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my superstar (la cavale announcement photoshoot + gemme promo photoshoot)

#nolwenn leroy #i posted so little this month because i've been doing pro freelance illustration but i'm hoping to go back to rigging soon #so i can use all my drawing energy to fool around again

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The Adventures of the Empty Girl

5k words - Akyuu angst

And just like that, she is thirty-one.

Continuing my streak of posting fic that might become canon divergent in a couple of months. I hope you like it!

#hieda no akyuu #touhou project #touhou

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"Risquer l'aventure comme un prince en exil, L'amour vaut mieux que l'ennui"

character designs based on this TV performance 🌹

#this is so silly but i couldn't help myself. The ridiculous mascot + bishonen attire + 80s song about princes + holding each other's hands #in the rose garden for the interview after the song it all looks way too much like a 20th century shoujo opening hgflkfds #i'm not tagging the performer and presenter cause these are more like OCs to me #but in case anyone is wondering it's Sheila and Danielle Gilbert #idk who the rat is.

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Chromarelle compilation with two new additions!

#my ocs #oc: chro #oc: marelle

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I was trying to understand why Thistle and his relationship with Falin had such a death grip on me and then I remembered about ANOTHER thousands of years old trickster who started out with good intentions but got punished for wanting too much, created an inescapable liminal death labyrinth. Then the person he grew up with used all of his energy to bring people from the outside to destroy him. Then his only significant friend and ally in 1000 years is a 20something lesbian who lost part of her humanity.......

So kneel before Smokey, Island Master, The Man of Many Forms, and his seagull chimera Claire Littleton

#claire littleton #man in black #lost #lost abc #lost spoilers #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers #drawings for an audience of two #the scarf around Smokey's waist is the scraps from his bio mom's dress. btw

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I know you have big akyuurei feelings but I also want to know like every character you might ship akyuu with too 🔍 (but if you also want to talk about why akyuurei's great I'm always all ears too...)

Trying to switch the AkyuuRei brain off for three seconds to answer this because they really are my favourite Touhou ship of all times so if I started talking about them I'd never get to the other ships 😭

I reread Forbidden Scrollery recently. It cemented the fact for me that while there's so many Akyuu/Kosuzu fanworks that I love, it's really one of these ships for me that's more appealing as one-sided (which is a compliment because unrequited love is my favourite type of romance 😅). Lately a configuration that has been on my mind is the "unrequited switcharoo" kind: Kosuzu having feelings for Akyuu for a very long time but Akyuu relegating it to friendship completely and closing herself off to relationships with normal humans due to her curse's nature > Forbidden Scrollery happens and Akyuu realizes Kosuzu is so much more than a fragile fleeting human and allows herself to see her more romantically > unfortunately Kosuzu has already moved on to other things (youkai).

I like stuff that juxtaposes AkyuuRei with YukaRei and I think it could work as a 3-way ship. There's also something interesting about Akyuu/Yukari in general. The Writer/Editor dynamic is something super intimate but the fact that the Editor is the one in power makes it really unique… It's always been my headcanon that when Yukari makes an edit to the Chronicles, it affects the memories of the next reincarnation, so there's an almost psychological horror feel to romancing someone whose memories you can rewrite at will… I don't really see this ship in a healthy and fluffy configuration but if I'm looking for toxicity that's where I would go.

Like I said before I'm interested in the consequences UDoALG could have on the curse of Are. Since while the hierarchy of Hell didn't care too much about Gensokyo Eiki was the one enforcing it, but now that Zanmu's eyes are on Reimu I feel like Akyuu's next death is being put in a completely different spotlight than the one she's used to. I think you could nicely pepper some Akyuu into ZanHisa in that context.

