#I'll get around to redrawing a couple of these

[hettyoon]

❥︎ Character; Lilia Vanrouge Game; Twisted Wonderland

❥︎ Prompt; 𝗖𝗢𝗢𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗜𝗧𝗛 𝗟𝗜𝗟𝗜𝗔 !! || 2nd pov || established relationship

❥︎ Notes; Fun fact, this was originally a Teru oneshot I wrote back in 2021. Hopefully, nobody who saw that remembers it. I did not have a blast reading through my old writing ☺️ Also, I may do a part 2 to this ? Idk. + The banners are like 3 years old I need to redraw them so bad </3

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"So, what are we gonna make?"

It was a known fact in diasomnia that Lilia had quite the unique skill when it came to cooking, and what you mean by unique skill is that he always somehow ended up with something that was at best inedible, at worst poisonous. No matter how good of a recipe you gave him, no matter how many instructions and warnings you nailed into his head, none of it seemed to work.

Which led you to the following conclusion, you would have to personally supervise him in order for you to actually come out with any worthwhile results that you would be able to risk putting into your mouth.

Now, this was not your first attempt at this. The first one didn't quite go to plan when you had to leave Lilia for a couple of minutes to go get one of the missing ingredients before coming back to smoke floating around from a mini explosion coming from the kitchen.

He was banned from entering the kitchen for a while after that one.

"We're gonna make some pizza." You replied to your dual-haired boyfriend, shuffling your way through the kitchen, rummaging through the cupboards to get out all your needed ingredients. "Should be easy enough for even you to make."

Lilia placed a hand on his heart in a dramatic manner, a feigned look of hurt on his face. "You wound me with your words, love."

You rolled your eyes at that. "I'm trying to help you here, you know. Everyone else thinks that you're a lost cause."

As you were setting out the tools, a familiar warmth brushed up against your back. A pair of arms came to wrap around your waist. His head settled down onto the curve of your shoulder, breath soft against your neck as he uttered the next words. "I'm surprised you're letting me try again at all after what happened last time.”

"Well, this time I'll make sure not to leave your side for the whole time, okay?"

His head tilted up a notch to land a light kiss to the tip of your ear, as a small chuckle escaped his lips. "Can't say no to that."

A couple more minutes had passed, and you were now halfway through making the dough for your pizza. To your delight, Lilia was doing surprisingly good so far. The dough was successfully mixed together, and he was now standing in front of the mixer as it kneaded it all together.

"Okay, I think that's enough with that. You can take out the dough and lay it on the mat that I prepared." Your finger followed your words pointing to said mat before changing directions towards the flour and sift right next to it. " Make sure to add some flour onto the mat so the dough doesn't stick. Just sift a spoon or two gently onto the surface."

Fulfilling your self-admitted role of supervision, you came to stand next to Lilia's side, watching him take out a spoon and dip it into the bag of flour with no fault. As everything on his end looked stable enough, you briefly turned to face the cupboard on your other side. The plan was to get out the rolling pin so he could use it in his next step, but alas it was a bad decision on your end.

Your hand didn't even make it to the intended shelf before you saw a cloud of white powder suddenly engulf your vision.

Nearly giving yourself a whiplash from how fast you turned your head, you rushed to quickly take control of what was happening. "Oh my god, Lilia! I said gently, gently!"

Your hands reached out to stop him from his aggressive shaking motion in hopes of stopping the flour from spreading any further. The old fae had the audacity to blink at you owlishly with his red eyes, as if he were totally innocent from what had just occurred.

"Oh? Was I doing it wrong?"

A sigh left your lips at his words, swatting your hand back and forth to get the floating particles of flour out of the way. "Do you really think that the flour is supposed to get on every surface within a meter of the mat I told you to sift it on?"

"Hmm, I admit, I think I may have gotten a little carried away there. But no need to fret over it. There's still plenty of flour in the bag." His body turned to face you while his finger pointed over to the bag of flour that was slowly folding over, just seconds away from falling down and spilling its contents all over the floor.

You nearly tripped over your own feet trying to get to it in time. Luckily, you managed to do so successfully.

An exasperated sigh left your lips. "That's not really my point, but anyways. Here, let me do the sifting for you. It's not like it's part of the actual recipe."

"No objections to that."

A little while later, you had both the flour and dough spread out in front of Lillia. With the rolling pin secured in both of his hands, he began the motion of rolling back and forth on the dough to spread it out.

Except, of course, he was rolling it out way too hard and absolutely flattening the poor thing to a crisp. No wonder any pizza he attempted beforehand came out burnt and disfigured to oblivion.

Honestly, you weren't even surprised at this point. You had to grasp one of his hands with yours to stop him from going any further. "Lilia, that's too thin. How on earth are you even going to get that thing into the oven tray? It's going to rip to pieces the moment you even try to lift it up. You can't even stick anything on top of it."

Lilia shot you a confused look. "Can't I just stick it back together with glue or something?"

A look of horror presented itself on your face. Okay, maybe you did have the ability to be surprised after all. You pleaded in your mind that what he just mentioned is not the disgusting plastic-y taste that you've had to gag from in Lilia's cooking before. "Lilia, people are going to eat that!"

"Hmm, I'll use caramel then. That should be sticky enough, no? Or you think melted marshmallows would work better?" His hand came up to hold his chin in thought.

No words could describe the absurdity of what you were hearing right now, so you just decided to shake your head in disbelief. "Okay, we're going to start this again, and this time, I'm gonna help you roll it out."

Kneading the dough back into a ball, bringing you two back to step one. You positioned yourself in front of your lover, standing right in between his extended arms. Both his hands were on the handles of the rolling pin again, except this time you had your hands layered over his, holding them tight and positioning them into the right place. He was also floating up higher so he could see from over your shoulders.

"Well, I will say, I definitely prefer this rather than doing it on my own." Lilia said cheekily. He leaned forward even more, so his chest was basically glued to your back. The breeze of his breath tickled the tip of your ears, and you could feel the heat rise up to said place at the proximity. "You're so cute like this. I could just lean in and take a nibble." Of course, before your brain could even process his words, you felt his sharp canines brush along the curve of your ear before gently sinking them in to give it a soft bite.

"Lilia!" Your ears weren't the only part of your skin flushed in red now. There was no doubt that your non-human lover could feel the heat radiating off your cheeks, too, as you turned to face him with a half-hearted stern expression.

The only reply you got out of him was that infamous laugh of his.

You had absolutely no idea why you still got flustered by such moves from him even after all this time being together. Unfortunately for you, Lilia was well aware of this and often used it to his advantage.

"Can we focus on what we have on hand now?" A poor attempt on your end to stir the conversation back to its origin.

"What do you mean? I am focused." An innocent grin paired with his closed eyes and a slight head tilt. However, you were far from fooled.

It was at moments like these that you wished you had the ability to be able to tease him back. Hard to do that, though, when he's a centuries-old fae who's seen and been through it all.

Soon enough, after a little more teasing from Lilia, much to your embarrassment, you two were back on track, rolling out the dough. With your help (specifically, your hands making absolutely sure he did nothing out of the ordinary), the dough was spread and ready to be decorated in no time.

“Phew. We finally did it.” You turned to face Lilia with a satisfied look. All with no casualties too this time. Very impressive if you were to ask yourself.

Said fae leaned down to land a sweet kiss to the corner of your mouth, causing a smile to draw on your face. “We always work great as a team together, don't we?”

Now that the hard part was over, you were definitely feeling much more optimistic about the outcome of you and Lilia's creation. The successfully shaped out dough gave you quite the confidence boost.

Hopefully it all goes sailing smoothly with no more mishaps.

Although, maybe it was a little too wishful thinking considering this is Lilia you are talking about.

[forestshadow-wolf]

Don't be brash. Don't be flashy. And don't show off.

That's what Price explicitly told soap before he went in. It was a crude operation. An illegal cage fight organization that was a front for making off the books deals. They had been monitoring an HVT for months, he comes around for one night every couple weeks. Intel says he's supposed to be here tonight.

And now soap's here. And it's been a long night. With more still ahead of him.

In the not so hindsight it wasn't so weird to send him in. He used to get into only too many fights before Ghost held his collar, and even more so before Price leashed him. He could spar Ghost on the mats for hours on end. So it was quite befitting to have him locked in a fight cage circling with beasts bigger than Ghost, and crowds louder than a circus.

As he circled a monster of a man broader than him, taller than him, meaner looking than him, he felt it almost reminiscent of the first time he met price. His hair too, longer than it should have been. Overconfident but with fire to spare. Only last time ended with a dislocated knee and fractured patella, and Price was telling him he'd take care of him if he could only pull his head out of his ass. And this time Price had let him off his leash as he sidestepped the blow that would have put him on the ground, and was swinging bloody fists into flesh. The bell dinged as his opponent fell.

His fists were bloody, his face was bleeding, his ribs were bruised, and sweat had his hair flopping on his forehead, but the crowd cheered louder as he leaned against the chains caging him in. And Ghost came up beside him as they cleaned his dome and went in search of another contestant.

"Price and Gaz have eyes on the HVT. How much you got left in you?" He didn't flinch when Ghost came up from his blindspot.

"How long do you need?" He muttered, not looking at the man.

"Make it an hour and I give you a reward. Hour and a half and I'll make it better."

Oh?

How soap did love a good treat.

"Break a glass when you want me to throw." It would pain him deep in his soul to throw the match, but probably not as much as the blow to take him out.

---

He had no idea how long I'd been, he'd stopped keeping track a long time ago. Stopped noticing faces. But he must've pummled half a dozen men, at some point between talking to Ghost and they following fight, he'd accrued a group of challengers.

He was facing a big bloke, but hardly the biggest. Long since had the burn set into his muscles, but adrenaline dulled his aches to the buzz of excitement.

A crash and a commotion outside the cage.

That's his cue. He threw a right hook, too it clow in the redraw. It was good contact, but hardly the best. His opponent feigned an obvious left and he compensated, but only just too slow. It rattled his brain, and disorientation made him too slow to block the blows to his ribs. He let himself go down after that.

The bell dinged, and he made no attempt to push the assists off him as they dragged him out of the cage.

Ghost took him under the shoulder, and helped him through the pulsing, dizzying crowd. People were touching him, screaming, slapping him on the back. He collected his spoils, but they needed to get out. They had the package, and he was going to crash soon.

His eye was starting to swell shut, blood smeared his face, his knuckles were split and ugly, his ribs, arms, legs were all turning with bruises. The adrenaline trickled from his system and the colors and sprains and breaks began to throb and ache. He let Ghost take more of his weight the further they got.

[kristallioness]

…Cause I don't wanna lose you now. I'm lookin' right at the other half of me. The vacancy that sat in my heart is a space that now you hold. 💚 Show me how to fight for now and I'll tell you, baby, it was easy comin' back here to you once I figured it out. You were right here all along. It's like you're my mirror, my mirror staring back at me. 🪞 I couldn't get any bigger with anyone else beside of me…

Tfw you have the power to illustrate your own fanfics (cause no one else will *lol*). (Thanks for pointing it out in one of your old tags, @kataracy! I never thought about it as a strength before from this POV and, whenever I'm feeling down, I come back to that reblog of yours just to read it again.)

Jokes aside, there's a bit of a story behind this post. Namely, I went to the first ever Justin Timberlake concert in Tallinn this Monday. I'd come down with a sore throat at the weekend and was pondering whether to go or not since we knew it'd be raining the whole day. 🌧️ I was prepared to dress up warmly, pull my rain poncho on and so, ultimately, as I felt better in the evening I decided to go. I'm so glad I did because now I know I would've regretted missing it.

And of course the show started with "Mirrors", which was one of the biggest hits back in 2013. I've been feeling so nostalgic ever since because I listened to this song AT LEAST once every day while I was working on this old "masterpiece" of mine (it was one of my best works back then). I associate that time - that particular summer break - in my life with this song.

A day or two later back home, I decided to reread my old fanfic titled "Rainy day" (which the drawing was based on). I remembered it being really awkward and I thought I'd feel embarrassed going back to it, but like.. *clutches chest*.. I didn't remember it being so sweet.. and intimate, and well-written. So I wanted to pour my feels out into new illustrations of this story, including a redraw of the original piece from a slightly different angle. 🥰

It's been a dozen years and I can't get over how proud I am of myself - zero references used, huge progress made (especially with the anatomy). Finished after drawing for 24 hours straight. *lmao* It looks like it turned out to be drawing practice with Aang (I just love seeing him in those ceremonial air nomad robes). And Momo? Well… Momo's always important.

I'll also post them below one by one, so you could see them up close (along with the corresponding excerpts from my fic):

…"I had better land before I get hit with lightning," he pondered to himself before changing his course down to the street. In a couple of seconds he was safely on land again. Luckily he wasn't too far from his house so it was no trouble walking the rest of the way. While walking in the Upper Ring, the Avatar noticed how some blue jays flew past him and the ones sitting on tree branches took off the same way. Pretty soon he could feel raindrops on his bald head. Seconds later, a heavy downpour fell upon him and the city. Using his cleverness and remembering what another master waterbender had once done, Aang waterbended a round shield of water above his head to keep himself from getting wet. He cheerfully continued his walk back home, the angry looks of fellow passers-by, who didn't have umbrellas, almost making him want to laugh…

…Aang opened the front door, stepped into a very dark living room and closed the door behind him. He put his glider next to the front door, took off his shoes and put on a pair of warm yellow woollen socks that Katara had knit for him last winter. He immediately spotted Momo sleeping on one of the lime green pillows around the table which was located in the center of the room…

…"Katara, is that you?" he asked worriedly. "Yeah." "Well, where are you?" "I'm right here, on the couch." Aang started walking towards the lounge, the part of the living room higher from the main floor. To his relief, he could see Katara's brown locks resting on the dark green pillows of the couch. She had pulled a blanket of the same colour almost all over her face. "Katara, are you okay?" Aang carefully asked when kneeling beside the couch in front of her. He lifted the blanket from her face only to have a slight shock. "Oh no! You look terrible!" "I know." "When did you get sick?" "Right after you left home this morning. I started feeling really weak, hot and cold at the same time. Soon my nose became stuffy and my eyes began watering." Aang put his right hand on her forehead. "You're burning up! Hold on, I'll fetch the thermometer. I'll make some tea and get some water for you to drink."…

…"Since when are you afraid of lightning?" Katara lifted her head to look up at Aang. "Since the time you got shot with it." There was a long pause in between. Aang didn't know what to say, so Katara opened her mouth first. "I believe it's time I admit something. I've been having nightmares. Nightmares about that time when we were fighting Zuko and Azula in the Crystal Catacombs of Old Ba Sing Se. I keep seeing the moment when she shot you with lightning, you falling. I always catch you and bring you out of there, but each time we escape on Appa, everything doesn't end the way it actually did. I have never been able to revive you." At this point her eyes began to tear up. "I would use the water from the Spirit Oasis to heal you, but it never has any effect. Before I manage to try anything else, I always wake up. I feel so useless!.." her voice was cracking, she was starting to cry out loud. "Shh-shh!" Aang stroked her head, hushing her sobs with his robes. "But you did revive me. I wouldn't be sitting on this couch if it weren't for you. You saved me."…

…Katara enjoyed this. His constant stroking made her feel like nobody could sneak up from behind nor attack her. She adored the idea that he was listening to her heart beating because she considered it to be a way of telling how much she loves him. The waterbender liked that the airbender would let her lean on him as a sign of trust. Not to mention that she was still a bit turned on by his touch near her breasts. She was beginning to sweat and Aang noticed that. It was definite proof that her fever had fallen…

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[simpy-simpers]

Too small on a stage not meant for them.

Day 5!!! Prompt - Five

Technically there's six but the twins count for Golden... so 5 animatronics?

Not my best vision for a piece and definitely not my best execution, but I'm a week behind (oops! Life hits hard what can I say)

Not my best work but we continue!! Maybe I'll redraw it someday, wasn't feeling too hot with the background and didn't really enjoy drawing the characters too much, but it was decent overall haha.

Gahhh lore lore lore below, lots of text you may not want to read

(Maybe not so) Miniature lore time!

TW!!! Mentions of CHILD DEATH.

So I changed things around a bit to see what I like. Andrew IS in this AU (a character from the stitchwraith(did I spell that right?) which clued us into how Golden Freddy functions) and he's the twin brother of Cassidy. He takes the form of the vengeful spirit while Cassidy will resemble more of Charlie's role (sorta forgiving, protector, but not giver of life, that stays with the puppet.) Andrew and Cassidy were killed within moments of each other, still deciding how (debating on going with the springlock theory or not).

Anyway, Gabriel takes the spot as the oldest of the group, around 14. Jeremy is 8, Fritz 7, and Susie 5. Andrew and Cassidy hang around 12-ish.

A lot of their story is driven by Andrew, Cassidy, and Gabriel. (Bear trio yay!) They try to make plans, finding ways to free themselves, and 'get to heaven', but nothing truly works. They try killing night guards to see if their murderer is one, but they can't tell who it is (due to the spring bonnie suit), and all it results in is a bunch of children with blood on their hands. The youngest 3 truly don't understand. All they do is follow the orders from the "big kids". Blah blah blah story details, there's a lot of dialogue of them just talking. I mean, it's all they can do. Sometimes Gabriel will figure out one of the TVs and manage to turn on cartoons for them to watch, and they've even managed hide and seek a couple times.

blah blah blah more more more

Anyway they find CC's soul in the Fredbear plush. Don't know if I brought something like this up before, because I may have accidentally lied, but this was a detail I put in. CC actually dies during the bite of 83' with the plushy in his arms, and paired with the agony infused into it during FNAF 4, he latches onto it instead of onto Fredbear. Add in his reality altering abilities (as proved by the survival logbook text being altered and blah blah blah, watch God Victim theory, it has some points I use here). As I said, they find the plush with CC's soul. (His name is Eli in this universe, named after Elizabeth because he was born post Elizabeth's death. Times are changed around a LOT) They talk to CC, he's sobbing like 24/7, somehow they come to the conclusion about the happiest day thing, and they send Cassidy in (she wanted to) somehow??? Anyway that's how fnaf world ends up happening. Whole storyline everything blah blah blah, achieves happiest day (different than in the canon game but yk).

Once they learn happiest day they manage to use it(?) on everyone, not exactly the most peak storytelling, I know, but I'm working around it. I still need to actually read the stitchwraith (can't spell wahhh)

And they find heaven.

Most of them.

Andrew stays. He wants revenge. He needs someone to suffer for their actions. And Cassidy can't leave until he does. "Once we find him." He says, "Once he's suffered."

He didn't truly know how long that would take.

blah blah blah blah blah. omg ucn. Yeah that's Andrew. He finds a way to separate himself and Cassidy.

He's alone. "Not held back anymore."

UCN goes on woop woop.

uhmmmmmm

ikr peak storytelling.

then??? idk?? I'll make choices when they make more sense. A little tired lmbo. I'll start catching up this time I promiseeeeeeee. Gonna do smaller pieces to stop eating up time. This piece was SUCH a time eater!!! Should not have taken that long but I've been working on it for like 3 days (70% of that time was just me on my phone but we do not talk about that)

Anyway, sleep well, take my subpar effort, and have a good night! Stay simpin yall

[lynaferns]

Beekeeper Fairy AU

TW for bug features

Well, more like bee-helper fairies.

I wasn't really going to share this yet but you can thank @shirajellyfish for encouraging me to show it, even if I'm not yet sure if this is going to go somewhere or is going to stop here like my other projects and AUs.

These sketches are a few months old, I'd like to polish them a little. I was getting into the fairies mood lately so hopefully I'll redraw them soon but y'know I can't promise anything when it comes to drawing.

Some close-ups and more info under the cut + Ferns design for this AU (Now I have no excuse not to make memes between my 3 selfinserts lol)

So the idea of this AU is mainly to be a chill and cozy story. No angst or anything, maybe memories of a couple of bad events from the past, but now everything is healed and they are focusing on living peacefully.

