#very unique!!!

[kerizaret]

Okay so here have the gist of it:

The setting is a kind od victorian-like, somewhat southern europe country with Sherlock Holmes if it was Warm and Sunny outside vibe + magical realism (magic is there but it is not studied nor a well known fact). A famous travelling theatre troupe comes to Port Town and the lead actress, the diva and the face of the group (Nene) immediately gets kidnapped by the local mafia. Naturally everyone is in panic and all the detectives in the area are immediately on the case, however...

The whole kidnapping thing is actually entirely staged by Rui (with Nene's enthusiastic consent), the right hand man of the local mafia leader, because those two are childhood friends and haven't seen each other for literal ages, and because Rui is, well, a criminal and Nene is a celebrity, no way they would be able to catch up and spend time together as friends in public. So Rui decided kidnapping it is. (Additionally Nene wasn't doing so well in her troupe and wanted to take a break without anyone breathing down her neck about it. Neither of these people have a good idea of what normal behaviour is)

An is a prodigy detective who inherited the business from her dad and his detective agency (Ken is alive and well and is currently running a speakeasy, Nagi and Taiga are both considered missing). She's technically underage and should not be running a detective agency but nobody says anything about it because she's scary good. Unnaturally good even. Anyway An figures the whole Nene situation out fairly easily and when she tracks Nene down, she is met by Nene asking if not outright begging An to not blow her cover yet because she missed Rui a lot and still haven't had enough time with him (and also, potentially, maybe thinks she can make a law-abiding citizen out of him. Very unlikely and they both know that. Platonic "I can fix him")

An agrees, because

a) she knows how it is to be separated from your loved ones and misses people in her life as well (exactly what you're thinking about, but also Haruka)

b) she's in competition with other detectives and will gladly take the opportunity to throw them off the trail and then claim all the credit when Nene is miraculously "rescued" (their deal is basically this initially)

c) she's honestly gonna have so much fun with this

d) she's Down Bad for Nene let's be real

Cue them both trying to mess with the evidence and suspect sightings and other's group's trails and staging all sort of shenanigans. Hilarity ensures.

Bonus content:

1) Nene's disguise is just removing the hair puffs away from her face. Her regular haircut is somewhat similar to her Colorfes trained but with styled, curled into elegant strands of hair puffs. Once she hides them completely? Unrecognisable. Not the same person. Nobody knows it's her but Rui (and later An)

2) Rui is right-hand man to Mizuki, who is the mafia leader but they're not there much. They just basically got Rui on their side with "we're both outcasts, you know what outcasts do well? Crime :]" and the rest is history. They don't actually harm people much, they mostly smuggle stuff like diamonds and jewels and precious metals across the port security... For a price. And an occasional gun or two. But mostly just jewels.

3) Rui isn't actually that hype to be a part of the mafia, but he's still an inventor and that's like the only way he can both get his hands on materials and new tech and not be judged for it by The People. He doesn't believe he's ever going to fit in with regular society anyway, might as well.

4) An is rivals with Rui and they basically still have this cat and mouse dynamic (fox and rat?). An takes it Much more seriously than Rui ever did.

5) "Nene-san, I can understand a lot about secret relationships, but him?"

"it'snotlikethatIswear-"

6) The other featured characters:

- Akito, the only competent person at the agency. An's right hand man, but is mostly regarded as someone who's responsible for not letting her throw herself into danger head first. Perpetually annoyed by everything and is very grumpy

- Tsukasa, An's apprentice, much to his chargin (An never explains how she does Anything. "Idk dude just figure it out"). This is a part-time job for him; wants to be an actor still but keeps getting rejected

- Kohane, who works as a crime photographer for a rival agency. Whatever is going on between her and An is between them and god

- Mafuyu as a field medic/apprentice who's there from time to time. She wants to help people, but her mom wants her to have a prestigious career (still a doctor? Idk). Hangs out around An's detective agency often because Ken helped her out through a tough spot once and she feels indebted, but is otherwise not sure what to do with herself

- Touya is a double agent for An and Tsukasa, pretending to be part ot the mafia. At the same time she's such a nice guy he can't exactly figure out where his loyalty lies. He wants everyone to be friends. A good detective, rational and logical vs An's spiritual and intuitive. He's chill :]

- The Otoris do a lot of things, but they are mainly a merchant family. Therefore they clash with the mafia often, and Emu tries to prove herself by defending the goods! Unfortunately this leads to her also clashing with Rui, who she thinks is genuinely a good person and potentially an incredible inventor who just haven't had the chance to use his mind for the good of humanity. She tries to convince her brothers to hire him in order to develop more tech and make everyone's life better like her grandfather would have wanted, but to no avail so far. She and An know each other, but they're not so close yet!

