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ikoarts · 3 months

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October 2023 Art

for some reason i wrote a novel under the cut, for those of u actually reading, thank u for being so patient x

vvv dates + info under the cut vvv

1 - 03/10/2023 : another of my faves of last year, was trying to get better at drawing trainz, so just Edward and Toby hanging out, displaying the duality of old men x

2 - 04/10/2023 : got a new puter! one of the first things i set to doing after getting set up was to draw a Ru, of course, it was also just me trying to get used to the new MS paint..... it feels very odd

3, 4, 5 - 06/10/2023 : part 1 of redrawing random pics i have of Edward on my phone with my human version of him, this was really fun tbh, and the third here is one of my fave drawings of the year probs.. like sir.. those look heavy... what big uhh.. Glasses.. you have

6, 7, 8 - 07/10/2023 : part 2! i think i just like drawing his face... dare i say this train is cunty or will that get me exiled

9 - 08/10/2023 : something stupid i thought of and couldn't get out of my head for days so had to draw it..... little johnny from oingo boingo's only a lad, doing what he does best, fantasising about radios he wants oh so bad and running people down with a boyish craving for blood.. based on that 1 meme of the guy driving and thinking of a thing then making that insane face

10 - 09/10/2023 : based on that 1 silly vargskelethor song (that could not be less specific), had Shed 17 on the brain and was reminded of the milk song where the skeleton comes out.. thomarse dank 2 much milk and died..

11, 12 - 10/10/2023 : chooshada again :333 first a little doodle on my phone bc i was wondering about her livery, i do think she'd have originally been NER apple green but then painted NWR colours, butttt with a twist... coz i can do whatever i like... the twist is just that she's painted dark blue rather than a sky blue, coz its more her colour x

ALSO MS paint shada, wanted to draw her more uh, idk, detailed ig, idk i love this one, it also served as more train practice

13 - 13/10/2023 : previous one, but with COLOUR!! not much 2 say other than that shes very cute

14 - 18/10/2023 : saw a tweet abt old photos of engine crews posing with their crashed locos and how the NWR crews would do that, made me think of how, if Toni was (choo)shada's driver, she'd do that.. probably x .. very like her to slay in the midst of a terrible accident

15 - 22/10/2023 : predictably, i have some playlists for the ttte engines, one for Diesel which is notable here, so uhh, i have the scrapped song from the lorax "biggering" in there, bc i see it as like a Duck vs Diesel song, ik im surpassing several layers of cringe here but hear me out ok... i drew this at 2am coz i couldn't stop thinking of Duck lecturing Diesel

16, 17, 18 - 25/10/2023 : speaking of playlists, think i was listening to my Robin one here, and felt like drawing him, i have "the land of make believe" in there, which ive always found to be an oddly haunting song, so this is semi based on that, though that wouldn't be apparent if i hadn't just told u x .. this looks like vent art but tis not i was just having fun

also tiny chooshada, i was in the middle of writing something which i have literally Just remembered now and i was writing a scene where Ru is stuck between some characters who shes not looking forward to working with bc they're about to bicker the whole fuckin time and one of them thinks shes a dick, so i drew her being sad that shes forced to work with morons..... and speak of the devil, 3rd drawing is here with 2 of the aforementioned morons :D i think D+D take a liking to her, they're just a little obnoxious (love them for that)

19 - 27/10/2023 : a quick(ish) digital thing of Chooshada again that i did on the side of another project, more engine drawing practice he he, she'll be out of proportion and lacking detail but really it was just to not be too hard on myself about that, it did help i think to understand how to draw her more, plus just look at her lil face... also she has a number here, doesn't mean much other than 8 being her lucky number, other than 11, like those are just her numbers, suppose i could have it be 1188 to ref her bday, idfk x

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thedandelionthief · 10 months

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okay project sekai appearance headcanons time. friendly reminder that i’m always right and if you have any complaints, you should reevaluate yourself. also this is a Long post

ichika looks. mostly how she does in canon to me. i do think she’s a bit gangly, just without the height. the way she carries herself is pretty awkward, and she has bad posture.

saki is a part-time mobility aid user. i’m not sure which one specifically she would use, but either way it’s decked out in all kinds of stickers. also i don’t like how ambiguous her being a gyaru is in canon, but she is one. also all three tenmas have dimples and yes i’m including toya

honami is fat why is she not fat in canon. also, she straightens her bangs, but stops doing that going into her 2nd year once she’s gained more confidence in herself. her hair is naturally super wavy. freckle haver

shiho has really broad shoulders, and also she has a septum piercing and a bunch of ear piercings.

minori has So Many Freckles, and her teeth are a bit crooked. she’s mixed japanese-mexican

haruka also looks mostly how she does in canon, but i think she starts to dress a lot more masc over time, and gets her hair cut shorter too. a big reason she dresses so plain and feminine is because she thinks it’s how she should dress as an idol

airi’s hair is thick in the like. getting the brush stuck in it way, and is also a lot wavier than it is in canon to me. mixed hispanic/japanese, but i don’t have a specific ethnicity i headcanon her as

shizuku, like shiho, has broad shoulders. she’s also 5’10 because tall girls pretty and she deserves to be taller. has more moles than in canon

kohane is mixed korean-japanese, and she is freckly. good for her. also chubby. good for her

an is filipino-japanese. ken is my favorite filipino single dad of all time (i am ignoring the fact that an has a mother. ken is a single father). also maybe she’s taller than she is in canon because i think it’d be funny if she was taller than akito in heels

akito is hispanic/japanese and shorter than he is in canon (he’s like 5’5) and he eventually grows his hair out into a mullet and he has piercings and his hair is not naturally orange. i will not accept it until they show shinomom on-screen and she is a ginger. my good mutual zip has converted me to fat akito as well so there’s that. i’ve just been playing dress up with him and now canon akito looks wrong to me

toya… i decided this just now he is a person with albinism. good for him. and dimples because tenma

tsukasa like i said earlier also has dimples. also he should be allowed to grow out his hair but he has not yet.

i confess i have nothing for emu. i tend to draw her with freckles though sometimes. and actually i take that back i like the hc of her being blasian. she has beaded braids a lot. i can see her getting wxs colors :)

nene is blasian as well. also chubby. why is there no body type variation in proseka (i know why don’t try to explain it to me) make some of them fat i’m begging you

rui has the most fucked up teeth. his canines are like fangs vampire style. had braces as a kid and they did not work. also has heterochromia. one blue eye and one yellow. he is so extremely lanky and i don’t believe for a second he is 5’10 this guy is like 6’0

kanade is so frail and i don’t know why she is drawn like almost the same as the others when she is literally like ghostly pale and sickly but that’s besides the point. the worst eyebags you’ve ever seen.

mafuyu is like. i think she starts to lose weight during her 2nd year at the height of all her stress, but begins to gain back what she lost in her 3rd. she is fat. also cuts her hair shorter

ena is mixed hispanic/japanese obvi and she has naturally wavier hair. also has horrible dark circles. is naturally chubbier and she is once she gains a healthier relationship with food. it’s the good ending guys gaining weight as a sign of healing.

mizuki mizuki mizuki. taller than she is in canon by kind of a lot. like 5’7-5’8. mostly because mizuena height difference is good. also has streaks of lighter and darker pink throughout her hair because it’s natural and that’s how hair works (it’s especially prominent with her though).

all 4 of them get gray hairs early because of stress. ena and mizuki dye them and the other two do not care enough.

#sekaiposting #my hcs

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spidey-bie · 9 months

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So You Wanna Draw My Ansi?_Part 2

—The Spider Suit.

Honestly her spider suit is a really simple look that's similar to her everyday outfits. Most of her hero work requires investigation and stealth missions so she wants to be able to blend in with the crowd. She's also very anti consumerism so she didn't see a reason to buy something new when she can just use what she has.

Outfit Description

Shirt: An old black oversized tee that she cut the sleeves off of

Bottoms: Black jean shorts with ripped black fishnet stockings underneath.

In the cold seasons she wears wool knit black stockings instead.

Shoes: Black Doc Martens

Jacket: Whatever flannel jacket was cleanest. She tried to keep a theme at first wearing only brown and orange flannel similar to this:

But over time she stuck to just dark colored flannel in general like black and brown or grey and black.

She only wears flannel because she gets cold very easily. She needs her arms free to use her powers and flannel is easy to take off. In the cold seasons she wears a grey and black flannel wool jacket with a black hood.

Carry-on: She uses an old brown leather messenger bag that she refashioned into a backpack. She likes sticking pins on it from her favorite band

She carries her laptop crutches, pain meds and some water inside. (Crutches are collapsible)

Mods: I talk about that here

Mask: Her mask colors are brown and orange. I just used a Picrew for this because describing this with words is too cumbersome:

Symbol

Her symbol is embroidered onto the front of her black tee.

I did a bit of sketching on what I want her symbol to be. My favorite one is the 3rd aka the one on the right.

I didn't know which symbol I wanted to sit on the little spider's abdomen though. I was caught between these two designs which were both based on her hero name: Tech Tarantula.

The color of the actual spider would be an orangish brown (#D16002). But the symbol on the abdomen of the spider would be a dark brown (#652A0E or #5E2C04)

Lol so I actually went and designed it:

Hopefully this is the end to the saga of Ansi and her physical description. But knowing me I'll probably change something after I come up with more of her lore. If you have any further questions feel free to send in an ask.

[Part 1]

#im a graphic design student if you didn't know #i can't draw to save my life tho #i sketched so many symbol ideas and yet i ended up going with my first two #my spidersona #spiderman oc #ansi taratella #ansiniya taratella #atsv #spidersona #jay and the spiders

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some-witterings · 2 months

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Do I Need to be in a Relationship to be Happy?

Before any conclusions are jumped too I plead you read the post, or if not at least the addendum at the bottom. This whole thing is a tale of irrationality and from experience it is easy to sit on the side like and conflate naive irrationality and idiocy; though at least in my case the two are not always mutually exclusive

Over recent years I've discovered I am incredibly adept at 3rd wheeling. Even to the point of 3rd wheeling 4 couples at once due to the nature of a previous friend group (leading to me often reused joke of "I've 3rd wheeled enough to build a car!").

I, however, have not had the experience of being in a relationship; and being the one single person in that kind of envrionment can feel lonely, despite their best efforts to include me. Everyone kept telling me "Don't worry, you'll find someone in university!", "you'll find your person at some point!" and other such phrases to that effect. They were being kind, I know that. However, it didn't stop me building up a portent in my head of my future. One of my final days being alone in a lab, trying to eke out one last project and passing silently with a funeral not too dissimilar to one the Beetles sung about in "Eleanor Rigby".

This portent is not literal, health and reality prove it to be so; but it is the underlying message of it that stuck with me. That my work and who I am will devour me and I'll never end up having a romantic connection with someone enough to spend time away from my work.

Recently, though I use that term remarkably loosely, I went away to university. I hoped against hope that my portent was wrong, that the people I used to know were right. That I'd find someone in university and everything would be fine. This has proved not to be the case. Instead the prior situation has repeated itself. With me once more being in a group of friends, were I count among the seldom few single. It also turned out all, bar a few, of the people I used to call friends are raging dick heads; so fuck 'em I suppose.

That little tangent aside, I reasoned that once is a true coincidence; twice is the beginning of something that could potentially be a pattern. Though I'm hardly studied enough in the ways of probabilities to start drawing mathematical conclusions on things (read Bernoulli's Fallacy by Aubrey Clayton if you like probability, it is a fascinating read), I am cautious enough to reason that it could also just be me being unlucky twice in in a row. This thought though, one of "what if it is a pattern? What is wrong with me to make it a pattern?" hung around to torment me.

I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect my self confidence slightly. While all of my friends were going off on dates and enjoying their partners company, I resigned myself to my work once again. I went out with them and hung out with people, partially hoping to find someone though mostly to be with my friends, yet no one ever appeared. I couldn't fathom the reason for my situation. People were constantly asking my friend out on dates, and yet in my whole life I have never once had anyone show interest in me. The question hung like a think miasma in my brain. The question also found an old ally, the portent I mentioned early.

Recently, this time meant more literally that previously, I went to a flat party with a couple of my friends. There I met the most wonderful person, they matched my passion for my subject with passion for their own. They had the most wonderful way of being in a way I can scarcely describe. We talked for 3 and a half hours uninterrupted in the middle of a deafening party, and we talked like I had never talked to someone before. I, foolishly, wondered if this could be my time? Proof the portent was wrong, proof the question could be disproved; both handwaved away by the logical anhillator of random chance!

This did not end up being the case. They still want to be friends and we are going to meet up soon, but nothing more. This is not an awful conclusion, I am still more than happy to have gained a new friend and one that matches me so well; just in my naivety i hoped for more. This partial rejection didn't fair my thought process too well, with it being a very low day after that.

I have another friend, one who predates any of the friends mentioned above. If they ever needed help I'd raise hell and crack open heaven to do whatever was needed for them. Their university isn't too far from mine and they are in fact dating someone at my university. They were stuggling to find friends at their university so I suggested joining a society that has become the high point of my week at my university. They agreed.

They came and it was wonderful. They enjoyed it massively and I got to introduce them to the wonderful people I'd made friends with and it looks like they'll be coming again. I realised that we'd only ever hung out together before and never in a group setting, this being the first time we'd been in a group together. They made friends with all the people I had to know and I'd not seen them that happy in a long while.

Even more to the point another friend from university turned up at the society with someone they were on a date with! It was wonderful to see my friend so happy.

I don't think I've ever been more happy and content than that evening. The portent and the question no longer mattered and I was happy, in a way no birthday, christmas, gift or occasion had managed to do before.

This got me thinking. Do I need to be in a relationship to be happy? I've spent so long wanting one, wanting that deep connection with someone, that the portent and the question consumed me. I'd like to rexamine the portent however. If were burning my last few days alive to eke out a little bit more, I'd have passion! Whatever I was doing would have to be worth the world to me for me to do that. Would I be happy? Probably not, I'd likely be a bit of a git by that point.

Next lets examine the question again. What's wrong with me? I don't know. It's likely I'll never find out, I'm not a psycologist after all. I'm an engineer, which means I know enough to say that I know nothing at all about the answer to it. However, I simply choose now to not let the answer mean anything. I choose to say that whatever is wrong with me, is me. Not some problem to be fixed, just a thing that is. I chose to make peace with the question and let the answer be whatever it is, if there is an answer to begin with.

So where does this uninterrupted stream of conciousness get us to? Back to the title, do I need to be in a relationship to be happy? My answer currently is a 2 fold no

I don't need to be happy. I get to live a life where everyone around me is happy, and I choose for that to be enough for me. To see my old friend find new friends in the group I've joined, for my new friends to find fulfilling relationships and see everyone I know happy is pleasure enough for me. I sincerly hope that they savour every moment of mundane happiness that I may never experience.

I don't need to be in a relationship. I might end up being a very strange old man some day, but in my isolate tower I will have develop great deal of thoughts on many things. I hope that some day that great deal of thoughts may be enough to help solve some problems, or even help the people I know be happier than they are at the moment.

Only one person I've met at university has used tumblr. They're slightly older than me and have given me advice and time no one else has ever quite been able to get at before, I owe them more than I could ever give them. So if, in the statistically astromical chance, they see this and are able to backsolve from my vagueries, thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you've said. You are one of the kindest and most patient people I've ever met.

All my other friends have never used this place, so they'll never see this. Though I leave this message as a digital mark on the internet. A temporary flash in this unending chromatic abberation we call the chaos of the internet that I hope is somehow remembered. You are all deserving of happiness that can never be matched. You have shown me kindness I am not deserving of and shown me that I am less alone in this world than I thought I was.

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Addendum:

Yes, I am aware a lot of these problems stem from irrationality. The nature of the mind tends towards irrationality in my case despite my best efforts.

I am also aware of the dangers of conflating relationships and happiness, that doesn't change that fact that I still want one and that barring extreme circumstances I think I'd be happier with one.

I am also aware that I am young and inexperienced, but if I stagnate every thought and behaviour I have by saying "this comes from inexperience, I shouldn't do it or think it" then I'll never do or think anything as I'll never be experienced enough to know how to deal with it properly. This whole tale is as much about the question as it is about me growing up.

#thoughts #life #long reads #relationship #happiness #growing up #inexperienced

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angelfoodcake222 · 1 year

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💌 💛 Xanthophilia 💛 💌

Xanthophilia: the love of the color yellow.

Gif by @bee-stim

Tw[Trigger warning]: you goofed, bad/decent poetry, fluff, scopophobia, (possible) head injury, simp stuff. Enjoy.

🌕The story starts with a 3rd person's view peering past the window leading into a puppet's (most likely Y/N's) office as they frantically &/or cartoonishly searches for the note they thought they had put away to revise it into a less sappy, mawkish, schmaltzy confession of their feelings for the star of the show in favor of writing as more of a note to show their appreciation for his appearance in the shows, offering to design his next suit to fit his seemingly snazzy essence. Maybe something in a fetchingly robust red?

🌕Wally gets a note [accidentally] sent by his semi-new neighbor, Y/N the stylist/seamstress, after it gets mixed up with other things in their messy home office.

