#i'm so broken actually

[doveywovy]

au where izuna and tobirama are rivals in college & izuna hacks tobiramas computer to see his essays/coursework (not so he can steal them- he wants to one up tobirama's work in every way).

he finds tobiramas work but he also finds tobirama's digitized collection of nudes which, uh, distracts him from his original goal.

izuna with no sense that he sounds insane, deeply jealous: who but his academic rival could deserve to see his asshole in 4K?

madara: ......his....boyfriend, presumably?

izuna: PATHETIC. NO BOYFRIEND COULD EARN WHAT I HAVE

madara: did the academic stress get to you. have you gone temporarily insane. genuinely

meanwhile, hashirama is having a similar discussion with tobirama about his decision to take nude selfies with the expectation his academic rival will steal his phone and find them and be driven mad with lust.

[maddieandangel]

Consider: character-exclusive trinkets.

[pareidolla]

yippee!! got permission from @tai-janai to doodle what i think heroic tower might look like since she's been living in my mind rent free. in the same way base tower is the most divine of the vessels, i imagine heroic tower might be the most heroic of the heroines? so naturally, knight centaur! protector of the forest! big beautiful woman who will run at you vv fast parry this you filthy casual etc etc

also bonus spectre bullying doodle

[arttsuka]

I wonder if Jedediah and octavius ever celebrated the 4th of July together? (also your leftover veggie dish looks like it would make Gordon Ramsay cry with joy :) )

They probably, most definitely did celebrate together I think

Featuring my failed attempt at drawing fireworks 🎆

If Gordon Ramsey were to see that dish he'd cry in general I think, given the fact that I forgot to put enough salt :')

[serpentface]

Do you conlang? I was wondering if you had naming languages (or possibly even more developed ones) for pulling the words you use. I tried to search your blog but didn't find anything, wouldn't be surprised if the feature is just busted tho. Your worldbuilding is wonderful and I particularly enjoy the anthropological and linguistic elements.

Ok the thing is I had kind of decided I was not going to do any conlanging because I don't feel like I'm equipped to do a good job of it, like was fully like "I'm just going to do JUST enough that it doesn't fail an immediate sniff test and is more thoughtful than just keysmashing and putting in vowels". And then have kinda been conlanging anyway (though not to a very deep and serious extent. I maybe have like....an above average comprehension of how language construction works via willingness to research, but that's not saying much, also I can never remember the meanings of most linguistic terms like 'frictives' or etc off the top of my head. I'm just kinda raw dogging it with a vague conceptualization of what these things mean)

I do at least have a naming language for Wardi (and more basic rules for other established languages) but the rudimentary forms of it were devised with methods much shakier and less linguistically viable than even the most basic naming language schemes, and I only went back over it LONG after I had already made a bunch of words so there's some inconsistencies with consonant presence and usage. (This can at least be justified because it IS a language that would have a lot of loanwords and would be heavily influenced by other language groups- Burri being by far the most significant, Highland-Finnic and Yuroma-Lowlands also being large contributors)

The 'method' I used was:

-Skip basic construction elements and fully move into devising necessary name words, with at least a Vibe of what consonants are going to be common and how pronunciation works -Identify some roots out of the established words and their meanings. Establish an ongoing glossary of known roots/words. -Construct new words based in root words, or as obvious extensions/variants of established words. -Get really involved in how the literal meanings of some words might not translate properly to english, mostly use this to produce a glossary of in-universe slang. -Realize that I probably should have at least some very basic internal consistency at this point. -Google search tutorials on writing a naming language. -Reverse engineer a naming language out of established words, and ascribe all remaining inconsistencies to being loanwords or just the mysteries of life or whatever.

I do at least have some strongly established pronunciation rules and a sense of broad regional dialect/accents.

-'ai' words are almost always pronounced with a long 'aye' sound.

-There is no 'Z' or 'X' sound, a Wardi speaker pronouncing 'zebra' would go for 'tsee-brah', and would attempt 'xylophone' as 'ssye-lohp-hon'

-'V' sounds are nearly absent and occur only in loanwords, and tend to be pronounced with a 'W' sound. 'Virsum' is a Highland word (pronounced 'veer-soom') denoting ancestry, a Wardi speaker would go 'weer-sum'.

-'Ch' spellings almost always imply a soft 'chuh' sound when appearing after an E, I, or O (pelatoche= pel-ah-toh-chey), but a hard 'kh' sound after an A or U (odomache= oh-doh-mah-khe). When at the start of a word, it's usually a soft 'ch' unless followed by an 'i' sound (chin (dog) is pronounced with a hard K 'khiin', cholem (salt) is pronounced with a soft Ch 'cho-lehm')

-Western Wardin has strong Burri cultural and linguistic influence, and a distinct accent- one of the most pronounced differences is use of the ñ sound in 'nn' words. The western city of Ephennos is pronounced 'ey-fey-nyos' by most residents, the southeastern city of Erubinnos is pronounced 'eh-roo-been-nos' by most residents. Palo's surname 'Apolynnon' is pronounced 'A-puh-lee-nyon' in the Burri and western Wardi dialects (which is the 'proper' pronunciation, given that it's a Kos name), but will generally be spoken as 'Ah-poh-leen-non' in the south and east.

-R's are rolled in Highland-Finnic words. Rolling R's is common in far northern rural Wardi dialects but no others. Most urban Wardi speakers consider rolling R's sort of a hick thing, and often think it sounds stupid or at least uneducated. (Brakul's name should be pronounced with a brief rolled 'r', short 'ah' and long 'uul', but is generally being pronounced by his south-southeastern compatriots with a long unrolled 'Brah' sound).

Anyway not really a sturdy construction that will hold up to the scrutiny of someone well equipped for linguistics but not pure bullshit either.

[ismyteadoneyet]

"ɪ ʀᴇᴀʟʟʏ ᴀᴍ ᴀ sᴜᴄᴋᴇʀ ғᴏʀ ɢᴏᴏᴅ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴄᴇ"

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~ ''Chapter 13 - A Judgement', 'Guilt of the Helpful', by @draconicstella88888

AND HERE IT ISSSS <333 OUR COLLECTIVE FAVORITE INSANE WOMAN 🥰🥰

This moment has been living rent free in my head since I first read it as a BETA READER for my loveliest bestie <<333 Yes I will brag about this until I perrisshhhhhh Hope you like it as much as I do, Tavi !!! 🤭🤭💕✨️

On the more technical side, this drawing gave me so much grief but also worked WONDERS as a milestone for my skill progress?? I think I started on this back in the beginning of May, and simply Could Not Get It Right. I redrew the face like... 6 times and still ended up erasing it. I drew some other things inbetween to get some distance to it, and decided to revisit this one just a few days ago to redraw the entire sketch, and suddenly everything clicked, first try??? 😭 the pose, the face, the CLOTHES even??? Everything went so incredibly smooth and the thing that ended up taking the most time was for me to clean up the lineart and figure out how the hell Verdict would look at that angle (and tbh I'm still not entitely sure lmao)

I'm so insanely proud of this one and to think that I've gone from that one Lark profile drawing to this in less than a year makes me ✨️feel things✨️ 😭😭🥺🥺 I have never been more motivated to draw more than now and to try more interesting perspectives !! 🤭🤭

As always, thank you Tavi for writing out these cool af scenes and for letting me be part of your creative process <<<3333 MWAH LOVE U BESTIE 🥰🥰