#but I will tag Oshii

[krongulous]

Hiii

TOP-10 Favorite scout characters from Ina? 👀👀👀

Ooohhh this is gonna be fun

10. Tanno Tatsuhiko, I found him in Ehime while playing through blizzard and I just knew I needed him

9. Zokuseiga Nekketsu, I ended up giving him Big Bang in another play through and actually ended up fully levelling up the move!

8. Katsumata Kazuki, I like him a lot because of his description about “nursing a rivalry with footballers” besides that he’s a great defender (despite being listed as a keeper)

7. Rakurai Gorou, I just like his design, and he’s another great choice for a defender if you ever go through the GO games!

6. The tryout trio, if anyone doesn’t remember these three, they’re the guys who failed the try out for Raimon, but in the games you can actually recruit them after the match with Gassan Kunimitsu. Also I like how for Oshii and Kotegawa, the game just lets you know they aren’t good people, Oshii is described as self-centered and Kotegawa literally cheats to win, so obviously I used them both (bonus points if anyone remembers when Oshii was my pfp AND banner)

5. Hammer, he was my best midfielder in my first GO light playthrough, when I get GO shadow I’m definitely using him again, also he’s just baby Tobitaka, look at his pompadour!

4. Misato Irita, not only do I love his design but the fact his nickname in Japan is just Military is amazing and I only found out after looking up the Japanese names since I know they’re preferred in the fandom (sorry if I look like a huge geek using them)

3. Miyasaka Ryou, I don’t know if he counts since he appeared in the anime or whatever but I’ll put him here anyway since I like how in IE2 he will only join your team if you’ve got Kazemaru with you, I like how they acknowledge their friendship!

2. Raimei Jin, he’s always given me the impression that he was meant to be the original Shishido, like they’re both midfielders and Raimei definitely has that design that stands out, idk maybe I’m wrong but I’ve just thought that before they designed Shishido, they had Raimei

1. The motherfucking Sagaminator, he’s a real mystery, he doesn’t have a second name and even then his only names are Sagaminator or Saggy like it just radiates badass energy and for that he is my favourite scout, Godspeed Sagaminator you Johnny Bravo looking motherfucker you

Honourable mention goes to Hosoe Shigeshi who’s just a peeping Tom you recruit in the first game by finding him spying on the girls changing room, I’d post an image but Google’s free and I’ve reached the image limit

AND CARD, I FORGOT THE CARD BROTHERS THEY’RE MY SKRUNGOS TOO

Anyway Kiki, I hope this super long answer is what you wanted, because I had fun writing it

[makur0]

I am BEGGING for nsfw dom hiyori fic💔 my boy has no fics of him being dominant it's so sad HAHA. can you do dom!hiyori with a gn!reader? Like he gets whiny and pouty about the reader spending too much time with jun and so he, out of jealousy, starts giving off vaguely sexual hints to the reader that ends up in them getting into it once they get home. He ends up being a little mean and denies the reader an orgasm as a small punishment :((( can you include after care too<33? TYSM!

Pay attention to me!

synopsis — tired of being thrown in the dirt, he decides to give off sultry hints to you to rile you up. of course it works, but you need to learn a little lesson… [hiyori tomoe x gn! reader]

content warnings — nsfw, mdni. dom! hiyori, semi-exhibitionism? (public teasing), face riding, orgasm denial, begging + teasing, jealous sex (in a way), crackfic at beginning

author’s note — I ABSOLUTELY ADORE HIYORI YALL DONT UNDERSTAND IT- ahem. but thank you for the req, i had so much fun!!

word count — 1118

IT WAS NOT A GOOD HIYORI.

It really wasn’t.

“Jun, look at this!”

“Oh my gosh, Jun, watch!”

“Jun, Jun, Junnnn~”

Hiyori had graciously let you tag along on Jun and his’ weekly shopping spree because he wanted to spend time with you. But by the looks of it, and much to his irritation, you were attached to Jun’s hip for at least an hour now. 

Jun-kun was supposed to be the third wheel, not him. It wasn’t fair.

“Ne ne~ [name]-kun,” Hiyori jumped in between you two, his bright smile trying to hide his increasing attitude. “How about we go check out this new clothes shop I found? I bet there’s a lot of cute things for you and I!”

You brightened, opening your mouth to respond, but a loud growl interrupted you. 

Jun coughed loudly, mortified. “I- ahem, sorry.”

“Are you hungry?” You said, turning away from Hiyori as he gazed at you forlornly. “It is around lunchtime... how ‘bout this, let’s go get something to eat, and then we’ll continue shopping!”

Pay attention to me! Not him! Not Jun-kun!

“No no no,” Jun rushed, his eyes flitting to a quiet Hiyori. “I- I’ll get something myself, why don’t you and Oshii-san check out that store?”

“I’m hungry too!” You chirped, hooking his arm with yours and marching away. “Now off we go!”

Jun desperately glanced back at the other, his throat drying as his gaze looked dark and hurt, his lips in a pout. This really wasn’t going to end well, wasn’t it...

The male was dangerously quiet at the cafe, only speaking when spoken to. Jun was just waiting for him to explode, but on the other hand you didn’t seem to care, happily eating your lunch with Jun.

Unbeknownst to you, Hiyori was trying to find a way to regret ignoring him. Because how dare you don’t pay attention to him, one of the best and prettiest idols? How dare you make him feel insecure, unwanted? And how dare you hang out with Jun, right in front of him? For sure, he was going to make you pay.

“Oh and then one time...” You chuckled, grasping your drink. “There was- huh? Hiyori?”

He had gotten up and made his way over to you, lightly grinning. “Oh, don’t mind me, [name], I’m just going to be a good boyfriend and throw out your trash~”

Your breath hitched. He had leaned right over your shoulder, his lips grazing your ear as he grabbed your garbage from the table. Poor Jun, he almost choked on his drink watching this. Nope, not today-

Hiyori stood back up straight, throwing you a knowing smirk as he pranced away.