🌕When he opens the pristine red heart stamped, white envelope he finds something to the effects of a love letter complete with a lightly perfumed (not intentionally, just cast off from when you were getting dressed near your desk & the episode you were written into called for you & Wally to be near each other)piece of salmon pink paper filled with rich blue ink scribbles that open with "To My Most Darling, Fabulous Neighbor," before he stood stock still beside his open window to read on. His unblinking eyes read this (or something like it):

I cannot help but swoon when I see you wearing any one of my designs. It makes my little heart throng when I see you happily going about your life with the clothes I tailored for you & how your honeybee fleece makes it look as though you were the sun himself put into a tangible form. An incarnation of bright, beautifully blue-topped chef-d'oeuvre Pablo Picasso, Peter D. Jaquish, or even Leonardo da Vince could so much as dream of bringing to spontaneous life. Andy Warhol hasn't a prayer in recreating the honorific hues you iconically carry with your pools of opalescent snowfall glistening like freshly fallen snow with a pair of priceless black pearls that bring an incomprehensible level of depths to them.

If your lulling voice & genteel demeanor were not enough, your eyes draw me further & deeper into these profound feelings I've been pushing down for countless convoluted reasons that I cannot put into words. I hope to make a garb that finally brings worthy wearability to your form & its near-otherworldly resplendence. Possibly make you a line of Red Deliciousness & Pink Ladies for myself, if it's not too much, of course. Maybe swap makeup & hair tips or you could show me how you do such majestic work in such brief windows before the cameras come on.

With love & awaiting skill, Y/N.

🌕Wally is stuck in place, rereading the besotted epistolary in his hands as the words take him some time to grasp. He even asked home to pass him the dictionary from the top of his bookshelf to translate many of the words just to boil it down to its writer being, for lack of better words, "wally, wally, blood & dolly" for him.

🌕He sat in his plush chair, rereading the confession with a new understanding of what Y/N had composed, now transcribed to his understanding.

🌕He barely heard the frantic knocking upon Home's door & Home rocking his chair to snap him out of the hypnosis.

🌕When he does pull through & opens the door, there stood Barnaby with an excited yet curious look on his face.

🌕While Barnaby was getting a hot dog from Howdy with Eddie & Frank picking out ingredients for something related to jelly, Y/N skids in & make a B-line for Eddie, asking if he had delivered any mail from their house to Home that day.

🌕Eddie checks his notes & confirms their hectic question, noting the "very pretty thing holding it shut so nicely" that he could not bear to stuff it into his bag, therefore packing it mindfully in hand to Wally's dwelling.

🌕Y/N's face turns a few shades darker before they fall back into the apple display & causing everyone concern, especially Julie & Poppy who had just walked in not even a split second before it happened.

🌕Barnaby ran to Home, grabbed Wally & brought him to Howdy's where everyone else gathered to check on their friend laying amongst the ripe red fruit scattered about, especially Poppy who told everyone to step back & give the stylist/tailor some room while she tended to them.

🌕He thought back to the letter he had tucked into his cardigan pocket instinctively while Barnaby dashed him to the store & reflected on the decadent words you utilized in writing such a thing. This was followed by him piecing together what had happened.

🌕He, Poppy & Barnaby helped Y/N back to their home & tucked them into bed.

🌕Barnaby & Poppy went all about their neighbor's home looking for things to ease their probable headache after their fall while Wally sits at the same-sized puppet's bedside, quietly watching them rest their lovely, lettered mind. Unable to push that poem from his mind.

🌕While Poppy tended to Y/N's head & Barnaby grabbed some additional pillows from their closet, Wally continued to watch you (a character trait the two bigger puppets were used to, so they didn't notice it.

💛He had never fallen so hard before & he doubts he ever will for anyone else ever again.

#wally my beloved #wally darling welcome home #fanfic #NeighborlyNotes

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rontra · 1 year

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this ask/reply is long so im just putting it together as a textpost help me shark if you're out there

Anonymous asked: hi ok im super super sorry if this is bothering you but ive been meaning to ask it for like 6 months or something . i was introduced to your work via skin game and my brain latched to it ever since i read it. me and some other friends really enjoyed the fic even if it was a short read and i was wondering if youre comfortable sharing chapter 2 either publicly or privately? again im ultra mega sorry if this comes off as creepy or weird or something ive been stressing over it for liek 3 days since i didnt want to bother you :(

either way, love your work so much. your fanart introduced me to both arknights and rwby (though a friend kind of pushed me to actually start watching it lol) and theyre both really great series :) your work is a huge inspiration for me and my friend group and your writing is just insane /pos

(3rd paragraph omitted bc i cant priv reply and im excluding your offsite info even if its under a readme HFDBHJF)

hi shark!! ofc i remember you we are like soldiers side by side in the trenches of takano posting 🫡

so first of all thank you so much for following and enjoying my work 🥰 i'm always happy to help drag people into the arknights/rwby zone HEHEHE i'm glad you enjoy what i make!!! it means a lot to me 😊 thank you!!!

now. THE THING ABOUT skin game ch2. is that it's pretty rough. i had a look at it the last time something prompted me to think about the fic and it's not really presentable (i don't know if i even finished editing it back in ….. 6 years ago… oh god). it also doesn't have all of its art (which might be a blessing in disguise given the art it does have is …. 6 years old… oh god)

getting it to a state i consider readable would take a good chunk of work, which is why i put it off again after looking at it. it's almost 12 thousand words of … uhhh… shall we say… unnnnpolished material. i think i couldn't even share it privately because i would be embarrassed to show someone something so unfinished and janky. not to mention not having all of its art finished. so i got kind of stuck last time and just put it off again bc the amount of work it very obviously needed was like. "Christ OK Not Now" yknow…

it does bolster the spirit when i remember you and your friends. it means a lot to me that you care about it even after so long!!! i just have NO idea when i'm going to get around to editing something of that magnitude @_@ i was really a dummy about chapter lengths back then… HFDBHJGJMK

it's really kind of a shame too becahse chapter 1 and 2 together are sort of the introductory portion for our 2 primary characters. so it feels like only half of the intro is done right now. since ch1 detailed how kyrie ended up at that plaza meeting takano, ch2 would detail how takano ended up there, meeting kyrie. and then we would proceed into the future from there. as a renowned Takano Guy, obviously i was very interested in this, but for various reasons i never finished polishing it and drawing the art…

ch2 also features ikuko so you KNOW its dear to me

overall being like 5-6 yrs old theres a disconnect where i don't feel like ch2 right now is achieving what it should, and i see a lot of concrete problems with concrete solutions, but it's an editing of such Magnitude that it keeps being pushed back in favor of other stuff. oh, ephemeral soul…

some of the art i did get done for it is pretty cute though, like these baby miyos;

so that's pretty good, but i didnt FINISH drawing the art, ARGHH

it is really hard to say. bc when i KNOW there's people out there who remember it and care about it, that does motivate me to return to it. but it has a lot of stuff that needs doing, and is a very old project, so it's unclear to me right now when it would receive the attention it desperately needs before it can be shown to other people... i super can't in clear conscience accept anything like payment/etc for that kind of vague half-promise either, although i appreciate the thought xD

i'm sorry it's such an inconclusive answer, but i am sort of an inconclusive guy when it comes to projects... i jump around a lot as i'm sure you've observed in your time following me 😭 it's important to me to have that freedom, but i do care about SG too, so we just sort of have to see if i can surmount the magnitude of the work i accidentally set up for myself half a decade ago (*turning into stone*)

but it makes me smile when i remember you're out there thinking about this weird little AU. so, thanks. 😌 a soul still burns...

and then after all that CH3 was going to have more of best girl 🥺.....

WARGH <- BEARER OF THE CURSE

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rennisaturate · 2 years

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need some time to find myself / i want to live within / can i go my own way ?? / can i pray my own way ??

full name: emica annaleigh roseland preferred/nicknames: none birthdate: june 3rd Age: 24 height: 5'5" gender: cis woman pronouns: she/her sexuality: unsure/questioning education: some college nationality: american residence: san diego, CA USA Occupation: student Sun sign: gemini tags: opens / canon / traits / music taste / aesthetic / turn ons / wanted opposites

a fleshed out and more detailed bio will be here sometime, but in the meantime here’s the rundown:

tw for abuse and maternal death

emica is a very quiet, reserved person. she grew up mostly isolated from the world in general due to her father, jacob roseland. her mother, karina, died due to birthing complications, and emica was raised mostly by their maid, luina, and was home schooled by her as well until she was 14.

high school was uneventful for her to say the least. most people hardly even knew she was there, and in some ways she preferred it that way, but she’s always wished she could be better at making friends. she developed a stutter around age 7 and it worsens when she’s under stress. she’s very self conscience about it, so it can often times deter her from engaging people.

emica’s father was not always the closed off, angry, controlling person that he is now, but at this point it’s all emica knows of him. he’s made sure that she knows he blames her for her mother’s death. she still lives in his house, and he still monitors a lot of what she does. she needs permission for a lot of things, especially traveling and staying away. if she’s out past 8, he knows. if she’s out all day for reasons other than school, he knows. talking to too any strangers or people he doesn’t approve of?? he always finds out eventually. he used to punish her for it, and on occasion still does, by locking her in the crawl space under the house. because of this, she has an intense fear of the dark. she still sleeps with a light on, and if she’s stuck outside when it’s dark she tends to panic. her father lets her go to college close by, she’s an English major, and he pays all her tuition and bills and gives her a monthly allowance. emica wants to leave, badly, but feels guilty when he’s providing so much for her.

she likes to draw wildlife and spends most of her days in parks and libraries when she’s not at school. she has a cat named cooper that her dad gifted her as a kitten for her 18th birthday. he’s a big boy, a red tabby and white main coon. technology and pop culture is not her forte due to it always having been super limited to her growing up and her sense of direction is terrible, so she gets lost quite often.

