#I'm also...not sure if it fits the manga itself?? or maybe I'm just used to the old style

[nyssasorbit]

I'm so wigged out by the artstyle, what the hell happened in like a month's span of time?

Like...I hate it, but it seems like Yamamato's maybe trying for a more realistic style?? Like, everyone has round and broad faces like real people, as opposed to the usual cutesy pointy anime faces.

I don't think it's so horrible, but I do wish Yamamoto wouldn't have made such a drastic change in artstyle during the span of this series...I wonder what's influencing it so much? Is he working on another project alongside this one?

[thegoldencontracts]

Is it just me, or is Azul's whole character arc contain some really good commentary on modern society (Particularly the hyperindividualistic grind/self improvement/hustle culture)?

I know this seems like a curtains are just blue moment but hear me out-

A man of a minority race in his country, bullied for not being conventionally attractive, for not being athletic, for his race, really, his- everything. And how does he react to it?

He grinds to improve himself. He chases after increasing numbers—more money, more talents, more, more, more. He becomes skinny. He becomes a human. He becomes talented and powerful.

But is this really the best way for him to react? Hell no! If everything was right, he would've been given a place to find solace, a therapist, a healthy outlet for his emotions. But no such place exists. All he can do to find comfort is furiously chase after self improvement, more and more until he can't even be sure if it's really improvement anymore.

I've seen this kind of thing. Online, and in real life. People—particularly men, but I've also seen it happen to women—who are treated poorly by their peers, who aren't given a safe place to recover and share their emotions, who end up learning hard into self improvement.

And so Azul, like these people. becomes fit and talented and human. But... is he happy?

Well, he's on the verge of overblot by the time we meet him, and he has heavily disordered eating patterns, so that question answers itself. He seems happy to an undiscerning eye, maybe. Successful, a teenage owner of a successful business. But he is certainly not happy.

And Jade and Floyd, though they're his friends, certainly, don't act like it. They struggle to admit they care, straight up calling themselves "business parters." Isn't that a thing in a lot of men's friendships nowadays? Where unabashed affection is seen as "cringey" or "lame"? They're concerned for him and his issues, clearly, but they still make insensitive jokes about it at times (I'm looking at you and the fat jokes, Jade Leech).

Azul is miserable. But still, even though he has friends, he has no healthy outlet for it. What does he do instead? Grind for more. And in the process, he hurts other people, too. He is, in his current state, not the best person. Because of his trauma, he's hurt others, taking their talents and even forcing them into servitude.

A lot of people stuck in hustle culture do absolutely shitty things. And like with Azul... there's no excuse for it. Seriously. I love Azul, but I will be the first to admit, he's not a good person.

But then the overblot happens. He loses his life's work. But is that really so bad when his life's work was a collection of times he'd hurt other people? Yes, a particularly shrewd individual could say "Well, he earned those talents, fair and square. He always delivers on his end of the bargain." But we don't know that for sure. Especially since we've seen him use the fact that a magicless sixteen year old is having access to food and shelter held over their head by the supposed "responsible adult" in order to take their home. Yes, this was likely his worst moment. Still— him losing the contracts wasn't so bad. I think it was a wake up call for him.

Unfortunately, though, because of all the turmoil he was already dealing with, unresolved trauma, and just general assholery Leona was partaking in, he snaps. And he, again, hurts people.

Azul isn't sent to jail, or fined beyond belief, or turned into a disgrace, or anything. He is told, forthright, especially in the manga, that though what he was doing was unequivocally wrong, he still has the work ethic he's built. He sees that, in their own way, Jade and Floyd will be there for him.

Because he's done bad things, and lost himself quite a bit, but he's still young. He can improve, and though he definitely doesn't seem to, a good observer can notice quite a few things. Him being forthright with Riddle in Book Six. Eating treats in the Glorious Masquerade. Book Six especially shows his own weird kindness, I would say, with how he helps save the world—"but only for the stock market", of course. And especially with him and Riddle's interactions.

In our society, so many of the things people grind for, hurt others for, likes, follows, status, wealth—these things can vanish in an instant. If you're even falsely accused of a crime after years of hard work, there is a good chance you won't have a job by the time the issue is resolved. A single scandal or controversy can all but wipe our your follower count. These things, though we can't always see it, just like Azul couldn't, are as fragile as the paper of the golden contracts.

But you still have yourself. Azul still had his work ethic. Those contracts are never coming back. Maybe that's for the better. But even at Rock Bottom, Azul persisted. His life probably seemed like it was over. He overblotted in his own restaurant, he'd lost his own life's work, and people saw him at his most vulnerable.

And for a lot of people, these kinds of things happen, and they, too, must persist. Though I don't want to go into details about it because it's a bit personal, I had a moment like this too. But after a long, long time, and a lot of work, things got better, and I found a new normal.

Do I think that all stories end with relative happiness like Azul's, or even mine did? No. Definitely not. I'm not even trying to say this is about the value of persistence. But Azul's story really does remind me of a lot of people, particularly young men, who get roped into hustle culture. Who do and say shitty things for their own gain.

It's just an interesting thing, honestly. Kinda makes me wanna write a fic where he gets talked down by an activist who tells him his ideals are the product of a toxic capitalistic society that shuns talk of feelings and anybody that isn't seen as productive enough because holy shit he reminds me of at least three people I know and they all need a therapist

[begrudging-fudanshi]

I'm not sure where I saw it but there are a few references to classes and teachers (like in the character book where they have subjects they're best and worst at, in a few chapters where they reference "class/es", and in an interview with satoru nii, I think, though I can't find it) – the Reddit pinned post for the manga is ood for the interview where they talked about it. In the interview, it sounded like they said it was just a pragmatic thing; the story follows the action, so there's not really any need to flesh out the school side of Furin, but that could have just been a deliberate obfuscation. I hadn't really thought about it (generally, I don't care to, because that side of fandom can get really condescending and form echo chambers of "no one else is thinking about this right or as much as us") but I found your thoughts interesting to read and thought you might have wanted to know about the teacher thing, because even if teachers are there, they haven't been included in the main story at all, and don't seem to be trying to teach them anything beyond the academic curriculum.

Thanks! I had seen that, but I try to mainly base my analysis on what's in the text itself ("the author is dead" and all that). However, I appreciate the input and I actually do have some related thoughts on this.

By the way, if you or anyone else seeing this post can tell me any specific chapters where the Furin kids talk about school stuff, please share! I totally missed any mentions of that, so my views below are all based on the assumption that the kids never mention anything school related.

A few messy thoughts:

I accept that the Furin kids do go to class, but to your point, their teachers seem ineffectual at best (and, as I'll get to later, extremely trusting). I figure that anyone who'd teach at a delinquent school notorious for year-round fighting is probably not great at their job. Before Bofurin, I imagine the teachers had all given up any hope of teaching anything and just tried to survive. Ever since Umemiya took over, they've probably been so happy to finally have some peace that they just let him and the other kids do whatever they want.

While I try not to speculate too much about authorial intent, it often feels to me like Nii has challenged himself to take as many stock tropes as he can and to use them as effectively as possible (or maybe he's just a really good writer using a lot of stock tropes lol). For example, Sakura is a classic tsundere, but it's actually rationalized in a really compelling way by his characterization. Likewise, WBK also takes the trope of invisible teachers and actually fits it into the broader themes of the story (as previously discussed in the post you're referencing).

I kinda wonder if Nii was forced to show the protagonists going to high school in order to be published, and thus chose to do it in the most cursory way possible. It kinda feels like the story was meant to be told with a cast of young adults, but maybe Nii or the publisher felt like it'd sell better with teenage protagonists in a school setting. I also suspect it would be controversial (and understandably so) to publish a series aimed at teenagers where the teenage protagonists choose not to attend high school, so I've thought the whole invisible teachers approach could be a workaround for that.

That said, the absence of teachers (and any other responsible adults) just feels so conspicuous that it's hard to write it off as purely pragmatic. Plenty of series have seemingly nonexistent teachers, but they usually avoid showing kids in settings where teachers would appear. WBK could have easily done that (e.g. by giving Bofurin an HQ near the school where they spend all their time), but instead it practically goes out of its way to rub the school setting in your face. For that matter, Nii also could have chosen a different setting where kids wouldn't have to attend school at all, but he explicitly chose to set WBK in what is very clearly present-day Japan. I don't think it's worthwhile to speculate about what Nii "really meant" by this (or if he really meant anything at all), but from an analysis point of view, this is just too conspicuous for me to ignore.

A theme in WBK that I'd like to explore in-depth at some point is trust—namely, how WBK challenges us to imagine trusting these so-called delinquents who are rejected everywhere else and to imagine that they might make their world a better place of their own accord. The absence of visible teachers really highlights this trust. The kids have been given free reign of the school to do whatever they please but, despite adult authority figures being functionally nonexistent, they've still managed to turn it into a better place.

Lastly, while I have to admit I probably fall closer to that "no one else is thinking about this right or as much as us" side of fandom than not, let me just say: fuck anyone who's condescending about it. I personally enjoy deeper media analysis and am trying to cultivate more of it around WBK in my own way, but everyone is allowed to engage with media how they want. The angle I'm trying to take is more "Hey, here's this neat thing I noticed!" as opposed to "You're enjoying this wrong." and I hope that others will do the same.

[ficticiousdelicious]

What does Fic think of Eustass Kidd and Trafalgar Law?

In relation to: Fic's Favorite Characters (2024)

This is relatively spoiler free but there might be some hints.

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Eustass Kidd:

In general I really enjoy Eustass Kidd's grumpy, rough attitude and intensity but also how he creates his own brand of chaos instead of just going with whatever other people are doing. RIP anyone in his way...they're all equally obstacles in his eyes. He's often an instigator and very push and shove. It's interesting how much deep trouble Eustass gets himself into for his behavior and then has to slog back out of it. He seems very proud and I like how in-tact his intensity still feels. I really hope they give us his full backstory in the manga and/or anime (there's a few SBS things about it already) and I'd love to see more from his awakened fruit because that version of it is so damn useful! 'Useful Eustass'...hmmm... Aesthetically Eustass is so eccentric and sometimes he looks goofy but other times he's just rugged and I dig it - from the hawkish eyes to the punk attire to the lipstick and nailpolish. My one and only real criticism is that his new arm often seems a little too clunky? Meh. Smol criticism. I like the state of that arm and the lore for it and especially how ripped they make Eustass for wielding the stuff he does. THE MAN IS LIKE...6'9"?! I think?! A f-cking unit of a guy and he brings the spice. I was more fond of Eustass's very first outfit but once they depicted him more in the newer black shirt with its deep v-neck and his pecs and shoulders showing (sans cape thingy) I was bowled over. And of course I'm glad they kept his goggles! T3T

Trafalgar Law:

In terms of Trafalgar Law his broody, cynical moods can be so icy and in that way weirdly refreshing I think (because One Piece is an otherwise rather bright and vibrant world, we need some shade to balance). How Law acts so high and mighty partly because he's older than many of the other pirates he meets...ppppffttt. So funny man. Yet when other characters poke at him and get him going Law can get just as goofy. It's nice to have some humor from him. ...and he seems to have a certain guilty pleasure that it seems like his serious nature demands he keep rejecting every time it's brought up. HEH. Law's twisted/dry sense of humor that comes out of nowhere is hilarious too. One of my criticisms for him right away though is that sometimes it feels like he's made into too much of a joke. I felt it mostly irons itself out without an issue as the series carries on though. Departing from funny, Law comes from a dark place that has clearly warped his way of thinking and life. His backstory is exquisite; it gave an excellent sense of how he got to be who he is in the series present day. I adore how he's strong of mind thanks to how some of that hardened him. I would enjoy seeing more of his fruit power - in any capacity, it's fascinating. Aesthetically...god, Law is such damn pretty boy. It's the whole look and how he behaves. He is full of sass to marry to his looks. Hell. Everything he wears (except maybe the white sleeveless shirt...) is so put together though. I'm sure his shoes destroy his feet but god, from the jeans to the jackets and button-ups the man. has. class! A CLASSY QUEEN. Finally, his tattoo design is, in my opinion, one of the best and most fitting designs of that I've ever seen on a character.

Similarities I Like [about Law and Kidd]:

Their names are really cool! Fun to say, fun to read, fun to poke fun at. I always end up spelling Eustass Kidd with two 'd's' because I feel weird about just one. I also, obviously, like saying 'Eustass' instead of 'Kidd' the majority of the time. It just rings better to me. Aside from that they really seem to care deeply about their crews and that warms my heart. For Law every time he lets Bepo get away with shit I'm there for that. BEPO IS SPOILED. For Eustass it's fun to see how much his rowdy crew admire him (and god does he seem to love it) but oh man...some of the stuff we get for Killer and how Eustass handles things just hits hard! Just for Eustass there was a small, quiet and unique scene at the very beginning of the anime episode 1112 that blew me away because it was such a rare side of him. It spoke volumes. I still can't get over how lovely that was (I wish there was a bit in the manga for it). We get a lot more scenes for Law so it's harder to think of one that is really rare, but perhaps the one in his childhood where he's happy because of a dork, YOU KNOW THE ONE. In terms of Eustass and Law in the same space well...it's amazing how many of each other's buttons they can push down with all ten of their fingers and toes. They just resonate chaos but cooperation is possible and both are interesting. They're also from such opposite climates man (I guess I like the juxtaposition of that).

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Shippin' the Dudes (LawKidd/KiddLaw):

I figure shipping them isn't for everyone but I personally love the idea of it because I feel like they have chemistry in their volatile way. A goth and a punk - even if it's less literal in canon settings. NEED I SAY MORE? I just love the subculture vibes and the potential for playful fighting and getting into trouble to go on adventures. Their potential is outstanding and their attitudes are fun to write (I actually wish I had more finished fanworks for them but that's a work in progress and I just need five more minds and a few more limbs to keep up with that). Eustass and Law can also have very believable serious tones for sincere storytelling - for when you want to yank on people's feels. :3

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All anime images here © One Piece - Eiichiro Oda

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@chromatic-lamina SO MANY THOUGHTS. HHNNNGH. If there's a specific curiosity I missed with this let me know! I was afraid it would be hell to read this in notes so I just moved it into a post and well...then it got even longer! haha

[theomnicode]

How I write metas? A meta about metas

If this deconstruction post is going to be useful for any aspiring meta writer on this OPM fandom that I currently follow, then be my guest. :D

Warning: Semi-long post.

Step 1: Inspiration

Nope, really can't get into my head all the time to write stuff as much as I would love to but when I do, it's because I get a good inspiration from something. It does not really matter at this point if it's short or long, just the subject matters. Then if I get inspired, I will usually stew on that idea for a while and think about the points in the manga that fit.

Unfortunately inspiration does not strike all the time so there's always that. I'm going with the route that "you can't force inspiration to come to you, you want the inspiration to become you" or something like that. Take that with grain of salt, I just made it up on the spot.

Step 2: Practice

I've personally been writing fanfics since I was...a teen I believe and meta is just a subsection of writing school essays, except it's actually fun. So writing something has been quite a lot of work put behind it, but nobody says one cannot start from scratch today and the meta doesn't need to be immediately impressive, we're just writing it for fun yanno? For other fandom peeps who maybe wanna hear our thoughts. Just gotta start from somewhere yanno? My earlier metas are prolly a fair bit different than my current metas.

Like they say, practice makes perfect.

Step 3: The creative process

Ok so to the nitty gritty of the meta making... PLOT NO JUTSU!

I oftentimes either discuss the meta on discord channels with likeminded peeps and then start gathering some images from the manga to use as my images to enhance my point and make my texts also visually interesting to look at and make some clarifying points. I tend to find some good relative image to use as my first image because it'll show up in archive search like so:

It'll be easier to search for my metas even without searching for my tags from my archives if they look similar.

Next, I keep a folder for all my meta images in a neat pile and I use paint ms to cut me nice images to post into my meta and I also have cubari , the one site which hosts all the chapters so far, open where I can just grab images whenever. Basically any kind of image tool you got from paint to gimp to photoshop can help you crop images you want to use if you want to use images in your meta.

My brain can sometimes be pretty hard to follow apparently, so I do try to parse a lot when I write my texts and keep it somewhat coherent. Parsing information via the canon timeline can help form a coherent timeline to follow in a meta.

In general, you want your writing progress to be seamless and disturbance free creative process, not unlike drawing. Sometimes ambient music on the background can help focus on the actual meta writing process (currently listening to Ardenweald from WoW), which can take me from 1 hour to all the way to 5 hours in a single sitting, which is quite long but remember, tumblr drafts saves your progress even if you save it nowhere else and it's entirely possible to finish the thinking process another day when you have more time.

Sometimes I include links to either my own metas or some outside source, which I then briefly quote on my text, like in the Saitama mental health meta where I citate depression effects on memory recollection. The quote sources can also be stated at the very end like in a real essay, but to me personally I'm fine without the citations at the end, long as I state my sources and then put quotes into indented text.

Step 4: The writing itself

Paraphrasing helps make your text look coherent and easier to read to just about anybody, so avoid pure walls of texts. I usually write longer texts, but that is up to the writer to decide how short, long or how abridged they can/wanna make their work, which frankly is not one of my best skillsets lmao. Just gotta make sure to put that warning in the front if it's long post.

Nowdays, I also include chapter names and numbers about the relevant information I'm writing meta about in between () marks and itallics to further separate it from plain text, which might be helpful to people if they search for that specific plot point from the manga itself. Then if it's a particularly long meta, a tl;dr at the bottom if I can form a proper tldr.

Sometimes I also get struck by random thought and I just have to write it out haha. Sometimes I ask for aid and opinions on discord channels.

Any long metas should definitely have that "readmore" cutoff in the beginning, else entirety of tumblr or wherever you'll post the meta will hate you.

Step 5: Revision & Tagging

You can hold on from posting the meta the very same day and just keep it revised for a bit longer if you want to correct spelling mistakes or if you think you can maybe adds some more to it. Revision is just as important in writing meta as in writing something like fanfiction and I personally do a fair bit of both.

When tagging, I just use "opm meta" for all my opm related metas and then tag in fandom and characters that apply to the current meta and then some other related subjects like "mental health, character study" etc. I prolly haven't tagged my earlier metas that properly but eh... if you write on another platform and then copypaste it to tumblr, make sure that the plain text shows properly and doesn't create any weirdness.

Closing thoughts...that's about it folks, that's how I write meta and how I wrote this piece as well. Which took me roughtly 1hr 45mins to write down at my current writing speed but I've been thinking about this since yesterday haha.

Tl;dr: Inspiration, practice, creative process by saving images and thoughts as they go, writing and paraphrasing, revision and tagging properly.

[chuckeroo777]

Dungeon Meshi Volume 13 Part 1

Welcome back! Things are about to reach a breaking point! You know things are crazy when all six chapters of the volume have the same name.

Volume 13's cover is literally just the gang running away from a spoiler, so please accept these cute pictures of baby Marcille from the daydream hours.

A precious image.

Wishes, man. There's always a catch. Whether that be an evil genie, or a perfect unconscious wish, it never goes how you want. This one doesn't even let you say no thanks.

This is such a good fake-out. Now someone grab some zip-ties.

So, is Marcille going to struggle with impulse control for the rest of her life, or did it just eat her desire not to lead an army to the surface?

Sure you will buddy. *proceeds to, in fact, not be careful*

Oh god, if he defeats the demon, we'll be out of a job.

This is cool and all, but what happens to this avatar after the gang goes inside? Does it turn back into monsters? Does it simply vanish? It's totally gone next time we see outside.

There was probably a more literal translation for that onomatopoeia, but damn if that isn't perfect. I also like the detail that Mithrun lost his fake eye.

Happy 8/8 everyone.

Going a little out of order here, since Chapter 87 and Misc tales 13 go together. So, everything seems to indicate that the Demon and magic itself are one and the same. But where do spirits fit into all of this? Are spirits, like, sub-sentient demon bits? Are they micro-organisms that can use magic? Everything in this page sure sounds like gnomish magic to me.

Genuinely curious how the anime will handle these panels.

How? No, seriously, how did the ancients trap the demon? The demon is an entity of unlimited power. Why is it contrained to rules? We know it likes fulfilling desires, but what's stopping it from acting on its own? Why did it need to swap with Laios just to use its power for itself? It's never really explained how the demon came to be constrained. I understand the demon's current rules, but I don't know how we reached this point.

So much world-building in one panel. I don't really get how the demon managed such massive, world sweeping changes though.

The demon is exceptionally awful. It is manipulative, selfish, cruel, and it ultimately takes everything that matters away. But it didn't become that way because of its intrinsic nature. It learned to be evil by watching us.

Seriously, the exit is right there. What is keeping the demon bound to these dungeons?

Yeah, maybe should have figured that out before going right into the lion's den. (haha)

No, see, that's the beauty of Laios' plan. By focusing so hard on plan A, the lion will be completely blindsided by plan B.

I'm sure Falin would think it's cute.

She does her best not to show it... but this is a big moment for Izutsumi. No one has ever trusted her. No one has ever implicitly trusted her with something important like this. And the craziest part? She's actually going to do it. Laios is right to trust her.

One interesting takeaway from this story is the lesson that people are, by their very nature, selfish beings. Yet, we push through, and do the right thing anyway. I'm sure someone smarter than me could articulate it better. Something something, Laios' curse.

I have some thoughts on this panel. Check out my post where I go into it in detail!

I know this is a serious moment, but Laios just looks like a creepy chicken.

Laios failed the vibe check. He looked WAY too cool and professional as he chopped off the lion's head.

Laios doesn't have an evil bone in his body, yet we're getting a Laios villain arc anyway!

Oh no! What are our heroes going to do! Find out next post!

[caramelmochacrow]

[YUKAESO ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION POST 1/2]

Drawing details (You are here!) Fic details

First on the itinerary list is explaining the drawings and details I liked in each one! I'm going to be going through based on prompt order (of course). Just so you know there will be at least a nine month difference between these prompts and me now remembering them, so that's pretty crazy that I can remember a lot about the drawings especially.

(Word count: 2103 words)

Generally speaking (to save redundancy): I went with the idea of the drawings being chapter covers, you know? It depicts parts in the fic, but not in a comic/manga length. Oh, and I changed up the drafts a lot. The drafts were created when I was almost done with chapter 7, in around June-July; I started planning them in March. Another fun fact: Did you know the sketchbook that has most of my YukaEso week plans/drawings took me 3 months to finish? Mostly because I was in school and got busy with exams and being in productions, but also because I was busy writing YukaEso week. I drew one drawing (even the one for the countdown) per week, so I started at the end of July and finished drawing all of them on YukaEso week itself. I actually drew them from July to September. Yeah let that sink in.

Anyway, let's start with day 1, Rain!

To me, rain as a prompt with YukaEso is pretty simple thanks to Peaky Stormy Story; them under the rain! I thought of many cute prompts with them, but none of them fit the both of them exactly. Especially with Esora 'the rain ruins my hair and I don't like that' Shimizu involved.

I thought more about getting stuck under the rain with someone and how intimate it is, so I went for a more personal(?) feeling with the drawing. It's just the both of them alone under a solitary, clear umbrella. For inspirations, I did base this one off Yuka's Peaky Stormy Story card, but also one part of this anime I'm obsessed with, Major 2nd. Here's the photo for reference:

You can see that one was my biggest inspiration. The reasoning being that this image does not exist in the manga. I was yuribaited to put it very bluntly. To quell my frustrations with this fact, I drew this to both ease my frustrations over never getting the manga version and use it to inspire me to make the first YukaEso week drawing.

I was meant to have a whole background sorted, to the point I reread the Prologue Peaky manga to see what kind of street they would be in if they were going to Yuka's house. I, of course, threw this all away and instead went with raindrops. This was because I realized as I finished the drawing that I didn't want to draw perspective.... I love YukaEso but I am not drawing buildings with perspective only to probably obscure most of my work with raindrops. If i had more time though, maybe I would've done it...

A funny thing to note, I originally planned the YukaEso week drawings to have limited color palettes that always had yellow and green in the palette, hence the very limited use of color and shading. I, however, struggled with this and went on to not use limited color palettes. Haha.

Now, onto the next day, Gift!

Because it was, you know, gift, I wanted the drawing to be related to the gift giving part in the fic (duh). I wanted to draw the part when Esora gets the gift, or the aftermath. I decided to do something kind of related to the first one. In my drawing it is the one part of the photo album that Yuka gifted her, but that hand is Yuka's. From what I recall, I'm pretty sure I planned the drawing was showing Yuka pasting the pictures and stuff around.

One part I'm really proud of was being able to do the sunset thing with that lighting, aughhh I'm so proud of it! I'm kinda sad when I put the blur effect it kinda got ruined but whatever! It adds a sort of charm to it (in my opinion).

Another thing I'm proud of is Esora's outfit, AUGH! Shout out to my older sibling who helped me out a lot with the original outfits for the drawings. I actually have a lot of scrapped drawing ideas, but I'll show them on the post for my drafts of the drawings/fics along with my other scrapped ideas.

Day 3 is next, which is Holding hands :DD

The panel idea was because I wanted to show the hand holding without needing to draw a full body. I then semi-regretted it after I struggled the whole day looking over the panels again and again. I'm glad the hands turned out amazing though. My references for the hands were from google images and me holding my own hand (rip). I really love the colors in this drawing, I feel really warm and giddy when I see it (lol). Another reason might be because Yuka looks really cute here.

For the background, some of the silhouettes are references to other characters. The characters are: Junna, Nana, Misaki, Kaoru, Kim Dokja, Yoo Junghyuk,and two of my friends' ocs! It isn't obvious, but I didn't want it to go unnoticed. They were the characters I kinda wanted to see in the convention yes.

The reason why I chose their xross beat outfits was because... I don't know! It looked cute! I wanted to draw it!

Day 4, AU !!!!

I really love this drawing so much (I say this for all of them lol) But it was really hard to decide what to draw. I scrapped a lot of ideas until -- thanks to my dear mutual Misc for giving me the idea -- I went for a Roleswap AU. I've always loved Roleswap AUs (I actually have a D4DJ unitswap AU in mind) so I just went with it. I thought of YukaEso as RinRei for around five minutes and already had a plan. My older sibling is a big RinRei fan so they supported this a lot, I went and rewatched the episodes with Rinku and Rei first meeting a million times to find which part to depict.

The part with the seashell really got me, since that was what made Rei interested in Rinku and keep teaching her. I knew it had to be a picture of Esora the moment I saw it. I wanted to capture the dreamy look of that part, like how Rei was remembering it in her room. I put the bubbles and the background colors as a reference to Happy Around; the orange also helps amplify the warmth Yuka has.

I actively made sure that the way Esora was colored in the photo was different as well. She's colored close to how Yuka is, warmer than actual Esora because it's how Yuka sees her. One thing I wished I did was put the bubbles in Esora's panels as well, but it's too late; they were last minute additions. (I added it in while I was working on day 5)

Anyway, onto day 5! Makeup :3c

OOoh boy. This is when I started going crazy because it was almost YukaEso week and I was riding on the high that was the most amazing card ever, but I think that was all of my drawings to be honest. (hint: ramune). Anyway, for this one, I wanted to go for a pastel colors because I wanted to reflect how cute they were and the fact they were in a relationship in the fic. I really liked the idea of showing off the color palette like it was a makeup palette; I had to check actual makeup palettes to see how the colors would be set up.

Also! I actually wanted to make original stage outfits, but I was losing my steam and decided to go with stage outfits that already exist in the game.

Other than the stage outfits, I struggled doing the lipstick part a lot, not because of my dysphoria. I'm semi-okay now with depicting makeup thanks to that drawing but I'm still uncomfortable with lipstick. Now I'm trying to figure out how to make my art style more accepting toward makeup, but I'm still kinda struggling. (I cultivated that thing to not allow makeup for years, it's pretty hard to undo all of that lol)

Now now, the one I love the most, day 6, Public!!!!!!

I knew I wanted it to be something from the last part of the fic when they go Esora's bachlorette party. After struggling for pages and pages, I finally decided to go with the part when Esora grabs Yuka's hand and asks her to stay. This thing frustrated me so much, but it was worth it.

I really like the detail of the rain only being present under the light. I always liked it when it rained at night so I could see the rain under streetlights/car lights; I was really happy to get the excuse to draw that, lol. I wished I cleaned the drawing up more thoroughly, but I can't do anything about it now.

For the placement of the chapter 6 thing, I was inspired by Meteor Garden 2001, which inspired the fic and drawing so much.

It was this part, in episode 17 specifically. I wanted the lighting to be harsher, but I would need to adjust all of the lighting on every color under the light source again, so I didn't. Also, streetlights can't be that harsh from that distance. There isn't much I can say about this drawing other than the fact that I feel that it captured what I saw during the fic properly.

Onto Day 7, Proposal, oooooh~

Oh god. Where do I even start with this one? Joooooke. I had a lot of ideas because it was the last one but, for the sake of my sanity at the time, I went simple. The fic connected to the last one, so I had to make this one connected to (in a way). My school was having exams at the time and the pieces before this one tired me out severely. This -- like chapter 6 -- is from the last part of the fic.

Anyway, I designed the outfits while I was in school and kinda made most of the draft at school too, lol. Yuka's outfit was inspired by Jung Heewon from the ORV webtoon. That's it pretty much, I just wanted her to look handsome. Esora's outfit was just made up by me and my older sibling and not based on anything exactly that I remember. The writing on the image was taken from a scrapped idea for chapter 2, that's why there's the date from the fic itself on the top corner; the photo was taken by Maika if you were wondering.

One part I really like from this drawing is the rings shining on their fingers, that one was something I really wanted to add into the drawing. Every time I notice it, I get a little teary, lol. I will say, I wished I went all out on the drawing like the others, but I know why. I still wish I did something crazy though. Anyway, that's all I can remember about this drawing, haha.

But wait! THERE'S MORE?!

The drawing for the countdown! Yay!

I drew this one before day 7, that's why it looks nice. Anyway, the biggest inspiration for this drawing was Yuka's Ramune card (of course) but! Also! Ao Natsu the movie. Specifically with Esora's yukata. I really love how Rio's yukata looked in the movie so I took some inspo from her. I also took inspiration from the cover of the movie; it has a lot of blues and the yellow and green of the sunflowers made it pop a lot. For Yuka's outfit, I based it off her first summer casual outfit and adjusted it a little. Oh, and for the people who didn't know, Esora and Yuka are in middle school for this drawing :) (I made up middle school designs for them because they didn't have much of a difference from highschool to middle school orz)

I bought a few ramune bottles myself during this time so I used them as reference; the flavor is supposed to be the normal flavor but, because of the lighting, it looks like the grape flavor. (I haven't tasted that one yet, by the way.)

I didn't want to draw the whole background, so I "cropped" out everything and just made it have the sky instead. That was the most important part to depict to me other than the ramune bottles. The firework colors are intentional; if you look closely at the one in between the ramune bottles, it's a mix of yellow and green :3c

Anyway, yeah, that's all! See you in the other YukaEso post :3c

[quirkwizard]

How much of an individual do you think Dark Shadow is considered? Because he's fully sentient and sapient, and is capable of speech and dexterity. He's also capable of independent thought and feelings, like being sorry for losing to Bakugo/being possessed by Kuroiro and being afraid of Gigantomachia. I might be remembering wrong, but he also seemed worried for Tokoyami when he was being suffocated by fungi. Despite that he also seems pretty bound to Tokoyami's will, doing what he asks unless he's too weak or powered by darkness/rage, and rarely emerging when not being used for hero business. Is his Dark Shadow aware that he's a quirk? I suppose he has to be but is aware of the gravity of him being a "superpower?" Does he have a personality, because he seems a bit more peppy and rambunctious than Tokoyami. If Tokoyami were to pass his quirk onto his child or maybe have it stolen by AFO or something, would the Dark Shadow given/stolen be the same entity? Is it a sort of same mind replicated situation, or in OFA's case, kidnapping? I just realized I've been referring to Dark Shadow with he/him, but I'm pretty sure Dark Shadow is referred to as an it/its in the series, which raises a few more questions for me. To be clear I'm not necessarily asking you all of this, I just have a lot of questions about my favorite quirk that will likely never get answered and I ended up rambling. Oops.

See, this is one of the many reasons why I don't like to think of Dark Shadow as fully sentient and sapient induvial. It just raises a lot of questions and concerns around the world. Not only would he be the only example in the entire manga, something that was never hinted at with other powers, but it just opens itself up to a lot of moral issues of Tokoyami trapping this being in his stomach and sending it out to get beaten up on a regular basis. It's why I've always gone with the idea of Dark Shadow being more of an extension of Tokoyami. That whatever Dark Shadow is doing is just mouthpiece for Tokoyami's own thoughts and feelings. I just think that solves a lot of the problems with Dark Shadow's existence and could give us another shade to the more reserved Tokoyami's character, given what Dark Shadow is doing. At least that fits with why Dark Shadow seems to have such a strong connection with Tokoyami's mental state. It's just a much simpler and cleaner explanation for me.

[fandom-trash-xl]

EPISODE 3: DAIMA (Yes, that's the actual episode title)

Jaka-Jaan's already stuck in my head, that's a sure sign of a banger. Anyway, onto episode 3!

This episode using the series recap intro from the first episode totally didn't scare me for a second. If this is going to become a regular thing like Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood's alchemy speech, we might be seeing Frieza a lot more this season (sure, the same shot but... yeah).

