#also kinda looks like a magazine cover which is fun

[g3othermal3scapism]

in honor of that new Elle Woods show they announced (which sounds like a horrible idea and im displeased with)… highschool era Elle Woods

[slvtfornegan]

Bound in Blood

Characters: Negan x fem!reader/ one of his wives (female), Simon

Warnings: swearing, smut

Notes: GUYSSSS this is one of my first fics, soo… we read and we don’t judge. I will try to make some more, just let me know if you like it and if I should continue writing, ca honestly that’s so ass byeeee. Enjoy)

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She was one of Negan's wives, she couldn’t the other way. Her and her sister barely made it until they found the Sanctuary, and now she had been under his grasp for two months. Two months since she had arrived at the Sanctuary, had become one of the wives of a man who had blood on the hands of a huge number of people.

Her sister was diabetic and that stuff was hard to get these days. But when she saw that the points weren’t enough she agreed to his other proposal… and it consisted of her being his wife, whom he treated more like an object than a woman with emotions.

However, it wasn’t all bad. She couldn't hate Negan, after all he had saved her when she was ready to die, gave her and her sister a roof, food and the medicine her sister needed. Also she found herself really enjoying being around him despite everything. Negan embodied the epitome of her ideal man despite his crazy behaviour sometimes: handsome, funny, sociable and damn good at sex, and to her surprise a very good listener despite the man yapping all the time and being a total dick. He made her feel things that she’d never experienced before with any of her sexual encounters.

He looked like he came from some sort of magazine cover. His dark hair was usually slicked back, the salt and pepper stubble that sprinkled his stone hard features were accompanied by such a beautiful smile, revealing his perfect white teeth, his dimple lines now more evident when he smiled. And those eyes.. those hazel almost green eyes were making her skin tingle whenever he threw a glance in her direction.

Which with time she found herself wanting more and more, not able to keep her hands off of him.

She felt herself getting attracted to him. It was so hard, because it was Negan after all. It was such a twisted situation and she couldn’t tell anyone, nor her sister, because she knew they couldn’t understand.

She wasn’t scared that much of him even though he could be scary as fuck. When she dared to talk back, they had this back and forth, which he seemed to let slide and lead to other things every time.

Walking down the hallway, her heels echoed on the cold floor. She was trying to find Negan because she had something to talk about with him. He wasn’t in his room, which meant either he was in the meeting room either somewhere… around this place.

She sighed, rubbing a hand over her face as she turned a corner. The Sanctuary was massive, a maze of hallways and rooms, and even after two months, she still felt like she could get lost in it.

Finally, she heard voices coming from the meeting room. The deep rumble of Negan’s voice was unmistakable, followed by laughter from a few of his men. She hesitated for a moment, suddenly feeling nervous. She didn’t know why-she had been around him so much that she should be used to this by now. But something about approaching him in front of his men made her pause. She was seen as his possession, his toy, his pet. None of the people in the Sanctuary were really taking seriously his wives.

Taking a deep breath, she pushed open the door.

Negan was leaning back in a chair, boots propped up on the table, Lucille resting against his leg. He was laughing, clearly in the middle of some joke, when his eyes landed on her. His expression shifted instantly-his ever-present smirk appearing as his gaze raked over her.

“Well fuck,” he drawled, dropping his feet from the table and sitting forward, elbows resting on his knees. “Look who’s gracing us with her presence.”

She straightened her spine. “Can we talk?”

Negan tilted his head, studying her. “That depends. This a fun kinda talk, or am I about to get my ass chewed out?”

She ignored the glances crossing her arms. “It’s important.”

Negan’s smirk didn’t fade, but his expression did shift, just slightly—enough for her to know he was actually taking her seriously. He turned to his men. “Alright, boys, show’s over. Get the fuck out.”

They didn’t hesitate, filing out of the room without complaint.

Once the door shut behind them, he leaned back again, spreading his arms over the chair. “Alright, sweetheart. You’ve got my attention.”

She hesitated. Now that she was alone with him, the words seemed harder to find. She took a deep breath. “It’s about my sister.” That got his full attention, his expression shifting to a serious one. He had a feeling where this was going. “She’s running low on insulin. I know you’ve been keeping her stocked, but… it’s not enough. She’s been rationing, and it’s getting dangerous.”

Negan was quiet for a moment, his fingers tapping against Lucille’s handle. His eyes never left hers, and for a brief second, she wondered if she had pushed too far.

Then he sighed. “Shit. Alright.” He stood up, rolling his shoulders. “I’ll send a crew out to scavenge more. No guarantees, that shit doesn’t grow on trees, but we’ll do what we can.”

Relief flooded her. “Thank you.” She murmured softly.

“You don’t have to thank me, sweetheart,” he murmured, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear. “I take care of what’s mine.”

Her breath caught. It wasn’t just his words it was the way he looked at her too. “Come here.” He signalled with his fingers for her to come closer and she immediately obeyed, making her way towards him and sat on his lap.

Negan let out a low hum his arms wrapped around her waist, pulling her in as he leaned back in his chair. His warmth seeped through the thin fabric of her dress, and she felt her pulse quicken. “Damn you’re tense.” He huffed, rubbing her hip in circles.

She bit down her bottom lip thinking for a moment “Sorry, I’m just-“

“Don’t worry that pretty little head of yours about it. I will try my hardest to find the meds for your sis. I’m a man of my word.”

She leaned her head down, close enough, so her breath ghosted over his lips as she talked “I know..” she murmured, her hand running down his chest under his leather jacket.

His smirk widened against her lips “Damn right you do.” He hummed. Suddenly, he gripped her throat gently, electing a moan from her, and crashed her lips down onto his. His tongue teased her bottom lip, coaxing her lips apart, and she did. She allowed herself to be consumed by the moment, overwhelmed by presence of the man in front of her. Her hands move up his chest and slowly wrapped around his neck, moving to his dark curls, giving a light tug, electing a small moan from him.

Her lips chased his as he suddenly broke the kiss, leaving her hanging and wanting more, “You are so fucking beautiful,” his words vibrated against her flesh when his mouth lowered from her lips, down her jawline and toward her neck. His wet kisses were causing her to heat up and she was yearning for more while the rough stubble teased at her skin. Her head tilted to the side giving him more access to her skin, her chest rising and falling rapidly.

Oh how he loved getting these reactions and sounds out of her, they were never fake, she clearly loved the attention he was giving her, even though she always denied it.

His hands moved further and further up, under the dress, and she parted her legs more, as his hand slowly reaching the edge of her panties.

God no, she didn’t come here for this. The thought of someone entering on them made her both embarrassed and more excited “Negan..” she panted softly

He groaned as his fingers rubbed her through her panties finding the dampness of the material “shit baby, you’re already dripping for daddy and I barely even touched you.” he grunted. he could feel himself aching to be inside her, his cock twitching in his pants as she whimpered.

“Negan-“ she gasped again her eyes widening slightly as he teased her.

His smirked against her neck grew into a devilish grin as he heard the gasp leaving her lips. He pressed his finger against her core with just enough pressure to make her breath hitch.

“yes baby?” he teased his lips attached to her neck, his free hand holding her hip still.

“Someone could enter-“ she only managed to whimper out but that didn’t stop him. Grabbing her thighs he hooked her legs around his hips and sat her ass on the edge of the table. His rough fingertips caressed over her revealed flesh and it made her bite down on her bottom lip. Rolling his hips, Negan rubbed up against her while he had his body firmly pressed up against hers.

Now the torturously steady grind between her thighs making it hard for her to focus, his stubble scraping against her skin. “Let them enjoy the fucking show then.“ he grinned against her skin, his lips finding hers in a heated kiss.

He pulled back briefly, his breathing uneven, a low growl escaping his lips. “You wanna make a scene doll?” he grunted, his eyes dark and glittering with both lust and mischief.

The thought of that made her moan as she looked at him, his hands now under her dress lifting it up and gripping her thighs. Fuck it. She caught his lips in another kiss her hands moving to his belt starting to undo the loops.

A whimper fell from her throat when Negan pushed the material of her panties aside so he could tease his rough fingertips over her most intimate parts. There was an eagerness to get Negan’s pants apart while he caressed over her body in the most seductive and talented sweep. Finally getting the zipper down, she pushed the material down enough in the front to reveal his hardened cock to her sight.

Negan’s eyes were hooked on her like a hawk while she wrapped her palm around Negan’s length, taking her time to test flesh in her grasp. The deep, raspy moans that Negan was releasing was driving her crazy. “Please…” she begged, her eyes lifting to his seeing the fire of passion burning in Negan’s hazel eyes while she worked him in her palm. “I want you. So bad.” She nudged her heel up his ass to make him press his tip in her entrance

And finally Negan’s hips thrust upward while he had a firm grasp on the backs of her thighs. “Negan,” she cried out his name, her fingers tugging firmly at his hair while he eased his body into her. The warmth of his body filling her compared to the general overall coldness and emptiness of the room.

