#uploading to webtoon got me rereading it

[tobiosmilktea]

umpah umpah! smau

↪︎ bokuto x f!reader x iwaizumi

[004] — it’s you!

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a/n: i wrote this during my psych class cause i was bored,, also this wasn’t proofread lol

by the time iwaizumi gets home after long days at work, he would usually knock out like a light after dinner and a bath, but tonight he had more energy than anticipated. and if he was being completely honest, he was not expecting himself to be spending the rest of his night reading a random webtoon. hell, he wasn’t even planning on reading it in the first place, but his boredom got the best of him.

a sigh escapes him as he settles at his desk, finger hovering over the lime green webtoon app for a brief second before giving in. quickly, he input in his information to create an account and before long he was already bombarded with promotions of many other webtoons until he was met with the biggest one—the love cemetery: soon to become a major motion picture!

that’s it, iwaizumi thought as he clicked on the promotional advert as it redirected him to the webtoon’s table of contents. there, he reread the synopsis over again, peering slightly at its contents purely from the plain inkling of familiarity of it all.

the moment he opened the first chapter, he was immediately enticed by the art style and colors. it was as if he was suddenly transported into this world that you have created that the hours had past faster than he had anticipated. the only reason why he even looked up from his phone in the first place was due to that little white box notifying him that his phone was at the cusp dying. iwaizumi’s eyes flickered over to his clock, two in the morning, he read as he let out a sigh. despite wanting to read more of the webtoon, he knew he was going to regret staying up. never mind the fact that he needed to go into work early and even hesitating to close his phone was a good enough reason to force himself to stop.

no wonder bokuto was obsessed.

iwaizumi’s thumb hovered over the author’s handle then, “dddeities?” he whispers to himself before swiftly pressing on the link.

it was then did his familiarity was suddenly confirmed. the moment the link took him to the webtoon author’s twitter account, iwaizumi recognized your name and face within a snap. a lump formed in his throat.

he wasn’t sure what really came over him as the obvious fatigue in his eyes was nowhere to be seen. grabbing his laptop from his desk, his fingers quickly typed away on his keyboard to search up your name on youtube. once the videos loaded in, iwaizumi found himself hesitating again as the first video that was at the top of the list had your smiling face. it still had his heart thumping in his chest even after all these years.

you looked amazing and the fact the interview had just been uploaded a few hours ago had him feeling shy for a brief second. iwaizumi scoffs at himself before shaking his head, “fuck it,” he mutters to himself before clicking on the video. it wasn’t like you, his first love and ex would ever find out he had ever read your webtoon.

“hey, my name is (y/l/n) (y/n) aka dddeities and i’m the author of the webtoon, love cemetery,” your voice softly emitted from iwaizumi’s laptop at a low volume. “today i was invited by webtoon themselves to answer some of your questions you have asked me!”

iwaizumi couldn’t remember the last time he had heard your voice. it was strange hearing it after so long now that you’ve matured since the last time he had seen you—from your looks to the way you dressed, a lot of things changed. granted, you both weren’t fifteen anymore.

“the first question is from seonshines who asked, ‘how does it feel to be able to be part of love cemetery’s film production?’’ you read off the slip of paper before discarding it off to the side, “it’s genuinely a dream come true! i’ve never expected love cemetery to be popular enough to even become a film, but considering how a lot of live actions tend to flop whenever the original creator isn’t part of production, i’m really excited for this project and i have high expectations.”

still as eloquent as usual, iwaizumi thought as he didn’t even notice the smile that was melting upon his expression the more he admired you.

you grab another question from a bowl, “from iloveddd, they asked: how do you plan your webtoons? …well when i first got the idea for love cemetery, i just started plotting it out on a piece of paper. it was initially only me who started drawing, coloring, and publishing each chapter, but once it started picking up a bit, my best friend murakami kaori started co-writing it.”

“kaori?” the familiar name slipped out of iwaizumi’s lips. “i remember her,” how could he forget the girl who got you and him together in the first place?

“overall, she’s mainly the one that keeps the story a bit more interesting while another member of my team, akaashi keiji, is my editor. he’s very meticulous and knows whenever there’s a plot hole somewhere so he’s often part of the writing process as well.” you finished off your answer before continuing to the next one, “this question is from user bokutoxbaisho. they asked ‘did you know that bokuto koutarou of msby black jackals is a big fan of love cemetery?? how do you feel about it??”

hesitance radiated out of you as you awkwardly laughed.

“um...” you trailed out, “i think it’s pretty cool i guess. it’s definitely a shock considering i never thought he would be the kind of guy to be into these types of things.”

iwaizumi’s eyebrows furrowed at this. how would you know? it wasn’t like you were the type to make assumptions about people you didn’t know either. if anything, he found it a bit strange but he shook it off.

“alright the last question is from annaoopsy,” you swiftly changed the subject, “this love triangle trope is honestly one of the best ones i’ve read. it’s really a breath of fresh air for a cliché ,which comes into question, how did you come up with this romance? was it from personal experience in past relationships?”

a chuckle left your lips as you discarded the question with a pink tint appearing lightly on your cheeks.

“let’s just say first loves were a major impact to the creation of this webtoon.”

iwaizumi felt his breath suddenly hitch the moment those words left your mouth. as if a sudden downpour of each and every feeling he felt back then in high school was catching back up to him after years of suppressing them. he swallowed the lump forming in his throat as he slapped his laptop shut, “oh no.”

fun facts! —

kaori was the one who got y/n and iwaizumi together back in middle school after she tricked them into being alone together to get to them to confess

iwaizumi was the one who confessed first since y/n was a shy, art hoe™️ back then lmao

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[mewnia]

Let’s Sit Down for a Sec

It’s going to be under a cut. If you want to get straight to the point, scroll down to the last bolded sentence.

I want to sit down with you to discuss some stuff I’ve been keeping inside me ever since the beginning of July. And some of it is very hard for me to admit. I’m frustrated at myself for it and I won’t be offended if you’re frustrated at me, too.

I have 700+ followers. Personally I never thought I would ever get past 200. But also just because I have 700+ does not mean every single person interacts. And that’s okay. Heck, probably only a small amount is even going to bother to read this whole thing. And I’m okay with that, it’s almost expected with today’s culture. My concern is that a good portion of those followers either don’t know or need to know the direction I want to head in. And that’s what this rambling is going to be about. It’s still going to be rather long but I’ll simplify it into sections.

———

I am dropping OC-tober due to conflicts with my college schedule. This is the first thing I will say. It’s kept me the most active I’ve been for the past few months on here, but I just can’t keep up school-wise. So OC-tober is done after making it half-way.

A Repeating Darkness I know a really big chunk of my followers are here for Sormik or Tainted!Sorey. I’m going to be completely honest to you. I have lost all motivation and even interest in ARD. July’s “break” was me in denial. The latest update was me denying that I was losing grip on my concept. But I shouldn’t lie to myself to keep you happy. Because it doesn’t make me happy.

The story itself is mostly me winging it. Sure there were a few things I had planned from the start. But it was just an experiment. The whole comic was a test I set up for myself to see how far I could really go with an idea and how long I would be able to stick with it. And I’m proud to say I can stick to a concept for over two years!

I’m not disappointed with ARD. But I’m definitely tired of it. And it’s a satisfied kind of tired. I have written 174 pages! That’s 58 updates!! 3 pages per update that were mostly finished with a week between each one and juggled with high school/college!!! That is the most I have EVER done in my entire life! The highest amount of pages I got before that were 40! And that was never even published online! (and actually kind of sucked.) I’m satisfied with the comic. And I’m letting it rest for good. I’ll make a separate post talking about what I had planned for the rest of it, concept art, sketched pages, etc when I can gather all of it. Just so you guys can officially rest on it, too. Heck, you can even make your own spins on how it ends!

But I need you to know I’m not progressing on the story any longer.

Tales of Modern AU A good friend of mine and I brainstormed so much with this AU. And I won’t deny that I at least want to write a few comic strips about the wacky things we came up with. So wholesome and refreshing to me, there will definitely be more of this in the future. I don’t know exactly when, though. The ideas will come out when they come out.

