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kenjakusbrainstem · 8 months

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Exploring (Geto Suguru x Gojo Satoru)

Contains: Rimming, awkward first times.

I think it's funny to explore StSg as teens stumbling through a budding relationship. The idea of them messing around and not getting things quite right is very endearing to me. Hopefully you enjoy this! Crossposted to Ao3 under the same name and shared to twitter as kenjakusbrain! Comment or rb if you like or have anything to say!

Talking about what he wanted was never something Geto was good at. He often just chose to go on with whatever made the group happy, or more specifically, what made Gojo happy. So when he opened the door to his room and found Gojo already undressed on his bed, a pillow placed strategically over his groin, Geto thought the other teen had somehow mastered mind reading. Geto didn’t remember mentioning that he’d been missing Gojo lately, but he had been thinking about it.

Their relationship had taken a turn for the romantic about a month prior, and the fresh eagerness in exploring one another's bodies hadn’t been lost. They usually found themselves a tangled mess of limbs in whoevers room they ended up in. This was the first time Gojo had taken it upon himself to set up a special surprise for Geto after a mission. Gojo had known he was going on an easier one today, perhaps that's why he chose it.

Geto quickly closed and locked the door behind him, thankful he had been alone walking back to his dorm.

“Welcome back, Suguru~,” Gojo said, his voice playful as he spoke. His hand beckoned Geto to come closer. “I wanted to give you a little surprise, thought you might want something special tonight.”

Geto kicked off his shoes by the door before approaching Gojo, wanting to see for himself what the other boy had planned. Seeing Gojo laying against his pillows in his bed was always a sight that made his heart swell, but to have him exposed like this, a different part of Geto was already swelling in excitement.

“Why would you think that?” Geto asked, he most certainly did want something special from Gojo, but he couldn’t help but wonder what the selfish teen was thinking. Kneeling on the bed he crawled over on top of Gojo, looking into Gojo’s bright blue eyes he couldn’t help but smile as he leaned in to share a soft kiss.

Gojo’s hands greedily pulled Geto down on top of him, making their teeth clink together on accident. Neither of them cared, wanting nothing more than to keep the kiss going. Gojo untied the bun resting on the back of Geto’s head, causing his shoulder length black hair to tickle his cheeks as they kissed.

Instead of answering, Gojo continued undressing Geto. His hands drifted to the buttons on the front of Geto’s shirt, slowly undoing them before pushing the white cotton fabric off his shoulders and onto the floor. Gojo would be lying if he said he put too much thought into this, he really had just made the spur of the moment choice to surprise Geto.

Geto’s own hands wandered down, tracing along Gojo’s chest and down further across his abdomen to squeeze at his hips. Their soft kiss had turned into a more heated one, tongues teasingly swirling around as both their cheeks grew flushed at the action.

Breaking the kiss for a moment, Gojo breathed heavily against Geto’s cheek unsure how to bring up the idea that led him here. The moment he took to breathe was all Geto needed to kiss down onto Gojo’s neck, sucking and biting at the flesh. It didn’t hurt, but Gojo whined at the attention, it was as if Geto always knew just where he needed to be touched.

“Wanted to try something new, maybe you could try what I tried last time,” Gojo whispered, as if he were almost too embarrassed to bring it up. The last time they went further than messily grinding against one another things had ended in Gojo coming as soon as he entered Geto. To say Gojo was embarrassed would be an understatement.

Geto chuckled against Gojo’s neck, remembering just how apologetic Gojo had been. They had been unsure about it, rushing through the motions in a moment of heated passion, so to have it end so suddenly was a surprise.

“That does sound nice, but maybe we should wait a little more, I don’t want to make the same mistake,” Geto confessed, face still buried in Gojo’s neck. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to, Geto often wondered just what that would feel like. He had something else in mind though, something he wanted to try first. “I do have something I think you might like though.”

At first Gojo was discouraged, he’d never be upset with Geto for not wanting the same thing as him, but he did feel kind of silly coming in here like this only for Geto to not be up for it. Quickly his mood picked back up at Geto’s insistence that he had an idea.

“I’m all yours tonight,” Gojo said, pressing a kiss to Geto’s forehead. Even if it wasn’t what he had thought of originally, Gojo still wanted to make their last time up to Geto.

Geto pulled away from Gojo’s neck at the soft words, he was always touched when Gojo thought of him. Pressing another kiss to Gojo’s lips, Geto squeezed his hip again before pulling his hand away.

“Then get on your hands and knees for me,” Geto’s voice was dark as he spoke. The playfulness was still there, but buried by the lust that was quickly taking both of them over.

Gojo didn’t need to be told twice, as he adjusted himself, he could feel Geto sitting up and moving further down on the bed. He had never been much of a shy person, so it was no surprise that Gojo was ready to put his ass on display for his boyfriend. Wiggling his hips, Gojo looked back to see Geto’s response.

The flush that had covered Geto’s face was a deeper shade now, Gojo’s shameless display doing more for him than he had expected. Geto could feel his cock growing harder in his high-waisted pants. As he situated himself, Geto tried to calm himself down, this was something he’d thought about trying since the first time he showered with Gojo and caught a glimpse of the other teen’s ass.

Settling on his knees behind Gojo, Geto brought his hands up and softly squeezed the plush, pale cheeks before him. From this angle he could see Gojo’s balls hanging down, obscuring the hard cock he had grown quite familiar with from view. While Geto wanted nothing more than to lay on his back and take Gojo’s cock in his mouth, he was more eager to try something new.

Gently he spread Gojo’s cheeks, revealing the hole to him. Geto noticed that he just happened to smell like the soap they both used, Gojo must have just showered before Geto got back. Geto places small kisses to the soft flesh in his hands, making sure to give each cheek just as much attention as the other. He heard Gojo sigh above him, hopefully the gentle nature of Geto’s affection wasn’t too boring.

A sharp gasp filled the air as Geto licked a soft circle around Gojo’s tight hole. Of all the things Gojo had expected, this wasn’t one of them. Pressing his tongue flat against it, Geto began teasingly stroking the hole.

Reflexively, Gojo clenched himself up, even if it felt good he had never felt so sensitive before. Reaching down, he started swiftly stroking his cock, he could feel it throbbing in his hand with each pass of Geto’s tongue across his hole.

Geto didn’t mind that Gojo had started touching himself, in fact it spurred him into going further. Knowing that he was making Gojo feel that good made Geto want to try even more.

With a little more pressure, Geto pushed his tongue past the tight ring of muscle and timidly licked at the edge of Gojo’s entrance. He could feel Gojo squeezing around the tip of his tongue as he slipped it in further, the slight stretching causing Gojo to choke on a moan he’d been trying to keep in.

Slowly Geto started to fuck his tongue in and out of Gojo’s tight hole, the stretch not enough to hurt but the feeling of his tongue inside making Gojo stroke his cock even faster. Spreading Gojo’s ass open wider, the hunger inside Geto urged him forward, reaching his tongue as far as he could into Gojo’s ass. He could feel his own spit running down his chin, but he was too lost in the feeling of Gojo all around him to care about the mess.

Suddenly Gojo clenched much harder around his tongue as he came all over his own hand. Geto slipped his tongue out as Gojo rode out his orgasm by fisting his hand. Tongue still lingering, Geto licked softly at the rim of Gojo’s hole. He felt a shiver run down Gojo’s spine as he kept up his ministrations.

“Sugu- please it’s too much,” Gojo whined, voice muffled by his own hand over his face.

Sitting up, Geto pressed a final kiss to Gojo’s soft cheek before moving further up the bed and laying down next to him. He smiled as he watched Gojo turn to face him, before he quickly buried his face in Geto’s chest.

#jjk #jjk smut #satosugu #geto suguru #gojo satoru #stsg #stsg smut #satosugu smut #kinktober #kinktober 2023

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tessavillaverde · 2 years

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VTuber Re-Starter Kit (2023)

Who knows wtf Twitter is gonna look like by the end of the year? Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Tumblr, and all the other cesspits? I’ve got it all covered! Social media is changing and we must change with it. I’m so tired god please weh

Twitter is in free fall. Panic ensues. Valid. Many of us need that hellsite. Badly. It’s imperfect trash, but its *our* trash, understand? Fuck these “alternatives”. They are all noise right now. Cohost doesn’t allow commercial activity in its TOS, Mastodon has low engagement right now. Twitter Blue is here to stay. As VTubers, we all benefit from having it, actually. For $8/mo, you will be prioritized and boosted with mentions and replies. This means that threads and replies to you bump you up on the TL. Even if you pay for it, Lists and Twitter Circles are still a good idea. Heck, rotate people out of Twitter Circles to make sure you’re able to talk to more people. Continue to use Twitter to network by providing value to others and help others in their journey. Be chill and don’t use people for clout--it’s disingenuous. Treat people like people.

I can’t guarantee that things will be the same here on Twitter and neither can anyone else. The current data sets I see from clients and others may show that not much is changing, but this site is changing every day. We need to play it day by day and not worry too much about it.

Twitter has shops, utilize tf out of the business features. Given how much of a mess the site is with its daily tweaks and the loss of valuable engineers at Twitter, things could be topsy-turvy. Who knows? Be active!

This being said, you shouldn’t rely on Twitter alone. It’s not good for your business nor is it good for growing your brand recognition. So I’ll list where to go and the use cases. Don’t use this list to go to literally every place. There’s just not enough time in a day to maintain it all.

Instagram

Don’t make Insta your mainstay. Please, for the love of God don’t. Everything wrong with FB is still wrong with Insta with the added bonus of it being Diet Tik Tok. That being said, it still is a good networking tool and can help your sales with its shop features (for businesses/brands/media that don’t want to use Twitter). So what to do with Insta? Repost your Tik Toks and hit it n quit it. Post your schedule (3:2 format, crop down with 1:1 squares and schedule out posts to upload your schedule). Update your stories with important things (they’re pinned tweets basically). Have a link in your profile and reply to people when you can. Use relevant hashtags and hashtags that aren’t super saturated. GL;HF

Tik Tok

Hit it n Quit it

Post in prime times

Turn brain off

Be unhinged with your originals

Remix and hf with trends

Repost best shorts elsewhere

Tumblr

It’s 2012 again and we have no character limits and post gif memes

Relax, hf, life moves slower with an older audience

Not a Twitter replacement

SEO can be a benefit (technical jargon I’ll save you from), but you must remain authentic. What works on Twitter doesn’t fly on Tumblr. You will not get traction from doing what you do here.

Pay attention to etiquette. You can have assholes, but many are willing to joke as if nothing had happened. Be consistent by liking and reblogging things. Turn off your brain and follow blogs and tags that are up your alley and QUEUE up things to keep posting throughout the day. Tumblr humor is ironic, but not irony-poisoned. It’s punny and quirky and you must kill the chains that bind your inner cringe. Truly be yourself, share your personal thoughts more (it's a blogging site ffs), share your fandom of things, and things’ll be okay.

Also important on the ettiquite as a first tip: dont act like you do on Twitter. Its a different audience and the normal ways of crossposting wont work here. This is not Twitter. Tumblr is a blogging site where blogs share each other and it is fandom-heavy (meaning sharing who your favorite oshii is for example and hyping up others). It comes naturally. Be yourself and focus on building up a presence on your blog to give people a good idea of who tf you are. Nobody is really a celebrity here and you can't act like you are here. USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TA--

YouTube

I made another mega thread for this, read it later. YouTube should be one of your mainstays as a VTUBER. It’s more work, yes, but they also have Community Posting for everyone now. Scaling up your brand and having better brand recognition is crucial here. As you post more videos, ALWAYS improve your pacing, thumbnails, and titles.

Twitch

We know it. We love it. Consistency is key. Start with Rule of 3s: 3 days/week, 3 hours/day, 3 social media outlets. This is a general rule for a reason, but it's a good minimum to start with because I’ve seen too many clients in deep need. If you need to start half an hour later to catch your regular audience, then do so. Starting out, you need consistent numbers, engagement, and retention. I’ll explain later, but you want to do what you can to increase production value and give more interactables for chat to use.

Advice for partners, you need to continue to carry the momentum to scale. By this point, you likely know what it is you need to do, but perhaps there’s a discrepancy with engagement or retention, or god knows what that holds your audience back. Collabs help, but not as much as you’d like. This comes with raids being a nice networking tool funnily enough. Raid people with similar content and vibe as you to continue to network with people. Switching audiences and using adjacent categories to find that audience may be what you need.

This is all hard to determine for partners so plainly on social media without analyzing data, audience, content, branding/design, and personality. There’s a lot that goes into your churn (how many folks you lose in your audience on average). Fixing that can either require optimization and turning your personality up to 11 more consistently and differently, but also can mean taking a leap into faith with a “big risk, big reward mentality”. One thing I know works would be the optimization tweaks here and there by looking at data (or not looking at all and just gathering feedback from your audience and friends and staying objective and factual), and diversification on different platforms so more can know who you are.

Try tools like Streambee to simplify the VOD review process Streamloots to increase engagement and have better monetization TITS, VRChat, and curation to invite viewers with “planned exclusivity” rather than total exclusivity (how you do this is up to you).

Discord Not really a social media site

Great for talking and engaging your community and breeding loyalty. VTubers need fewer “groups”, fewer individual servers, and more community servers where you can pool your resources and hype each other up. Effectively make use of what Stream Teams are good for and raise each other up.

Monetization

Use Kofi for tips, a shop, comms

Use Gumroad for another shop that has more discoverability

Use Patreon for memberships to slowly phase out Twitch subs. Be creative and have fun with Patreon rewards

Use Streamloots and have fun with it

There’s more I want to discuss, but for now, you can follow me on Twitter and here on Tumblr for this data-backed advice, the nitty gritty nerdy jargon for social media with data and whatnot, and my personal thoughts with my positive experiences managing and consulting folks.

If you yourself are terrified still even with all of this, I have restructured my business with Build-Your-Own Bundle type of consultations and management. Services are 50% off. 69% off after your first purchase (nice)

#vtuber #virtual youtuber #vtuberuprising #social media #marketing #tumblr culture #twitter #youtube #tiktok #elon musk twitter #anime community #anime and manga #im so fucking tired please end me weh

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rahleeyah · 1 year

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So first time fic writer wanting to know if I should publish to ao3? I wrote it primarily as a way to deal with this past week’s episode but I’m nervous to publish. Do I make the leap? Do you have any advice?

You absolutely should publish. Anything you've written is worth sharing. Whatever the reasons for writing it, however nervous you might be, it's ok!!! It's nerve wracking sharing your stuff for the first time but it's a good step to putting yourself out there, meeting new people, and becoming more comfortable and confident in yourself and your work. Whatever you have to say someone out there wants to read it. I mean you can just keep your work to yourself if you really want to, but when we open ourselves up to people we open ourselves up to a lot of positive experiences and it sounds to me like you want to do this. So do it!

Couple little tips and tricks for posting:

Make sure you rate your fic. You have the option not to rate it, but lots of people sort and filter by rating, and you'll never turn up for those people if you don't have a rating. When in doubt just mark it "T"

Archive warnings. Since it's your first time posting you may not know there is a set of Big Issue Warnings an author can choose to warn for on their stories. It looks like this:

You have to choose an option. There is a difference between "choose not to use" and "no archive warnings apply." "Choose not to use" means those things may be in the story, and indicates readers should tread lightly. Some people will filter out "choose not to" fics. If there's no non-con or major character death or underage or whatever, pick "no archive warnings apply."

If you are writing in Google docs and cutting and pasting into the AO3 text box let me know. It will automatically add an extra line break between each of your paragraphs but there are ways around that. This is a stylistic thing some people don't care about but some people won't read a story that's formatted that way.

Make sure you put your characters and ships in here:

Again that is for people who are searching and filtering. You don't have to - you shouldn't - tag every character who appears in a story but do hit the main ones. You can add whatever additional tags you like to tell people about your story; I almost never use them but I tag for big things, like I put an unplanned pregnancy tag on hov and I put an eo endgame tag on Mia so people would know what they were getting.

If you have a Twitter account, post the link to your story there! Post the link to your story here, too, and be sure to tag it so people can find it. I always do hashtags for show names, character names, and ship names.

You can also crosspost to FFN. believe it or not some people are still exclusively reading there. FFN is a bear to post on tho so if you want to do it and you haven't done it before come back and I'll post a tutorial.

It's your first time out, so answer people's comments. I know how that sounds coming from me, but you aren't posting three concurrent stories that update almost every day. This is your first time, so interact with people. That's a good way to get them to come back for more. And it's a really, really good way to make friends.

Post it and then walk away. Don't sit by your phone and wait to see what the reaction is, you'll get all up in your head - or at least I do. Give yourself something else to do for a little while.

Be excited!!

If anybody else has some tips or encouragement for our friend please leave a note!

#anonymous

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bbnibini · 2 years

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the thought of barbatos beginning the official distrust of demons in solomon's case (other than asmo being asmo--i believe solomon might've seen him as a lost puppy rather than an actual threat to himself) is so interesting and i can't believe i haven't thought about it before! barbatos had already been tricked into a life-binding contract with diavolo, so making another life-binding contract shouldn't be something he was excited about, right?

barbatos & solomon act pretty distant towards each other, too. the new event where barbatos brushes off the fact that solomon is human, barbatos changing the subject when solomon asked if he mentioned him in one of the hard mode lessons, barbatos agreeing with solomon when the topic of pacts being purely business-related during solomon's birthday ur...

maybe you're onto something! although i'd also like to believe that there is some inkling of trust between the two, given that they witnessed each other at their most vulnerable(?). solomon was dying and barbatos was summoned when no one else should've been able to, given his status.

in my personal experience, twitter in general just isn't as fulfilling as tumblr is? i don't mean to scare you off of there, but the drama that goes on there within the obm fandom is in far greater quantity than on here ;; so much so, many people have been leaving the fandom there left and right. don't get me wrong, it's nice to be there for art & writing inspiration, but sometimes seeing an abundance of ignorance & constant bitterness doesn't bode well for your well-being.

to truly enjoy (obm)twt i feel like you'd just have to post self-indulgent things and you'll eventually gain your circle of people who also enjoy it? even then, the algorithm there can be horrendous to newcomers...

the premise is similar to any social media site, only that i highly encourage to not look as deeply within the fandom there unless you're very picky with who you follow and are prepared to block a fair amount of people. so far i think you've been doing great! spam-posting is something that can get other peoples' attention quicker, especially if you're someone they enjoy receiving content from. ^^ if you're seen to be enjoying yourself then i'm sure others will enjoy that too!

Hehe you're welcome! I think Solmare purposely left these things vague for our own interpretation. There's some conflicting information about Solomon and Barbatos actually, because if you recall S3 in the Serenity Manor, I high-key remember Barbatos saying he trusts Solomon hence why they have a pact (this is also the same scene where he friendzones MC hard haha). Then there's Solomon who also shares a group chat with Barbatos and Asmo called Invocatio where they seem to talk like good friends who care about each other.

Twitter in general just has that vibe, I think. I did own a Twitter two years ago, but I didn't really know how to use it. Things update so quickly, it was overwhelming for me so I deleted it. Thanks for looking out for me though! (If you're not comfortable for us to follow each other back, that's okay! I just thought you wanted a follow back since some people followed me but I don't know which one of them are you). I prefer using AO3 for my fics. Crossposting in Tumblr is tedious but I find it a lot more forgiving (albeit annoying because coding is my nightmare lmaoo).

I don't really participate in drama nor entertain it so I don't really know much, nor care to know much. The worst that happened to me in the few days I remade my twitter was a random person who said they liked the black-haired Solomon I personally commissioned from an artist better if he had white hair but that was easy to just hide, block and ignore. I've had worse (getting weird HC requests that forced me and my friend to put boundaries in our old request box, getting plagiarised more than once,etc etc). Frankly, I'm just here to love Solomon in peace (pun intended). He's hated more than enough in the fandom. I'd be more than happy to find the 10 people who appreciate him in the bird app though if I find the opportunity. xD

#ask #3vocatio #obey me

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kuwdora · 1 year

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oooh I have POLLS and a backlog of asks and meme things I've finally had the brain to start answering. Happily answering! Just belatedly answering. Sorry its taken so long! the last 2 and a half months have put me through a grinder. I have this narrow window where my anxiety is not too bad right now. But I'm probably going to spiral in another couple of days because life is just a lot at the moment and I should use this less anxious time as much as I can.

I have no idea what kind of polls to make but maybe I'll spit out some over the weekend. Oh maybe I'll share some Witcher fanart too. Feeling ambitious nowwwww.

I am perennially behind on all my saved fic reading, too, but I managed to read and comment through about half the smutty drabbles from the recent rarepair Smubbles collection. Here are the witcher goodies! 91 entries this round! Some really incredible Witcher fics you don't want to miss if you love rare pairs! There are about 36 total fandoms represented in this collection and the other fics are looking GOOOOOD. Star Wars, MCU, some book fandoms, other movie fandoms. I love me a good short form story. I don't think I even crossposted my drabbles and ficlets from the November and December smubble collections. I could try and do that this weekend, too, since I wrote a few drabbles this week. I'll go from "rarely posting things on tumblr" to "posting nonstop trickle of thoughts, squee, and other randomness." It probably helps that I'm spending less time on Twitter and need to redirect some of my fannish thoughts somewhere and Tumblr seems to be a great place for that.

Alright, time to get through this first part of my day and we'll see how I can get myself together from there!

#my mind continues to be a pinball ricocheting everywhere #but i am working on the wip tag game i got tagged in earlier this week which is exciting #really wondering what kind of polls to make #i have so many thoughts and fic and vid wips so maybe i'll make a poll about them and integrate it into the wip tag game or something #or maybe something else #the poll world is my oyster #or something #my posts

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millsv2 · 2 years

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"Twitter" Ramblings

I just did a big thread on twitter that I'm gonna cross post here because idk I feel like it has some good thoughts. Sorry if it sounds a bit weird here since it was a bit disjointed and cause its Twitter posts™

For Context: I, in my immense worrying, decided to go through my entire following list on twitter and try to see if they had a tumblr or art station to follow in case Twitter really does truly burn to the ground.

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Yippie! ive hit the point of worrying that im now actually scrolling through every person i follow to see if they have a Tumblr or Art Station or w/e the fuck

I ended up finishing this last night... all 1,527 people i follow... absolutely deranged behavior... but now i have the peace of mind that i follow a decent chunk on another social media...

I wont lie everything thats been going on with [Twitter] because of HIM is legitimately deeply concerning to me... No other social media works like Twitter does for artists seeking employment... Like i know im not popular [on Twitter], but it widens the base to connect with others

and having said base immensely increases job prospects. Literally my friend recently got a job with the assistance of Twitter connections (and i couldnt be happier for them). Its a very real thing, and unfortunately to my knowledge, no other true social media has anything similar

Like sure you could make the case that its on Art Station or LinkedIn too but to me those are far too professional and more just "gallery sites". Same with deviant art and New Grounds those are also just gallery sites I have a gallery, its my portfolio website.

I think if things really do go to shit, I of course still wont delete my twitter... but any actual interaction with people will be greatly reduced and mostly move to tumblr, even though my following is way tinier [on Tumblr]... It'll mostly become "i just share art [on Twitter] and thats it"

I know people are making Lists and such to keep track of people but like... when a site is becoming actively hostile to you for not spending money on it??? i dont want to spend my time here...

again this isnt the "im leaving cya bye forever" post im still sticking around till everything truly burns to the ground... but i definitely needed to set up alternate places to share my work far sooner (other than instagram cause lord i hate insta)

If thoughts do end up getting shared [on Twitter] after everything (stuff like this) itll probably just be crossposted from tumblr since it has a button to post to twitter (idk how it works though lol)

So again, to all the people that follow me and enjoy my work. Please follow me on other social media. My links are on my website at the top right.

I just hope it turns around for this site

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I know following doesnt matter as much here on Tumblr (the site literally does not show your follower count to anyone but you)... but i genuinely hope i can get back to even my small twitter numbers... Like dont worry im not a massive clout chaser or anything...

but posting into a void to only receive interactions in the single digits really does fucking sting.

Like at least on Twitter or Insta i can post stuff and will average around like... 30-50 likes on a post... which of course isnt a lot, but its nice seeing my friends among them and the occasional new person and hoping that seeing my work at least made them smile to see it. anyways im just hoping anyone that followed me on twitter will find me here and that i can make some new friends with people here too.

#bleating #Twitter exodus #twitter migration #sorry if this is overly downer or doomposting and what not but its just something thats been genuinely concerning for me #its been on my mind a lot lately and it definitely is important to me in terms of finding a job #as well as the emotional stability of posting art somewhere and for it to at least mean SOMETHING to someone

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drivenbycheese · 2 years

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Housekeeping Notes

Note from 2023 Rachel: None of this is applicable now

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Over the last few days, I moved the back end of my blog over to a different platform. Moving all the posts turned out to be quite more of a manual process than expected. It gave me an opportunity to read through e v e r y t h i n g in my archives, which was sometimes a good thing, and sometimes not so much.

Anyway, everything is now here, nice and tidy on the blog subdomain. I keep going back and forth as to whether I prefer the blog to be the top level domain, or to have a landing page. But as the landing page keeps everything nice and neat, I've "landed" there for now. Ha ha. Jokes.

A few notes about why I made the transition away from Blot.im, because as my host of the last few years they were really wonderful. Their customer service was excellent, and they did make the initial transition away from Tumblr really easy. But, in terms of my own style of blogging, there were a few flaws:

The template system. For me, it never worked 100% the way I wanted it to. I tried to devote time to learning the way moustache themes work, but there were always some quirks/tweaks I couldn't get working, and I couldn't figure out why.

Tagging. The tagging was never intuitive to me, particularly when I was just posting an image on its own, I couldn't actually figure out how to add tags at all.

Hosting via Dropbox. It actually WORKED flawlessly, in terms of the Blot-Dropbox integration, but I kept worrying about running out of Dropbox space, and Dropbox storage plans are too pricey for my personal blog which is updated only occasionally.

Updating via Markdown. I found a few good markdown editors, but creating a post using a markdown editor, figuring out how to insert an image (hosted elsewhere) into a post, and then formatting etc… it was all just slightly less easy than I want. Particularly because my main style of blogging never really moved away from the Tumblr style (ie, share content I didn't make, attribute it to the place I found it). Quick posts just don't happen easily when you have to copy an image, upload it to an image host, insert it using a markdown editor, and then drop that file into Dropbox. We're talking a matter of minutes, but I was used to reblogging in seconds on Tumblr, and I missed that ease.

[x] I'm using Postach.io now as my hosting platform, and it uses Evernote as its base. So far it is as easy as running a blog on Tumblr was. There are some things it lacks (like an Archive page?) but so far the pluses outweigh the minuses. And now that everything is all in one place (again), I think it'll be smooth sailing from here.

UPDATE: I’ve moved to Notion.so.

As a bonus to this process, several things which were formatted terribly the last few years were fixed. A lot of dead links probably remain, but I did try to flag that links were dead where I saw them. I did not import a few things that had lived on my blog before - like some crossposts from twitter, or posts that were simply "listening to on Spotify". There was a point in time where I stopped blogging all together, so all of my content just came from ifttt.com triggers dragging in my content from elsewhere. When it wasn't meaningful as a post on its own, I did not import it (for example, there is no use hosting this post forever I think). So essentially, anything that lives here now was actually content I created (or purposefully reblogged) and not just content I let a robot drag over for me in the 2010s .

Speaking of 2010 - that was a BANNER year for me blogging. I had 261 posts that year, more than any other year. And then a STEEP drop off in 2015, when I stopped using Tumblr as much. Interesting, although probably only to me.

Now, to figure out how to export my Twitter, and where to put it. NOTE: I DID THAT: https://rlpietraszek.neocities.org/tweets

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busts open tumblr's door, I'm gonna crosspost both of my threads from twitter for convenience and make them considerably wordier. This is not solely my own ponderings but shared brain thoughts with @tahthetrickster

STRAP IN because I’m going to take the League tag on a wild ride involving these three gals and how relationships form between them.

Long post under the cut! 2.5k+ words

(updated 13 june 2023 to add fic)

We start with the most important part of this entire thing, developing the relationship between Sarah Fortune and Shyvana. Why would they even interact?

Because Ruination.

Wait, no, come back, not that one.

Very important note here that what kicked off this entire thing was literally me seeing Ruined Miss Fortune get revealed and thinking, hmm what if Ruined MF/Ruined Shyv, would be a shame if I thought too hard about that and got invested...

Much of this plotting was prior to Sentinels of Light event launching, so if you hated that, good news! It has zero bearing here.

So let's actually get to the girls. There are certain visual headcanons to take note of

For heights, Sarah is about 178cm and Shyvana comes in at a respectable 201cm. (Kat will come into this later but she is 181cm).

There are several things about Shyvana's design that irk me, so for the purpose of this au her traits are adjusted to emphasize her half dragon nature. She has digitigrade clawed feet, because giving her clawed heels is massively dumb, just make her digitigrade Riot. She leaves her Dragonguard armour behind under Jarvan's recommendation, so rather than the large, impractical "horns" from the helmet, she has much smaller real horns that are about 8-10cm large. She also bears a tail about \~91cm long in human form. Also her ears are pointed! Ruined Shyvana has pointed ears but base Shyvana does not, which should be a crime.

* These values are rough estimates bc frankly I'm just ballparking

Worth noting! Being a half-dragon and considerably more reptilian than a human, Shyvana does not have breasts.

First row 1) Official splash 2) LoR promotional key art

Second row 1) LoR Lv2 art 2) LoR lv1 art

Second image promo art that appears on patch notes sometimes

Barring one outlier (the key art) we can agree she is mostly depicted with some sort of hard plate scaling on her chest? So put a bit more emphasis on her being somewhat flat-chested, it will make more sense if Tah ever posts any writing referring to Shyvana's chest/pecs.

also she doesn't have external genitals but anyway this is just relevant for Tah's Kinktober collection

During her stay in Bilgewater, Shyvana wears mostly casual garb appropriate for the region, so attire such as this, with digitigrade style boots/sleeves (things like this) for traversing around the city with. Would you roam Bilgewater without some sort of footwear? I didn't think so.

Post-Harrowing many of those under Viego's possession retain some sort of visual indicator of what he did to them. Often this can be a streak of white hair left behind from their possessed form. For Sarah, she has a bold splash of white near her left temple. Shyvana bears one near the nape of her neck.

These are actually not too important in the long run, but immediately following the Harrowing and for Sarah's case especially, they are marks of betrayal and distrust. It leaves Sarah largely stuck at home and unable to conduct business as normal in Bilgewater proper for some time because its citizens are too volatile and it's better to just allow time for things to settle down and not rile them up further.

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Shyvana finds her way to Bilgewater as a result of the intense distrust Demacians hold for her after the incident with Viego. She arrives as a sort of political refugee, Jarvan having petitioned to Sarah for her safety while Demacia struggles to restabilize. Many in Demacia want to see Shyvana permanently imprisoned or worse for her role in Viego's Ruination, and so Jarvan privately sends a missive to Sarah seeking asylum for Shyvana until it's safe for her to return.

Bilgewater isn't exactly the optimal choice but realistically there aren't too many people Jarvan can approach about "hey can you potentially host the half dragon that was involved in that disastrous near cataclysmic event we all just went through recently?" What with having been involved as well, Sarah understands. As previously noted, Sarah herself also faces an elevated level of distrust for her among Bilgewater denizens, resulting in her delegating affairs mostly from her own residence with Rafen's assistance.

Given that Sarah is for the most part stuck in her own home, you could say she's... experiencing a bit of boredom. This winds up being part of why she agrees to Jarvan's request, like okay, sure, send the dragon over, it couldn't end up being any worse for me than it is right now. A temporary housemate could give her something else to focus on. Both Shyvana and Sarah are initially told this could be months at most (but stabilization and rebuilding in Demacia takes longer than Jarvan anticipated so this ends up being over a year).

Sarah and Shyvana both suffer trauma from Viego's possession. Reminded of the cold, dark grip of the Mist, neither finds sleep easy to come by. While Viego may be gone, in some respects part of Sarah and Shyvana's minds are still trapped in the Harrowing, fearing that they could abruptly become aware that they are still possessed, that Viego was never defeated. They can't trust themselves, and they can't trust others. Being somewhat of a soldier and having the extended endurance of being half-dragon, Shyvana is able to make do with what little bits of rest she can catch. Sarah meanwhile is running on empty.

Exhaustion eats at her, she hasn't slept other than periods of time her body simply gives out, and she knows she can't deal with this for much longer. For the first few nights after Shyvana comes to Bilgewater, she lays awake listening to Sarah wandering restlessly through the villa. Only by sheer coincidence does Sarah (and Shyvana shortly after) find any sleep, abruptly passing out in Shyvana's grip after venting her frustrations in a fit of exhausted delirium. Realizing the following morning that she fell asleep at all, she latches onto a theory. It's silly, she realizes as she relays it to Shyvana, but so far it's the only lead she's got. If the terror of the Mist's cold embrace is what keeps her awake, would Shyvana's inherent warmth combat that? Could she rest without waking in fear that she's still controlled by the Mist? Shyvana doesn't mind entertaining this theory; if one of them can sleep at all she'll consider it beneficial. Being human though, Sarah gives off comparatively little body heat, unlike the elevated body temperature of a half-dragon.

Something something "there was only one bed" trope, except make it "we are deeply traumatized and sharing a bed out of necessity so we may feasibly get some rest and feel comforted by the warmth we give each other, otherwise the sleep exhaustion will eventually end us." So this mutual bed sharing frames much of how their relationship develops in the months following, because it's awfully hard to literally sleep with someone and not come to get to know them and grow close to them.

The closeness is not really a problem, until one Sarah Fortune abruptly realizes that her typical casual flirting is decidedly crossing into more... genuine territory, though thankfully Shyvana is seemingly oblivious, which was fine up until "oh gods am I pining." Add to her later mortification the fact Shyvana liked her as well but just assumed the flirting didn't mean anything since people don't typically like her and Sarah is a notorious flirt anyway, so she just kinda humoured it and inadvertently led Sarah to think she wasn't interested. Finally realizing their feelings are mutual though, the two do agree to trying a romantic relationship.

I know Kat's tattoo and scar are backwards, Shyvana's LoR key art is just goofy looking and looks worse flipped, accept it for the aesthetic

So with setting up Sarah and Shyvana out of the way, we move to Katarina and Shyvana. These two inherently cannot be a thing without developing Sarah and Shyvana first. All of this is set up with background Sarah/Kat; they have known each other for some years, and Kat is known to drop by Bilgewater on occasion in her downtime. They deny being anything more than friends with benefits at best, which.. will change later lol. But Sarah/Shyv is important because the relationship Sarah has with Shyvana affects a lot of how Kat treats her afterward, and Sarah's trust for Kat is what drives Shyvana to in turn pay more attention to Kat and regard her favourably later. Sarah's encouragement of Shyvana embracing her draconic nature rather than forcing herself to be more human is also a large part of what later sparks Kat's interest.

Since Sarah will never know ahead of time when Kat decides to pop by, the first time she does so while Shyvana is staying in Bilgewater goes quite.. disastrously, to say the least. The two have no respect for one another, and squabble frequently. Try as she might to put the presence of an infamous Noxian assassin currently in the house with her out of mind, Shyvana realizes that Kat does certain things with deliberate intent to rile her up. Several days of this is enough for Sarah finally to snap.

Snippet courtesy of Tah. (THIS IS OUTDATED NOW I THINK BUT YOU GET THE IDEA)

Kat is content to take "be silent" to heart and just ignore Shyvana outright. She has no reason to play nice with a good little loyal Demacian. As far as she's concerned, there's nothing to be said between them that wouldn't get her angry. She does question Sarah as to why she cares so much of this little fling of hers, which Sarah regards with some confusion. It's certainly not a fling, and in fact, Sarah may not even be around now if Shyvana hadn't come to her when she did. The long period of sleep deprivation had been taking its toll on her, and she had been very much near the end of her rope.

Listening to how fondly Sarah speaks of the half-dragon, it is with great horror that Kat realizes she had been wrong about certain assumptions (namely telling Shyvana that she was nothing more than a toy Fortune would eventually tire of) and she has to make an apology (largely for Sarah's sake, of course). While not.. impressed by this debacle, Kat apologizing at all (and seemingly in great pain doing so) does leave Shyvana curious and she decides maybe there is something to her after all.

The two don't inherently get along after this but over the months they warily regard each other and come to find a sort of kinship in both being disillusioned soldiers, that neither is the mindless loyal soldier that the other thought. Being in neutral ground at Sarah's residence and finding common ground with each other, gradually they relax around one another. Kat's visitations no longer puts Shyvana on guard, and Shyvana's presence is one Kat accepts without ridicule. Sarah could not ask for a better outcome! With this slowburning friendship of sorts the two start to develop, Shyvana realizes that when she thinks about the things she has learned over the months, there is certainly more to Kat that interests her.

She likes her, in fact.

It's a simple thought, and Shyvana chews on it for a while. Kat intrigues her, provides a good sparring partner and is clearly physically attractive but if Shyvana approaches this carelessly then Kat could very well rebuff her instantly. So she waits patiently. She lets their relationship, both the budding one between herself and Kat and the three way one with Sarah, flow naturally, until one day seeking advice from Sarah on the prospect of potentially courting Kat.

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It really is hard to condense months worth of discussion and character exploration into a single post but this sure is an attempt. There is so much more we have discussed but also like... ultimately this is our big headcanon playground we have built up, this thing is essentially our baby there will be one of those too

. When the Kat/Shyv aspect forms, it in turn drives Sarah and Kat to accepting there is more between them than they've ever allowed themselves to think. It's a very slow process of the three of them, each with their own baggage and hang ups, learning to slowly trust one another with the pieces of themselves they can't entrust to anyone else.

This has been absolute HELL for me to type up but if anyone else enjoys it then worth ✌

Tah's currently posted works involving this pair:

Manicure - Sarah/Shyvana, Teen+

My Favorite Most Dangerous Fascination - Misc pairings, Explicit, Kinktober (slow updates but planned Kat/Shyv and Sarah/Kat/Shyv at a later date) (MAYBE)

I HAVE FINALLY UPDATED THIS 13 JUN 2023 WITH SOME OTHER STUFF WAHOO

Morning Routine - Sarah/Shyana, Teen+

Redolent of Romance - Misc, Teen+, Twitter prompt drabbles

Animal Oddity - Sarah/Shyvana, Mature, THE BIG ONE THE MAIN EVENT THE LONGFIC (Chapter 2 up!) ✨✨✨

Miscellaneous tidbits that are not chronological:

While Shyvana may be called Ana by some Demacians like Jarvan and the Dragonguard, Sarah and others call her Shyv. Rather region appropriate because a shiv is also a homemade knife, and Bilgewater isn't lacking those

Bilgewater simply does not care in regard to Shyvana being half-dragon. They have fish and reptile people and all manner of oddities, Shyvana is frankly just another day of the week. It's something that surprises her initially, being so used to being regarded unfavourably in Demacia simply for existing, though she understandably comes to find it a relief.

Sarah likes braiding trinkets into Shyvana's hair, including ones bearing her own crest. She's not claiming Shyvana, what makes you think that

Stretching dragon peets

Shyvana tends to workout and do some personal training sessions in the morning to stay in shape since she's not on duty for the time being.

Kat and Shyvana's first spar was Kat looking to prove a point and getting her ass handed to her. While a bit shameful (Kat is Not Immune to strong buff women!), it's been a long while since either had had a strong opponent so sparring becomes a habit when Kat drops by. Which she also complains about because she is also off duty, Fortune your dragon is making me work 🙄

Sarah took one look at Shyvana's Dragonguard armour once and laughed her ass off. Oh hun, no, who made this, you're better off just relying on your natural dragon scale. She later had some more appropriate styled armour made. She has her own forge and has a better eye for metalwork than.. whatever that red mess was.

While the Sentinels event never happened here, the skirmish between Shyvana and Vayne did in some aspect, and Shyvana retains some scarring from Vayne's bolts that sometimes ache with incoming bad weather.

Shyvana does make periodic visits back to Bilgewater when she returns to Demacia, and she and Sarah exchange letters while they are apart. Curiously she experiences feelings of homesickness despite being home and it takes her a while to realize that sometimes home is not necessarily the place you live, but the person you love. (Sarah is absolutely NOT acknowledging the deep pining she was struck with after Shyvana left, Rafen will say it was quite sad and pathetic to watch though) This eventually leads to Shyvana making arrangements to relocate to Bilgewater as a sort of ambassador.

Sarah has several pets: a three-legged cat named Scurvy, a spectral shark named Atlas, and a spiderling (roughly the size of a housecat) named Mila. Mila is one of Elise's spiders and is part of... an entirely different can of worms I'll have to explain sometime 😭 but she grew on Sarah. Sarah knows when they've spotted a fly because both cat and spiderling will sit together watching patiently. (GUESS WHAT RUINED KING SAYS MY HC OF ELISE SOMETIMES HUNTING IN BILGEWATER IS VALID THO)

Some years down the line and through the aid of some magics that took a lot of work to find, the three have a daughter together named Adeline Fortune. Addie bears genetics and characteristics of all three of her mothers; it's a fantasy world, don't think too hard about it.

#League of Legends #Miss Fortune #Shyvana #Katarina du Couteau #drops my 'half dragon and her two feral redheads' agenda #also rafen is gay #i'm going to be honest i'm mostly putting this on tunglr for tah #anyway i spent a century on this and the post editor is so different to me help #guess what tag i can add to this now #gunblaze #emberlotus #edited 13 jun 2023 #the only thing i added was tah fic everything else is still my ugly original post

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Monthly Fic Roundup - March 2022

ok HEY so i started doing this monthly fic roundup thing on twitter of my fav fics posted each month but now i've decided to shift it here, also thought it would be a good idea to crosspost march's here.

— all the patience that i've got (it's not enough to save me) by exd1t info: gen | complete | 2.3k tags: AU: high school, fluff, ambiguous ending, whipped dream

— Strangers; We Fall In Love With by everthoughtful info: gen | complete | 5.4k words tags: AU: not streamers, living with a stranger, fake relationship

— sunlight and soil by miamango info: teen | complete | 19.5k tags: AU: Kiki's delivery service, cats!karlnap, witch george, fluff, getting together, strangers to lovers

— A Montage Of Our Love by BirbWatcher info: teen | complete | 27.4k tags: AU, Exes to Lovers, chef dream, photographer george

— All Of Our Memories Ahead by BirbWatcher info: teen | complete | 70k tags: AU: soulmates, Red string of fate, canon compliant, side karlnap

— you sunshine, you temptress by reydays info: teen | complete | 1.8k tags: AU: college, meet-cute, fluff, dream is so whipped

— falling into you by effervescentwolf info: teen | complete | 13.7k words tags: himbo dream, oblivious dream, idiots in love, fluff, domestic

— Tying you to me by summerchai info: teen | complete | 9.8k words tags: knitting, the sweater curse, domestic, 3+1

— Give Me Your Attention by BirbWatcher info: teen | complete | 14.7k tags: AU: neighbors, cuddling, sickfic, domestic, strangers to lovers

— Je te laisserai des mots (I'll leave you words) by ShiloBarns info: mature | incomplete | 2/? tags: AU: historical, AU: World War ll, American fighter pilot dream, French george

— Revivescere by 24notfound info: mature | incomplete tags: AU, h/c, domestic fluff, minor character death, angst w happy ending

— incisors by angelbeachcat info: mature | complete | 2.7k tags: AU: not famous, fwb, complicated relationship, hopeful ending

— Any Stranger I Choose by softdaydreaming info: mature | incomplete | 1/? | 4.2k tags: AU: non famous x famous, one night stand, fake dating, clothes sharing, flirting

— primadonna by ploobies info: mature | incomplete tags: AU: college, cheerleader george, football player dream, george wears dream's letterman, enemies to lovers

— boys and girls and punctuation by ffnppnOF info: mature | complete | 7.5k tags: AU: high school, genderqueer george, supportive dream, he/they prns for george, gender dysphoria

— waiting room by apriltodeath info: explicit | complete | 12.6k tags: h/c, sick george, domestic fluff, hair washing, blowjobs, fluff and angst

— I've Never Fallen From Quite This High by consciousness_streaming info: explicit | incomplete tags: discussions of divorce (not dnf), slow burn, sharing a bed, showering together, rimming

— Astrophile by flameonfire info: explicit | incomplete tags: AU: college, strangers to lovers, first dates, fluff, astronomy

— Love (Loving) in the Field by moggroze info: explicit | complete | 17.1k tags: AU: modern setting, break up, reunion, reunion sex, angst w a happy ending

— asmr by validvali info: explicit | complete | 5.8k tags: AU: college, asmr artist george, insomnia, first time, size kink, voice kink, blowjobs, handjobs, anal sex

i dont have one for april lol i have way too busy with this blog but ill maybe do one soon

#monthly fic roundup #march 2022 #dnfao3tags recs #multiple writers

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On NeoScum, and the end of things

(crossposted from my website)

Three and a half years ago I started listening to a podcast called NeoScum.

I picked it up on a whim. I had just been thinking shortly before that I wanted to get into some new podcasts (a rare occurrence for me) and I saw some people reccing actual plays on twitter. I'm burnt out on typical fantasy these days so NeoScum immediately stood out to me. I thought it looked interesting. I've been burned before by cool media turning out to be made by shitty people so I flick through the cast's twitters real quick and I think, huh, okay, they look like good people, let's give this a shot.

A year later I'm in Chicago with my best friend, sliding off my seat laughing at Gannon Reedy's post-interlude piece at the final Doing Drugs and Dying In Space Ritual, having just spent five hours commandeering a Raising Cane's with a gang of other NeoScum fans.

I found NeoScum at a time when I was kind of drifting. I didn't really have a community that I was part of, having jumped ship on my previous one for reasons I won't go into here. I was kinda into some of Polygon's stuff but nothing really had me hooked. NeoScum grabbed me by the throat and tabled me. I binged the whole thing as fast as possible and then, because I have autism brain, proceeded to listen to the whole series again, and again, on repeat, at least six or seven times, I think.

(Thus was born the famous NeoScum plot map - I couldn't help but try to make connections and figure out who was working with who, where the next big reveal would be, which trap Gannon would spring next. My brain absorbed all the information like a sponge and I needed to visualise it to be able to keep track of it, and it wound up being helpful not just for me, but for the cast themselves.)

NeoScum has, obviously, had a huge impact on me as a creative. I'm a very visual person and Gannon provides such vivid cinematic descriptions, helped along by Casey's incredible audio work--it's impossible for me not to want to interpret the events of the podcast as visual art. And because I'm always thinking "what if" and dropping my favourite characters into Situations, that spawned Aubrey, who took on an unexpected life of her own--having initially been intended as a one-off throwaway character, if you can believe it--and the whole Transitverse, which is now arguably my most prolific project to date. Gannon and Blair between them have set up this fascinating (and horrific) backstory and there's so much potential still to be mined from it through the perspectives of other characters. I hope they don't mind me borrowing and expanding on it, because for me, it feels like the meat of the Transitverse has only just begun; the end of NeoScum S1 is just flinging open the doors for me to unleash a story I've been working on behind the scenes for literally years now, and I can't wait to share it.

I remember when I started entertaining the idea of visiting the US... it was like 3am and it was during one of Casey's streams back when he was streaming Control and Kingdom Hearts a lot. I was looking at GenCon pics and thinking how much fun it would be to attend and I was like lol... what if... and then it turned out flights to Chicago were WAY CHEAPER than I anticipated, and MBMBaM were doing a show in Chicago in the fall, and completely coincidentally I discovered that I'd be there just long enough to go to DDADIS too. I'm so glad I ran with that impulse and went on that trip because it's one of the best things I've ever done in my life. I got to meet so many of the amazing people I've come to know through NeoScum, I got to visit my best friend, I got to see an amazing city (that I'm desperate to return to), and I don't think I've ever laughed harder in my life than I have while I was there. It was incredible.

NeoScum has cultivated one of the most thoughtful and caring communities I've ever had the pleasure of being a part of. It's home to some wildly talented people, wildly funny people, and multiple times I've watched it pull together to help out community members in times of need. I've been part of communities that pledged similar values on paper but struggled and/or openly failed to adhere to them in practice and to see this community manage to maintain this degree of kindness and respect, both for one another and for the people who make the show, is so rare and so refreshing.

I'm gonna miss NeoScum while they're on hiatus. Even though I know this isn't the end forever, and there'll still be gaidens in the interim, these characters have been very dear to me for the past few years. Other people have already said it and maybe it's a cliche sentiment, but it feels like I'm saying goodbye to beloved friends without knowing if or when I'll see them again. But the end of this story was so kind to them, in contrast with the hell they've been through, and I'm glad for that. And maybe they'll be back! Whatever happens, I'm glad I decided to hit play on that first episode that first time. NeoScum set my life on a new course and launched me out of a catapault along it. I'm gonna enjoy the gaidens, and catch up on all of the art I've wanted to make while NeoScum prime has been running that I haven't been able to make because new episodes have immediately overwritten the old ideas with new ones, and I can't wait to see what comes next.

Thanks for everything. 💙

#talks #neoscum

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hiljaisuudesta · 3 years

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Blog Tag

@valkblue tagged me to answer a couple of questions about this blog, thank you :)

1. Why did you choose your url? I was listening to this album of the same name and decided to go with it. The title just spoke to me and I don't think I've ever changed the name of any of my blogs, so I am not very likely to do that now.

2. Any side blogs? Ah yes, this here is actually the youngest of my blogs. Still got my portfolio, a nature blog and one fairly inactive one for own written stuff. I'm definitely most active on here now though.

3. How long have you been on tumblr? My first post was in December 2010, so yeah, that's over a decade now. Man. Time really flies by, doesn't it. Though it does feel like I started that blog in a different life.

4. Do you have a queue tag? Not even using a queue on here, but even of the blog that runs almost exclusively on queue, I don't use a special tag for that, no.

5. Why did you start your blog in the first place? The first blog I started as a portfolio, to share my photography and artwork projects. This one here was always intended as a personal one where I pay absolutely no attention to certain "themes" or aesthetics and keep things more intimate.

6. Why did you choose your icon/pfp? It's Death showing his most friendly face, and I chose him because... he's somewhat adorable? The image is taken from the Carthusian Miscellany, I just made some changes to it.

7. Why did you choose your header? Well, I added a wonderful painting by Tove Jansson as a background to my icon, so why not use this one as a header as well?

8. What’s your post with the most notes? Apparently it's this post about the most German graffiti imaginable... well, it's missing the bread, but apart from that.

9. How many mutuals do you have? I don't know, but around 15 may be a good guess, I think? At least those I interact with every now and then.

10. How many followers do you have? 220, but about 90% are either inactive or pornbots, as it seems. 🤷‍♂️

11. How many people do you follow? 228, though many of those are blogs with movie caps, crossposts from history websites, etc, so it doesn't really feel like following... people.

12. Have you ever made a shitpost? Isn't every personal post a shitpost? But yeah, that's basically why I made this blog, to post and reblog whatever shitpost I like.

13. How often do you use Tumblr each day? Actually quite a lot again lately, because of people and inspiration, in a way? And out of habit, can't deny that.

14. Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Not willingly at least. I really am not a person that enjoys fighting or arguing in any way, I'm quite in need of harmony actually.

15. How do you feel about ��you need to reblog this” posts? I'm reblogging whatever I want to reblog, so this kind of comment really doesn't have any effect on me.

16. Do you like tag games? Sure! I am pretty slow on doing them sometimes (still got a few in my drafts from weeks ago?), but it's usually fun. Though more often than not I have no idea who to tag, because apparently my bubble on here is pretty much the same as most of my mutuals' and they already tagged everyone else. 😅

17. Do you like ask games? Usually I do not reblog these, but yeah, sure, they can be fun!

18. Which of your mutuals do you think is Tumblr famous? How would you even notice someone is? Can you even be? Unless your posts reach the surface and are being passed around on Twitter or something? But even then, does it even matter? I don't think so.

19. Do you have a crush on a mutual? Look, I'm blessed to be surrounded by so many wonderful people on here and I appreciate that a huge lot.

Hey, if you feel like answering these too, I'll tag @wvnjo, @hilema, @on-a-ravens-wing, @haraldrharfagri, @itriedtoescape, @the-raven-that-refused-to-sing, @winterinveins and @skyforgesteel

#tagged

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skateboardtotheheart · 3 years

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Sticky Note Love

The long-awaited PART THREE of my Nick/Pretty Lacrosse Boy(aka Tyler Doyle) fics! You can read parts one and two HERE on AO3, or search “Slow On The Uptake” and “Varsity Letter Jackets” on my blog!

Thank you so much to everyone who has been enjoying my silly little extremely niche ship of Nick and some random, pretty extra on the show. These two bring me an insane amount of joy and I’m so happy you guys are feeling it too. For some bonus content, check out @zendrella and my Twitter AU, where Tyler and Nick are included!! This fic is being crossposted to AO3, just like the others, so you can read it there if you’d like- click here!

SUMMARY: Nick and Tyler and officially dating, and both of them are convinced they’ve never been happier. Over the first month of their relationship, Nick keeps finding lime green sticky notes- on and in his locker, in his textbooks, even in his house. Each one is signed by his boyfriend, and Nick isn’t sure he’s ever going to stop smiling.

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Neither Nick nor Tyler were sure their first date could have gone any worse.

Tyler had texted Nick about five minutes before he was supposed to pick him up that he'd be late; one of his dogs had puked all over the shoes Tyler had been wearing, so he'd had to clean that up, clean the mess that hadn't made it on his shoes, and then Tyler spent about five minutes rummaging through the closet or a different pair of shoes until he just gave up and took a pair that belonged to Dylan. When he'd finally made it to the Danforth-Evans residence, Nick had come out of the house sparkling. Literally. Arabella had decided to throw an impromptu princess party, it seemed, and had thrown some glitter over Nick as "good luck"- Tyler didn't have as many complaints as Nick over that, though; he looked really pretty. Then there was the poor waitress with a full tray who had gotten tripped by a toddler running away from their parents and had spilled almost half of the tray right onto Nick. Nick, in his surprise at the sudden lap full of salad and cool drink running down his shirt, had bumped the table hard enough to topple some of their food off of it and onto Tyler instead. The entire evening seemed to be one mishap after another. Low gas in Tyler's car, a wrong turn in Hollywood that got them stuck in traffic, Nick having a moment of panic as he realized he'd completely forgotten an important homework assignment due the next day. By all accounts, it was an awful first date.

But the entire time, they never ran out of things to talk about, kept trading shy but happy smiles, and gently held hands as they waited for traffic to finally move. The night had ended with Tyler walking Nick to his front door, both of them laughing at everything that had gone wrong. It ended with a hug neither of them wanted to let go of because the other was warm, and smelled nice, and holding them comfortably, and it just felt right. It ended with Tyler whispering good night in Nick's ear before pulling away from the hug and pressing a light kiss to Nick's cheek, face tomato red as he promised to text Nick later. It ended with Nick being too impatient for Tyler to text him that as soon as he was up in his room, he was shooting off a good night text to thank Tyler for a nice- albeit disastrous- evening. It ended with a promise that this wasn't the only date for them.

It only took one more date before Tyler kissed his lips instead, leaving both of them a giggling mess as hands rested on cheeks and ran through hair. It took three dates total before Nick called Tyler his boyfriend for the first time. Nick didn't think he'd ever see Tyler smile wider than when he'd heard the word come from Nick's mouth, and the rest of his sentence got derailed as Tyler kissed him instead. The kiss had been more smiles than anything, but it had both their stomachs doing flips and their hearts fluttering heavily but happily.

It was the day after that the notes started. Nick hadn’t been expecting it, and he’d blushed so hard that first time he was sure that his entire body temperature must have risen. It was the morning after Nick had called Tyler his boyfriend, that they’d made the relationship official, and Nick found the first note stuck to the metal door of his locker. It was a lime green sticky note, the shade Nick knew his boyfriend’s favorite color to be. It stood out against the blue of his locker, and it was bright enough that Nick had been able to spot it from the other end of the hallway. He approached his locker with confusion at the bright green, glancing around to see if anyone else's locker had also been branded with some type of note. When it became evident that it was just his own, Nick frowned a little, finally reaching his locker. His backpack hung off his arm as he reached out, pulling off the folded in half note stuck to the metal. Nick unfolded the little piece of paper, finding himself smiling almost immediately at the black pen scrawled across the lime green.

I can’t believe I get to call you my boyfriend. I don’t think I’m gonna stop smiling all day. See you at lunch, handsome ♡ -T

Nick could feel the heat under his skin rising up his neck and onto his cheeks, and he smiled goofily down at the piece of paper in his hand. It made his cheeks hurt, eyes squinted so that it was almost difficult to see. He’d been floating on cloud nine since last night, his steps feeling lighter and a hum following him around the house this morning that had his fathers watching him with raised eyebrows and small, knowing grins. Tyler made Nick’s heart skip beats and his stomach flutter and his head spin. He could honestly say he’d never felt like this before- not when he was dating Carrie, not during that brief stint when he’d had a crush on Julie, never. Tyler was just. . . special.

Amazing.

And he was Nick’s boyfriend.

He knew Tyler was just as excited as himself that their relationship was official now, but being able to see it written out in this little note, seeing a little drawn heart and Tyler calling him handsome, was something so comforting and happiness inducing. Nick wasn’t sure how long he stood at his own locker, just reading over the note again and again, but was shocked out of his reverie by the warning bell alarming overhead, letting students know classes started in three minutes. Nick was quick to tuck the note into his pocket, sorting through what he needed and depositing the rest in his locker. He had four classes before lunch, and Nick was sure he’d spent more time staring at the note from Tyler than he did paying any attention to his teachers.

During their shared music class, Carrie had nudged him, a question in her eyes. Nick had just smiled and shrugged, not quite willing to tell her about the note, but Carrie had glanced down at the paper then taken one look at the lovestruck smile on his face before rolling her eyes fondly. When Nick finally did reach lunch, the only time during school that he and Tyler really saw each other, he found that he’d beaten his boyfriend there. At their usual table were a few others from the lacrosse team, but the seat in which Tyler usually sat was still vacant. Nick, only slightly disappointed by the lack of his boyfriend in the lunchroom, sat down at the empty seat next to Tyler’s, greeting their teammates Cameron, Jack, and Adam as he did so. Just as Nick was pulling out his phone, to check if Tyler had texted him, he felt arms wrap around his shoulders and a chin rest on top of his head. Nick smiled at the feeling, grasping Tyler’s hands in his own and looking up at the awkward angle to meet his boyfriend’s eyes.

Tyler smiled down at him, looking blushy and almost nervous. Removing his arms from around Nick, Tyler sat on the lunch table bench. Tyler leaned into Nick’s space once more, pressing a feather light kiss to his cheek and whispering, just loud enough for the two of them to hear, “Hey, handsome.”

Nick blushed at the clear reference to the note Tyler had left him this morning, and at the clear display of affection. They hadn’t quite figured out their comfortability with PDA yet, only venturing into holding hands so far, but Nick was filled with warmth at the action, leaning over to bump Tyler’s shoulder with his own.

“Thanks for the note,” Nick responded as a greeting, to which Tyler ducked his head down and smiled.

“So you liked it?”

“He’s been staring at it all day,” Jack sold him out with a snort. Nick spun his head around to glare at his teammate, mouthing “traitor” at him. Jack was in three of the classes Nick had gone to this morning, and much like Carrie, had tried to ask what had him so distracted. All the lacrosse boys that they ate lunch with knew the two of them had been going out on dates so when Jack had seen Nick enraptured with a little sticky note, had jokingly asked if he’d received a love letter from Tyler. Apparently Nick’s blush had been enough of an answer because Jack had let out a surprised laugh at his correct guess, then turned back to his work. Tyler, however, looked pleased at Jack’s words, flashing a smile of thanks to their teammate before looking back to Nick.

“Good to know,” he said softly, bumping Nick’s knee under the table.

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The notes stuck both to and slipped inside his locker continued. Nick found them in the morning before classes, during the day, and after school before lacrosse practice. They weren’t there every day, but over the past three weeks, Nick had amassed a pretty good collection of lime green sticky notes, black ink across them. Some were sappy and cute, like that first one had been.

I “borrowed” Dylan’s year pass to the mini golf place. You, me, a few windmills- what do you say?? I’ll pick you up at 6 ♡ -T

My mom asked “how’s your boyfriend doing” last night and holy crap I love hearing that word -T

I can’t believe I let you wear my letter jacket today YOU LOOK SO CUTE AND IT’S HARD TO FOCUS -T

Some were more simple, just little messages that Tyler thought would make Nick smile when he saw them.

Good luck on your test today!! -T

Say hi to Arabella for me when you get home :) -T

Just so you know- I parked in the east lot today instead of the west. See you after school! -T

Each one had Nick feeling on top of the word, smiling at them and then carefully placing them in a folder to take home with him later. At lunch or after school, Nick would plant a kiss on Tyler’s cheek in silent thanks for the notes.

Today Nick and Tyler were at the Danforth-Evans house after school, hanging out to study, maybe watch a movie. They’d awkwardly passed by Nick’s parents lounging on the couch together, Nick practically dying in embarrassment as his father had called after them that the bedroom door had to stay open. Tyler had the nerve to laugh at his boyfriend’s flushed cheeks and groan of annoyance, earning him a light slap against the arm as they made their way to Nick’s bedroom.

Tyler had never been in here before, and a smile graced his features as he stepped inside. Nick gave him silent permission to wander around the room, looking at whatever he wanted, while Nick moved to sit on the pale green comforter of his bed. He watched as Tyler admired the three guitars sitting in the corner of his room- the bubblegum pink electric sitting proudly in the front- and smiled at the lacrosse stick pinned above the closet door.

"Are these. . ." Tyler began asking, fascinated by something on Nick's dresser. "Are these my sunglasses?"

At the finished question, Nick felt heat rise up his neck. Tyler turned around to face him, holding up a pair of blue glasses with black tinted lenses. It was the pair Tyler had loaned him after Nick had gotten a concussion and the sunlight was too bright for his headache. Tyler must have taken Nick's silence as answer enough, because he let out a laugh as he looked down to the sunglasses in his hand.

"I didn't even realize you'd kept them," Tyler's voice was quiet, pitched slightly higher. Nick thought he could see a smile on his boyfriend's lips.

"Y-yeah, well, they, um. They reminded me of you, so, yeah," Nick rambled out, not quite looking at Tyler. Tyler looked up at him, an almost glassy look in his eyes.

"Sorry, is that- is that weird to tell you?" Nick asked, cringing a little as Tyler turned around to set the sunglasses back in their place on his dresser. He heard Tyler laugh quietly as he turned back around, taking the few steps over to the bed to stand in front of where Nick stood.

"No, it's not weird," Tyler picked up one of Nick's hands, twining their fingers together. Nick gave a small tug, signalling Tyler to sit down next to him. "I think it's kinda cute. I mean, you really kept them because it made you think of me?"

Tyler was blushing too now, a layer of awe in his voice like he couldn't believe anyone would ever do something like that. It made Nick think that maybe Tyler had no idea he’d been keeping those lime green slips of paper, either. Nick squeezed Tyler's hand, bumping their shoulders together.

"Well, it's not everyday the cutest guy you've ever seen drives you to urgent care. Gotta remember the occasion somehow," Nick's voice had teasing laced through it, but he knew the sincerity shown through by the way Tyler smiled brightly down at their joint hands.

"Plus," Nick continued, "don't know if you heard, but even before you were my boyfriend- I was kind of embarrassingly into you."

Nick wasn't sure Tyler ever looked prettier than when he was smiling, shades of pink on his cheeks. Nick could write a set of notes as big as the ones he’d received from Tyler dedicated solely to how pretty his boyfriend was.

"Don't tell your boyfriend I told you this," Tyler started, "but he'd been trying to get the courage to ask you out for a year before you beat him to it."

Tyler sounded shy and quiet, keeping his eyes trained on their joint hands. Nick stared at him with surprise, his mouth opened slightly.

"You never told me that."

A year? Tyler had liked him for a year before they started dating? It filled Nick with warmth along with the surprise.

"Just want you to know that being embarrassingly into each other goes both ways."

When Tyler finally looked at him, with the blush still on his cheeks and a shy look in his eyes, Nick couldn't stop himself from leaning forward to kiss him. He kept it short, aware of the wide open door, but didn't resist when Tyler put a hand on the back of his neck, pulling him back for another, slightly longer kiss. When they pulled back, smiling to each other, Nick scooted closer to Tyler on the bed, resting his head on his boyfriend's shoulder.

"Since I guess we're doing romantic confessions today. . ." Nick started, making Tyler laugh, "I don't think I'm ever gonna get tired of kissing you."

Tyler let out a high pitched whine, almost like a squeak, tensing as he covered his face with his free hand.

"Damn it, Nick, you can't just say stuff like that!"

Nick picked his head off Tyler's shoulder, laughing at his blushing boyfriend's expense.

"I thought I'd stop constantly blushing around you now that we're dating, but it's your goal to prove me wrong, isn't it?"

"T, all you need to do is look at me to make me blush. Pretty sure we're on even playing ground."

He could see Tyler smiling from below the hand still covering his face. Nick peeled the hand away, holding that one in his own as well. He retook his position with his head on his boyfriend's shoulder, smiling as he felt Tyler press a kiss into his hair. They didn’t end up getting much studying done or a movie watched in the end. They were mindful of the open door, though, so they fell back onto the bed, laying next to each other and talking, laughing, trading soft kisses back and forth. At one point, Nick got up to use the bathroom, and he came back to Tyler now on the floor, Arabella in his lap with her sparkly purple tutu splayed over his thighs. Tyler had his arms around her middle, speaking lowly to her, giggles filling the room as she nodded along with whatever Nick’s boyfriend had told his little sister. The two of them together was an unfairly adorable sight, Nick decided, and his heart skipped a beat when they both spotted him, matching grins blinding him.

Arabella stayed with them the rest of the time Tyler was over, running between her own room and Nick’s to introduce Tyler to all her favorite toys and bestow her favorite princess crown on Nick’s head. It wasn’t until after Tyler left that evening, having gone home for a family dinner, that Nick found the first note that wasn’t left in his locker. He was grabbing a pair of shorts from his dresser when a familiar lime green caught his eye, stuck to the sunglasses.

I’m never gonna get sick of kissing you either See you in the morning, dork :P -T

PS- tell Ari she’s my fav Danforth-Evans

Nick let out a laugh at the post-script, shaking his head fondly as he moved to grab the old shoebox from under his bed, placing the paper gently in the box along with the rest of the notes. He tucked it closed once more, putting it back in position and heading downstairs to his family.

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As it turned out, the note in his bedroom wasn’t a one time occurrence. When Nick had woken up in the morning, the mirror on the inner door of his closet read out to him:

HOT DAMN- looking good, Danforth-Evans -T

It made Nick laugh to see it, knowing Tyler must have placed it there when Nick had excused himself from the room to use the bathroom last night. The notes he found in other various places around the house for the next few days, however, were a little more confusing.

There were a few more in his room- on his guitar, taped to his headboard, one stuck to his window claiming “no view is better than you xoxo”, and other places he should have noticed them way earlier- one stuck to the coffee pot the next morning claiming that Tyler would be waiting at the school with a latte from that coffee shop Nick loved, one next to his toothbrush in the bathroom. Nick didn’t say anything about the notes magically appearing in his house, but three days in, he rolled his eyes fondly at the lime green paper stuck on the inside of his favorite book, and texted his boyfriend.

Okay I’ll bite

Which one of my family did you bribe to help you with this

i’m sorry i have no idea what you’re talking about

i absolutely did not collude with your sister about leaving you notes and you should be ashamed for even accusing me of that

Nick couldn’t stop the laugh that escaped him at his boyfriend’s text, a warmth filling his chest at the idea of Tyler and Arabella interacting. He remembered the conspiratorial smirks on his boyfriend and sister’s faces when he’d come back from the bathroom the other day.

So if I go talk to Ari right now she’ll have no clue what I’m talking about?

bold of you to assume she would ever give me up nick danforth-evans i’m totally her favorite now

Carrie is and always will be her favorite but I’m loving the enthusiasm

Sure enough, though, when Nick knocked on his little sister’s door- interrupting a tea party with her stuffed animals and a number of Nick’s old Hot Wheels toys- asking her about the appearance of the lime green notes, she just burst into giggles. Not an actual word to say that it was Tyler, just gave him a cheeky smile and told him to close his eyes. Nick rolled his eyes, but agreed, and opened them again when he felt an adhesive on his forehead and the tickling of paper on his nose. He stuck his tongue out at Arabella for sticking the note on his forehead, which set her off giggling once again, and pulled it off.

Told Ari to give you this one when you inevitably figure it out. She’s surprisingly sneaky for a 7yo. Give her a hug for me as thanks for helping?? Hope you enjoyed our little conspiracy ♡ -T

Nick hugged Arabella tightly, placing the note gently in his pocket until he could put it with the rest. He joined his sister in her tea party, a wide smile on his face he wasn’t sure he’d be able to get rid of if he tried. It was such a silly, little thing for Tyler to be doing over the past month, but Nick loved it. He loved the smile it brought to his own face, and the thoughtfulness from Tyler, and the extra layer of joy surrounding their relationship through the notes. Overtime, the notes never really stopped. They lessened- only to be saved for special occasions or a day when Tyler was feeling particularly sappy- but as always, each one brought a smile to Nick’s face and found a home in his neatly kept shoebox under the bed. They were something to pull out and reread when Nick was having a bad day, when he was feeling sentimental, or for that time Tyler was bed-ridden with the flu for a week and damn, Nick really missed him. And if shortly after they started dating, Nick found that his own favorite color was also becoming lime green, that was no one’s business but his own.

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Thank you so much for reading! I hope you all enjoyed this, and that it rotted your teeth like it did mine. I have the tag list below but let me know if you’d like to be added!

tag list: @zendrella @blackholeunderyourbed @sunsetcurve123 @williexmercer @idontknowimbadatthis

#jatp #julie and the phantoms #fanfiction #nick danforth evans #pretty lacrosse boy #tyler doyle #sacha carlson #ryan mcewan #nick jatp #jatp fic

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katyatalks · 4 years

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sajou no hana [MP100 II Blu-Ray Extras Interview]

Here’s “sajou no hana”’s interview from the Mob Psycho 100 II blu-ray booklet extras. sajou no hana is composed of Sana, Kitani Tatsuya, and Watanabe Shou. The band was behind “99.9”, “Gray” and other songs in MP100 II, and in this interview they discuss their creative process behind each song and their thoughts on MP100;

Q: What were your thoughts upon being commissioned?

Sana; “I participated in the opening of the first season, so I regarded Mob Psycho 100 as a work that allowed me to challenge myself. Being able to participate in the show once again made me so incredibly happy! I remember getting all excited, thinking about how I’d get to see all the fun, unique characters again.”

Kitani; “I’m someone a little estranged from manga & anime. However, Mob Psycho 100 is not only a famous work but has a good reputation among friends my age... so I really felt the pressure. After watching the first season, I felt nothing but pure motivation, though (laughs).”

Q: What instructions were you given by the director and the team?

Shou; “For the opening, we, the director and the music producer shared our individual concepts, whereas with the endings we were given no detailed instructions other than which episodes the songs would be used for. We based writing the songs upon that information. Kitani Tatsuya and I wrote our own ideas for the opening, and upon comparing we realised we had both decided to focus on ‘energy’ and ‘male and female vocals’. With the endings, they’d change depending on the episode, so we decided we’d aim to have those songs be closely related to the emotions of the characters.”

Q: Could you describe the drive behind 99.9?

Sana; “We began that song thinking we’d like to adopt the ‘99’ title from the first season’s opening, and then, ‘let’s make it even more exciting!’ That was the train of thought behind it. I think season 1 carries this powerful individualistic flair, so 99.9 became a song that we wanted to pack full of that. The kind of song that’d have everyone go, ‘Mob Psycho 100 is starting!’, upon hearing it.”

Q: It’s a song that really leaves an impression on you, with that funky slap bass and emotion-filled melody line and vocals. Could you please tell us your thoughts upon watching the completed opening animation?

Kitani; “I could see the insane amount of work that the staff put into it. I was very happy, seeing how intense the opening turned out and how the staff clearly understood the song in detail.”

Q: As for the endings, ‘Gray’, ‘Memosepia’, ‘Mabuta no Ura’, ‘Ikiru Hitobito’, in total you wrote 4 new songs. What concepts lie behind each song?

Shou; “‘Memosepia’ was written with the thought that we’d like to depict Mob’s growth from a past perspective. The insecurity and misery you feel in your heart during that period of youth. ‘Mabuta no Ura’ was written while envisioning a dream - the you that you don’t usually show others, and a sense of misery… I wanted to express that. Feeling jealous of someone else - that emotion is sung straight.”

Kitani; “‘Gray’ was written with the following question at its core: resignation, discouragement, so on… we feel these emotions again and again in our day-to-day lives, but how should we deal with these feelings? The main character, Mob, provides one beautiful answer to this question, which is largely reflected in the lyrics. As for ‘Ikiru Hitobito’, that’s a song about the connections between people. There are some people who flat out reject ‘society’, and others who struggle and compromise in an attempt to fit into it. Communicating with others is hard, but at core it’s an action that holds warmth. That’s what I believe. The song was produced with that in mind.”

Q: ‘Memosepia’ as a song in particular leaves a very strong impression, along with those visuals that pop out. Please tell us your thoughts on the completed outro.

‪Shou; “Yes, the visuals do pop out, but I feel some kind of painful nostalgia when I watch the outro too. I thought of the outro as being something like, Mob looking down at himself from a birds-eye view.”‬

Q: ‘Ikiru Hitobito’ from the final episode is also a charming song, with the lyrics capturing the view of the world that we see in Mob Psycho 100. Where do you feel Mob Psycho 100’s charm comes from?

Sana; “I had a lump in my throat the first time I read the lyrics for ‘Ikiru Hitobito’. I think the ‘connections between people’ theme of Mob Psycho 100 is the most charming part of it. ‪Mob-kun is awkward but grows via his relationships with others, and then many others are charmed by Mob-kun and change, too. I really love the perfect flow in how we see these characters change as a result of that external influence. I think the most charming thing is how Mob Psycho 100 respects different ways of life, and that you, the viewer, are able to change alongside all the characters in watching it.”

Q: What impact do you think your work on Mob Psycho 100 will have on your future music production activities?

Shou; “The characters of Mob Psycho 100 carry all these relatable feelings. As sajou no hana, we write a lot of music about the weakness we all carry in our hearts, so Mob Psycho 100 has become a work that we can obtain a lot of these emotions from.”

Kitani; “You input Mob Psycho 100 - chew it up a bit - and the output is your own interpretation… and with that process, you start to regard the most fundamental aspects of humanity in a new light. All these thoughts and worries I thought I had dealt with in the past have been newly reborn because of Mob Psycho 100. So, off I go again to deal with these problems by writing new songs about them (laughs).”

Q: Finally, a message to the fans, please.

Shou; ”As a fan, I’m happy I could participate in the show! I think it would be nice if when you listen to the songs you remember the anime, and when you watch the anime, the songs flow into your head!”

Kitani; “Sajou no hana as a band is quite childlike in that it’s still forming its identity, so this experience with Mob Psycho 100 will have a large influence with regard to what we become in the future. I hope everyone who got to know us through Mob Psycho 100 will continue to watch over us as we evolve. I look forward to your support.”

Sana; “I feel my love for both the show and the characters has deepened with season 2. We were able to bring many songs into the world of Mob Psycho 100 this time around, so please enjoy them! I’ll be happy if you’re able to apply the lyrics to yourself or to your favourite characters and listen to our songs again and again. I’m looking forward to the future of Mob Psycho 100. I’m supporting it.”

Crossposted on Twitter here.

Part of the MP100 Booklet Extras long-thread, here.

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #sajou no hana #interview #the thoughts on memosepia are lovely and also songs confirmed to be character songs

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paintedrecs · 4 years

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@mad-madam-m tagged me in the “list 5 OTPs from 5 fandoms” meme a couple days ago, which I laughed at her for because (a) she knows my otps FULL WELL (b) our lists are very nearly an exact match (which i am by the way delighted about because half my list right now is full of rare pairs, and I have never before known the hell of treading that landscape alone)

but!

I’m gonna do the meme and double it up as an announcement of what I am currently into and what you’re likely to see on this blog if I start picking up my activity levels a little.

I honestly have no idea how active tumblr is at this point - how many of you are still around, and how many of you I might lose if I start reblogging my other fandoms in addition to Sterek - but after doing a Pillowfort experiment for a while, I think I’ve finally figured out how to use social media again in a way that works better for me.

My old method, before tumblr kinda imploded and fandom got weird (filled with antis and ship hate and constant infighting, ugh why), was to create a separate blog for everything I was into, which is why I have appreciatederek, appreciateshiro, appreciatejack, and...is that it? See, this is why I need to stop scattering myself into a zillion different pieces.

So I’m going to consolidate more (like I do on twitter and now Pillowfort), and also hopefully get back to my fandom roots: digging into more meta, like I did 8 years ago when I first fell in love with Sterek, and posting fic recs, like I also did thanks to Sterek. (And sharing my own fics as I write them. Guess which fandom pushed me down that path, too.)

So it’s fitting that the first ship on this list is...well, an obvious one.

1. STEREK (Teen Wolf)

Y’all know this one. Sterek will always, always be the OTP of my heart. I love their dynamic. I love the creativity and passion of the fandom. I love that they brought my writing back to me and introduced me to so many of you.

I still have dozens of Sterek fic ideas; quite a few of them are partially written or have significant outlines, so at some point I will still be writing them. Life is just, as you know, very busy and very tiring and it’s so hard to fit everything into my days. I’m working on it, I promise.

I’d like to start doing more updates with snippets of my upcoming fics, maybe a lil Q&A if anyone wants to chat about what I’m working on/my thought process behind what I’ve already written/what you’d like to see from me, etc. Interactive fun stuff! Sterek fandom is still the best and most supportive fandom I’ve ever been a part of, and it makes me happy every time I’m reminded we’re all still around and thriving.

And here’s some of the other stuff I’m into right now...

2. XANATOWEN (Gargoyles)

I have been sailing this ship entirely by myself since January, recently joined by the aforementioned M, who also created this gif for me while she was still in the patient “I’m your friend, I will listen to you yelling about this show” stage. (ha ha ha look at her now, that’s what you get)

I’ve been genuinely holding myself back from spamming tumblr with my thoughts about this show and this ship, which I’m beginning to realize is...maybe silly. I’ll still try to keep it a little bit balanced, but you can definitely look forward to more Gargoyles on the horizon, including:

Fics - 30k so far, with another 4.6k that I’m hoping to post this afternoon, after I look over it and decide if I still like it (ha ha fic writing amirite). I also have a fairy tale AU that I’ve done a substantial outline for, so I’d really like to get that underway.

Episode recaps/meta posts - these are currently being posted over on Pillowfort. The goal is to get the last two episodes of Season 1 up there, then to start crossposting them here.

As long as it’s not a gigantic hassle to paste over all the screencaps, because I uh. I have a lot of them. And a lot of thoughts about the show as a whole, but particularly about the relationship between David Xanatos and Owen Burnett: the meta’s currently averaging from about 1.5k to 2.5k per episode, whoooops.

I love them. I love them a LOT. See my meta posts for very detailed explanations as to why.

3. TREVORCARD (Castlevania)

I honestly did not expect to get this deeply invested in this ship. I watched and liked the first two seasons of Castlevania and really enjoyed the dynamic between Trevor and Alucard, but it wasn’t until the lead-up to Season 3 (and then the devastation of how absolutely terrible that season was) that I realized how much I loved these two together.

So now I’m having a very Sterek Fandom moment of “eff you canon, they’re ours now” in regards to Trevorcard.

I’ve written one fic for them - it’s a 20k coffee shop/modern/college/artist/musician AU because they deserve all the fandom tropes and so much happiness together..

I don’t currently have plans to write any more, although if I do, it’ll likely be some sort of neighbors AU with wolf!Alucard, since my vast experience with Sterek fandom has taught me the absolute joys of exploring characters who can canonically turn into a beautiful giant effing wolf.

I’ve also been steadily reading my way through every single Trevorcard fic in the AO3 tag, which unfortunately is only ~200. (HOW is this a rare pair. I will never ever understand it, they’re perfect together, and the animators literally said they intentionally storyboarded moments like the one above with the knowledge that people would start shipping them.)

Once I’ve finished up my AO3 tour, I’m going to compile the ones I enjoyed into rec lists. There are some really wonderful fics in there, and I’m excited to see what the rest are like.

4. TAIBANI (Tiger & Bunny)

I really don’t talk about this ship much, but it’s so immensely close to my heart. I have...so much...official merch of Kotetsu and Barnaby; it makes me happy every single time I see it. If I used my Tiger & Bunny stuff as the standard for what sparks joy during a konmari, the rest of my apartment would probably wind up empty.

The show (which is finally getting a second season in 2022 - Kotetsu & Barnaby had better be getting married) is wonderful. I genuinely can’t recommend it enough. Great writing, wonderful character development, beautiful animation, and Kotetsu and Barnaby are absolutely perfect together. Here’s an old post where I talk about that a little bit.

I’ve only written one fic so far: a canon compliant established relationship future fic that focuses more on their family dynamic as Kotetsu’s daughter adapts to turning 18, becoming a hero, and living with her frustratingly affectionate dad & his new husband.

I have ideas for two AUs: a single dad mature student/young professor one and a sorta weird circus/steve irwin-inspired one. We’ll...we’ll see if I ever get around to either. What I end up writing always surprises me, so I sorta give up on planning what words will come out.

And oh wait! I totally forgot about the third idea, which will be roughly canon compliant, with “Kotetsu sets Barnaby up on a series of blind dates that Barnaby initially thinks will be with HIM” angsty/funny fic. Hrm. I should get back to that one, I’ve outlined part of it.

I haven’t actually read a ton of fic for this pairing, because the more I like canon material, the less I seek out fandom content to “fix” it, but I would like to start going through the AO3 tag after I finish my Trevorcard project. I did an initial rec list ages ago and would like to follow up with another.

5. SHEITH (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Here’s the last pairing I write fics for. I have several more in progress that I’d really like to finish - including a dragon AU that I wish someone else would just finish for me so I can read it, hahhhhhhh sigh. I wrote 15k, did a ton of research, and basically intimidated myself out of continuing, because it’s one of my Big Projects. Not gonna be like, PDIW length or anything, but it should be a pretty hefty fic once it’s done.

Then there’s the roommates AU, the burrito shop AU, the....wow. I really need to get back to these, don’t I. A couple of them are super close to being finished, too.

I’ve also compiled a few fic rec lists, although I haven’t updated those (or my Sheith blog) in a while.

This fandom has been...interesting. Rough sometimes. Sliding into some of the other pairings on this list has provided a good break for me, particularly since they’re all such small fandoms that they’re relatively free from drama and hate. Once I’m fully refreshed and re-inspired, I’d love to get back into writing Sheith. They’re such a perfect, feel-good, extraordinarily balanced and supportive ship, and I am disappointed every single day I remember that Voltron didn’t stick the landing with making them canon.

Look at that almost-kiss. Just...look at it. And tell me they aren’t in love.

#gargoyles #sterek #trevorcard #taibani #tiger and bunny #xanatowen #sheith #meme #about me #about my fics

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< Day 17: Roommates AU >

crossposted to AO3

He’d never seen Felicity in such a rush to be home before. She tossed her keys into the bowl and immediately jumped behind the sofa.

“I’m not here.” She whispered.

Oliver was used to her antics by now, though this was probably the weirdest by far, shrugged and nodded.

The reason for her mad behavior appeared to ring the doorbell not 5 minutes later. Oliver opened the door and tried to keep a straight face. Ah yes, of course.

“Hi, Oliver.” Grinning up at him was, as expected, was Felicity’s loving but easily excitable mother, Donna. “Just the person I was looking for. Well... I was looking for Felicity, but you’ll do too.”

“Ohhhhhh...kay...?” He barely had the door opened before she came rushing in.

As he turned around, he could see Felicity stand up with a sigh as her mother walked right up to her hiding spot. The murderous glint she threw his way was the cue to leave. Two Smoak women were way too many to handle.

“Oliver Jonas Queen. Don’t even think about running away or you can kiss your sweet little bank account goodbye.”

Busted.

Donna picked up the bouquet that still lay on the coffee table. Honestly, Oliver didn’t know why it was still there. It had been nearly a week. Well, 5 days 10 hours to be exact. Not that he was keeping track or anything.

Donna looked between the both of them and grinned. “Sooooo... don’t keep it from me. I heard the rumours. It finally happened, huh.”

Felicity rolled her eyes,” What did Nyssara tell you now?”

Oliver raised a brow.

“It’s what I call the unholy union of my best friend Nyssa and your best friend Sara.” Another eyeroll. “ Honestly, If I had known they would gang up on me like that, I never would have encouraged them to date.”

“Yes well, they told me aaalllll about what happened last Sunday so no need to be shy. I knew it would take a wedding for you two to finally get together.”

Felicity held on to Donna’s shoulders before she vibrated into the next dimension with her excitement. “Mum, I’ve said it like a thousand times. Oliver and I are JUST roommates.”

“Mmmhmmm. And Sara’s claim that you two were walking home hand in hand was...”

“I had a little too much champagne. Oliver was being a good friend and helping me stand upright.”

“The fact that your lipstick was smudged and your hair was a bit too messy...”

“I tripped. You know how clumsy I can get when I’m tipsy. Luckily, Oliver was there to catch me. Also hence, the aforementioned handholding.”

“The fact that before that the both of you were walking out of a closet together...”

“...”

“ Pretty sure it was the bathroom. And he was just helping me out from the entrance.”

Donna pouted. “And there’s no other reason why you continue to share an apartment when both of you earn enough to rent your own now.”

“Not this again. I’ve already told you, we both work at Merlyn Consolidated so it makes sense since we’ll have to go to the same building for work every morning at around the same time anyway.” She started escorting Donna to the door. “We’ve had a long day of work and need our rest. Just go back to your hotel and I’ll meet up with you tomorrow for shopping or whatever like I promised, ok?”

“What about...”

“OkbyeloveyouMum.”

Felicity closed the door, letting out a huge sigh of relief. “Glad that’s over with.”

Slowly, she smiled as a familiar pair of warm arms wrapped around her waist from behind.

“Do you think she bought it?”

She lifted her head to look back at him. “I hope so. Sara is way more observant than I give her credit for, even with the amount of alcohol she was drinking”

Turning around so she could hug him properly, she let out another sigh. “It’s not like I’m embarrassed of our relationship, though maybe, it took longer than it should have.”

Oliver smirked,” You mean, all the time it took to get my head out of my ass.”

“Yes well... and also for me to finally believe that you actually did like like me.” Felicity grinned.

He chuckled,” Well, we should wait a bit longer to tell everyone. I don’t want Dig to know it really did take seeing you at their wedding and catching the bouquet to finally ask you out.”

#Inktober #olicity #olicity AU #olicity fanart #olicity fanfiction #roommates AU #CherCher art #all the cliches #all of them

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