#dunno if i even wanna include this in the main art tag

[kevin-ibw]

Not elaborating other than this will be a belated valentine's voxval comic

[myaoiboy]

heyy sorry dunno if ur ok with ppl asking for advice, but ive been on the twitter mgs fandom for a little while (mostly as a watcher rather than participating other than liking, rting and occasionally commenting or posting some art) and after a while i realized (a bit too late) that quite a few people that i interacted with are aggressively anti and i dont know how to pull away from them now.

Some were mutuals, i stopped following most of them but they still follow me and im not sure if i should just ignore it or whatever. My main account is very clean when it comes to pro/anti discussion and NSFW in general, altho i do like/rt/discuss a lot of anime art and media that has some questionable content in it (like the monogatari series for example)

Anyway, im just a bit scared they might see these "cracks" and it gets to a point of agression/exclusion/doxxing etc and im a bit terrified of that. Sorry if this sounds dumb, but could i ask you what you experience with the mgs fandom is like on twitter? Have you ever been in a similar situation?

It's totally cool to ask for advice! I'm not sure how much help I'll be though.

I have a twitter that's mostly MGS-focused, but I've been building up defenses against the anti movement for a long time before that. I used to be mutuals with someone who was a really notorious asshole twitter anti, actually. I broke that when they started publicly slandering me, but before they could actually dox me, and they still followed me on side accounts for a couple years after that. I got very careful about vetting who I regularly interact with after that.

I got lucky dropping into MGS fandom, I've found a bunch of people who enjoy freaky stuff as much as I do. But I also had one of those friends get doxxed a while back over ship discourse that was spun as something much worse.

Personally, if I see a callout post and it looks fishy (only includes accusations of fic or art, etc), I will a lot of times block everyone that's retweeted or liked it. It's made me sad a couple of times to break mutuals, but I know I'm saving myself the pain later of potentially seeing them fall for it with me. This, when my friend got doxxed, ended up causing me to block like half of the twitter MGS fandom ngl.

Honestly, my secret to not accidentally making full on anti friends is that when I get into a new fandom, I look up their discourse and who antis say shouldn't be shipped together. Then I look and see who makes art/fic of those ships. If I don't like those ships specifically, I find people who ship both that and whatever I like. Usually I end up liking one or more of them anyways (solimiller...). Or I'll go through that fandom's fics with warnings on them and check out those authors' other works.

That's how I keep accidentally meeting a lot of people in fandom, it turns out. I read a fic, I look at the author's other works or their profile, it has a social media handle, or a discord link, or whatever else, next thing I know I'm talking to them and 5 more people they recommended about whatever freaky kink I found of theirs.

I do actually have a (mostly nsfw) discord link that I would share here, but given some of the weird interactions I've gotten tonight I'm gonna wait a couple days before I post it publicly. It's fandom neutral technically but a lot of us like our war boys (mgs/cod mostly). But uhhh if anybody sees this and wants in feel free to dm me/send an off-anon ask and I'll slip ya a link real quiet.

I warn people some of the heavier content that I regularly post as well, even though I don't explicitly use any discourse labels, but honestly the biggest thing is just pulling your interactions like weeds. People on the internet are, mostly, strangers. You don't like someone's vibes? You can block 'em. You see them being a dick to someone else and don't wanna risk them doing the same to you ? Definitely block. Someone makes posts you don't like and it keeps filling up the tags you frequent? You can block that!

[feathered-serpents]

Tagged by @crit20lesbian (thank you!!) 

1- why did you choose your URL?

When this blog started I was really into Good Omens (still am! just quieter about it but that’ll change as we get closer to season 2) so I wanted a URL that referenced Good Omens but was also neutral enough that I could switch fandoms without it being weird. “Feathered-serpents” is meant to be referring to the angels and snakes in Good Omens but also the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl because I’m a mythology slut. I love this deity so much and he’s ALWAYS made to be a monster in Western media when he’s!! A god of art, wind, and knowledge!! And created humanity!! He’s so cool Aztec mythos is SO COOL 

2- Any side blogs?

Not really. I used to have a Flight Rising side blog but it’s been abandoned for awhile. Been thinking about making a Dragon Age sideblog but I basically just use Twitter for that so this is what we get 

3- How long have you been on Tumblr?

10 years. Since I was 13. Technically 11 if you count when I made a blog in 2010 but didn’t know how to use tumblr since it’s not user friendly and just let it sit there for a year until I figured it out. 

It’s certainly done something to my development. Dunno what. But something 

4- Do you have a queue tag?

No. Everything you get is live 

5- Why did you start your blog in the first place?

I’ve had a series of blogs over the years, leaving older ones by either switching fandoms after I’d built too much of a niche in one to change my whole blog or by deleting the accounts cause I was swearing off tumblr and we can all see how that worked out. This one is my fifth main blog and I made it cause the fourth one got shadowbanned for no reason! Yay! 

6- Why did you choose your icon/pfp?

There’s this amazing comic by the artist @hollow-head of Aziraphale and Crowley’s drunken debate from the book and it contained a panel with Aziraphale in a little rocket ship as Crowley explained interstellar bird travel. I thought it was cute and asked if I could use it and they said yes and even sent me a version with a white background. I love it and I’m never changing it 

7- Why did you choose your header?

I really like the book Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman it’s DEEPLY weird and I’m still waiting for an adaptation. There’s an illustrated version which is beautiful and my header is the scene where the main character first enters the Underground world. I thought it was cool! 

8- What’s your post with the most notes?

The fucking. Stupid female aliens post I made in a rage after hearing that female aliens were barely included in the game Mass Effect because the artists “Didn’t know what that would look like” 

Like five seconds after I made this some dude reblogged it with “takes more than a voice and pronoun change but aight” after calling me a “puritan who hates women” on a separate post for expressing my approval of a scene in that same game being changed where a woman is confiding in you about her tormented childhood while the camera is just. Glued to her ass for no reason 

(he also reblogged and disagreed with me on like. many Mass Effect posts. It was deeply strange. I did not know him. He’s blocked now) 

9- How many mutuals do you have? Not sure but quite a few! I’d say about half the people I follow are mutuals as I tend to follow people I see in my notes a lot 

10- How many followers do you have?

1,577 but the number tends to go up and down constantly and also a good amount are probably porn bots 

11-How many people do you follow?

279! 

12- Have you ever made a shit post?

That’s all I do here 

13- How often do you use Tumblr each day?

That’s between me and god 

14- Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once?

Not really. If someone is annoying me or if they just post too much content I don’t like I’ll just block them. Usually it’s not even because I think they’re a bad person I just don’t wanna see their Eliasfucking posts in the TMA tag I’m sorry it’s too much* 

*(that’s an example i’m not referring to anyone specific) 

15- How do you feel about “you need to reblog this” posts?

Usually avoid unless I think it’s very important 

16- Do you like tag games?

Yes but I will usually forget to do them unless I do it RIGHT AWAY (like this one) 

17- Do you like ask games?

Also yes but I tend to forget to respond to those too. I will do the WWDITS/TMA prompts you all sent I will do them I just get overwhelmed by things I enjoy 

18- Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous?

We’re all in pretty niche corners so I don’t think any of us are “famous” but I am mutuals with some really cool artists. That’s fun! 

19- Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Platonically <3

Oh god now I have to tag people uhhhhhhh @alexiley​, @dudeiwannasleep​, @annabelle--cane​, @ghostbustermelanieking​, is that enough? that feels like enough (no pressure!!) 

[modesty-blaise]

Since I'm curious, what caused you to become very possessive of your gifs? Not out of rudeness but curious, since no matter what you do a lot of them show up in the gif function on Tumblr which automatically credits you at the bottom of the gif.

Hey. Tbh, at first I didn’t wanna bother with yet another anon but since I see no ill intent behind this, I decided to go and answer it. Unfortunately, half-way through I realised my reply is turning into incredibly long semi-bitter rant and expands well beyond calling out just one person in Psychonauts fandom (and yes, this is related to Psychonauts fandom – you do know that these anons are not really that anonymous, right?) so… buckle up! All that beneath “read more”.