They will most likely not be digitally drawn. It’s easier for me to spill out my ideas and stay with them when I doodle them on a page. Plus there’s just this feeling of…I don’t know? Nostalgia? Or purity? When it’s not strictly digital. So there’s that warning for ya! You have to deal with my handwriting even longer. I know, I’m so evil.

The Voice Carries the Music I will always be willing to gush about my VCtM characters no matter what the time or place I’m in. And I won’t lie I want to publish the comic on a platform like webtoons or smackjeeves. But I need to really truly plan it out for that to happen.

Sure I will upload an occasional update of it on here. But don’t put all of your hopes into seeing it regularly ;P for both of our sakes. I mean, if I ever see anyone in person I will gladly hand over the book I’m drawing it in. But when is that ever going to happen haha—

Fanfiction I have a history with writing fanfiction, mainly for Tales of Xillia. And “A Similar Story” has a very precious place in my heart. I’ve been rewriting the chapters I wrote all the way back in middle-school. And I want to start over with it. But it will definitely be a stress-relieving thing for me.

I doubt anyone really knows what I’m talking about. But the original story is on Fanfiction net and let me tell you. I reread it. It’s incredibly cringey. I want it out of my history. (But not completely gone for me to read personally. I just don’t want the world to see that I wrote those dang chapters.) So expect to see random Fanfiction/Ao3 updates in the future. If you’re interested then good for you!! If not then it won’t kill me if you ignore it.

And last but not least I want to know what you want to see more from me. What things are successful, what do you like about my blog? Because I have an audience. And it’s good to acknowledge you. And I want your feedback.

Thank you to those who read this whole mess. And thank you for your understanding. All I ask now is for feedback if you’re willing to give it.

Thank you again :P

[kitsu-rei]

Manga Announcement

welp here I am again making another note to say that even though I promised to upload the first page of SC (Shadow’s Calling) on the 27th. That won’t be the case.

Why? I normally base characters off of real life friends that I have so I’m more interested in them, and when I draw something for myself I get bored very easily. Thus, drawing for friends that have helped me make the characters are nice because then I feel like I’m making it for them and not myself. That keeps me going. However, five of my friends have not gotten back to me about character designs so I am stuck, I’ve set a deadline for tomorrow and they all got back late to me.  Two, I have serious health issues right now. Overdue drawing will make my wrist hurt when it normally doesn’t, along with feeling light headed and tired. Occasionally, I’ve been hurling up blood as well. I will be visiting the hospital on the date that I set for this manga to be released. So this is also the reason why I will be delaying the release as well.

Three, I am contemplating what format/website to upload it on. Whether to make new accounts on SmackJeeves or Webtoon to upload them there or code a Web Link for it instead. I have no decided yet and I am heavily indecisive. 

Four, I am offering to apply to jobs so I am kind of busy at the moment. Though, they are on hold because of my health issues.

Those are the reasons why I will be delaying the release date and will be postponing it to the 10th of Feb. This will give me time to recover from my illness (hopefully) and get back to drawing a bit more. I know I have been drawing a lot lately but this is because I have been pushing myself to the limit and now I’m suffering the consequences for it. Again, for anyone who is interested in this manga, I apologise for delaying it once more. I will still be drawing, I will just be more slow at uploading than usual and be doing drawings of smaller projects. 

What will happen is that I will be covering backstories first. I have set up a poll in my SC;DI discord server.

Rei/Faron and Sim’s backstory comes up first. 

The story is not my own. This story is based on a little over 1500 paged original series fic/story that me and my friends came up with about five to six years ago. 

and I am not kidding on that part.

Meaning, I am rereading it to remind myself of what is going on and what character is what. And being the only one who knows how to draw in my group of friends, I thought it’d be nice to start it up again as a rework. Hence the manga was decided. I will be covering a little under half of this story though, as I am not interested in five of the arcs in this story.

Thank you for reading and I hope I made sense on some parts.