roidmuscle

[bracketsoffear]

Brief update on asks

I will not be answering any asks about what characters have been submitted for a given tournament until after submissions have closed. You can send them in, I won't delete them, but they aren't getting a reply until the submissions are over.

[quil12]

Souyu + Yosuke celebrate Yu's birthday (I'm aware that Yu doesn't have an official birthdate but couldn't hurt to think what day and month he could be born)

I genuinely really like how this one turned out. I know that the fanon date for Yu's birthday is July 10th, since that's when P4 originally came out in 2008 (fun fact, the license plate on his scooter in Golden also says July 10th), so that's the date that I picked. (That's also just a few days before my birthday, so I like the thought that it's then just by proximity lmao)

Yosuke took a breath, clutching the tray filled with various breakfast foods in his hands as he walked into their bedroom. 

Yu was still asleep, curled up into a ball, his arm outstretched toward Yosuke’s side of the bed. 

He walked over to where he was, placing the tray down on the bedside table, leaning over him. His bangs were falling over his forehead, obscuring his face. His mouth was ever so slightly open as he gently breathed in and out. 

Yosuke smiled to himself, his chest filled with warmth, as he brushed the hair out of his face, leaning down, and gingerly pressing his lips to his forehead. 

As soon as he pulled away, Yu made a soft noise, his eyelids fluttering open. 

“Good morning,” Yosuke said, reaching over and laying his palm against his cheek.

Yu sat up a little, looking a little bit disoriented. His voice was a little scratchy and deeper than usual from sleep. “Good morning. Why are you up so early?”

Yosuke pressed another kiss to his forehead. “I made you breakfast. Happy birthday.”

“You didn’t have to do that.”

“I wanted to though. You’re always cooking for me.”

He gave him a soft smile. “Thank you.”

Yosuke smiled back, pulling away, and then grabbing the tray, putting it back down on his lap.

He blinked. “This is a lot of food. How long did this take.”

Yosuke shrugged. “I’ve been up for a couple of hours.”

Yu normally woke up around 5:30, so in order to get everything done before then, he had gotten up at around 3. It had been worth it though - if anything just to be able to wake him up like that.

“Wow. You were super dedicated then.”

“As if I’d be anything else.”

He walked around to the foot of the bed, crawling on top of it, sitting down next to Yu as he took a bite of some eggs.

“It’s really good. Thank you.”

“I’ve gotten a lot better at cooking, right Partner?”

Yu let out a small laugh. “Definitely. 

Yosuke hummed, leaning his head onto him while wrapping one arm around his waist. 

It was quiet for a few minutes before Yosuke started yawning. He was almost never up this early to begin with and getting up a few hours previous was starting to get to him. 

He wanted to stay awake. He had things planned, after all, but, after a while, he lost the battle of keeping his eyes open, eventually letting himself slip into unconsciousness, pressed up, warm and content, against Yu's side. 

- - -

He wasn't sure how long had passed when he woke up again. He was still sleeping against Yu, but he had curled up around him, grasping onto him like a koala. 

He pulled his head away, looking up at him. He had grabbed a book at some point and was reading. He looked over at him, a small smile on his face.

"Good morning."

"Good morning. Happy birthday."

He let out a laugh. "We had this conversation already."

Yosuke hummed, pulling further away, and sitting up. "I can tell you happy birthday as many times as I want."

"I guess you can. Thanks for breakfast, by the way."

"Of course. How did you like it?"

"It was good. You're getting a lot better at cooking."

"I'm gonna be better than you someday."

"Oh yeah?"

"Yeah."

He laughed. "All right. When that happens, it'll be your job to make dinner then."

"Deal." Yosuke stretched his arms above his head. “What time is it?”

“About 9.”

He had slept for that long? They needed to hurry if he wanted them to get to everything he wanted to do.

"All right. I have things planned for today, so get ready."

"What kind of things?"

"You'll see."

Yosuke got off the bed, walking over to the dresser and getting clothes out, changing into them. 

After that, he walked to the bathroom and finished getting ready. 

When he walked out into the living room, Yu was sitting on the couch, seemingly ready to go.

“So, what are we doing?”

“We’re gonna go for a little bit of a drive.”

“All right.”

Before heading to the door, he walked to the kitchen, pulling a bag out of the fridge - something else that he had prepared that morning. After that though, he led him out the door and outside of the apartment building. 

They lived in the city, so there wasn’t too much need for a car - they could take the subway or a train pretty much anywhere that they needed to go, but they still had one for more out of town trips. 

He had packed all of what they needed in the car the night before, so everything was ready to go.

He put the bag in the backseat before getting in on the driver’s side. Yu got in as well, looking at him curiously.

“You’ll find out soon.”

“I didn’t say anything.”

“But you were thinking it.”

He shrugged.

Yosuke started driving, pulling out of the parking spot and onto the road. It was a decently long trip, so he settled in, turning on some music. He really liked doing things like this. There was just something about being in the car with Yu that made him happy. 

As they were getting through the city traffic, Yosuke reached over, grasping onto Yu’s hand, intertwining their fingers. That was also really nice - he liked holding hands with him, but didn’t get to do it as much as he would have really liked.

They talked as they went - it was mostly Yosuke talking about whatever topics popped into his head while Yu chimed in whenever he had something to add. That was fine though. That was how it always was. 

Before long, they got out of the city, heading into a more rural area. Most of the time getting out there had been spent driving through traffic. They were only about fifteen minutes away now. 

Eventually, they pulled into a parking lot. There were only two other cars there - that worked out nicely. He wanted to actually spend time with him, but it was sometimes hard to do that with other people around. It was a large forested area. It almost didn’t feel like there was a big, bustling city a few miles away.

As soon as they parked, Yosuke got out of the car, first going to the backseat and retrieving the bag from earlier before going to the trunk. Yu met him there, looking on with curiosity. 

He opened it, pulling out Yu’s tackle box and fishing rod, handing them to him.

“Are we going fishing?”

“I know you used to do it all the time, but there aren’t really spots to do it in the city. I figured that we could just spend a few hours out here.”

Yu smiled widely. “That sounds nice.”

He grabbed another bag from the trunk, closing it. “Come on then, there should be a path to the river through the forest.”

They only had to walk for a few minutes before coming up to a river, a wooden dock jutting out on one side. They walked down to it, Yu immediately beginning to set up his fishing rod. 

If he was being honest, he really had no idea about fishing. Yeah, he had sat with Yu while he did it before, but he didn’t enjoy doing it himself. It was boring to just sit there for hours waiting for a fish to bite and he also didn’t particularly like the reward for doing that. Fish. He didn’t like fish at all. They looked weird and kind of freaked him out. He didn’t want them anywhere near him, and that included by eating them. 

Yu liked fishing though, so he would put up with it.

Yu finished setting up his rod, sitting down on the dock as he cast the line. 

Yosuke reached into one of the bags that he had brought, taking out a bottle of sunscreen. It was a pretty warm and sunny day and he didn’t want either of them getting sunburnt. 

He put some on himself first before sitting down next to Yu.

“Hey, look at me.”

Yu complied, turning to face him.

He squirted some out into his hand before dabbing little bits onto his face, rubbing it in. He finished doing it pretty quickly.

“Thanks.”

“Of course.” He put the sunscreen back in the bag. “Oh, and I made lunch too whenever you’re hungry.”

Yu raised his eyebrows. “Wow, breakfast and lunch in the same day? What did I do to deserve that?”

Yosuke shrugged. “Be born, I guess.”

Yu hummed as Yosuke leaned against him, laying his head onto his shoulder. He closed his eyes, just enjoying the feeling of the sun against his skin.

All of a sudden, Yu jerked his arm back, causing Yosuke to let out a noise of alarm. He opened his eyes to see him reeling in the line, his gaze focused on the water. After a few seconds, he had it reeled in all the way, a wrigging fish attached with it.

He leaned away as he took it off of the hook. This was going to be a long couple of hours.

- - -

At about 2pm, they left. They had somewhere else that they needed to be. 

Yu had managed to catch quite a number of fish. He smelled like them now, but that would probably serve him well where they were going.

It was just after 3 when they pulled into another parking lot in the city - the parking lot of an animal shelter.

Yu had been wanting to get a cat for the longest time. Yosuke had never been quite sure about it though. He had used the excuse for a while that their apartment didn’t allow pets, but they had moved into a different place not that long ago - one that allowed residents to have them. He still wasn’t completely sold on the idea of having one - he wasn’t sure he liked the idea of an animal relying on him to make sure it survived, but Yu would definitely be the one taking care of it the most, so really, it should be okay.

“Yosuke?”

“We have an adoption appointment at 3:15 to get a cat.”

“Really?” There was an excited light behind his eyes.

“Yeah. I think it’s time you finally get one.”

Yu gave him a soft smile, leaning forward, and lightly pressing his lips against his cheek. “Thank you.”

Yosuke smiled back. “Come on, let’s go in before we’re late.”

They walked inside, checking in, immediately getting led into the cat room. 

There were so many cats in there - some of them were sleeping, some of them were playing, some of them were eating. It was really a little hub of activity.

Yu looked like he was in heaven, watching all of the cats, going up to them and holding his hand out, waiting until they allowed him to pet them before running his hands down their backs. It was a process he repeated so many times until he had basically pet every single cat in the room.

There was one that he kept gravitating toward though. 

It was a loud orange tabby that kept walking up to him, demanding his attention, only stopping crying when Yu would drop everything else and begin petting him. 

Yu seemed to like it though, smiling widely every time he would pet him. 

“Do you want to get that one, Partner?” Yosuke asked, walking over to him.

He hummed. “He is very sweet. He kind of reminds me of you.”

“Of me?”

“Orange. Loud. Wants attention.”

Yosuke blinked. “All right. I’m going to pretend that those were compliments.”

Yu laughed. “They are.”

He reached over, picking up the cat. It immediately allowed him, not putting up any sort of fuss, just laying in his arms.

“What do you think?” he asked, holding the cat out.

Yosuke reached his hand out, letting the cat sniff his hand before scratching it gently behind the ear. “I think if this is the one you want, then you should get it.”

He hummed. “I think I’ll call him Azuki.”

“All right. Azuki it is.”

They found one of the volunteers, completing the adoption paperwork. They talked for a while about the care that went into having a cat. Yu seemed to already know most of it, but still listened with rapt attention. 

Yosuke paid the adoption fee and then it was off to the pet store to get supplies.

Yosuke stayed in the car with Azuki while Yu went in. He sat there quietly for a little while before getting bored.

He looked in the mirror, staring back at the paper box carrier that the shelter had provided. He could see his nose sticking out through one of the holes.

“So, Azuki. I’m still not completely sold on having you, but you make Yu happy, so that’s why you’re here.”

There was a small meow that came from the box.

“Yeah, now, you had better be nice to him and you’d better not bite or scratch him. If you do that, you’re gonna wish you hadn’t. Do you understand?”

Azuki meowed again.

All of a sudden, the car door opened, Yu furrowing his brow at him. “Are you shovel talking the cat?”

Yosuke turned away, his face hot. “No.”

“He’s a sweet boy. He’s not going to do anything.”

“I guess.”

Yu got into the car, reaching over, and grabbing hold of his hand, squeezing it. “Is there anything else you had planned for today?”

“We have dinner reservations at 8. I figured that would be enough time to get him settled in at home.”

Yu brought their hands up, pressing his lips against the top of his hand. “You really went all out today, didn’t you?”

“It’s not every day that I get to celebrate your birthday.”

He gave him a soft smile. “I love you, you know?”

“I love you too.”

[ambersky0319]

Hey guess who spent their day reading through some old writing for the story/world they figured they would never actually return to beyond drawing the characters and was suddenly hit with the urge to fixate on them for the foreseeable future?

Anyways

I might try a very low-effort nano this year lol

And Cinomed Chronicles will be the focus cause I miss my babies more than I thought I did

[old-stoneface]

seeing other people post long explorations of characters makes me start having more confidence to finally write out my gay vimes theory

[sirompp]

hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

[almondpiglet]

ppl were drawing mikus from all over so heres habesha miku and her lil twin sibs rin and len!!

[elbiotipo]

Usamericans should be more anti-war actually. They should be straight up insulting marines and shutting down weapon factories, 60s anti-war protests kind of shit. I'm sorry for pontificating from down here but the US military-industrial complex is currently supplying a genocide, and this is not a new thing, the US has sold weapons to Saudi Arabia to starve millions of Yemenis, the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, these are within memory. And though some people think it's not the point, it Is also true that there are trillions upon trillions of dollars that could be spent in anything else that go to the black hole of corruption (and call it for what it is, corruption) that is the Pentagon. Any of those resources could be destined to literally any other activity and be better spent.

I'm talking full contempt here. You should outright be HATING the military. Instead of lining up to watch Top Gun you should see it as a glorification of a fucking killing machine that serves imperial interests, enriches megacorporations and supports genocides. For the love of God be more angry about it. Goddamn.

[rovermcfly]

proud to say that I have never once in my life figured out the whodunit in any crime story I've read or watched. I just let the facts and clues wash over me, absorbing absolutely none of it. I am the audience they think of when they throw in red herrings, in case you've ever wondered "who would fall for this obvious false lead". it's me. I am the idiot viewer/reader. not once has an obviously framed clue revealed anything to me. my head is completely empty when I consume these stories.

[shesmore-shoebill]

"I had choice paralysis :(" is a KILLER line.

He's such a comedic powerhouse, I'm glad more people are getting exposed to him :'D

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

License to Kitty.

[transrevolutions]

the thing terfs (and transphobes in general) don't seem to get about sexual preferences re: not being attracted to certain genitals is that like. okay. you have a preference. this feature is a turn-off. but that does not mean it is necessary to constantly broadcast how unattractive and undesirable you find people with this feature. you do not have to do that. in fact, it is generally considered quite rude. sexual compatibility or lack thereof has nothing to do with moral purity or legitimacy.

[ekko-idk]

My take on Farcille <3

(experimenting with my style too)

[ionomycin]

Grief

ref photo by @jawsstone

[lazylittledragon]

some domestic shadowlachs <33

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’