#but then. i was like well. its a chibi.... i may as well line it......................... it takes less time....................

[vvirtue]

back on the artfighting grind o7

Yasumu & Yuto: @bwsdragon

Sebastian: @/leafs-kid (on AF)

Cxlico: @ilostnachos

[pianostarinwonderland]

maybe skully isnt dead 🤯 [half copium half srs]

listen. ik ive been on copium for a while. ik we all are, ive seen twitter, tumblr, and everyone’s tags on my posts when they reblog

BUT PLS HEAR ME OUT. IM SO SERIOUS RN WHEN I SAY: if u wanna be technical about it, if u wanna stretch it out somehow, you can argue that the game never outright states that skully is dead, only that the skully we met was from hundreds of years ago.

“but mamsir pianostarinwonderland, how in the fuck can that be???? we HEARD that invisible kiss” LET ME COOKKKKKK 🔥🔥🔥 I SWEAR EVERYONE, I AM COOKING U JUST HAVE TO HEAR ME OUUUUUUUUUUUUUT— knocked out

Ok serious time, let me mansplain to you all the possibility of Skully being alive

Establishing first of all, Twst has kept Skully's nature vague

Simply put: we don't know if Skully is human. In his live 2D, Skully's ears are completely covered. Even in his illustration, we can barely see his ears. It's an interesting design choice. However, in his chibi (which wasn't revealed until Episode 5), we can see his ears aren't shaped like a fae, but are round like that of a human.

However, it's pretty hard to think he's human either, when we consider his "moshi, ne moshi" greeting in Episode 1 and its connection to the supernatural. Voiced, to be noted. Exactly what kind of creature he could be is currently unknown, but because this part was voiced, it's something we need to pay attention to at the very least.

In regards to his mortality, the only clue we're really given is Skully himself saying that he may never meet us except through Halloween, which implies a lifespan similar to a human or something similar. But Skully doesn't know how far into the future that the cast is from. Heck, does he even know of his nature?

Now, addressing that invisible kiss...

I feel like this is the main thing that told all of us that Skully is long gone. Heck, if you catch me in my right mind, I might just tell you that yeah, that should be enough proof that Skully is dead! Little signs from the dead such can manifest in similar ways to what Jamil and Leona sensed: hearing a kiss and feeling a kiss on your hand.

(unfortunately i'm not in my right mind so you're getting my dumb reasons why i'm arguing for otherwise)

However, if Skully is gone, I find it interesting that this is the way they decide to show it. We already know from the very first Halloween event that ghosts can manifest all year round in Night Raven College due to the high concentration of magical power in the area. Outside of that, they cannot be seen. If they really wanted to confirm with the audience that Skully is a ghost, they could have had him appear as such at the end, when they all returned to Night Raven College.

But they chose a scenario where people can draw a lot of conclusions from it: Is their senses getting fucked over as they wake up? Are they still reeling from the magic of the book? (though rationally, we know that Leona is not one to be easily stunned, so the first question is at the very least easy to dismiss)

I've also seen some people theorize that he's using invisibility magic during the invisible kiss scene. And well, while I find that funny, it makes me wonder if he could be some other kind of spirit that's not dead. Like an undead of some sort, which the residents of Halloween Town are. Heck, Azul's card line about Skully talks about how he seems to fit right at home with the Halloween Town residents. Again, we don't know Skully's true nature, but the possibility of him being a species that can turn invisible is interesting.

Moving on, we have what Dire Crowley stated about Skully

At the end of the event, Crowley tells us that he found Skully’s portrait while rummaging through the storage and shows it to us and the 11 boys who went inside the book

What he tells us is that Skully J. Graves is a NRC graduate from hundreds of years ago, before Crowley was Headmage. Note that he only was appointed for the position 100 years ago; the Skully we met is at least from around 200 years ago. During his NRC years, Skully got to share Halloween to NRC. It was a hit, and when he graduated, he spread Halloween all over the world in his travels.

I'd like to take a little detour first to discuss something that's been weighing on my mind: Some people have thought that Crowley is lying to us when he speaks about Skully and his achievements, but... I don't see why he would lie. For one, there is a decent chance that Crowley might not have gotten to see Skully. Even if he did, it's even more unsure if he was involved in Skully's affairs.

However, there's one main reason why I do think that Skully got to live a fulfilling life instead of facing an overblot that killed him or some other tragedy. I'd like to dedicate a longer post to this matter, but to make it concise, I think through Skully, Twst is starting to establish something new regarding their history. I think that historical teachings, folktales and stories, and rumors that are well-known tend to be lies or twisted truths. Whereas those that are obscure and not known are actually what occurred. Skully is called the King of Halloween who's done so much to spread the holiday to the world, yet not even NRC students, who should be the first to know considering that Skully is an alumna, know of him. Although there may be other reasons why that's the case, I like to think that at the very least, Skully's obscurity indicates that he did live the life he wanted and succeeded in working for a future that generations after him can enjoy.

Anyway, that actually isn't the main point of this section of the post, but I kind of want to air that out first. The main point is that Crowley only really said that Skully is a former NRC student from hundreds of years ago who traveled around the world to spread Halloween. But he never told us where he was buried or whether he saw his ghost roaming NRC. He never said anything about Skully being dead.

He probably said the hundreds of years ago bit, carrying the assumption that of course, Skully may have passed away. But we have to remember that we have long-living species in Twisted Wonderland. Fae that were students 200 years ago are very likely to be alive now. Crowley himself is a long-living creature, having been Headmage for 100 years. I think with that in mind, it's important for him to emphasize that Skully's gone if he really is. But he never mentioned it. Therefore, there is a good chance that Skully might just be somewhere else. That or Crowley just doesn't give a fuck where his alumni go, and I might be thinking too deeply about the absence of certain words. Honestly, that's a pretty good chance too.

Lastly, we have the scene where Jack Skellington gets shot down but survives it

Here's where it gets a bit more into speculation, but you're going to have to hear me out.

In the movie, Jack Skellington gets shot down by the military for impersonating Santa Claus. When the Halloween Townspeople watched it, they all despaired, and the mayor started declaring to all that Jack has been blown to smithereens and proclaimed him dead.

But that's not what happened: we find Jack landing on an angel's statue, alive and definitely not blown to smithereens.

And considering that Skully is still very much twisted from Jack Skellington... do you think the writers are pulling a similar move? Making us think that he's dead, just as the townspeople thought he was dead, only for us to learn eventually that he's alive.

This of course depends on what happens eventually in the sequel. From the way things are proceeding, what happened in the Lost in the Book with TNBC is events prior to the movie, and we could very well have the sequel be set during the movie events. (If you ask me, I kind of doubt that actually. I feel like Skellington got inspired by Skully's love for Halloween, enough to stay true to his identity as the Pumpkin King, which would mean the movie wouldn't happen the way we know it. So if anything, I feel like TNBC 2 would focus less on the actual movie and more on the side games where Oogie takes over Halloween Town and even kidnaps Santa and other people, but I admit, that's a stretch, especially considering that we will get Santa giving Halloween Town a taste of Christmas)

Of course, this post is really just to let some of my copium out. Rn, it's still safe to assume that yea, Skully's dead. And though I am coping hard for Skully to be alive, with the way Twst treats the dead, it's not exactly a bad thing. Ghosts continue to stay in NRC like they're living people. They honor the dead, and let the dead live among them. And even if he is in the afterlife and not stuck in the mortal plane, I have faith that Skully did live a fulfilling life that may have been forgotten but clearly changed the world. :'D

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Rsync corrump linkdump

I'm coming to DEFCON! On Aug 9, I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

As per the uje, I've arrived upon a Saturday with a backlog of links that I have not managed to squeeze into the week's newsletters/blogs, so it's time for another linkdump, 22nd in an erratic series. Here's the previous 21:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/linkdump/

Let's start with some seasonal material, and by "seasonal," I of course mean Hallowe'en. Yes, August is the official start of Spooky Season, and yes, I am a monster for insisting on this, but being a monster is the point of Spooky Season (which is what differentiates Spooky Season pushers like me from the creeps who insist that you need to start prepping for Xmas in late September – they're monsters, too, but Yule Monsters are bad) (with the exception of Krampus).

