#or put together weirdly or stupidly XD

[cornflowercanine]

i love love love when ppl like..... just openly wholly love homestuck, smth a8t it is so nice to s33 theres a Lot of hs fans who like. 8orderline h8 or are super ashamed of their interest to which i say get well soon, and most fans do like homestuck and will talk a8t it and share it and shit regularly and its nice 8ut theres kinda still some like... Reserved-ness? a8out it, im not saying ppl should 8e talking a8t hs 24/7 all contexts cause time n place for everything 8lah 8lah 8ut like.... sometimes ill s33 ppl who KNOW that a lot of ppl h8 homestuck, and that a lot of ppl are really ashamed of it, and just! really really really do not care or let that dampen their enjoyment of it!! and its so like... Refreshing to s33, someone whos open and enthusiastic a8t and just!! likes homestuck!!!! someone who is actually Excited to talk a8t the characters and the settings and the stories and ships and aus and what have you, someone who actually understands and takes seriously when hs has an impact on u (ex classpects helping u understand ppl, a good fucking amnt of ppl realizing or starting to realize theyre lg8tq+ 8c of hs, just general things in the story that impacted u) and its like....... its so fucking nice to s33 ppl who take hs seriously 8ut not in a ‘crytype in ur in8ox for saying dirk is gross’ way. ppl who are happy and excited and enthusiastic a8t homestuck 8ut not in a ‘if u dont like homestuck ur wrong fuck u’ way. its like these ppl achieved a perfect 8alance and god i wish that were me.jpg

[bittertomato]

Favorite and Least Favorite Cards: Rinmeikan edition

Tomoe Tamao

Favorite: Kaguya. The moon is truly beautiful tonight. Nice kimono from the back I guess (I don't remember what she looks like from the front xD). Her expression is pretty nice too. Yes I love angst.

Least fave: Cheerleader aka Reika Jinguji. Ma'am is your back okay? And what is with that upskirt shot? I'll give you points for the lights, confetti, and ponytail but the anatomy and pose just make this absolutely bleh.

Otonashi Ichie

Fave: The Sun. I do like how she's situated; as if she's floating in the water or something. The ribbon "ends" trailing behind her (what are words) adds a nice touch.. I think the lighting also illuminates her colors pretty well.

Least fave: 2* original. This is one of those cases where the original 2 star is so bad that it stands out among all others. Tries but fails to capture her main personality trait (ie. being playful), the hair parting makes her face seem to have a weird proportion, and overall boring art as expected from the original 2 star cards.

Akikaze Rui

Fave: Onikage. If there's one thing ReLive gets right in their card art, it's the moon. Another example of how the colors and backdrop compliment the character well. Fully showcasing how long Rui's sword actually is; man oodachi are great. Not a fan of how short the shorts (or whatever they are) are, but I'm always a sucker for scarves. The sleeves are stupidly wide but at least they look flowy, unlike whatever the fuck Reindeer Karen's are.

Least fave: Stage Girl. Besides the fact that it's just her original stage girl outfit so the costume isn't new, the pose just seems wrong. There's too much emphasis on the fingerless gloves+sleeves, the face is weirdly proportioned, and for some reason the teal of her outfit bugs me here. The latter might be because of how it contrasts with the shining water in the background.

Honorable mention: Laelaps Hound. This came very close to the above least fave, but wins out because it's a new costume. Unfortunately, it's a terrible costume with very plain patterns. Also, why does she have paws as footwear? No one else had that?? And idk if this was intentional, but the angle and color of the white top makes her chest stand out.

Tanaka Yuyuko

Fave: Fuma Kotaro. Again, the moon! The fire! SCARF. She should not be showing that much thigh, but the badassery of the backdrop with the curves of the scarf make this worth. Ninja Yuyuko definitely suits her.

Least fave: Okita Souji. Was not impressed. The pose gives off more of an impression of lazy lethargy than desperation from the character's tuberculous (or whatever dangerous situation she's in). Unlike other cards, the lighting also didn't really help illuminate this card. Figuratively at least; if anything it puts too much emphasis on the blue of the outfit, which I don't care for.

