#Anyways...moving on

[riacte]

not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

[longsightmyth]

People are so stupid about snakes. If there's a little black racer chilling outside just leave it alone, you don't have to kill it, it's probably dealing with all your pests for you, jesus christ

[youthofpandas]

What’s up with how the dunmeshi fandom just lies about this kind of stuff all the time. It is easily confirmable information that it was a monthly series, something incredibly common in the industry.

A not weekly magazine schedule is literally common !! Especially in the seinen shoujo and josei demographics, sometimes monthly, sometimes biweekly, sometimes every two months, sometimes seasonal! Please stop lying about how Dunmeshi was some special unique creation that defies all standards of manga just to hype it up because it is so clear that every single one of these comparisons is centered around Weekly Shonen Jump (and understand that SJ has many magazines under its brand that are monthly or semimonthly). Not everything is WSJ and it needs to stop being the only point of reference in conversations like this 🤧

[mademoisellekalopsia]

Sorry if this has been asked previously, but what inspired your Knackered Yet Living series? 😯

Never thought about receiving this question too soon, let alone for the first time. But, as one quote goes, "Expect the Unexpected."

|| CONTENT WARNING || Serious, (possibly sensitive to some) Grounded Life Topic

To start off, I am quite fond of "Slice-of-Life" Series, name it if you will, may it be told through forms of animation, literary selections, or real-life itself and so on, so forth.

BUT...only those that truly speaks to me. That it makes me reflect my own life in a way I understand and have experienced, thus, I feel, genuine connection in more ways than one.

"Knackered Yet Living" revolves fairly on my everyday living, may it be at the comfort of my own home, academic life, career/work life, and such, sharing some of the aspects in my life told through my beloved characters. There will also be research in case the characters are dealing with, let's say, history of health issues or traumatizing moments, better give and embed some color and differences to OCs, that is, "more character."

And perhaps, tell side stories of others whom I personally know and take into reflection of my life with them. It’s that movement of moments in life that is experienced and shared at its essence.

I love how some slice-of-life stories are short and brief, yet delivers those golden lessons from meaningful interactions. Makes one want to say "Oh darn. Seriously, this got me? Same…" Perhaps some moments of silence to grasp what has been told, no matter how repetitive it has been said. In the end, some of those lessons or interactions may be true or has happened to others and one can relate to it, some not any less different than the other in some aspects. There are also others who may/may not, can/cannot relate to it, but acknowledges those moments because it happens; it is evident.

What I am trying to point here is that I, an average person living my life as to what I have and what I am able to do, and control, still have quite an endeavor of life ahead of me, and I very much expect how there are days where it is just too tiring, challenging, and that feeling of fatigue, stress, and constant pondering on why is life is coming at me all the sudden? I am so tired of this…why must it happen? How did it get so overwhelming? What is happening? Will life get any better for me? Am I…? What am I to myself? To others? Who am I? The list of the hardest interview and life questions keeps on going. Pardon me for that.

Despite the overwhelming side of being "knackered," in more ways than one and that is normal, what does it mean to living life in general? No matter how knackered one is and it seems that everything right now, whatever they are dealing with, is not easy to comprehend, to solve, to deal with, to cope with, even bringing their spirits up may feel impossible and just feels hopeless, I say to you, there comes the time where it will be lighter again, it may not be the same as before, but the change is so much needed, thus, emphasizing healing. Then before one knows it, they are living their life again and the source of healing differs.

Someday, it doesn't come too quick, too soon, but some day, life will get better and, hopefully, more hopeful, for everyone only has, obviously, one life. It sounds cringe, I know, I cringe at it too because of how much of a questionable life can be...with others and such…but, I do hope one's life, it will become hopeful once again, and if you, ever, are feeling tired about everything, whatever it may be, I will pray for you.

I wish to elaborate further about the inspiration that brought me to creating "Knackered Yet Living," but it seems that that will be an explanation for another time. I apologize for the provision of an essay of an ask reply, but I simply told what I felt right to say at heart. It helped me a bit to express what I have been building up. The essence about life in general, and the aspects of being "knackered," whatever the reason that has formed from, it is one I would very much focus on to emphasize.

With my utmost appreciation, thank you, Anon, for the unexpected ask.

[lonepower]

yes i Am paying real money to make you all look at our new dog. we've had her for 3 hours and if anything happened to her I'd kill everyone in this room and then myself. her name is Tater Tot

[plumbum-art]

"...we both get plenty of use out of it..."

[hinamie]

I don't want to regret the way I lived

[illusioncanthurtme--art]

Just a man and his muse :)

A shameless plug for something I drew last night!

(I think I'll do a separate post for a proper Patreon update, cuz I've gotten so much support, and I've been doing a lot with it this past week and having a really good time!)

[just-your-average-tangerine]

Murphys law of being a trans man is that you're only considered a man when it can be used to hurt you

[snarkspawn]

the devil you know

[mirrorhouse]

every time i think about how armand as rashid is a kind of visual echo of how he looked as amadeo i want to explode

like... his big brown eyes... all his little expressions... his hair...

[chikinan]

I'm sentimental about them. & about camcorders. [twt + insta + ptrn on bio]

[boingopilled69]

concerning love triangle moment

[riickgrimes]

I know who you are. You're Fire and Ice, right? Which one's which?

CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

[happyheidi]

｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ. August will bring blessings.

