#I'm so sorry I made you wait orz

[the-unending-journey]

Send 🌿 for a screenshot associated with plants or nature. + Kiyo and Panacea please! I love them very much!

Some things just never truly change

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

The nendo I need for the my custom Kayako's hair (and maybe body too?) should be arriving on the 19th. I'm very excited

[onefourone]

GOOD (part 2) — previous part

simon 'ghost' riley x gn!reader

warnings: none

a/n: i'm rly not too happy with how this came out orz i'm so sorry! i will try to make up for it with a spicy addition soon 😖🙏🏽

You groan as you roll over in bed, a sadness rooting deep in your chest when you found the other side to be empty. You force your eyes open, immediately focusing on the slither of light peeking out of the bathroom. Now that you're more awake, you can faintly hear the sound of the shower running.

You couldn't help the smile that spreads across your face like a wildfire. He isn't even doing anything but showering and you're in bed, blushing like you haven't been with him for almost 5 years.

God, I love him.

You can feel the box staring at you from inside the drawer. Today. It has to be today. You were snapped out of your stupor when the door to the bathroom opened up, revealing your mountain of a man. You immediately noticed that he wasn't wearing his mask and didn't seem to be interested in putting it on. You didn't want to make it a big deal and put him on the spot, but you hoped he knew how much that level of trust meant to you.

"What's on your mind, love?"

The question doesn't surprise you. One of the things you love so much about him is his ability to see through like a window. It was as if your soul was on display for him at all times.

In lieu of responding verbally, you reach over into the drawer and retrieved the black box. Your heart hammered in your chest and your hands felt sweaty as you gripped the box tight. You were scared. So scared. Scared of being rejected. Scared of being alone. Scared of scaring him. Fuck, you wanted to run. You wanted to hide, save yourself the humiliation.

You chance a glance at his face, trying to gauge how he feels. The knowing look in his eyes makes it obvious that he knows where this is going. Your head feels like it's under water. You wait until he pulls on his underwear and sits on the edge of the bed next to you.

The gentle and patient look he gives you makes you want to start sobbing. Gods, he looks at you like you're the only thing in his life worth looking at. When he grabs your empty hand and brings it to his scarred lips for a kiss, you nearly break into pieces. You take a deep breath, blinking away pesky tears before you make eye contact. Now or never.

"Simon... We've been together for nearly 5 years now, and have been in love for even longer than that. You have stood by me when I was at my lowest and brought me up to my highest. You fill a space in my heart that no one else has ever been able to, and I suspect no one else ever will. You allowed me to see you at your most vulnerable... And that trust means more to me than you ever know."

You let out a breath that came out shakier than you wanted it to. His lips were tightened together, the way they do when he gets emotional. The fact that this was affecting him at all was a good start, you suppose. He stayed quiet, patiently waiting for you to finish.

"I guess what I wanted to say was... Simon Riley, would you marry me?"

You aren't proud of your voice cracking, but you ignored it in favor of opening the box and showing him the ring. Of all the reactions you were anticipating, laughter definitely wasn't one of them. It wasn't malicious laughter, but it still made you feel incredibly embarrassed. Before you could voice this to him, he stands up from the bed, which makes you panic even more.

"... Hold on, love. Nothing bad, I promise."

The words make you calm down slightly. You trust him not to make fun of you for something so serious, but you were incredibly curious about what he was doing. The sound of your heart beating feels so loud in your ears. You watch carefully as he walks over to his favorite leather jacket and reaches into the inside pocket, pulling out an identical black box.

Oh. Oh fuck.

Just like that, all the tension and anxiety flows out of your body like a deflated balloon. You both met each other's eyes once and fell into a fit of laughter and warm chuckles. A mischievous grin graced your lips as you positioned yourself to wrap your arms around his broad shoulders from behind.

"Well, my answer's yes. What about yours?"

He hummed, pretending to think about it and grinning when you playfully swat at him. He turned around so he could face you again, a soft smile on his lips that made your insides melt.

"I'm yours forever."

[xenocorner]

Here's some little christmas gifts for some amazing mutuals that have made this year a whole lot more bearable with their amazing content and their amazing interactions and just being amazing in general :']

Long post ahead so divider here to spare your scrolling. (I am also probably gonna get a bit sappy so if that makes you cringe: you've been warned lol)

@lilbitofmac Thank you for being my introduction to the fandom here on tumblr :'''D I really think I wouldn't have stuck around if it weren't for your initial warmth and encouragement. Your Tony remains my fave Tony I go feral over your art orz I may or may not have the clingy ironstrange drawing as a phone wallpaper-

Hope next year is kinder on you man! I know we don't really talk outside of tags/replies, but if you ever need smthn I can help with my inbox is always there.

