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mitsuba but fishified?? mitsufish?? mitsubetta???
sender: the silly @lyingintheclouds
reciever: the lovely @mysteriousmissme
subject: re: intro post
dear mysti,
realizing what you meant by this made me search my blog frantically for the first post omfg
here it is!!!!! my old messy intro, undeleted and mostly unchanged <3
just in case anyone wants to get to know past me and our shared messiness ~
love,
cinna
cinna ur intro updated !!!! (the school mystery updates in ur tags are gone too though ) BUT ITS SO AESTHETIC WHATHTH (in mourning kinda)
aaaaa i’m probably gonna go back and edit it later anyways 🙏 but im so glad someone saw the tags !! and i love that pic omfg
tysm <3333 im so happy to be ur moot
updated ♡ will ping people in comments if i need extra info!
+ reminder to plsplspls give me all the stuff i need so that the list can be updated quickly and i don’t need to scroll though thousands of fics to give recommendations ~
pls ping me if you’d like something changed! tysm <3
hey jshk ao3 fanfic writers ! would u mind if i added yall to a jshk writers masterlist? i’ll probably include the ships you write for and a summary of a fic just so that people can access more jshk content <3
i sure love promoting stuff like this !!!
feel free to reblog/ping others so that others can see! and comment ur acc + best fics <33
as for my beloved moots & people i’ve conversed with ... @strawbes @snowiwyvern @mari-lair @musicalmoritz @itzprismosblog hello ♡
updating on mobile rn so no ao3 links bc it's already confusing 😔 i'll add them once im back on my computer!
pls feel free to comment below the following info to join~ and ping others!
- name/if you'd like to be n/a, say so!
- username on ao3 + a link for convenience if you can find it!
- ships, platonic, romantic, etc, that you most often write for!
- your fav fics + a smol explanation of the tropes/plot (see the list for existing examples)
tysm for your writing :3
hey jshk ao3 fanfic writers ! would u mind if i added yall to a jshk writers masterlist? i’ll probably include the ships you write for and a summary of a fic just so that people can access more jshk content <3
i sure love promoting stuff like this !!!
feel free to reblog/ping others so that others can see! and comment ur acc + best fics <33
as for my beloved moots & people i’ve conversed with ... @strawbes @snowiwyvern @mari-lair @musicalmoritz @itzprismosblog hello ♡
UM GUYS. I JUST NOTICED A CRAZY ISSUE W THE TUMBLR UPDATE.
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
there just aren't any girls cuter than me...
pointing out these absolute gems in the tags
Grim Reaper arc this July??!
I'm so excited (it's my favorite arc guys! Yay!!) and nervous, (the way they addapt this arc will either make cry tears of joys or comit a crime)
JSHK FANS BORN IN JULY, RAISE YOUR HANDS !!
we’re getting a gorgeously heart-wrenching, angst-wrapped birthday present this year~
HOOLY SHIIIITTTTT
SEASON 3 IN JULY. THIS JULY. THIS DAMN JULY
MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT
BUCKLE UP BUTTERCUP WE’RE IN FOR A WILLLDDDD RIDEEEEE
im banking on my tablet’s 8% battery to sketch this-
the breakdown of this is the first, upper cape w all the cool designs + whatever tf the big flowy added-for-drama cape looks like attached to him + gakuran + other stuff and that’s it :3
don’t forget hakujoudai, seal & hat! and voila... hanako-kun~
chat what is this 😭😭
bc i wanna assume its the red ribbon shown in the ref but also???
rant time again:
i have noticed this awful, discreet little plague within the jshk fandom where some, and i'm sorry (not) for saying it this way but it's true, dumbass fans will see anyone even merely suggest that mitsuba is feminine or genderqueer or would like wearing skirts or just isn't some perfectly masculine boy, and say "no that's not true he hates being seen as feminine," even spreading outright misinformation that he said this in the manga (no he fucking didn't) and it's just.... bitch *what*? that is not fucking true. just because he was bullied for looking feminine doesn't mean he hates looking feminine as a result. the ENTIRE POINT of the mitsuba arc is that those bullies were *wrong* and he should've just been himself instead of sanding down his personality to cater to the people who hate his true self. and mind you, this is the boy that actively wears his medium length bright fucking pink hair in a ponytail & brags about how cute he is 24/7. he actively presents himself as feminine, someone who hates the idea of being percieved as girly wouldn't fucking do that. he *enjoys* his femininity, you dumb fucks.
