#but im glad i made it!!i dont usually do comics!!

[therearenonutsforsomeendermen]

Its currently 5:30 am as im writing this cuz I just woke up from a dream that actually made me mad

Im sitting on the steps in my house scrolling through youtube when I see a spiderverse shortfilm that was "an early script rendition that was scrapped" that they decided to animate for some reason. I Iater find that theres also one released to netflix that had an alternative beginning. I'll talk about the bits that I remember. We start with an interview with a news reporter who is interviewing miles as spiderman where after the interview it reveals that she knows miles personally and knows his secret. He then rides a motorcycle home? (Don't ask cuz I dont have an answer) He goes to the roof to find his dad gardening. (cuz why not) they talk for a bit and it seems like he want to tell him that he's spiderman, but before he can, the spot shows up and is angry at miles, as per usual, and starts tryna pick a fight with him when Miguel appears out of nowhere and decides that he wants to kill all 3 of them and he'll do it in anyway possible. He start by webbing jeff and the spot and throwing them in the air so he can focus on destroying miles. (or something) The spot, who could easily catch himself and land safely, decides that he can't do it, so Jeff has to. How could he do this, you may be asking yourself? Well, the spot, now free from the webs starts to TAKE HIS SUIT OFF REVEALING THAT HE WAS HUMAN UNDERNEATH THE WHOLE TIME. It was at this point that my dream self paused it and tossed the phone across the room, which is what I do when I'm mad at something I see on it. My sister then looks over at me and asks why I did it and I just look at her and go "I CAN'T TELL YOU >:(" there was a good ten minutes left in the video that I didn't watch so I don't know what happened after that

So lets talk about the fact that the spot wearing a SUIT COMPLETELY DISREGARDS HIS WHOLE STRUGGLE IN THE ACTUAL MOVIE. His struggle was that his whole life was destroyed because his face was gone and there was no way to get it back, and he resented spiderman for it. I know that in the comics, he had a suit and that he can make himself look normal when need be, (which is probably where my dream got the idea from) but the same does not go for the movie. His whole identity as the spot revolves around how everyone and everything he had was taken from him because of him no longer being human, so to make him human again makes it all pointless. So needless to say I was pissed off and dream me was glad that it was a scrapped version of the script.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[russetfoxfur]

so i dont usually do liveblogs because i never show up to streams and also im not very good at reacting to stuff. However. i will make an exception because HGCZ IS OUT!! and i have seen so much hype about it that id be a fool to not at least read it. livereact will be under the cut for spoilers and. stuff.

- ok we arent even on the actual ZINE and the opening dedication?? "Of the arts, storytelling is one of the oldest: humanity weaves an endless tapestry of heart, hope, and home that continues to shape us all to this day. To tell a story is to bridge the gap between yesterday and tomorrow; to tell a story is to inextricably connect us all." THAT OPENING PARAGRAPH DUDE

- interesting premise. im intrigued. though i am a little concerned about the "classist violence" and "body modification" warnings. I suspect this is not all Fun and Games

- "I gotta say, "Hot"Guy, this is pretty disappointing. You can be AverageGuy. MediocreGuy." "Oh! "Guy"!" the best part is this is so in-character for them to do

- the ENTIRE EXPLANATION bit omg. joel trying to interject and comic-style getting talked over, lizzie robbing cats instead of cash... and her backstory...

- i. that sudden style shift is not in fact comical and i am now eyeing the unreality warning at the beginning of the zine with sudden alarm. should i be alarmed by this? maybe this is fine. lets say its fine

- JELLIE! hcing her supername is HotCat. she DEFINITELY needs a matching HotGuy costume. and i am somewhat more reassured!

- wait hold on. went back to that first hotguy comic to see the warnings (hidden in the title, missed them) and. WAIT WAS THAT REWRITING FUCKIN MIND CONTROL

- UNREALITY MINDCONTROL SCOPOPHOBIA AND INJURY??? WAIT HOLD ON IM REREADING THIS

- wait. WAIT THAT PANEL. THAT ONE WHERE JOEL SEES HOTGUY REWROTE THE ANIMAL CONTROL VAN TO BE A MONEY VAN. WAIT A FUCKING SECOND WE ARENT EVEN TEN PAGES INTO THE ZINE AND HOLY SHIT

- joels the only one who can SEE HES DOING THIS SO HOTGUY WRITES HIM OUT. JESUS FUCKIN CHRIST. HOTGUY??? UFHODQPHFWJPFAP AND THEN HE "GOES BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD" AND FUCKIN REWRITES REALITY TO MAKE HIMSELF SEEM COOLER. BUT REWRITTEN HOTGUY HAS THE SAME PLASTIC EXPRESSION. JESUS FUCKING CHRIST THIS IS ONLY ONE COMIC I THINK YOURE LYING ABOUT HIS SUPERPOWER MUTATION WHATEVER

- ALRIGHT SWIFTLY ON. WE WILL EYE HOTGUY WITH CONCERN BUT MOVE ON NONETHELESS

- :0 cuteguy appears! doody did rlly good work on this one!

- CUTEGUY IS AWESOME!!! those WINGS... agh i love comic bubbles they just have so much personality and those icy words... and cuteguy pointing HOTGUYS OWN ARROW back at him..... you could not have made a better introduction holy shit

- and then he just flies off. awesome. we should all aspire to be the same level of cool as cuteguy.

- ren would be able to just say hotguy like that. also sidenote i am hearing all these lines in my head as im reading so writers youve all done fantastically!

- UNIONIZE! UNIONIZE! UNIONIZE!

- is pearl... a journalist? or is this the wrong gal? if she is a journalist then good for her!

- oh :( everyone hates unionizing the vigelantes. sad but realistic :(

- MUMBLR?? DID MUMBO K JUMBO BECOME THE OWNER OF TUMBLR IN THIS AU? DID HE KILL MATT PHOTOSPACE WHOEVER THE CEO OF TUMBLR IS? DID THEY FISTFIGHT TO THE DEATH? THAT HAPPENED RIGHT. THATS THE ONLY THING ILL ACCEPT AS CANON. IN THIS AU MUMBLR IS TRANS-FRIENDLY! 🎉

- sweetferaline (bahm bahm bahhh)

- ok this is incredibly funny. teeth dog ftw

- CHATTER AND M JESUS CHRIST THIS IS NOW THE BEST SEGMENT IN THE ENTIRE ZINE. AMAZING COMEBACK THIS IS SO REALISTIC

- and the reply sections are always a cesspool! glad they got that right

- PIXLRIFFS RUNNING A BLOG ON TUMBLR TO EXPLAIN HERMITOPIA. THIS IS SO IN CHARACTER

- THE MAPLE PRINCE. THE MAPLE PRINCE

- THIS ENTIRE MUMBLR DASH WAS PURE COMEDY GOLD. FIVE OUT OF FIVE STARS & HATS OFF TO THE WRITER

- ARIANA GRIANDE!!!! WOOOOO <3 <3 WE LOVE YOU GRIANDE!!!!!

- and now permit office grian! we are going through so many different iterations of grian... imagine we get poultry man next

- is that GEM??? IS GEM A VILLAIN? also i dont really know who the hippies are... idk its just hard for me to recognize this artstyle ig

- WAIT. HAS GEM BEEN SPYING ON GRIAN'S DETECTIVITY? or am i just reading this all wrong? i might be reading this all wrong

- alright i might have to reread that one-- WAIT MORE MIND CONTROL. AND BODY MODIFICATION??? THE MISSING CUB... guys if this is sculk!cub im gonna maul someone

- AAAA BEHIND YOU HOTGUY (i called it)

- also love how i instantly went "oh a tibbycaps comic!"

