#i’ve had this thought for a while but

[kentopedia]

nanami kento, who hates dating, and didn’t do much of it in his early twenties. but now, he’s almost thirty, watching all the people he works with settle down, have kids, and he thinks he wants that. so he might as well try.

so satoru sets him up on a few dates — friends of friends, he calls them. and at the end of every one of the dinners, kento goes home empty, exhausted, because he knows what they want is not the same.

still; he thinks maybe he’s being a little self-destructive, maybe too picky, maybe he just got so used to being alone. with satoru’s insistence, he gives all the women another call, invites them over to his apartment.

the first time was a disaster… kento had barely set the dinner on the table before his cat had hissed at her, scratched her down the arm in a thin gash. and though it did draw blood, it was hardly enough to warrant that reaction.

he didn’t even try to stop her as she picked up her bag and left, huffing like she’d been morally offend. kento, though, could only smile to himself in amusement.

because maybe kento was a poor judge of character, a man who was secretly hoping nothing would pan out — but his cat could certainly tell the good from the bad.

it became a little game to him, after that. seeing if anyone could win his pet over, and if they could, perhaps they were the one. his darling animal was a fickle thing anyway. a bit too defensive, quick to bite anything threatening after years on the streets.

naturally, no one came back twice.

he was close to giving up, accepting his solitude because he was tired of empty conversations over dinner. but then, he ventured out over the weekend to a new coffee shop, during hours he normally didn’t spend out of his home, and met you.

though you only talked for a moment, kento felt like maybe he’d known you in a past life. a part of him thought maybe it was strange, the way he kept coming back to talk to you, catching you at the end of your shift to see if you wanted to grab a coffee sometime.

by the second date, kento started to think you could turn out to be his best friend.

by the third date, kento wondered if soulmates were real.

on the fourth date, almost two months later, an appropriate time to get to know someone when you were as reserved as kento, he invited you over for dinner. it was, perhaps, the final confirmation he needed to let himself be with you.

he let you through the door, smiling softly as you told him about the book you were reading, and hung his coat on the rack. a moment later, you stopped, distracted, hands covering your mouth in a gasp.

“kento! she’s the cutest cat i’ve ever seen, you didn’t even show me pictures!” you exclaim, and, a few feet away, crouched down. “look at her pretty eyes…”

“careful,” kento said, “she’s not very—“

but the cat approached your outstretched hand, sniffed once, before letting you scratch her under her chin, purring loud enough for kento to hear across the room.

“shes such a sweetheart, you told me she was mean!” you smiled, making a cooing noise as you threaded your fingers through her fur. “kento’s a liar, isn’t he… you’re so precious.”

a few moments later, she snapped her jaw at you in a biting motion, and you only laughed, withdrawing your hand. “alright, i get it, i won’t bother you anymore.”

though she still brushed against your legs, just as she did kento’s, and seemed to communicate some sort of message to him.

“do you want any help cooking?” you ask, tucking your hair behind your ears. “i’m a disaster in the kitchen, but—“

“sure,” kento said, his chest tightening as he blinked back at you, only in his apartment for minutes and already looking as at home there. he wondered if it was possible to fall in love so quickly. “but only if you want to.”

#this is very silly #i just wanted to get it out of my drafts #i’ve had this thought for a while but #i decided i didn’t want to write a whole drabble so now you get this #kento being inexperienced at dating & not enjoying it is very special to me #and so is him having a cat tehe #selfship coded i suppose bc reader is me but it’s not that obvious i hope #beloved kento 💋 ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆ #nanami x reader #xoxo rylie 💌 ୧⋆ ˚｡⋆ #jjk x reader #nanami x you #nanami fluff #nanami x gender neutral reader

[ricky-mortis]

So, I heard it was Holloweane Week?

It’s a bit late in the week but I wanted to draw something for it, and I liked this prompt.

The way I see it- their roles may have been swapped, but their dynamic? Exactly the same.

#t4t Holloweane my beloved #everyday I thank tumblr user ohnoitsjetster for introducing me to that HC #I gave Duke 70s hair and I love it so much it came out so good imo #and Miss Holloway is always just <3 #I tried to modernize her a little bit #we’ll see what yall think #these two are fun but by god they are hard to draw #especially Kim #I swear I’ll get better at drawing her #what beautiful people though #social worker miss Holloway and witch Duke tho #omg so good #i imagine Holloway would go by Holly #Holly and Mister Keane #I’ve had a lot of thoughts while drawing this #hatchetfield #Starkid #nightmare time #nightmare time 2 #miss holloway #duke keane #kim whalen #Curt mega #holloweane #holloweane week #holloweane week 2024 #Holloweane week day 6 #my art #:)

[froggtogs]

gone fishing

#been a while since i’ve actually posted anything lu related #so i thought i’d include everyone #it’s not rendered or anything but it’s sure there #anyways #i ate at a restaurant today!! it was super delicious #my job over break definitely was a good idea if i can now afford occasional meals like that #aaaaanyways #i’ve had the phrase cuneiform tablets stuck in my head c #all day #idk why #anyways have a great day :) #art #fanart #froggtogs #linked universe #linked universe fanart #legend of zelda #linkeduniverse #lu four #lu twilight #lu wild #lu wind #lu sky #lu time #lu warriors #lu legend

[bucklavaa]

Fine Line, Harry Styles

#911 abc #I got the idea in my head while listening to fine line last night #I just had to do it before it consumed every waking thought I’ve had #evan buckley #eddie diaz #buddie #i don’t know how to tag this

[rinisdrawing]

the golden princess & the sorcerer prince

#fnaf #fnaf fanart #fnaf security breach #fnaf ruin #ruin dlc #fnaf sb #five nights at freddy's #cassie fnaf #fnaf cassie #gregory fnaf #fnaf gregory #fnaf sb royal au #aaaand here they are! the sb kiddos in my royal au concept thingy! #trying new stuff out with my style and decided to go for a painter-y look!! it was a bit of a challenge but still very fun nonetheless #i’ve had this planned for a while now and i’ve been thinking of a royal concept since sb came out #but for some reason i never really posted or talked about it… #i think it’s mostly because i thought people wouldn’t be interested but the reception on the wip for this has been incredible!! #i’ll probably post more about this concept bc i really love developing it :) #rin’s artchive #artists on tumblr

[missingn000]

#thought of this while driving yesterday and laughed so hard i had to pull over #this is actually canon i’ve decided #PLEASEEEEE #hate their asses

[ellabism]

someone should write an ellabs fic where they knew each other as kids and were fireflies together and had dated, but one day fedra bombarded them in an all out attack where they got separated amongst everything and never end up finding each other, assuming one another is dead. then the canon events happen within the first game and the second game, but ellie doesn’t know who killed joel, only that they’re WLF. but when ellie goes out to seattle to avenge joel she finds out her long lost gf from when they were kids is in fact alive and apart of the WLF. and it causes so many emotional wars for the two

idk i’ve had this idea of them knowing each other and actually dating before being separated for years and reuniting when they’re older and still having that love for each other but the circumstances with all the canon events make it hard

#ellabs #ellie x abby #abby x ellie #the last of us #the last of us 2 #i’ve had this idea for a while #i thought it would be cool

[foralleternityidiot]

Some actors kiss like it’s their job, some like it’s a chore, and some like it’s a hobby. And don’t tell me you don’t know which is better and which is worse.

#I had this thought while thinking about neo trai #just tagging some things I’ve watched lately #only friends the series #dangerous romance the series #my personal weatherman #exclusive fairytale #love in translation #naughty babe the series #my beautiful man eternal #kiseki dear to me

[kadextra]

I’ve slept on it, it’s a new day, I feel like can say that Sweet Despair is the best lore stream I’ve ever watched

#like what…. it was so unbelievably good I’m still stunned. the perfect emotional culmination of this long & beautifully tragic arc #so fun to watch as it unfolded over time- some of the most fun I’ve had in a fandom community tbh #it’ll take a while for me to recover #the stream literally destroyed me #many many thoughts in my brain #at the end of the day it’s all about love. always about love #im so sentimental ajsjdjfkgkh #qsmp #qsmp badboyhalo

[aceredshirt13]

having read nearly all of the Jeeves short stories, it’s so funny to me that Bertie’s bisexuality manifests as casting a wide but shallow net at girls and a narrow but ridiculously deep net at men. He thinks girls are pretty on a reasonably frequent basis, and has tried to marry at least four women thus far (not counting the unwanted engagements), but when it doesn’t work out he’s over it in 24 hours. Meanwhile he shows absolutely no interest in and never gives flattering depictions of 99% of the men in his life, but will praise Jeeves to anyone who will listen, wax poetic about his appearance (and get defensive on his behalf about it when a child insults it), and is absolutely inconsolable when they are separated.

(also Bertie is in no way allosexual. he is canonically terrified at the thought of reproducing. and due to the narrow but deep net on the other end I don’t imagine he’s going around sleeping with loads of men, either. that man’s either demi as hell or just entirely ace)

#red randomness #jeeves and wooster #bertie wooster #reginald jeeves #wooves #jooster #100 and up neat #finally determined my take on Bertie orientation and had to get the thoughts out #granted I have only read the first three short story collections + Extricating Young Gussie (re: none of the novels or last two stories) #so I can’t speak for the few stories following that or any of the novels #but this is my StanceTM #curious to see what that pastiche Jeeves and the Wedding Bells is like and whether or not it matches this #because if it’s focused on a Bertie het romance then I have trouble seeing it #he truly doesn’t seem invested enough in women for it to carry a whole book??? #they’re more like crushes or cheery whims #while Jeeves is so close to his heart that he can’t bear to be without him. a source of comfort as a person beyond just what the man does #side note there are two pastiches I’ve heard about that put Bertie with Bobbie Wickham and that sounds untenable lmao #Bertie would be at his wit’s end #also I heard she gets a guy later anyway?? and at this point Bertie’s already fallen out of love with her besides??? #truly the greatest sin of those two pastiches is separating him from Jeeves though. good fucking luck #it also sounds like the show is kinda different?? but I’ve never seen it #anyway I’m rambling without all the information so maybe this is total nonsense but hey!

[fumifooms]

Btw is it just me or does Dungeon Meshi have some cool religious christian imagery?

The Winged Lion, Falin and Laios. The Power, the white dove and the messiah. The dungeon as the sacred land?

Cannibalism as an act of love and gratitude. Eating (god) as worship and communion.

Becoming a dungeon lord like ascending to godhood, being the chosen one, the divine messenger, the one through which God acts.

sorry I just think about this Numbers 13:32 Bible quote like all the time thank you youtuber The Sin Squad

#Dungeon meshi #The winged lion #laios touden #falin touden #I’m… Trying to cook #I’ve had these thoughts for a while but i’m not knowledgeable enough to go deeper into it #The power the white dove and the messiah goes so hard tho ngl #I want to do a cool af highly conceptual dunmeshi artwork about this but do I have the time? No #Fumi rambles #Feel free to build upon this btw #Sorry for calling the eucharist cannibalism btw eating the flesh of god is pretty metal and my fav manga is dunmeshi I’m not judging I swea #I hate what chainsaw man did to me (lying) #The youtuber i mentioned is bc of their Lion King & judaism video. It’s pretty good

[gaytedlasso]

pretty in pink

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happy birthday to Val @deancrowleycas !

#it’s insane that it’s your bday cuz I thought of your art while I was painting this #truly the universe is insane and knew you needed a bday present of Castiel art #this is the first digital painting Ive ever really done #everything else I’ve done had line work and paint beneath #happy bday bestie !! #sketch.art #val tag 👄 #castiel #spn fanart #spn art #becauseofthebowties #spncreatorsdaily #cowboycoven

[i-really-like-phrogs]

Re-design of my un-named Beetlejuice OC from back when I was thirteen

Original Reference under the cut:

#my art #beetlejuice #toonjuice #beetlejuice cartoon #beetlejuice fanart #beetlejuice movie #procreate #I don’t really make OC’s for fanwork anymore… but the ones I had when I was younger almost never got named 🥲 #When I first made her I really really liked her- and her story was very self indulgent #Looking at it now is almost way too weird for me… (and honestly a little unintentionally homophobic???) #Basically she was one of the girls from Dante’s inferno… except she got kicked out because she only had attraction to girls #(This was BEFORE I suspected that I was a lesbian— mind you.) #Yeah but anyway she went to the Deetz/Maitland house looking for a place to stay but drove everybody crazy #She was super flamboyant- loved everything pink n fluffy- and was well meaning but did more harm than good trying to do nice things for the #She had this one sided crush on Delia??? Like musical Beej and Adam except less perverted and more flirty/sappy? I was an odd kid- okay? 🥲 #Anyway… the old design didn’t really do much to show off her personality… so I ended up upheaving the whole thing #So I upheaved the whole thing. #It was okay for what I knew at the time- but I know what I was trying to say then and now I have the knowledge to say it better #Also— the reason I gave her horns here is so silly. #When I was younger I was in a Christian school where I wasn’t allowed to draw witches-ghosts-demons-etc. #So even though I based her on the Dante girls… I refused to give her horns because I thought that was ‘too sinful’ #I even remember having so much guilt while looking for references of the Dante workers #I couldn’t even look for more than five seconds! #Anyways… she really pushed the boundaries for me at the time and it’s fun to see how I’ve changed and grown since then.

