#thanks for the support from my discord pals that like the idea of a group pic

[hitwiththetmnt]

Thanks everyone for making this summer lots of fun! Drew a lot, pulled some pranks, and got to play around with my AU

@tmnt-fandom-family-reunion @curlyquest @actuallynobutwhynot @sarahthewhat

[lobsterjess-fanart-factory]

Hello hello!

My name is Jess, I am your non binary artist pal.

In the last 12 months I started playing DnD. I found a wonderful group of people that I play with most weeks when schedules allow.

They have been wonderful enough to not only teach me how to play, but to also support and encourage my stupid ideas. I’ve also been trying to be as big of a cheerleader for their ideas as they have been for mine. I have been having the best time!

Along with the game play encouragement they have been endlessly encouraging in the art I’ve been making of our characters and of my favourite scenes during sessions. That encouragement has been so incredible, and we’ve all been able to watch as my skills creating art only get better and better with each piece.

Until now the only place I’ve been sharing my art has been our private discord. But after much encouragement from those same friends I’ve decided to take the plunge and start sharing my art here, and on Instagram. (You can find me under lobsterjess-fanartfactory on instagram)

We just started a new campaign, so now feels like the perfect time to start up this blog as there will be an influx of new art of our new characters and the shenanigans they get up to.

Thank you to my DnD friends for the encouragement over the last 12 months. None of this art would be here without you.

They all stream on twitch, so if you want to see them in action you can head on over to their streams:

I’m usually hanging out in the chat on their streams as well, so I encourage you to come check out their streams and hang out.

Otherwise, follow along as I create and share art of our characters and of our journey with this new campaign!

[kisames-corner]

Happy Kisaversary Everyone!

Hello to all new and old followers!

We're very happy to announce that it has now been a full year since Kisame's Corner was made live! If you were around before we changed our name, you'd know that we were the group behind Kisame Week 2021 (and we have some exciting news regarding that coming up!) but I have a few things I want to say first.

First, thank you so so much to all who have participated with us this past year. We are so happy and thankful to have such a wonderful group of people to talk to and share with, and you all make everything so wonderful. Who knew that such a loving and supportive community would come out of Kisame Hoshigaki, the love of all our lives?

The events that we ran this past year were all made possible by everyone's submissions and participation, and you may not have participated in any of them, you may have just read along, or cheered from the sidelines, but you were the ones that made everything possible. And we couldn't be more thankful for all that you've done.

Second, I want to give a massive shoutout to sharkfam, the lovelies that convene on discord to yell about our beloved shark man. Sharkfam has been with us through it all, since the start of this blog, Kisame Week, through the rain and shine that 2021 and now some of 2022 has brought us. They've provided feedback for other members, helpful advice, they talk amongst each other about things that bother them, things that they enjoy, and most importantly, their own ideas and works. I am forever grateful for this group of people and it could not have been possible without the love and support that they offer to those around them.

This is Bean writing this, so I'm also gonna include an extra shoutout to my lovely mod partners @heyitswrenn , @hellotheremaryrose , and @woofgang69 !!! You guys are so on top of everything and whenever anything gets us down, you're always there to pick us back up and cheer us on! These guys have been the most helpful additions to the team, and the best group of pals the likes of the internet has ever seen!

If you're ever curious about joining our server, never hesitate to shoot us an ask our even a message with questions! and our server invite page is always open with invites. I hope to make this year an even better one with you guys by my side.

Sorry for the sappy message, I gotta get back to work before I take over your timeline with too many words, but thanks again everyone, and we'll have some information regarding Kisame Week 2022 very soon! Take care, and keep doing everything you're doing. We couldn't be prouder.

-Bean

[httpsgfg]

happy 9 months to this bad bitch!!

it's sappy o'clock look away

yeah yeah another one of these

look, i won’t drone on about how shit this year has been we’re all well aware and past that. what i want to focus on is the joy and refuge that i have found here thanks to this album. i don’t think i have ever been this surprised and taken aback by an album before? in the best way possible. i was a casual listener at best, a local if you will. i knew the Hits i just never felt the urge to dive in...but that all changed as soon as i heard red desert. genuine and utter shock? no words to describe it really. i went down the youtube rabbit hole and well i’m a wholeass clown now. i don’t really contribute anything as i can’t edit, i don’t write, i never planned on immersing myself in the fandom per se. i thought i’d just come here to reblog pretty moving pictures and talk to myself in the tags, i had no idea i’d meet such kind and wonderful people and actually make friends? i’ve been in and out of So Many fandoms and never really found that sense of belonging to a community like i have here.

everyone i have come across has been so caring and kind and friendly. i appreciate the effort and love you put into each gifset and edit, every chapter written, memes and all. moreover, i have watched you all support each other through this difficult year and all the shitty hands we’ve been dealt and i couldn’t be more proud of each and every single one of you. simply for being here. know that my inbox is anon friendly and always open. keep on keeping on, i love you!! @karajaynetoday @kindahoping4forever @ashtcnirwin @blackbutterfliescal @cakelftv @mukeaf @mikeycliffords @bandsanitizer @calmfolklore @notinthesameguey @twilightmomentswithyou @ghost-of-you @ashesonthefloor @devilatmydoor @tekweela @ashtonsunshine @afterlows @sexgodashton  and a few more words to those of you who made the effort to talk to me bc god forbid i do something first @clumsyclifford bella!! you were the first one to reach out and welcome me here and i will never forget that. thank you for bringing nothing but positive vibes on the dash, and thank you for creating the club and extending me an invitation that i’m still too much of a wuss to accept. discord and group chats can be overwhelming and i’d just end up lurking but i appreciate it sm♥ @rebelwith0utacause ana, my yugosos partner in crime!! where do i even begin? knowing there’s someone else from around here has made me feel right at home; thank you for the laughs, your cool older sis vibes, and everything else in between!! i am proud of you for kicking rona’s ass, working so hard, and being such a good pup mom and carer for mocha ♥живе биле велике порасле, ве сакам♥ @compulsiveidiota gigi my love. thank you. i enjoy our music talks immensely, not to mention yelling at each other during random michael/luke/muke photos spam sessions. please keep them coming. keep on bowling, barking, biting mean people, and being awesome♥

@wheniminouterspace shal. my fav crying-to-mitski pal. i hope you’re catching some zzzs rn and i can’t wait to see you wake up to new luke content!!!!!! also wayf supremacy!! had to put that out there. thank you for our always chaotic chats i enjoy them endlessly. i love youuu♥

@redrattlers em!!! i am still so amazed at how much our music/tv show/movie tastes match i could cry. the shared brain cell is strong in this one. i just know we would be the best of friends if only we knew each other irl too thank you for helping me spread the nbt agenda here. for sharing such good music with me. for listening to my playlists? just for being rad as hell. i love your edits, i love your energy, i love having you as a firend, i love you♥

@lifewasradical amanda!! i am so incredibly proud of you and everything that you have accomplished this year!! congrats once again on getting your masters in the middle of this mess. balancing school and work and just life in general and still finding time to come here and be your lovely self, i appreciate it a lot. all my love to you and endi♥

@himbocalum hi nat!! i remember we started talking thanks to a music ask thingy and me just calling you nat right away as if we’ve known each other forever bc it felt too formal to use your full name shfjlsd. it is always a pleasure to see you on my dash sending plenty of calum content my way. still blows my mind you sat down and listened to a wholeass album bc i wouldn’t stop talking about it. and then checked out the other albums too. and indulged me and let me talk your ear off about them. thank you, i love you and i still chuckle every time i see your url. iconic♥

@kaleidoscopeminds meg. meg meg meg. i remember saying i’d name my firstborn after you/your url and i stand by that. you having a blog with this gorgeous lover of mine line is quite fitting. thank you for the constant supply of quality content be that relatable text posts, stunning gifsets, dead on moodboards.......[i am still not over the one you made for me tyvm] just thank you. for being you. please don’t hog all the talent. i love you♥

@calumsthood san. i am so sorry you had to scroll past all of that^ but i wanted to end this with you. CEO of squish content. i can’t tell you how much i enjoy seeing you lose your marbles over chaotic aussies. even the one i only know about thanks to you. please stop calling your crispee hq gifs/edits garbage. i am no longer asking. thank you for blessing us with on the record footage that you got from music dot apple dot com. for letting me drag you back into nbt. bless you. keep sharing photos of your adorable dog!!!!! i love you that is all♥

[sunnysideofsaturn]

2019, oh how you’ve destroyed me.

basically i’ve seen a ton of posts like this, especially by one of my best interweb pals (lookin at you, C @hey-im-pan ) and it’s inspired me to make one of my own! i journal a LOT but it’ll be interesting to try and sum everything up in little synopsis.

*side note: i struggle with anxiety, depression, insomnia, and ocd, so those and their effects may be mentioned. be cautious. This also doesn’t include a lot of the more personal instances, so don’t take it as an accurate representation of what it is like living with these issues*

January:

Honestly, not much happened. I went on a college visit trip with a few of my friends to my dream school, which was stressful but informative, and my anxiety attacks were far and in-between. Sleep schedule was wack (has been since 7th grade), but i was functioning. Dysphoria (i’m nonbinary, but hadn’t really even come out to myself then) was pretty high this month in particular for some reason, so i finally started trying to convince my mom to let me cut my hair off. (I had like 2.5 feet it was a mess)

February:

Finally came out to one of my close friends as pan, kinda accidentally but she was chill with it :) My grandma had a weeklong sickness that scared the shit out of me, but she got better for the time being. I was constantly pushing myself academically and physically at practice, but my grades were taking a bit of a nosedive because i didn’t have the capacity to deal with everything, but i bottled it up because i hate feeling weak. I continued to explore my sexuality, and started to research the gender spectrum.

