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gzpxllztt · 1 month

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ok ill post this here too i guess

#len'en #lenen #len'en project #tsubakura enraku #suzumi kuzu #suzutsuba #tw blood #cw blood #this was just a doodle but people on twitter really liked it somehow

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alangdorf · 2 months

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Welp, the ref lineup still isn’t done cause I haven’t drawn Shion yet, and the belated valentines I’ve been working on are gonna be like at least a month late cause I just planned three more, but what I did do these past couple weeks is start writing a fanfic and then immediately abandon it to go draw a bunch of only tangentially-related suzutsubas (except for that first pic; that’s a scene from it, albeit one I haven’t written yet), only half of which are fit for public posting (one of ‘em I could make a few edits and feel ok about posting sometime; it’s not that out there, it’s just, y’know. Hamal Cine Bad End Hyperbolic Torture Chamber. I’m usually very “whatever happens happens” about my art but if I don’t show some restraint I know I’ll end up stuck in there forever), but hey, since I’ve been teasing them for ages and finally have some finished stuff with them, take a couple Suzumii! Also gonna ramble abt headcanons under the cut (and it will be LONG)

To begin, a note abt my Len’en gender/pronoun headcanons: as a they/them preferrer myself, I’m thrilled that most people just stick with those for everyone, but I’ve developed some more detailed headcanons as I go through working on designs and I’ll generally be using those. Don’t worry though, most of them are still nonbinary and basically all of them are trans/gq. Relevant ones for this post are Tsubakura: they/them nonbinary (transmasc to some degree) and Suzumi: cis female, question mark?? (to be elaborated on); for clarity’s sake I usually use she/her for Arde and Hamal Cine individually and plural they for the system collectively (also I don’t usually use their nicknames, dunno why), but singular they for Benet (the wiki says Benny is probably short for Benetnasch so I’m assuming that’s their actual name) for reasons which will also be elaborated on (sort of).

Aaalso this clearly isn’t autobiographical or anything but I think I’m subconsciously putting a lot of myself into Suzumi because 1) we do look pretty similar (brown wavy bob + blue eyes) and 2) given their current status as both the main antagonist and the most well-known plural Len’en character (I get the impression that Hooaka also being plural isn’t super common knowledge; I mean it took me several read-throughs of their wiki page and their dialogue with BPoHC Secret Team to get what they were getting at lol) I am probably way too anxious about doing a bad stereotype. Just an observation and also probably partially why I’ve even ended up with so much headcanon for them in the first place

And before I get into the thick of it, notes on derivations from canon: I’m running with the assumption that Suzumi being a system is a relatively recent development tied to whatever incident it was that caused the falling-out, since Tsubakura is like the only person who seems at all familiar with Hamal (including Mitori/Chouki/Fumikado, but they’re more easily explained away as just having met with one of the other alters the few times they’ve interacted) even though she’s supposedly usually the one fronting. They don’t seem to know the mechanics of it though, judging by their confusion when Arde implied that she and Hamal are different people. So basically, I’ll be referring to pre-incident Suzumi as a different character from any of the other three. (Ngl I am very influenced by Dissociation Constant on that and just in general [when will my wife The One and Only Suzutsuba Fic return from the war…..]) I was also debating whether to have Suzumi have any history with the gang before starting to work at the lab/whether stuff would happen around high school or college age, cause they keep referring to everything happening “a long time ago” and I know I, a 24-year-old, feel like stuff that happened five years ago was like yesterday, but I do have the pandemic and not really doing much of anything for most of that time to reckon with so like, eh. College age makes more sense in my head and so does the dynamic of like, Suzumi was only introduced into the friend group (she was acquainted w Hoojiro and Yabu already though bc lab) because she was dating Tsubakura and since that ended, and badly (understatement of the century), they have extremely little reason to be civil with each other and also interacting at all is really awkward.

Ok now on with it! Either end of high school or beginning of college, Suzumi ends up interning at Tsubakura’s lab for college credit (Tsuba’s already practically a department head despite being like 17 or something because. Idk. Who even knows what’s up with them) and she’s like. Only wears t-shirts and jeans (bought a bunch of khakis for this job though), [reading] glasses from the men’s section, hates leaving her hair down (it’s lab safety anyways). Repressed queer in denial, you know the type. Starts interacting a lot with Mx. Tsubakura “wears short shorts that everybody thinks are actually a skirt and also uses ore and omae almost exclusively” Enraku who seems to have everything all figured out and is immediately starstruck (GIRL WHY?? they are such a mess). Lots of “do I want to date them or do I want to be them” confusion (this will be relevant later); eventually evolves into the “am I trans or just a lesbian” question (not that they would need to be attracted to women to be into Tsubakura but you get the picture), which never quite gets answered.

