#tldr im kind of bad at drawing for other people which is why i decided to start a shop instead of becoming a freelancer LMFAO
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WHO IS EOC? i am very curious now!!!
>:) okay SO
tumblr picture formatting is utter garbage and i dont want these to take up too much space so im cramming these drawings into one row (or not if this crapsite breaks on me, because it seems to be REALLY fighting me on this, so if it ends up not making a nice little picture row know that i tried my best). but this is effigy of composure!
he has a couple problems, but the big one is that his superstructure has a terrible parasite situation. the parasites are flat, thin, and able to make it into grooves and pipes the inspectors cant reach. flushing out doesnt do much to dislodge them and they breed faster than they can be killed, so theyve happily made their homes in this sheltered, food-rich haven (to the obvious distress and horror of the host iterator). originally the concept for these parasites were much closer to centipedes and had the placeholder name "synapcipedes," but ive since started leaning more towards an obvious tapeworm motif for them because its gross and i enjoy it morbidly. it also has some pretty cursed implications if you think about it for too long which i have decided are funny/really disgusting/so stupid that they have to stay. i still flipflop between considering them centipedes vs tapeworms though and i dont think thatll ever be rigidly defined. the ambiguity is nice to toy with
on the top 10 list of "things that are not fun" having turbo worms has to be somewhere up there, so eoc has it *rough,* and kind of sort of eventually barrels off into the deep end because of it. his futile attempts to clean his own structure are frustrating enough, and the constant feeling of bugs crawling all over the inside of his body (which only gets progressively worse with time) does no favors either. however, the real big reason why he mentally declines is just because there's a ton of centi-worm things eating like fire through his neurons and other what-have-yous that iterators need to think and function. i think if he only got hit with one of these 3 things then he might have been able to hang onto his sanity, but with the triple combo he doesn't really stand a chance of doing much except stalling his functional death. which is good on him because if i was an iterator and my overseers told me i had a structure infestation, my mental health would have just preemptively swan dived off a bridge before anything even happened
anyhow, exponential parasite population growth meant exponential increase in all this other fun stuff, which means the time from the beginning of the infection to the time eoc is considered officially gone is startlingly short (for iterators, at least). it still took quite the while because losing your marbles is a loonnnng process, but still, yikes. its unfortunate because eoc was a real jokester pre-everything, and a cool guy to talk to. he was one of those people who could come up witty comments for anything like hed been ripped from the script of a sitcom. oh yeah, also, should have mentioned this earlier, but he ends up accidentally amassing a scavenger cult mid-insanity which goes hilariously bad because he's barely aware it's happening. nothing really works out for this poor iterator.
tldr: eoc gets parasites, they erode his brain, he goes nuts about it, (accidentally amasses a cult,) dies
#thank you for asking!#oc: eoc#rainworld#my art#ask#tw parasites#his complexity rating is low because he loses personality during/after the whole insanity thing#and also because he really only existed as the crux for the scavenger cult until recently#he became more of a character and less of a background plot device#why is the readmore broken wtf
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since quinton said he liked to hear about stuff his fans go through while watching his videos uhhh here's a bit about me i guess
i discovered and binge watched the first 3 videos on the series when i was in a bad place in terms of a lot of stuff, but specially when it came to my art, i valued my art not in "do i enjoy making it" but in "would other people like it and see it", which considering im a small as fuck artist, was not a good thing, no one ever saw my art outside of my close circle (which i no longer consider a bad thing because my close circle rocks)
after the second victorious video came out, i decide to make my own Victorious AU called Failure, which would be about how the main characters grow up to NOT become stars, having very average lives and feeling kind of miserable
This post sucks, but it had what I made for it
I feel like my brain didn't came up with this idea because it would be fun for me to work on, but because it would perhaps get me traction, and it sorta did, 58 upvotes babyyy, I was honestly so thrilled about it that I wanted to write a script for it
And I couldn't, why? Because I didn't want to actually work in it, it felt more like a job than a project, and it's not like I was getting paid for it! But I felt like I had to do it because how else am I going to get a following?
I was also, yknow, severely depressed at the time so I didn't feel like drawing or writing
I also found many flaws on my first post, so I decided to make a new one, this time with no art because I was just, exhausted
Here is said version, I actually think is quite nice nowadays
I eventually got over this feeling, although it took a while, I don't even know how I did it, it just slowly happened gradually while learning to love myself
Now I'm watching the Sam & Cat video, and thinking "yknow, I should maybe revisit that au, it would be funny", and it has made me realize just how far I have come, now I don't want to make art to become famous or approved, but because I enjoy making it!!! It is honestly very nice
Tldr I'm making a victorious au maybe, you can't stop me
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Are you ever going to do custom items for people?? Like, you drawing a custom picture for someone and then making it into a charm or pin for them, or just selling it in your shop in general?
Iāve definitely considered opening custom charm commissions and its something I may do in the future! I would probably only sell the design in my shop if it were a fan art commission as selling other peopleās ocās feels kind of weird haha, but if it were ambiguous enough of a design I would consider it with the commissionerās permission.In any case, thatās something Iāll have to figure out the terms and pricing of more in depth before opening! I can say my commissions wont be open any time this year.Also Iāve been getting quite a few messages about opening my comms so I just want to talk briefly about why Iāve had so much trouble opening them this past year under the cut:
The thing about commissions is that at this point, Iām a little wary on how to price them. At my old price points they just really donāt feel like Iām earning enough to justify taking time away from my shop and other art, and the stress and anxiety that befalls me from taking them on is just another factor that makes me hesitant to reopen them. Iām really not sure I can afford to spend time drawing a full body of someone elseās OC for $25 anymore because the time it would take me would be time I could use to create new merch that would benefit my job a whole lot more than a one time commission could. Iām a pretty slow artist and already have trouble dividing my personal and work art. I could raise my prices but I already feel an overwhelming pressure to create something really nice when people are paying me for my art, so charging even higher rates would probably cause that fear of the commissionerās expectations to rise. I really donāt want to get into a situation where I take other peopleās money and then canāt deliver what I promise. So if I ever open my comms again, it will probably be for small experimental stuff, or doodle comms ^^; Just felt like I should address this since I get questions about it every so often!
#FAQ#tldr im kind of bad at drawing for other people which is why i decided to start a shop instead of becoming a freelancer LMFAO#that-gay-dumpster#askibble
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A lil group portrait of the time au adventuring gang!! Them <333
Basically tol fucked up as a kid and is now on the run from the law, but realized that since his life was so crazy he could live off of telling stories of his wacky adventures. When he met Jay he wanted him to come with him, and when he found out jay couldn't come cus he was virtually a demon/god/magic magnet he decided he NEEDED to bring him to capitalize on how it'd make more cool stories. And yeah it worked so since then he's been collecting wackos to aaa go crazy aaaa go stupid (and also bcus safety I numbers or whateva, pop and pip are also criminals and pastel and jay are crimes against god <3) more about each individual under the cut!