@strxngetimes I'm just tagging this one blog because I don't want to spam all your other blogs lmao. Thank you for sharing your interpretations of the characters with us, not only the rps with other muses but also the headcanons and brainrot. It's always such a pleasure both to see you on the timeline writing with other muses and on the inbox with the disaster man.

I specially like how you include his Cloak in the mix and give it a personality- I absolutely adore the Cloak :'') So here's it being all clingy to the disaster man. Hope to see more of you having fun with all ur muses in the coming year :D

@starkkawajiri Pretty art!! Hilarious and heart wrenching character interactions!!! I love your designs and lore building so much. Fanboying over the same disaster man and making him suffer always brings a smile to my face. I've wanted to draw your Strange for a while now, so this was also the perfect excuse, I love him so much you have no idea-

Can't wait to see more of your amazing designs and lore stuff for this AU! (and anything else you create next year :])

@nekojetto I think your Strange is the purest Strange there is and the fact that it's based off Supreme makes that so much more impressive. Your animatics are simply breath taking, and whenever I go back to check your concepts and sketches for character interactions I always get a smile on my face :D

I'm sorry I haven't gotten to the collab just yet :'') Plz know I still have it in mind, haven't forgotten about it and am still just as excited to finally get to it as I was the first day!

@infiniteeight8 Your words make me cry and laugh so much all the time :'') You write the disaster men so beautifully both in serious, fluffy, angsty and funny situations. Reading ur stuff keeps the creative juices flowing!

I remember you liked the vampire Stephen prompt you were sent, so here's some of that, even if it's more halloween-y than christmas-y.

[hangup119]

Hi! I wanted to talk about join game the smau 😭 ive been reading it from the start and ive been crying you're so so funny. You've captured their personalities and growth so well, plus i love how you've included random twt users it makes the experience very engaging (and youve shown the brainrot+ delusion of twt incredibly 😍). I can NOT wait for them to meet irl like each chapter is the highlight of my day! Thank you sm for creating this smau and for your hard work. Smaus are NAWT easy to make so thank you so much for your work and contributing to riize content :( theres too little love for the boys. I dont think mc knows that anton knows how she looks 🤨 (im giggling) AND the running gags are so FUNNY 😭 the way shes the only one who understands soul, i love ynton's crazy, fun and natural dynamic really their relationship dev was soo natural! meant for each other im with seunghan on this one. I should stop talking now sorry for rambling but this was long over due. I was on a trip with shaky internet so i had been gathering thoughts about it in my brain. thank you have a great day!! 💘💘

hello hi! thank you so much for this message, sorry it took me so long to reply orz...

i'm so glad you're enjoying join game, it means so so so much! im not the most confident in depicting humor outside of repeating brainrot terminology like a chronically online eight year old on the internet, but comments like these genuinely make my day! im so happy you guys find me a little funny because half of the time i dont even know what im doing when im making the chapters LMAO (i don't plan my stories or anything i kind of just let the ideas marinate in my mind until i have the motivation to put it out into reality T_T)

honestly special thanks to @shoberi for the soul/yn running gag LOL she's the one who came up with adding someone who'd only reply with kaomojis, and she was also the one who came up with the whole plot of join game LMAO i was just the one who took it further and made it to what it currently is. thank you for liking join game!

[anachronismstellar]

HELLO I JUST READ ALL OF IAAP IN ONE SITTING AND I THINK IM ADDICTED TO IT ALDKDKDKFKSK

but genuinely though, I love your vibes and the way you write the characters

Sanji and his anxiety and the way it presents?????? calm Robin having to adjust to High Energy luffy??????? usopp and luffy and Zoro all having to figure out how to work in a body that makes no sense to them?????????? mwah

I love bodyswap fics and yours has been the best one I've ever read i fear

I'm looking forward to the next chapters!!!!! Sending love and support <3333334

OMG YOU'RE SO KIND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FJSHSKDBSKDNSKF this just made my entire week aaaaaaaa *happy dance*

I'm so happy that you're enjoying it! Writing them figuring out how to work their new powers and bodies has been a blast :D and I can't wait to get to the part where they start to actuality see each other's perspectives!! (hehe get? Sorry omg that was such a bad joke orz)

Welcome aboard!! I hope you like the future shenanigans ahead!