I’ve been on this hellsite for like…7-8 years? Maybe more? Can’t really tell cause I moved blogs and my old blog now consists of only 4 posts I’ve made close to leaving so I honestly have no idea how much time I’ve spend here before moving. Anyway, during those few years I’ve spent on my first blog I’ve met a lot of creative gifmakers who enjoyed sharing their love for fandoms they were in. I’d like to point out that this was waaaaay before tumblr created that insert-gif option so, back in the day, the only way to add gifs to your post was to: 1. make them yourself 2. take them from someone else. And a lot of people were taking them from someone else which resulted in many gifmakers giving up on making gifs and leaving fandoms and/or even leaving tumblr – and I’ve had many of my friends give up on what they love and have their games/shows/movies/whatnot ruined for them cause people would not stop stealing from them. And many of my friends eventually left tumblr cause they couldn’t deal with it anymore.

Tumblr adding insert-gif option, in my opinion, honestly, just made it worse for gifmakers. Cause now people had the opportunity to use gifs for their posts, with or without creators’ permission/knowledge, but it was alright and it was perfectly fine cause creators were credited. There’s their name at the bottom. It’s alright. Like… it doesn’t matter if they’re actually okay with people using something they’ve put hours into making or if they’re not – tumblr gives them credit so they SHOULD be okay with it. Simple as that.

Well, we’re all different and some people are not okay with that. I’m not okay with that. It took me weeks to figure out how to use photoshop correctly. Took me countless hours of looking through different tutorials and basically trial-and-error-ing my way through the process. Whenever I make gifs, it takes me hours to record videos and then hours trying to achieve that 3mb limit on gifs (thank lord these days we’re beyond 1mb limit). After all that effort I put into creating gifs for games that I love and enjoy, someone is going to make 2 clicks and have that same gif added to their post, without even asking. So how is that okay?

Back to your question. Yes, “no matter what you do a lot of them show up in the gif function on Tumblr”, that is true and that is something I was aware of when I saw you-know-who announcing they would be starting 30 days Psychonauts challenge. So, hating to see my gifs used against my will, and not wanting to start any unnecessary drama and threaten people in advance with reporting them if they do use them, I’ve made my blog as private as I could. It was only accessible through the dashboard, it was not showing in ANY search engines inside and outside tumblr, and my gifs were impossible to find through insert-gif function – I’ve made sure. I did all that cause I just knew that during those 30 days, someone would use my gifs and I would get mad and I desperately wanted to avoid that (hence going extreme). And you know what happened? You know what creator of this challenge (who prevously already reposted my gifs) did? *drums* They used my shit anyway. :3 They just uploaded it from their computer, where they’ve saved it earlier.

And like… a lot of people see pretty pic and decide to save it - I mean, we all do that. Heck, even I have a folder full of shit I saw online and liked it – but i’m not uploading it online cause I haven’t made it. It’s not mine to share.

But some people are not like that.

Some people see fanart of something they like and they want to share their opinion on it – and instead of making their own post, maybe drawing the fanart themselves, they decide to use someone else’s art for their post. Do they know who made it? Do they have creator’s permission to share it? If the answer is NO, then they should be a decent human being and not do that to creators. Oh, they shared it anyway but now people in fandom are calling them out BUT this actually happened on accident? They know who the creator is but, somehow, they accidentally forgot to credit them? OK, well, it’s possible, shit happens, but they better make sure it doesn’t happen again.

Then sometime later these same people decide they want to make a post appreciating their fav character and they want to include pics cause duh, you can’t have character appreciation post without pics, right? Now they have several options: they can get their own screenshots, make their own gifs, maybe draw something… or they can just take someone else’s creation. Do they know who made it? Well there’s my fuckin name on it, and since they’ve stretched it from 245 to 500px, it’s really hard to miss, plus it’s not like there are that many people making Psychonauts gifs. Do they have permission to share it? Hmmm, nope, didn’t ask me. Is this also an accident? Could be. I mean, I’ve seen stranger things happen, so accidentally forgetting to credit content creators twice… kinda suspicious but still possible. Who am I to say?

Now if these people then decide to make a post appreciating their fav ship and they want to add a cute pic of the loving couple – yup, you guessed it! They can either create something or take something. Again: they know who did? They asked for permission? Got the permission? No?!?! But they posted it anyway?!?! :o Could it really be, that after being called out publicly, after being told that reposting is bad (something that’s very easy to understand), after even having tumblr staff intervene and remove stolen shit from their blog, after all that - could it really still be an accident?

Nah, man.

They just don’t give a shit.

Cause if they did, they’d stop with that crap first time they were called out.

(and if you think Psychonauts fandom is their only fandom and that they’re not doing this crap in other fandoms too - hoooo, boy, do I have some bad news for you! Do you know how many stolen and butchered HP fanart is on their blog? Hobbit stuff? They seem to be one of the most accident-prone users on tumblr. And honestly - it’s a real miracle their blog’s not been terminated.)

Back to what I was talking about - I’m not okay with people using my gifs and I’ve made it very clear. I literally do not give a shit if I’m credited or not, I’ve made it very clear that I don’t want my gifs used without my permission. If you like them and want them on your blog, there’s a fuckin reblog button. It’s sole purpose is to allow you to share other people’s creations. Or shitposts, cause lord knows we all love those.

So that’s why when someone spends hours going through my Psychonauts tag and goes as far as to send me “I love your gifs” anonymous message, but the very next day makes stim moodboard post including one of my gifs, now cut and resized to fit 3x3 format they’re going with, I get mad. And that’s why when someone uses one of my gifs to promote their RP blog, butchering it to fit their aesthetics, and later when confronted going as far as blaming their good friend on it cause god! they’ve had no idea it wasn’t theirs, I get mad. (makes you wonder though: if they friend has such skills, why not making them gifs themselves?)

Like…. I’ve had my gifs stolen plenty of times. I’ve had them stolen for roleplaying, for headers, for imagines, just for notes… I’ve had them stolen by people claiming to run official fan sites (that’s a real wild story but I won’t get into that now)… I’ve seen them on pinterest, weheartit, FB, all those random gif sites… and I’ve seen EVERY. POSSIBLE. EXCUSE. ranging from: “well i found it on google so why should i credit you” “lol dunno who made this but its pretty so im posting it” “ive had it on my computer for years so i don’t remember where i got it from” “i dont know how to make gifs so im using weheartit as a source” “credit to whoever made this” (that’s my fav) to “its just a gif so who gives a shit” (it’s not – it’s hours of creator’s time and lots of love that you’re now shitting on so thanks) and “i have an /illness/ and getting notes makes me feel better so dont u dare blame me for stealing” (I don’t remember exact excuse but it was something along those lines and like… how do you even respond to something that without looking like an asshole?).

And sometimes it really is just an accident. Sometimes people really do forget to credit you and/or ask you for permission. And I’ve had my fair share of those accidents. People in Psychonauts fandom have been using my gifs for various crap but, when approached, they’ve removed it and apologised. And it’s something I really appreciate. (if they actually bother reading this and they recognise themselves: i’m really grateful and thank you for not being an ass)

But you know what I don’t appreciate? People making a call out posts about me, asking about my gifs when they know very well they’re the main reasons why I’m not making those gifs anymore, at the same time failing to address any of the issues I have with them and instead rather explaining to others what happened BUT explaining only the parts that make me look like a villain cause how I even dare be mad about them stealing? How I even dare call them out on it? That is so ridiculous and criminal of me, and it’s so so sooooo bad that they need to call me out. I deserve to be called out by the very same person who’s been stealing my shit.

And their explanation is…well… it’s something.

They were sympathetic and polite? When did this happen? Did I completely missed that part? Please someone fuckin enlighten me with such post/message where they expressed their sympathy and politeness and I’ll apologise right this second.

I told them to “literally fuck off”? Yeah, that did happen, I admit that. Did they bother explaining why I told them to fuck off in the first place? Did they say they were caught stealing from me and had tumblr stuff remove my shit from their blog? Did they get into details of how they demanded the proof of my so very wild and obviously false claims but then when I showed it, they just deleted that “how dare u call me out cause I would never do such thing” post? No, they didn’t and geee, I really wonder why.

Instead, what did they choose to address? Out of all the things I’ve said. Hm? What did they choose? Me telling them to fuck off. Me dropping the F-bomb on them, rudely rejecting their obvious kindness and politeness. Nothing else.

Back to what I was talking about before I got derailed again: no, I’m not mad cause this person used my gifs without crediting me. I mean – I am, but that’s not my main issue with them (and they know it). My main issue is that this is someone who will continuously lie and steal and still deny any of it, even when there’s plenty of proof (and you can always count on me to show up with proof tbh), and then go as far as to publicly ask about my gifs and try to call me out. Like me getting mad that something I’ve put hours of work into, and something I’ve made cause I love the game and I want to share my love and appreciation for it, is now being shared against my will and my knowledge - like me getting mad over something like that is so unreasonable that they need to make an entire post about it while pretending they have absolutely no idea why I’m even mad and why we have issues.

And I have every fucking right to be mad. 3 times is not an accident. 2 times to the same person is not an accident. They know it. But yeah, playing stupid is their defense so it’s not like I expected them to actually address their actions this time either.

And you know what? Just because I swear a lot doesn’t mean I’m wrong. Doesn’t mean there’s no solid ground for my claims. People on tumblr have always been and always will be stealing shit. Sometimes they will credit you, often they will not, and that’s just how it is, doesn’t matter if you’re okay with it or not. But that doesn’t mean I’m just gonna sit quiet and accept someone’s shitty behaviour. Especially when it’s directed at me.

TLDR: giving credit =/= having permission

but my previous posts leading to this ask were not about that

you knew that already

[franeridart]

Wow Hi I can't spell for shit but I was wondering if you could draw some more KamiSero? Your art style is really beautiful and there are not much KamiSero art >•

Awww thank you!!! And in the future I might, yeah! Right now I’m a bit swamped by the zine things and using the time I take away from it to draw low effort stuff or my main ships so I can’t promise it’ll happen soon, but I still like the ship lots so !!! might happen!!

Anon said:Hey thanks for that last art I know you're probably just staying on model and it doesn't really mean anything but it felt really good to see a character with my body type for once so thank you

Anon the pleasure was all mine! Miruko’s body type is beautiful to look at and a pleasure to draw, and if my indulging myself could make you happy then that makes it even better spent time!!

Anon said:I love you. That is all. Carry on.

Thank you!! I love you too!!!!!

Anon said:that drawing of hawks blessed me and my children and the children of my children, i feel the salvation in my bones, i've been purified

I dunno which one specifically you’re talking about, but thank you!!!! ;^;

Anon said:I just wanna say I love Baku I’m goods! Peace

Hell yeah anon love that boy!! Smother him in love!!!! Give him all the affection his heart can take and then more!!!!!

Anon said:This is from the anon asking about todoraka and iideku fusions, I just got far enough to find them, sorry for bothering you earlier!

Not a bother at all, don’t worry about it!!! And thank you for liking my designs enough to ask about them!!!!

Anon said:Hey!! I love your art so so so much and i was wondering if you could get in some mina and bakugo friendship content bc they're just,,, so underrated as friends and I love them

Ahhhhhhh the Baku // Mina friendship debate, nice, hadn’t been around on this blog for a while - you know, the reason why there isn’t much content and their friendship is somewhat underrated (unless we’re talking about full squad content, there’s a lot of baku and mina there) is that, going only by canon, they... aren’t friends. Of course Mina’s part of the squad, but she is more in virtue of the fact that she’s besties with Kaminari and Sero and has her backstory relationship with Kirishima, than because she has had any significant interactions with Bakugou (a bit like Jirou’s a member of the squad through Sero and Kaminari and Bakugou even if she’s got no relationship with Kirishima at all, all in all) - I, personally, like to think they could be great friends, you know? But if we’re talking canon I can count the times they interacted on the fingers of one hand (the only serious one being during the sports fest, which Mina herself commented as Bakugou picking her only cause of her acid being a good strategy against Todoroki’s ice)

I know this is sort of a digression from your question, but, as you obviously noticed since you sent me this question, lately whenever I have focused on Bakugou’s friendships in my drawings Mina hasn’t been there, and people have been more or less aggressively pointing it out to me, like I was doing a disservice to a canon friendship by not portraying it - when in truth the relationship in question has nearly no canon basis at all. So I just wanna say, from the bottom of my heart and honestly, I’m sorry if my liking to delve into and focus on Bakugou’s canon friendships makes you sad, but if the focus of a drawing or a set of drawings is supposed to be Bakugou and the relationships Horikoshi gifted him, then Mina’s most probably not gonna be there (for now, I’m still hoping Hori will add her to his growing list of canon friends soon *crosses fingers*)

Either way this has nearly nothing to do with your question and it wasn’t even really directed at you specifically, I just used the chance to address something that was bothering me a bit - THAT SAID! I do have something I mean to draw that’s gonna be focused on Bakugou and include Mina! It might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but I hope you’ll like it anyway, at least a tiny little bit! ;^;

Anon said:I loved your Have a Nice day comic. It really gave me a nice day. It’s totally cute I can imagine them living together and sing this every morning Love your art xoxoxo

Ahhhh thank you so much!!!! I’m super glad you liked it!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Bro I just wanted to thank you! Becuase of your amazing art on boku no hero academia. It got me intrested in checking it out. And let me tell you, I love this show sooo much,even if its getting really intense right now. So its all thanks to you that I even started watching it.Its even more amazing becuase I get to admire your stunning work base on it.Thank You!!!!! 💕💕💕💕

HECK I’m so glad you checked it out and ended up liking it!!!! I hope you’ll keep on enjoying it from now on too, anon!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Hey fran! I love your art style so much!! Will we ever see more of the Bakushima neighbor’s cat au?

I KEEP ON PROCRASTINATING ON THAT ONE!!! I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY!!!! It’s in the projects but I never!!! sit down!!!! to draw it!!!!! So I wanna say yes, because that’s the plan! But when I’m being honest I’m not so sure anon orz

Anon said:Okay but like.... hawks is hot right?? Its not just me??

Given the reaction the whole fandom has had to him, I’m pretty sure it’s not just you anon hahaha

Anon said:AAAAAA I BOUGHT A STICKER FROM YOUR REDBUBBLE ACCOUNT AND IT ARRIVED TODAY AND I LOVE IT!!!!!!

I’M SUPER GLAD TO HEAR THAT!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BUYING!!!!!!!

Anon said:Could you possibly draw more of the Deku + Kirishima fusion?

I... dunno? If I ever feel in the mood to play around with that AU again? But to be honest if I were to draw something that isn’t just a design for it it’s probably... not gonna be about kiri and deku of all people............ so I can’t promise anything, sorry!

Anon said:Hi! I know you haven’t really touched the fusions au in a while but please consider: miritama fusion

I have considered it! It’s the first one I’m gonna draw if I’ll ever feel like going back on the fusions!

Anon said:Let kirishima touch the butty

I’m 100% sure Bakugou lets him touch anything he wants, but if you want depictions of that this blog is not the right place to ask, anon hahaha

Anon said:First off, you draw the greatest art/headcanons for KiriBaku I've ever seen! Secondly, I found it funny since Bakugou is almost exactly like his mom, and since she got with Bakugou's dad by aggressively hitting on him, what if there was a scenario where Bakugou did that to Kirishima? Idk, I just thought it would be funny.

I actually have a couple of comics based on that concept!! Somewhere... in my bakushima tag............ I’ll def draw more on the same line in the future, tho!

Anon said:I know you posted your batteryacid (kamimina) picture a while ago but I just saw it and I'm sobbing I love it!

YO that makes me super happy, thank you!!!! I love that ship so much, it’s nice to know you liked the little thing I drew for it!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:hi, i just binge watched bnha for the first time and now that i understand all your comics i fucking love them, i'm in love, i love bakugou, i love them all, i love your art

And I love YOU to be hecking honest!!!! Thank you for loving my boy, anon!!!!

Anon said:i just want kirishima to meet bakugou’s family one time in the show and his mother is probably gonna wanna make him her second son and bakugous LOSING IT

I DO hope that’s gonna happen in the manga canon sooner or later, but meanwhile Kirishima met Mitsuki in one of the novels! She’d been taken hostage by a villain, and Bakugou yelled at her for it, and she yelled right back at him like she wasn’t in the hands of a villain right then, and Kirishima said “as expected from Bakugou’s mom” and Bakugou said “don’t admire her!” or something on that line - I’d give you a link if I knew how I tagged it when I reblogged it, but I’m sure if you dig a bit around you can find it! Maybe on @aitaikimochi‘s blog, they translated a lot of kiribaku novel moments!

Anon said:im supposing that you do, but why do you think you like bakugou so much? personally i just like the angry scowl-y but fluffy characters haha and really hes so!! cute!!! and cool!!! really!!!!! hes so good at so many things but he sucks so badly ay feelings its so!! endearing!!!! apart from this i meant to praise you and your work but i ended up screaming about bakugou hahaha. i love him too muchasgshdjl

Oh heck anon, you really don’t wanna get into this, if I started talking about why I love Bakugou as much as I do I’d probably end up saying a 10k worth of words hah I love everything about him, everything he is and everything he has the potential to be, everything he’s changed about himself and every step he’s taken along the way to be who he is right now. I love his personality and I love how strong he is, I love how hard he works, I love how angry he is and how honest and direct and genuine in everything he does he is. I love the way he interacts with people, I love his expressions SO MUCH, I love his habit of speaking in hyperboles and I love how he’s a fast thinker and how he has to go back and walk through every step he skipped when he explains things to people. I love that he presents himself as a genius when actually he just pours everything he has in being the best at everything he tries doing, I love that he’s autocritical and that he cares and that he admits when he’s wrong and that he cries, I love the fact that he cries a lot. I love that he’s set on his path and that he takes everything life throws at him and keeps walking head up and square shoulders, and also I love his eyes and his hero costume and the fact that he wants to be intimidating and yells DIE at inanimate objects and enjoys hiking in his spare time and that he calls people nerd like he isn’t one himself I just. Love him. So damn much.

Anon said:Franeriiiiii~ I see that you're trying new techniques on your arts! Very nice, I enjoy watching you come up with new clothing and whatnot. I also see that the painting is a bit different, more detailed. Just dropping by to let you know I see your efforts ❤ keep on exploring! Maybe you'll discover that you can do what you couldn't in the past. As always, have a good day and much love \0/

SOB thank you SO MUCH, anon!!!!!

Anon said:Hey Fran, how are you? I was wondering if you have any tips on how to know where to place the shadows in a drawing? I'm still a beginner and this is the hardest part for me... And I love your art very much!! You're amazing, thank you for sharing your talent with us!

God, I would love to give you a hand there but to be fair I have zero clue what I’m doing when shading, anon ;-; I go a lot about it following more gut feeling and what looks right, than any actual tecnique (which probably shows to people who have a deeper understanding of it than I do orz) the best I can tell you to do is to try to draw from real life, but really this is such a hard question for me to answer when I myself need to work more on it ;^; I’m so sorry!

Anon said:Bakushima alternative ship name: POPROCKS

A GREAT NAME I’m nearly sure I read a fic called that once!

Anon said:I just wanted to thank you for sharing your amazing work for us. You literaly made my day

AHHHHHHH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Anon said:I just finished going through your kiribaku tag and I honestly don't know if I'm feeling fulfilled for all of it or empty because I just saw all of it daNG YOUR STYLE JUST FUCKING FITs KIRIBAKU SO MUCH I REALLY LOVE YOUR KRBK CONTENT AND THE KIDS FUUUUUUUKCKCKCKK. I'm really, really looking forward for more of your art but for now I gotta go through all your other content as well. Ps. Have I mentioned that I fucking love how you draw feet?????

OH MAN that’s such a nice thing to hear, that my style fits them!!! My style changed so much since I started drawing them that they probably influenced it to begin with, but I’m happy you like how it looks on them nonetheless!!! thank you so so much for the kind words and for taking the time to go through the whole tag!!!

Anon said:Hi! I’m an artist and i’ve been trying to draw boy teens for a while now but i cant seem to make them have muscles without making them look like sorta adults. Any tips? I like how you draw them

I dunno how qualified I am to answer this question since I’m still playing around with my style trying to work that out, but most of what I keep an eye out for are proportions and also how round I make the traits, I guess? The rounder the younger, as far as my art style goes - I also make the eyes bigger the younger my character is supposed to be, but that probably only works if you don’t mind your style not being all that realistic hahaha

Anon said:I want to go through and the like every single one of your posts but I feel like that's a little bit excessive. Since I can't do that, I would like to tell you how amazing you are and how even when I'm having a bad day your art always makes me smile. I hope you're having a lovely day!

Thank you so so much for this ask, anon!!!!!! I hope you’re having a wonderful day/week/month too!!!

Anon said:New hawk boy lookin like a snack.

I would lie if I said the first thing I thought when I read this ask was “I guess we’re talking chicken wings”, tbh

Anon said:Fran, I love your sketch of Yuuto!! :3 Do you ship anyone from yowapeda?

Thank you!!! And I guess I ship more or less anything with a vague canon basis? Which is, like, a whole damn lot of things thank you Watanabe for your gay biking children - I’m not particularly invested into anything at the moment, tho!

Anon said:Whenever I'm having a shitty day, I come back to your blog and scroll through it, the way you draw krbk is really sweet and gives me the warmth I need when I feel down. Thank you for sharing your beautiful art, you're amazing.

Sob thank you so much, oh my god! This is such a nice ask to get, I’m glad I can help you feel a lil bit better, anon ;^;

Anon said:Fran your iida is real real cute and I'm love

THANK YOU! I think he’s way less square than he’s supposed to be... I’m working on that lol

Anon said:KIRI'S PINEAPPLE HAIR??? SAVED ME. MY HEART IS SAVED. SOUL?? SAVED. LIFE??? SAVED.

I’M SO HAPPY YOU LIKED THAT!!!!!

Anon said:that drawing of hawks ended my life oh my goddddd he's bEAUTIFUL

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Tbh I thought of Hawk teaching Tokoyami how to fly with his quirk like a bird would, but birds just fricken shove their kids out of the nest.

At this point I wouldn’t even put that past Hawks, t b h

Anon said:I love all your art and I only recently discovered all of your old kirikamibaku stuff and was wondering if you'd consider drawing it again?

YEP! Not in the near future tho, as explained in the answer to the first ask up here!

Anon said:For your fusion au do you have any of the dances figured out yet?

Only the KiriBaku one, which is just hand holding - the AU was never meant to be more than just the designs tho, so I can’t say I spent too long on this sorta things!

Anon said:Your art is so nice and beautiful that you could probably draw any two characters together and say it's a ship and I would just accept it without question like "You right omg how have I not noticed this befORE IT'S GENIUS" and it could literally even be two rocks. Not even characters. Just rocks. Bless you

THANK YOU this is!!!!!!!! such a cool feeling omg so much power to have.......... I’m gonna need to use it wisely (I say, but the first thing I thought when I read the two rocks thing was “I did draw Kiri and Tetsu in the past!” so I guess wise isn’t a thing I am at all lol)

Anon said:I’m sure you get asked this a lot but is it okay if I post some art of yours on amino? (With credits to you of course)

Nope, sorry! I don’t allow reposts with or without credit, please don’t repost my stuff - if you really wanna share you can just drop a link to the original post~

Anon said:Can I repost your art in my Instagram page with credit please ?

Anon said:Can i repost your art with credit ?

Again, sorry but I’d prefer it if you did not do that!

Anon said:Hello! Opinions on iida x deku x todoroki? I love ur art sm and ur latest thing(which inspired this ask haha) hope ur having a nice day!

Love it!!! It’s one of my main ot3s in bnha!!!! And thank you!!!!!!!!!

Anon said:Can you draw more Bakugo with glasses?? I love my goth/jock/nerd son. (I also love your art btw :'D💕)

Thank you!!! And I can! And most probably will!!! Can’t say how soon that’s gonna be, tho!

Anon said:was the art of bakugou doing kirishima's hand pose/stance based off of the official card game or was that a super happy coincidence? :'D

Seeing as I posted the comic weeks before the card came out, I’d say it was a coincidence haha that said! In the card Bakugou isn’t actually doing Kiri’s pose! He’s doing his own, which is adorably similar to Kirishima’s - one closed hand against an open palm as he lats out an explosion, you see him take the stance as he gets ready to fight now and again in the manga and anime! 

Anon said:Psst, you got that Bakukamikiri?

