#this guy activates my neurons and then I explode

[hplonesomeart]

I mean this is basically how Mr. Puzzles Clubhouse went right? In a nutshell? Okay well maybe minus the cartoonishly exaggerated Puzzles here but come on still kinda close maybe?

Also bonus added silly notes I made during the sketching process I guess lol

[xavalav]

guys did you know that uhh. fucking bloodborne

[nonbinarywillow]

for ritsu

1. My first impression of them

2. When I think I truly started to like them

14. Best storyline they had

1.first impression was that i enjoyed his character a lot and the sibling dynamic killed me as it so often does in media. 2. gonna be soooo honest. it was like. some neuron activated in my brain because i went and bought Just volume 3 of mob psycho at a book store because it was the only one that they had and that just so happened to be the beginning of the clean up arc. i had this sitting on my desk for like ages and was like. fuck. my whole gay life. i think hes my guy now. and then he was. 14. im being so for real his confession arc moment is one of my favorite scenes in the whole series im so not bias at all . like i think about it and i need to fall over and explode every single time

[lexydakitten]

that's amazing i agree with that idea homosexual ghost. i shall o7

ok ok ok. the entire thing. with both of them . they're so wholesome ok. and i love them. in my eyes aus and iw were not very close initially and didn't interact a lot, because iw is fairly vain and aus comes off as very immature from a distance. + i don't think she'd approve of their activities that they take up once their benefactors are gone. despite having an age similarity comparable to cg and osa (ie they kind of "grew up" at the same time as each other) they were not initially very close at all like those two guys were. and i think i deserve an excuse sometime in the future to go on a tangent abt those two at some point too but not rn

and then iw falls into a series of very major mistakes and a huge chunk of her structure explodes. considering that's not supposed to happen and there's not a lot of implication imo on what effect that could have, the liberty i took is um. well she should be dead. but the very bare minimum parts of her structure are still barely operable, so when verm comes along with a stored neuron fly, her puppet can still live despite being completely detached. very difficult and she's hardly conscious of it, also in a lot of pain, the way i treat it its kinda like her consciousness and thinking is only what her puppet can do now by itself. verm takes her with them aimlessly because they want to help but the only thing they can do is keep her with them because they have one of her few neurons that were not destroyed in the process. it's chance that they ended up at aus, and the entire time that they're on this journey, none of the others know what happened to iw. at all. they can send overseers and see the destruction themself but they otherwise have no clue what happened to her, so the assumption is that it probably also killed her. but then she and verm end up with aus out of nowhere, and aus has this panicked reaction because wtf are they meant to do here. default to doing anything they can to help get her to a more stable state and relatively succeed. entire time contacting cg and him being like, you should slow down and we can work this out more we need time to think, and them completely not listening bc he can't really do anything to stop them if they're doing it fast enough lol. he does want to help it's him needing to let decisions sit until he's 100% sure of what the best one is that's his downfall. and bc hes kind of a pushover he ends up having to give in and help aus with whatever they end up doing, and helping them recover because i think they'd donate a lot of their personal resources to her in that desperation to get her to a more stable state

the result is that now iw is kinda stuck in aus's chamber for awhile? at first everyone assumes it's going to stay like that, and it's only until she starts showing signs of declining that the 3 of them start talking abt what other options they have to help her. all of them are pretty last-ditch. not where i'm going w this rn tho. i wanna talk about the meantime. when iw first regains her ability to properly communicate, she can share what happened. the problem is that she severely can't remember most of it, she doesn't actually remember why she collapsed, just the pain of it. she has small snippets of memory, mostly from journeying with verm, as they would've kept the neuron stored most of the time while moving but probably spat it out for her in safe places like shelters, letting her actually think. otherwise she's close enough to access it but not enough for it to contribute to her thinking in any way which is helpful at all. and it becomes clear that she's been through a lot to get there, is only now realizing what was going on, and a lot needs to be done to help her heal from it. aus doesn't have to acknowledge her needs beyond keeping her alive, but they do anyway, and as they get to know each other from being stuck with each other constantly they get to be very close friends. they're gay too but they don't acknowledge it they just kinda assume Yeah everybody in this position would probably feel that way towards the other person. no frame of reference for them to prove it wrong. honestly even if they did have a frame of reference they'd still probably think that way bc i know ppl irl that have had relationships like that with their friends, that's my justification it's realistic enough /silly

either way. aus does a lot of things just to make sure iw can be comfortable despite not needing to. because iw has to contend with what she does remember (the pain, and also the fact she 100% remembers snippets from traveling with verm of things like settling in a shelter that can see out and seeing in the distance chunks of what in hindsight, was definitely her own structure's half-dead corpse) and then also the fact that she still periodically is experiencing severe pain and things like losing consciousness, a constantly failing memory, etc. so aus almost always has the gravity on in their chamber even if it's less comfortable for them, at most low gravity. the only time they do 0g is to carry iw in 0g because i think she'd still need that kind of mental stimulation of her puppet in 0g from time to time, even if she needs help. vermin is allowed to come and go as they please infinitely, aus will use their resources to feed them if really needed so that they don't do the neuron fly stealing problem again. verm ends up like a shared pet to both of them bc despite being part of the initial problem they literally saved her and continuously provide comfort by being a spiky pillow. when iw's physical problems from being detached are severe i think aus would also probably go out of their way to dim the lighting of the chamber and pause whatever they're working on if possible just to be present for her. try and help support her for her memory issues by letting her ask them to remember things on her behalf to recount back to her later, or store data on pearls for her to read later that would help her remember, either way it'd be memories saved from aus's perspective but they do both for her. again not needing to whatsoever, they probably would've been the one to present that idea. a significant amt of gay has come from that part alone. off the top of my head the last thing that aus does for iw is go out of their way to search for databases that they could comb thru for information on how to help her cope(probably with cg's help given he's a culture guy. i'd say anthropology but they're not humans. whatever the equivalent would be. of all my iterator ocs he's the database hoarder i think.) but they do their best to make her as comfortable and happy as physically possible. a lot of it is creative liberty given im pretty sure like half my interpretations i make for this specifically are not the most canon compliant but idgaf i love gay /silly

they end up balancing each other very well. because they end up clicking very well. iw ends up dropping a lot of those prejudices she had for aus and also influences them to be less reckless bc she'd still prefer that the more dangerous things they do they do more safely. and aus listens to that specifically because they become close enough to her to strongly value that opinion. iw might be a little reserved compared to aus's violent silly levels but they make her get silly too they both end up sillier. etc etc etc

godd i wanna infodump abt my ocs again soo bad but im drawing a blank on what i wanna say abt them this time .... wuuugighi,.....

[danganronpasurvivoraskblog]

The Power of Hope.

Come on! We’re nearly there!

About damn time!

*Toko and Komaru continue making their way up the stairs, until they finally reach the very top of the building.

...

...

*Upon arrival, they come out into a very open area, a room with large stone pillars supporting it, and a large window overlooking the city. There is only one person present in this area.

...

*Narumi Osone is standing in the middle of the room, facing towards the door, a big smile on her face. As if she was waiting for them...

Osone...

Hi...!

Funny...I didn’t know an area this big existed here when I was trapped here...

Well, you weren’t allowed to leave...and when you were, I doubt you wanted to head up...And to be fair, this place only got here because of the renovation...

Tch...What are those things you’ve got there?

*Toko points towards a certain piece of equipment Narumi has on hand...literally. She’s wearing a pair of two very large iron gauntlets, almost the size of her whole forearm.

Oh, don’t worry about these. They’re just some little knickknacks of mine.

It’s about damn time you got here...Sorry for all those distractions you know, but I did figure that I’d only end up with you two coming up here, so that’s kinda why I did it...

...So you’ve figured out how I think from the stories alone?

Ah, right, I forgot you knew about that...My bad honestly...

No more games Osone! Where’s Akeru!?

Upstairs. There’s a small room above us where she’s being kept but...the game isn’t over just yet...

*Narumi turns and walks over to the window.

What are you looking at?

That building, down there...

*Osone uses her large metal fists to point towards a warehouse, not too far away from the apartment.

What’s that?

That’s the place where all the Neuron drones are being stored.

I have to thank Shinitani Yozora you know? She provided me with every little bit of apparatus that I needed for my scheme...And these Microchips are real deadly, you know?

...Get to the point...

Alright, keep your glasses on...!

See this thing?

*Narumi holds up a small remote controller.

That’s...Shinitani’s controller...

Yeah. But, I jury rigged it to suit my own ends.

See these two buttons? The big one on the top, that blue one, activates the drones, and as soon as I press it, they’ll scatter through the city and microchip every last man, woman, child and baby that they catch...

...Damn you...!

And the red one...it’ll blow all of them up. Poof! Kaput! Plan down the drain!

