#i haven't posted art in literal years wtf am i even doing

[jaxonkreide]

who gave this man blue eyes, take them back

[nilikhangdiwa]

JULIGAWA PROPAGANDA. HI. IT'S ME. RYU'S FRIEND WHO WAS LIKE DUDE WTF. I HAVE BRAINROT ABOUT THEM NOW. I PERSONALLY WATCHED RYU ENTER A DISCORD SERVER, ASK JULY'S AGE, THEN GO ON TWITTER AND ASK IGAWA'S AGE, AND I WAS LIKE DON'T FUCKING DO IT, AND THEN THEY DID IT! THE MADLAD!

i have so many words about juligawa because like. i'm multiship so i have many ships i like but some faves, and so others usually get on the sideline. but juligawa like. juligawa is Up There. for some reason. they don't even know each other. IGAWA DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A FIRST NAME. JULY IS LITERALLY IN ONE EVENT IN THE ENTIRE LIKE 6 YEAR RUN OF THE GAME.

AND YET HERE I AM.

MAKING THEM KISS. BECAUSE APPARENTLY IF MY FRIENDS DRAW ENOUGH INDULGENT ART AND FANFIC THEN I'LL JUST BE LIKE YEAH THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING EVER NOW

(i have a fic up of them too. also very funny when we started posting juligawa on twitter and then everyone was like WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU SHIPPING THEM before like a couple people went "huh they cute actually" so it was just a mix of funny fanart and fics and ideas interspersed with "what the fuck happened in the 2 weeks i haven't looked at a3")

Round 1, Bracket 1, Side A, Eight poll

Art of Juligawa by @ryukogo

Ichie Otonashi and Fumi Yumeoji [Ichifumi], Revue Starlight ReLIVE vs July and Igawa [Juligawa], A3! Act Addict Actors

Story of Ichifumi by @insertbrowsinghere

This goes back to, specifically, May 16th of 2022. I was trying to get into the Revue Starlight mobile game, since there was apparently a lot of my other favorite ship from the franchise, Junnana, in it. The problem was that I was having the problem I always have with new games of its nature, that being difficulty getting attached to the new characters. So, I decided to look through their descriptions on the loading screen during a big update. Two characters caught my eye, those characters being the character Michiru, and, more importantly, Ichie.

I posted that I think she was going to take over my brain (I was right) and a pal of mine mentioned that she and Fumi were a little gay together. I responded that I hadn't seen them together and was awaiting to see them, but I didn't expect to love them together. I just expected to know that they existed. I was so very wrong and as I am currently gazing at the exact moment I learned of them as a couple while looking for the exact moment I fell in love with them, I can only laugh at old me.

Suddenly they were hitting all my ship dynamics and Ichie became a primary reason as to why Fumi is even in the main cast. Surely, though, they wouldn't grow on me that much, I thought. They were silly together, but there was only so much depth there, right? Not anything that would soon rot my brain, anyways. Boom, Ichie reassuring Fumi that she beloved her and Fumi seeking out Ichie when the performance department was shut down. Boom, heavy emotional reliance between the two which transcended their usual dynamic. Boom, the ducking "Selfie-Master's Seminar" memoir. That last one ruined my life so much and by that point, I was in too deep.

I pathetically added them to my bio alongside my other three main ships, turning that trio into a life-ruining quartet. I began hunting for cards with stories centered around them but it couldn't get worse, I told myself. Then came Arcania Arcadia chapter 3/main story chapter 15. This ruined me, and it was all because of the fucking Ichifumi revue. There were other reasons attached, but that revue destroyed me.

The not at all serious reveal that Fumi had been supporting Ichie's streaming silently and secretly. Ichie calling out Fumi on her glamorization of the idea of beauty in death, since she saw it as an excuse. Ichie telling Fumi that she wanted to know more about her. Ichie's wish to see a stage that Fumi alone formed, in a franchise where this kind of thing is just sort of a love confession most of the time. Ichie letting Fumi win out of trust in her and Fumi doubting if she was truly the victor. All the impact this had on Fumi later. I was dying at this point, and then this game decided to beat my corpse down a little more by putting in the later scene where they reflected on their revue, Fumi tried to apologize, Ichie told her not to and they both resolved to move forward together.

Another stab was taken at my corpse with the scene in the final chapter where Ichie finally got to see a stage belonging to Fumi, and got to hold pride in it. I realized then I was in too deep. The characters I originally only expected to ship a little if at all had ruined my life. I could do nothing about it. I still can't and I am still in Ichifumi hell. Help.

Story of Juligawa:

When twitter bots were still active there was this bot called the Cursed Prompt Guy (@a3_promptbot) that randomly generated prompts and characters together. One fateful day, it generated this prompt .

[ CHARACTERS: Tenma Sumeragi, July // PROMPT: Butterfly kiss, Loyalty ]

Ss you may notice there is no slash, meaning it's just the two characters, no ship whatsoever. this is important.

See the thing here is that the character, Tenma Sumeragi, is the son of two world-famous actors. He was a child actor for TV before he decided to choose his own path and become a theater actor (since A3! is about theater boys), being a child actor means he had a manager, right? Enter: Igawa.