Sadly, not at the moment :( as I said, maybe in the future~

Anon said:I love your art more than anything and your Kiribaku keeps me alive, especially now it's finals week. Also your Kaminari is a beautiful boy who deserves all my love. I have to ask for more of him. I love you omg!!!! Please never stop drawing! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

More Kaminari is coming your way! Definitely! Since I draw him a lot all things considered and you therefor you don’t really need to ask to see more of him haha

[silverbane]

Silver Rants About RWBY

Alright so in regards to the last episode of RWBY that aired (on 1/6/18 for FIRST, and 1/13/18 for YouTube, can’t be bothered to look up the name, sorry), and I guess the one from before because they’re connected, there’s some writing things that rubbed me the wrong way, and I kinda wanna put my own two cents on it. I don’t plan on writing too many rants on this blog, but I just figured this out while discussing it with a friend who hasn’t gotten to V5. I haven’t seen today’s new episode on FIRST so, we’ll see. First OW, now RWBY. What’s next, a rant on MonMusu?

… don’t fucking test me, universe

This is going to be a little Jaune discussion, so strap in. Putting it under a read more, but I’m still p.sure that doesn’t work for mobile, so just swipe by this if you don’t want spoilers. Sorry guys! Maybe I’ll put a photo at the end as like, a sign that it’s done. Good? Alright, let’s open this bag.

Alright, so in the latest episodes (minus today’s), Jaune gets his semblance, which seems to just be healing. Which, I’m fine with. It gives him a purpose besides just bumbling fool with a strong heart. It’s nice to have like, a dedicated healer, which I don’t remember ever really being touched on before. Like, how do people deal with wounds in the field? Well, now the group has Jaune, who can fix them up lickity split and possibly have them out fighting again.

I have no problems with this. This allows him to develop more as a fighter and character, and it’s not him just standing there going, “Go team, go!”. However, I kind of have a problem with how it was done. I don’t go on the rwby tag much anymore, only going on after the end of each season to see art and stuff, so I don’t know if this is been touched on, so I’m going to just say what happened, my problem with it, and how I’d fix it.

How It Went Down: So we have the big fight going on in Haven. With our heroes including Qrow (best boy), Ruby, Weiss, Yang, Ren, Nora, Jaune, and Oscar fighting Lionheart, Cinder, Raven, Vernal (spelling?), Mercury, and Emerald. Jaune takes Cinder on, now completely pissed, and they start fighting. Meanwhile Weiss is getting the shit kicked out of her by Vernal, I’m pretty sure. She’s beaten, down on the floor, and that’s when Jaune gets knocked down.

Jaune says that she can kill him, that he doesn’t matter, but the others will still get her. Then she sees Weiss on the ground, and goes, oh yeah fuck her. So she conjures her molten javelin, and throws it through Weiss’s stomach, Ruby tries to go Cyclops, but Emerald… shoots her? Like, knocks her out by shooting her. Everyone just stands and watches as Weiss is impaled, Cinder then leaves with Raven and Vernal. Jaune rushes to Weiss’s side, Ren says he doesn’t know how to save her, and that’s when stress breaks Jaune and he gets his healing.

What’s Wrong With It: If you look at the big picture, what the fuck. Everyone was kinda just standing around watching this happen. Nobody tried blocking it, telling Weiss to move, or knocking her out of the way. Cinder literally walked towards her, everyone watching, summoned the spear, and threw.

Second, Weiss has gotten really bad. Like, she was acting like she hadn’t touched a weapon in forever. She was getting beaten soundly, and kept trying to summon. Like, did she forget how to fight after learning to summon? She has glyphs and buffs she can give to allies, but she’s relying too heavily on summoning now. It seemed like they neutered her fighting ability to just put her in that position.

Third, one of the main characters was hurt, just to develop Jaune more. A character who isn’t really all that close to him. Weiss and him are friends at best, if she can tolerate him more at this point. It’s hard to remember if they got any better since the weird love thing he had for her in V2, but I’m pretty sure they’re not like, best friends, and just regular friends. It’s weird how much trauma happens just to develop him. I dunno.

So ultimately, I’m frustrated that Weiss had to get bad and almost killed in order to let Jaune have is semblance. But I think I can do it better. Because I’m a smartass.

Silver’s Revision: Alright first of all have Weiss not sucking. Like, damn. That was bad. She can move quick with her glyphs and is fully capable of fighting Vernal at an equal level, I’d think. Maybe having some trouble, but not being completely trounced like she was. So, have Vernal and Weiss having their fight.

Instead, focus on Ren and Nora fighting… Hazel, was it? I forget his name, so I’ll refer to him as the big guy. Have him soundly beating the two of them. They sometimes get good offense in, but the guy can easily knock them back. Ren gets knocked out against a pillar, Nora’s distracted, gets beaten down into the ground, effectively out. Jaune does his whole, “I don’t matter, but they do” thing, and Cinder instead…

Targets Nora.

Why? Because from a narrative standpoint, it would be amazing. We’ve never really seen Nora completely out of a fight before, if memory serves, so seeing her vulnerable would be unnerving, then when she’s almost killed, that’s shocking. Jaune and Ren care for her, Ren is livid, terrified of losing her, Jaune is getting frantic too because he doesn’t want to lose another team member. Like, I can see it. Ren is crying, telling her to keep breathing, and Jaune is just standing there, worried about being completely helpless, staring, his hands on her wound… Tears fall, and bam, he’s a cleric now.

I feel like this is just a better way of doing it. Our main characters don’t seem weak, Jaune and his team are even closer now, and he’s solidified his role in the team. It might not fix all problems, but that’s just what I kinda wish would’ve happened. I might do a sequel to this after I see the new episode, but eh. I need to stop doing long essays for these things. I’m writing them more than I’m writing actual stories.

alright i should seriously stop doing these they require way too much effort

[buildarocketboys]

WIPs

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on: writing, art, gifsets, whatever.

@thealpacalypse tagged me!! thank you buddy!!

1. Queer Berlin (nanowrimo project - TV screenplay)

My nanowrimo project. It has three main storylines atm (for the first season, as I’m writing it as a TV screenplay), the first one involving Michael and Thomas, who are sex workers in 1920s Berlin. Michael is super political and outspoken and very gay (and in love with Thomas), Thomas is less confident, moved t Berlin/became a sex worker to support his family, is convinced he’s straight/is repressing his sexuality but is slowly falling in love with Michael, his best friend. Things come to a head when his family back home fall on hard times due to the Great Depression of 1929 and he decides to blackmail one of his clients, which, uh, doesn’t go down very well with outspoken gay rights activist Michael.

Storyline number 2 is about Erika, a trans woman who works in a department store. She’s just starting to come to terms with her identity/feel more comfortable presenting more feminine, and is able to do so at work to some extent, and is sometimes able to model female clothes for customers. She also finds a place to belong in the queer nightlife of Berlin, but as the series progresses she becomes more and more certain that she wants to transition as much as possible to living as a woman, including surgically, leading her to try to get in touch with pioneering sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld.

Storyline number 3 is about Clara and Franzi, girlfriends in a long-term relationship. Franzi wants to take it to the next level and move in together, and is starting to tire of the lack of obvious commitment from her girlfriend. Clara adores her girlfriend, although she adores theatre (and Anita Berber) possibly even more - she’s autistic and it’s a special interest. She also works in the theatre. Clara wants to take the next step too, sort of, but she’s scared of what her strict, judgemental, conservative parents might say/that they might guess what’s going on, as well as a whole lot of other things that might change when they move in together.

Hopefully all these characters will meet and interact and their storylines will cross over, I’m excited about it but also very bad at writing this year, because I have a full time job and other fic priorities, woops. (If you wanna talk about it that would be really great though, I wanna be more inspired/motivated lol). Which brings me on to...

2. nobody knows me at home anymore (black sails big bang fic)

This is my biggest priority atm tbh, since it’s due for the end of the month/start of Dec and other people are involved so it’s like...more of an important deadline lol. I’m hoping to get it mostly finished this weekend, it’s just over 15,000 words atm, which is probably the longest thing I’ve ever written, certainly in such a short space of time (see, this is why I never win Nano!) It’s about Abigail retuning to Charlestown after Flint has destroyed it and finding documents from her father’s house proving Thomas is still alive. She decides to search for him and get him released from the plantation but is stopped by her father’s men, who imprison her in the house. Meanwhile, Thomas and James start a new life, and Thomas meets his old nanny, who was pretty much the only person who ever showed him love and affection during his childhood.Eventually Abigail finds them, months after they’ve escaped the plantation, and she is pregnant., and they all have to deal with the consequences of everything that has happened.And that’s basically a summary of the entire fic, lol, hopefully the actual thing reads much better. 

