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Alright voters, here we are! The final poll of v2!! From here, we have many other tournaments, but this is the only ship one I've got planned, so vote your hearts out!

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can yall help me name my oc? she's shipped with choromatsu btw :3

also some aggie doodles from last night

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Alright voters, here we are! The final poll of v2!! From here, we have many other tournaments, but this is the only ship one I've got planned, so vote your hearts out!

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sorry guys. reblogging again because i was court mandated to remove the one piece art. vote atsuyana only

Alright voters, here we are! The final poll of v2!! From here, we have many other tournaments, but this is the only ship one I've got planned, so vote your hearts out!

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Why iro doesnt get along (my thoughts on them)

Ichimatsu at the very beginning was marketed as unpredictable and kind of insane bc he didn’t reveal his thoughts to people and would happily join in to torment someone else. 

But they still kept playing with that concept of him being an unsociable beast. Just bc his brothers know he’s a softie doesn’t mean everyone else does! And just because he’s a softie doesn’t mean he doesn’t have his mean streaks! 

By the second season, Ichimatsu-sama was pretty much gone. Scrubbed clean of his unfriendly persona for whatever reason– but within canon there has to be some kind of explanation.

I like to think Ichimatsu got tired of doing it (pretending is hard when you’re a depressed introvert, even if you’re doing it for the bit).

So now he’s just some guy that likes cats and has social anxiety. He still keeps his thoughts and feelings to himself.

Initially, Karamatsu’s flamboyance was played up extremely. He was too confident for how tacky and loud he was. He legitimately couldn’t read the room. Karamatsu is met with different levels of exasperation (most notably from 110– the most self aware guys of the bunch).

This really really irritated Ichimatsu. S1e16 revealed he was jealous of him (and that osomatsu is a really good way to break their tension. If you’re ever stuck finishing an iro conversation, osomatsu’s like really annoying social lubricant).

He’s both jealous bc he wants that confidence and appalled because how can someone parade themselves like that? Karamatsu’s confidence is something that can be marveled at, but isn’t something a lot of people would realistically try to copy.

So what’s their deal?

I see a lot of people try to write iro bond over their shared struggles. They’re both easy to bulldoze and they try to hold their tongue until they can’t anymore. Funnily enough, they’ll still use each other when possible. They either haven’t realized how similar they are, or they just don’t care (most likely the latter).

What makes them the most similar is the fact that they’re avoidant of their problems. They’re shy. They’re introverted. They both prefer to be told what to do. They don’t like voicing their true opinion.

So what makes them different and unable to get along with each other? Their levels of self awareness and emotional intelligence. 

Ichimatsu can and will read the room. Karamatsu will choose to do it whenever it’s most convenient for him. He chose to read the room during the Ichimatsu incident, because he wanted to avoid embarrassing both himself and Ichimatsu. He chose not to see what was potentially going on when Choromatsu dyed his hair, because the situation doesn’t affect him at all. He couldn’t have known what was going on, but instead of taking a second to see if something was going on, he bulldozed the conversation and made everything worse. 

 More than anything though, it’s their preferred method of coping with their insecurities. 

So if they’re similar, why are they so awkward with each other?

The main reason why people have such a hard time making them relate to each other ( there are a lot of contrived fic ideas to make them bond) is bc they both would rather die than open up to someone like themselves.

Both of them already have a hard time opening up to others (esp nyanko; pizza) and if they’re going to go through the trouble of opening up to someone they’re not going to do it with someone who can’t or won’t help them.

Ichimatsu’s entirely too awkward to be of help to anyone and Karamatsu doesn’t have the emotional capacity to handle other people’s feelings in a sincere way. He might care, but caring isn’t always enough to make the situation better. People that are emotionally avoidant the way they are can’t help others out very much.

Karamatsu can help out if you’re having a bad day but he can’t help out if you’re depressed. He’s not the kind of person who can treat a root cause. Ichimatsu might give making your bad day better a shot, but he’s easily discouraged. He, too, is not equipped to handle something as permanent and prevalent as mental illness. 

Ichimatsu prefers extroverts (see: jyushimatsu, osomatsu) and karamatsu prefers people who are capable of socializing (see: totty, osomatsu, choromatsu). 

They’re also both passive characters and want to be led. Karamatsu wants to lead under very limited circumstances. He’ll lead when someone is below him on the hierarchy, even if they’re normally higher than him or more socially dominant (ep s1e24; s2 beach episode when they’re looking at girls). He would much rather be told what to do (within reason).

Ichimatsu steps up when there’s an opportunity and when he absolutely has to. Or he has to be fed up with the situation. Or there’s a chance to make fun of someone. He’s not immune to the hivemind and enjoys actively participating in it like everyone else. 

Otherwise he’d rather not be involved.

Tldr; it's very hard for iro to get along. Not impossible, but theyre the type to have fleeting moments of peace more so than a consistently pleasant relationship. Even if they wanted to get along they have 4 other brothers that are substantially easier to get along with.

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Alright voters, here we are! The final poll of v2!! From here, we have many other tournaments, but this is the only ship one I've got planned, so vote your hearts out!

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( by @dreamdripdistance and @chommatsu )

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I'm just having a hard time with money rn and I'm stuck on some active, larger commissions so I thought it might be nice to get some spare change with simple doodles.

$1-3 for a quick b/w sketch, $5 for simple color, $10 for minimal shading.

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Rants!

Tumblreddit: Also I mean like... The little weird subcommunities and echo Chambers... The rivalry and hatred of seeing yourself in someone and being unable to reconcile... Reddit as our refuge after the porn ban, us as their refuge after this api issue .. red coded x blue coded (or y'know orange and blue are complimentary colors)

We're just two weirdos (and there was only one bed)

Reddit keeping little framed photos of us in their house (r/tumblr and r/curated Tumblr)...

Primo yaoi material tbh

Atsushi/Yanagida: I know this is wild since they are both like nothing background characters but they’re so important to me. The essence of crackship/rarepair. I hc them as having dated because they’re both lgbt but they had a really bad break up so they hate each other’s guts now. Where am I getting this? From my brain. They’re basically like my OCs to me. I want to go on about it but I realize I’d have to explain a lot to you since I don’t think you know the source… So sorry…

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Rants!

Atsushi/Yanagida: I know this is wild since they are both like nothing background characters but they’re so important to me. The essence of crackship/rarepair. I hc them as having dated because they’re both lgbt but they had a really bad break up so they hate each other’s guts now. Where am I getting this? From my brain. They’re basically like my OCs to me. I want to go on about it but I realize I’d have to explain a lot to you since I don’t think you know the source… So sorry…

Junta/makoto: Makoto fangirling over junta?? Junta is so humble he needs a cringefail hype man bf...

Makoto canonically isn't very interested in girls and junta is a jock (obviously gay... He plays baseball, the sport where you wear cute outfits and spank other men when you walk by them)

And they're both so sweet and chill but like in contrasting ways... If it weren't for my ot3 this would be my favorite ship for this show and for these two

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(blasting karamatsu with transfem beams)(blasting karamatsu with transfem beams) (blasting karamatsu with transfem beams)

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Bracket 2 - Finals

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