#kifu

[wolfcha1k]

Some art I did recently of Kion and Fuli, plus their two kids Agulu the African wild dog and Nazapa the Dama gazelle.

[juliemaksimuk]

I love these two.

Insp. by “The Sixth Shadow”

By @thinknicht

With love. ❤️

[fullfledged-trash]

Yo. A specific artist or -? Idc if you have money. If we have a hangout date when it's done, then I see a friend again and that's worth it to me.

I have an artist I just commissioned but if you're offering still??? And yes bc it's been forever since I've seen you.

[gokifu]

[waifuoftomonori]

My favorite OT3 dynamic is when each person thinks the other two would be cute / sexy / good for each other and tries stubbornly to matchmake them, while unconsciously seeing themselves as the equivalent of human trash who does not deserve nice things (i.e. a loving relationship with the people they love). And then through various plot events they overcome this and all get together in the end.

[monoukotori]

👏LOVE 👏 IS 👏 STORED 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏GOBAN👏

[kifu]

Inktober day two: spider. I wanted more white ink, but it's too old to hold on to the nib. Le sigh.

[waifuoftomonori]

Tomonori could benefit from half of these, to be honest. - Talk about your feelings. I get that you can't discuss them with most people, but before you decide to off yourself for the woman you love, maybe tell her how you feel about her potential death, and ask her how she feels about yours. That seems like a conversation that should happen. - Stop being a dick. To Akifusa specifically. ...Okay, fine, maybe just be a little less of a dick sometimes. - You need to stay with Shiki and Aki (i.e. not take your own life) - General trauma healing - Please stop killing / injuring yourself every five seconds - Just sit down and have a good cry. It won't fix everything, but you might feel a little better after. You keep everything so bottled up. Akifusa - Just have him take an "Am I Gay?" quiz, give him ten minutes to adjust, and he'll be the paragon of mental health Shiki - See: all of Tomonori's except "stop being a dick"

Probably missed a key one, but whatever

[wolfcha1k]

Kion spending some father-son time with his and Fuli's little boy Agulu.

[juliemaksimuk]

they argue like an old married couple.

Insp. by “The Sixth Shadow”

By @thinknicht

With love. ❤️

[waifuoftomonori]

Love a chart I can stick the Kifu gang in

I don’t know why it keeps blurring the handwriting. I did make a few tweaks and I’m not sure I did certain parts the way they were intended, but it was still a lot of fun. (Eventually I’ll probably come back to it and clarify the blurry writing.)

Also, there wasn’t room for Shiki’s chibi because the only pics I have of her are horizontal, so here you go:

Some caveats / clarification things:

SWD stands for “Shall We Date?” but I didn’t want to write it out because I already knew it’d be a squeeze trying to fit the English name of the app and the Japanese name for the game.

The column labeled “How to make them blush” at the bottom is written from the perspective of the person whose color is being used, about the character indicated over on the left-hand side. For example, Tomonori’s method of making Shiki blush is via surprise “punishments”.

The other two columns, however, are from the perspective of the character labeled on the left-hand side, about the character whose color is being used. For example, Shiki’s ideal hangout with Akifusa is participating in some ultimately pointless competition that does not involve sword training, whereas Akifusa loves sparring with her. Sorry if that’s confusing to anyone.

I was sorely tempted to put Dominant as Tomonori’s one-word description (it informs his outlook on life, not just his preferred role in kinky stuff) but opted against it at the last second. Just know that it was in the running. (And part of why I opted for “Princess” for Shiki maaaay have to do with my headcanon of her as a brat, not just her official title.)

”Inh. ritual” is short for “Inheritance Ritual”— the one Shiki had to go through when she was seven that involved killing her mother to keep the Sword sealed. She still remained friends with Tomonori and Akifusa after that, but she didn’t feel like she could tell either of them the full truth of what was going on. Her relationship with Tomonori declined at a slower rate than Akifusa’s because Tomonori had a better view of the situation (crap, I should’ve marked when he turned ten and started supervising the monthly rituals— although to be honest he never really opened up to Shiki about his feelings entirely, so maybe it would’ve continued declining at the same rate).

Shiki and Akifusa’s relationship decreases slightly in my headcanon when Aki and Tomo start hooking up, along with Shiki and Tomonori’s relationship, because she’s not spending as much time with either of them for a while, and there’s jealousy and stuff to sort out. They do eventually sort it out, though.