- ok i LOVE this panel where they figure out Arson. the way both conclusions are reached in tandem! and also YAY WOOO ARSON THIS BITCH UP 🔥

- OH MY GOD THIS IS HILARIOUS I LOVE HOW THE abrupt cut to disaster WAS DONE IN COMIC FORM

- THAT MERCH DESIGN IN THE NOTES APP ABSOLUTELY FUCKING SENT ME DUDE

- "i use sculk to season my pizza" ah. I see. typical cubfan behavior. carry on

- "None of us are perfect, despite what you say might feel when you look at me" this Bdubs email is SO IN-CHARACTER

- " i replied to some of these but then i kinda got bored and started sending links to cool space facts instead" honestly this is what i would do too. and i would be happy to get cool space facts in return for my hotguy email. i dont see what the issue is here

- oh is cuteguy taking issues with the supernovae. skill issue tbh

- this whole cuteguy-cub email chain is HILARIOUS. scratch that this whole email segment is hilarious jesus christ. grian is being SO BITCHY and im HERE FOR IT

- PEARLIPOP IS A REPORTER! YES! and zedaphs in this au! he isnt even going under wormman??? shocking (< says a zedaph fangirl who is completely fixated on one passing mention of him)

- oh my god this is the best storytelling format ever. the panicked exchanges between cuteguy n cub, pearl reporting as she is wont to do... genuinely i love this so much i am giggling so much im actually gonna stop liveblogging because i just want to read this. ill be with yall in a moment

- actually never mind "if he waits too long to answer it starts to play the whole Lilo and Stitch movie audio" cub i love you so much. hgcz i love you so much i almost forgive you for that very jarring first comic

- it looks like we have seven or so more years before hotguy becomes a reality... new reasons to live. also the chatter discourse is insane from what ive seen doc does just act Like That on twit/chatter

- "sumagram" well i guess we know who owns that now

- :000 HOTCAT APPEARS!!!!! WE LOVE YOU HOTCAT <3333333 EVERYONE GIVE IT UP FOR OUR BELOVED HOTCAT!!!

- THE AWKWARD EXIT. i love it

- I SEE THAT BIG SALMON DONT THINK I DONT

- SHIRTLESS SCAR.... im aroace but like. i can still admire a shirtless man cant i. artist did a good job

- NO YOU DID NOT PUT A LILACS AND POPPIES REFERENCE IN THIS COMIC I AM GNAWING THE ARTIST OF THIS COMIC WITH MY TEETH YOU ARE MAKING ME INSANE DEAR GOD THEY TEAMED UP BUT HOW IS THIS GOING TO END AAAAAA HOTGUY DONT DIE IN THE CACTUS RING PLEASE BUDDY

- CREEPER AW MAN

- horsegirl hotguy... wild stallion cuteguy... someone needs to write this au. i should write this au. actually hold on *scribbles furiously in my "crackfic ideas" notes* carry on

- update: now listening to scheming weasel for atmosphere.

- “Who’s the more foolish: the fool, or the fools who follow him?” stellar line. only a certified HotGuy can produce lines like these

- "after a tick or two" if hermitopians measure time in ticks like minecrafters do then thats such a cool worldbuilding detail

- FOR A MOMENT I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING TO BURN DOC AND HIS LACKEYS ALIVE. THANK GODS THEY DIDNT

- testing of new weapons montage! i know hotguy is the star of the show here but god i love cub so much more. can cub be the "protagonist" here instead actually

- i. i have suspicions that cub is not sculk-free. or is this a flutterbat situation where it is all dealt with but its not but actually it is but it also kinda isnt? yknow. im gonna write this off as a flutterbat thing but i will still be keeping a very close eye on cub

- *snort* deep enough to hold twelve pieces of bamboo (i am such a sucker for in-jokes)

- grian is warming up to scar... also hotguy bandaids

- AND I GET THAT REFERENCE TOO!! very clever! grian shut up its two in the morning! "Scar doesn’t seem to know how to react, his mouth falling open and then promptly shutting again." same grian why would you bring up the nose hair incident and to an unsuspecting hotguy no less smh learn sone manners

- you know what if grian can learn first aid from the nose hair incident in alaska then scar can get injured in a volleyball incident (i have never watched scar which yes is a skill issue but also if this is also a reference i would not get it). beloved desertduo who cannot lie to save their fuckin lives

- THAT ENDING COMIC IS HILARIOUS. SUCH A SCAR THING TO DO

- alright im gonna take a break from liveblogging rn! i will be back in (my) morning with scheming weasel and a renewed spirit. goodnight yall! <3

[mekatrio]

anime con log diary whatever

the epic outfit for today:

thankfully no traffic so that was epic. i was there pretty early (10:30-ish) so it was easy to find parking. got lost in the mall for like ten minutes until me and friend found some staff members for the con, and they showed us the way. the entrance was rly out of the way lol, usually theres two point of entries, but one was out of service. u had to follow a rly specific path to get there. there were also a bunch of buddha statues near the entrance stairway?

idk what was up with that. anyways since we were early there was no queue for us to get in. very nice. also its the weekday so i heard that theres significantly less ppl here today than there'll be the next two days. also very nice.

several booths were still being set up while we walked around. we checked out the official vendors first before checking out the artist alley, which was the main reason we were there. immediately my friend finds and starts buying some hoyoverse merch. i check the booths out w her for a while and then i get myself a green tea latte. then we check out the goodsmile booth and i find these

very cool but i do not get them, bc 1.) expensive, and 2.) i do not like plastic figurines. i also stop my friend from buying a persona 5 joker figurine. she goes and buy some more hoyoverse stuff instead. then we go check out the artist alley... and then friend realizes she left her water bottle somewhere. and as per usual with the cons i go to w her, we are seperated. and then we meet up again, but not before i buy two epic items:

i am sooo happy w these two purchases 💜 they were the only ones of their kind, so im glad i got them when i did. the gengar plush will live on my purple bag and be gomamons new neighbor, like so:

^ this was also how my bag looked for the rest of the day 🤭 yayyyy 💞 anyways after looking thru the artist alley some more, we take a break to get some food. cuz we barely had anything for breakfast and we are fucking starving. the food area looks like this:

and everything there was unsurprisingly expensive lol. me and friend get the cheapest thing there, which are pizzas

tho im kinda starting feeling nauseous at this point.. and have to keep myself from throwing up. thats what happens when u take supplements + drive + drink a green tea latte on a nearly empty stomach and little sleep. dont do that. so i go to the bathroom and freshen up, and eventually i feel better. i eat three slices of pizza and give the last slice to friend, and sadly have to throw away the rest of the latte or i would feel sick again. but i feel way better now that ive eaten.

we then spend the next two hours going thru the rest of the artist alley. me and my friend joked abt the possibility of finding at least 1 (one) kgpr merch. or possibly tota merch. but unsurprisingly, there was absolutely none Lol. tho i did find vesperia merch instead

literally only one booth was selling vesperia merch haha. also surprisingly there were quite a few ace attorney merchs? its surprising to me cuz the last art event i went to only had one narumitsu sticker in the entire place. but here there were several

^like this artist, who i didnt know was based in malaysia! ive seen their comics on tumblr a few times. didnt buy from them tho, sorryyy.. anyways, various pics from the artist alley:

after we finished looking thru the artist alley and had bought our fill of art (and good god did my friend buy loads of art), i checked out a second hand vendor that i saw earlier. they had loadssss of stuff, and me and friend spent a good 15 minutes digging thru this massive tub of pins and keychains in hopes of finding smth good

i was rly hoping to find something tota or kgpr in here, cuz if they were anywhere in this convention they would be here.. but sadly there was none haha. it was rly funny digging thru this thing, i kinda felt like a racoon/archeologist. oh but i did find these two pins which made me laugh

and in the end i found and bought a bunch of revue starlight merch + a cute embroidered pin

and then after that we finally left the con.. we spent a good 5 hours in there. we went to a store for me to grab some stuff for home, then played 2 rounds of taiko hehe (6 songs total). then we went to grab some food

^ the mall the convention is in also has a fucking river flowing thru it lol. i remember seeing this as a kid, its been over ten years since ive last been here

then i drove my friend home in ATROCIOUS weather... omfg it was raining so heavily. and stupid navigation app sent me to drive on some nearly flooded roads 😑😑😑😑 but we made it in one piece and i chilled in her room for a bit. she took a pic of everything she brought... which was SO MUCH LOL

^her haul. and then finally i arrived back home.. here is my comparatively much smaller haul:

but yayy it was a fun day today ✌️ but now i have work tomorrow.. bahhhh

[seeminglydark]

i dont know if theres like, a specific time we usually save the fangirling for on this blog (it seems to come in waves) but im in my feels right now so, heck it, here we go! i just wanted to say that, as a trans person, your work makes me so happy. the fact that you’ve created such a compelling story where a trans person not only survives but thrives in their identity and their relationship is so special to me, even more so with the fact that you never seem to shy away from caro’s transness in your art even outside of the comic. it is genuinely SO awe-inspiring, and i just wanted to thank you, as one trans man that your work has touched the heart of !! (and also just, beyond all of that, your writing is so lovely and all of your characters are so lovely and i am positively in love with the story you’re telling through seemingly dark) so yeah- thank you, again, for putting this story out into the world, it means so much !!

No specific time, I always enjoy getting asks!

Well, congrats cuz you put me in my feels too, and I spent WAY TO LONG drawing this little bb Caro newly on their path to transition to say thank you for this incredibly sweet message.

