#i have 16k

[awildwriter]

my mind wants to finish my agathario prequel fic, however my motivation ran away when the front gate got left open

[platossoulmates]

hyper fixation too strong… life going too well… may have to pick up the pen and go back to ao3

[lecialucille]

☆⌒(>。<)˚* ☆ *･˚* ☆ *･🌟🌸(^人<)〜☆ 🌸°☆~🍡~☆°🍵

[tswwwit]

Oh, I'm sure this chapter won't end up nearly as long as the last chapter, I say to myself. Surely I've learned from my experiences, I say. Totally can keep the word count under control, I tell myself, as I put on my clown nose and makeup.

[for-those-who-wait]

I was going through my inbox on AO3 and remembered I love leaving ungodly, disgustingly long comments on works because it makes me look like a crazy person with a bulletin board full of papers and red string of all the things I like about them (and I love the reactions the authors give in reply, pfft)

I wish I always had the energy to write them because authors deserve to have their works appreciated and loved and analyzed to hell <3 please leave comments on things when you can! Fanfiction really is such a big part of the fandom community and being able to communicate and ramble about it is so fun and so rewarding

[skunk-floof]

ccan you guys tell who im excited for tomorrow ...

[sharkflan]

i reached another follows “milestone” and like, i know a lot of people who used to follow me are inactive and bots are a problem as well, but i just want to let y’all know how much i appreciate the people who do follow me. i see you and i see the likes and comments and it means the world to me 🥹❤️

i’ve been on tumblr since i was 16 and i’m nearly 30 now. you guys rock and i love you 🫶💕

[a-pepper-honey]

Bingo prompt "flowers"

Garlands? Flower crowns? 👀

Remember this? Cause I do

Sorry this is so messy ahdjsh it's more of a Concept than an actual sketch but I don't have time to finish it rn

Rose & thistle symbolism for Laurence & Tharkay -> me in tears on the floor

[staticchoir1]

YES HOLY SHIT MY BOY GLISTEN IS COMING HOMEEE (credits to the image i found in tt)

but however i hope they will still come with a Sprout and cosmo toon because i worked hard for that 16k ichor 😒😒😒

[vinroma]

it's not like my BEST BEST art, but I really wish to get more fraction here and get the lore going :p but maybe anyone noticed that I deleted the lore posts, as I think they are necessary on my blog. I think that for now there is no point in adding these type of posts on my account

Anyways, Irmes didn't use to wear veils all his life... He used to be the polar opposite of what he is now.. And he used to actually dress... also differently. Wow what a weird thing seeing him so covered LMAO

And at that time, Krystallin was his best friend and they were developing Dorianat together :pppppp

If You remember, in the past I posted Krystallin's first design

[pitruli]

This is your sign to embrace your inner medieval scribe and copy by hand your favourite fanfiction in a random notebook

[demons-i-get]

Anyone else ever just-

*makes an au that started out as a really vague idea*

*au starts to form more clearly as you write out the vague idea*

*you think the au is full of sillys*

*au is actually characters experiencing The Horrors with a few sillys thrown in for flavor*

*you are left to stare at your document in horror as you realize the monster that your silly little vague idea has become*

[zarvasace]

Dark Warriors sneers, disgusted. “I can’t believe you. First you're letting Madness scream, and now you're giving into Nothing’s demands? When you know how much Charm I used yesterday?”  “I'm sorry, Your Highness,” Dark Sky says with mock sincerity, dumping what's left in his bowl of stew into the dirt. It splashes over Shackle’s boot. “I’ll be sure to let you get the first faceful of sword.” 

They're literally the worst and I'm loving this so much

[teemhaunts]

who up spending all they sapphires

[textfromthelookout]

Did you hear of the news?

I have. :(

Everyone else has their tributes so, here, a summary of my experience with Dragon Ball.

I was in fourth grade art class. A kid had the February 2005 issue of Shonen Jump, back when Shonen Jump was still physically printed here. I recognized Atem on the front cover because the Blockbuster around the corner from our house had DVDs (I think they were DVDs and not VHSs then since I distinctly remember it having a menu and special features) of some of the later episodes of Duelist Kingdom and my brother and I watched them on repeat. So I was like oh, hey, what's this? They make books of that stuff? I don't remember the conversation but the kid ended up giving me that issue, and I took it home with me.

