You get to keep a copy of that post FOREVER. Tumblr is not like Twitter in that if OP deletes the original post, all the shared versions of the post will be deleted as well. This is how Tumblr still has posts from 100000 years ago circulating around.
You get to classify posts with your own tagging system. It makes finding things easier. Searching a blog using tags is also more reliable than searching with keywords.
You get to leave comments in the tags of the reblog! It’s handy when you wanna react to the post but are too shy to talk to OP and/or others in the reblog chain.
You get an archive/scrapbook of all the things you like, which you can then showcase with pretty custom themes.
You get to identify as part of a community. Among fandom blogs, fellow fans will know you’re one of them if you actually reblog things. Any outsider can leave a like, but it takes a fan or someone really interested in something to dare to reblog.
You get to make friends! People follow other people based on what their blog is like. If your blog is empty, then what’s the point of following you?
You give the impression that you care about what other people say, and it will make others look at you more nicely (empty blogs can be suspicious).
You are less likely to be blocked by artists/writers. (I’ve seen some posts from artists/writers saying that they’ll block spam likers.)
You are less likely to be mistaken as a bot or a creep (again, empty blogs are sus).
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
[ID: Drawing of Miranda Priestly from The Devil Wears Prada smiling as Andy Sachs leans in to whisper something to her. Both are outdoors and may be stepping into a cab.
The drawing is above a newspaper headline and article. Text reads:
RARE SMILE FROM FASHION QUEEN: The Ice Queen Seen Yesterday Stepping Out with Former Assistant
By Christina Hatchet
Have you ever seen such a sight? We didn't know the ice queen could still smile but here it is in color. Not much is known about Priestly's former assistant Andrea Sachs, 29. She has worked for numerous publications including The New York Times, Rolling [article is cut off].
A millennial turned magical girl must combat climate change and credit card debt in this delightful, witty, and wildly imaginative urban fantasy ode to magical girl manga.
Twenty-nine, depressed, and drowning in credit card debt after losing her job during the pandemic, a millennial woman decides to end her troubles by jumping off Seoul’s Mapo Bridge.
But her suicide attempt is interrupted by a girl dressed all in white—her guardian angel. Ah Roa is a clairvoyant magical girl on a mission to find the greatest magical girl of all time. And our protagonist just may be that special someone.
But the young woman’s initial excitement turns to frustration when she learns being a magical girl in real life is much different than how it’s portrayed in stories. It isn’t just destiny—it’s work. Magical girls go to job fairs, join trade unions, attend classes. And for this magical girl there are no special powers and no great perks, and despite being magical, she still battles with low self-esteem in this sharp satirical fantasy. Her magic wand . . . is a credit card—which she must use to defeat a terrifying threat that isn’t a monster or an intergalactic war. It’s global climate change. Because magical girls need to think about sustainability, too.
Park Seolyeon reimagines classic fantasy tropes in this must-read work of Korean fiction in translation that explores real-world challenges that are both deeply personal and universal: the search for meaning and the desire to do good in a world that feels like it’s ending. A fun, fast-paced, and enchanting urban fantasy narrative that sparkles thanks to award-nominated translator Anton Hur, A Magical Girl Retires reminds us that we are all magical girls—that fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight can be anyone's game.
I’m reblogging this 7-year-old comic of mine because, not only is it somehow still circulating, it just passed 400,000 notes??? Thank you, several hundred thousand internet strangers, for keepin’ this ol’ goat girl goin’ so long
(Also hi, I’m still making fairy-tale-flavored lesbian romance comics and have a new one coming out very soon…)
Two unlikely heroes embark on quests to win God’s favor in this outrageously entertaining, profoundly heartfelt novel that announces an ingenious new voice in the tradition of Chain-Gang All-Stars, No One Is Talking About This, and Martyr!
Yara can’t comprehend why God has chosen them to slay Dominic, the ruthless leader of the army of Bad Guys. Cast out by their family and reeling from a destructive relationship, Yara has never felt weaker—but with nothing left to lose, they strike a deal. Abandoning their solitary days of embroidery and obsessive cleaning, Yara reluctantly embarks on a perilous odyssey designed to prepare them for the daunting mission ahead.
Meanwhile, Adrena, a disillusioned prophet with a terrifying secret power, is determined to become the hero of this story. Desperately seeking the glory of God’s approval and the promise of heaven, where she hopes to reunite with her beloved mother, Adrena must first persuade Harpo, the leader of the Good Guys, that her plan is God’s will.
