#ooooh i rambled. oops! hehe

[melchinafan]

Oh yeah, same hat on post length. I try, but...I very easily get caught up in my rambles. Even on art posts, 'cause I like explaining the process or inspiration or the like. XD

Oof yeah, the way urge to create vs. no energy can clash sucks SO BAD. Fingers crossed your results come back positive, and you can find someone to help! (And that if they bizarrely don't somehow, that you can still find someone who will listen to "LOOK, whatever the cause, I am Struggling, and need help finding one (or more) thing(s) or another to make this suck less.") And ugh the bonus time blindness side effect from not knowing how long things will take resulting in being unable to start/do anything if there is something else scheduled for a specific time later. Because what if you get distracted and lose track of time, or get into a groove and don't wanna stop though I guess that's more the executives dysfunctioning, or asldfjs it sucks.

OOOOH YOU DRAW BOTH HIEI AND KURAMA SO PRETTY aaaaaa and Hiei's little pointy ears! I waffle back and forth between making them a little pointy or leaving them rounded but it's SUCH a great look. Ahaha and the way the cat ear headband puffs down the streaks in his hair, so cute. And the bloody grinning one, hell yeah, love it. Also agree with Kurama having your hairstyle when he hit that in-between stage, I had mine do that flippy thing too when it started growing past my shoulders, back when I had it that long. And yeah, you should be proud, even of stuff that's "just" sketches! Things don't have to be all big and finished and fancy to be fun and delightful to make/see I say, to both of us, because I know the phrase "perfect is the enemy of done," but following it is another beast entirely... And it doesn't matter how much relative screentime they got, Kurama loves his family so much he wrangled a magic cellphone that worked across dimensions in the frickin' 90s so yeah! They do deserve art!

I unfortunately don't have much recent YYH art, since I was in an art rut for a long while after high school, and what broke me out of it until I burned out again oops was my favorite video game, so it's. Kinda mostly stuff for that, plus some other fanart. ^^' But the (currently) third post in my art tag is Karasu, at least! (You might also like the Yami Bakura at the bottom of the first page? At the least, I'm pretty proud of the method/effect/lighting I did for it, and how his bloody grin turned out. >:D) I remember the drawing I was most proud of in high school had been Kurama based on some official art, which I added legs to (because it/the version I had cut off around the waist or so). At the time, I couldn't see anything outright wrong with it/how I could've done better, but I knew I would be able to someday...I really wanna find and redraw it, to see how much better I can do now! But alas, it hasn't turned up in any of the old (physical) art folders I've gone through yet. A few other YYH drawings did, though, if you wanna see some of my ooold stuff (from like...2005, haha).

Yeah, for knitting there's like...some stuff I have memorized now 'cause I've done 'em so much, but. I definitely double-check tutorials now and then to make sure I'm not doing things wrong. (Like I did when I first picked it back up, and was accidentally knitting through the back loop instead of normally...not a huge issue/difference, but still. Oops. XD) And AAAA THOSE ARE ALL SO COOL!! The first two seem absolutely on-brand for you/your two kins, hehe. The rose is so neat...it looks like it's done as one spiral, but had something about the construction that formed a wavy effect that imitates having a bunch of petals? So cool. oAo Love how nerdy most of the gifts you made are, too! Is the cube reinforced at all, or does the density of the yarn manage to help it keep shape? AND THE CAT PLUSH IS SO GOOD, WHAT A FUN BIG LITTLE CREATION, AND ITS YARN LOOKS SO SOFT. AND THE MACARON SOUNDS SO CUTE!! I love the sound of the alterations you've been doing, such excellent little bonus touches to make it that much more delightful!

