#so im relatively blind in that aspect

[isuggestwishcraft]

its half past 12 (ish) and ive been fascinated myself with outer wilds

first of all - yippee!!!!! timeloop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! <- have literally played only like 3 timeloop-specific games. if im counting undertale as timeloop anyway

second of all Wow this game apparently takes a lot of brain power. which my hazy brain is currently unable to produce. ive died to uh. what is it called ghost? matter??? i literally just saw it in game and forgot lol anyway ive died to that thing at least 4 times now and its only been 2 hours max. ive fallen into a black hole (accident) and the sun (on purpose). lethally concussed myself against a tree also. mc cant read shit. i cant read shit. been trying to find that fucking harmonica dude for an hour straight. still hadnt. finally got onto the water planets orbit only for sun to fucking explode not even 3 minutes into my fucking around. (lying though my teeth) im so good at this game

anyway so far been very into it, 8 quantum rocks out of 10 statutes that make you trip balls. wouldve recommend a fried if she had a functional pc

[reignpage]

hey! im not sure if this is a dumb question, but i know we dived into the interior design aspect of the modern au men, but i was wondering what their wedding aesthetic would be? would they want a say in the planning or let reader design the wedding of her dreams :)

not dumb at all 😤 that's a great question. since the pictures didn't stay in the layout I like for the interior design question, I'll just describe it, unless people want specific pics in which case I'll do that, I just think the layout is ugly 😡

gojo and reader:

he'll be pretty involved. I imagine his reader wouldn't really want to plan everything since she's pretty lazy lol, so he'll take control of things, otherwise their parents' will ruin everything and make it so basic and white they'd both hate it. gojo becomes a bridezilla. "I said I want ebony black! this is clearly ink black. are you blind? ugh what do I pay you for? so hard to find good help these days!"

he'd have it a classy mix of black and white, in a cathedral, very grand and awe inspiring. there has to be an organ. reader wears a black gown, dramatic veil and black roses. gojo is in a black suit, everyone else wears white.

it'd likely be a winter wedding and it'd make global news. the reception would be a formal event for the sake of the family rep and business, so it'll be stiff and clean and they hate it. but the after party is lit!!! it's a damn rave, everyone's going crazy. they'll party for a little while before slipping out for their honeymoon.

geto and reader:

something more intimate for sure. they follow the shinto traditional wedding, held at a shinto shrine, their parents and immediate relatives and friends, even some clients of theirs. riko attends. it's important for geto to pay respect to his culture and to traditions so he's pretty involved and they make it a fun thing where reader learns more about Japan.

reader wears a slightly pink kimono, like off-white. her sister is her maid of honour, and her dad still 'gives her away' in their own way. so it's a good mix of western traditions and Japanese.

they also have an after party with just their friends but it's not a party party, it's a casual visit to a local ramen place where they drink sake and talk about the good ole days.

choso and reader:

pretty likely to elope cause of reader. maybe do a Las Vegas shotgun wedding for funsies. but if they were to have a more traditional wedding cause of the Ryomens, it'd be boho, maybe on the beach, very light airy clothes, lots of bright colour flowers, lots of dancing and laughing. they’d exchange paintings of each other before the wedding. choso would absolutely cry seeing reader walking down the aisle

reader would wear a white but modern and immodest dress (not necessarily revealing but she wouldn’t believe in ‘covering up’). It’d be a pretty hip dress. choso would wear a loose white shirt and trousers to fit the beach, also not very traditional but not very wild either. on their wedding night, they share an intimate moment where they paint each other’s clothes/have sex. and those clothes are preserved and put on display in their art studio

toji and reader:

he wouldn’t be very involved. doesn’t really care about things like that. just lets her plan everything. she’ll ask for his input on things but ultimately ignore them lol. their wedding is rustic, maybe somewhere like a vineyard. they’ll have everything done at the venue, as in they won’t move around, they’re practical and toji was adamant about the wedding not being high maintenance and that’s fine with reader since she doesn’t care all that much either

the important thing is the landscape, a beautiful natural setting where fairy lights can be strung up, the tables will be arranged outside for dinner, jazz band playing in the background, dance floor packed. they’ll slow dance and have one of those moments where everyone fades away and toji stops grumbling and admits she’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen and that he’ll never forget this day

how could they afford this you ask? well let’s just say sukuna snarks about how he gave Fushiguro so much money and yet it seems like none of it went to the wedding.