I was a monster kid and now I'm a monster adult. It all started when I was bitten by a radioactive Haunted Mansion at the age of six:

https://memex.craphound.com/2012/10/22/how-a-haunted-mansion-addict-fell-in-love-with-the-greatest-ride-on-earth/

I am a sucker for all things monstrous, and so I was intrigued when I got a book of "creepy-cute" stickers in the mail from a publicist at Simon & Schuster:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Creepy-Cute-Sticker-Book/Gaynor-Carradice/Creepy-Cute-Gift-Series/9781507222515

"Creepy-Cute" turns out to be an official designation, embraced by the illustrator GaynorCarradice, who has created several books on these lines, featuring her chibi/monster crossover creations, which do exactly what it says on the tin, by which I mean, there's some genuinely creepy stuff in the mix, along with the cute.

It's when the cute pastels rub up against the gore, skulls, eyeballs and other visceral viscera that these illustrations really kick off some heat – I've rounded up a few of my favorites here:

https://craphound.com/images/creepycute.jpg

One of the surefire signs that Spooky Season is upon us is that the (sometimes NSFW) Tumblr account Halloweenlandmotherfucker emerges from dormancy with a stream of images of vintage Hallowe'en cards (these were a thing!), photos of people in costume and other delightful visual novelties:

https://www.tumblr.com/halloweenlandmotherfucker

Monster culture isn't just for Hallowe'en, of course. The ancient and noble tradition of compiling and publishing bestiaries is alive and well, thanks to RPGs. In the beginning, there was the D&D Boxed Set, with its Monsters and Treasure booklet:

https://www.americanroads.us/DandD/ODnD_Monsters_and_Treasure.pdf

Then came the Monster Manual, the first hardcover D&D book, succeeded by the Fiend Folio, which featured Charlie Stross creations like the githzerai and slaad, Indeed, there was a whole, iconic library of hardcovers that fit perfectly in an oversized backpack that I dragged everywhere so that I could obsessively read and re-read them.

Eventually, these gave way to new hardcovers with new rules as well as new corporate owners (Wizards of the Coast, then Hasbro), culminating in the release of the Open Gaming License, an "open content" license that was a) grossly defective; b) largely irrelevant; and c) hugely controversial in 2023, when Hasbro terminated it:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/12/beg-forgiveness-ask-permission/#whats-a-copyright-exception

The Open Gaming License purported to license out game elements that weren't copyrightable (rules, tables, etc), as well as material that you could likely use under copyright exceptions like fair use:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/beware-gifts-dragons-how-dds-open-gaming-license-may-have-become-trap-creators

And worst of all, it was revocable, so games publishers who tooled up to publish supplements and sourcebooks based on the OGL could have the rug yanked out from under them at any time (that time turned out to be early 2023).

Hasbro's OGL rug-pull had three salutary effects:

I. It gave gamers a crash-course in what was – and wasn't – copyrightable in an RPG design;

It encouraged game developers to look beyond D&D's OGL rules and into truly open (and often superior) alternatives; and

It inflicted so much reputational harm on Hasbro that, 20 months later, they announced that they would release a new set of D&D rules under the Creative Commons Attribution Only 4.0 license:

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/dungeons-and-dragons-5e/news/dungeons-and-dragons-2024-srd-wont-be-another-ogl-fiasco

Now, CC BY 4.0 is a real-ass license. Notably, it corrects a defect in the earlier versions of the CC licenses that gave rise to a class of predatory copyleft trolls like the odious Pixsy:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator/

If Hasbro follows through on their promise, the new CC materials will kick off with the 2025 release of the next edition of the Monster Manual:

https://dungeonsanddragonsfan.com/new-2024-dnd-monster-manual/

It's wild to think that tabletop RPGs are now a cutting-edge way to learn about digital policy, but on the other hand, D&D arrived in my home around the same time as my Apple ][+, which was also around the time I first heard the name Ronald Reagan (rest in piss).

The legacies of the 80s – RPGs, digital technology and Reaganomics – cast a long shadow. Last month, many of us discovered the hard way that Reaganomics – specifically, the embrace of monopolies as "efficient" – has produced a world of unimaginable brittleness. Millions of people around the world found themselves cut off from ATM cash, flights, hospital care, and many other essentials thanks to the Crowdstrike Blue Screen of Death outage. While many of the explainers have focused on how Crowdstrike fatfingered a software update that crashed all those computers, there's been a lot less commentary about how it is that one company had it in its power to do so much harm.

Writing last week for EFF's Deeplinks blog, my colleague Rory Mir tackled that (far more important) issue:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/07/crowdstrike-antitrust-and-digital-monoculture

Market concentration – monopoly – is the common thread wound around so many of our daily horribles. Think of the tech billionaires who threw in their lot with Trump last month. How did they get to be billionaires? Monopoly power. Remember back in 2017, that notorious photo of the tech industry meeting at the top of Trump Tower, with Peter Thiel at Trump's left hand?

https://techcrunch.com/2016/12/14/donald-trump-meets-with-tech-leaders/

People were appalled that this group of corporate leaders, who between them controlled virtually all the technology in our lives, would debase themselves by paying fealty to this buffoonish would-be dictator.

But far more consequential was the fact that you could fit everyone who controlled all of our technology around a single table. Once everyone important to an industry can fit around a single table, it's only a matter of time until they find a table to sit around, and that's when it all starts to go wrong. As the Communist firebrand Adam Smith once wrote, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."

Enshittification starts with market concentration. This is a subject I'm going to be going very deep on next Saturday, when I give my Defcon keynote, "Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification":

https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=54861

When I give that talk – and afterwards at my book signing – I will be wearing an N95 mask, just as I did last year. Why am I wearing a mask? Two reasons: first, Long Covid is a horror. One of the best writers I know – a living legend – recently told me that their book-writing days are likely done because of Long Covid brain fog.

A new Lancet article gets deep into the science of Long Covid:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014067362401136X

The principle author of the Lancet article is Oxford health professor Trish Greenhalgh, who gave an excellent lay summary in her newsletter:

https://independentsage.substack.com/p/long-covid-a-dystopian-game-of-pinball

In particular, Greenhalgh describes why some people don't get Long Covid, and some people do – and, most important, explains why the fact that you didn't get Long Covid last time doesn't mean you won't get it next time:

https://independentsage.substack.com/p/long-covid-a-dystopian-game-of-pinball

So I don't want to get covid, and so I'm gonna wear a mask. Because masks fucking work. A new study reveals just how well they work:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/ebiom/article/PIIS2352-3964(24)00192-0/fulltext

The study shows that wearing any mask, even without knowing how to fit it well, offers substantial protection against both contracting and transmitting covid. Even better: wearing an N95 (even without paying attention to correct fit) offers "near perfect" protection against covid:

https://today.umd.edu/n95-masks-nearly-perfect-at-blocking-covid-umd-study-shows

I didn't get covid at Defcon last year, and I didn't get it at HOPE, and I didn't get it on our family vacation in July – all events where friends got sick. The difference? I wore a mask. Which works.