I...am realizing I don't have very many photos of the things I've knitted. Or they're stuck in progress because I have particular ideas for how I want to finish them, but haven't figured out how to do that yet. I know when I first knit in high school, I probably started with a simple scarf and some dishcloths, as you do. I remember a neon-green easy-lace capelet that I gave to a friend after I realized I had uh...nothing that it matched to wear with. Also a tank top from a "here's all you need to knit [X]!" kit my mom got me. Then I stopped knitting until...*checks dates of folders* 2021, when I found someone who took crochet commissions to make a hood pattern for me, and they ended up with an extra skein left over, so. I figured I'd make some small accessories to match with it...all unfinished, but I've got some flowers planned, myself! For finished stuff...I've made a pair of green fingerless gloves (photographed in front of the dust cover I knitted for my tablet--first photo has better color accuracy, second shows off texture better). I'd swapped out regular rib knit on the cuff section for a funky zig-zag type that I liked better. I also made some red armwarmers, with a shifting cable situation I added to the back (that's supposed to branch from tiny, to medium, to wide, though the wide set is a bit flat). Currently I'm trying to design some bees, as anatomically accurate and at the smallest size that I can manage! (Pardon the inaccurate colors on them, I've been testing with some extra yarn so I don't mess up the yarn I plan to actually use. XD) I'll be using the stripe pattern on the left, and have since figured out a way to flatten the heads out for more accuracy. The current stage I'm on is trying to figure out the best way to get the legs to work! (Could I just attach a couple chains and call it good? Sure. OR I could spend days/weeks testing out combinations of chain + cord + methods of forming joints + figuring out a way to make it so the workers because I'm also designing drone and queen variants ahaha can have an anchor to embroider a full pollen basket onto their back legs...) I have...so many more ideas for things I wanna try to design, but. I'll get to them eventually. BEES FIRST

Perfectionism is...certainly making designing these bees take longer than it could. >_> But I like the results I'm landing on, soo...oh well. <.<' I find it slightly easier to break through the perfectionism block when it comes to drawing, by tricking my brain into making something deliberately "sketchy" (even if I end up overworking it past that stage asldfkjs). Post-it doodles are SO much easier to just...do, and finish, than if I try to draw on nice paper or pull out my tablet. In part 'cause the tiny size limits how much detail there can be, and in part because it's like...it enforces a "casual" feeling? So you're way less likely to run into the trap of "but I wanna make it NICE," because it's "just whatever" on purpose. But "just whatever" can still turn out pretty good. Ah, I hope you have the energy to get back to writing again soon, as well! The responses on your ask blog that I checked out were so thorough and thought-out! oAo (I also see that someone asked about demons' reproductive anatomy, and that tangentially reminded me that I have headcanoned that at least some demons have a crop like birds and insects do--because that makes more sense to me as far as where Yukina and Mukuro stored the hiruiseki long-term, rather than the stomach, where things go to get digested.) As for the lingering asks in your inbox, that is one of the wonderful things about text-based communication--so long as wherever it's written continues to exist, you can (generally) come back to it and respond at any time! I know that easy access to fast chat/messaging/texting/etc. has made some folks feel like they need to reply to everything now now now, but...unless it's an emergency, or otherwise time-sensitive, I don't feel like that should be the case. It's stressful, and for what? If you forgot what you were discussing, the messages are there to re-read. (I mean, it's more understandable to fret over if you're prone to forgetting about a message if you set it aside after reading it, and want to avoid that. But even then! It's still there, waiting just fine! And folks should be allowed the grace of "oh shit sorry I meant to reply and then forgot," because so many things can cause that. But maybe that stems from my propensity for the flip side of time blindness--where there can be days/months/years between communications, and yet they can be picked up as if no time had passed.)