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[wtfforged]

my campaign hiatus has gone on for too long so to cope ive combined my interests at their maximum potency and had some dnd-strawhats thoughts

thoughts in depth under read more... :)!

this is SO self indulgent. their designs literally did not change. but i am a firm believer that dnd doesnt have to be european high fantasy. and also one piece literally IS fantasy. no changes are necessary to fit into dnd. ive already imagined plenty of campaign/oneshot ideas inspired by one piece. so this was basically just an exercise of trying to replicate their canon abilities in dnd 5e as much as possible without totally homebrewing everything. well. aside from luffy. you just cant take away or change his stretching.

LUFFY: (human monk. drunken master subclass. outlander)

the only plain human of the crew to balance out with the fact that he still has rubber powers. obviously a monk. but drunken master subclass specifically because i think the flavor(not the fact that its about being a drunkard) and abilities both fit him really well. this line in the subclass' flavortext especially fits him: "A drunken master often enjoys playing the fool to bring gladness to the despondent or to demonstrate humility to the arrogant, but when battle is joined, the drunken master can be a maddening, masterful foe."

ZORO: (tiefling fighter. samurai subclass. bounty hunter)

a fighter with the samurai subclass is so very incredibly obvious... but i actually had a lot of fun geeking out while comparing the abilities to what he can do in canon; Fighting Spirit, Rapid Strike, and Strength Before Death especially! tiefling is also pretty on the nose for his demon pirate hunter shtick and asura form, but i thought he'd be really human-passing for a tiefling and theorized about his tail getting cut off at some point or another before joining the strawhats. initially wasnt gonna give him a feat, but i gave sanji a feat so i thought itd be unfair to not give him one as well, so sentinel fits the bill pretty well i think!

NAMI: (tabaxi rogue. arcane trickster subclass. criminal)

cat burglar -> full grown literal humanoid cat. this one is INCREDIBLY self indulgent... i love... cats... theres nothing deeper to this and no other reasoning. i took cat burglar and ran with it. can you tell that i love izutsumi dungeon meshi? rogue for the aforementioned burglar-ing as well, and the arcane trickster subclass for when she picks up climatact! the mage hand will be very useful for her pickpocketing. in the future as she levels up with timeskip, i can totally see her multiclassing into wizard as well! weather wizard!

USOPP: (lightfoot halfling artificer. artillerist subclass. urchin)

I HAD SO MUCH FUN THINKING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER SHEET. halfling's Naturally Stealthy ability lets him hide behind his crewmates since theyre (almost) all bigger than him, so its perfect for hiding behind zoro or sanji all the time. Lucky is also perfect for him, and I think Brave fits pretty well too when he puts on the sogeking mask. artillerist artificer is also very fun! tinkering and making magic items for his crew, and i think Eldritch Canon or Arcane Firearm could both be easily reflavored as kabuto or any of his inventions. for emphasizing his sniper-ness, the spell sniper feat was also necessary. i think hes my favorite of all the concepts. big ears and long nose combo is so cute to me.

SANJI: (half-elf monk. drunken master subclass. guild artisan (cook!))

race was mostly based on vibes i wont lie. squints. and that vinsmoke balogna or whatever too ig. but mostly vibes. along with the idea that i think a dwarf zeff raising him would be really funny and cute. monk is also obvious, and same subclass as luffy for mostly the same reasons. though the flavor fits him much less, i think the abilities still fit him perfectly, and this blurb specifically; "Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer." i really wanted to give him a different subclass from luffy, but i dislike all the other monk subclasses a lot and i found none of them fit him as well anyways, so to try and give them SOME differences, i gave him the crusher feat.

CHOPPER: (awakened deer(shifter statblock) cleric. life subclass. hermit)

this ones definitely a mouthful im sorry. awakened deer for obvious reasons, but due to magic instead of devil fruit stuff. when i was struggling with his race, i looked a lot at shifter because of his forms, but it occurred to me that itd be super cool if he could shift between all of the different shifter options instead of being stuck with just one to replicate his rumble balls. something like heavy point/guard point=beasthide, horn point/arm point(?maybe?)=longtooth, walk point/jumping point=swiftstride, and brain point=wildhunt. hed definitely need some kind of nerf though to balance out that homebrew... and cleric for class. duh.

ROBIN: (high elf wizard. order of scribes subclass. criminal)

robin is definitely the one i struggled the most with just because of her class. elf came pretty easily- shes very elegant and i think shed look cute with super long ears- and i landed on high elf instead of wood elf for the int-based abilities. i was really on the fence between sorcerer and wizard for her because i knew shed be a full spellcaster, but i didnt feel that any of the subclasses really fit her. i ended up going with wizard for order of the scribes since it focuses on texts and knowing everything. but also because robin with a flying talking sentient book would be crazy cool. it could also be similar to how she spawns mouths and eyes places to talk to or watch people. my "fuck it, why not. this would be rad. its my house" mindset kicked in with her i will admit. also the One with the Word ability made me cackle out loud when i read it. thats the funniest ability ever. anyways, i cant really think of a way to replicate her powers, but maybe we could just reflavor a bunch of spells to be her limbs or clutch; hold person, maximillian's earthen grasp, or evard's black tentacles. thatd probably work okay, and theres a handful of spells to replicate her ability to spawn eyes or mouths. unrelated, but i imagine nico olvia to be a drow. why? her hair is white. i am a simple man!