any eta on when the next ship update will be or if there’s any sort of notification/mailing list we can join to be notified of when it happens? i love your merch c and i love Aventurine and don’t wanna miss it!

probably gonna be mid-may! i'll have the twins shakers and a bunch of other stuff in stock, but i'll also be running pre-orders from aventurine, fancy venti charms, maybe a special freiren standee if the stars all align...

i don't have a mailing list, but i'll post new shop catalog and opening date/time a week in advance, both on here and twitter!

Ever if you make Aventurine or Wanderer merch (or just about anything glittery) I will buy it so fast. Gosh. I take the Venti glitter shaker with me EVERYWHERE and the XV shaker lives in my ita backpack, always on display. I’m checking in often to see when the Lyney and Lynette ones will be available to get even more glitter shakers in my life. They’re my favorite types of merch by far and it’s led to showing so many people your store! Idk where I was going with this but. More glitter things please 💳💸💰

you're partially in luck, cuz i have wanderer and aventurine merch in my next shop update! ...though neither of them are glitter shakers, sadly. here is a little sneaky peek as an apology :')

Do you have your process/timelapse posted anywhere please 🙏🥺

just this process photo and this timelapse! theyre both from last year but i still draw the same way. the only difference between these and my drawings for hyv stuff is having to copy 3d models and warp/paint over really annoying bits to draw like wanderer's hat or aventurine's chips lol

update: i got peacock man and his LC!!! thank u everyone for manifesting good pulling energy. pleased 2 report that despite my dog water builds for most characters having aven allows one to blast thru swarm yahoo

sometimes a team is your daughter, a whole bunch of imaginary men, and the incredible crushing might of the amber lord (praise be to THEIR name)

You're very obviously into Genshin (and your art for it is absolutely gorgeous), but have you ever tried Mihoyo's Star Rail? One of the more recent main story characters is very Kokichicore, and feels like one you'd really like.

okay. so. here's the story. it is, that i played hsr on release at the pace of a lunatic, and i got to tb 65 in like a week and a half, BUT i swore a blood oath to be f2p in THIS hyv game so i tried REALLY REALLY hard to get blade on his first banner without opening wallet. naturally, i failed! so i quit bc i didnt have the energy to grind two hyv games at once

and now a year later my friends are trying to lure me back in with aventurine. unfortunately, it's working because i have a critical weakness for smiling knifecats with a death gambit. so. ive been scrabbling in the dirt for free jades with my wretchedly out dated builds. i just met firefly and the Thing That Calls Itself Sampo (i think). why are aventurine's eyes so beguiling? these soda dogs are kinda beating my ass. i have 50 pulls saved and a dream. i'll keep u posted on how it goes 😔

reading your response to the ousai/saiou ask made me realise, I don't actually know if with the ship name order people mean the one who tops or the one who doms or takes charge in general?? i'm curious what you're thinking of with ousai (and do you maybe know how other people approach this topic?) thank you!!

i feel like i've been talking too much lately so i'll just, put this under a cut to explain more,

so: the order of names is significant in eastern (bl) fandom spaces; from left to right, it's (top/攻め)x(bottom/受け). it usually denotes positions for spicy content, but in not-spicy content can also denote a portrayal of the characters' attitudes towards the relationship (e.g. initiator/pursuer x receiver). because some creators/fans are very specific about their preferred portrayals (you'll see stuff like (ship)🔄❌ or 左右固定, 'left/right fixed positions' in bio), strictly labeling ship content is courteous because it allows other fans to find/avoid it as they wish.

as far as i've seen, in western fandom spaces people tend to pick whatever portmanteau of the characters' names sounds good to refer to the pairing in general, though i've definitely seen others who follow the same naming conventions ^ as above when referring to ships. if you're not sure what to call it if commenting it's probably safer to just use the same nomenclature OP uses.

(for me specifically, i more or less follow eastern bl naming scheme, which is why i answered the last ask about saiou/ousai that way... but i also tend to write or draw any ship i like as 🔄. i mentioned before that i tag everything to "saiouma" on tumblr for convenience's sake, but on twtr where there's substantially more overlap with eastern fans, i usually label my stuff as either  🏁🔎 or 🔎🏁 or even 🏁🔎🏁.)

is there any reason you prefer 🏁🔎 over 🔎🏁?

answer: ouma spends a not insignificant amount of effort throwing himself at saihara in canon (to varying degrees of un/success) so i just like to live in a world where he enjoys the fruits of his labors

more serious answer: his dialogues in main story + FTE + love suite are a constant series of challenges & invitations to saihara, even if saihara doesn't always pick up on or accept them. given that plus saihara's passive nature/general preference to follow versus lead, i think it's easy to see ouma as an initiator in the relationship, as obfuscated and overly engineered as his methods are... intention matters quite a bit to ouma, whose whole thing is parsing meaning from uncertainty. so in more benign situations where there's space to build trust and verify interest (salmon mode) he goes all in, and backs off when he can't (love hotel).

even less serious answer: it's cute when the top is the short one

bust... or maybe i'll take it all!

You're very obviously into Genshin (and your art for it is absolutely gorgeous), but have you ever tried Mihoyo's Star Rail? One of the more recent main story characters is very Kokichicore, and feels like one you'd really like.

okay. so. here's the story. it is, that i played hsr on release at the pace of a lunatic, and i got to tb 65 in like a week and a half, BUT i swore a blood oath to be f2p in THIS hyv game so i tried REALLY REALLY hard to get blade on his first banner without opening wallet. naturally, i failed! so i quit bc i didnt have the energy to grind two hyv games at once

and now a year later my friends are trying to lure me back in with aventurine. unfortunately, it's working because i have a critical weakness for smiling knifecats with a death gambit. so. ive been scrabbling in the dirt for free jades with my wretchedly out dated builds. i just met firefly and the Thing That Calls Itself Sampo (i think). why are aventurine's eyes so beguiling? these soda dogs are kinda beating my ass. i have 50 pulls saved and a dream. i'll keep u posted on how it goes 😔

i love the fact that your oumasai actually has a dynamic and isn't unhealthy if that makes sense >< usually oumasai is depicted as kokichi using shuichi and shuichi is like helpless... that's always just been off putting

i don't know that i'd call all of mine "healthy" either (or at least, not every version of ousai i draw), but it is important to me that it's not a one-sided relationship... in-game ouma is always thinking ten steps ahead of most people, saihara included at times, but their relationship is interesting because they keep each other on their toes!! i guess it can be easy to forget that as much as ouma is a mystery to saihara, saihara often is to him, too.

i like all kinds of saiou/ousai dynamics, but whether it's easy-going or adversarial, the thread that makes it work is the mutual caution followed by curiosity... and every step of the dance after that :)c

'I have been working on lots of merch!'

*shows Kokichi strangling Shuichi*

Im sorry that almost made me cackle

as they say... variety is the spice of life (✿◡‿◡)⌒★

ive been working on lots of merch lately!! this is not that.

its really funny that i got dragged into daiya by fanfic a month ago and i just found out you used to do fanart.. its really fun to find coincidences like that :]

isn't it great when u find out artists/writers/etc you follow also made stuff for your new interests? like digging in ur bag and finding a surprise candy bar ehe

haven't caught up in a hot minute on daiya manga, but it's still near and dear to my heart :)c it's the first series i ran a zine for, and the longest fic i managed to finish is also daiya. i hope seidou wins the koshien in the hypothetical manga epilogue that may or may not ever exist

i noticed that you mentioned that you were watching the apocathary diaries in a previous ask, what are your thoughts on it?

it's great!! maomao is a very fun protagonist. it's refreshing to have a lead character who's guided first and foremost by her calm intellect and pragmatism, which really heightens the moments when she's petty, or kind, or vengeful.

i've only watched the anime so idk if they're gonna pick up this thread later but i'm most interested in how immediately obsessed she is with suirei after being outfoxed by her :)c so i hope suirei rolls up again someday. the knife's edge of intellect is curiosity, ya gotta see where it gets applied...!!

hello! I was wondering, what your pen settings for the circo pen are if you don't mind sharing??

80% opacity and usually 25px brush size, tho that changes a lot if it's for drawing or coloring o:

because it's 03/10 today, i posted my 最王最 book from 10/31...! happy knife romance day ✨🔪 -> read in full on pixiv