thegirlwholived1213

[sekaitransparents]

rekindle the flames | let’s master the english language! ~ an shiraishi (submitted by @/shinjirx)

[animeweeb115]

“…Have I really burnt myself out this much…?”

[lucarrie]

HELP

I FOUND OUT THE AKITO5 GACHA IS NAMED FUEL MY PASSION NOT REFUEL MY PASSION OOOPPSSSSSSSSSS I WROTE IT WRONG ON MY AKITO5 ART 😭😭😭

[project-sekai-updates]

『Fuel my passionガチャ』開催中⛓ 登場する★4メンバーを紹介✨

【燻る想い】★4 東雲彰人

[Google Translated Vers.]

"Fuel my passion gacha" is now on⛓ Introducing the 4★ members that will be appearing✨

[Smoldering Feelings] 4★ Shinonome Akito

[gingerbravecookie]

at this point I'm adding genshin to my blacklist honestly

"ooooo cursor got mad because Sonic didn't win" partially,, but I'm mad because most genshin fans (of course not all of them) literally did what they did because they wanted a prize to fuel their gacha addiction instead of genuine love for their game,, genshin got 2 other nominations that they could have won if they didn't center only on player's choice,, frontiers only got one,, and they only wanted to show they loved the game and wanted it to get the respect it deserved after 10 literal years without a game this magnitude,, but genshin only wanted the primogems,, something that wasn't even confirmed

tl;dr,, genshin won an award they didn't deserve,, a win only made by interest and not actual passion,, I'm not saying the Sonic fandom wasn't toxic at times about it,, but i still find it unfair by my standards

(edit) okok in case it's not clear genshin fans can still interact,, i just need genshin to be tagged with my blacklist tag from now on and i don't want to get into the game in case everyone thought it was on my dni now

[kippin-art]

By the way, this is probably a question you answer a lot, and I am sorry if I am right in thinking that lmao, but how long have you been actively building your skills for?

it’s actually been a while since anyone’s asked me this so dw hahah

i’d say since my … junior year of college (~4 years). that year i started playing Fire Emblem Heroes, which is a mobile gacha game based on the FE series. i was supremely obsessed with the game, leading to me drawing the characters often. i wanted to be a little involved in the subreddit for the fandom so i started posting my art there and was super surprised by the positive feedback and cool community. back then i didn’t have an iPad (my current drawing tablet) so everything i did was traditional watercolor. and it kind of just takes off from there. fueled by love from the subreddit and my own love of the game i spent a lot of time drawing. eventually over time i got an iPad and was using the Procreate app as my medium instead.

i do want to stress that i don’t believe the tools are necessarily what improved my skillset, bc while Procreate is a fantastic drawing app the fact that i could easily pull out an iPad to do complex drawings anywhere at anytime helped me more than the technlology.

anyways, i’ve been actively improving my art that way. i will say that drawing has always been my interest and talent even when i was really young, but back then it was purely a hobby. once i started socializing my work and finding passion in a lot of different fandoms it became super easy to focus my time and energy towards art and taking myself seriously as an artist, which i think was the most critical success factor in building my skillset.

so sorry anon, i could have simply answered the # of years i’ve been doing this!!! ヽ(；▽；) i tend to overexplain when i want to help ppl…

[mollyislikingit]

This is so unfair 😭😭😭😭😭

He literally had an event like

THREE EVENTS AGO???????

Now I gotta tier again 🙄 because

1. It’s Reiji

2. Reiji is wearing freaking glasses

3. It’s pilot themed

And the untrained version looks so awesome 😍

But hey, it’s at least a collection event, so tiering will be easier to do 🤷‍♀️

Good luck to Reiji stans out there!

On a totally really really unrelated note (Pls don’t read it lmao 😂)

I just saw the Christmas gacha banner.

And oh boy, when I saw them right next to each other

I was like

This was such a blessed image, and this fuels even more harder for my love of RanCam 😭 Like they’re next to each other on CHRISTMAS! Come on, that doesn’t get any gayer than that 🤔

(The only other time I saw these two together in the banner is in the white day gacha)

I’M TELLING YOU GUYS THAT THEY’RE BOYFRIENDS OKAYYYYAAHHH

Sorry for screaming in all caps 😓 I just really get really passionate when I see my fav all time ship. And this ship is such a rarepair, so we don’t get that much content from these two together (besides the bickering lmao) 😪 Who else ships these two? I’m still waiting on the RanCam UR pair 😫 Anyway, that’s enough of my useless rambling 😅

Sincerely,

Your avid RanCam shipper 😜

[sage-nebula]

ok I am sorry for not shutting up about pokemasters at all tonite but I always grin so much when I hear your Pokemon stories. this whole other world has permeated our lives so much, almost everyone in our generation has that One Story of when they imagined themselves in that world, its touched us all so much and whenever I hear people go off about their teams or their pokestories it just makes me grin. this is our world now and pokemasters does such good in celebrating it both past and present

Do not apologize, I am always ready to talk about Pokémon any time, any place, for any reason, with just about anyone.

