#in-joke in the author's note

[shadowbends]

Looking through your Ao3 bookmarks and seeing that little “This has been deleted, sorry!” is like finding a gravestone, but the writing’s too worn down to read what it was standing for anymore.

What were you, Bookmark #336... What stories did you tell? Which words were it that once left a mark on my soul?  *touches my laptop screen like it’s text from an ancient ruin*

Cowabummer. 

[humming-fly]

my good friend @alagaesia-overlord and I were lamenting the lack of arthur-centric body horror in malevolent, so I figured for her birthday I'd make an attempt at lovingly fixing that~

various logistical thoughts under the cut as well!

some potential logistics for the road - john having his own tongue is an option but I liked the puzzle solving of how they could share while still leaving john with a mouth roof for enunciating (gonna have a hard enough time without lips) - plus it's funnier if they're forced to share, one more thing to get in a raging row over~

(and the bonus shitpost ending to the initial comic)

[2-late-2-the-party]

‘Danmei is mlm fantasy written by and for straight women’ is a lie. It’s written for transmascs and lesbians obviously.

[eliotquillon]

have recently realised that the reason why i struggle to seriously ship kevin with anyone in aftg is because i find the idea of him perpetually third-wheeling to be too funny. sorry kevin

[lunarmoves]

it’s more of a pussy-out look

LMFAOOOOOO god the flippers are taking me out sfsjdfsf. and the tshirt design?? PLEASEEE the neon pink im dead LOL. yeah he wants u so bad. look at that face, he is so desperate for attention. something something "fine i'll do it myself."

[omegadazai]

I don't think Light would be a republican tbh.

[skajador]

the kitagoro fic!! it's silly it's sweet it's Finally Done!

or you can click here too

[inquisitornocturn]

okay, but why do i have to go on a short trip when all i want to do is write. life truly is unfair

[jichanxo]

sooooo... *twirls her hair* how many asks should i send until kuwagami art. jk as well. the real question will be: does it happen often that someone else’s art inspires you? in fandom spaces specifically

well you see it’s like a loyalty card program, every 10 asks or so you get a complimentary kuwagami

just kidding you can just breathe in my direction and I’ll be tempted to draw them. kuwagami blast! (you've caught me on a... just okay art day lol)

(people still like kabedons, right?)

anyway for my actual answer: in terms of direct inspiration, it doesn't really happen much? the last two times i did art directly based on someone else's work is probably this one from this fic, and also that time i drew art of someone else's judgment au. oh! and there's that moriohpsycho art based on this comic! (filthyguts' work is so very. hgngngghh. very good.) nothing else really comes to mind, and when i think of the other things i've been into recently there hasn't been as much opportunity for that to happen...

flex and herds = strong fixation but lmao. almost nobody else made stuff about them. nobody is surprised umineko = surprisingly i don't read much umineko fanfiction? and in terms of illustration, i certainly picked up imagery and indirect inspiration but nothing concrete enough for me to give an example... now that i think about it, i did once draw andromalius from redaction/sunny, but that was years ago, and also mostly because i was acquainted with the writer. ...i don't have that artwork on hand right now death note = didn't really get involved with the fandom + i enjoyed my own ideas well enough! ...i can't recall if i drew long-hair-L art before or after seeing other artists do it. and as for everything else the same kind of reasoning applies. didn't really get involved with the fandom or wasn't really compelled to make art in response to stuff i saw, or i just don't remember anymore.

buuuuuuut if we're opening this up to just... pulling ideas from other people? then yeah, all the time, though that kind of goes without saying when you have a creative hobby. ...it's probably going to be hard to come up with examples of this since it's more ambiguous.

there's uhhhhhh... kuwana listens to nickelback which was a @/four-white-trees invention, wasn't it? (EDIT: and @/overdevelopedglasses!) (not tagging in this post so he doesn't feel obligated to read my big ass ask responses 💀) as of writing this, it's not posted but i did end up making kuwagami art based on a nickelback song so. yknow. there's that LMAO

for sawashiro and arakawa, i do sometimes go reference @/todayisafridaynight 's art to help me with my own. ("how did he draw this part of the suit? oh, like that huh? hmm" <- this kind of thing)

and um. i'm not trying to pander to you (at least not this time), but genuinely it's one of the few examples that come to mind at this moment. but when i was writing my first kuwagami fic, i could feel the influence of the ever-changing on my brain... was turning over some of your ideas there...

you remember this? (you even pointed it out in your comment on my fic, and i should've said something then, but whatever i'm saying it now)

that was absolutely because of this

(obligatory poke at anybody else reading this post that you can read passthroughtime's fic here.)

so, um. yeah. not really sure what else to add to that. pretty self evident i think. (i'm always talking about the ever-changing but i don't think i can overstate the impression it left on me at the time)

anyhow there aren't really any other examples off the top of my head! these are all recent examples so they're not so difficult to recall, but there are probably others i've forgotten...

[ampleappleamble]

i love how you draw your watcher. her expressions in reaction to the robe burning are iconic. but i had a question about how you pronounce her name. is the x in axa the same sound as it is in xoti, or is it like a regular english x?

aww thank you so much!!!! i really do think the thing i'm best at drawing is facial expressions and i put a lot of care and thought into them, so it means a lot that you think they're good 😊 as for your question, yes! the x in Axa's name is pronounced like the x in Xoti's name, and the x in Ixamitl (where Axa is from!) so her name is pronounced "ah-sha," like the irl name Asha (a name i'm fond of, so when i named Axa i simply Ixamitlfied it)!

[miilkybnn]

your "strangers to friends" fanart reminded me of a ghostroachsoap fic called "something in the orange" on ao3 <3 recommended reading!

OH TRUST ME BABE, IVE READ "SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE"

I. HAVE. READ.

Its literally one of the ones i KEEP re-reading at like 3 in the morning 😭 I have like a pile of messy doodles just for it which I've also drawn at like 3 in the morning that I've never shown ANYONE but myself 😭😭 maybe I'll post (some) of them one day but yes, I love SitO

Anyways, yeah go read "Something in the Orange" by fixfoxnox it fucking slaps yall it's so good 🫶

[hyperkitten224]

I just had a thought. so like

you know the digital circus ships where a human performer is paired with Caine? like Showtime or Kingleader or something?

do you. do you think that the human in that pairing would be a robotfucker? because Caine's a sentient AI?

dunno it's something to think about. maybe I'm just tired and dumb idk :/

[feelingthedisaster]

tumblr canon event is that your favourite post barely gets 10 notes but that shitpost that isnt even funny but you posted it bc you were sleep deprived and it sounded half nice then is in your top 3 more popular posts

[starlightomatic]

lyctor? i hardly know 'er!

[nicomrade]

for my non-poker playing followers this is basically the equivalent of riiching/pushing every single hand no matter what. to my non-poker non-jong followers uhm its maybe similar to always hitting in blackjack. you dont play blackjack either? start gambling.

[mooncrisisdepression]

All I'm saying is I recently found out that my bio mum isn't who I thought she was and I kinda felt like burning a village to the ground so maybe Sephiroth had a point?