✨💛True Colors: Yellow💛✨

(pages: 60-69)

Finally a happy chapter ✨

Remember that there a lot of more pages in my other social media. All links in the bio 🐝

Hey! The Cat Roommate comic is finally finished and it's ready to go with a total of 49 pages!! 🎉🎉 I'll release it on my ko-fi Aug 5th ♡

Synopsis -

In CatRoommate, Sanji shares an apartment with a mischievous green cat, Zoro, who secretly transforms into a man and... Sanji's boyfriend! With that, some *little* misunderstandings unfold as Usopp discovers and understands Zoro's true identity.

This fancomic weaves comedy, romance and some spicy scenes through 49 fully colored pages while supporting my journey to move out of an abusive home. Your help will be greatly appreciated and you'll be able to have a little fun with the mosscat! 🐱

Anyway, see you there 💕

I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did working on it!

HEY, IT'S A FREAKING ENORMOUS SMILE FOR ME FANCOMIC!! there is a very real chance that if you're new from twitter following me here, you followed me for this!! I don't blame you!! I'm real dang proud of this and it was a true labor of love!!! I have more like this I would like to draw soon, too...

(full transcript slash detailed image descriptions under the cut!)

PAGE 1 The comic title, COOKING, is written at the top of the page in big handwritten bubble-letters colored in pale peach.

Panel one shows Kamal, wearing a brown-and-red striped turtleneck sweater, standing next to Habit, wearing a fluffy teal-blue sweater over a pink button-up and blue jeans. Kamal is lightly grimacing, looking mildly embarrassed and rubbing his right arm with his left hand, while Habit stands with his hands on his hips and a big grin. Kamal: So, um, something that we only realized after we started living together... ...turns out neither of us can cook. Like. At all. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): I can make "spaghetti" (smiley face) Kamal: Yeah that barely counts. (in smaller text) I guess I can't talk, though... I was living off Chinese takeout and hot dogs...

Panel two shows Habit on the left, smiling warmly and holding up Putunia with both hands, who is grinning and holding both fists in the air triumphantly. Kamal is on the bottom right of the panel, shrugging. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): But now we have "Putunia"!! Putunia (shouting): THAT'S ME!!! Kamal: So, uh, we had to figure out the whole "cooking" thing. 'Cause we're the adults here or whatever...?

The third panel is marked with a big handwritten caption of "SO THEY LEARNED TO COOK". Below that, Kamal, left, and Habit, right, are standing wearing frilly aprons - Kamal's yellow with pink-and-red trim and a heart on the chest; Habit's light green with dark green trim and flowers on the chest. Habit is also still holding Putunia in one arm, while the other hand gives a thumbs up. Putunia is smiling with her limbs dangling limply like a kitten. Kamal (in small font): How did you just... have these ready...?

PAGE 2 In the large top panel, Kamal, still wearing the apron, is smiling, wearing red oven mitts with yellow flowers, and holding a blue plate with freshly-cooked samosas that are emitting a cloud of steam. Kamal: I, um, actually ended up calling my mom for advice, and she's been teaching me all her old recipes? I didn't really appreciate her cooking growing up - you know, you're a dumb kid and you just want pizza 'cause all your friends are getting pizza... But now... I dunno, it makes me feel closer to her. Feels like I'm carryin' on something important. And there's something real nice about getting to share a family recipe with people I lo- CARE ABOUT.

The second panel shows Habit leaning in from the right, smiling slightly mischievously and clutching his hands near his face. Putunia is also bursting in from the bottom right, smiling and throwing her fists in the air. Kamal is visibly flustered, sweating and yelling, jostling the plate of samosas. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): I still need to meet your mom!! Kamal (yelling): I- I told you, I'm not ready for that yet!! (in smaller text) Ugh, she keeps bugging me about coming over to meet you two... Putunia (yelling): I WANNA MEET KAMAL-MOM!! KA-MOM!!!!!

PAGE 3 The large top panel shows Habit in his apron, smiling, holding up a wooden spoon in his left hand and a wooden fork in his left. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): I've been learning to do "new things" with my favorite foods!!! (smiley face) "Homemade sauce"!! "Black bean burger"!! "Crabo"- "Crabounara"- "Cbabao"- "Ca"- Fancy spaghetti.

The second panel shows him in the same pose and expression, but now pointing upwards with his left hand. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): Also!!! I

The next panel abruptly cuts to a nervous-looking shadow-Habit, with an equally-nervous looking Kamal (no longer wearing the apron) peeking in from the right side of hte frame. Habit: um

PAGE 4 The large top panel shows Habit smiling nervously, looking more subdued than normal, lightly scratching his chin with his right pointer finger. Kamal, smiling proudly, is hugging onto his left arm. Habit (with a normal speech pattern): I... so, for a long time, I didn't even want to look at food from... where I grew up. Too many bad associations for me, yes? But, now that I'm in a better place, I'm trying to reconnect in ways that feel safe for me. Food has been a nice way to do that. Lets me build new memories to replace bad ones. Kamal: Proud of ya, big guy

The next panel shows Habit back to his usual bubbly self, smiling, wearing the flower-patterned oven-mitts and holding up a plate with a Medovik cake (a type of Russian honey cake) topped with berries. IN the background, Kamal and Putunia both stare at the cake, Kamal visibly drooling, Putunia with stars in her eyes. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): The baking is "ESPECIALLY GOOD"!!! Today I made "Медови́к" ("Medovik" in Russian script)!!! Kamal (in small text): it looks so good... Putunia (in small text): CAKE!!!!!!

The final panel cuts to Kamal drawn from the chest-up, looking slightly sheepish and scratching his chin. Kamal: Um, so that's the other thing we've discovered through all this. It turns out, uh...

PAGE 5 The top panel shows Kamal (left), Putunia (center), and Habit (right) all sitting at a table with a yellow-and-red checkered tablecloth, eating the Medovik cake. Kamal, with a sheepish expression, is leaning forward with his elbows on the table, right arm resting down and left raising a fork to his mouth, with a plate with a slice of cake to his right. Putunia is pumping her right fist and raising the left, holding a fork with some cake on it, into the air triumphantly, shouting with delight. Habit is resting his head in his hands with both elbows on the table, looking delighted, a slice of cake and a fork to his left. The cake itself, with a cake-serving knife to the left side, is in the center of the table. Kamal: ...we... all have a giant sweet tooth... (in smaller text) Oh my god I feel like such a hypocrite... Putunia (in small text): YUMMY!!!!!! Habit (in small text; misspelled Habitspeak): Isn't it?? Isn't it??

The next two panels cut in close on Kamal and Habit, from roughly the chest-up, as they both eat. Kamal is chewing with a guilty expression, holding his fork near his chest, while Kamal is smiling and lifting a bite of cake to his mouth with a fork held delicately in his right hand. Kamal: How did this happen?? We are literally both dentists?? Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): "You" are. "I" don't have to worry about that anymore

The next panel shows Kamal grimacing, gesturing with his fork, while Habit chews with a smug grin. Kamal: Yeah, not how that works. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): Plus I brush my teeth 4 to 60 times per day so they are "perfect" Kamal: Also not how that works. (in smaller text) Please talk to your therapist about that I worry about you

The next panel cuts to Putunia, on the right, shoving her empty plate towards Kamal with a determined expression. Kamal stares back with one eyebrow raised. Putunia (shouting): I WANT MORE CAKE!!! Kamal: Uh huh. And what do we say about that? Putunia (shouting): MORE CAKE PLEASE??