And let me guess...Your final game will be us trying to get that remote from you so we can end this all?

...Hm...

...Nah...

*Narumi shrugs...and then presses the red button...!

Both: HUH!?

*BOOM!* *BOOM!* *BAM!*

*Toko and Komaru hurridly scramble to the window. They watch in shock, as the warehouse housing all of the Neuron drones is exploded into ash.

Wha-!? Y-You just!!? What did you just do!?

You-!? You just wrecked your own goddamn plan!? 

...Heh...

*Narumi uses her gauntlets to crush the remote and toss it to the side.

Drones? Threatening people? Give me a break...That isn’t how I role. When I act villainously, I’d prefer the more straightforward methods...

Having to go through with all of that would be a waste of effort. Not worth my time.

But-!? You-!? I thought Organization Zetsubou needed those drones to reclaim the city!? Why are you on purposefully trying to fuck up your own plan!?

...The Organization? Oh...right...I guess I didn’t exactly clarify...

What...What do you mean?

You see...Other than one or two members in the group...

Most of the Zetsubou guys actually don’t know that I’m here...

Then...!? Y-You mean...!?

Yep! Everything that I’ve done in this city has nothing to do with Organizations Zetsubou’s end game plans! This was a...personal project, let’s say? To introduce me to the game...

Why!? Why go this far!? If this isn’t related to Zetsubou’s war efforts, then what’s your motive!?

My motive? Well...this of course!

Huh? This? What do you mean this!?

When it comes to the regular ol’ Zetsubou missions, Mugimu always tells me that a good story comes with a well-built up climax...Though to be honest, if not for those teachings, I would’ve skipped all those phases...

Mugimu? You mean...

Tsumugi Shirogane, yes.

The time for discussion and diplomacy has already long since passed. All of this, kidnapping Akeru, enslaving Gokuhara, mass murder...It was all leading up to the one thing...The one, SINGULAR thing, that I wanted...A simple pleasure that I wanted the honor of sharing with you...

To meet you...and to fight you...!

You did all this so you could FIGHT us!?

I’m the type of girl who loves a good fight, though my small stature leaves me at a few disadvantages, so I have to improvise. But you Komaru, were destined to be my penultimate opponent!

What the hell are you talking about?

The stories that my mama told me...about you and your brother.

Makoto is so strong...and so cool...and oh sooo dreamyyyy...

*Narumi seductively licks her lips.

O-Ok we get it, you have the hots for my brother, keep talking!

But you, Komaru, are your own beast. Makoto before now has never really fought physically but you’ve gone through armies of Monokumas.

So all of this madness. It was all so I could face you myself...and to see if the stories my mama told me were true...

If this was all to get Komaru here so you could face off with her...Then what’s the point of all the pain and death you’ve put us through up until this point!?

Yeah! Why do all of that!? There was no need for any of it!

On the contrary...There was a good reason I needed to do it...

Huh?

Truth be told...Yes, I work for Organization Zetsubou...But I absolutely despise Despair...I can’t STAND it!

The stories my mama told me inspired me, mainly for one reason. You and your brother never gave up, even when you came close to ruin. Your Hope shone through all the Despair that Junko Enoshima and Monaca Towa respectively put you through.

That got me thinking about how what’s important is not the destination, but the journey. I grew up loving nothing more than the idea of a man or woman like yourselves going through so much pain, and strife, and in the end, triumphing...

I have no respect for those who fall into Despair and give up...Those types of people aren’t fighters like us...and I don’t think they’re fit to live...Take your friend Kazuomi Samejima for example. He pathetically just laid down and died...He wasn’t fit to be a player in this. He was weak, pathetic, and-

Don’t you DARE TALK ABOUT KAZUOMI LIKE THAT!

But it’s true though! Had he used his friends death as his Hope of winning, as opposed to just a half-baked desire for revenge, he might’ve won...

Point is...What matters to me is not whether I win, or I lose...in fact, while I don’t intend to back down, I’d very much lose than win.

This is absolutely bonkers! What kind of bad guy actively WANTS to lose!?

This battle will be the final trial of the game...Overcome me...and you win...But I won’t hold back on trying to kill you two, so if you do die...Well, that’ll leave me very disappointed...And I guess I’d just kill Akeru too while I was at it.

You’re deranged! And psychotic! All of what you did didn’t need to happen!

What about Akeru’s life!? What about the lives of all her friends that you killed!? What about Gonta Gokuhara’s freedom!? What about all of that chaos and drama!!?

