#and so does ken

[insomniphic]

friend of mine just dragged me into watching Dandadan.... I may or may not like a certain cursed form of some guy

[rinto190]

doodle from last night!

[naggascradle]

Covers for A Game of Thrones, I (Jon Snow) II (Daenerys Targaryen) III (Tyrion Lannister) IV (Catelyn Stark) V (Ned Stark) & A Clash of Kings, I (Arya Stark) II (Theon Greyjoy) III (Sansa Stark) IV (Davos Seaworth) V (Bran Stark), drawn by Ken Sugiwara for the Japanese paperback release of A Song of Ice and Fire.

[ghost-proofbaby]

can y'all please come into my humble abode and imagine something with me i don't yet have the wits to write a full fledged fic out of (yet)?

so, everyone knows how when you get a tattoo, part of the healing process is the itchy phase, right? and for obvious reasons, you can't scratch it. favored method, in my experience and fellow tatted friends, is to just give it a good old slap.

perfect. so now, with this in mind, can you imagine having gotten a large hip/ass piece, and how mortifying it would be to smack your own ass to soothe that itch? and it's just plain painful. you want your new ink to heal properly - it's gorgeous and you put a lot of time, pain, and money into that damn thing - but it just sucks.

enter best friend eddie.

he loves your new ink. thinks it's fucking sick. nearly creamed his damn pants when he found out you were doing a hip/ass tatt (because how can he ask to see it without being weird? how can he react to that without being weird when he's spent the last several years with the world's most pathetic crush on you?) at first, it's fine. you show him the tattoo in a totally friendly, totally platonic way. he hypes you up, he calls you 'the most metal person he knows'. flourishes you with all the compliments and looks at you with starry eyes out of sheer awe at the way he's managed to snag a person into his life who is just so. damn. cool.

but the days pass by, that new ink begins to heal, and it fucking itches.

when you first proposition him, you're even more embarrassed than he is. stumbling over all your words, the request coming out contorted every wrong way. you don't want to make things weird, but is it really that weird for a friend to help a friend? it is really that weird to ask your best friend to smack your tattoo to help with that itch you can't even really properly reach?

it's just friends helping friends.

and that's the mantra you both repeat to yourselves - as you request the embarrassing favor of him, as he agrees almost too eagerly, as you find yourself face-planted in your bed wondering how deeply you can bury down your shame as he tries to make jokes to make it all a bit less awkward.

it's just friends helping friends, until eddie's hand lands down on your ass with a resounding smack, and that first little whimper escapes your lips.

[jesseisquick]

Kenji Sato + nervous habits — finger tapping & leg bouncing

[kagooleo]

the gangs all here!!!

[orengejoshi]

i don’t know who this flug guy is but i need him

Dr. Flug is an [not canon, but basically-] autistic mad scientist who works for the embodiment of evil. he's a very nervous, short tempered and highly emotional nerd, is frequently being an arrogant smartass, talks way too much and suffers from crippling anxiety. will just actually go insane without a strict plan and a plan for that plan. likes to torture/experiment on people and build model planes in his free time (the plane thing is a special interest) also kinda acts like a dad for one of his experiments. committed 82,602 crimes. is deadly afraid of sandwiches. his flirting attempts would include him comparing you to a plane.

he's a lovely silly. absolutely fell in love with this man. we all need him.

if you wanna watch the show he's from; it's called "Villainous" and you can find the first 6 episodes on HBOmax or you can watch the early shorts and orientation videos on Youtube

[tokyo-daaaamn-ji-gang]

Before and After!

It looks so much fuller now!!!

[wormsical]

highchoolers (and iori)

[literallyjustanerd]

it had to be done.

[k3itar0-with-a-three]

so ig this is happening now-i made a Hasemura song thing

well. Von has spoken and I shall oblige

ladies, gentlemen, and those who lurk in the depths of the shadow realm, here y'all go (i used SynthV for this because I CANNOT SING.... TOO WELL.) (also FELLOW VOCALOID/VOCASYNTH PRODUCERS RISE UP HEYYY)

here's "Your new Light" or as I like to call it, if "Dandelions" by Ruth B. and Tetro Danganronpa had an extremely cheesy and lovey-dovey baby

(yes I use bandlab yes I made this on my phone SHUT UP.)