[murachinchi]

hello muraaaaa! for the ask game: rentan and hantan (i know you obv ship these I just wanna read your answers/thoughts haha) , and uhhh.... yorimichi 🤭

OwO OwO Zerooo helloooo OwO

thank you for asking!

for RenTan

I SHIP IT HEHE

What made you ship it?

da train scene.. but seeing Tanjiro crying over Kyo at their last scene together is what nailed me to this ship 😭😭😭 it was so good.. sad yet bittersweet.. and you can see that even gone Kyojuro is still very much there throughout his journey and how could i not ship that lmao..

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

i love thinking about them being silly little goobers 🥺

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

hmmm... nothing really comes to my mind 😔

HanTan

SHIP SHIP SHIP YES

What made you ship it

That one scene where Tanjiro told him to stop running away from his responsibility.. BUT ALSO UGLY MAN AND PRETTY BOY AHAHH Tanjiro's hatred toward hantengu.. i love it.. specially that scene

this scene.. i just love it so much lol and their personality is such an opposite attract bait i love it so much aaaaaaa im sorry there's so many things i like about this ship but i cannot put it into words 😭😭😭

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

Tanjiro's hatred towards Hantengu 🥺🥺🥺🥺 i love it so much.. he's so angy... i don't remember seeing him that angry beside Muzan.. but with Muzan that's because he killed his family.. But Hantengu? it's cause he's just a horrible human/demon being lmao 😭😭😭

3. your unpopular opinion about this ship

WHY THEY DON'T HAVE MUCH OFFICIAL ART TOGETHER??? LIKE COME ON HANTENGU/URAMI IS THE FIRST DEMON WHERE TANJIRO LEAD THE ATTACK AND EVEN KILL THE MAIN BODY HIMSELF. SURE HE GOT HELP BUT TANJIRO IS MOSTLY THE ONE WHO FIND OUT HANTENGUS WEAKNESSES LIKE COME ON. IS IT BECAUSE HE'S UGLY???? LIKE HOW COME KARAKU-NEZUKO, AIZETSU-GENYA, MITSURI-ZOHAKUTEN GOT OFFICIAL MERCH TOGETHER BUT HANTENGU-TANJIRO DOESN'T HAVE ANY???? LIKE THERES ONLY THAT WORLD TOUR POSTER OTHER THAN THAT NOTHING. im sorry for all the caps but am so sad.. ive been waiting to buy their merch tgt but all i got is the previous pair... also i bet if tanjiro is female there will be lots of pron made of them.

oki im sorry for the rant orz im just sad that Urami didn't have any merch lmaoo

YoriMichi

i don't ship it 😔

Why don't you ship it ?

it was more like i'm neutral with the ship?? im just not as invested with the characters 😭

2. What would make you like it?

if one of them is my fav character.. i might have ship it.. tho im not that interested with incest ship so idk either 🤔

3. Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

i do like their dynamic hehe 👀👀

[taiyami]

Mai Tai Time!!!! I haven’t watched/ read Golden Kamuy but I wanna know more about your new boo! I’m all eyes & ears if you wanna share any selfship hcs or just thoughts about your new babes 🌚

YOU ARE TOO SWEET TO ME ❗️❗️sorry this ended up being long winded ough...

Sugimoto Saichi.... To say I'm enamored with him is kind of an understatement. He's kind of my twin flame, as we have a lot of similarities ^_^ He's goofy, endearingly sensitive about animals and has a crazy appetite... dare I say we were made for each other. What gets me so caught up in him is the fact that he just.. so obviously LIVES and loves to be needed by people and takes a lot of pride in being a protective figure, because he has spent so long being alone after his family and loved ones had passed and left his life. 🥹 It really breaks my heart to see him so achingly lonely.

In our lore, I'm a transplant to the countryside in Hokkaido and live in the mountains with my horses (or something of this sort). Just me .. alone in the cold mountains..... I always kind of imagine my life before meeting Saichi and Asirpa (his little platonic/familial girl companion I'm sure you've seen her) was kind of lonesome too. Maybe I had a wife who died, or I left her for my own reasons.

Point is, I'm alone and fine with it. I'm a craftsman just as I am in my life now, and just prefer the company of my animals to people. Then, through the events of the story, Saichi and I meet and get the slow burn of a life time. Two bisexual fools, who lost the women they were supposed to marry/their traditional families, and " for some reason " couldn't find it within themselves to find a replacement (i.e GAY THOUGHTS), end up bonding over their mutual protective nature .... and also a love of food and living on the mountain. Ugh literally why can this not happen irl. We're brokeback mountain-ing all around in my head !!

I just love Asirpa so much 🥺 and I want to be in her little family with Saichi and watch her grow up. And Saichi needs someone who isn't afraid to wait for him on their own terms. And for him, I'd wait years... I think the subtle intimacy and love queer men had for each other back in historical times just really grips my heart and I want that with him.. orz

[f2e5b1]

Hello! First of all, I'm sorry if my question is bothering you in any way. I found your blog back in 2023 from the hashtag Tim Drake, out of boredom, I started to read your "Dear Robin" fan fiction and guess what? I'm instantly in love to your writing! It's very beautiful and nostalgic in some kind of way, and I really love the way you wrote the characters.

But the thing that made me really attached with your writing is the fact that I first discovered it when I was studying for my entrance exam. Reading your story gave me a really great boost during that period of time because everytime I read it it always give a sense of comfort to me. Long story short, back in March I got the acceptance letter to my dream school! And even though it's weird, everytime I think about my new school I always get a reminiscence of the story you made, and for that, I just want to say thank you. You writing is amazing.

Anyway, I'm going to my school's dorm soon (much like the main character from your story I guess), and I'm just wondering if you will ever drop the next chapter of your story, because if so, then I would gladly wait for it! Thank you for reading this, and once again, sorry if this question is bothering you. Have a good night!

hi hello! first of all, congrats on getting accepted into your dream school, and thank you so much for your kind words. sorry for the late reply... i've admittedly been going back and forth to your message ever since i received, but i didn't really know how to respond to it, which is nothing against you btw - and i wasn't bothered at all! it's just that... i guess you could say i was surprised? that someone managed to find me even when i've changed my usernames so many times and deleted the fanfic itself from my blog - but i'm glad you did! thank you for finding me, for taking a chance on dear robin, and for loving my writing. it means the world to me to see this as someone who's always had extreme second thoughts on my stories/writing - but what writer doesn't? haha. i'm thankful that dear robin gave you the comfort you needed during your studies, which is honestly such an honor, knowing that my work offered someone comfort even though it wasn't exactly on purpose.

(sorry i kind of went under a long tangent orz...)

admittedly, i don't really remember now what compelled me to start writing a tim drake fanfiction since i've always been a dick grayson girl (which sort of bled into the story i guess haha), but i knew that i wanted to at least showcase my liking for tim at the time dc was still my hyperfixation - and maybe try out a new writing/story telling style that delved much more into the complexities of relationships (tim & reader, or the reader & her mother) and of growing up. i was scared of mischaracterizing tim, or any other batman characters as i never really grew up on the comics - and the most i've done is watch teen titans when i was a kid. but seeing the attention dear robin got on both tumblr on ao3 gave me the boost to continue writing! i know dear robin isn't the most perfect dc fanfiction, and maybe ive mischaracterized some of the characters to the point where the dc tumblr meta community might crucify me for doing so (biggest fear of mine ngl), but writing it was both a learning lesson and also a sense of comfort to me; i even remember being so excited to show my friend the first chapter last year, and the compliment he gave to my writing motivated me to share it with everyone else.

but over time, i started getting... tired? of writing it? but i still liked tim, i still liked reading the comics and finding out about him - but the inevitability of feeling self-conscious about my writing eventually crept up until all i did was repeatedly go back to my documents and edit the chapters. but i knew that these little changes wasn't what i wanted - i wanted to make so big of a change to the story and the way i've written it and i've considered it too many times over the course of the year (maybe even deleting the whole thing itself), but thanks to all the comments and messages like these... i decided to just keep it. i won't say i've found peace with it, per se, but rather i wouldn't want to leave you guys hanging after we've been through so much together - i spent too much of my time writing it instead of studying haha! honestly, the 7th chapter is somewhere in my drafts, but it's nowhere near finished. when i open the document, i find myself cringing just to read it, and i hate to feel that way about something i've worked so long on. but i don't want to give up on dear robin because i love that story - i wouldn't want to do it dirty by leaving it behind the dust.

the next chapter is far from finished - and tim and the reader's relationship is still so far from what i've promised since the very first chapter, but i do still want to continue dear robin until it reaches that point. i will keep writing, and post the next chapter some time soon. i realize that i'll never be satisfied with how i do or write my stories, but somewhere down along the road i just have to accept the fact that even if i don't, others will - and you are proof of that, anon. thank you so much, and if you still can, please continue supporting dear robin.

[digitalgate02]

if it was my ask i was saying that in the dub canon izzy knew willis for years so tk and kari probably went “oh you’re actually real?” when they met him

if i wasn’t the ask you deleted sorry lol

(Oh yeah, it was yours i was talking about. Sorry again orz)

I have zero knowledge in the dub (sorry in advance), but this might be in order to connect DtM with the TV series right?

Yeah, that thing... The BR dub tried it too, but from another approach -- By making both Michael and Wallace being the same character, voiced by the same voice actor. As a kid i didn't care much for that detail, but later as a teen i started to question "wait, where's Terriermon!? What happened to Terriermon!?!?!" when i got to meet "anime Willis"

It's still a big mystery if this came from another source for the BR dub (like, how happened with the European Portuguese which came from Spain dub... and there they just changed Iori's gender due a misinterpretation of his DW outfit looking more like a dress or something...?) OR if this was just an isolated case and the BR dub was the only one to have Michael and Wallace "turned into one single character" 🤔

※ And i'm aware the American dub made both Jou's bros -- Shin [who appeared in Adventure] and Shuu [who appeared in 02] -- into one single brother... But not further details... So i guess same experience here but with different characters??

[trealamh]

I'm sorry if you've got these question before but I have to ask: what made Alisdair speak to Arthur in Glasgow Scale? Did Arthur and Dai have any other family? What life did Arthur leave behind in Kent, and was Alisdsir's life much changed afterwards?

I love how your short stories pack so much life into them, they can be unfolded ten times over and I still would want to know more

always ask anything you'd like! i love your questions. And aaaa thankyouthanyouthankyou for your kind words <3

hehe I have been wondering whether it would be too indulgent to write TGS from Alasdair's point of view, actually. It would be a longer piece and much more dialogue heavy, covering from the night they met to Arthur moving in.

(Here is where I confess that TGS was going to be a multi-chapter fic/ one of those 15k single-chapter fics until i got worried I would disappoint people by taking too long to update or missing scoteng week entirely orz sorry everyone)

But to answer your questions!

Alasdair, as i mentioned here had just been released from custody and made his way straight to the hospital (no time to rush home and hop in the shower when you're naw even sure your brother is still alive). He is still running high on adrenaline a when he goes to find a seat in the waiting room, having been dismissed by the nurses that won't let him into Sean's room. It may not show much on him, but emotionally he is all over the place; angry, furious, even, and worried. Exhausted and fed up with the proceedings of loss; the bureaucracy of pain. Having someone in hospital is one of the hardest things to go through; a lot of the time it is worse to be the one waiting outside than it is to be the one hooked onto an IV. Alasdair is burning for a smoke and out of filters but the truth is that the reason why he sits next to Arthur is that something in him recognises him as a younger brother-- Dai was older. Call it instinct. I don't believe he would rationalise it and I do think that at some point Arthur would ask him outright "Why did you choose to sit next to me that night? Why me?" Alasdair probably would not have the words o explain it beyond some vague sense that Arthur was the only person in that room that made sense to him in that moment.

Arthur and Dai only had each other, really. Maybe a distant relative here and there but no one close. I won't go into detail to spare anyone who might come across this without a cw but it is partly why Dai is almost meticulous with the instructions he leaves behind; he knows that Arthur won't have any support going forward so as much as he can he tries to make it easy.

(It is patently not. It could never be. Nothing about loss could ever be but losing someone under those circumstances especially is unmanageable.)

When Arthur calls Dai's workplace to try and let them know he is not coming in to work they seem a little baffled and tell him that Dai had put in his two weeks already. It makes Arthur nauseous; it almost brings him to his knees. It makes him realise how long Dai had been planning this for and that as much as the loss of him itself is worse than any nightmare.

Moving onto lighter things, what Arthur leaves behind in Kent is a slightly bemused flatmate and a few odd pieces of furniture. He only moves in with Alasdair after he finishes his degree! Dai and him grew up nestled deep in the Welsh borders (I needed them both to have a piece of their namesake countries with them! so the borders it was) lost their mother in their late teens, shortly after Arthur gets approved for his student loan. Some more deep lore for TGS: that the reason why Dai is studying in Edinburgh are the student fees. He is older than Arthur, as I mentioned, so went off to uni a year before he did with his mother's support. She was already sick when Arthur was finishing up school and gone before he got his A-levels back. That summer, Dai comes down from Scotland to help him back and move into his first-year accommodation in Kent and that is the last time they spend more than a couple of weeks together at a time. Everything they own between them and whatever their mum left is split even; they get a few boxes each and a couple of furnishings, and that's all they really need. Eventually, Arthur might start feeling that loss as well and he might feel nostalgic about his home town, the flat they shared with their mother, and he might return to seek out familiar sights. Dai never grows old enough for her loss to lose its sting. They have different fathers (both still living) but neither keep in touch; their wee family of three (and then two) was plenty enough for them.

(Alasdair, contrastingly, comes from a Big Family. They fold Arthur right in, don't ye worry.)

And last of all, Alasdair's life does change pretty significantly after the events in The Glasgow Scale. He stops smoking, for one, but he also starts drinking less. By the time we meet him in this AU he has already done a lot of the work to get a hold on his temper and it's partly why he is not one of the brawlers in the fight that puts Sean in a coma. But he still has a ways to go and Arthur helps with that, more than he knows. He learns to think about someone else's needs in a deeper way than he ever has before and starts to see his own actions through someone else's eyes. Alasdair post-TGS is guilt-ridden to a fault and being good to Arthur helps him get a grip of himself.

This is a bit of a spoiler but a few months after Dai's death, Arthur gets a call from one of his classmates. Dai left behind a few things (he was an artist, Dai was you see) and he offers to hold onto them until Arthur can travel back up to pick them up. Arthur mentions this to Alasdair, who he's kept in touch with (a little awkwardly at first ksks do not be fooled they are deeply emotionally constipated in this AU despite the way they latch onto each other in the midst of their respective trauma) and Alasdair offers to bring them down for him instead. He kinda just blurts it out actually haha and is afraid that it was too forward of him when Arthur takes too long to answer that aye, that would be good actually, if Alasdair is sure (he cannae afford a ticket up to Scotland is the truth).

This is a whole wee story in its own right but essentially they get to meet each other again, under better circumstances, and that lays a stronger foundation for their eventual relationship. It is also an incredibly awkward visit at first adgfjdhgj which oddly enough helps them get over a lot of personal hang-ups.

One thing about this fic though is that for as much as their lives are changed irrevocably by what they lose and earn that night, they are still very ordinary people hhh and that's what I love about them both.

[dimmestmorn13]

Aaah I just read your tags on my Kaliruggie drawings, I'm so flattered T-T Thank you so soso much for your nice words, you're so lovely. It really made my day <3 Your art is so beautiful, too!

Also Kaim + Ruggie, and Ryoma + Kintaro your taste is impeccable!

I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN IN MY INBOX FOR SO LONG AND IM SO SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT I JUST TwT never knew if i was spose to post this public or like answer it privately but UWAUWUAUWUA /pos looking at YOUR kaliruggie art always makes my day, and ueueuee that means alot from uuuu ;;;; :DDD kaliruggie n ryokin the ever <3 school's been keeping me away from doodling so have this lil doodle of my struggle on getting club kalim on twst en projected on ruggie, orz

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

I mean, given that P5D flopped and Atlus stopped making dancing games but kept/keeps on making P5 spinoffs I'm doubtful that Atlus would make tactics games whether P5T does good or bad (plus I feel like its every other time I hear about it I hear a persona fan mentioning they're not a fan of tactics games so it's def not just a thing on this blog)

Hahahaaaaaa......yeah............

Tbf I don't see a REASON for a dancing game atm. That's more of a game to celebrate the music (or throw it in the trash and set it on fire like P5D did, RIP to P5D you shouldn't have come out when you did)

Also tbf PQ2 didn't sell THAT much better (I think the sales were fairly within what Atlus is/was used to tho? only like 20000 less....then again that might've been OLD data I was looking at). And there hasn't been a Q game since....but tbf Atlus isn't popping them out AS FAST as when they were having their P4 era. (we almost got like 3 games in one year? TT0TT god everything was moving so fast in that era)

Probably cause of quality contr-I can't even finish that sentence.

Ahem. Probably cause of scope maybe.........except PQ2 was roughly the same story length as PQ1......or at least ONE SIDE of a PQ1 playthrough (tho some bits of PQ1 did repeat on each side, A LOT didn't). (there's also the fact they released it on a dying/dead console ahhhhhh, unrelated to scope but still TT0TT)

Uhhhh ummmmm, oh! P3/5D! Right- no I notoriously lambast them for CUTTING content that a single P4D could handle. Half the "story" and less songs. (of course this is considering P3D, P5D, and P4D all separate games on their own....which they are....and were sold as...................separate games......full price....games.....)

Ok ok Strikers! Yes Strikers. That had the scope that matched/exceeded Arena/Ultimax.... at least story wise. But....no one talks about Strikers for some reason. I thought y'all where hyped??????? It seemed to have sold well, but I dunno if that means it's liked..... (I have a VERY small sample size, but outside myself, all the people I've talked to IRL said they hated P5S TT0TT)

Wait why am I bringing this up? Maybe it's cause I miss the P4 era. TT0TT ajfksjf;d

Oh! No no, it's that, P5S is like the most successful P5 spinoff imo (didn't look at the sales but I think it might be the best selling Persona spinoff in general)....but we also haven't had a P5S2, or DLC for it (surprisingly/unfortunately), or another Persona game just like it (like P1S or Raidou S or yadda yadda).

That being said.......P5S was made with another company so....yeah...... that could be why jfsdljafdsakj

Unlike P5S, Dancing and Qs are made in house, P5T is too? I haven't been paying attention. TT0TT It could be they are just focused on T and...."Asa"? and P3R and/or something else. So that could explain the lack of another dancing game (or Q). Plus, again, the dancing games are more of a celebration. I can see a P5D2 happening as we get closer to P6 tbh (if not a P3/4/5D PS5+others port). (and I'm sure they are figuring out how to port Q to other places now they don't have the dual screen). I dunno, this part went on longer than I thought @_@ Just woke up and I'm rambly sorry

I mean Atlus has had the chance to do another Tactics game for years with the DeSu franchise, and those aren't even connected/have to be connected in a single timeline! And people are still waiting on 3! TT0TT So yeah I can see them just dropping it orz

(Yeah I've asked others IRL and they weren't exactly excited either TT0TT Tbh as long as I get another version of this artstyle again I'm fine with that, doesn't need to be a Tactics game.)

[alikestory]

mostly rambling about writing my webcomic...

i was doing the typesetting for the next chapter and there's this one part where i was like, i need to explain what this person is referring to for this scene to have any weight. i'll just write a quick backstory thing~

anyway it's. as long as a normal chapter nowwwww :'^) INEVITABLY. i still have one little scene left to write dfghj

generally this arc keeps getting LONGER ;___; i know how it ends and i'm like "wait is this going to have any impact if i don't write something about that??" and in general there are lots of things i know about the characters that aren't in the comic and i'm like DOES IT MATTER???? i don't know.... :'3 (like, not stuff that's going to be revealed later just kinda mundane things that happened before the story starts. but then i hate it when a manga has an entire volume dedicated to one side character's backstory and i'd like my webcomic to END ONE DAY.........)

okay so i wasn't like "i'll just write a quick backstory thing~ tee hee~" I SAID IT BLEAKLY. RESIGNED TO MY FATE.

it is mostly the character in question narrating some stuff so i thought okay i'll do it nagata kabi style and i can totally finish this and another 21 page chapter in two months. i mean her manga is in a simple kinda sketchy style and there's a lot of narration but it's interesting....... anyway that's my current plan. basically how shitty can i get away with this looking..... and what if i made it pink like my lesbian experience with loneliness.......... but i don't want people to see it and think of nagata kabi necessarily i just like pink. MY WEBSITE IS ALREADY PINK. IT'S FINE. NO ONE WOULD EVEN NOTICE. also being like "hey remember this completely unrelated and also way better manga???" at the very beginning of a 30-40 page update. :'^) BAD IDEA.

anyway i own (i can't think of a way to abbreviate this title sdfg why is it so long) my lesbian experience with loneliness but i want to read her newer books too. i think i read exchange diary at a library and found it kinda boring tho? .-.;; ig it's not as sensational as long title. less sex appeal. (that is a joke.)

SEEING THE NEWER TITLES IS. bleak. this poor woman what the hell. like reading long title you'd expect things to get better for her and it's not like her manga hasn't been successful either..... it's kind of depressing, i put them on hold at the library but DO I REALLY WANT TO KNOW???

also somewhat self-conscious about my library holds u__u;;; having three volumes of manga in the first place. whenever i put manga on hold i worry they'll think i don't read real books..... (because i DON'T. i put left hand of darkness & house of leaves on hold too but i've had both of them out before and just never actually read them........ THIS TIME I'M GOING TO. I SWEAR.) i also took impossible people out a few months ago so what if they can see my reading history and are like "why do you read so many comic books about alcoholics??" BUT NEITHER OF THOSE THINGS WILL HAPPEN. i just have an anxiety disorder :v

aaaaa i also don't even know if this backstory flashback thingy is enough.... I MEAN. I GET IT NOW. I KNOW WHY THEY DRAW AN ENTIRE VOLUME OF VILLAGER E'S BACKSTORY. (actually when i think of this phenomenon i think specifically of fai from tsubasa orz;;;; I'M SORRY.) AND. OKAY. IT'S SO EMBARRASSING.

nothing i'm saying or will continue to say is helping my case for Dear Library Employees, I Swear To God I Don't Just Read Comic Books (about alcoholics. i also read comics about other stuff.)

there was some comedy/romance shojo manga i read back in high school and i think the offenders here were by the same author but i don't remember who for sure :v anyway there were a bunch where something serious was about to happen or the characters were finally going to be honest with each other and then they'd have some kinda joke and it would always annoy me bc as we have established i love some sensational drama :v

BUT I GET IT NOW ;_____; THAT IMPULSE...... it's hard to write a sincere and emotional moment and be like WHAT IF IT DOESN'T LAND????? it's so obvious what i'm trying to do that if people go "i don't buy it" then i'll just DIE I GUESS?????????

but you have to try u__u you HAVE TO.