DANGARANG I was gonna send you the clip I have saved of Yusuke getting rotated, but apparently videos aren't allowed in reblogs. Oh well. XD (I forget which episode it was, but it was in Chapter Black, after the group gets through the psychic trials and find out Genkai set it up.) But I love how you've adapted the phrase for frequent use, that sounds hilarious. :D And I dunno if it counts as a meme as such, but...well, I had been naming the screenshots I took while I watched through the series in descriptive ways (typically to sum up context but sometimes for comedy), and when Sensui did the "Hard Ki Gun" thing, I saved one shot as a baffled "MAN DOOR HAND GUN CAR DOOR WHAT" (though if I dropped the logical pairing of "hand gun," the utter shock of that scene would be better written as "man door hand hook car GUN")

I've had cats throughout my life, too! And yeah, the little mlem when he licks his arm is just. Peak cat behavior. But also his propensity for sleeping in trees, and being up high, and taking frequent naps (like when he went "fuck this I'm taking a nap wake me up when you're done" because he couldn't play video games so he couldn't do anything to help against Gamemaster) asldfjs there's SO MUCH it's so funny.

Asdlkfja and clasping hands dot meme (again) at needing more storage space for things that don't necessarily need to be saved...I record cutscenes when I play some video games, especially if they're unrepeatable, so uh. I do have several duplicates of given cutscenes, just 'cause I've got a bunch of different characters who went through them...so I absolutely feel you on wanting to keep them all. XD

ALSDKJFSA I GASPED OUT LOUD WHEN I CHECKED YOUR ICON EDITS you keep making Kurama SO PRETTY. I mean he always is but you TURNED IT UP TO ELEVEN. Also oh snap a collar when did that art happen, where's that sourced from? I don't think I've seen that one before. oAo He should get to have a collar more often, as a treat. And that official art where Hiei has one of the hiruiseki as an earring is just. SO GOOD. One of my favorites of him.

Oh oh I remembered earlier the other situation where Kurama went along with a plan to convince [someone] that [someone else] was dead. At the end of the Dark Tournament, when Kurabara was severely wounded while they were collectively fighting Toguro, he asked Kurama to act as if he had died, so that Yusuke would get pissed off enough to win. So TWICE it's specifically been Kuwabara asking Kurama to help him convince Yusuke that [someone] died. I am now convinced that the bit on the Dance Mix CD was absolutely a third instance of that plot between those two. XD (Hilariously, it's a prank that Bakura pulls with someone in YGO once, as well. So many little parallels he's got with Kurama, it's ridiculous. And no worries! Same hat on having a long list of things I'd like to watch eventually, but my brain just almost never being in the mood to watch things, even if it's otherwise bored...)

Oooh, yes please, I'd love a few choice song recommendations! I think another thing that might make my brain bounce off playlists is that it goes "stars too long, can't do it, not today"...even though I can and do listen to music while I do other things! So having just a handful should make it more agreeable. I think I generally also prefer rock, so I dunno if that helps narrow it down salkdjfa I guess I also like some ballads and folk music? Though that might sometimes be 'cause they lean towards being morbid or have rock vibes or are particularly catchy?? But whatever you think I should specifically check out would be good! (Maybe also if any of them have cellos? It's one of my favorite instruments oh to have the same vocal range. I was so sad when I checked through the Rasputina songs I have and none of them really stood out as potential recommendations, haha. Crunchy rock-style cello is SO FUN. I guess maaaaaybe Hunter's Kiss as like a tragic Kurahi AU sort of thing? But I'm just stretching feasibility as an excuse to recommend the band 'cause I love their sound, so it's probably not quite playlist-worthy. XD Maybe Transylvanian Concubine as a general recommendation/if you like vampires, just 'cause the rhythm of the song is fun to sing along with, and the lyrics are delightful with how the ending word of one line is the starting word of the next.)

