you should tell me about your oc/canon ships and then i will do the same to you. "i receive: someone going sicko mode & getting to hear about oc lore. you receive: someone literally so enthusiastic to hear about oc/canon ships as an acquaintance" type beat
I’m not sure where to start !! Aaaaa!!
Ig I couuuuld talk abt my very first ship that’s approaching the 3rd year anniversary in July and that’s roaralie ehe aka Roark from Pokémon dppt and Coralie my oc !! (Cora uses they/she/he btw!! You can interchange their pronouns, I tend to default to they but they’re non-binary!)
Well. I also have their moments for a bunch of their art here. It’s not updated cuz Twitter killed moments BUT
An alternate name I have for them is erosionshipping!
They met because Cora was exploring Sinnoh and got lost in the underground…multiple times. At first they were almost annoyed bc they felt so useless and an idiot and Roark had to help them bc normally their navigation is GREAT just not very deep underground LOL.
They are both goofy neurodivergent autism/adhd combo. They love each other a lot and make each other laugh, and infodump their interests and they’re just … best friends in love 💖💖💖
Also I draw Roark kinda buff. Sue me. He’s a miner he can’t possibly be that skinny. Like he’s not a bodybuilder brick shithouse but the man’s got arms I know he does.
Anyway they’re silly I lvoe them stan Roaralie or perish
Random thing 1: Pumpkin Scissors returned to serialisation in Bessatsu Shounen magazine last month after a 4-year hiatus and it hasn't missed a beat. Picks right up where it left off, feels like no time has passed. Truly hope it continues like this because it is an A+ series.
Random thing 2: The Paripi Koumei stage play is happening right now and it honestly looks like a lot of fun, but Eiko's #1 Fan has an acrylic stand and individual bromides while Kobayashi doesn't. Entirely my own bias at play here, but the only Eiko's #1 Fan merchandise I'd want would be something featured the drama version of the character (because she is fucking adorable). OTHERWISE, PLS GIMME EIKO'S TWO DADS! (Also omg I need the Eiko & Nanami hug bromide, just hook it to my veins they're too cuuuute.)
Random thing 3: Manga Toshokan Z has a bunch of books by Matsubara Chinami available to read online for free (in Japanese) including my top pick, Rururu Miracle. You can support the artist paying for a PDF download, but this is optional. I mention Matsubara specifically because I've been scanning some old Sho-Comi stuff and she stood out to me, but I was also excited to see some of Omi Ayuko's horror/fantasy works on there (my pick being Kaze no Tategami from the Ayuko no Suspense Gekijou series) and Kusunoki Kei's Daitokai ni Hoero (see below). Plus Shibata Masahiro's Akai Kiba: Blue Sonnet (though you do really need to read the previous Akai Kiba books and they're NOT on this website). So overall definitely worth looking around for older, obscure one shots and series from a variety of genres and publications.
Random thing 4: I have been extremely lucky with filling in some 2000-2001 Nakayoshi furoku gaps lately so I'm going to have plenty of new things to share on that front. This is of course in addition to the pretty heavy focus I've had on Hana to Yume, LaLa and others lately. I've got sooooooooo many amazing things I can't wait to share.
Introduction of both this au’s villains, and more Dart lore! This is for the au we’re Raz is 20 btw.
Firstly, Agatha was working on her reanimated dead in secret, her company makes toxin based weapons basically but they're still not Really doing anything illegal that people know about. The reason people started finding out is that she was dumping "unsuccessful" ones out of the drainage pipes in her factory and they began walking around and terrorizing people. Lili, Raz, Dogen, n Kitty were sent to the city her company's in (dubiously New York City) to sleuth out what was going on! They don't immediately figure out it's her, Dex gets wrapped up into it because of the zombies using C.R.I.M.E. tech. Agatha tried to be super friendly n sponsoring the psychonauts agents at first in order to lead them in the wrong direction ! Kinda a mix between Syndrome and Mirage from the Incredibles plot wise.
She eventually reanimates Dante, but noott very well. All of Agatha's zombies r basically puppeted around by mechanical parts and some psychic tech. Dante is only conscious after she reanimates him too bc he had his brain stored when he died! Agatha's reanimated dead are also reanimated a while after death, whereas Dart was reanimated almost immediately so Dante is practically falling apart compared to her. Dante is definitely not the main villain, and Really does care about Dart, especially since he went through so much effort to keep her alive after he died, but Agatha reanimates him so they can rediscover that same method that worked with dart. Which might become a conflict of interest between Agatha n Dante in the future.
When Dante was alive, he did actually Try to parent Dart, but so much of his time was iust devoted to his experiments and work and cult stuff and holing himself up in his office that they were distant regardless. I mean Dart was kind of just an experiment that he didn't even think would work and he got attached too- there were a good 3 or so years that Dante was sick and dying (probably harmful material exposure let's be honest) and they just Didn't talk about it. They both knew but they didn't discuss stuff like that. I mean they had heart to hearts sometimes but the last time Dart really saw him before he died was kinda 'you're dying and we both know it'. Even when Dante was alive, Dart was really trying to run away from anything ‘supernatural’ or ‘weird’ or dangerous and just live a normal life. That’s kind of why she started going to whispering rock, but after the brain snatching incident she just hid in the outhouse the whole time and then stopped going after.