3. Silly Wrong But Vivid Right (black sails fic)

Yes I am still working on this! I have most of chapter 4 written now, I just need to type it up and finish it. No idea where I’ll go with it after this chapter, but ah well. Chapter 4 is the longest and most action-packed so far, so look out for that, I guess! Dunno if I’ll get it typed up this weekend, but we’ll see.

4. autistic!james is a cook fic (not actual title, lol, black sails fic)

James is a chef in Padstow. Thomas is a customer at the restaurant who keeps sending his compliments to the chef on the great food. It’s gonna be very cute and fluffy, and James is gonna be as autistic as fuck.

5. untitled doc martin fic

I finally succumbed today and decided to write doc martin fic. The basic premise I’m working on is Martin questioning if when Louisa says she doesn’t want James to be ‘shy’ or ‘not know how to socialise’, she’s really saying that she doesn’t want James to be like him. Hopefully gonna lead to autistic!Martin and autistic!James, but I might write a little series of fics, if my interest keeps up lol.

God this was long, sorry! I tried to keep it to WIPs that I’m actually currently working on/thinking about, but apprently, that’s still quite a lot. 

Tagging @bisexualpirateheart @complaininginthedark @copper-toned @brightbluedot @lyledebeast @breefraser and @ anyone else doing nanowrimo who I’ve added as a buddy, or who I haven’t! (Feel free to add me on there, same username!)

[terribleco]

Chris Mander Interview

Chris Mander is one of the longest serving members of The Terrible Company and is one of those naturally gifted skateboarders who never really loses his ability to shred. In recent times he has taken time out from skateboarding to embark on a career in programming and to start a family, but on the rare occasions where he goes skateboarding he embodies the style and ability of his younger self, with the only difference being a pair of glasses and a penchant for Commodore and NASA t-shirts. As someone instrumental to the history of The Terrible Company, I wanted to find out what skateboarding has meant to him and how the Coventry skate scene impacted his life.

Congratulations on becoming a Dad, and joining the ranks of 'Rad Dads of the Cov Skate Scene'. Is being a Dad harder than skateboarding? 

Thanks! To be honest I'm not sure how I'd begin to compare them! They are both difficult and rewarding for completely different reasons.

You lived in Japan for a year and put skateboarding to rest for a bit - did you miss it when you were out there or were you happy to put skateboarding on the back burner?

I've always been into multiple things at a time, with one main hobby really taking focus. Throughout my teens and early twenties, skateboarding was it, but computer programming eventually became the next big thing I wanted to do and has been ever since. While this was where I was at during my time in Japan, I would still get the impulse to skate, just not as frequently as I imagine that the twenty year old me would in the same position.

Did you see much presence of skateboarding out in Japan?

I was based in a residential area outside of downtown Osaka, so I wasn't expecting to see much skateboarding outside of the city. I was surprised that I didn't see as much as I expected to see whenever I was downtown, perhaps I wasn't in the right places as there's definitely a scene out there.

I would see a lot of quirky skate spots that seemed untouched by skateboarders. It's  either that there's spots in far greater abundance than skateboarders can cover, or there's a different attitude to street skating than in the west that causes these spots to be left untouched.

Chris' first section in a Terrible Company video was in 2006's Rushed Goods. I remember meeting Chris down Covpark and getting on with him really well, and remembering how he immediately involved me in the larger scene. He was largely my introduction to some of the best skateboarders in the city at the time like Matt and Tez Aldersley, Ralph Cooper and the older Ride team members like Gaz Taylor and Jim The Skin. 

What do you remember about the scene down Covpark around the time we first met?

I met you a little while before you put out the "Beastly" video. During that time there were smaller groups of skaters that all came together due to Covpark being built, and "Rushed Goods" captured that nicely.

I was always intimidated by the majority of skateboarders in the scene at that time. You kinda made skateboarding feel open for anyone wanting to join. Was the openness and inclusivity of skateboarding you exhibited something that drew you to it?

What drew me to skateboarding was how impressive it looked. I wanted to experience the feeling that the skaters in the videos that I watched must've felt. I also wanted to be part of a subculture that stood against the attitudes of popularity and exclusivity in secondary school.

I always thought of you as part of that crew of shredders everyone associated with Matt and Tez - how did you meet them?

I was about 14 or 15, and I met them through a friend who went to school with them. They were part of a group of people who all skated, and I tagged along when the group went through some changes after a few of them quit skateboarding. Matt and Tez were amazing, I remember them being so good when I first met them. The first time I skated with them, we were skating in Coventry City Centre, and Tez kickflipped the 6 set above Madge's banks. He was just this tiny kid who was really good. That's what motivated me about skateboarding because I saw those guys and it just looked like they were riding the air. It just seemed so natural to them.

Matt and Tez Aldersley were brothers who would go on to feature in Terrible Company videos after Rushed Goods. Both had parts in Corrosive Materials (2007) and Tez had a part in 2011's Cannonball Holocaust. They were all terrain rippers who got onto the Ride team and were mainstays of the scene down Covpark. It was Chris, however, who ended up bagging more footage as he became a permanent member of our crew. 

You probably know what this blog is about as much as I do. What drew you to the kinda things we were doing as a crew with the blog?

I think it mixed art with skateboarding; it was a group of skateboarders who were in it for so much more creatively, who were into the artistic expression of it through video editing or graphic design, and also through documenting experiences through video or the written word. It was something more than just skateboarding.

How many parts do you think you have filmed for Terrible Company videos?

Well the first one was Rushed Goods… but this is more a question of do I remember all of the videos we made. Errr… I'm gonna guess 7.

I think it's 8 - Rushed Goods, Corrosive Materials, Storybook, Guitar Solos With Skateboards, Batface, Cthulhu, 4 Horsemen (online part) and, finally, 2018's Franchi$e. Not bad for a bunch of blokes fucking around with video cameras!

Well there you go - I forgot Franchi$e!

This blog is very much a weird, silly, daft thing which doesn't take itself seriously. You've often been involved with skits we filmed where you skated dressed as a ninja, or where we made a mockumentary about you becoming addicted to a fake energy drink and disappearing. Do you think the daft nature of skits like this go hand in hand with skateboarding, or do you think we're just idiots?

I think we were kids! We were young people wanting to have fun. I think it just goes hand in hand with growing up, and just having a sense of humour. I think the whole Mind Cry Energy Drink skit was the start of me not being involved in the videos so much. I was feeling fatigued with it all and specifically with skateboarding just to film, even just with skateboarding. It was a long time ago but it was definitely rooted in me wanting to take a step away, but rather than just say that we decided to make a joke out of it and be creative.

As you've gotten older do you still feel a connection to Coventry skateboarding or do you think that time has passed?

I mean, perhaps the latter - but it was 10 years of my life, of being deeply part of that scene, and I don't think you can easily just escape something you have spent that much time involved in. I think a part of me will always be thinking about Coventry skateboarding. 

What would it take to convince you to come and film a full part for me again?

A full part?? 3 to 4 minutes???

Yeah!

That's a lot of skateboarding! I mean I would have to warm up a lot to get to the skating which is worth filming. I dunno, I don't see it happening personally haha. 

Anyone you want to thank?

You, I guess - when I stopped skating with Matt and Tez so much, I didn't have anyone to skate with, and you and the rest of the Terribleco folks welcomed me into the group. It kept me skating, and I really appreciated it. Probably kept me out of trouble! Being part of the Cov scene and the Terrible Company lead to many awesome friends including yourself, so… err… Thank you, Ade, haha.

Chris is one of my best friends, and one of the best people I know. I wouldn’t be who I am today without having met him, and he’s the embodiment of the fun and creativity I found within skateboarding. To conclude, I think the point of interviewing him was to shine a light on some unsung personal heroes - sometimes it’s not a guy with a pro board who can inspire you to skate, sometimes all you need is some friends who make you wanna skate.

To finish up - here’s a megamix of Chris Mander footage from the late 2000′s and early 2010′s!

