Jacket Emma

small :)

Inspired by @tastewithouttalent‘s Trade Negotiations!

I thought I was over my weakness for royalty AUs… but it seems I have not… X’D

Domestic shizaya again👀

Quick doodle for Kagepro day!

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Kagepro short MV because I really miss Kagepro

Used different covers for each characters (the sources are on the credit)

Song : Wozwald by Niru Kajitsu

Program used : Medibang, Adobe Premiere pro

a light tarot reading, because i'm still fond of what i cooked up here. expect allusions to the ending of aci and general detailing of my intentions throughout. some nuances omitted because i want to see if anyone else catches on to them....

probably the most obvious thing is the card itself, wheel of fortune. generally it suggests change, cycles, some big turning point in your life. with the eye cutout slashing through the sphinx i meant to encapsulate izaya's plan of flipping the wheel over on the game makers and throwing them under an imitation of their own work.

there's a distinction in the meaning of the card when it's upright or reversed. looking inward, the card reads upright towards him and reversed as presented to the onlooker. throughout the chapter there's a lot of emphasis on the lack of sincere connections he has, how no one seemed to reach out genuinely concerned about his absence. his attention drifts to his phone a lot as he works, and he continues to work until the end of the chapter which i'll leave here.

it's hard for me to articulate but i hope you can see how i also wanted to convey izaya's personal development at this point of the fic.

less obvious is the positioning of izaya's finger keeping the lion out of view. i know shizuo is technically an aquarius but that thing looks boring and i'm not partial to the zodiac anyways so to me he's the lion in reference this bit from the first chapter.

you could also read shizuo as the bull hidden beneath izaya's shadow which i was also considering as a nod to a bull charges at the stirring of a cape. regardless it can work both ways in keeping him out of view for this part of the plan.

and this one just fell into place for me but wheel of fortune happens to be the element of fire!! which if you know you know.

there's a lot i tried to work into this composition and i have to thank rosa again for putting up with me and making it look amazing.... collaboration with me is pretty intensive but rewarding to see the initial ideas get visually realized.

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

This is a collab I did with my friend @loppiopio when we were fanfic book clubing "A Cheap Imitation" back in 2023 man, good times good times

Linking the fic here in case anyone is curious

Hey Shiga I've been digging your OCs Gabriel and Hershel on Twitter a lot! Could I ask if you could share a little more about them?

THEY'RE MY LITTLE MEOWMEOWS, MY FUCKED UP DOGS,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, thank you for your interest anon, they're my faves OCs and the most personal. I've been trying to write a story for them for the past 5 years and cannot make up my mind about what to tell, so I'll try to channel Vibes here.

- Childhood friends to lovers, zombie apocalypse, roadtrip, time loop situation.

- They rely heavily on each other, it's a right-hand-left-hand thing, do not separate them, they've basically fused together at some point. They share the braincell.

- Gabe is Smart and Strong, he's been the one making calls for both of them for as long as they can remember. Golden child. He protects. Immovable object. But :( he got bit :(

- Hershel is a sewer rat who !! tries his best!! but hasn't succeeded in a long, long time. Unstoppable force. He's been burdened with the awful task of reliving the same span of days trying to stop the same event from happening. He's tried everything, every route, every scenario. He's been forced to take the lead, become stronger and wiser for both of them. He's grown a little bit bitter, a little bit unhinged, but he won't stop until he's found the way to save them both.

A little late to Aug 15 but happy hap kagepro day.

an imitation of the cheap variety