#thank u ko!!!

[teekays]

35 + ermm tristen / henry

wait this one's cute actually it's keep fishin' by weezer (lol) we can work with this....

i'm seeing like. summer post college graduation henry freaking out a little about What To Do, Just In General, so he uses his quarterly allotted impulsive decision to spend a summer doing some menial job in a little beach town where he meets local delight tristen robins who immediately takes on the challenge of getting this guy to chill out a little... and it mostly works! because of course it does! but local delight tristen robins has other boys, and henry is not long for this town, and there's justtt a little bit of drama that eventually gets resolved in some way because i can't not be nice to robbie <3

[gotchibam]

Espeon ko-fi doodle for rhi!

[caiabresebun]

bunny migs doo doo

[kayvsdoodles]

a peek at some ko-fi bonky doodles :)

[sicklyjelly]

heyo, I’m opening some KoFi sketch comms while I look for work!

they’re 20 USD apiece (4 coffee tips) or 35 for two characters (7 coffees). All sketches are waist-up unless you specify you want smth equivalent like a bust or a chibi.

these are mostly here to help cushion my bills as the texan heat drains my wallet, so of course only donate if you’re able. oh, and if you have a particular color scheme you’d like to apply to the piece, feel free to let me know!

Thank you! 💙

[hotdrinks]

[Image ID: A sketch of Martin Blackwood - a fat white man with short hair and glasses - holding many loaves of bread on a large paddle. He is wearing a low cut apron and a shirt with sleeves rolled to his elbows. He is smiling contentedly. "Thank you! --Lee" is written in the top left corner. The exclamation point is dotted with a heart. End ID]

A baker Martin ko-fi request for @ladydragonkiller I bet he smells so good

[akingyouniverse]

obsessed with this

[ronkeyroo]

📝 The recent Ko-Fi doodles I did!! Thank you so much for donating and giving me such handsome ocs to warm up with ✨

If you want a lil doodle too - Im still doing these, come check out!

[sunlit-mess]

Hey sweetie. I'm really sorry you're going through a hard time right now and I hope you are able to get through it quickly. I really enjoy what you create and wanted to know if you opening your tips might help a smidgen (if some of your issues additionally are financial). I'd be happy to throw you a bit where I can because you bring a smile to my day when you post your work. ❤

Thank you! This'll pass much like most stuff I go through aha H A

[coochellati]

This isn't easy for me to write, but I wanted to be transparent with you all. Life has thrown some pretty tough challenges my way, and I've reached a point where I'm facing the possibility of homelessness. I’m trying to escape my abusive household with no savings whatsoever.

In light of these circumstances and the support I've received from you guys, I've decided to create a Ko-fi account as a means to seek help. I understand if donating isn't feasible for everyone, so please, don't feel any pressure whatsoever. Only contribute if it's within your means and if you genuinely want to. Even the smallest contribution would mean the world to me.

Here is my Ko-fi.

Thank you for reading this. I love you guys so much. I love being on this hellsite—I finally feel like I’m fostering a little community of Bruno simps and it makes me so happy to log on every day and see you guys. I'm so grateful for each and every one of you.

[aihoshiino]

do you think b komachi (specifically the 4 founding members) were ever friends at one point? i think 45510 implied it with how ai refers to them being friends before and nino saying that ai didn’t ‘cling to her friends’

personally, ive assumed that they were never close due to that rift between her and the rest of them therefore leading ai to want to make friends with them but knowing that they mightve been close in the past (even if it was brief) before distancing themselves away and growing to resent and envy her is just

Idk it hurts

I THINK ABOUT THIS SO MUCH AUUUUUU...

The Spica novel implies they never really connected at all and that there was some pretty nasty bullying of Ai basically immediately but uh, the Spica novel also has a lot of weird contradictions with the main series so I kind of just have been taking everything from it with a grain of salt... it'd be one thing if it was actually written by Akasaka and he was retconning but I genuinely think this Tanaka guy just did not know anything about oshi no ko when he wrote it lMDKMSLSKS

SO COMPLETELY IGNORING SPICA IN THAT REGARD...!

It's hard to pin things down exactly because we've never gotten a proper snapshot of that part of Ai's life. The closest we come to having anyone from that time period talk about it is in 45510 and Nino is sooooo biased that it's hard to know how seriously we can take her words.

I tend to believe that Nino is mostly telling the truth about how things went there from a purely narratively utilitarian standpoint of "this is our only source for this particular information so she cannot be a wholly unreliable narrator", even if her obvious emotional bias means you can't just uncritically accept what she says. Kyun kind of accidentally corroborates this in Viewpoint B where she describes Ai as being a little distant and seeming to have her walls up, which matches Nino describing her as 'aloof'.

I don't think this was something Ai was doing intentionally, though! This isn't something anyone in B-Komachi would've had context for but immediately worth noting is that, given that we know Ai can't be any older than 11 or 12 when she debuts in B-Komachi, this is two years at the very most out from her being separated from her mother. As Ayumi herself admits, her abuse of Ai escalated and peaked when Ai was eight or nine years old and Ai was put into the children's home and abandoned by her not long after. Given how fresh the wounds of abuse and abandonment would've been, it's really not a shock to me that Ai might have been kind of wary and defensive in a way that would've read as aloofness to kids who don't know what's up with her.

And also, like... Ai is autistic lol! She literally has a type of neurodivergence that affects her ability to socialize on top of her being implied to have been pretty poorly socialized up to that point as well. Chances are good that during this important period of making first impressions in B-Komachi that she probably wasn't great at masking, so that combined with her already having her guard up a bit likely would have made her seem really standoffish.

With all that laid out, I think my read of what initially happened with the founding members and Ai is that they were all reaching out to each other but ended up missing the final step they would've needed to really connect. The other founding members eventually gave up but Ai never stopped trying to reach them even long past the point where even she admits that they probably hate her. She never gave up on the idea that they could be friends.

It's definitely sad! I think the way the founding members fell apart is a really good depiction of like... an emotionally messy situation where it's hard for me to really blame anyone. In the aftermath of ch132, I've seen a lot of people really ragging on Nino and blaming her entirely for Ai's isolation within B-Komachi but like... isn't Ichigo also to blame for letting things get that bad? Isn't it the manager's job to make sure toxicity like that doesn't fester? Hell, a big part of why the girls in B-Komachi resented Ai is BECAUSE of Ichigo - because the group's management spotlighted and promoted her to the extent that all the other girls felt like they were just there to be Ai's backup dancers.

Thank God that could never happen with the present day generation of B-Komachi, right? Ha... hahahahhaa...............

[gotchibam]

Shiny Shinx ko-fi doodle for Dylan!

[narwhalandchill]

oh and also speaking of wuwa. what is it with chinese gachas these days and their one (1) random fucking Dude With A Finnish Name For No Apparent Reason

like theres welt from hi3rd and hsr. aka originally known as joachim nokianvirtanen. whos presumably half german half finnish. but the worst fucking thing about it is that like. while joachim is a very standard german name. ""nokianvirtanen" is NOT a finnish surname. its like an amateur writer looking up random finnish words to mush together into a surname with 0 research into what finnish surnames actually sound like. now by themselves. nokia? virtanen? oh absolutely that works 100%. together? it literally sounds AI generated it makes me cry 💀💀💀

(It could also just literally be nokia-virtanen or virtanen-nokia with the hyphen and work. but nokiaN is possessive form . but NOBODY is fucking called "nokia's virtanen" WHAT. THATS NOT HOW IT WORKSSSSS or like if theres Any legit surname w a possessive form in it which there prolly are some its a Very specific thing not sth broadly applicable at all)

whereas sampo koski is like. honestly peak bc its the complete fucking opposite. this name is like. this is literally Just A Dude. Theres probably like hundreds of actual fucking sampo koskis out there whose linked ins have been permanently buried under Rail the Stars game search results on google i literallg NEED to meet one irl someday and ask them about it its so fucking funny 😭😭😭

like. okay koski is just an uhhhhhhhh. its a type of a waterfall in a river . Rapids? but yeah its a very standard surname. Except not like this SUPER common generic googled the top 10 tier name bc its genuinely an authentic name you run into that sounds natural. Like it doesnt sound like A Character surname its too normal. and then sampo refers to a mythical miracle machine in karelian and finnish folklore with 3 corners that each makes riches of the ocean (represented w salt) the soil (w grain) and the earth (w gold) freely for whoever owns it. In lore some ppl fight over it long story anyway louhi was right. which is again its not some uber common name but its a Very natural one its so weirdddd ive had a sampo for a classmate its cursed 💀💀 and have prolly known a koski at some point too

Anyway point being. Sampo koski is literally the Quintessential normie This is a person not a Space Gacha Game Character name idk HOW they just. came up w it it feels so weirdddd. this is like if boothill was just called like. Josh.

anyway my only real issue w sampo is just that he doesnt fucking act finnish. yes its true reducing nationalities to caricatures is bad but. Listen if you rep us. it HAS to be all the stereotypes actually. we arent all antisocial and depressed for half the year bc its too dark and insomniac and pissed off the other half bc its too bright just to get some fruity fucking aha follower with a name youd see on the employee list of the most mundane fucking office job . i like sampo i just cant claim him . he talks too much and dresses too flamboyant hes an impostor

which brings us to. Wuthering waves. and like as we can see hoyos finnish names have had their interesting moments for sure. so like hows kuro games faring?

Oh they called him--

They Called The Random Finnish Name Guy Of The Wuthering Da Waves Game---

AALTO?????????!??!??? AALTO?????!?

THEY LITERALLY CALLED HIM WAVE IN FINNISH WHAT THE FUCKKKKJKK

honestly idek if i should be insulted or just like. Amazed by the sheer balls it takes to just call him half the title of ur game and be like ah. Perfect. represented the feeble finns again

anyway tho unironically. While he also (to my knowledge at least) has the like. cocky lighthearted menace personality which like. No. at least the way he looks is peak acceptable like yeah this is a random finnish guy animefied and airdropped into this post apocalyptic scifi fantasy world. the quintessentially finnish awful out of fashion speedy sunglasses (this is a cultural in joke that i will Not be elaborating on). the sensible tactical gear. i respect him the white long hair is clearly a survival tactic its camouflage. hes fine. also props for having an aspect of camouflage in his kit w the taunts bc yes historical reference winter war the finns are indeed out there blending in with the environment wahoo. no particular thoughts tho i did pull him so ig legal obligation to build his ass

anyway aalto is also an university. lowkey the students there should just do a power move and make an aalto cosplay like the secondary uniform alongside haalarit itd be funny

but yeah am i going anywhere with this? Making some serious critique god forbid? Not in particular i am just. Continuously baffled w this. bc its not like these characters Are finnish by any metric. They just get random fucking finnish names and its like every single chinese gacha now needs to have a token one and im just here like.but why . What is the purpose of it . what is so effervescent about googling random finnish names and slapping them on your male characters . I do not understand

+ honorary mention to ukko the frostarm lavachurl in genshin. Another folkloric reference (ukko the sky/thunder god) . couldnt even give us a fruity guy in that one. though sitting in your bespoke isolation in a freezing hellhole and beating the shit out a random traveler disrupting your peace is way more finnish than a single sentence most of these characters have uttered so like. Fair actually that Is a mood. king behavior

[b4kuch1n]

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[wormy-worm]

was looking at that recent ok ko poster ian jq made again and

does. does brandons shirt say bearbones.

IT TOTALLY FUCKING DOES

[hotdrinks]

[ID: a greyscale drawing of sphynx Jon looking at a frog. Sphynx Jon is a large catlike creature with a long neck, horns, a mane and wings with markings that are shaped like eyes. He has a long tail with a scorpion stinger on the end. He is sitting down and looking at a small frog, the markings on his wings appear to be looking as well. End ID]

@mxwhore requested their sphynx Jon being silly!! His ass does NOT know about frogs!!!!