Doin them from left to right :)
Pastel: died when she was messing around with some friends and got stuck under a big rock and left to starve. But because of a fluke in the underworld her God decided to resurrect her, a right usually only belonging to saints. Because of this she's now poorly pretending that she totally did something to deserve being revived (she tells a different story every time someone asks, she thinks it's funny) to avoid being persecuted for suspected witchcraft. She met Jay when they were both drunk and they had fun fucking around in the city, and she spilled the beans to him that she was revived for no reason. She regretted it, but jay didn't kill her because even though he's religious he knew what it felt like to be magically cursed and have everyone be pissed at u for it. Also she's really funny with jay so tol begged her to come with them to add more Comedy(tm) to his memoirs
Pop: a time traveller and angel who is trying to hide both of those facts but only really succeeding at hiding the time travel thing. When they were a kid they traveled to this time with his friends Lustre and Cherrybomb, but when they were attacked by the vicious royal guard they weren't able to escape without leaving Lustre behind. Cherrybomb super repressed that memory, and while pop recovered from some minor injuries they vowed to never time travel again. Yeah they only kept that up until they were like 15, but they still couldn't bring themself to go back to when they left Lustre. But now they're 26 (well technically they're like 33 but in their time their supposed to be 26) living with their boyfriend cherrybomb and have years of time travel experience under their belt, and they're ready to go back. Except they can't go back because they created a travel block for themself by accident because of how upsetting the event was, so instead they traveled as close as they could, about 10 years in the future of the time. Now they search for any form of closure, all they need to know is what happened to their friend, and they will do whatever it takes to find this out. But angels aren't super welcome in the past, especially not with uncut wings, so it's not exactly easy for them to navigate this time period. But after a while of their search they met two lovely children (well young adults), a demon and a "cursed" (nowadays they call em spiritually gifted) and felt so bad for how much the world seemed to be against them they decided they could travel with them, just for a bit, to protect them. They tried not to get attached. They failed. They're in it for the long run now aren't they TwT also as they explore this time and learn more about the gods, they start to realize that they might... be the God of longevity???? Or at least an older version of them became them? Time travel is fucked man
Btw Lustre plays a big role in this plot, her hyper futuristic knowledge, 'blessed' white eyes, and strange God gifted clothing would all lead to him rising to a much different role than fugitive rather quickly, but they're not who this post is about ;) also I'm gonna go bottom to top for the 3 in the middle let's go
Lune: just a little guy :) lune is a young rancher/gardener who worships the God of the wood, who kind of goes missing sometimes and is lowkey the least loyal God but shhhh he loves them. Lune and tol were childhood friends (along with their pal cleo) but on one of their little excursions tol took something very important to a very powerful king, and refused to give it back. As retribution the king destroyed their entire town, and cleo put all the blame on tol, tol and lune both knew lune had to take the side against tol in order to not have the town turn on him. So yeah he moved with the town to bring up a brand new farm, long awaiting the day when tol would come home and say that things were OK and they could settle back in town together, hopefully with cleo too. That didn't happen, but tol did come back and peer pressure lune into part time adventuring with him! So yeah generally lune just runs his lil farm and prays, but when tol comes to pick him up he gets a chance to go be free to act batshit crazy, just like when he was a kid š„°
Pipes: DEmon! One time lune and tol had a little squabble so lune was like 'im gonna get a new best friend and ur gonna regret this' and tol was like 'yeah right, u live with a bunch of criminals right now no one's gonna wanna be ur bestie dumbass' so lune just walked into a cave at night and dragged out this little nonverbal demon because demons who live alone in caves don't have high standards for friends. Even tho it was just a ploy to make tol jealous lune went super hard on it and now pipes is actually friends with the gang lmaoo
Tol: like I said with lunes, stole something important from a king as a kid, monarch got pissed, blew up the town, town got pissed at tol for it, and since then he's been on the run because he's too stubborn to give back the damn thing (they could have just attacked HIM for it, but since la queen decided to fuck with his town, his family, tol thinks he doesn't deserve to have it back.) He had to run from town to town and got into a lot of danger in his attempts at finding places to hide, but he lacks fear and tended to fight stuff off. As a kid he found that he could get enough pity to be welcomed into towns if he told people he had to fight a monster to get there, so he told stories at every town and camp he went to of his hardships. But as he got older, those he stayed with beckoned him to keep talking, and more and more people said they had heard of his adventures. And that's when when it clicked, his shining ticket to true freedom wasn't a place, it was his stories. They gave him food, shelter, fun, memories, a life. So he made it his mission to never settle down, to make his life as crazy as possible and to talk about it as much as possible, and if he ever ran out of energy to adventure, he'd spend the rest of his dying days writing and writing his entire life story. He thought this was a life he'd live alone, but one day he sought refuge in jays little lonely house because he thought it was abonded, luckily though Jay had just been praying for a second chance at life and decided that considering the timing, tol must be that second chance. So yeah jay patched him up, found out on his monthly supply route he was harboring someone very wanted, and took care of tol even harder because he didn't know or care why he was wanted, he just knew that anyone who had a drawing of them as a child on a wanted poster definitely didn't deserve it. So yeah they're besties now.
AAA I wrote out a really long description for jay but tumblr glitched and I lost it :'O ble here's a shorter rewrite cus I'm not writing out that whole thing again >:P
Jay: brought up in a church village,, he was born with the curse, which allows him to tap into magical properties very easily, and be very easily controlled, manipulated, and possessed by them. This allowed him to be very connected with his god (the god of longevity) but also meant he was often treated as a security risk and a monster by the adults of his town since he could let in evil spirits so easily. He spent most of his time praying and he became obsessed with acting on compulsions (repeated prayer, overscrubbing, scratching himself, touching religious things until he felt like he touched them "right") because he believed they were messages from God and would prevent him from becoming evil (look he was a teenager and everyone told him he was a monster his whole life leave him be.) He gets possessed twice, mage as a rep of the town is like "either have ur cursed removed or leave town forever" (uncursing is only hypothetically possible, it's hella dangerous) and he's scared itd sever his connection to his god so he leaves and he's upset bcus his entire life plan was built around his church, so now he's livin alone on a hill and leaving like once a month, he stays up there and sews and prays mostly, he sort of works on himself and becomes vaguely mentally stable, so he prays for a second chance at life since he lost his original path and needs a sign where to go, and then boom tol shows up and the rest is history. Now he has his own little family and things are going great :) other than the still getting possessed like once a week but shhhh
Pip: in between the entrance to hell and the religious central of the continent is a little town that sides with neither. They mostly fuck around and find out, and in this town lives a monster researcher and her less formal wife, pip! Pip is just a silly goofy little guy livin life, and when the crazy bunch shows up she feels like he's finally found her people :3 and for the first time the group gains a member who's begging to join them as opposed to the other way around
Ya and together they all go on wacky lil adventures with demons and monsters and monarchs and what not.
Tldr pastel is a funny lil dead guy, pop is a time traveller and the Adult of the team, lunes a lil farmer man, pipes a hobo demon they picked up off the side of the road, tols a little criminal demon adventurer, jays a religious weirdo who tol dragged out of his hermit hut, and pips an insane little guy
#theyre all adults in this au tol is just short </3#artinevee#art#oc#digital art#original character#time au#pastel#pop#lune#pipes#tol#jay#pip#chibi#cute#fantasy#original story#for once instagram gets a drawing before yall because i had to find time to rewrite the jay and pip sections#Tolverse
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the thing about the mod steph and mod nero of greatcomettexting is that i never got to parse out how icky they made me feel whenever i drew boundaries but i really want to because i still feel icky about it so ill warm myself some cawfee and do it now
nero talks a lot about howĀ ānone of us what REAL callout worthy things hes done!!ā but i figure so long as my skins crawling about how obsessed they both were with me then i can risk his constant talk in every new server he joined about how he āhas attempted literal actual murderā even if it was just him having an episode in high school and lobbing a brick
mod stephās already had a huge history of not knowing when to draw boundaries with people and theres a dozen fucking people who can vouch for this because they all stopped talking to her once she started this weird shit. whether it was suicide baiting people into pitying her and listening to her for like all of 2017 or copy pasting other peoples vents to send herself(wild?) in the Vent Channel. clara talks a lot every one or two years about how much shesĀ āchangedā but she continually tests these boundaries to fuck around with people and nero isnt better in this respect at all. it felt like sometimes theyd realize something was a boundary for someone and then trigger it on purposeĀ
like. the first and biggest and weirdest thing is that nero and clara would take entire conversations iād had years ago and roleplay them out WORD FOR WORD in text or on call. sometimes id get uncomfortable with how clearly they remembered each word in the conversation. this wasnt a one off thing, this went on from 2018 to today, and it really really disturbed me, but i had no idea how to talk to either of them about it, because when i did clara would act like she had no clue what i was talking about, and say shit likeĀ āālisten jules, i feel like this is one of those instances where you think somethings happening, but it isnt.ā the excuse nero used for this was thatĀ āive always thought jules was so coolā but that doesnt explain copying out entire conversations i had that he shouldnt really remember from as early as 2017. it did feel at times like he enjoyed taking on the role of me in these conversations and saying the things i said out loud. this got very very creepy very very fast
that brings me to the next thing which was this. weird obsessive fascination mod steph had with my approval. there is just so much shit.Ā she picked up her other nameĀ āclaraā from a friend i have named kai who used to go by clara--the reason steph picked this name was because i would gush a lot about kai to her (which made me really happy because clara would have borderline suicidal breakdowns when i talked about my other friends.)Ā she got really really fucking uncomfortable whenever i gave approval to anyone else too and would act like. a petulant child if i couldnt give her compliments she wanted. the most recent example of this was that i complimented someones selfie that wasnt hers she stayed cold to me for two days. i finally decided to ask her what was wrong and she admitted she had feltĀ ākind of badā when i ignored her selfie and when i asked her why she didnt communicate this to me, she explained she gets kind ofĀ āmean when shes highā (she doesnt, she has a bpd break for julesyboyās approval when shes high.) she would also get super uncomfortable when i expressed attraction to Anyone, (romantic OR platonic) and begin comparing herself to them (why do this) on text and on call. a most memorable recent experience of this was when i explained to her in detail about a guy i like whoād bit his knuckle, and then she posted selfies everywhere of her blushing profusely and. biting her knuckle (and it really really wasnt the same, poor thing, she really did try.) theres dozens upon dozens of examples of this
and i realise that whole paragraph is wild and kind of funny if you think about it in the context of... like, a kid who admires the attention of their friend. but clara and nero would try their hardest all the time to test everyones boundaries to the point where it got way too weird. if nero knew something was specific to someones abuse heād make sure to push them about it or make posts about howĀ āweak!ā it was for people to deal withĀ āx and x.ā or if someone were to expressed a self harming behaviour he would jump in wĀ āOMG! LISTEN! I DO THIS TOO!!.ā or he would make jokes about himĀ āselling pics! this is just a reminder! :3 happy valentines day!ā (same post, all platforms) before three of my friends who were sex workers approached me asking if this was a weird little joke. it really did feel like at times he said things he knew would shock people the most. and it really did feel like at times every time someone said something out of the ordinary he would. go out of his way trying to say he did that too, it wasnt a big deal. āit doesnt matter if youve self harmed yourself a lot, have i talked about how i once attempted murder yet. does that sound too edgy? i know people are scared of me... omg... omg omg.ā and like this is all fine because if you hear his tinkly baby voice on call none of this shit is all that scary, no matter how much he talks aboutĀ āhow his friends think hes really really toughā (where are his friends.) but it does get a little weird when you think about how much of my trauma i confided in both of these two only to have nero blow it off, and how much they enjoyed doing that thing where they would roleplay out my conversationsĀ from 2017 with nero in the role of saying the things i responded with.
the reason ive typed out this long ass post is bc it literally just made my skin itch a little. it still does. when nero and clara would Do The Thing where they played out julesā old conversations and . when they would post a lot of selfies with captions like āahhh i love myself! i promise!ā only to see my pictures from 2017 and goĀ āughh... i was REALLY ugly back then, but i promise im pretty now! clara/nero was ugly too, not gonna lie!ā before venting about how they were never satsified w their reflections in the mirror it was weird. when clara would vent every night i didnt compliment like. a fucking selfie of hers. about how Unloved She Truly Was it was weird. like bros i am an abused neet living at home and after im done college im fucking out of here forever... u have nothing to be weirdly obsessed about, and copying out conversations i had with you and things i said to years ago wonāt make u love yourself any more
tldr:Ā mods neroratio and stephclara were very microobsessed with my attention and with attention in general to the point where they would literally roleplay being me and act like i wasĀ āmaking things up in my headā when i asked them wtf was wrong. and if you remember them from greatcomettexting and admired them for speaking their truthĀ then like. this is what they were like
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Also scrolling through tumblr and just seeing your posts about your dm and stuff is like sitting at a table in the library, reading, and hearing someone two tables over talking loudly and itās just the weirdest shit and you kind of donāt know whether to respond or what is even happening
itās like this post but im the anon
anyways i will TRY to do my best to explain everything in a condensed form. Basically 2014~2015 i was super depressed bc I got a case of that tasty chronic illness, so I joined this community online called the p0kemon daily/ask community (I donāt want this to show up related to that)... aka just started running a blog where I drew some pokemon characters every day and took drawing prompts / interactions / etc about them. It was cute, I guess, but mostly it was a good way to draw everyo day (it improved my art SO much) and get myself out of bed.
ANYWAYS i ended up joining several discords, etc for some more socialization. And there are a LOT of weird people in the discords, and a lot of varying ages; a lot of the discords were mostly annoying because it would be a mix of like 20ish year olds (such as my dm) and 15ish year olds (me) and rhe 20ish year olds modelled less than appropriate adulr behavior. The main server I was in and interacted with was my DMās.
Some examples lol: the one whoās now my dm told me her fetish awakening when she was like ~19 and I was ~15, and she wasnāt even the first to do that. Other things were just constantly joking about piss kinks (which is why i didnt interact with the biggest server of the community), having blogs centered around twincest and not many people finding that an issue, general inability to interact with children and keep porn in appropriate channels, etc. Some of it is more egregious and some of it is just annoying, but yeah, i have a LOT of weird stories from this time.
On top of that, there was just a lot of drama that youād expect from a community of teenagers, anything from like lgbtphobia (such as the friend I used to watch movies/shows with all the time for years and was my closest friend for a while because of my isolation coming out and saying āactually my uber christian ass has decided that bible says gay ISNT okayā) to āminors should see porn ive been looking at porn since i was 12 ans turned out fineā (my dm) to just āthis person is fucking annoying as hell.ā Plus thereās some special art community flavor like āthis person requests drawing prompts / scenarios that are like.. subtly kink.ā
Anyways thatās a tangent in regards to my dm, but the main things you need to know is shes one of those people who claims to be centrist but is actually very right (except in regards to identity/lgbt+ politics), and that she was really bad at imodding her serverā between the whole āinability to talk to children without being weirdā as well as just generally being unwilling to punish peopleā as well as just like... a vaguely scummy person overall, just not enough to outright drop (because I was overly sympathetic). Cuz of this, I made my own server essentially to be a place I was comfy in. Years later she has said this was āhurtfulā or whatever because I ended up with a lot of people that were in her server. Blah blah blah. Thereās a reason they left, girl.
So it goes, etcetera. She was in my server for a bit and clearly bitter and still scummy. I didnāt interacr directly with her much even then, though she weirdly seemed to see me as a friend. More drama happened, eventually we go to ghosting each other for like 2 years straight.
Then she invites me to dnd out of fucking nowhere lol. I kind of figured sheād grown less tolerant and changed based on certain things, but nope. Sheās the same.
Anyways, the campaign mostly suffers because she has run 5 campaigns in this setting and thus itās literally CONSTANT lore dumping / exposition, for months. And in between that, rather than doing character rp or generally letting us guide the story, she just shoves pokemon battles in front of us. And itās very mechanically pokemon, so the battles really are just as simple a spamming a move til itās dead. Weāll play for 3 hours and the summation of the session will be āfought a bossā (because thereās a boss every session) and āgot lore on another legendary.ā Also thereās a lot of tonal issues... she kind of went for āgoofy cultā as the enemies and suddenly a month later theyāre like torturing people and shit, meanwhile there was a member of the party who was cursed to wear clown shoes all the time, so just, wack. Itās not just me who has an issue with this stuff, given that 2/5 people have left from boredom, and 4/5 people have vented about it in a private server thatās just āour group minus the dmā that nobodyās snitched on (which also says something).
Everything I vent about her is just the cherry on top, lol
i guess a tldr on my already condensed thing: my dm was one of the many weirdos with bad opinions and inability to talk to children I used to have as part of my friend group, and sheās not really changed all that much after she invited me to dnd for some godforsaken reason
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very long, very personal post
tldr, im still not drawing but hereās a detailed account of everything thatās happened in case anyone is confused or misinformed
alright. let me start out by saying iām not going back to art just yet. it still hurts to do anything art related and iām still trying to find a way to heal from all of this. i need some kind of professional help first, and i donāt know how long itāll take afterwards for me to begin feeling like myself again. i donāt even know if iāll be able to get any kind of professional help at the moment; my universityās counseling center told me, in short, that iām so mentally ill that their services would not be enough for me and iād have to look elsewhere (which is reasonable, tbh, theyāre almost always completely booked so itās difficult to actually even talk to someone there in the first place, i only got to talk to them to begin with because i nearly killed myself one night after having the most intense panic attack of my life where i felt like i was actually in the process of dying) and as if that werenāt enough, if you follow me on twitter youād know that my mom finally left my stepdad, but this means that we no longer really have a home to call our own and are now living with some of my momās friends. on the bright side, miso is a lot freer and gets to explore the house as he pleases, but on the downside money is tight and my mom is trying her best to find a place to live while working two jobs and trying to help pay for my tuition. long story short, i want some kind of professional help badly, but all the bullshit thatās been happening in my life makes that difficult.Ā
anyway, i understand that iāve worried a lot of people through all of this, and iām sorry. i truly, genuinely am sorry for everything thatās been going on. i blame a lot of it on myself not being strong enough. if i were stronger, i wouldnāt care about some stupid internet trolls, or some random grown man in florida stalking all my social media. if i were stronger, i could take my life back. i wouldnāt feel the need to constantly contemplate suicide, or to torture my own body by starving because of my physical form feeling like the only thing i have left to be in control of. if i had only been stronger, like my old stupidly foolish overconfident 16 year old self who got into fucking STEVEN UNIVERSE DISCOURSE of all things, maybe i wouldnāt care. even when it first happened to me, after the initial shock and hiatus, i was pretty much back to normal almost instantly.Ā but this kind of trauma is sneaky and will gradually eat away at you more and more while you pretend to be ok, and then eventually you reach a breaking point and itās taken over your life. thatās why iām still obsessing over that day two years later. thatās why i canāt be left alone on december 13th this year, or else i know for a fact i will harm myself in some way. (donāt worry about that though, burger is going to hang out with me that day and iāll be fine.) still, even though i keep telling myself my past self was stronger, i do know that she really wasnāt. she was still struggling with depression, anxiety, and self harm issues. maybe it just manifested differently for a while. maybe she felt unstoppable at some point in time because she finally found a girlfriend and got a cat. i got into so many fights that werenāt worth my time or energy at all, and part of me wishes i could be that confident again, but i also know that was my downfall to begin with.
i have followers who havenāt been around for longer than a year or maybe less than two, so i might as well give everyone a true, thorough rundown of what happened leading up to that day, the day of, and after.Ā
iām sure a lot of you who are worried about me at the moment have seen the recent callout for colboh and his involvement in what happened. iāll be honest--i donāt know the full extent of his involvement, and i want to believe his foolishness ends at not leaving artists who have blocked him alone and uploading their shit to booru sites when they explicitly state not to. so letās just start there. i honestly donāt remember if it was before or after i first blocked him, but he uploaded one of my NSFW drawings to danbooru when i first shared my NSFW blog. (PROTIP: if youāre a minor, donāt share your NSFW art with anyone. donāt care if youāre 17, i was about to turn 17 myself. it will bite you in the ass. as such, some of this is my fault.) i quickly contacted danbooru asking them to delete it, and they did--but that artwork subsequently ended up on gelbooru as well, and i was unsuccessful in my efforts to remove my art from there.Ā Ā
fast forward to december 13th, 2016. it was a normal morning. i was getting ready for school, but also being dumb and lazing around in bed browsing tumblr. i saw a post from a blog that shares Funny 4chan Screencaps. my art was in it. the art was of a very muscular yuugi, a drawing i was proud of, especially in how much gay energy i thought it radiated--but this drawing was being used in one of those typicalĀ āhereās a touhou, i wanna fuck her! am i right guys? letās talk about how badly we want to fuck herā threads. seeing my art used for this was appalling. my first mistake was reblogging the post and saying how it was wrong, and how my art shouldnāt ever be used for such a purpose. my second mistake was making a text post AND tweets expressing my disgust at the situation, thinking no one who frequented /jp/ would ever see, sure that it would be a big waste of their time to concern themselves with some random dumbĀ āāsjwāā artist. i also probably shouldnāt have specifically called themĀ āgross neckbeards,ā in doing so i absolutely struck a nerve with basement dwellers everywhere. i got to school and during my second period class, suddenly felt a strange urge to look at /jp/. why i did that, i still donāt really know. maybe i was expecting hate. maybe i was trying to see if they used my art for something gross again. i donāt know. either way, that moment changed everything forever. i saw the screencap of my tweets posted for everyone in theirĀ circlejerk to see. even worse--i looked in the thread, and someone had also posted the NSFW art colboh had uploaded to danbooru, mocking it and calling me a hypocrite for drawing two girls having sex while also saying i donāt like my art being used for those kinds of threads. this is what truly ignited the amount of hate i saw directed towards me in the threads. i got called a bitch, a drama whore, got told to kill myself, and in one reply etched into my mind forever, someone said something along the lines ofĀ āwe should all call her local gang and have them rape her, she just needs a good dicking.ā there were multiple threads, too; i donāt know how many, but there was another one about me after the first one was deleted, in which someone edited a typical fat balding NTR hentai doujin style man into art i made of kagerou nosebleeding at wakasagihime. more disparaging comments were made. in both threads, people expressed their hatred and dislike of my art, some calling it garbage, some just saying itāsĀ ābad,ā etc. some people said the threads were unnecessary and rude, but they were a kind few in a cesspool of violence.
i donāt know who started these threads. i canāt assume anything about anyone, but whoever did this was definitely looking through all my social media out of bitterness and hatred, or perhaps even following me on both my tumblr and twitter considering the timing of the threads immediately after i complained. it eats at me that i most likely will never know who did this to me. iāll never know who hated me so much that they decided to completely destroy my self esteem. if whoever it is who did all of this is reading this and feels any ounce of remorse, iām begging them to reveal themselves and why they did it, but i know the chances of that happening are incredibly slim. someone, i canāt remember who, maybe it was queenly, told me they hope someday i reach a point where i donāt have to worry about that because i wonāt care in general, but i still donāt know if iāll ever reach a point where i stop caring about all of this.
like i mentioned earlier, after this all first happened, i was destroyed. the next day, my schoolās GSA happened to have a vote for whose art would be on the club t-shirts, mine or someone elseās. mine lost. i broke down completely--anywhere i went, i wasnāt good enough, not for anyone. for days, there was a constant feeling of horror and fearĀ in my chest, something iāve only ever felt so intensely when one of these threads resurfaces or i suddenly relive my trauma due to other things triggering me. i took a hiatus that lasted a few weeks, i believe i came back sometime before the new year. i thought i was ok, and i pretended like i could go back to being myself. but as time went on, and i continued living with the weight of that day on my back, i became weaker and weaker. i stopped drawing as frequently as i used to. my final year of high school started and i ended up falling into such a deep depression that i constantly skipped school and eventually attempted suicide in november 2017.Ā the suicide note i wrote cites that day as being one of the main things leading me to my decision, telling whoever did this to me that i hoped in my passing theyād have to live knowing what they did to me. my attempt only failed because i swore to take every pill left in the bottle and there were only four pills. had it been full, iām not really sure what would have happened. i was sent to a mental institute afterwards for a week. being there was the absolute definition of hell. i was alone. i cried myself to sleep every night. they claimed to be a place where people were improved and got help, but i did not get any help at all. they basically imprisoned me for trying to kill myself. when i got out, i was only glad to be alive because i just wanted to be able to talk to my friends, my family, and my girlfriend again. it still shocks me that i was able to graduate from high school considering how much school i skipped before and after my suicide attempt.
sometime before that school year ended, i became extremely upset one afternoon and decided to run away from home. i had what happened to me and what was said about me that day running through my head. i tweeted that i hoped maybe in running away iād end up being raped like they wanted, like how i deserved. someone who i considered a friend replied to this with,Ā āfuck you.ā after all of this was taken care of and i was safe at home, i responded that i was sorry, that i wasnāt thinking right when i made the tweet. she responded that i was, and blocked me. i tried to explain that i said what i did because of the threads about me on /jp/ and the one response threatening rape, but this was disregarded and, seemingly, ignored. a few days later, the former friend in question started sending me anon hate on tumblr, asking me why i want attention so badly, accusing me of making light of actual rape victims by saying such a thing. i explained myself, but to no avail. i blocked her on tumblr, and left it at that. but then, at the end of the school year, when i was proud of myself for finally getting through high school without killing myself or failing or anything, i stumbled upon the second thread. the date the thread was created lined up exactly with the time between me running away from home and me receiving anon hate. she can try to act like she didnāt make the thread all she wants, but iām not an idiot. the replies were also eerily similar--people in the replies remembered me, a year and a half after the original thread. some replies mentioned me having attempted suicide months before. some mentioned my NSFW art again. i had a massive breakdown and nearly drowned myself in the pond down the road. it was a wet, rainy night, and i sat on a bench by the pond sobbing loudly, trying to find some way to want to keep living. but i couldnāt. i might have gone through with it if it hadnāt been for burger coming and talking to me and giving me a ride home.
entering college, i thought things would be easier. in a way, they are. i have more freedom with classes. this semester, i attended almost all of my classes, almost every day, just with the exception of me being sick some days and me accidentally oversleeping once, and then one day when i just didnāt feel like it. but things continued to get worse for me--i developed an eating disorder for many reasons, one being the time i spent a year prior depressed caused me to gain a significant amount of weight, and the other being i had sworn off self harm in the form of cutting. i found that i was able to get the same gratification from starving myself. at one point, it turned into a game of sorts, where i tried to see how long i could go without eating anything. my record was a little over 72 hours. being constantly hungry or in pain this way felt like something i deserved in a way, but also something to distract me from the pain of realizing i was losing my love for art. i was in denial about it for months. i tried to keep drawing, but everything i drew upset me, saddened me, and even angered me. i looked at anything i made and only felt disgust. it was the one thing i used to love doing more than anything, and now i only felt shame.Ā
in november, i acknowledged this and decided to quit for good. recently, i discovered colboh had uploaded more of my NSFW art to gelbooru, even though i specifically stated on my blog to never upload my NSFW art to image sharing sites, specifically right after he uploaded my art the first time. by the time i found this, i had already sworn off art for good, but looking at the comments on my art on gelbooru (and rule 34--i guess theyāre connected upload-wise like danbooru?) filled me with so much sadness and shame, not because they criticized my art, but because they said horrible things about my depiction of kagerou. for those who donāt know, i headcanon kagerou as a trans woman, and one thing i do not regret about my time as an artist is how that depiction has helped numerous trans women feel good about themselves and their bodies. seeing so many disgusting comments deliberately misgendering her and making other transphobic remarks hurt me on a completely new level. my trans friends have been such a source of strength for me through all of this and seeing that made me feel disgusted, especially with myself. i felt like i had failed them. i had made so many trans women happy, only to see a man i blocked two years ago had uploaded my art to porn sites, tagging it with dehumanizing words likeĀ āf*taā that i specifically tell people never to refer to my art with, displaying that art for the exact same crowds of people that ruined everything december 13th 2016 to continue to pick apart. one comment even told me to kill myself, effectively bringing back every memory of that day.Ā
speaking of that, another thing i want to touch on now that iām up to speed with the details of everything thatās happened related to the original threads two years ago, is kagerou. iām positive you all know that i really love kagerou imaizumi, and that sheās my favorite touhou character. itās embarrassing to say, but sheās brought me so much comfort through all of this. sometimes if iām sad, iāll imagine her giving me a big hug, or iāll look at cute pictures i have saved of her, or something along those lines. itās pretty cringy for a fictional character to make me happy, i know, but iāve grown so attached to her and she really means a lot to me. and another thing that made me want to swear off art is because sheās loved by so many others that i donāt think my depictions of her do her any good. iām constantly compared to other artists, and itās never good. even in the threads, iām told i should be more like those other artists and these things wouldnāt happen to me. i am not allowed to love kagerou imaizumi. i draw her as a hairy trans lesbian, and that disgusts people. hell, the fact that i draw lesbians in general disgusts people, which sure fucking sucks because i constantly hate myself for not being attracted to men and being able to draw happy lesbians made me feel better about myself. but iāve ruined kagerou for so many people, especially with my stupid kagewaka bullshit. maybe thatās why those artists unfollowed me. maybe itās a combination of that and my constant breakdowns becoming far too annoying. i think all the popular artists who used to like me and then unfollowed/softblocked me are really glad to see that iāve given up. and thatās something else that saddens me too--even as an artist, in my own community of touhou artists, i often feel like iām lesser, and that i donāt belong. maybe itās because iām so foolishly outspoken about my opinions that they dislike me. maybe itās because iām a woman, and a lesbian at that. i donāt really know why they hate me so much. i wish i could belong somewhere.
and i think thatās what it all boils down to in the end. iāve lost all sense of belonging. when i was 14 and people started noticing my art for the first time, i finally felt like i had something. like i belonged somewhere. after being bullied through middle school and having to deal with abusive friends and an abusive dad, it meant the world to me that i finally had something. but it didnāt last long at all. it all came crashing down, not just because of others, but because of me. i was the one who was cocky, getting into fights that werenāt worth it. i was the one who provoked people and made them hate me. i was the one who complained about /jp/ posting my art in their threads. i know people want to believe that iām a saint, but iām not. i have myself to blame too. i at least want everyone to understand this, above all else. there was so much i could have done differently to prevent this all from happening, but i didnāt. i was stupid and naive. i was a massive fucking idiot, and now look where i am. i lost everything. i thought i had friends, i lost them. i thought i loved art, i lost that. i thought other really talented nice people liked me, i even lost that. all i have now is an empty shell of my former self. i donāt know what to do with it. i donāt know how iām going to rebuild myself. itās so painful to have to keep living like this. i donāt know if thereās any fixing me at this point. iāve lost so much, i feel permanently broken.
but despite all of that, despite everything iāve been through, i still receive so much love and support from my followers and friends and it means so much to me. it means the world to me and has kept me going through all of this. knowing that people care about me and want to see me get better and improve makes me want to try to fix myself even if i am broken beyond repair. i just want to thank you all for being that source of strength for me. these past few years have been so hard for me and time and time again i still get love and encouragement from so many people. from the bottom of my heart, thank you. there is nothing more precious to me than those moments when i feel like i do truly belong, when i feel loved, when i feel like iām not alone after all. for those moments, iāll keep trying. even if these threads keep continuing and breaking me further, iāll keep trying. even if every last artist in this fandom comes to hate me and my shitty art, iāll keep trying. itās still painful to draw right now and i have a long way to go before i can share art with anyone again, but for you all, iām going to keep trying my best. at the end of the day, i know everyoneās encouragement and love is worth far more than hate threads urging me to kill myself.Ā
iām sorry how long and personal and unnecessary this is, but i felt like i had to set things straight. if you read all of this, i applaud you. if you just kinda skimmed through to read the last paragraph, i also appreciate it. again, thank you.Ā
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Im curious as to why you hate Makoto for ripping of p3pfemc's looks but consent to Royal-chan for the same thing? ( I know you hate Makoto for a lot of other reasons, like her personality and such, but it seemed like you disliked her since prereveal/release?) If Royal chan ended up being a completely unrelated character to femc, will your opinion of her change ? (no hate really, i jst wanna know. \V/m )
It's no prob! In all honesty I didn't even think about this kind of question, but the answer came right away, so I guess time for a not so deep reflection.
So like full stop, if Poniko isn't connected to the FeMC and it's just Atlus messing with me, yeah I'mma be PISSED. Will I rip on her looks like no tomorrow? Maybe, depends on how itās handled (like how bad they burn me, and even then I might wait for a spinoff cause they might go into the connection there rather than Royal). I think it's obvious I went harder on Makoto because I don't like her for other reasons, and so any small thing about her annoys me (tbh Yusuke's design annoys me too, but not as bad cause....I kinda just donāt care about him and who heās copying as much, but I'll get to that in a bit)
Anyway I think we need some historical context, because I think itās important. When Makoto (and Yusuke) where first shown......FeMC had been ignored for A LONG time. We had a non-canon play (which no one really talked about), and that was it. No game related stuff, not even featured in the game where people were getting ripped out of timelines. FeMC were BURNED. Iāll be honest, when Yusuke appeared......While the parallels between P2 were obvious (not just with him) he reminded me of Minato as well. It annoyed me we had to have the token blue hair character since the rule had been made since the P3 era (kinda enforced with some black haired characters from P1/2, combining P2 games together that is, if you want to include them), Atlus said theyād be trying new things..... but like....whateves. But my association with him as Minato increased....when Makoto came along.Ā
Ngl I wasnāt pleased with the reveal of the last three girls (even didnāt like Haru, for ironically now what I love as an alt rewrite for her as, as I thought sheād be a mean and person full of herself due to calling herselfĀ ābeauty thiefā....Yeah all types of crazy here, I do love sweet Haru tho. And the reason for my opinion changing on the alt non-canon personality rewrite is just I.....see the appeal in it for the group dynamic now, while at the time I was afraid of disliking any of the characters or having them be disliked by the fandom.....which big laugh now haha :āD .....I want my happy P5 self back ;w;). Anyway back to the three girls, ngl one of the reasons I wasnāt happy was how they just dumped 3 more characters on us (too big a cast so can they handle it?, silly has to do more VA videos, I want the smaller cast back oh god donāt screw this up, and so on and so on). As for the characters, while Haruās appearance in the trailer mislead me on her personality (for whatever reason)..... I just.....there was something about Futaba and Makoto I didnāt like. Futaba just rubs me all the wrong ways for reasons I canāt describe for back then (maybe the fact she looked like sheād be a troll and she kinda is), but Makoto it was clear...... She was ripping off FeMCās look. The brown hair and red eyes.....the fact that Yusuke looked like Minato.....it felt like they were trying to draw them as expies of the P3MCs. And it pissed me off. I didnāt want an unrelated character look and remind me of the FeMC, I wanted FeMC herself! Why are you stealing her look????? And while some FeMC saw this and rolled with it as a joke (Hamu/Minty/Shin dressing up as Makoto/Yusuke/Goro to get into P5), otherās didnāt know who the FeMC was and thus.....didnāt see the blatant expy/rip off design. Seeing people be likeĀ āher character design is so original and cute and blah blah blahā.....it annoyed me....obviously (it didnāt help she grew in popularity doing absolutely nothing too, so initially it was all about her looks, and then Iāve been told a lot of her fans, at least male, has been mostly them saying the like her design and her hair and her eyes, and no everyone who likes Makoto is an FeMC fan so....yeah.....I mostly hear how itās just about her design so Iām very focused on that in regards to her specifically BECAUSE of the fans). And yeah I know it was a bit petty/shallow reason, but I didnāt outright hate her atm, she was stepping on my toes badly but I was holding out till the game (where it finally cemented my hate for her, and now I legit hate her for petty, shallow, deep, and complex reasons). And lordy lord lord, it did not help Makotoās name was Makoto, because that was a name some FeMC fans gave Hamuko (cause Makoto Yuki was the closest ācanonā name weād get to P3MCs, and some people adopted it for both MCs cause it was gender neutral, so Niijima coming along and taking THAT away sucked ass, and I know different kanji, it still sucked tho). It just....felt like Atlus was spitting in FeMC fanās face..... But anyway, I kept it in....for about....2ish years. Even when I was trying to stay positive.......and even when I was slowly starting to come out with negative opinions. I tried to keep it in.Ā
Finally I decided to make it framed as a joke, because I started to see Makoto ripping off more characters than just FeMC (FeMC, Aika, and Naoto in the detective novel to be precise, but what got the ball rolling was realizing that it was Aika who Makoto ripped the hair and motor vehicle from with the FeMCās color scheme). Thatās where my brain started going other places than just being restricted to FeMC, and I started being more critical of Makotoās design outside the FeMC (tho that still burned me). Because, imo, itās not original, it annoyed me people would say she was original when she was really just a Frankenstein rip off of other characters (other loved characters, FeMC and Aika were pretty popular in their own right). It only continued to cement in my mind that....anythingĀ āoriginalā about Makoto was a farce, she just copies while the original gets left behind.
Tldr; FeMC had been snubbed for years, along comes two design expies that remind you of P3MCs (3 if you wanna include Goro/Ken but Goro looks different enough imo), Makoto is named Makoto (a name some used for FeMC), and Makoto is praised for her design for being original and blah blah blah when itās not (for multiple reasons besides the FeMC, kinda more the fans reactions fault but I was already having design issues so it just bugged me more when theyād say these things). So yeah it felt like Makoto stole aspects of the FeMC, and itās not like FeMC has a lot for herself, which really just stepped on my toes. Combined that with legit hating the character when I finally get to see her in action (and itās because of her actions and writing that I hate-hate the character, but prior to that it was just her stepping on my toes while trying to keep an open mind into liking her), the stuff said before gets amplified more than before.
But months later, after the first post of me ripping on Makoto for taking FeMC and Aikaās design (tho my later posts were in drafts I just didnāt post them till later), something amazing happened on Aug 4th. FeMC finally came back to us. And holy shit obviously I was happy, but it doesnāt dismiss the fact I was aware of how much of design rip off/expy Makoto was, and it wasnāt just FeMC anymore. But gdi if the fact that the FeMC wasnāt being ignored anymore didnāt change the outlook for me as an FeMC fan. FeMC was back, sheās loved, care was put into her character in PQ2, just.....skdfalf;a so happy ;w; But also so hopeful, she was acknowledged again, she had been cut from the 20th anniversary event in official art, and that hurt us, but now sheās back back. And she was a main character in PQ2.....which leads to you questioning, what next?Ā
Which brings us to Poniko, the one post hopeful outlook. Obviously sheās not starting in the same place as Makoto. Poniko has been revealed post-PQ2 FeMC....which means Atlus isnāt ignoring Hamuko (in fact a lot of the creators were stating they WANTED her back), we know the creators do love Hamuko. Thereās also the fact.....Poniko looks less like an expy like Makoto (who imo looks like Soejima trying to emulate Kanekoās art style, esp the eye shape, same with Yusuke too). Poniko? It goes beyond ripping off a design, she looks like sheās almost fully lifted from Hamuko, it just looks like Hamuko wearing a different outfit. Just straight up copy and paste. And would I have been pissed if she was revealed alongside Makoto? Maybe, or I might be theorizing that she is Hamuko herself like now (tho I think itād get more push back due to Hamu being in Atlusā basement for so long so it just being claimed as delusional and unlikely), or both (and then pissed when itās revealed itās not Hamuko). Itās just....she looks SO MUCH like Hamuko it canāt be a coincidence, and after PQ2 it feels less like one as well. Just.....the posture, the cinematic parallels, the hair color, the eye color, the eye shape, the eyelashes, the face structure, the way she stands.....Poniko just screamsĀ āI AM Hamukoā notĀ āI just look like her because.ā And it helps that other people in the fandom also see this too, some are hoping sheās a new person, but it seems people at least acknowledge that very obvious similarities between Hamuko and Poniko (while that didnāt really happen with P5 with Hamuko/Makoto).Ā
And....tbh I feel like I might sound like Iām splitting hairs (at least with the words Iām using). And it might sound weird that I think Makoto ripped off enough Hamuko it pissed me off, but Poniko just.....is a copy and paste of Hamuko, just straight up Hamuko in a different outfit and hairstyle but it doesnāt. But itās the historical context I think that sheds that light. And the fact Poniko might just BE Hamuko, and so itād make sense if that was the case for them to look like each other (while it doesnāt make sense for Makoto to look like Poniko).Ā
I guess it also helps that I personally had the headcanon Hamuko and Minato werenāt related (just strangers on the bridge in two separate cars), and they both survived the bridge accident but one became the leader of SEES and the other went on to live and do their own thing (until maybe a spinoff game pulls them back in). And while I.....well recalling it now I considered a reincarnation once in a hc scenario (opted for time travel forward cause that makes sense 8U I wonāt go into it I had my reasons 8U), but looking at the 1st year symbol on Poniko (and reincarnation in other MegaTen works, I mean cāmon reincarnation is in the title) it feels plausible. And it works for Poniko because of the time the incident and the time to be reincarnated takes place (1999 being the accident and April 1 2000-April 2 2001 being the time frame she was born), which wouldnāt ever work for Makoto because she was born in 1998 (so even if I HAD considered Makoto it wouldnāt have worked, esp since they never tell us she jumped grades, itās not possible....and while Iām all for hc and grey areas, this is something that WOULD be explicitly told because itās not common in Japan and Atlus has been explicit about characters not in the ārightā grades before, just an fyi there 8U).Ā
I dunno I feel like thereās distinct clear reasons that I can fit them into separate categories. And yeah if Poniko isnāt Hamuko Iāmma be burned too, BUT Iāmma wait till a spinoff post-Royal before I get pissy.....cause I donāt expect clear answers to other past games in another gameās mainline entry (I only expect shallow shoutouts tbh). So yeah, just so you know where the deadline for my expectations are.Ā
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hi im mun pink and im gonna ramble about this funky au keebz and shu-chan is in
tfw this au and an oc is all youāve been thinking about that you have to write it down in words :)))
part 1 of ??? - intro to the au and going into angieās and kaedeās story
Okay! Iām deciding to call this the Flipped!AU. Why? Iāll tell ya why! All of the NDRV3 characters (except ONE theywhowillnotbenamed >:( ) have this fabricated backstory, right? Well, what if A) this was the characterās actual backstories and B) in some point of this backstory something changed that caused them to go to a whole different career path. A... flip of a switch so to say... Heh, heh, heh.Ā
I aināt gonna talk about the two characters on this blog cause their backstories and what makes them different from their OG counterparts is something that yaāll gotta ask yourself. So, Iāll just stick to characters that probably arenāt going to show up on this blog.Ā
Probably.
Being the person who watched someone online play NDRV3, I really donāt know as much as other people! So, what is a girl to do? She looks in the Wiki. Looking into the DR Wiki for that good old fabricated past lore brought some interesting things up. Things like that fact that Angieās home island has plants that are known to attack people. Um, WHAT?Ā
I never knew that, and I feel like those goddamn plants need to be in the spotlight! So, letās weave them into Angieās backstory, eh? But hooooow? Well, Atua is really important to Angie, so letās rip Him away from her viaĀ the power of attacking plants!
In the Flipped!AU, lilā Angie, the prophet of the island god Atua, is attacked by one of these plants and forgets EVERYTHING. Her name, her status, and the main man Atua Himself! The islanders see this as Atua rejecting Angie and shun her to the wild jungle because if their God doesnāt see her as suitable then why should they?
Now Angie is like less than ten years old in this wild ass jungle. Kind of a big yikes. Donāt worry, she totes survives. And with that survival comes the total hatred. People who she doesnāt even remember just discard her like just because their stupid (every time she disgraces Atua, she flinches but she doesnāt really understand why) god said so? Fuck them, and FUCK THOSE PLANTS.
Yea, thatās right. She hates those things, especially now sheās in the jungle where they live. It was because of those plants that sheās in this mess! Grrrr!! And with hatred comes the desire to wipe them off of the planet! She sets up a hut and via her childhood friend who tries to help she studies her little brain off to eradicate these plants. But itās hard to do when these things when the plants you're dealing with might not even be plants, so hell why not study all the plants and how to kill them to see if something works.
Studying all the plants? Whoop, whoop, we got ourselves a SHSL Botanist! After using her friend to send a letter to a scientific journal about a correction, Hopeās Peak Academy sends her a letter and a free ride to their academy (because killing games donāt exist in this universe. a weird little game about them does tho OWO). Boom! This feral botanist is on her way to becoming a true Ultimate!
If I were to make a sprite edit for her character (which isnāt saying a lot because I donāt change their clothes at all sksksk), then Iād just dirty the swim top, make her jacket white, exchange the paintbrushes for vials, and make all the clothes look like its been through a tornado. Oh and have her hair more shaggy and long as she really wasnāt able to get proper hair cuts (if I could even achieve that with my basic sprite edit skillz)! Iām not sure what else though. Tbh, Iām more of a backstory person than a costume design person.
Personality wise, sheād be insanely bitter with some serious walls around her heart. But at the same time, she just wants human connection so she does a total Gundham and makes excuses for a classmate to beĀ āusefulā and be around her. Standing next to a person (god forbid someone she finds slightly attractive) gives her a high, I swear. Her speech would be blunt and short to the point with a possible stutter because Iād imagine an incident that gave her amnesia might mess with some language things.
Hgggggh, god it feels so good to put this on paper! Or online text? I donāt know. You know what doesnāt feel good? Me, Mr. Stark. Not doing the thing you love to do! Bad segways are bad, but Kaedeās situation isnāt that good too.
Lemme read you something straight from the wiki. āSince she was a child, Kaede has been playing the piano so much so that she would forget to eat and sleep at times.ā Forgetting to eat and sleep. Forgetting to eat and sleep. Hmmm, I can use that!
I like when there are consequences for actions, and this time the action is that Kaede goes too far. She really immerses herself in the piano and gets hospitalized as a result. This has been like the fifth time this has happened, so the doctor says NO MORE PIANO.Ā
Did you hear that?Ā
Thatās the sound of 9-year-old Kaede Akamatsuās heart breaking.
