I'm back with more Supermassive Retinol Overdose! brainrot (thanks @crimetimesteadicam)
Minor spoilers for Chapter 19
Introducing potentially the world's first acoustic guitar-shakuhachi-grand piano-violin quartet, featuring 4 "royalty free [instrument] music background noise study sleep ambience" tracks that I altered and chopped up like a mad doctor
CW: loud static :)
Credits/Process Notes:
Guitar
Shakuhachi
Piano
Violin
Static
Audio is from Jigen's Gravestone (listen, I know, but I swear to you I could not find a single clip of Tony Oliver saying "Jigen!" in a suitably dramatic tone of voice anywhere. I did get "My face! Where's my face!" from Cursed Case Scenario but it ended up being too goofy to use lmao)
Ocean audio is my own
So basically, after combing through YouTube and deciding which royalty free tracks I wanted, I downloaded them, converted them to E major and 100 BPM (both chosen arbitrarily), cut them up, and voila!
It was fun! I'm glad I did it! I hope to never do it again!
A new chapter of Supermassive Retinol Overdose! dropped, and I'm being so normal about it, I swear (I feel like caffeine has been injected straight into my veins)
Summary: Something’s messing with their heads. They're forgetting names, events, and remembering heists that never happened. After Jigen and Lupin both recall something horrendously embarrassing, the gang decides to get to the bottom of it.
Fujiko is missing. Goemon's losing it. Jigen's catching feelings. Lupin falls apart.
Author: @crimetimesteadicam
Note from submitter: Really cool illustrations by the author!
I’m still thinking of Lupin recovering physically mentally and emotionally in that one imposter au, does he even remember how to act around everyone anymore
You gotta peel back the layers of the Lupin, to figure out how much of him is years of acting, playing, joking around any defined persona and personality traits, to know what’s left in that kind of situation I think.
And I think, if you’re Lupin, there’s a fear, a realization that deep down, there’s little of substance. Oh, it’s freeing, something he strived for- to be unknowable, uncatchable, to move like water into crowds but make waves wherever he goes, to contort the very concept of himself.
But also, it’s gotta be scary to believe yourself an empty abyss, a husk of a person. Especially when he falls in love with ppl so easily (I don’t just mean romantically). His act that draws people in is what they’re attracted to, so what happens if he no longer has it? If he’s no longer Lupin the third, who is he?
Fanart for @crimetimesteadicam's character, Doctor Frenchbread Quebec Montreal! She's from their phenomenal Lupin the Third fic, Supermassive Retinol Overdose! What a ridiculous character I love her with all my heart
(also go read the fic it's on ao3 it's off the damn walls and brilliant and weird and super good)
So I was reading @crimetimesteadicam 's Supermassive Retinol Overdose, as you do, and upon reaching the Concert-Hole-Goemon-Winter-Soldier-Yata-do-you-want-a-snowcone scene in Chapter 3 I thought it would make an excellent movie scene. And then I thought "Wait, I can do (something like) that"
So I studied up on gauze pop, missed the point of gauze pop, wrote a gauze-y electro pop song, watched & sampled a bunch of clips of Lupin III, threw everything into a blender, aaaaand made. sort of a. soundtrack? for the chapter?
I call it "Vitamin A." Here it is.
[CW for canon-typical gunshots, unspecified loud-ish noises, lyrics about getting high, and extremely amateur mixing]
Anyway, @crimetimesteadicam , I hope this brings you half as much joy as your fic has brought me! The flier for Da Concert Hole makes me laugh every time I read it :)
The final chapter of Supermassive Retinol Overdose is up and the fic is now complete! it turned out to have exactly 300 images in it, which has to be some kind of weird ao3 feat. anyway, thanks for reading, and thank you all so much for the support.
it's the second to last chapter! the last chapter is already done, but i'll post it on the 27th so that the fic publish dates line up nicely lol. so now's a great time to catch up!
chapter 21 of supermassive retinol overdose is up!
chapter 20 of supermassive retinol overdose is up! read it here!
(or start from the beginning here!)
for those of you keeping track of chapter count, i increased it by one chapter so i don't have to do like, an obnoxious 10 panel POV switch comic. as a bonus, this means you're getting an earlier update haha
i always make a playlist for my fics and since we're wrapping up, here's the spotify playlist i made for Supermassive Retinol Overdose! it's themed around 'old man music.' even if it is not actually old man music, it is old man music in my heart. give it a listen if you feel like it
hi everyone! chapter one of my illustrated lupin iii fic is up!
this story is basically just, “the gang becomes increasingly unhinged because they keep going through a time loop: the comic; the fic”
much like the lupin iii franchise itself, there’s 5 plots going on that barely make sense, rampant homoeroticism, weird body horror moments where lupin replaced all his teeth with cyanide pills or some shit, and the best parts are the car chases. featuring the funniest possible chain of tags i could put on a lupin iii fic: