#there's a panel in here I'm still really fond of haha

[marimbles]

What are your favorite artworks you’ve ever created ? (Both on this account and in the days of old on carpisuns/chatnoirinette)

the days of old alsdjfasf i've had this blog for like a month but yeah. it does kind of feel like that lol

so far this is my favorite thing i've ever drawn! i was trying extra hard to make it feel magical and like "cinematic" haha. and my heart was just sooo full with the ending of the owl house and my fondness for huntlow so i think it will always be special to me<3 i put a lot of love into it! (x)

another favorite is the illustrated comic thing i did for anna-scribbles's fic golden (like daylight). it's old enough now that it sort of makes me cringe haha but i am still fond of it. it took me months to finish and I really pushed myself and put a lot of thought into it because it was a gift for a dear friend, for one of the best fics i've ever read in my life! and it was an interesting challenge to try to portray visually how it felt to read that beautiful passage. also it's too long so i'll just put my favorite panel lol (full comic here)

i don't have much on this blog but this was kind of my first big zelda piece (which i originally posted on carpisuns and then deleted it and moved it here which was probably dumb lol). i really tried to make it feel like magical and "cinematic" too, and i'm not sure how well i hit the mark, but i still like it and had fun making it! (x)

also i keep forgetting i even did this haha but my huntlow animatic is one of my proudest achievements as an artist<3 it took me forever and was so much work but i learned a ton! i still enjoy watching it now and then

ok im a little embarrassed to be rambling abt my own stuff and life patting myself on the back alkdjsfa but this was a very sweet ask! thanks for taking a walk down memory lane with me! :) i feel like im in sort of a creative low atm but i hope i can fill this blog up with fun things and expressions of all the stuff i love that hopefully u can enjoy too<3

[jezmmart]

Chamomile Comic Trivia #28

#146 - Really

This story arc was vaguely inspired by my job experience. I am A manager but not THE manager at my reluctant retail day job, but there's always something stupid happening and I've had to run the place for anywhere between a week to a month or two so many times over the years, so I had a few experiences to draw jokes out of.

#147 - My

Having said that, I feel no ownership or pride of authority, so this one is just fun with characters. In my head, the place that the customer goes to for buying something is just "the till" so I remember it took me a while to come up with, of all things, the words "service counter" - something for Layla to refer to that area by that didn't sound completely unnatural in dialogue.

#148 - Follow

Now this one IS very much based on my own experience going to management meetings and training days. Fleeting moments of inspiration in how to improve things and community with fellow management - followed by immediately getting slammed back down to earth by how hard the ideas would be to implement due to constantly stingy hours and how it's all just about making money in the end.

I remember once pointing out a hypocrisy in a company process during a training meeting. The trainer conceded to my point making sense then came to the conclusion of... "do it like we said anyway". Cool.

The fact that Layla is making notes and paying attention while veteran managers to her left and right doze off was also true to my experience, lmao.

#149 - Help

Very important lore drop here - the addition of the cute little staff only spiral staircase upstairs in the corner of the shop, which was a memorably fun thing to decide "I really want this in Cammie's shop, I'm always fascinated by them when I see them in a shop and ever since I was little always very upset I can't go up and down them" and then realise "right now I have to figure out how to draw that!!". I've checked the blurry backgrounds for the two comics where this corner of the shop was visible before and there wasn't any sign of it, so this is a very light retcon (those blurry backgrounds were very vague anyway though). A rare case of it being more sensible to draw the background in full since it was getting used for all 4 panels, so enjoy some uncensored spiral staircase:

I remember coming up with this joke when a Uni friend was visiting and we were just sort of riffing off each other with work related jokes or something, so this comic takes me back to fond memories of said visit generally!

If you look carefully you can see Layla has already performed her management teleportation spell in panel 3, behind the thief's open jacket.

#150 - Stop

The big 150! Well, it feels like a special number at this stage (250 also feels special, and then after that the 50s don't so much anymore for whatever reason). Either way I decided to do a quadruple lengther!

I haven't always followed this rule but I decided at this time at least, for extra-length comics, I still wanted each "page" to at least vaguely stand-up as a standalone comic too. In that context, the main purpose of going extra length is to keep the pace on a scene which I don't want dragging out across a whole month.

The spot Cammie runs by in this panel is the same one from comic #56, Cammie's footprints permanently a part of this street's history now. I know for sure these two extras in the foreground will show up in a few future comics when I couldn't be bothered to design new ones too.

The "helping the old ladies across the street" part of this chase is one of my favourite comedy scenes I've come up with over the years, I don't remember at all where it came from, I just enjoy it as a reader now, haha! I'm particularly proud his look back and Cammie's responding glare.

On the flipside I wish I could have come up with something a bit more meaningful than just "there is a dead end" to finish the chase but it's not really super important, the seagull joke is the point.

And now for something that hasn't come up in a Trivia post before - significant unused content!

For a short time I was thinking about following the above with a new arc dealing with an actual fallout from the shoplifting incident, with two comics scripted out. It's been years and I've never used or repurposed these so I think it's safe to share them. I reserve the right to still use a variance of these one day if it really feels right for another story though, not everyone reads these trivia posts, haha!

I'll let the scripts speak for themselves first.

Unused #151:

Unused #152:

From here the idea was that Bri and Cammie would have had a falling out for a little while (maybe a couple months worth of comics I was thinking) due to Bri, her dearest and most understanding friend, outright calling her stupid in the heat of her deep concern, sort of an expansion of the little moment where Vi genuinely hurt Cammie's feelings by referring to her "rampant idiocy" back in #59 / #62.

But as the deadline to begin work on the #151 approched I just wasn't coming up with anything I liked to follow that thread through, so in the end it didn't happen and we got... *flips page* a comic about Cammie putting a bucket on her head instead! Good stuff.

I still think canonically, Bri wouldn't have approved of Cammie's chase, but in this case she kept her frustrations to herself!

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[handinlovablehand]

Here are some thoughts/reflection/process things re: the Tallahassee comic. Since this is my art blog, I figured this was the best spot to put it! Lots of images and pretty long, so I've thrown it below a cut.

This is the first time I've seriously worked with Microns and a lot of 'em since... oh, lord, 2020. I'm pretty sure I've done some other stuff along those lines, but here are examples and an emulation of the style digitally:

(Respectively, May 2020, March 2020, and September 2020. Apologies for quality on the first two; I had to rely on old photos.)

Compare with this spread from the comic:

I'm still not super comfortable with backgrounds (or cars; all the shots at the beginning are framed VERY carefully so that I do not have to draw one), but you can see that they've gotten a lot better. The sparseness of the floor was intentional - I wanted to create the effect of an infinite-looking space, with the ceiling fan to provide depth. There's a bit more depth and weightiness than in that drawing of Karkat or the seagulls.

That's partially because the house is as much of a character in Tallahassee as its narrators. Aside from the space in the liner notes devoted to describing their environment, there's also quite a bit in the album itself. There isn't much physically happening in the notes, either, so I had to rely on shots of the house in order to fill panel space. Three cheers for symbolism and vivid imagery!

To pull up another page, I've also gotten A LOT better with natural environments in particular. I'm quite proud of that rose bush and the fence, although I could've taken a little more care while filling it in and the lighting leaves something to be desired.

Speaking of, my attempts at lighting are quite a bit more solid, but still not perfect. Consistency isn't great, and I have some qualms about the Alphas' hair and the shadow cast by the Alpha Male sitting up, but what can ya do? At least I'm drawing shadows being cast by things, haha.

I think the attic, the window shots, and "knocked down" panels look the best light-wise. I was trying to convey bright moonlight, and I think I did a pretty good job! I adore the curtains. A solid runner-up is the open door; I wanted to use it as a reverse light source, of sorts. In retrospect, I could have spaced the door shots out a bit more to make it feel more ominous.

Craft-wise, there's also a lot of improvement. Normally, I'd do a longform, easy-to-fuck-up project like Tallahassee digitally. However, I forgot my drawing tablet stylus in a very stupid place that I won't return to for a few months. So, I've been going back to pen and paper again.

I felt very confident right out of the gate, which is very strange considering it was the first time I'd used many of those pens for art in a hot minute! I actually did another casual-ish piece with Microns and gel pens in my sketchbook a few weeks before this, shown below:

but while I was VERY excited about my use of color, I wasn't super fond of the ink work. That's because I fucked up before I even started.

My sketchbook is, er, a sketchbook. The pages are pretty rough. I learned while working on the comic that technical pens are meant for use on smooth paper, and will often appear spotty/inconsistent on the rougher stuff. You can REALLY see it on the frame around the magpie. I switched to standard-issue copier paper in the comic, which plays much nicer with them. Sketch paper also frays brush pens. Oops! Guess that explains what happened to one of those poor, poor souls...

I got my first set of Microns in 2017-ish. I was really only interested in the fixed-width pens; I'd tried a brush pen earlier on and HATED. IT. With a burning passion. My hands have always been pretty unsteady, but it was worse when I was younger, so my lines looked godawful. The set came with a brush pen, though, and I made many valiant attempts to use it. In my sketchbook. Which inevitably frayed it terribly and rendered it unusable for most purposes.

I used the set quite a bit, but infrequently enough that I've still got most of them! My 005 is going strong, but the 05 is lost, and the 1 and 03 are not long for this world. I've known the 03 is on death's door for a while now, but the 1 just started giving out on me while working on Tallahassee. I tried to replace both, but instead ended up with a 2. It worked out, though; I used it to fill in large, dark spaces. I really should've been using an alcohol marker, hence the streakiness.

Back to the brush pen, I ended up getting another set in 2019 that was all brushes, but this time with colors! "It will be different now," I told myself. "I'm a better artist. I'm stronger, and I do colored lines digitally. So I will use a brush pen, and I will like it." I did not use those brush pens and I hated them. But I did end up with a mercifully unspoiled black brush pen thanks to those, and also a red.

All three of the brushes I've named make an appearance here. I used the frayed pen to texture the grass and the Spanish moss; it ended up perfect for soft, fluffy things. I used the healthy and whole one for the tree branches and the Alphas on the "knocked down" page to lend them a more organic feel. The red makes its appearance on the last page.

It's the staircase on the left. I drew the lines with the red brush, then VERY, VERY, VERY carefully colored around them with the black. The red lettering was done by writing it out in pencil, writing over them in red gel pen, then VERY, VERY, VERY carefully tracing around them with a black pen and filling things in. Do not do that. It is stupidly time-consuming. If I pull a similar trick next time, I'm just going to write with my white gel pen and then go over it again with my red brush.

For the sake of my sanity and yours, I will not discuss that process in any more depth. I will also abstain from telling you about the hellish nightmare that was trying to print copies to distribute as zines, because DEAR FUCKING LORD.

I've already spent an hour writing this, and I've got quite a bit to do today! So I'll end it off here. Thanks for reading this!

[ourmondobongo]

Heyo! I'm the anon who started to ship LH in the most random way. All this started bc of the pandemic and tiktok lol. My friend loves SnK and she send me lots of Levi tiktoks and roamin around that app I found some Hange edits and I was like? WHY NOBODY TOLD ME SHE EXISTED? I swear Cupid shoot me straight to my heart. So, I started watching youtube compilations about Hange mostly and later I saw some video about Levi and Hange interactions and I oop? I was so fond of their dynamic (1)

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(3) so, later I found the forest panel and I think that's when I totally saw them as something more than platonic...Why would you blush after someone heard you ranting? My logic was because you didn't want that person to hear, but they seemed pretty close right? So, why so shy? I think Hange was so vulnerable and expressed one of their deepest desires there. Later, I found some fanfics about them and I was like? I love them so much? I need to look for more interactions. (thisissolong sorry +)

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(5) as you can guess I'm very chatty and my head is a mess haha. I said I started to ship LH in a random way, because I fell in love with Hange's character first, later I found this youtube video with their interactions and along the way I wanted to adopt Levi so much? And the funniest part I only know about snk story with tumblr, spoilers and metas I've read. I plan to watch the whole series this summer and plan to read the manga someday. I hope you still here around and we can discuss :)

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and the eyepatch. At that moment I swear some cupid saw me and shot me right across my heart. Later, I started to watch youtube videos about Hange and I found she was a scientist and that made me love her 100x times more, since I love characters that are smart and related to the stem field, also she was hilarious and badass, and idk she had a lot of attributes who made me feel she would a really good friend irl. At that moment, I swear I started a hyperfixation around Hange since I rant (2)

a lot about her to my friend haha and my friend was so sweet haha she said she was glad that around all the SnK characters the one that caught my eye was Hange. Later, some girl in tik tok rated some Hange ships and one of the ships with the highest rank was Levihan and Mobuhan. So..I was like, Levi??? My friend loves him and he’s quite popular… Why would she ship them? I remember that the girl gave them a 10/10 since they trust each other a lot and idk what else and the only one that (3)

surpasses them was Mobuhan hehe (the girl said they were her fav SnK ship)… so I was like, Let's see!! That’s when I discovered that Moblit was one of her closest subordinates and sadly he died but he saved her along the way and that was the way she lost her eye (Moblit, you’ll always be my hero and this ship has great fanarts ngl). Later, I searched for Levi x Hange interactions on YT and I loved it so much since they seemed really comfortable with each other...but I saw them more as friends(4)

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dynamic with Levi I had to know more about him, so I searched around the internet and his life was SO SAD. and so different from what I saw on tik tok...In that app he’s like a Christian Gray sort of guy lol or a really romantic-sensual-bad-boy-kind-of-guy and I found the real Levi so reserved, socially awkward and he had rough manners and he was a fucking beast when fighting, but at the same time he was no a bad person at heart at all. So, he was really one of a kind of a character

and the fact that he was so in sync with Hange although he wasn’t a person easy to deal with made me like the pair so much more. NOW, this is important to clarify, all I know from these characters were based on scenes from YT and people analysis. Until now I haven’t read the manga or watched the anime lol which is funny because all I know is from metas I found around the internet (Big kuddos for y’all).Well, everything was ok until this moment, but FOR SOME SPOILERS IN THE SAME APP (7)

I found out that Hange was dead! and since then I’m not okay. I’m not lying when I say that knowing she no longer existed felt like someone ripped me in half and took my heart and ate it in front of me. And I haven't even followed the manga/series since the start..but Hange was a character with so much potential and was so cool and I still can’t believe Yams killed her </3. Well with the spoiler of chapter 132, I found the famous forest scene. There’s a girl in tik tok who made a video of (8)

that scene and when I saw it I went ‘and I oop’ and I was like WAIT A MINUTE, WAIT A DAMN MINUTE. Basically in that scene we have two really vulnerable Levi and Hange, Levi was severely injured and Hange was going through so much and in that helpless state Hange made that statement of leaving everything behind and just staying there together?? I went ‘and I oop’ again because Hange was blushing!! Why would she blush? Hange’s not particularly shy and the other time we saw her being more shy (9)

was when the journalists were praising the survey corps and the other time she blushed was with Eren’s titan. But Levi’s neither of them, and we know they know each other for years and he was ‘sleeping’...So of course he caught her admitting something she wouldn't say if he would’ve been awake right? And, I don’t know, I think that was a very special moment since they were both at their most vulnerable, basically at a apocalipsis and Hange was considering at their lowest just to run away (10)

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and Levi’s eyes on ch 132?? The light faded out of his eyes. So, I think LH is a ship that deserved way more than they had. Both of them deserved so much more. THIS IS SO LONG, SO SORRY. But, yeah as you can see I went from ch 132 to 129 and now 115 because I needed context from everything haha. THE LOOK ON HANGE ON CH 115?? LIKE DON’T YOU DARE TOUCHING HIM?? I went ‘and I oop’ AGAIN. Hange’s definitely a ride or die person...you can say, ‘well, she would do that to everyone’. Well yeah..(12)

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when they’re together they complement each other so well. Remember that scene when Hange went to Erwin and she left Levi alone with the 104 kids and he grabbed Historia by her collar? I think that’s an example of that. He looked pissed, probably because he knew he would be terrible at that and hange should do the talking. They were always a great duo and nobody can change my mind. I’ve been ranting so bad!! I hope this makes sense. Well, to finish this essay I just wanna say that (14)

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with my sadness and to watch beautiful LH art where they’re happy haha. I plan to read the manga and watch the anime in summer (at least in my country summer starts in December) and it would be nice to exchange opinions haha who knows? Maybe some of my views change along the way. I just know that I love Hange so much, and tumblr’s been like a safe place because I’ve seen other websites talking so many awful things about her that I prefer to omit haha and I’ve found blogs where they love Hange(16)

so much and I’m so happy for that. Also, I will always have Levihan at my heart...even though they weren’t endgame, they were (still are) so beautiful. I’m sorry, I haven’t shipped anything harder since I don’t remember when haha and I’ve found myself tearing up just by thinking of them lol. Thanks for coming to my TED talk, I’m sorry for the mess and this would be so much funnier if I could put gifs. But yeah, I think about LH 24/7 and I need help. (17)

I'm so exciteeeeeeeeeed!!!! hahahaa

I feel like I could very well connect with the excitement you have while writing this too, and I couldn't help but spent the whole reading with a huge smile in my face!!!

DISCOVERING LEVI, HANGE AND LEVIHAN IS ONE OF THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE

I can so relate to you discovering SnK through your friend!! And I feel like you've probably hugged your friend with one of the warmest hugs you could give her after discovering Levi too hahaha

I'm glad you could find Hange and Levi and Levihan during the pandemic too! This times restricted to be confined inside house/apartment and the pressure over the risk of everyone's life is really stressful and hard to go though without positive things filling up our time and mind. Levi, Hans, and Levihan are so beautiful, so healthy, so inspiring both separately and together that I swear they are one of the top best things that could be so in growing highlight in this moments!!

And yes, yes, yes - Hange's character is seriously one of the most wholesome beautiful and badass characters of AoT!! And, ugh, I feel you in falling for her narrative! To have a (mostly seen as) female character displaying all that scientific side, and badassary, strength, bravery, pure heart, and comic/light heart/positive mood all at the same time IS REALLY UNIQUE! I think Yams really did a great thing by doing Hans like that, and I love to see that to many people (especially women), she is a great inspiration and a character we can relate to!

And, God, I totally agree that Hans definitely would be a FANTASTIC friend irl!! Can you imagine the insane amount of fun and creativity and inspiration and heartwarming moments we would get together ranting about all kinds of things we love, and want to explore, and have in common? We would pull many all-nighters for weeks throughout the years!!

ON BOARD IN HANGE'S SHIPS

Levihan and Mobuhan are really the biggest ships Hans is paired up with!! Which again, is so nice to see! Both Levi an Moblit have really great care over Hange, and they treated her with the best of their abilities and hearts until the very end! And, really, this makes me be glad Yams really did another great thing for Hans by giving her the best men around her! (Levi, Moblit, Erwin, and Onyankopon valued her character so much, and it's wholesome that before their death, Hange was sincerely deeply loved, appreciative, and cherished by them all 🤧😭)

And, yeah, Mobuhan do have their unique share of popularity and beauty!! God, there are some really amazing fanarts-!!! They really have a precious dynamic in both the manga and outside!

As for how HOT and sensual Levi is greatly seen, I don't have Instagram nor Tik Tok because I'm really almost anti-social irl lmao, but in Facebook and YT I've also seen some really hot compilations from TT!! And laughed so much when you said the "Christian Grey" reference lmaoooooo But in fact, many fics (of many ships) and fanarts involving Levi have pretty much content depicting him with his sexiest side in highlight! Then, I can imagine your big surprise knowing his heartbreaking past!

Now, seriously, you have been reading a lot of nice metas and stuff about Levi and Hans! As you really well said, Levi is one of a kind, really special, and not really the "hot takes" he is mostly presented outside the manga! I feel like we also agree with all the metas about him that clearly highlight his best traits and pure heart, and dedication, selflessness and compassion - like, Levi is really Yams best written and well layered character in Snk!

And this:

I found out that Hange was dead! and since then I’m not okay. I’m not lying when I say that knowing she no longer existed felt like someone ripped me in half and took my heart and ate it in front of me. And I haven't even followed the manga/series since the start..but Hange was a character with so much potential and was so cool and I still can’t believe Yams killed her </3

I FEEL YOU ALL THE WAY DOWN THE WELL OF TEARS!

I swear, I can fully make your words mine, and I'm sending you a late comfort hug 🤧😭

I also discovered Hans died through spoilers, and I started crying right there, and say "wft - NO!! Don't do this to me!!" Then I could hardly read the text bubbles after the first panel of Levi's face going heartbreaking!! Then I cried randomly for the rest of the day 🤣 (I'm really a crybaby!!)

Hange's death still affects me deeply because, well, by now you've seen the discussion here. But after that last AU actors illustration Yams did, I could feel less shitty about the whole AoT ending, and especially Levihan. I'm working my mind to believe they are all alive and well, and taking vacation after the TV was done!

Levihan in the forest:

I love you going "oop" hahaha

And DAMN - certainly the Forest scene was a BIG cardiac arrest for all of us Levihans!!

You said it all really well: that moment was especial for them both in so many levels! Their bond is just too much of powerful! Levi had almost died by thunderspears, Hans and him had to go down the river to survive, and Hans killed her subordinates to save him, and the level of vulnerability, urgency, protection, care and everything else there is just... UGH, my heart can't take it!

You know, putting a side the fact that they were really in danger at that time, Hans really wanted to have a peaceful life with Levi. She just wanted them both all safe, happy, and in a world in peace. My shipper side totally think that if AOT was meant to have a happy ending, Levihan would be together enjoying the true freedom they really deserved after so much shit. Damn. We just wanted them to be HAPPY 😭😭😭😭

And YEAH - in the chapter Levi is rough with Historia, we CLEARLY SAW HOW HANGE WOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. She would have handle the situation better. And it's why again it's pretty clear that Yams really created Levi and Hans to complete each other in all senses. The way they balance one another, and read each other's mind and behavior, and comfort or say the right thing when they need to hear the most IS really something unique!!

They were always a great duo and nobody can change my mind - YEEEEEES, WE ARE TOGETHER IN THIS!!

Hange, LH, and Tumblr - our safe Heaven

I feel you in this too! This is the best place to find Hange lovers without stumbling over antis, Yeagerists, manga haters and whatever! There are so many incredible metas, fanarts, and Hange and LH appreciation here! I hope you can keep having fun and enjoying the best things of this crazy and quite savage fandom!

And you're definitely not alone either shipping LH so hard that you have a totally levihan heart and brainroot and it hurts 🤧🤧 I bet there are days you sleep thinking about them, and wake up thinking about them, and then a song, a TV commercial, a movie preview, a silly talk with someone, a random textbook sentence, a random bird flying by the window makes you remember or wonder more about them LOL But this is quite beautiful, you know? That a pair can stirr the best part of our imagination and emotions just by how their dynamic is really precious and cherished!! None of us will ever regret have been their stans, I think!

The final rant

You can rant how much you need!!

And if you start seeing/reading in December, it will be almost with the last part of anime! It will be a nice time, indeed! Our hearts will all bleed in sync with the part 02 again, so we definitely will be needing each other to cope a little better. I do hope to still be here around that time! It will be a pleasure and really fun to chat with you, and hear your discoveries/interpretations/insights and rants!!

When AOT ends, though, I'll probably finish this long journey for good. Because I love AOT, and Levi, and Hange, and GOD, I LOVE LEVIHAN... but staying with Hans's end is incredibly painful. TT

Thanks for presenting us your TED TALK!!

I really love seeing how people fell for LH, L, and H!! And I found it fascinating as most of the time we all love them individually then together! It's like we love them for real for who they already are, but then this colossal love and appreciation we have for them just explodes out of the stratosphere as they come together as a couple!! And you know what, when chapters 115, 126, 132, 136 and 139 are aired, I'm sure Levihan will quickly escalate as one of the most loved ships of AOT in all kinds of social media! It will be awesome to see, and read, and follow their relationship being more loved! It will certainly inspire more fan content for them too!!

See ya, my friend!!

(Ps: for the missing parts, you can send them again if you want! Then I can edit the post and add them tomorrow!)

[franeridart]

Hey hey hey, so I've seen your lack of Bokutoo art (or haikyuu art in general) and at first I was going to comment on it, but then I saw your art theft post and I hope that won't have too much influence on your haikyuu art? Of corse I'm gonna let you post whatever you'd like to post, I just miss it a lot y'know :0

Well. Okay, I’ve talked about this a lot but I understand people don’t just read all my answers and it’s totally my fault for procrastinating on that faq page so let me just go through this again in an as clear way as possible?

I haven’t stopped drawing for hq! As a matter of fact in the last week alone I have posted one, two and three things for that fandom for a total of five portraits and a three panels comic

That said I understand with the rhythm I update this blog you might think “well, that isn’t much at all, is it?”, which, again, is my fault because - even though when compared to most art blogs’ update schedules eight drawing in one week is more than enough - I’m the one who set the rhythm here

The “problem” with hq is that all my favorite characters are currently absent from the manga and there’s no anime airing, while at the same time my other main fandom (bnha) has both an interesting arc going on in the manga AND an anime season airing right now - I hope you’ll understand if my interest at the moment is mostly focused there, that’s a continuous stream of inspiration I have coming my way

To add to that some parts of the Haikyuu!! fandom are being unrespectful of what I post (this includes reposting, treating my stuff as if it were templates for their own art instead of ship/character specific content, honestly unrespectful comments and tags under a lot of my main ships posts and so on) which, you’ll excuse me, but dampens the joy I get from posting art a lot

Moreover, the creative side of the hq fandom is being, at least for what concerns the zones I frequent, pretty damn quiet lately, so I can’t say I get much inspiration from there either

I haven’t stopped and I can’t see in my foreseeable future myself stopping posting stuff for haikyuu!!, and all things considered I don’t think I’m posting too little for it either? Art and inspiration aren’t things I want to force, if I started I would stop finding drawing enjoyable really damn fast and I can’t let that happen - please be understanding, I first and foremost draw for myself, I can’t help it if sometimes I get stuck on one fandom or another

Anon said: Have you seen the latest chapter of haikyuu? I like how they are showing more Daishou. It’s fun to see his reactions and thoughts about nationals! And I will love to see him in your art style.

Anon, my friend!!! I have drawn Daishou in the past! As a matter of fact the last one was just after he appeared again in chapter 251! I love that snake boy a lot, seeing him there made me really really happy haha

Anon said:SAEKO NEE-SAAAAANNNNNN

SHE WAS AMAZING WASN’T SHE OH MY G O D !!!

Anon said:Kirishima and/or Bakugou being good at singing. And then gay happens.

BOI ANON I have drawn these boys singing to each other a whole lot already (like here or here) at this point I would assume you guys were fed up with it hahaha (… can’t say I won’t ever have them sing to each other again, though)

Anon said:DADZAWA IS SO REAL! But I’m actually so amused because Izuku is basically Ron Swanson with his “I can do what I want” permit except Aizawa wrote and signed the permit

No no anon it’s even better because Aizawa wasn’t like “you can do what you want” he was like “you can do only what I tell you you can do and it just so happens that I’m deciding that you can do exactly what you want to do but it’s still my decison” it was amazing lmao I love Aizawa so much poor man

Anon said:friendo, whats your opinion on the traitor kaminari theory? it breaks my heart but it has a good backbone to it?? like in the new chapter, theres a character that looks like kaminari’s dad/uncle/older family member and im worried for my electric baby

I still don’t think Kaminari is the traitor - as a matter of fact, I still don’t think the traitor is any of the kids. If that’s how it’ll turn out to be I’ll be sad about it, for sure, but right now I really, really don’t believe it. It’s true that the Kaminari-is-the-traitor theory is very cleverly worded and super convincing, but a lot of the things in it are really stretched out as far as I’m concerned

ie, taking the weird faces Horikoshi makes him make in the sketches and using them as proof that he’s got a double face? Too far out for me; his original design being that of a villain? Deku’s original design was villain-ish too, no one is calling him a traitor; taking the expression he made when Aizawa told him he could go to the camp and making it sound like he didn’t want to go? Might be believable as long as you don’t take into account the fact that he had just had a conversation with Midoriya in which he told him it was impossible Aizawa would let them go and that Midoriya was just being too optimistic, the “what the actual fuck is this” expression makes a lot more sense in that context; the fact that he makes clever quotes and uses a complex vocabulary used to say that he’s pretending to be stupid is unfair towards the very real possibility of him just not liking studying or thinking things through analytically but otherwise enjoying reading and being fairly intelligent in his own way?? - in the theory it’s also mentioned that it’s weird how during USJ he was worried about an electricity villain overcharging him as if that’s not perfectly normal, having an electricity quirk obviously doesn’t stop him from suffering overcharges, and later during the end of term exam they say it’s “weird” he refused to go all out with his qurik from the start, again, as if that weren’t a perfectly sensible decision in that context (you have to keep in mind that Kaminari is also studying to become an hero, him going “wait a second, maybe keeping on going stupid and putting myself out of commission every time I fight isn’t the right choice” is perfectly in line with him growing up and learning)

Now I don’t have the post open in front of me and it’s been a while since I’ve read it, but most of the theory as far as I get it is based on the idea that Kaminari can’t be lazy and an airhead and might talk without thinking now and again (the Stain comment), but at the same time be clever in his own ways, which just isn’t convincing for me. It’s taking this character’s three dimensionality and making it a plot-hole, why would you want to do that

(on a similar note, the Kirishima-is-the-traitor theory doesn’t convince me for the same kind of reason, it’s all based on the idea that he can’t just genuinely like Bakugou for who he is without having second reasons for it, which is just unfair and cuts too much off the personality of a really good, well written character)

As far as the new villain guy goes, I understand why most of the fandom might be weary and linking him to Kaminari, but we don’t know his color scheme nor his quirk and the pattern on his hair isn’t even a lightning bolt - Horikoshi has had to make up unique designs for a whole damn lot of characters, the fact that one random guy might have something similar to Kaminari isn’t really enough to make him his dad (again, it might turn out to be true, but in my opinion it’s still too early to make theories about it). Also, this guy is from the Eight Precepts. Weren’t you all trying to link Kaminari to the League of Villains? Isn’t the traitor supposedly tied with the League? How many people is this boy working for even

By the way, during the USJ attack the villains had informations they couldn’t have gotten from any of the kids aside from Midoriya (the “they told me All Might was getting weaker” comment) and tbh that’s enough for me to not believe any of the student is behind the informations leak, but all of this is just my opinion

Anon said:Your thoughts on mob psycho 100??

LOVE IT  one of the best anime I’ve watched lately, without any doubts

Anon said: Being a bokuroo artist? More like drawing art but every time someone says brOTP, you get steadily more annoyed, lol - love your art, btw; you have a really cute and fluffy style

Yyyyyyyyeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhh… sadly you kind of grow used to it but it is incredibly annoying and one of the reasons why I’ve been drawing it less, t b h

Anon said:I love the concept of the bakubowl because unlike with other characters where everyone’s like “omf they’re so cute!!” the bakubowl is just “why is he like this. why do we ALL like him for this ffs”

WELP I don’t ship Bakugou with everyone so I can’t say I’m fond of the idea as a whole, and the ships I do ship Bakugou in are with the people that actually do like him for whatever reason (lmao), but I can understand why you’d find it a fresh take on the concept! 

Anon said:Ily your art gives me life

AAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much!!!!! *O*