As their journeys unfold in a series of unforgettable adventures, Yara and Adrena are propelled toward each other and transformative revelations about life, death, and destiny in this intensely captivating, irreverent epic from a singularly brilliant new voice in fiction.
On an absolute whim this evening, I picked up Agatha Christie's short story collection The Mysterious Mr Quin. I'm three stories in and have gone completely fucking feral for it. It is the single best work in all of literature.
The premise is this: Mr Satterthwaite, an elderly gay man whose twin passions in life are other people's drama and sitting down, accidentally solves murders with the help of his magical boyfriend.
Is Harley Quin real? Absolutely not. Could Satterthwaite give two shits? Also absolutely not.
I am obsessed with this book. Satterthwaite can't go anywhere without stumbling across a heinous crime.
Fingers crossed for God-level twist that Satterthwaite and Quin are both serial killers, bumping off Satterthwaite's friends one by one in order to produce opportunities to flirt with each other.
My adventures with The Mysterious Mr Hottie continue. Satterthwaite's car has broken down outside an inn in the middle of nowhere. The only other patron just happens to be Harley Quin and a convenient storm is coming.
I swear to God if it turns out this inn has only got one bed
Behold: the list! More than 150 prompts ripe for the taking! Now everyone can pick something cool (even if you didn’t submit anything) (no need to claim it anywhere) and start drawing it or writing it or any other creative verb of your liking. Next stop: June 19th, when we’ll all post together to celebrate GT’s original anniversary (there will be a reminder with brief posting instructions).
Prompts are numbered for your convenience, in the order they came in. The block divisions are just because tumblr gets twitchy about long numbered lists. Full rules here.
And now, without further ado:
BLOCK A:
pennamepersona - sissel & lynne besties, please no ship
pennamepersona - yomiel being part of the "family" post-game
pennamepersona - some or all memories regained by lynne/kamila post-game
pennamepersona - ace attorney crossover of any kind (but I do think jowd & yomiel & phoenix could be friends; I wrote a couple crossover fics on ao3 that could give insp)
pennamepersona - sissel learning how to read post-game
pennamepersona - the melding of everyone into a found family in the new timeline
pennamepersona - jowd & yomiel friendship in new timeline
pennamepersona - sissel meeting yomiel's fiance
Jowd/Cabanela, who fell first and who fell harder?
What's Lovey's read on Sissel during game events?
Emma's latest masterpiece?
Cast member(s) of your choice as a DnD class, art
Cabanela and Yomiel rivalry mid-game angst, art or fic
Ship of your choice, art or fic, in case someone wants an excuse to indulge
Post-game Cabanela/Yomiel on vacation, ship, art or fic
Kamila playing something on a Nintendo DS (for the sake of remembering the origins of the game🥹), art
Pre-game Yomiel trying to figure out how give Sissel the cat a bath, art or fic
Crack ship of your choice! Art or fic
the-grey-hunt: sissel in a service cat vest
the-grey-hunt: yomiel in a wheelchair!
the-grey-hunt: yomiel and fiansissel's wedding (i wanna see them in fancy pretty clothes)
the-grey-hunt: alma and fiansissel being (or becoming!) friends
the-grey-hunt: the gang goes to an escape room. they either escape in 5 minutes or are too used to real mysteries and fumble it SO bad. would vastly prefer kamila to get some kind of spotlight here!
the-grey-hunt: rindge and memry being friends
the-grey-hunt: lynne on the run with sissel
the-grey-hunt: sissel with some cat friends (either in the previous timeline or post-canon)
bluestbadger - Jowd and Cabanela as Sherlock Holmes & John Watson! Preferably ACD era, but any variation works. Either can be Sherlock or John, romantic or platonic! (art)
bluestbadger - The different weird but useful gifts Cabanela has given Jowd over the years (like the tracking compass)
bluestbadger - Cabanela/Jowd, but Jowd is still with Alma who isn't aware of the infidelity -- how does this work out for them?
bluestbadger - Cabanela angst after Jowd's arrest -- how is he holding up? Romantic, unrequited, or platonic is dealer's choice!
bluestbadger - Cabanela as a mentor figure for Lynne after Jowd's arrest (not romance)
bluestbadger - Lynne's backstory beyond Temsik! Where is her family in all this? Was Jowd more directly a father-figure before his arrest? But go any direction you want!
bluestbadger - Kamila & inventions -- could be what she gets up to in the future or an exploration of her relationship with inventing after Alma's death, go wild!
bluestbadger - Lynne and/or Kamila swapped with Ace Attorney girls !! i.e., Lynne as Ema, Kamila as Iris Wilson, etc etc (art)
Red-headed-target - Lynne and Kamila spending time together, can be during the previous timeline or post-canon, angst or fluffy.
