彡┆Off with your head! ✩

Nico┆9teen┆They/he┆Writer/artist┆AuDHDBPBPD

[angeloferidia]

༄Nico’s introduction!彡✧

Thought since I’ve been posting more and gaining some followers, that it’s time I make an introduction post!

𓆩About me (pt. 1)!𓆪

Hello! My name’s Nico, I also go by Neeks! I use they/he pronouns, and identify as gnc tmasc genderfluid. I’m a lightskin mixed afro latino (puerto rican). I am autistic, ADHD (severe), BPD, C-PTSD, Bipolar (cyclothemia), and have major depressive disorder. I am very cool, chaotic, and funny despite the horrors I constantly face.

𓆩About my account!𓆪

With all that out of the way, hi! I’m a writer/artist that also likes to shitpost and make content of my interests. For more stuff about me and my byf/dni, please read my straw!

𖦹Posting...

✧Most of the time, I post about my hyperfixations, so you’ll mostly see stuff around that on my account. My hyperfixations tend to rotate in a random cycle, so often I’ll be fixated on one for a while, then fixated on another.

✧I don’t have a schedule for when I post, nor do I plan on making one. I don’t post very often due to indulging in my hyperfixations, lack of motivation, loss of interests, and procrastination. My sleep schedule gets fucked up from time to time due to insomnia, so my posting hours may vary.

✧Most of my posts will be in english, as I’m not fully fluent in spanish (no sabo kid fr... f u mom why didn’t you teach me spanish). I can hold a good amount of conversations in spanish, but I’m not entirely fluent. I can understand portuguese to a limited level because I know some spanish, but that’s about it for my skills in linguistics

𓆩About me (pt. 2)!𓆪

This part will be going over my interests and whatnot!

𖦹Special interests...

✧My OCs, writing, drawing, roleplaying, Tomodachi Life, Papa Louie, fantasy genre, angelology.

𖦹Hyperfixations...

✧TOUCHSTARVED, Identity V (BOYCOTT NETEASE), Genshin Impact, The Spider-verse saga (ITSV/ATSV), Cookie Run (Ovenbreak + Kingdom), Papa Louie, Bungou Stray Dogs, Splatoon, 8:11, Project Sekai, Dandy’s World, Forsaken, Limbus Company.

𖦹Faves...

✧Kuras (<333), TOUCHSTARVED, Kohane Azusawa, Shinonome Siblings, Miles Morales, Golden Cheese Cookie, Don Quixote, Nagito Komaeda, Luca Balsa, Yui Hirasawa, Leander, Mhin, Papa Louie games, Tomodachi Life.

𖦹Media interests...

✧Persona series, Chainsaw Man, JJK, Madoka Magica, Dungeon Meshi, Lucky Star, Azumanga Daioh, Nana, Alice in Borderland (live adaptation), Squid Game, Riordianverse, QSMP, B99, Ace Attorney, Danganronpa, Regretavator, Project Moon, Dead Plate, Alien Stage, Shameless, r1999, Twisted Wonderland.

𖦹Interests...

✧Literature, drawing, analog horror, psychological horrors, thrillers, psychology, baking, emo culture, scene culture, goth culture, vkei, Greek mythology, Greek tragedies, flower symbolism.

𓆩BYI/DNI𓆪

𖦹BYI..

✧ I'm a selective sharing Kuras yumeshipper/selfshipper. I tend to be highly selective of who I share with for my own comfort and peace of mind. Please do not be offended if I don't select you, it's nothing personal and I'm sure you're a lovely person! I love doubles and am sending all my love to them and their Kuras selfships! I just prefer not to interact with doubles most of the time and prefer to stay at a distance. I hope you all understand 🫶

✧Idgaf about spam liking, although it does startle me a little. Like my posts all you want, I appreciate it greatly when people like my content and leave comments! It encourages me to keep posting!!! But please, at least consider following me if you’re gonna like all my posts (/nf).

✧ I consume all of my interests critically. I do not support or condone any actions by the creators of my interest (Netease, HoYoverse, ect.)

✧ I need tone tags every now and then, I reclaim slurs, I use humor as a coping mechanism, I do talk about my experiences in mental hospitals and past attempts, I talk about recreational dr-g usage, I’m not very good with socializing or communication, I tend to get anxious posting publicly and interacting with others online. My reply time isn’t the best. I’m autistic and tend to be slow at understanding/processing things, please be patient when interacting with me (or I will cry /hj).

✧ I post suggestive content fairly often, along with sensitive/dark topics. I do not post NSFW on here to try and keep my account 15+, all my NSFW/Dead dove content (writing and art) is posted over at @neeksmusings (minors DNI).

𖦹DNI...

✧Basic crit, exclus, partake in discourse, hate any of my interests, toxic people or self proclaimed “haters”. I’ll also just block you if you’re weird or make me uncomfortable.

And that’s a wrap. I’ll make a masterguide and Q&A box rules post in the future. Thanks for reading!!! <333

[redstrewn]

[olivertheshapeshifterart]

Some emojis I did for a Touchstarved server I'm in :)

Guess who's my favourite

[beheamothscreamoth]

Another Leander + Basilea siblings post!

[vega-ly-art]

Happy birthday to my favourite gadfly!

His hair has always been a favourite element of mine so... why not put some focus on it? (And gives me an excuse to draw a more casual domestic moment, for once).

[redspringstudio]

Our Art Team takes “go big or go home” seriously with every part of TOUCHSTARVED, and this NPC is no exception 😩💪

Looks like Leander’s got competition for biggest tiddies in Eridia 🤭

[3xhowolves]

A while ago I made a post about the prologue's CG composition, how the CGs are all are dutch angles, but there's another detail I forgot to mention there that the Chapter 1 demo breaks: the rule of thirds.

