#hey january

[omanatascha]

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[lukitua]

Babygirl and Little Guy (or Laudna and Pâté de Rolo)

+ little bonus up close for Laudna's ear:

[mysticalcats]

super quick munk for @jellyfuljellicle's jellicle january!!

[korogie]

Georgie little mermaid outfit doodles

[plaguedocboi]

Alright I’ve been promising a face reveal/Genderbent Ahab cosplay for a while now and I’m finally delivering

I went looking for those Great Lakes whales

I didn’t see any, but I know those motherfuckers are out there (that’s what I’m thinking in that last pic)

Pictures by @dr-skara

[egophiliac]

I have a question about the jp server pickups, since I really want knight Sebek, but I’m trying to save gems for bloom malleus + the 3rd tsum event that’s gonna show up sooner or later. Iirc, after knight Sebek, the next story update’s pickup had all of the previous story cards (ie cerberus Ortho, general Lilia, and knight Sebek). Is this true, and if it is, did it include a token system like the dorm pickups where you can just do 100 pulls and then buy the specific card you want directly? Because if that is how it works, then I can wait until then and be sure I won’t have to go to 200 for him.

we did indeed get a second chance at those three when 7-7 came out! I'm pretty sure there was not a token system -- though admittedly I don't 100% remember, sorry! 🙇 I took a quick search through some past posts/videos from people who tend to include the gacha and news stuff, but I didn't see any mention of it, so I'm inclined to think there really wasn't one. :( they were all separate pickups with their own pull counts rather than a combined one, if that info helps at all.

speaking as a strict f2p who hoards keys/gems like the lovechild of a dragon and a magpie, given the choice between saving for a story card and a birthday card, I'd go for story -- it does require a lot of patience, but there are way more opportunities to get past birthday cards, both from the anniversary events and the rerun pickups! tsums is a bit harder to say anything on because Eng doesn't follow the same event schedule, but it's a longish event and those pickups let you have a free 10-roll, so I think they're also a bit easier to save up for.

(ALSO speaking of free rolls, starting with the fifth round of birthdays -- the kutsurogi my room ones -- the birthday boy/union jacket/bloom cards have had a separate pickup that you can get two free 10-pulls at by doing missions! I got a bloom Jade from it a couple weeks ago. :D meanwhile general Lilia is the only story card I've ever managed to pull, so...I'm probably kinda biased. whoops.)

[braisedhoney]

Gaster but he says “oya oya”. Trust me on this.

is this it. is this what you wanted from me.

[transgenderuwo]

STOP: it's not the goddamn year of the dragon yet

Hold on posting your goddamn culturally Christian ass solar new year greetings that clumsily use east Asian lunar new year elements. We gotta do this song and dance every single time because y'all still refuse to do any research. Lunar new year is never on January 1; it is ALWAYS after solar new year. Lunar new year 2024 is on February 10th – save yourself some embarrassment please you're better than this

[fullscoreshenanigans]

(The Promised Neverland Art Book World)

Ah yes, one of my favorite genres of baby full score trio pictures: Isabella being openly affectionate toward Emma and Norman in front of Ray while being hands off with him.

(Chapter 2 | Chapter 37 | Chapter 165 | Chapter 170 | Chapter 177)

[smalltownduck]

those guys who see themselves and their strictly-platonic friends in mike and will, who relate to mike's trauma of almost losing -or losing- their (platonic) childhood best friend to death, or who were bullied for being sensitive or expressing their gender in a way different from the norm while not being queer themselves should already know they're pretty valid, as we all know. problem is, for some mysterious reason or another, they cannot conceive those are not the only plausible ways to interpret the characters and their dynamic.

also they seem to forget their own experiences aren't everybody else's.

or sometimes they shut down other people's opinions altogether because they feel those are invalidating their experiences.

[theslimeologist]

mid-comic i underwent some sort of crisis.

[befuddled-calico-whump]

"please! don't hurt me, please!"

art tag:

@kira-the-whump-enthusiast , @whumpsday , @regrets-realization-acceptance , @kixngiggles , @randomlifeunit , @darkthingshappen

[brown-little-robin]

okay, I'm crowdsourcing advice for a minute, so bear with me and please lend some words if you have any:

I want to get out of the house more. Like, on a regular basis. Weekly, maybe. Preferably, I would like to be interacting with people—the same people—every time, for... like... accountability, but also because I am hoping to put myself out there as the 21st century's most neurotic platonic Casanova. Uh. Making a friend or more out of this would be desirable. But I think if I go out with the intention of making a friend, I will be disappointed.

So. I want to go do something, for that something's own sake. I don't want to go be fake once a week hoping to get a friend out of it.

However, the beautiful state of Iowa is a bit cultureless, and I am too introverted and easily overwhelmed for this world (e.g. going to bars is probably not gonna be my thing). So.... I guess.... any suggestions? opinions? thoughts on making friends in general, or finding good activities as an introverted adult, in general?

oh yeah, also: I am poor. that's a factor. so. signing up a class or similar is not a great option right now.

what the heck, I'll add a silly poll for fun:

[surreal-duck]

good morning!

[rozzywell]

"Whaddya mean it's all Anton?" I mean it's all Anton. You're welcome 👍

[flowering-darkness]

"All that's left in my heart is misery and despair.. and I want you to feel it. Even if I really am falling to the darkness.. at least I know I'm not alone. Not if you're here with me, right?"

(comments/reblogs are appreciated but never required. bonus context is under the readmore!)

Okay, now for a bit of context! I was talking to a friend of mine earlier today about it being the anniversary of Kingdom Hearts 0.2, and that led on to her tracking down some of the earliest tweets made by the official account after Anti-Aqua was first revealed in a KH3 trailer. In those, I noticed that one of the quotes used is written slightly differently to how it ended up appearing in the final game.

"All that's left in my heart is misery and despair, and I want you to feel it!" (in the final game, the second part is instead "..and now, you can share it!")

In the game's context, an angry and vehement line from Aqua reflecting the negativity and darkness her heart has been corrupted by. "I want you [Mickey and Sora and so on] to feel as pained as your actions have made me feel from you abandoning me in the dark".

But the selfsame words, I realised, could actually be said in a much more.. vulnerable tone, for lack of a better word for it. "I want you [Aria] to feel how conflicted and troubled I am right now, because I feel able to open up and be vulnerable to you about this thing that I really do not want happening; this is all I have left and I want to admit that to you".

There is no situation in which Aqua would want to fall to darkness. Even after she comes to accept that Aria wields it - is it, really - for decent purposes, she still doesn't want to end up that same way, because it goes against everything she'd ever been taught by her late master. So, in a situation where it does nevertheless end up happening, from the toll that being trapped in the realm of darkness has on her.. she's going to feel like she's failed to fight back against it, but Aria is there to help reassure her that whatever she's feeling is allowed and okay, and she doesn't have to bottle up her negative emotions in the hope that'll make them go away. And she(?)'s there to support her no matter what, whether it's in trying to keep her light safe or in simply making sure that, if she does have to fall to darkness, it's as gently and safely as she(?) can possibly make the process.

I just thought it was a neat bit of imagery, and it inspired me to make my first new selfship render of the year, so here we are ^-^

thank you to anyone who has taken the time to read all of this~