#pigeons and jjba

[jeonseoguu]

PILOT JOSEPH !!!!!! (he stole the plane)

the homing pigeon is there so that he can send for help when the inevitable crash happens

[stargreen]

Haven't you ever seen pigeons drinking hot chocolate? Now you can say yes

[cyphyree]

Testing out my vinyl and holo-vinyl stickers! Rohan has been there since Dec 27 and still going strong after getting waterboarded multiple times. So happy with how they turned out >< (also I didn't keep the faucet running running don't worry)

If you want to grab these stickers, check out the links in bio/ pinned! Choose vinyl for water-resistance, and paper if you want a budget option 💖

New Year 10% off sale/coupon until Jan 31!

Reblorbs appreciated! <3

[madmwyrd]

I love making stickers, because I can do shit that's funny to me and me alone.

[casually-salad]

Little men I drew directly after the release of the first chapter of part 9

[fruitscones]

so happy jotaro is actually canonically trans

[cosmic--dandelion]

Miscellaneous JJBA headcanons:

👗 Lisa Lisa's single greatest passion in life after hamon is fashion design. She made all of her and Suzi's dresses and designed several of Caesar's outfits, too. When Joseph walks in on his fierce, ruthless hamon master patiently working on her sewing machine, it's a stunning contrast, to say the least.

🎨 Kakyoin is a very technically proficient artist, but he never had what it takes to make a career out of it. It's still a sore spot decades after he last applied to a formal art school, and to this day, it's one of his greatest regrets. He loves his job as a scientist, though, and displays his art proudly in his office.

🦷 Josuke grows up to a dentist. That way, he can fix up people's teeth lickity-split without causes his patients a ton of pain or emptying their bank accounts. Also he's not tempted to burn himself out trying to insta-heal every sick or dying person in the whole world. Josuke can't watch medical dramas because the thought of someone out there dying of some incurable disease when he could have saved them breaks his heart.

💘 Jonathan took great pains to have the Joestar mansion restored exactly as he remembered it. As much as he loved his father and was proud of his legacy, the real reason he did it was as one last "fuck you" to Dio. These days, it's a famous historical site and is more a museum than a home. The most popular exhibit for tourists is the original version of the statue of the goddess of love, still burned and stained rust red from Dio's blood.

🕊 Joseph had a terrible time trying to pay attention to his studies in university, and Suzi had to practically stand over him and make him do his homework. (If he had been born in a different era, he might have been diagnosed with ADHD.) When Suzi caught a cold and was to sick to help him study for his final exams, he set pigeons loose in every room and caused such an uproar the exams had to be rescheduled.

✏️ Jolyne was studying to be an architect in college. She doesn't get much time to think about it with everything else going on during part 6, but she's secretly heartbroken. She tells Hermès about it one night, and they both ending up comforting each other over their lost dreams.

[hoolyelina]

me and bugs .. started another au SORRY we can't stop, this is me and my pet pigeon Apple (NO AFFILIATION WITH THE BLUEBIRD FROM JRWI). i can speed up the process of things aging (so basically giorno from jjba) and apple is kinda like a pigeon hivemind and i love her!!

[beesmygod]

JJBA PART 5, VENTO AUREO IS THE UNDERBAKED MESS I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT FIXING...PART 1

imagine you are celebrating your big promotion at the pigeon crushing factory (in this world you make a living crushing pigeons into a cube, this isnt important) and decide to treat yourself to a delicious hibachi feast at the local grill. as you sit down, your chef introduces himself to you; to your surprise, the chef is reknown mangaka hirohiko araki!

"wow, amazing!" you think to yourself, "i can't wait to see what delicious treats he has waiting for me, especially after that scrumptious part 4 i had last time". araki smiles knowingly, seeing the recognition of his talent in the gleam of your wide eyes. with a dramatic flourish, begins his work. a wild and frenzied solo performance begins. ingredients are chopped and flung with dazzling accuracy, speed, and showmanship until you are presented with the fruits of his labor: a new dish, just for you.

there's one problem. he forgot to turn on the grill. or maybe he never meant to. his confidence leaves you unsure of what to do when he starts flinging raw onions into your mouth and encouraging you to chew. like the tragic chef from the clickhole video, he has served you a plate of raw chicken and vegetables and is now looking at you with his arms crossed over his chest waiting for you to dig in.

its not all bad. you can eat some of the veggies as long as they don't touch the chicken, but the majority of it is inedible. you didnt even get to see him do the cool onion thing. you push the plate back unfinished and hoping for an explanation for what the fuck just happened but when you look up, you realize araki has already left. his big chef hat and coat are lying on the floor where he shed them on his new journey to start a raw foods store having discovered his passion for organic veggies. next time you crush so many pigeons you get another promotion, you try the new store and its delicious. can't fault him, i guess!

this is the experience of watching jojo part 5.