nanami and reader

reader is a bridezilla. her and gojo complain to each other about how no one ever appreciates the importance of flower arrangements and the difference between eggshell and ivory. she gets very anxious and panicky about everything. even has a breakdown a month or two before the wedding because she gained weight and was worried she wouldn’t fit in the dress. she’s crying on the bathroom floor telling nanami this must be a sign the universe doesn’t want them together and he should find someone better. like she’s sobbing and rocking back and forth. nanami sighs and tells her he loves her so much and not even the universe could ever get in the way of that. even reminds her about astronomy and how the stars were aligned on their first kiss and on the night he proposed etc etc. hearing the physics talk calms her down

seeing how stressed she is, he tells her he could take care of everything, or they could elope or just have a simple ceremony. he apologises for leaving her to do what she wanted because he thought that was best but he realised he should have been with her every step of the way. from then on, he’s very hands on.

they have the wedding at a botanical garden. there’s a wide field, beautiful hedges and a grand fountain, inside is very classy, intimate dining room, very old money style. they invite close friends and families only. it was originally going to be a big affair because of family stuff but nanami realised that was adding pressure to her so he, without mercy or giving room for argument, disinvited a boatload of people and faced the scrutiny of the relatives lol. gojo joked in his speech that he was surprised he was still invited and nanami muttered that he himself is surprised too.

sukuna and reader

big, grand affair because of the ryomens. one of those crazy rich asians wedding style. like five separate events. celebrity guests, bruno mars performed lol. they hate every second but they bare with it. none of it was organised by them, just pure ryomen family bs. and that’s fine with reader. she doesn’t care. the weddings doesn’t mean shit to her. she just likes being a ryomen now and how she’s legally recognised as sharing his wealth and power. the prenup negotiations was insane tho. don’t forget she’s a lawyer so that shit was intense and just relentless warfare. sukuna was willing to sign everything away, he had no intentions of ever divorcing her or cheating or any of that so he wasn’t worried. but obvi the family had to step in.

they actually had their own ceremony way before the official wedding/s, where they went somewhere far away idk like brazil and had a local tribe declare them spiritually married. they wanted to get married on their own terms and they don’t even place any romantic importance on marriage. no flimsy piece of paper is needed to tell sukuna that reader is his in every sense. so they celebrate two separate anniversaries, their official one which is very public and extravagantly celebrated every year, and their real one which they celebrate with a bottle of wine and rough sex.

[sketchmre]

do you have a favorite piece of venture maidens fanart you've drawn???

This is a great question! Honestly, I've been wanting to make a environmental piece with whimsy, food, and fashion, for like.. 2 years? when thats done it will probably be my favorite piece LMAO but for the time being? let me go through my venture maidens folder

read more break because im going to be going on and on

This applies to most aspects of my life, but I don't really have a top "favorite" thing in most areas! I mean, Madoka Magica Rebellion is my favorite movie (very closely rivaled by Coraline), but that's an outlier. In every other case, I have a collection of my favorites with one coming out on top depending on how I'm feeling that day.

It's also influenced by eras, I think. I don't want to compare my most recent art to my venture maiden 2020 art, because I've improved and will prefer my newer style. However, there's still a sense of nostalgia and homeliness to some of my old art that can bring it above the rest, you know?

Going through my venture maiden campaign 1 folder, here's probably my favorites:

These two are from 9/3/20 ("sawYEAH.png") and 11/23/22 ("arent you tired of being nice.png"). I think Sawyeh's relatively simple design has always lend itself well to gesture drawing, especially with the relatively simple silhouette shape. Theyre just fun :) I like them a lot.

I don't know if I'd rank a lot of my campaign 1 art among my favorites, not because I think less of the campaign but because a lot of that time period was me feeling my way into an art style. I see it as the time period after I started feeling confident in my art, but before I kind of became the "unique facial features and color jitter" artist.

For fun (and food), here's some of my unposted campaign 1 stuff.

10/23/20 and 10/27/20 (gidget and vlad, back when i was drawing in paint tool sai!)

1/2/21, 1/5/21, 6/18/21 || 1/6/21 (put out of order because i like this image composition more).

Here's some 2020 (and 2019, apparently?) photoshop files! I like some more than others. None of them have previews since they're photoshop files, so I'm opening them blind in krita. Note the layers/colors may seem off, it's probably because the clipping masks and editing layers break between programs.

8/12/19, 8/21/20, 8/31/20 || 9/5/20 || 10/23/20, 10/23/20, 10/28/20 || 11/4/20

From 10/21/20, technically in 2020 but close to 2021. I think it's unique because it starts to show a shift to more.. unique concepts, I guess? It was of a water elemental who uses an ice mask to mimic having a face. It's cool, I should revisit it.

3/17/21, 3/18/21

I think that's pretty much it for the art while campaign 1 was going on. Here's some post-campaign 1 stuff from 2023 that maybeee got put on the discord?

8/16/23, 8/25/23.

GREAT now I'm moving on to campaign 2.

My favorite? My favorite piece of artwork so far? It's of a one-off npc, the garlic princess. I was studying old strawberry shortcake designs for her. It was a lot of fun.

9/10/23

My other favorites? Probably any art of Tandy

1/2/23 || 1/2/23

I also really enjoy these unfinished sketches: the first being a wildes-influenced lu, inspired by butterflies and gemstones; the second being Toni and a Wyrd sister ("thats no angel.png"); the third being halloween outfit designs; and the fourth being aoife and toni going clubbing in the wildes;

7/11/21, 10/11/22, 9/2/23 || 1/26/24

As for unposted sketches? Oh boy, I've got a lot more for this campaign. So much that I have reached the image limit per post, whoops. I'll add them in a reblog.

[uriekukistan]

Top 5 TV shows? ^_^

ty for the ask!!

this is gonna sound crazy bc i have a blog dedicated to 3 tv shows but i dont actually watch a lot of tv + actually ranking the ones i do watch is sooo hard, so instead of doing numbers, im gonna do tiers 🤞

shows that changed my brain chemistry, they’re a part of me, for better or for worse

death note has been a part of my life for soooo long. genuinely i watched it when i was 12, and i’m about to be 22 soon, so almost 10 years now. i still rewatch it frequently, i’ve probably seen it close to 15 times now…i based my whole closet and a lot of other things on mello & misa sksjsk

tokyo ghoul is of course one of my favs, also has been a part of my life for a while, maybe 6 years? i prefer the manga tbh but i still watch the anime a lot bc sometimes im too lazy to read…my comfort show fr tho i always turn to it when i’m feeling down

jujutsu kaisen is the newest addition to this category but i love it just as dearly, as you may have notice lol i wasnt sure about it at first but it quickly made itself out home in my heart and life. tmi but i was in the middle of like a year+ long mental space where i just couldn’t feel things or process emotions, and jujutsu kaisen is what brought my feelings back to me…a lot of sad feelings but feelings nonetheless

other shows i like a relatively normal amount

blind is a kdrama that i never really see that many people talking about but its soooo good and so worth watching. it follows the investigation of brutal serial killer, but it feels like so much more than that. there’s really great psychological horror aspects, as well as commentary on how society fails children, and i literally never saw the end coming. soooo good a bit gory but really worth the watch. watch it when you have a few days off tho bc it’s so hard to look away.

i was torn for what to put as the last show, but i decided to go with another kdrama sweet home. highly recommend for tokyo ghoul lovers, it’s sci fi/thriller and it’s about this disease that turns humans into mindless monsters, and the MC turns into like a half-half…won’t say too much more bc spoilers but the parallels are endless

[hiddenfolk]

How do your ocs feel about each other and other teachers? Is there anyone they look up to a lot?