Kaede feels empty without her beloved piano. Itās been her whole life up into this point, so she tries to fill that void. A little bit of art? How about some writing? Gardening? Cooking? Building? Studying? Acting? She does it all. And, honestly, sheās only decent at all of the skills above and she still feels as empty as ever.Ā
Apparently, thatās enough for Hopeās Peak Academy as they invited the supposed girl who can do everything. And thus, the SHSL Jack of All Trades came to the school. Or maybe something shorter. Eh, Iāll figure it out.
Sprite edit would be to make her clothes into dull tones. Erase every reference of music and piano if possible. If not maybe draw xās over these? Anyway, in place of these have a bunch of badges all over her clothes, one for each talent sheās half-assed in. Lowkey just realized her talent is the shitty version of Izuruās sjafksdflkj
Like her clothes, her personality would be like her OG self if some pulled back on the reins a lot. Dull, bland. Not very fun to be around tbh. However, being in Hopeās Peak and away from parental supervision would probably make her personality slowly (and I mean slowly itād be pretty unrealistic if she snaps back to her ndrv3 self immediately) go back to original, especially when her class surprises her with a cheap piano from the Japanese equivalent of Craigslist. Sheād cry so much seeing that thing.
tldr; Different backstories make for this Flipped!AU. Angie is feral and angry SHSL Botanist, and Kaede is a piano-less and empty (but slowly recovering) SHSL Jack of All Trades.
Okay thatās it for the rambling. Itās like midnight, and I have to be up at 7:00! If you got to this point without relying on the tldr, thank you for reading!!! Ahhh, it makes me feel fuzzy that someone was willing to read all of my verbal vomit. Maybe one day Iāll make an addition to this idk! Have a good day!
#mun speaks#more like mun rambles amirite#ive just#hhhhh#i cant stop thinking about this au! and my oc david#like#its bad because i'll be working and my brain is like hmmm korekiyo backstory???#and im like brain im trying to make sure these people dont drown on my watch#you foolish brain#if you ask questions about this au i will cry#not really but i will be really fucnkin happy
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//okay i have a lot... a LOT to say under the cut. i needed a moment to collect my thoughts lol
tldr: my only main issue with this is that i wished they didnt make her into an orphan, at least give her amoline like ive headcanoned for so long mostly cause im kinda tired of that orphan trope. how many characters in league does that make that are now orphans? >_>
guess now i cant be the hastur house anymore? ;o;
first i read her lore update;
it actually saddens me that they got rid of the gray order entirely actually. (and the voodoo lands too i think?) because the idea of a bunch of noxians wanting to run things their way without all the factions wars was a neat idea. they turned more into a small colony of people who were tired of noxus which i guess works? but cmon, gray order sounds cooler than colony right?
READING THE FACT THAT AMOLINE, A CHARACTER IVE DEVELOPED BASED ON NOTHING, TO SEE HER DIE, KILLED ME SOFTLY ON THE INSIDE. i absolutely loved how i portrayed her!! a powerful witch who easily terrified those who didnt know her, but a kind loving mother and teacher to the others in the order. we need less shitty moms in the league universe riot :c im glad my connection with old human tibbers and now old amoline remained in canon... somehowĀ
i suppose now she really doesnt like adults that are from the cities, which is fine but ive developed mine to try and be a bit friendlier. adjusting back to her more disgusted demeanor towards city adults will be interesting
i was actually surprised to see how they decided to give her a stepsister to play with too. it was interesting to find out that i originally headcanoned her to have troubles with kids her age, and i was pretty accurate now in canon lol
onto the cinematic;
first off, the art style is absolutely GORGEOUS. just like how they stated in their behind the scenes, it really does look like a moving painting and as someone whose painted on large traditional canvases, it was rather appealing to see
riot
why you gotta do me dirty like this LMAOĀ
the fact that she wants her mom to come back is also pretty heart wrenching, but we see in the third image that annie is also pretty aware that amoline is gone. she probably didnt want leanna (maybe) and daisy dead, but just gone since she seemed happiest with gregori and amoline. (also gregori im so sorry that i headcanoned you to be a piece of shit for so long LOL)
some thoughts i had during the short;
why does she look demacian
(real quick why is her hair brown here, magenta/hot pink in game, then red in her art? riot hello?)
they at least kept the fact that if you try to take tibbers from her... well, you gon get it
AGAIN, IM REALLY SORRY FOR HEADCANONING YOU THE WAY I DID GREGORI. BUT RIOT WAS SO LAZY UP UNTIL NOW. i also somewhat expected a more warlock/heavily bearded man too? either way im not complaining.
pls give him dad of the year okay im done talking about her dad LMAO
for this scene im really glad that despite their little tiff earlier, daisy was still willing to play with annie and seems like she didnt resent her for burning her (she kinda did call tibbers stupid, who is now the last memory she has of amoline) itās pretty clear that she really only resented leanna
he caLLS HER FIREFLY IM NOT OKAY
im getting sidetracked--
aside from the fact that they made her an orphan (which i will forever resent), im rather pleased with this update overall. yes, i did say it was sad to see the gray order go just like that (and amoline) but they at least finally gave us more solid facts on her character, background, tibbers, her dad-- everything. with how all the other lore changes are going, having the gray order around might be tricky to deal with regarding noxus lore.Ā
so yes, i will be changing a majority of headcanons (in canon lore at least) to match up with this change. academy au will now probably have her parents still alive, but just divorced,along with her mean stepmom and step sister daisy (changed accordingly to au)
im unsure on whether to keep human tibbers around or not (ironically, i redrew how he looks in my current style a few days ago too LOL) and yes my trashy platonic ship between annie and ekko will continue forever and always. i just need another ekko to platonic ship with is all
riot kept all of us annie mains (yeah, a whole 7 of us LMAO)Ā waiting long enough and im overall pleased with it. like ive said before, heart broken that all my headcanons will practically be inconsistent but i feel refreshed at the same time too! it really makes me want to jump back into being more active. iāll still also draw beloved lady amoline and keep all stories with her up but i dont know if iāll continue to role play her. perhaps iāll add her father ignore the fact that theyāre dead LMAO(though i suppose if people rp and ship xayah and rakan with other champions/characters, rping as deceased characters isnt that bad, right?) >o>);;;
im... curious to see how this blog will be run now, with all these sudden changes lol
#ooc#there it is fam#now i need to sleep LOL#i stayed awake all night specifically to be one of the first few people to watch/read the update
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Digimon tri: Loss rant aka butthurt
So there are things that bothers me a lot about these Digimon tri movies and this movie, well lets just say its teh drop that tipped the glass. I dont really like rewieving things..but i am very passionate for digimon, so i suppose this will do.
So what is there to say about Digimon tri? or spesifically... loss? hehe loss..more like loss of my intrest in these movies..
TLDR; the movie is long, boring, little action, meiko is shit as always, the conflict with sora, tai and matt doesnt exist, some scenes go nowhere and are more filler then plot, still questions left unanswered, 02 kids are dead and gone and nobody cares at this point, and shitty, limited, boring, bland and dissapoiunting animation.Ā
Anyhow where do i even start? first i suppose i should start off by saying the things i DO like about this movie. I did enjoy seeing tai more in the spotlight, and it was nice seeing tai, matt and sora talk again. And not to mention, digivolutions! Where most of the digis became ultimate! hell yeah! and my boi machinedramon, i always loved that fella. And more digi kaiser?? YES PLS FUEL MY NEEDS FOR FOOTAGE!! and of course, the animation was well done with the fight scenes and the action was really neat! My favorite part of the movie was the last part.
and now, onto the... MANY many problems these movies had, with none other then shitty animation, awkward scenes, bad art styles, scenes that go nowhere, meiko, and FILLER!! clench your asshole because this is going to be a long one...
Ok so we start off the movie strong. This flashback goes well with me because its this old timey wimey film effect, and we get to see the backstory of himekawa and black hair teacher typography mcgee, i forgot his name..anyway thats cool, we get plot! and then cuts to meiko being left out with her dark evil special digital device. GOOD. she has no way to enter now. she should be left out like the shitty written character she is. im glad shes out.. but would i be like this for long?? NOPE, NOT HERE IN DISSAPOINTMENT LAND I WONT!!