Red-headed-target - Sissel relearns how to use his powers in the new timeline, while Alma and Kamila notice that something is up with their cat.
Red-headed-target - Anything with kid!lynne and kitty!sissel. Bonus points if its a scenario where she adopts him in the new timeline (or if she’s helping jowd care for him).
Red-headed-target - Sissel and Lynne vs an exorcist/ghost hunters/paranormal investigators from a more typical ghost story,
Red-headed-target - Yomiel in the doomed timeline either messing with Cabanela or grappling with getting screwed over.
siverwrites - Missile DOES swap Jowd orb and a ball
siverwrites - warm, soooft, lovely times for Jowd/Alma &/ Cabanela (please no infidelity)
siverwrites - Sissel (cat!), Missile and Lovey-Dove animal team-up! Ghost Tricks optional for Lovey-Dove
siverwrites - Pigeon Man and Jowd friendship, any timeline
Jowd &/ Cabanela hurt/comfort in either direction or both ways
siverwrites - Cabanela and Pigeon Man weird friendship and working together
siverwrites - Lynne has to team up with someone completely unexpected to solve a case
siverwrites - free square for the FFVI AU - https://archiveofourown.org/series/1196335 https://archiveofourown.org/series/1169099 Info on what we've done in the links, or go wild with your own ideas
alto-tenure: sports au. any sport but track & field is my preference. coaches jowd & cabanela…very enthusiastic but not as talented lynne…
alto-tenure: inspired by a novel I read recently, AU where Sissel is (a/the) Grim Reaper, tasked with reaping a soul about to die when they shouldn't…
alto-tenure: putting in a request for Yomiel + Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, bonus especially if you put him with Claire & Dimitri <3
alto-tenure: steampunk grick…so many mechanics and gears for sissel to mess around with, if you catch my drift :)
alto-tenure: for the second year in a row I just think it would be really funny if Sissel was on Rokkenjima foiling Beatrice's plans
aviatoons - Any interaction between Jowd and Ray
aviatoons - Something featuring Jeego and Tengo’s rivalry
aviatoons - Art of Lynne and Kamila walking Missile
aviatoons - Anything featuring Metal Yomiel
aviatoons - Post-canon Sissel being a “completely normal” cat (because he definitely still thinks he’s at least a little bit human)
frogpotat - Your favorite Ghost Trick character with an ace Pokémon that suits them.
frogpotat - Kitty Sissel having a strange, sibling adjacent relationship with Weirdy (The Hollow (Netflix)), and/or Michael Afton (FNAF). Don't question it.
frogpotat - Amelie when she isn't sick. She already gets up to some crazy shenanigans in the game, imagine how she acts when she isn't too dizzy to walk.
frogpotat - Jeego, Tengo, Dandy, and Beauty hanging out between missions, just having some watercooler talk as if they have normal jobs. Please no shipping of Jeego and Tengo.
frogpotat - Lynne and Kitty Sissel investigating together.
frogpotat - Draw someone else's Fiansissel design in your own style. Remember to tag them!
frogpotat - Missile's heartfelt reunion with the rest of the cast in the new timeline.
frogpotat - [FREE SPACE] Yomiel aura farming.
BLOCK B:
Kayoticinconvenience - post canon Cabanela being an uncle figure to Kamila and Lynne
Kayoticinconvenience - Sissel and Missile hanging out being creatures, and maybe Lovey Dove too
Kayoticinconvenience - Bailey and friend playing cards with each other
Kayoticinconvenience - Lynne in investigation mode, and Sissel within an item Lynne is holding
Kayoticinconvenience - Yomiel and cat Sissel, during the ten years
Kayoticinconvenience - Yomiel in the prison cell, painting something
Kayoticinconvenience - Jowd and Lynne doing detective work together
Kayoticinconvenience - Cat Sissel and Kamila playing
memry, lynne, and rindge on an outing of any kind (can be either romantic or platonic!)
RandomK- I'm curious about the first timeline. Tell the journy of how Missile got to the Yonoa after failing to save his girls.
RandomK:- In the first timeline Sissel leaves Missile In the junkyard. What did our favorite ghost cat get up to on his own that timeline?
RandomK:- Ray knows a lot about Sissels Ghost Trick abilities. What would a teamup between Sissel and Missel in the first timeline be over and how long would it last?
RandomK:- In the first timeline, what if Missile sucessfully saved Cabenela. What would their partnership look like?
RandomK:- what if after time traveling Missile got the attention of Yomiel and Sissel that fateful day in the park? What would their friendship look like?
RandomK:- Cabenela died to Yomiel, who was carrying a Temsik. Could he have been able to use Ghost Tricks? What would his be?
RandomK:- Say the Curry Man and the Punk Rocker had escaped from prison? What comes next for them?
RandomK:- AU where the plot kicks off because Kamilia saw her friend get taken by strangers. When she calls Lynne about it, the newely minted detective decides that her dinner can wait. She needs to investigate! -Or, where a simingly simple kidnapping investigation, is the thread that unraveles the foreigners plot.
diathadevil - Post-canon Sissel (ghost or human form), being upset over finding Lynne dead once again, which leads to them arguing and realizing how much the past affected them and Lynne's deaths affected Sissel. Reconciliation may or may not happen at your choice, we're here for the angst and drama.
diathadevil - Art of FianSissel wearing your favorite outfit! Could be from your own closet, or an outfit you've saved that's your fav. (Bonus if Yomiel is there reacting at her fit)
diathadevil - Memry drinking with Lynne as they're commiserating, and mayhaps even flirting together and smooching too I mean what who said that.
intervalart - Jowd being a good dad, interacting with his family, being happy/supportive. If you do angst, plz let it have a happy ending.
intervalart - Post canon Yomiel and Jowd hangin' out. Bein' cane/disability pals and sharing an emotional support cat.
intervalart - Jowd with an emotional support Shiny Spheal (pokemon). I kinda headcanon that would be like a therapy animal for him in jail if pokemon were a thing in that universe, cuz it would be round and pinkish like Kamila's hair, and when it evolves into Walrein, it's pink and has the same hair shape that he does, and is pink like his painter's smock. In fact Jowd with any stage of the Shiny Spheal line would be cool. Pokemon trainer Jowd? I'm not picky lol.
intervalart - Jowd and Cabs butting heads as they're working on the job. Can be pre or post canon; funny, angst, or both.
intervalart - Alma catching on that things are amiss post-canon. Maybe cheeky one-sided conversation with her and Sissel, and Sissel is thinking about what she's saying the whole time. Can be played for laughs, angst, or both.
intervalart - Cabanela/Junkyard Super. Maybe a late night at the office; reminiscing about Jowd, discussing findings about the Manipulator, Soops talks about radiation and sciencey stuff that Cabs doesn't get. Cabs does some of his flowery bs, Soops just cuts right through it; disarmingly so. Good old fashioned old man yaoi like the gods intended (obviously keep it sfw)
any of the cast with their mii / tomodachi life counterparts
man in red tricking objects but its that one levitating pizza with your mind meme
sissel accidentally calling yomiel dad + their reactions
sissel trying to read gullible on the celling (he cant pfft)
sissel keep bothering fiansissel or alma cooking, knowing damn well he can't eat anymore
yomiel painting his fiancee when he's in jail (maybe sissel is also in the painting)
raisa-drawz - [Detective in Black]/sissel human image and lynne trying to solve a case
Reefflux - Yomiel being a cat dad, either pre-game or post-game! Can be happy or sad.
Reefflux - Hugs! Cabanela/Jowd/Yomiel/Lynne/Sissel, anybody really!! These people just need some hugs. Happy hugs, sad hugs, all the hugs.
Jobswaps! Programmer Amelie? Rockstar Pigeon Man? Novelist Jowd? All of the above, none of the above, you get the gist.
(art) Steampunk it up. AU? Just a hobby? Whatever works!
Danganronpa AU, ages and species adjusted if necessary. Who's the Ultimate at what? Can Sissel change the fate of every victim in a killing game?
The gang has a night at the casino. Chaos ensues, of course.
Missile getting as loved on as he deserves.
Jowd & Yomiel, platonic, talking through their issues or finding solace in each other's presence, or just hanging out together, whatever floats your boat.
Yomiel and Sissel (cat). Any timeline or genre goes.
Yomiel & Fiansissel. Ideally something sweet and fluffy.
Any combination of Jowd, Alma, Cabanela, polyamory is welcome. No infidelity, please.
