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First Canvas

I tried...

PS: Didn't have paint thinner 😅

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skip and loafer character wallpapers drawn by the author, misaki takamatsu

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Snow at the Ukimido, Katada, Tsuchiya Koitsu, 1934

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Late night thoughts

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Here are some thoughts about how Sensei built up the paired card theory for Taichihaya:

The first hint we get that Chihaya herself sees Tachi and Chiha as paired cards is here

When she lays out her placement, she looks for her card and automatically looks for Tachi because it's her paired card, but not only. Chihaya feels like Tachi = Taichi is the other half of her pair

She refers to this moment with the word "futari" that literally means "a couple", "pair" in Japanese. The fact that she started the club with Taichi together, made her feel like he was a part of it all. Her happiest moments are in the Mizusawa clubroom.

When Taichi leaves it's like a part of her is amputated. Her teacher tells her to study

Chihaya finally truly "feels" in her skin and bones the emotions described in the Kaze poem....she feels like she broke Taichi and is falling apart herself. She directly connected to the poem and the emotions of the Poet for the first time. Beforehand she probably understood some poems but it never hit her deep in the heart as the moment Taichi left.

This is when we see her starting to miss Chiha but Taichi seems to always come around at moments she is at loss, like in the third year nationals, him helping out the karuta club at the karaoke and Chihaya with her mother.

By the time of the qualifiers we get the subtle hint that she looks for Tachi/Taichi after looking for Chiha (don't you look for the card of the person you love most? Like Taichi always looks for Chiha). At the challenger we are more and more confronted with Chihaya's feelings overflowing for Taichi. Her heart probably chose but her brain still needed to process and put a word on those feelings

When the finals begin, Chihaya looks for Taichi again...what is interesting is that in this moment we could actually chant poem 16

Chihaya needs him there, she wants him to come. That is what she wanted to ask him most at the New Year's shrine. "Please come Taichi"

Taichi on his side is struggling with his own painful feelings. Again here we could almost chant the Chiha poem, the hidden feelings of Narihara being represented by Taichi. Taichi has no idea how much Chihaya longs for him and still thinks she's meant to be with Arata. He is his worst enemy.

In chapter 234 Taichi finally comes to the venue. We sort of get the first teaser about "paired cards"....(although there already was a mention of Tachi and Chiha being a pair when Nishida spoke with Chihaya about having crutches to remember poems) and Chihaya's flustered thoughts that lead to the realisation that Taichi had always been with her, even if he wasn't there physically, he was her biggest support mentally. It's the thought of Taichi that gives her strength.

By the time we get here, it's clear. Tachi was the one paired up with Chiha. Not only in the Hyakunin Isshu but Chihaya's own pov confirms what she always felt from the moment she started the club with Taichi: he was the one always by her side, literally and metaphorically, 16 & 17 together since over 1000 years and more.

Chihaya finally ends up being able to express her own deep feelings she had hidden in her heart for the longest time, finally realising all her feelings for Taichi were simply love, confessing in their special place, their safe haven, their happiest unforgettable memories which bound them together for the future to come. An amazing way of writing romance and coming of age.

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Curtiss Sprague , Wolf and the Northern Lights  from ‘Our Little Friends of Eskimo Land’, 1911

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To me, the Falling music video concept looks like the lyrics of Taylor Swift's Clean. Lol.

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What if the rasengan vortex is like the Eight Trigrams: Palm Rotation the hyuga created. Boruto has Hyuga blood after all and it looks like he is releasing chakra from all around.

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Pumpkin patches are definitely crow places My shop

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Portfolio pop off

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:3 ✨

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Welcome to the bakery 🍞

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I just love drawing baked goods 💞✨

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Feeling fruity~! 🍓🍑🍇

Another food study! I’m having a lot of fun with these lately, plus learning a lot!

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