“Bro,” Jun said, his sandwich halfway to his mouth. “Not in front of my lunch.”

You forced out a laugh, but soon slouched over, your eyes wide. “I- there’s no way he did it on purpose, right?”

“You haven’t been hanging out with him all day,” He reasoned. “Of course Oshii-san gets jealous. You should know this by now.”

Shit. You should.

You had to cut the conversation as Hiyori came back, your face still flushed as he sat down next to you.

“Well!” He clapped his hands together. “Shall we get going?”

You were a complete mess. And he was relentless.

Subtle groping, breathing down your neck, even flashing you when he tried on clothes- you were reduced into a red, blushing mess. The more you grew quiet, the more vocal Hiyori was, even going as far as to ask you: “Oh, my dear [name], what’s the matter? Do you have a fever?”

The trio walked out of their last store for the day, the green-haired male looking triumphant, Jun looking done with life, and you contemplating your life choices.

Hiyori giggled. “Oops, sorry. I just saw something I liked in that lingerie store, so I had to check it out! Sorry, Jun-kun~”

“It’s fine,” the said idol grumbled, struggling with the bags. “Can we just- go home now?”

“Of course!” He chirped. “If you don’t mind, though, me and [name] are going to head back to their apartment. Can you-”

“Yep, yes, absolutely,” With renewed energy Jun grabbed all the bags, sending you a ‘good luck’ face before pacing away from the two of you.

Great. You turned to Hiyori with a knowing expression, him himself giving you a shit-eating grin. 

“Oh, my dear [name],” He purred, petting your hair. “You really fucked it up this time, haven’t you?”

You sighed shakily. “Yup.”

---

Eh, fucking up had its perks.

“Y-yes!” You moaned out, grabbing his hair and pushing your ass further into his face. “More, please-!”

Hiyori hummed loudly, his violet eyes staring straight at you as he devoured your sex. Perfect, it was absolutely perfect. As soon as you two stepped into your apartment you were all over him, begging for him to touch you. Your hair askew, your eyes unfocused, and your cheeks a strawberry red, how could he say no to such a cute thing like you?

Such a little slut, he thought, his eyes narrowing at your panting figure above him. Thinking that they can get away with this... they really think I’m helping them, heh.

A sharp gasp left you, your hips jerking as you grew close to your orgasm. “-yori, Hiyori, I’m-m close~!”

You shoved your ass closer to him, but much to your surprise he turned his head sideways, his hands pushing at your thighs as he ripped his mouth away from you. “Mm?!”

He spat into your thighs, looking back up at you. “You really thought that I would let you orgasm? Little whore~ thinking that you can take whatever you want...”

“Please!” You begged, frantically threading your fingers through his hair. “I’m sorry- sorry! I should have b-been paying more attention to you, I know! Just please, I wanna come, I wanna come!”

Hiyori stared at you with narrowed purple eyes, humming against your shaking leg. “...At least you admit your faults. Well then~”

He dove right back into you, sucking more harshly on you. Immediately you screamed out in pleasure, your back arching as you collapsed in a mind-numbing orgasm. Hiyori continued to ravish you, only stopping as you tugged on his hair a bit too roughly.

You let out a shaky breath, slouching over as he encased you in a tight hug.

“Oh, my precious little bean,” He drawled, pressing kisses against your now-drowsy face. “I’m sorry for that~ just make sure that I’m the most important to you in your eyes, alright?”

“Alright...” You mumbled, pressing your face against his chest. Hiyori chuckled, rubbing your back tenderly as both of you drifted off into sleep.

[njikeartist]

People you want to get to know better tag game

I got tagged by @panicbones wowie thank youuu Ive never done something like this before!!

Last song: Kate Bush's the Red Shoes album on loop. She's such a great lyricist and probably the only conventional singer whose stuff i know because otherwise i just listen to like osts and jam project lol

Favorite color: OURPLE!!! Also have an affinity for green characters for some reason?

Last movie/TV show: Patlabor movie from Mamoru Oshii I've never touched anything from the series until now despite being into mecha. Was bingeing oshiis filmography and finally hit it up it was good! I'll watch the sequel next.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Spicy I put Sriracha on everything

Relationship status: i got not money cant afford to date

Current obsession: uhhhh transformers..... Soundwave is my fav.... I love him hes like a clown car just full of lil guys. I want to marry him. My forever obsession is kamen rider ryuki it is the show of all time for me.

Last book: i dont read 😔 i cant remember the last time i read for pleasure i just look at art reference books

Looking forward to: finally sitting down with friends to watch Bang Brave Bang Braven cuz yeah ill bang braven alright loooool

I'll tag @kogameh @ambicolor @mechaseraph @untramen @ultramanyaoi @dahgraz @daburuwosagase but anyone who wants to, go for it!!!

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[anotherfandom]

hey! your tags on your reblog of my post of the obscure Megane comic made me chuckle XD "#mamoru oshii#i will always have mixed feelings toward his work#but this is interesting historically" It's true! The mere fact that those comics exist at all is amazing. It's like Oshii saw the character in the original manga made by Rumiko Takahashi to make fun of annoying Lum fanboys and went, "this is my avatar now". Shigeru Chiba's voice acting also helped, cause many other works by Oshii include Chiba in some role, including live-action movies

I definitely agree that Oshii's odd relationship with Megane is fascinating. However, I will add that Megane (at least as he appeared in the manga in Chapter 3) wasn't quite added to make fun of Lum fanboys. That story kind of got embellished over time. In this interview, Rumiko states the following:

"Takahashi: In reality, in the full story, she should have only appeared in the first five chapters. We had imagined the content of five chapters with my editor. In the first chapter, I made Lum appear, in the second chapter it was a completely different story, but in the third chapter I found myself having to involve Lum for my story to succeed. I then realized that it worked well so I saved her for the fourth and fifth chapters. At that time, my publisher told me that the readers liked this character and that it would be good to keep her for the future. She ended up becoming the heroine of the manga."

I do feel that his behavior in the anime was in part intended as commentary on otaku.

[somaisbatman]

Tag ppl you wanna know betteeer

Tagged by: @zendoe . thank you for tagging me, I followed you because I inherently trust deer furries

Last song: the last album I listened through was The Hot Rock by Sleater-Kinney, so it'd be A Quarter To Three. love that one.

Favorite Color: red red red. Earlier in the year I catalogued my favorite shades of red, and found that the average of them was #B0303A.

Currently Watching: Fionna and Cake. I'm 6 episodes in, and so far it's managing the tonal balancing act that makes seasons 5-7 of Adventure Time so good. I just wrapped up the last Patlabor OVAs with my girlfriend yesterday, so we're in between shows now. Though we have been occasionally putting on episodes of Bang Dream MyGO per a friend's "dude trust me" recommendation. It is a generic high school idol anime except it's about a female manipulator picking up the pieces of a friend group that imploded and inadvertently reigniting all of their old drama in her attempt to start a band. If the show was yuribaiting a little harder I'd be obsessed, but where it stands it's a fun social mess.

Last Movie: Patlabor 2. Really challenging movie, and not for the reasons I was expecting. Oshii's criticisms of the JSDF's scope and Japan's place in the neoliberal order are delivered quite straightforwardly, it's the atmosphere that's so melancholy and complicated. I spent most of the year going through the Patlabor TV show and OVAs and falling in love with them, and this is a movie about moving on from all of that. The bubble economy is over, the cold war has ended, SV2 has scattered to the wind, the artstyle has gotten more serious, and Noa explicitly states that she no longer wants to be the mecha otaku girl she once was. It's probably a great standalone watch, but it really got to me because of its willingness as a sequel to say goodbye for the sake of looking forward, even if only uncertainty lies ahead.

Currently Reading: …the patlabor manga. A bit dry compared to the show or movies, but I'm milking this franchise for everything it's got. The last book I read was Light From Uncommon Stars, which has an extremely well-executed main narrative about trans survivor's guilt alongside a terrible B-plot that fails to mesh thematically at all. Very uneven book, but the good stuff is real potent and I'll definitely read whatever Ryka Aoki cooks up next.

Sweet/spicy/savory: Sweet

Relationship status: Partnered and living a domestic yuri 4koma

Current Obsessions: I mean, in case you couldn't tell it's been Patlabor, but I'm finally reaching the tail end of that. I've been on a mecha kick all year, and that includes little gunpla guys gradually taking over the apartment. In a broader sense I'm becoming more at peace with being a huge weeb, and that's shifted my recent media consumption very strongly in that direction, which will probably even out over time.

Last googled: Some doxxable info about trying to schedule flu shots. Before that, "sidney powell kraken" after reading a news article and trying to remember what the fuck was going on there.

Currently working on: preparing for the end of the year! My yearly creative projects are assembling a Christmas album with my old college friends and writing 10 or so pieces for my anime side blog @floatingcatacombs, which go up in mid-December. I've also been messing around with GameMaker again, a intermittent hobby for most of my life even if I have little to show for it. Maybe this time!

I'll tag my oldest mutuals who I've never talked to: @magicians-rad @bl0ndle . and also some pals who have recently joined the site @dudettastone and @bluemouseblackpad . Obviously feel free to ignore if you don't want to do it

[jewwyfeesh]

To The Gentle You 1

Writer: Mitsuki

Character(s): Kagehira Mika, Narukami Arashi

Translated by: stcrfeesh

CN Proof by: jewwyfeesh

Mika: Thank ya kindly, Naru-chan～ it’s supposed’ta be your day off today, but yer out here, accompanyin’ me instead.

Please read the translator notes at the end!

Season: Summer

Location: Time Street

Mika: Thank ya kindly, Naru-chan～ it’s supposed’ta be your day off today, but yer out here, accompanyin’ me instead.

Cause Oshii-san’s a real sickler when it comes to detail in our performances, hafta visit a whole buncha different stores to buy all the needed materials to make our outfits.

But I’m with ya today y’know? Things seem to be goin’ pretty well, we’re gettin’ everythin’ done in a jiffy ♪

Arashi: Ufufu, being able to help you is already a treat ♪ Now that we’re all done here, the remaining time on your hands is all mine!

Let’s set these things you’ve bought aside first, then we can go on our date [1] ♪

Arashi: ♪～♪～♪

Mika: (Ehehe～ Naru-chan seems to be having a whale of a time, too. Being able to spend my day off with a good friend, I couldn’t help but want to hum a li’l tune ♪)

Arashi: Shopping is a good way to relieve stress. After all, I do work hard most of the time, so I suppose rewarding myself a little isn't pushing it.

Thinking about it, we’ve been shopping for quite a while now. Are you tired? Would you like to look for a place to rest for a bit?

Mika: Nnah～ I ain't tired at all. Naru-chan, why don’tcha let me help you carry some of that stuff in yer hand?

After all, according to yer itinerary, we still have a buncha places to visit ♪

Arashi: Oh～ Mika-chan is so considerate. I really might just fall in love with you ♪ [2]

You and I have been so busy recently. Our day-offs don't even align, and because of that, we haven’t been able to hang out together.

It's a good thing you moved to Seisou Hall, otherwise, I would only ever be able to see you at school and at ES.

If the latter really did happen, I'd certainly drift from you.

Mika: Nnah～ But ya'd still send me pictures of things around ya. So even when ye’r swamped with work, it's still as if yer just right by my side ♪

Arashi: Now that you mention it, do you still remember the photo of the jewellery store I sent you before? It's the one here in Time Street～  Won't you look at that, it seems like we've unconsciously made our way here.

Mika: … Ah, I see it too! It's that store up ahead, right? The décor looks kinda familiar.

Arashi: Well, that's because this store and the boutique in the shopping district are under the same brands. Though, their products are different from one another.

I always thought that I would go shopping with you if I had the time. I didn't think it would actually happen so soon ♪

Mika: Ehehe～ as long as it's you, then, whatever it may be, I'd be more than willing to tag along～♪

— Inside the jewelry store

Arashi: Look, look! I feel like this earring right over here would look good on you!

Mika: Hm～ I feel like this type would look good on ya too, would you like to try it on?

Arashi: Oh, how wonderful! We could have matching earrings! At a glance, it would be immediately obvious that we’re besties ♪

This ring over here too! Regardless if it's worn as a pendant or as is, it would still look so pretty～

Mika: ……

Arashi: Hm? You look so mesmerised, what are you looking at?

Wow, what a pretty brooch! Though it's made of metal, the details of its fretwork [3] perfectly embodies the lightness of a butterfly's wings.

Mika: That's what I think so too～ there seems 'ta be somethin' written beside the display, lemme see—

Arashi: So it's not for sale… It seems like the owner bought it when they happened to come across it overseas, and couldn't even find the maker.

Mika: Nnah～... I still think this brooch would suit ya so perfectly. I had really wanted ta buy this as a gift for you…

Arashi: Mika-chan, don't be so dejected. The fact that you thought of it at all is already enough to make me happy ♪

Also, look. It says you can still take pictures! Although you wouldn't be able to buy the brooch, as long as you get to take a picture, you can always look back on it and appreciate its beauty at any time.

After all, it is impossible to own all the pretty things in the world～ I think that as long as it can lift your spirits and you can enjoy it as it is, then that's enough for me.

Mika: Would it really be enough to just take a photo…?

Arashi: Alright, alright. It's not every day I get to go shopping with you, so if we drag on and stay at one store for too long, then it’ll really be such a waste of time. Let's go visit a different store～♪

— Sometime later, as the sun sets

Arashi: Shopping with you makes all the places I've already been accustomed to feel so new and even more interesting ♪

Mika: Me too, every time I'm with ya, it makes me feel real' happy～ ♪

Also, it's nice how ya remembered the thin' I told ya about my candy stash runnin' low and brought me to the candy store.

Yer so kind, ya always remember these little things about me… ♪

Arashi: Ufufu, well that's because you are my best friend. Caring for you this much is natural.

Oh! I just remembered something!

Mika: ……?

Arashi: It is such a rare opportunity to go out on a date with you, how could I not take a picture for remembrance? I’m also going to post it on social media to show it off～ ♪

… Oh? How is my phone already dead? I couldn’t have forgotten to charge before I left, did I?

Mika: Is that so… then, why don’t ya just use my phone to take pictures first, and I can send them to ya on Hold-Hands when we get home?

Arashi: Oooh, that’s a wonderful idea ♪ Then I’ll strike a perfect pose, one that I had practised during a photoshoot… ☆

Mika-chan, let’s do it together! Look at the camera! Three, two, one～

Mika: Are ya taking pictures already?! W-Wait up, Naru-chan!

Arashi & Mika: ♪ ～

☆～

— In Mika's Seishou Hall Dorm

Mika: (Ehehe～ I’m really happy today. After moving ta Seisou Hall, I get the opportunity to go out with Naru-chan more ♪)

(Lemme see the pictures we got today… Well, as expected of Naru-chan, every shot looks amazing ♪)

(… Huh? Why is this one blurry? I can hardly see my and Naru-chan’s faces clearly.)

(Maybe when I was trynna pose with Naru-chan earlier, I accidentally put my hand in front of the camera. ‘Cause of that, the shot ain’t focused.)

(Anyway, lemme send the good ones to Naru-chan first—)

(What am I supposed ta do with this one then? I don’t know why, but I kinda don’t wanna delete it～)

(Speaking of, this is probably a bad habit of mine. The same goes with the stuff in my room, I keep unconsciously hoarding stuff more and more.)

(Nnah… A few photos after this one is the one with the brooch No matter how I look at it, it just suits Naru-chan so well that I could imagine her donning it.)

(At that time, Naru-chan looked like she loved the brooch as well… she probably only acted indifferent to it because she thought I would take things to heart.)

(It is because Naru-chan always thinks of me, I want to give her all the things she likes. And she even accompanied me to a buncha different stores to browse one by one to find the best materials ta make clothes…)

(—Oh, right! At one of the stores we went to today, I think they sold raw materials too.)

(Fufufu, I’ll remake that brooch and imitate it perfectly as a surprise for Naru-chan ♪)

Translator's notes:

[1]: Just pointing out the nuance of the word used here, which was 「約會」 (Lit. Date). In English, it does mean "date". However, it is quite similar to how the Japanese word 「デート」 (Lit. Date) is used, where it does not necessarily have to be romantic. The word "date" in both Chinese and Japanese is often used by people—especially young girls—to say they're hanging out with their friends. While this may be so, feel free to interpret this part as you deem most appropriate to you.

[2]: Once again, feel free to interpret this the way you want to, but it is also important to note that Arashi saying she's falling in love with Mika doesn't necessarily lean on the romantic side. In Chinese, saying you're falling in love with them may also mean that you cannot help but love someone more (may be platonic or romantic).

[3]: A fretwork is an interlaced decorative design that is either carved in low relief on a solid background or cut out with a fretsaw, coping saw, jigsaw or scroll saw.

ES x LC Masterlist | Chapter 2 →

[swordoftheberserkgutsrage]

tagged by @commandergoretusk for my 9 favorite movies I've seen this year. I watched a lot of lynch and miike as well as some some mamoru oshii movies I didn't list👍. I don't remember if i actually saw all these this year. I tag @milk5 @shinolavolume1 @cali @fishingcatz and anyone else who rocks with me

[tessavillaverde]

VTuber Re-Starter Kit (2023)

Who knows wtf Twitter is gonna look like by the end of the year? Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Tumblr, and all the other cesspits? I’ve got it all covered! Social media is changing and we must change with it. I’m so tired god please weh

Twitter is in free fall. Panic ensues. Valid. Many of us need that hellsite. Badly. It’s imperfect trash, but its *our* trash, understand? Fuck these “alternatives”. They are all noise right now. Cohost doesn’t allow commercial activity in its TOS, Mastodon has low engagement right now. Twitter Blue is here to stay. As VTubers, we all benefit from having it, actually. For $8/mo, you will be prioritized and boosted with mentions and replies. This means that threads and replies to you bump you up on the TL. Even if you pay for it, Lists and Twitter Circles are still a good idea. Heck, rotate people out of Twitter Circles to make sure you’re able to talk to more people. Continue to use Twitter to network by providing value to others and help others in their journey. Be chill and don’t use people for clout--it’s disingenuous. Treat people like people.

I can’t guarantee that things will be the same here on Twitter and neither can anyone else. The current data sets I see from clients and others may show that not much is changing, but this site is changing every day. We need to play it day by day and not worry too much about it.

Twitter has shops, utilize tf out of the business features. Given how much of a mess the site is with its daily tweaks and the loss of valuable engineers at Twitter, things could be topsy-turvy. Who knows? Be active!

This being said, you shouldn’t rely on Twitter alone. It’s not good for your business nor is it good for growing your brand recognition. So I’ll list where to go and the use cases. Don’t use this list to go to literally every place. There’s just not enough time in a day to maintain it all.

Instagram

Don’t make Insta your mainstay. Please, for the love of God don’t. Everything wrong with FB is still wrong with Insta with the added bonus of it being Diet Tik Tok. That being said, it still is a good networking tool and can help your sales with its shop features (for businesses/brands/media that don’t want to use Twitter). So what to do with Insta? Repost your Tik Toks and hit it n quit it. Post your schedule (3:2 format, crop down with 1:1 squares and schedule out posts to upload your schedule). Update your stories with important things (they’re pinned tweets basically). Have a link in your profile and reply to people when you can. Use relevant hashtags and hashtags that aren’t super saturated. GL;HF

Tik Tok

Hit it n Quit it

Post in prime times

Turn brain off

Be unhinged with your originals

Remix and hf with trends

Repost best shorts elsewhere

Tumblr

It’s 2012 again and we have no character limits and post gif memes

Relax, hf, life moves slower with an older audience

Not a Twitter replacement

SEO can be a benefit (technical jargon I’ll save you from), but you must remain authentic. What works on Twitter doesn’t fly on Tumblr. You will not get traction from doing what you do here.

Pay attention to etiquette. You can have assholes, but many are willing to joke as if nothing had happened. Be consistent by liking and reblogging things. Turn off your brain and follow blogs and tags that are up your alley and QUEUE up things to keep posting throughout the day. Tumblr humor is ironic, but not irony-poisoned. It’s punny and quirky and you must kill the chains that bind your inner cringe. Truly be yourself, share your personal thoughts more (it's a blogging site ffs), share your fandom of things, and things’ll be okay.

Also important on the ettiquite as a first tip: dont act like you do on Twitter. Its a different audience and the normal ways of crossposting wont work here. This is not Twitter. Tumblr is a blogging site where blogs share each other and it is fandom-heavy (meaning sharing who your favorite oshii is for example and hyping up others). It comes naturally. Be yourself and focus on building up a presence on your blog to give people a good idea of who tf you are. Nobody is really a celebrity here and you can't act like you are here. USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGSUSE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TAGS USE TA--

YouTube

I made another mega thread for this, read it later. YouTube should be one of your mainstays as a VTUBER. It’s more work, yes, but they also have Community Posting for everyone now. Scaling up your brand and having better brand recognition is crucial here. As you post more videos, ALWAYS improve your pacing, thumbnails, and titles.

Twitch

We know it. We love it. Consistency is key. Start with Rule of 3s: 3 days/week, 3 hours/day, 3 social media outlets. This is a general rule for a reason, but it's a good minimum to start with because I’ve seen too many clients in deep need. If you need to start half an hour later to catch your regular audience, then do so. Starting out, you need consistent numbers, engagement, and retention. I’ll explain later, but you want to do what you can to increase production value and give more interactables for chat to use.

Advice for partners, you need to continue to carry the momentum to scale. By this point, you likely know what it is you need to do, but perhaps there’s a discrepancy with engagement or retention, or god knows what that holds your audience back. Collabs help, but not as much as you’d like. This comes with raids being a nice networking tool funnily enough. Raid people with similar content and vibe as you to continue to network with people. Switching audiences and using adjacent categories to find that audience may be what you need.

This is all hard to determine for partners so plainly on social media without analyzing data, audience, content, branding/design, and personality. There’s a lot that goes into your churn (how many folks you lose in your audience on average). Fixing that can either require optimization and turning your personality up to 11 more consistently and differently, but also can mean taking a leap into faith with a “big risk, big reward mentality”. One thing I know works would be the optimization tweaks here and there by looking at data (or not looking at all and just gathering feedback from your audience and friends and staying objective and factual), and diversification on different platforms so more can know who you are.

Try tools like Streambee to simplify the VOD review process Streamloots to increase engagement and have better monetization TITS, VRChat, and curation to invite viewers with “planned exclusivity” rather than total exclusivity (how you do this is up to you).

Discord Not really a social media site

Great for talking and engaging your community and breeding loyalty. VTubers need fewer “groups”, fewer individual servers, and more community servers where you can pool your resources and hype each other up. Effectively make use of what Stream Teams are good for and raise each other up.

Monetization

Use Kofi for tips, a shop, comms

Use Gumroad for another shop that has more discoverability

Use Patreon for memberships to slowly phase out Twitch subs. Be creative and have fun with Patreon rewards

Use Streamloots and have fun with it

There’s more I want to discuss, but for now, you can follow me on Twitter and here on Tumblr for this data-backed advice, the nitty gritty nerdy jargon for social media with data and whatnot, and my personal thoughts with my positive experiences managing and consulting folks.

If you yourself are terrified still even with all of this, I have restructured my business with Build-Your-Own Bundle type of consultations and management. Services are 50% off. 69% off after your first purchase (nice)

[romdocitizen]

tagged by @lesbianbrad so here ya go

Song I'm listening to: one of my two favorite tracks from the debut album of siraph (who also just put out a new ep i gotta jam), a group formed in part by former members of school food punishment, one of my fav bands. that unexpected break into a salsa vamp 2/3 of the way through always puts a grin on my face lol

Show im watching: aura battler dunbine with a friend (it's uh...extremely uneven and has been more boring than good for awhile), rewatch of the more recent dororo adaptation with a partner (still excellent), and the og 80s urusei yatsura solo off and on (kinda just waiting for the oshii/ito influence to really start showing itself since I'm still early on but it's cute)

Book i'm reading: aberration in the heartland of the real: the secret lives of timothy mcveigh by wendy s. painting. discovered via one of my fav podcasters, sean mctiernan (go listen to sf ultra and support his patreon), and while it's outside my usual wheelhouse I'm about ~100 pages in and finding it v interesting thus far! painting seems to have her head on straight and I admire the skill and clarity with which she navigates the accumulated bullshit surrounding the topic; strikes me as more or less "left" in approach if not necessarily like historical dialectical materialist or what have you

Current obsession: other than my crush (not anyone I know from here so dw lol), I guess making decals in armored core 6? I'm stuck at the end of chapter 1 boss fight against balteus and need to grind for money to buy more parts and create a new build but I've been putting it off lol

tagging @halftype @assaultmystic and @phallomedusa plus anyone else who sees this and wants to participate!

[rogercheetoofficial]

Welcome to The Roger Cheeto Experiment

What you need to know;

Legal Name; Roger D. Cheeto Jr.

Subject/Product Number; RC-2Φ

Age; 24

Pronouns; He/Him

Species; Homunculus

Fan name; Snailors (Group noun; crew, e.x. "A Crew of Snailors")

For more information, view the dedicated page on my blog.

Preferred Fan Tags (For Egosurfing Purposes!)

Liveposting during streams; RC-2 Live

Fanart; Rog's Gallery

Memes; GREY-tly Amusing

Clips; Mic-rog-scopic

Speculation; Rog-lore Cheeto

Oshii mark; ☠🫀

Using any of these will ensure I can see your posts about me and quickly identify you as someone certifiably suffering from Roger-Poisoning!

Please direct any questions to the askbox.

Click here to be teleported directly to my youtube via shadow government gnome magick.

Click here to be transported to my twitch page in a 2008 Honda Civic, blindfolded of course.

For optimal experience, please view my blog through the website link on desktop.

[wojit]

I posted 7,930 times in 2022

That's 1,430 more posts than 2021!

30 posts created (0%)

7,900 posts reblogged (100%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@astercrash

@an-unimpressed-jackalope

@apollothrace

@youandwhoseamy

@beawisefooland

I tagged 2,249 of my posts in 2022

#star trek - 148 posts

#umineko - 59 posts

#comix - 52 posts

#ds9 - 50 posts

#utena - 45 posts

#friends at the table - 40 posts

#life is strange - 38 posts

#disco elysium - 34 posts

#music - 26 posts

#goncharov - 25 posts

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

The eyes have been used to signify a perverse capacity - honed to perfection in the history of science tied to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and male supremacy - to distance the knowing subject from everybody and everything in the interests of unfettered power. The instruments of visualization in multinationalist, postmodernist culture have compounded these meanings of disembodiment. The visualizing technologies are without apparent limit. The eye of any ordinary primate like us can be endlessly enhanced by sonography systems, magnetic reasonance imaging, artificial intelligence-linked graphic manipulation systems, scanning electron microscopes, computed tomography scanners, color-enhancement techniques, satellite surveillance systems, home and office video display terminals, cameras for every purpose from filming the mucous membrane lining the gut cavity of a marine worm living in the vent gases on a fault between continental plates to mapping a planetary hemisphere elsewhere in the solar system. Vision in this technological feast becomes unregulated gluttony; all seems not just mythically about the god trick of seeing everything from nowhere, but to have put the myth into ordinary practice. And like the god trick, this eye fucks the world to make techno-monsters.

- Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges

Since reading this Letterboxd review, I’ve been thinking all day about how Mamoru Oshii put Donna Haraway in Ghost In The Shell 2, presumably in tribute to her Cyborg Manifesto, but he could as well have put her in Patlabor 2: The Movie in tribute to her Situated Knowledges. Anyway, took the excuse to post my favourite paragraph from maybe my favourite philosophy essay.

22 notes - Posted February 3, 2022

#4

Listening to the Umineko soundtrack on shuffle is wild because you'll go from thumping final showdown electronica to baroque hold music to something that makes you weep openly on the bus to M. Zakky's Monochrome Clock.

33 notes - Posted October 6, 2022

#3

Dreamt you could buy hormones over at the counter at Forbidden Planet (British comics and nerd shit store) but they had to route the payment through a nearby pharmacy and I got anxious about inconveniencing the folks in the queue behind me

48 notes - Posted April 7, 2022

#2

Sometimes I make little noises and no one can stop me. They try so hard but the noises just get littler.

365 notes - Posted June 29, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Gotta say, never unfollowing all those long abandoned Tumblr accounts is really suddenly starting to pay off.

26,118 notes - Posted November 14, 2022

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[titconao3]

5, 4, 3, 2, 1

thank you @perverse-idyll for the tag! Oh dear, remembering and choosing… not my strongest points ;-) chugs coffee also, i'll cheat, sorry ^_^;; because my focus is bad, and has only gotten worse with every passing year, so i find it harder and harder to read, watch, etc. i'm also very, very bad at rereading/rewatching, in part because i don't want to be disappointed and find flaws or discover my tastes are different and what i'd invested in just isn't my thing any longer. So, some of this stuff is more about what was formative, touched me at one point, than things i'm necessarily still into.

Tagging whoever is interested! i'm uncomfortable tagging specific people because i don't want anyone to feel like they must, or alternatively that i forgot them.

Five Essentials:

- Quiet and alone time.

- An Internet connection: most of my friendships happen online, it's vital for work, and of course entertainment. Preferably on a desktop, if not then a laptop, if i must... fine, my phone.

- Silly mindless computer games. It used to be card games, these days it’s computer mah-jong. i used to love an old… Wikipedia tells me in English it’s called a breakout game? You're throwing a ball at a wall of bricks to break them. Mine wouldn’t work when i was playing something on Winamp at the same time, back in the day on my first computer. Never found one i liked as much, sadly! i need those games to forget myself and drop into some sort of trance-like state, though it's not working as well as it used to. (Where's that bricks game when you need it) Some games that sound like they should fit my needs stress me out, like snake, minesweeper, Tetris.

- Fandom. Once the Internet became more widely available and my English was good enough, 20+ years ago, i jumped in and never looked back, though at some times it’s a looser connection than at others. It’s given me language knowledge, cultural knowledge, the escapism I sorely need at times, skills (especially once I started organising events), friendships <3 …

- i won’t go out without a colour-changing lil necklace - don’t think it still changes colours but who cares? i may or may not have a pile of mood jewelry. @pixelbypixelfanfic has its twin and that’s why i <3 it. LOOK AT HIM

Four films/Shows

- Star Trek:TOS, including the films. We will not mention here the more recent Treks, of which i haven't seen much anyway - in big part because i'm so done with the constant retconning of Spock's life and fam, like cmon guys, as if Sybok hadn't been more than enough already. i may or may not have invested too much into Spock as a kid, although i love them all. First fandom, even before i knew what fandom was.

- Blade Runner (haven't seen the new one), because of the music, the visuals, the nods to Metropolis and how it also shaped the scifi that came afterwards, because of That Death Scene on the roof (yes, i know the speech by heart) and also Zohra's and oh noes Pris and that time i stepped into the Bradbury Building.

- i was #shook by a couple of Mamoru Oshii films in the early aughts, Ghost in the Shell & Avalon (music by Kenji Kawai), and since it was my Japan Era there was also Jin-Roh, that film we won’t talk about (Grave of the Fireflies), the Kenshin OAV (the one about his early years. TOMOEEEE!! i even bought the music. yes, me. music. bought. look it was a long time ago), and a couple more. Neon Genesis Evangelion, of course :-b (NOT Shinji ;-)

- Back when i was in uni, there was a cinema club where they showed films in the largest auditorium. i went almost every week, and that's where i watched Buster Keaton's The General (i dragged a friend who was horrified at the idea of a B&W silent film... he laughed out loud for 75 min straight\o/ ), Some Like It Hot, but also more recent stuff like the early Tim Burtons (this was the early aughts). The seats were horribly uncomfortable, some of the films were 3h+ long boring adaptations of boring books (no, i really do not like Madame Bovary), but it helped fueled my cinema-going years. i watched Korean films in tiny independent cinemas, that kind of thing ;-) Today, it takes a lot for me to go pay lots of money, sit still for 2/3 hours, grit my teeth while people keep noisily munching on pop corn and slurping sodas or whatever; i try to time my cinema-going for viewings with smaller audiences, but... So, i'll go a couple of times in a year, for something that will be entertaining and silly and won't ask me to focus too much (because it's not at home, where i can easily go back, pause, take a break to absorb and process, take my time, etc) like Jurassic World or John Wick.

Three books:

- The Discworld series as a whole, for its humanity and humour and on-point commentary and… and… flails everything

- Let’s add some manga i loved: Gunnm though i think in English it's titled Alita Battle Angel or something like that (one of the sources for my What-does-human/personhood-means kink, though it probably started as early as my first encounter with good old Spock), City Hunter, Saint Seiya (don’t think about the dubbing don’t think bout the dubbing don’t think about the dubbing). Also, Please Save My Earth, though i much preferred the OAVs visually. Liked the music, too.

- i used to be a voracious reader. Then, i studied literature for reasons, and it sucked all the joy out of reading books. Took years (and, to be honest, fandom) for me to start loving reading again, but i could never go back to ~The Classics~ . i read the entire Search For Lost Time at the time i started to disconnect from reading, and i remember nothing of it. i liked it, it just left no trace in me. So now i'll read the Vorkosigan series and love it, but don't ask me to pick up some Dickens. These days, i can't.

Re music, well - i don't really listen to music. i listened to some stuff as a teenager, probably in no small part because it was expected, i even took music lesson as an adult because i wanted to know how instruments worked. But as time goes by, i grow more and more intolerant to noise, and music is noise to me. i'll have the occasional YouTube trawl-through because i'll remember some old thing i liked way back when (liked, or more accurately that i associate with someone/thing), but often not even finish the song or piece of music. It's like, idk, ballet or skating for me: i can recognize the hard work and artistry that goes into it; it just doesn't do anything for me, beyond maybe a bit of nostalgia (until i remember that aside from less creaky bones and stiff joints, i don't want to go back in time and i don't miss my younger years). i used to listen to some film scores, and sometimes songs used in shows i enjoyed. Haven't done that in a long while, though. Now, if i want to shut out the world when i'm in the train or something, i'll put on a podcast or some white noise app.

