#redraw of something from about a year and a half ago

[scaredstupid]

hey, hey, hey lover!

you don't have to be a star!

hey, hey, hey lover!

i love you just the way you are!

[triglycercule]

alright i finished this so i need to celebrate my accomplishment (???) by sharing it to the world

BETTER versions of my trio designs. because boo boo the other old ones were BORING and TOO SIMPLE and lowhighkey UGLY. i had no idea what i was thinking when i made this but i guess design notes before to see if i can figure out what the fuck these mean 💀

killer🔪:3

he got a GLOW UP!!! when i was figuring him out i was thinking like. this man needs to look combat ready he CANNOT look chill and relaxed he MUST look good to fight. killer can't catch a break 💀 anyways. it's ALSO not revealing (⁎˃ᴗ˂⁎) because i feel he would NOT wear that stuff cmon flirty =/= revealing. his charms are found through his words and actions (stabbing someone through the heart) (speaking of the heart i couldn't be bothered to draw his soul mb)

the gloves/shirt/leggings under his clothes may LOOK seperate. but its actually all one big piece!!! because i thought it would be silly and funny :3 but like on a serious note i like this because it provides an extra layer of protection (both in a fight and not) and like. a sense of anonymity i guess??? like you can't see killer's natural body you cant SEE who he was before because hes changed that much (or i guess HE cant see who he was b4 wtvr)

actually a lot of killer's outfit has meaning behind it. knee pads = unnatural body imitation killer is a whole new being now not monster (also adding 2 the combat look :3) belts = restraint killer needs to stay in line and do as he's ordered (i needed some visual interest 💀) zippers on shoes?? actually no meaning i just thought it would be cute. somehow i managed to find meanings 4 all of the trio's zippers. killer's is jammed in that spot. show like idk he is irreversibly changed to what he is now (a lot of this makes no sense)

horror 🪓 :3

if you remove all the rips in the clothes he'd be the most basic out of all of them. but theyre there so he's NOT the most basic! 4 horror i was thinking like "you can see he's fucked up but you can also see he's desperately trying to keep it together" type feel. i totally didnt steal those under socket lines (thank you mania and paranoia for donating to your og versions :3) to make horror look more 🌀🌀🌀 (cannot describe it)

the cloak was stolen from undyne trust. he wears it as a power move FUCK YOU!!! to her :3 also it looks royal and regal which could kinda show like horror's power and sway over snowdin. he's DEFINITELY not a king but he is a provider and a lot of what he says goes around those parts. a lot of ppl look to him as like world's shittiest leader(ish). also i just wanted him to have something unique!

underneath horror's jacket his shirt is reaaaally torn he should probably replace it. there are some holes from when he was pinned down with spears during the core incident and then the whole lower half is just totally torn off from that one comic 💀 but thats why the jacket is zipped up! however the zipper broke and now the jacket can't unzip! (because horror struggles with the fact that horrortale ISNT gonna be perpetually shitty (everyone say thanks aliza) and would rather nobody see him vulnerable)

dust🧣:3

i didn't change much about him lowkey he's pretty much wearing the same CLOTHES. just that the style and way he's wearing them changed. wanted him to give like,,,,, comfy (because bro did not change out of his sansish clothes) but also like FOCUSED o(≧口≦)o like horror he has the under socket line but thats just to make him look more stressed and tired

i moved around the scarf to NOT be around his neck bc it was sooo annoying drawing the hood and then having to account for the scarf. it kind gave him a baby face vibe which i did NOT like. also i think dust would wear the scarf however. very versatile as long as the scarf remains intact. so it COULD go around waist COULD be around neck COULD be around limbs

i didn't mean to do this but the black thingy around his shoulders (was originally there just to fill in the empty space without the scarf there 💀) could be seen as like mourning wear. again with the silly zipper symbolism but dust's zipper is fine its not broken like horror or killer's are because he chose to go down this path. dust CHOSE to zip it up and now its too late to go back now (so bro MUST power through ‼️‼️ he cant unzip the zipper now!!!!)

overall i like these. usually i like coming up with cool unique character designs its so fun but my trio was hard (im hard). probably bc i didnt wanna make then wear anything too weird Dx BUT NOW AT LEAST THEY ALL LOOK LESS BABY!!!! i think i depicted how i see them though like ughhh cannot explain but now they look like how i want them to sound

[literallyjusttoa]

A redraw of the timeline of Apollo's life I made half a year ago! Sadly for some reason CSP decided to completely delete poor Post-First Punishment Apollo (the fifth one), but luckily I took a picture of it before hand so y'all can see it, even if it's lower quality ;-;. If you want the story behind these designs I dumped like 2000 words about it in my og post, which you can see here!

Some quick addendums I forgot to put in last time + fun design details:

Apollo replaces Helios as the god of the sun after the Trojan War, around 900 B.C.E-ish.

Baby Apollo has horns now! This is a trait he inherited from his titan side and then quickly lost during his battle with Python. It's a nod to his first domain being shepherding as well.

Just to clarify, post-first punishment Apollo goes before post-Daphne Apollo, it's just I couldn't place them in the right order bc csp sucks

The symbol I used on Main Apollo's fabric is called a delphic epsilon! It was used as a symbol for Apollo's temple at Delphi in Ancient Greece and represented a worshiper's initiation into light.

The blue-ish silver ribbon Fall of Greece Apollo has belonged to Artemis. As I stated in my first post, Apollo spends a large amount of time away from Olympus between the fall of greece and his time in Rome, so he kept the ribbon to have something of his sister's in the meantime.

Also for Fall of Greece Apollo, his cloak is fading for two reasons. One, he's spending a lot more time performing his duties as the god of burials, making his role as one of the first bridges between the living and dead much more prominent. The underworld is pulling at him just as much as it is pulling at the casulties of Greece. Two, Apollo is not spending time on Olympus, nor is he actively speaking with any of his worshipers. This is causing belief in him to diminish, so this is the closest he has ever gotten to fading. I swear I will write a whole thing about the period at some point I have so many ideas.

The sheep 2nd punishment Apollo has is a Chios sheep! They are actually native to Greece, and also adorable I love them.

I think that's all for now, I hope you guys like the art!!!

[ot9snumber1]

siren song

siren!sana minatozaki x reader

summary: dahyun gets your crew shipwrecked. jeongyeon says she's got it under control. you take a walk to clear your head—clearly not the best idea.

warnings: smut, blood, manipulation(?), 2yeon!, implied death(s) but the main one is up to interpretation, i know nothing about pirates nor sirens i'm making things up

notes: just wanted to write something based on the dive teasers and ended up making it way longer than my usual fics,, i also couldn't help but insert misamo in this. u guys know me and misamo...

also, dedicated to the lovely @royaltozaki <3

wc: 3.2k

"damn it!" you yell, kicking a rock in frustration. dahyun trails behind you as you pace around the beach, muttering constant apologies.

"captain—"

"enough! do you realize what you've done?" dahyun shrinks at your tone, nodding and looking even more guilty. "what if we're stranded here forever? you have no idea how hard it is to get rescued—hell, i don't think we have enough supplies to last us two mon—"

you had dahyun cornered against a tree. voice laced with venom, seeing pure red as the younger girl did her best to hold back tears.

your scolding was cut off by jeongyeon putting a hand on your shoulder. "y/n." she says, her tone not exactly harsh, but very far from the usual banter she'd have with you.

"lay off the poor girl, will ya?" jeongyeon frowns, moving to stand between you and the newbie. "she's doing her best."

you cross your arms, jaw clenched and staring at her like she was crazy. the taller woman sighs, nodding understadingly. she couldn't blame you for being mad—you were just doing your job as captain, after all. she just wished you wouldn't be so harsh on dahyun.

"look, i've got it covered. jihyo and i are working on the engine, nayeon's preparing lunch for everyone." she says, a gentler tone this time as she puts both hands on your shoulders. no matter that you were the captain now, you'd always be the little girl she and nayeon rescued in her eyes. "take a walk, okay? it's a beautiful island, it'll help clear your mind."

you grumble, looking away to think as you tapped your foot on the sand repeatedly. she's right, you were just letting your frustrations get the best of you. "fine." you mumble, storming off without another word.

jeongyeon sighs.

"i wouldn't worry too much about her," she says as she turns around, putting her hand on dahyun's shoulder this time. "she's just sensitive about this stuff."

dahyun looks at her, puzzled. jeongyeon nods, already knowing what she was going to ask. "she lost her girlfriend—tzuyu—in a wreck a few years ago. it was the one expedition where she wasn't there."

"she's captain now—give 'er some space, okay? she just wants to protect us, you included." jeongyeon reassures her, giving a smile and squeezing her arm before leading the both of them back to where the others were.

—

you curse to yourself as you trip over another root, kicking the tree that it belonged to. you wipe the sand off your front and sleeves, brows furrowing as you take deep breaths.

this definitely wasn't helping, you think. you huff, finding yourself in an area fenced off by rocks. the tide wasn't high, leaving more than enough room for you to sit and draw on the sand.

you sit, the waves barely crashing against the tip of your shoes. you take back what you thought—it was as beautiful and peaceful as jeongyeon described, you were just too stubborn to let it calm you down.

your focus goes to the wet sand in front of you. scooting closer, you shiver when you feel your pants begin to soak. the waves reach your ankles.

you keep staring at the dark sand, watching how the water continues to crash against it. leaving rocks and shells only to bring them back with it the next time a wave crashes.

without giving it much thought, you trace a heart into the sand. the next wave only consumes half of it, you redraw that half quickly.

the initials of you and tzuyu's names are written shortly after, a small smile gracing your face before the wave crashes back and takes tzuyu's inital back with it.

"what's up with you and taking my love, hm?" you scoff and toss a small stone into the water, attention back to the waves that continued to crash against your shoes and the cuffs of your pants.

"this is dumb." you mutter, running a hand through your hair. you cringe when you feel the strands that stuck to your sweaty skin. "jeong was right. mind cleared, time to go." you stand up, not even attempting to wipe the wet sand off your pants. you'd just gross yourself out.

"i don't think you've cleared your mind."

you whip your head around. that wasn't a voice you were familiar with. was your crew followed?

a giggle follows and you shiver, grabbing a small knife from your belt. "i'm not afraid of a fight." you say, getting into a protective stance. "i've taken the loves—"

"i don't care what you've taken." you see something—someone emerge from behind a rock in the water, head just barely peeking above the sea. "unless it's me, of course."

she smiles, her eyes dangerous.

"put that thing down." the mystery woman says, pointing at the knife in your hand. you shake your head.

"i said put it down." she seems to sing through her words this time, kind smile replaced with a deep scowl. you were about to tell her to piss off until you hear a quiet thump beside you.

you look down. when did you drop the knife? you were just holding it with an iron grip just a second ago—

"come here."

you were too busy trying to process what just happened to even realize that your legs were walking towards her.

"what the fuck?" you gasp once the cool water hits your chest. "what do you want? what are you? why are you—"

she laughs once more, finally face-to-face with you. "isn't she cute, girls?" she hums. you feel something wrap around your legs, her arms pulling you closer by the waist.

you look down, going stiff at seeing what exactly was holding your legs together. a tail.

a siren's tail.

you panic instantly, trying to free yourself from her grip. her grin only grows as a hand goes over your mouth and another pair holds your arms together.

you look to your side—another siren, black hair and blunt bangs squishing your face a little too hard. you look to your other side, a third siren, long black hair—long enough to cover her chest—held your arms tight against your body.

you look back to the one in front of you, light brown hair and a stare that burned straight down your core.

"a little feisty, though." the one holding your face says, squeezing a little harder when she feels you open your mouth to protest.

"doesn't matter, they're all the same anyway." the brunette—you assume she was their leader—muses, carefully moving the hand away from your mouth. you open it to say something, but she just shakes her head.

you can't seem to form words after that.

"hm," she whispers, face just inches from yours as she gets lost in thought.

"momo, mina, leave. this one's mine." she commands. they leave your side almost instantly, you sigh out of relief when you regain control over your arms.

"bring leftovers home for us, yeah, sana?" momo quips before disappearing into the water with mina.

you look back to sana. she was still staring straight through you, her gaze never left. not even to bid her girls goodbye.

"sana is a pretty name." the words leave your mouth before you can even think. what the hell were you doing? she was about to kill you, for fuck's sake!

the siren raises her eyebrows, a seductive smile gracing her face. "you're not concerned that she implied that i'm going to eat you?"

she observes you. every breath you take, every blink and every time you have to peel your eyes away from her cleavage. nothing goes undetected in her eyes.

you take the time to think. what exactly were you feeling? you were tzuyu's. you swore you always would be, no matter what. it's not like you were committing to anything with the creature holding you captive. hell, you were 100% sure she'd just gotten into your head.

jeongyeon had always warned you about sirens, but you never believed her. in your eyes, she was just trying to keep you from getting out of her sight.

now you couldn't keep your eyes away from sana.

maybe you were just sexually frustrated. she is very attractive for a monster known to kill pirates. then again, that's how they get 'em. or you're just bored. maybe it's both.

"...no?" you'd given the answer much thought, yet you were still unsure. sana feels her hunger and desire grow tenfold.

she grins again and you catch a glimpse of her razor sharp canines. "for a captain, you're really stupid. i like you." she hums, giving you exactly a second to process her words before crashing her lips onto yours.

this was wrong, so terribly wrong. you were kissing someone that wasn't your tzu and breaking the promise you made to jeongyeon about not daring to look at a siren.

you tense up and she notices, prompting her to move a hand to your neck and hold you still. unsurprisingly, her touch was ice cold. you moan involuntarily at that.

she wasn't even choking you or anything, she just felt so good against you.

"not so bad, huh?" she whispers when she pulls away to grant you a breath. sana hums something you couldn't comprehend and you nod, the action completely out of your control. "mhm, that's what i wanted to see."

you finally gave up trying to distinguish what were your choices and what was controlled by her song. your body belonged to her now, as far as the both of you knew.

sana kisses you again, trying not to smile too much when you sigh into it. her tongue swipes against your bottom lip, making you whine against her mouth once more.

you part your lips, wanting to feel her tongue against yours. instead, you feel her sharpest teeth pierce the skin of it.

you pull away, hating the taste of blood. you watch it drip down to the water before looking up at sana, her mouth dripping in your blood too.

"what? it hurts?" she grins, leaning in for another taste. "let's get you cleaned up, then." you have no time to respond before you're pushed into the water. (thankfully, you screwed your eyes shut before she did so.)

the wound on your lip stings. you try to swim up, but sana just pulls you back down and continues kissing you like it were nothing. her tongue goes in and out, you can feel her sharp nails scratching against your waist. at least her lips on yours distracted you from the pain of it all.

you feel her lips on your neck. your breath would hitch, but you can't breathe—you don't want to breathe. not necessarily craving death, but if it meant you'd never have to live with the fact you were letting this happen, it didn't sound terrible to you.

you're pulled back up, but she hardly lets you breathe anyway. one hand on the collar of your dress shirt, stopping you from escaping (as if you were trying to) and another rubbing your pussy through your pants. you weren't her first victim, you were sure of it now.

"wait—wait, sana—"

she finally pulls back for more than a second, pouting. "it's not very fun if i give you everything you want."

you raise an eyebrow, panting as you wipe blood off your lips. "this is the first time you've let me breathe since you pulled me into the water."

sana tilts her head, biting her lip as she looks away from your bleeding lip and up to your eyes. "cute. i can only give you one thing, you know? that's how we keep it fun, darling."

"now choose: the ability to breathe freely," she seems uninterested as she tears the buttons off your soaked shirt. "or let me do whatever i want?"

her eyes flit back up to you.

"well?"

"i was told to kill your kind, you know."

sana laughs again, backing you up against a large rock. it was incredibly attractive, like listening to death come collect your soul.

—

jeongyeon frowns when she sees that nayeon still hadn't touched her food, nor had she even sat down after telling everyone lunch was ready.

she gets down on the shore again, walking towards nayeon. the older woman was just standing, barefoot on the sand and letting the waves cover them in sand.

"worried about her?" jeongyeon asks, voice as gentle as the shore as she stands beside her lover. nayeon nods, leaning her head on her shoulder. "of course i am."

"she's strong, nay. she'll come back and forgive dahyun, trust me."

"not about that, jeong." nayeon mutters, fiddling with her necklace now. jeongyeon purses her lips.

"give her ten more minutes before i look for her, okay?"

nayeon nods, feeling a small weight lift off her chest. "okay."

—

"fuuuck, sana!" you groan as her tongue swirls around your nipple, her fingers pinching the other. you take a fistful of her wet hair and desperately attempt to push her head down to your pussy.

"got somewhere else to be?" she asks, her free hand replacing her lips as she straightens up. "...yes. your head has somewhere else to be, too." you mumble in frustration, face flushed.

"right." sana teases, opting to suck more hickeys into your neck instead. you were even more pissed now, but you found yourself too weak to protest against how fast she wanted to do things. she licks the fresh mark, making you whine.

"you hungry? your mom was making you lunch before this, no?"

"she's not my mom!" you reply, your mind wondering how sana knew about nayeon. then again, she'd probably been stalking you since you got shipwrecked here. "and i'm not hungry."

"i am." sana husks against your ear, chest heaving against yours. you tense up again. "calm down, i'm not going to devour you like that."

"not yet at least." she mumbles as she undoes your pants. you didn't allow yourself to laugh. "not funny." you mumble, she shrugs. "wasn't trying to be, darling."

sana lowers herself, kissing across your stomach while pulling your pants down. she takes your hands and forces you to hold them together. "do not touch me."

you weren't going to anyway, in fear of her using her song on you again. you learn to stop trying to predict her behavior. now you physically couldn't let go of your hands, just watching helplessly as sana descended into the water.

your leg gets thrown over her shoulder and she immediately latches onto your clit.

you hiss, her mouth warm compared to the cool water enveloping your entire lower half. you hear her faint giggles as her nails dig into your thigh, lapping up as much of you as she could.

her tongue was moving faster than you could think—in and out, swirling around your clit, moving anywhere and everywhere to coax those delicious sounds out of you. she was a relentless predator and you were just meek prey.

you whine through clenched teeth when you feel yourself rapidly approaching your climax. you didn't want to cum for her at all—much less give her the satisfaction of making you do so this quickly, but everything about her was so alluring and you were incredibly desperate to feel something after so long.

you make the mistake of looking down at her, bucking your hips up when you realize her eyes were still on you the whole time.

she lifts you up out of the water, both of your legs over her shoulders while her hands moved to steady your hips. you were practically laying on the smooth rock, hissing from the slight burn it gave you.

the filthy sound of sana eating you out was much easier for you to hear now and it drove you crazy. your thighs close around her head as you continue grinding against her face, making her smile against your lips. "cum, darling. don't be so scared of me." sana whispers, breath hot against you.

you stop fighting against it, cumming hard when she kisses your clit. your body relaxes quickly after, panting and focusing on trying to form a coherent thought that you didn't bother to notice sana was singing again.

sighing out of relief when you realize she was giving you control over your hands again, you lean up slightly only to see her climbing on top of you.

"we're not done, captain." she whispers against your wounded lips, capturing them in another kiss.

you try not to cringe at the feeling of her slimy tail against your legs.

—

"y/n, it's not funny anymore. you're going to give nayeon a heart attack!" jeongyeon calls out, sighing when you're not hiding out in a clearing amidst the trees.

it's been nearly an hour since she started looking for you. how far out could you have gone?

jeongyeon continues walking, her pace quickening the more she thinks about finding you passed out on the ground. she'd never forgive herself if anything happened—going on a walk to clear your head was her idea after all. (she'd never forgive herself for how nayeon would react, either.)

"y/n, i'm serious!" she calls out once more, reaching another part of the beach. her heartbeat quickens once she sees footprints.

—

your hands were on sana's boobs, one massaging and the other pinching at her nipple. she moans into your mouth, her hands going over yours.

"rougher, darling. how many times do i have to tell you?" sana says, smiling when she sees how tired you were when she pulled away from your lips. you were doing your best to catch your breath, hating that you couldn't keep up with sana.

it's not like you could shove her off you and kill her anyway, you could hardly move your legs as is. you hate that you fell into her trap—that you let her plan unfold.

there wasn't a single merciful bone in her body either. she was only keeping you alive to torture you at this point.

sana's lips reattach to your neck, kissing harshly but not leaving any more marks for the sake of keeping your head attached to your body.

her ears perk up when she hears someone calling your name from a distance, the fins extending as she looked towards the direction of the voice. you did too, heart dropping at the sight of jeongyeon looking around and yelling your name. you pray that sana dragged you out far enough for her not to spot you like this.

"ah, what a shame. that's our cue, darling." sana hums, letting herself fall back into the water and pulling you with her. you struggle against her grip, using the last of your strength to push her away. still, she was hardly exhausted. she easily captures you once more, holding you tight and forcing you to watch jeongyeon's figure on the shore grow smaller and smaller.

"don't worry, it's not the end for you yet." sana whispers, her lips grazing your ear. "you've been my favorite to ruin, darling."

you feel tears run down your cheek as you both submerge under the water once more. you don't bother to close your eyes anymore, the ocean didn't sting as much as it did years ago anyway.

sana sings again, her voice muffled in your ears. everything goes dark the second after she stops.

"rest up, darling." sana smiles, her arms tightening around you.

[windydrawallday]

[A Different Type Of Hunt]

[...] “Well then,” he capitulated, “if you won't interrupt, I'll allow your presence for the time being on this hunt,” he said, before he thought about the other a little longer, and spoke up cautiously: “Unless you wish to compete for the ‘bounty’?” “Is there anything to be gained from it?” came an immediate ask, which made him relax as he almost let out a snicker. “Nothing but personal satisfaction.” […] “It's almost cute how much you want me gone, Prowl.” “After all this, you better hope you won't find me straight up adorable,” Prowl shot back with irritation, making sure to cause the branch he was holding to hit the hunter straight in his stupid face, even if he had to jump up to reach one at the adequate height.

➡️[Keep Reading the Full Story HERE]⬅️

My art entry (and first year participating) for the @tf-bigbang ! And because this was a "Mini-Reverse" version, I took the opportunity of illustrating a very BIG COMPLEX picture of my fav TFA rascals of course 🐦🦡💚

🌟 And I matched with @ivycorp as a writer pal! She did such an AWESOMESAUCE job portraying them in this dynamic! Practically a 1:1 of how I see them personally: lots of funny, endearing, bantering, and even somber moments plus a delightful of descriptions that's like taking a sip of a tropical drink 🍹

✨ Please, give it a read! Or if you know someone who likes this pairing, recommend it! We tried to make something that can be enjoyed by many without the need to support them as a pairing and I think this will be one of the few SFW fics on AO3 of them LMAO that was a plus goal achieved.

Under the cut, I'll keep babbling about my piece because... this had quite THE journey of a process for me, enjoy!

If you think the final thing looks already complicated: watch again, here is the ORIGINAL PLAN...

I usually don't render this refined because I don't use textured-pattern-ready brushes but work stroke by stroke on the canvas like an old oil painting. Most of the time I render all in one layer (or merge various layers at the end). So it ends quite taxing, but so rewarding to look at!

