#THANKS AGAIN FOR CONTRIBUTING TO A LITTLE FANDOM ON THE WAYSIDE

[ennaku-sirri-da]

[ Comic ID: Fancomic of the game Smile For Me set many years after the game. It currently features Putunia Mollar and Dr. Habit. The style is fast and loose, sketchy, flexible and toony. It is uncolored with any filling-in only being done in grayscale.

There is a doorframe decorated with drawn, splashy-looking flowers. A bit of the name 'Boris' is seen engraved. Now the small bell beside the florist's door is jingling as someone walks in.

Habit, here has grown out a beard that's littered with flowers, present in his hair as well. He looks up with a little question mark and turns, a smile forming. " Ah!" He says, with a smiling emote.

" Hell-o Petoonia!" He greets an older Putunia walking in, taller and with a hoodie, freckles. She has a withdrawn posture as she strolls in, hands in pockets. The ajar door reads ' Boris Floris'.

She shuts the door behind her. She speaks in allcaps throughout, " Whats up, Uncle Boris?" He replies with a surprised emote and characteristic spelling errors, " The sun! But is setting very fast. " She laughs, looking more relieved. He offers with another smile emote, the same type of errors continuing throughout " Would you like a soda pop? Lemonade?"

Putunia stands a little distance from him, bent over. She calmly replies, " I think I'm good." Habit is hunched over on the floor, shifting boxes of "Miracle Grow" and "Meal", a few flowerpots seen beside him. He squints with an eyebrow-raising emote, " ...Hmmm" "What's that face for?" she asks. Habit trails off in a silence.

He gets up, dusting off his hands and adopting a more weary, concerned face. He gets to the point, " I can tell there's a sad in your heart. " "Okay, you got me." " Did something happen?" She gets awkward, "Uhhh...."

The next panel shows her face changing over three shots seperated by vertical dividers. First she looks off vacantly to the side. Then she closes her eyes, face wrinkling slightly as she breathes a long sigh. Finally she looks down to the other side, unhappily. " They called."

A dark shading covers the background next. Putunia looks a little more angry as she continues, "My parents found our landline somehow...I should've just hung up the moment I realized. " Habit looks on in worry at this revelation, holding what looks like paper in one hand. End ID]

Page 1 This is turning out longer than I'd expected as I've got 2 more pages like this and counting but anyway! Comic about older Putunia dropping by Uncle Boris's shop for a chat. [Text under cut:]

Panel 1: -jingle jingle-

Panel 2: Habit: "?" "Ah! :-] " (? Ah! -smiley emote-)

Panel 3: Habit: "Hell-o Petoonia!" (Hello Putunia!)

Panel 4: Putunia: "WHAT'S UP UNCLE BORIS?" Habit: "Th-e sun! But is setting verry faste. :-O " (The sun! But it's setting very fast. -open mouth emote-) Putunia: "HAHA!" Habit: "Wuld youm like a sodie pop? lemomade? :-) " (Would you like a soda pop? Lemonade? -smiley emote-)

Panel 5: Putunia: "I THINK I'M GOOD." Habit: "....hmmm ',:-/ " (....Hmmm -raised eyebrow emote-) Putunia: "WHAT'S THAT FACE FOR?" Habit: "......"

Panel 6: Habit: "Eye can tell there's a sad in your heart." (I can tell there's a sad in your heart." Putunia: "OKAY...YOU GOT ME." Habit: "did soemthing habben?" (did something happen?) Putunia: "UHHH..."

Panel 7: Putunia: "..." "siiiiiiiiiiiggghhh." "THEY CALLED."

Panel 8: Putunia: "MY PARENTS FOUND OUR LANDLINE SOMEHOW... I SHOULD'VE JUST HUNG UP THE MOMENT I REALIZED."

[greatermaguro]

Hello! I hope it's okay to bother you here, cause I really just wanted to say thank you for all the reblogs on my fics. You have the best reactions/comments/tags. Cracks me up and makes me smile like an idiot every damn time. Really glad to have another Ran simp too, cause their following is criminally almost non-existent.

Anyway, thank you!!! 🖤🖤🖤

FIRST I want to apologize for, like, never responding. I see a notification and usually assume it’s a bot/spam. But sometimes I get a whim and open my activity/messages and see that it’s not a bot!

I saw this one quite a while ago, but couldn’t take the time to think about how I wanted to respond, then eventually it got left by the wayside as I’ve been swept up in completing some long-ass career training and starting my first Big Girl Job™️.

THAT BEING SAID I want to express how ridiculously grateful I am that you took time to express appreciation to me because excuse me?? You’re the creator here! And one putting out niche content, too! And you’re thanking me for consuming it?? Unreal. Unfathomable.

I know everyone enjoys fan content, but getting to read your works and interact with you has been the highlight at the end of some exhausting days for me especially.

ALSO I’m truly grateful to not be alone in the Ran Fan Club. Any fandom I’ve been a part of, I’ve always been drawn to the side characters with little screen time and next to no script and find that no one else sees what a catch they are. 😫 Lmao, I’ve recently recovered my dinosaur of a laptop from my family’s house, so I may be contributing to the Ran content soon 👀

Again, thank you for everything you give us fans to devour! I always look forward to every morsel you spare us regarding any of our beloved muses, much like a wanderer finding streams in a desert.

Or a moth bewitched by a flame because sometimes I think I’ve died after reading your works (in the best way possible).

[skywillsometimeswrite]

pls tell me abt ur ocs

*looks at my giant list of OCs* ...where do i start?

Welp I have an idea that I’ve been wanting to discuss for a while and kind of did during Nonbinary Week and I will gladly use this as an excuse to talk about it so thank you very much anon (genuinely thank you I didn’t actually expect to get any asks about my OC when I reblogged that sjkfhfljh)

I’ll put this under a read more so if people aren’t interested they dont have to hear me blabbing on about my characters

I’m going to be talking about 5 characters but I’m not gonna like… go too deep into them cause that involves delving into some more personal matters that if I were to ever fully share them I would need to give each of them their own posts. And they also have what I call 3 arcs… which again, I would have to discuss in their own posts.

These characters are who I call my “Editors.” They are characters that have never faded, so to speak, like other characters do, and were created as I went through pivotal parts in my life. When I was younger I attributed them to helping write my stories and I’ll talk about that a little bit, but I’ve also formed this narrative around them as they have existed. So right here I’ll discuss their first arcs the most.

(I’d like to point out since it’s important to the overall narrative that their collective stories exist inside my own mind or creative space. As such, since fandom is an important part of my creative upbringing, all of my Editors save for one (kinda) have a tie to one specific fandom but can span across multiple. They aren’t self-inserts, but they are OCs that existed within a canon of one or another fandom piece that also directly connect to their own stories.)

So let’s start with Sarasona Nova. She is the “Original” Editor (she technically isn’t but that isn’t here nor there right now). As she stood in the place of my persona for many, many years she has earned her spot to be one of the heads of storytelling. I contribute mostly plotlines and ideas to her because more often than not, if it makes sense it comes from her. She is the level headed one out of any of the Editors. She starts out pretty sweet, before any of the other Editors come along, but then she has her first true experience with fandom and she becomes very negative and critical towards it. The only reason she offered any story ideas for fanfics back then was because all of my motivation was towards it. This evolves further in the story into full on obsession with controlling stories and characters and everything having to be exact and perfect.

At first this doesn’t cause problems, not even when the second Editor comes into the picture: Dream/Dimension Ruler, or DR as I refer to him (his name has always been fuzzy). When DR first came into existence his purpose was to create settings and scenes for Sara’s stories to play out in, as well as be this caretaker almost for the out-of-use characters. He and Sara work together on a lot of things and are both fairly excitable people when it comes to creating, but Sara is more focused on the current story while DR is looking at the potential in others. He is perfectly fine with his role until he wants to start creating and telling his own stories, which Sara shoots down. She writes the stories, she’s the leader, she tells him what to make. Over time, this really breaks DR down and he slowly becomes less eccentric and enthusiastic in his creations or his personality. He stops looking after characters not being used, and over time they do start to fade into nonexistence. A character that hasn’t been totally neglected notices DR’s vulnerable state and decides to use this to her advantage.

This is Manipulator, or Mani as I call her. Mani is a character that was created for a specific fanfic that actually eventually gave way to a larger original story and left her’s almost abandoned. She didn’t even have a name. At this point characters were supposed to figure themselves out, name and personality wise unless they were able to be fit into a story where things were figured out for them. Since Mani didn’t have a story anymore, she was kind of left on the wayside, no matter how often she bothered Sara for something, anything, to work with or do. Mani decided she wanted to be an Editor, maybe even the lead Editor. DR had been trying to help her and Mani decides to help him in return, by trying to take down Sara and everything she’s ever created. Through her namesake, she manages to become an Editor in direct rivalry to Sara. She became responsible for the conflict in stories, becoming the main antagonist of Sara’s story. 

And her biggest contribution to this was through getting rid of the Editor Glitch. Glitch was this “broken” character that came into existence. Sara was confused by them, asking them their name, and didn’t get anything in return. Sara thought they were a mistake or something, since most characters usually have something to go off of to begin with but Glitch had nothing. After a while, it was revealed that Glitch was the Editor for characters and their creation. They were every character at once in every story while they themself were barely sentient. They both understood emotions and didn’t comprehend them at all, wanted to save the world while also wanting to end it, could kill without hesitation while also not being able to hurt a fly. This caused them to be almost robot-like, where they knew every single possible reaction to a given scenario and would choose the safest option by not reacting or reacting in what they would assume to be the most logical manner. Mani manages to trick them and trap them into a specific fandom that only had one main story that kept changing. They got caught up in this ever changing story and eventually became a character themselves in it, and them fully taking over a character for themselves became a part of the story. 

That eventually leads into the second arc of their current stories. But amidst the third arc the last (current) Editor arrives in the form of Skylar Roch. Sky pretty much came out of nowhere in context of characters, and was practically shoved into the role of Lead Editor, much to Sara’s dismay and Mani’s amusement. Sky does their best to help the other Editors, including Sara, with all their issues but is filled with their own as they try to juggle this responsibility that they were thrust into without any knowledge of how to do it. Sara is resentful towards Sky and tries to point out that she should still be Lead Editor, meanwhile Mani, DR, and Glitch are all pointing out the awful stuff she did to them as Lead Editor.

Eventually, they do get a happy ending. At least… currently. Their stories continue on for as long as I live, so we’ll see, I suppose.

This is a lot longer than I meant for it to be and I have barely scratched the surface of these characters and this story. Maybe one day I’ll write it and post it, alongside the fanfics that go hand in hand with them. But for now, that day is not today.

Still, thank you tons for giving me an excuse to babble on about these guys!