#the drawing for this game was supposed to be wholesome

[blackcat101]

Veiled May Flowers (Fanmade Twst event)

As the saying goes “April showers bring May flowers”

Event summary: Idia somehow gets this game on his tablet and during the rare time he leaves his room to get something from the mystery shop he bumps into a group of students. The students being Riddle, Cater, Ace, Azul, Grim, Yuu, and Sebek. All in a sudden he drops his tablet and the group somehow gets teleported into the game during an event where flowers are blooming and ribbons are all over this city. Lost and confused they decide to get help from a tour guide who is around their age named ‘Oliver’, this ‘Oliver’ takes them on a tour around the city but starts acting weird anytime a guard for the royal family walks near the group. When one of the members of the group decides to ask about the festival he tells them that “it’s a festival of Veiled Flowers, it happens once every year. A magical flower blooms with the help of the heir to the royal family so that the flowers it can bring its blessings to the kingdom.” After he tells the group this story and they continue their journey through the city a royal guard approaches and asks the group if they have seen the Princess, Olivia, as she has gone missing! Just as this happens ‘Oliver’ slips away from the group somehow gets ditching them.

The group realizes that ‘Oliver’ was in fact the Princess, a few guards go after her while the others, suspicious of the group, take them into custody. They eventually meet the Queen and she cuts them a deal, they can help organize things for the festival with the people working on the floats or they can help search for the Princess. If they succeed they can ride on the floats and will grant whatever wish the group may have, but the group is on a limited time schedule as the blessing of the flower is supposed to commence in the next 48 hours. The group agrees to the deal, hopefully they can get back to NRC by the end of things.

Information on the event:

You can draw your OCs to whatever duties you want. you can even have them help out with both if you want!!

Team Organize the Festival: Idia, Riddle, and Azul

SSR: Idia Veiled Flower Prince attire

R: Riddle and Azul The Flower Boy attire

Description: The floats haven’t finished being decorated, some haven’t even picked the theme for the floats, a few are experiencing a couple of errors with things like the lights, and a couple are scared to go over the budget they have left on the rest of the decorations. Looks like these three are settles with helping out with how things are being ran with the floats. The closest they can get to the actual flower too.

Team Find the Princess:

SSR: Cater Veiled Flower Prince attire

SR: Ace and Sebek Flower Knights attire

Description: The three decide to help search for the Princess. She had gone on the run and plans to not return until she does not have to do the duties for the blessing of the flower. Hopefully the three can calmly talk some sense into her without having to fight her .

Rules!:

NO outfits that sexualizes OCs, this is meant to be a wholesome event

Please use the tag #VeiledMayFlowers or you can tag me if you make a post!

Be respectful to everyone’s OCs

Just because they aren’t here in the list doesn’t mean you can’t draw other TWST characters, you can add them here!

Attire must consist of a veil of some sorts and the blue to pink flower you can see on the characters (atleast one flower is needed).

Make sure to have fun!!!!!

here’s the background to put your OCs in! :D

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List of Characters and OCs:

Team one: Help organize the event-

Idia Shroud

Azul Ashengrotto

Riddle Rosehearts

Team two: Help search for the Princess-

Cater Diamond

Ace Trappola

Sebek Zigvolt

[bunnieswithknives]

The animatic is done!! 💕

[sillygoofyqueer]

ahhh i'm glad you like it!! and you're SPOT ON with the pampering and carrying the other peak lords do<3 whether he's in his small bird form or his big human form with large wings, doesn't matter, he's getting picked up!! (i love liu qingge playing taxi chauffeur and realizing with horror that he likes holding shen qingqiu in his arms a little too much🤭)

so so so, i was just thinking about preening, if this is a canon compliant au, and shen yuan got dropped off in another's body, he probably has no idea how to take care of his bird features, let alone his wings, like how to align the feathers, removing molted ones, dust bathing to remove excess and stale lipids so his plumage stays fluffy, or taking care of pin feathers (new pin feathers have a blood supply flowing through it, if the pin is damaged, it can bleed pretty heavily!), so he just... doesn't. no more than clumsily washing them when he bathes, anyway. and then his wings start itching, and hurting, and the feathers are all askew, and he has all these tattered clumps and pins that hurt when he picks at it and what is he supposed to do...???

naturally, people notice when the prim proper scholar's peak lord, with the perfect hair and flawless skin, has two disheveled wings trailing after him. some of them are worried it might be some sign of self-neglect (also bc it's specifically his demon features that look uncared for), and of course when shen qingqiu coughs once so to speak, yue qingyuan shows up at his doorstep; and i was thinkingggg..... different peak lords taking turns coming to his bamboo house for some casual wing care and preening..... in some bird species preening each other strengthens the trust and bond between the two, for crows it's even a big aspect of social bonding! crows preen their young, their mates, and sick or injured birds, so it's only nature that a ill-feeling shen qingqiu relies on his companions to help him when he's incapable himself...

also because i can't stop imagining shen qingqiu sprawled out across liu qingge or yue qingyuan's lap in bliss while they very carefully align his feathers and tease out molted ones, maybe freeing some matured pin feathers, feeling akin to having his hair brushed and played with while they take care of hard to reach places (thinking about how allopreening birds in nature often have less ticks/healthier plumage bc other birds reach places they can't, but shen jiu probably wouldn't let anyone touch his wings so some parts of them were always a little... messy).

some birds (like parrots) might even overpreen when exposed to strong scents, so all the peak lords quickly learn not to put on too much or heavy perfume because it makes shen qingqiu rub and dig into his wings until feathers fall out

(and i haven't even mentioned the sheer angst potential of stress plucking, but ahh this ask is already so long!!!)

OOOOH MY GOD!!! That's such a wholesome idea. I can already imagine it - and it's always a fight of who gets to preen Shen Qingqiu's wings, to the point where it actually turns into a fight (thanks to Liu Qingge) and it's almost an all-out brawl until Mu Qingfang (the only reasonable peak lord jhebus) makes everyone draw lots to see who gets to do it (- and then cheats because everyone else is so hyped up from the brawl, and his dear shixiong simply cannot deal with such stress!!). It becomes a natural thing to come up with different ways of deciding (unless Shen Qingqiu asks one, then the others just have to choke on vinegar(kiiiidding sort of)), and the peak lord who got to do it last time is not allowed to participate in the next game because that's unfair! Spitballing about how different peak lords go about offering it at first, if I may!! I think that Qi Qingqi would be actually quite gentle about it - she's used to helping out the girls with their hair and other things (shark week 😔😔), so she knows how to go about being like, "hey, I know we don't always get along but I'm going to help you out with your wings, 'kay?" and he is immediately just like "jesus christ please save me from this torment pleasepleaseplease" - kidding, kidding, he'd be much more hesitant about it because he knows that his wings are delicate and he needs to place his trust in whoever's touching them. Qi Qingqi has been...hostile towards him (because of Shen Jiu, so he can't be too offended), and this could be a moment of weakness (- jesus, bestie boo, I'm making him sound like Shen Jiu) but...his wings hurt :[ At first it's awkward, but then Shen Qingqiu relaxes and it does NOT become a gossip session (it should and it does, you can take that from my cold dead hands). Of course, Yue Qingyuan is the first to offer at all, being all like "xiao-Jiu plleeeaaasseeee 🥺" and who is Shen Qingqiu to resist those puppy dog eyes? He seems to have a history with Shen Jiu so it wouldn't be suspicious of him to deign to allow Yue Qingyuan to help out. Of course, Shen Jiu used to let Yue Qingyuan preen his wings on the streets (if we're going that route), so he's skilled and immediately makes Shen Qingqiu feel comfortable as he feels the itchy feeling in his wings FINALLY disappear with every movement the other man makes. Of course, he should be analysing so he can learn to do it himself but...he's so comfy :( When Liu Qingge first does it, it's on a mission! GASP!! Yue Qingyuan sent them on a mission together because it was a matter of both brute force that needed some form of plan involved that wasn't just "grab smash kill" (and mayyybe he wanted his shidi to bond, who cares? Shen Qingqiu has been a lot less hostile recently, and he's going to take advantage). So, they're out on this mission, and it's a LOT fucking harder than they first thought, leaving them waylaid in the forests (stereotypical I know but screw you (/j)). Shen Yuan's (for brevity's sake) wings are slowly getting worse and he's so very uncomfortable but he can't reach the worse bits so he forces himself to abandon his pride for a second and begrudgingly ask Liu Qingge for help! Obviously, Liu Qingge has no clue what he's doing and has to be guided by Shen Yuan (Liu Qingge later claims to not at all be nervous, but his hands were shaking because he didn't mind this new Shen Qingqiu and didn't reaally want to hurt him). The next time Shen Yuan needs his wings preening, Liu Qingge (literally) kicks the door down to offer to do it. He may seem overly aggressive when he manhandles the peak lord, but he's really quite gentle. I do want to yap about the other peak lords, but this answer's really long already!!! If you want me to, please let me know, because I severely want to expose myself as a Mu Qingfang and Wei Qingwei fan and PLEASE tell me more about the angst potential pretty please, I'll be like Yue Qingyuan at your door with puppy dog eyes. I'm INVESTED NOW, GOD.

[laserbobcat]

Their love language is insane (positive.) Leshy being like "He didn't kick the crap out of me so I know he's MAD mad and I need to fix that asap." Is wholesome in a deranged way and that absolutely fits someone like him.

I'm gonna add this comment by @inspector-finebeak here because it's relevant, and try to explain myself Ok so I grew up in the 90s with this kind of shit:

And that is self explanatory. Millennial jumpscare y'all. I didn't like it that much tho, like, please talk. Normal people don't throw tables at each other for basic misunderstandings. And what bothered me the most is that the boundaries are never respected. There's a "Haha funny the girl is angry because the guy was an asshole again" and then they get married. You deserved better Akane.

Now, with the way I draw Leshycat I think it passes because: -It's a funny cartoon cult game that already has the funny violence -One of them is a literal god of chaos -The other is a former heretic cat with a few lifetimes of repressed anger issues -They almost have equal fighting abilities -They both enjoy (with or without admitting it) the exercise -They both have the means to make it stop if they want -They both have boundaries (lost somewhere) that the other will respect once expressed (in stupid ways probably) because they actually care Morgan will never aim for Leshy's eyes, will feel bad if he makes a faux pas about his blindness, and Leshy now knows that you don't mess with the cat's sewing work and you don't trick him into feeling guilty. The list grows as they continuously push each other because men will do anything except go to therapy. That's what I want in a fighty-rowdy type of dynamic that I'm supposed to enjoy, not one where I think the writer is either consciously writing unbalanced power dynamics, or needs therapy to learn what a red flag is. So that's what I'm doing!

And this kind of casual violence is also just from the game tbh. The Lamb is a freaky murder machine and his favorite people have to be fucked up imo. To relate. ALSO. Writing and drawing serious tone angst is tricky and I leave that to other artists.