We're off to Demon Realm via the giant fish-like portal guardian, Warp-Sama, and Goku nearly blows the whole mission by being himself- I've noticed he's a little more childish. I don't think it's "Dragon Ball Super Brain Damage" bad but maybe because he's in a kid body again, he's taking the time to be a bit more silly and unfiltered.... unless the shrink also made them a little more immature.

The Warp-Samas apparently need an approved pin number to access and Shin can't use his mind link quick enough to tell Kibito- that'll be an uh oh later. And we're also hoping that Kibito will have the little ear illusion magic for Vegeta and Bulma or that'll be a second uh oh.

So, there's three Demon Worlds within the Demon Realm, basically in number hierarchy. Glorio's from the lowest, the third, but does some work in the first. "What kind of work?" (suspicious pause) "...This and that."

If he turns out to be an assassin or something, OH I am EXTRA buying his Funko Pop (or whatever easily accessible/affordable merch comes out first)! At the hotel, the fact that he had a gun seemed to be a tip off for the manager, so I wouldn't be surprised. I enjoy Glorio's vibes regardless.

We've got so many little worldbuild bits- the tunnel between worlds being closed off, gases from the volcanoes making the air heavy and hard to move fast in, the doom river that causes instant death... The fact that pretty much anything you could design as an OC or fan-creature here would fit in. And this is just the third world- as I typed that I realized how that sounds and oh this is going to be a Demon Realm class thing isn't it?

There's a statue left of Dabura that seems worse for wear- either because of just how long he was in power or the stone itself is sensing there's a new king in charge.

Apparently, Shin (and presumably the other Kais) is what's known as a Glind, so we've got new species classifications to work with! ...Are we retconning the magic life fruit origin thing or are we eventually going to come to that tree.

And we have to remember Toriyama's roots in gag manga by slipping in a fart joke

Of course, Goku's still hungry so they stop for some good old fashioned Demon Realm hamburgers- is it weird that after awhile they started looking really tasty actually?

"What meat is this?" "Don't ask." Oh. That definitely means it was a sapient at one point, doesn't it? Maybe that's what they do with all the rogue round-ears? There does seem to be some clear hostility, given they're very quick to start a bar fight- which Goku quickly steps into because you don't come between him and his hamburgers.

After a peaceful night's sleep, they wake up to find that the bar thugs stole Glorio's plane! (checks my GT notes because I'm sure I've seen this before)

Trying to predict what's coming next... From the previews, we might be getting lore on the Tagamis and I have a feeling that we might be meeting Panzy soon. Part of me's kind of hoping we get intermittent cut-ins to how it's going back on Earth.

Also, how I missed the expressive little commercial break in-between scenes! Love them!

EPISODES WITHOUT KNOWING HANVI'S WHEREABOUTS: 3

[yayakoishii]

finally watched the Black Clover movie!!

so many thoughts lol, so ofc I had to make a post sorting them all out,, [warning; spoilers to the manga!]

I liked the movie overall but there were some things that just didn't sit with me well. The biggest of which is where the movie fits into canon timeline– it would have suited better at some other point, I think. Maybe it's because I've caught up to the manga but considering everything that's about to happen and everything that has happened before, I feel like the placing is just not the best.

I liked the parallel of Conrad and Asta but the fact that 4 former Wizard Kings all say that the position is not enough to fix Clover Kingdom is a bit 😭 like, that's 4 vastly different people who worked their way up to becoming Wizard Kings. Surely, they know what they're talking about?! I have no clue how Asta can change the country to that extent (but I'm a big supporter of the idea of killing Augustus Kira Clover the first chance we get) but considering the latest arc, I can see the start of it happening in the aftermath of the climax.

I liked all the villains but Mr. Barrier Magic (I forgot his name...) was probably my favourite. I love that bit about how there's no right and wrong, just beliefs. Isn't that what it is a lot of time? A bunch of grey shades, a goal you believe in, and the means you use to get to that goal. But, means can be evaluated as right or wrong. I suppose the fundamental basis of this view is that there is no objective morality. Morality is always subjective and relative to each individual and culture. The philosophy student in me liked that bit~

I also loved the parallel of Princia Funnybunny (I'll never forget that surname 😭 it was so unexpectedly cute) and Mereoleona, especially considering the recent fight of Morris and Mereoleona where she also talked about loneliness. They are both similar but what makes them different is that Mereoleona had Fuegoleon and Leopold (and the rest of the Crimson Lions!). Although the two of them aren't the same level as her, they always believed in her and were by her side and kept pushing themselves against her. I don't think Princia had someone like that, making her lose faith in people– the reason she couldn't draw strength from comrades, unlike Mereoleona.

Honestly, the timeline and main conflict being 4 former Wizard Kings are the only two problems I had. The rest of the movie was amazing imho; the animation was really good and so was the music!

I was surprised to find the ending song was also done by Treasure. I felt like it was a k-pop artist when the song started but I wasn't sure– I didn't know Treasure had done two songs for Black Clover. It was really good too!

Over-all, the movie was a 6/10 for me, but that's just my opinion. I don't know what others felt about it and I don't really know any other fans to discuss this stuff with either so I ended up letting out all my thoughts in this post. This post is not meant as hate towards any character or the movie itself, it's just my perspective!

if anyone bothered to read this whole thing, I hope I didn't waste your time hahaha~

[rollinouttahere-writes]

Soooo,, that one piece live action huh?? Thoughts? Headcanons? If lucky were in there how would she fair??

I have so many thoughts about it, I'll say some spoiler free stuff first and keep the spoilers under the cut.

I have genuinely never cared for live action remakes and saw them as pointless, so no one is more surprised than I am that I wound up loving this one so much. The amount of heart and passion that went into it was insane, and I am praying for more seasons because I want to see what they'll do from here.

I loved that it was different enough to stand on its own because it helps to keep people from trying to compare the anime/manga to it. The more mature theme is interesting, and I do like how the Straw Hats were depicted in this. Nami was probably my favorite because Emily Rudd killed that role oh my god. It handles the emotional scenes well, but I will say that it hasn't made me cry as much as the anime did.

Other things I liked was the sound track that I've been listening to a lot. The thing they did with the bounty posters was so charming I loved it. The opening scene was literally perfect, and so were the sets and costumes. I also love that they got the japanese voice actors to dub it and have been rewatching it in that language just for that experience.

I give the series like an 8/10 overall. I have some gripes, but they're all minor and mostly boil down to feeling a bit rushed which was inevitable with the number of episodes given. I really want at least one more season because I NEED to see live action Ace and Robin.

Spoilers from here on out

All of my issues with it count as spoilers so here they are:

No Loguetown Arc, which was really frustrating since they already had the set built. Maybe if we hadn't of spent what was honestly too much time with the marines they could have included it.

Since this was more serious, I can understand killing off Merry, but why did Kuro get away??? The marines were there, there was literally no reason for the writers to let him get away with it.

