#sakamoto days: an alternative transitional period

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Whelp, fic is on Ao3 now. Here are the link and the official cover.

Biggest thing I have written so far, clocking in at 18,109 words (at time of writing. Currently it's at 82,162) and with the passion to match!

Big shoutout to @bokunocolor for the awesome coloring of the panel of Aoi With Glasses that inspired the whole idea of SAKAMOTO DAYS: An Alternative Transitional Period (or SD:aATP for short) and helped create the cover as a result, with me going for a Fashion Magazine look as I completed the shape and credits and whatnot. But yeah... sure was quite the new experience, having to go through a server full of beta readers for future-proofing and whatnot... still, it was hella fun!

And still is.

And will be.

Yeah, I ain't stopping. This bad boy is gonna be up to date as much as possible. Meaning I will be adapting as many chapters as I can, as best as I can.

Even if there's currently 185 canon manga chapters, with no signs of Suzuki-sensei stopping any time soon, Imma get there if I can. If the Loud House can have a fanfic bigger than the GODDAMN Bible, then I can have a fanfic the size of a Shonen Jump franchise!

So, now that this is done... time to go back to the kitchen. Mother has some PEAK to cook, after all.

Until then though... hope you enjoy/enjoyed the read, both of the fic and of this debut post!

P.S - I mayyyyyyy or may not be getting more covers made for when newer chapters show up... and I mayyyyyyy or may not plan to use them in PDF volumes of 6-7 chapters each like the canon manga... which mayyyyyy or may not be stored in a public Mediafire link or something similar... that all mayyyyyy be a possibility. :3

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Me this past week with SakaDays stuff (ESPECIALLY SD:aATP)

would you like a nice glass of

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Some may call it narcissism,

I call it pride and accomplishment.

Truly, 20€ unwell spent. Though in hindsight, maybe I should have put in chapters 7-10 as well.

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...OH SHIT I GOTTA FINISH CH11, BRB

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To celebrate the 12 chapters (and 114 hits) reached, here's the cover for Volume 2 of SAKAMOTO DAYS: An Alternative Transitional Period

As usual, shout out to @bokunocolor for being goated with the colouring sauce, cause yeah, while it took a bit to write allat, I did manage to turn his colouring of the mid-air shooting Aoi into a more movie-poster-style cover to contrast the fashion magazine one for the volume before.

Am I getting Volume 2 on the Mediafire? Definitely, with me putting said Mediafire in a comment. Am i getting it printed like I did with the first 6 chapters that Volume 1 contained? Probably, once the salary arrives.

Might even do one of those 3-volumes-in-1 things that big mangas do sometimes. But only for me :3

In the meantime, go read my fic for the feedback, findable in the pinned post I use to track the wordcount. Or give BnC's blog a visit. Any kind of support will be nice for sure.

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Whelp, here's the official logo of the fic I have been cooking for 3 chapters now.

Thank god for the lil filter helping the unfortunate souls using this hellsite with light mode (me included).

But yeah, that whole Trans Aoi Sakamoto AU I suggested a long while ago? That's the fic for it, so far adapting the first 3 manga chapters, soon to be on Ao3... once the invitation arrives in my e-mail.

Hope y'all enjoy it when it's out! (Or, if you're among the beta readers, when the chapters are ready.) In the meantime, here's the banner/horizontal version below.

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So I trans-ed the official icon and wallpaper of Sakamoto Days. :3

Gee, I wonder what fic these edits are for~

Alright, that should be enough Ibis Paint chicanery for the time being...

Should be.

Hm.

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Screw it, new PFP. Needed a bit of an update anyway.

Yeah, decided to renovate this now a bit more active blog a little. And hey, my brain is already on enough brainrot to make 2 chapters of the SakaDays Trans!Aoi AU I posted about a while ago in just 2 days. Might as well embrace it while I wait for the invitation to arrive.

Anyways, back to preparing Chapter 3 of Sakamoto Days: An Alternative Transitional Period for that one Discord server and one certain separate Tumblr colorist I use for beta readers. Once Ao3 lets me into its sacred abode, imma post the chapters there as well. Til then, here's the summary of the fic and setting as a bit of a teaser/appetiser.

Summary:

Taro Sakamoto was the most lethal and powerful hitman in the world of assassins, a boogeyman, a titan... and then he disappeared. She found her self, you see. Shame you can't just leave this world, as this familiar yet different story shows.

See you soon~

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Chapter 23 of SD:aATP is up on Ao3! Also - Merry Christmas!

God, I fucking hate seasonal flus... yeah, uh, got one torturing my lungs RN, and it's VERY annoying. But on the brighter side - I got y'all an Apart for Christmas! So yeah, that was a banger to adapt.

Aight, OOC spoiler below, next chapter will be out next wednesday... on the 1st of January. Huh. Neat.

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Chapter 21 of SD:aATP is up on Ao3 in spite of the flight back home to Bulgaria.

Sorry for the delay, Bulgaria and the Balkans are infamously conservative and the flight was a pain in the ass. So yeah, it's gonna be a looooooong month.

Oh, and also, beta reader got a FUCKLOAD of schoolwork, so they are gonna take a bit more for the doublecheck. I did self-beta, but still, sorry for the inconvenience!

Aight, OOC spoiler below, see ya on wednesday!

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Wow... this panel sure went a long way. Perfect for SD:aATP and all!

Yeah, needless to say, @bokunocolor cooked HELLA WELL with what he claims to be "just light shading". Weird misnomer for "genuinely impressive AF colour usage" but alas... jokes aside, thanks for that, pal, very much appreciated.

And yes, I did make a version of it for my PFP. I had to, what can I say. Feel free to use it as well if you want to, as long as you credit the sources and all that jazz.

I guess this is the most official possible look for my version of Trans!Aoi? Fuck yeah.

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Chapter 20 of SD:aATP is up on Ao3! And boy, was it a treat to write!

That said, I did end up learning I had made a big error in regards to Lu's Chinese (more details in the fic's Notes), and while I did fix the mistake, it still stung like a MF-er.

Anyways, OOC spoiler below, see ya next Wednesday!

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SO MY NOVEL-FIC HAS FANART NOW AND I AM FEELING ALL THE EMOTIONS POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE AS A RESULT😵‍💫

(Context for the people who don't know the fic in question - it's a Sakamoto Days fanfic where I made the protag transfem and described the consequences of that change in detail, called SAKAMOTO DAYS: An Alternative Transitional Period [or SD:aATP for short], it's up on Ao3, at 65,511 words and counting, and above are said protag Aoi [formerly Taro Sakamoto] and her love interest Saruhara Kosuke a.k.a Saru.)

[illustrated via manga panel colourings and editing by me below for clarity]

Credit goes to @sirius-bus1ness for drawing this sketch and all... but yeah, just, wow.

I wrote a thing.

And someone liked it enough to dedicate time and effort towards drawing art of it.

Is it flawless? Of course not, it's a super rough sketch that forgot Saru's beer belly, but I don't care cause it's fanart based on something I created.

Honestly it all feels so... wild and perfect. If that makes sense. So... delightfully wack.

Is this... pride? Certainly feels nice. 😌

Needless to say, massive thanks to everyone. To Sirius for drawing this, to the people reading the fic, to Yuto Suzuki for making the kino manga it is based on, to the people reading this post- everyone, really.

As cliche as it sounds, I couldn't have done it without you. All of you.

Thank you.

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Chapter 19 of SD:aATP is up on Ao3... and I am 0nce again sorry for being late.

Yeah, the complications I mentioned earlier were mostly based around timezones. See, while I am an insomniac freak of an author, able to pump out two aATP chapters per week, each at around 3k words on average, my beta reader, believe it or not, is a normal person. With things like needing reasonable sleep. And homework. And like, a life. And I forgot that like a dumbass.

So yeah, because of that, along with other life things, I am switching my upload schedule from 2 chapters per week to 1 every Wednesday. Hopefully you can understand.

Anyways, here's the Out Of Context spoiler for the previous chapter as I promised.

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THE POSTING OF CHAPTER 19 OF SD:AATP ON AO3 WILL HAVE A DELAY LASTING SEVERAL HOURS CAUSE OF COMPLICATIONS, AND I AM REALLY SORRY!!!!

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So I did some rookie panel colouring of sorts the past few weeks, inspired by @bokunocolor .

Needless to say, my inexperience, combined with my tools being reduced to just a phone with Ibis Paint X on it (not even the premium version, mind you) makes it all pale in comparison to BnC (shoutout to him and his kino art, BTW, especially if he happens to be reading this 😁 ) but it was still fun to try and replicate his rendition of Aoi w/Glasses via these things. And yes, the noodles' cup lid is gone in the coloring. Bit too indistinct in this particular cut

Here are the trans flag background versions below as a bonus of sorts.

I wonder which one is better... leaning on the left one.

Feel free to prove me wrong in the reblogs or something. And to use the icons if you want to as long as you credit where you got them from. And if y'all got any more Aoi panels I can clean up for chicanery, feel free to send them with an Ask or a DM.

What else... oh yeah-

RANDOM MONKEY-MAN JUMPSCARE!!!

Yeah, did some more work on a rough version of Saruhara Kosuke from my fic, SAKAMOTO DAYS: An Alternative Transitional Period (or SD:aATP for short) for the few people that know who he even is. Yes, the base of it all is that one Todo panel from JJK. Yes, that is the shirt of Grandpa Max from Ben 10. Yes, this is technically a bit of a Franken-edit.

Still a good-ass edit though, you gotta admit.

Urgh, still not sure how to end this post...

Toodles? Have a good day/night? I dunno, I need sleep and rest.

Anyways, tag algorhythm time below:

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Chapter 18 of SD:aATP is up on Ao3! Also work is a PAINNNNN~

Phew, that was a doozy... still, it was good enough for my beta reader to say, and I (loosely) quote: "I prefer this version of Aoi over canon!Taro 😭", so that's a guarantee that this was a damn good chapter. And a chonker too, at around 6k words or so.

OOC spoiler below, not for this chapter, but for the very next one. Why the sudden switcheroo?

Fem!Okita from that one Gintama episode is just that MMMPF~