“Fuck this pussy is my favourite.” Each thrust was drawing soft moans from her throat filling the air around him. Quickening the pace of his body inside of her, Negan moaned out himself with the feeling of her body clinging tightly to his. Knowing that they were in the meeting room where people could easily catch them made this whole encounter so much more heightened for the both of them.

The sound that Negan made showed that he was happy to hear her every reaction and every single time his name fell from her lips, that while his hips continued to smack up against her. The metal desk creaked under them, echoing in the room.

The tip of his cock hit her g-spot again and again having her shaking with absolute delight. “You’re so damn tight. Feel so fucking good…”

“God yes..” She gasped out, her nails digging into jacket, holding onto him tightly.

He was rough and demanding, taking what he wanted and she loved it, the feeling of being wanted, of giving herself to him.

He let out a deep growl against her neck and started whispering in her ear with each thrust, all the dirty things he’d do to her after this, the dirty little things he’d make her do for him, and all the times he’d make her cum, and grinned as he felt how his words were affecting her, her face buried in his neck her legs trembling, her little cunt clenched around him as her orgasm washed over her.

“Yeah that’s a good fucking girl..” he praised but it came out as a low guttural moan. “Fuck..” He felt like his own release was approaching so he grabbed her hips and slammed into her a few more times before his hips stilled, but Negan knew better than that and pulled out of her making her whine in protest, and gave his cock a few firm strokes as he came on her thigh.

He panted against her neck, they both were, trying to regain their breaths as their bodies slowly came down from the high.

He slowly looked down at her, her face flushed, her chest heaving. “Fuck you’re so damn perfect..” he breathed out placing a small kiss on her collarbone.

Trying to catch her eyes roamed over his futures. His slicked back hair now was slightly disheveled, two strands of it, hanging down his now sweaty forehead. He looked so good. Too damn good.

He ran a hand down her body, a satisfied smile on his face, enjoying the way she was looking at him, like he was a goddamn meal. “Gotta be careful with that look, I might go for round two and three against this wall if you keep it up.” He grumbled making her huff, in embarrassment that she got caught. But he really was gorgeous.

She swallowed hard, trying to steady her breathing, but it was impossible with him looking at her like that—like he owned every single inch of her. In a way, he did.

Her fingers traced the damp strands of hair sticking to his forehead, brushing them back. It was an intimate gesture, one she hadn’t even thought about before doing it. Negan’s smirk softened, just slightly, before he pressed another lingering kiss against her jaw.

She hated how much she liked this. How much she wanted him.

Negan pulled back just enough to study her, his hazel eyes gleaming with something almost unreadable as he pulled himself back in his pants, buckling the his belt.

She shook her head, stepping off the table and smoothing down her dress. She needed to get out of here before she completely lost herself in him again.

“I should go,” she murmured.

Negan leaned back in his chair, watching her with amusement as he reached for wrist. “Mmm. Running off so soon? Using me like that and then just leavening me?” He pouted dramatically, and she rolled her eyes.

“I think you have better things to do anyway.” She muttered

Negan raised an eyebrow, amusement flickering in his gaze as he caught her wrist, tugging her back toward him, settling her in his lap once more. His grip was firm, but not threatening, just enough to hold her there. “Better things, huh?” He grinned, his eyes scanning her face like he was trying to read her thoughts. “Sweetheart there’s no better thing than be inside that sweet pussy of yours and you looking at me like that.”

With a roll of her eyes She smiled down at him but before she could say something back a voice snapped them back to reality.

“Boss-“ Simon entered the meeting room, finally reaching for his boss.

She realised her hand from his grip and stood up, not wanting to question his reputation in front of his men, and Negan looked at her with a pouting expression as if disappointed that she actually pulled away, as id she wasn’t already his.

Negan let out a frustrated sigh turning his head to the man. “What’s it Si?” He grumbled

“Sorry for interrupting,” he threw a knowing smirk to his boss and then at her then looked back at Negan “but i think you wanna hear this.”

Negan let out a low grunt grabbing the handle of Lucille and stroking it up and down. “We’ll continue this later.” He reached out and pressed a small kiss on her knuckles. Watching him being gentle despite his crude words earlier, was something so unusual and stirred something inside her.

With a small nod she made her way to the door where Simon stood with his hands on his hips watching her like a hawk, and threw him a glare. She really didn’t like the man. She had a bad feeling about him. She pushed past him bumping her shoulder into him with an annoyed huff and made her way out of the room.

Simons eyebrows shot up and scoffed looking after her. Simon chuckled, shaking his head as he turned back to Negan. “That one’s got some fire in her.”

Negan smirked, resting Lucille against his shoulder. “Oh, you have no idea, Si.” His eyes lingered on the door she had just walked through, amusement flickering in his expression before he leaned forward.

“You seem really fond of her lately. Is her pussy that good?” Simon didn’t lost the chance to mock his boss.

“Keep your dick to yourself.” Negan growled, clearly not a fond of being mocked “and watch what you say to me.” But deep down he knew Simon was somehow right. He unconsciously was choosing her every time in the past few weeks. Damn he was in deep shit.

[mageofseven]

Hear me out, MC starts doing some gravure modeling in the Devildom for extra cash. But the brothers only find out about this through happening to see them in a magazine

Ooooo MC on the cover of a magazine! That sounds fun! Mammon models too so maybe he got her the gig but didn't truly know what the gig was for?

Also, I kinda had to google what gravure meant, but I know now! So basically MC would model nude or at least show a lot of skin in a way? That's how I understand it anyway.

Maybe I can make it so MC is laying on a car with a tit out so it's Mammon's wet dream hehe 🥰🤭

With that, I'll end this saying that I will use they/them pronouns, but MC with be afab.

Also TW: s*xual assault in Satan's section. Please skip it if you find this difficult read about.

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Lucifer:

Practically stomping inside House of Lamentation.

The pride demon had seen the picture of MC everywhere that day, his Love have half naked and laying on an expensive car with one of their breasts completely exposed.

And when he says everywhere, he means everywhere.

There wasn't a single demon he passed that didn't carry the magazine. Some even said lewd things about the human and this man couldn't stand it.

"MC!"

"Living room!" They called back.

The man headed to the room MC called from and found them sitting on the couch, reading the magazine in question.

The human's smile, which they flashed when their boyfriend came into the room, fell when they noticed his mood.

"What is it?"

Seeing the concern on his Love's face, Lucifer stopped and took a deep breath; this has been an awful day for him, but he won't take at out on them.

He approached the couch and sat next to the human before taking one last deep breath.

He laid his head in one of his hands and lifted the other to point to the magazine cover.

"Love...just please explain to me why am I seeing this picture of you all over town?"

MC explained that they were tight on grimm and needed a job so they had Mammon set them up with a modeling gig and it paid really well.

Mammon. Of course Mammon was behind this.

Lucifer huffed and took his wallet out of his pocket before handing his girlfriend his credit card.

"Just use this from now on. I'll be the one paying it off so no more worrying about money. And please don't do this again..."

And just like that, MC became a sugar baby. And wasn't complaining in the slightest 🥰🤭

Mammon:

"What the hell man???"

When his agent showed him the magazine cover his Human modeled, he was instantly annoyed.

Like yeah, he asked the other demon to hook them up with a gig since MC was low on grimm, but he didn't mean something where the whole Devildom would see them like this.

Went to confront MC about it but...

"You've seen it?" MC blushed. "How did I do? I was so nervous..."

That made this demon falter. Like, how could he say anything bad about it now?

"Whaddya mean? Of course ya did great!"

I mean, they did look amazing on that cover

Which was part of the problem. He didn't want other people to see his Human like that.

But what's done is done now.

MC uses the money they got from the gig to take Mammon out to a nice dinner

And later, Mammon tries his luck and sees if MC will reenact that magazine cover, but on the car in his room instead.

Leviathan:

Okay so this boy doesn't leave his room often and he doesn't care much for 'normie' magazines

So this man never really saw the magazine cover itself, but saw the picture of his Henry on an online ad.

Honestly, it didn't even click in his head that it was MC on the ad at first. I mean, who actually pays attention to them anyway?

But after it being slapped in his face so many times while being online, the demon finally focused on it.

"Huh, weird." He said from his computer desk.

"What is?" MC asked from the bed, where they were scrolling through their phone.

"The person in this ad kinda looks like you."

"Are they on top of a car?"

"Ugh...yeah?" How did they know???

"Sweetie, that is me."

"Huh??"

"That's from the gig I told you about; that's how I got you that new console."

"...Oh."

Honestly embarrassed that he didn't realize it before opening his mouth.

A little bothered about the fact that others get to see his Human like that, but hey, they did it for him and he got a new console out of it.

Knows if he thinks about it too much the 'little' will turn into 'a lot' so he tries hard to purge it from his mind.

Satan:

This man was out at a café with MC when he saw the magazine

Though he didn't actually see the magazine before the trouble started.

The blonde had got up to use the restroom; he was probably only gone for about two minutes.

When he came back, he saw two demons surrounding his Kitten and sliding their hands over the human's body.

MC pushed back one of the demons, causing the other one to yank them by their shirt and yell at them.