OK, I need to go work on my Defcon speech some more, so I'm gonna sign off, but I will leave you with just one more link, the wonderful new public domain image search tool, Public Work, which crawls and indexes the Met, the NYPL, and other sources:

https://public.work/

I rely on public domain, CC and other freely usable clip art to make the collages that accompany this newsletter/blog's stories. While I have very little talent in the visual arts, I'm getting steadily better. I mean, look at this amazing image I womped up for last week's story on Bitcoin bros' election campaign finance fraud:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/53893519593/in/album-72177720316719208

You can see a collection of my recent collages in my Flickr gallery for them:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/albums/72177720316719208?sd

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/03/smorgasbord/#creepy-cute

Image: Anne Lindblom (cropped) https://www.flickr.com/photos/kajsawarg/3600415175

CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

[fumifooms]

Did you notice that in the anime chilchuck blushes when he sees marcille in the red dress? I skimmed through the marchil crumbs master post and from what I saw you didn't mention it

Also its not from the ale since he wasn't blushing right before that

Ah yeah, don’t worry it’s because part 8 of the crumbs masterpost isn’t out yet, I’ve been lazy with it but it’s been overdue ever since the second half of season 2 started, and it does have a buncha stuff don’t you even worry lol my god… I just need to get out some stuff for it first. Ahh good times

On this though: I personally don’t give it much weight but it’s valid to read into it.

What we know:

Against: - Kui does make characters blush both when they’re drunk AND when they laugh. - Chil is confirmed drunk/tipsy in that scene because in the picture above his little mood chibi is drunk lol. - The point of the scene is that he laughs at her, the joke is that he laughs at her. If there’s subtext it’s still very much secondary and easy to miss and ‘besides the point’ anyways, buut does this subtext exist? Well…

For: - In the dating sim cover, the other option was "tell her she looks pretty". None of the choices seem outrageous for his character so it’s not random throwaway lines, though of course the reasoning behind it may be as simple as ‘it’s formality’. In the chapter cover, Marcille’s section is the one on top of every other one at center stage, which makes sense since it’s for bicorn chapter and bicorn chapter is THE Marcille & Chil chapter. In all of the choice dialogue bubbles on the cover, out of the 7 ones the hand is always over the choice he picks except for Marcille’s and Falin’s, indicating he might have hesitated. - Short of being a half-foot with a sultry face, Marcille is Chilchuck’s type. - The face he’s making in his little mood emoji in the dating sim picture lol? You may be drunk but pull yourself together omg - Chilchuck does deflect his more compromising feelings so this would be in character. Marcille is the only character he teases so much so often and it’s implied to be because he finds her reaction fun, full with shojo filter and sparkles all around her with his mind. Do with this what you will… Schoolboy pulling on the pigtails of the girl he like’s pigtails.

Neutral: - we don’t see the milisecond of realization on Chil’s face in the manga. - we don’t see his face after spitting out all his ale in the anime lol. - what could be "canon" in the manga may not be in the anime and vice versa.

Also whatever the hell this is. We all know not to give too much weight to VA’s takes but also what!! I always thought in the manga that Chilchuck wasn’t the one calling frogsuit Marcille cute so that was already a steel chair to me but lol the point of him saying that in the scene was still very much to follow through on the bait she took lmaoo. I don’t thiiink Chilchuck would think the frog suit genuinely makes Marcille look cute idk. Kigurumi enjoyer Chilchuck confirmed… And I feel like if this is true then Chilchuck wouldn’t have much problem giving her a casual compliment over her looks in the golden kingdom scene either. But also?!! 👁👁

Chil’s jp VA has also said that Marcille is cute (Marcille’s jp va said Chilchuck is cute too but that’s besides the point. 16:05 here). And got into some trouble for acting overly familiar with Marcille’s VA, somewhere in this haven’t looked myself yet. So there might be a whole unrelated thing there?? I’ll cover it more fully in the crumbs masterpost hopefully, after some more investigation. Gdbdg so yeah several layers of putting crumbs under magnifiers like they could be fake gemstones to appraise their authenticity and thus value

Stare. Play it cool.

I love it when he does this it’s so cute. Cheers, raising my cup to you

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (March 24-30, 2024)

A coworker asked tonight me how Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire measured up to Godzilla Minus One, and I responded, "Almost as good, but in a completely different way." If you like monsters (and if you're following me I have to assume you do), see it, no questions asked. There's about a million of them and they're all delightful. The franchise has long struggled to recapture the specific charms of the Showa era, and I think this comes closer than any of them. (It's the climactic tag-team battle... also Mothra returning to knock some sense into Godzilla). Pure junk food, but you can't just watch Oppenheimer all the time.

Godzilla x Kong tore up the box office this weekend, performing well above expectations. Its $80 million opening Stateside was the second-best of the Monsterverse (after Godzilla). It added another $114 million internationally for the best overall opening of the (still-young) year. China was a big part of that with $44 million; giant monster movies are among the few Hollywood imports that still play well there. With a $135 million budget, lowest of the Monsterverse by a wide margin, it's a matter of when, not if, Legendary announces the next one.

The Oxford English Dictionary has added an entry for tokusatsu, defined as "A genre of Japanese film or television entertainment characterized by the use of practical special effects, usually featuring giant monsters, transforming robots, and masked and costumed superheroes." It's part of a group of 23 freshly-acknowledged Japanese loan words; unclear if the timing is coincidental. Oh, and if you're curious, they added kaiju in 2018. As someone who remembers when the only English-speakers who used either word were in fandom, it's pretty wild to see.

French company Extralucid Films will release Gappa on Blu-ray in June. The impressive-sounding bonus features are naturally all in French, but there's one that transcends language: 17 minutes of extra monster footage. The U.S. version of Gappa, Monster from a Prehistoric Planet, only has about 7 minutes worth of shots absent from the Japanese version, so I'm pretty curious about the other 10. It's also the first time this footage has been released in HD (Tokyo Shock blew it in 2020).

Season 2 of Chibi Godzilla Raids Again is indeed receiving official English subtitles, starting the same day as the Japanese premiere, April 10. Godzilla Battle Line also added a hilariously busted joint Chibi Godzilla-Chibi Mechagodzilla unit, along with a Destoroyah variant. (Maybe Godzilla x Kong units are next month?)

A new Monsterverse movie means new books to buy. The prequel comic Godzilla x Kong: The Hunted is out already (not recommended), but officially you'll have to wait until April 23 for the novelization and May 14 for the art book. Chalk that up to the late release date change, maybe. Unofficially, people are already getting the novelization from Amazon, because they're a monopoly that can afford to pay the fines from publishers for breaking street date. The audiobook version also released on the same day as the film. I don't have intel on what it adds and changes yet; adding everything from the film itself to Wikizilla is all I can handle right now.

The San Francisco Giants are offering a Godzilla VIP Experience on May 17, a long-overdue acknowledgement of the savior of their city. Tickets are almost gone, though I think it's a shame that the promotion is opt-in to begin; what happened to giving these tchotchkes out to the first thousand fans? Well, figures that they'd make getting merch of the Minus One Godzilla in the States a hassle.

[yorutsuki]

「 ✦ Artistic Notes ✦ 」

↳ It started with a small drawing and a compliment, which then grew into a anonymous friendship.

Michealangelo x Reader

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Adding the finishing touches, you sighed with relief as you stood up—some joints cracking from the sudden change in movement.