[witches-and-weirdos]

Well, I woke up today to 8 tags/messages about the New Omega Squad skins

Let’s see:

First of all, you should know that I wasn’t excited for them, I specifically did not want them to come out with this name (at the time, the leak only included Veigar, Twitch and Fizz). And now that they are here... eh.

So, my main problem was (even then) the choice of champions: Fizz and Twitch just don’t fit imo, I love the Omega Squad that Teemo gave us, and that we made up stories about... that was (in my head) a full on yordle squad. Veigar could have been a possibility, but I still didn’t like it. This Veigar is... well, acceptable I think.

The skins’ general quality: “Eh...” Don’t get me wrong, the effects are amazing, the sound effects are AMAZING, the splash arts are AMAZING... but the models? I’m not exactly convinced. I don’t feel like they did justice with the models. And the chromas... I mean... sure, someone likes them, but most of them don’t look that good to me. I’ve see better OSTeemo chromas on google half a year ago, if i’m completely honest.

So, now the individual skins:

Fizz and Twitch: Yeah, nice skins and all, just why do you need to be called Omega Squad? This actually irritates me. (Just wanna say here that I actually adore the Fizz skin, that ulti is so perfect!)

Tristana: The splash art is absolutely awesome and they nailed it. The model doesn’t look quite impressive to me. I honestly expected more for her and so this is a bit of a disappointment for me.

Veigar: For me, it isn’t really a problem anymore that Veigar is part of the squad, he actually looks like he fits there. The splash art is nice. The ingame abilities are interesting choices (remote control for air support - W; gunshot - Q; etc).The model is, again, not too impressive, but it’s still nice I guess.

So, overall... I dunno, I honestly wanna be a bit angry because the Fizz and Twitch skins are called Omega Squad, because with this, Riot declared that the omega squad is not for yordles only, and kinda destroyed my entire collection of headcanons with it. I guess the splash arts, the sound and visual effects are more than enough to make peace with the models (they aren’t bad, I just don’t like them that much).

A little personal thing now: About the comic I wanted to make... i’m not sure if I should go on with the - now completely different than official - idea that I had, or maybe discard it... I dunno, it just feels like I’m taking an awesome name and making something entirely different with it, and people are gonna ask why it’s not like in the official version... “Where is Fizz? Where is Twitch? Why isn’t Veigar with them? Why does Tristana look so different? This isn’t even Omega Squad, you just stole the name!” I can almost hear it coming...

I honestly didn’t want these skins to come out and I’m not hyped for them...

[armadil-lo]

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on: writing, art, gifsets, whatever.

I was tagged by @miss-ingno​ - your list was an interesting read, love! :D I hope mine isn’t too boring haha. (Actually it’s basically just the list of I’m a terrible human being, so.)

I tag anyone who sees this who hasn’t done it yet and wants to because I’ve seen quite a few and am not sure who’s already been tagged basically haha. But feel free to do it and say that I was the one who tagged you because I’d love to read some more. :’) 

My shit is under this read more~

To Write:

La Vida Mocha Chapter 2. And beyond. And I should definitely plan it all out too. Oops.

I wanted to write a thing for @thilesluna‘s Lunael FAHC/Cop AU a while ago and I still have a bunch of planning notes for that

I have a fleshed out backstory/headcanon for Max (from Camp Camp) that I’ve been meaning to write up

A FAHC Mavin AU in which Michael accidentally adopts a bunch of cats called Catastrophe in Love because I’m so clever

A modern day Tuckington AU idea I’ve literally had for ages called What Makes a House a Home in which essentially Tucker is homeless and Wash is far too charitable for his own good

A friend of a friend has a Camp Camp AU where Jasper lives and he and David are camp counselors together and also boyfriends so I wanted to write a thing for that

A prompt I got for... last year’s Monty Oum Project that was “You need to stop leaving dead bodies in my kitchen” and I was gonna write it about FAHC Ryan of course but then it turned into this thing where I started researching symbolism of body parts/organs? and. Yeah. So there’s that.

Obviously I wanna write something for the Jeremwood Dwight’s Delivery AU some day !!

Secret birthday presents >.> >.> >.> (3 to 5 at the moment; I’m undecided if I should write or draw for one of them, and undecided if I should write one or two things for another person. That is all.)

Idk if any of my followers know of the beautiful comic Check, Please! but. a Zimbits Band AU.

A rewrite or continuation of Legacy?? Maybe?

THE GIVEAWAY PROMPTS FROM MY 100 FOLLOWER GIVEAWAY THAT I STILL HAVEN’T FILLED OUT YET ???? I SUCK @an-adventure-in-writing @mariruse @4ever-tuckington-lover But there was a Tuckington college AU first date, Docnut honeymoon or holiday, Maine/Wash hurt and comfort and a Tuckington songfic to Buy Me a Rose. I don’t know if it’s any consolation at all that they’re on this list but. Don’t hate me? <3

THIS fucking list of 5-10 sentence prompts that I made for myself for some reason???

A bunch of assorted AU ideas of various levels of fleshed-outedness including..: 

Jeremichael Immortal FAHC AU (I wrote the intro and planned out two scenes and that was it but I still like that AU)

FAHC Origins AU (co-writing - we have so much planning done but not much actual fic haha)

Something I call the “Work Worms” AU. Don’t ask. I don’t even actually remember most of it.

A Raywood subway AU? (It was a conversation I had with a friend once)

Myan Journey AU that could be cool but would likely be pretty obscure lmao

Myan/Jackeoff/Jerevin Diner AU (Dunno if I’ll ever write that one tbh)

Ramwood What Happens In Vegas AU (Yes, like the movie. Geoff as Jack and Ryan as Joy. It works, I swear.)

An AH Pirate AU of some kind? That one just because it’d be fun lol

Jeremavin/Jackeoff/Raywood Heartland AU (maybe? Or else I could rework it to be Mavin/Jackeoff/Jeremwood. Still not sure yet. But that show is great, I can’t believe I didn’t know it existed until this year, I used to love the books. Thank god there’s 10 seasons of it haha.)

NOT TO MENTION these prompts that I’ve been sitting on in my inbox, some for maybe like over a year?? (and I know not all were intended to be prompt prompts but i’M TAKING THEM AS SUCH)

Honestly, I’m definitely forgetting stuff that should be here too. I’m basically just a big mess who comes up with too many ideas and makes too many promises that I won’t keep and then I either Never Write or write what I’m not supposed to and just keep adding to this never-ending list.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To Draw:

That one birthday present that maybe I’ll draw something for maybe I’ll write something for or maybe both, who knows >.> Need to do that this weekend though either way hah

I have a bunch of drawings of my OCs in various AUs and situations that I’ve been wanting to draw for forever but have never gotten around to; there’s a list of that on my phone too but I won’t subject y’all to all the details that you wouldn’t understand because I barely talk about my OCs hahah. I made them all in the Sims instead anyway lol

My irl friend Georgia wants me to draw her and Gavin’s, like, life/love story lmao

Other:

Finish up my RT/AH rec list (making my own youtube playlists for some, linking everything, adding series and things that are good, y’know)

Just. This blog. Do it. Find gifs of my OCs’ FCs (lmao), write up their proper bios and life stories, add in family trees and info about AUs. Yeah I had a whole plan for that blog. (@laurens-ocs)

