#but this hyperfixation has had me in a chokehold for three days

[dysabria]

“and if we burn this to the ground, i’m happy to do that with you.” something about childhood friendships. something about knowing a person through the passage of time and being able to watch each other grow. something about shared habits and identical laughs and a sense of humor that only thrives when the other person is near. something about the fear of change, and constantly messing up, and rough patches that feel insurmountable. there isn’t much in life to hold on to, and people drift apart and stay that way so often, but being able to find each other again and make something even greater than what was previously had? that’s the stuff of dreams.

[mysecretwindowuniverse]

"Remember when I told you you'd come around? You didn't believe me , silly little bird," "Jerome . . ."

This is cartoonishly late - like, this was originally supposed to be posted on Valentine's Day. Suffice to say, it's been a bit of an unexpectedly arduous journey to get this finally posted.

Back in the beginning of the year I spent about a month on this in total, from inception to completion. I'd just about finished, all the main piece needed were the final touches when my fiance got me sick. And I mean sick; hadn't been that ill in years, and I ended up losing more than a damn week to what turned out to be RSV. And subsequently missed Valentine's Day.

No big deal, I thought, I'll post it by the end of February.

Nope.

The setback of getting RSV turned out to only be the first in a line of setbacks, from getting sick a grand total of three more fucking times (not including the unrelenting menace that is allergies), unforeseen, extensive travel during the spring, followed by anxiety/existential dread over AI and the seeming impossibility to protect your artwork and the bitter hopelessness of the situation. So that kept me from posting. And then, to top everything off, came the travel-sickness-burnout-induced unexpected hiatus taken from this blog.

So yeah, it's been a long road.

But finally I was able to finish this piece - my first (completed) Gotham fanart! My original goal had been to post a semi-corresponding fanfic alongside the fanart, but on account of the aforementioned setbacks and a serious writer's block, that's going to have to wait. I'm still working on it! - but it's completion is seriously TBD.

In truth, I haven't done artwork this intensive in literal years, and it's been really great to get back into it. Like, I really threw myself into this; the urge to create just struck out of nowhere, and I fortunately had the time (and motivation) needed to see this piece through to the bitter end. And honestly? I'm really happy with how they came out!

Of course it's jeromewald, at this point, is it even a surprise, lol? What it says on this blog's header remains true - I do ship both nygmobblepot and jeromewald equally, but (both fortunately and unfortunately) of those ships, one already has an ocean's worth of phenomenal content, whereas the other is far more niche. So I figure it's best to create for the far smaller pair, supply what fresh content I can, and do my part to help keep this lovely fandom alive!

Can you tell I had Thnks Fr th Mmrs on a loop while making this?

'He tastes like you only sweeter' is an insane thing to say, and I feel it really fits a jeromewald x nygmobblepot love triangle. 'The love triangle from hell', one of my favorite things and the hyperfixation that has had me in a chokehold for years.

The pose is shamelessly inspired by that one Batman Catwoman cover (issue No. 9)

I can't say when the next fanart will be posted, but I am working on at least four others at the moment, so fingers crossed the creativity gods smile upon me and I'm able to churn more out over the next few months!

[wellthatznotominous]

That's it it's three am y'all get to be pelted by my ramblings

OK I love object shows I didn't grow up with them but honestly with how much I watch every single one I can like I did when I was like 9 and discovered mcyts I think none could even tell after I manage to rensite like the first minute of bfb 1 yes I can do that

I only really discovered the internet when I was 9 basically 10 but oh boi none was ready for it first things discovered, the wonders of youtube and mcyts (In particular vintagebeef, ldshadowlady and not eccactly a mincraft youtuber but seripixelbioligist) and good old pokemon creepypastas but I don't feel like talking about that

I really love my two favourite lil mutuals there my frens and I often just find myself during the day being like "man I wonder what thun is up to" Or "I hope xols doing OK" etc. I sometimes wonder if they wonder what I'm up to but I'm sure they have more important things to do

Back to object shows back when I was like 12 I had an entire au/comic series planned I had done like 10 pages before I accidentally latched onto my undertale aus hyperfixation and I really want to restore it but I'm a useless pile of flesh and bone and can't do anything anymore cause my brain can't stay on track even when it's things I really want to do and that school has me in a chokehold even when term breaks role around so everything I want to do i can't cause highschool taught me I can't do anything I enjoy with out falling behind and risk not passing tasks and my parents will definitely notice that so I'm just basically completely useless at everything I do

Man I wish I could do big fun projects again

...