Sorry i took so long to reply my only excuse is that im dumb asjfjg

Gamigin's kind of accidentally a recluse, so he has a really bad habit of not knowing who anyone is and being vaguely confused about it. He generally respects the other teachers though, especially the strong ones (because they're capable of protecting others.)

In terms of Decarabia, he does kind of have a crush ngl. On one hand he thinks he's cute, on the other he is not blind to the fact that Decarabia is an absolute fucking weirdo who is absolutely confusing to talk to lmao. Since they're both mainly in the senior building they tend to spend the most time together compared to the other teachers

Meanwhile Decarabia is kind of a huge nag towards Gamigin, getting annoyed his uniforms inside out and constantly reminding him to get paperwork done and stuff. He's kind of annoyed by it, but at the same time he does appreciate how much he cares about other aspects of his job lmao.

Lazuli is unfortunately capitalist-brained and obsessed with professionalism so he tends not to form any sort of negative opinions towards colleagues for the most part, and does have an appreciation for their good qualities, though it's in kind of an objective non-friendshippy way. He's also really interested in teachers with family status because he wants those connections, though he doesn't act on it because that would be inappropriate workplace conduct smh. When he was a newbie teacher, his mentor was Ipos, he thinks he's v cool.

He and Aion joined at the same time and frankly they're like. Inseparable. Since they were both super new to teaching and kind of insecure, they ended up turning to each other a lot and became super close. In their spare time they're like always lying on top of each other and cuddling. They also sleep in the same bed together relatively frequently. Surprisingly, this is entirely platonic.

[geodetojoy]

so cozy in this inbox- you’ve even got fruit snacks in here! im stayin forever if that’s okay

rng selected questions from the “distracting asks” this time! and yes more proofreading yayyy

23, 18, 10, 15, 3

carry on fellow pb blossom member o7

hello again dearest mads!!!! little did you know the fruit snacks were a lure you have no choice but to stay now >:)

23. talk about a WIP?

oh man ive got a lot on hold at the moment, buuut ill go with my tati/barb painting im working on (that I believe i sent you the current version of- its been a bit lmaoo)

i mean first of all i just really wanted to give my girls at least a bit of happiness. is it temporary? in canon? definitely not. but they deserve to have each other to lean on and to feel safe with

and i really love the concepts of bi/aro barb and lesbian/aroace tati so. they dont have a defined relationship, they just love each other and thats all that matters.

ive got a few ideas in my head of how their relationship would come to be, but i think its something they both tried to view from analytical lenses if that makes sense? especially with barb, my poor heteronormative victim. she definitely does not like the idea that she might care for tati in a more realistic way than she did with curt until she tried to put her fears behind her and consider it from a position of just what would make her happy. when she realized the answer to that question was tati, she was both extremely relieved and utterly terrified. with tati, she was so afraid of how easily barb was peeling back the walls she had built up so meticulously, but after she realized that it was probably healthier for her, she accepted the care with loving, almost desperate arms.

they definitely started out as incredible friends, both being able to bond over their shared experiences of discrimination in their jobs over being women in the 50s and 60s in such male-dominated places of work. and for some reason, tati finds it extremely easy to open up to barb and barb just cares so much and just wants to take care of her so bad and that love is always reciprocated, out of fear of losing barb at the beginning, but then out of sheer appreciation and adoration as time passed.

theyre in an incredibly healthy relationship, both because they had no pressure as women to be devoid of emotion and because i think they would talk about their emotions sooooo much with barb as a scientist and tati as a healing trauma survivor.

anyways! got a bit sidetracked, but my WIP is a painting of them cuddling on a couch in their shared apartment :3 the blinds are closed, ofc, and the place is scarcely decorated aside from the necessary furniture, but to them its the most beautiful home ever because they have the other there with them

the idea for the finished piece is to have the orange glow from the sun beaming through the blinds illuminating the room just enough to see them, but have it dark enough to enshroud them in shadow, hiding from the rest of the world. but what we can see is safe, warm, cozy, and quiet :3

18. Dream Job?

Game dev baby!! I wanna make every single aspect of a game entirely on my own one day, but honestly id settle for doing any part of the process in a company or group as long as i can pitch in!!