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LETS THINK ABOUT BREAKFAST RPG Protagonist: a cute lil girl of some sort. Maybe named Cherry or Gateau or something adorable. Maybe a cherry shaped hat? Maybe shes like a chef magical girl. Or maybe just use default assets from rpgmaker cos the point is to get the game done and not over think it. And then like a tutorial character/rival who's like THE BRUNCH DEMON or something! Some really inexplicable reaper-lookin monster who has a goofy cute personality and is protag's friend/enemy/Robbie rotten. She runs a rival restaurant, comes in like plankton to steal le secret formula but also inexplicably constantly pops up in the tutorials, having a tea party with protag on the loading screen, etc. Self-sabotaging helping the poor kid out because deep at heart she's a nice ol monster! And then the third character is just The Office Guy. Some completely ordinary working Joe who has a breakfast magical girl pop into his life for no rational reason. *toast keeps appearing* *screams* First level is just you making him breakfast (and him freaking out), then you progress through stuff like impressing his boss with a birthday cake or whatever, to improve the poor sod's life. (While he continues screaming at all this magically appearing food, probably starts seeing a psychiatrist) And then eventually he just accepts it and you open a restaurant together. ...and then he has to compete against this giant monster brunch chef, and starts screaming all over again. STATS AND ELEMENTS! Maybe just keep stats exactly the same but give them funny renames? Or rename em to what they symbolise within this particular game. So like... Maybe speed = overall cooking skill? Cos it means you can attack faster and use more actions before the end of the time limit, its basically the most important skill for making complex foods. And I dunno, attack and magic attack could be... Cut and whisk? Savoury and sweet? Food and drink? If you had to divide all breakfast items into only two categories, how would you do it? I'm not sure what to do about the two kinds of defense. I mean.. I know what I want them to be but its hard to summarise it in one word. Could just be like defense against food based injuries (burning, etc) and defense against food-spoiling moments (getting eggshell in the bowl, overcooking, etc). Like one is actual defense and one lowers the odds of random events that harm you. So you get less penalties for failing. Oh, or maybe just have it as savoury defense and sweet defense and then luck affects your failure penalties/success bonuses? But I wanted to rename luck as ~love~ and say its the most important ingredient! XD "Elements" would be where the cooking styles come into play! Enemies would have a lot of tags, like tomato is savoury, fruit AND vegetable, and classed as an entree rather than a main dish component. Can only be used as ingredients, toppings and side orders. And most food would have a flavour but I dunno really what to define tomato as? Or potato. So there should be a sort of neutral flavour element that's just as important as the others. Like.. Calm flavour. Balance flavour. Foundation flavour. That's what potatoes and breads and carbs are, they lower down other flavours and act as a base to absorb those flavours, yknow?? They're important! But tomatoes aren't the same even though its hard to categorise them into a flavour. Maybe flavours can combine to make flavours? Tomato could be like... Salty + sweet? Maybe everything has a particular amount of each flavour that they contribute to the dish. So tomato would give +2 salt and +1 sweet. And +1 moist or something. And then your attacks are divided into multiple elements separate from the food elements. Your elements are all cooking techniques, like boil, chop, etc. And levelling up elements unlocks more skills for each one, like triangle cut or finely chopped or minced, or a passive skill that let's you cut tougher stuff like steak! And maybe it'd be clear cut weaknesses like sweet items are weak to mixing, or maybe its just individualized for each ingredient enemy and acts like the real ingredient in real life. I mean it'd be weird if tomatos were weak against going in a fruit pie or whatever... And then like... Combatttt!! I could just go with really basic default battle system but I wanna do elemental madness! And I wanna make it so you have a limited amount of turns, cos that means certain skills wouldn't be viable early on if they take too long, ensuring a good learning curve without having to limit the options too much. Like maybe complex chopping deals less damage but gives better results, so you have to fight harder to achieve that sandwich! Whereas you can just smash the tomato for a one hit kill and have a terrible sandwich. Triple weak to kneading, but logic dictates you ain't wanna do that :P (...maybe get an achievement called Undyne for seeing all the critical fail cut scenes? XD) And I dunno, maybe if you can't defeat the enemy before the time limit you just get an undercooked food that loses some points. And maybe if the enemy defeats you its like "somehow you slipped on a tomato and broke your back" Office dude better appreciate what we do for him! This kitchen is a deathtrap! And maybe early on you just have to complete the recipes the computer gives you, only being able to get bonuses/penalties depending on time taken and etc. Then you can start deciding how you wanna behave during battle- like triangle cut sandwiches or swapping the salad dressing! Then you can actually start selecting from multiple recipes, and multiple ingredients. It just says 'sandwich' and a vague description of what the person likes ('spicy' and 'traditional' and 'vegetarian') and its your job to figure out what to pick to satisfy that. Like maybe they don't want a hoagie or a toastie, and maybe they'd prefer brown bread? And definately can't rely on the easy +5 spicy sausage, we have to battle the far stronger peppers this time! And all the time we'll be seeing new recipes with longer steps and stronger ingredients!! And maybe move on to satisfying multiple customers at once? Have to make a food that contains all their fave things without getting so complicated that it defeats you. Or have no information about what they like and you have to just make multiple dishes that try and cover the full spread of logical possibilities so everyone is happy. At least one vegetarian option, and take care to make sure there's no nuts or gluten on ANYTHING cos we dunno which one the allergic coworker will eat! And then you can move on to outright alchemizing your own recipes by combining different ingredients in a practise mode. You don't get any penalty if you're wrong, and you can help out later missions by unlocking more recipe options, but you still have to pay for ingredients in order to practise. And I'm gonna make sure it is actually possible to win with just the default story unlock recipes, even if it might not be as easy or be able to get five star results. Oh, and probably a mission replay practise mode and/or sidequests, where you can make more money and grind for experience! Maybe even be able to get relationship points with different characters? Like, every day there's a repeatable side quest to keep making breakfast for office guy, like you did in the first level. And it gets more complex as you go on, so you could be making the world's best sandwich by the end! I think maybe also have some kind of morals meter for the [plot thing] that decides what ending you get. Like its not actually good and evil, but its a positive ending and a negative one. Like the best ending requires friendship with both office guy and rival demon, and higher [certain stat]. But you could also get like... Low stat rival demon ending has you selling out to her and the restaurant becomes awful and office guy lives in a cardboard box but at least you're rich. And positive ending might be that you still ditch office guy and fly off together, but you decide to travel the world finding other people in need of cheering up via magic breakfast and bring much happiness to the world~ Its lonely cos you always have to say goodbye to your human friends but at least you have demon rival buddy along for the ride in your immortal brekkie quest~! So yeah! A lot of ideas! I most definitely won't get them all done during the timeframe but I could at least hopefully make a playable demo. So like... Try and get as far as possible using default rpgmaker assets and basic framework, then release it as a teaser for people to see. If it does well then I have a whole bunch of ideas already on how to expand it into a full game, and I could draw fully original art assets and cutscenes to enhance the fun~! I just need to try and decide what the time limit is gonna be and when I'm gonna do it. And raise a lil hype from my friends cos seriously seeing comments and crits on my work is what motivates me beyond all else! Oh, actually, maybe I could do like... Multiple challenges?? "Hey bunni see how much you can make in one weekend" Then release that demo, and see people's comments and crits. Then if people are interested I could try working on it for a week next time and see how much I can improve it! And so on! That'd be good, with feedback and breaks in-between and stuff. And if one idea fails then I can just go back to the three day challenge with a different idea next time ^-^ Making a game out of making a game is a good way to get used to becoming more confident~! Maybe when it gets going then people could even add bonus challenges or something? I'd keep a tally of how many of these challenges I've done, and pretend its 'points', so I have a clear perspective on how productive I'm being. And then bonus points for how much positive response I got from the project, or how many downloads, or something. And then people can start throwing in requests like genre or how many words of dialogue or 'hey, include a shape shifting skill' or 'it has to be only black and white'. That'd help inspire me on what to do AND be challenging fun! And bonus productivity points for learning a new thing!! THIS IS A GOOD CONCEPT YES I could make like a points counter page or sideblog or something. Maybe have a lil doodle of me as a cliche RPG fighter character and when I hit point milestones I level up and draw a new outfit! And switch to magician or whatever when I run out of ideas. Need to find fun ways to motivate myself!!! I have dumb anxiety compulsions to count the tiles on the floor like that'll somehow make my luck better, counting nonexistent points is a nice way to make it less dumb. And making the reward be just the right to draw myself in a cute outfit means I'm guaranteeing I'll draw at least one thing that month, and drawing is a reward and not a job. And k dunno, maybe later on make the rewards stuff like 'you get to work on the big idea you actually wanted to do', so games are a reward not a job. Or 'you get to go to the cinema', so going out alone in scary crowds is a reward not a job. Or just even earn the right to buy a caffeine drink once a month and then that's a better way of beating my addiction! I've been trying to go cold turkey but I've never made it past 15 days cos there's really no reward or incentive or way to tell if I'm doing good. And sometimes I feel like having a lil energy boost would actually help me with finishing a project or something, versus when I'm just drinking it every day for no reason except yum. So if I can have one drink a month I might not even necessarily drink it right away, I'd save it for the last day of a challenge when I'm racing the deadline~! Lotsa ideas!!!