You looked down at your chalk-art masterpiece. It was probably one of the most detailed pieces you've done with the compressed powder. The lines were smooth and the shading was just the right color and opacity—the features were visible and at the right proportion and angles.

You grinned, satisfied with your work but frowned as you checked your clock. It was already around 1 am.

Quickly giving a small prayer to whoever rules over luck, to grant you the luck of it not raining before heading off the roof and to your apartment.

Yes, you lived in a small apartment fit for one, though you had got lucky as you managed to snag the penthouse room which granted you access to the roof where you could thus spread your amazing skills.

...

Unfortunately, the next morning you realized you had forgot to bring the chalk down with you before heading to bed.

Quickly you made a dash upstairs to make sure nobody stole it. Even though you were the only one who had access to the roof, there had been news of sightings about some gang named 'the foot', honestly, it was a stupid name.

Who'd wanna be referred to as a foot? That's one of the most sweaty and disgusting limbs on the body...—well for most.

Yeah, the clan could have better things to do than steal chalk, but you didn't want to take chances as chalk these days are expensive as shit—with inflation going on and all.

Finally making it up to the roof, you quickly spotted the box of 24 pieces, though you also spotted a colorful piece next to yours.

Quickly scanning the area for anyone, you made your way towards your supplies and the new addition.

It was a little drawing of a chibi turtle with a orange mask saying, 'That looks sick 10/10!' with a thumbs up.

Your heart warmed at the small message though you didn't know how to feel about it. How did someone manage to get on your roof?

....

I meannnn...Is it really that bad? They left you a cute message and they seemed to be quite the cute artist.

With a small smile, you took the box of chalk and went down to your room once more—waiting until the night falls once more.

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With a giddy feeling, you quickly made your ways towards your roof (yes, you've claimed it as yours 😈) and starting drawing another piece under the old one, though this time with a small message.

'Thank you, thank you! I quite like it myself :)

U don't seem too bad either.'

You were contemplating if you shoudl change it or write something more. Not wanting to dote on it any longer, you ignored your overthinking before heading back down stairs—a excited smile plastering your face as you were eager for the next morning to come.

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Your smile grew as you made your way towards your roof and saw that there was a new message.

':O

I tried it out, it may not be the best but its something? :')'

Right beside the messy writing, there was drawn the same orange-masked ninja-like turtle. The drawing was much more detailed though as it had more shading and colorful highlights. The chalk piece itself was a bit messy but it made it look like a fun collage piece.

...

Later in the evening, near the same time, you were on the roof top thinking of what to reply;

'Dang, you ever heard color theory? Also, you seem to really like turtles' You wrote, drawing a small chibi version of your oc—just a bit underneath the anon's chalk piece.

'now we wait.' You thought.

...

The exchange of notes between you and anon had been going on for days at this point, and soon a few days had turned into a few weeks.

The two of you had gotten closer and learnt more about each other; Anon liked the color orange, had three other brothers and a cat, loved dancing and skate boarding, etc. At this rate, it was safe to say you were like very good 'online' bestfriends.

It also seemed like luck was always by your side on the roof at night, as not once had it rained before either one of you got to see the others message.

Unfortunately, that would also be cut short as your luck ran out this night.

You waited on your couch, catching up on some good series that you procrastinated on for a good chunk. Finally, it came to quite a exciting scene, but thats when you heard small taps on your windows—it eventually growing from single small taps to multiple patters at a fast rate.

You decided not to pay mind to it as the rain never really bothered you. Well, until now.

Quickly realizing your naivity, you threw your blanket to the side and headed towards the roof—wanting to make sure your messages were preserved.

As you made it to the roof, you had a hard time navigating as the rain poured down harder by the second, though it didn't hinder your vision to the point where you couldn't see the dark silohuette on your roof.

You carefully grabbed anything within your reach before carefully making your way towards the said figure. With each step, the outlines became clearer until what you saw before you wasn't a human, but a mutant turtle.

You stood a bit aways, leaving space between the two of you, and fortunately, it didn't notice you yet. Though something about it made you feel..sad?

The mutant kneeled down to the ground, seeming to inspect the once beautiful chalk pictures before it sighed and got up.

You furrowed your brows, squinting your eyes to try getting a better view of it, though it seemed to beat you to it..

You froze in place, tightening your grip on your 'weapon' as the mutant's gaze stayed frozen onto you.

"Uhh...This is just a dream!" He said before slowly backing away.

You snapped out of your daze. For some reason your body inched closer towards him, something felt...familiar? And that's when it hit you,

"Mikey?" You spoke, dropping your weapon.

The turtle was taken aback before inching just a bit closer. "{Y/N}?"

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A/N: UDVYUWBIUVUYAVD, I can't, it was sooo much better in my head. This fic was supposed to be short, concise and sweet but it wasn't. 😭, My boy doesn't deserve this.

I promise i'll make another one. Feel free to comment any character suggestions or scenerios, my inbox is always open!

[epicocat]

I realized i haven’t been giving any GunplUpdates to the, like, 3 people that care, so I’ll just do a quick review of the nine kits I’ve built since the Zeong

Real Grade Sazabi

Probably one of the best RG kits I’ve built so far, at least in recent memory. It’s big, it’s articulate, it’s detailed, I love it!

High Grade Gundam NT-1, AKA Gundam Alex

This one was certainly an older kit. It builds the same as any other HG RX clone, and absolutely needs panel lining with all the molded details (good thing I picked up a pen recently). However, despite all its limitations, the HG Gundam Alex turned out better than I expected, and poses quite nicely!

I’m not at all biased because we have the same name :P

High Grade Mobile Doll May (Gundam Base Color)

This is probably my first official step into the Mecha Masume genre of model kits, but not my first girlpla (I’ve built the Figure Rise Sulleta Mercury the Artery Gear Fusion Guard Spider Feidy kit [highly recommend] before either of them). I doubt I‘ll end up buying anything more scandalous than this, I really don’t care for the half naked robot girls of Frame Arm Girls or Megami Device.

That all being said, this was a really fun kit! It was my first run with waterslide decals, and I think they turned out��� mostly ok. The articulation is really good, the sculpting is well detailed (especially in the areas meant for other fans) and I just like kits that come with stands.

I will say, i do not and will not understand the appeal of battle stilettos (it’s hard to see in the pic but her feet are basically pointed straight down in the heels she’s wearing)

Sakura’s Edge

Another of my few non Bandai kits, Sakura comes from the Armored Puppet line of kits from Number 57. It’s another 1/24th scale kit, which means she is very very smol. Her most stand out feature is her third giant buster-arm, capable of wielding a sword twice her height. The bright pink, gold, and white go really well together, and she just looks really nice! Unfortunately her armor is more of an afterthought from the creators, as some parts need to be filed and trimmed excessively to get them to fit (I was in a VC with a friend, he can testify I was almost brought down by the shoes), and other parts just sit loose, ready to pop right off after the slightest tap, touch, or pinch.

30 Minute Missions Spinatia (Commando Type)

This kit was my intro to 30MM and I wish I bought more of them sooner! It was a cheap impulse purchase from a “local” hobby store I was checking out and it was a really enjoyable experience! It was simple and relatively fast (I failed the mission, it took me an hour), but using all the extra parts and mixing and matching equipment was so fun to play around with and experiment with what looks cool, something I hope to see more of as I build more Hexa Gear kits. In the meantime though, I have a 30 Minute Custom to plan >:3c

Transparent SD Gundam and Char’s Zaku II

I dont own many SD kits, and I think these are some more I’ll snag more of as I shop around. They’re simple and cute! They’re both Cross Silhouettes, but only the Zaku came with the CS frame, so the Gundam is just really squat and even more chibi in comparison. Overall not much to write home about, but still fun!

High Grade Gundam Maxter

The only red white and blue I’ll ever stand for

That being said, this was a really great kit! It’s a shame it’s P-Bandai limited, along with Gundam Rose. It absolutely needs panel lining for its literal abs of steel and face, but it still looks quite nice. It’s very articulate and it was hard to pick just one photo that truly sums up the insanity of Gundam Maxter, perfectly captured in gunpla form. It comes with everything seen in the picture, along with its flying surfboard shield, guns, and an effect part for its bursting machinegun punch. It is such a great kit, and comes with enough ham to justify its $30 price tag, despite the fact that Maxter is in fact very small.

High Grade Messer F-01

I love The messer’s design. It feels like a true successor to the Zaku series of suits. I know canonically it’s built off of the Sazabi, but it’s design is 100% Zaku. It’s got that respirator like mouthpiece, and the spiky asymmetric shoulder armor. Is just so cool! And did I mention this things size yet? It, like it’s predecessor are big boys, snd both stand almost as tall as many master grade gunpla in my collection. Overall an amazing kit!

[the-dragon-girl-27]

Fun fact since i just posted some fanart of this song

at one point i considered making a fanmade music video of Where Shall We Go by Mellowcle

I didn't get very far, like at all, but i may as well show off the assets I did make.

gunna add a read more cuz this is a looooong post lol

In the official video Rin and Len have their default outfits so i decided to make my own desins for this, I'm actually really happy with these minus the chalky color of the hair.

I tried to give them a cozy feel because thats the emotions the song gives yknow and i think i pulled that off, the color scheme is also reddish brown because the song is about a coffee shop so i think that is a cool detail. I tend to avoid color schemes like these but I think i managed to make it work. Also I was cookin with Rins hair its so nice, I allways like messing around with the Vocaloids designs when I do this sorta thing I think the curls and making it slightly longer really work with this song. I've never made a len desin for anything so his is more meh lol.

anyway heres one unfinished drawing

this was for the "eiga mite mo ii ne, karaoke demo ii ne, aiteru ka mite miyou ka" part, rin was gunna do a little bounce and len would pop up when his line happens. The mv mostly would be in my normal style rather than this chibi one I think i also planned to use chibis for the part about rain idk

anyway heres some animations these 2 would play back to back

the bell ringing would be.... the bit where the bell rings at the start. IDK why this is so well animated but it is good job me.

imediatley would be followed with Rin's ribbon bouncing cutley

and thats all the assets i finished lol yeah i wasn't kidding when i said i didn't get far but still may as well post em lol I have lots of scrapped animations and video ideas lol for every finished one you see theres a dozen scrapped ones

[hydez-artz]

New art challenge: post all of your souyo tf art :D

Honestly, not sure I can as I have so many of them, and a lot of them are old sketches I'd want to clean up before sharing, but of the ones I've made over the years, here are the most finished ones, ordered into a somewhat organized set

Neko Effect

a series of drawing from mostly 2020-2021 involving a fanfic I also wrote (and kinda left of an infinite hiatus. sorry bout that), involing the two of them getting cursed with a rare new status effect "Neko" which seemingly slowly turned them into cats. Yu adjusts to it pretty well, as he is want to do, while Yosuke has his more panicked response that is both super cute and what makes him a way too fun TF target.

2. Birthday Gift

what started as a birthday drawing of Yosuke for his B-day in 2021 kinda turned into this silly little sequence. of them turning into cats (with me as a cat playing an extra, cuz why not). I think this one was set in the Quirk AU I made? short version, basically going into the TV world and conquering your shadow gave you a super power similar to the quirks of MHA, but with the fun added twist that they were usually based in some way of the persons insecurities.

iirc, Yosuke has a power called Malleable, which was basically shapeshifting, but without the ability to directly control it. or at least, the people around him and his environment seem to have a greater control over what form he takes than he himself does. Yu has a power called Mirror, the ability to copy other people's power, holding only 1 at a time, and usually without the downside. for copying Yosuke's Malleable, Yu is still quite susceptible to outside influences, though he does have a small bit better at controlling it while he has it.

a lot of my random, usually less explicable TFs of them can prolly be tossed into this camp somewhere.

3. Commissioned Colorings

so, I have literally hundreds of sketches and doodles, all posted to my Patreon as one of my rewards. I draw 1 doodle (more closely a finished line art) a day and post it to my Patron discord, and every month post that months collection of doodles to Patreon for record keeping. I have been doing this more or less every day since 2021, so that's nearly a thousand sketches that can range from more tf sequences like the dogsuke sequence i recently colored, to more general ideas for one of my game projects I work on. if a patron likes a specific daily doodle and wants it specifically finished up, like these above, they can commission me at a significantly reduced price to take the drawing from a doodle to a completed work. because otherwise its left to my whims if I feel like coloring them

4. Seriously, so many doodles

seriously, sooooo many doodles. here's just a few i feel like sharing, plus one of my livestream sketch sessions (oh yeah, I do a free sketch request livestream every 1st sunday of the month over on twitch btw) which got a monkey-yu and batsuke, plus a chibi sketch of them being silly.

and that's just art of Souyo being cute and silly and tfable. i also have a fair amount of just Yu and or Yosuke solo getting tf'd into stuff in general. (you may have stumbled into one of my hyper fixations X3)

Hope i passed your challenge ;3

[fraeuleintaka]

Introduction to Mind Chess

This is the 52nd post in the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection Countdown: 29 days left until release!

Today's topic: Introduction to Mind Chess!

While Little Thief is the special game mechanic introduced for the 1st Investigations, fittingly Mind Chess is the one chosen for the 2nd game. Its description is also pretty straightforward; it's a technique used for particularly tough opponents who refuse to talk for some reason or another, you have multiple different dialogue paths you can take and a time limit to decide which option to pick, there's only one correct move in most situations and you can tell how to proceed by paying attention to the words and facial expressions of your opponents. Short and accurate, and a lot of fun to play!

We also get a few game images of the improved graphics of the Mind Chess "board" and the pieces that Miles envisions and it looks great! I love how they included them in the framing of the game mechanic on the website as well, right under the title we see a part of the Mind Chess background, faded at the edges, with miscellaneous white pieces scattered around it. Fancy! Miles always has the white pieces when "playing" Mind Chess (as you can infer from the 2nd image) so these are his which makes sense. Chess has the rule that white (the player using the white pieces) always begins so that lines up nicely with Miles always making the opening move in Mind Chess (asking the first question) before his opponent responds. The game mechanic may not have all that much to do with actually playing chess but I still love it when details like this fit so nicely.

Unlike with Little Thief's introduction, there's no chibi sprite animation in the corner but that's likely because there's no specific animation associated with Mind Chess like there is with Kay starting up Little Thief.

The chosen German name for this game mechanic is "Mentalschach" ("Mental Chess") which is not 100% the same thing (something like "Gedankenschach" would be a more direct equivalent) but still has the similar meaning and sounds better and snappier. I like it.

[hazelthevixen]

Sakura Blossoms

Been wanting to draw chibis of other ocs besides my mains so here we are! :3 Sakura the pink champagne fox is chilling under the cherry blossoms, while Tiny the gryphon is relaxing on one of the branches above her I love chilling under blossom trees while they're in bloom, it feels so nice ^-^ I also enjoy sniffing all the flowers :3 That's what I love about spring and summer ^w^ That and the nice hot weather! Summer is just the best season ever and I just can't wait to enjoy all the funfairs and beach days ahead >w< I may of accidently made Sakura look a bit like the boykisser meme by accident XD oh well lol X3 she's a boy and girl kisser cos she's bi :3 I originally used these lines for some other character but that last character was ugly af XD Its colours were dull and boring, besides what even is that hairstyle? lol XDD Sakura is superior, she suits these lines way better than that ugly mess lol =P Aaanyway, this pic took alot longer to make than expected so please enjoy! I know for sure I enjoy ^w^

Please do not steal my character(s)! They belong to me, not you. Don't add offensive tags cos ya know, it's just unnecessary.. ­ ╮(╯-╰)╭ And please do not criticise! I refuse to be criticised so please accept that. Oh and don't steal any of my artwork in any sort of way. ‾ʌ‾ Pleease be nice when commenting! Yep, fanart is welcomed as I truly appreciate gifts! ≧◡≦ Feel free to check out my other works too! I work so hard but it's always fun :3 If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all. Thanks for checking out my works! meep meep! ヽ(◕ヮ◕)ﾉ I'm on other places too! ^-^

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[nadianova]

~~trans goetia may dev log~~

so idk why or how or when but i just straight up managed to delete the entire spritesheet for all of fufus expressions. no backups or anyhting because of course not. but that being said i had already been staring at the project long enough that i felt that i could do better. while i loved how the sprites looked i was running into MASSIVE problems when i was posing both of the chars together and trying to come up with stuff for the actual horny scenes. their heads were just too damn big. how you gonna even hug when your arms cant reach the other? as cute as the big chibi heads were its just not really that suitable for a horny game?

anyway i think i really like my new models just as much if not even more than the old ones. the previous ones clearly have their own charm but i cant use them anyway so from now on its this. i even made some fun test renders to get a feel for how they could look before i realized the dither shader i made was entirely useless since renpy doesnt scale stuff like that at all lmfao!!

the models have some whacky outlining that looks weird in some places so when im closer to actually having all the sprites done ill go through them and manually draw over to fix weirdlooking stuff. since its just solid colors and lines it will be way easier to modify them manually

i still have some kinks i need to iron out when integrating this new style especially in regards to all the animated bits i did, but as far as progress has gone ive done SO MUCH this month. if it werent for this remaking of the models id have a new build to share about now but that is going to come later. HOPEFULLY next month.

once the dressing room funny business arc is finished the next day will be about... circe gathering ingredients for the ritual to get herself some curves!!! things totally will go smoothly and nobody will be spanked or bullied in the process........unless?

thats that for this time! well, what do you think about the new models?  i think theyre cute. especially fufus hat. its probably the best thing ive ever done in 3d. super proud of that one. its so cute on her when she look all smug

this is post was brought to you by nadia nova real text edited from my official itchio & patreon devlog

[art-of-tek]

Did some (hopefully final) redesigns of Aphria and Morfran from my wolf book which I wrote when I was 16, Aphria being its protagonist and Morfran the deuteragonist for book one.

Aphria (left) is a young wolf-dog hybrid (primarily gray wolf with a little bit of German shepherd, as is shown in her larger ears and mask marking) who has trouble fitting in with her pack due to her heritage. Unlike other wolves (as well as her father and brother, also wolfdogs), she has no fear towards humans and has a hard time respecting pack customs and ranks. Due to this, as well as the fact that she's the most dog-like in appearance in her pack, her Leader Cadeyrn refuses to let her train to become a fully fledged pack member.

Aphria is very disgruntled at this, especially as winter is nearing and her going into winter unskilled might be a death warrant. One day, she meets up with an older wolf from the Moss Pack, Morfran, who decides to help her out and train her in secret.

The duo soon form a close friendship, and they also share a different connection (aside from being related): both have a special gift where they can receive visions and visit the world between the living and the dead in their dreams. Both, especially Aphria, keep receiving mysterious visions in this world, and soon they leave their respective packs behind to go on the quest set out for them.

A lot of things go down from there. More characters join their little group, Aphria grows and learns more and more about her visions, and finally in a climatic scene she and Morfran are separated. They both survive, however Morfran is left with his lower body paralyzed and thus cannot make the journey north over the mountains as is their group's mission by that time. From then on Aphria has to take up the leadership role of the group and stand on her own four paws for the first time all the while traveling north to fulfill her role in it all.

I never wrote that much of book two (only fifty pages or so) but book two was going to focus more on Aphria's struggles of being on her own now and of course the journey-prophecy thing as well as defeating the evil wolf king Hawk.

May do a reboot of this story sometime down the line because I still like some of these characters and elements of the story.

[ID: Two digitally drawn images of canine characters. The first depicts a young and slim brown wolfdog with a distinct dark face and large eyes. Her eyes are green. One fullbody and one headshot of her are shown, the latter with a grumpy expression and the former with a happy one. The second drawing depicts an elderly dark gray wolf with a single eye and ear, his remaining eye being bright green. He has a scarred chest and a graying muzzle. A fullbody and a headshot of him are shown, as well as a smaller chibi of him with his lower body paralyzed as of the river scene. The background is a forest stock photo. End ID.]

[tako3]

hey friend, may i ask what ipad u use to draw/what pencil? thank u !! love ur art

Hello there 😌

I use a ipad air 3rd gen that I bought in 2019. I mainly use the default soft brush in airbrush to paint/color and the round brush in painting. I just lower opacity depending on how I want it. I use them to doodle/line as well like my last post.

Recently I downloaded a free brush pack by kylecreates and use the hair detailer brush.

For line art like for when I draw chibis, its the studio pen…or did you mean my gen 1 apple pencil lol

Uhh…atleast i think their default…i keep switching my ipad region to Japan and it displays some in jpns now but I dont remember if their downloaded…I dont think they are but Im sorry if it is 🫠💦

[samsaraandbeyond]

OC Introduction: Hero

Art by Zeus_Susie

There he goes, off to Level 1-1...

Design

Art by me, drawn 6/29/2020

So Hero was made when I was messing around with Aseprite. I was gonna draw a lizard but gave him floppy ears.

Then I drew him outside of it.

Art by me, drawn 6/30/2020

And then again...

Art by me, drawn 9/28/2020

Weird lizard dog looking thing!!!

I was obsessed with roguelikes and randomization and junk so I imagined him as a little roguelike game protag and his character theming began centering around those.

I had asked Iriz110 if they could draw this but good and they delivered.

An improvement I'd say. I had my reference.

BUT.

I wanted more art of the little guy. I showed artists the ref I had drawn for comedy reasons and showed the ref Iriz had made for "here's the actual look" reasons.

The artists I went to preferred my design over the new one. They thought it was cute and that it had charm.

yeah he's cute he's a little chibi shit

There was enough of a disparity between which artist liked which one that I decided to keep both around, turning the original design into his own character and the new design into a Generic character.

Zeus Susie's take became the defining design. Hero didn't have fur in my design but I liked it enough that I kinda wanted to keep it. Everyone else that saw the design welcomed the addition as well.

Abilities / Traits

"MY LIFE IS LIKE A VIDEO GAME-"

Art by MatchesDraco (NSFW)

Hero was inspired by roguelikes. That means anything and everything he can get his hands on has stats and abilities attached to it. These stats are somewhat random, a stick can be expected to be weak and a war hammer can be expected to put a dent in someone's car, but its still random. He could eventually find a stick that could split the world in two. He could find a cup of water that grants him a temporary speed boost.

This also applies to clothing, or in Hero's case, gear. He might look stupid wearing a traffic cone on his head, but by standing still, he becomes more resistant to any incoming damage. Because this trait said so.

This ability can affect reality. A plastic chainsaw you found in the toy aisle may be useless to you as a weapon, but it can become capable of cutting down trees in Hero's hands simply because of this trait. If Hero wants you to have something and willingly gives it to you, how it affects him will affect you the same way.

[Hero seems to have an interest in the pool noodle you're holding.]

Blessing of Samsara: Mental Voice

Hero doesn't talk much. Luckily anyone, or anything (including machines looking for voice recognition), can seem to get the gist of what he wants to convey with simple body language, expressions, short vocalizations, or suddenly acquired intuition.

If Hero is unable to speak by normal means (mouth taped up, throat / vocal chords damaged), this ability is lost.

[Hero thanks you for your assistance.]

Instant Item Proficiency

Link (Legend of Zelda)

Hero picks something up off the road, be it a high-tech machine or unorthodox weapon.

He'll figure out how it works and how to use it effectively in a short period of time. Doesn't matter what it is.

[Hero received a katana!] [Hero learned the Jigen-Ryu style of fighting!]

Samsarian Anomaly

Hero is a character you could say dances on the line of “canonicity”.

He absolutely exists in Samsara, definitely! People remember him when he shows up.

But everything he seems to influence in the world doesn’t quite last. Hero is essentially a canon non-canon character in the grand scheme of things.

"I saw it myself. It was Hero who dealt the final blow. Yet, had he not been there...the result would've been the same." - Zhel

Personal Inventory (Hammerspace)

Villager and Isabelle (Animal Crossing / Super Smash Bros Ultimate)

Like all video game protagonists, Hero has a personal inventory to keep the many things he finds on his adventures.

"How th- what the fu- h-how much do you have on you!? Dude!" - Thief

Personality

Hero has a personality that a player of a game would have. Constantly investigating the surroundings, probably breaking things they shouldn't, helping everyone that has a request, and generally being a typical good guy story protagonist.

This means he's kinda stupid.

[Hero has somehow clipped into your wall.]

[storytimewithnova]

Only love can hurt like this omegaverse

because the mark starts to burn the more the alpha pulls away and the more the bond break this was happening with sho her bond with her Alpha and lover of 3 years Kyotani is start to break don’t get me wrong she was well aware of him cheating With Yahaba but that didn’t change her feelings for him Now here she was curled up howling in pain no one around to hear.

Sho’s pov Ahhhh it hurts so bad you asshole you fucking asshole ahhhh please someone help make it stop please someone anyone make it stop

Sho had been screaming for a while now and matsukawa was just coming home from work and was passing by because they live across from each other and he happened to hear her screams and her cries for help

Matsun:Huh? 💭shona omg sho

🎶Only love, only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this Must have been a deadly kiss Only love can hurt like this🎶

He ran to her house as he heard her scream just as matsu entered see if sho was okay that is when he witnessed it he didn’t know how he reacted so fast but he did He ran to her but she was out cold

Matsun:Omg holy shit SHONA!! Doll doll wake up for me please

Nothing no response 🎶Say I wouldn't care if you slipped away But every time you're there I'm begging you to stay🎶

Matsun:Please doll fuck where is Kyotrani

🎶When you come close I just tremble And every time, every time you go It's like a knife that cuts right through my soul🎶

Still nothing so he rang Yahaba to see if kentaro was with him 📲In call

Matsun:📲 Yahaba is Ken with you

Yahaba:📲yeah why

🎶Only love, only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this Must have been a deadly kiss Only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this🎶

Matsun:📲tell him to get his ass home his gf needs him

Yahaba:📲 Wait sho is she okay

Matsun:📲 No she isn’t her life maybe on the line

Yahaba:📲 What happened

Matsun: 📲She is not waking up Yahaba i-i think she dropped

🎶Your kisses burn into my skin Only love can hurt like this But if the sweetest pain Burning hot through my veins Love is torture makes me more sure🎶

Yahaba;📲 Omg senpai this maybe mine and kyo’s fault

Matsun;📲 Huh? Why

Yahaba:📲 He… he has been cheating on her with me

🎶Only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this Must have been the deadly kiss🎶

Matsun:📲 TF YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR RIGHT IT IS YOUR FAULT I AM GOING TO CALL THE REST OF SEIJOH 4

In call with seijoh 4 📲

Matsun:📲Boys emergency

Iwaizumi:📲issei what is it

Matsun:📲sunshine i can’t wake her

Oikawa:📲Chibi chan what happened

Hiro:📲what happened to our cutie and whose head is gonna roll

Matsun:📲 She.. she dropped she induced a coma i can’t pull her out of it

🎶Only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this Your kisses burning to my skin🎶

Seijoh 4 :📲 WHAT HAPPENED?!

Matsun:📲 Okay hurry i will keep trying

Hiro:📲 Remember i said heads will roll

Matsun:📲 Okay hurry i will keep trying

End call

Matsun: Come on doll snap out of it please Love the others will be here shortly do you think they want to see you like this

Nothing 10 minutes later

Ding dong 🔔

Seijoh 4:We’re here any change

Matsun:nope

Kawa: Sunshine baby its kawa wake up please we are all here me issei Hiro and Hajime

Matsun:I am still here doll

Iwa:Come on love wake up

Hiro:Wake up cutie for us

Seijoh 4:For us we love you

Shona:T-Tooru

Tooru:Here love We all are

🎶Only love can hurt like this Only love can hurt like this (only love can hurt)

Shona:🎶Save me, save me Only love, only love🎶 Ahhhhh 😭

Iwa:Honey what is it

Sho starts clawing at her neck where Kyotarni bit her

🎶 'Cause only love can hurt like this And it must have been the deadly kiss🎶

Iwa:Hun may i

She nodded iwa shifts her hair The bond its breaking the mark kyotani left is turning in to a burn their bond of love and trust is fading Sho screams again and drops

Tooru:No no no no not again

HiroHow long does she have to endure this

Iwa:Yeah its painful to watch

Matsun:Until the bond with kyotani is completely gone sorry boys we are in for a rough night

Incoming phone call

Iwa:📲You got some balls calling

Kyotani:📲Please i am checking in on sho

Matsun:📲she dropped again you do know what a drop is right

Kyotani:📲Omg is she okay i have heard of it never really witnessed it

Matsun:📲don’t pretend to give a crap now you did this to her and now you are witnessing what you have put her through

Kyotani:📲I know and i’m sorry you’re a doctor right matsukawa san please help her

Shona:I-issei

Kyotani:📲Sho omg sho

Matsun:📲Shut up you don’t get to talk to her honey i am sorry this is going to an invasion of your privacy but i need to check you over

Kyotani:📲Sho please

Shona:Ahhhhhh make it stop please make it stop Tooru

Tooru:I’m here honey let Issei check you over

Kyotani:📲What is happening to her

Yahaba in the background: 📲Please tell us this is also my fault

Matsukawa was checking sho over while he was doing that makki snapped

Matsun:guys look at this

Seijoh 4:what is that

Matsun:It’s a c section given to people who are going through birth or are having a miscarriage

Tooru:So you’re saying she she had a miscarriage

Matsun:i can look at her notes to confirm it but judging by this yes

Matsun looked at sho’s notes then looked at sho she was out cold again

Iwa:what is it issei

Matsun:she was pregnant with twins which isn’t uncommon given who her family is and her siblings are no wonder she fucking dropped the lose of her daughters and you cheating on her stressed her out

Matsun:oh doll why didn’t you tell me tell us

Kyotani:📲Omg what have i done.