10. Favorite animal?

im so bad at choosing just one. so im giving you two :)

fennec foxes and red pandas!!!!!

15. Favorite subject?

(im assuming this to be school subject bc subject in general is. entirely too vague lmaoo)

Any and all math!!! im a nerd from head to fucking toe and i am PROUD OF IT

3. 5 songs you have been recently obsessed with?

YIPPEE MORE MUSIC QUESTIONS I LOVE TALKING ABOUT MUSIC I LOVE

(btw one of these is gonna be an album bc it has five songs on it and i cannot bear to exclude others for the sake of putting all five of them)

DoNotReadMe.wav by Charlie Slimecicle. is anyone surprised by this? if so that means i need to post about it more

The Wisdom Saga from EPIC the musical!!!!!! been listening to it since its release im obsessed!!!!

Facade from Cinderella's Castle!!! its just!!!! gah!!!! it sounds so good!!!!

Espresso by Sabrina Carpenter. im blaming joel for this one even though it was like a month ago

Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads. i thiiiink this is the one? if not they keep playing a song just like it at work and every time i try to remember it later to figure out what song it is i forget how the melody goes and i lose my shit but its taken over my every thought I JUST WANNA KNOW WHAT SONG IT ISSSSS

ty for the ask again mads!!!! love ya forever and always my pb blossom buddy <333333

[nameification]

hi im back with more oc asks even though you havent even posted the first one

7, 23, and 25 (i love hearing about other peoples ocs)

whehehehe you are giving me So Much rambling time les go

23. What emotion is the hardest for your OC to process? How about express?

Once again, Alazea is very distant and has difficulty with emotions in general but most especially her happiness and kindness that other people give her. Defeat also counts.

There's something here so Many other characters but special mentions to Nerzhan and grief. the Meti siblings just both have difficulties with grief

25. What is your favorite thing about your OC?

This one is actually So Hard for me to answer cause I love So Many things but I think . Okay. hang on. You know how in the drawing I did with Simon and Marvin where Marvin looks like a Monster/ripoff cj mind. I kinda got that idea cause 1. yeah haha Mind Electric reference but also 2. The Brain is where dreams Happen and the secondary aspect to Simon's powers is dream manipulation. I think the visible nervous system appeared on Marvin after Simon gained Envoyship with Belphegor cause before he became envoyed his main thing really was music

I have So Many thoughts but also I thinkkkkk hmmm I love Vienna's skating boots, I love Elisa (in general), I love Michael's arc with Ezmirrha, I love The Commander's pure lack of morals, I lovelovelove so much of the shit I wrote

7.What's one way your OC has changed since you first came up with them?

Okay gonna use Vienna cause they changed. quite a bit. not just design wise. I mean they always had the single horn with the little accessory on the horn but they used to be like. fully blind and a painter. and they wore those long-ass british person coats. Vienna has arguably changed the most compared to basically everyone else but Vienna is. damn. blind painter person to half-blind gamer

Elisa of course underwent some change (she was the one who kinda started this story) but she has been relatively consistent.