It got quite the amount of rearranging and redrawing of scenes to fit better in each place, so that was another factor that burned me up slowly, I guess...

Sadly, I didn't take into account how much time these took, and because I'm not the same person from years ago with free time to sit down and focus for more than 3 hs on a pic (these usually demand between 6 to 8 hs of attention without counting extra corrections) I ended cutting down half the planed scenes :')

But hey! Probably I'll go back to them and finish them to set everything how originally was supposed to be. But for now, I'll take a good rest (my wrists are still trembling a bit) and bask in the beauty of my pal's work too... and bless the admins of the event FOR BEING SO PATIENT WITH ME orz

Thank you, from the moon and back! 🌙💖

[runabout-river]

Thoughts on JJK chapter 261 (Spoilers)

The Fuck

We start with Yuji's last attack and a redraw of last chapter's last scene. Yuji didn't manage to injure Sukuna's heart further and gets thrown to the side being forgotten immediately together with Todo because Sukuna has a new/old opponent now: fucking Yuta.

We do get one more panel of Yuji thinking of Choso which fits my recent post about Yuji's accumulated trauma. Other than that Yuji/Todo get sidelined for the rest of the chapter but that was needed to explain what the fuck Yuta had done

Also, Okkotsu Yuta is now on name-basis with Sukuna, a place only very few people have reached at this point like Fushiguro Megumi and Gojo Satoru.

When I first saw the stitches on Gojo's head, I thought of Kenjaku and Kenjaku only. Even after Sukuna called him Yuta I needed a moment to understand what had happened here. Do you all understand how awesome that is 👀 JJK has an active theory based fanbase and I at least have never heard or thought of this possibility 😣

We get a flashback to explain how we got to this point: the idea of taking over Gojo's body came from Yuta and most people were initially against it. Of note: Yuji was not part of this discussion probably for the same reason why no one told him about Todo.

We get a reminder why it has to be done this way but Maki throws in that Yuta's copy only lasts 5 minutes. So the question is, what happens when those 5 minutes are up?

Yuta dies because Kenjaku's possession ability needs to be active constantly

Yuta dies at some point because Kenjaku's possession ability needs to be activated again and again

Yuta's new body permanently becomes Gojo's body

Honestly, I don't think 3) will be endgame for Yuta. It might happen that he will become Gojo in body permanently but story-wise his death signs are through the roof. I don't believe that Yuta will survive inside Gojo 😢

1) is has to be false otherwise Kenjaku wouldn't be able to use other CTs like CM and AGS. 2) is a probable option as in Kenjaku had to intermittently re-activate his original CT but he still had the option of using other CTs as well.

Also, secret 4th option: Yuta dies but his body hopping shenanigans bring Gojo back to life.

It's good to see how Yuta is concerned about Gojo. Yuji would've been right there with him. He told Gojo about his plan but the guy was absolutely sure that he wouldn't lose anyway, haha...

Gojo speculates that Yuta might also be the descendent of the Fujiwara in addition to being one of the Sugawara and I'm not a genetics experts but I'm pretty sure that after 1000 years without migration happening in your family tree that you're descendent of everyone who lived that long ago. Except for Sukuna because he never had children.

Also, the original gang from JJK 0 came together to be part of some murder. The deaths of the higher-ups we saw at the very beginning of the Sukuna fight is now explained: Gojo killed them for a better future of the JJ Society but he was a little hesitant about it.

The flashback jumps first to Yuji's old friend who's name I forgot. We learn that his CT is sugar (??) based which leads to him becoming part of the medical team. Then the FB jumps to the aftermath of Yuta's fight against Sukuna: he was cut in half and is about to die

In a funny call back to when Yuji died at the Detention Center, Gojo is both dead and completely naked on a table. Just like Yuji, he also rises again albeit not completely alive when it comes to himself.

(Why did Yuta waste crucial seconds to put a shirt on?)

Shoko says that she fully sutured Gojo's bisected body and because Kenjaku's CT (as far as we know) only works on dead bodies, we have the confirmation that Gojo has indeed died against Sukuna. Except of course that he's about to be revived again.

Let's not forget that as far as Kenjaku's CT is involved, body and mind are treated the same. Something that will involve Gojo and his consciousness is going to happen at some point because of Yuta's decision to do this body hopping.

A new Domain Battle between Sukuna and GojoYuta is about to start. Yuta not only watched the previous battles, he also acquired Gojo's memories so it's exciting to see how that will play out.

It's also interesting how the visuals of the domain clashes changed so much. GojoYuta's is still the same (the first confirmation that a possessor can use the possessed's DE) while Sukuna's deteriorated somewhat, represented with the beastly construct in the background. He also has to use Gojo's handsign.

Break next week but now we can speculate to hell and back about what will happen now.

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA if I posted my art from a zine early?

I (23nb) joined a zine for a semi obscure 2000s manga/anime as a page artist with two of my friends. I enjoy this media but I don't really consider myself in the fandom, I only joined because one of my aforementioned friends is a huge fan of it and the other friend is also a casual enjoyer and we thought it would be fun if we all did a zine together.

However.

Most zines have a timeline of around 9-10 months from beginning to publishing but this one's been in production for almost 2 years. I've been in a few zines and this one has the worst organization I've ever seen in any project. The timeline on the discord only covered the first 5 months and had no estimate for how long the production would be, but a year and a half for publishing is pretty unheard of. The only check-in for progress that I remember didn't even require sending in your piece, you just had to say if you were finished or not and only a handful of the 30ish people on the discord responded lmao. Both of my friends ghosted at this point and the Singular mod (there might be two mods. I can't really tell) didn't dm them to see if they still wanted to participate or anything. Since there is only one person doing everything me and a few others have asked if they need any help and every time the mod(s) say that they're fine. every month or two someone will ask how the production is going and the mod will answer, and then another month goes by and the cycle repeats. I think the zine has finally gone into its “preorder interest check” stage (so not the actual preorder) but judging by how long everything takes i estimate that it'll be another 2 months at least before it actually goes into preorder. Its also never been clear if this is a free zine or if the sales will be donated to charity or distributed among the contributors. Since there's Allegedly going to be a physical copy it's gotta at least use the sales money to pay for production and shipping costs, but I have no idea if I'll be compensated with a physical copy or any money, especially if I do the thing that I might be TA for.

So here's my actual question. WIBTA if I posted the art I made for the zine before the mod says it's ok to do so? A big part of zine etiquette is that you do not post the final piece until the zine is finished, and the repercussions for someone who does range from a mod dming them to take it down or being kicked out of the zine entirely or in the absolute worst case, called out and blacklisted in the fandom and zine circles (I don't think anything that serious will happen to me but I have anxiety so I'm always imagining the worst thing) Most of the people on Tumblr in this fandom are kind of annoying fandom mom millennial types so I don't really want to deal with any possible backlash from them lol. If I just posted my art on Instagram idk if any of them would see it, but they Definitely would if I posted on Tumblr since the zine originated on there and it's such a small tag. I'm also so frustrated with the experience I kind of want to write something cunty in the description about how it's a zine piece for a zine that probably will never come out but I know that's just being petty and would probably invite drama. Also since I drew this thing a year and a half ago it's a little busted looking so I might redraw parts of it, so posting it would still be kinda shitty but it would technically be a different piece from the original one I submitted to the zine.

What are these acronyms?

