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"Are you -- actually deadass."

Nico pauses. He looks back. Will is there, a couple steps behind him. He is holding rather tightly onto a tree. He is not entirely upright.

Nico glances down. His ankle is very, very swollen.

Ah.

"Are you…talking to your ankle?"

"Full fuckin' mile from camp," Will grouches on, not listening. "I cannot fucking believe you. Have you no class. Or calcium." He crosses his arms, hobbling his way to the ground. He scowls. He pouts. "Fuck you."

Nico's mouth twitches.

"You're funny when you're in pain," he says, sitting gently next to him. He reaches out slowly, wrapping a delicate hand on Will's knee when he doesn't stop him. He lifts. Will exhales harshly. When Nico looks, he's flushed. "You get very annoyed about it."

"I do not," Will insists, even though he very much does. Nico has caught him cussing out his fingers for the crime of having hangnails. "I'm just -- I drank milk every single day as a babe. My bones are strong." He looks down at his rapidly purpling foot in disgust. "What -- is this. Weakness."

"Clumsiness," Nico corrects, teasing. He turns Will's ankle to the side, and it's not too bad, thankfully. Will's dorky flipflips make it easy to see, but he swallows, anyway, and tugs the shoe off, taking the full weight of Will's leg in his hand. He holds, for a moment. He hears Will's breath uptick. In the pulse point below the just of his ankle, he feels the blood rush under the skin. Nico's ears go pink.

He's not a healer, or anything. But it's only a sprain, as far as he can tell -- it'll be healed by morning, especially with Will's accelerated healing. Quietly, Nico is quite pleased he'll have a reason to stay off his feet tonight.

But they are pretty far from camp.

Not ideal.

"It's fine," Will says quickly, and when Nico looks up his ears glow through his hair. He looks quickly away when he catches Nico staring, freckles on his nose lighting up next. Nico warms, and smiles. "I can -- hobble."

He tries to pull his ankle away, but Nico tightens his grip. He is careful not to squeeze anything that's tender, only the bridge of his bare foot. Will's eyes go wide. His pupils dilate.

"Nico," he argues, weakly.

Nico swallows. He shakes his head. He loosens his grip, slightly, but doesn't move his hand.

"Will," he echoes.

"Let -- go."

"Are you going to try and walk?"

"Yes."

"Then no."

"You can't stop me," Will says, but he is flushed, but he is warm, but his heart is pounding. He looks at Nico head-on and the red spreads farther. Nico smiles, even though he is just as bad, and traces the shape of it with his eyes. Will glows brighter, and scowls harder. "I'll -- get up right now!"

"I'm stronger than I look," Nico says stubbornly. Faster than Will expects, he darts out. He wraps either hand around Will's gangly elbows, pinning them to his sides. He is watchful of Will's still-extended leg, careful to keep it resting on his hip. He can feel the curve of his calf against his thigh. His breathing is heavy. He swallows, through the flush, and meets Will's dilated dilated eyes. He nods, firmly. "So. Try me."

"I will," Will says, or tries to, but its so thin and reedy it barely passes for a sentence, let alone a threat. He is so flushed Nico can't help but grin. This makes it worse. This makes him smile wider. "You -- think you're some big hotshot, huh."

Nico shrugs. "Not really."

"Well!" Will huffs. "Well." He says nothing more.

"You're not carrying me," he says, when Nico looks like he wants to.

"I'm stronger than I look," Nico repeats.

Will stops saying anything at all.

Slowly -- Nico is careful to move slowly -- he shifts. He pulls away so Will's feet are back into his shoes, and so they are resting carefully on the tangled roots he tripped on. He removes his arms from Will's elbows. He stands. He pauses. His hands twitch.

The red spreads all the way to Will's hairline, and he stares deliberately at the ground.

Slowly, grinning, Nico slides an arm under his bent knee. Across his back, next. He hovers for a moment.

"I hate you," Will says.

His throat spasms. His eyes water. He coughs.

Nico grins very widely.

"You don't."

"Spend more time shutting up."

Nico laughs, lightly, and lifts. Will is not light -- he's too tall for that -- but Nico really is quite strong. And there is a breathless little gasp, in that moment between when Nico lifts and when he settles, where gravity does weird things to his stomach. And proximity, maybe. Hopefully. Nico can feel his heart pound in the backs of his knees. He adjusts, so Will is pressed to his chest, his torso. Will makes a strangled little noise that Nico takes care to memorize and categorize in the very front of his brain. He must smile in a certain kind of way, because Will makes that noise again.

"You're very grouchy," Nico notes as he takes his first step, and then his second. And walks. Not very quickly. Not that that means anything.

"I maimed myself tripping on a stupid root," Will snaps. "I'm -- allowed to be."

Nico ducks his head, slightly. He hides his smile behind his hair. Will sees it, anyway, and huffs. His hand curls against Nico's chest.

"You certainly are," Nico offers. "I suppose I would be too."

"And this is -- humiliating."

"Is it."

"Yes."

"Why?"

Will swallows.

"I don't have an answer for that."

"…Okay."

Nico keeps walking. He pauses, sometimes, even though he doesn't need to exactly. He adjusts. Sometimes he can feel Will's lungs expand against his chest. This is mostly unrelated. Although not entirely.

"There's a scenic route," Will says, when the sounds of camp really start to hit home. Nico can tell by the surprise in his voice that he didn't mean to say it. But he swallows, and says more anyway. "If -- you wanted."

Nico swallows. He nods.

"Sure." He adjusts Will again and hesitates before he moves forward. "You, uh. Lead the way."

"Can't," Will says, softly.

His eyes are very, very blue.

Big.

Nico breathes a little heavy.

"Direct me," he corrects. "I'll, uh. Follow."

Slowly, Will nods. He tilts his head, like he is reading something. His ears are red still. He's warm.

He smiles.

"Okay," he says, softer still. "You'll take the lead, tomorrow?" He blinks, once. Blond eyelashes flashing in the sun. "If I'm still not -- steady on my feet?"

"Yeah," Nico exhales, smiling. "Sounds like a plan."

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Matt Rhodes: "Fantasy Submarine (2016) / Dumat - Submarine Having a boat is cool, but as the game shifted to a "covert commandos" theme, we asked: "What's more covert than a boat?" Is trying to design a submarine in a fantasy game crazy? Certainly. The idea was just too much fun to not explore. In the end, even after dressing it up as a sea monster, it was just too anachronistic." [source, two]

Art by Matt Rhodes.

ArtStation filenames: Image 1 - Dumat blueprints Image 2 - Dumat monster Image 3 - Dumat coelacanth Image 4 - Joplin interactive story Dumat Image 5 - Dumat infiltration

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expanding on this, I think the reason "fascism=disgust politics" theory appeals to people with NRx connections in their past (or present) is it's one of the few frameworks one can use to make the claim that QAnon politics are fascist, but NRx/HBD/incel politics aren't. after all, the latter were merely free-thinking contrarian provocateurs who were Just Asking Questions about race, crime and iq, (and if women should have rights, and if tech CEOs should be kings [which they answer with "no" and "yes"]) they weren't driven by anything so irrational, emotional, and disgust-driven as (checks notes) thinking that child sex trafficking is bad.

but the claim that NRx is less fascist than QAnon is incorrect. any remotely accurate analysis of the history of fascism shows that NRx is vastly more fascist than QAnon.

while plenty of fascists are into QAnon, QAnon isn't really a fascist ideology unto itself-its barely a coherent ideology at all- and the average QAnoner is a normie conservative, and buys into the same liberal (in the broader sense of the term) assumptions as most normie conservatives.

and while their proposed solutions are moronic (they expect Trump of all people to stop child sex trafficking????) the claim that child sex trafficking exists, and is bad, is fundamentally correct, and you don't need to "base your politics/ethics on disgust" to recognize that. (yes I know there a lot of other much stupider claims QAnoners make about adrenochrome and satanist and so on, but you get my point.)

so like, while the "fascism=disgust politics" framework may be convenient for someone who wants to soothe their guilt over their NRx past (or whitewash their NRx present) while still looking down on QAnoners and other more working class right-wingers, that doesn't make it true. fascism at it core isn't the ideology of "stupid emotional irrational plebs", it's the ideology of the ruling class following its rational class interest at the expense of everyone else.

every dipshit who gives you a condescending lecture about how "disgust is an inherently fascist emotion uwu" had a url like "neoreactionary_lolirapist_1488" like 3 years ago max

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A cool paper dealing with the conditions and evolutionary background for the evolution of large body sizes, looking at the largest occupiers of different ecological niches in the three recent geological eras (Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic).

Common traits of GIANTS:

Timing: most giants exist near the end of their era. Usually the mass extinctions that divide an era from another take out all largest organisms first, and it takes time for the survivors to grow out again. (Stably, at least. The first burst of growth is fast, but the real giants come later.)

Bodyplan: most giants are vertebrates. Vertebrate giants are generally larger than invertebrate giants, and dinosaur giants are by far the largest on land thanks to their skeletal and respiratory structure. They tend to be groups with fast metabolism and high oxygen consumption.

Environment: for most groups, it's easier to grow gigantic in water than in air. Sea giants are mostly found in highly productive shallows; land giants are not so closely linked to ecological productivity, possibly because they need open environments, to, well, exist.

"Gigantism as a hallmark of competitive superiority appears to have lost its luster on land after the Mesozoic in favor of alternative means of achieving dominance, especially including social organization and coordinated food-gathering."

The Giants identified by the author, by niche (all pictures from Wiki unless noted otherwise):

Ground-dwelling terrestrial predators

Paleozoic: Anteosaurus sp. (Therapsid, ca. 260 Ma [million years ago], 2000 kg) Mesozoic: Tyrannosaurus rex (Theropod dinosaur, 70 Ma, 7700 kg) Cenozoic: Arctotherium angustidens (short-faced bear, 2 Ma, 1000-2000 kg)

2. Terrestrial herbivores

Paleozoic: Tapinocephalus sp. (Therapsid, ca. 260 Ma, 1600-2000 kg) Mesozoic: Argentinosaurus huinculensis (Sauropod dinosaur, 100 Ma, 40 m - 90,000 kg) Cenozoic: Indricotherium (Paraceratherium) transouralicum (stem-rhinoceros, 25 Ma, 7.4 m - 15-20,000 kg)

3. Flying predators

Paleozoic: Meganeuropsis permiana (Insect, 300 Ma, 0.71 m wingspan) Mesozoic: Quetzalcoatlus northropi (pterosaur, 70 Ma, 10-11 m wingspan) Cenozoic: Pelagornis saundersi (pseudotoothed bird, 25 Ma, 6.4 m wingspan)

4. Marine pelagic (open-water) predators

Paleozoic: Helicoprion sp. (stem-ratfish, 270 Ma, 10 m) Mesozoic: Shonisaurus/Shastasaurus sikanniensis (Ichthyosaur, 220 Ma, 17-20 m) Cenozoic: Physeter macrocephalus (sperm whale, living, 24 m - 16,500 kg)

5. Marine herbivores

Paleozoic: n/a Mesozoic: Leviathania sp. (Gastropod mollusk, 150 Ma, 0.4 m) [pic] Cenozoic: Hydrodamalis gigas (Steller's seacow, recently extinct, 10 m - 10,000 kg)

6. Bottom-dwelling marine predators

Paleozoic: "Endoceratid" (Endoceras or Cameroceras sp., Cephalopod mollusk, 450 Ma, 8-9 m) Mesozoic: Ptychodus mortoni (shark, 100 Ma, 11 m) Cenozoic: Odobenus rosmarus (walrus, living, 3.8 m - 1900 kg)

7. Chemosymbiotic marine shell-bearing animals

Paleozoic: n/a Mesozoic: Capsiconcha withami (Bivalve mollusk, 120 Ma, 0.30 m) [pic] Cenozoic: Bathymodiolus boomerang (Bivalve mollusk, living, 0.37 m) [pic of related species]

8. Solitary photosymbiotic marine animals

Paleozoic: Alatoconcha sp. (Bivalve mollusk, 270 Ma, 1 m) [pic of related species] Mesozoic: Titanosarcolites sp. (Bivalve mollusk, 70 Ma, 2 m) Cenozoic: Tridacna gigas (giant clam, living, 1.4 m)

9. Marine pelagic planktivores

Paleozoic: Titanichthys sp. (Placoderm, 360 Ma, 2.5 m) Mesozoic: Leedsichthys sp. (bony fish, 160 Ma, 9 m) Cenozoic: Balaenoptera musculus (blue whale, living, 33 m - 140,000 kg)

10. Marine benthic (bottom-dwelling) suspension-feeders

Paleozoic: Gigantoproductus sp. (lamp shell, 300 Ma, 0.37 m) Mesozoic: Platyceramus platinus (Bivalve mollusk, 100 Ma, 3 m) Cenozoic: Pinna nobilis (fan mussel, living, 1.2 m)

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folk hero really

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a comic about OCD

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Stuffed Animal dashboard simulator

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Scammer pretending to be in Palestine v2

This post has been remade with better info! Please go to this one:

Got an ask from someone claiming to be in Palestine needing mutual aid? Unfortunately there is a scammer going around and it’s likely the ask you got sent is the same one being sent by multiple accounts who target users interacting with Palestine posts. These blogs use the text/images off a real fundraiser and then post it here pretending to be the person it’s made for. Their accounts are usually only a few days old and they don’t interact beyond the ask/follow. Lately they might make the link to their PayPal account in different colors or claim their GoFundMe is pending so you will assume the real one is theirs. They don’t have any GoFundMe’s set up. They steal from them. If you need proof of something being stolen, searching the text of their post in a search engine should pull up the source. If you know how to report PayPal accounts, please report those used by the scammers.

(Moved to new list)

Below is a growing list of fake/stolen names used across the accounts:

Nour Samar | maryline lucy | Fred Odhiambo | Jeff Owino | Valentine Nakuti | Conslata Obwanga | JACINTA SITATI | David Okoth | Martín Mutugi | Daudi Likuyani | William Ngonyo | Fred Agy | George Ochieng | BONFACE ODHIAMBO | Sila Keli | John Chacha | benson komen | Alvin Omondi | Jacinta Sitati | Daudi Likuyani | Noah Keter | Faith Joram | Rawan AbuMahady (any PayPal’s using this name are scammers who have stolen it off a real GoFundMe. The real person does not have a PayPal account that they post on tumblr.) | Asnet Wangila | Remmy Cheptau

Keep in mind this post isn’t saying all accounts asking for mutual aid in Palestine are scams. Rather, this post is meant to bring awareness of a scammer stealing money from those who really need it by pretending to be a person in Palestine. To report scams, use this:

Report -> Something else -> Illegal uses or Content -> Phishing

(Please do not use the comments section to ask for gfm sharing if someone’s asks or DMs are closed. Thanks.)

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The Significance of Susie, Rude Buster, and The Prophecy.

(This has spoilers for 3-4)

This is a bit of a long post, but it's an important one, I think. Let's talk about Susie's signature spell, Rude Buster. I genuinely think there is thematic significance to this spell. To get to why, though, I want to go over everything.

Rude Buster is a spell that Susie knows from the moment we meet her in Chapter 1. It costs 50% TP, and, as the description tells us, it inflicts moderate "rude" element damage to one foe, and uses both Attack and Magic in its calculation. It considers defense in its calculation, and it scales better with Attack than it does Magic.

I want to compare this spell to another spell, Iceshock.

Iceshock inflicts "magical ICE damage" to one enemy, and costs 16% TP. It scales purely with the Magic stat, and is unaffected by her Attack stat. It also cuts through defense. On the surface, Iceshock is generally the better spell, it would seem. It might not deal as much damage at first, but it's significantly cheaper than Rude Buster, ignores defense, and scales like crazy when Noelle becomes Stronger.

While this is speculative, it almost comes off as if Iceshock is being more 'properly' cast. It's described as 'magical', it seemingly instantly surrounds an enemy rather than needing to be aimed, it ignores defense entirely. But... I think there's a bit more to it than that. Noelle's magic is kind of distinct from Noelle herself in a way. There's some level of detachment. There's distance. This is (partially) why we're able to manipulate her so easily into getting stronger. It's easy to not think about it. They're just enemies. Etc. But Rude Buster? It's a direct extension of Susie herself. She might not be directly naturally talented with Magic, but hell if that'll stop her. She channels everything she has into her axe and sends it out as a bolt of rude energy.

My point is this.

Iceshock deals perfect, magical damage to an enemy, piercing defense. It's better than a Susie crit at first, and it scales drastically. It's simple, and it's cost efficient.

Rude Buster is a direct extension of Susie herself. It's her raw emotion channeled into a single attack. It's her willpower, her resolve, her hope, all imbued into one little spell. Rude Buster as a spell is, either symbolically or literally, Susie's resolve.

This is why it is a "Rude" buster. What does it mean to be Rude? To be impolite. To not follow the rules, the expectations. And, if there's one thing Susie excels at, it's breaking every single expectation anyone might have for her. Is it truly by chance that, out of everyone in the party, it is Susie who talks back to the Roaring Knight? Is it truly by chance that the only party member who can actually do anything of substance against The Knight is Susie, with Rude Buster? Kris is (in most circumstances) holding back. Susie and Ralsei are able to deal chip damage. But Rude Buster, through sheer force alone, overcomes the Knight's defense, not by being magic or anything like that, but simply because it's that good.

Consider also The Titan. Everything seems bleak, the Titan can regenerate, and there's nothing we can do. So what do we do? We call upon Rude Buster. Technically it's "Dual Buster", but...

Susie and Gerson are both clearly casting variations of Rude Buster here.

And it works. And, lets think on that for a moment. Gerson also knows a version of Rude Buster. ...Why?

It's not like Gerson doesn't have his own magical attacks he could have used here, right? They could've easily done something else for this. But... No. Gerson casts his own Rude Buster. Why? Well, think about what Gerson stands for. He believes, in the same way Susie does, that the Prophecy isn't all it's cracked up to be. He believes that it can blind you, that it's better to read between the lines. As a Secret Boss, his philosophy is "I don't care".

So, to me, at least, it makes perfect sense that he would also know Rude Buster. Because, just like Susie, when confronted with the fate of the universe in bold text, he simply laughs it off.

This is also, I believe, why Gerson is the only character who can outright reflect Rude Buster.

Because while Gerson might not have the same resolve to change fate as Susie does, he is driven in a similar way.

The Devilsknife reduces Rude Buster's TP Cost. Why? Is it just because logically a jevil-turned-scythe would be good at channeling Magic? No. Think about what Jevil stands for. He believes that because his choices do not matter, he is free of consequence. He can "do anything", because his choices are irrelevant. If he could somehow be punished, then, well, his choices would've mattered, then, wouldn't they? And he knows that's not true. So he does whatever he damn well pleases. Obviously, Jevil and Susie are not really comparable- Jevil fully accepts that Fate is unbreakable, and Susie very much seems to think The Prophecy is bogus by the end of Chapter 4.

But, I think the throughline is there. Devilsknife makes Rude Buster easier to cast, because by nature, Jevil is already used to doing whatever he wants and ignoring the 'rules'. I hope I've made my case clear. But there's even more.

This may well be where I lose you, to be clear, so I hope you take everything I've said about Rude Buster as its own thing, and consider the rest of what I have to say as an extension of that. If you don't believe what I'm about to say, that's totally fine. Without further ado... Let us consider... The Prophecy.

The Second Hero of the Prophecy is "The Girl, with Hope crossed on her heart." As many before me have pointed out, this depiction... does not quite look like Susie. The weapon is wrong. This is a much longer discussion and I don't think I can quite fit it into this post, but, in essence, I believe that this was supposed to be Noelle Holiday. Noelle actually can equip a few swords as of Chapters 3-4, surprisingly. She can equip the Jingleblade and the Blackshard. However, I don't believe that Susie is "not" the second hero. I believe that The Prophecy has been tampered with. Or, at least, reinterpretted. Think back to what Gerson said. Stories can be changed. They can be retold.

Cat Petterz the RPG is a ripoff of Dragon Blazers, which is a retelling of Lord of the Hammer, which is a retelling of The Prophecy, which is a retelling of DELTARUNE.

I believe that this sort of thing is happening to the prophecy itself. I believe that Gaster, for one reason or another, changed the prophecy, replacing "The Second Hero, The Girl" with Susie. This sort of rules lawyering is possible because Susie is also referred to later in the prophecy:

We know that this is Susie because Rude Buster is being used to identify her. This image is even called "Rude Buster" internally. I believe the original prophecy was introducing Susie as a different "The Girl". However, because it technically uses the same term to refer both to Noelle and Susie, their roles can be altered. And so, Susie, through Gaster's intervention, became the Second Hero.

But why? Why was it important to make Susie involved? I believe it's simply because of who Susie is. When confronted with fate, Susie laughs it off. She won't let it happen. Wheras someone like Noelle would try and accept it for what it is, most likely, Susie outright refuses to play by the rules. And this gets us back into Rude Buster. Rude Buster is important. It's important enough to be the name of the battle theme, it's important enough to be what symbolizes Susie most directly in the prophecy. I believe that Rude Buster, and what it represents, is why Gaster chose Susie. Noelle might, in some sense, have "hope crossed on her heart". But it'd be passive hope. Wistful hope. Susie has active hope. With every fiber of her being, she has that hope. She inspires that hope in others. It is, as Ralsei puts it, infectious. She infects herself with hope, and grows it.

She infects Ralsei with hope.

She gives Tenna hope.

And, though this is more of a stretch, she even, indirectly, infects Seam with hope.

Remember that the only reason we could even potentially defeat The Knight is through Susie's perseverance, and Susie has to defeat Gerson, (who Seam is talking about here) on her own. Remember what Gerson told us.

Susie has the White Pen, that can draw over the dark pages of fate, known as Hope.

I believe that Gaster picked up his own pen, to transform Deltarune into his deltarune, one where Susie steps up to bat as the second hero of prophecy...

...So that Susie could, in turn, pick up her own white pen, and write a new ending. Chapter 7. A retelling of a retelling. The words on the wall called her a hero. Maybe that's not what they were ""supposed"" to mean. But, does it even matter? Through her grit and determination, it won't make a difference. She may not have been intended to be the second hero, but, she is, angel damnit, and the universe is just going to have to accept it. She may not have been chosen by The Angel, or whatever the hell wrote that prophecy, but she was chosen by one Wing Gaster, who considers her Very, Very Wonderful. She wields the White Pen to draw all over fate. And, of course, that white pen has a name. "Rude Buster". When the hands of fate draw near, you can always count on a good ol' Susie Rude Buster to persevere through anything.

[dunmeshistash]

Ryoko Kui Exhibition & ''Delicious in Dungeon'' Exhibition

"Delicious in Dungeon" Artwork

Cover illustration draft, vol. 1

Since this was the first volume, I tried out a few different drawings and had the editor and designer choose which ones they wanted, then made small adjustments. I personally liked the top-down draft, and the one of the cooking processes (back cover) the best. But looking back, I sincerely think it's good that we didn't go with those. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 2

The format was decided for volume 1. So, volume 2 came together quickly. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 3

I thought it might be cool to make the character Chilchuck darker in the foreground, and the background brighter! But it didn't quite work out the way I had imagined. I think it could have been a bit better. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 4

I remember that the overall shape of volume 4 came together very quickly. The character Senshi's hands didn't fit nicely, so I moved them backwards and to the side. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 5

I thought people might start to think "how many have I bought?" so I wanted to create a slightly different impression with this volume. I decided to put the character right in the center and try putting it together all in blue and green hues. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 6

With the Red Dragon defeated, have we reached the halfway point in the story? With this in mind, I thought of how many volumes were left to go, and the number of characters, and decided to pair up the characters Namari and Shuroiro. In hindsight, it would have been fine to have them on one cover each. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 7

The image is of focus lines converging on the character Izutsumi. This is the kind of cover, with upside down characters, which I've always wanted to try once(?) I submitted it as a trial, thinking that at this point the cover wouldn't dramatically influence sales. However, in the end, we decided it would be better not to have it upside down. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 8

I tried blurring the mushrooms in the foreground, then I accidentally saved over it, and couldn't go back to the original. I remember apologizing that it was probably tacky, when I submitted it. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 9

I don't think snake meat is marbled at all, but if it has an unfamiliar look, people might not recognize it as meat… so I made it look like beef to make it easier to understand. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 10

I thought it might be interesting to have more than one of the main characters on the cover again, so I added the character Falin. I remember it wasn't badly received, but it still ended up just being Thistle on his own. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 11

I wanted this cover to be covered in shiny gold. After I finished it, it didn't have enough color, so I painted the tablecloth green, and it ended up looking like Christmas colors. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 12

Up to this point, the covers have featured one of the main characters holding cooking utensils in the foreground and a monster in the background, but I thought it might be interesting to reverse the format just before the final volume, so I drew this cover with that in mind. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 13

volume 13 was meant to be the final one, but it was too thick to be published as a single volume, so we decided to split it into two. The question of “so, what should I draw next!?" may be at the forefront of volume 13. (Kui)

Cover illustration draft, vol. 14

I had decided that the final cover definitely needed to have everyone eating together on it, but because I was publishing two books at the same time I was pressed for time, and it was difficult to have a cover with so many characters on it. I also submitted a rough for an illustration that didn't need me to draw any crowds, but such obviously easy ideas are never adopted. (Kui)

TV anime "Delicious in Dungeon"

About the ending illustration.

I drew these based on the director's instruction "This kinds of pictures." I hardly ever have the chance to draw color illustrations, so it was a valuable experience for me. (Kui)

[Kui's commentary is from the english pamphlet]

[mediumgayitalian]

via the frantic dms i sent to my friend:

if i were to start nywhere it would have to be with frankie. she lowkey annoyed me as a kid but i love her now. and who would the naive but bright w a dark past and complicated feelings about Everything character be…thats hazel baby

loooooooooooove the idea of 15 day old hazel with the body of a woman who died in the 40s like YES

in the mad scientist vamp family….nico her vamp brother…..vampirism as a metaphor for homosexuality obviously….nico being an old ass vamp who went into hiding very young when he was first turned literally centuries ago….

just as out of time as hazel but in a totally different way…..

theyre in the timeless teenage setting of monster high with all their other friends lol.

god there are so many other obvious ones. that are not exactly the same. but could be shifted. percy as this very powerful sea monster character…but hes half human. hides that shit HARD. couldnt pass in the normie world and is always looking over his shoulder in the monster world…terrified hes going to be outed…and doesnt that mean more than one thing here. and annabeth the half normie half monster of some kind but she doesnt know…neither does anyone else…,number one rumor is that she isnt a monster at all. rules the school but people HATE her cus they dont understand why shes here. shes always proving herself.

looooooooooooove the idea of jason from ever after high

love lovr LOVE IT i am obsessed

toppled things over back there…no memory at all…only the feeling of being monstrous….him and his fangs fit right in at MH…but the guilt of something he cant remember haunts him……

leo as heath flames that one is easy lol

will my darling my mummy boy. in a tomb for literally 5000 years. everyone he ever knew and loved is looooong long gone. his language is gone. his culture is gone. he is an artifact. he REPRESENTS all that is left of his time. hes gonna nav that. nico the only other person at MH even close to as old as he is….but its not the same.

nico is literally one tenth as oldas he is

500 vs 5000 years

nico hated where he lived….hes grouchy but he loves MH. loves hazel. loves the new opportunity to let his freak fly.

will who misses the past so bad his teeth ache with it. wrapped with bandages he can never take off. or that he wont take off.

and iloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove frank as medusas son i LOVE IT

terrified of letting himself be seen bc that could kill everyone he loves IKTR

hating his heritage. parentage at odds with percy -- but percy loves him, percy is so kind. so hard for him to reconcile that with all his mother has told him and that he KNOWS is true….she was treated so evilly….and yet…percy is so kind….and none of the other monsters are so bad either…and yet they can be free in a way he cannot…..

and WEREWOLF PIPER

hairy and BEAUTIFUL and always feeling like an animal. in the normie world for entirely different reasons but always feeling less than wherever she goes.

so so beautiful and so so hurting and so so angry and so so desperate to be something shes not

attached to the cycles of the moon.

okay thalia kills me bc she is firmly in ever after high and crawling her way back to her brother. never ever fit in. never tried to. you know the fairytale brother and sister?

basically its. this brother and sister are cast out by their stepmother. into the woods they escape before she kills them, but she has cursed the woods so they cannot feel any softness from it. days later the brother is desperate for a drink and dives to a stream but the sister hears the stream whisper that whomever drinks from it will be turned into a tiger. so she begs and pleads and pulls him away. on they go. they make their way to another pool, and once again the brother is desperate, and this time the pool whispers that whomever drinks from it will become a wolf. once again the brother is desperate. once again the sister pleads him away. the third creek they pass the brother cannot be stopped -- the creek whispers a similar warning, whomever drinks from it will turn to a dear. the sister, weeping, cannot stop her brother, and he is turned into a deer.

the woods, satisfied, leave the sister to its softness. she lives in the woods for years, deflecting hunters away from her brother. caring for him. and after many years she meets a hunter, a king, and he is so impressed by her skill and by her love for her brother that he falls in love with her. and she him. they marry, and she takes her brother with her to live on the grounds.

only her ascent to royalty catches the attention of the stepmother. and the stepmother casts an evil, twisted copy of the sister, sending the copy to take her place, and the twisted sister slaughters her deer brother and feeds him to the kingdom. the king knows what has happened and is horrifed at his wife. the real sister, heartbroken and ashamed, flees to the woods, where she dies.

the whole thing with ever after high is that its about legacies. the children of fairy tale characters -- good and evil -- must assume their parents roles.

jason and thalia as the myth of the brother and sister. except

jason is so thirsty.

thalia cannot stop him from the second pool.

he turns into a wolf. a wolf a thousand times thirstier than he was before.

he begs her to leave, as he is turned. to abandon him.

but she cant.

and he kills her.

tears her to shreds.,

he is hunted by all the kingdom for his crimes. flees, ripping through the woods. falls down the well of madness, which would usually connect to wonderland (actual EAH lore lol) except it is the solar eclipse, and the water takes him, instead, anew, to monster high

god i love monster high lore.

ANYWAYS he is a werewolf there. no memory except the blood on his hands.

and thalia --

thalia did not die.

she did spend years in the woods. hunting. desperate. told her brother was slaughtered. not shown his body. refusing to admit it. refusing to have anything to do with the king. hunting her brother down to find him again. to hold him even if he will never again be recognizable

because THAT is her legacy, that is the contract she signed, that is all she cared about

and she finds him alright

toying what nicos family looks like now. either i lean into loving adoptive hades & persephone who are franks like hazel and have nico with them or if hades is more layered than that. like very old and doing underground things idk

nico as an italian vamp who cant look in mirrors or like have garlic. drives will nuts he'll near kill himself to cook with garlic and will is like look one day im just gonna lose my shit and stab a chopstick through your chest i stg

DREW AS ABBEY I LOVE

bigger than all the other girls and shorter and meaner but not always trying to be. always thinks she can do things better and she CAN but she cant make friends for shit. mean to protect herself. cries herself to sleep. misses home so desperately. wants to feel beautoful. doesnt until piper who stomps into school without even TRYING, without the pretty clothes or the shaving her face or doing fuck all

and drew HATES HER she is immeidately beloved and top game and friends everywhere and she doesnt even brush her fur drew wants her DEAD

and dreams about her every night

was toying with a couple things for nefera de nile but no. will needs to wake up alone in that tomb

cecil is ust straght up a normie lol.

he is literally a mini victor frankenstein hes just buckshit insane and so so good at fucking things up that he has created life four separate times in for separate ways to the point that everyone was like okay you jhave to go here

you are a hazard to society we cant handle your freak ass and they would love you

and hes genuinely such an autistic weirdo that he fits in fine everyone thinks hes just done enough experiments on himself to become a monster

theyre not entirely wrong

hes obsessed with will and will is a little bit into it thats why theyre friends

also cecil managed to revive a scarab will was buried with and he cries and it makes him feel tethered to this time for the first time

just straight up witch lou ellen yeah that work s for me

via my friend: "and what kind of monster are you to attend here?" "oh! im pagan :))"

genie reyna stuck in a lantern world with her sister and the weirdness of the lantern world for YEAAAARSSS both trying to survive until the lantern is knocked over by percy…just cracked…she is free to live while her sister twists into a shade inside….she comes back for her sister as soon as she learns how but its too late by then…hylla is twisted beyond recognition and reyna almost detroys the monster world desperately trying to bring her back

okay lee is easy. will is just trying to live his life and slowly he is adjusting and one day there is a new zombie at school with his fucking brother's face :)) absolutely no mortal memories, has been a zombie for decades and all his memories are from his zombie life. but thats lee. and will gets his whole world shattered again because lee is back like he prayed would happen but lee is no longer his brother

i dont have anything specific for kayla or austin but i really like the idea of them being older ghosts that died young and will kind of adopts them because they miss the past like he does and he is close enough to death that he can communicate with them in a different way

yes i like that theyre ghosts

GROVER

thats easy tho hes a plant monster

no extra lore for him he doesnt need any

he can be a little evil tho

as a treat

thats everybody i think!!

how embarrassed would yall be on my behalf if i started talking abiut a monster high au.

[whysosiriushuh]

Sirius: Which one of you was going to tell me that tea tastes different if you put it in hot water

Lily,*slowly puts her book down *: Y-You were putting it in cold water....

Sirius: ....

Remus: Padfoot? Answer the question. Sirius!

Sirius: Yeah I thought for like 5 years that people just put it in hot water to speed up the tea-ification process. Didn't realize there was an actual reason.

Everyone: ....

Sirius: You think I have the patience to boil water?

Regulus: You don't have the patience to microwave water for 3 minutes????

James,*grabbing him*: Why are you. putting it in the microwave to boil it?!

Regulus: Do you think I have the patience to boil water on the stove?!

Remus: Fuck Regulus you too!!??!!

James: It takes less than a minute!

Marlene: IS YOUR STOVE TOP POWERED BY THE FUCKING SUN?????

James: HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE YOU TO BOIL A CUP OF WATER ON THE STOVE!??!

Remus: Like 7 minutes!

James: Just stick the mug on top of the stove on medium heat and it boils in like 2 minutes less than that and you use a saucepan.

Pandora *taking notes*: Everyone in this room is so creative :)

Dorcas*turning to Remus*: So no one in your house uses a fucking kettle!?

Remus: Its right there near the stove!!

Sirius: Wait a second... that's used to make tea??

Regulus: You told me it was there for aesthetic!!!!!!

James: So its not???

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"It's only-"

[thankstothe]

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[felassan]

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