and while we're here, let me get to the *real* point. why do you automatically assume that a character who is percieved as feminine, and more broadly, a character who is percieved as QUEER, has to hate themselves? why do you assume this despite evidence to the contrary, despite *the story itself* telling you otherwise? why do you assume that? is it because you see someone breaking free from gender norms & heteronormativity as inherently negative and something they *must* hate deep down? is that the reason? tell me, what is your fucking reason? why do you see this beautiful little boy being openly queer and *happy about it, loving who he is* and assume he must hate himself, that him being queer is a flaw he must want to "fix"? why the *fuck* do you think that? it's horrible. do fucking better oh my god i hate you people so much
completely valid and wholeheartedly understandable, let’s see what tumblr has to offer :3
mentioning the nice person in the comments ! you’ll have to type that user’s name out completely, so maybe it’ll be a hassle with names that have random keyboard smashes or extra letters added to words... and not to mention the awkwardness (but you do get used to it after a while)
the reblog is good for doubly exposing your content to the world, even though it’s awkward... (but i definitely would not mind seeing more of your content on my feed <3)
messaging is also probably out of the question, since it may be seen as weird (but omfg i would freak out if you messaged me. i love your analyses btw-)
uhhhh posting a general 'thank you to everyone that likes my content' and pray that the people see it
tbh tumblr needs some other ways to respond to compliments in the tags...
telepathic gratitude is probably the least socially draining one tbh. you are absolutely completely valid
and that is... all??? of the reasonable ones??? so little... and so taxing on one’s social battery...
but i do hope you have a nice day, and that you gain the energy for any of these displays of thanks <3
for the most part I really love tumblr tags and tumblr reblog tag culture but it haunts me that I never know how to respond when people say nice things in the tags of a rb of my posts. like, it feels weird to rb my own post and say thank feels weird to message people to say thank you feels weird to put it in the replies what is a guy to do !!! just hope my telepathic gratitude comes through ? if you have ever said anything nice in the tags of my posts I am buying you a baked good and your favorite drink no take backs
this year's mitsuba cake!!!! (*´ω｀*) as always, i am terrible at cake decorating. but that's okay because mitsuba's beautiful face makes up for it <3
Mitsuba Day!!
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omfg there’s a jshk fic on the spreadsheet jshk fans goooooooo since i don’t have time
Are you frustrated you can't leave second kudos on AO3? or third kudos? or whatever-who's-counting kudos?
Well, have I got the html for you!
Plop any of these in a comment (by copy&pasting the code) to make an author's day and show your appreciation!
Second kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/tHMjbb6/second-kudos.png" alt="second kudos">
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yet another kudos: <img src="https://i.ibb.co/wKtcj0s/yet-another-kudos.png" alt="yet another kudos">
It will look something like this (and will be transparent with white outline on dark backgrounds):
Feel free to spread and use these as much as you like! (and if you have ideas for other variations, let me know ✌️)
IM FREAKING SICK
EVERYONE SCREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
the way everything is taking a more luminous and yellow hue…
WE’RE GETTING THEM AND THE MOON IN TWO DAYS!!!
we did it. they are never gonna be together ever again /hj
also, poor shijima-
they’re so stupid wtf get out
YES INDEED THE REBLOG @mysteriousmissme
LOOK AT MY POOR GIRLIE
UNRIGHTFULLY SPLIT IN HALF >:(
henceforth i shall split mitsukou in half to compensate
... surprisingly, they’re merging.
they’re so stupid wtf get out
IM SORRY DID I JUST LOSE MY ABILITY TO BREATHE
HELP???????? I LOVE HER SO MUCH ♡♡♡♡
they’re so stupid wtf get out
excuse me when tf did i read this and how did i forget /nm
anyways. EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS, GO READ !!!!!
QUALITY WRITING HERE !!!!
With the help of Yako, the trio begin their climb through the Hell of Mirrors in search of Mitsuba.
WHEW FINALLY GOT CHAPTER TWO DONE! my simple mitsukou fic idea has quickly spiraled out of control haha woopsies. im going to be slapping on these little chapter sketches from now on i think.
mei is the realest character ever. loves weapons and violence has a deep desire to help others wants to be a cool ghost story gets heart eyes when she nearly gets stabbed constantly sweeping cute girls off their feet just wants to get pancakes with a friend comforts others through her own fear has infinite hope and love in her heart. constantly passes the bechdel test. peak character
HOLY SHITT the lightning, the background, the artstyle, the colors?!!!?! The animation team ate with this one I fear. I was gagged I AM SO MESMERIZED. This is actually my favorite panels other than the hananene and mitsukou stargazing scenes and I am so glad they did this one so well.
Now that S2 is almost over, I wanted to finally get out that post talking about all of the insights and things I did, learned, or other fun stuff about the countdown pieces I made. I still have something in mind for the S2 finale, so maybe if you read (or skip) to the end I'll have a preview for you?
Oh god here we go One day I was coming home from work and decided to check how many days there were until the new season released and I found it was 7 days. So I did all of these in 7 days. Literally everyone was worried about me because I did nothing but draw for those 7 days.
... Except for when I went back to work. I worked I came home and then drew until I literally couldn't anymore lmao. I remember being dazed and exhausted after the Clock Keepers and my dad came up to my room literally right as I finished and asked, "Have you gone to sleep?" And I said, "NOPE! :D" I was living on energy drinks
I'm also 90% sure this started the "ren you're doing too much you need to chill the hell out" thing with me and my friends now
When I was doing these, I had only read the first ten volumes of Hanako-kun at the time, so I was stopped right in the middle of Picture Perfect. I had the second box set, but I just hadn't gotten the time to read it since I got it for Christmas. That means I didn't know Shijima's full deal, and I didn't even know Hakubo's name, so I was winging it hard.
All of the full pieces are linked by clicking their names :)
NO.7 HANAKO
You can tell from the speedpaint I was struggling hard with the pose lmao. I honestly felt like the one I chose was a cop-out and didn't feel energetic enough, but the time crunch got me. At this point, I was also really unsure about how I wanted to treat the colors, because I'd only just started dipping into seriously studying how Aida does it. So many references. And him wearing basically all black didn't help I wanted to scream. I was TRYING to keep everything as solid colors without falling back on overlay and multiply layers, but I got desperate. Still looks pretty good I think.
My favorite part was probably the hakujoudai and the detailing on his collar/shoulders! If I were to edit anything, I think I'd put more on the bottom half of the background because it feels a touch empty. kinda killed it on this pant leg and his hat tho
NO.6 HAKUBO
Like I said, I had no idea who Hakubo was. For the first half of things, I couldn't even find his name, I was just calling him "Shinigami-sama..." I wasn't going to go trampling into spoilers just for references either, so I was freaking out on what to do for the background. All I knew was that there was something to do with lotuses or bugs, and already having an idea of where I'd take Tsuchigomori, I took the lotus route. I uh also hope I didn't make his face too feminine. I don't know why but when drawing male characters who are larger or more built (even if it didn't turn out obvious in this piece) I somehow keep making them look like butches.
Shading his hair was the most fun part out of all of this, I usually never draw characters with hair as short as his, so it was a fun challenge! I'm also just a sucker for kimonos and flowy clothes. He was probably one of the most fun ones for me, even if he was so early on. I LOVE the texture I got on the skull. (even if it's technically too small.)
NO.5 TSUCHIGOMORI
Tsuchigomori onwards ALL used this sticky note full of thumbnails I drew at work for reference. Yes that is a note next to him that says + cuntier. He was also drawn on the same day that I did Hakubo, so I managed to buy myself some extra time.
I was so excited for this one because I could see it so well in my mind's eye, until I realized how many hands I'd need to draw. And then I sucked it up and locked in because I love Tsuchigomori. I'm so pleased with how I worked in more of the blues into the shading and his hair. It was at this point that I think I was understanding how I wanted to take the colors for all of these pieces! I enjoyed doing the fun trick I learned with the weave on his sweater and the spiderwebs where I drew a thick like and then erased the middle. Nearly forgot the markings on his forehead too lmao.
I wonder whose black book he's reading?
NO.4 SHIJIMA
Oh Shijima. I truly had zero real clue about her, and I managed to dodge spoilers about Mei even when I was looking up references. That's why she's painting using her paintbrush clone haha. It's still cute though, so I'm keeping it. Her hair kept giving me trouble because it's the kind of hair you draw and don't really realize just how big you're drawing it until you have to fix it. Actually, I'm having that exact issue on what I'm working on right now, and I'll fix it after I take a break.
I dug up a comment I made while I was working on it and I still stand by this.
There's also something a little odd about the positioning of her chin that I was too exhausted to fix, and I SUPER fudged the coloring on her hair. Also I really didn't know what to put in the background OTHER than the atelier, but I can't really draw buildings! So uh! The exhaustion was beginning to set in after 3 days of this. (Since Hakubo and Tsuchigomori were done on the same day. I didn't keep that time advantage for long though.)
think i fudged it okay, though.
NO.3 MITSUBA
I was struggling on Mitsuba some because that thing where you see/read something and then forget about it only for it to arise as something you think you did happened. That pose I thumbnailed on the sticky note was WAY too close to the official Hell of Mirrors standee/art. Luckily I contain extreme Mitsuba bias (shocker) and I was able to figure it out. I had a ton of problems shading his coat just like I did with Hanako. It's so hard to keep things from melding together when you've mostly got them wearing black.
It's an odd thing to be proud about, but I feel I did the best on the.. Legs of his pants, the chains and lockets, and the eyes and teeth on his jacket. That and the ribcage scarf. I'm really disappointed in myself for the background and his hair, if I'm being honest. I wanna fix his eyes. I STILL haven't figured out his hair either too. Which makes me even more surprised that my friends said, ren, your bias is showing on this one because I was like IS IT??? ARE YOU CERTAIN?
his hand turned out nice too and did i mention i had fun on the ribcage
NO.2 YAKO
I sketched the first initial draft for Yako on the same day I drew Hakubo and Tsuchigomori, but when it finally came time to sit down and draw her? I realized there would be so much empty space where I couldn't have fun with colors and it'd just be the white back of her kimono, so I turned her around and scrapped the idea of her fox form curling around her. I couldn't fit fox Yako in, and I'm STILL kind of bummed about that.
The flow of her hair was so much fun to figure out, as well as the patterns on her kimono. I'm really happy with the background, combining the aspects of the Misaki Stairs' original version and the one after she's been removed from her seat with the spider lilies. The lilies themselves are a little fudged if you look too close, so... Don't look too close? :3
loved the kimono. every bit. can't believe i had her turned around.
NO.1 AKANE/MIRAI/KAKO
MY FAVORITE PART ABOUT THIS WAS THE COGS IN THE BACKGROUND SORRY AKANE'S FACE BOTHERS ME I NEED TO FIX IT ONE DAY HE LOOKS TOO OLD I WAS LOSING MY MIND AND THE EXHAUSTION WAS KILLING ME IT BEGAN MY HATE OF DRAWING AKANE'S HAIR BECAUSE *GESTURES VAGUELY*
Uh okay some good things to say about this one... The colors were a ton of fun to figure out how to place, and I think I at least did a good job on that part. Shading gold things is always really fun! And at least Akane's ponytail was fun to make flow, I was riding the high from Yako's hair here. I think I got a lot of that fun flowy movement in here, which I'm pleased about. This was another one that my friends say turned out the best, again that I'm ??? about.
these cogs are my everything
FINAL THOUGHTS + EXTRAS
All of the kanji's colorings for their numbers were taken directly from the anime! I don't really wanna get rid of that fun reference even if in like, Tsuchigomori's case the colors are REALLY different from the main piece.
Most of the first day was spent on, Hanako of course, and then setting up the frames for everyone else to go into. I spent money to get the patterns to go on the colored part, actually. Constraining everyone to the frames helped a LOT in terms of balancing myself and made it fun to choose what elements would stick outside of them. If I pushed for entire full backgrounds, then I would have been doing even worse.
I was on the ropes at the end. I was half dead and drawing like I was possessed. And the catharsis of it being done and it all looking acceptable just. Ough. I don't know if I'll ever have a high like that again. There's an evil, evil part of me that says, ren! redraw all of them for s3 under the exact same constraints! And shit I might but I'll complain about it. I think it's more likely though that I go back and doctor them up some so I can print them as standees. Probably just for myself, but I do want to build a stock for artist alleys.
I had so, so much fun overall even if it was so much it really could have put my already bad health in more danger. I learned so much about coloring, lineart, framing things, and I really attribute my gauntlet to the explosion in my art progress. That, and my sheer adoration for this series. Am I rambling? I just love TBHK. It's only been 5 months since I first discovered it and it's done so, so much for me.
Even if you went and scrolled through all of this nonsense, which I don't blame you for, here's a little preview of what I'm trying to finish by next week for the finale.
I can't believe we're on the final episode! It's so close now, and it keeps flooring me how little time has really passed. I'll try and push to get SOMETHING else done before then, but we'll see. I've got so much I want and have to get done.
もっけ探検隊が特典情報を掘り当てた！💎✨
The Mokke Exploration Team has dug up the volume bonuses info!💎✨
I CANNOT WATCH. I PHYSICALLY CAN’T. I AM WORKING. I CANNOT CRY RIGHT NOW.
(said as i pause the video and return to work with tears beginning to form)
(skhfklsahdkhskahkjfhjsl MEI 🥹 SHIJIMA 😭)
they did this scene so beautifully omg i was gonna start sobbing