I was staring at the prompt, and for an entire moment, I just randomly thought 'now why would July swear loyalty to Tenma Sumeragi?'. This thought was immediately followed by '... hmmm (goes on Twitter/Discord servers) hey guys how old is july/igawa again', and then my friends, indulgently, answered me on both platforms - they were within the age range of each other as respectable adults

And then I just SAT THERE because at that very moment my brain EXPLODED like I was JIMMY NEUTRON because this ship did NOT make sense at all and YET, AND YET EVERYTHING MADE SENSE in my head suddenly for some reason.

See the first doddle I made of them with a caption

And my friends were like 'AYO HOLD ON HOLD ON RYU ARE YOU OKAY' and all I said was smth like 'sometimes things happen' and then about five hours later I published the first fic for them on Ao3. Apparently i wrote the fic at 8-ish PM on the same day I made the first doodle (at 6PM) then finished the fic around 11-ish PM.

And then my friend who is one of my ride-or-dies also published a fic around 12 midnight soon after me. I think the majority of the English-speaking fandom/western fandom who knows us thinks we're kinda crazy. It's okay we just like to indulge.

[silverwinterr]

Mmmmmmm so many questions, hehehehe

1. I have Clip Studio Paint. I've used it before, and recently, but not to actually make any real drawing; I was just testing it after a while of not doing anything with it.

2. Depends on the moment, for some reason. For refs, though, I always draw them facing left, for whatever reason.

3. This dragon story thing I made. I came up with it around six or so years ago, when I first moved here. It's not actually finished, nor does it have a real plot, but I have characters that are too sentimental to let go.

Ok wow this is gonna be a long post, oh dear

4. Humans. Just. Humans. I can't draw furry creatures either.

5. I probably keep like 95% of it to myself lmfao

6. Literally everything? Like help

7. Probably modeling, if I had to choose one. I don't understand how y'all do it.

8. That same dragon story. It actually has more than just dragons, but whatever. The main characters are dragons. Small dragons. I haven't done anything with it in forever, but I can't just throw it away.

9. I use ibis Paint, but I always name them with the number (and by that I mean that if it's Untitled1498 (yes I have somehow made that canvases), then I'll title it '1498. ActualTitleHere'.)

10. I dont exactly do the clothes thing in my art. Usually, since I just draw dragons, they'll have a cape at MOST. Not counting accesories.

11. Music or commentary videos. Just depends on my mood. Can't be silence though.

12. Uh. (Sketch) the tail, (Lineart) the head? Probably. Lineart is especially hard for literally anything even/straight-lined, so tails and wings are definitely off the list for it.

13. Where. Do I even start.

14. Hm. Moth motifs are cool, so are fire motifs, if I understand the question. There are other examples I could use, but I'm not sure if they fit the question or not- it's like. Not showing the face or something.

15. My room or the living room. Almost exclusively.

16. Uhhhhhhh. I'd say the lineart on straight lines, but I'm not actually good at that lmao. I have no idea

17. Well, I have water with me- that's about it though.

18. I haven't actually broken any to the point of not being able to be used, but dear god the amount of pencils I've lost in Narnia is sad. And this isn't including the times I've lost my tablet's pencil and then found it again.

19. ngl i mostly just draw characters lmao

20. Uhhhhhhhhh

21. W h e r e d o I s t a r t (maybe I'll add lists of these two at the bottom?)

22. no lol (I mean I do swimming, but that's not for drawing, and I usually don't draw right after)

23. Uh. What. Am I missing something lmao

24. No, I don't think so?

25. Hrmmmmmmmmmm .________. I have no idea-

26. I don't remember anything specifically. Again, I don't normally post a lot of my art lol

27. Not intentionally, though I do sketch a lot while trying to figure out wtf I'm doing lmao

28. Artfight

29. literally nothing everything somehow influences my brain like AHHHHHHH

30. hummmmmmm uh

Weirdly Specific Artist Ask Game

Didn't see a lot of artist ask games, wanted to make a silly one.

(I wrote this while sick out of my mind last year and it's been collecting dust in my drafts, I might as well let it run free) 1. Art programs you have but don't use

2. Is it easier to draw someone facing left or right (or forward even)

3. What ideas come from when you were little

4. Fav character/subject that's a bitch to draw

5. Estimate of how much of your art you post online vs. the art you keep for yourself

6. Anything that might inspire you subconsciously (i.e. this horse wasn't supposed to look like the Last Unicorn but I see it)

7. A medium of art you don't work in but appreciate

8. What's an old project idea that you've lost interest in

9. What are your file name conventions

10. Favorite piece of clothing to draw

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

12. Easiest part of body to draw

13. A creator who you admire but whose work isn't your thing

14. Any favorite motifs

15. *Where* do you draw (don't drop your ip address this just means do you doodle at a park or smth)

16. Something you are good at but don't really have fun doing

17. Do you eat/drink when drawing? if so, what

18. An estimate of how much art supplies you've broken

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

20. Something everyone else finds hard to draw but you enjoy

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

22. What physical exercises do you do before drawing, if any

23. Do you use different layer modes

24. Do your references include stock images

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

26. What's a piece that got a wildly different interpretation from what you intended

27. Do you warm up before getting to the good stuff? If so, what is it you draw to warm up with

28. Any art events you have participated in the past (like zines)

29. Media you love, but doesn't inspire you artistically

30. What piece of yours do you think is underrated