#it feels like a fanzine to me idk

[phanboyo]

The notes kind of went wild so I'm just going to ignore most of them.

But yeah I feel like this is essentially correct. I mean Danny uses phrases like "ghost half" and "ghost powers" and we can argue about whether or not he actually died, or if he actually counts as a ghost or just a human with very ghostlike traits (this is why morphology-based phylogeny is problematic and I think it's kind of up to interpretation) but in the show he never really says he died or half-died or became a ghost or anything. And it's perfectly valid to say that it's a kid's cartoon so they wouldn't say that, that's very possibly true, but the point of this post is to point out that the common interpretation of Danny having died and revived in the portal is not technically canon. It doesn’t contradict canon but it's not canon either (unless you count Phantom Planet but hardly anyone ever does and I really don't blame them lol).

And while I also tend to default to the interpretation of "Danny somehow half-died" because it opens a lot of cool doors for the exploration of a lot of cool themes, there is merit in exploring the other interpretations as well. Especially with superhero crossovers being so popular recently, an accident with cutting-edge experimental tech that altered your DNA and left you with otherworldly powers is right up that alley (mostly because it was supposed to be a superhero show but still).

I think it'd be cool to see the theorized implications of some other interpretations of canon, and no, it's not a bad thing to make posts remembering what canon actually is when participating in fan spaces, especially in large fandoms where a lot of people aren't super familiar with the source material. It leaves more room for concept interpretation and creates more genuinely transformative works :)

Y'all know Danny isn't canonically a ghost, yeah? That his "half-ghost"/halfa status is because he got ghost DNA infused into him? That he didn't die/half-die and become a ghost/half-ghost and just has ghost-like powers? He's supposed to be a Spider-Man rip off, Danny's not a ghost the way Peter's not a spider. Danny is a Ghost Mutant: mutated to be ghost-like, the way Peter is a Spider Mutant: mutated to be spider-like.

Canonically anyway. Sure, I personally like the interpretation and angst of Schrodinger's Boy, alive and dead at the same time, but it is fanon and not canon.

[hakugreenfinch]

sorry im being silly tonight. im just thinking about how. i was placed 3rd at a cosplay competition at japanexpo paris this year. and its one of my biggest achievements as a cosplayer and i cant really brag about it. like i told my parents. i guess. my friends congratulated me. thats nice. like. really nice. but idk its like. when people go to cons abroad and get placements, even when they dont, mondo posts about it and they get two pages in the next mondo issue. and i guess you have to let them know for them to report it but. it just feels like something thats cool if youre a big cosplay name and trashy if youre not and with 13 years like literally half my lifetime and a long history of competing i know im still not someone anyone would name their favourite cosplayer. im just some guy whos too broke and depressed to be able to make a big name and so my shitty little third place at the biggest anime con in europe feels like no big deal.

[icaruspendragon]

i /gen love hearing about how people store information in their brains.

like for me it’s just a big web of word association where everything is connected. so like if someone asks me a question i gotta follow several “that reminds me of ___” trains of thoughts and/or memories before i can retrieve the information i need. or like when it comes to facts (especially those involving numbers or dates), i remember the correct answer by thinking of the wrong one first and because i know it’s wrong, i’m able to think of the right one. like “i always want to say the first star trek convention was in 1967, but that was actually when the first issue of the fanzine spockanalia came out so the convention was in 1969 but a common misconception is that the first one was in 1972.”

i’m also one of those people who cannot picture things in my head if they’re described to me, i can only picture things i have seen before. and even then it’s always more abstract than concrete. and i don’t really have a voice in my head. my thoughts are like a teleprompter where the words are in times new roman twelve point font, but i feel the words rather than see them.

idk if that makes any sense. but that’s how my brain works. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[raisinchallah]

you know i think its really funny how like an alternate history of the star trek fandom has essentially become gospel amongst like gay people on the internet who wanna talk about fandom history but havent done tons of research or anything ive seen it so confidently repeated everywhere that like kirk/spock fanzines were the majority of fanzines that the entire fandom was made up of housewives or just women in general etc its like kinda funny to me like i dont believe k/s zines ever were more than 25% of the zine community and a lot were more underground limiting their reach two a big part of what saved star trek ratings wise was it becoming huge with kids who were home to watch it in its friday night death slot and then idk its like kinda bizarre saying the majority of the fandom was women like its nice to be valuing the creative output of women in fandom whatever but i feel like with just ur brain and eyes u can see at least of the fans that set popular opinion the old con photos whatever like many other sci fi fandoms were in fact majority men but its also like its such a widespread cultural juggernaut many people know about that also saying those kinds of hardcore fans that were sometimes hostile to women were the majority of the greater fanbase etc and also i do find it bizarre to categorize the female fans as just housewives cuz like then nobody is talking about some of the famous and more underground women sci fi authors were huge star trek fans like people writing niche feminist sci fi were also publishing kirk/spock fanfiction which idk i think thats just a little fun fact i guess whatever far more complex im sure i do not have all my facts entirely straight either but whatever

[jjcocker]

hi this is a pinned post

(working on a fanzine w a friend .. check it out if y want to!!!!!!)

yo

✦ i have a bunch of names n im too lazy to list them all, just call me yuri

🇧🇷 might mess up my english at times Sory,

🏳️‍⚧️ im trans and remix3tengokic (gender that EYE coined heeheee), he/him/ele/dele, heart/hearts (note that um im still kinda trying out neos u. yEagh)

aspec (now questioning where Im at, but surely aspec)

a Miner (⛏️)

also block #ventpost if u dont wanna see my waa boohoos,,, thats all that tag rlly is

++ i dont have a real.. set dni list? i just block whatever I feel uncomfortable or grossed out with 👍

✦ i like a lot of stuff, mainly fixating on rhythm heaven rn

self proclaimed rhythm heaven himedanshi,

i do at least oen million thousabd typus per day

also i love the rapwomen i slOVEVGJD I LOVE THE QPWOMEN SO SK MUJC IM. I KSJFJDBJD

look aat them. please

fun fact abt me loving the rapwomen I Especially love the blue one to the point I even questiones if I was fictionkin bc of her......i mean I projected SO much stuff on her2the point I can say shes literally me,

what else do i sayyyyyy uh

i am also the 3rd strongest rockershipping warrior (im cureently beign Obnoxious about them rn,) so ahhm. block dat tag too if yuo dont wanna see me posr about htem. or nto idk,

✦ if you wna draw me (which if u do i Love yoy/p) heres. my sona,,,, finally threw an updated refsheet together- w a few changes made but Eyah

Woo-hoo!

✦ i have a bajillion sideblogs!!

some of them r:

@kii-yan (kii-yan rp blog, quit)

@rap-women (blog where I am Double the insane for the rapwomen)

@rhythm-userboxes (blog that I Really sshould post on again bc i have requests but is STILL inactive to this day, its a blog 4 rh themed userboxes)

@uhn-uhn (was gonna just be a namesnipe but I impulsively made it a blue rw rp blog. in a hiatus but because i dunnohow to start it)

some other blogs that are just namesnipes

thats .longer than i thought itd be

✦ + in case this goes to merda my discorf is @/rapwomen (without the / you.kniw what J mean)(and I also have a shitty bird site account but uh. idk dm for that one ig)

extra. images that Describe Me/silly (+ blinkies!! jj one made by me, the rest made w blinkies.cafe)

🩷🩶

teehee

[fernsnailz]

also if it's not bothering i'd like to ask you if you have any tips on how to make a zine/fanzine? i've been wanting to for a while but i am unsure how to and it feels kind of intimidating

yeah no worries! the good news is that personal zines are pretty easy to make because you can put basically anything into one and make it any length/size you want. they also come in a lot of different forms - you can make one that's just a digital pdf, post some loose pngs online, draw it out on some sheets of paper that you staple or fold together, have it printed at a professional printing service, or create an entirely new method that works for the zine you're making. it's up to you and depends on what resources you have or what zine you want to make - which is always the first step! start with an idea or general theme you want to make your zine about, which can be quite literally anything. is it a fanzine about some characters you like? a personal comic? a various collection of your art, writing, or other creations? again, can be literally anything.

i can help most with digital zines because that's what i've made and participated in so far. really the biggest hurdle with any zine is just making the stuff that goes in it - i was very ambitious to make dance in fire over 30 pages, especially since it was my first solo zine. i say start small, zines can be as few as four pages if you want. if you do want to make a longer zine, something i did that i highly recommend is finding old sketches or unfinished/unposted art that you can use as a starting point for some pages. or just keep them in an unfinished state! sketch pages are always a welcome addition imo.

another thing i recommend if you're making a long zine (though is entirely optional) is keeping a tracker with the pages you want to make or have already been completed. this is part of what my tracker spreadsheet looked like for dance in fire - just a way for me to log when things are done, what things needed to be changed, any info i wanted to keep written down. this was a HUGE help for me personally since i was dealing with a lot of pages of just. stuff.

with digital zines, you don't necessarily have to make every page the same size, but i suggest sticking to one page size to keep everything cohesive. for dance in fire, every page is about 7x10in (with a little bit extra added for print bleed). once everything is done, there's a couple of different ways to combine everything into one pdf. sometimes you can export multiple canvases as a single pdf depending on the drawing program you're using - my version of clip studio can't do that, so i uploaded 37 individual pngs of the pages to an online pdf converter and just downloaded that lmao

last thing to figure out is where to host your zine - if you have a pdf, there's a few online file hosting platforms you can share them on. i used itch.io which is mostly for indie games and creators, some other people i know use github. these are good places to host your zine if you want to sell it, but you can probably also do that on ko-fi or patreon if you wanted? idk i don't have experience with those

that's all i got for now! there's some tricky stuff to figure out if you're printing a digital zine, but i'm still in the process of figuring that out myself so that might have to be a guide for another time lol

[bisonaari]

Morning nonsensical ramble about my life and finland under the cut

How did finnish become such a comforting language for me in so little time this is ridiculous. I'm kinda scared that this is just tamporary and that I will find no interest in the language when the hyperfixation passes and that I'll let everyone down. Yet I know for a fact that I haven't had so much fun learning a language in AGES. I've wanted to learn a language that I knew nothing about for ages, and none of my tries have ever been successful. The fact that for once I'm having fun in the challenges brought by the language should be an indication of how it will probably stay a fun place for me forever but I'm still scared. And I should see it like japanese, like it doesn't interest me in the moment but I still like the music I used to like and it's not as if I just forgot the language overnight lol

I also feel like a creepy weeb in my hyperfixation. I'm scared that I'm idealizing finland and finnish people and the finnish language. I KNOW that I'm not, I'm not 15 anymore lol, but yet I'm still terrified it's so stupid urgh. I really want to visit but idk I don't even want to tell my family because I'm 32 and they already think I'm like a child who doesn't want to grow up because I work in cartoons and I like posters and plushies and don't intend to have children. I don't want to add groupie behavior to the long list of justifications to infantilize me lol. I'm also scared that finnish people will just dismiss me as käärijä fanatic which IS the case idk I'm so conflicted about this I didn't know anything about finland last year and my current level of interest is scaring me

That and that's so much stuff to plan already, my wedding next week, the fanzine stuff, therapy sessions, potential finland travel combined to a france travel to see family, finnish lessons to be at least able to usk my way around in case of emergency, honeymoon, work project, personal projects, käärijätober, jere's birthday project, I feel like im gonna crumble any second lmao

[crystalclear97]

hi hi hi!!

Name your favourite artists who inspire you! Your arts are so cute

Other ship aside Armin/Annie?

Do you plan to draw more Aruani?

oh hiiii !!! 😊

1.

This is very difficult aaaaaa :_) obviously all the aruani related artists that I follow inspire me a lot, maybe we have very different art styles but I love seeing their art and they encourage me to embrace and enjoy the fandom as I am still a bit self-conscious about that "nerdy" part of myself.

I am kinda shy to mention specific people but let's see...... @nobluesea, @annawayne, @lidatan, @brbarou, @phyroblue, @ghostieking, @pepperjackets, @catfein ... aaand I have to mention @kalruani who I think is my fav aruani artist but I don't think they're on tumblr...... 👉👈 I don't wanna make anybody feel bad if I forget them, so if I follow you, consider yourself part of the list PLEASE :_)

some other non tumblr related people:

Ana Galvañ • Sara Soler • Gabriel Picolo • Bryan Lee O'Malley • alessandro barbucci • Núria Tamarit • Miguel Gallardo (RIP) • Maria Herreros • Laura Brouwers • Gretel Lusky • KAZLAND • Cristina Daura • So Lazo • Dakota Cates • Ingrid Arbiol • Paw Salcés • Xulia Vicente • Beatriz Fletes • LUCIA CUÑAT ORTEL • Paco Roca • Fran Riolobos • Ian • Sha'an d'Anthes • Lucy Zhang • David Ramírez • Julia Kaye • Alex Norris • AND some friends that are also great artists: [RAMUNE] - Alba Flores - Natalia Lucas - Joaquín Guirao

I'm forgetting people for sure aaaaaaaaa I tried my best.........

The alternative / punk / fanzine / local scene inspires me a lot, shows like Adventure Time, videogames like NITW or Omori with great art, and MUSIC!

2.

at this moment tbh I am super aruani focused... but I've shipped a lot through my life haha when I was a child I was obsessed with TK + Kari (digimon) and I usually shipped my fav character from anything, which usually was the misfit / weird / nerd one (I still do btw) 😅 Some ships that I also like at this moment could be zutara, bubbline, tomgreg from succession (in a fun way tbh), OBVIOUSLY tayley from paramore but they are real people so..... HAHA idk if you ask me what do I think of some specific ship I'll tell you my take!

3.

YES!! 🥰

thank you for asking!

[windydrawallday]

ART THROUGH THE YEARS

From 2010 to 2023, cheeses. I wanted to do a "Decade of Art" a while ago but time passed and... I ended up with a lot more to choose from and compile x'D

Many of these come from my forum fakemon design era, when I moved to DA and did prompt art with OCs for roleplay groups, then mixed with sporadic fanwork and early project ideas. In the recent past 3 years, I started to delve into fancharacters/fanchilds and lots of self-indulgent art plus participating in collaborations and fanzines!

I wanted to do this too to make reminders for myself in the future:

I don't change art styles because I'm insecure or Idk what I'm doing: for each story, character, or setting I try to capture the MOOD and FEELING they have! And so my art will forever be as diverse and changing as all the infinite experiences of life those things NEED from me to portray!

And so, I CAN'T COMPARE MY WORK with others because! NO. This is how I work best and it's alright and I NEED TO DEAL WITH IT. Period.

Every time I enter a fandom and do fanwork, I love putting tenderness in the dark and symbolism between the lines of the canon... and painting a psychedelic madness.

Expressions from head to toe are what I enjoy the most when drawing characters. Even if motionless (like in reference sheets) the character needs to say ALL in just a glimpse.

I doubt I'll ever have a comic of my own, but I will always try to tell stories and character interaction through sequential art: illustrations or doodly comics because I LOVE IT.

Talking about comics: It's my curse and blessing, but trying to make each panel have a different angle and don't recycle them (valid only when mirroring) is my self-imposed challenge haha

I used to do mixed-media (textures, collages, etc) a lot in my old art? So going back to it recently it's a natural cycle and nothing new: what's new is now I have better programs, resources, and skills to go up to eleven and double with them!

... I like drawing characters hugging/being clingy alright, I WON'T STOP DRAWING IT and it's the only pose I will repeat without getting tired of it all bahaha

The range of characters I love is an extension of myself too: from a sweet fluffy bundle of joy to the absolute chaos of a dark entity. Being human is so limiting: WHY DO I NEED TO PUT THAT LIMIT HERE too?

My art is most of the time niche af and that's alright too. I will find my people, I will curate my place. And if I'm the sole enjoyer of my stuff, fair: more for me!

And to everyone who knew me from the start or just joined my art journey recently: I will always be thankful for your presence! Because I can imagine how confused or flabbergasted you can end by following my every step x'D But, sorry not sorry, I'm not gonna change, at all.

To be true to myself is the best thing I can do. And that's a promise I can keep!

[spacefoxy]

Is it weird i can't bring myself to listen to anything Kiss made after Hot In The Shade? Like anything before that with Peter Criss im cool but anything after Eric idk,,,, like I feel like I'm betraying him or something ya know? Kinda dumb but idk

Hey anon!

I also have a confession. I don't actively listen to anything beyond HiTS either. So.. I feel ya, you know?

And before anyone at's me lemme defend myself by saying I don't think the material is bad! Like Revenge for example is an amazing album! It just hits a bit different... I also don't actively *avoid* listening to post-HiTS Kiss either. Don't get me wrong. I just don't go out of my way to listen to it.

So if you ask me, no I don't think it's weird. It's a totally valid feeling to have and my blog is a safe space for confessions like this. I don't judge anyone for their preferences.

But you and me, anon, we're quite similar. I don't talk about this a lot because I have a fear of being branded a fake fan or something. But in a show of solidarity, I'm going to admit to it here and now.

I guess my reasons are kind of similar. Maybe not as strong as 'betraying him' but more so... it just makes me think of how he's not here anymore. Revenge is especially tough to listen to for that reason. He was rehearsing for the album. He had plans for the tour. He played on some demos which then ended up as finished songs on the album.

The relationship with me and post-HiTS Kiss is complicated. And, anon, we're not the only ones. I have a couple of fanzines from early 1992, just after his passing, where fans have written letters about how they felt. I read letter after letter of how people couldn't listen to Kiss anymore. How it was not the same anymore and they felt their love for the band fading. It was and still is a difficult part of the fandom. Even if *some* people think we should be over it already. Don't listen to those guys.

My advice would be... don't sweat it. You choose what you listen to and what you listen to doesn't make you *any* more or less of a fan. Also if you happen to slip some post-HiTS Kiss in there, I'm sure Eric isn't gonna mind x)

[pory-z]

tag 9 mutuals you want to get to know better !

tagged by @haarute ! thanks, i enjoyed rambling about nothing and everything for a while

last song - Société tu m'auras pas, by Renaud. don't make fun of me i like his old stuff, it's one of the only non-metal artists i listened to in the car with my dad as a kid. for some reason i got really into old political music lately like union and french resistance songs so Renaud fits right in. i wanna learn some of them on the guitar. i enjoy singing a lot and i wanna improve ! a lot of my irl bros are musicians so i wanna impress them (i won't but they might find the effort endearing)

currently reading - The Occult Roots of Nazism by Nicholas Goodricke-Clarke, although i kinda put it on hold right now because even though it's a very interesting subject matter, it's a very dense book for the attention span i have at the moment lmao

also it's not a book but i'm reading through the various documents from the french Helloween fanclub from the 90's i got from my dad, who was the secretary at the time. there's paperwork, fanzines, interviews, old merch ads, fanmail, etc. it's a really fascinating time capsule and i'm so grateful for the opportunity to access all these documents. as soon as the university opens again i'm scanning all of it. i'll translate and publish the interviews too, it's bound to catch the attention of some pumpkinheads out there.

currently watching - houseki no kuni, again. because it's just so good. i watched the dub this time and even though it's pretty good, the constant avoidance of pronouns is getting more and more awkward and it's absolute cowardice. just let the damn rocks be gnc !!

i'm also rewatching holly hollowtones's 7 hour sandwich stream, again. for the fourth time. it makes me really happy for some reason.

current obsession - i'm slowly getting back into the rhythm of getting invested in things again after a rough patch of time, brain-wise. for now there's nothing much going on and my days are kinda empty.

i started octopath 2 and it's great so far but i need the motivation to keep going. i still need to continue 13 sentinels. i guess the closest thing i have to an obsession right now is utena, since i watched adolescence of utena recently and fell back into the crazy whirlwind of analysis and interpretation. it's an incredible anime i love it so much. idk how long it will last but for now i guess it's the biggest thing in my life even though i got back into it very recently. i might rewatch the original series. or madoka, i fucking love madoka. or maybe princess tutu, i'm told it's like. utena-lite in terms of themes but turbo-utena in terms of meta-fuckery, so that's exciting !

WAIT WAIT WAIT i just thought of something i'm forever and always obsessed with : soulsov, @pallisia's upcoming visual novel. i'm so in love with the main characters loic (chill florist dad) and ysme (weird clown woman). i'm not at-ing them because i don't wanna bother them but definitely go check out their art and read their webcomic lady of the shard it's real good and not that long ok i'm done now

that was fun ! i don't have that many mutuals but there you go, feel free to keep this thing going, folks

@aymisdumb @otasunestanblog @hibiscusandhoney @cyanampersand @oldwomanyaoi @alyxtried @littleoceanbabe @pinkminimarshmallow @musecalliope

[fagexe]

my doc upped my adhd meds and my brain is rattling and nobody is home for me to talk to… so, here you go, it’s me! a machine of consciousness!

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Every once in a while i consider getting off tumblr, but then i remember that this is my main(only) source of people who care about mcr as much as i do. Don't get me wrong, i have friends who are always excited to hear me talk about whatever the fuck is going on with those freaks and i love them for it, but they don't really have a lot of opinions or things to say. They like to hear about it because they care about me and want to hear about the things that i care about, which is fucking wonderful! But, at a certain point i feel like a physicist talking to a first grader. They retain most of the information i give them and some of them listened to my chem growing up. But the ones that did were never like seriously into them. They know the hits or maybe had a bp cd in hs but that's it. Aka they weren't/aren't in the spaces and don't really have the full context and overflowing number of opinions that comes from being here for years and years and years. So.... i don't really know anybody irl who was and still is in the fandom. I had friends in “high school” that were into them at the same level i was at that point, but a lot of us have drifted apart or they've drifted away from mcr (i use quotation marks cuz i'm referring to the age range not actually going to high school ((since i didn't do that;) )). I think the third or fourth to last time i saw the person I talked about MCR the most with in hs was at a celebration show that absolutely rocked my world, but that was like 2014 or something idk. I still have that one on instagram:0 they're a dj now! it's so wonderful to see them finding success at something they were wanting to do back then. But like we don't really talk(meaning we don't talk). I want people to go off with irl so badly. dykegerard and amanda are the luckiest fucking duckies, also fievel is the cutest little baby!!!:) (ps i miss living with a dog so bad) (pps yes i know dykegerard has a real name but that's their name in my head) i want to marry somebody who cares about mcr as much as i do<3 it's nowhere near the top of what would be important for me to marry someone, but it would be cute.

Oh dear lord, okay, i went off for a second, give me a minute

Ok, my other thought was -> Yeah, i think i would miss having that (mcr besties) but like i only actually talk to a few people on here and if i wanted to i could talk to them somewhere else. But I like doing silly little zines!! And this is my main(only((unless one of my irl friends is doing one. But those zines are never fanzines, they are usually poetry or political, which I love, but it's definitely a different vibe )) source of knowing when those are happening and knowing when their apps are happening. I know a lot of them are promoted on twitter in addition to here. But! I absolutely refuse to go on twitter in any sort of real and sustained way. Yes, i have a twitter. Yes, i go on there occasionally. But no, i will not be replacing tumblr with twitter, doing that would keep all of the things i dislike about tumblr and the way i interact with it and get rid of most of the things i like about tumblr. Also as far as i can tell mcr twitter is absolutely fucking wild, and not in the way i want it to be.

Speaking of zines :) I've been looking through all of the final submissions for the swarm zine and everyone's work is so absolutely amazing, i'm so excited for it to come out. I'm also just generally like pretty proud of the piece I have in there:) Since going back to school for art stuff everything's gotten to feel much more serious, which isn't necessarily bad. I am genuinely very serious and care a lot about the work I make. But also like having a fun low stakes artistic outlet has been absolutely amazing :) Plus since the thing I work on at school is film/video/installation, working in a format that's not even kind of related to that is really wonderful:)) anyway, FFUCKING GET HYPE FOR SWARM TO COME OUT!! (Having all of that capitalized feels really aggressive and I don't like it but I wasn't sure which part to capitalize so I left it all capitalized. I thought about just having “fucking get hype” capitalized but then it seems weird to go from “high energy” to “low energy”:/, maybe just hype capitalized idk whatever.)

Ok i’m going to go see the regrettes at wickerfest see you later bye-bye <33

[madmaryholiday]

been receiving some of the zines i've ordered over the last couple weeks, and mostly they're really cool! i feel like i want to make a post about my faves, but we'll see if i can scrounge up the motivation anytime soon.

i also really want to make my own mini-zine now (the 8-page kind you make out of one sheet of printer paper), but idk that i have enough appropriate supplies for the themes i'm thinking of? what i mean is i want to make fanzines but don't have images from media i want to make fanzines about. and idk if i can just print shit out without my parents being like ???? about it.

....

someday i want to make a kamikaze girls fanzine.

but that one will have to be bigger. cos i have a LOT of thoughts about that movie. and how momoko and ichigo are 100% soulmates.

anyway, it'll give me something to ponder while i'm at work this week, i guess.

[the-ghost-king]

I don't quite know how to word this so bare with me here but I wish something similar to the doujinshi market was also a thing in western fandoms. Like I know most doujin are original works not parody/fandom based, and sometimes artists do upload "comic strips" or there are fanzines but that's not quite the same either? Idk, I just feel like having a like 8-30 page little book of essentially a drawn fanfiction is really cool always and I wish it had taken off a little more across fandoms in a wider sense with the internet...? Obviously things would probably be slightly different just because of cultural variations but like in the west most fanzines are dedicated just to drawings and maybe a fic but people rarely combine those mediums and when they do combine pieces to try and make something that's a "comic strip" it's usually only done for comedic effects...

[m1ckeyb3rry]

The Mira wc calibration is just too crazy LOL I almost forgot the ship in the harbor y/! Is hollyhock y/n’s predecessor omg

HAHA FR ok lowk even when reading pi i was like “yo yuta and reader still alive???” Was fully expecting a major death but was pleasantly surprised with the resurrection (im gonna have to lock myself back into angst for whenever you revert back to angst i feel like I haven’t read angst in so long)

SO REAL need a bestie like miraverse chigiri omg reader and chigiri clowning reo and may so real I bet Kira would just be like “excuse me???” And reader just continues like “and when did this mole get here? You got it tattooed or sth?”

LMAOFOAOAOAOA Im abt to piss myself laughing WHAT THE FUCK WHYS IT SO WELL MADE???? IM CRYING AHAHSHAHAHA THIS IS TOO GOOD “my best friend and favorite star” GOOD. BYE. And the quotation too ijbol I cannot it’s also formatted so well…petition for you to publish this and make it into a real book or make it into like those fanzine type prints/books

Im being swayed and I’m not even the one writing oaeu LMAOO but speaking of how’s the progress on the inspo hunting LOL

NO FR wait that reminds me it’s sorta unrelated but i love the Hiori kurona duo just generally….Ive seen a lot of art of the BM dorm 4 where it’s Isagi yuki and Hiori looking after kurona and it’s so precious shsgshshs I remember thinking team kindness was really cute too!! But just imagine team kindness + bm 4 hyping kiyora up or genuinely giving him good advice and he’s like “wtf I’m not being bullied for once??” But LMAOOO alpha wolf Nagi is so funny I’m also imagining that one “gomen oomf Chan” wolf with him idk why

No because I get how stories have to involve the mc since they are the mc but I really wish more works would also elaborate on things that happen when the mc isn’t around like PLEASE show us the match I NEED TO SEE IT HDJSHSJSJ

- Karasu anon

HAHAAH FR and yesss SitH y/n is the original 😩 she has issues that hollyhock y/n could never even dream of and traumas that i look back on and wonder why i wrote 😭 but she’s cool i do rlly like her!! she was meant to be a deconstruction of the “girlboss heartless fighter who’s really pretty and cool and effortless and genius” YA trope that’s sooo common (idk if you can tell but i LOVE deconstructing popular tropes) where she is genuinely traumatized by the things she does (which are all horrible tbf) and hates herself very intensely for it instead of it just being brushed aside as necessary and never touched on again!! in comparison hollyhock y/n never really has those struggles with ptsd and whatnot she’s just like “ok wtvr this is what i need to do” meanwhile otoya and karasu are like her biggest supporters (especially karasu because otoya will occasionally disagree with her but karasu is her ride or die he supports women’s rights AND wrongs)

LMAOOO honestly i considered killing reader off and having her actually just die against sukuna but imo resurrection (and more specifically the connection between love and resurrection vs hatred and consumption) is such a main theme of the story and is honestly so integral to the whole plot that it wouldn’t have made sense for me to go any other way abt it!! i actually love the pi ending even though it was lowkey happy it just felt so sweet and full circle plus we got a sukuna cannibalism mention so it was still a little crazy and fun JFFJSJSK omg yesss luckily we still have requests and the oaeu to keep our spirits up in the meanwhile!! speaking of the oaeu i think i’ve decided the tropes for every character and it’s going to be so fun…the only ones i had left to cook up were sae reo and karasu but i think for sae i’m going to do smth where it’s when sae comes back for the u20 game and he meets reader at like a library or cafe or smth that he and aiku frequent and aiku IMMEDIATELY senses the vibes but sae is in crazy denial meanwhile reader thinks he’s cute and lowkey wants him ☝🏻 and then for reo it’s going to be a very stereotypical arranged marriage where he has to marry her for business reasons but he thinks he doesn’t like her…until aiku starts flirting with her and she seems into it…and he’s like “yo hold on a sec this is MY future wife 😟” HAHA and finally for karasu they’re going to be roommates or smth and he likes her but she has a (rlly shitty) boyfriend so he goes to aiku for help in learning to be a homewrecker since aiku is so experienced w that kind of stuff

I LOVEEE FORMATTING ALL OF MY DRAFTS IT MAKES ME FEEL SO MOTIVATED!! and hehe the best friend and favorite star is a reference to my best friend who tullia is based on i always dedicate my stories to her because she was like my first reader and is the reason i was confident enough to post my stuff online (she convinced me to make an ao3 acct in 2021) so without her there would be no fics…no miraverse…NOTHING so like i owe literally everything to her hence why she’s in so many of my stories and gets the dedication every time 🥳 and SLFHDJSSBS PLS I WAS GIGGLING MAKING THAT THE EPIGRAPH IT JUST FIT SOO WELL actually all of my long stories have epigraphs!! peregrine’s is “anyway, don’t be a stranger” from phoebe bridgers’s song scott street, hollyhock’s is “the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for” from faithful place by tana french (never read it or anything just saw the quote online and felt like it cooked), the year of the roses (shinah story that nagi might take over) is “the wait is long. my dream of you does not end” from my dream of you by nuala o’faolain (again haven’t read it just liked the quote), and hurricanes / hummingbirds is “anything you lose comes round in another form” from rumi!! i try to make them thematic and whatnot just for my own purposes even though no one else ever sees them but for the oaeu honestly no quote from someone else would fit better than aiku and niko cooking up smth problematic 😭

PEREGRINE CHIGIRI AND READER ARE SOOO GOOD TOGETHER i cannot wait for the college era even though it means no nagi solely because we get so much chigiri content…okay wait also i think it’s so funny that the ONLY character to have speaking lines in every single peregrine chapter besides reader is literally reo 😭 like atp it’s basically a reo fic he’s in the story more than nagi himself FJDJSJ but anyways i can’t wait to write the chigiri may reo reader combo!! and PLS no kira was 100% lost but he thought reader was gorgeous so he was like “sure beautiful whatever you say” luckily reo did step in and take reader back before anything too crazy happened so kira was just left intrigued but yeah it’s such a funny way for them to meet that i think it’s perfect (poor nagi though…nothing will ever be more insane than both of them thinking the other moved on first 😩)

i fear the inspo hunting progress has been at an all time low although i did this really funny rin x jjk edit that had me cackling (also why does rin genuinely look more attractive in these edited panels than in bllk 😭) AND ALSO a hakyona edit which was a crazy fyp pull they’re definitely stalking our convos 😟 honestly atp i might start on the oaeu just so i don’t get crazy writer’s block and stop writing altogether?? and just alternate oaeu chapters with requests…idk we’ll see maybe i just need to lock in and write smth but i feel badddd because if i’m not inspired i feel like my work is of worse quality?? but then again worse quality for me is still decent i’d like to say so maybe it’s not that deep 😓 maybe i’ll just pick one of the requests and start writing literally anything that’s what i did w the instrument and white butterfly and both turned out okay i think!!

kiyora and nagi being soccer rivals: lame, tired, boring, typical 🥱 kiyora being nagi’s discord kitten: insane take, none of those words are in the bible, barou’s going to crash out, nagi is using reo’s money to buy kiyora battle passes as reparations for what he suffered at karasu and otoya’s hands, karasu and otoya crack up when they hear about it, hiori is jealous, etc

REALLL i can’t wait for epinagi to get to nel in like ten years i want to see the behind the scenes of what manshine was up to!! maybe it’s just because idrc abt the mc so i don’t have as much interest in what he’s up to meanwhile i loveee nagi and would sit through a million chapters of him doing literally whatever because he’s my cutie pie special princess

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I don't even really like Big Country's song "Ships", but when I discovered via a Country Club fanzine issue that Carol Laula guested on that song live at least once with the band in 1996 I was like *screams internally, foams at the mouth to hear it* and of course I could not fucking find it online - either that, or I don't have access to listen to it in the U.S. 😭 And I can just IMAGINE how beautiful her voice sounded on that song.

...and I'm too much of a chicken to ask the BC fan group on FB "Does anyone have a recording of this that I could listen to because I desperately want to hear more of Carol Laula, including with the band"...I feel like people would treat me with suspicion like 'Why does this chick want to hear Carol fucking Laula and not the band that the group is dedicated to...' :| I don't think I can understandably or reliably explain that I like to listen to other artists/bands that my favorite bands worked with but that I especially want to hear when my favorite bands/artist have worked with women because I'm deeply curious to hear how bands of all/mostly men work with women artists/bands - if they offer those [women] artists/bands they work with an equal respect, musically, that they would to men. In other words, I guess, do my favorite bands of/mostly men pass the Bechdel test IRL/music/working capacity? That's basically what I want to know. LOL But I obviously want to hear the women, too, anyway. And I am still SO DISAPPOINTED that I can't really listen to Carol Laula's older music because I don't have access to it as an American (and also, IDK if her music is on iTunes still or not, but even if it was, I don't have access to iTunes either, so like...either way I don't get to listen to it! 😭).