#why do I do anything really

[stonesparrow]

This dumb idea brought to you by my headcanon that Senku, Taiju, and Yuzuriha had an established reputation at their high school for being a crazy talented (and physically attractive) power trio, which I nicknamed “The Three Stars” in one of my fanfics. And also because I recently saw this Miraculous Ladybug animatic with The Plastics intro song from the Mean Girls musical.

Full song under cut (sans the part where in the original the Plastics invite Cady to sit with them):

NEW STUDENT (Spoken)

Woah, who's at that table over there?

STUDENT A (Spoken)

Shh, keep your voice down, quiet! 

We call those three ‘The Stars’

They're brilliant, bright, and hot

They’re on a level of crazy 

That you’d never have thought!

STUDENT B (Sung)

They might build a castle

Or sound the fire alarm

Like their model volcano

That exploded like a bomb!

STUDENT A (Spoken)

And that volcano was three meters tall

STUDENT B (Spoken)

Ishigami Senku is the ringleader

He’s always dressed up

He always wins the science fair 

We’re just extras in his life that stand in the background

And gasp

SENKU 

Ishigami is the name

I’m not that big of a deal

Love me, hate me

I don’t care a bit 

And the hair? Yeah, it’s real

Popularity’s a sham

Better focus on your grades 

So what if

I sound smart

It’s just the hard work 

You’ll never see me give up and say it’s fine 

My GPA is never lower than

Three point nine 

Ishigami is the name

I’m not that big of a deal

I don't care who you are

Unless you’re useful to me*

STUDENT B (Spoken)

That’s Ogawa Yuzuriha

She can craft anything and everything

STUDENT A (Spoken)

That’s why her headband is so big, it’s full of glue sticks

YUZURIHA

Sewing painting

Stitching knitting

Every waking hour

I spend making arts and craft things

Here’s a crochet flower! 

If Senku-kun is the sun

Then I’m a model globe

Cause I’m just as complicated

If you put on the zoom mode 

I sew at lightning speed so fast 

You cannot hope to see

I’ll give you a commission but I don’t do it all for free

CHORUS

Not for free! 

YUZURIHA

Senku may be a star

But I won’t be behind too far 

As I am chasing my seat on the

Cover of Vivi magazine**

STUDENT B (Spoken)

That is Oki Taiju

The sweetest guy you will ever meet

STUDENT A (Spoken)

I once saw him apologize to a plant he knocked over 

TAIJU

My name is Taiju

My hair is spiky

My muscles are big 

My chest is mighty

Of Senku I think

Supremely highly 

My name is Taiju

I am pretty strong

That's it :)

*He does care. A lot.

**A Japanese women’s fashion magazine.

[alicenpai]

princess tutu: die jahreszeiten 🌸

kind of a companion piece to my 2022 ptutu drawing | it's on inprnt

this print was at anime north; next con is otakuthon!

oops so my hand slipped and i made another princess tutu drawing. i admittedly don't watch that much anime so my catalogue of work is gonna be the same 5 animes LMAO. what can i say, i love "dark" fairy tales, and i've been really enjoying the more fine art approach to a lot of my drawings as of late (and the watercolour brush i've been using has been so perfect for that...!)

as my first princess tutu drawing is now 2 years old, there are some areas i've grown to have ... qualms with... although both drawings as a whole are pretty much exactly what i envisioned, and that's always satisfying!

both of these were drawn in roughly a week's time (yes really...) for con crunch period (and i went back to this drawing after the con to touch up some areas that were a bit rough!). i wanted a different approach to this new pt drawing, with the focus on the line work, rather than on colours and lighting in the 2022 drawing.

this drawing had 2 goals: to continue the style i adopted in my witch hat atelier "lantern bearers" drawing (which i promise i'll post in full soon as soon as all of the zine artists get their go-ahead to post their pieces!), and to emulate the art nouveau movement's heavy emphasis on line work, albeit not a 1:1 style replication of course.

the seasons also aren't a 1:1 representation, as i didn't necessarily pick flowers or colours that are most strongly associated with the season (e.g. summer being a dark tone is a bold choice?). but it's kinda whatever, as i said before i drew this in a week, there may be more appropriate flowers with better meanings. i couldn't spend too too much time drafting and researching.

FLOWER SYMBOLISM:

- spring: apple blossoms, tulips - the apple blossom is a quintessential spring flower, and thus symbolize the arrival of spring. spring is a season of change, which ahiru/princess tutu is a force of, instigating change in her friends and unravelling the story around her. the flowers below her are tulips, and there are many meanings to tulips depending on the colour, due to their ubiquitous nature. i narrowed on one, and intended for them to symbolize happiness. princess tutu's pose is one in which that is open, inviting, and warm - reflecting her nurturing nature in the series, and her willingness to help others achieve happiness.

- summer: deadly nightshade flower, yellow rose - i chose for rue/princess kraehe to symbolize a fiery summer's night instead of the typical dazzling heat of a summer's day, a rather bold and unusual choice. the warmth of sunshine didn't quite fit, as the character is quite dramatic and passionate, with her intentions often hidden in shadow. next, the deadly nightshade - atropa belladonna - has a lot of mythological associations, a lot to do with poisoning, as the flower is toxic. the flowers bloom at night (another reason why i picked a nighttime backdrop for "summer") and also outwardly match rue's dark design scheme, as the cherry on top. yellow roses, at the bottom of her frame, are the archetypal flower depicting jealousy (as with many yellow flowers are), and at one point in the story, rue only wished for her own happiness at the misfortune of others.

- autumn: douglas fir needles, orange calla lily - autumn is another season of change - although much more tumultuous, as this season is traditionally taken to prepare for a long winter ahead - fitting for fakir as the role of the storyteller. the douglas fir is not a flower of course, but is a tree - with many different parts of this tree offering many benefits in advance of the winter season. i wanted the versatile nature of the douglas fir to reflect on fakir's dependable personality. next up, the calla lily is a flower with a dual meaning - on one hand you have life, on the other you have death. a storyteller quite literally can grant both at the tip of their fingers.

- winter: birch tree, snowdrop - winter is a rather still and unchanging season, a lull in the passage of time. this symbolizes mytho's passive nature at the start of the series, especially with his doleful pose here, as if almost in hibernation. to contrast, mytho is perched on the branches of a birch tree, which means new beginnings and renewal - as mytho is one of the characters that undergo the most change throughout the series (i'd argue the most?), regaining pieces of his heart. under mytho's frame is the snowdrop flower - and if you've read my witch hat atelier: seasons piece symbolisms, one of the snowdrop's meanings is rebirth, with connotations to the bible, bringing hope, when all had forsaken eve. the snowdrop is one of the first flowers to bloom even when the snow has not yet fully melted, further echoing mytho as an analogy for rebirth.

[d4rkshad0w]

i aspire to care as little about things as Neil cared about that countdown

[yanderespamton78]

Edit since a lot of people seem confused - your "real" name is the name that you want to be referred to in real life. It doesn't have to be your legal name. So if you're trans and you have a different name to whats on your birth certificate, even if not many people call you by the name, it still counts as your real name.

Edit 2 : Holy shit guys please stop reblogging this post my poor inbox im getting like 20 notifs an hour asjfhkajshdkh /lh /srs

[da-janela-lateral]

Seven-headed beast.

[inkskinned]

today i love the red metal crane in her long neck arching her body over the boston skyline, which means i am okay for a moment. when i am unwell, everything is a little ugly. i always tell myself look for the beauty but when it is bad, i will look at birds and sunsets and little ducklings and feel absolutely nothing.

when my brother got his puppy, i was in a deep depression. what kind of monster isn't affected by a puppy. i was gentle and kind to her - i just didn't have an emotional reaction. she's five now and i feel like i spend all of our interactions apologizing to her - i don't know why. i just didn't feel anything. how embarrassing. i feel like if i admit that, i'll seem cruel and jaded. it comes in waves. like, two months ago when i went out into the world - it was like that. life behind a pane of stormglass. a firework could go off over your head - nothing. like dead skin, no reaction. not to ice cream or rainbows or baby chickens. life foggy and uninteresting.

i love goslings again. i love their little webbed feet splayed over grass. i love good food and live music and long walks. i like puppies. i feel like some kind of my soul has been starved - i keep staring at everything with wide eyes, trying to burrow the sensation into my stomach. it's real. beauty is real. when it's bad again, remember this. i stop and smell the flowers, feeling cliche in the moment. i like the white-to-red ombre of my neighbor's roses. i like colorcoding and yoga and cold drinks. i try to pass my hands over every moment, feeling like i'm squeezing joy out of every instant. remember this. for the love of god, it's real - just remember this.

[triple-starsss]

for context this is set after they leave Ivo!!

[artsymeeshee]

Second-guessing

[arsenicflame]

Bonus round! Do you use a queue tag?

[bacchuschucklefuck]

they tried to rebrand as The Criminals but riz is literally the city council's treasurer and also turns out people in their late 20s don't really name their friend groups. so now they're The Intrepid Heroes

[bunnieswithknives]

Thanks.

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[slfcare]

the most difficult thing about growing as a person socially, as in getting out of your shell and noticing that you are, is that there will still be times when it doesn’t feel like you’ve grown at all! times when you can’t really connect with anyone around you, times when you fail to enter into an existing conversation, times when you say the wrong thing (or nothing at all when in hindsight you probably should’ve). but that’s also kind of the best thing, because that’s the thing that helps you realize that sometimes, it’s not you or your lack of skills or any shortcoming. sometimes certain environments just aren’t for you and certain people aren’t your people, and that’s okay. that’s human. it’s okay to not feel the progress you have made all the time.

[notherpuppet]

Ah maybe I haven’t mentioned it to tumblr very often, but I’ll add this to my bio. But;

⚠️PLEASE DO NOT RE-UPLOAD MY FANART TO OTHER WEBSITES⚠️

[the-barefoot-hatter]

pediatricians are hard to find.

you aren't broken and other important things a triangle needs to hear

[roxirinart]

"Yes! Show me the power of the Red Crown! I have missed it so..."

[benevolenterrancy]

("Always. Continuously. With increasing apprehension, and decreasing hope. I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every Tuesday. I will love you as a corpse loves the beak of the vulture. I will love you no matter what happens to you, and no matter how I discover what happens to you, and no matter what happens to me as I discover this." -- paraphrased from The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket)