#my boy gotta win

[yeyayeya]

Day 3 of CYL

I gotta go with my fav Engage character (and the one I married lol)

Here’s hoping that Diamant is Top 2

[peachypine]

the roomies!!! i originally designed this ososan oc trio in full about a year ago to write on an rp blog. it's not really active rn, but i still want to talk and post about 'em, so here they are! just basic rundowns, but i'd be curious to hear which one (if any) is your fav of the three (feel free to leave it in the tags?? if u want!)

bonus transparent of them all together:

aaand some rambling under the cut about their designs

anzu:

i wanted to use orange as a character colour bc it's one that wasn't already used in the matsu rainbow, and i had a concept of a gyaru character named anzu kicking around in my head for a long time as well, so here we are. miwa from the mixer ep inspired the eyeshadow (orange rather than miwa's blue obv, to keep with her colour theme) and delinquent totoko's design inspired her ombre dyejob! i went with a blonde-to-orange look as a nod to anzu's namesake fruit (apricot).

the strands framing her face are split into 3 sections at the end (2/3 are grouped together and 1/3 flips in the other direction) which is a little nod to her being one of 3 siblings (eldest), as well as the "三" character used in her surname (mikado) meaning 3. the rest of her hairstyle is just because i thought it looked cute, though.

ososan's style is more simplified, but i wanted to convey makeup that was a little bold, but cute (long false lashes, eyeshadow, & and a soft pink or nude glossy lip). clothing-wise, she mixes and matches a few different substyles (agejo and onee are prominent, with some ane, tsuyome, and general old school gal influences as well?), with a particular fondness for animal prints, esp. tiger print. (that said, orange tiger print doesn't seem all that common in gyaru clothes, so in-universe i like to think that the top pictured above was originally a black-and-white zebra(?) stripe print she thrifted and dyed at home--close enough!)

her nails day to day are usually medium length since she has a lot of hobbies that involve her hands and anything longer makes those things a bit more cumbersome. sometimes they're decoden/bedazzled, sometimes they're just painted a cute colour/pattern, depends on the day! and i think she opts for press-ons over extensions for longer nails, since it's cheaper.

ran:

i'm just a bitch who loves purple, that's the reason for this one. i think the hime cut with shorter bangs is nice because you can showcase the eyebrows (i think eyebrows can really elevate a character design so i gave all 3 their own brow shape) without worrying about the lines for the eyebrows and bangs intersecting in an annoying way when you draw it. i like shorter, slightly sharp eyebrows like these because they're easy to draw, lol. i think they're usually furrowed like she's displeased with something, but that may just be her resting face. i also thought this blunter, sharper-looking cut (bold, standoffish) was a fun contrast to anzu's flippy half-updo (bright, bouncy) and yuzu's short, wavy hair (languid, relaxed).

5 piercings on each ear (2 spiked helix & 3 lobe) = 5 siblings including ran (4 older brothers). the other reason for this number of piercings was that her namesake flower (orchid) had--i thought--5 petals, but as it turns out i'm a fool, it's actually 3 petals (including the lip) and 3 sepals??? ah, well.

clothing-wise, influences from various punk/vkei styles alongside some rokku gyaru. (maybe anzu introduced her to this one?) this brash style is the total inverse of how she was expected to dress growing up. (when she and anzu first met, she was an OL with no piercings, undyed hair, and positively miserable, but that was a number of years ago now.) i'm really not reinventing the wheel with "small and angry", but y'know, we have fun here.

yuzu:

is teal distinct enough from blue to count as its own colour? i think so. for yuzu, i really loved the concept of a deadpan-looking character who is very much not the straightman, who in fact wants very badly to be the funnyman 99% of the time. that kind of straight-faced but silly comedic character is always really fun to me.

half-lidded/heavy-lidded eyes paired with thick brows are always a winner to me fsr, and i wanted to give her a more "handsome" looking face with a bit more of a defined jaw than you typically see on women in ososan. as a treat. i wanted her to look a bit like a mysterious prettyboy, but she's not actually mysterious, she's just a space cadet. (and very straightforward about her thoughts and feelings, saying them with little fuss or thought.) expectation vs reality, people deciding what you're like based on their own perception vs what you're actually like, etc. etc.

i don't have anything deep to say about her hairstyle, but maybe that's how yuzu would like it, what you see is what you get. (again, eyebrows vs hair... let that eyebrow scar that i gave her for no reason shine.) as for clothing, she prefers things that are easy to move around in, so her style is the most "matsuno"-like (t-shirts, hoodies, basketball shorts, sweats, etc.). in particular, she likes shirts with phrases, usually in english, that are funny or almost make sense but not quite ("for background visual gags" and "for the english speakers in the audience").

[omegalomania]

happy birthday to the record that changed the trajectory of my life, and still does. happy 7 years, mania.

[whipbogard]

Tfw you spot your love rival

And you’re wearing the same shirt 😬

[illegiblehandwriting1]

my obsession with people waking up to start a scene in their pov is showing again

[kitakami-kid]

are we not gonna talk about how kieran bought enough plane tickets for you and the zero crew? this 15 yr old boy who lives in rural japan? doesn't he know he can just buy a phone himself???

[fairylando]

i can't wait for the season to end, I NEED A GUN. NOW.

[dinosaurwithablog]

Juan Soto looks like I feel. That's gotta change tomorrow 😍🙏🏼😁

The third loss in a row is not making my boys or the fans happy. Game 4 is the time for the Yankees to win and start a new trend. I read that Luis Gil is our starting pitcher for game 4. The rookie has the ability to pitch a great game. I'm hoping that is exactly what he'll do tomorrow. I still have faith, and I still believe. I am very loyal and an optimist. LET'S GO YANKEES!!!!!

[titslikethis]

DARLINGS!!!

[idolsummons]

i've thought of a new character

he's a tv personality who follows the deity of stillness and eternity and wants to bring about the end of the world ✨

[wwooyology]

I realized something today that if I were to go back and watch Kingdom I wouldn't be able to vote for anyone 😭 (I was only a skz stan atp) now I would rather jump off the tallest building into a burning pit of lava then ever choose now (as I'm now an ateez, skz and tbz stan.....)

[just-a-lil-critter]

Izuku "ima save every emotionally constipated red eyed bitchboy " Midoriya be like:

[pollyannawog]

I just want to say I adore your Kieranpon fic. Its so well written and I just love what all you added to the lore. I've been reading through every story for the au and they all have such different takes on the same premise. I'm curious on if you read any other kieranpon fic before starting your own?

Thank you!! I’m so flattered people like my writing, honestly I worry about being too clinical and/or overwrought at times so it’s nice to hear that people enjoy it :D No actually, I don’t remember if any of the others existed when I started (it was a while ago, I write all my fics to completion in advance before releasing any of it, lest I lose motivation) and I surprisingly don’t read a lot of fanfic myself. I think it’s lovely though that so many other people have been inspired by the concept, more creativity in the world is always a good thing!

[agentsnickers]

@piedoesnotequalpi tagged me and this sounds fun, so:

I tried to keep it to one character per piece of media and promptly cheated at that self-imposed restriction by defining PJO & Heroes separately so I didn't have to choose between Nico & Jason. Whoops!

As ever, I'm a bit at a loss for who to tag so if you want to participate feel free to claim I tagged you!

[skitskatdacat63]

Oh boy I can't wait to get 5 hours of sleep before this gp 🌚

[sircolinmorgan]

make sure you vote for All Creatures Great & Small in ‘Returning Drama’ and Nicholas Ralph in ‘Drama Performance’ so they’ll make it onto the shortlist for the NTAs!