Satan doesn't remember too much after that.

The next thing he knew, he was pounding the two-- now unconscious-- demons with his fists and MC was screaming at him to stop; he was even in his demon form.

The man stopped and just caught his breath for a moment before reaching out and pulling MC in for a hug.

After a minute or so, he pulled back.

"Are you alright, Kitten?"

The human sniffled, but nodded.

Before the blonde could ask more, he saw something in the corner of eye.

He turned and saw a magazine under one of the demon's arms. He picked it up and found his Kitten on the cover...revealing too much for their boyfriend's comfort.

"Kitten..." Satan said slowly. "Can you explain this picture to me?"

MC lowered their head, a fresh tear sliding down their cheek.

He kissed the top of their head.

"You're not in trouble, Kitten. Just help me understand what's going on."

MC told him that a model friend of Mammon's was in a bind so Mammon asked the human to fill in for the friend in the photoshoot.

Those men noticed that they were the same person as on the cover of the magazine and waited till Satan left to harass them.

Mammon!

The blonde decided to deal with him later.

For now, the fourth brother was just going to go home and comfort his Kitten.

Asmodeus:

MC was the one who showed him the magazine cover

And boy was this man gushing.

"Oh Doll you look gorgeous!" He showered the human in kisses, causing them to laugh.

"A-Azzy!" They giggled, happy but overwhelmed with their boyfriend's affection.

The man pulled back, his smile beaming at her.

"Sorry, sorry. I'm just so proud of you, Dolly!"

MC was so nervous the day of the shoot; the human had never done anything like that before.

Asmo had been there that day for moral support.

Modeling was always something the Human wanted to try and the demon wasn't going to let them give up the opportunity and regret it later.

The lust demon was so happy for them and wasn't the least bit upset about how much of them was shown.

Beelzebub:

Beel discovered the magazine just laying on the coffee table in the living room.

Upon noticing it, the man put down his chips and took a seat on the couch before taking it in his hands.

His Muffin looked so beautiful on the cover...but what was she doing on it? And showing...that much?

"I'm home!" MC called into the house as they stepped inside.

"Hey Muffin? Can you come here a second?" He called back.

The human made their way to the living room and smiled.

"Hey Beely~"

They sat next to him and kissed his cheek, causing the man to smile at them.

"Did you and Solomon have a nice time?"

"Yep, it was fun~" MC glanced down and noticed the magazine in his hand. "Oh did you just find this?"

The big guy nodded.

"When did this happen?"

"Hmm." The human thought about it. "I think that was taken like three weeks ago? It was that gig Mammon got me."

Oh...the man remembered something about that. He didn't think the gig was anything like this though.

"...Did you enjoy it?"

"Yeah! It was super fun actually. I told them to call me if they ever need another model for something like this again."

Beel wasn't sure how he felt about it. He was glad his Muffin found something new to enjoy, but was also worried.

Decided to keep a closer eye on them when they went out, or rather, a closer eye on those around them that might mean harm.

Belphegor:

Was asleep on the couch when he was awaken by Asmo.

"Dude, leave or so help me--" He growled.

The fifth brother waved away the younger one's words.

"Oh hush, you can sleep later!" The lust demon insisted. "You should be awake and ready to congratulate MC!"

The sloth demon opened his eyes.

"What the hell are you talking about--"

That's when he saw the magazine cover.

The younger brother quickly sat up and snatched the magazine from the other demon.

"Rude! What is with you?"

"What the hell is this?"

"MC won the contest, duh." Asmo explained. "What is with you?"

Belphie vaguely remembered MC joining some modeling competition, but didn't know they'd be doing this sort of thing.

"Where are they?"

"They're still out with some of their friends from the contest, having their celebration dinner."

It's a good thing MC wasn't home because this man would have said things he would have regretted.

Instead, he went and talked over things with Beel

And realized that he himself was the asshole in this situation.

MC is happy and just accomplished something major and this dude had previously been ready to ruin it for them.

When the human came home and found out that he had seen the cover photo, they became tense.

Belphie sighed at their reaction and instead of giving them crap for revealing so much for a magazine, he patted their head and said

"Good job, Butthead."

[bonvoyagenoona]

Is the SO the pseudo-Yoongi???

Lol the SO is not the pseudo-Yoongi that I was posting about from a couple of years back, but I met him around the same time, and he is arguably even more Yoongi-esque!

Please forgive me, as I will take any and every opportunity to gush about this wonderful human:

He's an old soul, super gentle and very bashful.

He says he's not an audiophile, but that's just because he's humble. He knows a lot about music, recently got me new speakers, and even used to DJ!

His love language is acts of service. Especially cooking.

He's an amazing listener, and he gives me such helpful perspectives on things.

His baseline is stoic and professional unless he's getting really into a song, amped up by a video game, or playing with his/our sweet old man dog!

When we first started dating, we were in the checkout line at the grocery store, and I saw a magazine with BTS on the cover. By this point, he already knew about our beautiful fanfic bubble and my experiences writing and posting, but he didn't really know much about BTS. So I motioned to the magazine cover and asked, "Which do you think is Yoongi?" And he immediately, effortlessly, wordlessly pointed Yoongi out. I asked him how he knew, and he said, "Well, I looked at them all and just kinda picked the person I thought was most similar to me?" 🤣

Our strong compatibility makes life very easy. We've been together for nearly 2 years now. We have lived together for a year and 4 months, and we love each other very much. We're very happy. I'm very, very happy 🥹

In some ways, I feel like writing my stories manifested him? Whatever fantasies I have are more quickly brought to reality because he brings them to life. One day, we'll be entertaining Countermelody Yoongi sexy fun times 🤣😜 and another day, it's more Kittenfishing Yoongi best friend vibes, Arizona Iced Teas in hand as we stroll around and have one of our philosophical chats.

I'm also learning so many new things. I get wisps of inspiration to share more of what I'm experiencing now, in this chapter of my life. But I suspect that before I write a big project again, I need to live more of it.

The works I wrote from 2020-2022 were all these stories that had been piling up in me up until that point, like my experiences in academia, or my switch to industry, or how my experiences as a woman and as an immigrant intersect with those other life themes. So you could say that I'm almost doing another round of life research, making observations and processing new and even bigger emotions.

One really cool thing that he always does is check in with me to make sure I have creative time set aside. And he'll even build story prompts with me the way I used to. I have notes on my phone of one-liners and banter he's shared with me that I think would be particularly nice to sprinkle into a work, haha.

He cheers me on, too. Something funny or interesting will happen, and then he'll say something like, "That's a good one. You could even get pretty smutty with it. You should write it!"

Anyway lol. Thanks for indulging me and my late-night thoughts about my SO, lol. I feel very lucky. I am following where this is leading me. And I can't wait to share more of what I'm experiencing through writing again!

[fayrinferno]

The (printed) collection

From time to time I get a question like, "do you have this or that book?" So, a few weeks back, I finally took them all out of their hiding place and grabbed some photos. Wish I had used my camera instead of phone, I had to stand on a chair to get it all and yeah, the picture is not the sharpest.

Anyway, I have some other stuff, figures and such, although I admittedly DO focus more on books as an artist/writer/translator. These books are the ones I translate from so I wasn't going for mint conditions, although a few of them are. You can see some of them still packed in the store bags. I included the CDs cause... well, they were next to the books and they do have some printed material as well.

The Shiren Suiki book gets a separate photo cause after taking the photos at home I realized I had left it at work when I scanned it... practically crying as I did cause it was barely opened when I bought it and it's a beautiful book. My Anvils are also very fragile.

I may do a complete list one day but for now, here are the quick descriptions.

ARTBOOKS & FANBOOKS I have pretty much all of the major official books I think, missing maybe 1-2 pieces. The one that may look less familiar is Hiroshi Osaka's personal artbook. I also have four of the relevant Nobuteru Yuuki artbooks. The bottom right one with the orange title is the issue of Newtype Magazine with a feature about Esca.

SMALLER BOOKS (let's pretend that's a category) Here I got all the novels (they are out of their sleeves cause I was working on them), all the filmbooks, Secrets of Escaflowne, Escaflowne Bible, and the Energist Memories manga/doujin collection.

DOUJINSHI I was mostly going for stuff I haven't seen online so I only got a handful. Besides the Shiren Suiki book, there are three Minato Tajima doujins (one of them is racy heh but I'm not hiding that I have it). One of the other doujins may look unfamiliar; it's a compilation book that includes other series (the character on the cover is from DN Angel). People who talk to me on Discord probably recognize the Nanoka doujinshi cover.

CDs AND THE LIKE I don't have all the soundtracks for some reason, probably cause I thought the missing ones wouldn't be hard to get. The PSX game is the special edition with the tarot cards. The LDs that I literally bought just for the covers and inlays. I also have all the audio dramas, some CDs with extras... and a phone card that was for some reason packed in a CD case lol (kidding, it's precious that they would give it that kind of protection). Oh, and there are two movie posters which I guess don't fall under either category.

I have some other stuff that is kinda related to Esca "by association" such as by artist or things that "looked similar" but I didn't include them. Also the figures. I may update this post with those but this is the brunt of it. I will be posting some goodies from these soon!