Hmph...

Chump change...

!!!??

!!!??

Toko...

Yeah...

*Komaru and Toko tightly grip their hacking gun and taser respectively...

Fine Osone...you want a fight...I’ll give you your fight...But I don’t plan on being diplomatic...!

Just what I wanted to hear!

But before we start, let me clarify one thing with you...

Huh?

You’re mistaken you know? About one thing.

You might herald me as a hero, who overcame everything that was thrown at her...but that isn’t completely true...

I overcame those situations for one reason...I had Toko with me.

...

If I hadn’t had her to support me through all of that, I would’ve fallen into Despair a long, long time ago. She’s saved my life...and I’ve saved hers on similar occasions. Monaca...Haiji...Everything else...It’s all been because Toko and I have been together that we overcame those. Toko was there for me when I needed her, all the time, every time, and it’s only because that that I can even Hope to be the hero you revere me as.

I’m not a hero. And I have nothing I need to prove to you. But I have overcome everything in the past alongside Toko, and you aren’t going to be any different.

Ahahahaha! Fighting talk! I love it! Now...

*Osone places her hands behind her back and runs straight at the duo...!

LET’S SEE YOU LIVE UP TO IT!

YOU’RE GOING DOWN!

TIME TO DIE YOU LITTLE SHIT!

//Komaru Naegi and Toko Fukawa VS Narumi Osone!//

[ineffablegame]

Into the New Year

So.  I’ve had a spell to think and breathe after running around all day.  I have a bag of salt and vinegar chips and a glass of wine at my elbow, an episode of Schitt’s Creek playing on another window, and a very insistent dog demanding to be petted at my side.   This week feels like it’s been three weeks long but I’ve been reading lovely, emotional New Years posts for the last 20 minutes and my brain is absolutely buzzing (that could be partially the wine, but I’m chalking most of it up to good feels).  

This is going to sound so corny, but I never expected Good Omens to be made into such a wonderful TV show - I certainly didn’t expect a fun, kind, wonderful fandom to spring up around it, and for my obsession with the book from my pre-teen years to come full circle and hit me smack in my late twenties.  It’s a funny kind of path that’s brought me here - I joined Tumblr years ago with a love for Good Omens, saw @hoursago‘s gorgeous fanart, and tangentially fell in love with Sherlock as a result.  Having exhausted most of the GO fandom’s fanfic, I moved in to a more active fandom.  

Then the show Happened and my love for GO exploded back into life.  I tried to explain it to one of my BFFs once, and the best comparison I could make was, “Imagine if Animorphs got made into an awesome TV show,” which is when he fully understood the depths of my enthusiasm.  (He fucking LOVES Animorphs.)

I’ve had a long, exhausting year.  I was diagnosed with OCD, which illuminated my past in a big way, and shortly after that I had to move out of my apartment and sever a good friendship.  Following that, I got a second job and started an online course.  Fast forward to people quitting at the part-time job and me getting scheduled a lot more than I would like.  Honestly, I’m always feeling stretched thin.  

But this fandom invigorates me.  I look at the incredible artwork and read the incredible fic and I feel like all my neurons are firing fit to light me up from the inside.  You guys make me want to create more art, and that in itself is an incredible gift to give to another person:  the will to make things.  On the same level of importance is feedback.  I’ve been so lucky to get very good, kind, supportive feedback on my writing from all kinds of people.  When I’m having a shitty day, I go to one of my fic and read through the comments for a little mood and confidence boost.  When I need to remind myself that I’m not all the awful things the insidious corners of my brain like to tell me I am, when I need to feel like I can do something right, I read those comments.  

So, to all of you:  thank you, thank you, thank you.  This lovely, loving fandom has given me more confidence, enthusiasm, and inspiration over the year than I could have imagined when I first read that Good Omens was finally coming to the screen.  Thank you for reading my writing, sharing your immense talent, and, most of all, for invigorating me.  

Here’s the short list of my fic this year:

Blank Cards and Infinite Stakes: A series of one shots varying from silly to somber with everything in-between.  Most contain Ineffable Husbands.  Buzz words include:  road-trips!  Bible stories!  Scotland shenanigans!  Raunchy nuns!  Phallic cookies!  Crucifixion!

our side: WIP.  This angst-fest takes place after Armageddon, when humans make war with Heaven and Hell.  Traumatized and desperate to hide, Aziraphale and Crowley retreat to a cottage in the South Downs to wait out the war - or wait until the war comes to them.