The story would be around Fern who has their own shop of handmade kitchen tools, tableware, tea, coffee etc etc. (all ecofriendly vegan products) in a village. They are also a beekeeper, so she sells honey too at the shop.

One day collecting honey from the hives she finds a tired bee-helper fairy trying to hide. Decides to ignore it not to stress the little guy, but the fairy was still there when they were finished with the bees. So she goes inside the shed for a small cup of water with sugar to give to the fairy.

After that, the fairy followed Fern to the village and now it visits the shop very often. And Fern always has some treats for the fairy.

I have the idea of making an askblog for the AU. People could roleplay as the villagers coming into the shop to buy something and ask about the fairy(ies) and Fern would be the one anwsering. BUT that would require a lot of effort from me, making the drawings and expressions of Fern and the fairies, and have backgrounds from the villagers POV of the shop. And I don't want to do low effort background, I want the world to feel organic.

So idk, maybe I'll do a small comic but I can't assure to keep constant motivation for this.

[deluxe-rabbitsu]

HEY HEYEHEY

Look, I've been working on a re-design for my Yuu. I've grown tired of the simple uniform...and also I've been thinking about how she would really handle herself after being isekai'd to an unknown world.

More under (mostly explaining silly stuff)

So, I'm so sorry for my quick writing it looks so bad but it was a sketch I made at two in the morning 😭

Let's start with herself in general:

- Yuunise doesn't give her real name to anyone, not even her closest friends.

- She still takes her duty as prefect very seriously (not wanting to be kicked out of the only place she had a 'home' in)

Clothing wise

- I decided to keep the fluffy hair, it's trademarked kekek ™️. But this time I decided to make her hair a bit longer and having a high ponytail alongside a small hair clip to keep some hairs away from her face (babygirl would NOT have time to actually get a proper hair routine when she is this busy with her duties around campus. Wavy hair is a mess to handle ;_;)

- Glasses! She has glasses again! Finally!! After drawing her for a while without any glasses I've come to notice that she looks naked without them. I just missed them on her lol.

- Thinking about the fact that people come in Twisted Wonderland without personal things I thought about how she would really try to blend in in the school setting. I think Crowley wouldn't even be so kind to offer a proper fitting uniform. So Yuunise would have to take matters into her own hands, crafting with her very poor sewing skills a blazer, adjusting it better to her slender frame and a skirt with some old curtains found in Ramshackle.

- Underneath, I decided to just give her a white shirt, a tie and some safety shorts because this girl will run everywhere and there's no place for casualties. She also has a pocket watch that she keeps in the pocket of her white shirt (there's no cellphone until book 4...so that would do)

- She has a ribbon on her right arm, made out of the same curtain from her skirt. She has a pin with the NRC symbol.

- On her right leg she has a scar from a burn. Grim's fault on the prologue...she hates the scar so she wraps it up as best as she could and feigns ignorance when people ask about it.

- For her shoes I just gave her some brown mini boots, small heels to add more height to her small ahh. And to finish just some white socks!

I really like this design, it took me a couple concepts until I finally came to like it. I'll have to redraw some of my references and work on a full sprite soon:)

[thejojosanctuary]

Been working on a some redraws of my old art since late last year so I thought I'd post a couple! Still messing around with styles and stuff but it's fun.

You'll probably find Mista and the first doodle's originals in the older parts of my art tag I think these guys turned out much better than the firsts! I'll probably post some more stuff soon when I dig em up.

Also unrelated but 7th Stand user my beloved I should really get back into playing it 🧡🧡

[applesandbannas747]

i wanna hear your thoughts on the fence challengers: long shot preview pages if you want to share!

oh mAN I have so many and they are all over the place!!

The first one is a little thing, but I bet Seiji had a crush on Marcus Washington when he was a kid--Nick's horror, Harvard's teasing, and Seiji's indignant blush imply as much.

And a fun fact, Jo posted a mini preview of baby Seiji to Patreon on February 14th...maybe I'm reading into it too much, but that's nothing new XD

Next couple of things are about the scene with the trophy case. It was really interesting and fun to see side-by-side redraws of Robert! It really illustrates the way the style has evolved, and also I gOTTA say it feels like Jo is more invested in Robert based on the level of detail she put in--like it's not just a style comparison, it's also just obvious a lot of attention was put into these shots when a) she could have just reused old shots (which she's done before, so I know it was an option), or kept it more simplified like she did when drawing the original shots.

I also think it's sweet that the redraws have Robert looking much more like Jesse than the originals.

And I am sure I will get flack for this, but I have incredible second-hand embarrassment from Nick leaving his newspaper clipping + note in the trophy case jfhdasl like bestieee noooo anyone can see that shit now oh my god please stooop

Onto some Nichoji thoughts! I love that Seiji's been confirmed as a before-bed reader! Him having a Kindle makes sense for the sheer efficiency of it too lmfao. Of course it's also adorable to see him in reading glasses <3 And then my favorite detail is Nick's stupid nightlight...notice where it is?

Rather than illuminating Nick's side of the room, it's peeking around the curtain and lighting up Seiji's reading, which is beyond adorable and sweet. I wonder whether Seiji stole it or Nick put it there knowing Seiji likes to read before bed, and I love both scenarios.

Also, it's fucking adorable that as soon as Nick mentions their date appointment, Seiji takes off his glasses and lowers his Kindle because it's got his full attention and investment.

And a quick pitstop to the locker rooms!

I like the visual metaphor here with Aiden and Bobby both very casual about changing and both literally having their shirts open; meanwhile, Seiji's straightening the cuffs on his button-down, which is already neatly tucked in and complete with his tie. It just highlights how Seiji's a lot more closed off than the others, and I think this was a neat trick to remind us of that.

In regards to plot, I'm still...really disappointed in the pacing. I know most people feel like it's a slowburn/it's taken a long time to develop, but if you waited to read Fence at all until it was complete and then read it all in one sitting, I think you'd see how unbalanced it is. Williams says that their first match will be in three weeks back right after tryouts:

which means everything between issue 12 and CHALLENGERS has happened in 3 weeks. Seiji and Nick's relationship is so sweet and cute, but it went from resentful rivalry to puppy love overnight with very little 'screen time' dedicated to the actual transition from resentment to friends (which I could write a whole essay on but this is not the post for that lmfao). Furthermore, the fact that it's the first match of State Championships rather than first match of the season is crazy to me. I'll admit, I didn't fence in high school--it wasn't even an option because we didn't have a team. And despite hours of research, the structure of high school team fencing is not entirely clear to me. However, I do know that typical high school sports go through the season, facing every other team in their division or whatever. Based on performance in those matches, they can qualify for state, and then their win ratio determines their seeding order for the state championships that happen in like 1-2 days. Seeding order is who you go up against in a bracket, so it's what this diagram is, basically:

(side note, but it appears there are 24 schools competing at state). Again, fencing could be different, but it kinda seems to me like we skipped over the season and went right to State Championships, which just cuts out so much development and build-up. It's like we're speed-running the entire story to get to the end faster. We cut out showing the development in the romance, and now we're cutting out the development of the plot. There's still plenty that we can do at state, of course, but imagine how much more it would mean to see Nick fencing in front of Robert if we'd built that up more. I just don't understand how we spent 12 issues on try outs, 4 on a practice match, 8 on camp, and none on the fencing season. It feels so abrupt and unbalanced. Tryouts and camp were my favorites arcs because they felt pretty well-paced as self-contained pieces of the story. I just feel like we needed waaaaay more relationship development between those two arcs to be satisfying, and I feel like there should be waaaaay more build up during the fencing season between camp and State Championships.

and now, the moment you've all been waiting for: my devastation over Eugene's role (???) in the story. I honestly question why he's in the story at all--at this point, it would have made more sense to have him flat-out not make the team. Except that keeping him this long lowkey backs up the theory I've had on his role since Striking Distance/RIVALS: Eugene is here to make everyone else look better/cooler/more impressive. The very first thing that struck me when reading the first look was this:

The dialogue here suggests that only one reserve actually gets to be on the team in the end, and the reserve is Nick. And, worse, everyone expected it to be Nick. Sure, it's sweet that Seiji thinks Nick's the better fencer, but all I can think about is how hard Eugene's worked for ten years trying to make the team as opposed to Nick's three months of fencing. Now, I love an underdog story. But it's interesting because Pacat stated in an interview (I'd have to go find where for the specific quote) that he always feels bad for the person who's been working to be #1 their whole lives only to be knocked out of the running by an upstart underdog--which I've always assumed would influence the path taken in Fence...and it seems like we may well let Seiji and Jesse remain above Nick in skill (or at least it seems like we won't be dethroning Seiji, even if we go for Jesse), but Nick's overcoming smaller obstacles. And those smaller obstacles hurt worse to see crushed because Eugene almost made the team in a way that mattered, only to have that taken away. It would have been less cruel to him and his fans to let Nick take the reserve slot back in issue 12, but instead we brought Eugene along to serve as a means to make Nick out 'secret weapon' and elevate his story.

I will say though, this page is one of my favorite Eugene moments because I see the character I selfishly want Eugene to be in it. From the context of the panels above, this page is likely Williams telling them that only one will be fencing in State Championships, and this is their reaction. Eugene's immediate concern for Nick and the comforting hand on his shoulder followed by a bright smile and a thumbs up--he just cares so much about other people and it so used to smiling through his own pain/disappointment and comforts Nick through being positive (and as seen back in issue 12, up playing his competitiveness) and acting like it's no big deal.

Eugene deserved better, but if this is where he goes out, I think I can live with it. Better to see him go now than continue to be a means to uplift the rest of team by being less than. but, man, I was really hoping we were turning it around after his moment in REDEMPTION being the only KR boy not to lose his bout

anyway, thank you sm for listening to my rambles!!! <33

[1driedpersimmon]

Do you have any advice for people who might want to get into making comics like yours? I'm always pleasantly surprised by how fast you pump them out and even have other little projects/doodles on the side. How do you keep the quality consistent?