March:

School and Crew (rowing sport) were the only things on my mind at all times. I started having more anxiety attacks again, and decided it was time to talk to my doctor about going back on meds after 3 years off them. IB was kicking my ass, but i’m so grateful for all of my teammates for giving me an escape on the water. Started to accept I was non-binary.

April:

A month full of good vibes i really needed. Got my drivers license on 4/20. I hiked my grades up with the help of extra credit, held a “wedding” in a Dillard’s try-on section, and spent a few days of spring break at the beach with two friends. I finally cut my hair off!! That feeling was literally incredible and i try to get a haircut every other month to actually keep up with it now. Saw endgame, died inside, and competed in an art show! I was doing really well, so I went off my meds again (don’t do that without a doctors permission like me).

May:

BAdddd time to be off meds, anxiety and depression were dropping my health and IB finals kicked my ass and the class i had been most excited about taking had become my worst at this point, but I got through the exams without missing any. Went to Jr. Prom though! We actually used going to Jr. Prom as a coverup to throw a surprise birthday party for my best friend. I still have no idea how she didn’t figure it out. I also started talking to one of my internet buds, Rosie. She’s helped me through so much she doesn’t even know about, and it such a beaut inside and out <3

June:

MADE IT TO PRIDE MONTH!! I finished my actual finals with minimal panic attacks, and join a Parkner discord! That was short lived, but from it was born… The What the Actual Fuck Fam, whom i love dearly. You guys still crack me up, and i know i’ll always have people to fall back on ( or help me commit murder.) Turned 17 and watched Monty Python (again.) Was forced into not one, but tWo bible camps, but also went to my first pride in my city! I have never felt so loved by so many people i don’t know :)

July:

Depression hit me HarD. I was constantly in a bad mood and taking it out on other people and myself, and I was losing even more sleep. Went back on meds for a bit. I got to see Far From Home, but pretty much isolated myself from anyone in my real life. July is always hard for me to get though for some reason. On a happier note, I started talking to @winterrs-child , who I now love dearly and @exbrodokills , which started out by exchanging memes but i think we can now call a friendship :D

August:

More depression, yayyyy, but Rosie and my irl friends helped me through it so much, even if they didn’t know it was happening. I finally came out to my parents and grandma as pan. They honestly took it pretty well, even if my grandma thinks it’s a ‘phase’. Also came out to C, B, and T as non-binary. Ya’ll were the first people I told after a YEAR omg <3 developed a huge celebrity crush on a cosplayer i won’t name even though they’ll never see this :’) Also fell back into the kiribaku pit after finally stabilizing my Parkner obsession. Also, joined a sapphic server which is basically a big gay support group :) (thanks to Rosie)

September:

Started my senior year of high school. So far, it’s pretty much been one big panic attack but i’m managing. I’m a mentor on the crew team this year and have adopted pretty much every underclassmen on the team. I love them all equally (except for my favorites) Cut my hair even shorter! I love it! Got back into writing poetry and short stories after an intense writer’s and reader’s block that lasted for almost a year. Went off my meds again (I should stop doing that, ik) Went to a Harry Potter fest, which was great, but started building up major anxiety for planning the rest of my life.

October:

SPOOP MONTH. October is my favorite month, so I was determined to make it good. Went on a couple more college tours, but also celebrated fall and halloween with my favorite people. Came reallllly close to stabbing my IB Bio teacher, but he’s survived, so far. Cosplayer mentioned earlier followed me on insta, cue gay panic. i also accidentally created a huge cuddle pile of 30 girls on my team in the captain’s backyard. It was as amazing as it sounds :0 Applied for 6 colleges

November:

CAVETOWN omg. I was also murdered with a bent hammer (don’t ask) and my mental health was pretty stable. I joined yet another server created by the cosplayer, and have made so many friends through it, plus gained a new dad figure :). Contemplated buying a binder on black friday, didn’t and deeply regret it (planing on getting one with the christmas money i get from my homophobic grandfather we pretend doesn’t exist) Discovered the goodness of Baby Yoda. Did pretty much no spanish homework. Solid 7/10

December:

Honestly, school wise december has been the most stressful month of this year so far, and the 2nd worst depressive episode. I’ve written 6 essays and done 5 projects this month and that was not a good time for the already low seratonin levels. i got waitlisted for the school i mentioned earlier, but was accepted into the other 5 :) I got to see an Of Monsters and Men concert, and I’m trying to push thorough til break, but my grandma has been getting sick more and more frequently over this year and now she’s been in a lot of pain for over two weeks and in and out of emergency care 6 times. Just hoping to make it to 2020 with everyone in tact and healthy :) I’m doing a secret santa with my friends im looking forward to. My friends have been amazing support through all of this mess, even if ii didn’t tell you about it, and i love you all!!

special mentions:

@donnaschaunamanon

@dawdlzdoodles

@harleykeenerprotectionsquad

@bumbblebeeeeee

@lykkesw

@chai-studying

@hey-im-pan

@pumpkinparkner

@everyone’s users i don’t know/remember

[the-house-of-the-nine]

A) Why are you excited about this character? B) What inspired you to create them?