Here's the link to it :)

im gonna go shrink in a corner now

IMSOSORRYIFTHISSUCKSOKI'LLSHUTUPNOW

[almoststedytimetravel]

Arena Manga Epilogue my beloved.

[rewritingcanon]

my sister and i just yapped for almost three hours and we were just talking about how genuinely weird people in fandom are surrounding characters who have explicit mental illness. like they can never ever be normal. there are characters who are romanticised and glamourised for their mental illness (eren. wanda. joker. kaneki. nico. almost any danganronpa/ddlc character). characters who are consistently ridiculed for their mental illness either because it simply isn’t getting taken seriously (reiner) or because no one takes the character seriously (armin). and there are the characters that get blatantly outright DESPISED for it (basil, harry potter, korra, gale, also eren etc etc). like yes im seeing a correlation but its still so astounding how selective people are about where they draw the line with mental illness and what traits they can accept.

[deer-a-day]

232

trying to relearn how I draw deer

[beigetiger]

Absolutely fascinating Gaslight District realization I just had that I don't think either of Ken's kids are biologically related to him

Breadhead is a literal yeast golem and all signs point to Melancholy having been born from an angel egg and then Ken kidnapping her and making her his daughter, likely in an effort to protect her (the newspaper clipping from the trailer saying that humans born from angel eggs are to be hunted down without mercy).

Which means that if Mel really does go ahead and kidnap an angel egg, there's full chance that whatever's in there will just end up becoming her and Breadhead's little sibling

[autistic--daniil--dankovsky]

remember this? well. let's go!

both ena and an have pretty famous fathers, and it was always somewhat expected of them to be worthy of their legacy, in some way. both of them were told, "of course you're good at art - you're shinei's daughter!" and "of course you're good at singing - you're ken's daughter!" respectively.

they were always perceived via their fathers, not allowed to step outside their shadow and be seen for themselves. they couldn't be ena or an.

and, you know, for a time, they went along with it. i mean, they were good at what they were doing.

but then... all comes crashing down.

for ena, there's the obvious bullshit that's going on with shinei. completely destroying her. because she admired her father, because he was the reason she wanted to do art to begin with, and he told her to her face that she would never be good enough.

her entire world fell apart, that day.

because no matter what she says, ena wants the approval of her father more than anything else. she wants him to tell her that she's worthy of being his daughter, that all her hard work amounts to something; anything.

but then, there's the eventual revelation that she wasn't anything, actually. she wasn't special.

everyone was better than her.

before, ena was a fish in a small pond, and of course, she was among the best. but now she's been dropped in a vast ocean, and she's small, and insignificant.

devoured by all the other fish.

one of them - and admittedly, the most important of them all - being futaba. she joined after ena, but she proved herself in much less time than her. and, even succeeded where ena failed - she never gave up, even when she was harshly criticised. never regressing artistically. never running away from art.

and there's something else, somewhere deep down - a fear. a fear that nightcord will abandon her when they realise she can't keep up with them. that she's not as good as they thought she was.

what will happen of her, then? she'll be all alone. unloved.

an goes through something similar.

she meets kohane, and she decides that this person is going to be her partner. that they're going to surpass THE rad weekend together, that no one could be better for this task but her.

but when she starts that relationship, it's with the assumption that she'll always be the teacher and that kohane will always be the student.

not in a mean, or pretentious way, no, not at all. simply, an was always told there was no way she couldn't surpass rad weekend, since she was ken's daughter. in her small pond, she was also among the very best.

but then, an realises something, too.

kohane is much better at everything than she is.

very similarly to ena's situation with futaba, kohane made much more progress in barely a year than an has in years. taiga - one of the old RADers, and somewhat of an uncle for an - recognised her potential, and asked to train her. not an, but kohane.

and of course, an is happy to know that! because that's her partner and friend, and an is happy to see her grow more confident and get better every day. because she cares. because she loves her.

but there's something in her chest - something that hurts and aches. she has to face the fact that she's not as good as she thought she was, that she isn't worthy of her father's legacy. that she isn't worthy of being kohane's partner, that she might be holding her back.

that she might be abandoned. left behind to rot.

what will happen of her, then? she'll be all alone. unloved.

to me - ena and an are two kids suffering under the weight of a legacy that's too heavy for them to carry, but that they can't let go of. they're also struggling with seeing their peers succeed where they repeatedly fail. they're all about being terrified of being abandoned because they're not good enough.

they're both confronted by this fact.

and it terrorises them.