In any case, they do eventually start dating (Tsubakura thinks she’s cute and smart so they reciprocate), and they’re not like super great together cause Tsubakura is emotionally constipated at the best of times (Suzumi’s into that though) and neither of them are the most mentally/emotionally healthy people even back then and also Tsubakura is more or less Suzumi’s boss which is weird, but they’re kind of ok??? Tsubakura’s mom dies at some point, also they move in together (college housing is expensive), the rest of the crew at the very least tolerate Suzumi, etcetera.

And then…! [insert catastrophic event here]!! I don’t have a shot to call on this yet cause I have no idea what it could’ve been (and I’m sure it’ll get revealed at some point anyways); I’m just banking on it being something extremely not mundane and something where you could reasonably set the blame on either (or neither) party cause they sure both seem convinced the other is way worse, huh! In Tsubakura’s case at least, blaming Suzumi is partially a defense mechanism so their self-loathing doesn’t get the better of them over it (guess what the fic was supposed to be about, lol).

The worst part of all this business though is that they DON’T break up over it immediately and it just makes everything orders of magnitude worse for everyone involved. Tsubakura and Arde have hate sex MORE THAN ONCE………… they would both really rather forget about it. Hamal thinks it’s hilarious, ofc, but the less said about her, the better. And Benet… exists??? The only idea that I’m running off of for them atm is the observation that I think they’re the only character with flat black eyes other than Tsubakura/Tsurubami and the subsequent idle thought, “hey if someone malded so hard about a breakup that they ended up with an introject of their ex would that be messed up or what?” So make of that what you will. (Oh and it may have been obvious that this is what I was going for but Hamal is femme and Arde is butch and they’re constantly squabbling abt aesthetic presentation. Having Arde be straight-up male would’ve been too straightforward of an interpretation and I think it’s funnier this way)

The canonically mentioned murder attempts start taking place and I’m leaning towards Tsubakura eventually being convinced to move out even though it was originally their apartment, albeit mostly just because the wikipedia page for house sparrows mentions that they’re known to take over swallows’ nests, usually after they’ve been abandoned, but they will sometimes drive away or kill the current occupants, and that was a very fun fact to come across when specifically doing research for Len’en but idk how else to incorporate it lol. And so on and so forth up until the present time.

Uhhh is that all I have atm? I think so! Anyway, I think I finally shook out all my suzutsuba doodles (and rambling, though I do still have that fic to work on. idk whether I’ll be able to finish it though; I started strong with an extended metaphor in the middle but Iiiii’m not sure if I can successfully write my way up to it while making it make sense. Also I may draw pretty slow but I write even slower!! Eh I’m sure I’ll post some of it sometime) for the time being so I should theoretically be able to finish up my bigger projects now. Maybe I’ll have the valentines ready in time for white day? We’ll see!

#art #len’en #tsubakura enraku #suzumi kuzu #suzutsuba #btw sorry if that’s like not the right ship name lol I saw like one person use it but there’s not much in the tag but that might just be #bcuz ppl don’t seem to make much for it anyways #digital #I should probably ask for len’en discord recommendations sometime soon just given the Circumstances #namely if tumblr actually goes down the drain but also so my little sister doesn’t have to keep watching me have a mental breakdown live #(hi Val!!)#briefly looked into the wiki’s server but that has A THOUSAND MEMBERS?? scary…..#ough FINALLY this post took me like a full day to write #also of note: these are essentially silly little doodles and I got kind of lazy with them #and I still don’t know how to draw Tsubakura’s hat or hair…..#idk why I’ve been having so much trouble differentiating how I draw Suzumi and Tsubakura’s hair but I have and it’s weird

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zaranthropy · 1 month

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from dissociation constant, chapter 2

#my art #[traditional]#len'en project #suzumi kuzu #tsubakura enraku #suzutsuba #[len'en] thallium #what stage of hubris is it where you draw fanart of your own fanfic

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magicalmelancholy-blog1 · 7 months

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obligatory kurotsuba and suzutsuba for the bingo

No bingo, however I can say some shit about them.

TsubaKuro

Oh this ship. Kuroji is so fucking gay NiLU acknowledges it and calls them a tsundere. They need so many more fics.

I liked it when Yabusame got annoyed at them bickering. Their bickering is so good.

Anyway, time for a story. The reason I call it "TsubaKuro" instead of "KuroTsuba" is because that's what the writer of those first two TsubaKuro fics called it. Those fics are amazing, and for a time, that author was my only somewhat active companion in the tag. I looked up to her writing, and it was always a point of pride whenever I got kudos from her.

Before you (meaning anyone who read's this) feel sad about missing out or whatever, I think things are pretty fun now too! So please have fun without dwelling on what you weren't there for.

SuzuTsuba

Oh this one was definitely a toxic toxic mess. I like toxic messes but at the same time they scare me. Kinda wanna write something about them in a relationship someday but I also don't.

You (the asker) made a pretty amazing comic with them, so thanks!

#asks #tsubakuro #suzutsuba

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rabbit-of-mugenri · 1 year

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I wonder, what do you ship in Len'en?

Oh hey, you're the one who made the Fanfic Discord server right? This is Starrot Vanity! And I finally made a Tumblr for Len'en stuff 'cause the hyperfixation is back I caved in and wanted a larger space for my headcanons/AUs that Discord couldn't provide. You've asked me this question before, but for the audience at home (also so I can elaborate on some of them):

Ooookay, so, this is a bit of a complicated question to answer, since the ships I'm interested in on a relationship analysis level and the ships that I find think would make a good couple are two separate circles. Not to mention there's a third, equally separate circle consisting of ships that aren't actually ships in the romantic sense, more in a platonic/"they have a really good dynamic" sense.

So I'll split this into threes parts: Ships That are Good, Ships That are Interesting (but please for the love of God don't emulate the behaviours of these ships they're unhealthy as fuck), and Platonic Ships.

(Also content warning in the second section for abusive relationships and Suzumi being Suzumi)

Ships That are Good

AkaYabu

This is just a pure, simple "idiots in love" ship, with a dash of "no homo" since they're just friends. So what if they tuck a homie in bed, give their homie a little kiss sometimes, that's just what bros do!

...As you can see, the main conflict in this ship is that both of them think the other sees them as just a friend, alongside their own denial about being in love. Doubly so in Hooaka's case: Why should Yabusame be interested in them when they have Tsubakura? Hooaka can tell the two have a deep, complex relationship with each other, and they don't want to intrude. Which leads to...

YabuTsuba

Oh boy, these two. Yabusame has a deep, unwavering loyalty to Tsubakura that neither know exactly why. Tsubakura's especially confused by this, but at the same time they need that. After all the pain and suffering and death they've gone through, they need someone who's just there. never asking why like everyone else.

(As for how these two ships are resolved, usually one is more down played than the other. So for example, if the focus of something is on YabuTsuba, then Hooaka simply sees Yabusame as a friend. Occasionally though, I'm reminded that Yabusame has two hands.)

TsuruTen

This one's interesting, since it's essentially YabuTsuba in reverse. Or, to put it another way, Tsurubami is (ironically) a more human Yabusame. Whereas Yabusame's reasons for staying by Tsubakura is shrouded in enigma, Tsurubami's reasons for staying by Tenkai is much more simple: Tenkai represented a alliance with Azumaterasu, a barrier workshop rumoured to have been founded by a god.

But Tsurubami began to feel that Tenkai represented much more than that; Tenkai was a way to starve off the loneliness that came part and parcel with ruling Mugenri. Tenkai added colour to their world, and soon Tsurubami realized that they didn't want to use them as a pawn, they wanted a friend.

Ships That are Interesting (but please for the love of God don't emulate the behaviours of these ships they're unhealthy as fuck)

HibaTsugu

So like, there's no canon basis as to how badly Hibaru treated Tsugumi, but in my headcanon it's pretty badly my dude.

Both of them are old as balls, but while Hibaru has seen shit, Tsugumi was oddly spared from most of the horrors living for hundreds of years has. Perhaps out of luck, perhaps out of a preference for plants over people. They heard of Tsurubami and their dictatorship, though, and they weren't fond of that.

Neither was Hibaru. And so, the two of them paired together in an effort to take down the Senri Shrine. Along the way, the two became friends, possibly even more.

And then the final confrontation happened, wherein the pair learned the truth behind Mugenri, its purpose. Hibaru's response? Snap Tsugumi's wings and leave them behind.

Adding on to this, Hibaru's got like a thousand years of moral decay to work with, versus Tsugumi's somewhat sheltered life. How fine were things, truly?

Suzumi + Shitodo (SuzuAo, SuzuAka, SuzuKuro)

Sure, Tsubakura-sama was their main target, but Suzumi can work on multiple projects at once. And, well, hurting those close to them also counts towards Tsubakura-sama's suffering, doesn't it? Since Yabusame's too...strange in a way that Suzumi doesn't like, that leaves the Shitodo family.

Kuroji's their main target, being the one closest to Tsubakura-sama. And oh, how close they are to the real thing! How beautiful it is to see their normally aloof behaviour break down, crying and begging for their life! Alas, their only a pale imitation to the great Tsubakura, so they're soon disposed of.

Hooaka, now there's an interesting one! They play dumb, but Suzumi knows better. It's just so fun to push their buttons, see what causes them to drop the act and show a more serious side. It's like a gift only they get to see!

And Aoji, oh, Aoji. They're pretty, they're in tune with nature, they're small and quiet and just a little slow on the uptake. What isn't there to love? Just cute enough to kill.

SuzuTsuba

I...don't actually know what to add here that hasn't been said before. Suzumi is their own warning.

Platonic Ships

Hooaka and Kuroji

Man, these two. These two. They care for each other, they want to protect the other, everything the do for the other is out of love. It's just their definition of showing appreciation for the other is so covered in layers of irony and an inability to be honest that the other misunderstands and assumes that the other just hates them.

A tragedy, isn't it?

The rest of the Shitodo's

Honestly the dynamics of all the Shitodo's is just so good. They're all varying degrees of dysfunctional, but at the end of the day they all care about each other. It's just...a struggle to get any of them to admit it.

The Fujiwara's

Speaking of dysfunctional families that still love each other at the end of the day, how about Mugenri's own home-grown Fujiwara's? Possibly even more of a mess compared to the Shitodo's, since murder's on the table for dealing with family scuffles.

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lenenpolling · 7 months

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Len'en Ship Tournament!

Rules:

No Incest, even if they're not related by blood.

2. No Pedophilia (basically don't ship characters like Shion, Sese, and Terumi with adults/those with adult maturity).

3. Sukune will mostly be considered an adult for the purposes of this tournament, but I won't accept ships with characters who consider them a child in canon (I don't exactly have a list of who does and doesn't consider Sukune a child though so please forgive me for any oversight).

4. Ships along the lines of SuzuTsuba and KuroSara are allowed however. If I banned every toxic ship from the tournament there wouldn't be a tournament, because Len'en characters be toxic.

5. I will block you if you get nasty.

6. Poly ships are allowed, encouraged even.

Submit as many ships as you want (I wanna see rarepairs y'all)

EDIT: Btw this form will close on November 1st

#len'en #len'en project #tournament poll #len'en shipping poll

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yabutsuba · 1 month

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Is "#burning of the little birds' black wings" your SuzuTsuba tag lol

Yes! I named my reblog tags for the RMI playable team ships after their shared boss themes, so i decided to continue the trend with other pairings too, whenever it'd be possible. My Fumiiyo tag is #sacred fireflies、forgotten in dreams, for example

Thank you for the ask!

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okulki · 3 months

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suzutsuba is both toxic yuri and toxic yaoi at the same time

#okulki talking #len'en project

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maideninorange · 9 months

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I love your SuzuTsuba tag it's so funny

Me too! It's so so cursed. I love it. It's one of my favorite funny relationship tags for Len'en characters I've come up.

Which is utterly hilarious to me, because I don't even ship it in either a platonic or romantic sense. And yet there it is lol.

#I've been spotted! (inbox)#''tsubakura sama~'' (tsubakura & suzumi)#the tag in question #I headcanon them as incredibly toxic exes sure #but that's more a prelude to the utter hatred that these two have for each other #to be honest this tag is very interchangeable platonically and romantically #I am equally horrified at both variants #but damn is that a good funny tag lol

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gzpxllztt · 5 months

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loveit?

#len'en #lenen #len'en project #tsubakura enraku #suzumi kuzu #suzutsuba #the song this is based on is called Loveit and this drawing makes more sense if you watch the mv i think

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alangdorf · 2 months

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Sorry got distracted again 💥

#art #digital #meme #dare I main tag……#mmmm probably not they’re missing most of their identifying features anyways #I’m sure ppl with find it anyways #Len’en #tsubakura enraku #suzutsuba #(implied) (obviously)#suggestive #JUST COVERING MY BASES…..#listen idk what it is about suzutsuba that’s got me acting up (that’s a lie I know exactly what it is) but I swear I’m not usually like this #originally drew this shirtless but I was like mmm maybe not for my tumblr #also this was an interesting study but it did turn out pretty uncanny valley lol #if I slightly avert my eyes from it it reminds me of someone I know #suicide mention #(for the original meme quoted in alt text)#‘why did you cover up and replace the text of you’re the one who wrote it and Tsubakura wouldn’t have needed to edit it’ you ask #we’ll mainly to make it more recognizable and also cause I thought it’d be funnier #meme editing is an art form and I am an artist #*well THANKS AUTOCORRECT