Same goes for the ongoing translations that I've been doing updates on in this post. Life is too short to delay them for months and years because of perfectionism, or rather, being self conscious about one's imperfect language skills. I am thankful to everyone who has helped me so far, proofreading my translations (coverteyes, pikafwance, sevenstars, and radical-rad1986)... I'm not tagging you guys but know that I'm VERY grateful, also to the other people who are helping me with other projects). I always had fun working together with you but it's no longer sustainable and I likely bit off more than I can chew. So I will get myself out of the way. There are two books that are almost complete as of today so I will just probably go chapter by chapter. I hope to be done with this asap but also December is a busy month for me so I'm not sure how smoothly it will go. Let's hope it does.

[bambiraptorx]

I've been meaning to make fanart for @beannary 's The Little Prince au and this song radiates Donnie energy to me, so I combined the two. It isn't a perfect fit, but I thought it was fun.

It also kinda looks like a magazine cover, which wasn't intended but it's pretty fun.

wordless version under cut:

[stillinthatweirdfaze]

I usually don’t make posts like this bc sharing hobbies and interests on the internet makes me very very anxious for whatever reason but I really really wanna share this issue of the Dragon magazine I found at the thrift store yesterday!!!!!!!!

25th anniversary edition of the official D&D magazine !!!!! It is issue 284 and it came out in June 2001. Unfortunately it did not come with the advertised bonus CD rom when I bought it though :[

I’m gonna use this post to show off some of the stuff that’s in it that I really liked or found interestingggg :]

First off we have a full spread add for baulders gate 2, which is kinda funny considering the third one didn’t come out that long ago. I want to eat this ye oldie early 2000ds generic fantasy font I bet it tastes like burnt shortbread.

A little step by step on how the artist made the cover which I find like. Infinitely charming. Especially since this cover itself is so gorgeous. I hope Todd Lockwood is doing good today.

A full page add for an online anime fantasy rpg called Nexus the kingdom of the winds. OUGGGGEEEEE this art style,,,,,,, it takes me back to places it takes me back to like that one vampire anime and clanad and YouTube anime top tens. Fuck graphic design we should start putting sparkles and radial gradients on everything again.

an add for a series of sound effect cds for your games which I want so so bad I need to know what’s on these.

Two little sections where it seems people can submit photos and stories about themselves or their game members to be published. The Dm of the month one is genuinely heartwarming and cute. The thought of Steve seeing that he won made me smile. Also “Nubile dwarf chicks” and “chaotic secretive” is a great example of how early 2000nds out of pocket this issue can be sometimes. You can fucking smell the energy off the second image.

An extremely funny review of a previous dragon issue.

an add for Gen con 2001 and a schedule of upcoming conventions. If anyone went to these I would genuinely love to hear about them I love convention history a whole lot especially from around this time

A page in, apparently a series, about what ttrpg players value in a game written by Gary Gygax!!! If anyone has any previous or the final issues of this study please do share I really really wanna see them. Also the three genders: males, females, and newbies

Two stat blocks for some half dragon characters

A Draconic to English translation table that I wish I had as a preteen because I would have eaten it the fuck up. Also I cut it off but the last sentence on the bottom right is “please don’t disembowel the dwarf” which apparently is “martiver thric gixustratt tundar”

Add for a brand of miniatures and in what stores to find them. I wonder how many of these places are still open

An add for WOTZ game stores with the tagline “it’s where you play the game” and advertising “Hella Bandwith” and “scantily clad BABES.” I find it unreasonably funny that they are three pictures of the same exact woman, scantily clad babe, one (1), one singular babe.

Spell and magical item themed crossword

A full on campaign setting of the real city of London. I didn’t take pictures of all of it but it has a history section, locations, npcs, adventure hooks, and what even looks like a little blank dungeon layout of a mansion . I feel like putting real places as campaign settings has always been like, a thing, but I don’t see it too often. Its charming I like it.

A stat block and gorgeous illustration for a lesser dragon companion. The gradient circle in the back is my favorite argggg I wanna draw like this sometimes

A section on how to assemble your own monster models. Admittedly I know close to nothing about model making so this was an extremely fun read for me

A bunch of PC portraits of half dragons that are so so cool. You see a lot of stuff about people getting really specific designs about different hybrids like oh a dwarf tyfling looks different than an elf tyfling n that sort of stuff in the modern day but you don’t really see it canonized at all. So it’s really interesting to see that concept in an officially published D&D thing, even if it’s just a magazine. I really like the dwarf one a lot.

Possibly my favorite thing ever is this cartoon that reads like a fucking wizard tumblr shitpost. Like down to a fucking tea this is some shit the evil wizard blog would say and it makes me so so so happyyyyyyyyy. It’s the cadence that amazes me they got the tumblr wizard cadence exactly right. Im posting this shit on its own without shame bc I need people to see it. Pour me something whimsical and arcane bar wench.

A absolutely chefs kiss add for a ????? Pc????? Pc game????? Pc accessory??? I honestly can’t tell anyway enjoy your free ps2 polygonal hotted woman ass

And finally the thing that made me fuckin gasp out loud when I saw it, an add for the original year of our lord 2001 shitty D&D movie with special features and online sweepstakes to win a trip to Prague. Holy shit. God I love this game.

anyway that’s it, I plan to frame this thing and put it up somewhere. Ty for reading all my nerd shit. :,]

[gren-arlio]

We are so back. Well, I somewhat am. Welcome to Episode 11 of (Waku) Puyo Extras.

(What a lovely image of Rulue and Minotauros as a team. Surely nothing bad will bestow him...seriously, this image is amazing.)

Hey everyone, Gren here, back from my break. It was a nice break, and I was able to focus on schoolwork. We don't talk about my Pre-Calc grade (just know I got a C) but I got an A in every other class. This episode is a little late because I was focused on the Splatoon 3 Splatfest (I was Team Handshake, GGS to all,) but it's here nevertheless.

As the year is slowly coming to an end, my workload increases. I think this'll be the last Extras episode until the NEW Episode of Waku Puyo Translations. Which means me dying to Kikimora text. Fun, yeah? Yeah.

So, with my absence, what game will we cover this time around? Well it's one I've mentioned a couple of times, which is...actually kind of nice, no researching history for me; Rulue's Spring Break of Fists...or Rulue's Iron-Fist Spring Break. For today, I'll use the first version.

This game is thankfully one of the easier ones to get footage of. Besides, the game itself is fairly interesting with its current casting, with people that you don't really see every day. And hey, this is the first time we've properly covered Rulue here, so there's a first for everything.

With this, I really hope you enjoy this and my derusting of my skills.

Oh, and random thing. My account turned 2 recently, though I began posting...in April of this year? Wahoo.

What's the Origins for the Game itself?

Similar to many games I've covered here (if only I had a good computer, I would probably make a funny YouTube series,) Rulue's Spring Break of Fists is a Disc System game released on Volume 14 of Disc Station Magazines in 1997.

(The opening to the game. Nothing amazing, but certainly an...opening?)

The game itself is somewhat of a Choose Your Own Adventure game, with you playing as the lady herself, Rulue. Here, you get to...choose your own adventure. There's three main things you can do:

Find the five divine treasures.

Explore the land. Or "The Wonderful Land".

Gather ingredients to cook.

It's interesting how the character most associated with fighting has a game where... you kinda don't fight unless it's a very specific circumstance, which I'll get into later.

Visually, I won't deny, it depends from person to person. If you like the 90s Moe eyes, then this artstyle is genuinely amazing, but if not, lotta characters look weird.

(This is a prime example, with Kikimora. Her eyes are huge, and personally I like them, but I can totally see why someone doesn't.)

So for this episode, I'll throw a question/poll:

This'll last a week, and I'm curious to see.

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How About Gameplay?

Something I want to note for this game is that in this... there's a LOT of different dialog choices. You're gonna have split paths all the time, though to my knowledge, they more just impede you until you guess right...or get a bad ending.

(Something like this. Also, rare Black Kikimora appearance, though...with an item Rulue gets, she transforms back into Kiki? It's odd.)

Whilst exploring and doing the routes, something you'll note is that there's a lot of quizzes, questionnaires, etc. Now why does this matter?

Because some of these questions are fucking hilarious man

What do I mean? Well, y'all know Momomo? Silly little shopkeeper? Well, they ask you a question for a quiz, and guess what the question is?

How much Yen will it cost to buy Disc Station Magazine Vol. 1 through 13 on their online store?

(This is Rulue trying to solve that question. Lowkey...I forgot the answer.)

This guy really thinks I know. And I think inflation has really made these prices seem cheap in the long run...

Oh, and another question, one I've mentioned before. You encounter Witch in one of the routes (oh boy), and she gives you a quiz also, albeit one that's...certainly biased towards her, asking stuff is "How cool am I?" And them sorta deals. Though, one question is literally "What is the size of my top?"

This game loves its odd questions.

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So, What's the Story? Well, Stories?