Honorable mention: Oyuyu. Seriously why do all the Christmas unit designs suck so much?

Yumeoji Fumi

Fave: Benzaiten. No moon this time but the sun is so beautiful. I just think the colors pair well together. And best of all, Fumi really does look like she's embodying a goddess enjoying her leisure time.

Least fave: Stage Girl. The rest of her cards are honestly mediocre but this stood out since it isn't a different costume to her default stage girl outfit. And again, not a fan of these upskirt shots.

TANGENT

It is a shame that I've labeled two Stage Girl cards as my least faves, but that's sort of inevitable. These cards don't bring anything new to the table except maybe a novel background. So if it has nothing to make it stand out (ie. backdrop, colors, pose, etc) then it'll definitely be at the bottom of the barrel. Just how it is.

Revue Starlight ReLive Favorite/Least Favorite Cards

Saw this on Twitter but got no requests because what is popularity, so I'm just going to dump my answers for all the characters here.

Hey, Tumblr's a safe space for sadness, right? xD

Seisho

Rinmeikan

Frontier

Siegfeld

Seiran

[loose-leaf-teacanons]

@wingroad​ asked for AoMomo, and after much delay, here it is:

1. Who liked the other first?

Aomine is denser than a wall of bricks when it comes to feelings, and always has been. He started like-liking Momoi way back in the mists of time when they were like, six or something, but didn’t realize that’s what it was.

Back then, his crush mostly manifested in trying to be all badass and trying to impress her with dumb little-boy feats like “I CAN CATCH FISH WITH MY BARE HANDS” *plunges bodily into creek to demonstrate* or “I SCALED THIS GIANT TREE STU–AAAAAAH!” and then Momoi has to get him to stop crying long enough to go grab an adult and/or the first aid kit.

(friendly psa that crybaby!Aomine is canon)

It didn’t really hit him until around the start of middle school when puberty first started rearing its messy, hormone-addled head, but by then he’s become a master of putting his foot in his mouth thanks to all the macho bullshit he’s absorbed from god knows where.

So instead of trying to win her heart, he sets out to demonstrate that he is Too Manly For Feels and keeps trying to get her to pay attention to him by pulling dumb stunts like claiming he can see her panties, trying to show off to her in increasingly stupid ways (backflipping onto roofs? seriously???), and having absolutely no filter when it comes to sex things (in his case, the virtues of boobies).

Amazingly, Momoi has yet to swoon into his arms.

(In all seriousness she probably was starting to kinda sorta maybe like him back before he started being a dumb teenage boy, and he will eventually realize some ten years later that yes, he has indeed been cockblocking himself for most of his young life.)

2. Where is their ‘special spot’?

I’m honestly not sure I could top your tree house headcanon, @wingroad​, so I won’t try. XD

3. How do they cheer one another up?

In Aomine’s case? Very badly. XD He just sort of sits next to her and kinda tries to figure out what to do with himself. Awkwardly pats her back and mumbles about how she shouldn’t cry bc that makes her face look all weird and puffy and hey, um, do you need a tissue? *digs around pockets and only comes up with lint* should I beat someone up?

It just keeps going like this until Momoi either laughs at his ridiculous suggestions or just flops against his side for comfort, and then Aomine has a whole new problem because they don’t hold “How to Hug The Girl I Like” classes and um. shit.

In Momoi’s case, she usually tries to get him to talk it out because lord knows Aomine is not the most emotionally savvy person even on a good day, and he’s kind of eaten up a lot of macho bullshit like candy over the years, like how Real Men Don’t Cry and Real Men Don’t Talk about Their Feelings and Real Men Don’t Ask for Hugs Even Though a Hug Would Be Really Nice Right Now. Hell, half the time he can’t even untangle why he’s mad or upset or sad unless he has some help putting it in perspective.