[pm1073-b]

(Re-upload)

I don't have recent art, so here is something from my clone high phase :DDD

This is about half a year ago, so I might redraw it soon lol

[jumpscaregoose]

hello wonderful mutual, may i inquire what shaman king is?

you've triggered an unskippable cutscene be prepared. was it me calling hana kentacoded that did it for you

shaman king is uh... certainly something

editor's note I go on about the history of the shaman king media franchise for like. way too long and I'm not deleting it so. plot summary starts after the flowers anime image

it started out as a shonen adventure manga created by a mangaka named hiroyuki takei which ran from 1998 to 2004, where it somehow Ate Shit And Died, leaving the manga ending unfinished somehow (idk I wasn't there)

it got its first anime adaptation in 2001

this anime had 64 episodes and covered a complete story. hey goose but if it aired in 2001 and the manga ate shit in 2004 how did they- they didn't. they made shit up. remember kanata dying on the cross? take that extend it to cover half the story and make it FUCKING AWESOME

shaman king 2001 has this impeccable Vibe to it that I really love (the only other thing I can think of with similar impeccable Vibes is sk8). a lot of fans prefer this anime to the manga and I can't blame them it sure has its perks. it also has its downsides. which is mostly terrible dated character designs and diverging from the manga if you're not into that.

I love this show though this is what I rewatch when I want any old shaman king in my spare time

but what's this? a whisper on the wind? that's right baby

SHAMAN KING KANZENBAN MANGA

that's right- between 2008 and 2009 the entire manga was reprinted to get its "true ending", including redraws of some panels

later in 2012 BAM SHAMAN KING FLOWERS

yes there's a full mainline sequel. flowers itself ended in 2014 when the magazine it was in Ate Shit and Died. the story was continued in another manga, The Super Star, before last year the magazine publishing TSS, say it with me now,

Ate Shit and Died (yeah Takei has real bad luck with that)

and then, just a few years ago...

BAM SHAMAN KING 2021 REBOOT ANIME

finally, an anime adaptation of the kanzenban manga, true ending including... this is where I show up. finally! I needed something to watch on a long car ride in august 2021 and happened to download the first eight episodes on netflix, a decision which would have no repercussions on my life philosophies or me as a person (lies)

there are pretty mixed feelings about this anime overall (the pacing goes fucking BRRRRRRR that's for sure) but I can credit that thing with getting me into shaman king and restructuring my brain so it has a special place in my heart

(it's also what I first get people to watch when they agree to shaman king with me. you should really read kanzenban instead because it's better)

lastly there's the flowers anime airing right now

(yay excitingggggg)

and like. soooooo many more sequel prequel and spinoff manga. and also all of takei's works (I'm planning to read ultimo soon because someone said that's where the spirit based on the vermilion bird came from and that has a common ancestor with allen sugasano so I'm going) oh shit and funkuro/funbari chronicles the mobile game that is either closed or on its way out. and so much more

I'm not going to explain every one of them because I realized you probably wanted. a plot summary. so

copy pasted from my mankin slideshow:

"laid-back Asakura Yoh is a shaman, someone with a connection to the afterlife. He participates in the Shaman Fight, a tournament to determine the next god. Hao, a mysterious and overwhelmingly strong shaman, wants to use the powers gained from becoming a god to wipe out humanity. Shenanigans ensue across multiple continents and the boundaries of life and death."

like I said before it's a shonen adventure manga so it follows a lot of tropes, but I think it does them pretty well and in its own way. if you read through the entire mainline manga (kanzenban, flowers, and tss) it's clear takei has a lot to say through his work and he's pretty explicit about his view of the world (shoutout to evil triangle who invented capitalism)

takei's writing and research can be kinda iffy at times and I would never say his work is for everyone but I love it to bits and it has really helped me out over the years

my personal favourite pieces of shaman king media (besides kanzenban) are:

Red Crimson (spinoff of the main sequels following an adult legacy cast, brilliant story about love and grief except for the Horrors)

& a Garden (prequel spinoff about the hanagumi witches, side characters from the first manga)

2001 anime (explained this one already)

if this has interested you go read the kanzenban manga and then come back for sequel recommendations

need more information? I got you

my beginner's shaman king slideshow (if you're reading this within an hour of posting you might see me updating it dw about that)

the patch cafe fansite which has up to date news about the entire series

there's also the funbari hill discord's tumblr account, which reblogs a lot of great shaman king stuff. everyone there is lovely and it's a great community (it's actually run by a mutual of mine hi frost 👋)

I ALMOST FORGOT THE SEQUELS FANSITE WHOOPS (run by an incredible artist and has some fun information about the sequels)

please tell me if you want clarification or more specifics I'm bad at explaining this concisely

[coulroworld]

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[ID: Two sketches. One: Bernie leading Buckley by the hand. Buckley screams and recoils in at something off-screen. Bernie looks furious and just about ready to destroy whatever or whoever just startled her brother.

Two: Bernie standing over Buckley (using her "rubberhose" powers to cartoonishly stretch her legs) to kiss him on the forehead. Buckley smiles bashfully, holding his beanie with both hands. /end ID]

this is actually a redraw of these sketches from a year and a half ago. 👀

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[ID: Same as previous image, but significantly worse looking. In the corner is a haunted house reaction image that inspired the first sketch. /end ID]

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball GT 57

✨GT Stands For Gross Touching✨

✨"Good" "Ideas", Poorly Executed✨

Last time, Goku claimed he could defeat Eis Shenron in five seconds, but he failed to consider Eis’ willingness to use Pan as a shield. 

He freezes Goku again, but this time Goku breaks loose, which he explains by saying that he memorizes every technique that he encounters, so because Eis got him with it in Episode 56, he’s prepared for it this time.  That’s really stupid, because Eis zapped him with the freeze ray several times in Episode 56, and Goku just stood there like a goof and got zapped.  Yet he has the gall to say he won’t fall for the same trick twice. 

So then Eis starts pleading for mercy, which leads to this shot, which is kind of interesting.  Not because of this episode or its story, though.  This is just another example of Goku falling for the same trick twice, because Mercenary Tao and Frieza begged for mercy years ago, and Goku still hasn’t figured out that bad guys will feign surrender to catch him off guard.

No, it’s interesting because there was a semi-famous image going around in 2014, with Goku in some sort of Golden Super Saiyan 4 form, and Beerus was the one pleading for mercy.  This looked authentic enough to seem official, and while I’m not sure how many people believed it was real, it sort of represents this last gasp of the “Dragon Ball AF Culture” in the fandom.  Nowadays, it’s a lot easier to find out what’s really going on in Japan, but back in the early 2000′s there were all sorts of rumors flying around, and it was hard to know what was real and what wasn’t.  So if a fan artist was talented enough to redraw an obscure scene from GT, they could conceivably convince other fans that their Goku redesign was going to appear in an upcoming work. 

But back to Eis, he offers to surrender his Dragon Ball, and begs Nuova to speak on his behalf, and Nuova actually does.  The thing is, I’m pretty sure Eis can’t exist without his Dragon Ball, so this offer is kind of pointless.  But just as Goku agrees to let him go...

Eis slashes at Goku’s face with some sort of icicle claw attack?  The effects are pretty clear.  Goku is blinded for the next couple of episodes, and also that building in the background gets cut in half.

What’s less clear is what exactly Eis did to Goku’s eyes.  Considering how that building turned out, you’d think Eis cut Goku up really bad, kind of like what Zorin Blitz did to Seras Victoria in Hellsing, but that’s a bit too gruesome for GT.  Or maybe the ice claws just froze Goku’s corneas or something?  That’s more consistent with the ice gimmick. 

It doesn’t really matter, because when Eis tries to finish Goku off, Goku just punches a hole in his chest and insta-wins.  I mean, duh. This episode is Goku’s 501st appearance on television.  One thing we’ve learned about the guy over and over again is how sharp his senses are.  He can track scents like a bloodhound, and detect objects and people by sound and the feel of subtle movements in the air.  And his ki senses let him detect just about any powerful warrior in the area.  Blinding Goku is practically useless, and it seems like the Shadow Dragons are the only ones who don’t understand this.  The audience sure as hell knew, so I don’t know why this was presented like some suspenseful moment.

So Goku follows up with a Super Dragon Fist which killerizes Eis and removes all the ice on the city they’re in.  Convenient.

Goku tries washing his eyes to clear his vision, but it doesn’t work.  So did Eis like... throw dust in his eyes or something like that?  Then a bottle drops into his hand, and it turns out Nuova is the one who’s giving it to him.  He says it’s “medicine” that will heal Goku’s eyes.  Wait, why the fuck would Nuova Shenron just have that with him? Was he expecting something like this to happen?

I think the writers just wanted to make it clear what a sporting guy Nuova was, but it’s kind of weird that he would have eye medicine handy.  Also, there’s no obvious trauma to Goku’s eyes, so I really have no idea what the medicine is supposed to do.  This feels more like some sort of Solar Flare deal, where Goku just saw a really bright light and he needs time to recover.  And maybe that’s what Eis did to him, except why did it cut a building in half?

The bigger problem here is that this blindness angle carries on for a while longer, except it doesn’t really slow Goku down that much, and then it clears up on its own a short time later.  So this whole bit just seems like a total mess.  They wanted to do something to raise the stakes, but they failed to think it through or make it mean anything. 

Anyway, Nuova offers to withdraw until Goku has recovered, and they can fight again later, but before he leaves, another Shadow Dragon shows up and attacks.  He destroys the medicine and takes down Nuova.  Then he shoots again, and Nuova knocks Goku out of the way and sacrifices himself to save him.

So this is Syn Shenron, the One-Star Dragon, and now the last one of the set.  He’s also the strongest one, and apparently he had enough of Nuova’s half-assed babyface routine, and of Eis’ half-assed Memphis heel shtick.  He reminds Goku that he was the one who made the Shadow Dragons possible, and this is all his fault, but that’s dumb.  Most of the wishes Goku and his friends made on the Dragon Balls were for the sake of restoring the Earth from great cataclysms.  I’ve never understood the Shadow Dragons’ sanctimony.  They berate Goku for overusing the Dragon Balls, then threaten to destroy the world.  Instead of complaining to him, they should be thanking him for giving them life and purpose.   Or if they actually care about the world, they could just stay their hand and give Goku a pass.  But pick one and go with it. 

✨Positivity Page✨

So they fight for a bit, but Syn turns out to be in a whole other class of power.  Goku suddenly finds himself running for cover, and struggling to keep up, a lot like he was doing against Oceanus and Nuova, except this time he’s doing it as a Super Saiyan 4, which makes his desperation much easier to believe. 

Goku manages to lie low and ambush Syn with a 10x Kamehameha, and it doesn’t do anything.  Worse, Syn replies with his own 10x Kamehameha, and completely wrecks Goku’s shit.

Pan sort of wanders around in a stupor, and when she sees Goku hanging upside down like this, she screams in abject terror.  See, this is how they should have been doing it all along.  They blew through six other Shadow Dragons and finally figured it out on the seventh.

See, the way these Dragon Ball arcs work, you’d have a group like the Shadow Dragons, and Goku might take on the first one, and everyone assumes he’ll be okay, but then he barely survives the fight, and it turns out that it took everything he had to beat the weakest one.  That’s how it went with the Saiyans Saga, the Androids Saga, and so on.  Haze should have beaten Super Saiyan 4 Goku to a pulp, and only a last-ditch maneuver would have won the day.  Then Goku would return to the others and tell them how bad things really are.  Yeah, he’s a a Super Saiyan 4, but just one SSJ4 isn’t enough. 

And that would lead to a hurried effort to get some reinforcements onto the field.  Not just SSJ4 Vegeta, but Gohan as well.  Suddenly SSJ3 Gotenks sounds pretty handy, huh?

But no, GT refuses to take the focus off of Goku, so they did this stupid arc where most of the Shadow Dragons were pathetic twerps and Goku takes them all on by himself.  Everyone else just sits at home and hopes he’s doing okay.  But it ends up turning out the same way as what I just proposed.

Because now Pan is pleading for the rest of Dragon Team to show up and save Goku.  Hey, that’s fine, but we should have skipped straight to that on the FIRST Shadow Dragon, not the LAST one.  Then we could have had seven OP bad guys taking on seven good guys: Goku, Vegeta, Trunks, Gohan, Goten, Uub and Pan.  And all seven of them would have to push themselves beyond their limits just to stand a chance.  It’d be awesome.  And we could have been doing that for the past nine episodes instead of watching Rage Shenron defeat himself, or Pan getting possessed by a giant mole.

Wait, I forgot about Bulla.  Oh man, can you imagine if the good guys were getting clobbered and then Bulla just shows up and blindsides a Shadow Dragon in the head?  I don’t think Bulla and Pan would dominate a conflict like this, but the point is that you could still have them jump ahead a few levels and actually put up a fight.  Nuova knocked Pan in Episode 54 just to keep her out of his way.  I’d much rather see him knock Pan out because he’s got SSJ4 Gohan to worry about, and he’s afraid of SSJ3 Pan shooting a ki blast at him while he’s not looking.

Well, no point crying for what should have been...

✨Is This Episode Worse than "The Roaming Lake"?✨

I give this one a lot of credit for actually having plenty of things happen.  Unlike the last several episodes, this one has a lot on its to-do list.  We have no fewer than three Shadow Dragons in this one, so we need to kill off two of them and introduce the third.  And, mercifully, Syn Shenron is aggressive enough to just attack instead of making long-winded speeches.  It fits, because he came here to find Goku, so this isn’t like when Goku finds one of the others and asks them what they’re up to.

So this is a lot like Episode 19, where it still kind of blah, but at least it’s not slow and dull.  So it approaches “Roaming Lake” levels of quality, but I still think it falls short.  Here’s why.

First, the Eis Shenron fight was disappointing.  I get that he’s a dirty cheater, but he’s also supposed to be at least as powerful as Nuova Shenron, who’s presented as a match for SSJ4 Goku. So you would think that Eis would put up more of a fight than he did.  Instead, Goku powers through Eis like he’s no big deal, and Eis really has nothing left to do but cheat.  He does the fake surrender thing just like Rage and Naturon, and he uses Pan and Nuova as shields, just like Naturon.  We already saw Goku defeat Rage and Naturon, and those fights sucked.  Why are we doing this crap again?

Second, the death of Nuova is pretty hollow to me.  We’ve only had the guy around for four episodes, and one of them was the Vegeta clip show, so he was barely in it.  We’re supposed to miss this guy, but why, exactly?  Because he was halfway decent towards Pan?  Because he freed Goku from the ice, then gave him the medicine for his eyes? 

Look, if Nuova were truly a good dude, then he could have stepped in and rescued Pan from Eis’s various efforts to use her as a hostage.  He could have also stepped in and attacked Eis rather than just standing around and waiting for Goku to overcome his dirty tricks.  Nuova tried to dance on either side of the battle line, and that doesn’t make him a hero or some kind of tragic figure.  It just makes him a shitty villain.  Goku might miss his ass, but I sure don’t.

Third, Syn’s appearance does raise the stakes, but it does it in a very formulaic way.  We see him stalking Goku through this amusement park, but it’s very similar to the way the other Shadow Dragons would push Goku around in past episodes.  The only difference is that in those earlier episodes, Goku was in base mode, so you knew he could always turn SSJ4 if he was really in a pinch.  This time he’s already in Super Saiyan 4, and he’s still on the backfoot. 

On paper, that’s fine, but in practice, it just makes this whole fight look very, very familiar.  They just took the same tactics from the other episodes and translated it to a higher power level.  There’s nothing new about Syn’s tactics or attitude here.  Things will improve a little in the episodes to come, but for this episode, Syn vs. Goku doesn’t feel very special. 

And that’s a big problem for the Shadow Dragons Saga as a whole.  These episodes all tend to run together, because it’s a lot of the same visuals and character motivations, and a hero who keeps screwing around instead of tackling the villain.  So even when the hero is finally forced to try harder, it still falls flat because it looks exactly like it did when he was screwing around. 

