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[yupuffin]

Playable Aventurine in three days... I'm SO ready

[dancingdimitri]

HAPPY TIMESKIP!!

It's been five years since the release of Fire Emblem: Three Houses (ALREADY?!) so you could say that five-year timeskip in the middle of the game is for real now! 😜

Taking this opportunity to reshare some of my favorite photos of my Azure Moon Dimitri cosplay. As cool as it looked, this costume was extremely difficult to make, wear, and transport, so I only kept it for a couple of years. Even so, I got plenty of great pictures in it and made some good memories and even a CMV!

I do still have the cape, actually. I spent hours listening to Chris Hackney's streams while hand-sewing seven different types of faux fur into the mantle, so I was too sentimental to get rid of it. 🤣

And I do still have my White Clouds Dimitri cosplay so I'll try to maybe get a selfie in that tomorrow or something 👀💙🦁✨

3rd photo by Youkai Neko Photography

[fireemblemmusicaltheater-zine]

[ Fire Emblem Theater Zine : Contributor Lineup ]

The Contributor Lineup for the zine is here! Everyone is working hard and doing an amazing job making musical and theater related Fire Emblem creations! See our full contributor list in the tweets below ❤️🎶

First up, our wonderful Writers 🎼❤️

Next, our awesome Artists 🎨❤️

Lastly, our marvelous Musicians and passionate Podficcers🎙

As the creation period of the zine continues please keep an eye out for out individual contributor spotlights, previews, and other announcements! We're very excited to share more soon��🎵

(Find the majority of them on Twitter)

SFW Writers

@SnapdragonsR @heretic_saint

sid3walk , @_digitaldreams , amukWrites @RosellaFloquet , @VeloxVoid @tansybells , @okamigamer1 @elenyafinwe

🎼❤️

NSFW Writers

@crazycorgwyn @donuts3132 , @linnymilf , @okamigamer1 , @elenyafinwe

🎨❤️

SFW Artists 

@arcthunderrz @kittyoperas @wild_moss_art @mythiicat @AdrestianMomo @ginwilliamsart @HoshiHaemon  @heumilch @yupuffin @m0rb1dspade @MsIsRad

@soopdoople @weebtrina @cupofcolors @azureamaya @houoney @kingofreddragons   @Loustica_Lucia @ellelilac @rem0sss, 

🖼❤️

NSFW Artists 

@elenaf0x @ginwilliamsart , @KrisInk2 

🎭❤️

Merch Artists

@HoshiHaemon @starredfishing , @Agre_Sora, @yyorkwest @ferdiniascaeles  

🎙❤️

Musicians

@catrione776 @airdeari @givemeafish @_zebby

🎶❤️

Podficcers

@ArielArashi99 @maidenofsin , @okamigamer1

[ashnwolves]

Happy New Year! 2023 Recap, 2024 Resolutions

Seeing as my avatar for this blog is New Year Takumi, it feels fitting that I close out the year by reflecting on what's taken place. My personal circumstances this year have been challenging, and so far there isn't any sign of that changing. Fortunately, that hasn't stopped me from accomplishing a decent amount.

2023 Recap

First of all, @botwmusical was able to release our long-anticipated (by us) Highlights album! Download it here if you haven't. We worked so hard putting it together, and none of it could have been done without @dianapocalypse, @arrispect and the brilliant @wanderingnightingale. Hearing my music sung by our wonderful performers was an experience unlike any other.

I also wrote a first draft of the above's full script, and chronicled the journey at #sftwember. In hindsight, that tag would have looked better for a September project, rather than a November one... but it got written nonetheless!

On a more personal note, I got to enjoy a lot of new media this year which I really enjoyed. Persona 3, the Tellius games for Fire Emblem, of course Fire Emblem Engage, and maybe most notably Genshin Impact! That's right, I'm a Neuvillette main now and always... until I pull Kazuha. (Between him and Takumi, can you tell I have a type?)

2024 Resolutions

My resolutions for the coming year are as follows:

Write more! I've been planning a series of collab fics with a friend, which I'm very excited for, and there's a big Three Houses project on the horizon that I can't wait to take off. At long last, I'm getting back into Fódlan, and so far it's looking glorious.

Finalise the @botwmusical script, and start arranging material for the full version of the show. We aren't sure what form this will take yet, but there's some incredibly strong stuff that I think people will love.

Produce a rough draft for my next musical adaptation, and write a good amount of the material. My creative Vision has never been stronger. At the very least, I think it warrants a trial period. Hydro. In all seriousness, the opening number is coming along very very well, and I'm excited to share it with you all.

Another personal note: resume playing D&D! I have a great group I was playing with last year, and I'd love to get back into it again.

TALK TO MY MUTUALS. I realised I've had my incoming messages switched off since I made my blog. This must be amended ASAP. Please be my friend.

Just as I did last year, I'm going to tag a few friends. If you feel like it, tell us about your plans for the coming year and reflect on this past one! No pressure—and this is open to anyone!

@yupuffin @circle-bircle @dianapocalypse @ptewie @wanderingnightingale @arrispect @tolstayas @blight-eyed

[isingasongforyou]

Summary: Aether and Neuvillette fall in love and it’s cute. Paimon totally ships it.

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Rating: Explicit

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Relationship: Neuvillette/Aether

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV First Person, Comfort, Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Soft Neuvillette, Supportive Paimon, Developing Relationship, Falling in Love, 4.1 Update, Cuddling & Snuggling, Attempt at Humor, Eventual Smut, Fluff and Smut, Consensual Sex, Comfort Sex, Trans Male Character, Dragon Neuvillette

[friendlifyre]

the problem about becoming as obsessed w al-haitham as i have is that when i say i think about him a normal amount (lying) people just assume i had the near-universal experience of becoming instantly obsessed when he was first showcased in the sumeru preview because he was hot or whatever, when. that couldnt be further from the truth. i could not have been more indifferent about him at the time and when the 3.0 trailer happened the only thing that had me eyes emoji was his voice. he piqued my interest in the first act as a character BUT in a very ‘i would hate this man with a burning passion if he existed irl’ way and he continued to be insufferable throughout act 3 and 4 albeit i guess then in the sense of i would like to study him under a microscope maybe. it was only when i saw tumblr user yupuffin’s analysis of his behavior in act 4 that i started perceiving all the underlying qualities and from then on it was too late he was like a nasty weed in my brain that kept growing and then just took over for good with the final act in 3.2 cemented with his release last month where both his teaser and demo made me so emotional (for different reasons) and then in his story quest he doubled down as top tier introvert + autistic rep. tl;dr he had to Claw his way into my brain where he now lives rent free and i wish it wasnt so easy for people to assume he was eagerly invited there just bc hes attractive or whatever

[jackalopedread]

Music Bingo! Tagged by and template by @omgkalyppso

I'm gonna tag @wolfsskull @kingoftealeafs @genderfluidnonagon @xylophonicsynapse @sailor-rinn @yupuffin @miiro !

I forget how to do a readmore on mobile but here's the blank!

[pippenpaddlopsicopolisthethird]

Top 5 anime you think are criminally underrated!

This is a really good question, and it was VERY difficult to keep myself to only 5. These are all anime that I think deserve a much wider viewership! (Plus five more!)

I ended up spending waaayyyy longer on this than I thought, I can’t imagine how much I would have written if you’d said top 10. I can literally talk about anime forever. Here’s some I wholeheartedly recommend.

1. Shojo Kageki Revue Starlight (Action, drama, romance)

This is my newest love, as of yesterday, when I binged the whole thing. The best way I can describe it is by mashing up other anime. Take Revolutionary Girl Utena, iron out about three layers of metaphor, and trim off all of the dark themes related to the Rose Bride. Then throw it in a blender with Madoka Magica and Love Live!, add half a cup of Gay Concentrate, and serve up the result: A character-driven drama about girls at a performing arts school, who settle their differences in magical-girl-fantasy duels styled as impossibly gorgeous theatrical stage-combat musical numbers. Beyond the flash and high concept, there’s a well-written cast, solid emotional core, and really engaging plot.

2. The Eccentric Family (Drama, comedy)

This show is my favorite genre of fantasy; mythical creatures living in the modern world, right under humans’ noses. In this series, humans only know tanuki as the cute little raccoon-dogs, but tanuki are really sentient shapeshifters whose goals are to outsmart the humans who live in the cities, pester the tengu who rule the heavens, live a life of freedom and trickery, and not end up on the inside of a hunter’s trap. The story follows a family of a mother and four sons whose widely-respected father was killed to end up in a human’s hot pot, as they try to enjoy their lives, live up to his imposing reputation, and unravel the increasingly suspicious circumstances of his death.

I have called this one “deceptively light-hearted” when describing it. My friend got halfway through the first season and came back to me with the verdict, “consider me fucking deceived.” This show has weight and does not pull its emotional punches, but neither does it ever stumble into becoming grimdark. Its worldbuilding is solid and the characters are all fantastically developed. Plus I wrote a whole post about one of the main antagonists(?) who I hadn’t even mentioned here.

3. Dennou Coil (Mystery, sci-fi)

Dennou Coil is a masterclass in worldbuilding, in my opinion. It’s a near-future sci-fi world, basically if Google Glass had taken off and become as common as cell phones are today. Many people don’t see the real world, they see the virtual textures of the world as they’re rendered through the glasses. Kids in one city have learned to mess around with codes, collecting tradeable fragments that break off the edges where the system glitches, chasing viruses that hide in pockets of obselete code in abandoned areas of the city where the software doesn’t get updated often. They spend their time after school saving virtual pets from being accidentally deleted by the city’s antivirus, trading tall tales about kids who get caught by the antivirus and get their glasses bricked, and spinning urban legends about ghosts waiting just behind anything that’s visibly rendered, waiting to steal kids when they least expect it. Every detail they introduce is critical to laying the foundation for the mystery that forms the show’s plot.

Everything about this world feels real in a way I’ve never seen in a sci-fi anime. It’s all grounded in a clear understanding of programming, and lives by show-don’t-tell. The stakes aren’t life-and-death; the kids tagging glitches like graffiti to distract the city’s antivirus software are only at risk of ruining their glasses, at least at first. The plot and escalation is perfectly-paced, and the mystery is so satisfying to piece together as it unfolds.

4. ID:Invaded (Sci-fi, action, thriller, murder mystery)

This show is like Psycho-Pass meets Silence of the Lambs. To catch a serial killer, you need to think like a killer, and nobody does that better than killers. A contraption called an “id well” can manifest an uncaught killer’s unconscious mind as a bizarre, unique, deadly terrain driven by stream-of-consciousness, and convicted murderers turned “detectives” dive into these wells to try to solve the mystery each well presents and discern the identity of other killers before they can strike again.

This show is a tightly-written, perfectly paced, edge-of-your-seat thriller. The two layers of mysteries inside and outside of the wells balance high-octane, big-screen action with tight, tense realism. Plus the soundtrack is an absolute banger.

5. Ping Pong the Animation (drama, sports)

Imagine if I told you that there was a show that, in 11 episodes, unpacked how patterns of relationships are repeated across generations, how the tradeoff between talent, practice, and who you are outside of your achievements can scar the spirits of kids, and what it feels like to wrestle with the tension between your core understanding of yourself and how others expect you to be. Imagine if I told you that every major character goes through massive restructurings of their fundamental sense of self and how they see others, and that every single arc comes to a well-rounded and satisfying end. Imagine if the animation style pushed the limits of both realism and absurdity, landing somewhere between rotoscoping and caricature, pushing the impact of action and stretching the character’s expressiveness without betraying faces that are animated like real human people. Imagine that it had a dub so fantastic that it sits next to Baccano and Cowboy Bebop in my mind, shows where the cast threw themselves into their roles with their whole hearts.

Now imagine that I told you that this story is told in the context of high schoolers playing ping pong, and that it’s arguably the best show I’ve ever seen. Go watch this show.

[spontaneousmusicalnumber]

handwriting asks 1 and 36!

May have gone a little overboard but I loved developing handwriting fonts in college and I still use this for headers all the time

(Send me handwriting asks!)

[the-worst-fe-player]

17 for the basic FE ask game? also 12 - opinion on Dimitri? I'm a newer follower so I'm not super caught up on your blog but I see he's in your icon so I'm curious o:

Thank you so much for the ask also I love your art/^_^/

17 what's more important good gameplay or story = I would have to say gameplay like if the story was horrible I probably wouldn't enjoy the game that much but I really enjoy fes gameplay whenever it be putting it on the highest difficulty for the channgle of normal for stress relief. Like I feel like rev and conquest is examples of that for me there storys are not something I'm super super hyped for but the gameplay and map disgin is making them games I love to play

12 = dimitri is my favourite fictional character of all time lol. I really love his personality and story and is such a comfort character for me, all his supports are great and just I love him so much lol. But for real I do love his character arch and I really enjoyed seeing his motivations and the way he changes in am and how he ends up being a great king in the end dispit everything that happend even though its all fiction it gave me somone with really bad mental health (ngl) hope and he honstly made three houses so great for me and I loved that am is so character driven because of the way dimitri is written. Like I'm bad with writing words so sorry but honstly I could probably do an eassy if I knew how to write lol from his realship with others to motive and personilty I just love it all. Also hes op af in battle because of the increase growth rates witch is cool

[yupuffin]

-Ernest Thompson Seton, "Lobo, the King of Currumpaw" (1898)

[dancingdimitri]

and the fragments of you burst into a million and one colors

[fireemblemmusicaltheater-zine]

Fire Emblem Theater Zine Pre-Orders June 28th! Here is a preview of some colorful Alear Fire Emblem Engage art from @yupuffin ❤️💙🎵

[ashnwolves]

Last Sentence Tag Game: Write the latest line from your wip (or post where you last left off in your art) and tag as many people as there are words in the line. Make a new post, don’t reblog.

@nowis-scales tagged me in this MONTHS ago. I am so sorry it's taken me so long. This is an excerpt from a FE3H Persona AU I started writing, though I dunno if I'll finish it.

The girl smiles at Byleth, radiant and disarmingly wide. "My name is Corrin," she explains, serene in her green uniform. Her long hair, so blonde that it verges on white, flows over her shoulders and hangs down her back much like a fairytale princess. "My mistress has been kind in lending you the services of this room." Byleth's eyes flit across to Sothis, who stares down at him upon her throne with appraising eyes. "She's your mistress? But she's a ch—" "Go on, say it! I dare you." "If you need more information about a Persona," Corrin continues breezily, carefully-controlled enthusiasm behind her words, "feel free to let me know! That's what this book's for, after all. I can't see the world outside the Velvet Room, so I'd like to help in any way I can." Her offer is a welcome one, though Byleth still gets the nagging sense that she feels out of place. Then again, so does the room existing outside of reality and the mysterious girl with power over time. Nothing makes sense.

Three words there, so I'm going to tag three people who always seem to have some creative work in-progress. @wanderingnightingale @circle-bircle @yupuffin

[isingasongforyou]

Summary: In which it would be very awkward for the Wanderer were he actually named "Sea Sparkle."

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Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: M/M

Relationship: Scaramouche/Aether

Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Scaramouche is Not Called Scaramouche, Except when he is, Scaramouche is called Tokitō, Literal Sleeping Together, Cuddling and Snuggling, Nightmares, Scaramouche Being Scaramouche, Soft Scaramouche, One Shot, Brief allusions to background relationships

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I’ve been hanging onto these ideas since the Wanderer came out MONTHS ago so I’m glad to finally get them out of my system X’D

[undiscoveredgemszine]

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: YU PUFFIN

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