#(( story || emica ))#[ please don't like / reblog !! ]

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tapas-and-stuff-productions · 2 years

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The Deities Project: Part 1

An early notion for the Keys & Kingdoms universe was to divide its world into sections ruled by three pantheons, and those would be the historical pantheons of Greek, Norse, and Egyptian mythology! As it turned out, the 3rd Edition D&D supplement “Deities & Demigods” included stats for those exact three pantheons, and I carefully studied that for guidance on how to reinterpret those legendary pantheons for use in a fantasy world.

And so began this project: drawing all 53 historical deities depicted in that book. Casey Gosselin drew their symbols and Stacy Lord drew the characters themselves. Neither saw the illustrations in the D&D book, but we stuck to what the book claimed as their symbol, their sacred weapon, and very general appearance. The big project lasted from October 2019 to August 2020. Since then, we’ve been putting more research into the real myths and other gods, but these will still form the foundation for the core members of the pantheons and what they’ll look like when the K&K universe begins.

This is an 11-part series presenting all the art anew and talking about the ideas behind it! Presented in the order in which they were done, which is approximately in the order of strongest to weakest according to their rankings in the D&D book. Don’t forget to check out Stacy and Casey’s own pages:

Here’s the most powerful god outside the three kings, Re-Horakhti’s undead father. I wrapped him up like a mummy, dressed him up like a pharaoh beyond that. I like the notion of the bronze wing ornament on his shoulders, think they should look more wingy in the end. His symbol and weapons are a flail and a shepherd’s crook… I think we lost the symbolism there, the crook looks like a nastier weapon than the flail, ought to switch that around to better represent the war-and-peace imagery.

The Mighty Thor! Did my best to disconnect him from the Marvel Comics version. For starters, the mythic version was always a redhead, so that’s easy, and he wore one hell of a beard. More of a savage warrior than most of his fellow Norse, so lightly attired like those of the other pantheons. He has the Chris Hemsworth physique here, but I don’t think that’ll be the right call ultimately - he should be huge. Not necessarily big-bellied like the upcoming “God of War: Ragnarok” version, but along those lines; a weightlifter’s physique. I figure we can stick some way bigger wings on his helmet. His lack of nipples is not a design choice we'll be sticking with, Stacy didn't do that anywhere else, that was just... a one-time thing. And from there, well, a real warhammer is actually quite small, comparable to a modern claw hammer, but… screw that, I think we as a civilization have established by now that fantasy warhammers have gigantic stone block heads that are impossible to lift. Especially Mjolnir.

A few interesting features about Frey in the D&D book - one is that he and his sister Freya, statistics-wise, are listed with the “elf” subtype. Yeah. For some reason, they just are elves, even though they’re gods. No other gods have a specified race like that. That’s kind of interesting. Then again… most of the other gods appear human. Which they do because they were created by humans, but in a fantasy world, it would make more sense for some of these gods to look elven or dwarven or even something else… like I said earlier, the gods will take on different appearances depending on when we see them! And, yeah, Frey and Freya will usually look like elves. More so than here.

And then there’s his sword! First of all: Casey drew an awesome sword. Eh, Casey had a tendency back then to draw weapons with weird proportions, handles too short to hold and blades too short to be of use, not the point! Look at the design on that blade, it’s freakin’ sweet. And Stacy drew the sword as, you know, just blue. Still gorgeous. Now, I bring that up as an interesting point because, in most Norse stories, Frey is a pacifist and carries no weapon - the D&D book states that if your campaign is set way, way pre-Ragnarok, it can be a time before Frey has given up his sword. And, er… I’m finding it hard to reconcile the Norse cosmology, where everyone is pretty confident of where they’ll be during Ragnarok, with the world of Cosmos which… you know… I hope doesn’t ever face a massive apocalypse that leaves most of the gods dead… it’s a hard creative liberty to take. Ragnarok is a big deal.

Lord of death, earth, wealth, lots of “eath” words. Now, I definitely don’t want to cast this guy as a villain. Modern perspective on his actual stories makes that impossible. Still… I would imagine he’s a little self-centered, greedy, covetous - evil in a legal sense, perhaps, but not someone who would hurt innocent people or seek to overthrow Olympus. He’s good where he’s at. And… yeah, I like his design. I wrote it up, and Stacy did it good. Nice details: gray skin like an ashen corpse, pure black eyes, devilish widow’s peak, no eyebrows or mustache, lots of gold. The ram’s head symbol being a profile instead of the usual Satanist front-view… I mean, heck, it might work. Less Satan-y. Hades is not Satan.

Always been a fan of Poseidon myself. I like… oceany things. Casey drew up an awesome symbol, which Stacy replicated for his actual trident - I don’t think we’ll stick with that, I think his symbol will be this elaborate trident head, but the trident he carries will be more of a practical fishing trident. Loving the shade of blue he wears! His suntanned skin, black hair, and lagoon-green eyes are straight out of Percy Jackson, which I didn’t specify, but Stacy clearly detected it. Noice!

#TAPAS and Stuff Productions #Keys & Kingdoms #The Deities Project

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memryse · 2 years

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Last Life Propaganda: a guide for people with absolutely no idea what they're getting into

Have you ever wondered what on earth is wrong with your Last Life mutuals? Seen Last Life SMP trending #1 and become greatly concerned about why your dash is on fire every Tuesday? Considered checking it out, but don't know anyone involved or where to start or how or even what Last Life is?

Basically, this is a propaganda/FAQ post for people who've never seen a minute of Hermitcraft/Empires/adjacent content in their lives, and have no idea how to get into Last Life. Because God knows I wish I'd had a post like this answering all my questions when I was getting into this series completely blind.

Now is the best time to get into Last Life if you want to experience any of it live, because unfortunately it's looking like the series will be drawing to a close within the next couple of weeks. Luckily, it won't take you very long to catch up!

1. What even is Last Life?

Last Life is a hardcore Minecraft miniseries on YouTube, featuring a bunch of Hermitcraft and Empires SMP members and a few extra friends. Each member starts off with a random amount of lives between 2 and 6. On your final life (your red life), you're not only allowed but encouraged to kill other players. Each week also has "boogeymen" chosen at random from the non-red players, who have to sneakily get a kill Among Us-style. Even if it sounds complicated, I promise you it's not hard to follow in the videos, and there's a handy little tutorial in the first episode explaining it all anyway. The server also has proximity chat (no Discord calls allowed) and a small world border to make sure everyone is stuck near each other.

Last Life is the sequel to 3rd Life, which was a very similar concept but every player started off with exactly three lives and there were no boogeymen.

Basically, if you like death game media, you'll love it. You'll probably also love it if you're not usually a fan of death game media. It's just really good. I love Last Life.

2. Do I need to have seen 3rd Life to watch Last Life?

No, not technically! I would certainly recommend it though, because 3rd Life is an absolute masterpiece of a series. Also, because it's a miniseries, you can watch it in a relatively short amount of time - I would personally recommend Grian's, which will take you just under four hours altogether. Best enjoyed if you binge it all in one sitting, but it's fun and will leave you feeling somewhat empty inside regardless! :D

But, again, it's not required. You just won't understand the 3rd Life references in Last Life.

3. How/where do I watch Last Life?

All Last Life content is available on YouTube. There is no livestream content to catch up on - all videos are recorded in "sessions". Basically, every Friday, everyone logs on for a 3 hour period and records the full thing. That's the only time that they play on the server, and it makes sure that everyone is online the whole time. Lots of interactions to be had!

4. Which POV should I watch?

There are no "bad" POVs for Last Life - everyone is heavily involved in one server event or another every session. It's a really action-packed series. You can theoretically pick any member and go. That being said, here are some of my top recommendations:

Mumbo Jumbo is probably the best for newcomers: he's new to Last Life, having not been in 3rd Life, his episodes are a reasonable length and great fun to watch, and he's been pretty heavily involved in the main conflicts on the server.

GoodTimesWithScar has absolutely fantastic storytelling skills and is easily one of the most entertaining POVs to watch (if not the most). However, he wasn't in the most recent session due to some health problems, so you'd have to pick a different POV for this session.

If you're only looking for a short POV for a trial run, I'd say to check out LDShadowLady or Smallishbeans. Both of them like to keep their episodes short but full of action. Personally, long episodes are the way to go, because the beauty of Last Life is in all its dialogue, but these two are great if you're not quite sure about committing to the series just yet (or if you just prefer shorter videos! that's also cool!)

5. I don't know any of the members, what do I do?

Genuinely, it does not matter! Whether you've been following Hermitcraft for the last decade or this is the first you're even hearing that name, Last Life is equally enjoyable. I can vouch for this; I got into 3rd Life having only seen a couple of Scott's streams and nothing else. I've also gotten multiple (10+) of my friends who aren't familiar with any of the CCs to watch it, and every single one has been blown away by how much they enjoyed it. So, trust me, it's worth checking out :)

6. Does Last Life have lore?

Last Life has a pretty interesting approach to its storytelling: with it being in a 3 hour session format, it is completely improvised. People will have vague ideas of what they want to do each session at best; no events are planned in advance, nothing is scripted. If you need a DSMP comparison, it's pretty much like very early S1 - Disc War or very early L'Manburg era, where they're roleplaying to some extent but not playing fully fleshed out characters (other than a couple of members who are just really dramatic and roleplay constantly anyway). It does require reading into things a little to make them as dramatic as we do, but it's all great fun!

TL;DR: Watch Last Life, it's really good, it'll fill the void in your heart and then tear an even deeper one moments later :D

#last life smp #last life #watch last life guys please please please

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1 large 'Ingo dumped into Minecraft AU' post

lots of stuff under the cut

If you want to make your own AUs/fics/art/etc. based on/inspired by/for anything on this post, you're beyond free to do so.

Ingo is not eeby deebied to Hisui but instead the world of Minecraft, maybe it's like, idk, Hermitcraft, Dream SMP, 3rd Life, Last Life, Afterlife SMP, Empires SMP, EvoSMP, Hypixel, a Pixelmon server or anywhere else.

Maybe the roleplay that happens in these worlds are just roleplay, all done for fun, maybe it's instead reality for the inhabitants, not an rp, or it's instead a mixture of both.

Maybe he's stuck in a single player world (maybe he finds out he can exit this world, create new ones, etc. etc.)

Nevertheless, Ingo is a man from a mortal world stuck in a place where unless the world is hardcore, immortality is indefinite.

Memory loss or not, Ingo is gonna have a difficult time adjusting to a Minecraft world, especially 1 that runs off of Minecraft Mechanics.

If we go 100% w/ the video game abilities, & Ingo gains every ability normal Minecraft players have, he kinda becomes what the Pokemon world would see as a godlike entity. All of this could be overwhelming for him at 1st.

What about adding mods like many of us do? Imagine Ingo finding mods that allow players to make trains in Minecraft & installing them all in his single player worlds if he has any.

Anyways, say after Ingo is long finished adjusting & is now used to Minecraft, let's say it's time for Emmet to discover his big brother is alive. I have 2 ideas for this.

Getting isekaied back to Unova, & the MCC

Getting Isekaied Back Home

So Ingo for whatever reason is returned to Unova. Whether Ingo holds any memories or not depends on you. I'm going w/ no memories.

Ingo gets a poor reintroduction to the world w/ the wrong sort of people crowding around him.

He does the only thing he can do, armor up in a quick few seconds, & draws his shield & sword.

This freaks everyone else tf out because they were expecting pokemon not a goddamn sword!

Ingo does a classic minecraft escape, maybe w/ an enderpearl/towering up.

Both freak out everyone around him, but the towering causes more chaos.

Eventually the news spread around about this freaky guy who armored himself up w/o having it on him before & the likes.

Ingo tries laying low somewhere away from people, figure out where he is.

He types in chat, something along the lines of, "I've wound up in the wrong station, can the admin of this world help bring me to my correct station?"

Since he's the only person w/ chat, nobody else sees his message.

Or maybe, instead, everyone within a certain radius sees the message infront of them/hears it somehow & are confused bcus wtf is this? Also who is using Ingo's name? That's fucked he's a missing person.

Ingo tries to lay low, but fiascos continue to happen & eventually it gets out that this weird person "wearing" Ingo's face that may be a psychic/pokemon in disguise because of all the weird shit he pulls off & this freaky stuff he has on him, plus he has no pokemon & when people try to fight him he brings up a shield & weapons?

Ingo meanwhile is a confused lad & wants to get home, even when this place feels weirdly familiar & nostalgic, as are these strange creatures who are clearly smart enough to make their own choices like players.

Maybe he befriends some mons & they travel w/ him.

As ingo learns, people apparently don't fight w/ swords or whatnot, but w/ creatures of immense power instead. Regardless, he'd rather not fight anyone & instead run away, because it's 1 thing to fight another person who also has a weapon, & another thing to fight someone who is basically unarmed w/o the powerful creatures by their side, & something deep inside Ingo abhors the idea of harming these creatures at all.

At some point Ingo hears about this guy named Emmet who people are calling his twin? Well, Ingo remembers nothing, & has been down on his luck recently, but maybe this guy has answers? They do look alike after all.

So begins Ingo's journey to Nimbasa w/ many misadventures along the way.

Emmet who's recently heard of this Ingo imposter also learns this guy has been heading towards Nimbasa.

Thus, Emmet, still in grief over his missing twin, decides to confront this person wearing Ingo's face.

In Nimbasa, Ingo's recognized & chased by police under the impression he's guilty of identity theft & Ingo takes the chase to roofs which he uses blocks on him to bridge between but then he's cornered, there's no nearby ledge or roof, he has no blocks left, but he has a water bucket, & can get away by jumping down.

Meanwhile, the very ledge where Ingo is cornered at happens to be the enterance to the building & Emmet just got there, he was gonna enter the building & sprint his way to the roof top until he noticed Ingo who jumped off the ledge holding something in his hand.

Ingo attempts an MLG Waterbucket as he's done countless times before and ends up dying.

Listen we all have our days where things just go wrong.

Emmet sees this doppelganger of his brother jump down, fall onto the pavement legs first, collapse to his side while flashing red for a brief moment only for the body to disappear in smoke.

Everyone around Ingo at the time hears the words: Ingo fell from a high place

Even if Emmet is certain that wasn't his brother, that strange sentence only terrifies him.

Also, every object, from weapons, to armor, to food, & more, is scattered on the ground, as are xp points which have no where to go because no players are nearby.

Wait I just came up for another branch in this AU

Despite being confused, the police decide to confiscate all of Ingo's stuff.

Ingo meanwhile, who was lucky enough to have a bed on him & set him spawn somewhere near Nimbasa city & promply goes to get at least some iron gear since there's a good chance he isn't getting his stuff back. He isn't as dumb as to stay armorless forever.

When people try to do something about the XP, they can't, it just stays in place, only jerking around in the same small area.

IDK where to continue from here.

Branch 2! Emmet absorbs the XP!

When Ingo dies and looses all his stuff & leaves some XP behind, Emmet is the closes person nearby. Despite not being a player, the XP goes to him.

Emmet doesn't realize what's happened until it's already occured, as he hears the jingles of XP.

He doesn't feel different & after a checkup which doesn't see anything wrong, he continues life as normal, as much as he can given all the havoc going on.

It's generally assumed that the doppelganger is good as dead for a while until he's spotted again.

That's not the only thing however, Emmet's been feeling strange lately.

It starts small, being able to pick objects up much quicker, even when his hand was no where near them. If he stood next to an object he wanted, it could suddenly be in his hand.

Then it became involuntary.

He discovered that if he just had a quick snack, his stamina would suddenly come back to him, & he could go back to sprinting.

Whenever he wanted to take something on/off, the clothing in question would already be worn/taken off.

When going to bed, he'd feel the sensation of falling asleep in a matter of seconds only to wake up to morning so suddenly.

Eventually he's start to wake up standing next to his better when he swore seconds before he was falling asleep in bed.

Soon he can hold up to 9 objects in some pocket dimension he aruptly has, & he can cycle between all these objects.

When Emmet tries to put something down 1 day, he drops it on the ground instead, it looks tinier than it should be, & it spins slowly, just like everything the doppelganger of Ingo scattered that day

1 day, Emmet wakes up to a line of text is his sight, that nevers goes away no matter what direction he looks.

Emmet has joined the game

<Ingo> Hello! Do you happen to know who's server this is? I'm kind of stuck here and can't log out of here.

(I also have this idea where Ingo gets stuck in Unova w/ some other players who have long become good friends of him & all of them causing madness together but this is long enoug lmao)

I imagine if Ingo kept his memories, he'd not just be estastic to be home, but would go straight towards Nimbasa city, misunderstandings & madness still happens, but it's a smoother experience.

Sidenote, would miltank milk function just like cow milk from minecraft, curing status effects like poison & the likes? Would it only apply to potion effects or do effects from pokemon & more count too?

The MCC Reveal

Ingo, after having long since adjusted to the world, gets an invite to MCC, which he accepts.

Unrelated to Ingo going to MCC for the 1st time ever, the universe of Minecraft has found & established communication w/ the world of Pokemon, where Ingo once belonged.

It's huge news for both worlds, w/ constant updates of what people have learned about the other world being released.

Once again going the Amnesiac Ingo route, Ingo can't help but feel that the Pokemon seem awfully familiar, & the Pokemon universe as a whole seems so nostalgic to him.

Since MCC is coming up, Noxcrew decide to set it up so that when the event goes live, even the Pokemon universe can see what's going on.

It's the most the MCC has ever been hyped up.

When the teams are revealed, everyone from the Pokemon world who knows anything about Ingo does a spit take upon seeing him in 1 of the teams.

When the pokemon universe contacts the minecraft universe about Ingo, the Minecraft world is like: Ingo? Yeah he's a good guy who unfortunately has amnesia, why do you ask?

That's when the pkmn world reveals Ingo's history & he's from Unova & the Minecraft universe is like 'oh, SHIT.'

& so Ingo is informed that it was discovered that he has a twin, is from the pkmn world, among other things.

Alternatively, ppl could somehow not get te news about Ingo being in MCC, the event starts, but then people find out someone who looks like Ingo is in the event. He looks like Ingo.

Mid-tournament, people find out where the missing twin of Emmet is.

I wanna write down ideas for if Emmet became a player instead of Ingo, or they both end up in Minecraft, maybe they go w/ Elesa or it's just Elesa. Maybe their pokemon come w/ them, the likes, but I've already used so much brain juice plus this post is already long enough.

#submas #Emmet pokemon #ingo pokemon #Kudari pokemon #nobori pokemon #crossover #minecraft au #submas au #I posted this 3 seconds ago how has it already been reblogged?#you guys are quick #subway masters pokemon #subway bosses pokemon #SubMas & Minecraft AU #Ingo's MCC Debut AU #MCplayer!Ingo in Unova AU

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Not exactly SNS but I just think it's funny how Naruto liked Sakura for literally his entire life (from the beginning of Naruto to the end of Naruto Shippuden) and they kinda just randomly stuck him with Hinata with no real closure or end to the Naruto liking Sakura thing. Its so wishy washy and sudden that even if you were someone who liked Naruto and Hinata together, you wouldn't be quite satisfied with.

If Kishimoto was gonna make such a bad ending and continued to ruin his legacy with Boruto he should've left the ending of Naruto open ended. OR, hear me out, made SNS canon, 2 middle fingers up to the haters and fall of the face of the earth, just never seen again. Maybe on a private island with the loads of money he made from Naruto.

Uhhh....????!!!!! 🙄🙄🙄 Entire Life????

Since when did this development happen which I failed to watch??? Where are the clues??? I think, Anon, You must start to READ THE MANGA instead of watching filler stuffs.

Movies, OVAS, Filler Episodes are not canon.... In the movies, SP tried to portray a different Sakura (a pleasant Sakura) from how Kishimoto originally designed her (A total Ass-Hole)... Kishimoto had nothing to do with any of those fillers.

I’ll tell you one thing..... There are few drawing errors, unresolved plotlines and minor plot holes in this story. Yes, I agree with it. But plot wise.... Kishimoto gave every characters a reason for why they do what they do... It’s not random, it’s not meaningless or anything. NaruSaku bond is one such.

Naruto never loved her.... Not in the beginning.... DEFINITELY NOT TILL THE ENDING. I think I wrote 2 big posts with all the valid panels to make sure of that. [Post 1] and [Post 2]. In Both of these posts, I focused only on NS but it will blatantly give you SNS vibes throughout.... Because NS bond was built upon the foundation of a 3rd person called Sasuke. Without Sasuke, NS is nothing.

Again I repeat..... NS is a Red Herring Bond in Naruto series to mask Naruto’s feelings for Sasuke. For Example, Say you have a ‘Prophesized Saviour’ thing in a TV series.... All the Prophesies will be fulfilled by Character A which will be blatantly evident to our eyes and will make you believe that Character A was indeed the ‘One’.... But the real ‘Prophesized One’ will be hiding some where else... Only very perceptive readers who picks up the clues and patterns of the author can find the real one.... NS is something very similar to that...

Even if Naruto superficially "liked" her... It was all over the moment he Kissed Sasuke accidentally. And his crush was definitely over the moment he tried to kiss Sakura in Chapter 3. It's one of the fakest bond in Narutoverse where both the parties involved have no interest in each other.... Not in 'that way'...

Here's the thing, Anime knew about SNS bond because they are the one who converts picture into a visual media, they look for all hints thoroughly and know almost everything... It’s because of this very reason, they desperately add lots of extra scenes between Naruto and Sakura. If Naruto goes totally Lovey Dovey about Sakura in a filler... Then it means Naruto is going to be angsty about Sasuke in the Canon episodes.

Just to make Naruto look like an hetero boy, Anime added tons of extra scenes..... In order to reduce Naruto's obvious Gayness.....

In the Manga, he never once claimed, he loved her. This is all Anime's doing.

They kinda just randomly stuck him with Hinata with no real closure or end to the Naruto liking Sakura thing.

What about that time Naruto blatantly rejected her proposal by recalling the moment she said, “I want your acknowledgement, Sasuke-kun”????.... So, Naruto knew that she loved Sasuke from the day Team 7 was formed and that’s why he rejected her outright. What more closure do you expect???? He was masking his feelings for Sasuke and he was lying to himself by flirting with Sakura because wanted to stay in that Closet forever. You should read those attached posts to understand what I am saying.

make SNS canon, 2 middle fingers up to the haters and fall of the face of the earth, just never seen again.

As for that SNS becoming Canon.... This world is not ready for it. Expecting such an ending is very futile, imo.

If Kishimoto was gonna make such a bad ending and continued to ruin his legacy with Boruto he should've left the ending of Naruto open ended.

As for that Boruto part.... I've made peace with it and I am not really bitter anymore. Because if he truly wanted to make so much money, he would've given us a Happy Hetero Ending and write Boruto to be even more interesting which would fetch him a lot of money.

HE ALWAYS INTENDED TO GO FOR AN OPEN ENDING....

Especially he knew the Ending while he was drawing the Pain Arc.... And this is 2009 we are talking about.

This is one of the Official Commentary from Kishimoto which he used to mention in every volume of Naruto Manga. This piece is from Volume 47. I mean right after Naruto lands in Konoha (in Pain Arc) to find it has been reduced to a Dry Desert.

So.... At this point Kishimoto knew whom he was gonna pair Naruto with. And it’s not surprising that he brought Hinata’s confession out of nowhere, in this Arc, only to make her yeeted out in the very same chapter.

Also, it’s funny that he used the word, “The general script guides are already agreed until the end of the series”.....

Agreed with whom???? He is the story writer after all.... So, his editors had a say in the script. Even if his Editors did had a say, why couldn’t they make Kishi to develop NH into another MinaKushi instead of making Neji into a Pathetic Love Broker and some disturbing horny reference???? Why couldn’t they stop Kishi to draw Under the Bridge scene in a different way??? Why couldn’t they force Kishi to develop SS in a positive way??? So, Kaguya shit wasn’t planned at this time, eh????

Hilariously after this arc,

Naruto ignored Hinata & her confession (NH is ignored)....

Sasuke stabbed Karin (SK is crushed here)....

Naruto blatantly rejected Sakura’s confession... (NS is officially buried here)....

Sasuke tried to kill Sakura twice as a counter attack (SS became a butt-end of a Joke here)....

Whereas, Sasuke stopped his rampage and Naruto confessed to Sasuke and also he promised to die with him together (like some star-crossed lovers).......

Kishimoto mercilessly destroyed/ignored every other ships after the Pain Arc and kept only the SNS bond intact even though he knew the ending.

I was like, “Are you guys fucking kidding me??????”

Added to this, Kishimoto always knew the ending he wanted to achieve right after he drew VoTE1. Part 2 of the Manga is all about to reach that ending in a convincing way.

The following is the interview excerpt from 2006 about the Ending he envisioned.

Again, in 2015, he references the interview he gave back in 2006 and reveals what was the ending he really envisioned....

And his envisioned ending is to make Naruto and Sasuke to reconcile with each other.

Where is Sakura and Hinata in any of this????

Now people will pull up the “Kishimoto don’t know how to write Romance” card.... But that’s not true at all.... And I have some Official Receipts here.... LOL...

In Chapter 498, We got this short and cute Love Story...

The following panels are from Chapter 511.... This is almost 80 chapters after Pain Arc. YahiKonan is an unneeded and unnecessary ship, from Narrative POV. It didn’t affect the story in any way. And yet he went onto convey a cute romance in 3 panels.

And he also gave a very good closure to DanTsunade in the War Arc... Just developed a bit about ShikaTema since it was already well-developed....

Don’t you find this weird??? Like, After Pain Arc, he introduced 2 short love stories.... But didn’t give 2 fucks about developing a healthy love story for his own Main Characters????

Instead he found million different ways to mock Hinata and Sakura in an obvious and hilarious ways. I am going to talk only about Hinata mockery here.

For Example....

Mockery No. 1

Hinata is gleefully watching her beloved “Naruto-Kun” getting hugged by another Girl..... Like.... Is this necessary??? When Hinata literally gave her life to protect Naruto (Which she dramatically failed anyway), why make Sakura to hug him??? And make Hinata watch them right under their panel???? Hinata’s smile is so pure and precious.... isn’t it???

This scene is also another way to mock Sakura as well... Which I will explain in some other post... [[Don’t assume that this is some Romantic NaruS*k* moment...]]

But Hinata was horribly ridiculed here....

Mockery No. 2

We already knew Naruto’s impression about Hinata in Part 1.

Naruto finds her “Weird”....

And In Chapter 504,

Kushina POINTEDLY & SPECIFICALLY asked Naruto to not look for a “Weird One”..... I checked the Japanese Raws and I heard the word pronounced here... Both are same, just in case if you think that it’s a translation error.

Why is Kishi mocking NH again if he knew who Naruto was gonna end up with????

So, this Kishimoto don’t know how to write Romance is all some bullshit. If he can develop some unnecessary ship like YahiKonan... He could’ve did a lot better for his Main Characters.

Now, all that’s left is to say is, “Oh, Kishimoto don’t know how to write Female Characters.... He is a Misogynist”

And I’d suggest you to read Chapter 509, 510, 511 where Konan fought with the main villain of the story and almost killed him using her 600 Billion paper bombs. And then there is Tsunade vs Madara fight.... every Kages were knocked down and she was the only one who desperately tried to save him. And then during chapters 501, 502, 503 we see Kushina’s sacrifice to save Naruto and the Village.

Am not going to say.... All these chapters are some GREATEST FEMINIST LITERATURE or something... But, he did gave some strong, resilient, selfless, have a strong conviction oriented women after the Pain Arc.... Which he intentionally failed to do for Sakura and Hinata.

Anyways... What we can understand so far is that Kishimoto can write good Female Characters, he can write an excellent Romance.... He knew the general script of how it’s going to end and yet he intentionally failed to give any scope for SS or NH or NS or SK..... He never made the boys to reciprocate or to give a damn about any of those girls’ advance while SNS was the only one to remain intact.

So, What was Kishimoto planning anyway???? He can neither put N and S together nor did he attempted to give anything for other ships!!! Where is this Manga going and what was his End Game???

Much later,

Here comes that shitty Last Movie announcement in December 2012.... [Link]

At this time, Naruto Manga was at Chapter 596 or 597 where Kakashi found out the Man behind that Mask was Obito all along. And four months down the line in April 2013, in Chapter 613 or 614, we get Neji’s death. Still no hint of Kaguya Nonsense. Naruto just held Hinata’s hands with no romantic intention from his side whereas Hinata was getting ready to be hornily pounded in front of Neji’s dead body.

All this means, Boruto shit sequel hasn’t been planned. Otherwise Kishimoto could’ve easily introduced Kaguya plotline at this time.

So, no matter how some Movie announcement was happening from SP’s side, Kishi didn’t bother to develop any of the Hetero couples in this series. He was very content with his envisioned ending all along. Meanwhile he gave a good amount of Fanservice to all other ships. Like letting Karin hug Sasuke, Sasuke holding Sakura, Naruto calling Sakura as his Girl Friend, Sakura giving Lip to Lip CPR to Naruto.... But he never consolidated any ships.

Mockery No. 3

I mean it’s confusing.... He knew who Naruto was gonna end up with.... He made Naruto “hold” her hands at the expense of Neji’s death and right after that, he did this...

This is another mockery from Kishimoto.... Like Why???? The purpose of this scene is to make Naruto look cool before his Dad.... But he could’ve easily pointed out that Hinata was his Girlfriend.

Mockery No. 4

As you can see Hinata-Sama was desperately trying to save her Naruto-kun but failing so spectacularly.... What a Fun Stuff!!!

Mockery No. 5

This is just 9 chapters before the Manga was about to be over... That is literally 2 Months before this Saga was going to be completed.... This is the perfect place for Naruto to confess the Girl he found to be similar to Kushina.... NaruS*k*s shamelessly claim Sakura as Kushina Personified.... Then why couldn’t Naruto say it out loud??? If not Sakura, why not Kishi made Naruto to say. “I found Hinata”.... Because at this time, That Abominated Last Movie was already made and was waiting for a release. It doesn’t hurt to consolidate NH here, you see.

The Point is.... Why is he mocking his Titular Character’s ship which was decided from the Pain Arc???? Especially after that, he wrote 2 short and cute Love stories that involved another pair. He could’ve easily made NH into another MinaKushi and be done with it.

Even till the very end, he deliberately didn’t validate any ships even though he had ample time to do it. Ample time is the understatement to be honest.... Pain Arc happened in 2009.... And the Manga ended in 2014.

That Guy had 5 whole years to do it.... He could’ve added as little as 6 panels to show Naruto and Hinata have some romantic moments in all those 5 years.. And yet he intentionally didn’t.

So, Yeah....

Kishimoto had an ending in his mind right after drawing VoTE1.... Part 2 was all about how Naruto reconciling with Sasuke.

And in every Arc, Naruto’s desperation and obsession to save Sasuke was very Obvious.

In the Gaara Retrieval Arc, Naruto and Sakura were literally discussing about “How to save Sasuke?”....

In the Sasuke-Sai Arc, Well... You know what happened....

In the Kakuzu-Hidan Arc, Naruto was developing a new jutsu called Sasuke-Shuriken... Ooops... Sorry.... Rasen-Shuriken.... by constantly thinking about him even under the Shooting stars.

In the Itachi pursuit arc... Well... Again, he brought 2 teams to pursue Sasuke and bring him back to the Village....

In the Pain Arc, Naruto may not have thought about Sasuke... But here’s the plot twist... Kishimoto designed that Entire Arc to make Naruto understand Sasuke’s Pain.... He even killed Jiraiya for that exact same reason. And also to make Naruto into a forgivable person so that in the end, Naruto could easily forgive Sasuke. He even confessed this in an Interview.

“I wanted one of the themes of the end to be Naruto forgiving Sasuke.... I wanted to make sure the intervening story (Pain Arc) lead naturally to that in a realistic way to make it plausible.... Because if one minute they’re fighting and then ‘Oh, I forgive you!’ would be weird.”

And this panel consolidates it...

So, an entire arc was dedicated to the Protagonist in order to understand the feelings of his Deuteragonist.... Only for Naruto to confess these feelings to Sasuke in the very next Arc by ignoring a proposal from the girl and rejecting another proposal... Such a dedication for making N understands S.... Why couldn’t he put 0.5% of this dedication to his Titular Character’s ‘Supposed’ Love Interest???

In the Kage Summit Arc, Naruto declared his feelings in the most dramatic way (with romantic undertones) that he will bear the burdens of Sasuke and die with him together.

In the Final Arc, Naruto reconciled with Sasuke.

All of this clearly shows that he planned to end the Manga open ended and let the Last Movie handle the romance part of Naruto so that he could mockingly call the movie as Canon. Because, in this way, he get the ending he always wanted in his own Manga and the Movie team can have their own ending and call it as Canon. Best of both worlds. Just like how SP made many people believe that Naruto loved Sakura by spamming us with filler bullshit and made a fool out of everyone.

But since, SP decided to go for a Sequel, Kishi had to introduce Kaguya crap out of nowhere at around Chapter 646 and he nerfed Madara like a clown and ended up drawing Chapter 700 as a Prologue for Boruto Manga by making everyone marry and have kids.... Otherwise he would’ve made Chapter 700 as to how Naruto became an Hokage.

Just to finish this off,

Kishimoto had no obligation or necessity to write a story about two boys finding Love in each other. HE ABSOLUTELY DON’T NEED TO. And yet he did.

After the Pain Arc, he could’ve easily wrapped his ‘Boy’s Love’ Element and started to go ‘Dude Bruhhhhh’ and focus only on the story. All the while he could’ve made those boys develop a Nice Relationship with those girls. This would have given a Happy Hetero ending in a traditional sense.

But all he did was to intentionally deride Sakura and Hinata at every given chance especially in the War Arc and made those boys to remain indifferent to their romantic Advances.

I don’t know how much he must have fought with his editors to reach his envisioned ending by not giving any content for SS and NH.... Like, Don’t you think, there wasn’t one person from the Manga editing team would have questioned, “Why do you have to kill Neji to bring Naruto and Hinata together and right after that he forgot about her completely??? You could’ve easily made it so much better!!”.... He himself acknowledged that there is a pressure from the Management regarding Boruto series and we don’t know the extent of the pressure he had faced...

He kept his ending in his heart all throughout these years and he gave all out to reach that destination despite facing lot of pressure from the management. I could see his desperate efforts throughout the Manga and it shows.

He must have planned for the Open Ending for as long as he can... Even after the Last Movie announcement.... But because of the sequel, he must have decided to keep all the 699 chapters for himself and let that 700 as a prologue for Next Generation series. Even in the NextGen series, he never stopped mocking NH and SS.

We can either stop at Chapter 699/698 (Phase 1) or we can go ahead and read Boruto Manga to find that ‘There’s no NH or SS in any of this’ and find some faint happiness (Phase 2). It’s up to us.

I was in Phase 1 for very long and moved onto Phase 2 and I am no longer Bitter. Because I got what I wanted from this SNS bond... that is for them to Be Soulmates.

Point me any other Daring Shounen Mangakas who wrote a bond where 2 Boys find Love in each other and almost kept them as the ‘De Facto’ Couple for 99.9% of the Manga.... Show me and I’ll start to get bitter about Kishimoto... Until then, I have no issues and I understand why he did what he did because of his sincere efforts.

#sns #sasunaru #narusasu #sasunarusasu

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Three Nights (Unconditional sequel)

Night Three

05/28/2021

Pairing: August Walker x fem!reader (3rd person)

Word Count: 1,697

Warnings: August being a loving dad to his baby (I put this as a warning for a reason...😆)

Summary: When the baby wakes them up in the middle of the night, August tells his queen to stay in bed and takes care of the little one himself.

A/N: This is it, the cherry on top of your requested sequel. I hope it gives you everything you wished for. 🍒

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Darkness and silence. Finally silence. August could feel the tension ease away from his muscles as he listened to her steady breathing. One arm stuck between his head and the pillow, the other embracing her sleeping form, his fingers had started to absentmindedly draw small circles upon her shoulder. He could feel the wish arise inside of him to press a loving kiss to her hair, but he stopped himself last minute, afraid she might wake. And God knew she really needed every minute of sleep she could get at the moment.

It had only been a few minutes since the twitching and jerking had finally subsided, signalling she must be drifting into deep sleep by now. Clutching his chest tightly, she was splayed out halfway across his naked form, his warm body underneath her own the only guarantee for a few hours of peace at the moment.

Staring up at the pitch black ceiling, he couldn’t quite believe how much their lives had changed in the past months, but since they had, there had hardly been one night in which his mind hadn’t returned to the past. Sometimes it would come to him in a dream, torturing him until he woke with a gasp, sweat covering his whole body, and other times he would just lie here like this for hours, thinking about all the things he had left behind on that morning in London.

But tonight the past would have to wait, it seemed, as his ears picked up on the suspicious grunts and whimpers from the room next door. Immediately he could feel her stir against him, as the sounds broke through to her subconscious.

“It’s only been two hours,” she groaned, still half asleep.

“Don’t you dare wake up, Mama Bear. I’ll take care of the little rascal this time.”

Too tired to protest, she had almost fallen back into her deep slumber when he replaced his body with his pillow. At least it held the remains of his warmth and his signature smell, for it would have to do until he returned to her.

He hurried to get up before the whining could turn into full blown cries, hastily pulling on his sweatpants. Quietly he treaded over to the nursery and switched on the cream coloured floor lamp that illuminated the room with its warm light.

“There you are, little Miss Greedy-Guts,” he cooed at the little bundle that kicked and wriggled in her bed. “Come now, let’s fill that tiny belly with the finest milk we can find so that we all can go back to sleep in no time.”

Carefully, he picked her up, leaving the blanket wrapped around her back where his body heat wouldn’t be able to provide her with the warmth she needed. And as soon as her head came to rest on his fuzzy chest, she seemed to calm down a little, buying him some time to get down into the kitchen and prepare her milk.

He had done this so often by now that he had developed his own routine, manoeuvring along the counter, rocking his baby girl in one arm and mixing her drink with the other. Everything worked just smoothly and after only a few minutes he found himself back in the nursery, comfortably settled into the old rocking chair they had bought at a garage sale a few weeks before the birth.

“There you go, sweet pea, nice and easy. And no funny business, tonight, do you hear me? Mommy deserves to have her husband pillow back as soon as possible.”

Big blue eyes shone up at his as if they had understood every word while she gulped down her milk dutifully. Such a pure soul, he thought, so innocent, knowing nothing of the chaos that awaited her outside the safety of her home. But she had nothing to worry about for he would always be there to protect her, his little princess. And when her tiny fingers wrapped around his giant one, he felt his heart flowing over from all the love it held for her.

He still remembered the time when he had believed he would be alright on his own. It had been the easiest way of living in his profession, nothing to lose. At least that was what he had told himself in the lonely nights when it was quiet enough for the persistent voice inside his head to get through to him. Deep down, he had always known he had just been afraid to let his heart beat for someone else. And now it even beat for two.

It had also been the time when he had thought it was necessary to arm himself, literally and metaphorically. He had been sure that he was the perfect image of the lone wolf, and no one would ever come to his rescue and chase away the loneliness. For why would they? A tainted soul like his, broken and tarnished. It was just him against the world. But he had been so wrong. And in the end, it hadn’t even taken a single bullet to save his life.

Here and now it was a mystery to him how he could have ever believed that the next victory would finally fill the emptiness inside him and shush the voices that nagged him to stop for good. But he had been fighting a losing battle all along because now he was certain that nothing could ever have fulfilled him like this. He had given up his ideals and, along with his doubts and fears, he had left the old August behind for his family and all those nights he had been lying awake, thinking about the changes in his life, had assured him that he would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

In the light of his new life, he felt like an idiot, thinking that there had been moments in which he wouldn’t have hesitated for a second to sacrifice his life for the higher cause, but those days seemed like an eternity ago. There was only one mission left now, and protecting his queen and princess was the only cause he was willing to die for.

Maybe he had been so reckless because he had constantly been angry with the world back then. Deep inside of him, there had always been this haunting feeling that whatever he did was just never enough to finally reach what he desired. And instead of questioning his purpose, he had been eager to destroy the world for not giving him what he thought he deserved. But now things had changed, he had changed, and he had to admit that although the world might not have given him what he had wanted, it had given him everything he ever needed. And even more than that. He held his own world in his arms now, and he knew that he was also the world to someone.

Just as he knew that rage or hatred weren’t the answer, they never had been. And everyone who still believed they were, was simply asking the wrong questions. For their sake, he hoped that they would see clearly one day, like he did. It had just taken him some time, the love of his life and their sweet baby angel to finally come to his senses.

A sweet baby angel with the sharpest fingernails that had ever dug into his skin, it crossed his mind suddenly. And when he focused his attention back on his daughter, he found that she had been a really good girl and emptied her bottle already, her small fist clenching down on his chest as if she wanted to tell him that it was time for her burps.

Obeying her wish, he stood up, placing her small head on his shoulder before he began to rub her back gently. And in no time, he could hear the unwanted air leave her body.

“That was quick. You really are a good girl for daddy tonight, aren’t you?”

Rewarding her with a bright smile, he gently pressed his lips to her tiny forehead. But when he laid her back down into her crib, he wished he hadn’t spoken so soon. Immediately her forehead started to crease, her lower lip dipping out in an adorable pout.

“No, no, no, no, no, princess, no crying. We’ve talked about this. Do you remember? No funny business. You agreed.”

Looking up at him from dark blue eyes that held his heart, he noticed that she had shushed. He could even make out the tiniest hint of a smile that graced her lips. But as soon as he stopped talking, she whimpered threateningly again. And suddenly he could hear the voice of his wife resurfacing from a long forgotten memory. “You’ve got such a calming voice, Augie. Maybe if you read me a story until the thunderstorm fades…”

That night he had done much more than read a few chapters of her favourite book to her and upon the mere thought he could feel the faint wish awaken inside of him that the next thunderstorm would come soon. But until then…

“Do you want me to tell you a story? Is that it, you little scoundrel? Alright, if you promise to let your mommy sleep until morning, I will tell you the best story there is.” She giggled sweetly and he decided he would take that as a yes. “You know, the story has all the ingredients of a perfect fairytale. There are heinous battles, a knight who tries to slay a dragon, but also love and a beautiful princess, and as far as I can tell, it even has a happy ending.

“And yet it isn’t a fairytale in the classical sense. You see, the knight for example had to realise that he had been fighting on the wrong side all along and it was the princess who rescued the knight in the end and not the other way round.

“I’m not telling you lies here, my sweet angel, and I’m the one who should know best.” A soft babble disturbed his tale. “Why, you ask? Because I lived through all of it and I’m really glad I’m still here to tell you this story.”

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