The final panel shows Kamal, on the left, slicing into the cake, while Putunia to the right watches with a smile and her plate held up. Habit comes up behind her, also holding out his empty plate and watching with a smile. Habit (in misspelled Habitspeak): Kamal me too Kamal (smiley face) Kamal: Well, if you're both having seconds...

PAGE 6 The final page has a full-page panel illustration. Kamal, grimacing with his hands on his hips, is looking down at a messy sink full of dirty cooking implements. Behind him, Habit, scratching his chin, looks away sheepishly while Putunia to his right cheers, hands in the air. Kamal: Okay, now which of us is gonna be the adult who does the dishes Habit: not it Putunia (shouting): NOT IT!!! Kamal: oh my god

mes's webcomic recommendations

do YOU like webcomics or want to read some ? here are some i think are good NO im not gonna put my own here even if i think its good. -_-

starting with . i Think these ones are popular and well known..?

Paranatural - A story about paranormal ghosts and stuff. It's a real fun time, and the story is really good. The author's art progression is really impressive, truly skilled with paneling and such. It does eventually shift into a webnovel format with drawings as the author couldn't keep up with doing pages like before, and the quality of goodness of the story stays strong 👍👍

Tiger, Tiger - Story about the importance of sea sponges. Also a fun time, sea faring adventure about, again, sea sponges and how important they are nothing else OK? promise. (liar) PHENOMENAL artwork, very pretty to look at.... 👍👍

The Property of Hate - I need to reread it because i forgetted a lot but its such a cool looking comic and sooo interesting OK?! i swear. It's about a kid being a hero.

Vainglorious - a fun comic about a dragon facing Hubris Consequences. The main trio is real fun, the world is cool, all in all fun comic okie !!

Sakana - Slice-of-life comic about some folks working at a fish stall in a fish market. Real fun. Been on hiatus for four years, but is gonna make a comeback soon (author is working on building up buffer pages And then... ! ) But yeah! real fun.

Witchy - ... one i have to reread, it's been on hiatus since forever as the author was working on another comic (thatllbe out... in a while?), though i assume when that's done they'll come back to this...? Anyhow, I remember it being a very gripping story, and beautifully drawn... Also it's about witches. if. you . couldnt tell by the.. title...

NOW, onto ones that ... i dont Think are super well known ... ?

EcopportunityX - An interactive stick figure limited color palette comic about a facility where bad shit has happened ! uhoh! What the hell happened here! Follow the protagonist on their journey of learning what happened, and escaping the facility. Also, space pinball and ball pit beast is there. 👍👍👍

Eye in the Sky - And it only feels right to bring it up as well, but this is a fancomic of ecopportunityX ! ... Contains eox spoilers, so perhaps read the original first! This one features original characters and takes place a bit before eox, it's nice ok i like it :]

Gold Scissors - One of my all time favourites TBH. The art is nice, I love the story, the world is so cool i love it a lot... do yourself a favor and read it...

Midnight Connection - Finished! by the author of Gold Scissors, it's a short comic that takes place in the same universe, you can get through it in one sitting!! sniffles.

Brainchild - Comic about girl seeing weeeeeird stuff. Ghosts?! who knows. Tis a cool one OK read it...

Fairmeadow - "i hate being on the hippee comune they are always telling me Peace and Love on planet earth , orc lady, Peace and Love, and they do not leave me alone" - true real 100% words said. you can read it and youll see. Very pretty looking, ...

Holly & Macy and Everyone Else - comic about two teens learning about HOMOSEXUALITY and being a witch and its a very sweet .. i like it ok? it's also on tumblr @/ hollymacycomic

Falling to Far - i thiiink? its kinda just getting started, its about two star kids that just arrived to the planet of Far, and they are just checking how things are here rn. okie! its nice ITS ON TUMBLR! my fellow tumblr-hosted webcomicers lets gooooo

Daisy in DREAMLAND - ........ not a .. webcomic. Tis more a webnovel, i believe. It has pictures. Very cool looking guys, love the style, someone drench this cat in a bucket of water.

Needleminder - because fuck it we put webnovels here too I GUESS. it has pictures sometimes. haven't caught up with it recently tho BUT it's Very interesting and gets weird with it in cool ways...

Star Impact - comic about boxing! fighting! and people have gloves that give them a gimmick power tis pretty fuckin cool!

Kitty Corner - Comic about someone who sees ghosts. this ones kiiinda just getting started i think..? put its been promising so far, i like it ANOTHER TUMBLRHOSTED WEBCOMIC LETS GO BABY!

PISS HOLE - The greatest comic ever drawn with a broken trackpad.

Going Home - a comicabout a kid who has t *red dot appears on forehead* *sweats**starts to go get the link to the comic* *snipers pull the t

The ultimate thing that plagued fandom is how Sonic's personality outside attitude wasn't cared for since day 1. The heavy US marketing 1991-4 is the only thing the fandom and general public truly cared

Even after 1995 marketing stopped the rivalry, game forums and reviewers still tacked the "Sega does what Nintendon't" slogan till 2008 at least!

It doesn't help how it took till 1995 for manual lore to properly be translated. Even then, no one read it, so they just assumed the only serious Sonic is Satam. It didn't help how the 1995-97 period was devoid of legit games for Saturn, a game collection being done because even in Japan general audiences barely remembered him

So with Saturn's failure everyone was salty to find Sonic changed for Adventure, and disrupted US/UK alt media for a true canon. While Adventure had its newfound fans, older ones were bitter because it did not fit their misinterpretation. Then SA2 was the last 1st party game Sonic had, and both older fans and reviewers truly soured view of him

The advent of 2000s fancomics and fan parodies were rife with extreme bias. Sonic himself was used as a speaking piece to diss later characters, to perpetuate the outdated Nintendo rivalry, to in short, be a dick and shape opinion, as well as encourage a heavy anti Sega mentality, while also treating fans like they know better. Sonic Retro and Cult were infamous for the toxicity

It's also why I can't fault 06 soley for rep at the time, reviewers and fans were shitting on anything not Genesis. Spinoff 2D titles were just ignored, Shadow 05 failed for rep despite it literally answering the fandom's yearning for guns, and everyone acted like Sonic wasn't himself anymore, despite Sonic Team's continuity despite being light was stable

The toxicity is so bad Sega supported it for the Sonic 4 campaign, even the incorrect mistranslation of "Needlemouse". I'm honestly glad the game failed for rep, it'd be disastrous if fans got verified thinking they can shape everything

I'm not surprised there's a huge pushback of revisting what were once hated games, though it's clear the fandom just took on traits of the previous gen for later games. It's the same shit.

Similarly, it's very clear the fandom doesn't want to evolve gameplay or lore. The amount of finished samey fangames since early 2000s is depressing. More unique ones rarely get out. It's why SAGE started none Sonic entries

Nostalgia of the past gen games also sadly ignores historical and economical context, lending to rose tinting. For every SMB3 on the NES, there were 30 trash NES games no one cared. YouTubers harmed game talk for a decade with the shortsighted ness and bias

Similarly people think all PSX games look like either MegaMan Legends or Crash, with 0 inbetween. It's sad

I feel Sonic discourse represents a core problem with the gaming fandoms: it doesn't matter how talented you are, you all are dissing and ignoring history and context for a cheap nostalgic quip. No wonder 2010s gaming got super nostalgia catering, same with Indie gaming

I'm sorry for potentially Doomposting, but at this point I can't think of any solutions to fix fandom

It's almost hard to believe given the anti-Pontaff sentiment these days, but once upon a time Colors was considered the saving grace of the series because it offered a "return to form" of the Classic formula of Sonic and Tails embarking on an adventure to stop Eggman. You remember? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

I feel like the "Sonic was never good" crowd have some kind of stick up their ass about the 3D games, but they don't want to come out and say as much for whatever reason. They subscribe to the idea that the Genesis games were the only good games, but the fact that they don't like Mania or Superstars either kinda tells me it's not the formula they like, but rather, the time period in which the Genesis games were made. A game that copies and polishes 3/4th of its content from the Classics somehow isn't good enough. It lacks the je ne sais quois of the original, they say, forgetting that the only difference is they aren't kids anymore.

Then ofc you get the real galaxy brains who contend that "Sonic was never good" because Sonic games... are linear... and require skill to build speed, as opposed to simply granting you speed right off the bat... And at some point, listening to them just gives you the creeping suspicion like they've never played a Viddy Game in their life. Somehow non-fans are after all these years still under the impression that Sonic games involve no skill, like it's just "boost to win" until you reach the end, and then they get mad when the game doesn't reward them for playing shittily lol.

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It's also why I can't fault 06 soley for rep at the time, reviewers and fans were shitting on anything not Genesis. Spinoff 2D titles were just ignored, Shadow 05 failed for rep despite it literally answering the fandom's yearning for guns, and everyone acted like Sonic wasn't himself anymore, despite Sonic Team's continuity despite being light was stable Oof, I know. Sega really dug themselves a deep hole with the release of '06 and GBA!Sonic 1. Decades on, we still can't escape people saying "Sonic's had a rough transition to 3D," despite the transition occurring 25 years ago... A quarter-freakin'-century.

Also, I remember hearing they gave Shadow a gun because Sega was receiving letters from kids asking to give Sonic a gun. It's worth noting that CoD was really big at the time. ShTH!Sonic is a tad hyperactive, granted, but he's not terribly so to the point of flanderization. Fandoms be exaggerating. --- The advent of 2000s fancomics and fan parodies were rife with extreme bias. Sonic himself was used as a speaking piece to diss later characters, to perpetuate the outdated Nintendo rivalry, to in short, be a dick and shape opinion, as well as encourage a heavy anti Sega mentality, while also treating fans like they know better. Sonic Retro and Cult were infamous for the toxicity

You'd think porting SA2 over to the GameCube and the release of Advance 1 on the GBA would have put the kibosh on that, but old habits die hard, I suppose.

Personally, I don't remember seeing a whole lot of cynical, hardbitten Sonic in fan spaces outside of parody comics like inSONICnia, though it's possible that I just wasn't paying enough attention. What I do remember was seeing a lot of "Sonic's shitty friends." Namely, how there were too many of them, and how often non-fans called for them to die - sometimes going so far as to include Knuckles, Amy, and Tails! Like some people legitimately thought Sonic should have featured just Sonic and Eggman and no one else despite that never being the case since freakin' 1991.

The aughts were weird.

( @lunafandoms )

I was mostly thinking of this particular section of it (not really victim’s characterization, but I do like it a lot)

I just really liked how it shows that they are *animations* and knew you liked that kindof stuff too, I especially like the last part with second wants to *clean up* their animation. Idk I don’t have a lot of coherent thoughts on it but it makes me rotate it in my brain :D

Oh yes I love that stuff. I wish more fanfics would do it, to be honest.

It's extremely difficult to not personify the stickfigures as humanlike beings, since...well stickfigures are supposed to be extremely simple representations of humans. Fanart and fancomics don't have as hard a time with it, since the medium is still primarily visual, but it's much harder to escape that tendency in the written medium of fanfic.

Many of the AvA fics out there often write the sticks as if they're basically just brightly-colored superpowered humans. I don't think this is a bad thing; I've read some pretty wonderful stories like that, by some fantastic writers. But I crave a little more emphasis on the aspects of existence as a stickfigure that wouldn't have a human equivalent. I'd like to see their digital and/or animated natures explored, or at the very least shown off.

And yeah I distinctly remember reading that part about Orange wanting to clean up Victim's animation, I loved that. As well as the comment about every frame being a keyframe, because that may or may not be true of the actual AvA1 animation XD

(hey @roseverdict we're complimenting your fic-)

What inspires your art? Like, how did you come up with your art style, how happy you are with it and if there are any other artists that inspire you?

Asking a few people as a way to understand and grow as an artist at a crossroads. Have a good day.

This is a fun ask! Not sure how helpful my answers will be to you, but here they are.

I've honestly put little to no thought into "coming up with" an art style. I'd say that what comes out of my brain and hands is maybe only 1/3 calculated stylistic decisions, with the rest being "what is most fun for me" and "what is easiest for me". I draw a lot of faces because I enjoy caricature; I do most of it in scribbly mechanical pencil on scrap paper because that's what I usually have on hand.

My one big starting point is that when I started drawing at age ~12, I was copying characters out of The Adventures of Tintin. I learned just enough from Hergé to get simplified human figures I didn't hate and then went iteratively on from there. Mostly I just drew short humorous fancomics for myself and never colored them.

In high school I considered going into an art career, so I took art classes. At the time I thought they were fun but mostly irrelevant to the stylized character art I drew in my class notes every day... but looking back my comic art drastically improved 2015-17, so maybe I was wrong. I eventually decided I'd go into tech instead and leave dressing as a hobby, which I think was the right choice for me.

The closest I've ever had to a Style was in the music fanart and OC comics I did in college. The imagery mostly came out of my own brain, and I worked out what tools were easiest and most enjoyable: multicolor sharpie pens and India ink with watercolor washes; binary or hard edged brushes on digital work that I could fill in quickly with the bucket tool. I accepted that I wasn't a great draftsman and got scribblier and more manic.

Since then I've gotten back to the world of fancomics where I try to pastiche the original inking style—I've done Jhonen Vasquez, Steve Purcell, John Romita, Jack Cole, Scott Wegener, and C. C. Beck (though that one was way too ambitious and I may never finish). But I'm not doing this because I want to absorb them into my default style, though I certainly learn things from it. I do it for the project itself, because I feel like there's a lot of characterization and world-rules built into the way different art styles depict their worlds. I have great interest in stories which use restricted or contrasting stylization on purpose to convey meaning.

It's also just fun, which is my first priority. But I do think my technical skills have been regressing a bit from lack of use + perhaps from using others' work as a crutch too often. It's a little embarrassing, but it is what it is. I'm sure the trend will reverse if/when I put more time into full pieces and daily practice again.