I also totally get needing songs to hit Just Right to warrant being on a playlist hello perfectionism my old friend. I'm so glad you enjoyed some of my recommendations! :D (Awww that post about your specific aspec headcanons for how Hiei and Yukina are is so sweet! Poor goobers, trying so hard in their own ways. <3) Also agree that Turn Back the Clock is too specific to fit just right. It had come to mind based on vibes, but I went and listened to it after posting and was all hmmm yeah close but not quite. (Still good for inciting The Feels, just not really for anybody in YYH.) And I'll be sure to ping you if I happen to run across any more songs that fit the series! :3 (...I say, like it's some nebulous future thing when I eventually get back to listening to not-YYH CDs/tracks again...and then immediately go double-check the songs I've got from The Cranberries, just in case. XD 'Cause most of what I've got is sad and solemn so it seems like there shouldn't be anything, but part of my brain was INSISTING there must be something and OOOOH THE ICICLE MELTS, FOR RUI, MOURNING HIEI AND HINA AND BEING PISSED AT THE OTHER KOORIME...the only flaw to me is "read the paper" would be "I was fucking there" but UGH MY HEART. Oh wow, and maybe Dreaming My Dreams, as Youko to Shiori right after she saves him as a kid? With "your baby" from the first verse being "Shuiichi." ASdlfksj I am SO glad I double-checked, these are SOLID in my brain, and for such rare-to-feature characters!)

What a small 'net! I saw a reblog of your normalize post, & your avatar caught my eye. So I figured I'd peek at your blog in case you had more shiny stuff to see, & noticed you encourage folks tag you in Kurama & Hiei stuff. I pinned in the back of my head that, after checking out your stuff, I should ask if you want a link to skit translations from the Dance Mix CD—then saw YOU'RE the one who made the beautifully-organized Yu Yu Jukebox! That helped me figure out what CDs I wanted to buy! :D <3

yoo hell yeah!! im glad that helped you out!! its always nice to see the things i make can be useful :3 and nice that my kurama icon is catching the eye of fellow yyh fans hehe!

yu yu hakusho is a huuuge hyperfixation of mine, but my adhd has been making me struggle with focusing on doing the creative stuff i wanna do (like drawing and writing), so ive been instead doing a shit ton of other things revolving around yyh- like collecting the music and making the yu yu jukebox channel, ripping frames to post and organize them on my sideblog @reikai-records , and ive also been working on making a dialogue transcript for the dub (still unsure where to put it online when im done with that tho, atm i just have it on google docs, not too far on it)!

i cant remember if ive encountered translations for the skits of the dance mix cd though, id def love to see that!

[mintymemesandrpshop]

@torens-nightshift replied to your post “Open for Business! Hello~ This is an RP help blog!...”:

Hi!! sorry if this isn't the right place to ask (i still struggle with tumblr etiquette & didn't see anything against this in your rules ><) how do people get started in tumblr rp? i've been quietly observing a few blogs for a while and it looks fun but i feel like no one would be interested in talking to me or whatever ( _ _")

Hello there! Getting Started™️in tumblr rp has two parts, I think. making the actual blog, and networking (while Doing Things.)

Your blog itself probably needs a rules page, this can be anything you want to say or express- some people's rules are specific, some are just a few sentences. Establishing some boundaries or guidelines can be pretty important! But! it's entirely up to you, it gives a first impression to others on you as the writer. People mostly hesitate or have anxiety about accidentally upsetting others, so having something there helps! Even if it's just saying you're pretty chill.

Something else helpful is a muse page- people want to know what kind of character that you are writing! For some they will link to a wiki page, and for some they write out a whole bio for their headcanons- For example if you looked in my Volo's bio, you'd see that he's 32, cisgender, albino, and can see through fog. all headcanon stuff that might not appear in every reply i do! For OCs especially there can be a history section detailing their life and who they are!

The other major half is networking. Following RP blogs, making a promo (which you can make visible in tags;; blahblahfandom rp, multifandom rp, crossover rp, etc.) when you find a blog you are interested in, you can reach out! through ims or asks as well. (If your blog is curated enough and has its own dash/account, your sidebar may of course recommend rp blogs! that's about the only algorithm involved. the rest's work. sideblogs notoriously have trouble because they can't Follow people.) Like, I figure a lot of personal blogs find my posts/blog through tumblr's search function- which i'm still not used to because it's the new default, rather than going into the Actual #tag.

a subset of networking is Doing Stuff. Making headcanon posts, in character posts, open starters, and threading with other people will show off your writing enough for people to notice. Some people turn their nose away if a blog 'only' contains 'too much' RP memes, vent posts, or just doesn't have what they're looking for. While it's not a requirement, it may be helpful to make sure you have examples up to see. This part kind of really never ends imo, networking and doing stuff, but it's pretty essential to getting noticed. But like any facet of the internet or world, there's always someone who wants to talk to you! And would love to hear what you have to say! I'm sure that's something that even seasoned rpers might need to hear, everyone gets discouraged sometimes. It only takes a few people getting going to boost you along tho, so! Try to appreciate people! Y'know, socializing and all that, haha.