That's enough talk for tonight

[starrycometmoth]

❤️ Penny!! :D

⭐ Mela!! (Eri n Giacomo have really grown on me too!!)

0️⃣ Kiki n Carmine!!

💥 Iono, Grusha, n Rika

📝 I loveeee Penny with my entire heart, I didn't think I was gonna love her this much until the day before I got the game I just randomly started hyperfixating on her and the more I learned about her and interacted with her the more I loved her n now she's my absolute favorite Pokemon character and she's been living in my brain since 2022!! I never expected Nemona to be so relatable!! She's so similar to me and she's so adorable and I love her sm!! At first I didn't really like Arven, but after playing a bit of the Path of Legends I realized he's so sweet and he needs a hug (he's my least fave of the three, but I still love him sm)!!

🌲Kieran had me in SUCH A CHOKEHOLD. I was not expecting to love him so much, and actually I thought Carmine was gonna be my hyperfixation before playing. I was so wrong. I love them both sm tho. Kieran was so absolutely relatable and Carmine was so funny and so beautiful. Carmine deserves better tbh and I could genuinely go on about how she deserved to have some sort of closure like what Kieran got cuz they never really actually gave her proper closure like Kieran got (Indigo Disk could've been perfect since her and Kieran kinda switched places in it, but Pokemon absolutely flopped with that).

🫐 I was not expecting to love them sm, but they're literally all so amazing in their own ways!! My top favorite is probably Amarys or Lacey!! Amarys was so relatable (tbh when I saw her in the trailers I thought she was gonna be a teacher and not a student FJEJWK) and I liked her more than I thought I would!! Lacey reminds me a lot of me back when I first started Pokemon cuz I used to use a lot of cute Pokemon and it was my last year of my super overly girly part of my life. But Lacey is so sweet and is very underrated imo!! Crispin is so silly and also was very relatable!! He's basically me if I were good at cooking- And Drayton was def interesting!! At first I absolutely hated his guts for the way he'd treat Kiki, but over time I grew attached to him and I think he's so funny, although I still don't like how he treats Kiki. The idea of him manipulating us also kinda urks me, even tho it was for a good cause, I just don't really like manipulators- 😭

⏱️ From Violet I def have to say Iron Valiant!! Scarlet I love Slither Wing (Out of the two slither wing is my fave)!!

💛 I have a LOT of faves!! Sprigatito's entire line absolutely has my heart, my second fave starter ever (after litten)!! I also really love Pawmi n Miraidon, they're so me, hehe!! Also Ogerpon, she's one of my absolute fave legendaries now!! Honorable mentions have to be the Paldean Wooper line, Tinkaton, n Slither Wing!!

📖 Starfall Street and The Teal Mask (honorable mention to Path of Legends and The Way Home)!!

🗣️ HERE COMES THE EXPLOSION EVERYONE RU- dude I have so many things to say about this game. First off, I have to thank it for literally saving me. I was deep in my Danganronpa phase, it was looking bad cuz I'd been hyperfixated on pokemon for the longest time and Danganronpa has pretty much killed it off until- BOOM!! I got pokemon violet for Christmas. I was in love with this game. Sure, it's a buggy, glitchy, rushed mess, but the writing, characters, mechanics, and pokemon absolutely made up for that imo. Maybe I'm biased cuz I wasn't there during release week nor did I know much about what happened bug-wise during that time (I was avoiding the Internet until I was able to get the game which I knew was either going to be during the holidays or after them), but still I feel like these games had some of the best writing EVER in the franchise. All of the characters were amazing in their own way (and bonus points cuz none of them were perfect; they all had some sort of flaws) and genuinely they were so modern and human to me. I remember having a convo with a friend and telling them of we were to count video games characters as our friends, then I was counting Penny, Nemona, and Arven (Kiki n Carmine didn't exist yet). Also on the topic of them, can we talk about how they finally nailed the friend group dynamic/trope thing they've been trying to do since gen 5? Honestly, don't get me wrong I love Cheren and Bianca (personally them + the player is my second fave friend group dynamic), but I think ESTABLISHING is as friends rather than forming the bond ourselves is what made it not as special. I haven't played B2W2 so I'm skipping that explanation- XY unfortunately had the burden of being unfinished, due to their scrapped sequel situation, which also caused the writing in that game to suck. The friend group not only was, once again, established, but also the only friend that was even decently written was Shauna (and really that's just the anime writing, I don't remember much about her game writing), the other friends were so bland and 1-dimensional. Gen 7 I can't really tell if they were trying to make us form a friend group or if it was more like we had separate friends. Galar, while I hate to say this cuz they're my 3rd favorite Pokemon friend group, was a combined issue of XY's issue and SM/USUM's issue: it wasn't an actual group and also the characters were pretty 1 dimensional (at least in Bede and Marnie's case; Bede being completely problematic and flopping into completely perfect, and Marnie being ignored for the most part causing her to barely have any writing [justice for Marnie btw, she deserves SM better]). Scarlet and Violet did it correctly. They started out with three round characters who we form bonds with and eventually have us form a group. Then, we take two other round characters we've befriended and add them to the group, making a fun, chaotic group dynamic that I've just fallen head over heels for. Along with this, I absolutely love the fact they make the legendaries feel human.

(Any part after this might kinda be half-assed, I had the rest of the ramble written and I went to save it and it fucking disappeared I'm so mad about it but I really want to participate in it so I'm finishing it and hoping to try to resay what I said)

The legendaries (apart from the treasures of ruin and terapagos) had like BACKSTORIES, not just something out of a textbook but like actual trauma. They also had their own personalities which I really enjoyed!! They were so lovable and it made me really attached to them!! Also, genuinely (apart from the treatment the female rivals get compared to the male rivals), this fandom is so nice and cool!! There's not too many issues (apart from what I mentioned) and everyone has been the most creative I've ever seen from the pokemon fandom in awhile (as someone who's been in it for about 10 years)!! There's so many cool AUs, stories, OCs, artworks, and other things that I've seen ever since SV came out!! I've made so many friends from it, and even met my qpp because of our shared love for Penny!! Genuinely, this is one of the best fandoms I've ever been in. This is not the pokemon fandom I grew up with (/pos), this is the SV fandom and I love it so much!! These games have been absolute sources of comfort for me and I love them so much. These games, this fandom, this is home. I love them so much, they're my favorite Pokemon games ever. They're my greatest treasure <33

Pokemon Scarvio themed reblog/tag game!

-- ❤️: Favorite character?

-- ⭐️: Favorite Team Star member?

-- 0️⃣: Favorite DLC character?

-- 💥: Favorite Gym leader/Elite four?

-- 📝: Opinion on each of the Zero Crew? (Arven, Penny, Nemona)

-- 🌲: Opinion on the Kitakami siblings?

-- 🫐: Opinion on the BB league members?

-- ⏱️: Favorite Paradox Pokemon?

-- 💛: Favorite Paldean Pokemon?

-- 📖: Favorite storyline? (Ex: Mochi mayhem, Starfall street)

-- 🗣️: Anything you want to say about Scarvio? (Infodump a rant, or just other thoughts)

Feel free to infodump alongside your answers! Anyone is allowed to reblog :3