This Year's Mitsuba Cake!!!! (*´ω｀*) As Always, I Am Terrible At Cake Decorating. But That's Okay

why do i have two messages I DON’T HAVE ANY MESSAGES

in honor of ttpd’s one year anniversary i’m assigning lyrics from every track to connect to mitsukou 🫶

part 1: tracks 1-5

⎝ fortnight — tbhk 99

⎝ the tortured poets department — tbhk 99

⎝ my boy only breaks his favorite toys — tbhk vol 7

⎝ down bad — tbhk 74 & 110

⎝ so long, london — tbhk 120 & 122

after reading another chapter of @strawbes’ chat au (check it out !) i have decided that i’ll try to combat the angst by making a silly chatfic following the events of canon. yay! expect less frequent updates though. here’s some sneak peeks...

- i headcanon kou doesn’t know how to turn off his autocorrect so his texts are eerily correctly capitalized while having the energy of a golden retriever :)) - and teru texts all bedazzled ✨ (aka i slapped my texting style onto teru)

- hanako i’m still debating the texting style of. for now i use the excuse of autocorrect capitalization... but he totally uses the ~ marks~ - yashiro nene my beloved daikon girlie <33 either fully lowercase or fully uppercase. pls recommend me emoticons and what-was-it-called-again for her !

+ bonus: aoi’s dry asf texting (still under debate so pls give feedback)

tysm for reading~

CRIES SCREAMS CRIES SOBS SCREAMS CRIES

... EXCUSE ME

ARE WE GETTING A SEASON 3

SKDHFKJSHDJKFHSKDJHFSKLJHDK SET YOUR CALENDARS

POST

ANDDDD THE TEASER SEQUEL VISUAL THING BY AIDAIRO IS THE SACRIFICE ARC

TIME TO CRY LIKE OUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT

Eventual crossover of APD and TBHK???

I say Jinshi is Aoi and Maomao is Akane! It makes sense to me!

A crossover does sound fun! I wouldn't be able to put them in roles very similar to Maomao or Jinshi's because of how important gender roles are in the apothecary diaries, but I do agree Aoi having Jinshi's status (if a bit lower because she is a woman and she will never be as valuable to the palace as a man) and Akane being born in the red-light district, adopted by a wise doctor is cool.

I like the idea of Akane growing into a doctor because everyone is always sick in the town and he'll be damned if he will just watch people everywhere die when he have knowladge to help, so he become a doctor less out of passion for medicine and more cause a doctor is needed.

Maybe Akane healed a noble that got sick at the Verdigris House and was dragged to be a palace doctor. He does not have a choice to go agaist a noble's wishes, so he become his personal doctor.

He'll talk about herbs and flowers to Aoi who would get a genuine passion for the subject but hide her interest , keeping her questions neutral and her smile the same polite one she shows everyone. She'll make her own garden in secret, far more passionate about plants and their many uses than Akane, and she'll be way more distrustful of him, having grown up surrounded by fake people and murder attempts, she doesn't trust easy even if she find him rather pleasant compared to most of her company.

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

MY MTSK POST GOT RB’D ALL THE WAY TO PINTEREST EVERYONE CHEERED

spreading ml for mitsukou here and tbhkpin you’re welcome yay

updated! it’s so long now but the yako section is still unfinished 🥹

— the art club

because me and my petty self want to claim this headcanon :’)

mei and mitsuba haven’t been shown interacting aside a short time in picture perfect arc and it’s such a waste because their parallels are so absolutely interesting and i’m in love with the idea of sibling relationship shijimitsu

like

so

but

once, mitsuba tried to find a place to stay within the seven mysteries and kinda got rejected by most of them. however, the one he wasn’t shown interacting with was with shijima, and they get along together well enough, looking at their interactions in picture perfect...

not to mention these parallels;

they’re both 'fakes'. the second unoriginal versions of people who used to be alive, people who used to be there and talk to others and make an impact on the world.

their original selves were both artists. they drew what was important, immortalizing it in their photos and paintings and sketches and film. original mitsuba’s ghost took a picture of kou before getting turned into no. 3 by tsukasa. original mei drew her ideal self, in a tower, and created her second self. both these things were important to them.

their second selves were created because their original selves had a wish. to live on, and to have & stay with friends...

and slowly, their second selves started to grow indifferent to their original selves’ forms of expression. shijima seems to only draw for functionality instead of for her own enjoyment or curiosity or expression, but her art has so much more meaning now that they create more than just an impression of life—they make life. and mitsuba doesn’t even know anything anymore, amnesia go brrrr (ty @ocelotlesbian for pointing this out)

i have so much to say about how shijima’s art is being used more as a tool for convenience instead of how the original mei used it—even natsuhiko & tsukasa are trying to annoy her for stuff—and not to mention the things they could do with this ability if someone thought about it enough (she, tsuchigomori, yako & the clock keepers are so completely broken i can’t even—these are the mysteries, of course, but i’m so glad they’re passively watching everything unfold because if they took matters into their own hands it’d be absolute chaos look at the clock keepers arc)

and i henceforth i headcanon

these two siblings doing art together afterschool in an art room. do we normally see mitsuba in hanako’s bathroom after school? no... and he’s scared of tsukasa. absolutely traumatised. ignore the afterschool episodes, i want mitsuba to turn on his heel and walk straight to the art room, skipping the fourth step.

after he has his melancholy talks and tear-filled arguments with kou he goes over and whines to shijima and they watch a movie on a projector and eat ice cream from a minifridge.

bonus points if mei uses her sketchbook to draw tissues for them. they literally have infinite ice cream and tissues

after the aquarium trip, i don’t think he could return to kou’s house (teru) & he also loses more energy the further away he is from the school SO i’d like to say he walks over, finds shijima & just cries to her the entire time about how kou is being difficult

shijima (unbothered queen) hands him her sketchbook w a drawing of a tissue box inside and 'mhm's every few minutes

it’s such a nice dynamic i love them so much

WHAT IF THEY RELEARNED THEIR PAST SELVES’ HOBBIES TOGETHER

like mitsuba learning how to hold a camera w his hand

shijima teaches him how to sketch, they go on small trips around the school at night to look at items in the moonlight

mitsuba absolutely destroys any supernaturals in their way (i need shijima to force him to eat occasionally and he will have to listen)

no but shijima is perfectly able to handle them herself

cue shijima pulling a sword from her sketchbook and bashing supernaturals into a pulp

but what if their past versions met in some sort of afterlife and mei teaches him to sketch & mitsuba shows mei his favorite photos and anglings and they watch birds & draw them and take photos and think about their lives and-

bonus: YAKO.

yako’s stairs are said to lead up to the art room 👀

so what if...

(i’ll finish this later lmao)

i need this to be canon. sibling mei & mitsuba. pls.

thank you for reading ♡ drink some water~