So yeah, depending on what he needs, she’ll either kick his ass, get him to talk, Dai-chan, with actual words, or just come over and offer one of those hugs that Real Men Don’t Ask for Even Though They Would Be Really Nice.

4. What is their favourite movie to watch together?

Basketball matches on TV? XD

They may have grown up together, but their tastes in entertainment are pretty different. I mean, come on, Aomine’s favorite movie is Godzilla. (Doesn’t matter which one, all of them have giant lizards fighting and stuff exploding a LOT)

Momoi loves plot-heavy movies with lots of social drama and Western period movies (think Jane Austen) which Aomine falls asleep to because oh my god they are so talky, Satsu, wake me up when someone finally does something.

He makes a bit more of an effort to stay awake when he realizes that Momoi will simply go find other people to watch these movies with, and two of these people happen to be named Kise and Tetsu, and. *twitch* *twitch twitch*

5. When did they know that they are each other’s soul mate?

XD Oh hell no. Aomine will have to work for this girl. She deserves nothing less.

6. Where do they primarily kiss one another out in public? Examples forehead, cheek, hand etc.

For all of Aomine’s crude comments and boobie obsession, ask him to hold the hand of the girl he likes and watch as all 1.90 meters of him turn into a flustered, fidgety mess.

Just. Not an ounce of smoothness anywhere. He’s the guy who spends ten minutes performing “surreptitious” stretches meant to lead up to suavely putting an arm around her shoulders, only he ends up banging his elbow against the wall so hard that the resultant swearing gets them kicked out of the theater.

Seriously. Momoi is the one who initiates like 90 percent of the PDA, and then quietly delights in the utterly stunned wonderment lighting up his stupid face like he can’t believe she’s decided she wants to kiss him.

7. Who goes all out for the other person’s birthday?

Sometime after the birthday where Aomine tried to gift her a stag beetle in a jar (he caught it himself, and it’s the biggest most awesomest beetle ever, so why is stupid Satsu tearing up all of a sudden?!?!?), Momoi begged him not to try to give her any more gifts. And Aomine acts all offended but he’s quietly relieved because even he’s starting to realize he’s absolute shit at figuring out what to give other people as presents.

So instead Momoi’s birthday becomes the day where they do whatever she wants, from morning to evening. This mostly requires Aomine to stand around fidgeting in front of the changing stalls in a Cecil McBee (while the petite salesgirls by the cash register eye him like he’s some sort of pervert, urgh), or trying to fit into an absurdly tiny ornamental chair at a cake shop so ludicrously fancy it has a waiting list, and trying to grumble not so much that Satsu will believe he doesn’t want to spend time with her, but just enough so she can never know how many beats his heart is skipping whenever she smiles and waves one of the stupidly expensive cake pops in his face.

8. Whose clothes are too big for the other, but they wear them anyway?

Oh god, no. Momoi has grown up with this boy. She has seen his room. She has been around when his mom makes him clean his room and he’s stuck under the bed unearthing stray socks and boxers from three months ago, Dai-chan, you gross human being.

(Aomine absolutely does have dumb fantasies about her in his jersey though, which he keeps locked in a mental strongbox with three heavy chains around it and he’s still not sure she can’t somehow tell, because girls are weirdly psychic when it comes to pervy thoughts.

He doesn’t yet realize some of those dreams are only a dry-cleaning bill away.)

9. Who is the one who stays up late baking brownies and dancing in their underwear wearing a baggy shirt, and who is the one who comes down to see the other being all cute?

No. God no. And Momoi has seen entirely too much of Aomine just randomly walking around in his undies because he’s out of stuff to wear but too lazy to do laundry, and there is nothing cute about stopping by only to walk in on Aomine Daiki doing a general inventory on his junk.

10. Would they cuddle even though it is super hot outside?

This presupposes that they cuddle at normal temperatures.

(Srsly, Aomine is just really awkward at all those normal tender gestures because he’s bought into way too much macho bullshit and it takes time to untangle all that. Doesn’t mean Momoi won’t sometimes plop down on him like he’s a chair and start eating tub ice cream until he complains about not getting his share)