Oh, and I did make a list of favorite artists back in 2018 which holds up. If I had to extract some advice from this meandering post, it would be to figure out what methods and tools make your artistic workflow easier and consider how you want to make those part of your "style". That's extra true if this is something you're going to be doing for long periods of time like a job.

TW: GORE/BLOOD

TRUE COLORS AM I RIGHT????? I didn't put the spoiler warning bc since we're already in the season 3. BUT ANYWAY! I was there sad bc of Marcy and thought "What If i did this scene with Hunter???" So I did it!

It was supposed to have more characters, like Lilith, Willow and Gus, but I ended up not drawing them (in fact Lilith was suppose to be Sasha and she would stay to hold Belos)

Sooo that's it! Hope y'all liked it ^^

14 Anti LO Asks

1. To the one anon: good question - how is it that the mortals dont know who Persephone is / assume she is a minor goddess and therefore its okay to mess with her but the gods (or Olympians / underworld denizens) know exactly everything about her (despite her being there only every so often and only being 20ish) - enough to say shes "wearing her signature white color" during a murder trial.

Also the reason why Persephone is wearing white is because

A). RS wanted persephone to always be "dressed as a bride" (and have Hades dressed as a groom respectively) to show that their matching / is supposed to be a visual cue that their eventually gonna be together.

B). I believe this is RS way of saying that Persephone (despite murdering some mortals) is innocent because in purity culture White = innocence, virginity, youth etc. (Even though RS explicity ssid she wanted to go against purity culture morals shes very much leaning into them). 

2. why are Psyche’s eyes yellow even in her human form? Is she sick??

3. honestly? LO is just gossisp girl at this point, espect even GG (at least in the first season) bothered to saturze the rich and was calling out how wealth and power makes them corrupt assholes. meanwhile LO is just GG season 2 and on of being like no no, the poor people are the evil people and the rich people are the oppressed ones! all while also fawning over their  wealth and status and being way into grown men wanting to bang barely legal teens and claiming to be "feminist" somehow.

4. Tumblr is well-known for broken tag system. Check the post' tags before complaining that it's op's fault. How about you guys not tag greek mythology when posting about LO? LO is not one-shot or short fancomic. It's also definitely not considered actual greek mythology. LO is years long webcomic with huge fans. LO has its own tag. Tell your fellow fans to stop using the greek mythology tag.

5. I would argue nyx is the only woman with a unique in design in LO but thats only because she looks like a deformed chicken woman. why was my night mom disrespected this much 😭

6. So now that LO is back from break and I can finally read chapter 170 - Why oh Why do ALL the female characters Have to be defined by their male love interests??? (Or really just love interests in general).

I understand LO qualifies as the "romance" genre and there are certain stipulations or I guess themes or what have you that make it romance but for f*cks sake.

Psyche being worried about Eros loving the "fake" her I kinda get, but really? Thats your most pressing concern?? Hera is defined by her garbage marriage to Zeus - King of the gods (of which is why she is Queen of the gods). Hestia + Athena are now defined solely by their relationship to each other (not the TGOEM or their respective traits of being a goddess of the hearth + goddess of war, strategy etc etc).

Aphrodite is defined by giving Persephone "relationship" advice (e.g: telling her to curb stomp Minthe because "nymphs dont take things from gods" - doubly implying that people are things to own) And by her jealousy of Persephone in the first place because Hades made a comment about how he thought Persephone was prettier than her. And also because of her "house of debauchery" (Artemis'  words) - and relationship with Ares.

Persephone is defined both by Apollo raping her and by her fated future status as Queen of the underworld (so her relationship with Hades). Hell, even the minor characters such as nymphs are defined by this relationship status / standard. Minthe is defined by her mean spirited personality yes, but Also because of her abusive relationship with Hades prior to the introduction of Persephone. Psyche is defined by her relationship woes with Eros. Daphne is defined by her relationship with Thanatos (and because shes a flower nymph) but also mostly because she looks like Persephone.

Rhea is defined by her marriage / relationship to Kronos (lets ignore the whole "fertility goddess power" plot for a second). Even Aetna is defined by Haphestus creating her! Is there not a single character (especially female) is isnt defined by their romantic love interest???Sorry. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but thats definitely how ot comes off as of late, in regard to the latest chapters.

Okay, same anon as earlier - I take it back somewhat - we have Artemis and Hecate that are not defined by their romantic relationships - but rather their lack of one.

However the way they are shown - it still comes off as a standard - "Artemis is stingy / a stick in the mud" because shes not romantically involved and is "barbaric" (according to Hera). And Hecate is still somewhat defined by her being Hades' employee (and cheerleader for him and Persephone to be together).

So technically yes, we have at least 2 characters that are not defined by their romantic interests / relationships, but they are still held to the standard of their "un-ladylike / undesirable" because their not romantically involved.

(I guess I should count Demeter, but only because shes more defined by just being "Persephone's overbearing mom" )

7. i think whats also kinda weird about this trial is like?? persephone is obvs framed as not liking the attention (bc duh) but she didnt like the previous press either, she wanted to be private, but wouldnt being with hades force her to be in the spotlight that makes her uncomfortable? also the citizens of the underworld already dislike hades, why would they want a uncontrollable felon as their queen, even if she found innocent? idk the whole thing just makes the endgame less plausible, tbh.

8. love that rachel was able to find a random deity name to name her random nymph the greek word for "beans" meanwhile apparently cant google actual greek names for even one off characters? like andrew, ellen, george, alexis, damian, luke, phoebe, sophia, and so any other english names are also greek, but she cant even bother with that? what exactly is her "research" if she cant even bother to spend 30 seconds googling greek names? at this point LO seems determined to be as un-Greek as possible.

9. wait so everyone in LO went from having no idea who persephone was, to her only showing up on ONE magazine cover, to now being the most well known person with a signature color? all in the span of two weeks with no genuine public outings? how does that make sense? also white isnt even her signature color if 90%+ the female cast and even a lot of the men ((including ZEUS) all wear it too.

10. the fact the courthouse WASNT the areopagus, aka the place in greece where they say the first ever trial ever happened and where the court system was invented, is just another point of rachel talking out her ass about being "respectful" or "researched" on greece and their mythology. its literally one of the most famous mythology spots ever with some fantastic stories to it and she's just like "nah! boring rectangle will do!" like why even both with mythology then if its this devoid of it?

11. Anons are saying Hades in the FS chapter is leaning down and talking to Persy like a child. Say it aint true.

(I wanna see. I thought RS was finally giving Persy adult proportions). 😨

12. So wait, hold up. I kinda get where RS is coming from with the law school in the underworld (because Hades is supposed to be a kinda Judge, jury, executioner situation in the afterlife when it comes to mortals and their "punishments" and whatnot). However, is RS stating that the ONLY law school / courthouse exists in the underworld? If so, why? Why wouldn't Athena be there then. She's a goddess of strategy and justice (among other things).

Also is RS really implying that Hades owns not only the banks and underworld but the law too? She really wants Hades to be a Gary Sue along side her Mary Sue - Hades controls everything that matters and since its his realm and blah blah blah rules, Zeus, king of the gods cant do anything about it.

(Which is dumb. Because you would think that because Persephone committed the crime in the mortal realm / on, or near Olympus that therefore she would be brought back there to dole out justice under Zeus jurisdiction because she committed the crime in His Realm). 

13. FP Spoiler ahead:

Why on earth couldn't the reporters have Greek names? There is so much wrong and bad with this story, yet this irks me so much. It is Brenda all over again.

14. i dont really get the point of the trial plotline, tbh. even persephone says she should be punished and held accountable, but hades is framed in the right for trying to go against that and weasel her out of it. so?? plus zeus has legit reason to punish them? persephone is a danger to others, demeter and hermes both committed treason to cover it up, and hades was harboring a fugitive of the law and is now trying to force the system to let her go. how is zeus in the wrong for this?

❤️True Colors: Red❤️

(pages: 51-59)

And this was chapter four! ✨

Like the last chapter, a short one. Even so, necessary chapter. Although it has aged quite badly ^^”.

By to way, I posted a version of this chapter with some better quality to webtoon. All links in the bio 🍓

'The Queen was gardening, head over her flowers, When she felt a slight sensation, a presence holding an ancient power, reacting to her own ones. As she was stuck looking down at her begonias, a shadow suddenly obscured their bright colors from her sight. And when her head moved up, she was facing a young man, looking at her with a curious but intense look. Surprised, she backed away a few steps, but no sound came out of her open mouth as something about the individual struck her. His ears...and this giant tail, forming a diamound. His clothes looked ancient but elegant, oddly long, as if it was only made for beings that could fly like he was actually doing. But there was something else. She felt like she had some sort of ...connexion, to this creature. No, in fact, she felt like the connexion was like..restaured? "Could it be...no way...." she whispered. The weird dragon was still looking, not even fazed by her movements. He looked like something in between a contemplative painter and a cat asking for a hug. Maybe more like a cat, floating lazily and without much effort. His tail was holding a clock that would show exactly, she discovered after, the time it was in her kingdom. There was not many beings  that could fit such an odd description, Lili knew. But among all the stories she had ever read from the royal library, she would never though this long lost legend to be true. Her hand moved slowly forward, as if a little girl wanted to pet the wild cat that had just appeared, with cautious not to scare him. In response, the floating one bowed his head slowly, saluting his Queen with complete faith, but no contact was made, as some servants behind them started screaming. Lili saw the core of diamound taking altitude, flying around her, before escaping in the air, not once losing his stern look. Oh, she knew the best he wasn't scared at all by all the noise, may be just annoyed by the intempestive presence. But he was back where was his place, after so long... And as Francis her King came running to her, wearing a worried face, and asked what happened, she slowing turn to him and announced : "The Ace of Diamounds....he has returned." ' *** Here is a little sight of a story about Cardverse and the awakening of the 4 aces! Actually, seeing how long I put to draw a single piece of any of my project, I'm not sure I can do a whole fancomic about it, but at least I can draw some of the sceneries! * Diamonds : In the stories I've read so far, there's mostly stories about Spades ( I will just let "USUK" as an explanation of why! XD), and maybe a little with Hearts? I didn't saw one where the story was centered on Diamounds actually (except an Hetagame "Diamantalia"!), and among all the stories, Lili was really not a central character, if she may appear at all. I want to put each kingdom at the same place in that story; beginning by develloping my idea of diamounds. *Greece, Ace of Diamound : “Hé” is a lazy scaredy-cat Ace that can stay days floating in the same spot while making his siest. he isn’t as worse as Greece but he have more free time than a country though! Nothing seems to faze him or his face. And like a gigantic floating cat, he likes to be patted on the head by his Queen. The Kingdom of Diamound is the one of Nature, and Hé can, more than making things grow exponiancially, litteraly create a whole forrest and making it move from nothing! * King Francis and Queen Lili : May be people find that France and Liechtenstein is a weird couple, but I would say that in contrary it gives something interesting to the whole! Lili appears a frail young lady and Francis, as we saw with Jeanne d'Arc, can be a real gentleman that treats his ladies with care. But my vision of thing is more elaborate, so let me explain what I think happened on their background : Lili wasn't a noble, but was born with the mark and the magic power that would potentially make her a queen. (Potentially because she isn't alone in her case. I like the idea of Mother nature marking a future Queen, but not the one saying it's only one person, decided by fate! Let's have some choice! I will explain another time how Queen and Kings are actually chosen in much details !) So, among all the other pretendants, and despite her young age, she was chosen by Francis as she was pure, loyal, smart and cared about people. Also, she may have complete lack of knowledge about aristocracy (so she makes  mistake on the etiquettes), being a little shy in public (she will never be the one to speak loud before too many people) and may seem a little out of place sometimes hiding behind her charismatic husband, but she is actually quite sharp at noticing details and remaining calm, and her Jack knows better than anyone she is quite capable at her duty despite the wat she displays in public. I can't say Francis and Lili are in deep love because no, we can't say that, but their relation is sweet anyway so it's hard to tell for their people. They respect each other and they know they can count on the other one if something bad happens. They could even be mistaken as brother and sister sometimes, because they don't need to talk to understand each other and are quite accomplice. Francis being older (like I would say 7 years older because well, it's the middle age and I think they married when lili was around 16 and him 23!), he often guides her in her decision and teach her how to reign, even though they don't have the same role in their hierarchy. ( The rules wanting the King to be in charge of the need of the citizen and taking care of open international negociation, while the Queens have more secretive goals, studying magics to use it for the sake of the kingdom, but also controlling the undercover operation. In summary, the King is the bright side of the iceberg while the Queens are their shadows to make everything go smoothly, more or less depending on the kingdom) And no, I don't like the idea of an hidden romance between Francis and Arthur, it irks me! OuO Because they respect each other, neither him or Lili would ever go watch another woman/man (Well, not seriously, Francis actually likes to flirt with ladies to build a certain image of himself but he will never go too far. Besides, he appearing as frivolous is actually made on purpose so he can gain informations and relations  by seducing noble women who doesn't suspect it and think he's a Don Juan!! So his attitude is actually all strategic!) . In that they are quite old fashions! * One last thing about the kingdoms : Each have a magical speciality, and I choose that they would be the kingdom of nature and agriculture, being quite rich as they feed the 3 others kingdoms (with taxes, muahaha). Queens of Diamounds have the power to grow plants with their wills and accelerate the process, though Lili likes to garden like a common person most of the time. But the flowers of the Royal garden would only bloom once the Queen has been chosen! ***

Links to others Cardverse related art: https://chibiclem.tumblr.com/tagged/cardverse

Happy Miyusawa Day (again)

Here it is, part 2 of Miyusawa True Colors fancomic.

I know I alredy say it before, but just in case, it's based on the song True Colors, version of Justin Timberlake feat. Anna Kendrick, because I like the ideia to imagine Miyuki as Justin and Sawamura as Anna.

I hope you guys like it. Enjoy

Ps .: My pen just failed when I was doing the final lineart, so most of the pages are in pencil lineart.

To defeat a Dragon Witch

(( For whoever feels lost, this piece of fiction is the continuation of the events of my fancomic/fanfiction Sanders Sons, in which the Sanders Sides are Thomas’s children and it can be read from the start HERE))

((Trigger warning: Legal parenting procedures, mention of run-over, hospital environment))

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“Listen, guys, I know everyone wants to see Virgil, but the hospital staff said only two people can go up at a time. Since your dad is already up there, only one of you can go at a time”, Joan said, kneeling down in front of the three kids, sat on the chairs in the hospital’s reception. They knew the kids were exhausted from a whole day of interviews with the CPS, but had insisted on coming anyway. “So we have to take turns. Who’s first?”

The boys shared a look, none of them wanting to be the first one to speak.

“Okay...” Said Joan after some time of silence. “I know you all want to go, but everyone will get a turn. We just need to pick who goes first.”

“I think Patton should go”, Logan spoke, finally, looking at his brother. “You’re always the best with him.

“I was thinking the exact opposite. Virge must be super scared. If you give him the facts, he’ll believe it.” Patton said, looking astonished. “Or if you tell him some silly story, Ro. That might distract him”.

“I agree with Logan, Pat.” Roman let out with a sigh. “I don’t think he would want to see me. I was the one who used a nickname and made him run away”.

“Don’t say that. I’m sure he’s not mad.” Patton insisted, but his brothers seemed to have made their decisions as he looked into their eyes. He nodded. He really did want to see Virgil and make sure he was okay. He just didn’t want to cry and make everything worse if his brother was scared.

 Patton got his badge with his name and was taken by a nurse up the elevator and through the hall. By the time they reached the room, Patton had made friends with the nurse.  

“Here you are, Pat” she opened the door for him.

“Why, thanks, Susan! You’re a doll. Thanks for the ride! I’ll see you around!” He waved as she moved along. “Buh-bye!”

The boy turned around in his heels to find his dad looking at him like he was the only drop of water in miles of desert. Patton did his best to smile, although he suddenly felt shy.

He knew he had to do something right away. From the first glance, Virge seemed restless. Patton could see it in the way he kept moving on the hospital bed, trying to find a comfortable spot, how his fingers would grab the sheets and fiddle with it. And dad was a complete mess. Although he was trying to run his fingers through his hair to get it to look presentable, and the back of his hand through his face to hide that he had been crying, Patton was not dumb. He had to find a way to make things right. Or at least right enough for the others to come up and not be more sad.

“Hey guys. Have you met Susan? She’s super nice. She has two kids, but they’re all grown now”.

He came closer, opening his arms for his dad to pick him up. Thomas gave him a tired smile and sat him on his lap, where he was just high enough to be close to Virgil. Pat extended his hand to his tiny brother, that took hold of it, intertwining their fingers. Patton couldn’t help but feel a wave of excitement. It was really rare for Virgil to voluntarily touch them.

At the same time, he was terrified. He should be very scared to let something like that go.

“How are you holding up, buddy?”

Virgil didn’t look at him, just kept staring some point in front of him, kept moving to find a good spot.

“He’s not talking a lot, Pat. It’s just a lot for him, you know?”

Patton looked at his dad and nodded. Still, it didn’t feel for him like the other times when Virgil was overwhelmed. He wouldn’t have taken his hand it he couldn’t handle any stimuli. He just seemed... Bored. Patton looked at his brother’s cast.

“Look, your cast is my favorite color. It’s blue. We can draw on it with sharpies when we go home”. The comment didn’t seem to interest Virgil, but Pat didn’t let that stop him. “Me and the boys could sign it... Or we could all draw stars”.

Virgil finally moved his eyes, attracted by the word “stars”.

“That...” He said with a hoarse voice. “Would be nice.”

Pat felt a little warm spot around his chest. He was being helpful.

“I’m sorry you got hurt”.

“It’s okay”, Virgil shifted in the bed again, his eyes glued to his hands. “I deserve it”

“Don’t say that!”

“It’s true. I shouldn’t have ran away.” Virgil fidgeted with Patton’s fingers, utterly avoiding eye contact. “I only got hit because I was... Being weird. Again.”

“You know you can’t help it.”

“Everyone knows better than not to stay in the middle of the road”.

“Virge... I mean Virgil. Please, don’t be like that.” Patton tightened the grip on his brother’s hand. “We love you just the way you are. And we were very worried. But now you’re okay and you’re coming home with us soon”.

Virgil looked at Thomas, anxious about the word home.

“Am I? Going home soon?”

“In a couple of days, yeah”.

Patton’s attention moved to their dad. His voice sounded even worse than Virgil’s. And now that he was close enough, he could see dark circles just like the ones Virgil had around his eyes. They looked like father and son, alright. Straight out from a war movie.

Pat touched his face with his free hand.

“Dad, did you eat today?”

“Uh, yeah, a couple of hours ago”.

“How many hours?”

“I don’t know, Pat.”

“You should go get something in the cafeteria downstairs. I can stay with Virge. And you can send someone else up to stay with us”.

Thomas looked from Patton to Virgil and back to Patton. Pat felt a cold hand wander through his spine. He had never seen his dad so absolutely terrified of doing something so simple as leaving his children in a room for a couple of minutes.

“It’s fine, kiddo. I’m alright”.

“I mean it, dad. Joan said you’re gonna be here all night. Go get something. I got this. If I need help, I’ll call for Susan”.

His dad once more looked at Virgil, that hopefully seemed to be paying attention and nodded as a permission. Thomas nodded and got up, his joints cracking as he moved for the first time in hours. He messed with Patton’s hair, gave him a kiss in the forehead, touched Virgil’s healthy knee for a moment and left.

Virgil seemed a bit more nervous now that their dad was gone. Patton was about to go straight back to action, but the tiny one spoke first.

“Pat, I have a question”

“Shoot”

“I have a question, not a weapon”

“I meant ask your question”.

“Ah. Hm...” He looked at Patton for a couple of seconds, musing for words. “Have you ever... Remembered something that happened... But thought it couldn’t be like you remember because what you remember is impossible?”

“Uh... I’m not sure. Can you explain it better?”

Virgil looked at his blue cast suspended on a bunch of cords.

“I wasn’t standing on the middle of the road. I was sitting. That car would have hit my face, not my legs. It makes no sense”.

“Maybe you heard it and got up”.

“If I did hear it, it would only make me not move even more, not make me defend myself”

“Well... What then?”

Virgil once again took his time to answer.

“I remember moving. But not with my body. Does it make sense?”

“No. Not at all”.

The hurt child nodded.

“Yeah. I thought so.”

 Logan found his father struggling to get a sandwich from a vending machine. Logan himself had a dollar to get him and Roman a snack, but he was surprised to find Thomas there. He just stood awkwardly for a couple of seconds, waiting for his father to notice him, until he realized Thomas couldn’t get his bill into the machine because his hand wouldn’t stand still.

“Let me do it”, Logan said, extending his hand to get his bill. He put it in the machine in the first try and Thomas stood there for a while, looking at his empty hand and at the machine. “What number?”

Thomas cleared his throat before saying “six”.

Logan pressed the button. Thomas put his hand down, waiting. Logan acted to his pure instinct of taking his father’s hand.

“The interviews were okay today. I think this whole situation might be over soon”, he said, and he was being completely honest. He couldn’t see much reason for this case to extend much longer. “Plus... Virgil is going to be okay... Right?”

Thomas looked at his child and forced a smile. Logan could see he was putting a lot of effort into it. He couldn’t help but give him a concerned look. He knelt down to open the machine’s drawer and get his dad’s sandwich.

“You should come home with us. Joan could stay with Virge at night”.

Thomas shook his head, taking his sandwich and his change. Logan put his own bill in the machine and typed 23 for a milky way.

“You know I can’t. Virgil doesn’t even sleep well home, he probably won’t even blink all night”

Logan paused, getting his treat and looking up at his father.

“But you should. Not blink. Sleep”.

“I know, kid. I’ll try, I promise”, he messed with Logan’s hair and pulled him closer. Logan hugged him, feeling a strange weight in his chest. “I came down so one of you can go up. What do you think?”

“I suppose I can go. Roman is still a bit nervous about seeing Virgil.” The boy gave his father his Milky Way. “Give this to him, will you?”

“I will, don’t worry. Room 406, okay?”

“406”, he nodded.

 Patton and Virgil were playing “I spy” when Logan got inside. They used to play this all the time when in the car and Virgil would always win. Either because he would make the most ominous of descriptions, or because he would pop up with a joke no one expected and get everyone laughing. Logan saw Virgil’s joke in his face before he even said anything.

“I spy with my little eye... A black and blue piece of table wear”

“Like a fork? A knife... Hm... A salt shaker? Ah! It’s Lo!”

“Very funny”, Logan got closer to the bed, climbing on the side. He looked at the system of cords and weights holding Virgil’s leg for a couple of seconds, processing their functioning and then looked at his brother. “I’m glad you’re already making jokes”.

Virgil shrugged, looking down at his hands.

“Does your leg hurt?”

Virgil repeated the gesture. Logan took it as a yes.

“I’m sorry”

The room was silent for a bit, until Patton broke the tension.

“Dad says he can get out soon”, said the boy, wanting to give hope to his little brother that they could come back home soon. “What do you say?”

“I read that it takes at least five days with big things like your legs and arms. It’s a while, but I trust that it will go fast. We can bring your things tomorrow, Virgil. Do you want anything?”

Virgil seemed to not have listened. But then he moved his mouth around for a little bit, obviously thinking about the question. He cleared his throat briefly before saying:

“I want Virgil. You know, my bat? And my fidget cube. And my star atlas. That one with lots of pictures we got at the museum. And my blankie. And Ted”

“I’m pretty sure that Ted won’t be allowed” Virgil nodded, but didn’t seem happy about it. “I’ll see what I can do. Maybe we can smuggle him in”.

Logan saw the hint of a smile in the corner of Virgil’s mouth as he thought of his brothers working together to smuggle a turtle to the inside of a hospital.

 After a while, Patton and Logan came down. Roman a cold pit in his stomach - and he knew it wasn’t hunger because he had eaten that whole milky way bar just a couple of minutes ago. Thomas had been talking to Joan in a low voice for this time, gently caressing Roman’s hair. He looked at his children and gave them a soft smile.

“Is it our turn?”

“Yeah. Susan said visiting hours are almost over. You should probably hurry, Roman”

Roman took a bit to realize Patton was talking to him and nodded a bit disproportionately. Thomas looked at him.

“Is everything okay, Ro?”

“Hum... Maybe... Maybe we should just go home. Everyone is tired. Virge must be tired too”

“Don’t you want to see your brother?”

“I do. Of course I do. I really do”

“He’s scared Virgil hates him”, Logan told, without a hint of regret in his eyes. Roman squinted at him, making it obvious that they would talk about this how gentleman talk about the conquering of their lands: in personal combat to the fought in the couch or in dad’s bed (because it’s big and comfy enough not to hurt if they fell).

“Why would he hate you?”

“I called him by his nickname even though I knew he was overwhelmed. It was an accident, I know, but I feel like it’s all my fault”

“It’s not. Princey, it’s really not”

“Plus,” Added Patton with a smile as fake as their father’s. “Virgil didn’t say anything about you. I bet he doesn’t even remember what you said to him”

Roman nodded, seeing that he was outnumbered. Still, he the same voice kept repeating itself inside his head: But I remember.

 “He still isn’t talking much, okay?”, Thomas said, hoping to make it better for Roman. Holding his kid’s hand, he could see his nervousness showing through the way he would stare directly into the ground. “Don’t worry so much, baby. It’s only a couple of minutes until visiting time is over. You lived with Virgil your whole lives. I’m pretty sure you’ll manage”.

Roman nodded again, uncharacteristically quiet. Thomas opened the room’s door for them and they went inside. Patton and Logan had managed to turn the TV on. Virgil had his eyes in a very low quality old cartoon that was hard to see through the old TV. Roman wondered if he ought to say anything. Finally, he decided to be brave just for a little longer that night.

“Hey, Virgil”, he said, fiddling with the jacket over his prince suit. It was rather chilly outside and he had been so nervous it still hadn’t occurred to him to take it off. Virgil moved his eyes from the TV, indicating that he was listening. “I came to wish you good night. But I have to go soon”.

Assuming he was done, Virgil turned back to the TV. Roman look at his papa, just waiting for his permission to go. Thomas touched his hair, smiled for a second and went to sit in the chair next to Virgil’s bed. The little prince asked himself if it was okay if he left, but something still didn’t seem right. He was the creative one, he always had been. It was time to get creative.

“Hm... Before I go. I have something for you”. At first he thought he didn’t have Virgil attention, but surprisingly his brother turned his head to listen. He looked to their dad, as if to make sure he was still there, and then to Roman. Roman took a breath and took a step. “Here”.

Roman took out of his pocket something he had been keeping since they had left the CPS facility. He had found it in the driveway, while Joan was speaking to the grown ups and Logan was trying to calm Patton down. It was a simple gray rock, but it was so round it had caught Roman’s eye. He was always picking up things from the ground, things he could use as props or as decoration. He just had to believe they had the potential.

“Is it... A... Rock?”, Virgil asked, as if he didn’t like the taste of his own words. Roman almost let out a shriek of excitement to hear his voice and not a tone of hurt in it. Just pure curiosity.

“It’s a special rock. To protect your dreams from the Dragon Witch”.

Virgil analyzed the rock, turning it in his hands and rubbing his fingers on it. Thomas looked sideways to Roman and he knew he was wondering what he was doing.

“Is it... Fear proof?”, Virgil asked.

“What’s that?”

“Because you said Dragon Witches feed on fear. Does this mask my fear from them?”

Roman was chocked that Virgil was actually listening when he talked about the Dragon Witch all of those times. He was just used to everyone ignoring his fantasies.

“It’s better than that. It’s a memory amulet”

“A memory amulet?”

“That’s right. It... It brings happy memories back. So even if you feel fear... You have something good that sends it away”, Roman was making that up as he went, but now he caught himself wanting to have such an amulet for himself.

“How does it work?”

“Like this”, Roman touched it with the tip of his pointing finger. “Wow, remember that time Logan bet he could learn how to lick his nose and then to help Patton spread Crofters in between his nostrils”

Virgil smiled.

“And Thomas saw it and thought it was blood and started freaking out because Patton had a butter knife in his hands”, Virgil giggled sweetly. “I like this amulet.”

Roman smiled. And by the time the nurse came to let them know visiting hours were over, he thought he was the coolest prince to ever set foot on earth.

Could you explain a little bit more on why you think the JP fandom is focusing on the "look at me~" part of the drama instead of Chihoko stuff (what you mentioned in your ask abt the event). I'm just wondering what you mean about that, or if you could explain that part a bit better than it seems it was in the snippets we got from Twitter? Thank you for all you do :>

Hello! I think it’s a matter of wording… Like, some lines sound more impressive in Japanese. There are some parts I remember very clearly and some where I had forgotten the exact wording, but yesterday I could find a very complete and accurate Japanese report of the drama (to be honest I find it hard to believe that someone could have written such a perfect report by just taking notes on paper, but.. yeah…).

My impression is based on the fanarts/fancomics I’ve seen. Of course, I cannot possibly have seen each and every single fanart about the event, but for example let’s say that I’ve seen about 300 Japanese fanarts and 50 foreign fanarts (numbers are not exact but they are close to what I’ve seen so far). Out of all the Japanese ones, none of them used the line that in English has been translated by some as “I could search all over the world~”, while I’ve seen at least 5-7 foreign fanarts about it. That’s quite a difference. The reason is that this line doesn’t sound as “deep” in Japanese at all, so Japanese people don’t give it so much importance, it’s just Yuuri trying to convince Victor to get down.

Details and partial translations under the cut.

The exact translation of this part (if the report is accurate, but as far as my memory goes I believe it is):

Victor: “Who’s better, Chihoko or I!?!?”Yuuri: “Who is Chihoko??? Uff… There’s no one better than you in the whole world!!!”Victor: “Am I shining!?!?”Yuuri: “Jeez, yeah you’re dazzling!! Just put some clothes on!!!”

Listening to Yuuri’s voice makes it even clearer, but here he’s not really praising Victor with all his heart, he’s just trying to convince him to get down, and in Japanese their dialogue just sounds hilarious.Now, to be exact, the literal translation of Yuuri’s line is indeed “even searching all over the world it’s not possible to find someone as ‘incredible’ as you” (now, this “incredible” in Japanese is “sugoi” which can also have a humorous nuance, as if he’s saying “I’m sure no one else would do the things you do”), but what it conveys in Japanese is more like I have translated it above.

Also, I’ve seen lots of people in foreign fanarts use Victor’s line “I am Yuuri’s ‘now’”. However, this line doesn’t exist in the drama! In fact there are no Japanese fanarts that use it. As I said in my other post, it can’t really be helped because everyone is reporting based on their memory. I didn’t recall hearing it, and reading reports I could confirm that indeed there was no line like that. I think it might be a wrong recollection of Victor’s monologue:

Victor: “That time, I was indeed angry. But not at Yuuri… at myself, for thinking that I knew everything about him. Sha Chihoko. Chihoko… who the hell are you!? Ah, well… I don’t care who Chihoko is. After all, the past is what made Yuuri who he is now.”(”Yuri on Ice” starts playing in the background)“Yuuri… you have surprised me a lot. You surpassed my imagination, by far. You always looked for an answer with shining eyes. That brought new colors to my world. Now it’s my turn. I will try to surpass your imagination, by far. Yuuri… I’ll show it to you. This is my true…. REVERSE SHRIMP POSE!!!”

I think maybe the person who wrote the report had an inaccurate memory of Victor saying “the past is what made Yuuri who he is now”, or “now it’s my turn”. He never says “I’m Yuuri’s now”.(note: I have no idea how to properly translate “逆海老反り”. It’s the shachihoko pose.. like a shrimp arching his back… Literally it’s somewhat like “reverse shrimp back-arching”.)

Finally, the “look at me” part is by far the one where “the way it’s pronounced” is most important, in my opinion. The translation goes like this:

Yuuri: (dead drunk voice) “Dun jus’ look at Chris, look at me~..”Victor: (sweet voice) “I’m looking at you?”Yuuri: “You’re noo~t”Victor: (disturbingly sweet voice) “I am~♡”Yuuri: “Hmm.. ‘ell then… Do it, with me..” (when he says “do it with me” his voice is much lower than before, like a murmur)Victor: (suddenly serious tone, almost whispering) “….Do what?”Yuuri: “Hn.. whaddyou do when you drink~…”Victor: (still like a whisper) “…What is it, that you do?”Yuuri: (suddenly loud) YAKYUUKEN, of course!!!!!!!!”

Yakyuuken is strip janken (rock paper scissors), the one who loses removes one piece of clothing.Anyway, the above is the closest I could get to how it sounded in Japanese! I’m sure even in Japanese it’s still not possible to fully understand how it sounded without listening to the actual thing, but language-wise, it still sounds closer than in English. I swear I wanted to melt into the chair and disappear during this part, it was that embarrassing. (note: I’m praising it) Many Japanese fans agree that you could picture a heart at the end of Victor’s line, lol.

The parts I mentioned above are the ones where I found the most differences between the reaction of the Japanese and overseas fans, but as I already said it’s not someone’s fault as it’s not possible to recall everything 100% correct by just listening to something twice, even if you take notes.

Lastly, it is confirmed that Victor was naked when he was doing the shachihoko pose on the castle roof (I’m surprised he didn’t get arrested for obscenity lol), but actually we don’t know about Yuuri. I don’t think Yuuri went to the castle only wearing his underwear, so he either undressed on the roof or did the pose with his clothes on. This is not confirmed in the drama or by the staff so far, and even among Japanese people there isn’t a fixed interpretation.

Final question corner (questions I haven’t been asked but someone might ask).

1) If you say that everyone is reporting based on their memory, how can you be sure that what you wrote in your post is correct?

The report I’m using as a reference was written by someone who either has genius-level memory or used “tricks” to remember it correctly, because it’s way too perfect (I only hope these “tricks” are not something which is forbidden at events). If you ask me “what did they say?” I myself can only remember the exact wording for some lines, but if you show me 5 different versions of the same line I can tell which is the one I heard at the event. And that report was like… exactly what I heard at the event. So I’m pretty positive it’s almost completely correct.

2) Can this drama be considered canon?

My opinion is: “Why not?”. I think everyone was in character. We know that Yuuri goes crazy when drunk already from episode 10, where he shamelessly clung to Victor even though they weren’t even acquainted (he even remembers it as “I didn’t have the courage to speak to Victor”), and this drama is set in the off-season after the end of the series, when they are much more intimate (however you prefer to interpret “intimate”). Same for Victor, he was already undressing and clinging to Yuuri in the Chinese restaurant of episode 6, so yeah… “Victor undressing in public when drunk” doesn’t sound impossible. All other characters sounded like themselves too, and let’s not forget that YOI does have some “surreal” parts (the triplets in the first place) even in the anime series, so I believe what happened in the drama and the subtle sides of some characters that we got to know here (can kisser drunk Seung-gil be considered “subtle”..?) make sense.

🌼🩵True Colors 10-20🩵🌼

… and end of the first chapter!