#go. read. sunflower!!!!

[wanyinchen-narts]

SUNFLOWER (CANON DIVERGENCE AU)

the absolute *chef's kiss*, depth, angst, and clownery of the kakagai dynamic this fic has is beyond insane and amazing and I am not ashamed to say that I have binged it at least 7 times

Now, my lovelies, please read "Sunflower" by cloudynebula and lapifors once more and bask in its utter perfection. But make sure you're in the right headspace for it because it's really heavy and dark tho! Please take care of yourself first <3

*more incoherent babbling in the tags lmaooo*

#kakagai #maito gai #hatake kakashi #might guy #naruto #sha's nart art #fanart of a fanfic #the sunflower fic deserves a tag as far as i'm concerned #go. read. sunflower!!!! #i swear it is the best Gai character study fic!!! #you have no idea on how rare Gai character study fics that actually don't underestimate him are #or something along those lines #its so rare to find gai-centered fics that have his voice down to a tee #and not overdoing the dramatic capitalization to a fucking ridiculous amount; and not having the words YOUTH!!! and SPRINGTIME!!! be used #--in every other sentence LIKE THANK YOU! Its one of my pet peeves i think i just dont like the implication that Gai is an dumb idiot #we need more gai-centered fics!!! he's fucking hilarious as a narrator #like THANK YOU!!!! I imagine Gai to be sweet emotional genuine overwhelming overdramatic over-the-top stubborn and wise #not a fool who only has YOUTH!! and PASSION!! in his dictionary LIKE EXCUSE YOU! Gai's very flowery and poetic; he knows many words :D #and the actual depth of Gai in this fic makes me cry and wail happy tears #and the depicted relationship between Gai and Kakashi is so perfect it makes me cry and wail happy tears even more!!! #like its so perfect and genuine and real and true *more wailing* #LIKE THANK YOU FOR HAVING GAI ACTUALLY OPPOSE AND DISAPPROVE KAKASHI'S ACTIONS IN ANBU #gai walks beside kakashi NOT BEHIND #he aint Kakashi's simp or Kakashi's enabler #he's Kakashi's best friend and eternal rival goddammit!!! #and thats all lmao #whoopsies i went on a tangent

[sleep-nurse]

apparently the place where the scar in my ear is isn't called ear canal but external acoustic meatus

#sunflower rambles #english terms going at me again #idk i just read it from the spray package

[kheyys-worms]

Plucking away at your happiness.

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Another fic fanart, this time it's inspired by another @merakiui's masterpiece: His Blueberry Eyes 💙💙 Go check the fic out! But do read the warnings first cause, boy... ngl, this one's heavy--

#i decided to color this digitally #tried extracting the lineart but can't do anythin abt the paper texture-- so we got this instead heh #my mum said it made the drawing look gloomy. she's not wrong-- #anyway. had the idea of Azul plucking at a sunflower going like 'love me. love me not' the moment i read the 'painting the wall' scene #that's one of my favorite parts. right before things went downhill for Azul and Reader :)))) #also flower symbolism my beloved <333 a sunflower in the midst of cornflower fields... it's a lovely image #*sighs* Bless all of you fic writers for giving the most delicious of brain rots <3 #twisted wonderland #azul ashrengrotto #yandere azul ashengrotto #kheyy's art #why am i not drawing anything for disney 100th anniv? or for the new JP Halloween event? simply cause i got priorities ✨✨ #love me fics that can rip my heart out and scar me mentally uwu

[money-and-dandellions]

Meg would switch between Apollo's pronouns every time they met

#i dont really assume that a god would have preferences on its own gender #like they did have a gender thst was sort of assigned by birth (and so are genitals) but #and yes #she is often portrayed in masculine form #but he also is portrayed wearing greek woman's clothing #and *is* the protector of young people (usually men) #I think that trans men also go under the category as again greeks didn't really care about the gender #thrans men ARE men #thank you very much for reading #meg would be like yeah this js my brother why does they have her nails done? why do you ask stupid questions? *gasp* are you jealous? #she would make sure thst these leople would be choked to death afterwards #Artemis would do the same #apollo #toa #meg mccaffrey #artemis #genderfluid apollo #sunflower siblings

[lilac-udon]

#the year is a bit wonky I’m still adjusting #I need to read my old notes there’s a lot of years and I only remember sunflower part #kel years has to much because he youngest these is more event revolving him #1940 kel joined group 1990 his b day 2000 things go down #basil im sorry kel is not about no liking him back #sunny i can't keep your promise is not about him and kel is somthing els #in the beginning aubrey hate basil but then she gets a weird obsession with basil

[theokusgallery]

What do you think about middle aged sunflower ????

Okay I'm going to pretend I'm normal and didn't just have a conversation about it yesterday within which I had to restrict myself because of Discord's stupid character limit

Anyway. Gonna talk about fanfics briefly, because fics tend to get more complex with characterization.

A while ago, I got really into Marvel, and for two months I did nearly nothing except read spideypool fanfic all day and night. If you know anything about these two (that isn't from the MCU) (I hate the MCU, I hate it so so much, this is not who Spidey fundamentally is, he is supposed to be a friendly neighborhood loner loser and you Cannot just give him an Iron Man suit and a mentorship with Stark and intergalactic missions at 16 or however old he is in those movies when the essence of the character is that he is an average struggling teenager who just happens to get superpowers and fucks up a lot at the beginning of his journey and mostly works alone and quit the fucking Avengers himself) (wow I started rambling sorry. Ignore that), you'll know that they are both around... 25-30ish, currently. Something like that. The only other fandom that I read as many fanfics of was Ace Attorney, where depending on the timeline, they can be from 23 to like, 35 with a kid. So I'd say me being so invested in a ship with 16 year-olds is... kind of an anomaly.

I don't usually like the coming-of-age, teenage love stuff, and I honestly have never found a single sunflower schoolfic I liked (except Spiral of course but even then they're in college) because all of them tend to... infantilize both Sunny and Basil at great length. And also tear down anything that makes them interesting characters. I think a lot of OMORI artists (that includes writers) are very afraid of doing anything substantial with teenagers, despite, you know, the actual plot of the game, and as a result, a lot of the time most fics where the characters aren't aged up tend to be... incredibly boring. Of course there are some that are good — exceptional even — but in the end all I can think of is the huge gap in... quality? that sounds wrong to say about a creative thing... interesting-ness, let's say (a very personal and subjective concept), when I stopped reading Marvel and went back to OMORI. I stopped reading fanfics altogether because I just couldn't find one I liked as much as the average Marvel fic that I hadn't already read.

Maybe it's a result of the writers themselves being young? I know OMORI's fanbase is generally a lot younger than Marvel's, so that could affect it. I mentioned schoolfics because there's a lot of them and because they were mentioned in my rant yesterday, but it's not really about the fact that they're schoolfics, it's about the fact that more often than not, the setting is the plot, and since it's just your average highschooler writing their favorite blorbos into their own environment and projecting (which is very cool btw, 99% of my own writing is projecting), the plot is... basically nonexistant. It's boring. It's boring and the characterization is usually dull. But even outside of schoolfics, I think I stopped trying to read fics that start with Sunny getting out of the hospital after the True Ending for the same reason : it's often plain and plotless and boring. And, fuck, my favorite books and mangas and such are slice of life, I'm all for mundane plots! But there's a difference between a mundane plot/realism and just no plot at all.

(This is not, like, an attack of OMORI writers who make schoolfics or fics that start with the above mentioned premise, btw, I want to make that very clear. It's very much a personal preference. I think it's boring because all of the fics I read in Marvel had a very unique plot/premise is my point. And also because the characters were a lot more mature and complex. Different strokes for different folks)

I think that's what I'm kind of sad about. OMORI characters tend to be complex and morally grey in their own way, and people tend to forget about that because they're teenagers and obviously no one can do no wrong before the ripe age of 18. Children are all innocent and therefore cannot be more morally complex than cinnamon roll soft boys/girls (looking pointedly at Sunny, Aubrey and Basil. But mostly Basil). Also, I think people tend to straight-up forget that 16 year-olds aren't, like, 10? Of course they're not going to be as mature as grown adults, especially Sunny OMORI, Dissociative Amnesia World Champion, but like... When I was 16 reading OMORI fanfics, half the time I was like "a 16 year-old would not fucking say that". But also generally more mature characters are inevitably more interesting to explore to me because I prefer more mature themes — I'm simply extremely upset at the fact that people don't explore the complexity that's already there when they're 16, including the very mature themes that are already there.

TL;DR: I love middle aged sunflower, I love middle aged ships in general ! In fact, I will tend to prefer sunflower when it's aged up.

(... I probably should've led with that.)

#rant #cough. that was one hell of a rant #sorry as i mentioned i literally talked (read: complained) about this to two different people in the last week #i'm kind of insane about sunflower. very deranged. i have many thoughts about them. #don't ask me about characterization because I will make a whole fucking essay #(((ask me about characterization please i will make a whole fucking essay))) #ask #xxl1ghtxx #i am so sorry I spent half an hour writing an answer that shouldve just been 'I like them! :D' with a doodle #unfortunately I am not normal about sunflower and their age. #I NEED TO STOP OR I'M GOING TO RAMBLE MORE IN THE TAGS. JESUS #omori

[sylviaplathenthusiast]

ngl im kinda obsessing over lily evans lately

#lily evans #marylily #that ship deserves a prettier name tbh #pandalily #im going to create a pretty name for all the lily ships #jily #aka #sunflower #i love that one #i am reading a marylily fic

[oreoambitions]

housemate: we should make zucchini bread me: should we... grow some zucchini housemate: ... buying it from the store *does* feel a little like cheating now, yeah

#we have a whole stardew valley deal going in the backyard #there are more than 100 crops growing back there #I have bought one (1) vegetable since March #I know so much about mildew now #ask me about the watering requirements for beans #did you know there are so many kinds of beans #did you know you can grow sunflowers year round in some places #did you know you can GROW YOUR OWN PUMPKINS #the kitchen windowsill is now an ICU for plant babies #I spent my whole day off last week reading about crop rotation #what is GOING ON HERE #we have ten kinds of strawberry!!!!! #oreo rambles

[soldier-poet-king]

I slept nearly 11 hours and I'm STILL upset and angry, and further upset and angry with myself for letting it get to me, and it's just >:(

#franposting #its ok. i had a coffee. am reading Naruto. #going to mass soon (woo slacker sleep in mass time) #gonna work on my cross stitch this afternoon #do some meal prep. either make some pasta salad or maybe a zucchini skillet #maybe some homemade mac and cheese bc im sad #idk cook smthn #then ofc play more bg3 #and ignore my stupid dumb mean family #my mothers displeasure is more known today #and its like. i literally was talking about how shes become kinder this week. wrt queer ppl on tv #and then. the irony of it all. everything is fine as long as its not me ig #shout out to my father who has soooo many problems but is at least being good abt this #but. yeah. im. upsetti #but also already dreaming of fillin in the half sleeve. i need sunflowers and dandelions. hellebore and lilies. bees!!! #all those hopeful lovely things for my soul #im also gonna get another helix piercing i think. in the opposite ear. more of a cuff style #its just. fuck it. im tired of squishing myself into a lil box for literally no reason #no moral reason no social reason just shitty fear and family

[dumb-fictionkin-sideblog]

Today's bit of writing was brought to you by my gay feelings for Basil OMORI

(For context here they just built one of those large swings that can have like three people sit on it at a time, so they're resting on it)

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"Am I special to you, Sunny?"

Sunny turns his head towards Basil. He's looking at him, his voice falsely unbothered. It sounds strangely important. "What do you mean?" answers Sunny. He knows what it should mean. He knows how Basil should mean it. (He knows that's not what Basil means.) "I mean-" Basil stammers, sighs. He looks up. Sunny knows that words are hard to find, sometimes. But never to Basil. Basil always finds the right words to express himself. Sometimes - often - Basil's mind goes faster than his mouth. And he stutters. But he never runs out of words. Basil looks back down, but doesn't meet Sunny's eyes. "I mean… We've been friends for… forever. We've always been… You know. Closer. You- You know I love Aubrey and Kel and Hero and Mari, but… You're-" Basil takes a deep breath. So much for making it seem insignificant. "You're… special. You've been special." Sunny stares at him for a while, expecting him to continue. Basil doesn't usually talk too much around a group of people. He prefers to listen when there's too many people. With Sunny, though, he talks in paragraphs. "I just…" Basil finally looks back at him. "I guess I just wanted to know if it was the same for you." "You're my best friend", says Sunny. And it's true. "That's not…" Basil trails off. That's not what I meant. That's not the answer I wanted. "You've always been my best friend," Sunny repeats, and he knows it's still the not the right answer. "I love them too, but you're my best friend." There's an awkward pause in the air from Sunny's lack of a real answer. He feigns ignorance. "I… Thank you." Basil sighs, and Sunny knows he hopes it sounds like a sigh of relief. But it doesn't. Because it's not. Basil doesn't sigh with relief. Basil fakes the confidence that there was nothing to be worried about in the first place. Basil sighs with annoyance. Basil sighs with disappointment. "Am I special?" Sunny asks. Somehow, the question holds more significance than his own answer. Basil looks at him for a few seconds. There's the same importance as when Basil asked, although Sunny pretended not to know. It's strange. He wonders if Basil knows that he means it too. "You're…" Basil looks away. Maybe if Sunny could see him, he'd be blushing. Maybe he'd be ashamed. Maybe he'd be hoping. But that doesn't matter right now, because Sunny can't see him. That's why he looked away. Basil starts to turn to look at him, but stops midway. "You're special, Sunny." (And Sunny knows he means it.) "Look at me when you say that." "Why are you so serious?" Basil asks, and he laughs. He attempts to laugh it off. But he's the one who made it serious in the first place. "It's not that deep-" "Look at me." "Sunny, why-" "Look at me, Basil." And Basil looks, slowly. (He is blushing.) "You're special, Sunny," he repeats, almost in a whisper. He's looking down, but he's looking at Sunny. He's looking at his legs, but he's looking at him. Basil is tense. His arms are stretched, his hands to each side of him, on the seat of the swing. His shoulders are way up. His hair looks beautiful in the golden hour. His lips part slightly in an unspoken plea. Listen to me, Sunny. Understand me, please. Answer me. That's not what he asked. But Sunny is a coward. (Can Sunny answer him? But what if he's wrong? What if he made it way more serious than it really was? What if Basil was just embarrassed to ask for reassurance? But they spent the whole afternoon just together. They were busy. Basil didn't have time to be anxious. He didn't have time to spiral. He didn't have the time to think, he didn't have the time to need reassurance. But how can Sunny be sure? How can he give him what he wants - how can he pretend not to know while telling him that he knows, how does he creates the possiblility of denial?) (How does he stop thinking so much?) "You're…" Basil's head flips up, and suddenly, he's loking straight into Sunny's eyes. How could he deny that? "You're special, Basil." Basil's eyes widen. They're staring at each other. They want to ask so badly.

(Is that it, Sunny? Is that you answer? Did you undestand?) Instead, Sunny places his left hand on top of Basil's right hand. His other hand is still holding the rope, but his left hand is… Not quite holding Basil's. It's standing on top of it, lightly, carefully, not quite resting on it, not quite putting weight. As if asking. As if begging. Basil doesn't break eye contact, But Sunny hears his breath stutter for less than a second. He sees his shoulders relax just a little. Sunny lets go of the rope, gently. Basil's hand wiggles around, hesitates, then holds his. Sunny intertwines their fingers, slowly and quietly, but without an ounce of hesitation. (Is that your answer, Sunny?) They don't talk, for a moment. They don't move. There's nothing to say, really - just about a ton of words stuck in their throats, way too far to spill out. They don't really know what to do next. (Do you love me, Sunny?) Sunny leans in, just slightly, in a way that could be mistaken for a lack of energy to sit up straight (but Basil would never believe that, of course.) The words move up in his throat. He can feel them on the back of his tongue. Basil leans in too, more quickly, more surely - he's always been more courageous than Sunny. They stare at each other as their forheads finally touch, both waiting for the other to do something - or for themselves to dare move again, to close the centimeter or distance between them. Then, Basil looks down. Not too far down. Sunny's lips aren't too far down. Sunny leans in. It's not the explosion of feelings that Sunny was scared of. It doesn't feel nearly as overwhelming as he feared it would. It's calm, it's tranquil, it's steady - it's almost familiar (how does his first kiss feel familiar?), it feel good. It feels great. Sunny almost wishes he had imperfections to point out, like in the books he's read, where the lips of the protagonist's lover were sometimes too chapped, or too wet, but they're not - Basil takes care of himself. Basil washes his face every morning with beauty products, and Basil certainly doesn't moisturize his lips with his tongue. The rest, Sunny is too inexperienced to care. (Sunny does moisturize his lips with his tongue, though. Sunny still has acne on his face and on his back because he can't keep his hands away from it. Sunny doesn't know how to kiss, and he hopes Basil doesn't care either.) (Sunny… Sunny doesn't know how long a kiss is supposed to last.) ((Sunny hopes it lasts forever.))

#im a homosexual! #sunny #omori kin #hey yk what ill slap the main tags on that one #no one reads fanfics on tumblr anyway #omori #omori game #omori sunny #omori basil #omori sunflower #sunnflower #omori fanfic #boom! here we go #gay feelings OUT #i also drew a little thing but it's unrelated #maybe ill post it later

[siena-sevenwits]

Russian lit friends: What Dostoevsky should I read next, having already read The Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment?

#I've made three attempts to read The Idiot #I liked it but the timing was always bad #maybe I should give it another go? Or is there something else I should consider? #Thanks Sunflower! #coreander's old books #ooh those russians #recovering reader

[dirt-str1der]

just wanna say im obsessed with your mind and i read your posts about kiryu like the morning paper. thank you for your service

(Sweats) e-even the ones about him laying eggs ?

#Thanks for the ask ! #HIIIIII thank you for reading my posts im really a serial rambler so that is no easy feat. i just had a lowkey nightmare that was insect #based so its nice to think about different kinds of eggs once in a while. sorry for the eggs i just learned the word gravid and i cant stop #saying it !!! i literally opened tumblr to make another post about kiryu i was gonna say he was probably antisocial in his childhood which #is really a miracle any girls managed to notice him at all. and i believe that he was very dismissive of his clothing and appearance because #you know when youre young and trans and havent realised it but you just randomly hate everything about your appearance and dont even knowwhy #i think his hair was always too long and too shaggy and he would let nishiki comb it sometimes because he really could not stand his mane #and sometimes when it gets wayy too long and shitty the sunflower caretaker would drag him outside and just cut a chunk of it off with a #knife and kiryu would have shoulder length hair for a little while... anyway i need to give him a little girlfriend like how rikiya had one #when he was in school because all trans guys need a little girlfriend or an all girl group of friends to be his girlfriends when hes a kid #so he can carry their shopping bags and wait for them outside the changing room etc and kiryu cant resist a girl so he gets a letter from #nishiki and he tells him yeah this is probably a prank to have you wait there for hours or there might be guys waiting to ambush you and #beat the crap out of you. and kiryus like Nobody beats the crap out of me except our dad. and goes to meet this girl and he actually agrees #to go out with her and this is the thing that keeps him in school because otherwise he would literally not go. like hed walk with yumi and #nishiki and the rest of the kids at sunflower that he doesnt care about to remember the names of. and he would just wave them off at the #gate and wander the town in his school uniform and then after school he’ll meet nishiki and possibly yumi at the gate (yumi probably makes #other friends but its a Must to walk nishiki home because he’ll get lonely) and when kiryu starts going out with this girl hes obligated to #walk her home so he already broke rule one but nishikis like happy for him But he has to walk home with some other random guys now and #eventually theyll broach the topic of ‘his psycho sister’ and nishiki literally has to beat a few guys up to defend kiryus honour and when #he comes back with news of how unpopular kiryu is with the rest of the guys because he looks better with short hair than they do and has a #girlfriend whos super cute. kiryu is just like damn did you commit social suicide to protect my honour? youre my best friend. but whatever #kids get over it fast. but parents dont!! and kiryu walks his girlfriend right to her front door and soon enough her parents are going to #find out that the boyfriend she keeps gushing about is a girl and straight up take her out of school to make her stop being gay and kiryus #like but ... im a boy ... punches the ground and screams to the sky. anyway enough about dysphoria simulator im here to talk about this guy #when hes a bit older because im salivating and shaking over the thought of his bootyass rip kiryu you woulda loved thongs. i think hed hate #ripped jeans but only because he thinks theyre a waste of manufacturing. its literally better for the world that kiryu decided 2 transition #because can you imagine if she was a girl and needed to wear a bra? like she would literally have an itchy back all the time which would #give her a hair trigger temper which means kamurocho a&e room will be very healthily plush indeed. god my battery is dying i need to take a #shower noww anyway really thank you for the nice message you are so sweet ... hi ...

[sleep-nurse]

one day i will gather the entire lyrics for zer0h's song dear diva i already got both of the choruses. you can't stop me

#sunflower rambles #this is going to become a hobby of mine #just scroll through the entire video and rewrite the lyrics #the blessings of being able to read japanese

[thekidsfromyestergay]

I'm an mcr lesbo and I'm pretty sure we live in the same city (brum?), so if you need a catgirl bulge discussion partner I'm there 👍

Omg hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii dm me

#you wanna go to sunflower and discuss trans readings of hesitant alien 🥺

[the-girl-who-cried-wolf]

van gogh's sunflowers

#okay i'm in a sharing mood rn #may as well post this as well #more oil pastels <33 #van gogh loml #this painting kept getting mentioned in the book i'm reading so i had to draw it #sunflowers (third version) #this was super fun #hopefully i'll do a few more of van gogh's work in oil pastel #!!!!!!! #my art #van gogh #i literally have no clue how to tag this #uhhh #oil pastels on paper #art #ok im actually going to sleep now bye #WAIT click for better quality and all that <33

[theokusgallery]

"tumblr is dying" calm down. look at twitter. its ceo is burning the platform to the ground and the whole site looks like it's only still standing because the code practices positive self talk. it's doing just fine

#if anything we might have a kind of tf2 situation but thats it #no one's letting this hellsite go dead. that's not how this happens #rant #if it does end up being left for dead however dont expect me to start dropping links. i will simply stop existing on social media <3 #ill get my sunflower and basil fix reading fanfics on ao3 and looking at fanart from far far away on twitter