#and then 13 chapters later...

[bakuliwrites]

I swear to god, I start a fic with every intention of keeping it short and sweet and then all of a sudden, it's run away from me and I black out and then when I wake up, it's some 20,000+ word monstrosity that has a fully fleshed out plotline and a mind of its own.

[keferon]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAH

[azr3na]

wow.. I finished apothecary diaries s1 after a year and a half . I love maomao

[imintobones]

Claudiataker fans all wetting ourselves at the idea of this family tree being animated just to walk away with the same information but a new death date for Cedric 😭

[cultivating-wildflowers]

"Send me a voice memo and tell me how to pronounce my favorite character's name" anything for you queen @rubyintheskywithdiamonds

[plothooksinc]

In which there is a hostage exchange and Splinter definitely does not have Rat Flu.

[If you are a scientist, please pretend this chapter makes sense <3]

[spock-adoodledoo]

sanfan (sanhao?) appreciation post

[yandereshingeki]

doing smth productive on this 13 hour drive vs nap for 5 hours and then draw a mock up of the fursuit I really want to make

[llycaons]

ch79: sitting under the shadow of the cross

they even have inversely colored GLOVES oh I'm sick. sure purple and green would look good but you have GOT to make sure the saturation and tone matches. dark purple and light green just looks sickly! and nothing beats a classic black/white complementary color scheme!!! also 'another fated battle' :D guys guys they're literally in love with each otherrrr

I think in my last lb I talked about how verge probably thinks dante is very naive and ethically bankrupt for staying with the church, and likewise dante probably sees verge as naive and impractical and unjust for killing people who could have been support for priest and the other kids. and dante sees what he does as necessary and practical, and genuinely has faith even though he probably struggles with what the church does and supports. their worldviews are so at odds even tho verge still has faith too...

well shit dante, what's killing off demon lords one at a time doing? arguably verge is working for WAY more systemic change than that

don't quite know what to make of this or why dante gets so mad...my best guess is that this is maybe another dig at how he stayed w the church even tho it was homophobic/corrupt and became another priest that supports a shitty system and strayed from the person he used to be/lost himself. young dante was honestly kind of cool, if a bit ignorant. and dante's like OOHHH YOU ASSHOLE YOU KNOW THAT'S MY SORE SPOT. like he literally looks like he's about to cry in that panel.

I have GOT to wonder about his disconnect from his own sexuality. he seems to recognize his feelings in the present day and doesn't consider them wrong, he's just very private about them. it must be so lonely...I'm sure he hasn't told anyone else. he doesn't have any friends. and they'd ALL be catholic priests anyway. man needs to go to a gay bar...if even just to find friends. please. and he does get upset when verge pushes on that button...there's a reason he's not out to anyone and I'm sure he has some turmoil about it and about being a priest....man...no wonder verge called the boy 'nothing like dante' when he saw him being earnest. he probably thinks dante's completely denying himself by staying w the church, that he's insincere. not to make everything about them being gay but so much about their relationship and role in the story is literally explained by the fact that they're gay so I DO think that's it for a lot of this

anyway. verge just loves to torment him huh. but also dante just defended what were literally a bunch of sexual abusers and people who exploited the poor so. deserved. if verge dug into a few of his old wounds, dante probably dug into a few of his too. and when verge gets angry, he smiles more and gets meaner and more cutting. I don't think we've seen him actually...visibly angry like we've seen other characters. and its funny to accuse dante of not being earnest when verge is being so fake half the time. and when char doesn't even seem to know he's gay. but maybe that's not on him maybe she just can't pick up on hints

HE BEAT UP THREE OTHER KIDS WHO TRIED TO ATTACK HIM...I love him. like nope, not turning the other cheek today! THREE of him! I'm so proud!

I looked at the italian translation and he calls Nicholas 'Vecchio' which just means 'old guy'. I like 'gramps' a lot bc it matches dante's casual tone and light disrespect, but I don't think this is his actual grandpa

I wonder if verge harbored a hope that this dante who fought back against these bullies would want to come with him and keep fighting...and instead he stayed and joined them :(

why does he look genuinely concerned? why is dante his favorite??? what happened to these rumors????? how did his perception of dante change between now and 2018????

the noise I just made....they're all so babey. and here's verge!!! I've seen speculation that his original name was 'beato' bc it would match dante's as the literary beatrice's matches the literary dante's. but that seems a little circular to me. if verge's name already matched dante's, it seems a little redundant to change it, narratively speaking. I don't think we'll ever get his real name, or that we really need it like we need the priest's. dante never using it is kind of interesting...I wonder if he literally can't. maybe it's gone forever from everyone's memories since it was erased from the book of life

they stay up late talking bc they're best best friends and...maybe....

hey verge why are you reading anyway. rude. he always crossed his legs like that tho huh

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verge looks exactly the same which is really fucked up like he stopped aging at THIS age didn't he. he can't be more than like....15?it's hard to tell with this style but I think he looks younger and smaller than priest and leah. dante looks like such a baby tho. I think he wouldn't be so confused about what was happening later if he was older. maybe they're both 13, then? dante acts like it. and I have to assume they're around the same age

trembles violently. the way he can TELL dante's upset and he almost certainly knows why

EVEN THOUGH HE'S GAY!!!!!!!!

this is such a gorgeous panel and then I FORGOT THEY HIT US WITH LEVITICUS 20:13...god dante just looks so miserable in this panel, this poor little kid. the shadow of the cross separating them....each in their own little squares of light....oughhh

WHIMPERS. like they are if not ex bfs ex SOMETHINGS...ex maybes or almosts....they are insane about each other both because they're each other's best friend from a young age (and probably the most normal/best part of each other's lives atp) and also bc they're probably each other's first and only romantic love....

and then in comes the fucking catholic church. I don't mean in the chapter I mean in their relationship in general. but they also do come into this chapter. I hope verge tracked these people down once he became a witch and murdered all of them. I'm not really pro-revenge fantasy in general but he literally does do that to corrupt priests so. why not

this is the most alarmed we see him in this whole flashback, and one of the few times he's this startled in the whole manga. he's not expecting them. it's not that time yet. he thought he had a few more hours with dante. he's not only startled, but maybe scared too

verge doesn't even get the dignity of even the veneer of control here. this man comes whenever he wants to, ignoring the previously-established agreement, and verge has to go. he can't very well say no. he needs the money. despite doing this work 'voluntarily', verge has very little power here. as an adult I wonder if verge is very particular about being in charge for this reason

still, he's able to protect dante. he doesn't want this man even looking at him

fucking hell...he's so small...he's just a little kid. and dante is really baffled. I wonder when he connects the dots....it's not that hard to figure it out. I wonder if we'll see him realize and if that's what leads to the confrontation with nicholas, or if he doesn't realize until after verge leaves....fucked up either way

this image literally makes me ILL it is so poignant and so well-done and so clear...the image of this child with a man's hand on his back I literally feel like I'm looking at lolita covers again ah!!!! dante probably has this image imprinted in his mind's and thinks about it CONSTANTLY. he cannot be 15 years old I definitely think he's like 12-13

do we think that dark spot on his left shoulder blade is anything or just a shadow

end flashback. holy SHIT. can you imagine following this manga for two years going 'haha these two are insane and also obsessed with each other I wonder why' and then you're hit with canon gay dante experiencing violent homophobia and child sex worker verge who were implied to be childhood sweethearts in the SAME flashback. the chapter isn't even fucking over! INSANE. INSANE WRITING CHOICES HERE

why the fuck is DANIEL in my danverge chapter. char can be there tho she's earned it

she looks so menacing for being mostly nakey <3

EYE want to know manon's quill power...

when mammon talked about 'fighting like men' I think he meant more in the chauvinistic way where you establish your superiority through physical violence and claim your defeated opponent's friends and loved ones as property if you win, these two are just having a little tussle <3

[everyakipanel]

Chapter 13: Gun Devil

[finickyfelix]

Poking my head out of my cave briefly to announce that there is only one chapter left of Faded Daisy to write. Then I will be done at last. With this draft, that is.

Now I have to figure out how to wrap up this thing. I still don't know how the ending will go exactly. I have historically been very bad with endings. But I do know that it will be in this chapter. Unless I really do something crazy that stretches it out for too long.

[fluxrspar]

kano did a thing again :clown:

...and by 'did a thing', it means 'sat down for roughly three hours last week and, in something akin to a fever dream, made a new stats page for one of its muses.'

(i didn't fill it in until earlier today though, and so it took me another hour to clean up the bullet points and whatever and ever IT'S DONE.)

say hi at /statistics :]

[zestyzigzagoon]

I have a new little icon that I love very much. not only does it have beta design zigzagoon (the best zigzagoon), but there's a LEMON pattern. because it's ZESTY. get it. lemon zest,,,, zestyzigzagoon... 🥁

[little-paper-man]

Have some spare time this weekend to work on my fics but I'm having a chapter that's being a huge bitch. Not because it's being difficult to write but rather it's an important one that I don't know if it should be placed in the next chapter of Odd Moments like I initially wanted it to be or to save it for a later chapter in To Become Someone

WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU GO?!

[everyryuujisuguro]

[wannabebardrambles]

new fave class is hareem "dummy thicc" hareem