Quote: nah, fandom’s free and i won’t put a price on it (whew, dodged that one ;-)

[cannolicorgi]

Shion Fujisaki

he’s my oshii I wish he had a fanart tag on twitter

sneak of details under the hand that no one but you and I get to see because I put so much time into this and didn’t realize how much was covered suffering for the sake of beauty ig

[dagmartoons]

Last Minute Speculation and Dumb Stuff I Wanna See Before Part 6 Starts

Calling it now: Lily is Watson's daughter (or she's related to one of the Ravens)

Moriarty maybe? Idk

At least one vaguely passive aggressive Angel's Egg reference from the Oshii episode

Give Me Lupin Existentialism

Give Me Lupin Grandfather Stuff

Give Me Lupin Backstory

No Meta Green Vs Red Bullshit

What's under that fucking mask

Give Goemon something to do

Are y'all gonna talk about what went down between Lupin and Goemon in Part 5? I hope so

Give Yata something to do (I've seen people speculate he's connected to the Ravens somehow and that'd be interesting to see)

Bring Tickey Pasco back

Bring Nyx back

Ami cameo in the final episode like Rebecca did in Part 5

Also bring Rebecca back

If there is not at least one shot of someone eating fish and chips I will leave

Bring back Lupin's fear of octopus

Have the characters speak English! (and then have them do bad British accents in the dub)

Are y'all gonna explain the evil Lupin from the first teaser poster?

At least one joke about British traffic

At least one joke about British weather

a spotted dick reference

Vague Doctor Who reference

Vague Beatles reference

Vague Edgar Allen Poe reference (I mean c'mon the group's name is The Ravens)

Vague Detective Conan reference

I've already spoken about my high hopes for the soundtrack

DOUBLE DECKER BUSES LIKE C'MON

A scene in the Underground (or at least King's Cross)

Not saying I want y'all to confirm my "Lupin gets anxiety on trains because of what happened to his dad" headcanon but I'm also not not saying that

They go to the London Eye for some reason

Final showdown inside Big Ben (just to kinda bring that whole Cagliostro-Great Mouse Detective thing full circle)

Aaaaand that's all I can think of right now! I doubt a good chunk of this is gonna happen (the mask thing is certainly a long shot) but if they do then that'd be great!

BTW quick heads up while I'm here: I will be tagging all Part 6 posts as "lupin part 6 spoilers" so go ahead and blacklist that if you don't want to be spoiled! I honestly have no idea how I'm gonna watch this show because I'm too poor and lazy for Hidive but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it!

[missmassacre]

I have once again been tagged by @lovingmagicgemini for one of these and I always love talking about myself

rules: tag 9 mutuals to get to know better and/or catch up (I will not be doing this)

fav color: Dark reds

last song: 『LOST IN PARADISE』 by ALI ft. AKLO; dawg the Jujutsu Kaisen ending whips SO HARD

last movie: Took a trip down memory lane with the wife to watch the Pagemaster but that movie was weird and bad so before that we watched Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence which was Mamoru Oshii’s best flick imo

last show: Uhh, me and the wife are usually swapping between like four shows and also always watching our own thing and the last thing I watched on my own was Legend of the Galactic Heroes Gaiden since I never finished it

currently watching: Me and the wife have been watching Inuyasha since neither of us have seen it since it was on Toonami and I am genuinely surprised how good it is

currently reading: I don’t read books, but I do read webs serials, read https://unjustdepths.com/

sweet/savory/spicy: Savory. It is 100% accurate that you can have too much spicy or sweet but you can’t really have too much savory

currently craving: I wrote that coffee answer first so now I want Starbucks

tea vs coffee: Tea and coffee are equally good in that I only like extremely done-up versions of it like Starbucks because I’m basic

[ao3feed-hitoshi-shinsou]

I'm Sorry... I don't understand?

I'm Sorry... I don't understand? by Oshii Chan

Izuku never understood Soulmates.

They were shackles holding him back, love hurt him.

He doesn't want it.

Why does everyone believe love should be finite with a soulmark?

>☆<•>☆<•>☆<•>☆<•>☆<•>☆<•>☆<

Where-in Izuku is aromantic and Nobody really understands.

Words: 703, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Stories Of The Chaos Squad™

Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Characters: Shinsou Hitoshi, Hatsume Mei, Monoma Neito, Midoriya Izuku, Original Characters, Other Character Tags to Be Added, Kirishima Eijirou, Jirou Kyouka, Kaminari Denki, Ashido Mina, Sero Hanta

Relationships: Ashido Mina/Hatsume Mei, Shinsou Hitoshi/Todoroki Shouto, Kendou Itsuka/Monoma Neito/Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, Hatsume Mei & Midoriya Izuku & Monoma Neito & Shinsou Hitoshi, Other Relationship Tags to Be Added

Additional Tags: Midoriya Izuku is a Mess, Vigilante Midoriya Izuku, Hatsume Mei & Midoriya Izuku are Best Friends, Midoriya Izuku & Shinsou Hitoshi Friendship, Monoma Neito-centric, Midoriya Izuku-centric, Emotional Manipulation, Protective Midoriya Inko, Abusive Midoriya Inko, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Shinsou Hitoshi-centric, Hatsume Mei-centric, Abusive Midoriya Hisashi, Soulmates, Aromantic Asexual Midoriya Izuku, Kirishima Eijirou is Bad at Feelings, Supportive Bakusquad

Read Here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/24241258