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and LOOK. i'm not lacking in perspective here. its presumptuous to say "i can do better" or "i could fix this" when it comes to anyone's work, let alone the work of someone singular like hirohiko araki. no one's brain operates the way his does, as evidenced by the paltry and weak attempts by the spin-off artists who struggle to recapture that same magic; they all lack whatever je ne se quoi araki has tapped into that's off limits to every other human on planet earth.

straight up, my approach to storytelling is too conventional to be a good replacement for araki's (who seems to be just completely unhinged both on and off the page) so my suggestions to "fix" part 5 are going to be broad strokes and not finely tuned fanfictions. there are just...things i would have like to see happen. and the list is long enough that i think it necessitates that this essay be done in parts. but everything you need to fix it is right there within the existing text. much like the bad meal, the manga (presumably, i only watched the anime. no! stop booing me!) has all the ingredients, the passion, and the skills to create a satisfying end result, its genuinely just missing the ability to bring it all together in a satisfying way. and it is so, so frustrating to watch unfold from the comfort of your couch.

however, for people not in the jojo know-know (who are just reading this bc it started with a pigeon crushing metaphor and you wanted to see where it was going), i do have to explain the historical lens we have to consider with part 5: it wound up being the first evolutionary step of araki's change in art style and story-telling conventions. the fashion aesthetics are wilder, the stakes are bigger, and the stands (WAY) more esoteric. with hindsight, we can look back and understand that it turned out to be weird because he was experimenting in real time (as artists who work serially have to due to the nature of the job) with what he was interested in and what he wanted to explore. so there's nothing WRONG with part 5 in the cosmic sense. and it wasn't without entertainment. and most of the characters were great!

it just that this whole thing causes me enough mental anguish to think about day in and day out to the point of writing what will turn out to be an embarrassing amount of words about my objectively least favorite part of a body of work i've come to adore. its fine. whatever.

come with me...join me whether you know jojo or not, as i try to stay sane tonight and many other nights. watch with concern and glee i rant incoherently about things that will make me seem like an absolute raving lunatic to anyone who is only barely familiar with the franchise and loosely understands it, as i only did, as a series about people who do pokemon but with ghosts who punch people.

first up, i need to do some comic work, and then we can talk about AHHH

OUT! GET IT OUT! GET IT OUT OF HERE! GET THAT BEAST AWAY

AHHH

[strawby-fields]

Weird 15 year old guy who plays god because its fun

[fruchtfleisch-art]

Well, I’m finally uploading that fanfiction I’ve been talking about for, uh... four months... where does the time go, haha...

Anyways! Here’s chapter one of Indoor Kitty. It’s Kirashino-centric, mostly focused on exploring their dynamic and all the uncomfortable bits that come with pretending to be something you’re not. 

I’ll be updating on Sundays, same as always, since there’s art to go along with the writing. Hope you enjoy 👍!

[pitter-patter-esikars]

everyone say thank you to @totallycorrectjojoquotes

[cyphyree]

🎉Sh0p has been updated and Etzy is now open!!🎉 Link in pinned post ^^

2023 New Year 10% off sale in both until Jan 31 :)

Now there're water-resistant vinyl stickers!!

And you can also adopt SHINY TINY PIGEONS!

I got permission to put my Reimi up too!!

Not everything is up on Etzy yet but if there's something from Square that you want in Etsy, please let me know me know and I'll prioritize it!

💖 Reblorbs appreciated! Thanks so much!!💖

[joseppeli]

i think my lot in life is just drawing caejose as cute varmints in love lmao

[ragnyan]

Pillows :7

cosplay-ftw/joseph-joestar-caesar-zeppeli-plush-pillow

[leftsidebonfire]

Lucky pigeon 😒