[xx-justsomeguy-xx]

Hellooo just dropping by to say hii dear Iah, how are u doing? What are u up to?

I try to keep updated on your life with your ocassional posts but also been meaning to send you an ask for weeks now ;w;

I dont have much to share myself, but am just a few weeks away from my one month vacation and sooo looking forward to that..! Also been spending more time on Instagram to check stores but now made it to the arts and crafts side of it & it's driving me positively insane.

Saw these https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzzAFUiPaeg/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Czb9QONvHg7/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== & couldn't help thinking of both you & also Dolasach 🥹🖤

Anywhoo, hoping all's well for you~ love you lots💌🥀

OH my god hello hello!! I'm so sorry it took so long to answer this sdhfjksdf I think something happened right after and I was like... "maybe I'll wait until I'm in a better mood so I don't just rant all post" and uh. Took a while >.>;; Oops

Tbh I kinda feel like 80% of what I've been posting lately has been either vent posts or me just talking about Genshin sdfhjsk and the remaining 20% is me talking about having a hard time with art orz >.>;; Though for the most part life really has been pretty must that... Mundane life things, art, Genshin, sometimes I write then chicken out about posting sdfhjsdkf

Curious about how you've been doing though!! I also try to keep tabs through your posts >w< Very glad you're getting your month off!! I hope you're able to rest and do all the stuff you haven't been able to bc of work + have some fun so the Horrors™ are kept at bay a little longer.

(Please tell me about Samarie and Sally OwO each time I see you rb something with their ship tag I'm like :0 Saw a clip the other day of actual Samarie dialogue and I was so surprised by how really sweet she seems? <-hasn't actually played through Termina asdhjkasd is she like... A completely different person with Marina or something...)

ALSO THOSE STORIES SDHFJKSDFJ STOPPPP 😭😭😭 those are so beautiful and cool wtf? The embroidered heart by Tessa Perlow is so... Ouuhgugh... I have no words ;w; The little book made of eucalyptus leaves is so cool too, there is an air to it that feels so whimsical ;w; So flattered they made you think of Dola (and me asdhjskdf though my personal sewing/embroidery career is put on hold as I try to zero in on fewer things to get better at them...)

[witch-hazels-musings]

You're gonna be shocked on who I choose... but...

Tartaglia + always giving the utmost attention to the other if they are in a crowd

You know how when you see a person you love and your features loosen up, jaw unclenching, soft smile appearing, eyes softening, and a tiny tiny spark appears in the dense blank look they usually have in their pupils? Yeah.......... I'm down bad orz"

You didn’t notice, he didn’t say anything

You never brought it up, he had no idea 

two fools in love without any understanding that when either entered the room, everything else faded away 

If the two of you had your will - time would stand still every time you stared at each other 

From the moment you entered his life he felt drawn to you. The way you spoke, the sound of your laugh, the crispness that filled him like a fresh breath of air after being trapped in a stuffy room. You were the stars and he vowed to be your moon; if you’d have him that was. 

Nothing else made sense anymore. If you couldn’t be his he didn’t want anyone else; no one could ever come close - not what he wanted, not what he needed; there was only one and he could feel it in every moment you spent by his side. Yet, there was nothing compared to the way he felt when you walked through the door. 

The way his eyes were immediately drawn to you, the way his heart fluttered at the sight of your searching gaze. Waiting, wanting, seeking him in the crowd but he’d already found you. How could he not, everything else turned to grey as soon as you arrived; a perfect display of the colors that complemented him, his match, his one true pair; you were his world and the air inside of it. 

“Childe!” You shouted his name as soon as you found him. The smile on your lips, the brightness in your eye, the hue that was perfectly you. 

“You finally made it I see.” He teased, hand cupping your hip and pulling you close. 

“Sorry, I got a bit lost.” 

“Strange, I never do.” He leaned in before your confusion could take hold. It wasn’t a comment meant to follow yours, it was an expression of his heart, his honesty, and as his lips connected with the corner of your mouth, as your fingers dug into his arms, he reassured himself that getting lost was never possible when he was so unbelievably found in you.