When I created Caro, i didn’t have a lot of experience in anything trans-related. I had a lot of help from friends who told me their stories. I created them because I knew it was an identity I shared, but I didn’t know how to navigate it. My trans friends and Caro helped me find my words, myself and my own story. I wanted a strong (in some ways lol), incredibly cool and beautiful (imo) character everyone in the story liked, who dealt with body image issues in such a positive way, being fem in so many ways, while knowing inherently they are not a girl. I wanted Caro to embrace their body and be proud of what they had, and what they made from it to fit their identity. Obviously there’s moments they deal with in Seemingly Dark, phobic assholes and fear of coming out officially to John, just like most of us have in real life, but I wanted Caro to be confident enough in themself and their found family to know the people who matter love and accept them. I wanted Caro’s character flaws and obstacles in both comics to have nothing to do with their transition, I wanted their identity to be their joy. Supernatural problems, difficult relationship stuff, uncertainty of the future, but the one thing that they know for absolute certain is who they are. And they embrace it.

Caro’s transition is important to me, and I’m really glad you like and notice my artwork surrounding them, I want to celebrate them, cuz I love seeing beautiful trans art and I thought, hey! Maybe I can do that too.

Thank you for the message, I really need to hear things like this sometimes, I’m so glad you found my art and stories! Thank you for reading ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️

[rabbithaver]

Ye ha Idk if can talk abt it to my friends, explaining mephiles' age makes it sound really weird tbf (still dont properly understand it but I think it's fine? Shipping someone who's immortal or smth weird but has only been their own being for 10 years Is a weird thing to explain) and they usually dont allow proper explanations, ur blogs relaxed and calm.

ok im on hold with planned parenthood right now so i can answer this on my phone

honestly like... in 90% of franchises i would say to keep the ages in mind, but the Sonic franchise is kind of unique in how mind-bogglingly inconsistent it is? the numbers given to each character have been really inconsistent and all over the place — and also seem to only be present in the West, from my understanding? i could be wrong about that part, so take it with a grain of salt. but yeah, i sincerely do not care about the 'canon ages' the characters used to have because SEGA clearly... doesn't?

i was aware of Sonic for like eight years before i got really into the fandom, and i had no idea any of these characters had ages until literally last year. i have always interpreted Sonic and Shadow as early to mid 20s, and Blaze and Amy as like. 19, Tails as 12, etc. Silver is the only character i really do actually interpret as his 'canon age' because he is written as younger to me. these things haven't really changed for me because it's just not at odds with the canon we see in the games or the comics.

the way i see it, SEGA has never cared about the characters acting as the arbitrary ages they have given them so like... why should i? especially since they don't tell their own writers how old they should act. and the fact that even SEGA quietly decanonized the ages is, to me, evidence that they'd rather leave it up to interpretation.

i think some parts of this fandom have gotten so hung up on what is 'really canon' that they don't leave room for fanon interpretations. they seem to care more about being a fan the "right way" than about letting other people have fun in their own ways, you know? i dunno. like, on the one hand, i get it, but i have seen some really vile harassment based on numbers SEGA themselves don't even consider canon, so... i dunno. i dunno! i avoid age discourse like the plague for this exact reason. i know good people who consider the ages canon and i know good people who have their own views. i think fandom is big enough for both.

i just think that using those numbers to decide what ships are worth harassing people over is unnecessary. and also just harassing people about giving them the wrong ages seems shitty to me anyway? why would anybody spend their limited energy being angry about something that's so insignificant? i don't understand it.

but anyway that's not the point. i'm sorry your friends won't hear you out. i don't know much about your situation but to me, if they're not willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, they don't sound like very good friends.

i might be biased, though. i used to be part of a friend group like that and it was terrible for my mental health. it wasn't sustainable at all. i felt like i had to walk on eggshells and be perfect all the time or else they'd all turn on me — and they did. in late 2019 there was a huge fallout because i made a mistake, and it completely messed with my head. i spent three months dissociating like crazy and cutting off everyone i knew irl. in the end i'm glad im not part of that community anymore because they cared much more about never doing anything wrong than actually doing something right.

that whole thing is largely why i try so hard to keep my blog a relaxed and calm place. i don't want to live the way i used to, and i don't want anyone else around me to have to live like that either. you deserve to be around people who are willing to give you the benefit of the doubt!

[soundofastar]

*looks at you* sooo, who's Raena..👉🏽👈🏽

HE SEEMS SO MELLOW AND JUST SO CALM YKNOW... /pos

He looks so tireddd, my baby 😭💖💖💖💖 I WILL be protecting him TRUST

He gives such a field of flowers while it's storming.. IF THAT MAKES SENSE ??? HELP

I WANNA SQUEEZE HIM AND TURN HIM INTO A SMALL LITTLE BEAN 😈😈/silly

Such a silly little goober...💖💖💖💖

-paris anon

OH HEY YOU FOUND RAENA... it's a little funny how you seem to find the guys related to novaturient in one way or another, but they're silly raena mondlicht iuris (that's his full name) is in two different settings, actually! one of them would be kescorp (which i already elaborated on in my post about scylla); and another one is in novaturient, where he briefly works as a lawyer under peneume (from project martyr!) i'll divide them into their own separate paragraphs just for claritys sake, buuuut: kescorp raena and novaturient raena are actually quite different, but maintain one principle/essence kescorp's raena is just some lawyer guy. he works in the sanitization department, but really, he mostly takes care of any legal issues regarding the facility, and the various crimes against the head's alws that are committed. he gets absolutely no breaks, and is just constantly struggling. during this time, he's able to meet azazel, who's been given special permissions from the manager himself to do fuck all, pretty much. and constantly has to ask raena to take care of the various crimes (usually some form of murder. i dont remember LOL i just remember the vehicular manslaughter comic that neon made) that they commit. as this goes on, they develop a "relationship" and hit it off from there, but hera decides to troll them a bit and essentially starts straining their relationship to the point that they both just kind of, distort and start fighting. and afterwards hera returns them to normal and this weird cycle starts

novaturient's raena is honestly some of my favorite writing. he's azazel's girlfriend! they're coworkers, and i'm pretty sure it was azazel themselves who had helped raena get a position there after raena himself had some work struggles. though after a series of bad events, raena eventually had to get a magical girl contract and divide himself between law work at the office, and having to go out there and fight vagabonds. it's terribly straining and honestly sad to watch him change overtime, since there *is* a difference between how they look during this time. though i won't elaborate much on what happens with raena and azazel, since i forget exactly how much neon has shared about the plot of projmar, all i'll keep elaborating on is that iuris is not his birth last name; he just changed it to keep distance from his parents since they did help do some pretty bad things in one of the districts at some point he also has a sister—mikhailis aracea! who is currently misha kiselyov's adoptive daughter ^_^ oh yeah. one shitpost from him is that he rejected helping ulysses through one of his many divorces because raena refuses to do any sort of family law in the city. sooooooooo HES ONE OF MY FAVORITE BLORBOS THOUGH IM SO GLAD YOU LIKE HIM! he has a lot of inspiration from the whole little red story (he sometimes just is the girl, the wolf, the lumberjack or all at once) and raena/azazel's relationship is so so very important to me. all ill finish on is the fact that raena actually really wanted to marry azazel, but well....................... teehee

[scourgethewhorehog]

... no serious though how do you have a comic with so much daddy issues and never touch on generational trauma and the disconnect between pre and post war knothole? its very reflective of the people behind it, sure, and i dont mean that in a judgey way- i understand that many experiences in my life have made my view of it very different than the average audience/writer and that like me trying not to put it in a way that sounds too much like "we live in a society" but like, ill take that risk to say that so much of sonics asshole moments can be explained by the inability to cope w/ everyone suddenly having parents! a government that isnt just Evil where the situation is more complex bc its his girlfriend/ex gf but still best friends dad who is still doing fucked up things but he cant just go beserk and not just that, giving into their expectations. sallys father is DIFFICULT. he does many fucked up and questionable things that tbh even the narrative doesnt condemn sufficently for my liking. he tries to segregate roboticized mobians, he tries to suppress a democracy, that mind you, was proposed PEACEFULLY.

sonic being kind of a dick and a brat can be easily explained by the fact that he was living in the woods with his lost boys and everything was as simple as beating robotniks ass and now suddenly hes being thrust into a political landscape that hes right in the middle of because his childhood friend had to be the fucking princess! and his whole world has changed drastically, everyone is very happy about it too! its suppose to be a good thing but years of his life his problems were different. and then you add on the fact he missed an ENTIRE YEAR of his friends existing and is displaced and alienated because of this, he is a year behind everyone adjusting to the drastic changes, and THEN he deals with MORE bullshit. sonic is allowed to be a little fucking stupid and rude hes 15 and he thought the world was just going to be him and his friends as usual together for the rest of their lives and he cant even be upset it all got turned upside down because technically this means everything is okay now, except it isnt because theres new problems. this is also why the 25 years later plot pisses me off once again and im so glad its another universe because the idea that they just would repeat the whole cycle again, sonic would just become complacent with everything, and just kinda?? settled down??? his entire coping mechanism is being a war weapon and u think he just going to get married be king be okay with everything and be normal????

