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dragons-and-yellow-roses · 2 years

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My boss: You have a girlfriend? How did I not know?

Me: We've been together for two and a half years, so that's kind of on you

My boss: You could've been married with six kids and I wouldn't know

#i mentioned going on a trip with my girlfriend and this happened #ive worked with this woman almost as long as ive been dating my gf #a couple of my coworkers have met her #but my boss hasnt just becaus of schedule differences and my gf doesnt visit me at work that often #at work im pretty private and dont talk about myself too much #hence the 'married with six kids and wouldnt know about it' comment #my job is full of gossip. i dont need my personal business being spread around #ive already had rumors fly about me there. rumors i was with one of my coworkers that i was just friends with #rumors that another manager had a crush on me #and probably countless more that i just didnt hear about #so i keep my personal life to myself unless im actually friends with the coworker im talking to #oh i remember mentioning to my friend that im bisexual. and it happened to be in front of another coworker #this coworker ended up telling an older gay coworker that im bi #i then got a lecture from the older gay coworker about how he doesnt believe in bisexuality and its the same for many older gays #so i really do not say personal shit about myself anymore #i kind of like being a mystery #yall can make up what you want about me but im not going to give you any actual information about my life

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poorly-drawn-mdzs · 2 months

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Flower Empowered.

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #lan wangji #wei wuxian #lan wunian #The absolute chaos that ensued when Lan Wangji showed up...those girls went wild.#We have to give kudos to narration that takes the form of a bunch of suitor seeking ladies.#They were so loud about being here for the hotties and whispering gossip. You go girls.#Wei Wuxian most likely just picked up a already tossed flower to throw. Second hand flowers...are still flowers I suppose.#Can you imagine if LWJ had allergies? Poor lad.#Okay it's time for the real gritty discussion point. The one everyone is waiting for me to talk about:#So...from where we are in the timeline...what the hell is WWX supposed to be wearing?#I'm serious. Put all the fanart out of your brain for a moment.#We are post burial grounds and sunshot campaign so he's had his little goth moment reveal.#*BUT* he is still with the Jiang sect. And by proxy of this flashback talking about his disrespect - they never bring up his attire.#meaning he is likely in some kind of Jiang Purple.#Continuity wise it really feels like this scene should have been *before* the burial mounds.#I understand why it's post - we need to build up on the mystery of how he became the YLLZ.#But also his personality feels way more 'pre-burial mounds WWX'. I think this was probably a 'I don't want to kill my darling' scene.#(The Phoenix mountain flashback is a lot of people's 'darling'. I am knowingly putting myself in the line of fire here).#I'm willingly putting him in Wen Qing's borrowed cloak and assuming people take him wearing it as like...a war trophy.#Historians will revise this moment later on but for now he *is* a hero of that war.

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egophiliac · 5 months

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Hi it's just to let you know that the official romanization of Revaan's name is Raverne ! Also they have romanized Baul's name to Baur !

Twst coming back at us again with the least expected romanization! thank you everybody (oh god my inbox) (no it's great, I literally asked for this and the reactions have been INCREDIBLE, thank you all!)

I do like Raverne though, I think it's got a nice fancy sound to it! (I had kinda suspected it was going to be an R instead of an L, so the fact that it's SO close to Laverne except for that is hilarious to me personally.) and Dragoneye Duke is honestly probably the best translation for his title, I wasn't envying the localizers that one. :') Baur instead of Baul I was NOT expecting, but in retrospect I think his name's supposed to be a reference to the Bauru crocodile, so that actually makes way more sense!

someone else also said Meleanor has become Maleanor, which is the REALLY weird one to me, because I was so surprised it was written as Mel instead of Mal in the first place?! oh god no I can't decide which one I like better. 😭 (I wonder if they might change it to Mal...they have made romanization changes before) (like I remember House of Distraction being corrected to House of Destruction in Playful Land) (I did check and she's still Mel for now, but I dunno, they might Mal her up and some point and save me from having to make a decision about which one to use) (HECK I CAN'T DECIDE)

uhhhh thank you for letting me ramble about anime names, let's just say MONOGRAMMED SWEATERS FOR EVERYONE

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers #twisted wonderland episode 7 part 4 spoilers #twisted wonderland book 7 part 4 spoilers #mel is so cute but mal fits with the rest of the draconias better #eng version no you were supposed to save me not make things MORE confusing #anyway raverne huh #that uh. that sure feels like it's supposed to evoke raven doesn't it.#what does it mean WHAT DOES IT MEAN #hold on i'm going to flail around embarrassingly about anime character theories now #(okay first a disclaimer: i do think we need to sit down as a fandom at some point)#(and have a discussion about exactly what is actual canon versus meta speculation versus jokes)#(because i think there has been. some confusion. over that re:crowley and raverne specifically)#(but i do feel justified in being like THEY ARE PROBABLY CONNECTED SOMEHOW RIGHT?! right now)#like i really don't think it's as simple as crowley being raverne but with memory loss or something #(and if they pull that on us i'm going to need an EXTREMELY good explanation to go with it to justify that)#they've gone out of their way several times now to make a point about them acting and sounding different and it feels very intentional to m #(and once again: i super 100% absolutely do not believe that lilia wouldn't recognize him with the top half of his face covered)#i just think the contradictions are a lot stronger than the connections right now but there ARE some connections and i'm 👀ing at them #to be fair the connections are mostly meta like crowley being diablo/raverne being evocative of raven #also the general 'raverne mysteriously disappeared and apparently had distinctive eyes' thing #versus 'crowley's past is unknown and he never shows his eyes'#(i will argue that crowley DOES seem to have some kind of canon connection to briar valley)#(since he is clearly some sort of fae and the masks are a briar valley thing)#and that is kinda it right now isn't it #okay hold on i had to delete some tags because i used too many (thanks tumblr for letting me know and not just vanishing them OH WAIT)#so tl;dr: i'm in the 'crowley is connected to raverne somehow but it's more complicated than just him being in disguise' camp personally #but that will probably change as we get more info and also don't take this as an anti-speculation thing because i love theories HOORAY

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icewindandboringhorror · 1 month

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I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

#wax seal #crafts #wax stamp #stationery #Window one is kind of stinky.. I was imagining like a swirly night sky sort of looking thing so it would be a surreal contrast of a night #sky with a window in the middle that shows a daytime sky - but the silver and purple wax kind of mixed too much together #with the black and it just looks very plain black and not all that starry or anything hjbhj.. Of course the eye is probably my favorite #since all I ever do is draw eyes and still like eye imagery for some reason. The four leaf clover is very lumpy and skrunkty but also it wa #the smallest in size out of all of them so was easier to do multiple stamps of just to try it out.#The heart with eyes wax is actually more swirly in person. I wanted it to be a mix of light pink and red and white. and the wax #did kind of all blend together but in person you can definitely see MORE of the intentional swirlyness. in this it just looks plain pink.#I was going to do one eye in the heart but it looked weird. but now two seems too plain. i could have done 3?? in a pattern.. hmm #alas. I wish I could make actual metal ones. With the clay i have to paint them in a thin layer of olive oil before stamping because #otherwise the wax just kind of gets stuck in the grooves of the clay and then you can't pull it up. Very wacky ''unprofessional'' looking #set up where I'm hot gluing circles of sculpey clay to short stumps of a wooden dowel that I sawed apart with a serrated bread knife #and then using an old paintbrush to put olive oil on them whilst holding a spoon over a yankee candle flame hjbjh #ANYWAY.. I think if I were middle class/rich/etc. this would be one of the main things in my crafting room is like.. SO many colors #of wax. and all different custom made stamps designed by me. which could be much more elaborate in actual metal.. muahaha.... >:)c #RHGghhh... I actually don't want to talk much about it since (this is probably just my Obsessed With My Own World Artist Delusions) I #think I have a really cool idea for a game that could genuinely be successful if i ever get to make it and I don't want to give #everything away and spoil the whole plot/concept in hopes that one day I can actually do it - BUT - a game that I'd like to make after the #visual novel I'm making now has partially to do with the main character working as a sort of writer/scribe/artist assistant in an elven #city (set in my world/with my worldbuilding species and versions of elves and etc) and I was thinking of maybe incorporating #somehow being able to collect little writing type items like these like.. you can get different wax seal patterns or pens or etc. when I do #stuff like this in Real Life it always makes me think of that like.. ouh... this is good research.. what it shall be like to be a littol #elf collecting wax seals and such.. indeed... GRR i need to be finished with my current game NOWWW... i MUST work on other #thingss... aughh... ANYWAY.. yay. accomplishment to do One Single Thing other than Sit In The Summer Heat And Rot #though also hilarious as this was the first cool-ish day that was below 80F in a while hgvh #waking up like 'wow.. i actually feel okay today?? like I could do things?? how mysterious.. I wonder why..?? :0'' Its The Weather You Fool #Tis Always The Weather

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natjennie · 6 months

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okay I know we love to clown on kristen but I think she's honestly handling this so much better than she's being given credit for and earnestly asking about both things that relate to the mystery and her personal relationship with divinity and tracker is bringing a lot of antagonistic energy. maybe that's just me idk.

#to ME. tracker is being kind of a bitch #kristen seems to be genuinely asking stuff #maybe she's being a little tongue in cheek about the mystery stuff like she said 'thick as thieves'#but honestly i think she's being really mature and respectful #and tracker came up with a lot of heat-#oh wait. it's a rage god thing. never mind. it makes sense.#fantasy high #d20 #dimension 20 #fhjy

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inkbirdie · 2 months

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so like. what the fuck just happened <- me after reading three 500-page books crammed with so much information that you would think there would be some context and answers as to wHAT THE HELL IS EVEN GOING ON THE WHOLE TIME

#so yeah i finished nona #i feel like i’ve gained no information #from the whole series #finishing gideon i was like #yeah this is sick i’m excited to learn more!#and i learned so much more #but it’s DOESN’T ANSWER SHIT #what did i expect honestly #you go in expecting a lesbian necromancer murder mystery #and you come out with both lesbians being at least kind of dead #one of them hasn’t technically kind of appeared for a whole book #neither of them are doing necromancer things #and everything that is happening is a mystery instead of only the murder #hrngh #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #tlt #the locked tomb series #the locked tomb spoilers

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sodafrog13 · 6 months

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*announcer voice* IN COMES MYSTERY SKULLS ANIMATED WITH THE STEEL CHAIR!!

missed these guys. take some doodles + a silly hlm au that i'm not gonna do anything with <3

#mystery skulls #mystery skulls animated #vivi yukino #lewis pepper #arthur kingsmen #lewvithur #just a tad lol #trashcan's art #for the record tho: in the hlm au mystery doesn't rlly exist. kind of #he is Some Manner Of Spirit that lives in vivi's kitsune mask which is a family heirloom #gives her inhuman strength when she wears it bc mystery's sworn to protect her and her family in any way he can #arthur doesn't have anything special going on but he Can and Will beat u to death with hammers. or wrenches. whatever he's got on hand rly #lewis's advantage is just being built like a fucking fridge LMAO #also he's a parrot :-) bc parrots can't sense capsaicin and can enjoy a spicy pepper (bc to them it's not spicy) so it seemed apt :V #also so i could mimic his little hair swooshes in the back #ik lewis's fav animal is alpacas but like. w/in a hlm context i felt alpaca mask wouldn't rlly work the way i'd like it to #that and it. looks a little dopey hfdhfd #don't expect a lot of MSA art fr me btw i'm just having a hyperfix resurgence and i don't think it'll last very long (relatively speaking)

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deoidesign · 4 months

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something that makes me sad is when people tell me the healthy communication in my writing is "unrealistic."

like guys this is how me and my partner talk with eachother... I'm writing from personal experience...

#like it's sad both on the front of 'dehumanizing my real life'#but also on the front of 'you deserve to have healthy communication in your life'#like if you think this is unrealistic it means more than likely you havent experienced someone being patient and understanding with you #and that makes me very very sad #I'm sorry #also it's just rude to tell me my writing is unrealistic LOL like hey #real people talk all kinds of ways. shut up #I've been told it's also in part cause they always understand their own feelings when theyre talking #but I'm like...#theyre like mid 30-early 40 and theyre immortal and theyre going through a lot of shit #I feel like theyve thought about it a lot #also the comic takes place over the course of a year so far #we're seeing the big moments and the fun mysteries #so #its about grown men who love eachother #sorry that they think about what they want to say before they say it #also as if adam isnt constantly wrong and steve isnt constantly pushing shit down #he's only JUST RECENTLY starting to share his emotions as they come up #instead of pretending theyre not there and letting things boil over #I think people just THINK theyre communicating way too clearly because their partner #who loves them #is listening and responding with kindness #like..#idk I have a lot of thoughts about this #would LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE for this to spark a discussion #and especially for it to cause people to reread a little more critically #and perhaps even introspect on their own ideas of communication standards #I've been with my partner for 10 years. this is how we talk to eachother

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bellshazes · 6 months

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Bdubs holds his sword straight out, arm extended ever so slightly upward so the tip of his sword is pointed at Etho’s throat. "If I wanted to kill you, I'd do it right now when I had the advantage. But I wouldn't want you to let me kill you out of pity. That's worse than losing." “I wouldn't give it to you that easy - you'd have to work for it. But I believe in you.” “You have a funny way of sweet talking a guy,” Bdubs says, but his sword doesn’t waver. Etho reaches out and grabs it carefully, holding the sword between his fingers without letting the blade touch his palm. Not that it would matter if Bdubs decided to attack - it’s still aimed upward, toward Etho's heart, so slicing a hand would be the least of his worries. The sword is a little warm where one side had rested against Bdubs' leg. "Just being honest." Face partially covered, he wears his smile in the looseness of his shoulders, the casual lean in his stance. "I thought you liked messing around, but I guess I was wrong."

A series of semi-connected oneshots centered around Etho and Bdubs from the earliest days, if they'd been a little bolder.

#peter writes #ethubs #mindcrack #strongly tempted to make this post self-destruct but i will at least temporarily admit to it being mine bc i like it a lot #and i have about 4k more written. and wow what's that previous fic in the series by some mysterious author who's maybe kind of cool. idk

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kitocrystal · 8 months

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You know why I can’t use “I’d kill everybody in this room and then myself” for this.

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stagefoureddiediaz · 5 months

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Thinking thoughts about Abuela being back and with this backstory about her being taken in by charlatans and Eddies whole catholic guilt thing and how the two things kind of play into one another as an exploration of faith and being taken in by something.

Abuela giving all her money to the tarot card readers etc because she was searching for something - for connection (with Abuelo) - trying to recapture what she had lost, and How Eddie has spoken about trying to re-find the magic he had with Shannon - how Eddie hasn't actually fully reconciled the Shannon of it all when it comes to relationships and how his Catholic guilt connects into that.

How Marisol as a physical representation of Catholicism is part of that narrative - how Eddie is entering a place where he has to chose his path - in order to move on from Shannon he needs to fully square the hole - catholic or non catholic. And how that needs to happen first - before he can begin his queer journey!

#this is so incoherant #I'm also thinking about how Marisol fits into this narrative and how this idea of being taken in or fooled by a person plays into what we #know of her - how she wasn't upfront with Eddie (not saying she had to be right from the off but before moving in!!!) - how she is kind of #representative of secrets - especially around faith and ones connection with faith because she is essentially a stand in for catholicism #which (sorry to all the catholics out there) peddles in magic and secrets in order to keep the mystery of faith alive and therefore keep #people believing. How Eddie's reckoning with himself and the ghost of Shannon ultimately means choosing either to follow the path of #catholicism or non catholicism #How Marisol is a tie to religion and therefore his reasons for not having successful relationships after her (or even with her) and how #Eddie letting go will ultimately mean letting go of Marisol - how he can never fully move forward while catholicism still lingers #how I don't' think we'll be seeing the queer aspect of this narrative this season - that dealing with this first part is key and only once #he has figured it out can he then be free to know himself - is true self better - and accept and move into his full self as a queer man #so yeah - catholic guilt arc 7b and 8a - as its really a two parter - finally dealing with the remnants of Shannon - and its connection wit #his faith and then when truly free of that exploring his queerness!#So yeah - Marisol will possibly be here until towards the end of the season because she is meant to be the trigger point for Eddie in #relation to Shannon - its why they made the difference (and similarities) between S and M very obvious in 7x01 #they have the time to build this story arc more fully now with the s8 renewal - to do it justice and unfortunately as part of that it means #she'll probably be around longer than any of us would like!#I don't know if I even make sense at this point #but I do want to reitterate that the show is goig out of its way to contrast her with Buck as well #to really show how close and right for each other Buck and Eddie are so no one needs to panic - she's here for the narrative not forever!#911 abc #911 spoilers #eddie diaz

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symphonybracket · 16 days

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Mystery Symphony 21

[Video Description: a short clip of the third movement of a symphony showing a scrolling score. /end ID]

#i found a loophole... tumblr lets me upload videos just not audio clips (most of the time!)#sorry the timing on the scrolling is ever so slightly off... since the audio is being fed into my computer for the recording i couldnt #actually hear it and had to write down approximate time stamps lol.#i might not do this again it was kind of annoying. but i do love looking at scores #let me know if you like it :)#this one's for the [redacted] mob #mystery polls

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hellisntreal · 24 days

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a power of peace and healing//your bones run strong

I spent a very long time trying to work out a Stone design and I'm still not settled! I'm sure like my other humanizations of Fallen London entities, I'll come up with a few <3

#blood cw #gore cw #fallen london #fallen london spoilers #whoooo wants to hear my design thoughtsssssss okay so #I colour selected from her art. she's mostly brown but there's a pale peach colour I've chosen to adopt #I think pale orange/pink works well for stone! pastel is like a half colour innit. she's a half judgement. a softer light #she has 'mountain limbs' referenced there's no reason to give her only two #esp since one of her parents is a crab. they're kinda hooved/claws/roots to reflect both her and baz #the outfit and part of the pastels is also that Stone is.... a princess kind of. i wanted to invoke that!#no one would call her this but the idea of 'maiden hidden where she can't be seen secret child of the king' is like. Her #maidens locked away often have pointy hats too. like mountains. solved it. all the neath mysteries. i won #she has cracked and the wound obviously because. folks. stop mining her! stop seeking immortality!! CHILL!!!#she's PROBABLY HAS cursed people but she's overall all ALRIGHT and in a TOUGH SITUATION okay. her dad fucking yeeted her into the dirt #oh she has tears of flint on her face. chose orange eyes bc Remembered Sunlight and blue for the Sky. half-lidded because half-sun.#as the monarch of monsters and princess of Shame I wanted her to look notably Different while not being the biggest deal of the design #you will probably notice the wound before the many odd legs or singular arm. she's way more human than my baz designs too #bc like. ONE WAY you can interpret Stone is to place her in Victorian London. The king has a bastard he is ashamed of at birth and hides he #anyway. other stone ideas are much more garden themed. cat themed. put her in a cat sweater

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possum-quesadilla · 25 days

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Uh oh. I may have a new Beetlejuice AU to write a fanfic for alongside LoopJuice.

Basically, the Maitlands are alive and family friends of the Deetz, and Emily still passes away, but in a car accident involving another family friend, Lawerence, whose body was never found. A year after that, Lydia stumbles upon her dear friend wandering through a graveyard.

But it isn’t him.

It’s a demon named Beetlejuice possessing his dead body.

#beetlejuice #lydia deetz #it would be from Lydia’s POV mostly and feature a more morally reprehensible version of Beej #funny to imagine this Beej vs LoopJuice Beej #LoopJuice Beej is soft and kind and this Beej is just. a horrible rabid creature possessing a corpse but also… perhaps eventually family?#just an idea! not sure if I’ll have the energy or time to write it #it would involve like. solving the mystery of what happened to Lawrence and also dealing with the gross weird being inhabiting his corpse #probably would have a not happy ending.. more of a neutral one #or maybe a happy one if I get attached to this Beetlejuice idk #corpsejuice

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the--highlanders · 3 months

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does anyone else feel like sutekh isn't actually the one who waits tho

#fifteenth doctor #dw spoilers #like........#mrs flood being connected to sutekh does make sense #mrs /flood/ + her talking about the storm coming in - mythologically sutekh is connected to storms #but also rtd has said she's a mystery for later seasons right?#& we didn't see her with the skull mask at the end or in the promo pictures for next episode #she could be connected to the one who waits who is someone else #like. what if it's ruby's mother. playing some kind of long game w/ waiting for ruby to grow up or something.#disclaimer that there is also probably some of my ark brainrot in this lol #if i had a cent for every time david tennant was in a piece of media with a character called the one who waits etc etc

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starrysharks · 2 months

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chapter 1 of reassassination's nearly done script-wise! hopefully the next chapters won't take like 6 months of on-and-off work to complete lol

#but i have GOOD REASON as to why it took so long #1. i had no clue how exactly to write the characters and they literally swapped characterisation with every scene #luckily now i've solidified krankenstein as a paranoid control freak #and octavia as a superficially cool girl with a sailor's mouth and zero social awareness #honestly its so hard to explain her chara. basically: character who seems stoic and cool and mysterious but is actually just super autistic #2. i had NO CLUE how and when to expose information #now chapter 1 only gives a superficial look at krank and octavia's characters and the most basic info about postmortem #and the “rules” of octavia (perfect pendant etc)#and 3. i was writing it like a standalone for a while #i had to put a lot of changes into the script in order to turn the chapter into the foundation for a few opening “mini-arcs”#of which will give a lot of characterisation and purpose into postmortem highschool characters #like onion and jaundice #rather than being kind of disconnected like before #anyway now that im nearly done all i need to do is FINALFINALFINALise the designs #(which will probably have a shit ton more changes to make em actually drawable over and over again)#and design environments and props (like krankenstein medical clinic and postmortem as a whole)#even so i only want to start releasing the comic when at least a quarter of the scripts are done and the story is 100% finalised #i have a lot of freedom being out of school right now so i want to write as much as possible #so i guess it will release around late 2025 or mid 2026 in the best case scenario assuming something insane doesnt happen to me

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