As far as some etiquette goes, try not carelessly spam-like or reblog. Since the person is writing a story thread, they use their activity to keep track. 'hmmm i wonder if someone replied today?' i ask! i look in my notes! somebody liked this somebody liked this somebody liked this somebody liked this

oh no! where is my post? it can be a little frustrating, so try to keep likes to real time or so, it's much more manageable. People do enjoy likes and feedback, but the first major reason that people block personals is to avoid this kind of thing. In my opinion, it probably doesn't help that it's a wordless interaction, but it depends! If you're not overdoing it, it's delightful, too!

Replies are much more free game imo, it's words as feedback and a bit more enjoyable. (I'll admit a reply on a pinned post is...a first for but hey! this works!)

Asks are enjoyed and adored. Literally as long as it isn't hate, any tumblr user likes getting asks, but RPers are ravenous, lmao. Some may get overwhelmed by their own workload and have to delete em, but socially speaking people love talking about their muses! Or how they as a mun write!

The second reason people block personals is discourse. I'd say the biggest cultural difference, if you are stepping into rp, is to please learn to share. Especially with the onset of Search showing things even mentioning character names. (some people even cen.sor their muse's name to avoid this.) You've probably seen mockey of kin discourse 'no doubles' and etc. Basically, don't be an ass about headcanons and try to respect people's portrayals. RPers would rather write, so many will not deal with the bullshit and their blog is not for arguing. Trust me that when anons or whoever interject in order to be a dick, you become the butt of the joke for that blog's whole audience. Many people love to write threads with duplicates! But even those whose rules say no duplicates as far as interactions go know that it's not nice to insult people and stay in their lane. Be Kind! Ask questions! If you'd like to share a headcanon of your own, the blog owner might like to see it, just don't be pushy and you're good! They might even have their own headcanon even if they disagree with yours and may share that! Everyone's writing is unique and that's the beauty of it! I've personally even had some random personal reply trying to shut down my headcanon/simping in a belittling way, which....i didn't fucking ask. let me have my fun!!! Sooo yea read the room! Have fun!

hopefully this isn't too much of a ramble but the first two sentences I said are the short and sweet answer :')

[shijiujun]

IM ABSOLUTELY ACCEPTING YOUR DONGFENG HEADCANONS AS CANON. DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE?!?!? X

HAHAHA YAY!! HMM NOT MANY BUT I SUPPOSE, not in any order and i’m sorry i’m just rambling:

okay i think bai gungun alternates between being really reserved and obedient but under that he’s DEFINITELY gotten the genes for wreaking havoc from his mom, and whenever he gets into trouble probably feng jiu gets a little embarrassed like hehe oops sorry and was i this naughty when i was younger? and donghua is probably all, hmm, let him do whatever he wants, it’s good that he’s so lively

everyone likes to head to tai chen gong (donghua’s palace) during meal times to see if they can sneak a meal or two in, or steal some pastries away - donghua finds a new hobby stealing away pastries from these thieves when they’re not looking

every single elder in jiu chong tian is familiar with babysitting bai gungun because whenever there’s a festival or something in the mortal world or anywhere, it’s date night for donghua and feng jiu!! feng jiu of course would like to bring bai gungun along but donghua is like he’ll be fine with a li or si ming or cheng yu, let’s go, we haven’t been on a date in ages (they just were on a date two days ago)

i’d like to think that everyone adores bai gungun? he’s like a splitting image of donghua and so much cuter too

and when fan yin gu opens every half a year, sometimes donghua brings feng jiu and bai gungun with him - it doesn’t hurt for bai gungun to learn some new ice combat skills early and donghua and feng jiu sometimes think about shen ye and alanruo and how lucky the both of them are to have their happy ending when the other two did not

feng jiu is also naughty in nature and loves getting into fights so she definitely gets into some trouble herself, and whenever the other gods or anyone goes to tianjun and donghua to complain, tianjun has to sneak a look at donghua because EVEN tianjun doesn’t dare to cross that line when it comes to the dijun and donghua is all, oh no worries, i’ll punish her when she gets home, and who else dares to say anything to that?! but when he does get home AHEM i think they’re thinking about different kinds of punishment hmm

donghua spends a lot of time at the pagoda area and sometimes feng jiu is there in her fox form and gosh can donghua love feng jiu any more? 

and i think donghua and feng jiu enjoy practicing their fighting skills together too and donghua still teaches feng jiu altho sometimes you can’t tell if it’s practice or like flirting but hey, whatever floats their boat 

BUT GET THIS WHEN THERE ACTUALLY IS A FIGHT, donghua and feng jiu jump into it without much thought and the way they work around each other is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT like everyone probably is whoa is that the usual dihou who makes pastries for everyone and sometimes sets things on fire in the palace? and donghua is like she’s my wifey what did you expect and everyone is like DIJUN PLS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD STOP TALKING WE KNOW YOU LOVE HER AND THAT SHE’S YOUR WIFE

and then if somehow donghua gets really, really jealous or angry at feng jiu for some reason (unlikely, he did say that because he loves her so much and also because he owes her so much that he’ll never really be angry at her but just in case) he sulks and goes out somewhere to walk in the rain and feng jiu is all ‘if you want to sleep in separate beds tonight sure i dare you to go walk in the rain again’ and donghua pauses at the door and then turns back, goes to their bed and wraps himself up in a blanket and starts to pout at feng jiu instead

and okay since concubines apparently are a thing in jiu chong tian as well, can you imagine all the women who dare to throw themselves at donghua after he marries feng jiu? they always thought he was not interested in women or anyone in general cuz he’s so old but was never involved in a scandal or an affair BUT IT TURNS OUT THAT HEY HE DOES LIKE WOMEN AFTER ALL so they try their luck - and i think some of the women are definitely chased away by bai gungun, then some of them are chased away by cheng yu if she happens upon them - if anyone gets close i’d like to think feng jiu is confident enough in donghua’s love for her that she’s like ‘oh? u think u can move him? go ahead and try. you know what i had to do? i was first a pet for him, he locked me away for some other woman at that time, and i was gravely injured by said woman’s other pet, and then i went home dejectedly with so many injuries on me, AND THEN i had to go to the mortal world, tried to save him and got injured AGAIN, then had to pretend to be the love of his life, and then because he HAD TO finish his mortal life by losing the love of his life, aka me, i had to jump off a cliff and die, and just when i was finally ready to give him up, he starts teasing me and reminded me that i was yearning for something that i never can have, BUT HE KEEPS HANGING AROUND, and i fall more in love with him, but then the same woman whose pet almost murdered me the first time emerges again and- hey? where are you going? i’m not done yet?!’

ooooh feng jiu also maybe has a side job of creating like really cool weapons as well cuz she’s so good at it

and feng jiu loves falling asleep half on donghua, whether it’s against his waist, on his arm etc., but no matter how uncomfortable donghua gets he never moves away because he loves his xiao bai like that

oooh i also wonder if like everyone in the bai fox tribe gets the shudders whenever donghua calls feng jiu xiao bai because… technically… the rest of them can all answer to the term ‘xiao bai’ and bai qian is all i cannot stand these two dumbasses let’s go

okay one last one, if feng jiu gets hurt or ill, donghua is definitely sitting at her bedside 24/7 and his heart totally breaks when she starts crying in the haze of her fever or whatever and arghhh cries