Doriririan Gray

Rereading the manga, and while their dynamic didn't start off on much, seeing Masaomi and Mikado show such concern for Anri in the Saika arc is the good shit.

Time to look at what weird music selection makes my brain go happy

Broken Crown by Mumford and Sons

2. Virgin by Manchester Orchestra

3. Breath of Life by Florence and the Machine

4. Soldier by Fleurie

5. Castle by Halsey

@invith @vamptones @madhousefruitcake @nibbles7192 @starrynightskies-art and anyone else really. I don't really have a lot of favourites cause I'm unsocial. no pressure if your don't wanna participate.

🎶✨ when u get this you have to put 5 songs you actually listen to, publish. then, send this ask/tag 10 of your favorite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool)✨🎶

1. Love and War by Fleurie

2. Howl by Florence and the Machine

3. New Divide by Linkin Park

4. Silence is the Enemy by Papa Roach

5. Yellow Flicker Beat by Lorde

@stelly38 @cavillanche @viking-raider @joeysjaskier @colinoeyebrows @cavillsthighs @kingof1999 @awitcheress @callmegwynbleidd @funnytwittertweets

Sometimes songs just create a vibe of comfort and love and i don't care that the words repeat themselves.

It's new year in my country. Don't say anything happy. Don't make a resolution. This is not your year. Stay quiet and silent and we should be ok. Don't. Jinx. It. No jokes allowed. Just be thankful for all that is good. Like we are thankful for all those people downloading Ikebukuro Records.

Thank you everybody.

Game testing without context:

"Riku, imma be honest, i'm only staring at your titties right now"

So confession time. Ever since I started working on the game with madhousefruitcake my once cold, non shipper heart has done a complete one eighty, and now I am rabid for ships. Like "I want nothing but happiness for these characters". It got so bad I've even started an entire neighborhood in the sims where everyone settles down and starts their own family. So yeah, that's the backstory for this drawing.

(Yes I used crayola to colour this in, I'm a college student with multiple things to do give me a break)

Also I imagine Anri and Mikado's kid having purple eyes. Cause that's cool.

So recently I finished reading Battle Royale which I was struggling to finish for quite a while. Not because it was bad (though it did have it's issues) but because I always pick it up at seemingly the worst time. The first time was the end of my Bachelors, this time it was during my Masters. But I did finish it, this time and that was partly because I was able to keep track by keeping a notebook, which I will show pictures from below.

(I don't know why tumblr decides to show them upside down but fuck me I guess. Also my writing may or may not be readable, i tend to have child doctor hand writing)

I did some drawings of the characters on the inside, as you can see. I did tend to favor the female characters, not gonna lie so that's why I've been drawing them. I just found less of them insufferable (also drawing girls is easier). Their appearance wasn't based on the books or the manga, though they did have a slight influnlence. I mostly got inspo from @dullahanart who is really talented.

Now I didn't hate all of the guys. I LOVED the Kiriyama family and their chapter/s were some of my favourite parts.

I also liked Shogo and I wish he was explored more outside of having to talk to Shuya.

Speaking of him. That is my main problem with the story. I couldn't stand half the people who were meant to be the main characters. It's a shame because Noriko and Shuuya have such potential (especially the former).

And I understand the point of Shinji, but only because I watched a video on the series that explained him way better than the book. I couldn't stand reading him, and I dreaded any chapter that involved him because I soon realised he was the culprit of why I couldn't finish the book before. Talk about an actual Gary Stew, and I'm not even using that as a buzz word here. I've never read such an unbearably perfect character.

I think instead of giving a main cast and telling them "these are the characters you should like", the story could have benefited from having no definitive main character or "winner". You can tell who is going to survive pretty early on, and honestly it really downplayed the steaks. I would have prefered if each character got equal attention so that nobody could tell who would come out of it. That way, one could really get more invested in the side characters, who are all the highlight of the book.

But I don't know, that's just my opinion. I honestly think I like the movie more, but I can at least say I prefer the book to the manga.

Please remember the difference between plot twist and story whiplash.

26.08.2023