[kurishiri]

william v.s. darius . . . darius vogel epilogue 🪽

— this translation may not be 100% accurate or contain creative liberties due to characterization or narrative flow purposes. if you enjoy, please consider reblogging, but don’t repost these or claim these as your own!

— cw: none, it’s actually pretty wholesome (for the most part).

Upon returning to the festival, we could hear the sound of bright music,

and the townspeople, in each of their own ways, were doing a folk dance.

Darius: Let’s go and dance too.

Kate: Ah——

The hand that held mine pulled me toward him, before making its way to my back.

And his rhythmic yet complex steps were enough to draw in the eyes of the surrounding people toward us.

Kate: I-isn’t this a ballroom dance...

Darius: Oh, oops, this is just the dance I am most used to, so that’s why. But...

The next moment, he let go of my hand before spinning his way behind me.

Darius: This type of dance seems much more fun.

Once again, our hands linked, and he looked to the townspeople around him, imitating their movements as he hopped about.

Kate: Hehe, it goes like this.

When I showed him a skip, Darius followed suit with mirth.

Darius: Something like this?

At last we were in sync, and the tempo gradually started to speed up,

and it ended up looking like I was being led by him.

Kate: Waah, so fast!

Darius: Ahaha, isn’t this fun.

(He picks up things very quickly. Which in turn makes teaching him fun as well.)

(But even so... somehow I feel like we’re sticking a bit too close together...)

I could feel the breath from his innocent laugh on my earlobe.

And I could feel his warmth on my back, which in turn caused my breathing to speed up and my body temperature to rise.

Just when I calmed my pounding heart, he spun so that he was in front of me, looking into my eyes.

Darius: Your ears are so red, miss fairytale keeper, it’s just so adorable.

Kate: T-that’s because your movements are so fervent that I’m breaking a leg here to keep up with you.

Seeing his honey-colored eyes so bright, my cheeks started to heat up as well.

Kate: ...But, even so, I’m glad you seem to be having fun.

Darius: .........

D: I suppose that’s to say I’ve yet to laugh from the bottom of my heart.

D: I wonder, if you also smile lots for me, will I be able to smile as well, perhaps?

His gloved fingers reached out to me, pinching my cheeks.

Kate: Uwah?

Darius: Ahaha, they’re so soooft. It reminds me of the plush you got for me.

While laughing, he stretched my cheeks out and rubbed them.

Kate: huu...

Seeing that innocent smile up close, I gradually lost the will to retaliate.

Darius: See, let’s smile, how about it?

And as a cherry on top, he pulled the corners of my lips upward with his index fingers,

showing a bright smile at the same time.

Kate: ...

K: ...heh, hehe...

K: For some reason, seeing you do this... I can’t help but want to laugh.

K: I wanted you to have fun here, and yet I feel like I’m the one having fun instead.

His eccentric actions were as interesting as they were odd.

My cheeks, having been pulled at by his fingers, started to relax.

Darius: .........

D: And I want to play with you a looot more, miss fairytale keeper.

D: Care to come along?

After that,

we would stop by at wagons our eyes landed upon, split snacks, played games——

He would pull me around here and there until I was utterly exhausted,

and by the time I returned to Crown, the darkness of night had long fallen.

(...haa, I ended up going all out.)

(I guess since I became an adult, I haven’t had much opportunities to play so hard like that.)

So, my body was tired, to be sure, but my heart felt full.

(...That said.)

In all the time we were together, had any of the smiles he wore been one from the bottom of his heart?

(If he did, I was having so much fun that they might have slipped past me.)

(...I wonder what Darius’ ‘true’ smile is like?)

And if I could get to know him more, would he show me the smile I wanted to see?

If I could, as he said, ‘get along’ with him, then——

Such a time may someday come by.

——Meanwhile.

Nica: Did you go out somewhere, Dari?

N: Come to think of it, I saw you out in the garden with the Spatzi and the ‘Self-Righteous Monarch.’

Darius: Indeed, you’re right. And after that the little miss human invited me to go out with them to town together, the three of us.

Nica: Hmm, and? Was it fun?

Darius: Of course it was. My king truly is wonderful, to be sure. All that said, I do think he holds some different views and ideals from myself.

D: Well, anyhow, if he were to become a part of my ‘family,’ I’m sure that will end up changing as well, yes?

D: ——Ahh, that’s right, and as for the little miss human.

D: I dragged her aaalll around, and yet she still went along with me, to the point she’s just so naïvely honest.

D: It’s the most odd thing.

Nica: So it looks like you had fun. Glad to hear it.

Now alone in the parlor, Darius looked out the window at London’s night sky.

His honey-colored eyes seemed to sparkle as though he were looking down from a place far away.

And when he calmly sat on the sofa, he felt something strange from his pocket.

Darius: Ah.

He took out the white leopard plush from his pocket, his eyes meeting with it.

Darius: .........

With his gloved fingers,

he pinched the white leopard’s cheeks, on nothing but a whim.

Fin.

will vs darius jude vs nica alfons vs ring

← prev fin

END NOTES: darius definitely comes off as innocent, but he’s also very sharp — and two-faced as well. and knowing this, it sort of makes this story give off a bit of a different impression than the surface. like yes, the story is wholesome, but at the same time it kind of keeps you on the edge of your seat, yk?and the white leopard plush is interesting too, kate bought it for darius because it reminded her of him, and yet he is pinching its cheeks as he did with kate, so maybe to him, this plush reminds him of kate…

anyway, i hope this story may have spurred some interest in his character! i’d love to hear your thoughts if you have any as well!