It really is our world, like, we all live in a Pokémon World, and while it’s not exactly the same exact one (I do not have a real life Charizard or Dragapult and I will forever be sad about this), it’s close enough because Pokémon really has had that much of an impact. It’s made more money than any other media franchise. In Japan, it really is everywhere; I didn’t expect it to be, but it was, and I was completely taken aback by it. And it really is for everyone, young and old. Sure, it’s accessible and appropriate for children, but a lot of the merchandise is made for adults, and when I was in Japan, my friend Yume and I were ushered over to sit on a giant Lapras and take pictures by the staff, even though we initially hung back because we’re adults and we didn’t think that event was for us.

Pokémon is so special to me, and when I’m put on the spot (like in a verbal conversation) it’s hard for me to articulate why. Like my dad has asked me a few times why I like Pokémon, because he legitimately thought it was a fad I’d get bored of back in the ‘90s (and told me so), and I fumbled and all I could say was, “It’s fun, and I like the creatures and everything about it.” If I’m given time to think about it then I could go on endlessly about how Pokémon champions the bonds of trust and love between humans and their animal companions (which is why I get so irritated when people call it things like “G-rated dog fighting” because it really is not that at all if you know anything about what the franchise actually promotes), and how much that means to me. I could talk about how Pokémon is very much about striving to be the very best, but also more importantly to be your very best, not only in what you accomplish but also in how you treat others around you. I could talk about how interesting it is to study the ways in which Pokémon promotes individuality (“be the very best, like no one ever was”), while at the same time showing time and time again that no one can do everything alone, that it’s important to form bonds and have companions that you can rely on. 

If I’m given time to think about the things I like best about Pokémon, I could talk about all of that, and probably never shut up. (Especially when it comes to the bonds between humans and pokémon because that means so much to me, personally.) But when I’m put on the spot, I fumble for an answer because, as I told my dad, I love everything about it, so my brain short-circuits as it tries to figure out which thing to talk about first (and how to keep it concise because I know he doesn’t want to hear me ramble on forever). Thinking about Pokémon makes me so happy, and gives me this warm, comforted feeling. It’s my comfort series, really. (Or I guess comfort franchise, given that it encompasses so much.) I still have a few fiction interests that have stuck around since childhood (such as The Legend of Zelda, which I got into shortly after I got into Pokemon), but Pokemon is always the one that I’m most actively passionate about, the one that inspires me the most, the one that I know I’ll never turn away from no matter how many times The Pokemon Company or Junichi Masuda himself make me angry.

So all of that being said, yes, please talk to me about Pokémon any time, and I really agree with what you’ve said about Masters. There are things about it that I’m not so fond of (such as being gacha . . . I’ve spent far more money on it than I should have, and while not as bad as her since I never put myself in financial danger over it, I could relate on a level over Retsuko’s microtransaction woes at the beginning of s3), but I love, love, love how much it expands on characters that we otherwise see very little of in the games. This is especially true of characters from the earliest gens, since the early gens had so little story and content that their characters were never given room to come to life. PokéMasters gives that to us, along with so much more (such as seeing these characters interact and talk about one another! THE SHIPPING FUEL IS ENDLESS), and even though it’s gacha and therefore has gutted me more than once, I’m still grateful it exists and I still love it. It’s a much better mobile game than Go, in my opinion, and I’m always excited for more Masters content. :)

But yes, we all live in a Pokémon world, and I’m so happy about it. I wouldn’t have it any other way.

[sekaitransparents]

rekindle the flame | my smoldering feelings ~ akito shinonome

[sekaitransparents]

rekindle the flame | so we can be worthy of it ~ kohane azusawa (trained submitted by @/vividmongrel)

[sekaitransparents]

rekindle the flame | what is near yet unseen ~ toya aoyagi (submitted by @/project-sekai-archives)

[sekaitransparents]

rekindle the flame | to you who are looking for your “passion” ~ kaito

[animeweeb115]

“Wha... What?”

[animeweeb115]

“I'm very happy to hear that!”

[project-sekai-updates]

『Fuel my passionガチャ』開催中⛓ 登場する★4メンバーを紹介✨

【目指せ、英語マスター！】★4 白石杏

[Google Translated Vers.]

"Fuel my passion gacha" is now available⛓ Introducing the 4★ members that will be appearing✨

[Aim to master English!] 4★ Shiraishi An

[project-sekai-updates]

『Fuel my passionガチャ』開催中⛓ 登場する★4メンバーを紹介✨

【相応しくあれるように】★4 小豆沢こはね

[Google Translated Vers.]

"Fuel my passion gacha" is now on⛓ Introducing the 4★ members that will be appearing✨

[To be worthy] 4★ Kohane Azusawa