(sorry if this sounds a lil cold (?) i rlly love your peppercakes they r so skrunkly)

First off - Thank you !! I'm honored you like my lil guys and comics hehe! (and no worries on the tone !! I didn't think it sounded cold at all!)

Alright secondly lets see...

Short answer: You really just gotta start and keep going!! Once you start you get the momentum and it gets much easier (like riding a bike, which people like to use as comparison often).

Long answer:

Alright I thought about how to answer for this for a bit and I think I'll break it down to the main aspects.

So timing ! Basically I'm drawing 24/7 (and I'm currently not working as it's an off time for me, but I shall in a week and you will see that my posting frequency will decrease substantially). Ok maybe not 24/7 but I essentially am drawing from the moment I wake up to when I sleep (minus eating, restroom, working out, some errands) and while I do not say this is the key to being better, I'm just realistically displaying how much time I'm spending on drawing. (... one of my new years resolution is to not in fact do that and go out more because I feel like I'm being cooped up in my room a lot haha). But minus the amount of time I spend itself a lot of it has to do with the importance I take in speed drawing. And when I say that I mean quite literally how fast I can draw. AND I think a large part of where that speed comes from is how I like to generalize designs and just my overall process of drawing. (Which, I will not go over now but if you'd like I could make a separate post on how I go about doing my usual sketch, lines, colors, etc) Like, I love ff and all of it's crazy designs but it's so complicated I simplify everything till it's juussstt recognizable, and that's something I feel like really adds to the speed of things.

Also that's sweet of you to say for the quality haha (I always am thinking stuff like ah man this aint it... not my finest work, and then just post anyways cuz who cares I already made it heh)! That being said my quality wasn't alwaysss consistent! Here's an example of my very first "comic" I made for my characters:

And here's the same 4 panels I redrew just about 2 years later:

So I've been basically drawing comics for this for just about 2 years now (will be 2 years officially in a few months) and I most certainly did not get here in one night. I think, as I've mentioned, it's really important to keep up with the comic making (or drawing in general) so that, yes, you can get better, but the way you get better is that it becomes familiar to you. So you can approach concepts and ideas with a more experience. And I think a large part of what holds alot of people back is the idea that "ah I can't do this idea I'm not good enough." So what !! Still do it, I most certainly did it a couple years ago when I barely scribbled my ideas. And then you can totally go back and redraw it ! no "Rule" saying you can't go back and revisit your ideas, like hell even professional artists go back and republish their works with their improved art styles ! (ex. Tokyo Ghoul... even though I don't care for the story, it's still pretty cool! I think he even added more scenes? Anyways..). I think there was that one post going around where it was something like do it scared and that's really REALLY what you gotta do.

And that leads to my final point. You gotta love doing it. I like to make comics because I LOVE my characters, their story, and actually the act of putting it all together into a story, drawn comic, visuals, etc. And, I found my method of loving them. For me, what held me back was the "structure" of comics. I mean you can p much see that the way I like to do things is def not the "traditional" manga/western comic book style right? I won't go as far to say that I "made up this way" of comic making where it's one panel at a time but it certainly worked for me. (I have no idea how many comic wips I have collecting dust in my folders from my earilier days of making this comic where I just gave up 20% of the way in because I really could not vibe with the formatting, but then I figured out I really like to "thumbnail" comics (a result of when I was studying storyboards alot imo) and I went on from there).

This is where I feel like alot of people get stuck too. Where they really do like their ideas, their character, their stories and such, but as soon as they try and go through the process of creating in a certain way... the wind is just instantly taken out of their sails. And while I do believe sometimes you just gotta push through and do it anyways, sometimes that's not the right method to go about it. So instead of brute forcing a method of creation and eventually forming a bad relationship with the process, find a method that works for you. And maybe it doesn't look all that great or good compared to others, but that comes in time and as long as you like doing it, that's what really matters at the end of the day.

Tl;dr: be a lil freak, and lil weird about what you do (this applies to everything, not only art :3)

Alright so I think that's all the points? idk if you still want to ask me stuff, feel free to anytime :) Always happy to share my thoughts!

[monetmightexist]

been thinking a LOT today about the OC that's my pfp today... Cherry Vermella my beloved one day maybe I'll make your visual novel a thing... and get CattyCodes back to voice your gf because they were literally fucking perfect 💔💔💔

mmmm art and rambling below

Baaaasically on Scratch I wanted to make a visual novel called how to be human, where we follow a mind-reader named Prism who's trying to navigate highschool life. She's kept herself seculded from everyone else because she enjoyed observing and writing about their lives rather than being in them--which is why she joined yearbook, a perfect little extracirricular up until she was tasked with interviewing a few students. And then we get a little episodic adventure where she learns about each character and her personality gets affected. I came up with a possible hidden stats thing.. each character revolves around a certain personality trait and it either rubs off on her in a negative or positive way.

For example, Cherry's is Expression. The positive form is confidence, the negative is judgement. These are both things that Cherry herself has, and either/both could rub off on Prism. Of course that takes a lot of coding and I haven't even opened up renpy so who even knows anymore

Anyways all of the characters are based on colors of the rainbow, and we go through them in rainbow order. Cherry, Amber, Daisy, Cricket, Cobalt, Lavender, Crystal. And then there's. Prism. Reflecting all of those personalities to find her own. Do you see what I did do you see how smart i am im a genius thanks for noticing

(Raven's a character too ig but idk how to fit her into the main story anymore. I do think it would be fun to have her as a side character though because the trailer had her thinking: "This is why we bring a pocket knife to school, Raven. Shooters, and the Vermella Group." and I think it would be funny if you could also read Cherry's thought after that of "damn she kinda bad")

This is all the old art I did of her last year. Lav's her totally canon girlfriend guys trust. and yeah the second one is a class of 09 redraw bbuhhh

Cherry was definitely the one I drew the most, despite the fact that I had NO IDEA how to do the front of her hair. I still don't..

but i drew her today anyways.

Yeah all the characters also have supporting friends that are ALSO named after colors. Cherry's got the Vermella group (Carmine, Ruby, and Akari), named after her because she's percieved as some kind of Regina George but like more realistic. If I'm gonna be completely honest her personality it was entirely based on Goodnight Moon's Valley Girl ASMR i swear the mean girl vibes were so on point and creative

She's completely composed and cool usually but sometimes she must also be a raging lesbian. Freaks all her friends out because they're not used to it in the slightest. And also Carmine definitely also has been crushing on her for years but she's a massive bitch so she'll never get a happy ending

She's also not always intentionally mean. She's just not entirely sure how to show genuine concern sometimes. And her friends love to blow the stuff she says out of proportion. A lot of the characters have some miscommunications like this, but since Prism can read their minds and understand immediately, she's someone they're able to warm up to and confide in.

Cherry is the first interview, I wrote a script for it in August last year so happy almost one year guys. Mind you this means that I wrote this in very close proximity to kyec

Sighs and clasps my hands together with a content expression on my face. What the fuck was I on last year

But yeah I made a voice auditions project because for some reason I thought it would work. mainly because I assumed it would take a while for me to get a good amount of auditions, so I'd have a couple months to prepare. This was not the case.

In fact, so many auditions were made in the first week or so that my project ended up on the front page for the amount of remixes it was getting. So then it got even more and more and then by the end of the month I had over 100 auditions to go through. My index cards were the one thing saving my ass so hard

This also resulted in me getting some fanart! Everyone else liked Cherry just as much as me it seems

uhhhhh yeah !

[kiiirtiiiniii]

I love your lineart, how clean and expressive it is! And your little Riebeck comics, they always make me so happy to see

Do you think you could talk a little about your process? I’m working on my own style right now, so I’m asking some of my favorite artists how they create, and how they learned how to create the way they do! Practice, but what kinds? How do you get such lovely doodles and art with such simple shapes?

WOW AAAAHHH thanks for the sweet ask!! I can absolutely do that!

The big overarching answer is exactly what you said & the answer no one wants to hear (I get it lmao): practice, straight up, preferably in a way you can sustain interest in so you can keep it up because inefficient is better than nothing.

I've been drawing since I could smear toddler fingerpaint on a page, so more than 25 years, and I took art classes all through highschool plus a few college level art classes. The things I think I'd recommend specifically over anything else are 1) exploring different mediums and methods (like charcoal on large paper & acrylics on actual canvas, and realism & abstract), even if you use dollar-store tier stuff (nothing wrong with that babey, that's what my fiance and I use for therapy painting!!) and 2) making sure you practice life drawing from photos at the very least, or live models if you can get yourself into a situation where that's an option.

To not just give you what is really common advice that almost feels canned at this point; the reasons I recommend these things specifically! Under a cut so this post isn't 300 years long. lol.

Even if you don't stick with charcoals or paints, trying them out a few times will give you the physical knowledge of how those mediums feel in action. Then, going back to mediums you prefer (maybe pencil and paper or digital like me), you'll understand better how to use the tip of the pencil at different angles, or the weird painterly brushes in your toolbar, and what things they can achieve for you re: sharp lines, gradients, gestural effects, blending, etc.

And again, even if you don't do abstract or realism or whatever style very often or at all, you'll know how it feels to slap shapes and colours down quickly and emotionally (nothing like capturing a raw feeling in colour), or the process of studying a photo so thoroughly you see and draw details you never noticed before (the way shadows are tinted by light bouncing around, for example), and you can apply that to something you find more engaging, like maybe character art (that's my MO I love drawing little guys lol).

Finally, life drawing, literally the most important way to practice and also quite possibly the most booooring. You have to find a way to apply it that makes you interested. I love making fast, sharp, innacurate lines, and I love taking my time drawing a perfect shape. I combine those by getting the essence of a pose down from a photo or my fucked up lil brain with gestural lines, then erasing and redrawing with more careful strokes until it looks right.

THAT specifically, is bad advice. Just erasing and redoing until something "looks right", but that's what I do and it's why it takes me 6 hours to sketch a comic page. But I'm not doing this for money and I probably never will, so it works for me. If it works for you, too, that's sick!! It's the lazy way to do it lol. You're SUPPOSED to do studies until you KNOW how things are shaped and how the lines should fall, so you can get it in a couple tries. More work for more payoff, right? That's how comic artists spit out like 2 or 3 pages a day.

A couple more things I found really helpful while I was learning (i say as if im not still learning and will be until i die): youtube tutorials (not joking) and blind-trace-reference-blind studies (I'll explain).

I don't have any reccs for you with the youtube tutorials because I did all that when I was younger and I cannot for the life of me remember who the hell I was watching, but it was a lot of different artists from professional to amateur to beginner sharing tips and tricks they found helpful. Top ten tips for artists kind of stuff. It's why I draw lightning bolt limbs and other sketch skeleton stuff like ball heads and guidelines to orient facial features. I hated that shit before I realized how much it actually genuinely helps.

Blind-trace-reference-blind studies are not called that but I don't know what they're actually called so whatever lol. It's really simple: you pick some specific thing (like a great white shark) and draw it 4 times: First blind, without a reference, purely from memory. Then, directly tracing a reference image (if you can). Then drawing normally from a reference. Last, drawing blind again without a reference. Then compare the first and last drawings for fun :3c

It's a good way to reassure yourself that you can improve and the studying and practice isn't useless, and it's also a good way to actually learn very specific stuff. The process can also be simplified down to blind-reference-stylize, where the last step isn't blind but instead drawing the subject in your style/simplified for speed and ease. I did this recently with hearthian mouths because they were pissing me off lol.

Very last advice: DRAW SHIT BAD AND OFTEN

Draw your favourite characters, draw your prescription bottles, draw your friends, draw your breakfast, draw them all really bad but try to capture the details even if it looks like shit, especially if it looks like shit. Fill a fancy sketchbook you got for your holiday of choice with garbage-tier doodles and never let it see the light of day. Scribble in your art program and then delete it!! Art isn't sacred, it's human, and you have to do it the way you do other human things like cooking and socializing; badly, often, and eventually well enough you can enjoy the results :D

Thanks again for the ask, hopefully I answered in a way that helps you figure things out and improve :] This was fun to answer <3333

[stepswowdsen]

【KagePro】 KuroEne Wearing Traditional Clothing & Saeru (MR2) Redesign Ideas 💙🖤🐍🐰

Summary:

Saeru (MR2) Redesign Ideas

KuroEne wearing Vietnamese traditional clothing (Việt Phục)

KuroEne wearing Chinese traditional clothing (Huafu)

Rambles that I originally wrote in September 2024.

I'll write an add-on post soon.

Something something, I feel like doing a Kuroha/Saeru MR2 (Manga Route 2) redesign with more influence from EA/SEA traditional clothes.

I'll come up with a main outfit for him to wear, inspired by JP traditional clothing and Azami's outfit.

And then I'll draw him wearing VN and CN traditional clothing on the side.

Ofc they'll be inspired by the look of VN and CN traditional clothing.

Inspiration

I got inspired to do a Saeru MR2 redesign after seeing this lovely Saeru MR2 redesign by @/dirtsooop that takes more inspiration from Azami and Tsukihiko and keeps some elements of his OG design 🖤❤️

I really love the shapes used for his hair. His hair looks so fluffy! And the choice of X-shaped locks (that resemble Azami's hair) is amazing too 💞

I love the pointy horns too... Reminds me of devil/demon horns.

It reminds me of how villains tend to be designed with pointy shape language because it indicates a sense of danger.

I loooove how she gave him X-shaped intertwining locks that resemble Azami's hair. Such a neat design choice.

Love the white bandages around his arms and hands too 🥰

The more traditional inspired outfit with longer sleeves (that takes more from Azami's outfit) looks so lovely on him... It fits him so well, especially since he's an ancient being. I love the interpretation that he'd take more influence from his creator's appearance/look.

Rambles

Rambles I had with Feila.

WIP for now since I've been busy with school. I haven't drawn clothes on him yet, so I cropped it for now.

Gonna redraw the MR2 form's hair later.

Every masc chara I draw getting the buff-ification (or at least looking more muscular) cuz of Douman is sooo funny to me.

Though it's funny how some EA/SEA fan artists draw Saeru buffer than I do.

Cuz I fuck with everything on this design EXCEPT for the crop top.

I love the black snake scales on his face, the cute little tufts of hair and black horns, the braid in the back that looks like a scorpion's tail like Judar's, red sclera and red gradient limbs, and the white sash with bloodstains on it.

Since Azami is Saeru's creator, I'll be incorporating more of Azami's traditional clothes inspired outfit onto his design~

Since the slit in Azami's outfit also reminds me of some Viet traditional clothes like Áo dài ("Long dress")

I do appreciate Mahiro’s work, but I'm not a fan of the manga art style by Satou Mahiro cuz the art is weak and undynamic.

Iirc, Sidu designed Kuroha/Saeru's MR2 design, so I REALLY wanna see her concept art sketches one day.

I love how Sayuki draws his MR2 design in the Children Record Re:boot MV since the inking is really good.

I'm thinking of doing a Kuroha/Saeru MR2 (Manga Route 2) form redesign that's loosely inspired by EA/SEA traditional clothes

I'd like to draw alts of him wearing Vietnamese traditional clothes and Chinese traditional clothes.

Azami's outfit is inspired by Japanese traditional clothing.

The slit in Azami's outfit does lowkey remind me of áo dài ("long dress")

KuroEne wearing Việt Phục

I have more ideas about this ofc but I'll put it in a separate post.

I wanna draw KuroEne in matching couple clothes (Vietnamese traditional clothes) 🖤💙

Imagine KuroEne in Vietnam wearing Việt Phục (Vietnamese traditional clothes) 🥺💞💗💖

I'd imagine that Saeru would wear black Áo giao lĩnh (Cross collared dress) and Ene would wear blue Áo Tấc (Ceremonial dress)

My skrunklies going on a vacation in my home country would be peak comfort for me~

I'd love to see them wear Việt Phục while in Vietnam's historical sights and gorgeous landscapes!

I want Ene to wear the gorgeous fairy style Áo Tấc with translucent sleeves! My wife would look absolutely gorgeous WAHHH 😭💞💘💓

Kuroha/Saeru would fit really well with the last one (painting)

I love the black and white, and gold embroiderings.

The black one is SO Saeru-core RAHHH

KuroEne wearing Hanfu

I haven't picked hanfu for them yet, but I'd imagine Kuroha would wear black hanfu (with accent colours like silver, white, gold, red)

Ene would wear blue hanfu (with accent colours like white and black)

It'd be cool if he wore thin white pibo (披帛), hanfu scarves/accessories.

It'd be reminiscient to his MR2 design.

I want it to flow around him and have an exaggerated shape language/silhouette like a snake 🐍

I'm planning to draw that in my Saeru MR2 redesign (cuz I don't feel like drawing the top and bottom part of the canon outfit, so I'm just gonna draw what I want)

F: > Your art

Cunty ahh pose also good luck with it :D

The crop top aspect (of the canon MR2 design) is a bit weird, but it's unique to me to I let it slide this time

Me: Yeah I was just thinking that for my future KuroEne arts, I don't feel like drawing the crop top so I'll just make up my own design

Also the canon MR2 outfit is confusing/hard to draw since we don't have coloured refs for it.

It's hard to tell what's going on with the bottom part of the design tbh since it's just inked in black

I'll continue the WIP later, I can tell you about the ideas I wanna draw irt KuroEne wearing traditional clothes (traditional Viet clothes)

So with the slit in Azami's outfit, I was thinking of taking inspirations from EA/SEA traditional clothing

Azami moved to and settled in Japan, and wears a more traditional esque outfit

So I was thinking of drawing Saeru in VN and CN traditional clothing as my alt designs.

I'd take inspirations from Việt Phục (traditional Vietnamese clothing) and Huafu (traditional Chinese clothing)

I'll see which ones fit the best. It'll be fun to experiment with different clothing designs.

He can just change his clothes with Awakening Eyes.

Though I'll keep Saeru's high collar, since he has it in both forms.

I'll also keep his MR2 form's scorpion tail shaped braids.

Việt Phục Rambles

This type of Việt Phục is called Áo dài ("Long dress"), it has a high slit around the waist.

Áo ngũ thân ("Five part dress") is the predecessor/ancestor to the Áo dài. It has 5 pieces/panels of fabric sewn together, compared to the Áo dài's 2 panels

Áo Tấc ("10 cm dress") is a type of Áo ngũ thân ("Five part dress"). It's the formal version with wide baggy loose sleeves

Áo Tấc is also called Áo tế (Ritual/Ceremonial dress). It's a Việt phục (VN traditional clothing) originally worn in the Nguyễn dynasty, but modern renditions are being made

Name comes from:

1 Tấc = 10 cm, width of the bound seam

I have the purple and pink Áo Tấc myself 🥰💗

Since Azami's outfit has loose baggy sleeves, I want him to have longer sleeves too hehe

Áo tứ thân ("Four part dress") is a dress that originates from Northen Vietnam. It has a skirt and sashes tied around the waist

The big hat is called Nón quai thao ("Wide flat palm hat with fringes/strap tassels"). It can basically be worn with any Việt Phục.

I really like the look of Áo tứ thân's sashes tied around the waist, so I'll also consider it... I think I wanna draw him in it eventually.

This outfit is traditionally femme, but Viet men's fashion isn't as diverse as Viet women's fashion (at least from what I've noticed), so I'm just gonna take inspo from it anyways

Forgot to ramble about Áo Giao Lĩnh ("Cross collared robe")

It looks similar to hanfu but is distinctly different

F: Interesting

I love the purple ones

The colours fit my taste :D

Trưng Sisters (FGO)

I can't believe that FGO, which is super hit or miss with designs (and in general), gave me the first Viet rep in popular animanga + games (related works)

The Trưng Sisters, Hai Bà Trưng ("Two Sisters [Named] Trưng"), Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị are drawn by Pokemon Sun/Moon, Sword/Shield, and Legends Arceus' main character designer: Takegarou (Take)

And because the artist is Takegarou, they have wonderful designs

Take's designs are very diverse and tasteful

They have a GREAT aesthetic sense. The colours are so good.