Well, simply put, apparently this game is after Chaotic Final Exam, and is MUCH calmer than said game. People from the game apparently have new personalities due to the events of the game, and Rulue...is delivering letters given via Masked Prince.

As stated prior, there's three routes in this game:

Characters that appear on all routes are Arle, Rulue, Masked Prince, and I believe Momomo.

Route A:

Rulue sets to find 5 magic items. Most notable characters here are Apparently Schezo, Serilly, Draco, Minotauros, and shockingly, Count and Vamp.

(Quite the shock, eh?)

This route...is certainly interesting. Between seeing Mino battered and bloodied by a fight, a literal possessed Arle by Count (or Vamp,) you FIGHTING Arle due to that, same deal goes for Schezo, he also got possessed, and a final fight with Count if he was overly buff...it's certainly one hellva route.

(This is...wow. What an experience.)

Route B:

Rulue, with envelopes given via Masked Prince, has one of them stolen by something, and she goes to investigate it. Getting sucked into a "Wonderland," younalso get some backstory about Rulue, notably hearing her grandmother. I'll tell y'all, I was given help by people who work on the Puyo Nexus and other Puyo Translations:

Rulue and her grandmother were very close, and she gave Rulue a music box when she was about 5 years old, under a Sakura tree. When she turned 6, her grandmother fell ill, and Rulue, upset that she wasn't spending time with her on her birthday, breaks the music box.

However, when Rulue sleeps, she has a dream about her grandmother, with her saying to not be upset with her...and when Rulue woke up, she felt like she'd never see her grandmother again.

(Edit:

Notable characters here are Kikimora and Black Kikimora, Serilly, Rulue's grandmother, and Demon Servant. Yeah, he's alive in this game.

I forgot to credit the main person who did this part, @klug. That's completely on me, my apologies. They did help quite a good bit for this, so thank them for the research and info. Wouldn't have gotten this without them. Again, apologies for not putting credit.

Here's their Puyo Nexus page. Go check em out.)

(YOU'RE ALIVE IN THIS GAME?)

So you know when I said this game was a lot more casual? I look real silly saying that now.

Route C:

Easily the most casual route, Rulue...is trying to cook. The grill calls for her name. I'm not joking when I say that the only characters here are Momomo and Witch. I guess Witch can cook?

This route is uh, odd. You spent most of the time doing quizzes and route splits because...I guess Witch and Momomo feel devious today. This route is notable for Witch asking that question in her quiz and only having 5 endings...Yep. 5 endings.

Something I've neglected is the ending to these routes.

There's about 30 of them.

Yeah. Good luck.

(Autism be damned, Witch can apparently cook. Just have fun on the quiz.)

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So, The OST and Final Verdict?

The games ost is honestly decent. I can't describe it well but a lot of the music is just flat out solid, with no real complaints here. I'd say check it out at least.

And the final verdict?

The game itself is honestly very fun to browse and look around. The game gives us Rulue lore RANDOMLY that I'll gladly accept, Demon Servant, Count, and Vamp make an appearance, and the game, while confusing, is really fun to watch.

I'd say for Disc Station, it's very solid.

With that...that'll be all for today. Next week I won't post due to Thanksgiving and spending time with my family, but next time we meet, we'll finally continue our Waku Waku Puyo Puyo Dungeon translations after SO long.

See y'all then. Hope you enjoyed the show.

[ridiasfangirlings]

Munashiro.  Reisi and Adolf drawing each other. Reisi makes a spectacular drawing and Adolf's drawing does turn out to be that good. However, Reisi keeps Adolf's drawing and treasures it.

In which Munakata continues to be irritatingly good at everything XD Imagine he read about this in some random magazine while he was waiting in line at the store, he saw the ‘10 Fun Things for Couples to Do’ headline and had to take a look. He thinks drawing each other could be a fun activity (and maybe he just completely glossed over that the magazine was implying drawing each other in sexy poses) so he gets a couple easels and some paper and invites Shiro over for a date. Shiro is somewhat confused but also rather amused by the idea, though he warns Munakata that he isn’t much for drawing, he’s more of a science person. Munakata assures Shiro that it’s okay, he himself is not in fact great at drawing. They settle down facing each other and start to draw and it’s all very relaxing, Munakata brought some tea and snacks along too so they’re just having this very low-key date.

Finally they’re both done and Munakata shows his picture off first, stating that he is aware it isn’t great so please go easy on him. Shiro is all set to finally see something that Munakata is not good at, only to see just the fanciest portrait ever (imagine Munakata did it in the style of some random painting though so it’s a little much either way, like Birth of Venus but with Shiro and his long hair is covering his bits). Shiro is speechless, Munakata humbly says he hopes the picture is something Shiro will cherish. Shiro’s kinda unsure about showing his now but Munakata’s already moving to look at it before Shiro can stop him. Shiro sighs and laughs as he says he knows his isn’t really that great, it’s this little chicken scratch stick Munakata. Munakata however is so touched, he very sincerely says he will cherish this forever. Shiro just thinks Munakata’s being nice but then imagine later he has to stop by S4 to see Munakata on some official business and he spots the picture he drew hung proudly on the wall by the tatami, Shiro’s a little embarrassed but Munakata says why wouldn’t he display it, it’s a precious gift he was given by the person he loves.

[bisluthq]

I'm new on your blog. So if you allow me to ask, which kind of books do you usually read?

I personally usually read thriller/suspense, mystery like those books that have people disappearing or there's criminal investigations, the romance genre in general but I specially like historical ones (but not like connected to royalty, more like historical periods. I read a lot of books with World War I and II as background. Just finished the other day an autobiography kind of book of two jewish brothers that ran away from the nazis) and those where there's a lot of drama and suspense with the romance as in it's not like plain romance. I noticed the book you mentioned is historical romance, even though I never heard of it. Have you ever read anything from Lesley Pearse? She's the one that got me hooked in that genre.

I'm not the biggest fan of fantasy and sci-fi - just general genres that start for reality -, but every once in a while I give it a try if something catches my attention. I usually also don't read YA books or those recommended on tiktok, because I feel like that kind of writing is not really for my age range anymore 😂 I'm not exactly a teen, so the romance in those books is like eh...I usually say it's too much water with sugar

I have been trying to catch up on reading a lot of those classic books, cause I confess that I was never really into reading them. Since my first language is not English, the books you are required to read for school are the classical ones of my own language yk so it was never really a requirement, but I do think it's important. I even caught these beautiful editions that was like a magazine collection thing every two weeks. They did it to more than 50 classical books and I got a handful. I'm a sucker for beautiful covers 🤭

I read a looooot of different things. I have read some Lesley Pearce books. If you enjoy that kind of stuff, some other quite mainstream writers to look at would be Lucinda Riley (I really like her work - it’s super well researched, like I’ve legit learned things about places/historical periods in those places from her books and the storylines are really great), Kate Morton (she also takes inspiration from a range of genres), Mary Chamberlain (again, insanely well researched because she’s a history professor actually but there’s always a lot of romance and stuff and also she’s a very cool person idk), this is a specific book that I think you might enjoy - it’s kinda a historical detective story but in a weird way and there’s a lot of personal intrigue which is When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro and you will almost definitely enjoy The Remains of the Day also by him (but most of his other stuff is fantasy/sci fi tbh). Ken Follett writes epic stories (he does both detectives/thrillers and historical books but not really heavy on the romance - always a bit but not like romance books per se). Also you could try Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (not strictly romance but there is some and it’s such an interesting story and history that I’d known very little about). Idk those are some to try that I think you’d like. If you’ve read any of them lemme know and I can suggest other things too lol.

also it’s quite dreadfully written (but not as bad as a lot of BookTok faves actually) but Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance (not the sequels) is a fucking EPIC story lmao. It’s also easy to read. And the sex scenes are weirdly kinda hot lmao even though it’s very fade to black haha. Like it’s not as good in terms of trying to read to improve your English vocab or interest in literature but the plot is 👌🏼😂

As I say, I’m always happy to suggest books to people because I read a lot! I try to do like at least two “serious” books a month (either nonfiction or contemporary fiction of various genres or whatever) and then I read a couple romcoms/random detective things sometimes parallel to that if I just want something that’s fun or some poetry parallel to it if I find something new or a poet I like releases a new collection and like maybe once or twice a year, I read a classic-ish thing I haven’t read before but because of how much I “had” to read when studying and “have” to read to teach, there aren’t thaaaat many I haven’t read and actively want to lol. So yeah I’m always reading something or several somethings.

In terms of The House of Doors idk man it’s a bit of a weird book so I can’t say I’m not enjoying it but it also wouldn’t specifically be something I’d be recommending, it’s just something I’m trying rn.

