#or do i do it when they... ykno

[dizzybizz]

i like these guys

[roxiusagi]

Sangcheng week Day 5 - Collaboration

sorry all that i can offer for today is a silly doodle because i ran out of time lol the collaboration is JL JC and NHS commitment to the bit.

(i dont know if its readable so im putting transcription under cut)

wwx: you know a-ling, we should find your jiujiu a nice madame…maybe that’ll finally help his temper (lol) (shame that he is blacklisted everywhere haha)

jl: what are you talking about. jiujiu and Nie-zongzhu have been together for years

wwx: (a-ling are you /srs or /j)

jl: [acting casual but cackling inside] [gave sangcheng his blessing with the condition that he’ll get to break it to wwx]

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wwx: -and you didnt tell me?!??

jc: says the one who secretly eloped?

wwx: but! but! Nie Huaisang?? did you not listen to what i told you?

jc: yeah i did. So we talked it out like adults. we disagreed on things but its ok now.

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the “talking out”: 

jc: -ARE YOU INSANE???!-

nhs: lower your voice wanyin.

[wintergrofyuri]

Is Skeptic/Paranoid random enough? I did literally just spin a wheel

this is so fun bc. i literally just talked abt how this is my only paranoid ship (in the "actively think about" way). so yes i will be doing this one first, i never said i wasnt going to play favorites.

so. the cage altered my fucking brain chemistry. the way they interact in it just. oh my god.

they're both very similar in a way i think. theyre both very cautious and skeptical (LOL), but while skeptic is kind of detective-y abt it, paranoid is sort of like. a conspiracy theorist. skeptic definitely has shades of that but paranoid is The pepe silvia voice. i think they coukd make each other so much worse (said while kicking my feet and giggling and twirling my hair).

i think another aspect of it, at least to my twisted mind, is like. teehee ok so ykno detective stories and film noir and like. how snarky and independant the women are most of the time. thats paranoid to me. para has a pencil skirt and heels and does things for skeptic no sane person would just bc he finds him attractive.

i guess its less of like. a ship. and more like paranoid going thru every stage of grief every time skeptic opens his mouth bc he remembers "oh fuck i am actually attracted to this fuck". but to be fair, thats how i imagine para'd react to any crush. i cant imagine he'd be normal about emotions like that.

so in conclusion: should they kiss? probably not. do they kiss? no clue. do i think paranoid sleeps in a double bed alone every night bc skeptic stays up every night doing god knows what and its effecting their marriage but paranoid stays despite it all? yeah. Yeah absolutely.

[ribbononline]

Hey! First of all, I love what you do! It's really beautiful, I just wanted to ask you what software you use to make your illustrations? And what software for pixel art? Thanks in advance for your answers. Keep up what you're doing, it's really too beautiful! <3

Heya, thank you so much for the kind words! Fairly simple answer here, I use the same software for both- I work in Clip Studio Paint. I DO have asesprite and I really want to learn how to use it, mainly for patterning/tiling in pixelart. But currently all I use is CSP. It's served me well!

Pixel art can be done in basically any program that has a pixel brush luckily. But ye this is my usual setup! The one upside of working in CSP is that I can do my regular non pixel art concept sketches right there on the other side of the canvas in cases where i feel i need to haha

[amyrosedaily]

Day 37: Truck (Sonictober day 8)

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[voidcat]

notes: implied power imbalance, ex!hoshina soichiro, glossed over kinda but both him and reader are a bit weird about one another

Soichiro pats your head and always talks in a tone different than he uses for others. Cooes at you, talks like he’s guiding you through something or protecting you— cherry on top, though is how he'll look at you, really look at you, no more of that condescending of infantilzaing behavior, eyes open and you can see his pupils- like a predator's yet something akin to warmth, the most kindness he could even gather.

he pats you on the head and looks, "you still that innocent little kid with those big curious eyes, y'know?" and along the lines you can hear him ask silently, 'what do you want from me one last time?'

it's been years and it it still the same, if you could calculate how long you've spent with one another, as something- acquaintances, maybe- perhaps friends if you decided to expand the borders of the term. for someone you've known for so long, the time spent together is so little, yet none of it is up for comparison. not when you know the years inbetween he kept an eye on, and you always had an ear in the open, waiting for any mention of his name in the passing. the invisible hand that always reaches out from behind the shadows and that serpentine smile etched onto your memory forever.

maybe to the untrained eye, it'd appear soichiro will forever hold this power over you- that comes with all difference between your ranks once, with experience, age and everything else. yet the leash stands in your hand, his hand wrapped around yours tightly, offering it to you on golden platter with that smile always creating a storm at the pit of your stomach.