[hello-eeveev]

I really wish Laura or Marisha would take night time moments to give Imogen and Laudna little scenes to talk. I think that would really help give their relationship development now that they’re officially together.

A lot of other cr romances have done stuff like that (shoutouts as always to vaxleth, the pinnacle of d&d romance) and I want that for imodna! I want mentions of them snuggling up together at night. I want them to kiss and blush and be awkward in their romance so they can grow back into comfort. I want them to have asides that are barely more than a smile or a look or a touch.

I just miss all these little moments they could be having :/

#thoughts I’ve had for a while but felt again tonight #I like imodna lots and I want more of it #cr spoilers #critical role spoilers #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #eve talks

[stuckinapril]

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#I’m only very rarely inclined to get this intimate w my thoughts so I might as well say it NOW butttt I will never not see the dead children #In everything I do #Like legit #I’ve read up on Hind so extensively and seen so many photos of her #And I have a very healthy relationship w the popular Palestinian journalists so she’s not my blorbo or anything #But hearing that memo destroyed me bc bisan is only 23 and she seemed so vivacious #Idk like I do normal people things I can’t just pause on my life #But idk how it feels like to sit at a boba place and enjoy my pearl milk tea w my friends #While the horrors over there don’t just lurk the back of my mind. I do normal things and I’m guilty for having the luxury #And as an Iraqi girl I’m living in the literal ideal timeline #Where my mom decided to immigrate to the us and that’s why I’m here living a normal life like everyone else #It’s like in a different world if I were born in a different time it could’ve so easily been me. I’m one of the Lucky Ones idk #It’s not survivor’s guilt bc it’s not like I had to survive anything like I never had the chance to live in Iraq or anything #But like. If some things had fallen just a little differently #And I keep thinking about how I’d feel if it were happening to Iraq and people behaved the way they’re doing to Palestinians #I’d be so mad #And some people on here are dealing w assholes while bursting at the seams w grief #For losing their loved ones #This is why I’m so fucking angry at anyone who’s complicit #This was a major tangent but basically I feel weird about doing normal things now while simultaneously knowing I can’t just sit and wallow #And watch life pass by as if it’ll do anything #Misery is not a home but I’m struggling to be 100% normal #And I think that this tonal dissonance is reflecting on my blog too bc I can’t go back to just #Posting about all the other normal things I used to. Like I want to but sometimes I feel off. #Is this anything. I haven’t slept all night #I can’t just allow myself to lose interest in everything I used to like and be and just fade away but maybe it’s about accepting that this #Will also always be a part of me now. It’s that awareness that shadows everything I do #or maybe I need a therapist it’s a toss up #I’ll probably feel better once I get my day started but this was cathartic to voice I think #p

[sciencewife]

Oh have you ever drawn Caroline saying her incoming “goodbye Caroline” line?

How do you see her when she said it?! I’m curious!

I had to draw her today so I could say “yes I have”

The following is, of course, my opinion.

To me, Caroline is a very intelligent, clever woman. There’s a misconception that Caroline was being your average ditzy secretary when she says this line, but to me, she was making a clever joke. She probably said it with a smile and a wink at Cave when the recording you hear in old Aperture was originally made. She and Cave worked well with each other and understood one another on a certain level, to where they just knew exactly what the other was talking about. Not sure if telepathic is the right word. But they understood each other more than any other two people in Aperture did.

But there’s a melancholy angle too, I think. Goodbye, Caroline. The meaning changes as the years went by. It starts off as a joke, but I think Caroline gives more and more to Aperture as time passes, and she devotes her life to it (Cave doesn’t call her the backbone of the facility for nothing). She gives even more once Cave falls sick and eventually dies, and she takes over.

Eventually, she’s given so much of herself to Aperture and to science—once she’s given all a human being can possibly give—that, in the end, she becomes Aperture.

Goodbye, Caroline.

#This took me a while but I had to draw a response to a Caroline related message in my inbox #I don’t get much in my inbox so this was a treat #I had an epiphany as I wrote this too #I have sooooooooo many thoughts about Caroline #Aaaaaaaaa #i hope this made sense? Feel free to talk my ear off though I love talking about Caroline portal #portal #portal 2 #cave johnson #caroline portal #caroline #caroline tag #Sciencewife draws #I’m still figuring out an art tag #I need to take an art class I want to draw Caroline even better #I’ve never drawn someone winking before so forgive me #GLaDOS