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Electric

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Bowuigi.. explain please-

crinkly paper bag man go wahoo for big rawr Good

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Good evening, and welcome to:

Sentimental Hour

I took this screenshot of a gifset almost exactly three years ago. It’s the first thing of WinTeam I ever saw, and it’s the first image of them in my phone’s photo gallery.

I’ve been thinking about them and writing about them ever since I first watched UWMA, and part of me was a little afraid that when Between Us ended, I’d be content with what we got to the point where I wouldn’t want to write about them anymore.

That can happen when your ship is both canon and has their own series! Especially if they aren’t characters in a high-stakes situation or part of a secondary world.

WinTeam are just two university club athletes who hooked up one night and fell in love over the course of months while they helped each other sort through their respective traumatic backgrounds.

But they’re the most compelling pairing I’ve ever loved, and I still can’t fully put into words why. Look at them, though. :’(

Some pairings I love are superheroes, figure skaters, pilots of space lions, ancient warriors, a firefighter and a dude hosting a benevolent alien that gives him neon fire powers—

And yet, for some reason, I don’t even write fic for most of those pairings. I love reading fic about them, but I’ll usually just write one or two and then move on.

WinTeam, though. That’s a Forever OTP for me.

Some of it is BounPrem’s chemistry. Even when they’d just been cast, back when they didn’t know each other and barely liked each other, that chemistry was there. Even in photos, you can feel that they have a rare spark.

And it only got stronger the longer they worked together.

But it’s not just the actors, otherwise the series would have been enough for me. It’s the characters. The way they’re written in Hemp Rope and Between Us, the gentleness they show each other when no one’s around, the way they want to trust each other but they’re so afraid to, the way they reach for each other even though they don’t have a name for what they are.

I love so much about them.

I love that their deepest fears and flaws connect them. At the start of the story, Team has kept so much guilt and pain to himself for so long, he’s just adapted to struggle through it. Meanwhile Win is alone and convinced he always will be.

It may always kick me in the heart that Team’s confession builds up to a vow to take the first steps because he can see that Win is too afraid. And he can do it because Win spent months giving Team every imaginable route to comfort and security, even when it cost him sleep or time or energy that he didn’t have to spare. The beautiful thing is that because of Win’s kindness, Team is strong enough to take the lead from Win, who’s been trying so hard to steer when he’s abjectly terrified of making any mistake with Team.

They’re so balanced. In such an ordinary, quiet way. They’ll never leave each other to falter alone because they both understand how that feels. There’s no question that Team will go to the hospital with his new boyfriend to visit his boyfriend’s brother, just like there’s no question that Win will admit to Team how lost he feels.

I think I just wanted to write this all down because I’m relieved that I found them, and even more relieved that even though the series is over, they’re always going to be part of my heart.

And they’ve raised my standard for love stories forever.

[inkamumbles]

I have opened an Etsy store where I sell little sketchbooks and bookmarks with prints of dinosaur portraits I make with ballpoint pen

Feel free to take a look or share the link to your dinosaur loving friends!

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I do not think there are enough cross game ships in danganronpa and I would like to present one which I find pretty neat

Idk I just think it would be really cute bc in ryomas love suite thingy he imagines his coach as his ideal annd nekomaru is a coach and and bfjcjfjcjcicjfehfhcjjeodsbcjc

[sapphirethefluffymewtwo]

I know a lot of people find snakes scary bit like

to me they’re just derpy little noodles

silly lil guys

[arcadian-caim]

There’s something intriguing lore wise about the arcanists from etrian odyssey.

It’s interesting how they’re described as casters from an unnamed land. In a game that’s all about exploring forests to eldritch horrors it leaves a lot of wiggle room to imagine their background. For me I pictured the arcanist in my party being new to the city. Wise within his practice of magic but naive towards the new setting. Thus making the guild his first and soon to be familiar faces associated with the city. A found family to tell his own back at home via letters. (Ik they debuted in 4 but I played them for the first time in nexus)

[yeehawbvby]

I had a dream that during ScarVi, Penny canonically kissed Nemona in one of the last scenes of the game

Wasn’t a big shipper of them but now I’m a changed lady

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Do you guys remember the small monster alt au thing I brought up a while ago?

Too bad I’m thinking about it again-

Thinking of making two other characters monsters, namely Evelin and Human Adam. Like I’m thinking eve’s some sort of undead human and Adam was a werewolf before he died and never told Jonah about it

[mcyt-rarepair-tournament]

opinion on the lovely PP duo??

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ready as I’ll ever be.. neat

a little sketch of the next line

[mousegirl-cheerleader]

I think maybe some people should like chill out about other people being attracted to guys

[uncelebratedjuvenescence]

A younger Lucy~⚔️🌟🦢

I watched Hulu’s the princess, and really loved the main character’s torn up dress and wanted to draw Lucy in short one as well.

Unlike the other characters she spent her childhood and tween years in the Fae realm.

When she came of age she started training as a knight 💙✨⚔️✨🦢

[deityofhearts]

just had my first ever encounter with a kaleidoscope

[quibbs126]

My brain decided to wonder about the van Zieks parents and it wouldn’t leave, so here they are

I had to look at a bunch of Victorian era clothing references for this

Anyways, so these guys

First I’ll just give some general ideas I had

So as the picture says, the brothers get their hues for their hair color from their father, who’s hair is sort of an indigo color, between blue and purple. And they get their lighter, less saturated colors from their mother (yes that is her natural hair color), which is grey with a hint of red, for Klint’s much more purple color.

Next I’ll talk about their names, in which I wanted to keep a theme with their sons

Rembrandt van Zieks: comes from Rembrandt, a famous Dutch painter from the Baroque age

Maria van Zieks: named after Joseph Maria Olbrich, an architect and one of the founding members of the Vienna Secession, as was Gustav Klimt

I’m not entirely sold on Maria’s name though. I was also thinking Vienna for the Secession, but it didn’t roll off the tongue as well

Also not sold on their color schemes, but this was the best I could come up with

Now, I don’t have much in terms of their personality, but I can say that Rembrandt has ABSOLUTELY been mistaken for a vampire sometime in his life, at least once. I don’t think my style conveyed this well, but he’s supposed to be sharp and pretty scary looking

By sharp I mean that he has more sharp and angular features, while his wife has softer and more smooth features, with Klint and Barok getting a mix of those

Also I was gonna say those heights aren’t accurate, since I imagine Rembrandt to be around 6’ 5”, but at the same time I like the idea of Maria also being really tall, like 5’ 11”, maybe even 6’. Like she is considered freakishly tall. Maybe part of the reason they got together is because they didn’t fit in with society standards of beauty.

I also like to imagine that while they seem scary or apathetic, they’re pretty nice people, given their sons

Though I also headcanon that the van Zieks parents died when Barok was rather young and it was Klint who basically raised him, so