Why did I circle “giving” but then not do the Love Languages thing? Well, I initially had the idea of doing it, but when I actually thought about it, all of the “different” languages seem like gestures the Kifu gang would appreciate from each other. To be honest I’ve never really understood why some people swear by “love languages” anyway. But moving on—

I don’t ship Shiki and Akifusa when they’re alone. When Tomonori’s in the picture, though, I ship all three of them, and I do believe that’s different from shipping only Tomonori with Shiki and Tomo with Aki separately. I don’t quite know how to put it in words. It’s like a certain atmosphere takes over when they’re all together.

It felt important to me to signify that all three of them are similar in height and age, which is why those dots are so close together. …It was apparently less important to me to signal that Shiki and Tomonori get together, in most of my headcanons, somewhere between six months and a year before Tomonori and Akifusa do, which is also a relatively short length of time.

When Tomonori’s at work, or around people other than his best friends / lovers, he’s significantly farther left on the Serious-Playful scale, although still not as serious as Akifusa. He feels comfortable enough with them to relax and let his sense of humor shine.

Physically, on the Gentle-Rough scale, Akifusa’s the character most likely to get a little rough in bed, and when that happens it’s usually on accident because he underestimates his own strength. Tomonori’s not on the extreme end of Gentle because I can see him, on certain occasions, dipping his toes very lightly into physical sadism with Akifusa. Probably just spanking or scratching, and it would be more for humiliation or roleplay purposes than pain.

However, when it comes to control in the bedroom: yeah, Akifusa’s submissive as hell. And although Tomonori might try to be submissive and probably has complicated feelings initially about some of his more “twisted” kinks, he’s Dominant as fuck. Does love a good brat, though.

I see Shiki as a sassy brat. That’s why she acts a lot more “arrogant” in bed than she does outside of it.

I considered using that scale to also try to mark that Akifusa’s submissive in bed and Tomonori’s Dominant, but I don’t feel like that changes their positions that much. Maybe if Tomo was the kind of Dom who didn’t blush when Shiki acts overly submissive (knowing it’ll get a reaction).

I can envision situations in which Shiki would meow while she and Tomonori are doing kinky stuff, and she has a few catlike personality traits (such as sass), but I think Tomonori’s personality is more catlike. No way are you getting that man to meow, though. At least not without significant repercussions.

I think Tomonori and Akifusa’s relationship is a smidgen more about kink than romance. (And their friendship too of course.) Granted, that may change depending on the fic.

I had no idea what to do with the Infodumps / Listens one, because I think 1. Tomonori and Shiki do both to roughly equal degrees, 2. Akifusa’s heard lectures from them (especially Tomo) so many times he kinda just tunes them out, 3. Akifusa’s the one most likely to just blurt out the first thing most likely to come to mind, but 4. Akifusa’s the least likely to have actual info. Tomonori has actual info, but he tends to keep it to himself. Shiki might be even more reserved than he is at times. So yeah, that was my thought process for ranking them the way I did there.

I kept going back and forth over whether to put Tomonori perfectly in the center on the DnD alignment chart one, but opted for nudging him slightly toward Good because this is after he’s gotten together with Shiki and Akifusa and is starting to tentatively appreciate life and the good parts of people again.

ARE YOU hopelessly fixated on a specific fictional polycule and have way too much time on your hands? boy do i have an unnecessarily elaborate ship chart for you!

(versions with 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 characters and an example under the cut)

feel free to make any edits or add stuff to your liking :]

[bonsaiempire]

The winning trees at the Trophy 2025!

First prize Shohin bonsai By Bob van Ruitenbeek

First prize Kifu bonsai Juniper by Alejandro Izquierdo

First prize Conifer bonsai Taxus baccata by Andres Alvarez Iglesias

First prize Broad leaved bonsai Acer buergerianum by Valentino Villecco

[kifu]

Inktober day three: path. I was hoping for a little creep factor with barely distinguishable forms in the night, but ink wash proves difficult at the moment.

[waifuoftomonori]

I just found out about these, we’ll see if I can get around to writing any of them in time (we might have to go with mini-fics and/or unedited stuff). I also might go rogue for a few days and pick my own prompts >:) Don’t get your hopes up too high, though.

[Image description in ALT. Prompts in plain text under the cut.]

Polyamships is hosting #MultiamoryMarch2025

Multiamory March is a month-long event held each year, starting on March 1st and ending on March 31st, with a prompt for each day.