[berylgrace]

okay will you please share your sims screenshots of fics? <3<3

be warned, you have just opened the floodgates for me to overexplain every decision.......... under the cut for the sake of how insufferable i am

HWFG!!!!

starting off with Here I Go Again (mamma mia au for anyone unfamiliar). now i actually have a lot more than what i'm showing here but let's say they're... more prequel focused. and thus. kinda spoilery... but they may come later!!! anyway

just picture slipping through my fingers playing and you can tell exactly what's happening here <3

SAY I DOOOOO... I DO I DO I DO I DO I DOOOO

and a bonus, non-spoilery prequel type - silena, annabeth and piper out partying in the world's hottest girl summer ever

moving swiftly and embarrassingly onto my url namesake, the beloved miss beryl. i chose the best of what i have which is admittedly SO MUCH

this one is my FAVOURITE okay let me explain (though - obvious). left is 1979 (age 20) beryl: playful, flirty, youthful. retaining some of the country aesthetic from where she grew up. modelling a lot around this time, beer ads, cars, that sort of thing. anything that required a hot blonde in a bikini or white shirt. this is also the year (in my fic) that she has an agent, sends out headshots regularly and is not against using her feminine wiles to get roles. middle is 1986ish (age 27) beryl: full blown celebrity of the 1980s. glamorous, sexy, demanding. big hair, tan skin. many many magazine covers, tons of movies. she is hollywood. this is how she meets zeus, and later has thalia. right is 1993 (age 34) beryl: the year she wins her oscar, gets back with jupiter, and has jason. she's slightly thinner and paler in this one, with lighter hair, following with the vampy 90s look, swapping red lips for brown. career definitely at a high but the rest of her life beginning the downward spiral.

here's a better look (bad quality SO SORRY) at the differences in makeup, skin and eyebrows (though this was before i lightened the hair) to get a feel of the differences between 80s (left) and 90s (right) beryl.

and, for fun, two party looks.

now prepare for an entire lookbook because i have a problem!!! remember you asked for this... if only you knew. as always, left is 80s, right is 90s.

(everyday category) big shoulders, big jewellery, vs vampy, almost soft-goth.

(formal category) award show chic! a lot more ostentatious for the 80s side but fully glamorous both ways.

(athletic category) definitely took inspiration from like, 80s celebrity fitness tapes (lbr i mean cher) for the left, and then the sporty bright colours of the 90s.

(nightwear category) pretty simple, standard. a big robe for either if someone is at the door.

(party category) some of my FAVE looks. an 80s LBD with big hair, and a clueless-inspired ensemble <3 ugh i love playing dress up can you tell...

(swimwear category) no comment just me being obsessed with sims custom content.

(hot weather category) one thing about me is i am OBSESSED w the like, 80s supermodel in just a thin white tee and shorts look. it's SO good. i can't pull it off being too breasty but it's stunning so ofc that. and a sweeter, softer 90s look to follow.

(cold weather category) this 80s one is my FAVOURITE possible of them all? something about the brown colour pallette and the big loose shapes and layering is very 80s movie to me, like this is always how they look in the films and probably how she did too! the 90s is more playful and cooler tones, shifting into different trends.

that's all i have that's worthy of being seen I SAY AS IF I DIDN'T JUST WRITE AN ESSAY... um yeah i have a sims addiction and being a writer i love making my own fanart this way it's so dumb and entertaining. anyway, hope you enjoyed lol, probably more to come later.

[okkotsyui]

tw ig // vent.

i dont know when it started, im guessing the beginning of this year, but my life is just kinda falling apart. probably when i started feeling like this. i feel like everything i once had is literally slipping away from me, and i cant stop it. i lost people i cared about, i feel almost forgotten about most the time, and to top it off my grades started slipping. my dad has always been really tough on scores and school performance, and he got my report card before i did and started yelling at me before i had a chance to see it. grades were something important to me also and they were probably the only thing i could hold above other people, but now that im slipping, i have next to nothing else. nobody gives me a second glance cause i dont stand out compared to my friends, and it doesnt help that they all look like models from a magazine cover. im not popular, which never even bothered me before but its starting to make me feel even more invisible. im not pretty, im as fucking basic as a person can get. im not super skinny and dainty like my friends, who are literally as perfect as a human being could possibly be. the person i thought liked me doesnt even look me in the eye anymore, and it hurts cause i thought that someone actually did love me. my own brother laughs and mocks me openly with his friends, and doesnt say a single thing in my defence when they start making fun of me, but the moment they mention my other sibling, he gets mad and shuts them up. im the laughingstock of my family. burnt out eldest daughter with nothing else to make my stupidly overbearing parents proud. i had people in my own fg who made up lies about me against someone else, and completely shattered any trust i had in any of them by telling each other things i had told them in secrecy and private. one being in my own damn house. people are just so fucking toxic and liars, and now whenever somebody tells me something like "i care about you" or "i promise" i cant trust it for shit cause if i do ill end up getting hurt again and i honestly cannot keep doing this cause im going to fucking break. i give up

[dimiclaudeblaigan]

Random anime/manga recommendations (good oldies!) I have for y'all just bc I love them and hope you would too! also I just want to talk about them bc I love and miss them all!!!

In the list:

Hikaru no Go

Shaman King

Loveless

Yami no Matsuei

Yu Yu Hakusho

Hikaru no Go:

it's about the board game Go but I promise it's so much more heavy than that and the character interaction/development is top tierrrr. also one of the only series that made me bawl like a dumb baby. also!!! you get to watch the characters GROW UP!!! from tiny baby faces to grown teenagers!!! and the fun of it is that while you watch/read, you don't even notice it happening!!! you just look back and go holy shit they were literal BABIES!!!

85 episodes and one OVA, but the OVA only covers half of the final arc, which is manga only. very faithful to the manga otherwise though.

Shaman King:

uhhh okay hear me out you gotta like, read the manga first or watch the 2001 anime first, then do the other one. then you can read the spinoffs. then you can read the sequel if you feel like it but it's more second gen esque and has been off and on for many years, long story, and it's also cut into two different names, long story, but it's flowers and the super star.

once you've read the manga and watched the 2001 anime, the 2021 anime is the remake of the 2001 anime bc the 2001 anime was concluded bc the manga was on hiatus and had caught up to the source material, so they did an anime only ending while sprinkling in bits and pieces of canon into that. the remake was insanely rushed though and cut a lot of content (including a majority of my favorite characters' content which was already low!!!) and super cut corners so imo it's really not a replacement for the manga, hence why I suggest the manga first.

some ppl have said watching the 2001 anime after the manga kinda made the anime feel less great overall bc of the anime only direction it had to take (if it hadn't, it would've ended up like naruto with filler and if y'all were there for that ride, uhhh... never again lmao), so it may be a better experience to watch it first then read the manga.

the anime is aaaaalmost completely faithful (some changes and alterations, but mainly ones that were meant to develop the main characters more and quicker) up until around episode 25, and then it starts getting... timeline-wonky but does follow canon. it just follows the events somewhat incorrectly, put in anime only aspects and swapped things around. after that point, when the characters reach the Patch Village, it's all basically anime only from there with the very final arc sprinkling in some manga only stuff.

anime ending is pretty standard shounen unfortunately, but the manga's ending was a breath of fresh air where it actually follows its themes and story beats right to the end.

that said, the original series is completed. the sequel is... ongoing... sometimes... when it's not blocked by a wall of hiatus bc of the magazine it gets into going under like every single magazine it goes into... but if you don't care for the sequel (understandable tho since it's very different!) that's not a problem. there are tons of spinoffs/side stories though that are both completed and ongoing. there are... a... lot... so basically SK universe is like forever ongoing, but the main series is completed.

** fun fact: hikaru no go and shaman king ran together in shonen jump!

Loveless:

okay so I promise this one is good, but it does feature trigger topics and overall more mature topics.

general premise is hella cringe, cat ppl with cat ears and a tail until they have sex. generally a shounen-ai but there are also het and wlw relationships. older dude claims to be in love with younger dude but it's actually fake and he was just told to say that, so that part goes from cringe to like, actually having backstory.

pretty much a psychological series with side romance (bc as much as it markets itself as romance, there's no "real" romance between the two main characters and the only confirmed pairs are not them). tackles a manipulative, emotionally abusive person who is yandere toward his younger brother, hence tackling more mature and potentially triggering topics. rape is also talked about/implied, though we don't actually see it in explicit detail.

series is complex though and some enemy characters become friendly with the main characters, some just neutral, and some become very close to them. the relationships and dynamics are all amazing though and I love how the more mature topics are handled (tastefully, in other words. it doesn't make light of them and gives depth to the characters) and how the main villain is handled. some more morally gray leaning villainish without being a villain characters are there too.

unfortunate parts of this is that the anime is only like 12 or 13 episodes and was never brought back. worse part is that volume 13 started and the manga went on indefinite hiatus a very, very, very long time ago and has not been touched since and probably never will be again. still an amazing series, but pretty much in permanent limbo unless the author magically decides to take it up again.

Yami no Matsuei:

uhhh listen it's another shounen-ai BUT it's not just romance. i don't really read purely romance series and always need substance and story/plot.

uhhh listen this one's kinda difficult to explain but basically it's a group of dudes who are detective-like ppl who are all actually dead and they get partners assigned who are also dead. villain is batshit nuts.

story can be pretty heavy on the romance/one-sided romance and stuff, but that didn't deter me.

also, talking bird buddies.

as above, the unfortunate parts are one season of about 13 episodes and not picked back up, and the manga is on indefinite hiatus and probably will not continue.

