#IT COUNTS OK

[sparrowchute]

Hey guys do we fuck with unfinished messy sketches on tumblr dot com

[swamp-chicken]

cletho yuri thank you for listening

yeah

“It’s over,” Etho panted.

Cleo was shrunk back against the wall, their sword held out defensively. They had drawn it the moment Etho had burst through the door.

Now, their sword dipped slightly. “It’s over?” they questioned.

Etho nodded, yanking down his mask. 

Cleo’s eyes widened, darting down to his exposed mouth. 

Etho stepped closer. “I failed.”

Cleo tried for bravado, but their cheeks darkened. “You failed? That’s not really like you, Etho.” Their arm was relaxing, sword tip almost touching the ground. 

“No, it isn’t,” Etho sighed, heart pounding. He closed the gap. 

Cleo’s sword clattered to the ground.

[doomedpuppetyuri]

pssst hey epithet fans

idk if any of y’all saw this Twitter post from Dawn M. Bennett

but that was my plushie and getting notified in a Coroika discord server about my Ramsey plushie’s autographed ass being posted to Twitter by Dawn M. Bennett herself was not on my 2024 bingo card but honestly I’m here for it he lives on my shelf now and I love him dearly

[meteorhoney]

got the best “kim spawn location” bug in my latest replay

[leonawriter]

Going back through the case for reasons, and again I'm struck by how callous Shinichi is or could be here?

There are multiple times that Kaito has helped Shinichi out in the past at great personal risk. Times when Shinichi could potentially have hurt Kaito far more than Kaito has ever hurt him (I'm not counting the taser, that's on Gosho deciding how much harm a taser does or doesn't do).

Shinichi has SEEN how Kaito will go out of his way to do the morally right thing - be it "return gem to its actual owner (Fairy's Lip)" or "save someone's life at risk of his own (Twilight Mansion, Three Instruments, technically Iron Tanuki)", or.... "a murder was committed at a heist and Kid is seen to have helped with the investigation (Four Masterpieces, technically Magic Lovers Murder Case).

It's SO easy to list even only the ones that Shinichi himself has been present for, and not even counting the movies, where they've worked together far more than they will on this case here, and so that just makes it kind of... jarring? When Shinichi says-

"Then they catch you, so what?"

Like... there's a big difference between Kaito becoming known as the true identity of Kaitou Kid via arrest, and Kaito being arrested as both Kid and as a murder suspect.

And Shinichi's answer to that? "It's retribution for all the crimes you've committed."

Sure, only two panels later Shinichi is agreeing to help, but - that's after eight panels of Shinichi being suspicious of him, and him freaking out. I mean, there is NO poker face during that early part. Just panic all the way up the wazoo.

Look at this boy. He currently has no chill whatsoever.

Whereas Shinichi? The first thing he does is accuse Kaito of murder. After that, his face is set at a constant resting bitch face. The most that a physically seven year old could have.

Then we get the scene I showed at the start. Still with Kaito imploring Conan to listen. Look at the way he's leaning forward in the second panel, where he says "Are you okay with that? Not solving the murder case?" - he's leaning forward, arms out.

Now, I love that line of Kaito's since it gets a callback at the end of the case, but look at his expression, his body language - we can only see his face and his neck/top of his chest, but we can see how he's still leaning over, the way he's speaking loudly or giving the impression of it.

Another point I'll make about Kaito from the first time we see him here is that he's wearing sweats and his top hat/monocle. And... just that, really. He's literally and symbolically stuck partway between his two personas; Kid's hat and monocle are hiding his face, but there's no mask there, and he isn't wearing the suit.

He's just a kid with a big hat and an eyepiece on right now. Lower case kid, not upper case Kid.

And then there's Shinichi, who's just... sure he's agreeing but he doesn't have to like it.

Part of me wants to say "this is because Shinichi knows that the optimal method of getting out of this intact for both of them is what they end up doing, as in, Kaito pretending to be him while Ran is there, and he resents that as well as giving his identity, even temporarily, to Kid, who is a criminal, and effectively become party to aiding and abetting said criminal."

However there's another part of me that's seen Shinichi kick a football at high power at Kid with the force to knock him out of the air, and aimed a sleeping dart at Kid when he could have fallen out of a helicopter (or, in one movie, near the top of a skyscraper), as well as various other terrifying things, and I just... sometimes, Shinichi makes me concerned.

With Kid at least, there seems to be a sense of "I don't know you, you're a criminal, you're infuriating, therefore whatever I do to you is justified."

It's a return of Kaito trusting Shinichi more than Shinichi trusting Kaito, which is why it feels rather like Kaito is treating it as if... if Shinichi really had just left him for a false arrest on murder charges he's innocent of, that'd be a betrayal, while Shinichi doesn't see it having the same weight.

But, like... bringing this back to point.

I'd also say that Shinichi's also distracted and only half paying attention to the panicking thief in the room because excuse you, he's doing his job, here. Every moment we see him beyond "Did you kill him?!" has him investigating something or other.

So in a sense, the way he's coming off as cold and callous is because he's already cataloguing everything he needs in order to prove Kid innocent.

That... still doesn't excuse the way he talks, though, because with most other people he'd say something to calm them down - while with Kid, he doesn't even bother just saying "Shut up and let me concentrate." He's almost cruel in how he responds, making Kaito panic more the longer it goes on - which I don't think he was doing intentionally, but it does have the side effect that when Shinichi sets his conditions, it does rather feel like Kaito's about ready to say "anything. I will do just about anything if you will help me out here."

The very next time we see either Shinichi or Kaito, they're in performance mode. Kaito is now Shinichi. He has a smile on (Poker Face, most likely). I can easily imagine that Shinichi just gave his condition and Kaito went "what, that's it?" in pure relief.

But... yeah.

I'm still stuck on those lines.

"Then they catch you, so what?

"It's retribution for all the crimes you've committed."

"I'm willing to ally with you... but there's a condition."

It's just... harsh, man. Real harsh. It can be hard going from Shinichi talking to Ran or something to being reminded that he can be like this with someone who hasn't deserved it.

Sometimes Shinichi will talk about how important it is to communicate clearly, and value your friends, and to not do the kinds of things that lead to the murders he solves. And then he'll turn around and- tbh? I'm morbidly curious what would happen if he had this sort of acerbic relationship with someone who wasn't Kaito, who didn't have a "will not kill/some moral lines don't get crossed" boundary.

Personally, I'd say that if it weren't for Kaito being a good person, Shinichi would have been in trouble ages ago.

[countphanula]

yeah im making a good contribution to the phandom (basically only reblogs)

hmmmm heres all my screenshots from dans bday stream aka the day i realised my brain has. chosen these gay guys to focus on for at least a month. theyre all sister daniel and father phil!

[naivesilver]

when you're throwing ideas around like "haha what if mokku and piccolino were BOTH being raised by august in modern times" and @strange-acorn whips out some INCREDIBLE art for your silly little picrew designs so you go insane a little bit

[mobagewithweapons]

hatsune miku is wielding a gun!

[bonez-yard]

Does this count as Vashwood? I mean I did draw them on the same paper so… so it counts ok-

Please do not STEAL/COPY/PASTE my art!!!

[whiterexpper]

Go ahead. Tell me im wrong.

[honeypupcakes]

so. rice amiright?

[multi-lefaiye]

@wherearetheplants also said 13 so <3

(once again this is for my “hey i have 40 one-word prompts, send me one and i’ll talk about my boy salvatore”)

13. Monster

Oh no oh no my boy,

Anyway so one thing I think is fascinating about Salvatore that I want to explore more is that at one point he has some dialogue that implies that he fucking hates other vampires. So I’m gonna expand on that.

Salvatore does not think vampires, or any monsters along those lines, should exist, and like. He doesn’t necessarily go out of his way to hunt down other vampires or anything, and he won’t attack them on sight, but like. If he has the opportunity to and believes that, if he doesn’t, they will make more vampires, he has no problems taking them out.

Because to Salvatore, becoming a vampire is legit the worst thing that could ever happen to a person. He views it as a fate worse than death (which is actually why I think, if/when he does have the opportunity to feed from a person, he immediately does whatever he has to to ensure they won’t turn into one--to him, that’s a mercy killing).

So yeah my vampire blorbo thinks that all vampires are irredeemable monsters and does not want to associate with them. Yes this thought process extends to himself as well. He needs so much therapy.

[katsinspats]

Thematically appropriate comic for Make a Terrible Comic Day!!

I saw the original post this morning and it made me get out of bed to make something, so thank u Pseudonym Jones mission accomplished

[pxrxmoore]

wait i get a 911 ep on my birthday 😭 🙏

[hinamie]

dead man walking

[bibliosims]

titania | an upper body tattoo. ⊹₊ ⋆

download | sfs (free, no ads)

TOU: do not reupload and never put this behind a paywall !

previews and more under the cut !

meet titania, my first tattoo (and ts4 cc) ever ! i’ve so enjoyed working on this little project and am already planning out the next one ! enjoy :)

psa the back tattoo warps kind of weirdly on certain masc frames, sorry ! also, there are 10 individual swatches per 3 opacity options, so technically it's 30 swatches overall

also feel free to tag me if u use these ! it’d be cool to see these in the wild 🫶🏻

thumbnail previews:

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•☽────✧˖°˖ art by william heath robinson for shakespeare's a midsummer night's dream ˖°˖✧────☾•