I'd say Josephine actually changed more than her cause orignally Josephine was a wild card. I mean she still is a bit of a wild card but she was a wild card I mean she was like. she was all over the place in terms of what she did (from poker dealer to bartender to right hand of The Commander) and frankly I am glad I settled on something. God I need to make a semi-finalized design for her I have like. a concrete image in my head but I wanna put it down to paper

OH and very obviously Marvin went through a lot of changes. Originally he was Elias then he was Marvin and originally he just looked like a doll-human but now he's a shadow guy and has exposed nervous system :]

[admiringtheskies]

THIS. LITERALLY THIS. i mean with how inconsistently bruce in particular gets written, in terms of his mentorship and parenting skills, i GET the impulse to give damian a… i hesitate to say “better”, because i truly believe that bruce’s core characterization fully aligns with the GOOD batdad content we get, and i also think that there’s a certain section of dami and dick+dami fans who’ve developed a bit of a blind spot to the some of the CANONICAL great bruce+dami moments/bonding they HAVE gotten — but i’m getting off topic: *overall*, i can at least understand why people might see dick as a more *consistent* older male authority/guiding figure in damian’s life, and thus want to slot him into a fatherly role. but what pisses me off is when people specifically shove aside and deny the immense POSITIVE influence that bruce has had on damian to give dick this parental role, and say “let untraditional family dynamics exist! biological relation isn’t everything!” like… do you not realize that you are literally just nuclearifying YOUR preferred relationship? and i realize that i’ve centered bruce in this rant, but also — it wouldn’t be fair to DICK to just make him damian’s substitute father when dick died. like, in real life, when a child’s parents die and they end up with another relative, it’s usually a huge point for the new guardian to emphasize that they DONT intend to take over the emotional relationship to the child of the child’s parents — that isn’t NECESSARY for a guardian to still be able to do the job of guarding and maintaining the child’s physical mental and emotional well-being. okay, got a bit sidetracked, but my point is that dick was never obligated to be damian’s dad after bruce “died” — and it feels like some “dick is damian’s dad” truthers treat a parental dynamic like the inevitable and only conclusion to someone taking guardianship of a child relative, which it SHOULDN’T be (bringing me back to my point about forced nuclearification and the fact that similar-looking familial relationships can exist in different gray areas).

…yeah okay i told myself i’d try not to be insufferable about this but i think i already have been, so one last pet peeve of mine — the “bruce wayne is damian wayne’s grandfather” tag on ao3. i just… look, you can enjoy what you wanna enjoy, and im not the type of person to purposefully go seek out things i dislike to shit on them and ruin other people’s fun. but GUYS. damian’s ENTIRE PERSONALITY was literally the fact that he’s the direct blood heir to these two immense legacies!! and to be clear, i DON’T think his personality should be reduced to just that aspect of him — but him BEGINNING as the Ibn al Xu’ffasch and Heir to the Demon is what MAKES him learning how to just be Damian so compelling! (and i’m not even gonna start on what damian’s existence means to bruce, bc then i’ll REALLY never stop)

Okay.

I am being super, ultra cautious about how I'm wording this, but am going out on a limb here.

As someone who literally helped to care for her much younger brother (I had solo custody of him one night per week during his teens, I fed him, supervised homework, did his laundry, got him ready for school, made his lunches, all that jazz) I am just slightly familiar with what it's like to step in to be a guardian for a younger relative.

I'm reading Reborn. I'm reading basically all of Dick and Damian's appearances. I'm...not seeing a parent-child relationship here. I see mentoring and supervision, yes. I appreciated the "I was trying to have a night off" moment in Streets of Gotham. But a lot of this is just big brothering or vigilante mentor stuff.

I fully, 100% believe Dick and Damian bonded during their period together. I also believe they had a little family unit going on between Alfred, Dick and Damian. I respect people reading whatever interpretation they want to read of this material.

But from what I see on the paper? I think calling it parental is a stretch. Damian's in kincare, folks. On paper? Damian's physical needs are being provided by Alfred, his vigilante mentoring is being provided by Dick, as far as I can tell he's not even in education, and we get precious few insights into what's happening during daylight hours. (Especially, ESPECIALLY as I really have not seen Damian receive, well, boundaries outside of the field. Or consequences for his actions. Or...really, any active parenting)

Dick's looking after Damian, sure. But he's not Damian's parent.

And that's perfectly ok, not everything has to be reduced to a simple traditional nuclear family ideal.