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[jeankirsteinsgrlfrnd]

playing excited & exhausted with them

ft: levi, erwin, bertholdt, jean, connie, annie, sasha, mikasa, eren

a/n: excited & exhausted is card game made for couples to play when they’re drinking. it is an explicit card game so this post is 18+. NSFW MDNI ! however, this does not go into details. it’s very light on the smut side, if you can even call it that. i’m not 100% comfortable writing full smut yet soo :) this request is for/from @ricebowl768 - also, this is not proofread :)

levi ackerman

it’s a pain to play this game with levi. he insists on doing all of the tasks on the card, resulting in you being the only drunk one. he says, “what’s the point of playing if i don’t do any of these?”

you tell him, it’s supposed to be fun and he doesn’t have to do any of the dares that he doesn’t want to. charmingly, he responds, “well, you’re my girlfriend. i want to do these things.”

erwin smith

he’s curious when you present him the deck. he didn’t think you’d be interested in something so explicit. honestly, he’s quiet shy about most of the cards. he gets a nice buzz going pretty fast, giving him the courage to do all these things.

the night ends up quite wholesome as you two share bursts of drunken giggles. you two wind up sweetly entangled in bed.

bertholdt hoover

you have to convince bert to play this game, given he’s on the shyer side. you both take two shots before playing just to ease any anxiety. the first card he draws reads, “drink if you want to have sex after this game.” his eyes widen and he downs another shot. he tries to hard the cards from you but you are dying to know, so you lunge across towards him and wrestle him for the card.

you laugh at his embarrassment when you read it outloud. you reassure him he doesn’t have anything to feel embarassed about by kissing him all over his red cheeks.

jean kirstein

jean thinks you’re the best girlfriend ever for buying this card game. he mainly teases you about drinking whenever you don’t want to do the action on the card. he calls you a few names just to rile you up. tired of his shit, you start doing everything on the cards just to prove a point. no matter how provocative or exposing they are, you do them. he both hates and loves you for this but he can’t wait for the game to be over.

connie springer

he’s enthusiastic about playing this game, he actually was the one who had picked it up at the store while you weren’t paying attention. he reveals it by slamming it down on the table and insists you two play. you both end up sloppy drunk for some reason despite doing everything on the card. honestly, it was just a good excuse to get sloppy drunk and be horny for each other.

annie leonhardt

she’s sort of…rough when you bring up the idea. annie’s a pretty shy, reserved person so when you present her with the game, she gives you a shrug. no wanting to press her boundaries, you forget about it.

she brings it up later on, on a random afternoon. she wants to deepen her bond with you, so she steps outside her comfort zone. she blushed at nearly every single card, choosing to consume a bunch of liquor.

she manages to hold herself together well, until she gives into her desires and chooses to do the sexual tasks on the cards. this side of her is refreshing. you keep telling her she doesn’t have to do anything, but she insists the liquor has given her courage to do these things she’s wanted to do all along.

sasha braus

sasha giggles at every single card! she barely takes anything seriously, especially when she’s drinking. she doesn’t quite understand the circumstances of the game until you draw all the promiscuous cards. she tries to keep a cool about tasks such as kissing her thighs. but since you know her so well, her gasps of surprise are considered more gasps of arousal. overall, she winds up enjoying the game.

mikasa ackerman

mikasa looks to please you, and only you as their partner. of course, this urge doesn’t dismiss her shyness. she starts off the game with a high confidence, dismissing with each card. she wants to do each, to please you but ultimately, she’s too embarassed. it winds up with her having a bunch of shots and it makes you laugh. you tell her, “baby, you don’t have to do anything, we can stop playing this game.”

she counters back, “i want to! it’s just so…vulgar? how do people do this sober?!”

it’s not that she’s a prude, but this game is impossible to play! that’s what she insists.

eren jaeger

this game was made for eren, or so he thinks. he‘ d play this game with anyone but for him, it’s a pleasure to play with you. he doesn’t shy away from any task, no matter how filthy it is. he enjoys teasing you and seeing you flustered. he wants you uncomfortable, in a consensual way of course. eren wants to take you further than you’ve ever been. both physically and mentally. he’s a menace, testing your limits until you’re begging for him!

[fallendev0tionvn]

Any Fun Facts about Clive?

has read all twd comics, spent a ton on ebay to get his hands on all of them (that's also why he has wings tatted on his back, he's obsessed with daryl)

cuts his own hair cause he's terrified of coming out with a low taper fade or something HAHDHAH, another thing he did himself are his piercings

when he was 14 he had a nightmare about getting trapped behind some extremely heavy door and he couldn't get out as much as he tried because he didn't have any strength (you were behind the door ofc, that's why he was so desperate to get out), immediately started going to the gym to work on it💀

vampire enjoyer, he used to pretend to be a vampire when he was younger, lost infinite aura when some kids called him out in front of everyone (me too clive, me too).

related to the vampire thing, he has angel bites because they remind him of fangs🏃‍♀️

he kind of took that guardian bell you gave him (at the beginning of the game) as a confession, "if you're supposed to give it to a loved one to protect them does that mean they love me?"- his hopes were gone the moment you told him some friend of yours found him cute and wanted to get to know him better🕴️

we know he learnt you first language if you speak more than one, I can imagine him complimenting you or yapping about how important you are in it (he's actually fluent)

he loves to be around you all the time but if you have a pet?? nah he's sticking to them, if you have a cat he'd scream kitty like caseoh the MOMENT he walks in HAHDHHA

probably reads romance webtoons (wholesome ones) to daydream about you as always💀

you listened to music with him once and you couldn't understand why he was all jumpy and shakey (pure rizz in his mind, suggesting to listen to music together??? do you love him??)

