#oh thats a lot of words....

[kerizaret]

/pos

OK so.... this is... very vibes based but....

Kwiat Jabłoni's re-interpretation of Eldo's "Miasto Słońca" (City of Sun) is THE wxs song to me. It's so hard to put in words. Bc it's just about this. Love and dreams and wanting to see the world together...

So many of my thoughts are just feels but I'll try explaining. Also amateur translation so beware

The first verses are like. Not anything in specific. It's just about the day passing well, "moving forward like a good movie" (?). But smth about life as a movie (show/play). I'm pulling at strings here tho /silly

Niewinny czarodziej leci witać się z chmurami [An innocent wizard flies to greet the clouds]

Brudny chodnik kilkanaście kilometrów pod trampkami [Dirty pavement several kilometers under [their] shoes]

Now this is very Emu Ootori to me. Emu the innocent dreamer whose head is a bit in the clouds (feet not touching the "dirty ground", smth about her chasing her dreams and ideas without realising the hard/technical problems of it at first. If that makes sense). But also she loves and loves everything about the world and treats it with this kindness and excitement.

Also. Shao (and Miles = her grandpa). "Sorcerer and apprentice" team name. Yk, the whole magic/sorcerers imaginery

Zbieram okruchy dnia, łączę wszystkie w całość [I collect crumbs of everyday, put them together into one]

Słońce świeci dzisiaj dla mnie jak co rano [The sun shines for me today like every morning]

This feels like Tsukasa to me.

Tsukasa putting a bit of himself/his daily life & feelings into his roles to make them "whole" (that one verse is actually smth like "i merge them all together into something whole" but that sounds awkward so i went with "put tohether into one"). Also smth about living everyday to the fullest. Being happy and attached to the small things, appreciating each moment. Also smth smth sekai is created from his feelings and its reflecting "crumbs" of his life and all

Also "The sun shines FOR ME" is just very tsukasa. That one "sun shining through the foliage as if a natural spotlight made to shine for me" line from his initial 1☆ . But also just his optimistic look on life

Chodź, pokażę ci kolor mego szczęścia [Come, I'll show you the colour of my happiness]

Dziś palącym słońcem Śródmieścia [Today in the scorching sun downtown]

Zbudujemy piramidy z marzeń [We'll build pyramids out of dreams]

Otwórz oczy na świat; zwiedzimy go razem [Open your eyes to the world; we'll visit it together]

THE CHORUS. OUHHRH THE CHORUUUS this is just so wxs to me. The feels...

"I'll show you the colour of my happiness"... wxs journey to bloom episode being titled happiness. Them wanting to make everyone smile and doing it with shows. Sharing their joy between other people and each other too...

"WE'LL BUILD PYRAMIDS OUT OF DREAMS" DO I EVEN NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS. WXS DREAM OF MAKING THE WORLD SMILE AND MAKING SHOWS WITH THAT FEELING IN MIND. ALL THEY ACHIEVED SO MUCH TOGEYHER THANKS TO THAT DETERMINATION AND THOSE DREAMS. WXS SUPPORTING EACH OTHER'S DREAMS AND GETTING BETTER TOGETHER TO AIM FOR GREATER THINGS. (You could probably throw in smth about Wonderland sekai to this again too)

The last line is just. This is so OHE coded. "Open your eyes to the world", there's so much outside of PXL to learn from, so much they can see and do and it's all worth seeing. Freelancing opens so many gates for them and each of the 4 of them stand to learn something from it, even Emu

AND "we'll visit it together" OYHDHDHDJJ.... ITS NOT THE SAME IF THEYRE NOT ALL TOGETHER... THEM ASKING EMU TO COME ALONG WITH THEM, HER BROTHERS CONVINCING HER TO DO IT, THEM GOING AROUND FREELANCING NOW ALL TOGETHER AND HDJSHDHD DO YOU GET ME...