There were a LOT of significant, groundwork things happening in that issue, now that I think about it. We were just beginning to see Sanji truly in action against Pearl. The Dark Tournament was in it's early stages still with Roto fucking around and finding out against Kurama. Sakura shears off her hair in a move that rearranged sexualities the world over. The reason Atem was on the cover was because Yu-Gi-Oh Millennium World was just debuting its first and second chapter. Bleach wasn't even serialized yet. And Dragon Ball, of course, was also there, about a hundred and fifty chapters ahead of everybody else.

Keep in mind that this was my first experience with manga, period. So my very first experience with Dragon Ball opened on this:

and ended on this:

Yeah. Truth be told, at the time Yu Yu Hakusho piqued my interest more than Dragon Ball (a guy fighting with plants? how creative!) but I never did forget these chapters. I thought the art style was so different from the others.

At some point after this, probably between several months and a year and a half, the TV happened to be on one evening when Toonami was airing Dragon Ball Z. Oh hey, I said, I recognize that art, I know those characters. So I hung around and watched some of episode 281. Two things about watching that episode stick with absolute crystal clarity in my mind to this day. Firstly: Buu choking Vegeta out with his arm freaked me the FUCK out as a child. I could not tell you why I had a fear reaction to it but hey, there you go. The second is this:

Specifically I remember 'You died once. If anything happens to you now, you won't exist anymore. There'll be nothing I can do to bring you back.' Not precisely word for word over the years, but Schemmel's tone of voice on this particular lineread. If I had to guess I'd say it was because at that point in my life, uh, death was kinda permanent? So wait, what do you mean died ONCE. Doesn't that apply to everyone?

This still wasn't enough to get me super invested in it though, it just didn't seem like something that would appeal to me that much. So a couple years go by, I don't think about it all that much, and then of course, TFS hits the scene and drops DBZ Abridged. So you know. As a shithead middle schooler with a shithead sense of humor I thought it was the best damn thing since sliced bread. (My biggest character flaw is that I still think a lot of Season 1 is genuinely funny)

And that was really the extent of my interaction with the franchise for the next several years. Say what you will about DBZA but they did manage to put it all together such that someone who had a nonexistent concept of what the original context was could grok it with not a lot of effort. Some time in high school, I think I was around 15, I decided to bite the bullet and read all the manga, as much to increase the funny factor of DBZA as sheerly for the sake of being able to say I had. Stick it to the other weebs, y'know. Now they can't say I didn't know anything about good anime. This was unfortunately at a time when all that was available online were dirty poor-quality scans and questionable translations, but read it I did. I went 'yep, that sure is about what I expected', and proceeded to get on with my life. GT came and went, I looked up and saw Battle of Gods coming out and went 'oh hey that's still a thing huh', kinda was peripherally aware of all the divisiveness of Super as it was happening, didn't really pay it much attention, just stuck to DBZA and quite a lot of wiki-ing.

And then, this time of year about three years ago now, in the middle of conversation with @prophecydungeon, Dragon Ball somehow came up. Something to do with 'Even though I'm not hugely into DBZ's story or whatever Toriyama does have some great character designs' (yes I was referring to Vegeta and Future Trunks at the time, no i will not stop being predictable, yes i am a parody of myself). They eventually brought up the DBS Broly movie and said, and i quote: 'that was a solid 1.5h of unbelievably fun and wacky animation'. Having seen the Gogeta vs Broly part of it on twitter and been like 'damn that animation's kinda off the hook actually, good for them good for them', my response was to be like. Oh word? I've got a spare hour and a half to kill, sure, fuck it, why not, time to watch DBS Broly.

I think that movie was precision crafted to hit me in the hyperfixation, if we're being honest. Opening on a solid 20 minutes of Lore and Worldbuilding and then having most of the rest of the runtime being mindless slobberknocker fun by way of some of the hardest animation flexes ever? I was done for.

In summation. I have been aware of Dragon Ball for a lot of my life, in that its presence was pervasive and enduring as I grew up. I may have been late to the game of actually wholeheartedly enjoying it, but enjoy it I do. Dragon Ball is the roots of a vast tree of anime, and in reading it I began to understand why that is. I respect it for that, and I love it for that. My current fixation may have shifted, but as far as time devoted to one individual thing goes... it took me a year and a half to watch my way through all of the anime and read all of the manga. ALL of it. So there's something good in there, I'd say.

[vinelark]

ok. ok. chapter 4 draft is: drafted. and 23k. i can sleep now