#criticaaaaaaaal

[real-sun-wukong-fan01]

Yoo

Can you recommend me your lmk artists friends's blogs?

Alright, so,

@bi-pisces07 (they don't draw much i believe.)

@elirastudio (DAJE AMO!!!)

@hectormybeloved (wonderful artist)

@lotusmonkey ( 👀👀 )

@astronnova (or @criticaaaaaaaal )

@autisticrandomart

@rixeu

@nerves-nebula (!!!!)

@squidkid15

@kcakes-the-artist (we aren't exactly friends, nor mutuals, but i saw their art and it's wonderful!)

@alienembers (i don't think they draw too much.)

@lulu-nightbon (same as embers.)

That's all i believe! If there's more then i guess i haven't seen their art yet :P

[thejetpackwaffle]

Alright more art time uhhhhh here's art fight from 2021

i don't remember who all these characters specifically belong to. I know the second one belongs @aly-kuro and one of the last four belongs to @criticaaaaaaaal but idk look at my art fight. characters are very cool. drawing them was fun. i'm very sleepy right now ngl goodnight

[angstandhappiness]

NICE

@angelic-ships: #I'm just reblooging bc holy shit this art???#also boys in skirts always belong on my page

@lokeselfships: #阳光 (my sunshine)

@jadewhisper: #I'm fucking dying to see this is a fucking trend on twitter

@dangerdayyys: #YO THATS SO SWAG

@mortal-mayhem: GOOD 👏 SHIT 👏

@leptosia-nina: #!!!!!#GORGEOUS

@mexcraziness: #the good kush#so hot

@criticaaaaaaaal: #woW#WOW OK#I SEE#i REALLY like how he's drawn here

@squidkid15: #AYOOOOO???#THIS RENDERING???/#GODDAMN???

@lifeiscooking: #i love this trend

@purble-turble: #I am obsessed with all these cheerleader wukongs i have been seeing#😍

finally a trend I can hop on

[squidkid15]

WASTELAND AUUUUUUUUUUUUUU *screaming & crying*

i LOOOOOOVE AUS WHERE WUKONG TAKES THE SAMAHDI FIRE YEAHHHHH… this is gonna be so COOL PLEASE drop more lore soon i am LOOKING 👀👀👀👀

what if i told you they're both still horribly bitter and still hate each other's guts throughout this entire thing

[marshmallowgoop]

ryuketsu for the ship meme,,

OTPs of all time... 🥺

They are EVERYTHING to me: This one is probably pretty self-explanatory. I made a whole blog about them, have a page listing my meta about them that's... not small, and they're the reason I watched the series at all. Just in terms of the pure impact it had on me, I'm not sure if any piece of fiction can ever top that scene of Ryuko hugging Senketsu in the bathroom (Episode 5). It's what kickstarted my realization that monsters—and monster romance—is my favorite niche.

Concept is more appealing than execution: Buuuut I feel like there's a lot of missed potential here. An earlier version of the story, where Life Fibers were more individualized, where Senketsu struggles with the two sides of his identity, feels stronger. As I put it before:

I think a more fleshed-out examination of Life Fibers, where they’re not just mindless, vicious beasts, would have provided a much more compelling plot—especially with writer Kazuki Nakashima consistently stressing that Kill la Kill is ultimately a story about “a lonely young woman meeting and losing an irreplaceable partner” and his attempt to “make a form of intimacy that transcends love and species”! I adore Ryuko and Senketsu, don’t get me wrong, but I feel that their love and friendship would have been even more powerful had it actually represented a real coming together of humans and Life Fibers. As it turns out, an older draft of the series does go further with the concept, and while I can understand it getting scrapped for being “too much,” I’m still attached to the possibilities and wish the final product had gone more in that direction.

They drive me crazy/insane /pos: Yeah... that's probably clear....

Relationship goals <3: On the one hand, I'd be the first person to point out their flaws, but on the other... I just think they're so sweet. One of my favorite things about them is their good communication, which I've written... a bit about. But seriously, that moment in Episode 2 where lonely, closed-off Ryuko tries to open up to Senketsu? One of my favorite gosh-darn scenes in this show.

Also... get you someone who looks at you the way Ryuko looks at her uniform.

(I don't think she ever has these sparkly eyes for anyone else in this show.)

People that ship them need therapy I think: I mean... it is a ship composed of a girl and her alien clothes.... But if it can work for Venom, it can work for Kill la Kill, too!

I blorboed so hard that they're basically my OCs now: Yeah, probably, lol. (I say, thinking wistfully of the 150,000-ish words of my Kill la Kill fairytale AU that I've only ever posted snippets of and that probably has so little to do with the actual series that it could pass as original fiction.)

I need a 30k hurt/comfort fic on my desk by Monday: It's been a long time since I looked at Kill la Kill fic, but I remember that Senketsu wasn't even tagged in 10% of the stories on AO3 back in the day. I'm desperate for more about these two, and there's so much hurt/comfort fodder. Death, what it means to be human, feeling like you're unworthy of the one you love...