God bless that their artist was Takegarou, cuz if it was anyone else I could've easily gotten some ugly obnoxious fanservice incel gooner bait.

And I would've been like "Typical Fate /neg"

Trưng Sisters' Ascensions (Outfit Inspirations)

AC1: More modern type of áo dài (long dress) + nón lá (conical leaf hat). Can be worn casually or formally. In some places, it's a school uniform.

AC2: Maybe the áo yếm (undergarment) + áo tứ thân (four-part dress)

AC3: More traditional type of áo dài. Compared to the modernized áo dài (which was tightened to accentuate curves), it's more modest and is longer in length (drapes to the floor)

(These are my speculations)

Also I'm pointing these out cuz I LOVE the wavy pattern Take drew with AC2's áo tứ thân inspired outfit, the pointy wavy ends.

That'd be so cool to do with Kuroha/Saeru since Awakening Eyes' power manifests in the form of a black aura or black snakes for him, so it'd be fun to have his clothes and aura make swirly pointed shapes like that around his feet.

F: Wooawee, it's nice to learn more about Viet culture :D

I've always loved Femme traditional outfits.

So you're gonna draw Kuroha wearing Áo dài?

Me: Glad it's interesting to learn about 🥰💗 I love learning about traditional clothes. I'll probably draw my faves wearing all kinds of traditional clothes in the future.

I guess for my design of Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothing, I'll be drawing whatever I feel like.

It'll have the slits of the Áo dài and its shape but it'll have bigger sleeves like Áo Tấc.

Probably gonna redraw the hair later but here's a WIP for now.

F: Oooohhh. Hell yeah, turn this man into a modest gay bastard

Me: <333

F: I'm scared of people who draw the parts of the body before the clothes. I just cover it with clothes

Me: Sometimes I do either or! Depends on what I feel like. It makes sense for people to draw the body first since they have the overall gesture/silhouette so they can just draw clothes on top. Sometimes tho I just feel like sketching quickly so I draw the clothes on right away

Me: The thin long scarf that's worn with hanfu is called Pibo (披帛)

One of the biggest examples of a chara I can think of with a chara who has a hanfu shawl like this is my wife Kougyoku (Magi)

Japanese deities, gods, celestial beings, etc., tend to be depicted with Tenne (纏衣/天衣) and Hagoromo (羽衣)

Iirc, in animanga and video games, supernatural beings. like deities, gods, demons, youkai, etc., tend to be depicted with them.

Me: Because on Kuroha's MR2 design, he has the white sash with blood stains on it.

I was thinking it'd be really cool for Kuroha to have a thin long scarf like this that surrounds him, similar to the white snake-like projections in Mary's queen (Medusa) form.

Now that I think about it, it'd be cool for him to have black horns.

Reminds me of oni...

Also the masks worn by Kabuki and Noh actors to depict oni (demons)

Saeru Hebi is like a sleep paralysis demon, after all 🥰💖

...

F: HANFU MENTIONED.

I'd kill to wear one

Me: THEY'RE SOOOO NICE TO WEAR...

I got a Judar colours themed hanfu back in 2023 and it's sooo pretty omg 😭🖤❤️

F: I NEVER WORE ONE.

I'm gonna sob

The last time I wore a traditional clothing was for a school event, and it was a Kebaya (quite tacky to wear but I love the look it gave me)

Me: I'm finally getting better at tying the wrap around skirt (qun)

(Not posting my own pics due to privacy so I'll just post the previews from the site I got it from)

F: LLAHDKSJS IT LOOKS GORGEOUS

(Both person and Hanfu www)

Me: It's also my headcanon hanfu for Judar so now I match with my fave 🐈‍⬛🖤❤️

I based my Judar (Magi) hanfu HC design on this one!

F: I mean... at least I could tell he's Chinese with that outfit on

Me: Yeah I'm definitely not drawing certain Magi charas in their canon outfits 😭

The racial stereotyping and colourism are my biggest criticisms of Magi.

Also even aside from orientalism, the racially stereotyped/orientalist outfits in Magi are just mad ugly 😭

Judar looks so good in hanfu. Should've been his canon clothes!

F: I just can't draw abs so if I ever need to draw a canonically half naked guy? Give him a shirt

Me: Yeah drawing buff men takes practice

F: Tbh Saeru fits more with the buff body type. While Dark Konoha fits more with the... average teenage boy body type

Me: Oh yeah they're technically both twinks in canon, but I'm just gonna draw both with a more muscular body type.

Now every masc chara I draw gets the buff-ification treatment cuz of Douman

Me: Oh yeah they're technically both twinks in canon but I'm just gonna draw both with a more muscular body type

F: IT DOESN'T FIT SAERU THO. HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE INTIMIDATING AND MONSTROUS.

Me: Technically both designs are Saeru/Black Konoha, but yeah I feel like he should be more muscular in comparison to someone weak and wimpy like Shintaro /lh

F: THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.

Mahiro did great but, I need him to look more intimidating

Me: I appreciate Mahiro's work, but, since I'm not really a fan of the manga's art, I also need him to look hotter.

Where's our hot snake demon man /lh

Thank god we got MR2 Kuroha/Saeru by Sayuki.

But I also wanna see Sidu's sketches since she designed it

F: At least Sae is safe from SHAFT

Me: HADHSHDSH YEAH...

F: > Sayuki's MR2 Saeru

It was only for a brief moment, what a rip off

Me: Right... And all the frames in the Children Record Re:boot MV are covered by text smh

F: And Shit Place’s trademark expires in 2028

Society really wants me to keep living

[ja2m0n]

Can I know more about ur mcsm au?? The art and comic drafts are great but I don’t know what the au part of it is… keep it up tho I’m following along!!!

Thank you so much for asking! I'll be covering the overall comic im making and the ideas i have in stored for it. ive been collecting ideas and things that others like for the past couple of years and putting it into this comic, but anyways! 

My MCSM epilogue AU is focused on the aftermath of season 2 and picking it up where it left off with my little twist as well with the fandoms likings of headcannons. In this series, Jesse is still being controlled by the gauntlet dispite it not being under romeos control nor on Jesses hand, the gauntlet has its own thoughts and is being controlled by the idea of adminizing Jesse. Throughout the series, youll be able to see him slowly become into one, there will be betrayal, friendship, and romance (not heavy based)

Using the Radar arc focuses on betrayal and friendship. 

Most of the characters show will be:

Jesse

Petra

Aiden

Romeo

Radar

Stella

it consists of Jesse trying to figure out weither or not he has done the right decision for not convincing Petra to stay at Beacontown. Upset at himself, he beings infuriated, wanting to see Petra to at least "convince" to her. throughout the arc, Jesse slowly turns into an admin without knowing that he is (except for the way he acts). Jesse becomes weary of the people around him and isolated himself, radar being the only source of the outside. not trying to be removed as his intern, he would become angry at anyone who wont follow under Jesse. Jesse opens up to Radar more snd more, talking about Lukas which goes into the second arc

The gauntlet is the source of Jesses admin powers but why is that? The gauntlet never left Jesses side, it remains under his skin, slowly taking him over and making him into an Admin slowly.

provide image here from 2020(?) (will not use)

Who Are You arc focuses on romance (not heavy based) and betrayal 

Most of the characters show will be:

Jesse

Lukas

Radar

Petra

Jack

Romeo

Jesses true nature begins to arise and most catch. of course except for Radar, still loyal and not giving up. Since the isolation, Jesse gets tired and sends an invite to Lukas to help him convince Petra.

Using the Radar arc will take at least this year to finish , or eariler depending how much i can do. so for now i leave you this, the closer we get ro Who Are You arc, the more information ill drop wink wink. Thank you for this question once again!

unused redraw of the first comic panels

poster for the first arc wip

[stepswordsen]

【Multifandom】 Sen's Doodle Log 💗

Doodle compilation post.

KHR AU: Nguyễn Selena (Nguyễn Nguyệt Vân Liên) 💜🪷

2024 vs. 2025

Selena is my Viet NB KHR OC. A soft and gentle person with a modest personality. Calm and aloof, but will open up more around people she's comfortable with. Gets rambly when talking about her interest in plants and fashion.

Likes fashion, historical fashion, and collecting traditional clothes, cute and pretty clothes (ex. girly fashion, lolita, etc.), and learning about plants (ex. plants, flowers, poisons, poisonous plants) and collecting them. Has her own personal garden.

As an assassin, she specializes in poison, and has plants that respond to her emotions to assist her in fights. I mainly ship her with Xanxus, the leader of the Varia ❤️💜

I have a lot more to say since I'm very passionate about her, but I will put Selena's info sheet in its own dedicated post.

Started resketching Selena's hair a bit. I'm pretty picky about my art, especially since I want to capture my beloved wife's beauty.

I want Selena's concept art to have a clearer silhouette and good shapes. I'll eventually redraw the rest of it, but I started with the hair for now.

I want Selena to have those wavy strands on the side. Looks very cute!

I had the lines as the 2nd one I was worried the 2 curls near her two front long strands would be hard to replicate, so I think these recent doodles are closer to what I wanted. I'll sketch a bunch, and pick the one I like most!

Also cuz I always imagined Selena to have a back of random hair strands in the back so I wanted to make space for that. I want her hair to be perfectly fluffy looking...

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Gonna disable reblogs on these. Just putting these WIPs here so my followers can know what I've been up to art-wise for the past couple months

I was debating whether to tag but might as well. Doodle batch of several months worth (not all of them, but the ones I like most)

When I get the chance to refine these more, I'll put them into separate posts!