No Hachi. I get that he would have been difficult to depict, but leaving him out entirely was a bad call because he makes several reappearances and is kinda important. It also makes me a little nervous for future seasons because if they aren't even willing to show Hachi my god do they have some much bigger problems ahead of them.

They really didn't need to spoon feed Garp's motivations to us, it was self evident enough without Koby stating it. Also rather than letting the world building speak for itself, they had Garp openly discuss the corruption. Show, don't tell.

All that being said, none of these ruined it for me, I still really enjoyed it!

As for how I would fit Lucky into it... I'm not sure? As much as I enjoyed the live action, I can't say that I feel motivated to write for it. I like the anime/manga characterization better. Sorry, this probably wasn't the answer you were hoping for!

[auxiliarydetective]

Hi hun polite reminder people make OCs for fun and don't necessarily want to stick to canon. Your One Piece poet is useful for people who want to research and adhere to canon fandom lore but don't make it a prerequisite please as if we have to run everything by you for permission. Your tone is dictatorial in the nicest way and it's not on to tag people in your post either as it comes off as a critical rebuke that they're not doing it 'right'

Alright, I'm gonna try to respond to this as best as I can. Since you took time out of your day to write this, it's only fair I do the same.

First and most importantly of all, I'm not trying to police anyone's OCs. You're right, making OCs is about having fun. None of the tips in my post are mandatory. I was just trying to give a guideline for people who might struggle with the world of manga One Piece (which is ultimately what the live action is based off and will turn into in huge parts if it keeps running). I, personally, think immersion is very important for my OCs. It makes me happy when they fit into canon as if they belong there and whenever something about my OC gets contradicted through later installments in canon, I get pretty upset. So, in case anybody also feels like that, I made the post. That's who that post is for. If you're not one of those people, you're free to ignore it. It's not a lecture, nobody is forcing you to listen and apply it. Hell, even lectures aren't mandatory.

You said it yourself. You recognized who the post is for, that means you read it closely. With that in mind, I don’t understand why you think I'm making my points a prerequisite. I never said that and I never said you have to run things by me for permission. I said you can message me if you have questions or need help, not "message me before you post your OC or else it's illegal". It's about people who want their OCs to be canon-accurate not having to navigate 1000+ episodes/chapters worth of One Piece lore if they can ask a single question and get an answer instead. Nothing else.

My tone, I'm guessing where you get the prerequisite part from. I'm sorry, but it's not dictatorial at all. Dictatorial is a term you should be very careful with using. It is pointed, yes, but that's the tone in a lot of Tumblr posts, so I just tried to match that. If I wrote that post like a handbook or something, that would sound like making things mandatory, and it would make it dull to read, and I didn’t want that. If you want, you can give me suggestions to improve my tone and I'll see what I can do.

Now, the last point, you actually completely misunderstood what I was trying to say. Almost all of the people I tagged are people I know who I consider my friends. I know that they have One Piece OCs and we talked about those OCs, with me throwing in my two cents of canon knowledge to try and help make them fit in because I thought they might appreciate it or they asked me to. That's what I'm offering in that post, in a condensed form, the same things I told and offered them, because I felt like other people could maybe use them too. I tagged them to ask them to help spread that post to other people so they can maybe have some security being thrown into the chaotic fandom that is One Piece through an adaptation that offers only a very limited view on it at the current point in time. I wasn't trying to say that they were doing anything wrong at all and I'm pretty sure that they know that because of our previous interactions. The other people are people I tagged who I have only rarely interacted with, admittedly, but who I know to either have ties to people with OPLA OCs because I follow them or who I know to be very friendly and willing to help people. Again, no accusations here. I just wanted to help people and reach a wider audience because my blog is fairly small and unpopular. Finally, I intentionally didn’t tag them in the post itself but in a comment so that it was even easier for them to ignore it. Generally, I'm not very versed in Tumblr tagging etiquette, so if it's really not okay to tag people like that, those people can tell me themselves and I won't do it again.

Which brings me to my main point of this little response letter: You’re on the internet, you have the liberty to ignore things. So, the post wasn't for you. That's fine, you can ignore it. Even if you're one of the people I tagged, you're not obligated to follow my request and reblog the post. You can still ignore it and move on. But instead, you took the time to write your message, so I took the time to respond. If this didn't clear things up, feel free to send another message, I'm willing to talk

[fraeuleintaka]

Half Time and More Merch!

This is the 41st post in the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Countdown: 40 days left until release!

Today's topic: Half Time and some more Merch!

Woo-hoo! 🎉 We've reached the halfway point in my countdown towards the release of the Investigations Collection. We started at 80 days, 40 days with 40 posts have passed, 40 days and 40 more posts to go! 💃 Only 40 days! That's just a little over a month! Are you getting more excited? Because I certainly am!

I've been talking a lot about the Investigations Collection website, all the information we've gotten about changes and extras and everything, new art and all kinds of other details I've noticed in trailers and Co. I still have some topics left in that regard but it's probably not going to fill another 40 posts so I'm thinking about expanding my topic range, maybe to the content of the Investigations games themselves or additional content for Investigations outside of the games like the manga releases, for example. I'm not entirely sure though what would fit the best for the countdown to the collection specifically so I'm still thinking about it. If you guys have anything that you'd like me to talk about, feel free to tell me!

For today, I'm going to talk a little about some more merch I've found. These ones are available on the e-Capcom store, the store itself is Japan-exclusive but you can also order internationally via WorldShopping. (Never done this before so I don't know how well that works.)

The one item that caught my eye immediately is the Framed Key Art of the Investigations Collection! How awesome is that! It's quite expensive but wow, I'd love to have this on my wall! This art is beautiful enough that it definitely deserves that privilege.

Another one I love is this leather-like file with a stamp of Miles' image on the cover. Have your very own Organizer to sort all of your evidence and profiles in! 😄 Very thematically appropriate.

And speaking of thematically appropriate, there's even a tea cup with saucer themed after Miles and the Investigations Collection! Apart from the image of Miles himself on the bottom, they're really styled after the tea set Miles uses in the game. So pretty! I'm an avid tea drinker myself so I'm actually quite tempted to buy this...

The other Investigations-related stuff I want to mention is a floor mat of Kay's Yatagarasu's badge (interesting choice) and this cross-shaped acrylic stand of Miles in his pose from the collection key art. I'm a tiny bit disappointed that he's the only character who gets one of these. Several of the other Investigations characters would look amazing on these especially in their key art poses! It still looks great for him though! That pose of his is just epic!

[mutsukiss]

This thing is that mutsuki is an accidental trans character. He was written like one, without the intention of being one. HEAVY spoilers under readmore just in case

I don't think the western fandom was influential enough to cause a backtrack or explanation and from what I've seen about the Japanese side of the fandom Mutsuki is not understood as a trans man at all, but at some point later in the story there is this whole thing about how, technically, originally, in theory, Mutsuki does not present as a man because he is a man, but because he is disgusted about being a woman. Which from our point of view (mine, at least, but a lot of people agree with it too) could still be seen as a personal way of viewing transness or gender dysphoria at least, but this is a very actualized and "local" way of interpreting it and not what supposedly occurs in canon.