Yu Yu Hakusho:

uhhh you all probably at least know the premise of this one but im gonna come out and say it!!! ...watch the jp dub. promise. i know ppl say the dub was good but. i don't. rly feel that way??? despite growing up with the dub??? and also the sub sounds better to me???

anyway watch this series (or read it!)! :D

** fun fact again!: this series also ran with hng and sk in shonen jump!

[joannaliangart]

There Are Good Things Yet To Bury (2024) 7.5 x 9 in Case bound book, 84 pages. Photography and poetry.

There Are Good Things Yet To Bury features photos of community gardens and poems on climate grief, gardening, and the purpose of hope. Physically cut into many of the pages are windows, enabling fragments of images and text on the previous and following pages to be reactivated and recontextualized. The book reflects on how gardens nurture during crises, and the futures that hope can bring us.

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Final project for my VAST class this semester! Agh I really think it’s my new favourite…!!

I was actually struggling with this one for a while, I just couldn’t seem to clarify the concept in my mind clearly enough. I think it was writing the rainbow poem when things really started to pull together, which was tricky as hell making sure it was still coherent through all 7 ‘window’ pages AS WELL AS a full spread! But I truly had SO much fun writing all the poems in this book it was such a joy :’) 

This is a project that I would love love love to be made into multiples and distributed in some capacity... I don't know if traditional publishing would ever take something like this on with how many window cuts there are haha, not that I know how complicated or uncomplicated it would be (but certainly more than if 0 windows lol). The profs on my panel review mentioned that I could look into getting a grant to make multiples but hoo that still sounds kinda spooky to me awaaa

But!! Ever since my Sunlight is moonlight book with that one window cut at the end I've wanted to do more with cutting into the page and having whatever is visible through the window be recontextualized with the flip of a page AH it's so fun and so much potential for poetic play!!!

process photos/more thoughts:

These documentation photos were kinda a pain btw lmao (i mean when are they not) i'm struggle so much with themm.. I'm also trying to be more aware of how much of a poem I'm showing in these photos as I recently learned that most literary magazines etc won't accept submissions if that piece of writing is posted (ie published) online already. I think small excerpts might be okay as long as it's not the full piece???? awagh I don't know I'm still learning AND I don't even know how focused I want to be on submitting poems to magazines... But I figured probably better to keep more options open for future-me just in case...

My mid-term presentation of the project! featuring:

wip mid-term artist statement

hastily printed out photos I was thinking of using in the final book

big bunch of poems to potentially use in the final book that I picked from my poem drafts that I keep in my notes app

that red book with a circle window I made for another class (just to practice case bookbinding) as an example of a window cut into the cover

lil white book in the back that was our class' "Seeded Notebook" assignment which was essentially a moodboard for our project

a mockup that had the idea for a hidden accordion fold page (the concept being that it would spill out of the book unexpectedly while you were flipping through it)!! kinda sad I didn't have time to add that into the final but boy o boy did I run out of time lol

Did u know I was gonna put illustrations!! into the final book as well! and while I had some fun making them and using my ipad as a makeshift light table and using my new fountain pen (oough don't get me started I've been on a fountain pen kick lately)... Ultimately I felt I 1. didn't have time to include them in a resolved enough way and 2. they felt kinda outta place from the photos and poems

Some inspirations during my researchy/brainstorming phase that I got from my school's artist's book collection!:

the cover of Water, Gold, Soil by Sayler/Morris, which got me hooked on the idea of putting a photo slightly embedded into the cover (doesn't it look so good on that book!!??)

Aunt Sallie's Lament by Margaret Kaufman, featuring these wild progression of increasingly smaller pages that change how you read the poem; nothing specific I took from this book tbh but was cool to look at lol

And you know I gotta look at Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer for a book with window cuts!! I soon realized It's only printed one-sided, which meant they didn't have to worry about how it would affect any text on the verso page. Which is like, fair enough for them they had a whole NOVEL of words to deal with lmao

I made my own book cloth for this project!! sort of!! I feel like I was doing something wrong, the interfacing I got wasn't really sticking to the fabric very well at times ????? Was kinda finicky not sure if I was doing something wrong during ironing... But I got to go into the fabric store and find the exact shade of pink I wanted for the cover C:

Did 3 small cover tests too (as per assignment requirements lol but also they were kinda helpful). Takeaway was that I didn't like how test 2 and 3 looked lol

AND HERE'S ME TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND GET IDEAS FOR WINDOW CUTS. THIS PHASE WAS ACTUALLY EXTREMELY HELFUL because at the time i was SO stuck for ideas I'm not kidding I'm was STRUGGLING throughout this entire project from a conceptual standpoint. For some reason the thesis, the bones just weren't solidified in my head, and it kinda stayed that way until almost the very end when I was formatting the poems esp the rainbow poem. But I think it clarified completely once I thought of the title, which just kinda stepped into my brain after writing one of the poems (which has the line "there are good things yet to come") and then I was like I need a book title... and my brain did a few hops and there it was LOL and I'm so happy with the title :') it captures the main theme with a lot of nuance in a pretty simple phrase which is HOO boy chefs kiss and hard to come by haha I felt very lucky

Printing was also a pain because the print techs at my school misunderstood what I was trying to do (and I'm extra salty because I was right in the first place and they made me second guess myself cause they said they needed it formatted a different way!!! But in the end I was right the first time!!!) Siigh whateevsss the silver lining was that I did notice some things I needed to fix before printing anyways... Anyways I was trying to format it their way and I fucked it all up lol I was printing a b/w mockup on my own and despairing cause I thought I was gonna have to redo all my formatting (which, with WINDOW cuts which makes every page before/after matter a LOT felt like a nightmare)

But again I was right the first time lol so crisis averteddd just a lil spike in stress levels lol

Used the digital stack cutter on my own for the first time and ohh my goodness... I love my old manual big guillotine cutter but this guy. this guy was pretty cool look at his cool line of light that tells you where the blade is gonna hit

After agonizing so much over the concept and content I was sooo happy to just be Physcially Putting The Book Together, a real turn my brain off and just do him activity yaaay

This was my fun lil set up, I was recently given this bright light stand thingy which was actually so helpful lol; I like my dim cozy room light but it's not the best for Seeing what you're doing for art stuff

So much window cutting... Yes I just freehanded all round edges lol verryy carefully.. Some alignement issues but minor enough to not affect readability ^^

For example in these first two images with the star, I just ended up cutting off the misaligned cut-lines which made the star a lil bigger lol; was trickier with a star shape like that vs like a rectangle though because of how many vertices it had, aka more opportunities to fuck up the shape

Binding time!! look at that satisfying stack oouh yummy.. Also featuring my big slab of marble that's very heavy and works great to weigh down during drying lol. Also yes I put ziplog bags between the end pages and book block to protect against glue dampness because I've gotten spooked by how damp my Hazelnuts Grow on Trees book got when clamping it lmao

Some page alignment issues with the windows after binding but nothing major :)

[krinsbez]

Forgive me if this is an uninformed question, but how would you define a "pulp hero" as opposed to a super-hero? or is the one an older term for the other- Mister Miracle, in the letters section of his original Kirby-penned 1970s book, was referred to as a "pulp hero" and it got me wondering about the difference and I figured if anyone would know it was you. Thank you for your time!

Oh, L-RD, this is a toughie.

It's a very complicated question, and I'm not surely I can clearly articulate the answer.

My buddy @maxwell-grant has a few posts on the subject. I would also recommend that anyone interested in the question of what Pulp is check out this marvelous Youtube video by Pulp Culture, although it doesn't address the subject directly.

Me being me, I am incapable of giving short answers so a bit of a capsule history:

Back in the early years of the 20th Century, these were these cheap fiction magazines meant to be disposable entertainment for the masses, made of cheap paper, hence "Pulps". They covered pretty much every genre of fiction; Western, Romance, Comedy, Horror, Adventure, Crime, you name it. Flash forward to 1930, and pulp publisher Street & Smith sponsored a radio program called Detective Story Hour, which featured adaptations of stories from their flagship title, Detective Story Magazine, in order to promote said magazine. As is traditional for anthologies, the stories were tied together by a fun narrator character, a mystery man who "knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men"...The Shadow!

The show was a hit, but when fans went down to the newsstand, instead of asking for Detective Story Magazine, they were asking for "The Shadow Magazine", resulting in S&S realizing they needed such a title on the stands ASAP. Enter Walter B. Gibson, who under the "house name" of Maxwell Grant, began writing stories starring the character. This magazine was a massive success, spawning a new genre, the Hero Pulps.

So, at the most basic, a Pulp Hero is a character who either A: was created for the Hero Pulps, or B: is deliberately intended to evoke them. Most people, however, tend to use the term more broadly, incorporating, for example hero characters from other genres of pulp, or from earlier pulp stories, or from other mass media of the time. Others extend it backwards to also incorporate characters from the Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls and such that preceded the Pulps, and to the various characters who the Hero Pulps used as inspiration.