Yahaba:📲 I didn’t know

Hiro:📲Bit late now

Shona:ahhhhhh😭

Matsun:It says Kenjiro performed it makes sense her cousin would do it

Tooru:Wait as in shirabu

Matsun:Yep

While they were still taking about her miscarriage iwa was trying to calm her down

Iwa:Its okay love we’re here please hang in there we will get you to a hospital Just please stay strong

Shona:Haji it hurts

Iwa:I know love i know

Shona:I want the pain to go

Matsun:Honey if you weren’t in this state i would suggest us biting over kyotarni’s mark but we can’t do that i may put you more at risk other wise all 4 of us would do it

Tooru:So what do you suggest

Matsun:We get her to a hospital and we get that mark off her before it does perment damage the bond between them two is boken the mark will now burn in to her skin leaving a nasty burn to stop that from happening we can remove it

Hiro: And the dropping

Matsun:It won’t stop the dropping that is a Separate matter the drop is built up by stress upset and discomfort which has built up to exhaustion She could technically go comatose and sleep it off for quite awhile

Iwa:How long

Matsun:Week month Depending how long this buildup has been

Tooru:Omg sho why did you not come to any of us

Shona:I thought i could handle it why should i burden you with my issues

Seijoh 4:Because we love you stupid your issues are ours

Shona:😕

Matsun:Come on doll you are not that dense the pet names the first name basis the flirting what you thought we were being nice

Shona:Yeah actually

Iwa:Maybe talk about this after we get her better

Seijoh 4:Your right

They found away of getting her mark removed and yes she dropped and went in to a comatose state but i was for a week which is for 7 days the boys figured she needed the sleep with all the stress she has been through they can wait and ask her to be theirs but she need to get rid of any and all feelings for Kyotarni

X X X X Time skip

And sho is about to end it all with Kyotarni and make her feelings known to him

In the breakup server 6 people were added

Shona:🎶 Some days It's hard to see If I was a fool Or you a thief🎶

Kyotani: Sho?!

Iwa: Wait boys is she?

Matsun: looks like it

Shona:🎶 Made it through the maze To found my one in a million And now you're just a page torn from the story I'm living🎶

Yahaba: Sho i am sorry we hurt you

Shona:🙄

🎶 And all I gave you is gone Tumbled like it was stone Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake Thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up🎶

Kyotani:You’re mad at me don’t be mad at Haba

Shona:🙄 🎶 The scar, I can't reverse And the more it heals, the worse it hurts Gave you every piece of me No wonder it's missing Don't know how to be so close to someone so distant🎶

Yahaba:Sho i am really sorry if i knew what you were going through

Shona:👉🏻🧏🏻‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Seijoh 4:No hun we hear nothing

Shona:🎶 And all I gave you is gone Tumbled like it was stone Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake Thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up🎶

Hiro:🎶It all fell down🎶

Iwa :🎶It all fell down🎶

Matsun 🎶It all fell🎶

Tooru:🎶It all fell down🎶

Shona:🎶It all fell down🎶

Matsun:🎶It all fell🎶

Iwa :🎶It all fell down🎶

Hiro:🎶It all fell down🎶

Seijoh 4:🎶 eh It all fell down, it all fell down, it all fell down🎶

Shona:🎶 And all I gave you is gone Tumbled like it was stone Thought we built a dynasty that Heaven couldn't shake Thought we built a dynasty like nothing ever made Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up🎶

Kyotani:I don’t know how many times i can say sorry sho

Seijoh 4:🎶 It all fell, it all fell down, it all fell down, eh It all fell down, it all fell down, it all fell down (And all I gave you is gone) it all fell down, it all fell down, it all fell down🎶

Shona:🎶 Thought we built a dynasty forever couldn't break up🎶

Matsun:Doll we have something to say

Shona:Hai okay what is it

https://youtu.be/vYgXtlfv5Fg?si=27FOlTF9iXoDC_v4 🎶 いけいけ団長 頑張れ頑張れ団長🎶 ( english translation Ikeike Grandmaster Good luck, good luck, leader)

Tooru:🎶 In the Range outside and I'm thinkin' about loose ends Even though we cut ties, I don't wanna be just friends🎶

Shona:Tooru what do you mean?

Matsun:🎶 From the day I got your number, like Paris in the summer, it ends Every day goes by, I wish I was in your bed🎶

Shona:Issei -////- the hell that was totally out of a left feild

Seijoh 4:🎶 I love you, oh God (Ooh) It's hard to find a reason why we can't work this out (Ooh) I love you, oh my God (Ooh) It's hard to find a reason why we can't work this out🎶

Shona:😳🥺

Hiro:🎶 yeah, yeah I love you, oh my God🎶

Shona:H-h-hiro what the hell you too

Iwa:🎶 You were on the west side, I was drivin' down the I-10 And the song came on, got me thinking who you chose instead🎶

Shona:I mean i do remeber that day but that was back in highshool i thought you guys were kidding

Seijoh 4:Never love

Tooru:🎶 No, I never thought twice, but I wonder what you see in them Another day goes by that I can't get you out of my head🎶

Shona:Honestly don’t know

Kyotani:Ouch still here you know

Seijoh 4:🎶 I love you, oh God (Ooh) It's hard to find a reason why we can't work this out (Ooh) I love you, oh my God (Ooh) It's hard to find a reason why we can't work this out yeah, yeah (I love you)🎶

Iwa:🎶 Then it ends, I'm convinced that you know it's not over All my love's gonna fade, unless you're coming over Do you think of my voice when your city gets colder?🎶

🎶 いけいけ団長 頑張れ頑張れ団長🎶

You already know the english translation The Kanji is the same

Seijoh 4:🎶 I love you, oh God (Ooh) It's hard to find a reason why we can't work this out (Ooh) I love you, oh my God (Ooh) I love you (It's hard) (Ooh) I love you (It's hard) It's hard to find a reason why we can't work this out🎶

We love you Miya Shona

Shona:I love you guys too

Matsun: Be our gf

Seijoh4: Please 🥺

Shona:Yes

Kyotani:Please do a better job than i did

Seijoh4:We plan toI love you guys too

That day sho and the seijoh4 became offical and they all marked her now she is no long linked to Kyotarni Sometime pasted and sho is now expecting the four alpha can’t wait to be a dad and she did give birth she had a beautiful baby boy Named Zeth Kawa had a thing about dressing him up in ears with a tail And when he got older and started his first day of school he was given his second gender

Tooru:So whats you gender son

Shona:Tooru don’t pressue him

Iwa:Zeth you don’t have to tell us

Zethan:Its fine pa i am an alpha pack leader

Seijoh 4: That’s our boy

Zethan:Your embassing mom how did you get idiots for husbands

Shona:Thats your fathers you are talking about Zethan

Zethan:Unfortunately

Shona:Why you cheeky little sod

Matsun:Doll calm down

Shona:Fine i’m calm you know he has Tooru’s attitude

Tooru:Why me

Iwa:He is as much your son as ours

Matsun:And you're a bad Influence

Tooru:Excuse you I’m a brilliant influence

Hiro:Who lied to him

Shona: so This is my family

Zethan:Shut up mom you love us

Shona:why you little Brat but he is right i love them so despite getting hurt by love i also got saved by love that call it destiny call it fate even call it luck whatever is somehow I found it it fell me and i wouldn’t have it any other way