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Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.

Tales of Arise/Alphen x Shionne/fanart

All characters belong to Bandai Namco Entertainment. Just for fun / non-commercial use.

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Eh it's almost October and who knows when I'll show my face here again. I made these a while ago but never posted them here.

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What do you think of Shionne's Regal Swimsuit and if you had to make a story about it with alphen what would it be about?

Also side not tried to send you the image but it wouldn't let me so had to send you a link to the picture

AHHH I'M SORRY I haven't been on tumblr in a hot minute!!! Thank you for the ask!

Really timely and funny that you ask, because I am working on a beach outfit collab fic series with a couple of friends! It will be E-rated because of course... Hopefully it will be out by the end of summer (as in by September 22 haha). Alphen & Shionne and friends are on a getaway to a remote island, and that's all I'll say...

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Reblog if you've made at least one friend because of a fandom.

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A little Tales of Festival!Shionne for @konfizry because I can. 8)

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Finished an illustration of Violet Evergarden :P I must draw for the show that made me bawl like a baby several times...

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I’m making Tales of Symphonia fanart in 2020, wyd?

Some body headcanons me and @machonachos have for the boys, plus other little personal headcanons.

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no matter how terrible my day is. i can always end my day in bed imagining fictional characters making out sloppy style and fucking raw. and that's beautiful. there's some good in this world mister frodo and it's worth fighting for

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you know how it is

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Three Little Words

"That feels nice."

Shionne loves hearing these words from Alphen when she touches him. Ruffling his messy hair, lightly scratching his rough palm, relieving an itch on her hand with the stubble on his face, or tracing her fingers in random patterns on his back as they fall asleep together.

She also loves saying these words to him when he touches her. Squeezing her hip when he has his arm around her, massaging her feet, or embracing her in his warmth as they fall asleep together.

These three little words mean so much more to her than the other ones.

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i know it’s been said before, but it bears repeating: a big, big part of maintaining your confidence & self esteem as a creator is fully embracing the concept of “you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.”

for example, i’m not someone who’s particularly good at coming up with complex, elaborate plots or incredibly unique ideas.  it’s just not how i choose to write.  and it would be easy for me to look at someone with an elaborate, super unique plot & decide that because i don’t write like that, i’m not a good writer.  after all, unique plots are good, and my writing lacks those, so my writing must not be good, right?  well, no, actually.  i just have different strengths, like taking a simple premise & digging super deep into its emotional depths.  that’s what i do well & it isn’t any better or worse than people who do elaborate world building or come up with really creative and unexpected plots.

your writing is never going to be all things to all people.  it just isn’t.  inevitably, you’ll have to make creative choices that favor certain aspects of writing over others.  there is truly no getting around that & it’s honestly a good thing, because it means you’ve developed your own style.  but you’ll always encounter other creators who posses strengths that you don’t.  it doesn’t mean one is better than the other or that your writing isn’t good enough. 

comparing yourself like that would be like taking a piece of pizza & a cupcake & going “oh no, that cupcake is so sweet & my pizza isn’t sweet at all.” or “gosh, the garlic crust on that pizza is delicious and my cupcake doesn’t have ANY garlic.”  obviously your pizza isn’t sweet.  obviously your cupcake doesn’t have garlic.  a food can’t have every single delicious flavor at once.  the cupcake is good like a cupcake.  the pizza is good like a pizza.  so you don’t have to be good like them.  you can be good like you.

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found some Arise doodles I'd forgotten about :)

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For today’s Tales of Sunday I played around with a design of Older!Laphicet :P

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today’s Tales of Sunday character is Rinwell from Tales of Arise! Ngl, the majority of my time drawing this was messing around with the blues.

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forgot how much fun arise was. have these