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zaranthropy · 2 months

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good morning~

I have decided to update this place with my fics too :] ayyayay X]

#my writing #len'en project #tsubakura enraku #suzumi kuzu #suzutsuba #[len'en] thallium

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magicalmelancholy-blog1 · 4 months

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This is like the most petty gripe to have with AO3, but when the first SuzuTsuba fic popped up, I filed a support ticket right away to make sure they got on making that filterable, because I know the Len'en tag gets ignored otherwise, and SuzuTsuba is the kind of ship you'd want to make sure you had the option to not see. Once they did get on it, the volunteer told me to wait a month before making requests like this. Despite the fact that nothing in this fandom ever gets a filterable tag unless I put in a support ticket.

Though let's be real, they were probably just following an internal protocol when they said that or something.

#rant #anyway this would not be a reason to stop donating to the website #the reason to stop donating to the website is in that reblog about the zionism I made a little before this post #also when you switch to squidgeworld do note that they're running on less staff so the filterability is going to be slower to come out #but that's okay

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gzpxllztt · 5 months

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🦊 ❤️ 🐱

#len'en #lenen #len'en project #tsubakura enraku #suzumi kuzu #suzutsuba #*posts cringe and leaves*

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alangdorf · 2 months

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Finally, my (min qty: 1) requisite Funky Yabusame Drawing. Like with the Tsubakura pic, you don’t gotta read too hard into the symbolism; I was mostly just doing whatever looked cool lol

#art #digital #len’en #yabusame houlen #my original brief for this was ‘Yabu but parts of her are transparent and apply a negative filter to the bg also weird perspective’#and this gets an acceptable amount of the way there #just. don’t look too hard at the foreshortening; there’s a reason my drawings almost never have any z-axis ok #the eye is overlaid with Suzumi’s eye of Senri (with the red eyelid) at 33% LOL #I wasn’t sure what else to do with it but that fit and I figure you can never go wrong with a good Suzumi allusion #speaking of Suzumi I’ve been drawing out a character lineup as I go to work out designs but also mainly colors #not posting that yet cause I wanna add Arde and Shion before I consider it done for now #(proooobably not drawing Tsurubami cause like you can extrapolate what they look like and I don’t wanna disambiguate their design details)#(vs Suzumi’s disguise I mean)#(also not sure abt Benny; we’ll see)#but anyway immediately after I drew Hamal Cine I got overtaken with the need to draw at least one pre-breakup suzutsuba thing #and I’m not posting it cause while it’s tame it’s still what I would classify as suggestive and I’d die #but like. dm me if u want it #Ok byeeee #scopophobia #eyestrain #whoops forgot I was gonna tag those just in case #softened the colors significantly compared to that one ux ven pic with 100% saturation on everything though lol

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alangdorf · 18 days

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Sorryyyy for dropping off the face of the earth; got kinda shy after that last post but mostly I’ve just been writing though I cannot guarantee that any of that will ever be finished (also I’m very insecure about my writing AAAH). Figure I might as well post the valentines I had done (like two months late lol); interestingly this turned into more of a hand lettering exercise than I was expecting lol

#len’en #yabusame houlen #suzumi kuzu #tsubakura enraku #haiji senri #art #digital #there was one more but I’m not confident it’s like. funny? and I have stuff I’d eant to change abt it #and these four have pretty good comedic timing as a set so I’ll just leave well enough alone #also had plans for a Kuroji and uhhh Xeno a but those haven’t panned out #you’ll have to excuse me I’ve been going off the rails and also have not fixed the meds situation (I’m completely out atm)#started like four fics; yes they are all suzutsuba and there is. so much sex (not described/on screen but STILL)#didn’t manage to stay away from Hamal Cine Bad End either jfhshsjfb #too nervous abt talking yo pol rn to leave comments but zaranthropy if you’re reading this I owe you my life #also I think I said I was inspired on something by dissociation constant and then when chapter 2 came out I relized it was something I had #completely misinterpreted but I’m too embarrassed to actually go and check lol……#*talking to ppl sorry I had to turn off my autocorrect cause it was being compeltely unreasonable #OH YEAH also this Haiji design was a little bit inspired by a redesign of them from uhhhhhhh who was it. idk most of their blog is gone but #I’ll go check my likes #anyway I like how they tuned out also that joke came to me several days after valentine’s and gave me the idea for this whole thing #edit: can’t find the post anymore for some reason but I think yhe name was like chiosu or something?#did somebody go delete their blog while I wasn’t looking

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