🎉🎉2025 marks the 5th year since #MultiamoryMarch came to our blog 🎉🎉

Once again we gather to celebrate polyamory in all its forms: OT3s, OT4s, OT8s, V-relationships, QPRs, sedoretus, and any configuration you can think of. In the spirit of this month, we invite you to create works in any medium using the prompts above if you need a little inspiration.

This year we have an additional 10 alt visual prompts for you to choose! Check out the links under the cut.

Remember our prompts are there to inspire you, not restrict you. You can also create freely or even use one of our prompts from past years we’d still love to see fanworks for if they inspire you better. If you use a prompt, please make sure to let us know which prompt you’re creating for somewhere on your post.

At us @polyamships and use the tags #MultiamoryMarch and #MultiamoryMarch2025 in the first five tags so we can hopefully see it. If you don’t see us reblog your post within a few days feel free to send us an ask to let us know, or submit it via the submit link here in case we’ve missed your post or the tags/notifications are being weird.

All ratings are welcome but anything nsfw/triggery should be warned for and behind a read more, as should very long tumblr fic.

We also have an AO3 collection for the event that can be found here and the collection name is ‘multiamory_march_works’.

We can’t wait to see what you create for the month, and please do spread the word about the event. ❤️♾️

Over the next month or two, we will also be doing a number of posts with expanded ideas for each prompt for anyone who needs a little more inspiration than just the one or two word style.

Under the cut you can find the prompts in written form:

Official Multiamory March 2025 prompts

First kiss(es)

Hurt/Comfort

First date as a polycule

N+1 things

Cuddles

Team as polycule

Secret relationship

Friends to lovers

Queerplatonic relationships

Meet the family

Pining

Explaining/mapping the polycule

The polycule taking care of a child or pet

Confessions

and they were roommates

Outsider POV

Soulmates AU

"Don't look at me. This was not my idea."

Chatfic/the polycule groupchat

Time travel

Dreams

Space

Complicated relationships

Trans characters

Touch

Scars

Kink negotiation

Magic

Vampire AU

Role reversal

Morning routine

Alt visual prompts

Always room for one more [LINK]

Home [LINK]

HALSEY - NOW OR NEVER MV [LINK]

Dancing [LINK]

Matching [LINK]

Mythology [LINK]

BTS - BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS MV [LINK]

Family feud [LINK]

Royalty [LINK]

KARD - HOLA HOLA MV [LINK]

[screamingfr]

My dear friend @f4n-gs oc KIFU!! He is a sly little guy, very mischievous :)

He is so silly and I love himmm. Very cutesy, even though he is a mass murderer <3

[owlthatisnotgold]

I was translating the Japanese entries for some of Elden Ring's swords and came across some interesting things. First is the Cleanrot Knight's sword. In Japanese, it's 貴腐騎士の剣 or Kifu Kishi no Ken. Apparently "kifu" or "noble rot" refers to a specific fungal infection called Botrytis cinerea that especially affects grapes. And this fungal infection is actually beneficial to the host plants, appearing in drier seasons. This would seem to hint that the rot that is affecting Caelid where the knights wield this sword is actually good for the landscape, drying it out after an initial wetter and harmful grey rot (the bad form of this fungus). It's actually healing.

Second are the smithscript weapons you can find in the Realm of Shadow. You can find them down in those old forges with the golems and magma. The Japanese word used for these weapons is actually 流紋 or ryuumon. Neither word refers to smithing or a script. The best fit for ryuu seems to be "flow" while mon can be "crest" or "pattern". The smithscript weapons are "flowing pattern" weapons. You can find the same kanji for ryuu in weapons like the Flowing Curved Sword or weapons wielded by the Nox. This would seem to hint smithscript weapons are connected to water, but you find them in places where fire is very prevalent. If you look at them, they do indeed have flowing patterns on them that you could easily think was melted rock.

Third are that magma wyrms are called 溶岩土竜 or yougan doryuu. And while the kanji for "dragon" is indeed present, doryuu means "mole". A mole, that little rodent who digs in the earth, is called an "earth dragon" in Japanese.

Fourth, Erdsteel is 黄銅 or oudou in Japanese. It means "yellow/amber copper" or brass. Erdsteel is just brass.

I did use an online dictionary (not Google Translate, an actual dictionary), so the translations may be less than precise.