he wanted to be a tattoo artist cause he used to spend a lot of time drawing on your arm/hand (using actual tattoos as a reference), sneaked his initial more than once, he never made it obvious ofc🏃‍♀️

him:

(kind of funny how he looks so cute around you and animals then..with other people..i'd show the cg but hell no)

[puhpandas]

maybe its just me but i see cassies dynamic with roxy and gregorys dynamic with freddy wildly different to how scott sees them

i actually see them as family with complex layers and meaningful interactions while scott sees them as robot protectors and “lets go, pal!” and nothing more. feels like he devalues their relationships and sees their dynamics as less integral parts of their characters and just plot devices. yeah i get its horror but if you introduced wholesome robot-human relationships in your own story then maybe actually do something with it idk

yeah exactly man and it's like I feel like steel wool understands the gravity of Gregory and Freddy bc of how they draw them and how they were in promotional material (gregory and Freddy holding hands). idk about cassie and roxy much bc the way they wrote Roxy and all of their scenes together in ruin felt off to her character to me, but idk. but even then etp definitely didnt do them right. not like it did anything at all right. I feel like steel wool actually gets that characters are supposed to have meaningful emotional stories attached to their relationships w eachother bc of how they write the same characters vs how scott writes them (best example Gregory and cassie). it's why I miss their interps SO much but theyve been so stuck playing clean up with help wanted 2 and taking a year and a half to develop secret of the mimic. next steel wool game will save us trust

[hockeyisforthegays]

for the fic ask game,,,, how about the poppet the pincushion the loose-hanging thread?

YESS YES POPPET this is one of my oldest wips... it's the kenjaku raised yuuji canon divergence fic. i have actually posted a snippet of it before right nnnnnhere but let me give you more. the basic trajectory of this thought is like that kenjaku has groomed yuuji for their plans (though has not told yuuji these plans.) and then yuuji gets caught by megumi trying to collect sukuna's finger & held as a sort of.... prisoner-student by the school. where he is exposed to things like Having Agency and Being Cared For Without Ulterior Motive for the first time. but could it all be part of kenjaku's machinations....?

as always with me theres a focus on the gojo yuuji dynamic, but not totally Wholesomely - in fact i am planning on drawing some gojo-kenjaku parallels wrt their frivolous facades and somewhat scheming natures. hes obviously a million percent better, but how much of yuuji's growing attachment to him is a restructuring of his unhealthy patterns with kenjaku? how does yuuji feel about the comparables? how does gojo feel about the comparables? i have this idea of an exchange between them thats like "sometimes you remind me of mom" "is that supposed to be a compliment?" "....no."

MEANWHILE itadori kaori haunts the narrative :)

snippet

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Yuuji decides that he does not like the beach. 

Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with it, even though he doesn’t know where it came from, or how it can possibly exist inside the new apartment Kenjaku moved them to. It could even be called nice; the sea is beautiful, and the sand is warm, and the island to their backs is green and lush. 

But it doesn’t have a bedroom. It doesn’t have a kitchen, or a bathroom, and Yuuji seems to be the only one who feels the lack of those things. His mother is happy to simply recline in the beach chairs all day, chatting with her new invisible friends about things that Yuuji truly cannot comprehend. 

Yuuji does not dare attempt to sit in the beach chairs. He does not dare get too close at all, anymore, lest he bump into one of those invisible people who are still all too tangible. Their touch makes his skin crawl — and one of them burns.

“Uraume-san,” Yuuji says, drawing the attention of the person kneeling next to him in the sand. The only person here he can literally look in the eyes. “…I’m hungry. Again.”

“Of course,” Uraume says solicitously, but with a certain amount of distaste. There is always a certain amount of distaste; Uraume does not seem to like Yuuji much. They’re strangely accommodating to his every need, nonetheless. “Shall we?”

[davekat-sucks]

People are really sleeping on friendships tbh.

Like Eridan and Vriska are fucking weirdos who larp with live fire and absolutely fucking dominated the game, what fucking nerds.

Terezi and Nepeta had a weird roleplaying universe! I kind of want to see it but I also think it's probably two thirteen-year-olds writing less than wholesome things with furries.

These days in the Homestuck fandom and just fandom in general, it's all about the sex without the full on intimacy. They ship the characters they think as a couple and that's it. Whether it be straight or LGBT, it's all about pairing the drawings together. Friendships of any kinds, be it platonic or confirmed, is not as explored as much anymore since it's all about who fucks who while not actually fucking. It's why people in this modern fandom of Homestuck forget that John and Dave actually have a friendship between them. But now most fanworks and official ones from shit like Pesterquest, push hard that Dave and Karkat are closer despite they had barely interacted even in the earliest webcomic days. Terezi and Nepeta's friendship gets overshadowed with Terezi having a thing for Vriska Some also ignore how certain characters would be parallel to the others. Like Karkat and Sollux are suppose to be a mirror of John and Dave with their closest friendship. Eridan is often forgotten as being part of FLARPers because he was the only one absent or excluded from when Tavros lost his legs. Doesn't help the FLARP session books that would be coding for Sgrub and Doc Scratch's presence, he was not part of it and Gamzee was instead breaking in, despite he has no interest to FLARP. And the narrative doesn't bring it up or play around why Eridan had been pushed out from it.

There is a lot of potential and exploration of these friendships and groups, but sadly, it's taken over by shipping. All about the redroms and blackroms. Moirails are there too, but for the most part, it's all about who kisses who and not have fully body intimacy. Puritanism is still within the fandom, so things like sex is bad, even if both parities are legal age.

[teddybearty]

I ended up not watching Eden’s Garden (yet) BUT I have started Chapter 1 of Tetro Danganronpa PINK

I like all of the characters so far!! I definitely wanna draw them all when I get through more of it (I don’t wanna accidentally run into spoilers!

Speaking of…I will put any spoiler talk below so anyone curious about the series and just scrolling my page doesn’t see them!!

Okay here we go!!

So I love CHIBA AND HAMA’S DYNAMIC!!! 💕💕

They are so cute! It’s giving BIG sibling energy (big brother / little sister)!! It’s so wholesome and sweet!! 💕

I also like Ken and Kamimura’s little friendship they started on the first night! Very nice! Their talk about taking down Wada together got a laugh out of me!

I also love Ojima!! 💜

Him looking out for both Kamimura and Shigeki is very sweet! Also him spacing out is very relatable! I do that A LOT (especially when I was in school)

Also Okazaki is really cool too! I don’t know who her VA is but I adore her voice!! She makes me happy every time I hear her voice!! 💕

And now I will throw my thoughts and feelings about the WHOLE CAST here!!

(Excuse the image being like this I definitely stole it from a TikTok)

Keep in mind these are my feelings on these characters up to Hideaway (episode 20 of the Chapter 1 playlist)! They are BOUND to change as I go on. But a few things to note:

💜 FAVES: I already talked about how much I love these two but yeah!! Ojima and Chiba are my BIGGEST FAVES thus far!! We will see if those feelings change~!

💖 LOVE: Okazaki, Wada, and Ken just have nice personalities I just gravitate towards!! Either because of their dynamics with other characters or just them on their own!! They’re pretty cool~! ✨

💚 LIKE: I like Sasaki’s straightforward approach! She is a lot like Taka / Ult. Imposter (when they were Byakuya)!! Willing to be leader and butt heads with people!

I also like Hama bc of his friendship with Chiba + his attitude with demons. Idk if he’s supposed to be like Gundham (aka a chunibyo) but I like him!!

Kamimura gives me a mixture of Fuyuhiko and Nagito vibes. Sickly, standoffish, but nice to talk to when they open up. His relationship with Ken is really cute (I’m totally NOT shipping them) but yeah I like him! Considering his talent, I’m sure he’s not gonna be one to make himself susceptible to dying (at least not on purpose) and I’m interested to see how things play out for him!

Tsuno is just a ray of sunshine! She wants to be a beacon of hope for everyone and it shows!! I wonder how upbeat she’ll be when the killing game officially starts…

💛 NEUTRAL: Everyone else is meh to me for now. Obviously that could change in the future!! A few of them (namely Watari and Hiroaki) had some stand out moments that made me like them a bit more but idk…

I don’t HATE any of the cast, which is normally for me. I don’t usually hate a character from the start (normally it’s their actions that make me hate them and…not much has happened so far to make me hate anyone)

So yeah!! Those are my thoughts so far!!

This post is already long enough so I’ll save my predictions for a different post!! See ya then!! 💜

[remidyal]

Game Changer Season 6 episodes, ranked by my personal enjoyment

Because I also enjoy arbitrarily ranking things! If you disagree... I mean, that's fine? I liked every episode this season, just.. I liked some episodes better than others. I'm grouping the Ratfish episodes together, so we've got eight entries. Spoilers for, um, every game changer episode this season, obviously.

#8 Pencils Down:

I'm not as into drawings and all as I am a lot of the other stuff, though this was probably the most wholesome episode of this season. I'm, naturally, opposed to wholesomeness too.

Favorite bit:

The proposed tattoos were a lot of fun.

#7 Ratfish (parts 1 and 2):

I think this one got hurt for me by a couple things - I know absolutely nothing about the show they're mimicking, unlike Survivor or the Bachelor, and I did not particularly enjoy anything directly to do with the Ratfish or understand why I should care about his opinions and arbitrary decisions. I assumed that the cast would recognize who this person was and we'd get some kind of payoff there, but nope. Everything just between the cast was great, though.

Favorite bit:

Honestly there's a ton of quick moments to choose from here, but I think my favorite is Brennan incorrectly going for the seat marked Brennan Lee Mulligan at the end.

#6 The Newlyweb Game:

This one was gentle good fun, I enjoyed everyone involved, there were just more standout moments in some of the later episodes on this list. This is fighting with Pencils Down for the most wholesome episode, or at least the one that would least fit into a saw trap. In spite of that this would be the episode all time of Game Changer I would least be willing to be on, even in the world where I'm not firmly aroace and have a partner - I think I would sooner light myself on fire than let someone I know have full access to my phone.

Favorite bit:

Revealing how many unread emails people had and the shock and judgement at totally reasonable numbers, as someone with around forty thousand unread emails in my primary gmail account dating back to 2004.

#5 Bingo

We're really into tough competition now! I loved this episode, and that it somehow turned into a tormenting Brennan episode even though he wasn't even supposed to be there. This was obviously slightly rigged so that the players in the third set of Bingo were most likely to win (and it was actually impossible for the people on stage) but honestly pulling it off was so good.

Favorite Bit:

I mean, it's the reveal to Trapp and everyone of the existence of the third group of course.

#4 Second Place

First, I know that for meta reasons this should be second, but it's not. Oh well. Sam alleges that this episode wasn't intentionally meant to torment Brennan; I do not believe Sam's lies. Everyone in the world saw the twist at the end coming and it's still funny.

Favorite bit:

Ally declaring that Brennan can ring the gong the loudest and Brennan's brain breaking harder than anything that Sam had actually planned.

