#anyway. back to normal hours

[endingboyhansel]

did

did my mum just send me a photoshopped picture of me and her posing in front of a burning forest

[vervielle]

★

☆

sobs

[bribloo]

Don't forget to take lots of photos !!!!!!

[clumsypuppy]

these two are so interesting to me

characters belong to @canisalbus

[sunn-mechanic]

[ID in alt]

Guess that makes me Evil

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I could not stop thinking about how Vex is probably dead in DR, that shit makes me so unwell

Also, version without the lyrics below, bc I like both:

[ID in alt]

[cloudbends]

So. skip and loafer chapter 72 thoughts. lives were changed.

it's something i say endlessly, but what truly works so beautifully about shima and mitsumi's dynamic is that, first and foremost, its constituted on both of their genuine admiration and appreciation of each other as people, and as forces in each others' lives that make them strive to better themselves and become worthy of the other. i think their last interaction in this chapter encapsulates this perfectly on both ends.

shima, since the beginning of this manga, prominently never initiates physical touch. he simply doesn't do it with anyone other than mitsumi, and then when he very rarely does, it's in incredibly significant moments. given both of his social status that he sorely hates, and our newfound knowledge of his relationship with his mother, characterized by trauma of abuse, it makes sense - his wariness of physical touch crystallizes his wariness of showing vulnerability and exposing his true self to others. the first to come to mind is in chapter 11, when he grabs mitsumi's hand - it's a similarly sudden gesture that symbolizes shima's rare vocalisation of his feelings for her:

Considering these two moments are 60 chapters apart, it's incredible to see just how much both of them have grown. how shima's beautiful character arc culminates in fulfilling himself and letting his emotions out after bottling them for the vast majority of his life, and how coming to terms with his past and re-finding his passion allows him to come to terms with his feelings and act on them - because he finally feels like a whole enough person, worthy of the person he admires and loves. Shima had to have gone through his arc - open himself up on stage and gain some sort of closure from his mother, allowing to "be a kid again" as he ought to be instead of forcing himself to adopt the facade of maturity, in order to, for once, he acts on a whim - to show his genuine appreciation for mitsumi which he's only been able to internally ruminate over.

I think the significance of this gesture for mitsumi cannot be understated either. It's been established many times over that just as shima struggles with wanting to catch up to mitsumi, mitsumi has had similar feelings of inadequacy in comparison (see: "i always knew it was too much for me"), and it's been apparent that she's been somewhat walking on eggshells ever since their breakup. while of course mitsumi has self esteem and it's one of her great qualities, she is also significantly characterized by insecurities - thinking she wants to be important to shima one day, thinking, after the breakup, "of course this amazing person was never within reach for someone like me". which might make one insane given how absolutely important she is to shima. this is why she purposely chooses to shy away form approaching him at first, regardless of how mesmerised she's been by his performance - he's surrounded by people which, she assumes, are more important than her - and so she settles for staying in the back, but wishes to tell him how genuinely great he was. so in this sense, mitsumi is posited in a similar position to the one shima has been - they're both constantly struggling to become worthy of the person they admire. shima, having been so emotionally paralysed to the point he couldn't convey his feelings to mitsumi properly, probably fed into her subconscious feelings of his being out of her reach.

That's why that moment is so incredibly cathartic for both of their character arcs. shima, having finally come to terms with both his feelings and his past, is finally taking his turn to externalise his feelings like mitsumi did before, while mitsumi finally gains the appreciation and recognition she's been subconsciously missing. finally, they (hopefully) realize their outmost importance to one another - shima caught up to mitsumi not just in having fulfilled himself or (at least in his own eyes, as we all know he always was) being worthy of mitsumi, but also in voicing his feelings for her. and i'm so proud of him !!! the writing being so careful and nuanced around it just, yet again, shows the masterful understanding of human relationships in skip and loafer. i love these two so much

[aloekat]

hello ishimondo nation, tonight i bring you not ponies like i have been but instead dragons lol

[andi-o-geyser]

ooooh, incorrect!! swing and a miss! looks like SOMEBODY didn't read Under the Red Hood

[oh-no-its-bird]

On top of everything else that's happened in the last month or so

(girlfriend breaking up with me / me running off in the night w the friend I was supposed to be maid of honor with bc her (now ex) fiance came home drunk and scared us, while ofc we also both were in swimsuits and had like NO money or even shoes due to incredibly poor timing / Getting stuck in Dallas for TWO MONTHS longer than I meant to be due to bullshit work transfer systems (and admitedly my own inability to remember that deadlines exist) / that same friend going BACK to her shit boyfriend alone to a city 4 hours away from anyone she may call for help if things go wrong / me now no longer having a place in dallas to stay for these next 2 months bc I was SUPPOSED to stay with that friend but her bastard boyfriend doesn't want me in his house anymore bc he knows I'd tell his girlfriend to dump his ass)

I have now lost my fucking house keys.

Anyways I may or may not be way less active for a bit so this is the formal apology and explanation for that. Sorry guys, we are NOT going back to ur normally scheduled rapid fire ninja content as promised for like. A minute. Possibly. We'll see. Sometimes my own motivation wave surprises me.

Tbh it's my own fault for daring to become a fanfic author tbh. Should have known the "sorry I didn't update, my house burned down teehee <3" curse would come for my ass

[faggottonystark]

They call me the fucking drawer. The redrawer. of my own draws. Ogs are both from 2019 ^_^

[nixotinix]

Year one scarecrow pls and thank you for the requests. ♡♡♡

THE mistress of fear in my inbox? yowza WOWZA! okay, nix, just play it cool, just draw the art,,,,

thank you for the request aah! they are still indeed open for any and all DC characters :)

[dizzybizz]

i am not even finished w the 3.0 quest bro

[ganondoodle]

anyway, im normal again

[stevens-pastrami-sandwich]

CLIMBS OUT OF MY GRAVE woah hey I did that dtiys w uhh @nomoretumbler was it yeahhh crazy guy WHO MAKES CRAZY ART BTW GO CHECK HIS COOL ART OUT IF YA HAVENT RAA

ft. my post surgery two brains design or whatever teehee oh man I have plans for this guy wink wink

[baldursghaik]

so after nearly having my room get a free excavation via tree branch last night, I decided to test out Wyll's origin run (I wanted something kind of Brain Off ha ha..)

Wyll has been so consistently shafted for material, but what the hell, I was not expecting the beginning of the game to be so different playing as his origin. I accidentally played for five straight hours, like I was playing it for the first time again. Everything from waking up on the ship to going around the grove was fantastically different, and gave me an even better appreciation for how foundational Wyll is to the beginning of the game. I've always loved Wyll but augh, it's tenfold now

I also now feel that wyll and shadowheart are a severely underrated bff situation. playing such a selfless gentleman after the nightmare trainwreck that is thyneron lmao is so nice, I really do think he'd bend over backwards to help basically everyone, but also be perceptive enough to tell right off the bat that this sharran is kinda failing spectacularly at her job

speaking of, the new classes and cantrips fuck severely. I still dislike most of the patches but those.. those can stay

[chaggiehearts]

Do people still use this kind of templates?

Anyway, my Chaggie headcanons :) disclaimer that this is just the way I interpret them, it’s 100% okay to disagree lol