) for $22.42, Big & Tall T-Shirt (LT-5XL) for $22.42-25.42, Long Sleeve T-shirt (S-2XL) for $24.67, Unisex sweatshirt (S-2XL) for $33.67, and a Unisex hoodie (S-2XL) for $41.17.
Gaming Merch
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KOTOR Light/Dark Box $11.99 at GameStop (regular $36.99)
10" Revan statue $64 at GameStop (regular $80)
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Funko is Buy 2 Get 1 Free through May 5th and they have Fixer for $15.
Heritage Games Pack $39.99 at GameStop (regular $59.99) They have many other Legends era games on sale too, check their website.
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Revan's lightsaber is available from Fun.com for $269.99 with this extra 10% off coupon.
TV Merch
Ewoks fans, this is your time!!!
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The black Ewoks shirt (left) featuring Kneesaa in the background is available from BoxLunch at 25% off from May 4th -5th in Women's S-2XL ($22.42), Girls XS-XL ($15.67), Unisex Youth (grey) XS-XL (15.67)
The green Ewoks squad shirt (center) is also at BoxLunch for 25% off from May 4th -5th, but it is only available in Girl's XS-XL ($15.67)
They also have a third Ewoks shirt (right) for 25% off from May 4th -5th, but it is only available in Unisex Youth sizes XS-XL ($15.67)
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There's also this slightly disturbing Galactic Pals Ewok Plush (left) that's 20% off at Target through May 4th that doesn't say it's Kneesaa, but it sure looks like her. ($22.39)
Funko is Buy 2 Get 1 Free through the 5th and they have Holiday Special Chewbacca (right) for $15.
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mlp-merch · 2 years
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New MLP G4 merch? With Photo Finish, Tempest Shadow and Flash Sentry? At Hot Topic!? What year is this? Read all about the Tsunameez keychains with a wide variety of G4 ponies on: https://www.mlpmerch.com/2023/03/tsunameez-keychains-spotted-at-hot-topic.html
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punchfruitte · 13 days
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need advice from the loa community 🫂 any tips will be greatly appreciated!
hii im pretty new to the manifestation community on here but ive been on my loa journey since early 2023! for context, i am manifesting a celebrity sp (i know the celeb part doesn’t matter but again just adding context to my situation) & we have never met nor spoken to each other for the past year. but so far ive learned that staying persistent and thinking from the end has helped me tremendously in getting close to him, plus the synchronicities have lowkey been spooky (like we ended up moving to the same city, he would wear certain clothing brands from celebs that i was just obsessing over, he wore some sort of keychain with my initials and birthdate on it etc)
one of the many methods i stand by is robotic affirming, and i use the counter app to help. and my self concept has gotten waaaaay better in comparison to last year (i don’t even care about 3rd parties anymore.) but i guess since my sp is someone i have not been in contact with before, like any human i have my doubts about our connection. i know he’s mine deep down but i still find myself wavering for whatever reason. how do i practice thought transmission with someone ive never met? should i take inspired action & put myself in positions where he’ll notice me or should i let him come to me? i don’t usually worry about the “how” in terms of how we’ll meet..but i often wonder if i should be doing more, ya know?
im still learning everyday about the law and what works for me so any advice will help. thank you 💓
(also feel free to dm me your advice or if you wanna just exchange success stories or talk that’s cool too!)
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coolnonsenseworld · 9 months
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I've made this recap, because I've felt that this year wasn't as prolific for me as usual and if I made the best ten/twelve kind of thing, I would have to bring up the Calendar (again), Mythos Klance Zine which is still in the making, or Commissions which I still haven't revealed, but they deserve their own space. So instead! I made a recap. Do I feel better now? Not really 🤣 I've done a lot more work that wasn't sketching this year - I made PDFs, wrote and once I started a piece I tried my best to finish it - and it translated into this. And once I think of all the progress I've made - it matches my expectations. I worked on things that were difficult for me previously and I'm proud of that. But I guess I will always miss sketching day in and day out and creating my own pieces and having more time and mind space for personal projects. I wish for next year to keep people entertained and share what I've created, and to not get drained in the meantime lol.
I also made a goal list for next year. I will have to improvise adapt overcome accordingly, but on it we have the Space-themed klance desk merch set which I was sharing lately on Patreon, hopefully with icons which you can download for your phones/tablets, taking commissions once again, including traditional, sewing and finishing a pattern for Cuddler toy keychain, finishing HEX and starting Cursed Love (Ancient AU), recording sketchbooks and/or sketching, make a plot-full Winter Wonderland continuation (with winter wedding), and a few more, and I hope any of these make you as excited and inspired to start a creative new year as me! I'm sure there is a lot more to come.
And here is a question I think everyone could benefit from while thinking of the ending 2023 and incoming 2024 - is there something that would truly make your next year simply happier?
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