[kidfoundonstreets]

i'm glad to hear you enjoyed the coffin of andy and leyley, as well as no-good noelle! sorry for only just getting back to you on this—it completely slipped my mind until now

i agree that it was definitely a delight to see the improvements in tcoaal compared to earlier games, and yes! it was very much made in rpgmaker. i'm ALWAYS a massive sucker for comic panel-styled cgs

and i think what andrew meant by discarding andy and leyley to die in the coffin was him essentially. swearing to drop the power imbalance he and ashley once had as children and instead have the both of them stand on equal footing? i'm not sure, but that's what it read to me.

as for the parasite thing—who knows? nemlei apparently did go through with making a continuation to this game, so maybe we'll learn more about it there. the fact they're siblings roughly around the same age is also so tastefully fucked up by the way because like… how do i explain it. siblings usually live together ever since childhood so they have more time to affect each other growing up, and there's ALSO this general """agreement""" that family should always be your no. 1 priority when it comes to the people you choose to keep in your life or whatever, so it's like. yeah

(this is NOT meant in a weird way btw i'm a youngest sibling with two older sisters myself)

anyways yule nogoodnoelle is built different and i would drench him in milk until he's sopping wet before slamming him against the wall. real. 💯

DONT WORTRY ABOUT IT!! i apologize for the laytre response as well :3

discussing this with you is v fun i love hearing your thoughts on it,,

the equal footing makes a lot more sense! it literally says in the description of the game "co-dependency" and discarding how it's been for years is just so. well took a couple murders to get to that moment but yk (it was also mentioned i think they've had these types of arguments before and i find that interesting though im sure its never gone this far) anyway it also reminds me of a song called Evelyn Evelyn. don't know how well that works though. i need to stop getting off track

stuck with eachother and moving towards something that doesn't have the other as a doormat or the other as the boss . i don't know how possible that is for them but if there is a continuation id love to see it <3

heyy youngest kids gang. the "agreement" of family being no.1 priority and the same ages.. i didnt even think of thst but aaa. "your priority should be me!" as the rules say aswell its also like andy since the start his personality wasnt stronger than leyleys anyway he ended up as the quick go to (you live with him, it feels like obligation, he's as bendable as a rubber band) and i guess there's a line of friendship and family that is hard to clear unless you get rid of all the formalities and morals- which is also like. not only are your lives centered around your family now it also could be centered around a stranger,, but once that person is gone it'll forever have a gaping hole you can't get rid of unless theyre back. because youve known them so long. adapting to everything especially the tough situations that argumens and misunderstandings make your bond stronger

i dont know what im saying or what that means but i will eat your ideas ok

that's one of the most perfect descriptions of yule you get it you literally do. playing ivys route made me feel dirty after goig throigh all of yules bullshit (i would willingly click play on him again while insulting him)

[winderlylandchime]

I wrote this all out while pretending to work and actually working so it’s a little all over the place. But now I’m laughing reading it back because it genuinely looks like one of the “check up” texts I send to mom/dad about my brother. Minus the qaf related topics at the end. Anyway, hi! Hope you’re doing well and had a good start of the week! And now back to the idiot I’m related to:

Take a guess who has been listening to Lover’s spit sincere yesterday? I’m talking sitting outside, drinking his coffee while it’s absolutely freezing and listening to Lover’s spit like he’s in some sad music video. (Btw the songs he listened to were Lover’s spit, you look so fine (which was in like s1 so he was really going through it), Save the last dance, Here nor there and true faith. And this was on a loop!) And the only thing he has “said” to me so far is just a simple lip smack with a side eye whenever he looks at me. So i’d say he is doing as expected but he’s also upset with me for making him like the show (bc yeah, i did that. I made him have a crush on Brian)

He also has bunch of doctor check ups today and I can only drop him off and later pick him up since my work is hectic since holiday’s are coming up. And ngl i am keeping all the doctors and nurses in my thoughts today. Usually (even tho it doesn’t look like it) i stop him or at least limit his ramblings so i have no clue how today will go. He might surprise me and behaves like an adult. Also he said that he barely slept overnight because he kept thinking about what could happen in the last 3 episodes and in case you wanted to know, he told me that through the cat. As in ‘Brian, guess who didn’t sleep today cause of Justin and the other Brian? That’s right, me’ and yes, it was said in a baby voice. I did also get a text from his friend asking me if he’s doing okay cause apparently he sent him a voice memo “talking about Brian and how he’s really worried about him” and my brother has absolutely no memory of even sending that. All this is just after 5x09. I am mentally not prepared for him after the finale.

But to answer some of your questions since I didn’t have the chance to yesterday: He only watches the American RuPaul. And he watched season 5 because of Jinkx (on Saturday he watched the video they did with Trixie a few years ago so he started to miss them). And yes, he has managed to drag the entire family into qaf although grandma has no fucking clue what or who he’s talking about so she just nods her head and smiles. And grandpa only knows about it through grandma who is even less reliable than my brother. But he is very happy that he found a hobby even tho at first he thought Brian was his friend. So basically: yes, he has made it everyone’s problem.

And you saying he’s just like Debbie if she was a man made me laugh so hard cause I’ve been thinking the same thing! Im glad someone agrees with me. And I’m happy(?) to report that 3 of our cousins and our aunt(!) actually got in trouble with our grandpa because it turns out they had bets going on if he’ll figure out by the end of the show that he might be a little queer. And then during a family dinner last week it was revealed that it was our uncle who was the one behind the bets and it was his husband who exposed him (yes the uncles whose wedding he went to with rainbow hair). And no it was not cause he thought the bets were immature but because my uncle didn’t let him be in charge with him. So I’d say the whole family is kinda waiting to see what happens and also treating it like their personal entertainment since we do tend to be more chill with these topics (which is such a huge blessing and we really are lucky about the fact that they dont even bat an eye at anything queer related including coming outs). Also I honestly have no idea how he will react to the proposal. I keep trying to think about it and I can never pinpoint his reaction. His reaction to the comic book was as if he saw the worst thing ever so we shall see. Which tbh same, i always hated that cover story :/

As for the Gale/Randy/Hal thing: first of, I didn’t expect that people were going to later talk about it to you so i hope I didn’t cause problems for you of any kind. But I do admit that even years later, it’s still a topic that has me curious since we know so little and since the lack of social media meant they (aka hal) was shady in interviews. Who does that omg? But also: i was so shocked when he said that. Wish you could see him cause he really had that look in his eyes as if he was there and saw them arguing every day and had inside knowledge and like I was the one who didn’t know anything about qaf. You could literally see the wheels turning in his head trying to figure out if he was right or not. I do wonder how he will feel about it once I tell him the little info I know about.

Btw, im glad to hear you cat is doing well. It is the absolute worst when an animal is sick since they can’t tell you what’s wrong. So please give Emmett some kisses and pets!

Oh and the most important part: your little teasers about your fic are making me lose my mind. Nonbinary Gus?! Older Brian?? I might lose my mind completely when i get the chance to read it.

Anon! I was just texting Europe about your brother. It’s now 12:45 as I start to write this and look:

I’m so glad you wrote because I wanted to remind you and let you make a decision based on whether he’s been paying attention to the titles.

I’m sorry I find it so funny he’s angry with YOI for making him care so much about this show and fall in love with Brian. It’s like when my dogs are mad at me for the rain. (If you’re doing math I have 2 dogs, 2 cats, all rescues because some lesbian stereotypes are accurate.)

Your family is taking bets about whether your brother is going to come out as so form of queer? I love that! Way better than the qaf family taking bets about how long Justin and Brian were going to last.

Don’t worry about mentioning the drama from the cast! I’m still so impressed with how insightful your brother is and how much he’s picked up on everything that the fandom discusses at length. The dynamics between the cast were bound to be one.

Emmett the cat continues to do well and come back from poor pathetic sickly mewmew to absolute bastard of a cat. We love to see it.

I am hoping to start posting my fic next week. I was hoping to have more done but oh well! I need the pressure of readers to focus lol. I’m so glad you’re excited!

[thebadtimewolf]

why r u so mad about ppl preferring ten x madame de pompadour to ten x martha like ten/martha will never be a thing. ten don’t want anything to do with martha. he literally said to her face she wouldn’t replace rose… and she never did… isnt canon enough for you

hm.

im glad im only a scorpio on this alone. if martha deserved better than ten then so do all of em but anyway:

this ask is giving 2006/07 i dont want to see tenth doctor in a romantic relationship with a person of color because i can't project myself or relate to them if they arent the very thing being catered to me ever since the silent pictures vibes. u know the same vibe when rtd was told to not regenerate 14 in 13's clothes. just. Ick.

but im not mad. its just interesting for a ship so big as tenrose, it is usually correlated with hating madame de pompadour and/or joan and/or river [though in joan's case they hate her not because shes racist but because shes not rose]

though comics tend to release to combat that in multi doctor stories where they jump through various alternate universes of themselves where the doctor sees themselves settled down with dr. grace holloway (for 8th dr multi doctor stories) and professor melody williams/river song (for 11th dr multi doctor stories) where in those cases, they are frightful of the concept settling down at all. [take note that both times, he settles down in the same house that he owns bc of that unit paycheck on the dl] so i am curious that with this new drs, the equivalent of this would be 13 14 15 being terrified of settling down with rose because they had grown past her as this point.

i prefer the doctor in a polyromantic ace relationship than their umpteenth 🌟tragic heteronormative romance with yt human woman number 23445788764443356743🌟 i want 14 to sweep martha off her feet in pure joy and kiss her passionately while badmouthing tf out of 10 like 9 11 12 13 do with no filter before cradling her like a baby because hes about to crumble under his brand new identity complex and then take her kid to an amusement park and then 14 trips over a brick and dies. hell i rather have nina sosanya play a whole different lady in nod to doctor who recycles their actors trope as a way to introduce a love interest to 14

that amusment park one weirdly sounds like a 8th doctor audio. pls 🙏🏾 dont make it into one i couldnt handle schezro let alone the rest of his content. Empire of the Wolf made me so fucking worried for rose marion tyler like im just she back home 🫣. as for rose tyler from the sea devil universe still out about. whoop his ass. if billie come back as HER? MISS COVER MODEL MISS DICTATOR MISS EMPRESS ROSE?

NOT

i would love for ten to be strictly friends with the new miss empress rose. get that martha karma real quick ehehehehe after all rtd did say they need freema for somethin and im sure seeing 10 get treated the same way he treated martha by no other than empress rose herself -AND THEN EMPRESS ROSE FLIRTS WITH MARTHA??? FINGERS CROSSED??? im just saying that i personally will ride on that for 8 black history months and christmases straight like woo

also real glad it is collectively decided by every one that tentoo is just john smith not corin so yay thanks big finish and titan comics

[kaidenshenandoahknapp]

this was an absurd amount of effort for what was ultimately an offhanded-joke but i needed to procrasinate lmao

if you watched @henrykathman's "Melody of Moominvalley" stream, (hi, hello, i made the thumbnail art, that was a cool surprise to see in my sub-box lol) Kathman made a comment about being glad no one has made him into a Moomintroll (or Snorktroll, i guess) because he thinks he would look like Snork

i had two thoughts in reply to this VOD:

that's probably because i would assume most video-essayist are on the spectrum of Hemulans (oversimplification: academics) to Teety-Woo/Woodies (oversimplification: big fans, arguably obsessive). you're probably more of a Hemulan? based on how you present yourself in videos? idk, i dont know you in your personal life lmao Hemulan just seems likely considering the hobby being so analytical (and also is easier for me to look at the different styles of since Woodies seem to have less general rules towards their appearance. and Teety-Woo is the only one of its kind that i know of, idk what is Teety-Woo's species and what is Teety-Woo's individuality there. but, like, that's not nearly as fun as my bullshit quiz lmao)

fucking bet

*: assets in not-gif form below Read More

(psa: please do forgive me for misspellings. i am dyslexic and will probably edit this repeatedly for quite some time, but im tired atm so Now It Is Posted)

anyway, i whipped all these up in about 2 or 3 days? idk, my chronic health issues have been a monster lately, its hard to keep track of days rn

but i made:

comics Moomintroll/Snorktroll

90s Moomintroll/Snorktroll and Hemulan

Tales From Moominvalley inspired illustration art of Hemulan where it has those lifeless "bug eyes with tiny pupils" style i love (but that i also understand why Jansson went back and gave them bigger pupils after a certain edition, and drew with more expressive eyes after a while)

why did i do three different styles + 3 different species? because i was torn on which to do and ended up pulling a classic Kaiden-Shenandoah and going "ill do more work and let them choose which one they like best". something something anxiety, i dont know what to tell you, im trying to learn self-acceptance lmao besides, it was fun to do a quicker shuft through style changes than the usual heavier studying i make Google Images help me do

speaking of, i dont often share my references because i worry about clutter, but i want to include it today and i also used less ref than usual, so you get clutter lol

(i learned last time that Tove Jansson doesn' often draw mugs; so i did my best guesses based on the references here + the result of my references the last time i drew in Jansson' style, which was more so her later novel-illustrations, if i remember right, as opposed to today. lots of best guesses today.)

first of all, i guessed on Kathman's eye-color based on zooming in and it was too pixelated to tell for sure even with the eyedropped tool. secondly, very fun tying in the blue hair dye since 90s Snork has a pink edge to his hair and Mr Hemulan has a green edge to his. last of all: i made them with (and without) a light beard/stubble, since i saw Kathman has one now. but also that was enirely guesswork on my part: Tove Jansson drew heavy-duty moustaches/beards or completely facially-hairless characters, no in-between. so i used educated guesses on how to adapt that. and i feel a bit like i did the male version of that one Snorkmaiden lipstick comic for my efforts lmao but hey! i tried!

my only thing is idk which set to upload to instagram, bc doing all the assets of with/out facial hair feels oddly excessive and maybe goes past instagram's images-per-post limit, idk, ill upload these there someday i guess. really wish instagram would let me post a gif but idk how to do that. c'est la vie

you also may notice one of the Hemulan sets includes a magnifying glass. i just thought it was thematically appropriate for someone analytical, especially since one of my references above did have it available for me to also reference lol

as a fun detail, i did a more Police Inspector color palette for the 90s Hemulan design, and a more Moominpappa palette for the 90s Moomintroll/Snorktroll designs. hence why those colors aren't the same

and the last thing is that i made the comic assets yellow-y to reflect the aging of paper and the quality of the photo references i have. (Henry Kathman, if you want to edit them to be white for the aesthetic of something, feel totally free)

here's all the assets i made in total. the gif version felt the most succint but yeah. also, Henry Kathman, if you are reading this: same rules apply. feel free to use these in anything you want, credit would be nice. (also, very sweet that you saw my name change away from my childhood nickname, i appreciate that 🫶). credit in the future can be to either here or my instagram (which i changed to match this hyphen-less url, since tumblr terminated my last blog for unknown reasons) i hope you are not upset that i went against your wishes of gratitude that nobody had drawn you as a Moomintroll/Snorktroll, but i hope the fact that i think you don't look like Snork even as a Moomintroll/Snorktroll helps. i hope you also dont mind the Hemulan additions lmao. but yeah, i wont blame you if you prefer the more human (or arguably Mymble? idk species) style i did beforehand in the last batch and don't use these. that one has way more references with lots of drafts and this is more of me messing around and finalizing the first draft i made each time around lol but i think they came out fun! very silly distraction, thanks for the idea lmao

thanks to Henry Kathman for the fun VOD and the much-(un)needed procrastination excuse. it was a good distraction from a pretty bad flare-up in my disability and a full plte of things to do that i needed an escape from. hope youre having a great day!