I do love a good origin story!  I suppose how I got started with Lazarius was first and foremost a mistake.  Originally my career in the ‘darker side’ of roleplay began when I made my first roleplaying character on Steamwheedle Cartel (Shout out to all my transferred SWC pals who made it to WRA!) back in 2007-2008? Right at the beginning of TBC, a Sin’dorei by the name of Kelkiros Kaelesett.  And he was a paladin who had been captured in a harmless walk up RP that was prompted.  The person responsible for the kidnapping was of course the retired and long lost friend of mine from years ago then; who roleplayed Raelyndia. 

Kel was slowly molded into a darker form of himself, and I enjoyed it.  Thoroughly! It was different and new, but limited.  He was still and always would be a servant to her.  He was just an extension of her wrath.  I wanted to play something that was personal to her.  So we came up with the idea of Lazarius.  Granted his backstory was NOWHERE near complete, but we ran with what we had and tried to work as we went.

Lazarius quickly became her savant.  We surmised he had been taken as a baby, she raised him and he was of age now.  He was her right hand.  It allowed me to grow within the guild we decided to form which was House of Nine.  Later we formed it to be House of The Nine, but regardless, Lazarius was her hand, and we grew in size.

HoN remained on Steamwheedle until Cataclysm dropped, and at that point things had started to turn.  The mun was losing interest with the game, friends were leaving for other greener pastures, and it had become dry.  And since not a lot of them wanted to make the change to a new server, it became clear that it was over.

So we ended things.  I moved several of my toons to WRA on a request from another friend who was playing here, and began a new path.  As for the old HoN, i lost contact with everyone sadly.  I doubt even any of them still play.  Which is sad but also, somehow poetic I guess.  It still lives on through me? I dunno.  But regardless.  Lazarius did not resurface again until after Mists dropped.  I stuck to Orc / Horde clan guilds and several other characters were my focus.

When I met @pyravari-kashebahl , who at the time was not even considering that character, our RP slowly became more friendly, it was less random walk up and more planned.  We partnered on quite a few things until we decided it would be nice to introduce a pair of twins to RP.  And it suddenly dawned on me that Lazarius’ entire backstory was simply a fabricated element we could alter.  It was never set in stone that he was taken as a baby.

We reformed, came up with the characters entire life and thus Lazarius & Pyravari Kash’ebahl resurfaced.  It quickly became a passion project for us, and I had considered reforming HoN.  We changed it to HoTN (House of The Nine) and I opted we continue the path from our previous end.  A few more retcon’s in timing and we managed to fit the entire past into our present.

My inspiration for Lazarius was always left ambiguous to me.  I never had a real inspiring element that drove me to make him one way or another.  But what ultimately did drive me to want to become more involved in the Old God / Dark RP style of the game was meeting the original group I had back in 07-08, and the jolt of energy I received from meeting my non-real life but in game sister @pyravari-kashebahl , who to this day is still one of my best friends.  I suppose it was that driving element that made me want to expand further and further. 

There were several others who inspired me.  Some of which still play, some of which don’t, but those who do know who they are.  I would not have been able to write the content I do, log them, and post them in a book style of format if it were not for the amazing people I have the pleasure to write with…

I don’t have time to be in game.  I wish I did but I just cannot always play, I can’t sit in the world waiting for Walk-Ups or organizing guild events anymore.  Again, I wish I could.  A lot of people don’t like that.  And that is okay too, I miss when I had the time to be that available.

The friends I’ve made and people I write with prefer the free floating style of RP when we can, through Tumblr and Discord and enjoy every minute of it.  And I am blessed beyond blessed to have been able to share our work with others, and actually get new people in on the fun as well. 

Don’t ever be shy.  If you want to write with someone, Ask them! Its one of the best things you could ever do tbh.

  But anyway.  Thank you for this ASK @ms-winford , and thank you for your ongoing support and attention in sharing, likes, asks.  You are a fabulously wonderful person!

And I also missed that @caideyn popped this one in at the end of their ASK so thank you as well.  I would be horribly saddened if I did not include you here.  You are totally welcome blowing up my ASK box, Inbox, discord, you name it!  I have to say I always love seeing your stuff come my way! You are amazing!