#this is probably an april fools day thing idk

[the-mighty-mittens]

What is this

Nvm I figured it out

[anakirui]

i think we need to talk about this unit thematically

i know it's "haha april fool's day, they're stuck in a futuristic city and rui wants to study the silly sekai aliens" but like... hear me out

im pretty sure these 4 were picked because they all have one major thing in common— the fact that they were failed by society.

kaito v1 was a commercial failure on release, to the point where other vocal synth companies looked at his low sales and consequently made less male vocal synths— leading to the large gender gap in vocal synths that we still have today (although its less than what it was ~5 yrs ago imo). i think clpl actually considered this when picking kaito for this unit solely because it's vbs kaito— the kaito that most strongly resembles old fanon kaito in how he can easily be described as a carefree dumbass that loves icecream.

rui was ostracized his whole life for being "dangerous" with his shows by his classmates, as well as being isolated because of how he was "different" from the other kids (implied neurodivergent). this lead to rui struggling with depression as well as a myriad of other issues (such as his abandonment issues) later on.

akito was ALSO ostracized for being too serious about his passions and having a "bad attitude", which lead to him developing an inferiority complex as well as leading to him essentially being overly polite to strangers because of his past trauma where he was publicly humiliated, had his reputation ruined, and brought disgrace to a place he loved just for accidentally spilling water on someone 💀 (find a way out is so real) ((also i choose to see akito as neurodivergent mainly because of how his behavior is framed idk i feel like him being overly polite is him masking, esp. when u compare his behavior between different people.. recent example: how he acts around rui vs how he acts around mafuyu for example)) (((also, he's rui's narrative foil, so it just makes a lot of sense???)))

and then there's haruka, who was so close to being the "perfect" idol but couldn't because of her trauma from hurting mai— she was unable to meet the expectations of being an idol under the pressure of probably not only her managers but also the large fanbase she always wanted to give hope to

[danandphilplay]

im going to put my answers below bc i know some of these vids are likely not returning to dnp and i do agree with that i just wanted to do a fun poll abt if you could have another of these vids then which would you choose. ofc like ive said before we have no control over dnp uploads and i fully know some of these won’t come back lol

ok first of all i don’t think pinof is coming back and i think that’s been clear for ages anyways like ten is a nice number to leave it. HOWEVER i do think an april fools dapc pinof would be hilarious. answering crafties questions and whatever they send to craft universe dnp.

same with amazingdan BUT maybe there’s a slight chance of reacting to amazingdan. maybe not since so much time has already passed since pinof reactions (four months …..) honestly out of the options i’m not that bothered about pinof or amazingdan i feel like they’re classic dnp content that’s fine left as it is

ok for the pizza mukbang thing i don’t care for it to be a mukbang video lol like the actual thing was the nice sit down talk vibes pyjama pizza w friends maybe this is exactly what dan means abt being parasocial 😭 but that video is nice so i don’t think the actual mukbang part of it is that important it’s more the sit down talk style vid

i think i would do anything for another day in the life but i feel like it is prob peak parasocial content. would it count as phouse tour probably. do i think there will be a phouse tour no bc it sounds like it is still having a lot of work done 😭 and i honestly don’t really care abt it… i think the sims renovation was fun and an insight into their interior design opinions lol and that is enough for me

i put it takes two bc a lot of people want to see the next bit i like the game but not rly enough. idk it’s been awhile since that first vid and in terms of other games and things from dnp i don’t rly mind about it takes two being ignored 😭

i know baking is not a discontinued thing anymore bc HALLOWEEN but BUT i really believed easter baking would be a thing 💔 dapc had so much put into it that i kind of forgot about wanting a baking vid but 💔 i can’t lie i think i got set on the expectation for it. like the baking vids have always been absolute classic staple dnp content but definitely the cinnamon roll one was like the baking vids to the extreme… the full potential AND THE BAKE WAS GOOD TOO. the vid was also pretty popular. so my expectations for easter were a bit high. ok so if this poll is like magically summon a dnp vid 🪄 maybe id consider baking because i just love it so much like irl as a hobby but also then dnp doing one of my fav things too and it being so fun idk it’s some of the best dnp content imo. i would love them to try a series of making food from videogames but no offence to them i don’t get the vibe that they cook a lot…… so i think it might not happen. but dil is turning TEN in september so maybe dnp special dil birthday cake baking vid 💔 pleaese pleasemaybe

i think tumblr tag is totally plausible although ik the april fools tumblr tag thing 💔 bc the twitter vid happened i think they’ll do a tumblr one at some point. there’s so much amazing art on here not just fanart but written stuff video and photo edits so i’d want them to see all of that as well as the funny stuff. this isn’t like top of my list of things i’d want to see but it’s definitely one of the more plausible things

dapc behind the scenes content its either happening or it will never be spoken of

honestly idk if they would do reactions to the super amazing project. bc like what vids would they choose. maybe i can see them referencing it or discussing it if someone asked or in a live but idk about reaction vids.

ok draw my life would be fun and i’d watch them. i’d watch an updated dil draw my life too. they put so much effort into that dil draw my life. maybe an updated one for dil’s 10th birthday will happen? that would be pretty fun.

i think if i had to choose it would be a ditl vid. top 3 would be ditl, mukbang or literally just any sit down talk vid, and another baking video. ditl may literally just be bc of nostalgia i don’t really see it happening again but who knows. again just a poll about which vid you’d want to see if you could magic up a dnp vid i definitely know some of these aren’t coming back or very unlikely to

[freakartack]

HOUSEKEEPING THINGS

1. MESSAGE TO OLD FOLLOWERS: so sorry that took so damn long. Normally i try not to treat this blog like a job but that was kind of ridiculous so i feel like an apology is in order. I fully overestimated just how much stuff i wanted to draw for this bit and i did not expect my blog to be held ransom by cartoon characters for two months but here we are. Thank you guys for being cool and patient about my hubris! I hope it was worth the wait. And if not, here is your money back. (placing imaginary money in your hand)

2. MESSAGE TO NEW FOLLOWERS: hi. Welcome to my blog! Thank you for taking an interest in my jokes. Because my blog has been held ransom by cartoon characters for two months i should probably emphasize that this is not an ask blog and is in fact just a regular blog, that happened to be held ransom by cartoon characters for two months. I do still draw wario comics though! A lot! So if you're into that, then you're in the right place.

3. THE ASKBOX SITUATION: So prior to mona stealing my login info this april you may have noticed that i shut down my askbox and turned off the lights. There was a couple reasons for that

3a. I accidentally got addicted to the internet

3b. I accidentally got so addicted to the internet that tumblr thought i was a premier hashtag super mario poster presumably solely based on the fact that i did not shut up for five days straight and so for several weeks it redirected every new person that said they liked mario to my blog and i thoguht they were all spam bots so i freaked it

4. WHAT I'M GOING TO DO NOW

4a. Freak it

4b. Just kidding

4c. WARIOWARE CAMPING!!! Currently I am in a tight spot Schedule wise however the next page is well on its way (had been put on pause due to april fools fiasco) and so it should be ready soon. If nothing else this experience has taught me how to pump out a fucking lot of comics so although i intend to make these drawings much higher in quality i will do my best to get the ball rolling!

4c. RANDO DRAWINGS: Also soemthing that I have to work on is not dropping off the face of the earth when I don't have a comic to post so I will be posting some fun little extras in between comics. I sometimes feel guilty when i do that cause i'm like "that doesn't count as a post" which is kind of dumb if you ask me. So i will be posting some art on my art blog going forward

4d. THE ASKBOX SITUATION: THE SQUEAKUEL: So you see my issue is I don't want to get addicted to the internet or overwhelmed or attacked by droves of spam bots and/or innocent civilians BUT i still want to have asks open because i like talking to you guys and i miss it. SO, i will compromise by opening my askbox on weekends, so that way i can have the best of both worlds. Maybe i will expand the ask window later on if i can behave myself but we'll see how it goes.

4e. FIXING MY BLOG THEME: Idk if i'm going to change it back to the pitcher plant pic but i do want to make it not be this. I might make a slightly updated theme that matches my content better so i might put a different warioware banner up there but idk i feel bad kicking out the plant. How are we feeling. The brave little toaster thing in my icon is staying no matter what though sorry.

5. OK THAT'S ALL BYE: Bye

[kenthenugget]

Dear Watcher....

This is going to be about the youtube channel Watcher and a recent video that they released earlier today, so if you dont watch the channel, or older content produced by Ryan, Shane and Steven at Buzzfeed, this is not going to make sense to you. This only going to be for those who are a fan of Watcher, or are fans of Buzzfeed Unsolved so if you are, that's great!

Earlier today, I got a video notifcation from the channel titled, "goodbye youtube", and it was definitely not something I wanted to see. There is a recent trend this year of youtubers retiring or taking a break this year and I was scared this was that scenario. And it kind of was but way worse. Basically, the guys over at Watcher are going to be posting on their new streaming service called....Watcher. And, no, it is not a late April Fools joke, that's actually what their doing. Initially, I was in a state of shock after I watched through the entire video. I, no joke, went through the 5 stages of grief upon viewing this announcement and was thrown through a loop to where I struggled to focus on sketching one of my comic pages. So much so that I actually made a deviant blog post about it the moment I finished watching the video (most of the content from this post will be copied and pasted from that blog so declaimer I guess). After having some time to absorb this information, I have to say that Im really disappointed with the guys over at Watcher. Like Im not mad to where Im completely done with their content but.......WHY!?

I think at this point in time that a lot of people, myself included, are burnout with the whole streaming boom we've had for the past 5 years in no part thanks to those greedy bastards at Disney....but thats another story. I miss the days when there were only 2 to 3 main streaming services and not 5 billion other services that you need to buy in order to watch a show you like that was on Netflix but it now locked behind a pay wall. Streaming services used by a novelty concept but are now not looked upon in the best light. So for the them to announce a streaming service now is definitely a bad look, especially because the content before was free to access. I feel like creators will always have an uphill battle when it comes to content that was initially free being locked behind a paywall, because you're potentially isolating your audience and bringing up the question of weather your audience if loyal enough to give you money to enjoy your content. Now, like I said, I love and respect the people at Watcher, but I dont know if I'm willing to take money out of my wallet to watch the next season of Ghost Files. Especially in this economy, where in some parts of the country a big mac now costs 20 fucking dollars, and with inflation going out of control.

Now its not like I don't understand why they're doing this. Ever since its founding in 2019, Watcher has always had troubles with money, with most of their shows not being profitable enough to make ends meet (I know that sounds bs because most of their vidoes get millions of views but this is coming from one of the founders Steven, in an update video from a while ago so idk, views probably mean jack shit in the grand scheme of things). And the fact that they started around the pandemic didn't help things either. Unlike Buzzfeed, Watcher is a much smaller company so any loss that happens is felt much more than if it was a larger one. In the video itself, they mentioned that most of their money came through youtube ads and sponsorships, which, while alright if you're an independent creator, may not be enough for a company. And then there's the fact that YouTube can remove or demonetize videos out of nowhere and for the dumbest reasons so its not a very stable sight to base your income off of. So I can understand why they felt moving on from YouTube was a good idea. But..........I think there were better ways of going about it than creating their own fucking streaming service. Like, in one of their update vidoes, they said most of their shows werent making ends meet so maybe cutting back on the production of said shows to make them not as expensive to produce would be a good solution. In their announcement vid, they talked about wanting to maintain their high production value for their shows without going under but (and I dont mean this to slight them) I dont think they understand why they popped off in the first place. For me, Im not watching Ghost Files or Mystery Files for high production value and fancy graphics, Im there for Ryan and Shane. Same reason I loved Buzzfeed Unsolved, which compared to those shows is much more bare bones. I get wanting to step up your production value from what you had at Buzzfeed but if you have budget out in certain places which would entail having a season that doesnt look as good as the previous season, that's completely fine. Im sure me and the rest of fans wouldn't have minded a downgrade because at the end of the day, the fancy sets and graphics are window dressing to why we're truly watching.

I also thinking letting us know ahead of time would've possibly softened the blow. Watcher is in a very interesting situation because there's a much closer relationship between them and their customer base as opposed to traditional companies. So they really could've been like "hey! We're thinking about having future content be on our own streaming service because doing business through YouTube is fucking us over. What do you guys think?". One explanation as to why they waited until now instead of a few months ago when this idea was sparked could've been because they knew they would get backlash and they were going ahead with the streaming service idea regardless of fan input, which might be the reason. But if that's the case, they probably would've had the comments and likes disabled from the start. Right before I started typing this, I checked the video to see if the comments were disabled and they are thankfully still there. Im someone who always wants to see the good in people (which is definitely a character flaw of mine and while defiently lead to me being at the end of an abusive relationship........another abusive relationship but lets not go there), so I think this might be the case of Ryan, Shane and Steven, thinking the streaming service was a good idea and not reading the room properly.

At this point, Im hoping that they dont do things that could make this situation 10 times worse: a) removing the existing content (Mystery Files, Puppet History, etc) off the youtube channel and having it on their streaming service. If you are going to have new seasons of those shows behind a paywall, at least have that content still up for those who want to support but cant purchase the service......b) respond to the critism in a negative way. I think things would be made worse if they lumped genuine fans who are concerned with the new direction with the trolls and haters, and double down on this new direction. Im hoping this situation ends up being a slip up that they can learn from and not being the beginning of the downfall of the Watcher gang. No joke, I think Ryan and Shane are the only youtubers who have avoided any sort of drama up to now. Youtubers I once respected over the years from Tobuscus to Leafyishere to H3H3 to Idubbz to even fucking Dream have all fell from grace in one way or another, and Im hoping the ghoul boys dont join that list....

[confusedgull]

Mirrors in Limbus...

Something that's been on my mind for a while is the significance of mirrors, and mirrors/shattering in general, alongside fragility, especially when it comes to people/life in Limbus.

Two big moments to me were when Dante said they "heard" something shatter within Sinclair after Effie was put to rest

Then when Yi Sang speaks about his past and Dante looks at his back while waking away, the shattered mirror like effect is there too, like a hollow doll or puppet.

We presume it's a metaphorical thing with the whole "shattering of innocence", but what if it's more literal?

Especially with Dante's abilities, I won't be surprised if they can see and sense these moments for a big reason later. Them turning into stars or something as Demian mentioned in Canto 3.

[ On that note, he(Demian) had said that Sinclair will be one of those stars, but didn't elaborate. Wil all the Sinners become stars or is there a criteria? Like, idk, making peace with their past? smth smth revelations in the bible getting sorted into purgatory heaven and hell, etc.

Rhodya and Gregor haven't truly moved on, Sinclair has just begun to deal with the fact that he was to blame for his past but there's nothing he can change because it's not something he could have predicted, and Yi Sang is the closest to having moved one.

I'll probably dive deeper into that another day, but would love to hear others about it.]

But back to mirrors, shattering mirror sounds when using EGOs, shattering when it comes to moments like Sinclair and Yi Sang's, Mirrors holding the possibility of multiple other worlds (some that can be accessed through Dante's own mind/clock as we seen during April fool's) Mirrors bringing back scenes from pasts that aren't even yours, like....

With Ishmael's canto, I wonder if we'll get a mirror moment with her too, maybe other Sinners with hollow shattered bodies, or will we get to see cracks appear on someone as they drift away/come to terms with things *cough*DonQuixote*cough*

Especially with the fragility of the mind being brought up with sinners talking about the them dealing with EGOs and IDs, getting too used to death (as pointed out by Outis and Meursault) or even with Dante who is questioning why are they so used to having to deal with the pain or why shouldn't they be (Canto 4)

[christmasjade]

JJK Hcs (kinda?)

I honestly wanna start posting jjk hcs i have, hcs in general for any fandom tbh, but like... idk, i never write them down, i just think of things I personally find funny.

oh, and lots of major spoilers for jjk :D

But one that I do have is that Mimiko (one of getos daughters) never cut her hair after he died, because he used to do it for her! I know that it's probably like that because duh, no time to actually think about styling or grooming because her dads body is being played around and used as a puppet for the sake if evil but still! I'd like to think that he (Geto,not Kenny) used to cut it for her because when she and Nanako were younger, maybe 10? She tried to cut it for her, but fucked it up REALLY REALLY bad. So Geto fixed it and she only trusted him to do it even after Nanako got better at it.

Another one is that Nanami has that god awful decor. The one where it'll be like a pillow, and its pillowcase is white with cursive lettering that says "Pillow". I forgot the name of it, but this basically:

This god awful shit 😭😭😭. I feel like he finds nothing wrong with it (and i mean, nothings wrong with it..it's just..bad.) and genuinely find it nice to look at. But, with that being said i feel like he never used some of it that much, so they still look nice and shiny. The lettering never got scraped after years of him having it, and it'll still stay that way forever. Oh, and since Ino in recent chapters was seen with Nanamis blade, i feel like he'd take the bread box specifically and give it to the Bakery Girl (who, fun fact- does nor have a name! It's literally just "bakery girl in the anime guide book.) . And if she were to ask about Nanami, he'd probably say he's fine and just left to go to Malaysia.

Annnd. Speaking of Ino, I'd like to think that while Nanami was alive, one day he showed up on a mission (on april fools day specifically) and his ski mask had the same print as his tie (outside) and blade (inside). He only had it for 2 minutes before Nanami told him to put the normal one on.

A head canon for Gojo that I have is that he has a collection of ridiculous sunglasses. Like he just..has hello kitty ones, ones with different emojis, a pair thats shaped like clouds, the sun, rain clouds, partly cloudy sunglasses.

And along with said sunglasses, he just has..stupid ass outfits to go with them? Think Ms. Frizzle but instead of the earrings and dresses, its sunglasses and ..whatever clothes he has.

I'll put more up when I think of some :D

[digenerate-trash]

April fools anon here sorry if I haven’t said anything (been busy with work) anyways

let’s move onto the non DoL off topics (maybe a little bit of DoL and DOB)

So DoB bailey will be the opposite tbh probably be a mix between normal bailey and regular yandere bailey he ��hates” you but also wants to protect you in a way and if PC is pregnant he can’t even hold his excitement and tries his best to act like he wants to do an abortion to PC but when he remembers that he will need to take PC to Harper he just breaks character and refuses to do the joke ever again.

Avery won’t care he doesn’t give a fuck about the whole town being “normal” he just wants PC to stay inside his mansion and never leave nothing special.

Normal DoB (no Yan let’s go)

So I feel like DoB bailey can’t last a week without human meat as he needs it forced to eat regular food instead of the perfect meal of organs and freshly butchered humans he ends up going in a rampage or something idk.

Morgan

Murdered never again NEVER AGAIN I SWEAR

Stardew valley

So uhh… everyone loses just becomes one big cat and dog fight over the farmer

Yan Dob Bailey would be pretty normal. But if you're pregnant your 100% right. He's not holding it together well. The joke lasts about an hour. You mention getting rid of the kid once and he's picking you up and dragging you back to his room. He can't handle even the idea of you not being his family. He squeezes the air out of you for the rest of the day. Clingy fucker.

And you know what- dob Harper is absolutely game to fuck with you. Gonna hide his yan tendencies for a bit. Going to be the perfect doctor for you. Gaslight the fuck outta you. And when you still insist that he's acting wrong he sends you to the asylum ward to keep you. He's the only one that takes the joke too far. Going past April Fools.

For normal dob Bailey, I think his diet of human meat is born out of necessity but now it sustains him. Regular food is just kinda... blah. It's like drinking Diet Coke for so long that normal Coke is weird now. Too sugary. I think he won't be able to last either.

Avery. Stingy fucker. He's the one who encouraged the joke. Everyone puts their instincts aside for a day and tries and convince you they are normal. Even putting up a cash prize for the one who lasts the longest. It's chump change to him but it's enough to make Bailey and Briar scramble. Only to then kidnap you for the entire day and keep you trapped with him. He has no intentions of playing. He doesn't care who wins. He just wants you to feel neglected enough to finally give in to him.

Morgan is dead ✨️👋😄👋✨️

I feel like the Stardew singles would have tried to set up an April Fools thing. But yeah It's a big fight. And since usually they act so normal around the other towns folk everyone is a little weirded out while you go about your daily business un-accosted for once while the unruly hot singles in the area are hurling insults and fighting each other in the streets 

[wackytheorist]

sorry if this is all over the place I’m nd and dyslexic so typing hard but the “ableist crow” is just a user who made some slightly heated vent posts about some of tubbos behaviours (such as talking over people despite other ccs asking him to stop) etc. while I don’t agree with the posts 100% myself I definitely dont read them as ableist? like this is a stretch example (and no I’m not calling tubbo a toddler) but like if I saw a little kid in a store having a meltdown I wouldn’t blame the kid cause it’s not their fault if their overwhelmed but like I can still be annoyed by the screaming? Idk if that makes sense but that’s kinda my take on what they probably meant by that post? (they’re nd themselves btw) their post got screenied and posted to Twitter by a tubbling (I know who posted it but I won’t say so they don’t get hate sent) where tubbo then saw it so it got blown up even more than it needed to

but yeah idk by reading through their blog they seem to take a mixed bag approach of finding things annoying or questionable and venting these frustrations but waiting to see how things develop. another post of theirs that springs to mind is the "abuse defender" one in which it was like a day or two after the new eggs and roier abusing pepito and they were asking people to wait to see if the abuse thing developed in case it was just a bit he was doing rather than immediately calling a latino cc an abuser? Especially when Roier has beefed with other eggs before and similar bits by other ccs were seen as funny (slime purposefully abusing flippa with “parenting styles” comes to mind but granted that was very early server where everyone was being more goofy anyway)

again like I said I don’t agree with all their posts but I think a lot of what they’ve said is being taken out of context or pushed to extremes to make them look worse than they are?? 🤷

Your fine, I understand the wording(I too am terrible at typing for different reasons.) I'm part of relaxed qsmpblr as I've mentioned in a different post and don't have much of a problem

Everyone should be allowed to express their opinion, yours is valid

But imo, I didn't have much of a problem with their posts(as I said before in the statement above) or the april fools account was problematic(I mean if someone thought I was worth an april fool account, I'd be losing my shit reading it but everyones different.)

But their response was a bit... off to me, especially since the person was a minor.

[anawkwardlady]

[wanna say some stuff. Ask some stuff in the ask box and all? I don't bite I only boop time to time]

how do you feel about boop-ing feature? What is your favourite fool's day joke? if that's too boring of a question, i would like to ask what exactly do you like in blood and bloody aesthetic, if that's not rude?

Hiiii! the booping feature is pretty cute, its great to have an interaction with someone without feeling like we're being intrusive or anything! And its funny to see mutuals having boop wars lol.

Idk about the joke, i'm not really an April's Fool fan tbh :( but don't worry its not boring at all thanks for asking haha. For the blood one, actually thats not rude and you're not the first one to be curious about it, i'm going to post my past answer not because it annoys me to answer but because I think it's probably the most interesting thing I will ever be able to say about it lol

<3

[rainyraisin]

2023 YEAR IN REVIEW!!!

My artstyle changed a lot this year, especially after my shift from ibis paint to procreate after getting my iPad (drawing on an iPad is the BEST btw 100% recommend I love it way more than a phone and it didn’t die after a month like my old wacom 💀💀). I’m relatively happy with where my art is atm and I hope to continue to improve in 2024!

Explanation of all the silly art down below! (Mostly so I can tell y’all who the fanart is for but also cause I like rambling)

January: A drawing of my Rise Leo human design I did to test out a pixel brush I found for Ibis Paint. He’s very fun to draw hehe I need to draw him more-

February: I wanted to learn how to draw the future designs of Leo and Mikey along with CJ so I planned to draw them all together! I struggled with Leo though so I just got rid of him. Sorry Peepaw 😞😞💔💔💔

March: Fanart for @beannary ‘s TLP au! I love it so much so I had to draw smth for it hehe 😈😈💥💥💥 which reminds me I need to draw more at some point- might redraw it at some point cause I’m not super happy with how it turned out but I do like the idea a lot

April: The month I created Reticent! April’s Fools was the first episode I came up with so I drew a chapter poster! It ended up being very different to the chapter cover I drew a couple months later but it’s still cool :D Leo is being weirdly affectionate to Mikey though what the heck that isn’t like him smh. Although I guess it was meant to be purposefully exaggerated sooooo 🥰

May: Reticent Casey!!! I don’t have much to say it’s just Reticent Casey HDKSGXKSHD this wasnt a very good art month

June: Krangified Donnie is literally my favourite concept ever thats it that’s all I have to say dbskdbwkh I adore Krangified Donnie and if the Rise brainrot takes over the Reticent brainrot for a while then I will probably be drawing Krangified Donnie during that time sorry not sorry

July: Reticent Chapter 3’s cover yippee!!! Still my favourite Reticent cover although Chapter 8’s is a close second (I can’t wait to post it once it’s been betaread yippee!!!). The scribble over Leo’s eyes is literally just because I was struggling to draw his eyes and i was getting annoyed dbskdbskdb it’s actually a very common issue with him (common Ret!Leo L). Also Mikey being reflected in the mirror is a reference to Mirror Man by Jack Stauber which I’ve basically considered his theme song since @aaronymous999 introduced it to me ebwjcbkwhd thank you Mr. Aaronymous! Also somebody said he was in the barbie box and I still need to draw that to this day because Mikey would’ve killed to go see Barbie.

August: RET DONNIE WOOOOO he’s being bullied again!!! I drew that piece for a colour palette challenge request and realised I got the prompt wrong so I just made it into its own thing 💥💥💥 it’s usually a flickering light gif but I chose to just use the version with the light on for this post. The photos in the background were really fun to draw hehe either April’s or Mikey’s is my favourite.

September: MY 500 FOLLOWER DTIYS YIPPEE (/my 150 follower DTIYS for tumblr). This one took me. Forever to draw and I love it to pieces hehe it was really fun to design Mikey’s room and figure out outfits for the sillies and idk the concept of a sleepover just seemed really fun to me dbskbdkdb- and all the entries I got were so so awesome I loved them all to pieces!!! I still look at them all the time hehe

October: FANART OF @endlesslogo ‘S HUMAN RISE LEO DESIGN WOOOOOO!!! This was the piece I started rendering on hehe it was so much fun to draw!!!! Although I did have a fight with rendering the hair for over an hour svsjegksbdk HOW DO PEOPLE DO IT FR!!!

November: Me and my friends were working on a crossover between our TMNT iterations so I drew all of our Karai’s together!!! Confluence Karai is on the left, created by Salem and Marine, New Stars Karai is in the middle created by Starla, and Reticent Karai is on the right created by me! All our Karais have such cool designs AHHHHH literally dead over them constantly/pos

December: Most of December I spent drawing Christmas presents so this was my present for Salem!!! Confluence!Jonatello my beloved….

[hummingbird-games]

Dev Diaries

April 4th, 2024

😃When did writing updates become such a chore to me??? I remember when I was excited to share what I was doing, grrrrrrrrrr...

Well. Here's what's happening in Gemini World:

The Knight Dance HOPEFULLY will go live this month because the team and I are entering it in the Amare Festival. I really want y'all to play this game but I also have been working on it for so long that I want to check it off my list lol.

Please check Ko-fi for free posts (and if I'm not posting enough HSD on Tumblr, which, I'M SO SORRY!!!) The most recent thing I threw in the queue was a certain student's I.D. card 👀 but I have plans to put everyone's on there!

HSD: JY #2 is getting its updated, non-snapshot demo this summer! Also, I'd like to clear up some confusion. As awesome as it would be, the full game is not coming out this year. The focus is to put out this last demo and then hunker down and finish writing. As of this post, I decided to write Ryan's full route from top to bottom. His common route content and Billie's are the only finished ones (and may or may not make an appearance in the upcoming demo. lol idk yet). However, Ryan's route has been crystalized in my mind for MONTHS so I figure we'll get my boy out the way so I can focus on the rest of the children 🥲Remember, Florence still doesn't have an outline and das not good....

One of the things I want to be better about with this sequel is embracing the spectrum that is asexuality and aromanticism. I did...something with the first game ☠️ but I feel like the rep could have been better in a lot of places (and I identify as ace, not aro, so I KNOW rep could have been better 🤧)

Having a friendship route was a solid decision, and even if most players didn't fool with it, a few let me know that they played HSD #1 for that feature. Which is cool because I'm tired of playing games that make ending up with a friend character a consolation. FRIENDSHIP IS NOT A CONSOLATION!!!

That said, there are STILL so many things that I won't be able touch on in HSD #2, but I don't claim to be the authority on any sexuality. The above screen is only seen in the friendship route and gives flavor dialogue that can help players define their MC. As someone who came into her asexuality waaaay past her HS and college days, I didn't have the representation to better explain and understand myself, so. Yup.

Alsoooo while we're going on about this sequel, no spoilers but even if you pick a romance route, you're not safe from friend angst 🤷🏽‍♀️Now, if your MC is directly affected or just a poor bystander...?👀🔍

And that's it! April is gonna be SO MUCH FUN because so many game updates are dropping

Our Wonderland finale *sob*

TCT DLC bonus stories

Date With Death DLC Kickstarter

chapter 7 release date announcement for College Craze

Breathless Winds release

And other stuff I probably forgot! So yeah. Heading to work now, but I hope all of y'all have a great day/night, and I'll see you in the next update! 💛

- Gemini

[arkynwolf]

wolf question time! question time for this!

riddle me this: what is your current favorite ren diggity dawg moment?

can i be a little cowardly and say all of them lafksjjdejdjsk. honestly it was really hard to pick just one singular moment so here's the top 3 in no particular order!

this one is gonna be pretty basic but the 3rd life altar scene. there's just something about it that makes me go absolutely feral. idk man i just like tragic gays i guess. the only fic i actually completed before the start of treebark week was a rewrite of the altar scene so that should probably tell you something fkdjsjsjt (also said fic is gonna go up later today, i wanna finally freaking finish day 2's because college has been kicking my ass)

absolutely recency bias at work here but ren's comeback stream. the whole thing was so incredibly wholesome with people being so generous the entire time. also if you have access to his vods go to 1:32:39 for my personal contribution towards breaking Ren :D (if you don't have access message me and i can show you the specific clip) also also also we got some duos i really love and want to see more often (x & ren, iskall & ren) so that also was a treat

recency bias strikes again, his april fools video. seeing ren properly back in the life series, even if it's just for an april fools thing makes me so happy and on top of that we got a mini dogwarts reunion too and AUGH please do not ask me how many times i've rewatched the video you will be extremely concerned for my mental wellbeing

also i lied about just the top three because i can't not mention the decked out burning box rp. you know why, i know why, everyone knows exactly why i loved this so much so i shan't explain further

i am so normal about this man i swear i totally don't think about him 24/7

[evanox]

for the chara ask game: white lily cookie and 2, 10, 12, 14, 15!

(chara ask game)

2; Favorite canon thing about this character? a. on the surface she looks like a docile sweetheart type of character but then you find out she got kicked out of witch school for unethical experimentation then she went to meet her creators to find out what's her true purpose knowing full well what it could cost her; b. despite all that she adopts the sad lil half cookie half cake monster babie, the exiled boy prince, the high-off-the-shits mushroom baby, and pomegranate + licorice + schwarzwalder are there too ig... anyway they're her little family <33

10; Could you be best friends with this character? If the April Fools dating sim game is anything to go by then.. probably not. We could be friends, but idk if it could go as far as best friends if it's so easy to send her reeling skullemoji Strictly referring to canon lore she always seems so distant so..

12; What's a headcanon you have for this character? Hmm @mauve-days does most of the headcanoning when it comes to our discussions of white lily so nothing of my own comes to mind.. moon literally came back to the game after a long, long hiatus just to wish on wl banner, got her and her legendary costume in the same day, then never came back so you can tell which of us is more obsessed lol

14; Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character. A mix of witchy cottagecore and dark academiaTM

15; What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.) hmm I used to really like pure lily but i kind of fell out of love with it, but given their history it's too endearing to not pick it

[yuumaofc]

Love you!

Mammon x GN!MC

TW// None! Unless you wanna call fluff a trigger warning or smth haha.. What? N-no there’s nothing suspicious happening wdym?🤨 no you’re just looking into it a little too much! I swear! Nothings wrong! Just- Just go on and read it already okay? Okay! Later!

AHA YOU HAVE BEEN FOOLED AND FALLEN RIGHT INTO MY TRAP YAHAHAHA- uh- oh- you- you saw right through me? Ah..- well- em- damn, my trap has failed and you have trapped the trapper by trapping the trapper in their own trap🧍🏻 welp uh- happy April fools lol even though I’m late by like 4-5 days BUT ITS STILL APRIL SO- idk haha

TW!! Angst(what you thought this wasn’t gonna be angst🤨), mammon runs away like always, Lucifer being Lucifer, Leviathan is an asshole like always, do I always have to give extremely stupid hints to what happens? I dont know, Asmo’s make up gets ruined, Satan gets angry, Beel becomes sad, Belphegor is also an asshole

Happy readings :D

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“Where did the damn fool go this time.”

Lucifer scowled as he stared at the unoccupied seat beside him, tucked in under the table. Leviathan snorted at Lucifer’s comment, “Come on Lucifer, you really expect Mammon of all demons to come back after all this time? To be honest, I’m enjoying the silence that’s been comfortable sitting in the house ever since he left!”

Asmo chimed in to their conversation, “As much as I love not having my things being stolen by that bastard, he’s never stayed away for this long! Usually he just comes crawling back like the trash he is begging for grim within three days!” Beel sighed as he agreed with Asmo, “Asmo’s right, he’d usually come back by now. Or earlier if anything..”

Belphegor scoffed, “Are you really worrying about Mammon?? The literal scum of the earth?? He’d be better off dying somewhere in an alleyway near the casino’s that coming back here just to be a nuisance to all of us.”

As soon as those words left Belphegor’s mouth, your DDD rang. Every one of them stared at you as you pulled your DDD from your back pocket. You noticed that the caller ID was none other than the second oldest avatar, Mammon. Satan, who was looking at your DDD from over your shoulder, groaned in annoyance as he recognized the caller, “Don’t bother picking up MC, he’s probably just gonna ask you to send him some grim or something. How much more pathetic could he be? Honestly he’s embarrassing to even be around.”

You narrowed your eyes at Satan’s words and picked up Mammon’s call just to spite him, “Hello? Mammon??”

“H-Hey MC..” He greeted you with a heavy tone. He sounded so out of breath and in pain. His breathing was heavy, uneven and shaky, like he was dying or something..“Wha- A-Are you okay?? Why are you breathing so hard?? Do you-“

Mammon cut you off, “Are the guys with you..? I-if so.. can you put me on speaker?” Although confused at his request, you obey his ask and put him on speaker. Lucifer quirked a brow, “What are you doing?” You didn’t spare Lucifer a glance as you held your DDD in the palm of your hand. The brothers started to crowd around you as mammon’s heavy breathing was heard from the other end.

Asmo cringed at the sound of his heavy breathing, “Mammon if you’re trying to seduce MC over the phone, you’re gonna have to do better tha-“ Once again, Mammon spoke over him, “I’m just gonna cut to the chase. I’m sorry that I couldn’t have been a good brother.”

Mammon’s sudden apology caught all of you off guard. Why was he apologizing? What did he mean? What happened? What’s going on?

“I’m sorry I was always in debt to other demons and witches. I’m sorry for coming home drunk off my ass every once in a while. I’m sorry I couldn’t fix my spending habits. I-“ He started coughing and wheezing, like he was having trouble breathing. The sound of him struggling to breathe worried you deeply. The sound of him spitting something out of his mouth immediately caught your worried attention, “Mammon?! Mammon are you alright?! Where- Where are you?! Do you need me to come get you?! Mammon, answer me!!”

Mammon’s voice rung through each of your ears. He sounded so weak.. Like he was about to let go at any moment, “I have to go.. That’s it.. I think-.. I don’t think I have much time left-“ more coughing rang through the air. He was choking at this point. “I don’t have anything else to say.. Mc.. I.. I love you..!” At this point, you were crying your eyes out. Snot and tears running down your face as you screamed and cried till your heart stopped hurting. The brothers were long gone, having left to search for mammon before he met his foreboding end. Asmo had stayed behind to console you and grieve the death of Mammon with you.

As you were denial, you still dialed Mammon’s number to try and have him pick up. Begging for him to pick up as you cried hysterically. Continuously, you failed to connect a call. It couldn’t end this way! It just couldn’t!! You wouldn’t allow it.

Asmo hugged you tightly as he wailed like a woman who just lost her child. His make up was smeared and ruined. Ink dyed tears ran down his cheeks as he wept with you in his arms. Clinging onto him like he was your lifeline, you mourned together.

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Lucifer soared through the air as quick as he could to Mammon’s current location, heavy in denial that his sweet and precious baby brother was dying. Arriving at Mammon’s location, Lucifer was brought to tears. Mammon laid in a pool of his own ink black blood. He had cuts and scratches from all over his body. His pure snow white hair was now dyed an ugly black. One of his wings snapped in half as it laid limply on the floor.

Lucifer nearly let the tears fall when Mammon weakly craned his head to look up at his imposing figure. Faintly, almost going unheard, Mammon spoke.

“Luce..? What are you doing here..?”

Rushing to Mammon’s side, Lucifer picked him up without a word. Spreading his wings and taking to the sky, Lucifer hurriedly rushed to the demon kings castle. Mammon, as if knowing what he was doing, gripped the area near Lucifer’s chest. Confused, agitated, and worried, Lucifer asked, “Mammon, what are you doing?”

Mammon’s grip tightened as much as it could, “There’s no point in taking me to Barbatos or Lord Diavolo.. I’m not gonna make it.” At Mammon’s words, Lucifer pushed himself to fly even faster, “No! Y-You’ll make it! You won’t die, You’ll live! Then we can go back to living in the house of lamentation! And it-“ A hand was felt on Lucifer’s cheek as they came to a complete stop in front of the gates of the demon kinds castle. “Wh-What are you-“ “There’s no use in trying to save a life that’s already dead..”

It was as if someone just threw Lucifer into the Antarctic ocean. Mammon smiled at him just as the castle doors opened up.

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The moment Lucifer returned home, he was immediately bombarded with questions about Mammon from his four younger brothers.

“Where’s Mammon?”

“What happened to Mammon?

“Why isn’t Mammon with you?!”

“Where did you leave Mammon?!”

Lucifer looked at them with dull, puffy red eyes. Signaling that he didn’t want to talk about it and left for his study but Satan refused to be left without an answer, “Lucifer, where’s Mammon?!”

Lucifer ignored Satan’s calls and continued to ascend the stairs. Satan, having enough of Lucifer’s silent treatment, screamed out continuous insults at him. Forcing the eldest to answer his question with growing irritation.

“Mammon is gone.”

Just like Lucifer, Satan had broke out into a cold sweat.

“Wh-what..?”

Lucifer glanced over his shoulder to stare Satan straight in the eye, “Mammon. Is gone. He’s dead. And he’s not coming back. Not to me. Not to us.”

Satan shook his head in denial, “N-no.. You’re lying!”

Lucifer continued to stare over his shoulder, “And why would I lie about this? My brother is gone. There’s no reason to lie about this.” And with that, Lucifer was gone before anyone else could open their mouth.

Leviathan stood there, processing the sudden information of his older brother. Mammon? Dead? How- No- No! How could- What- Why?!- Just!.. Why..? Running to his room, he indulged in his games and anime to make the pain go away. He couldn’t cry! Crying was for normies! So then why was he crying anyways? Salty tears fell down his cheeks like waterfalls. How could this be?

Satan stormed up to his room. Slamming his door and immediately destroying everything in his wake. Tearing books apart, throwing vases, destroying his bookshelves. Nothing could satisfy his rage, so he screamed. He screamed and screamed at the top of his lungs until his throat was sore and he could no longer make noise. Angry tears running down his face the whole time.

Too tired from crying earlier, Asmo had gone to bed with you in tow before Lucifer had come home. Too exhausted and mentally drained.

Beel immediately broke out in tears, there’s no way that Mammon was dead! No, not Mammon! Mammon’s always been so strong! How could he just die like that?! There’s just no way. Beel wasn’t hungry anymore and left his food half eaten. Leaving with Belphie to sleep away the pain. Hoping that he would wake up and it was all just a bad dream. A really really bad dream..

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BOOM HOW D’YA LIKE THEM APPLES?! Angst, my best genre because it’s the only thing I read on here lol. Honestly I was a little conflicted on writing a happy or sad ending. If you guys do want it enough though, I’ll write an alternate ending haha okay bye peace duces i’m hungry-

[guacomelon]

I wanna ask about the JSaBsonas, actually! I'm intrigued about all of them, so if you could say a few words about each one or at least how they came to be, that would be nice, but if you want to focus on a specific one - I'm curious to know more about the sunny one, top right.

Alright,

we'll be going in this order: 006, "Sunny", "Crown", and "Pae-ki" Here we go. Forgive me for using the same old art, it's the only rendered stuff I have of them 😅

🎵 Dancing on Our Disasters by Calavera

alt song: 🎵 Granite by Shirobon

The very first was 006, or "Six". All the way back in Sep 2021, I had the idea of creating a shapesona. At the time I had certain.. feelings, about JSB and my identity surrounding it. I definitely see those feelings represented in the character now.

Six is a professional JSB player in a world where the game is in AR. They're reclusive, obsessive. Attention seeking. And they dance. Oh, they dance until they no longer can.

Some of you had the chance of talking with them on April Fools of 2022; I liked that. It was very fun to write them, and I wish I could do it again. Maybe in the form of their own roleplay/ask blog, just like I always intended.

🎵 A New Day by Danimal Cannon

alt song: 🎵 Same Song by DEFENSE MECHANISM

Second persona is a character I've nicknamed "Sunny."

I started a continuation of a previously failed project under a pseudonym, a persona. It wasn't until Jun 2021 when I gave that persona her design... I think it helps when I'm writing as them.

There's currently not much character story to them, other than she exists in the same world as Six. She gets burnout often but never gives up. It's not over til it's over.

I'm sure you've seen a certain one of my projects so far. Maybe it was obvious from the beginning, maybe it just clicked now, or you're still lost. Those who know, I want you to know this aswell: I'm not being sneaky, I'm just anxious. When I'm tired of pretending and gain the confidence to put my face on these projects, I do plan on just using them as the mascot.

🎵 Ecstacy by Nitro Fun & Rob Gasser

alt song: 🎵 Fracture by Shirobon

Third is the crown. It doesn't have a name, and it probably won't - Jan 2024

Ok, this ones strange. I've been invited to play a certain fangame a few times, and one of their available shapes is a crown. The crown is just the shape I played with. Nothing else, nothing more. It will never be something greater, involving me.

So what about that art...well.... I think I'm just going through post-JSB:FE depression 😭 ... Recently I've been thinking about the "maybes", alot of "what ifs" And if I'll be honest with myself, I need to let those go.

🎵 happy camper by laamaa

alt song: 🎵 DON'T STOP by DEFENSE MECHANISM

And last, but not least, is my actual JSB/shapesona!

They currently have no real name (idk you can call them my ingame name "GUAC" lol,) but for records sake I've been using "Pae-ki". I first drew them up in Oct 2023, around when I first played The Fangame.

They are just, me! Lover of 'Close to Me', unreasonable hater of 'First Crush', and protector of triangle players. An "OG god" as some say. (I'm not sure what else to say that isn't just me talking about myself. idk, I still play Challenge Runs, come join me on NSwitch or Steam)

I'm still working on their design.. I wanted to incorporate mementos from all the JSB-like things I got to do. They were always going to have a crown.

[it's been 3 months I'm not working on this ask anymore, I'm just happy to have it out GOOD LIRD]