(putting a cut bc this gets a little long esp with images)

The rule of thirds is basically a composition theory that claims every canvas can be split into thirds horizontally and vertically, and that people find composition most pleasing if the main focus lands on intersecting lines, and that people's attention is naturally drawn to those intersecting lines. Aside from the ending CG (most likely because of the amount of characters in it), all CGs in the prologue follow that rule pretty closely:

Heads and hands tend to fall near the intersecting lines, putting focus on facial expression and gesture.

For facial expressions, Kuras has a warm but distant look, Leander is not looking at MC but the Adders, Vere wears a cool, mischievous smile, Ais reveals almost nothing but watches closely, and Mhin's expression is closed off and their face covered in blood.

For gestures (which I rambled about a bit in the tags of this post), Kuras is holding papers, the text of which we cannot see, Leander has his magic lilies, Vere has MC's room key, Ais is keeping his hand close, and Mhin's is reaching out with a bloodied hand.

All of this sets up what to expect from the beginnings of their routes: Kuras is fascinated by MC's nature but is emotionally closed off and is keeping several secrets, Leander is not being completely genuine because he's performing for others so often, Vere keeps giving MC reason to seek him out because he's curious about what they are, Ais conceals his struggles with Ocudeus and pushes MC away because of it, and Mhin wants to be close but to do that would mean danger for MC.

Now, for the Chapter 1 demo. Most CGs do continue the pattern:

Mhin's and Leander's keep focus on facial expression and gesture, Vere's keeps focus on expression, and Ais' instead highlights Ocudeus' tentacles emerging from his tattoo.

Their CGs all subvert the original impressions of their prologue CGs.

In Mhin's CG, they are clutching themselves while covered in their own blood. The complete subversion shows the difference between Mhin's presentation and the reality: they appear dangerous and like they could hurt MC, but they themselves are in severe danger and in need of help.

Leander's gaze is still turned to an Adder. Instead of entertaining him, however, he is branding the Adder and looking completely indifferent to his screams. Leander went from a charismatic entertainer offering a delicate, fleeting flower to a hardened leader burning his followers so they prove loyalty. Neither impression of Leander is wrong- they are simply two sides to him, both of which he turns on at will.

In the prologue, he held MC's key, but now Vere is locked up. He still has confidence about him, but it's not the same air of control he held in the prologue. And his expression isn't fixed, it changes. It's hinted in the prologue that Vere is very physically expressive and hides it, but giving him different expressions in a CG really shows how important it is to watch his body language. The CG also changes the meaning of him stealing MC's key and marking them: he needs MC to seek him out because he's trapped. If he doesn't give MC a reason, he wouldn't ever be able to find out what they are.

Finally, the focus of Ais' CG isn't Ais. It's Ocudeus. In the prologue Ais took up almost the entire frame. While you can still see tentacles behind him, they weren't demanding attention. Now, Ocudeus is taking up almost all of the frame while Ais is off to the side. Ais has a powerful presence and seems very in control, but Chapter 1 is the reveal that his control is slipping away from him as Ocudeus takes root deeper inside of him.

But Ais' chapter has 4 CGs in total, and the one remaining that stars Ais breaks the rule of thirds that Touchstarved normally follows:

The moment it hits MC that they aren't dealing with Ais anymore, but Ocudeus.

The other CGs breaking the rule of thirds are Kuras':

The moment MC realizes that Kuras isn't a human.

In his prologue CG, he's off to the side. Not demanding too much attention. But in the Chapter 1 demo, he's front and center. His act of being a human doctor is broken when MC touches him, and he reveals just how fascinated he is by MC, not just because something about their soul or heart is different, but from a scientific angle they are unlike anything he's ever seen.

Instead of following the rule of thirds, the subjects are centered and demanding attention from the player.

In both cases, the subjects are not only Monsters. They are divine and do not belong to the mortal world.

If following the rule of thirds establishes what is 'normal', then breaking it establishes what is beyond.

Their presence is the only thing you are allowed to focus on in their CGs. Unlike in Vere's CG, where he is looking at the player but his gaze is indirect at the player, Ocudeus and Kuras are looking completely at MC and the player. It breaks the fourth wall and makes the player feel as seen as MC does.

As for MC... they have the full attention of divine beings. And in Eridia, attention is the last thing anyone wants.

[candy2teeth]

hello touchstarved tumblr i am here to report my fuckass leander mii keeps falling in love with literally everybody

[onyxsarttrove]

I spared this man enough of my time.

2 out of 5 LI have a full spread now, yippeee 💌

So happy with the outfit I designed for him! He looks bonita.

[onyxsarttrove]

I spared this man enough of my time.

2 out of 5 LI have a full spread now, yippeee 💌

So happy with the outfit I designed for him! He looks bonita.

[redstrewn]

[kandi-ramuda]

AHHH AIS AND VERES LOOK SO HALF-ASSED EVEN THO THEYRE MY FAVES

Square pfps if anyone wants rhem.. free to use obviously,, credits arent needed but appreciated

this is my first time ever doing these so if they look wonky plz excuse that huhu

[redspringstudio]

being the group diva is harder than you’d think 😮‍💨

[angeloferidia]

Kuras being too human for monsters and too monstrous for humans. There's just something so innately different about him no matter where he goes, not matter how hard he tries to fit in. That's it that's the post

[redstrewn]

[rottenraccoons]

Happy birthday to our favourite merchant gadfly!

It only feels right that Oleander be celebrated in this, apparently the busiest month here at Rotten Raccoons. I'm taking the evening off in his honour, and I hope you all do the same!

[redspringstudio]

Our Love Interests are so pretty, it’s easy to forget how terrifying the world they live in can be 😭 Here’s a sneak peek of a spooky crypt background 😱

Any guesses on what you’ll find here? 👀