Bailey and co-worker shenanigans. Can be romantic or platonic.
sunnyaliceart - Cabanela wearing a pink coat like a flamingo or any other color of the rainbow
sunnyaliceart - Yomiel babysitting Cat Sissel and Missile. Bonus points if Yomiel is using mobility aids like a wheelchair or cane
sunnyaliceart - Jowd, Alma, and Cabanela taking Lynne and Kamila to a fair, maybe riding a ferris wheel together
sunnyaliceart - Kamila playing with Missile, Cat Sissel and Lovey Dove. She's the animal whisperer
sunnyaliceart - Jowd asking Cat Sissel to look after Kamila on her first day of high school. Hijinks ensue. Up to you if Kamila knows about Sissel's ghost powers or not
sunnyaliceart - Lynne and Kamila clothes shopping with Missile and Cat Sissel
sunnyaliceart - Jowd being great at ice skating, but Cabanela surprisingly is terrible at it
sunnyaliceart - Pigeon Man and Kamila bonding over engineering. Lovey Dove and Cat Sissel hanging out while they infodump
azurefishnets - Worldbuilding fic! There are so many things about this world they live in that are so interesting! There are robots! There are ghosts! There’s some kind of cold war??? There are tiny submarines that can be run by only ten crewmen! My suggestion: pick a location and a couple of characters and put them in a Situation there. See what worldbuilding develops from there!
azurefishnets - Emma & Memry. When the odd girl who always gets what she wants comes up against the Justice Minister's wife in pursuit of opposing ends (you decide what those ends are), how will they form some sort of unholy alliance?
azurefishnets - Amelie & Lynne (& MIssile?). Surely they have run into each other previously while living in the same apartment complex. What do they think of each other? What happens if Lynne happens to catch Amelie in the middle of throwing one of her legendary tantrums? Or engineer a missing moment during the in-game timeline!
azurefishnets - Emma & Kamila. Not certain they know the deeper meanings of who one is to the other, but I'm so curious how Emma's curiosity/principles would handle a small, sad little girl living next to her precious angel. Or engineer a missing moment during that night where they do actually meet!
azurefishnets - Alma & Emma: Alma’s job has been the source of much speculation and I like to think she’s a secret cat burglar who is hired to test security at various important places, so here’s the prompt: Alma is hired to test security at the Justice Minister’s compound as a fake cat burglar, and runs afoul of Emma in some way. They probably know each other, distantly, so how will Alma manage to finish the job with reputation intact? Will Emma pass the security test? Will the Justice Minister ever recover?
azurefishnets - pet swap! Put a pet with a person and let some magic happen. What would have happened if Emma had a Lovey-Dove to help her write? What if Missile was hanging out with Rindge that fateful night? What if Sith had a pet rat instead of his adjutant? Just some of the many possibilities!
azurefishnets - Alma/Cabanela/Jowd (or any /& subset therof) - Always and forever the OT3 of my heart, and I will happily devour anything that develops any facet of their happy poly triangle relationship (but please no infidelity). I love these three together, or doing things with just one of the others, but always with the knowledge that they are a threesome at heart, you know?
azurefishnets - forever free square for the FFVI/GT AU! For information on the premise and previous works see: https://archiveofourown.org/series/1196335 https://archiveofourown.org/series/1169099
BLOCK C
Lemchi - Alma being Jowd’s muse for his latest masterpiece
Lemchi - Alma and Jowd taking care of newborn Kamila
Lemchi - Alma, Jowd, and Cabanela all dressed up for a fancy night out together (have fun, make them look stunning)
Lemchi - College aged Alma, Jowd, and Cabanela having fun and messing with each other while at a beach/on the lake (one of them forgets to put on sunscreen, one of them wakes up to being buried in the sand, who knows what happens, it’s up to you to decide!)
Lemchi - Just Alma and Jowd, recently married, happily in love, enjoying each others company, what a peaceful time for them
Lemchi - Alma has gotten into knitting, and now she’s made a fun sweater for the character(s) of your choosing
Lemchi - Take an album cover of your choosing, and ghost trick-ify it (replace people on the cover with the characters, change some objects on the cover with the ones from the game, etc.)
cappyjara - fic or art, what if Detective Rindge was "awake" after dying and developed a core?
cappyjara - fic or art, it's the 13th overall Ghost Swap, we already got a black cat -- give any character some bad luck baybee
cappyjara - fic or art, Missile and Sissel bonding post-game
cappyjara - fic or art, Lynne and Kamila having alone in the submarine, the more angst the better >:)
jorb-ponderer - Alma-Jowd outfit and/or role-swap… i just think it'd be delightful to see her in the big coat or rocking the jorb look :)
jorb-ponderer - yomiel/jowd! post/pre/during canon, sad or sweet, all flavours are good
Sissel and Missile having fun together!