Also, the music and aesthetics of these episodes is just the pits.  I hate the GT score, and I hate this hazy sky always being in the background of every shot, and Syn isn’t exactly winning me over with his design.

So the Roaming Lake wins again, 58-0.  This episode put up a decent fight, but it’s not ending the streak.  At this point, I’m beginning to think nothing can.

✨The Blade Braxton Memorial Haiku*✨

Syn Shenron.  Ready

For six more episodes of

This jerk? ‘Cause I’m not.

[thegoldfisharmy]

Finally making character sheets for my Ninjago OCs, starting with Jack because he's my favorite to draw.

Jack is a direct descendant of the Original Master of Ice. His mom never manifested any powers, which is what led her father to search for a worthy successor (Zane). Jack's powers first surfaced during a particularly intense rage-quit.

He pretty much has two personality traits, video game addiction and ADHD. Actually has pretty good problem-solving skills, but his impulsiveness and general lack of foresight can lead him to do some stupid things. If he can connect something back to video games, he will.

Jack got sucked into Prime Empire in season 12. He lost all four of his lives within a few hours.

He's the kind of guy to act all tough and talk about how he'd totally be able to take on anyone in a fight and then either get his ass kicked or run away in terror. Most of his deaths in Prime Empire came from taking on high-level enemies and bosses without thinking things through.

Jack is best friends with Lily, an inventor and the Elemental Master of Crystal, and along with my half-serpentine OC, Zoe, they form sort of a "main OC trio". Jack is the most socially intelligent member of the group, while Lily and Zoe are more academically and emotionally intelligent respectively.

Fun Fact: this is a redraw! here's the original from more than a year ago

[decoysouled]

prompts for workaholic characters // accepting. @galactia // "no matter how hard you work, it won't bring them back." (for Kaveh, from Alhaitham)

THERE IS A MYRIAD OF BLUEPRINTS SPREAD ACROSS KAVEH'S DESK — it is a sign of days of work with little rest, as is evidenced by how some have splotches of ink & lines that are not quite as crisp as his work usually has. Later, he will take the time to redraw them, but today, he simply leaves them be, imperfect blueprints that would not see the light of day until they were pieced back together neatly in such a way that no one would ever know the messy versions had ever existed.

As with all of his rules, Alhaitham is the one exception, the witness to his frenzied sleepless nights in the haze of inspiration & one too many deadlines coming up. It is a fact Kaveh does not mind some days & detests on others — the other has seen the darkest recesses of his self-destruction & the anguish that has threatened to consume him for so long it has become part of him; like a parasitic presence in his brain, like a virus in his DNA.

( the sort of which he is almost afraid to part with. )

Perhaps he has stretched Alhaitham's patience thin ( he seems to be very good at that, these days ) or there is some sort of genuine concern in those words rather than a simple annoyance for the lack of quiet that his working must bring to their shared home — or maybe it is because he hasn't kept up with the housework in his artistic daze. Whatever the reason for those words may be, there is something within him that finds them irrevocably cruel.

They have fought before, many a time, but only once can Kaveh remember words that cut so deep that Alhaitham may as well have plunged a sword into his chest & called it mercy — that day many years ago, the argument that had lead their paths to diverge for so long that Kaveh had worried he had destroyed their friendship for the rest of eternity.

( he still regrets what he said that day. he wonders if alhaitham does, too. )

Yet these words are no personal attack on the ideals that have been ingrained into his heart since he was merely a child, ignorant of the ways of the world & the grief of losing a parent — no, they seem almost worried, if he were to make the assumption that Alhaitham was disquieted by his antics at any point, considering how he seemed apathetic at best some days. Kaveh knows, at least, that what seems like apathy on the surface is nothing of the sort.

( it would be easier if it was. )

Alhaitham is right, in a way — working himself half to death, as the scribe liked to put it, would not resurrect the dead ( his father who was only gone because of his encouragement, a soul he cannot put to rest ) nor would it bring their mother back to Sumeru, or into his life at all. She had moved on long ago & had a life to worry about that did not concern nor involve Kaveh, something he had encouraged if only because she deserved to be happy after the tragedy he had caused & the agony that had befallen her in her grief.

( yet it was kaveh who could not move on. the creator of his anguish from the very start, delivering retribution upon himself as if he deserves nothing else. it was he who would ruin all things kind & good someday, no matter how he tried to pretend otherwise & fix all he had destroyed in his life. )

❝If there's a chance it will, then at least I can try.❞ He replies, a little more snappishly than he would have liked — it can more aptly be described as defensiveness, the sort of which curls its tendrils around him whenever he feels his beliefs have come under fire by his roommate, as if his words would shatter any semblance of truth that Kaveh had gained throughout his life. ❝But that isn't why I've been working so much as of late.❞

If he felt less vulnerable in this moment ( exhaustion having crept into every crevice of his body, fully on display ) then perhaps he might have been kinder in his response & described to Alhaitham all the work he had to do & the deadlines he had to meet; the crushing weight of too many revisions & the loss of his artistic vision through the wishes of clients who asked him to change far too many things until his work became bland & unrecognisable. Simply another building in a sea of such things.

But today, Kaveh does not explain a thing. Today, he does not look up from his work to gaze at whatever expression the other holds on his face, if only out of fear he might see the same scathing look from many years ago that had been burned into his memory on a night he wishes he could forget.

❝If this is about the housework, I'll get to it soon, Alhaitham. Let me finish up this blueprint first & then I'll make sure the house is nice & tidy.❞ Or as tidy as it would be with the various books strewn throughout it — sometimes, Kaveh swore he didn't neaten them up on purpose, but he has no proof of that. ❝Also, if you wanted me to take care of things, then just say so, instead of...❞ Insulting him? No, that likely wasn't the intention. He can't describe, really, the way those words make him feel.

( the way they cause grief to come back to the forefront of his mind. )

❝Besides, if you really want to focus on which of us has the most problems... Have you even bothered reorganising those books of yours? If those shelves are even dustier than the last time I saw them, I'll make sure you don't even think about leaving them to collect any again.❞ Perhaps it is a welcome distraction, this familiar bickering & the routine between them. It is a small thing to say, the sort of which he has said time & time again.

There is something in him that loosens just a bit at changing the topic. He wonders how long it will take for it to start suffocating him again.

[amdigitalcharacterillustration]

GESTURES TASK 12/06/24

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Moving away from the colouring of characters, this task focuses on the line of action when it comes to posing. Posing can be extremely powerful when it comes to art, being able to express emotion, personality, and movement in a static image. Dynamic posing can be a struggle to get around, since anatomy is often an artists biggest enemy. And I can say it personally took me a very long time to quit tracing pre-made character poses I found online, and begin practicing anatomy for real. I would now say my skill surrounding posing is far from mediocre, but certainly something that could be improved upon, since the learning curve for art never truly ends. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Our task focused around finding a dance video [or something similar] and choose twelve stills to then recreate the pose of. For my video I specifically picked a Lady Gaga song, since her music videos are often strange and unusual, with a lot of funky dance moves that could give me unique results compared to most modern pop. The song I chose, a classic. https://youtu.be/qrO4YZeyl0I?si=E_BC01Oi-NPj4dAW …………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I picked out my twelve poses, compiled them into a 2447x2020 pixel grid, and went about sketching down the basic body shapes of each.

We then got to choose one of our poses and build a character off of it. Luckily enough I had been looking for an excuse to redesign one of my original characters so I chose the 11th pose and did a quick render of A'Ontri.