Kind of an older one because I haven't thought about this for a long time but I used to have some Akyuu/Yuuka feelings. They're related to the way fandom talks about Yuuka: I see a lot of discussion that's like "What are Yuuka's REAL powers? Her power is supposed to be flower manipulation but she's also canonically mega dangerous and mega powerful and violent. Truly there has to be something more" but the source of her being extremely dangerous is PMiSS, which is written by Akyuu, who has asked youkai to self-report their threat level. I've always been a "Yuuka is not actually that powerful, she exaggerates her abilities to be feared and left alone in a self-isolating way" truther, and that implies Akyuu having a front-row seat to that kind of self-destructive behaviour. So I'd love to see her react to it.

These are the big four I have thoughts about (well five since ZanHisa/Akyuu would be 3 people). But this is Touhou so you can always come up with more…

#thanks for asking ☺

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Sending you the ball back (seishin)

When I started shipping it if I did:

Day one — well day one of me playing DDC. Since I had a few years (late middle school + high school) where I wasn't following Touhou canon anymore and it came out during those times, I found out about them when I caught up to all the canon I missed circa 2015. But I had managed to not get a single thing about them spoiled somehow so the experience was the same.

My thoughts:

I love them so so much but you all know that. But specifically out of all the Touhou ships I feel like this is the one that's the most "contained?" Like they actually have a complete story arc that starts with DDC, then ISC, and "ends" with their conversation in Grimoire of Usami. If I wanted to explain most TH ships to someone who isn't in the fandom, I would have to pull out a diagram and hundreds of small details and worldbuilding bits to get it to make sense, but for these two there's a cohesive "trilogy" that contains a whole love story with onscreen character arcs and a satisfying "epilogue". Because of that I feel like this is a very special ship, it really stands out from the other pairings in that regard…

Things done in fanworks that annoy me:

I think people think I'm joking when I say I'm an unironic Seija apologist, but I genuinely dislike the framing of Shinmyoumaru as a helpless victim. I do think there's no real victim, that they mutually used each other awkwardly, but if it HAS to be a contest of who has it worse… What Seija did to Shin was: invent a bunch of overinflated bullshit to push Shin over the edge of joining a cause that she already half-agreed with without the lies. What Shin did to Seija was: weaponize her weakness to throw her under the bus as the main perpetrator AND not back down from that narrative EVEN AFTER a DEAD OR ALIVE MANHUNT was called on Seija. I feel like out of these two betrayals there is one that is way harder to forgive and it's not Seija's! They're both brilliant manipulators in totally different ways and it's one of the reasons they fit so well in the first place aaaaahhhhhhhhhh. I prefer fanworks that are more morally gray but if I'm to be compeltely honest I also want to see a more villainous Shin to compensate for all the fanworks that smooth her edges so much!

Things I look for in fanworks:

One of the big charm points of this ship for me is the Bonnie & Clyde dynamic, the partner in criming, so I can't get enough of fanworks of them working well together and being in sync. I like fanart where they look kind of cool, serious and competent, I find it very romantic in a way.

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other:

Because of DDC being such a self-contained complete story like I said earlier there's not a lot of material of them interacting with the rest of the world… I love love love Sei/Shin/Reimu and Sei/Shin/Marisa because it has interesting power dynamics but it needs to be a throuple because as soon as you take Seija or Shinmyoumaru out I'm not interested.

Thought I like the idea of Shin going for other women during their time apart. Because I have a loving jealousy tropes too much problem. And I'm interested in Seija having to face insecurities. In that regard I'm into the Shin/Tenshi dynamic in AoCF. Because I think a Tenshi VS Seija rivalry could get very ugly (positive). But once again this is still with a SeiShin lens…

My prefered future/ending for them:

I want them to have big dramatic adventures. I do think they can change some of the unfair things in Gensokyo if they get over themselves first. It's also the kind of ship where I appreciate a tragic ending and a tragic death but I haven't found the fanwork that would hit this the right way for me yet :3

What is their favorite activity together:

Planning adventures. I picture Shin as the kind of person who can spend hours talking about projects, travels, shady businesses, things she wants to try someday. And she enjoys doing SOME of these things but coming up with the ideas counts as part of the fun. And paradoxically to the fact that her whole thing is playing with negatives, I feel like Seija would be a good Yes Man for those situations because the way she always twists and criticizes everything could be pretty stimulating to bounce ideas off. I'm getting frustrated because there's no english equivalent to "faire des plans sur la comète" and "refaire le monde" but I can totally see them spending a night on a high peak in Gensokyo, pointing to locations they want to travel the next day and bantering all night while mapping out the whole itinerary, then waking up in the morning and going the opposite direction of where they had planned.