Yomiel angst! As light or heavy as you desire.
Memry x Lynne having a meal together!
Amelie and Kamila hanging out as besties!
A manga-style panel of Yomiel striking a super cool pose with Sissel nearby!
Yomiel's time in prison!
Role swap AU designs!
Missile and Sissel as humans, and human characters (as many or few as you want) as animals! Feel free to get creative with the species!
allpatchedart- Sissel/Yomiel working at a cat cafe
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick x Death Mark/Spirit Hunter crossover
allpatchedart- What would it be like if Ghost Trick had a rep in a crossover fighting game?
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick has become a turn-based RPG! What's the party composition and what are their classes?
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick x Paranormasight crossover or AU
allpatchedart- Ghost Trick x Persona crossover or AU
laughingmango - ghost household shenanigans. Anything that might happen in the new timeline, with Jowd, Alma and maybe Kamila (and Cabanela. and Lynne?) all aware of their wonderful ghost kitty
laughingmango - Cabanela/Jowd heart to heart somehow, somewhen
laughingmango - a friendship that's still new-ish for Cabanela but that Jowd remembers for a decade and more…
laughingmango - show me your grown-up Kamila and Amelie!
laughingmango - average Jowd&Sissel interaction
laughingmango - Alma&Kamila! What's their bond like, especially in the new timeline? (generally I like it when Alma comes to learn about the old timeline but this specific prompt can do with or without it. …unless it's about Kamila finding out too, when she's not a child anymore?)
laughingmango - Cabanela/Jowd, game timeline missing moment, giving an outlet to Cabs' yearning. When? How? You tell me!
laughingmango - Jowd does something nice for Cabanela. Imagine that
Speaking of public health. What was the soul society reaction to the eradication of small pox like?
"You notice there's a lot less dead babies these days?" Iba asked in the middle of one morning's office work.
"Fewer dead babies." Komamura corrected without thinking. "Less is for things you measure by volume, fewer for things you count. We do not measure dead babies by volume."
"Oh. right." Iba nodded. "Yeah, that wouldn't be right."
After a moment, what his lieutenant actually said caught up with him. "Sorry- force of habit from living with a Librarian." Komamura shook his head and looked up from the monthly intake statistics analysis report, peering at Tetsuzaemon Iba through the narrow gap of his helmet. "What do you mean, fewer dead babies?"
"I dunno, it just occurred to me. When I started the academy in the 40's- right after the catastrophe- we did a student tour of the 7th division's recently deceased souls intake queue, remember?" Iba waved his hand leaning back in his chair, apparently uncertain of where he was going with this either, but articulating his thoughts.
"I believe so. I had just taken over from Captain Kotsubaki." Komamura nodded, patient. Chikane Iba was an excellent shinigami and had done a magnificent job running the third division, but she had a tendency to talk over and bulldoze her son, so Komamura had learned to be patient when the young man when he felt like he should share a thought.
"Yeah, yeah- Not gonna lie Boss, you scared the crap out of me back then." Tetsuzaemon laughed. "-But the thing that stuck out to me that day was just. The sheer number of Infants and little kids in the line. the guy giving us the tour- I think it was Old Ito, actually- He said that one in five babies in the living world didn't live to see their fifth birthday."
"An improvement even back then- it was one in three children when back when I started in the 1840s." Komamura nodded. "It's funny that I frightened you- Captain Aikawa apparently headhunted me for the 7th because Kaname told him about how the children at the library used to use me as playground equipment."
"Good grief." Iba blanched. "So, what, he threw you in the deep end with all the dead kids?"
"In Captain Aikawa's defense, I did volunteer to handle children's cases. As sad as a frightened infant is, it's infinitely preferable than dealing with the deceased who are angry."
Iba frowned, opened his mouth like he was about to object, reconsidered, closed it, considered further, rocking his head from side to side, and then nodded. "I- yeah, Yeah, that tracks."
"You were saying though?" Komamura laced his fingers in front of him, leaning forward to listen.
"Oh! Well- not as much these days but back then, every family had like seven and eight kids, you know? And I realized that, well- almost everyone I know has a dead sibling or two? Almost every mother lost a child- Gods know my mother's a basket case but even getting a cold could send her into fits. If something had happened to me when I was a tyke- I don't think she would have pulled through."
Komamura nodded enough for Iba to see his helmet tilt to indicate he as still listening.
"I- I don't actually know where I was going with this, but I was reading that report earlier and there's a note from Shita-san at the end that this is the first month we haven't had a kid under the age of five in the intake queue. Ever."
Komamura flipped though the pages of the report to read the hand-written note at the end. "That is excellent news!"
"Oh! Yeah! It's great!" Iba nodded enthusiastically. "It just- I don't know, I guess it just snuck up on me and I'm so used to hearing something went wrong I guess I don't quite know what to do with good news?" he shrugged.
Komamura pondered this for a moment. "Hm. Well. Take heart, to start. But I see what you mean- it's a tremendous achievement, but not one we contributed to, and a "No Dead Babies This Month" office party feels in poor taste at best."
"Oof, yeah- especially if next month there's an accident or something and there's a whole bunch in the queue." Iba nodded. He considered things for a moment.
"-What happened that there are le- fewer dead babies, actually?" Iba frowned. "-Whoever it is, it would be appropriate to toast them and make an offering in their name to the Gods of Good Fortune, I think. Also do more of whatever they did."
"That IS a good idea!" Komamura smiled under his helmet. Perhaps it was his training as a priest, but he did enjoy an offering of goodwill ceremony. Also, nobody would ask him to drink- just pour any alcohol he was offered on the statue of the relevant deity. "I think- It's probably in our statistics, if the tenth division doesn't have an idea already. Can you collect the cause of death data for young children for the last-"
He was interrupted by the thunderous footsteps of someone sprinting towards the office, immediately followed by a tall young woman with short white hair throwing the door open, red-faced and winded.
"THEY DID IT! THE MAD BASTARDS THEY DID IT!" She shouted with wild excitement.
"Isane-? Uh, Miss Kotetsu?" Iba flustered.
"Please keep your voice down-" Komamura said through gritted teeth, trying not to growl at being suddenly shouted at. "Who has-?"
He was interrupted by Miss Kotetsu bolting right up to his desk and shoving a newspaper into his face hard enough to actually wrap around his helmet in excitement.
"SMALLPOX! IT'S GONE!!" She shrieked with joy.
"-gone?" Iba asked, bewildered as Komamura gently took the newspaper from her and pulled it back to actually read it. It was a newspaper from the living world, dated that morning- someone had gone through some pains to get it back to the Seireitei at speed, but the news was worth it:
SMALLPOX IS DEAD!
"TOTALLY ERADICATED! EXTINCT! KAPUT! IT HAS CEASED TO BE!" She bounced excitedly. "IT IS AN EX-PANDEMIC!"
"So like. Nobody has it this year?" Iba tried.
"Nobody has it this year, or will ever have it again, if I'm reading this right." Komamura muttered in awe. "Thanks to an aggressive worldwide vaccination and disease protocol program, there have been no human cases of the disease for several years. Since there are no people infected, there is no way for the disease to come back..."
Both men stared into space, the news almost unbelievable.
"Well. That does explain the Less Dead Babies thing." Iba nodded.
"Fewer Dead Babies." Komamura and Isane corrected in unison.
"I mean yeah that sure is part of it because Smallpox was the number one killer of infants in the living world for a long time there, but there's a whole bunch of stuff that's really cut down on infant mortality in the last few decades in particular." Isane nodded.
"We were JUST Talking about that!" Iba said, excitedly. "-Good to know you guys in the fourth are keeping track of that, It was gonna take forever to pull out that data..."
"Oh, could you pull it out anyway Tetsu-kun?" She asked. "-That's most of why I came over- I mean, to share the good news first, but Unohana-Taicho is planning on using this to really push a widespread vaccination program in the Rukongai and having the numbers to back us up would be really helpful!"
"Oh! Uh, sure!" Iba blushed.
"...You know this young lady, Tetsu-Kun?" Komamura lightly teased.
Both of the young people twitched and bowed to him, pointing at each other and speaking at once.
"Oh! I'm sorry Sir, I'm fourth division third seat Isane Kotetsu, i just know Iba because we were in the same class at the academy-" She babbled.
"-this is Isane Kotetsu, she's the smartest person I know and she saved my life from a lizard one time!" He waved excitedly.
"...That lizard was not going to kill you." She sighed, covering her face in embarrassment. "-I mean, if you developed a sepsis infection from the contaminated wound it might have made you very ill but that would take weeks and we have antibiotics for that, the lizard itself wasn't all that dangerous."
"It was INSIDE my LEG!" Iba gestured to his right thigh.
Komamura slowly tilted his whole torso sideways at Iba, hoping that sentence might make more sense at a forty-five degree angle. "...How?"
"I. Uh." Iba stopped, realizing his story was maybe not one he should be telling his boss. "I was. um. Out camping with the lads back when I was in the 11th, and a lizard climbed into my cot and I was. not totally awake and thought someone was trying to cop a feel and well you know, that's behavior you respond to with force so I rolled over and tried to stab the intruder's hand and. Uh. Missed."
Komamura continued to stare at him blankly.
"There was. screaming. lotta flailing, blood, general mayhem sort of thing. And in the confusion the Lizard.... climbed. inside the hole. In my leg. Sir." Iba explained, slowly crumpling behind his desk.
Komamura sighed deeply.
"-but Miss Isane was right there and actually kicked Ikkaku halfway across the camp because he was trying to lure it out with a Banana and generally being useless and she just grabbed that sucker and ripped him right outta there and had the wound packed and sealed in less than a minute and I even got to finish doing boot camp!" He rallied, cheerfully waving at Isane in hopes of distracting his captain with how cool she was.
"...What happened to the lizard?" Komamura asked, warily eyeing her through the gap in his helmet.
"Oh! He was really, really human acclimated and sneaked into my medkit rather than go back into the wild, so Harry lives a very spoiled lizard life in a terrarium in my room at home! Though it's actually my sister's room now but he still gets all the mango and smashed beetles he can eat!" Isane nodded cheerfully.
"You named a lizard. Harry?" Komamura asked slowly.
"...Iba-san named him, actually." She blushed.
"Ironically!" Iba protested. "I'm only mostly stupid, sir."
Komamura sighed deeply and once again regretted that his disguise would not let him rub his face as needed. "Alright. Thank you for the announcement, Miss Kotetsu. We will get that data to you in a timely manner- was there anything else you needed"
"Oh gosh, there was something else, what was it-?" She tapped her chin, trying to remember.
There was the distant sound of explosives, and all three of them turned to see what looked like midday fireworks going off at the 4th.
"Oh Right! Unohana-taicho requests your presence at the 4th as. Um. 'Designated Non-Drinker and Unarmed Combat Specialist' because the party was getting kind of wild when I left actually-"
Komamura sighed, and picked up Tenken from his stand and started tying the zanpaktou to his belt anyway.
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The following morning, a small party arrived at the local shrines to The Gods Of Good Fortune, bearing offerings on behalf of the living world's World Health Organization and the handful of names they'd been able to glean from the living world newspapers, and nursing varying degrees of of hangover.
Komamura lead the party, having gotten them up at a slightly malicious 5AM to be there first thing in the morning. Tetsuzaemon and his friends from the 11th he insisted come along and 'suffer with me, as my sworn brothers' were quite pained but doing their best to hold it together.
Shunsui was a veteran of this nonsense and was hiding the pain very well behind his longtime party companions, Ukitake and Unohana, who seemed so extraordinarily cheerful that Komamura had to conclude that they were both still significantly chemically altered. He couldn't fault Unohana- they were faint and only visible on the rare occasions she let her hair down, but just below her left ear there was still the faint divot scars from surviving her own infection.
Isane had celebrated just as hard as the 11th Division lads, but had also had the good sense to alternate beer and water and take both aspirin and some sort of horrible pink goop that apparently relieved nausea before passing out under a table and had woken up only slightly groggy.
Komamura's new friend Harry the Lizard- a remarkably loquacious and quick-witted reptile -had taken up residence inside his helmet, lightly intoxicated on the cocktail fruits people had kept feeding him, and was politely nestled in the thick fur of his neck to ward off the morning cold.
The rituals of gratitude for this miracle, and asking the Gods to bless those who had worked so hard went smoothly, and Komamura couldn't help but notice when he turned around that Miss Kotetsu had opted to lean on the shoulder of 'Tetsu-kun'.
It was not often Komamura started the day with the feeling that everything would turn out alright, but as he watched Tetsuzaemon cautiously but gracelessly take Isane's hand and her squeeze it back on the way back down from the shrine, he felt like the feeling might stay this time.
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