In canon Mutsuki is getting away from feminity and the woman identity, but he is not doing it with the intention of becoming a man; this is simply the quickest and most logical way of not being perceived as female. So initially it could have been a fitting thing for him to consider or want top surgery, maybe? But as the story progresses and the deal with his identity becomes clear and evolves this becomes unneeded. Transitioning is not a necessity, because he doesn't want to transition, he just wants to stop and get rid of anything that might associate him with femaleness. This is all without mentioning the differences in culture surrounding LGBT+ topics which undoubtedly exist but I'm not knowledagle enough to talk about, so just commenting it as a small note.

And as I mentioned the Japanese fandom picked this up with no issue (again, from what I've seen of people talking about it. Which is not much and does not represent everyone but you know) but here in the western and SPECIALLY the people in contact with the LGBT+ community (because there is a lot of people that will shut off any comments about Mutsuki being anything over than a girl, as it was so clearly said in the manga itself), we are used to seeing trans characters being portrayed I one way but living the trans experience in another, and Mutsuki just happened to fit unexpectedly well the latter.

His identity is a source of drama through the story, but he speaks about his identity in a very relatable way for trans people. His inner circle is unconditionally supportive when made aware of it, which is also something very attractive. He's accidentally a very nice transgender representation, at least for what you could be used to in popular media. He is not made fun of for it, his identity is not a comic relief, he experiences discrimination but it's not the main focus of his character arc, he is respected and loved by the people that love him without going through an "acceptance" period or discussion or making him the issue, or an issue at all.

So while, yes, he is a GREAT transmac chatacter, he is an accidental one, and no effort is made on him to transition because that was never his goal in the first place. Does that make him less trans? Eh, depends on what you want. If you want to follow what Ishida wrote and intended and say no, Mutsuki is a woman who went through x stuff and coped in this way, and when it all unfolded he admitted to not being a man, despite CONTINUING presenting masculine after the story ends, then sure. To me he's a trans dude!!! Idc abt what the author says or thinks. His character makes sense as a trans person, including the parts about his relationship with his sex and his identity as a woman. You can do whatever you want forever.

Am I misremembering or did they do Tooru super dirty in not letting him at Least get breast reduction surgery before the Quinx one?

I mean ofc maybe he didn't want to, maybe he prefers binding, but that is what we see, isn't it? Tooru's chest bound with Torso? He's a Quinx at that point, so he should have okay healing, right? So the bandages are probably for binding?

[chatonyant]

Typography my beloved and beloathed

I sure hope someday csp updates their text tool because for a manga program it sure sucks ass. I can hardly type in it without it lagging like hell and the fact that the fonts are listed in one giant list without grouping for font families is a crime :(

Also I want customizable text boxes. So bad. Like ok idk if I'm comparing apples to oranges here but illustrator (the program)'s type tool is just. So nice. It could suit csp pretty well too

Like currently csp has it that everything you type will always be on one line so you have to add the line breaks yourself

Which is a pain in the ass once you start inputting large amounts of text or even copy pasting something into a csp text box. But in illustrator you can do that but you can also drag and create a text box which then automatically constrains the amount of text that can fit into one space.

And that's not even getting into the more detail type work you can do in terms of tracking and leading in a easy to manage format. Csp does have leading and tracking but its a bit of a pain to manage. I do like how csp has a way to save certain fonts so I can swap around if I have certain fonts saved for comics but seriously, the list of fonts is a pain pain pain and I want at least a fucking search bar dammit. When there's options below to bold and italicize I'm just. Staring at it like is it switching to the bold/italic version of the font or is it going to do it itself (please don't do it on its own, just group the font families together and have it be like two drop downs.... the font then the weight... augh.)

Also wish it wouldn't default to some random font instead of the one I used last because it defaults to this font that starts with t and im just frantically scrolling up to look for helvetica to see if it looks nice,,,,

I'm still trying to find a font that complements my style and doesn't look so... out of place. Sometimes serifs look nice but often times look off and some sans serifs could work but I'm still going through them and trying to find them

Guess I'm sticking more to basic ones cause idk they tend to have the most weights

I've been using Arial but hm.... I'm gonna test out avenir and helvetica. I like mono space but they do not fit at allll. Maybe alata...? Or even futura....

[morporkian-cryptid]

@dying-suffering-french-stalkers

#it would be super interesting if they go the Dark Lupin/Lupin Double route that poster seemed to be teasing#where either lupin himself or a lupin double suddenly starts acting more like manga/wcfm lupin and freaks everyone out#bc current lupin isn't like that anymore#i haven't seen more than a few scattered episodes of parts 4 & 5 so idk if that fits in with the themes they introduced but i think so?#wasn't there a whole Situation with that and goemon in part 5? i've just seen clips and heard whispers but i think that's what was going on#oooo and if that DOES happen it would be delicious to see the whole gang but especially jigen (and pops) react to that#i realize that's putting FAR too much faith in the lupin writers who seem utterly uninterested in exploring emotional weight constructively#or at all#but p6e0 happened and now my brain is all *clown shoes squeaking* i can dream harold!#lupin iii#meta#tags

I absolutely DO want to see what the Gang and Pops' reactions would be too seeing Lupin go down a darker route.

Even though I'm not sure if that's explicit in canon, I've always seen Jigen as being kind of Lupin's safe-guard against exactly that. The Gang in general has that role, keeping his moral code in check, and Jigen specifically keeps him from being a danger to himself (he's a tether to keep him from going too far in his self-destructive tendencies). The Gang doesn't do that by actively stopping him (God knows that's never worked...), but by just... being here.

Because Lupin is actually the one who pulled them out of a darker place and gave them a moral code and a reason to be better (we see that with Jigen in almost every backstory he has: Jigen used to be a hired killer (and also depressive in TWCFM), before he met Lupin and became a thief. And we know less about Goemon's past, but in Part 1 as well as TWCFM, he is clearly an assassin too, and idk what he was by the time Bloodspray happened, but uuuuh the title speaks for itself).

What I'm saying is, Lupin kind of set an example for his partners, in a "killing is bad but now you're good and you'll stop killing" way, and that means HE can't break his moral code either. He set a higher standard for them, and that means he has to follow that standard as well. It's not just a question of being a hypocrite and losing the moral high ground, but rather the fact that Jigen and Goemon (and maybe Fujiko? idk) have come to respect and admire Lupin, and the fact that he may be a criminal but he's, at his core, a good person (and yes, I know that's up for debate, but this is MY character analysis post, hush). If he broke his moral code, he'd break the trust they have in him. And he can't do that.

Which is why it would be very interesting to see just that happen >:3

I should rewatch the Red Jacket episode about Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome.