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sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

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Was talking with a friend about rin head cannons to include in the fic I'm writing and we both agreed that he keeps himself perfectly clean, he smells fresh and does his nails and everything.

It was also mentioned about him shampooing his tail and agh!! 😫😫😫 he's so cute I want to see fan art of that!!! 💙💙💙

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THEY ARE SO SILLY— another request done and im so thankful for it, because they have such a chemistry and i truly feel this sassy energy from them when they are together 😭🙏⭐️ celestial ass indeed……

ALSO i hope i left him his nerdiness because i didn’t want to go full f-boy but anyways!! love you all ‼️💗

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Gilded Shadows occupied many tens of hours of my time and all I can say is thank you! You wrote a VN with a solid, interesting story and made it all work. Thanks for the reminder, Anon!

To anyone out there who wants to give indie otome / VNs a shot, this is one of the best. You can even start with the excellent high school - Fae otome/VN by the same author for free now, I believe: Changeling was a lot of fun.

~ Imp

hello!! i just wanted to say that gilded shadows is one of my top 10 favorite VNs, and that i got so excited when i saw ur making another. thank u for doing what u do <33

Thank you! 🥺🥺

I definitely want to keep making VNs as long as my hands will let me write and draw for them.

And as long as people want to play them!

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Warmth

Written for grayluweekend2020

Read on Ao3

One of the consequences of training in the unforgiving cold of snow-filled winter is that you stop paying attention to body temperature. Gray gets reminded of this every time his stripping habit leads to laughter or gawks and stares. Usually it would take a substantial amount of heat, flames hotter than even Natsu’s, for Gray to feel anything.

That is, before Lucy.

Even before he wakes, Gray can feel the soft body pressed completely to his front. He knows that he’s naked under the covers because her skin sparks a fire at every point its connected to his. She’s so warm. Always warm even in the chill November air.

He opens his eyes to see long strands of blonde hair tickling the base of his neck. He’s grown used to the sight of her sleeping on his chest by now. He’s not too sure why she does it, but given the countless life-threatening situations they’ve faced, he figures it offers her some comfort at night. The same way waking up with her in his arms does for him.

His arms raise to circle her waist as he felt her head lift to meet his eyes. “Morning” he mumbles. The lingering sleep catches in his voice made the words come out rougher than usual, but Lucy always seemed to like that given the way she bites her lip whenever she hears it.

This time is no different.

“Morning,” she answers with that sweet slow smile. He lifts her head almost inconspicuously and Gray takes the signal to lean down and seal their lips together. It was chaste, just a mere brush of their lips together. A touch just to touch. Then he takes the opportunity to rub their lips together in a side to side motion just to hear that giggle that he fucking loved. She hums against his lips with a short burst of laughter until she pulls away. Lucy rests her arms onto his chest and looks up at him with those bright brown eyes. “I was thinking…I really don’t want to get out of bed today.”

“Oh,” he teases playfully squeezing her thighs. She rolls her eyes at him but the smile on her lips stays. “Don’t get cocky Fullbuster. Your still on thin ice for making a mess in my apartment.”

He opens his mouth to give his usual it was all Natsu’s fault spiel, but a pointed look has him closing it just as fast. She can go from sweet to feisty and back to sweet in a flash and he was not looking forward to being Lucy-kicked out of the bed. “Sorry sorry. What did you have in mind then?” The look on her face changed from an annoyed scowl to barely contained eagerness. He knew that look well. “The book Levy handed you yesterday?”

“It’s the final part to that series I’ve been obsessing over! Lev found it while we were away and it had just arrived right before we got back. She promised to tell the rest of the guild that we’re recovering and not to bother us.” She pauses to shrug “They probably still will but I’m dying to know how this series ends.”

He smiles too looking forward to the inevitable ranting and raving Lucy will do when she finally does finish a good book. “Then let’s take a shower and stay in today.”

She rises off his chest and out of the bed. As she stretches her arms into the air, he’s once again taken aback by her. She’s not even touching him anymore, but he still feels her heat radiating off of him in waves. Burning him so sweetly that it left a permeant mark on his heart.

She turns to him somehow oblivious to the effect she has on the ice-mage, “Hey instead of a shower do you want to take a bath?”

He hides his emotions behind a soft smile reserved solely for her. Just her, always her. “I don’t think my bathtub can fit two people.”

She wiggles her eyebrows at him a mischievous smile on her face, “Wanna find out?”

~

After they’ve dried off and the clouds part to make way for the midday sun, Lucy rests against his headboard book in hand with nothing but his shirt and underwear on. Gray lays shirtless in his gym shorts with his head rests against her thighs listening to explain the key plot twist of the series. Neither are dressed appropriately for the cold temperature outside, but it didn’t faze them one bit. The warmth they radiate for each other inside of Gray’s little house was more than enough.

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Putting a bloody lace handkerchief in my back pocket to indicate that I'm into Victorian tuberculosis roleplay.

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Nothing in the world is usual today. This is the first morning (Izumi Shikibu, Japanese poet of the mid-Heian period; tr. J. Hirschfield & M. Aratani).

The light returns, bringing back shapes and colours. Everything seems just as it was when the night was falling; the night may wrap things tightly, but when it passes, they remain undiminished. But maybe not only that; maybe each passing night leaves a veneer of melancholy and each dawn reveals a new layer. This shore, that village, those streets are just like always, just like never before.

Wandering in morning landscapes with (top to bottom, left to right): Tsuchiya Koitsu, Morning Fuji from Lake Kawaguchi, 1936 [source]; Yoshikawa Kanpo, Sanjo Ohashi, no date [source]; Kawase Hasui, Morning in Dotonbori, Osaka, 1921 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Morning on the Daikon Wharf, 1927 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Morning at Cape Inubo, 1931 [source]; Kasamatsu Shiro, Clear Morning After Snow at Shinobazu Pond, 1938 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Morning in Dotonbori, Osaka, 1933 [source]; Kawase Hasui, Beppu in the Morning, Oita, 1928 [source]; Utagawa Hiroshige, Snowy Morning in the Yoshiwara, 1832–1838 [source].

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Snow falling in Kyoto, Japan ❄

@Hisa0808 on twitter

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Winter in Japan by amour_snoo_py, as showcased on Tokyo Camera Club

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I gotta know what kind of shit Mashima-san was on when he made the ice wizards, because holy hell. The most attractive fuckers alive (or dead in Ur and Silver's cases ahahaha *runs away*)

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These are the Hakuouki chibi illust I drew to make stickers!

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shinsengumitober day 3 - youth 🌱

School is kicking my ass today so here’s little kondou and hijikata running through the fields dreaming about their future

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When even a Fury’s strength may wane

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Saitou san! Sketched him while on a break from writing my thesis 😮‍💨

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Guess who has done something extremely stupid? Me!

I used to use a website (only accessible through the wayback machine) that was a compilation of biographies of the members of the Shinsengumi (including early members like Serizawa) as ressources for my writing. I apparently did not register any link to access it!!! Which means that I can't find it back.

This website (fully in english) had a main page listing the members and you could click on their names to access their bio. There was no pictures only text. One page was dedicated to giving few sentences bio on several members that were not as famous as the one most often mentioned ones. It's on this website that I read that Hijikata's blind brother used to write poetry, or that Kondo was adopted because he was noticed after fighting back against a thief... Does that ring a bell for anyone? If yes, could you give me a link?

Maybe @talesofedo or @kumoriyami-xiuzhen or maybe @queengurako?

(sorry if this is a bother but I feel desperate and like a colossal idiot too)

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”神域”