A'Ontri is a Star Trek OC I created a year or two ago while watching the Voyager TV series. I built both her species, planet and story from the ground up, and went as far as creating a fully unique language to their people. I really enjoyed redrawing her, and for old times sake I did it while rewatching TNG. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… I finished the linework relatively fast. One thing I did notice, was that I really enjoy drawing braided hair. I have three separate OC's who have that style hair [Athena, A'Ontri, and Rattlesnake], all three of which I have shown here. I promise I can draw other hairstyles, it's simply coincidence. (╥﹏╥) You may also notice, that I had to change the way the legs are structured for A'Ontri. This was not an error on my half! Infact it was completely on purpose. Her species [the Treveyllian] are digitigrade; Animals that are built to walk on their toes. This is an evolutionary result for A'Ontri's species, due to the conditions of their planets surface.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Biology lesson aside, I worked out the values, and then added base colour.

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[mdhwrites]

I don't think people understand how small books are as a medium. How they've essentially become niche media as far as most people are concerned. Like the original person said: 5000 copies in a week is enough to be considered one of the best selling in the United States. As an independent author, one of my books actually cracked into the top twenty on Amazon for one of its categories, Dark Comedy, just because it sold like twenty five copies in its opening week. (Warning: Erotica)

But another way to compare it? Look at how wealthy the top performing authors are versus other mediums and how consistent that wealth is. The difference between JK Rowling, who is mostly not wealthy from her books as she's only had the main Harry Potter series as a real success, none of her books afterwards have done anywhere near as well as an author of her infamy should have, and James Patterson, an author who has well over a hundred books credited to him. Of course, James Patterson has his own issues but someone who mostly only goes by books, who has such an incredibly prolific output, with a brand that actually does inspire loyalty and has made him a household name as an author, not just one series... and he's HALF of what Rowling is. The lowest author on that list is equivalent in wealth to the 41st wealthiest director, M Night Shyamalan, and none of the top ten authors make as much as even the 50th richest actor in the world.

Books just don't make money and that is indicative to the fact that people aren't buying them. If they don't buy them, they literally can't consume them. If they can't consume them, they can't be a part of a fandom for them.

Of course, even if books were still big... The Harry Potter fandom really exploded with the movies because there's a LOT, especially about modern fandom, that books are kind of hostile to. Art is a big driving factor for fandom culture, MUCH more than fanfiction, but when it comes to books, many will have covers that never depict the characters. The characters themselves might get a couple paragraphs of description very early into the book but then never again and it's left to interpretation which some artist just won't bother with. Even if they might be interested in that, you don't have scene redraws or the like without them having to come up with the whole thing.

And then there's the time investment problem to reading. As much as I love this medium, VERY few take longer, and none of the others give less without your investment, than books. They take a long time and if you don't have a good theater of the mind, even a good book is going to give you so much compared to a sixty hour video game. Even if we go for something more priced alongside books, books aren't cheap, especially physical copies. A lot of traditionally published books are still pushing about ten dollars, even digitally. For ten dollars on Steam, you can get WILD amounts of value back, making books seem all the harder to get into. Even for trying to read on public transport or the like, there's loooots of mobile games out there for free to kill that time now unlike twenty years ago. All of which matters because right now the economy sucks and most people barely have any money for entertainment so that value proposition is pressing down on a lot of people in a very sad way.

Then there's the final ouroboros that comes actually from fandom culture: Because we are so much more connected, it's so much easier to talk about what you like. To find people who are into it... EXCEPT for books. You are taking a real gamble of being the one crazy person who has read the book if you're just picking up a random work on Amazon. That discourages you from reading anything not already popular, thus narrowing how many books are being talked about, discouraging people even more from trying new things, etc. etc.

It's a rough time to be into writing right now and unfortunately it's pretty questionable when, and if, books as a medium will ever have their day in the spotlight again. Not that they'll ever be gone, books still have the power to tell stories in ways other mediums will simply never be capable of, but they will continue to be niche and that's something people need to remember instead of putting unrealistic expectations on their series.

And if you want to help your favorites series, make sure to leave reviews, word of mouth is still the best form of advertisement in the world and maybe help there be a place for other fans to come to find you, even if it's just a Reddit dedicated to the work. Have a nice day everyone and see you next tale.

A lot of female protag books I've seen in recent years aren't really fandom worthy? At least not fanfic worthy, not sure about the rest of fandom. I notice it's often a very explosive boom of popularity, and there is a lot of buzz but almost no fanfics for the books, movie or show at all. They're power fantasies? But they don't serve anything else that really captivates people to stick around and write.

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Harry Potter blinded everyone to the fact that books very rarely get big fic fandoms. Yeah, there are a few exceptions, but it's just not something I would expect with 99% of books that are fandom-bait.

The reason is simple and has nothing to do with the books' content: One printing of a novel might be like 20k. A bestseller sold 5k in a week. An unpopular tv show "no one" liked had a million viewers per episode.

There's a real survivorship bias in talking about what generates a fic fandom. We can work backwards and say what generally doesn't generate one, but having all of the traits of the big fandoms' canons tells you nothing about whether this other thing will get a fic fandom.

Here are the top few book fandom sections on FFN:

Harry Potter (847K)

Twilight (222K)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (80.5K)

Lord of the Rings (58.3K)

Hunger Games (46.4K)

Warriors (27.1K)

Mortal Instruments (17.5K)

Maximum Ride (17K)

Hobbit (13.1K)

Phantom of the Opera (12.8K)

Chronicles of Narnia (12.8K)

Gossip Girl (10.4K)

A song of Ice and Fire (10.1K)

Outsiders (9.9K)

Vampire Academy (8.7K)

Divergent Trilogy (8.4K)

Song of the Lioness (8.0K)

Inheritance Cycle (6.3K)

Look at how those numbers plummet and look at how many of these things have major, popular adaptations with a bajillion viewers.

People are always like "But Twilight...", but the existence of a few freak outliers doesn't mean other books are going to generate that kind of fic or twimoms or people turning Forks into a theme park.

So these recent books' content might contribute to them not taking off in this particular way, but lack of fic doesn't really need an explanation.

[erinhime83]

Comparison time! Because I can’t do a redraw without putting up a comparison on Tumblr, lol.

So, this is about a nine and a half year comparison, which seems rather crazy to me that I first started development on the story out ten years ago.  Except that was just when I decided to do something with the story in my head and come up with designs. The story itself, or at least Lane and Greg, had existed since around 2007?  

I mean, I come up with the story after watching My Super Ex-girlfriend, and seeing that the DVD came up at the end of 2006, and I probably didn’t see it right away, I’m guessing Easter 2007?  Because I remember coming up with pretty much the entire story on the drive home from visiting family.  (It’s crazy what you remember, because I remember being in the car, on a bridge, when I came up with Greg’s name.  O.o)

That does make sense that it was just a story I told myself from time to time for about seven years because thinking to myself, hey, this would make a great original story!  And then it took about two years from that point to get to writing the story, because I don’t think I was ready that first year, and then we decided on a different story the following year, before I put my foot down and said I was doing this one on 2016.  (And then I got pregnant right around the time I was originally writing the sequel, and I was depressed over the thought of lack of creative time, and couldn’t finish it until three years later, go figure.)

I absolutely had no idea what I was doing with Ultraman’s outfit.  I didn’t come up with the idea of him slapping his uniform together until later probably after watch Kickass and seeing Superboy wearing a hoodie and jeans.  I gave him a cape so he would look like a superhero, but again, after seeing Superboy sans cape, I was like…screw it, no cape.  (So it wasn’t Edna Mode logic there, but we can pretend it is?

I know with Lane I was trying to sort of kinda give her a Amy Adams as Lois Lane sort of vibe, which I think I sort of accomplished with the vest there?  IDK. I was never able to mimic the hair, so I gave up on the look after a while.  

Also weird that she didn’t have glasses back then?  That had always been such a staple for the story, that she was so imperfect compared to Greg that it feels weird that she didn’t always have glasses?  Huh.

I am pleased to see that I’m doing better with the cross arm look, although I hadn’t realized that Ultro looked sort of awkward with his.  But that’s fine – Greg is actually rather awkward, lol.  

I am pleased with how the new one turned out, since it is a good representation of the story.