Zmęczone twarze wagą nocy [Faces tired by the weight of the night] (?? This line is very ambiguous)

Trochę się boją, stawiając niepewny krok [They're a bit scared, taking hesitant steps]

This is not as obvious to me as the other lines but. Nene. Nene's determination and hard work even if it's tiring, even if she sees how much she has to catch up to, even with the weight of the others' skills feeling overpowering sometimes

Even despite her old failures and hesitance, and her timid nature, and how scared she was at first – she's still moving forward and getting better. First with robonene, but then actually taking her own steps on the stage and then keeping on improving and shining with new confidence and her beautiful voice, and also reaching out to others more experienced to talk and learn – step by step, not without hesitance, but surely she's moving forward

Zestaw myśli, nawet te dzikie i szalone [A set of thoughts, even the wild and crazy ones]

Tak już jest gdy wywijasz sumienie ma drugą stronę [That's just what it's like when you turn conscience upside down] (oh god idk this line is hard even in Polish)

RUI. RUI AND HIS MIND AND CREATIVITY. HIS THOUGHTS AND IDEAS THAT CAN GET CRAZY AND SOMETIMES EVEN DANGEROUS. But "even" those thoughts because in the end they're always included in the shows wxs make. There's "a set of thoughts" and ideas of wxs that they brainstorm around for each new performance and there's always a place for him to go wild a bit with his insane stunts (the ones that are doable ofc but. Still)

The conscience bit is. Very difficult even in Polish. But smth about Rui and his crazy comments and ideas and all and playful ""threats"" but still always making sure that everything he makes is safe and very apologetic whenever something does happen. Also smth about selfishness and blaming himself for wanting to keep this even though that's.. not smth worthy to be berating himself over. And very valid. Idk how to explain this

I czujesz spokój mimo wszystko i trwasz [And you feel calm despite everything and you keep going]

A słońce wysyła szczęście do ciebie, patrzy w twoją twarz [And the sun sends you happiness[/luck], looking at your face]

Wxs determination despite setbacks, they keep on going until they can achieve what they need to. They don't break down completely and give up, maybe not exactly "calm" but like. Calm in the sense of comfortable and decided on their dreams and unswayed by the mistakes and failures y'know

The sun part is just wholesome. And again smth about happiness being their theme. Could be wxs miku/vsingers? Kind of looking after them

Then there's chorus again and THEN

Ten dzień jest tylko dla mnie gdy cały świat pójdzie spać [This day is just for me, when the whole world goes to sleep]

Zrobię wszystko by nie skończył się zwyczajnie [I'll do everything for it to not end as "normal"]

Dziś tylko dla mnie prywatny plac zabaw [Today, just for me, a private playground]

Moje Miasto Słońca [My City of Sun]

Now how do I explain all this.

Tsukasa is the first line, like, because of this whole "this day is FOR ME" but also again. living every day to the fullest. Doing whatever he feels he wants and needs to do and using every chance for his dream (just. Look at the new 4koma. What is this man doing. Why is he training at school 😭) and even with his reputation as a weirdo he doesn't let that get to him too much, and he lives his life almost like a show even when nobody's looking. Idk how to say this hahd hope u get me

THE SECOND IS SO RUI TO ME. The line there is kind of like. The day won't end as "normal"/ the day won't end casually = I'll make sure the day will be unique and extraordinary before it ends bc every dsy deserves to be unusual. Rui with his amazing ideas and ways to spice up both shows and everyday life. Just look at what he does at kamiyama 😭 this man cannot survive a day without making it a unique show and doing smth insane again

AND EMU OUTHJJ. THE PLAYGROUND FOR HER. THE WORLD IS HER PLAYGROUND BC SHE HAS FUN AND LOVES IT. BUT ALSO PXL. AND THE WONDER STAGE. Her precious places that she will protect even if she's the only one fighting for them. Even if they're important "just for her". But also later wxs doing their best to put her ideas and dreams into life in shows and protecting what she holds dear. THE NIGHTSHOW. do you hear me

Now Nene might feel least defined, like it was just to complete them all saying something. And that is partly true HAHSHHA but also. Wxs being her "city of sun". You'd think someone like her wouldn't really get along with these hyperactive and annoying and weird /aff people and yet she loves them. They showed her the way and let her stand on stage and brighten her days. She gets annoyed with them but also she always has that fond or exasperated smile with them. Like, the sun can be annoying. It can get hot or too bright and make you complain, just like wxs can get loud and hyperactive and crazy and make her eyeroll and groan half the time. But we still bask in the sun and its still so gloomy without it. And even if its so annoying sometimes we still love it and depend on it and appreciate it. And thats also how nene is with wxs. Do you see this

Anyway. I'm normal about this song. I love how soft it is, how happy and warm it feels to listen to it. And that's what wxs is to me too. They love each other so much I need them to blow up

[deimosatellite]

like idk it just seems actually nefarious to take one of the very few widely known instances of queerness in older history being a symbol to show queer people that we've always existed and aren't alone for CENTURIES and taking away the queerness from it. like. i know some people say that ''the queerness isnt important in the book" which i mean in my opinion i could go off for 10k words in an essay as to how basil's love for dorian is integral to the story BUT EVEN APART from that its really just. having a real explicitly queer character in such an old and widely regarded classic novel is HUGE for queer history and this is just. literally like. its 2024. why are you doing queer erasure to DORIAN GRAY

[puppyeared]

i feel like im not making any sense but does anyone else feel like there are stories that let u run with them and ones that spell everything out for you

[luck-of-the-drawings]

OH ARTHUR BENNETT.. such a gorgeous and intriguing character. terribly burdened by a GRUESOME set of crimes, his light suffocated by a HEAVY century of GUILT. so tragic, so dark and broody, and yet PAINFULLY awkward in any social setting ever

[just-null]

i've always wanted to try out this trend! i didnt think i drew him that different. i was wrong. very wrong.

hes so baby girl in my style what the fuck. oh i know, i was just drawing what gege meant to draw. dw, i got his telepathic brainwaves 👍

[time lapse + my headcanons for Noritoshi's appearance under the cut]

some headcanons i have while drawing him are semi obvious while others are bc i like it ahehahhaheha

cupid's bow lips! this was semi inspired by Mizuki Umetsu, the actor for Noritoshi in the jjk stage play! hes so. pretty. perfect guy for the role imo! i was captivated therefore my views changed.

longer hair! the thought that his bangs(? are the same length, or longer, as the rest of his hair is nice.. it also makes his inevitable haircut much more refreshing! i also just like long hair and its a fucking waste not to do whatever the i want.

thicker brows and visible eyelashes! i naturally draw thicker eyebrows because it looks pretty, but the eyelashes is so fucking canon bro. dont even fight me on this, you'll lose. i read a fic about Noritoshi where it said he took good care of himself and his appearance inspired jealousy. that fucked me up man, so now i draw him as beautiful as i can.

monolids! I've looked through the manga and i think its highly implied that Noritoshi has monolids? yk those lines in between the eye and eyebrow, he doesnt have them in the manga. i thought it was because of the expressions he had, but no. the others have them, except geto! so geto also having monolids is so fr in my head. i like that feature abt him.

loose hairs! the hairs that i draw on his face. they make him look so cute and a bit more relaxed. he's not trying to be perfect nor have a single strand out of place. he's just a bit more at ease... though if there's something important he has to go through, he sharpens up. becomes.. stiffer?

I UNINTENTIONALLY MADE HIS CHEST LOOK A BIT BIGGER IN MY STYLE AND I WANT TO APOLOGIZE, BUT I'D BE A LIAR. DOES THIS COUNT AS A HEADCANON??? I JUST THINK... SINCE. YK. HES AN ARCHER. AND DOES TRAINING. AND COMBAT. AND DOES ALL THOSE HIGH JUMPS... HIS CHEST. ITD BE A BIT BIGGER FOR HIS STATURE.. omfg. that'd imply that his legs are fucking insane. and his arms too, since he has to pull back all those arrows so quickly.. oh my fuck. this. this is a revelation. what are you hiding under those robes noritoshi...???? one day.. one day we'll see...

oh my fucking god i forgot that i wrote shit while drawing. please ignore my fucking stupid writings AND THE STUPID ASS THING IN THE MIDDLE I FORGOT ABT WHILE DRAWING..

[miausterx0x]

happy halloween!!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

oooo it's been a while since the last snippet :]c it's another fantasy au one where I'm! Putting! Barnaby! Through It!

a minor warnings: implied/referenced major character death <3

 No one eats dinner, and Frank won’t stop tapping his spoon against his bowl. Tok tok tok it goes, over and over again.

Poppy made a simple stew from their provisions, but only Eddie and Sally make an attempt at tasting it. Their halfhearted ‘it’s good’s don’t pierce the pressure weighing down on them all. Barnaby swears he can taste it, thick and cloying. 

Already he keeps catching himself looking for Wally. Where is- he starts to think, and then he remembers the moment Wally fell with a spear piercing his chest, and the grief rises so fast it nearly drowns him in a heartbeat. Barnaby can’t bring himself to try and hide it behind anything but a stony mask. In any other situation he might try to put some levity into the group. Cheer up the sad and empty faces staring into their meals. 

He wouldn’t be able to think of a single lighthearted thing even if he wanted to. He doesn’t.

Tok tok tok-

Shuffling from Howdy’s tent has everyone glancing over at it, and Frank’s spoon stills. Howdy briefly woke up while Poppy was cooking. All he did was sit up, look at everyone, then pitch to the side and vomit. They got him into a tent before he passed out again, mumbling something about puppets. Frank made a comment about how Howdy was supposed to be a bit out of it, not at fae-drunk levels of hazy. Eddie had muttered back a dejected apology, and after that the camp was silent until Poppy’s announcement that dinner was ready. The spoon continues tapping when the shuffling stills.

Tok tok tok-

Since Eddie and Sally saying that dinner is good, there hasn’t been a noise beyond the occasional sniffle. It’s a good thing Julie isn’t trying her stew - it must be disgustingly salty from all the tears dripping into it. 

Tok tok tok-

Barnaby sighs through his nose and puts his bowl down, sick of looking at everyone’s misery. He would say that he’s going to go sleep, but he has a feeling that none of them are getting a wink tonight. 

Tok tok-

Before he can stand, Frank blurts, “We shouldn’t have attacked it. It was a mistake.”

“Please don’t,” Julie begs.

“There’s no need to rub salt in the wound,” Sally says firmly, her stew starting to sizzle from the rising heat in her hands.

“Not right now, Frank,” Eddie mutters. 

Frank visibly bristles, and he launches to his feet. “I refuse to pretend not to have seen what I did! The truth is a terrible thing, but someone needs to say it. Wally lied to us.”

“Frank…” Barnaby warns.

“We shouldn’t have attacked the demon,” Frank barrels on, ignoring him, “because there was no need to. It didn’t eat Wally until the end because the demon is his patron. Wally was never a wizard at all, he was a warlock-”

Barnaby lunges with a deep bark that echoes against the trees. The crickets symphony falls silent. Frank trips backwards over his seat, staring up with wide eyes as Barnaby stalks around the fire, growling. Eddie and Sally slowly stand, inching between him and Frank. 

Barnaby stops, snout bunched and canines bared. He jabs a claw at Frank. “Don’t you ever say that again. Ever.”

Frank’s mouth flaps uselessly for a moment. When he speaks, it comes out as a whisper, “I’m-”

“If you end that with right instead of sorry, I’ll make damn sure that you are.”

Frank wisely keeps his mouth shut. The crickets continue chirping.

Barnaby glares at him until Frank looks away. Barnaby straightens his vest with a sharp tug and strides away from the fire, towards his and- his tent. Just his, now. Murmuring breaks out at his back. He yanks the flap open, grabs his pipe and herb pouch, and heads towards the forest. He pauses only to listen by Howdy’s tent, waiting to hear proof of life before continuing on.

Once he can’t see the firelight anymore, Barnaby chooses a random tree and sits heavily in front of it. Rough bark digs into his back through his vest. A night bird hoots overhead. Crickets continue to make their music, but Barnaby wishes they would shut up for good. 

Light from the full moon pours through the branches to provide just enough light to see by. Barnaby holds up his pipe and quickly puts it to the side to take off a grimy glove. The heart-pad and blue fur underneath contrasts vibrantly with the dust-grayed rest of him. After a moment he removes the other glove, wincing as the leather drags over his injured knuckles. He turns his paw over and scowls at the dirty black edges of the red-raw scrapes. He should have punched harder. He hopes it scars, even though he knows it won’t.

The gloves themselves are scuffed up, but not beyond use. Barnaby folds them into his pocket and gets to work lighting his pipe. He packs it and instinctively opens his mouth to ask Wally to light it for him. The words die on his tongue as he turns only to see dark forest. Empty woods save for the tiny blue lights of night wisps floating on the breeze. 

Barnaby stares into the darkness with yawning dread. He keeps looking. How long will it take him to stop? How long until Wally’s face starts to smudge in his memories, until his voice is gone and Barnaby doesn’t even remember what his smile looked like? How long until Barnaby only thinks of him in passing? 

He doesn’t want to reach that point. He desperately does. 

Will it hurt more or less? Does it matter? He wants it to ache until he dies.

Barnaby frantically fishes his sparkrune out of the herb pouch - only there for emergencies, when Wally or Sally isn’t there to light it for him. It will wear down to a nub within the month. He strikes his thumb claw against it, and sparks fly expertly into the bowl of his pipe. It takes a moment to catch. Barnaby lifts the bit to his lips and takes a drag before enough smoke forms for a lungful. 

Maybe he should have grabbed the stronger stuff. If he breathes enough of it, maybe he’d be able to see Wally. 

But Barnaby doesn’t get up in the end. He sits against the base of a tree and hugs himself, the pipe’s intermittent glow betraying the shine in his eyes.

[crescentfool]

does anyone else want to stick these two in the same room together or is that just me... i simply think they are adjacent in vibes... (+a bonus thing???)

get u a fictional guy that makes you feel like this... seeing these guys just evoke a Similar Kind of Brain Chemical and Response. Help Me.

also have bonus yosuke doodle featuring the same brushes used here...! from january 23rd, lol.

[maxthesillyy]

This is gonna sound pessimistic, but I always found Chloe not reacting at all to Joyce dying...pretty weird tbh. I haven't read the comics so I don't know what happened, but it's something that really bothers me. Cause after Lis2/Bae the only family she has left is David and it's a little crazy that Chloe and had to lose borh William and Joyce in order to grow as a person. Idk if this makes sense at all, but it's something I think about at all the time Thoughts?

well, first off, please dont take the comics as a “Canon” continuation of the sacrifice arcadia bay ending. it has the same level of canon as any old fanfiction does, the only difference is that the comics are officially licensed. it’s a HUGE common misconception i see almost anytime i see someone talk about them.

and secondly, i would say chloe very much does react at the idea of joyce’s death.

but i guess you could’ve meant when after max makes the decision to sacrifice arcadia bay. and in that case i would say the answer to that then is simply that chloe was respecting and supporting max and her decision.

i mean, i feel like even someone as emotional as chloe could tell that it wasnt the right time to fall to the ground crying about how her mom was going to die. she knew max needed her support in that moment, and chloe was ready to momentarily push away her own emotional turmoil to give that support to max.

(something something. chloe is full of love. something something. parallels. something something. topic for another time.)

especially when they get to the point where theyre driving off from the destroyed town— chloe has accepted it, even when max clearly isn’t as sure of herself as chloe is of her.

(something something. literally their entire dynamic. something something. topic for another time x2.)

she trusts max to have made the right choice, and even if she wasn’t so sure about it, it’s not like she couldve done anything about it.

i mean maybe she couldve yelled, screamed, and begged max to rewind and make a different choice, but whether you think she trusted max in those moments or not— i feel like chloe knew there wasnt any going back on it.

i think that specifically really shows when chloe says max is the only one who can make the decision of who to sacrifice. both in a literal sense and in a “i’ll follow you in either choice you make.” sense.

honestly i think chloe dropping any doubt she couldve had in that moment just to support max is literally the most in-character thing she could’ve ever done in that scene.

[abirddogmoment]

I uncovered an archival Maverick photo from messenger chat files this week ❤

[frostedpuffs]

rough draft of the final chapter of ppu is finished...

[vigilskeep]

Whenever I think about your Keir I think about Bethany telling Anders he reminds her of Malcom. I’m sure that won’t ever affect Keir ever.

bethany is my favourite mage bc she never misses with that psychic damage

but really he and anders aren’t even a thing in act 1 so it’s less like “PLEASE stop comparing my crush to our father” and more like “oh fuck off i spend my entire life trying to act like our dad and one (1) mage rolls up and suddenly he’s dad??”

[majorshatterandhare]

Today I, an aromantic, was getting ready to attend a wedding… with Stranger on repeat.

[skimblyspones]

Sometimes I forget how much shit McCoy canonically knows, at least to a degree of competence. Like ok sure he's not an Engineer or a bricklayer but he's damn well more than "a simple, country doctor"; he's got the sciences badge instead of the medical one for a reason

[sade-alicious]

im writing a short fanfic rn and i am SO CLOSE to being done i just need to fill in a conversation its so ANNOYINGGGG😭😭

[somethingsomethingcomic]

sorry for the inactivity, ive been doing a lot of traditional art (and crafts and music) lately. here's some Ink Eli as an apology