Look who's back on my drawing table~.⁠｡⁠*⁠♡

don't destroy his self-esteem 🐦😆

I think it would be really funny if every time Dick and Jason joined missions they kind of failed upwards, even if they goofed off, or dredged up extremely personal shit, it helped with their secret identities or got them to think outside the box. There's always a disagreement on methods, someone gets kicked through a door but it's the right door and they stumble on all the evidence and the bad guys. Something that got set on fire was actually a secret message that only appeared upon heating, or they found evidence of the crime while trying to delete embarrassing CCTV footage.

I’d like to add that it’s Inosuke’s birthday in canon. In response to the Inozen wedding art. Birthday and wedding on the same day. ;)

To be honest, I didn't know about it, until... last week? I think? But when I found out, it became the motivation I needed to FINALLY finish this one, because I absolutely wanted to post the doujinshi today, as a celebration of sorts. ᕙ(‘. • ᵕ •. `)ᕗ Just like you said, he's having his birthday and wedding on the same day... what a delightful combo ♥ ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧ Thanks for messaging me, anon! :D Hope you enjoyed the doujinshi! (˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶)

Drawing naribashira Zenitsu is so fun. ♥ Here's part 2 of my first Izen doujinshji. This is a Pillar AU. Everyone is slightly older and has scars and different clothes and hairstyles than usual. Except Nezuko-chan. Somehow, I couldn't find it in myself to change anything about her ♥ Kanao's hairstyle is only slightly different than when she's young. In part 1, she also had her eye ruined, but I thought that if they're all Hashira at this point, she still hasn't used her final tecnique, and both her eyes works fine.Once more, this is a western-style doujinshi, so please read it from left →to→ right. Thank you. Link to Pixiv in the comments ♥

È il mio 13 anniversario su Tumblr 🥳

13 years? You guys be kidding me... 🤯

Me: I know I can spare, like, one hour a week to draw, but why's it taking this long? It's just a humorous two page doujinshi!

Every single vignette: *unnecessary details galore*

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[on patrol]

Red Robin: [sitting on a rooftop, drinking hot cocoa]

Red Hood: [lands next to him and sits down, pulling out a sandwich]

Red Robin: [holds out a thermos] want some cocoa?

Red Hood: [takes the thermos] yeah, thanks. [offers his sandwich] Want a bite? I baked the bread

Red Robin: hell yes

Red Hood: quiet night tonight

Red Robin: [humms in agreement]

Red Robin and Red Hood: [watches the skyline in silence]

[Nightwing, covered in a slimy substance, flies past them through the air as though he’s been catapulted from a great distance]

Red Hood:

Red Robin:

Red Hood: do you think he saw us?

Red Robin: I don’t think so

Red Hood:

Red Robin:

Red Hood: we can’t all be fighting Ivy, there wouldn’t be anyone left to fight the other criminals

Red Robin: that’s a sound argument. Say while we were helping him someone robbed the mayor, then where would we be?

Red Hood: he definitely came from over by the library, that’s way outside both our routes

Red Robin: so we agree that we wouldn’t be doing our job if we left our post to help with whatever that goop was

Red Hood: definitely

Red Robin: the mayor will thank us

Red Hood:

Red Robin: [sips his cocoa]

Red Hood: cards on the table- I already robbed the mayor earlier tonight

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

I went back and drew part of the confrontation with Daki! (•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑ (so, the battle that comes before both the one with Gyutaro AND the one with Douma). I charged in without having a clear idea of how Daki looks like, only that she looks hyper mechanical, unlike Ino, Gyu and Douma who have a lot of/some human characteristic. Her hair was an impulse addition -it's like thick, sturdy ropes she can move at will. All in all, her hair seems to shift her whole look from a geisha/oiran to a sort of mechanical Medusa, which I like (LOTS) but might not keep. Like in the manga/anime, she's obsessed with beauty, but for this version of her, true beauty means looking like a machine as much as possible. In this AU, she finds Ino (who is, technically, older than her) *extremely* beautiful (again, like the anime, but amped up to 11) not because of his face, but because he has a lot of exposed mechanical parts himself, like his arms and to an extent his legs as well. But then she discovers---something I'd like to draw, but it's an extremely complicated scene, very spoilery and not... exactly... pretty to see, I guess. ├┬┴┬┴| •́ ﹏ •̀) Anyway, DAKI AS A SHIPPER HAD TO BE DRAWN. Jealous Zenitsu and Blushing!Mess!! Inosuke were also a delight to draw XD Speaking of Zenitsu, I've redesigned his attire, because the bubble sleeves from the Resistance uniform HAD TO GO. Even though this arc deals with Daki and Gyu, this is basically the Infinity Castle arc of my AU, where everything comes to a head. This is basically Zenitsu's BAMF!arc, and the confession I posted on Valentine's Day happens just about here, either right before or right after Ino deals with Daki.

TOTALLY forgot it was Valentine's Day, so I didn't have a chance to draw anything. Luckily, I remembered this quick sketch of the first time Repliroid! Inosuke and his handler! Zenitsu kiss... this happens during the last arc, when Inosuke is about to fight Daki/Gyutaro/Douma, and Zenitsu desperately confesses to him ♥

THE SHIP WARS ROUND FOUR

FIRST: Sorry for hijacking the Inozen tag with AU stuff. SECOND: I *HOPE* the Japanese text makes sense.

Please translating app, do NOT fail me now. 🍀🤞🏻🫣

I expanded the children scene a bit. (mind you, while in a online Meeting with all my collegues and was supposed to work)

Explanation/Spoilers below:

✧・ﾟ: *✧・ﾟ:* SPOILERS*:・ﾟ✧*:・ﾟ✧

Inosuke was, originally, a human child. He's always smiling and cheerful, even in the face of a terrible destiny.... he's ill and dying. He's slowly being turned into a 'roid to prolong his life, piece by painful piece, but there's no hope for a cure.

"Monitsu" only wants to keep that precious smile safe forever, but he's terrified. What if they don't make it in time, and Inosuke dies? What if they do make him a complete mechanical body, but once he's turned into a droid Inosuke loses himself and becomes someone completely different?!?!?!?! What if he can't feel things with his skin? What if he can't feel things with his heart and soul? What if he won't like Monitsu anymore, or smile at him ever again? So, Monitsu swears that once he grows up he'll find a way to build Inosuke a body that's so advanced, so incredibly human, that Inosuke will manage to remain the same, and still love Monitsu as he does now, so innocently and deeply.