- Honami runs a bakery in the district!

- Others probably will also have a role I just haven't decided yet

Inspiration sources, naturally:

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IMM FREEEEE WOOOOO

Anyway you read me saying it before but this us SO AWESOME AND ALSO SO FUNNY. AN CASUALLY HELPING NENE HANG OUT WITH A CRIMINAL HCHSHDH ruinene "I can fix him" help meee 😭😭😭 ruian one-sided rivalry over nene hxjajdhsh. MIZUKI MAFIA BOSS. Akito being SO Tired (tm). What's there not to love?

I love to imagine the shenanigans that ensue and the chaos but also fun of staging all those fake scenes 😭😭 and how thrown off all the others in the detective agency are. I imagine for a genius like an who usually solves cases quickly this is f9r once very fun snd challenging

I also rly wanna know what becomes of mizurui later, especially rui since he has nene and also emus offer in theory to maybe give him a more honest life. And also an too I guess

And also how annene develops! We know an is Smitten immediately but how does nene grow close to her 👀 also nene disguise is so funny 😭😭😭 shes not even trying and yet it works

Anyway!!! I love this!!! Thank you for sharing its super fun snd interesting! If you ever have more to share feel free :D

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi - Orcs

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links to some translations under the cut

и заодно выложу пару любопытным образом перекликающихся переводов потрясающих фанфиков!

тьма нынче обретает жизнь великолепного автора @/goodlucktai

и еще одна покорившая меня зарисовка rem - а тени пусть уходят

[mythicalcoolkid]

You don't wish your disability was worse or more visible, you wish your disability was taken seriously. Please stop confusing the two, I guarantee you would not get the support you need JUST by being more severe or more visible. Please listen to visibly disabled people when we tell you it isn't better on our side

[tibbycaps]

some of my favorite chat messages from scar's birthday stream

bonuses:

[communist-hatsunemiku]

channel

[wasyago]

welp, didn't manage to get everything out before season 10 started, but i gotta post it one way or another so here we go! heard there was a fandom swap game going on, wanted to do a couple promts of my own :D

[trauma-bot]

patron saint of never growing old

[midoristeashop]

Jack prost

Jack studies but I was only allowed to ref the rotg concept art 🤩

[humming-fly]

Delighted to discover that the way shadow unlocks new abilities in sxsg is a perfect parallel of the pringles iron maiden

[chucktaylorupset]

Sam and Evans relationship is so special yet so simple and it really just is that Sam treats Evan like he's normal and Evan treats Sam like she's serious

[shorthaltsjester]

Why are your children bound by rules you will not follow?

Critical Role, Campaign 3, Downfall Parts 1-3 // Commandments of The Prime Deities according to the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn

[radioroxx]

Perhaps some Isabeau being comforted as well?

isa comfort was gonna appear in the og post but i. didnt like the sketch so i scrapped it mb

so heres two to make up for it :)

[bunnieswithknives]

I feel bad for neglecting Hazel so much, I do have many thoughts about her.. and also a mermaid au that im probably not going to do anything with

[egophiliac]

@enderfore replied to your post “What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333”:

Chenya pic where???? I can barely see anything in that room there so much going on, rooks such a lil freak (affectionatr)

​he's under the row of flags on Neige's side of the room, next to the big Neige poster with the yellow background (look just to the right of the hand holding the apple)! he's REAL little; once you know he's there you can kind of see him in-game, but I only noticed him in the first place because I took a screenshot and was having fun zooming in on all the details!

I think that's either Hop or Snick and Dominic on either side of Neige, but if the others are meant to be anyone in particular I don't recognize 'em. though I do love all the absolutely terrifying implications of Rook having this. was this some kind of officially-published merchandise (and if so, why) or did Rook like...go hunting through the RSA trash to find this random student lineup just because it included Neige, and has had it hanging proudly on the wall ever since. (I mean, he definitely did do this, I don't know why I'm asking. the real question is why he hasn't cut out little pictures of his own face and stuck them over everyone else's yet.)

there is seriously SO MUCH in this room. how did Rook manage to keep this hidden for three years. also, somebody give this background artist a raise immediately.

[bu99erfly]

LOOSSEMBLE TTYL, 2024