#3 Sam Says 3

I can't believe this one's only third. If this is how Sam Says ends - and I have a hard time seeing how a fourth edition can escalate, even outside of the BTS claiming that they see three times as the limit for the same premise most of the time - then what an ending. I'm not sure any other game concept has managed to make the players so consistently tricked. My only critique of it is that I think I like the first couple times at this well just a little bit more, with nothing in this quite matching Ally flying to New York or the Something We'll Have To Bleep energy for me.

Favorite Bit:

It's hard to top the fake Sam body dropping from the ceiling.

#2 Beat the Buzzer

Every episode with the Seven cast is always incredible, and production-wise this seems like the craziest thing they've ever pulled off. Any episode where they break out of just the stage is always good, and I think this is the most extensive use of that they've ever done. Incredible variety, great cameos from Aabria and Persephone, complete manic energy from all three contestants. A+ episode.

Favorite Bit:

There's so much here, but I think mine as someone who worked as a pizza delivery driver was the entire exchange where Rehka just ends up getting the bag with the buzzer and a bunch of loose oreos. Was production prepared with everything that was on that menu or would they have actually ordered breadsticks somewhere to use as a prop?

#1 Deja Vu

Time loop stuff is always a favorite of mine, and pulling one off as an episode is ALREADY a great premise before you even get into all of the other cast and the editing. (Shout out to Siobhan Thompson for being in exactly two Game Changer episodes and them being this one and Escape the Green Room; guess we know what pepper rating she puts down.) Great chemistry between the cast, a truly deranged display from Sam, and of course the Wenis. Genuinely the WEIRDEST episode of the season, too, always a good sign.

It's a shame they already repeated the premise too much to do a follow up to this one...

Favorite Bit(s):

I'm doing two for this one because it's my list and I can.

"This isn't fucking Um, Actually!" with sincere righteous anger.

Everything to do with Zac as Grant, most of all how easy it would have been to just make that Zac as Zac.

[thestarscanalwayslookatus]

Okay WIP ask game!! Since I've been feeling unmotivated

Original works:

Here are my WIPS, give me a name or ask something and I will give you a snippet or info.

Or you could ask me for a poem.

Original Works

1. The House

A hyperlink novel about a traumatised little girl and how she gets out of the cycle of abuse

2. The Hunting

What started out as a stalker romance challenge between friends but is now a feverdream deepdive into a messed up mind

3.The temple peacock

A nagamandala-esque look into indian society, supposed to be a short story

4. Liars

Short story about a community and its lies, shenanigans ensue

5. RubyNeil

Mafia lesbian powercouple but make it Indian

6.OG

The very first story I started and probably will never complete. The only reason this is in the list is because I have too many details rotting in the dnf pile. (I also have drawings, would you belive it!)

But think an Enid Blyton mystery but with fantasy and extra sibling dynamics

Fanfiction:

1. A little to the left

Kinnporsche fandom, Kimchay centric

What if Kimchay had met earlier and everyone was a bit darker??

(The only scene I have written out is where our pair are looking over their baby, yes baby, and simultaneously confess to babytrapping each other. Kim proposes on the spot)

2. Flicker of shade and sunshine

Kinnporsche fandom, Kimchay centric

Wholesome au where Chay is Kim's makeup artist

3. It reveals what lonely people seek

Kinnporsche fandom, Kimchay centric (what a loverly pattern we have here, definitely not as if this show has consumed my brain)

Cannon compliant and Post cannon

As the title suggests our lonely Bois find their way back to each other

4. You and Me and Him

Jeff Satur multiverse fic based on the DUMDUM mv, written for the Jeffffffffest gift exchange.

[bluegekk0]

In the modern au I think it would be funny if both zote and hornet were gaming live streamers, where zote was absolutely terrible but people watched him because it's very unintentionally funny how confident he is compared to his skill level.

Whereas hornet is amazing at the games she plays but she has so much gamer rage that she keeps getting banned for toxicity in increasingly funny ways.

100% canon. I fully believe they would both be gamers, and whether they would be streamers depends on how modern exactly is the modern AU. I personally put it somewhere in the earlier 2000s, but since it's a side AU I suppose that doesn't matter that much.

Zote would do gaming streams, but I also think he would react to videos sent by his viewers. And his reactions would be the funniest thing ever, he'd be completely dumbfounded by the most obvious things and make himself look like a fool. It would be incredibly entertaining.

Hornet would most certainly be the sweaty tryhard gamer who rages easily. She is very good at the games, so watching her would be entertaining on its own, but the rage is what makes it especially amusing. So exactly like what you described, you got it perfectly. I imagine she would play a lot of competitive online games, and would maybe offer some tips for her audience. But the rage moments is what would make her especially memorable.

Honestly, I might as well talk about the rest of the cast in this kind of setting while I'm at it.

Grimm would be incredibly good at games so that would be a big draw for his streams, but due to his type of humor I think his audience would be quite cursed to any outsider. Lots of suggestive running jokes (just earlier today I watched a random gameplay video and saw someone with a running joke where they comment "edging until [channel name] plays FNAF4" under each upload, and this is exactly the type of audience I imagine Grimm would have) and constant banter between his and his audience. Probably quite a few viewers simping for him too. Just pure chaos. One he very much enjoys.

FPK probably wouldn't play video games, he would instead stream about his latest inventions. Something like PC building streams as well, and if he's joined by Grimm or Hornet it would be extra entertaining. Though his audience would probably be the most genuine out of all of them, aside from maybe Holly. You'd have to be a nerd with very particular interests and a lot of patience to enjoy his slow paced streams about his work. And he would enjoy interacting with an audience like that, I like to think he would often stop what he's doing to respond to messages in the chat, and probably ramble quite a lot if it's something he's passionate about.

Speaking of Holly, they would be the chill vibes streamer, they'd play games like Stardew Valley. Obviously without commentary, but I think they'd find themselves a comfortable place in the "chill comfy stream" niche. Very wholesome stuff, and an incredibly chill audience.

The kids are of course too young to have their own streaming channels, but they'd often show up in the others' streams. Well, aside from Zote and Hornet. They wouldn't want any kids interrupting their streams.

[theashop]

Have you ever considered the ship Gaming/Bennett?

I don't know if you're much of a shipper, but the moment Gaming came out I was mushing them together: Gaming's sheer positivity and tenacious gumption made it such an easy idea to say that he'd call Bennett his Good Luck Charm 🧡 That he'd always be sure to tell him it wasn't his fault when misfortune struck and - since he's always so prepared - I feel like when that "curse" would finally rear its head, he'd soothe it back down. Not to mention, when Bennett was sad, Manchai would fly over and nuzzle into him, making everything feel a little warmer 🥰

Idk.. it's just an idea. But your artwork is so warm and beautiful, it made me think of them together again 😅

LISTEN any Bennett content is content I eat up

and yes I love to ship characters even if I have no time/inspiration for them and when I'm not into a ship for one reason or another I can still see the potential/appreciate it (few exceptions ofc)...though people won't know unless I ACTUALLY draw something for it shocking I know but there are just too many ships 😅

and Gaming is literally my fave from Liyue - how can you not love him?? so it did cross my mind but I never really dug too deep into it since many people jumped to either ship him with Chongyun or Freminet (cuties)

since the more popular ships for Gaming (or at least from what I've seen) are leaning towards the good old firexice/redxblue/introvertxextrovert I can see why pairing him with Bennett can seem bland upon first glance - but to be honest? they'd be a wholesome couple

until I get my hands on them to bring out the angst

I feel like they'd instantly warm up to each other too; Gaming is so open and treats people like friends right off the bat & both of them have some baggage to bond over, both are stubbornly following their passions despite their conditions, I could see Bennett being a fan of Wushou Dancing and encouraging Gaming to pursue it who in turn would encourage Bennett to think of himself as a better adventurer when he's badmouthing himself

good luck charm? no, no that's done for nearly every Bennett ship...BUT did you know lion dances are supposed to bring good luck? Gaming is the "luck bringer" therefore; private Wushou Dances 👀

I wish we knew more about Man Chai's personality but 100% he'd be a cuddler (due to Gaming's idle) and since Bennett gives off similar vibes he'd definitely be there for him - even sensing his bad mood before anyone else since Bennett often hides behind his positivity which can fool people, so Man Chai could also alert Gaming ahead of time? meaning before Bennett can go off to sulk on his own ofc

okay I PROMISE this is the last thing I'll add; Gaming finding a second home at the guild with Bennett's dads - they don't nag him, heck might even ruffle his hair to praise him for his guts for chasing his dream? which is a complete 180 to how his own dad is, and you think they'd let him go hungry? sure Gaming would take out Bennett to eat in Liyue - but Bennett's dads would not only not let him leave on an empty stomach, they'd give him more food to take home

aaaaAA I'm not sure if this is the reply you were looking for but I really enjoyed writing it so thank you so much for sending it in and thank you for enjoying my art 🧡

[anyataylorjoys]

People think the sauna conversation is simply an innuendo for that of what little remains between patrick and art when it was actually all the corners touching again and an overlap of multiple implications and callbacks. the dialogue in that scene was so meticulously crafted and well written I can't get over it, I have lost sleep crafting essays in my mind.

"Honestly, I thought you'd be happy I was in the draw, I mean you always wanted to beat me in a tournament..." suggests more than what Patrick is saying on the surface and it's unclear if he's actually talking about tennis here.

"You come in here swinging your dick around, like I'm supposed to be afraid of it, but do you realize how embarrassing it is that you are here right now?" this is absolutely not about tennis but being played off like it is. this is entirely about the competition of tashi.

"Not as embarrassing as you being here". patrick implies art needs the ego boost and only showed up to this tournament hoping to beat his "final boss"—so he can get his mojo back and move on to bigger competitors. this part of the dialogue feels like a callback to "it's what's been missing from your tennis", e.g the jealousy that motivates art to play to his full potential.

"I always wondered what happened to you, and the more I thought about it, the more I realized, it's what didn't happen" = implied that patrick isn't over the fact that he never got to suck art's dick tbh + "you never grew up" (never moved on from the polycule situation).

toward the end of the conversation, patrick opens invitation to stop speaking in innuendos. his response "we're not talking about tennis" flares art up as he recalls the time he saw patrick with tashi once after their engagement but tried to waft it away as his imagination. "what the fuck else do I have to talk to you about?" feels like he's daring patrick to confess to something as much as he is trying to scorch him with his words which reveals pain that he fails miserably to conceal.

the callback reveal serve at the climax of the film was the confession that art already suspected deep down, but the confirmation ultimately gave him the fuel to win as patrick knew it would. when he fell into patrick's arms it wasn't a victory for the sake of having won the game but a victory in finding that satisfactory moment where the three of them could once again meet in the middle wholesomely (more sexuendos etc etc)

seemingly from the start, it was tashi who was at the center of the polycule, but the reality was that they all needed the affections of each other, and the takeaway of the story was that none of them were able to thrive without that three-way bond.