[syrupspinner]

i just beat Superhot with a trackball

did you know that if you write a note through steam's in-game menu, it could just be erased when you close the game? well i didnt till i lost my liveblog

so just as a precursor, i bought this with government money because canada does this thing where if you dont spend your grant for adaptive technology then it just vanishes. so heres a brick thats just on my desk forever now. i still use it sometimes, but its not too often. lately the only times i use it are to play Spin Rhythm XD

[BEGIN RHYTHM TANGENT]

its actually super fun as a fake dj controller. the ball moves the wheel thing and the clicks trigger the notes and this is nonsense if you havent played the game but its FUN damn it. at least until you try hard mode, which adds a 3rd button. so, like... here gimme a sec

jesus christ it is so hard to draw with this thing.

anyway, i keep my right hand on the ball at all times, with my left hand on LB for the notes. if youre confused, check out some gameplay, and then buy the game cuz its awesome

[END RHYTHM TANGENT]

so yeah i mainly dont use this. but since my actual mouse broke, im kinda stuck with it. i do most of my gaming with a controller anyway, but fps is the one exception, i dunno how xbox players do this their whole lives. my buddy wanted to play quake, and i tried the trackball for that, but i got a cramp before the first round ended.

for an fps game, heres what you have to do: first, since the game is designed with the radical notion that youll have a finger resting on each click button, you need to cover LB (left click) and RB (right click) at all times. this leaves you with three fingers to keep on the ball for aiming, and presumably sneaking your ring finger off to scroll in games that ask for it. this was a NIGHTMARE for quake. i simply dont have the coordination to look and scroll at the same time, and even if im standing still the angle i need to have my pinky at to keep it on RB makes my feel like its made of beetles.

oh, if youre curious, LT is middle click and RT is a miscellaneous side-button that is unbound by default in most games but acts as a back button when browsing

anyway, im very glad you all voted for superhot. the games central mechanic is that time only moves when you do, so its basically tailor-made for people who have to do the mouse equivalent of looking a their keyboard to type (no shame). you can stop and not only plan things out before acting, but most importantly, you can take a second to re-adjust your aim by fiddling your cursor a few inches back and forth. this is something thats convenient anyway, but is a godsend when im trying to adjust to a dpi that is a big round ball

i still missed a lot though. at first it was way more than i usually would, but halfway through (ive already beat the game so i just did all the levels through the speedrun challenge. i even got some red times somehow??) it just felt like i was playing superhot. i think the biggest reason for this was i realised the pause meant i didnt have to have my pinky on RB the whole time. if i wanted to, whenever i wanted to throw something, i could pick my whole hand up and mosey over to it with my index and itd still leave me time to spare. i usually just moved my hand right a bit and used my ring finger though. even then, like 8 times out of 10 you can throw something with left click, the only times you cant are when you have a loaded gun and its very niche to throw that instead of shooting it

im also very glad i never had to scroll, that was a total nightmare in quake. i ended up always looking down cuz i ended up moving the ball too, and it was this whole thing

final verdict: obviously bad, i do not recommend doing this. but it wasnt comically abysmal. like i said, after a while i adapted to it pretty effectively, but thats 100% because superhot is designed to be slower paced. put me in the ring with hotline miami and my ass is grass

also hello everyone! i think this is the first time im showing my sideblog from my main. i use this to talk about the games i play and how i feel about em. ive got plenty of stuff posted already so if you like hearing about an internet stranger's opinions on indie games then this is the place for you

my mouse broke so im stuck gaming with this thing

[imjustawaffle]

JOEY: my babysitter gave this to me one day and said “joey, if you ever meet a crazy gal tryin to klll ya, have her listen to this.”

JOEY: i didn’t think it would work, but it was worth a shot!

[flower-zombie-rob]

@archivefullofyoutubers Did a thing and I keep seeing people filling this out for new community members so I thought I would do one too just for the hell of it

Preferred name: either robbie or flower. Neither are my real name because i value my internet privacy, but most default to robbie so im comfy with either :)

Preferred pronouns: i dont really care

When did you start watching JSE?: I started around 2016, but 2017 was when I really got into the fandom and started watching the whole channel addictively on the regular.

Why did you start watching JSE?: I had a (really toxic) ex friend who liked it and at the time I wasn't that fussed so i watched a few vids, fell in love with his personality, went down the ego rabbithole and ended up getting so connected with it that im still here to this day and its been a really positive thing for me. I don't think she's involved with the community anymore, but I still am and will be for the foreseeable future.

Favourite thing about the channel?: its between the sweet personality of the man running the channel and the wonderful community of amazing people who inhabit the fandom. I love the whole ego thing because I am a sucker for weird characters who are played by the same person. I love the amazingly kind community and the charity work that we help sean to do. I adore all of the spectacular people and friends that I've met along the way in this community and the absolute talent that lines every part of our niche intrests. I just love JSE as a whole.

Do you have a fav ego?: Its no secret that I among the very rare few whose favorite ego is Robbie the zombie(second place is marvin). He is non-cannon and was a community creation that came about after a thumbnail was made with him in it. From there, the creatives took him and made him a great custom character who is fully up to everyone's interpretation and usually he is the sweetest little cinnamon roll boi that I have ever seen. He also has an incredibly strong connection to me personally and my blogs branding throughout the years, and I could never forget how much, as a character, he has contributed to my persona online. And hes just as cute as a muffin, i wanna hug him and squish his cheeks and pat his head and hes my little blorbo now id die for him.

What kind of community member are you?: I am a very active member of the community and thoughni dont think my art is comendable i have to condsider myself(due to others perceptions) to be a community artist. I am not a theorist because I do not have the brains for that, but I do like to entertain theories and read them. I like to get very interactive with other members of the community and according to someone on a jse discord server I am a tumblr OG of this community (though I'm not sure how true that is...)

What else do you enjoy?: In terms of content: I like sander sides, I like markiplier, I like the owl house, im obsessed with all things neil gaiman, im head over heels for good omens and the sandman, i love my own ocs even if i rarely draw them, and id like to dabble and try out cosplay because its an intrest of mine among other things. As most people do, I like music and films and I am actually a grade 3 vocalist doing a filmaking course(no way! I have a life outside tumblr!?😱)

Are you open to nice messages and new friends?: Oh yeah, 100%. Please! I absolutely love interacting with people and I get so many really kind and supportive people interacting with me! I love all of you so much!!! In terms of making online friends, I don't tend to give away much about myself personally or my information outside of what I share on my blog (like my age or my real name or my face most of the time or anything), but i have been branching out more with that, having met some of you at comic con this year. So sure! im open to friendships that dont push my boundaries :)

Thanks to the og creator for the questions and I'm glad to introduce myself to some new members of this community or migrators from Twitter

💜

[reddowind]

Yuno Valentine 2022 [PART 2]

Yuno Valentine 2022 [Part 2]

This is the continuation of Yuno Valentine 2021 which is considered as a Part 1 of this story.

Let's explore more of the Protagonist of this Valentine Special Episode's character, Yuno Ouma!

!!!WARNING!!!

I actually made this without a properly plot, so I hope I didn't messed up, hahaha.. Originally wanted to do this as a comic, Ive planned it months a go but. Real life stuffs are kicking my butt so badly so I decided to make this as a fanfic, finally it’s finished though it’s really late, and there’s gonna be some rip english too. And one thing, please remember that im more of an artist than a writer so hope you understand. That’s all.. Hope you like it!!

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Yuno who wanted to do something for the upcoming Valentine Day, ended up to made a chocolate for her crush because of her big brother, Kichi. To begin with, actually Yuno didn't have any thoughts about what to do in Valentine Day. But Kichi teased her too much and managed to encourage her to make one.

The chocolate is ready, perfect and even wrapped in a gift with a ribbon on the top of it. But now in the midnight. 12:30 AM where it's the bed time for average people, The girl with purple hair now in the middle of her usual "activity", overthinking. This girl can't go sleep when her mind are still on and "working".

Nervous, Panic, Cold-sweat.

Those 3 words described of how Yuno are feeling right now.

Yuno currently in chatting session with Koharu through their social media. They often doing this in night time, Yuno tell her about her current feelings

Yuno Ouma

Aahhh.. Koharu.. What should I do?? I'm feeling really nervous..!! Tomorrow's Valentine Day!

Koharu Saihara

….Really that nervous, huh? 😅

Yuno Ouma

Yeah!! Yeah!! Uugghhh..!!

Koharu Saihara

Okay, now just unleash all of your feelings to me. With voice chat if that's necessary for you 😊

Yuno Ouma

Okay!

Inhaling some air, and released it. Then Yuno push the voice chat feature button and hold it with her thumb as she screamed…

Yuno Ouma

AHHHH!! IM REALLY NERVOUS!! I FEEL LIKE IM GOING TO CRAZY!!

IM GONNA DIE!! MY HEART'S GONNA EXPLODE I CAN FEEL IT!!

AAAHH!! YOU KNOW A RUMOUR ABOUT ME AND KEIJI AT SCHOOL RIGHT?! WHEN I GIVE THE CHOCOLATE TO KEIJI MY CLASSMATES ARE GOING TO SCREAMING HAPPILY AS THEY SHIPPING US TOO MUCH!! THEY EVEN MISTAKEN THAT WE'RE DATING!! AND MOREOVER KEIJI, WHAT KIND OF HIS TOO INNOCENT REACTION WILL HE SAY?! AHHH I DONT KNOW ANYMORE!!!

Finally releasing her thumb from holding the VC feature, Yuno sends her message to Koharu. Only nodding a few times as she hearing to Yuno's nervousness while smiling. Back to the Ouma Household, cue on Himiko awoken because of her daughter's screaming with face "What's wrong with my daughter?" As she lifted her head towards to the ceiling, where Yuno's bedroom is right above hers.

Hah.. Hah…

Exhausted from screaming with loud voice. Yuno returned her attention to her phone. Waiting for Koharu's reply.

Koharu Saihara

So? Have you calmed down?

Yuno Ouma

…Yeah, much better.

Koharu Saihara

It's okay Yuno, you can do it. I admitted that Keiji is too innocent to know your feelings towards him. But I'm sure he will accept your handmade chocolate sincerely.

Yuno Ouma

That means.. I have to be confident, right?

Koharu Saihara

Yup, That's right! Don't worry too much ☺️

Yuno Ouma

…I see, thanks Koharu

Sorry for bothering you while checking on the case documents

Koharu Saihara

It's totally okay, glad to help you! 😊👍 If you want to talk with me about something, just let me know.

You can do it, Yuno! ✊

Reading her best friend's reply, Yuno relaxed her right hand. Letting it fell onto bed along with her phone, back to the "overthinking time". The Ouma girl lays her back, and leaning her head on the pillow, staring at the ceiling, keep thinking about the meaning of Koharu's advice.

Be confident

"…Be confident, huh? Everytime I thinking about those words.. I can't help it but hate myself more.."

"Those words… Destroyed me.. made me the way I acted now.."

Because of you… Your mom's reputation are ruined!

                                                        HAH!!

Almost drowned on her thoughts, Yuno managed to get her consciousness. Both of her eyes were wide opened, sweating, and exhausted. Her breath isn't working properly.

"No.. Why would I'm thinking about that..? I only have to give Keiji my handmade chocolate..! It's okay.. just like Koharu said.. everything will be fine, right?"

[TIMESKIP - BREAK]

Still. Nervous.

That's how Yuno feeling right now. In the middle of commotion in her classroom, Yuno who just finished her lunch alone in her desk, still in the "phase" of nervous and overthinking.

"Why the hell I'm still nervous?! I felt like confided to Koharu ended up like nothing to calmed me down!!"

"Yo, Ouma! Silent as always like a missin' child, huh? What's on yer mind?!"

The class president greeted Yuno, her usual cheerful voice managed to snapped Yuno out of her mind.

"..Iinchou! Ah.. nothing.."

"Hm.. because of your close friend is absent today so you're really mute now, huh..? But still, why are you alone? Though there's Momota.. you two are really close, right?"

"Wha..Why are you talk about him?! You knew about our rumor right? That's why I keep my distance from him in school!" Yuno replied with her face being a bit red.

"HAHAHAH my bad, but you two are really cute! Y'know?" But the class president averted her gaze to Yuno's both hands hiding in the below of her desk. In other words, in her drawer.

"..Ouma, why.. are ya hiding yer hands like dat'?" Asked Iinchou with curious expression, pointed her finger to Yuno's hand. Surprised? Of course she is

"No--nothing.." replied Yuno, tried to averting her gaze to somewhere else.

Oho~? With Anya Forger's like smile, Iinchou getting more curious and decided to tease the blushing purple girl more

"Looks really suspicious, What'cha hidin' there~ miss?"

Bam.

Ah, it's started to getting annoying. Yuno thought with a slightly annoyed face and blushing more of course "I-i said it's nothing, right..?!" Yuno tried to keep her composure, deathly.

"Oh! Don't tell me ya… hidin' a chocolate?"

The class president checks the drawer on Yuno's desk, wanting to make sure her guess are correct.

Boom.

"Please kill me"

"WOAAAHH!! OUMA YOU'RE REALLY HIDING A CHOCOLATE THERE!! JUST FOR WHO?! DONT TELL ME IT'S FOR MOMOTA?!"

BOOM!

Iinchou's scream (really) successfully gathered the whole classmate attention to the two of them.

"…I have to die" She freezed. Oh no, Yuno exe. has stopped working. Please press restart to bring her consciousness back to how it used to be.

"CHOCOLATE?!! OMG I WANT IT!!"

"It's not for you, moron"

"THEN FOR WHO??"

"OFC ITS FOR HER BOYFRIEND!!"

"OH?? DO YOU MEAN TO MOMOTA??"

"OUR SHIP IS GETTING SAILS!!"

UWWWWWWOOOOOOHHH!!

The atmosphere in the class is getting hotter, hotter, and hotter. They screamed happily. Yeah, the whole class shipping Keiji x Yuno. Really hard. They shipping those two hardly, hence why Yuno have to keep her distance from Keiji whenever they're in school.

"Now.. Look what you've done…" Yuno said with really annoyed and blushed face

"I'm (not) sorry, hehe" replied Iinchou.

This hot atmosphere continued, until the sound of the classroom door opening. Revealing someone who just finished his lunch, a boy with purple hair and his usual innocent face. Appeared at the worst moment right now (For Yuno it is), along with his close friends.

"Hm? Yuno..?"

"Why did you have to show up at the worst moment?!" Yuno's inner screaming really loud, her face is getting redder now.

"Yuno!" Feeling worried, Keiji approaching Yuno's desk immediately and grabbing her shoulders with his hands

"Ke--Keiji..!!" And the atmosphere it's getting even more hotter, The climax is coming, guys!! They thought.

"Are you okay?!! Your face are red like tomato, y'know?! Don't tell me you're sick!!" Keiji said with worried expression.

…… What?

The whole class sweatdropped, totally confused with Keiji's response. Of course Yuno is the same, she confused as well. Started to getting more and more annoyed.

Is he.. Really that insensitive?

They thought. Yes, Keiji Momota is really insensitive at the certain things, for example he totally didn't know that someone has a crush on him because.. Keiji is really innocent for his age.

"Hu..Huh…"

"..Yuno?"

"AAAHH I DONT KNOW ANYMORE, STUPID KEIJI!!" Yuno who became really annoyed leaving her handmade chocolate in her drawer, ran away from the classroom "Oi, Yuno?!" Respond Keiji, really confused of her behavior.

Oh, is he going to chase her?

"The next Lesson are gonna be started in 15 minutes!!"

That's not the problem moron!!

The whole class has the same thought right now, of how innocent Keiji is "I never thought that he's really this stupid, huh…" Iinchou thought, sweatdropped at Keiji response "…Iinchou" Keiji turned his head towards her "Don't you think Yuno is sick as well? Her face are really red earlier" Keiji resuming his words, too innocently.

"…Are ya really that Demon Player and Shinigami's little brother? Yer personality is really opposite with yer nickname.."

"Eh?"

TIMESKIP - 14:30

Keiji currently is worried, and confused at the same time to Yuno's behavior towards him. When he tried to greet her, She ignored him. When he tried to ask her if she's really sick or not. Yuno's response was same, she ignored him and fled.

Now Keiji is in the corridor, searching for Yuno. The sunshine boi who has already changed his uniform to a sports uniform and continuing his volleyball club activities. Still wearing his uniform, decided to find Yuno's first. Keiji even got reprimanded by his close friend who was in the same club with him. But Keiji said "just go ahead, I'll join you later. I have business that I need to finish first"

"Ah man.. just where did she go?" He said in his heart, as he scratched his scalp. Where could have Yuno gone to? He wonder.

Ting!

Keiji immediately took out his phone from his trouser pocket and checked the notification

"Ah, it's reply from Koharu. Finally" then he opened his social media.

Keiji Momota

Hey Koharu.. what should I do? Yuno totally ignored me..

Did I do something wrong to her?

Koharu Saihara

Actually yes, Keiji. You did 😅

Yuno got mad because you misunderstood about her

Keiji Momota

Huh? You mean, her red face? I thought she's sick that's why I said so..

Koharu Saihara

That's why she got mad, Keiji

Keiji Momota

Huh?

Koharu Saihara

You misunderstood about her red face, that's doesn't always meant that someone is sick

For example, you need something sharp for cutting carrot. So you asked Mako for bring you a sharp tool, but she brought you a sword instead, wouldn't you be mad?

Keiji Momota

Oh, of course I am! If you used sword just to cut carrot it would be dangerous! Someone could get hurt by the sword

Sword isn't the only sharp thing, you could just use the knife to cut the carrot!