Who even thought of this?? This is a crackship: It feels like it should be, but... they were totally teasing it, I swear!

They're going to be the death of me: Yeah, probably...

They,,, kimss,, holde handss,,,,: Plz... I think a lot about that one scrapped design of Sync'd Sen where Senketsu's hand was over Ryuko's “so that they would always be holding hands as they fought.”

Plus that time Ryuko deliberately put Senketsu's glove on before going to sleep in the manga.

And how they hold hands on a happy beach date...

Yeah. I will never be over them ever.

[angstandhappiness]

LMAO YES

@maidenofthecloud : #macaque is a simp#and he doesn't even know it 😓

@criticaaaaaaaal : #only form of slander i accept is from the characters#when writers start slandering him? put up the dukes ill fight you on it

I love wukong but I really like wukong slander when macaque is the one doing it, especially when wukong is just doing something average or nice, and macaque is just there like 'fuck wukong, worst person alive'. I especially love when in the middle of the slander there is just a random ass comment about how beautiful and infectious wukong's smile is, or how his eyes sparkle, and then the slander continues

OK THIS IS THE WUKONG SLANDER I CAN GET BEHIND

macaque is so far up his own ass in denial and feelings he has no idea how to process he sees everything wukong does as selfish, mean, and horrible. but its not even his gut reaction, its more like he's conditioned himself to hate wukong like that. so his genuine thoughts might leak through like admiring how handsome he might be bcuz i would be too PPFSPBSFT HAHA. but then you're right he'd jump straight back into slander

[chishiyas-wig]

for the writing ask thing, Tell us a fun fact about your current WIP. ? :O

my current WIP is a fic where Hunter, Luz, and King have a sleepover :D

they play bottle flip and build a pillow fort, etc

im tryna make it as fluffy as i can

[lotusmonkey]

THAT COMIC BRAH WHY MUST U HUrT ME SO 💔💔💔💔💔

Just wait for the second part :) (haahahahahajjsndwkxmskxkksd I'm not ready for it [sobs])

[friday-night-unknown]

how tall even is whitty,,,

Demon Whitty m!a: (34/35)

[dragynkeep]

they really made penny human just so she could die "for real"

literally why bring her back at all

[librastrai]

sienna / blake !!!!!!!!!! [DOES A HAPPY DANCE]

no cap i love the concept of sienna / blake sm??? a really good, sexy mentor / student relationship that went so wrong but blake still believes she can save her lost love, the woman who taught her everything... weeps

[the-kiwi-is-not-a-pewee]

isnt aot op the one where its like HGNDJGSKJNSFRS *JAEGER* *intense guitars*

Oh crit my sweet summer childee there’s also the one with the gay smoke

[real-sun-wukong-fan01]

I also wanna suggest @criticaaaaaaaal (or @astronnova ) supernova AU ( or the samadhi fire sun wukong au)

It seems that there are 78 cards in a tarot card deck...

And I was thinking of doing a different au for each one, doing half the set for Mac and the other for Wukong. I still wanna do it but damn, I was thinking that there was maybe twenty cards in a deck- apparently not

I might need to shorten the number if it becomes too tiresome.

If you know of any lmk aus though please let me know! I got a couple in mind but I'd love to know more :)

[owletarc]

blake is more french then she is japanese, lettuce die on this hill (cinder seems more japanese than blake imo lmao)

characters more asian coded than blake :

yang xiao long

taiyang xiao long

cinder fall (monty said he had her as chinese)

adam taurus

lie ren

sun wukong

sienna khan

ghira and kali belladonna — note this does not extend to blake because we knew nothing about them before v4 and literally none of their coding has gone to blake either, because it comes from their allusions and dress styles and skin colouring. blake is still pretty fucking pale even in v4 compared to her parents.

[squidkid15]

just here to say i am LOOKING O-O eyes wide open at this daydreams au mac and wukong look so COOL (asking to be safe, is fanart allowed cussssss sheesh)

ahdsfjsd thankeee!!! I love the daydreams AU a whole lot fhjs they're so broken but also so fun and just y eah

and omg yes absolutely!!! I'd be flattered!!!

[marshmallowgoop]

you should ,, totally drop the ryuketsu fanfic .....

I won't make any promises, but this fic does mean a lot to me—it was my NaNoWriMo project for three years!—so I'd be sad if I never did anything with it. But it's definitely not at the point where it's ready to be shared yet. It's a real mess!

Buuuut I do have a tag on my blog for it! #klk-fairytale-au

There are a bunch of snippets posted there, as well as a link to the short I started (and never finished) that inspired the full-blown novel. The story has undergone a lot of changes since that initial idea, and it starts at an ending that I'm not sure will be the final ending anymore, but it's maybe got the vibes I'm going for, and I think the link is broken now, so here's a new one!

Thank you for your interest. This fic really is my baby, and I'm touched that others want to read it <3