I would like to draw my fave ships soon, both in my usual style and cartoony style! 🙏

Magi: Judar wearing hanfu 🖤❤️🐈‍⬛ Magi: JuAli x Unfriendly Hater

Posting my fave Judar doodles here~

In my HCs, Judar wears a type of hanfu called Ruqun (襦裙). Ru (襦) is the cross-collared top of a hanfu, and the wrap-around skirt is called Qun (裙). The coat jacket is called Da Xiu Shan (大袖衫)

I love the expressions on these… I wanna resketch the hair and clothes sometime

I did tentative rain drop earrings for him but it'd be cool if he had gold and red earrings (gold with a red jewel) or snowflake/icicle themed earrings since Judar is an ice magic user

The 1st one I wanna use as a ref sheet eventually for my HC design of him in hanfu. I've been preferring to roughly block out the shape of his braids since Ohtaka draws his braids in a very stylized way. Obviously I'm gonna redraw it neater eventually but stylizing it this way honestly makes it way easier to draw.

I was trying to experiment with how I draw his hair. I also drew these which are interesting to see but the first two look the best

The other ones are interesting, but I think the 1st one captures the vibes more. I think I like the OG best but I'll be incorporating aspects from the others when I refine it.

Been redrawing the hair cuz I wanna settle on a hair shape I like.

I got recommendations to sketch via silhouettes first. It has interesting results :o

I got reminded that some people use lasso tool for quickly blocking in shapes so I tried that. I'll play around with it more sometime, but I like the clearer shapes.

I tend to get caught up in smaller details and always try to see if I can improve on my previous versions, and I like redrawing for fun

I still like the first one too ^^ Sketching with silhouettes was a nice change of pace, I should try it more often.

I like how spiky the hair looks in the 1st one. I think it fits the best.

I'm planning for the 1st one to be a concept art ref sheet. I wanna commission arts of JuAli with my headcanon designs eventually, so I wanna have clean refs available.

Planning to add ice and snowflake patterns on his hanfu, and possibly a Chinese ice dragon.

I wanna give him icicle or snowflake shaped earrings!

These Judar doodles are some of my fave doodles I've done...

I would like to clean up the 2nd one sometime!

I resketched his hair a lot cuz I wanted the perfect shape for it...

For both Selena and Judar, I sketched a lot more than what I posted. I just picked out the ones that looked the best to me.

I think the 1st one looks the best and has the best silhouette, so I decided to go with that. The others look cute too though!

I'd like to draw Alibaba soon for the Unfriendly Hater (Vocaloid song) crossover!!

I am also planning to draw JuAli soon, both in my usual style and in my recent chibi/cartoony style!

KagePro: Kuroha/Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothes (2024) 🖤💛🐍

I originally sketched this in October.

Haven't drawn his clothes yet but I plan to make him wear Viet clothes…

Something something I feel like doing a Kuroha/Saeru MR2 (Manga Route 2) redesign with more influence from traditional clothes (including Viet traditional clothes). WIP for now since I've been busy with school. I haven't drawn clothes on him yet.

I think I will resketch Saeru's pose in the 1st one eventually. I originally drew it in October. I'm planning for this doodle to be Kuroha/Saeru wearing Viet traditional clothes.

Cuz I fuck with everything on this design EXCEPT for the canon design's crop top. I love the black snake scales on his face, the cute little tufts of hair and black horns, the braid in the back that looks like a scorpion's tail like Judar's, red sclera and red gradient limbs, and the white sash with bloodstains on it.

Since Azami is Saeru's creator, I'll be incorporating more of Azami's traditional clothes inspired outfit onto his design~ Since the slit in Azami's outfit also reminds me of some Viet traditional clothes like Áo dài ("Long dress")

Pretty indecisive how I want to draw his hair, but I settled on the 1st one since it looked the best to me.

It has better weight to them and I like the roundness + spikes combined. The pose is tentative for now too

I'm planning to draw both the normal form and MR2 (Manga Route 2) form with this outfit.

I haven't decided how I want to draw the MR2 version hair yet

Picked my faves of my hair attempts.

I'm gonna redraw Saeru's MR2 (Manga Route 2) version's hair at some point.

I love both of Saeru's forms, but I still need to get good at drawing it.

I feel like I'm MUCH better at drawing the usual Black Konoha form

I love Saeru with black painted nails HC~ It just feels so natural 😌

I think in MR2 Saeru's design, the horns are blunt to match the shape of Black Konoha's usual headphones.

I think MR2 Saeru with black pointy horns looks cute! I like how it evokes a devil's image.

Fits him since villains are usually designed with pointy shapes and sharp shape language since it evokes a feeling of danger.

Though it'd be fun to play around with the shapes of his horns!

KagePro: Femme Kuroha/Saeru (2025) 🖤💛🐍

I drew my buff NB genderfluid Saeru HC!

I like thinking of femme Saeru having rather messy hair and a long ponytail in the back that's wavy like a snake shape…

I didn't want her hair to look too round so I kept the usual bangs, but made her hair messy.

I tried re-imagining my buff NB genderfluid Kuroha/Saeru HC!

It's my HC design of femme Saeru

I drew the bottom one much quicker so it's not as refined but it gets the idea down

Since Kuroha/Saeru can use Awakening Eyes to change his body to whatever he pleases, and is able to rebuild its body completely, I imagine Saeru switches between genders and has a fluid sense of self. Though he has a certain affinity to being masc-aligned. Mainly presents as masc.

Most femme Saeru fan designs I see have her as more cutesy femme with a skirt, but I wanted her to have a more ikemen look and still look really menacing and dangerous.

My friend Feila said they think it fits genderfluid femme Saeru to be more androgynous and still wear the usual clothes with the pants and boots

KagePro: KuroEne 🖤💙🐍🐇 Like a snake possessive over its gold. 🐍🐇🍎💛

So my idea was KuroEne with Ene with artistic/barbie doll esque nudity after she first gained her cyber body and snake mark texture imprints inspired off the X-ray arts by Sidu.

And I wanted to a cut-in shot of draw Kuroha/Saeru biting into a golden apple which symbolizes immortality 🍎💛

I think it’s interesting cuz this kind of piece would also convey Kuroha/Saeru’s obsessiveness and possessiveness as a character. Both over what he doesn’t want to let go at all costs (pseudo immortality), and his S/O.

I also like to think of it as Kuroha/Saeru leaving his marks on his S/O throughout the time loops with how he keeps memories of past Routes (timelines)

Like a snake possessive over its gold (immortality) 🐍🍎💛

I haven't drawn Kuroha yet, so I just drew Ene for now in a more chibi esque style. Might play around with the brushes...

Been thinking of a potential KuroEne art piece with Ene with artistic nudity/Barbie doll esque nudity where it's Ene right after she gained her cyber body with snake scale marks/texture imprints on her body (on her thighs and wrists, etc.) and in the background shot is a side profile shot of Kuroha/Saeru holding and biting into a golden apple

I was inspired by the concept of using an “X-ray to see fingerprints” 🩻

And the bite marks too... Hehehehe

WATGBS AU: Idate

2023 vs. 2024

Thank god I haven't lost the ability to draw him 🙏 I'm glad to see he still adapts to my style well with the thickly lined eyelashes/underlashes now 😌🐬🖤🤍💙

I'm kinda surprised that he's one of the easiest charas for me to draw of my meow meow mf faves to draw despite the spiky hair. He and Kuroha/Saeru are the easiest for me

Think it's cuz I finally settled on a hair shape for him that's easily readable, has a recognizable shape. Bigger shapes are generally easier to read. I love the thin spikes at the top/bottom, and the big wide spikes in the middle. Creates nice visual contrast.

Just scribbled the clothes for now cuz my main concern is making the face look nice first. I will resketch the hair later

Shaman King: Asakura Hao ❤️🔥👑⭐

2022 vs. 2025

"But one day, you'll be mine..."

Based on SK: Ch. 135 - Hao proposes to Ren to join him.

I've been cycling back into my SK: HaoRen AU lately because I miss them... Hao and Ren are my top fave SK charas. HaoRen is my fave SK ship 😌❤️💜 I also love HoroRen and RenMei too! 💗

Quickly redrew an old doodle. I'm trying to get used to drawing SK charas in my style... I wanted to draw that one scene of Hao telling Ren, "But one day, you'll be mine..."

I wanna draw HaoRen in both my usual style and cartoony style.

I'm usually into Protagonist/Antagonist ships (as long as they have interesting compelling dynamics and make sense) cuz I always tend to prefer ships with more contrast (and cuz 2 meow meow mfs together usually tend to clash in unappealing ways imo)

I always go for Evil Meow Meow Mf x Soft empathetic S/O with a brighter disposition (ex. LimGuda (FGO), JuAli (Magi), XanLena (KHR AU), KuroEne (KagePro), IdaTatsu (WATGBS AU))

I love Sun/Moon/Eclipse, Light/Darkness (Darkness/Shadow cannot exist without light), Yin/Yang, Protagonist/Antagonist, Protagonist/Rival, Opposites Attract, Seemingly Opposites - Deep Down So Similar, Narrative Opposites/Parallels, Angel/Devil, Soulmates ™️ ships

However... HaoRen is so tasty.

HaoRen, a ship between 2 meow meow mfs, is the perfect rare pair ship in SK for me between my top fave characters, so it is my fave SK ship. It is extremely Sen-core.

Antagonist x Antagonist, King/Lord x Vassal/Retainer, Evil x Edgelord, Charming x Cold

Sign me up!!!

Akechi Goro (Persona 5) x Additional Memory (KagePro) ❤️🥀🏮

Original MV: by Sidu

2019 vs. 2025

Lyrics

I made the mistake of holding you, of wishing; flashing images of luxury

Beyond the evening calm, I light a red light to make a note of our love

Disappearing, rotting

My true feelings melted

In a story where proof that I lived is forbidden

OG doodles are from 2019 - 2020. 1st one just uses a SS from the Additional Memory MV for the BG

I'm just gonna post this here rn cuz it's still a WIP. I keep forgetting to post here oops

Context:

(P5R: Spoiler warning in rambles)

Additional Memory is my 2nd fave KagePro MV and song.

My fave KagePro song is Outer Science (KagePro's Bad End of the Music Route with Saeru killing everyone), which was my gateway into KagePro :)

See the song MV: Here

Read about the song's lore context: Here

The OG one is from 2019 and it looks so doodoo.