A fic I’d like to write about them/A sentence from one already in my WIPs: 

(not a prose line cause this fic is in its rough 1st draft state a but a scene placeholder that I like) "Seija goes to sleep holding one of Shin's robes next to her head to make sure she dreams of her."

ship and characters asks 💌

#thank you for asking i love them 😌

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Stolen from @amemenojaku 🌷 + added the fic question!

001 | send me a ship and I will tell you:

When I started shipping it if I did:

My thoughts:

Things done in fanworks that annoy me:

Things I look for in fanworks:

Who I’d be comfortable them ending up with, if not each other: 

My prefered future/ending for them:

What is their favorite activity together:

A fic I'd like to write about them/A sentence from one already in my WIPs:

OR

002 | Give me a character & I will tell you:

How I feel about this character: 

All the people I ship romantically with this character: 

My favorite platonic relationship for this character: 

Things done in fanworks that annoy me:

Things I look for in fanworks:

A headcanon:

A fic I'd like to write about them/A sentence from one already in my WIPs:

#I have boooring errands to run I'd be very happy to come back to asks :°) #touhou or any fandom you've seen me talk about/draw before. also I've been into dunmeshi lately 🍖

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Reposting this since the old link to the colored version broke 💔 I forgor that discord-hosted images would break. I found out that the dashboard glitch disappears after a while if you leave a post up, so this should show up in the tags in a few hours? Enjoyy

#touhou #touhou project #tsukasa kudamaki #sanae kochiya #oil fire #tsukasana #touhou fanart

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Backup Save Love - 6k words - Ichirin/Mizuchi

Faced with questions about their past in Former Hell, Byakuren Hijiri's followers have been nothing but terse, simply describing this chapter of their story as a "disgrace". But everyone has their own way to find hope during hard times…

This was written for @touhoucrackmonth, an event where you get assigned randomly generated ships to write about.

Like all CDS fic this has a short shelf life. It was written right after the release of chapter 33 and might become utter nonsense as soon as chapter 34 is out. Either enjoy it while it's hot, or if you're seeing this months later, enjoy this little time capsule!

#touhou crack month #touhou #mizuchi miyadeguchi #ichirin kumoi #touhou project #the ship name is Mizirin i'm deciding #touhou fanart

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red white and yellow props, some are a repost from many years ago and some i drew just now

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pastel colors

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Made the mistake of making a PC with a beloved dog for a HORROR tabletop rpg now I'm always so worried for the dog whenever we get in trouble

#my ocs #oc: tiger robinson

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fisherman

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More lacartoonerie childhood OC redesigns!

The fire girl was my favourite OC back then. The overalls were kind of random and just because 9-year-old me thought it was cute but since she's was a fire elemental and a rare weapon enthusiast (half of the scenes I animated with her are her robbing various armories fdsqdsf) I thought a blacksmith concept could suit her well in a redesign. For the water girl I basically didn't change anything, the no sleeves + a tie combo was already a winner.

#my ocs

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more oc doodles

#my ocs #oc: jedelany #friend oc: renard #oc: manzil bouhri #i need to get more ttrpg character sheets back from my GMs to scan more little margin doodles #its a very relaxing process to go through them and scan them and clean them and decide which ones i love enough to post #its like organizing plushies or something #oc: reynard shepherd

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I was rereading my diary from 6 years ago and I found a little castle doodled in one of the margins so I decided to paint it.

#and by 'paint' i mean oil pastel it but idk if pastel can be used as a verb.