I, personally, tend to use all of these, and also go by vibes. If I feel a hero character has a "pulp" sensibility, even if they're a character that exists firmly in the 21st century, I will consider them a Pulp Hero. As a rule of thumb, if I can look at a character and say "is this character a superhero? I kinda feel like they're a superhero, but I'm not comfortable saying they're a superhero"...then I am comfortable calling 'em a Pulp Hero.

Muddying the waters, there are a number of superheroes who are ALSO Pulp Heroes, and drawing the line is tricky. I, personally, think Batman is juuuust barely still a Pulp Hero, Superman isn't and I go back and forth on the Fantastic Four.

I hope this is helpful, and apologize if it's a bit too ramble-y.

[greenishghostey]

imagine eddie plus amazon position

Took some creative liberties with the position, but it worked out in the end (I hope)!

Note: this is filth, again. Also, it's kinda long....

18+ Content MDNI

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You were used to Eddie suggesting some adventurous stuff to try out during sex. He thought you didn’t know about the Heavy Metal magazines stuffed under his bed. 

But you’d seen it all. Robots, monsters, aliens, the whole nine yards - all surprisingly well illustrated. There was one issue that had a woman and a tentacle monster-thing which probably shouldn’t have had you nodding while reading it, but oh well. 

So, when Eddie suggested the unfamiliar position to you, he also had a visual aid to help win you over. The man was on his back with his head thrown back, flushed neck bared to the woman on top of him. His eyes were rolling back into his skull as sound effects indicated the pace and sounds coming from their fucking. His knees were pulled tightly into his sweating chest while the woman - who looked suspiciously similar to you - rode his cock until they were both delirious and panting like animals in heat. 

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"God fu-fucking damn it. Babe, c'mon, please."

"You're doing so good, though. Just need to get you a little more warmed up, okay?" You sang, using your own legs to keep Eddie's spread wide. Your hands were covered in lube that was originally cold, sliding and stroking Eddie's cock. He had been whining for the last fifteen minutes - not above begging you to sit on his dick. But that wasn't the deal. If he wanted you in the position he asked for, then he was going to have to work a little harder for it. 

The slick squelching from Eddie fucking your hands was obscene and so loud. It mixed with the hot panting of your breath and the string of groans and curses from him. Eddie had taken to throwing one arm over his eyes because if he looked down at you, the fun would be over within seconds. 

You liked that you had such an effect on him; there was something intimate yet animalistic about it. You craved it in a similar way that he craved you. Most of the time, Eddie chased your orgasm before his own. Huffing filthy promises and praise while pulling your legs onto his shoulders and grinning as you gripped the sheets with white knuckles. But sometimes, he wanted to be roughed up a little. Brought to the precipice of release, only to be held there for as long as you saw fit. 

“You’re making the sheets all wet.” You observed through heavy-lidded eyes. Eddie was an absolute fucking mess. His thick cock was glistening in the low light of his room while his balls were sticky and heavy. You had to stamp down the urge to let him fuck your mouth and empty himself down your throat. But you had agreed to ride him - or rather, fuck yourself on him.  

“I can fucking hear it.” Eddie groaned, moving his arm from his eyes as he glanced downwards. “Christ, fuck, aren’t you done yet?” His face had such a pretty rosy flush to it. 

“Wanna make you feel extra special tonight.” You hummed. His eyes were boring into your skull; you could almost feel the fire of his gaze. You knew you were pushing your luck, but it was too fun to pass up. 

Eddie’s reaction time was always a little too good when he had a set goal. He sat up on one shakey elbow and grabbed the back of your head, bringing your face mere centimetres from his. Eddie was staring at you, unblinking like you were the only thing in the entire world - and he wanted it so bad. 

“You’re done. Now.” Eddie smirked with clenched teeth. 

The fact that he still had enough brain power to talk was impressive. Additionally, the grip he had on your hair, keeping your head in place, was making you sweat and squirm. 

“I’m gonna lie back, you’re gonna sit all pretty on my dick, and then you can go back to being in charge. Got it?” Eddie always knew just the right thing to say. He knew you almost too well, knew just how to make you melt. The guy was in love; it looked good on him. 

You returned his smirk with a giddy smile and an enthusiastic nod. Eddie got himself comfortable again, arranging himself with his legs nearly to his chest. 

You had to wonder if this is what he liked so much about you in that position. The unrestricted view of everything, the heat of seeing vulnerability. The trust of it all was sort of heartwarming. Putting aside the fact that Eddie had gotten this idea from a porno comic. 

His swollen, slick cock twitched as you got yourself comfortable, placing your hands on the backs of Eddie’s thighs. Teasing the leaking tip against your clit was a sweet relief. Finally, you got some of the friction. A guttural moan fell from your lips as you watched the head slip into your cunt. 

Sharp nails dug into Eddie’s legs as you firmly sat on his cock. “You’re so fucking deep like this.” You sighed, the stretch of him finally settling into your drooling cunt. 

“You love it deep, huh?” Eddie groaned, the sweet relief of finally being inside you washing over him in waves. One of his hands gripped your ass, helping you keep balance while also massaging the fat. “Sh-shit even brought the nails out and everything. You sit there for just a little longer, ‘kay?” 

A noise between a moan and a shriek rolled from your throat as Eddie started toying with your clit. He alternated between slow circles, quick slaps, and slippery flicks. The mix of your wet, the lube and his precum creamed at the base of Eddie’s cock - the squelching of it becoming even messier. 

“This isn’t supposed to be about me.” You whined, head rolling to one side as a particularly harsh flick made you keen. 

“Well, this part is. So, keep screaming.” Eddie moaned, slapping at your soaked cunt when you tried to move your hips on him. 

You had a feeling that this night would be a “fight for the upper hand” sort of night. Those happened sometimes when you were both in a sort of feral mood, and both wanted to be on top. Eddie never let sex just be about him, even for a minute or two. 

So, you would need to put him in his place. Like he wanted since his knees were nearly crushed to his sweaty chest. The demon head tattoo staring at you only spurred you on more. 

Your nails returned to digging into the backs of Eddie’s thighs - catching him off guard and making a small line of drool leave his lips. The grinding of your hips got harder as you massaged your g-spot with his cock. 

“Know what? This is about me - god, fuck - hold still for me.” 

Eddie’s wet fingers were still on your clit, but only applied pressure for you to move on. His moans had returned to being closer to whines as he stared at you fucking yourself. He wouldn’t be able to thrust up at all from the position he was in. He was at your mercy, and he loved it. 

“Yeah, yeah, fuck yes.” Eddie chanted, his bottom lip slipping between his teeth. “Your pussy feels so fucking - oh god, oh god.” 

You were shifting between grinding and bouncing now. The sopping drag of Eddie’s cock was simultaneously too much and not enough. “What was that? My pussy feels what?” You groaned, trying to keep your voice somewhat stern and even. 

“So fucking wet, and messy, and - and, Jesus.” Eddie slurred. He felt like he was losing his mind. The tension in his thighs, your nails dragging on his skin and the creamy warmth of your cunt. It was all driving him up the wall as his heart started to hammer. 

“We’re gonna make a mess together,” you purred, legs beginning to shake. “You can cum deep, yeah? Can you do that for me, Eddie?”

“Uh-huh,” Eddie whined, his hair stuck to his face with sweat. “Anything you want, baby. Anything.” 

You grinned, grinding faster and harder until the mattress started to creak. The circles of your hips were messy, but it didn’t matter anymore. The man under you looked like a wreck in the best way possible. He was struggling to keep his eyes from rolling back; beads of sweat were rolling down his neck, and the noises. The noises were a mixture of grunts and moans as he clumsily played with your clit and tried to hold off cumming before you. After a few grounding breaths, Eddie kicked himself into high gear again.

“You love this, don't ya?” He panted, doubling down on the rough circles to your sticky clit. “Just been waiting to get back on top of me and losing your fucking mind.” 

“Just promise you’ll cum with me.” Your voice was hoarse and whimpering. The sweet relief was so close; you just needed Eddie to keep talking. “Promise me, Eddie.”

“Promise. God, fuck - I promise.”

Eddie started to moan and laugh up at you - it wasn’t mocking laughter, he was just having a really good time. The hand massaging your ass moved to deliver a sharp smack to the already raw skin - his laughter getting louder when you whined. You retaliate by scratching your nails down his thighs again, making him shiver and his cock twitch inside you. 

The push and pull continued for who knows how long. It could have been seconds; it could have been minutes. A smack was met with a scratch, and a whine was met with a shiver. Both of you were soaked, and the slick noises were just so right. 

Your knees almost gave out, “I’m gonna cum, Eddie, c’mon, c’mon.” You babbled, slamming your cunt down onto his cock. Your orgasm ripped through you in an instant, jaw hanging open and a low scream filling the dim bedroom.

“‘Atta girl.” Eddie slurred, his voice melting into a series of groans of ‘fuck’ as he emptied himself inside your hot, slick walls. His grip on your ass was definitely going to leave handprints, but that just made it all the better.