I just drew over an SS of the original Additional Memory MV by Sidu cuz I didn't want to draw the Engine Room, etc.

I enjoy how I draw hair and eyes now!

"Revolving lantern" -> Phenomenon of your life flashing before your eyes before death

The song is morbid and has such repressed yearning/longing, I think is so fitting for Akechi.

I assume Sidu is using Blender + Ad*be After Effects (or something similarly powerful) to do the 3D effects with the moving desks and Chrysanthemums (Kiku)

I LOVE THIS MV SM IT'S SO GOOD…

That's why I had a vision of it as a crossover as Akechi's POV with subtle AkeShu...

So so so delicious with the 3rd semester's context and Akechi's feelings towards Joker and denying his own feelings.

THE SONG PICK IS SO PERFECT RAHHH LIKE THE LYRICS AND VISUALS FIT PERFECTLY

Good night to my red heroes with a "corruption" arc where they feel so cornered to pursue their goals they stray off the beaten path out of desperation (re: Ayano's desperation in proposing to kill Mary in Manga Route 2 and Akechi's hitman work)

...

Additional Memory crossover with Akechi Goro and subtle AkeShu (Akechi → Joker) ❤️🖤

I also made a write-up about Additional Memory and Ayano, and subtle ShinAya (Ayano -> Shintaro), which I could post sometime.

I have such a huge brain. My song pick is so perfect

Every single aspect of it fits like AUGHHHH. IT FITS PERFECTLY

I have more to say on this obviously but for now I’ll ramble a bit

Red is the colour of heroes ❤️🧣

I have more thoughts on this ofc

With Akechi's fake personality/act and how his Personas, Robin Hood and Loki, represent "Lies" and "Resentment" respectively

"And the words were lies, lies"

With how Additional Memory uses 走馬灯 (Soumatou, "revolving lantern, ever-changing scene (one's line flashing before their eyes") in the lyric, "Flashing images of my future" -> One's memories flashing before their eyes before death

The lyrics and imagery of the MV are so so so perfect

MR2 Ayano and Akechi have a parallel. Goodnight to my red heroes...

"What does it mean to be a hero/ally of justice..."

...

Additional Memory is such an Akechi (P5) core song tbh

Ayano deciding to sacrifice herself for the sake of her siblings, despite her fears and regrets...

Something about the way these charas will let themselves be sacrificed (ie. Akechi in Shido's Palace in P5) for the sake of a loved one...

Also, Akechi has brown/red-toned eyes and is also associated with the colour RED like Ayano.

It fits Akechi well. You could also include the subtle AkeShu (Akechi/Joker) in it...

[gamerbearmira]

Little fishy in the sea

I wrote this earlier today, and I was gonna do more screenings redraws but oost motivation so fast 😭

Anyway

L G I

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Alma got out of the car, the triplets followimg close behind. The stoem began to calm, strangely, though the water was high on the hill. Alma checked over Pepa and Bruno, moving to the other side of the car to check on Julieta. She saw her eldest staring past her, and turned.

Alma's eyes widened. A boy, a small boy likely no older than the triplets themselves, stood there. He held the blue pale that belong to Julieta. She stared for a miment. Her daughter was right...

"There is a little boy," Alma muttered, moving forward. "Come over here! We'll help you! Stay there niños," Alma ran down the driveway towards the boy.

The boy, didn't seemed to pay any attention to her. He stared at Julieta, who was now looking at him. Seeing her face, he lit up, and began running towards her. He ducked beeath Alma's legs, much to her surprise, rushing towards Julieta. He held the bucket above his head, and suddenly he looked a lot more human, as before he had rather strange features

Julieta had no time to react as the boy slammed himself into her, hugging her tightly. She struggled against his weight as he picked her up, nuzzling her face with a surprisingly strength. Her younger siblings, Pepa and Bruno rounded the car, and Alma came running over again.

"Julieta! Do you know him?" Alma asked, staring at the two. Bruno hid behind Pepa, who inched closer to look at the two, though both of their eyes were fill with wonder.

Julieta blinked, shifting, and the boy set her down. They both stared at each other. The boy was smiling, but noticing Julieta's confused expression, frowmed softly, almost as if copying her. Julieta took in his features, her eyes scanning his face and his body. She blinked and suddenly she remembered, the light returning to her eyes.

"Agustín?" She said softly and he beamed brighter than the sun.

"¡Sí!" He exclaimed. "It's me, Agustín!"

Julieta steoped back in surprise. "It is you!"

Pepa and Bruno stared at the boy and suddenly he became familiar. "Agustín? Like...like the goldfish Julieta had a couple days ago?" Bruno asked and Pepa shrugged, but she looked happy.

Agustín laughed, jumping around and swinging the pail as Julieta continued to look at him. She then smiled at her siblings, who had gotten closer and now seemed as excited. The eldest looked at her mom, pointing to Agustín.

"¡Mamá, mira, mira!" She said, jumping up and down in excitement. "Agustín came back, and he's a little boy now!"

Alma blinked, and the sea suddenly rose, a sparkling gold clolor mixing with the blue and sun behind the clouds. Agustín picked up Julieta again, swinging her around. "I found Julieta!" He laughed, nuzzling her again, and this time she returned it.

Alma stared at the massive waves in awe before she shook her head. She quickly gathered uo the kids, rushering them to the front door, and pushing them in, slamming the door.

"Ok. This is...magical. And very strange, but it's ok. We'll take great care of you Agustín," Alma said, her face determined. "We have some work to do, and all of you are going to help me, ok?"

The kids nodded, and Alma moved to removed theur raincoats, hanging them up. She grabbed the lantern, sighing in relief when it flickered on. "I have an important job for you Agustín. Can you hold this lantern? I'll go get some towels."

Agustín nodded, and stared at the lantern. It felt warm in his hands, and he hummed softly, smiling.

Alma turned on a few more lights before disappearing into the other room. Tge triplets immediately began running around, and Agustín followed behind. Their giggles filled the room as Julieta guided them around the house. Agustín seemed amazed at everything, even if he kept running into stuff.

They were all running when Agustín found himself engulfed in a soft towel. "There you go. Let's dry you off now," Alma said, and Agustín giggled at the aoftness of the towel. He hadn't felt anything like it. "Look at that wonderful brown hair. It's almost dry actually...you're clothes are dry too."

Julieta walked over, wrapped in another towel. "Agustín's a fish! He can't get wet!"

"Huh," Alma mummered. "Well...ok then. Who's hungry?"

The children all exclaimed rushing to the table. Agustín seemed surprised but quickly followed. As he sat at the table, he saw the triplets having an animated conversation, and they asked him many questions. He smiled, his eyes bright. He already loved it here.

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BRO LOVES BEING HUMAN❗❗❗ Felíx would likely join later, but well into the journey; like when they passed by the boats. He asks if he can come and they say yeah and he just jumps into the water and swims to their boat 😭 surprisingly his parents are pretty chill about it

ANYWAYYYYY I saw a Ponyo clip and decided to write this spontaneously <33 other stuff later, maybe...

[stupidlittlespirit]

ok so this post that you reblogged is exactly how I envisioned the 2/3rd chapter in Spores when Ford and reader are running/hiding from the Bies (minus the men, obviously). But the creature?? Exactly how I imagined it, the picture in my head while reading was flawless and the chaos of the framing was also how I imagined it while reading. I know I’ve praised you for your writing before but UGH it’s so good. If you were to ever write a horror book what would be the premise? Oh also since you wanted asks for Ford and Stan (I’m giving you two asks in one here lol sorry about that) what horror movie or novel can you see each of them staring/surviving in? Like which one do u think would be best suited to each one of their respective ‘vibes’ and overall skill when it comes to fighting the main bad/monster/serial killer? Ok that was a lot sorry take your time answering with this one, I hope you make it for the stream! <333

oh my god that's actually so cool I'm so happy it gave you that image because that's definitely the vibe I was going for!! That unsettling, semi-real but somehow also dreamy feel that's just very chaotic and panicky. Thank you so much, that really means everything <3

I have some ideas but I'm still unsure as to whether I would write a novel or try to script a TV show. I have a couple of ideas and they're all horror based (of course) but not entirely fleshed out.

The one I have the most work done on is set in a retro-futuristic/cassette futurism vibe world where a young girl is infected with a parasite (that works effectively as a possession) and has to find a way to 'cure' herself when no one else wants to help/doesn't believe it's possible to do so. It's very gory and body horror-esque. I'm teaching myself to draw so I can create visuals to go with it and maybe one day find people who might want to collab on a pitch. The premise revolves around understanding our own behaviours and emotions, and how we can learn to grow as people while still being loved for who we are..... But also it's disgusting and bloody and has a lot of other themes lol. Hopefully one day I'll get to make it.

I think they'd both do pretty well in all of them.

I can see Ford reading from the Book of the Dead in Evil Dead and summoning the ancients, but fairing reasonably well against them. They'd be a tough fight, though. I've said before about how I think Stan and Ash would totally get on, and if Ford doesn't succumb to curiosity and read the book's incantation aloud, I can imagine Ash and Stan getting wasted and doing it for shits and giggles. That's how Ash kicks off the events in the TV Series haha.

Stan I think would be great in any slow-moving zombie horror. We've seen him hold his own very well. Fast moving zombies (28 Days Later etc) would fuck up his back though, I can see that pissing him off LMAO

I can definitely see them teaming up to defeat a Cabin in the Woods event. The departments would haaaaate them both so much for being so competent haha!

Because a lot of the horror I watch is so fucking G R I M, the silly aspect of them getting out alive is lessened because in my favourite movies, no one makes it out alive and if they do, they'd rather be dead.....

I do think a Hereditary situation would play out wonderfully for Stan and Ford. Not in the 'they'd kick ass!' kind of way, but in the beautifully tragic, morbid 'no one gets out alive' way.

The themes of the movie deal heavily with the inherited grief and trauma that comes from a parent and from abuse or loss, and so it would fit them well. I'm still shocked no one has ever done a redraw of the Paimon/Reborn scene with Ford, Bill and Stan. Maybe they have, but I've never seen it and I think it would be very cool.