So then we get tehse cute bonding scenes, which are just very nice. its good they take their time with these, and boy....do they take their time :))))) the shitty happy music desu comes so abruplty that you just sit back and sayĀ ānice here it is.ā so the rest of the digimon get along just fine with the kids again, which is nice i guess....except for pyokomon or whatever. For some reason she is the ONLY CONVENIENT one that wont like her. now, im fine with this, because things never happen the same way twice. however, she is THE ONLY ONE, and the others open very fast, so why?? eh whatever wont bother explaining too much about that ;))
so after this kawaii desuka moment, after toeiĀ āāāāāāāāāāāāāāāanimationāāāāāāāāāāāāāāāā show us a slideshow of their best drawings of the kids just sitting there, with no movement, we get on with it.Ā
There is one thing i learned in animation class, and that is that YOU NEVER HAVE ONE STILL FRAME in animation, and these movies have a lot of them, and so fucking shittly placed as well. Just sometimes to save time, or just because lazyness, the animators just pan a akward still filler frame. i know things are hard, and horrible in NEY-HON, especially with animation, but for gods sake i cant help but goĀ āanimation is hard XDDdDdDDā whenever watching these movies....because sometimes....SOMETIMES.......
anyway so onto the story,Ā āspecial super powerfulā meikoomon appears, crying because she is adult and remembers meiko. why, you ask?? WHY??????? WELL who cares stfu. so she runs away and jumps into a distortion. did she make it? did the digital world provide her with some? will we get answers??
so then, PTaiSD starts doubhting if we can save the special boy cat, and Yamaha has to of course get angry about every single little thing tai does, and walks off in a huff. Was this scene forced like all hell?? is yamiffedo being a bitch for no reason?? Yes. yes he was. at this point, it feels like they just put this here to give matt a reason to be angry because they have nothing left to bitch about to eachother, or yashitto just wont let up. either way, it is so frustrating..but i digress.Ā
we also cut to black haired crocks wearing mcgee again, in and out, of him sayingĀ āi cant figure this outā and we get told this 2 times. ... ANYYYWAYYYY then the kids remember their personalities again and tai suggests we do something now, and the digimon digivolved. HURRAH!ā
byomon is still not trusting sora, which is fine i guess bonds take time, and they did take their time, which was fine. so they keep cutting to this trolly, the one they slept in in digimon adventure. HEY GUYS, REMEMBER THE TROLLY???? REMEMBER DIGIMON 01?? WASNT THAT SERIES COOL???Ā
special OP baby cat meikomon just sits and laments because she cant find meiko, so she gets all infected and fucks up everything again, making the reboot for NUFFIN if she keeps this up. BUTT WAIT, why does she still have this infection?????? OH NO SHE TURNED EVIL AGAIN!!!! but does the movie explain??
so here we are with the blank kids club as izzy expositions the shit out of the other kids, which is nice. its nice to get plot... BUT ITS NOT THE PLOT WE ACTUALLY NEED, just...just a little bit of it. just a little bit.......... anyway everyone cuberbullies meiko and basically says that she is a shit and wont fit in here because all she would do is cry or fuck up something beyond repair. that is what she would do.
so then sora walks off and sits by a trunk and is sad because her tamagotchi doesnt like her anymore. BUT.......and this is a big but...Taishit and Yaman come to the rescue. BUT...they are both stupidly blank and doesnt know waht the fuck to do or say, but they try. how will they tackle this point??
So basically sora is suprised to figure out that tai and matt cant read her mind, and just runs off and is understandably angry about the situation. so as tai and matt is visibly upset they cant fix this, which you couldnt tell because their expressions are about as vibrant as a piece of wood, Taichi basically says something good for once. Sora spends her times worrying about other people and doesnt say anything about her own worries. which is....good??????
im sorry but to me thats not good at all. if you fix everyone elses problem, and you shut your own problems inside, you are going to suffer. THIS IS NOT A GOOD THING HOLY FUCK WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE IS THAT??!?!?!?!? unless i am completly misunderstanding this kind of behaviour but to me, this is not good. fuck that shit. so that scene ends. nothing gets resolved.Ā then finally, after fucking FOREVER with filler scenes and awkward crappy animation, machinedramon finally appears and is here to fucking kill this second hand emberassment. they run from him, and the others see whats going on. so then they try to do something and fails, and then meikoomon isnt evil anymore...........????? and then something which i think is one of the biggest, STUPIDEST cop puts of all time happens.Ā
macinedramon shoots them at point blank, and really hard and long too, like so long the camera makes sure to show ALL of their faces as they slowly burn to death by the giant super death cannon...and so they all get fucking obliterated and die... EXCEPT THEY DONT!!!!!!!!!! A DISTORTION PORTAL APPEARS AND JUST... TROWS THEM ACROSS THE ENTIRE ISLAND!!!! AND THE KIDS ARE ALSO UNHARMED!?ā!?ā?!?
WHAT THE FUYCK IS THAT SHIT?!?!??! WHY DID THE DISTORITON APPEAR??? WHO MADE IT?? WAS IT MEIKOOMON??? EXPLAIN!!! EXPLAIN FOR FUCKS SAKE IM TOO AUTISTIC TO UNDERSTAND THIS DEEP LEVEL OF STORY TELLING!!!
oh and we get a cute flashback to actually knowing what himekawa wanted. she just wanter he digimon back.......which is why she acted this way all along? so she could get her stupid digimon back=??? thats why she had to act like she was secretly the one fucking everything up?? ....eh idk ANYWAY
byomon sees sora cry and decides wew lad....that changes everything.,..so that scene ends, and what does byomon find?????? WELL WOW ITS MEIKO WHO JUST FELL INTO THE DIGITAL WORLD JUST BECAUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!Ā
it was at this point i got really upset with this crappy movie. The scenes drag on for too long, scenes just end and go nowhere, and GOD DAMN IT IM SORRY FOR SAYING THIS BUT MEIKO IS A FUCKING MARY SUE. she is such a classic example of shittily written self insert characters that it fucking hurts. if i wanted to read your shitty digimon fanfiction from 2008 then i would of done that. Its fucking insane to see this level of writing from a professional writing team, holy fuck.Ā
and then........this.......this takes the cake.... fucking tai and kari are together. finally, they get to talk a little about things, like for example bringing up whats bothering tai all this time, or why he has to be such a tittybaby with yamato, or maybe have a little chat about character development. but no we dont get none of that. shitty sad music plays and....no tai just saysĀ āoh man im so angry i didnt make itā and kari saysĀ āits okā and then tai just looks down.... AND THEN THATS IT!!! ....OK??
so then a whole lot of fucking nothing happens for a while, and i mean, they just.....dont say ANYTHING worthwhile. tai goes allĀ āman i wish tai would read my mind and not be an asshole. my name IS MATT AND I JUST CANT TALK TO MY FRIENDS SO I WALK AROUND LIKE AN ANGRY PISSY BABY BECAUSE THATS MY TRAIT, WHICH IS NOT FRUSTRATING AND TIRED AT ALLāĀ
and byomon being a little warmer, going to meiko just because shes a cunt at this point, like now shes just being a dick, and generally everyone just walking around having a grand ol time. i guess its nice, and cool and all...but it drags ON FOR TOO LONG WE DONT NEED THIS LEVEL OF CALM WHEN YOU HAD ONE ACTION SCENE TROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MOVIE!!!!! and just generally....just stuff that goes NOWHERE!! like that train scene???? literally filler. was it a trowback to 02 where agumon came back on the train after being with the dark master?? i dont know!! fuck!!
then expositionmon comes, and its vague, and leaves. and then whatever anyway
meikomon cries and when she gets back to meiko again she tries to slit her troat, and meiko supringly tells her that she isnt good.....wow..thats nice. but they reuine and FINALLY gennai arrives again. in his kaiser disguise. why does he have that avatar to go back and forth troughout the world? why did he chose to use kaiser?? my guess is just to be a dick to the others, because thats the only good explanation at this point.Ā
and sora does sayĀ āoh hi ken please dontā but thats it. im sorry but at this point, the 02 kids are oficcially dead and gone. there is no logical explanation to why they act like this anymore. none that are actually good. forget about them, the others have. just....forget about it.
so distortions appear again and everyone reunites again, because hell we needed SOME explanation to them meeting again. so action happens, and everything is nice and fine and then gennai just
hes so insane im kind of liking it..... ANYWAY stuff happens and so they run away while gennai talks to them about some answers to our questions, which they might not hear because of the BIG HEAVY Ā STOMPS AND ROARS from the digimons but whatever... yuggrasil i dont remember who is and at this point i just wanted the movie to be over, so this last part, there isnt much to say because i liked it.
however sora getting BTFO by a giant mountain and machinedramons claw should have killed her, but nah whatever. and the scene with tai and matt drowning??? i jsut... dont understand it. what the fuck happened??? why did they just not drown anymore?? what?????? did the power of magic save them or somethin? I DONT GET IT!! and i mean...they should have drowned at that point jfcĀ
then half the movie is the digimon digivolving and now im so god damn sick of writing, but meikomon fucks everything up again and NOW IT ENDS ON A CLIFFHANGER!! REEEEEEEEEEEEE
SOOOO yeah thats it...the movie was slow, boring, fun, and overall awkwards. the kids had ALMOST no personality, and the scenes that the movie advertized, like the conflict with sora, tai and matt was nonexistant, and just....i myself, and a lot of people, are fucking dissapointed.
if you read this far, thank you. but i have no big hypes for the rest of the movies anymore because the shitty animation, no facial expressions, crappy storytelling, boring character interactions, and MEIKO makes me hate these movies more and more...........and that makes me sad.
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