Koharu Saihara

Right? It's similar with this case. That's why she got mad, because you misunderstanding about Yuno's red face. She ignored you because of that

Keiji Momota

So I did hurt Yuno's feeling.. What should I do..?!

Koharu Saihara

But that doesn't mean this case couldn't be finished. It's actually really a simple case, You only have to try understanding Yuno's feeling

Use your heart, Keiji. You know? Yuno actually has something special that she wanted to say to you this whole time. Just talk to her, but don't get too straightforward. Thinking it first. Respect her feelings, okay?

It's okay. You should be able to understand it, Keiji 😊

Reading Koharu's reply, Keiji managed to get back his usual sunshine smile on his face. Feeling that he could fix his own problem with Yuno.

"….Thanks a lot, Koharu!"

Before he continues to searching for Yuno. He met the class president, face to face with her

"….Iinchou, still got business to finish?" She nodded

"Yup, ah yeah Momota. Ya searchin' for Ouma? I saw her gone to the rooftop" Iinchou described, feeling clearly that Keiji is looking for Yuno.

"Got it, sankyū Iinchou!" Keiji nodded then going to the rooftop as he waving his hand to her

"Hehe.. Finally.. Our ship is getting sails! Better tell the others!" Actually, the class president-- no.. Natsumi Miya was the main culprit why the whole class shipping Keiji x Yuno that even spread to the whole school environment, but neither Yuno and Keiji knew about this. Not at all.

Finally Keiji arrived to the rooftop, seeing Yuno stared to the sky with melancholic look showed on her face

"Yunoo!!" His voice successfully snapped Yuno out of her mind

"Keiji..?" He approached Yuno, and clapping his both hands meaning to apologize to her.

"I'm so sorry! I.. misunderstood earlier.. Um.. That's.." Keiji turned his head, and averted his gaze to somewhere else, wrinkled his eyebrows, also blushing a bit.

"Ko-- You have something to tell me.. right? So what is it?"

He just said "Ko" just now.. He's referring to Koharu right?!

"I wouldn't mock you or anything, so just say it! it's totally fine!"

Jeez, he's such a moron..

The two of them became silent. Not one of them uttered a single word, Keiji who just turned back his head to Yuno, waiting for her answers. He just wants an answer from Yuno, totally have no bad intentions.

He also wants to try understand Yuno's feeling

It's the first time I see Keiji like this, someone really innocent like him can be awkward too? To Yuno, it's really a rare sight. Someone innocent like Keiji Momota can be blushed in awkward way.

"..Yuno? What's wrong..? Don't tell me, you still mad?"

"No.. it's just.." Finally Yuno bring her hands from her back, revealing a valentine present. Yes, A handmade chocolate she made last night only for him. Wrapped in really a nice gift with a ribbon on the top of it

"I.. want to give you this chocolate! …It's valentine right? I made it by myself, so here..!"

"Ah yes, if you think about it.. today's Valentine Day.. So Yuno, made this for me?" He gasped.

Keiji took the chocolate that was in Yuno's hand, staring at it with sparkle eyes

"I'm not as good at cooking as your big brother so.. don't expect it too much..?"

"YEAAAHHH!! I GOT A CHOCOLATE FROM YUNO!! AND ITS MADE BY HERSELF!!" Keiji screamed happily like a lil' boy who just got a new toy

"Ah..! Don't say it so loud!! What if someone heard it?!" Yuno reprimanded the sunshine boi, who got really embarrassed.

"Eh, why not~? Cuz' I'm really happy! I never eat your handmade food! Really looking forward to it's taste! It's must be really tasty!!" Keiji said with his usual sunshine smile.

Seeing Keiji's smile, Yuno became silent and thought to herself.

Ah jeez, you're really childish and straight forward.. but..

Yuno remembered a certain event, that happened when they were young.

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"Shut the hell up!! You guys didn't know how hard Yuno worked! So.. Yuno is.. Yuno is really amazing!! Take back your shit words!!"

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"Yosh! If that's the case.. so let's eat this together, Kay'?!"

"Ah, that chocolate it's yours from the start! Why would I--"

"To convince you that your chocolate must be tasty"

"Not here! It's embarrassing!"

"Let's find a quieter place then!"

"But how about your club activities, the coach is really strict right?!"

"I'll skip it. Just once isn't a problem, Ah yeah! I'll take you home after this as usual. You hated it when you have to go home alone right? I'm with you, Yuno. So you don't have to be scared of people's attention" Keiji grabbed her left hand with his right hand, immediately went to searching for a quieter place

"Let's go!" Yuno's eyes are getting wider as she gasped.

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"You still scared of them?"

Yuno nodded while still crying

"I see, but it's okay!" Keiji grabbed her both hands with his and held it up to their face

"I'll always protect you from them, so you don't need to be scared!"

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Yuno smiled while she remembered that memory

Because of that habit of yours.. I've fallen for you..

Keiji Momota, punished for skipped volleyball club a day after that by his strict coach. The punishment was running around his school 10 laps.

Compared to Nii-chan's crazy training, this is nothing! He thought.

TIMESKIP - 2 weeks later

Today the second trio decided to hang out together in this bright weather. Luckily, Koharu isn't really busy today so she can play together with Keiji and Yuno. The three of them currently walking together after finished their lunch in the restaurant.

"its been 2 weeks since that day, I heard from Yuno everything was going well.. seems like Keiji understood my advice as well, Yuno said she didn’t have enough courage to confess to Keiji, but actually that’s enough. Giving him an chocolate it’s the first step for Yuno to building up her courage. Well, at least.. my worryness for these two has decreased" Koharu said in her heart, smiling. But something caught her attention as she turned her head towards the source.

Yuno who just walking in the middle of them, still blushing. Why? Because Keiji is next to her, that is. And Koharu is well aware of that

"She's still become this flushed red although with the three of us.." Koharu chuckled "…Yup, I guess that's love. Although I haven't feel it myself"

Oh, Keiji noticed as well. Koharu really certain that he already matured a bit so he can understand about Yuno's real feelings towards him, and at least Koharu doesn't have to--

"Yuno what's wrong with you oi?! Does your tongue feel spicy?! Your face is red!"

"…I'll take back my deduction just now" Sweatdropped, a bit disappointed as well. Koharu felt it was really wrong for her to think that Keiji's mind about love is already matured a bit

"..I never thought that he's still this innocent.."

"Huh? But we're not ordered any spicy food for lunch earlier.. right, Koharu?" Keiji asked too innocently. It's kinda impolite for her, but Koharu just pretended that she didn't heard about Keiji's question at all and turned her head to somewhere else.

"….I'll just be quiet for now.." But Koharu felt it'll be worse if she played along with Keiji and pretended to act innocent just like him. So no, That's a big no-no! She'll ended up hurting Yuno's feeling for not being sensitive about this situation, that's more impolite!

Annoyed of his innocent question, Yuno's face is getting redder, and redder..

"STUPIIIIDDD!!!" And she ran off

"Oi, Yuno! What's wrong with you?! Hey!!" Keiji decided to chase Yuno, leaving Koharu alone behind. She just smiling at their silliness.

"…At least he tried to understand Yuno's feeling? …I don't really get it, so, I'll just hope that Keiji will be matured soon so he'll be able to understand about love" She thought

                                                        THE END

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HOWDY about artist ask game, 1, 6 and 17? Hope you have a good day <3

1. Favorite drawing from this year

damn thats actually difficult to decide but it might be the screenshot style ones i did, i really like doing the backgrounds and stuff and trying to match the colors on the character to the lighting of the background

2. longest a drawing has taken to finish

that one would probably be this one, i had the dialogue and a few sketches saved in a folder for ages, and id come back to it every week or so and adjust it a little or change the wording, but i just didnt like how it was turning out. there was a point where i just scrapped everything and redid it in a storyboard style and changed all the speech to make it actually make sense lol ^^ im glad i did, i really liked how it turned out

although, this one might have taken the longest for a simple picture, i dont usually do lines that clean

17. favorite oc/sona drawing

i actually dont have a sona or reeaally any ocs, the only one is one i made up for the therapy cat au, bc i needed a captain for the ship macaque would take out to sea, she betrays maq to sell him to lbd but she was just doing what was best for her crew, trying to get on lbds good side. i came to quite like her but i never posted about her individually

i didnt post this before but heres her reference with a couple screenshots of the comic she was in! shes a lionfish demon, and can produce a toxin from her spines that she coats her hook weapon with!

thank you for the ask! i hope you have a good day too!!