[drenched-in-sunlight]

i like ghostflower (hell I draw fanarts for them) but I’ve decided I like the version of them in my head more and will just stay away from the fandom in general cuz I’ve seen some discussion and they just make me go “what on earth are y’all on” 💀💀💀💀

[padfootastic]

i am so tired of female characters being inherently written as ‘terrifying’ or ‘scary’ w no respect to their characterisation.

for one, it feels so fake. i know so many women irl (i am one!!!) and there are very few, of any, that i would categorise as ‘scary as is’. heck, even if we go by tempers—the numbers just don’t match.

but somehow in fics, every single woman is a terrifying force of nature bc that’s…somehow…the only way we can think of women? idk?

and also just, it’s such a two dimensional characterisation that i only see w the female characters. all men aren’t angry and hex-happy and scary all the time. they’re affable, chill, respond to situations thoughtfully instead of always resorting to violence.

i think it also bothers me bc the anger thing flows neatly into the v gendered carefree man child/stuck up fun sponge stereotypes that so many relationships are forced into. it’s just an icky dynamic all around.

and lastly,,,i don’t think it’s even normal for a character to be latently terrifying everyone all the time??? unless it’s a specific quirk of theirs??? like women aren’t dementors bro chill tf out

[orcelito]

I'm at the painful "confession" scene during the kage summit arc. It really is so emotional, but also... hm.

When I was younger, like 13 or so, I was a big Sakura and Naruto shipper. They were the first pairing I read fanfic for even. And in a way, I do still enjoy the two of them together... but it's moments like these that really drive home the fact that it Doesn't really work in canon. Not the way that it's set up.

As Sakura puts it, "Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke! That's all you think about!"

She's told that Naruto has feelings for her and decides to use it to convince him to stop going after Sasuke. She does love him, but not in the way she's trying to confess. The love they share is one of comradery, not necessarily romantic. The love of two people who have gone through such pain together, and who have leaned on each other throughout it all. And the fact that she's turning around and saying she loves him "simply like everyone else", now... it's trivializing. And the fact that she's trying to convince him of this, the fact that she thinks she Can convince him of this, is pretty hurtful. They've come a long way from when they were kids, Naruto the goofball vying for her attention while she yelled at him for being stupid. Sakura respects Naruto so much more than before, and Naruto respects her too. So the fact that she's still doing this... She's desperate, really. She thinks the promise he made to her to bring Sasuke home is what's driving him to let himself be hurt over and over and over again in the pursuit and protection of Sasuke.

But she's wrong.

That may be part of it, but it's only part. Naruto wants Sasuke back for himself, too. He let himself be beat up to avoid selling him out. He chases after him with single minded determination. Sasuke is his entire drive to get stronger, to catch up, to bring him home. Sasuke, Sasuke, Sasuke indeed.

As it is, Naruto knows she's lying to herself. And no matter what she says, he will keep going after Sasuke. Because that's just the person that Naruto is.

[sadistpet]

im struggling to be here i cant lie ;_;

[gracieo]

I’m finally working on customizing my blog aaaa I’m so excited!!! :D waou,, I still can’t figure out how to make more side panel/boxes but oops

[foxtriestobiteandmaimandkilland]

my mum points out how thankful she is that im so organized and clean and tidy compared to my younger sister. i say its mostly out of fear of uncleanliness n i feel like i can physically feel the dirt after ive been outside in public n cannot do anything until i fix that. she says how thats probably her fault because she drilled into my head since i was little abt staying clean. idk theres not rlly a point here ig

[rox-of-iu]

heads up i finally scrambled together enough brain power and caught up with cultivate and i am not going to be normal about it and im going to make it everyone elses problem <33

[revasserium]

Catch is so so good! It feels so well fleshed out, and I adore how you’ve expanded the world while still making the characterizations realistic. I loved Zoro/Kitten’s relationship of course, but also Nami and the reader’s friendship as well! I love love this story, thank you so much for writing it! You can tell this was a labor of love, you did so so well! Love this story and your writing 💕

/weeps/ thank you u__u i was afraid that bc i wrote it over such a long span of time that there might be consistency issues but im glad that it turned out the way it did

and !!!! yes i actually was wondering how many ppl would/might notice that while mc/reader openly challenges zoro to like "catch her" and he can't do it till later, nami does it super casually twice. once when she catches reader off guard after arlong park, and another time before their little talk by the tangerines. she's also the first to "catch" wind of the blatant sexual tension between the two way, way before anyone else had at baratie sO. Y'KNOW. just. ~ nami things ~

[keeps-ache]

they are in arizona :)

[voidcat]

Honk shoo mimimimi I get so sleepy when it’s not even like 10 pm

Sorry guys I thought I’d get some writing done during this trip but im not even doing any reading done T-T