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she/they / 19 I don't know what I'm doing here, bear with me

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More stamps more stamps more stamps

I made some more stamps because why not!! First four are album covers from smiling broadly (the smiling broadly ep & for a moment i saw myself as inexorably beautiful) and twinkle park (all fall floral & touched, or been touched by) respectively that I manually extended, last five r from Sanda and School Zone Girls. I think Yagiuda is silly. Yokoe is just like me fr. I've hit 180 total stamps on my art fight now. I can stop whenever I want.

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Huevember 2025 Day 6 - Chainsaw Man!

I know this concept has been done before, but I thought it'd be fun to try my hand at the whole "reze in the reflection of the chainsaw" thing. Also, he's surprisingly fun to draw.

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Huevember 2025 Day 5 - Halloween Jaen!

I love her base design, and a part of me thinks this alt is kind of a mess but I'm here for it. She's just so pretty :)

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Huevember 2025 Day 5 - Denji!

ngl i almost forgot to crosspost today bc of how bad this flopped on insta. that algorithim does NOT like me. I like how this one turned out too :/

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Huevember 2025 Day 3 - Pure Vanilla Cookie!

...i knew there'd be more cookies this year but I didn't mean for there to be two cookies back to back so soon lol. oops. He's fun to draw aside from that stupid hat honestly

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Huevember 2025 Day 2 - Sugarfly Cookie!

I love her design so much, she's so pretty <3

...also I think the colors on my computer are off. The purple looks way more bluish. oops.

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Huevember 2025 Day 1 - Usapyon!

For fun, and to mix things up, I'm trying the version of Huevember where you use the complimentary color as an accent. Working with just one hue can be fun and it looks nice all lined up but I wanted to do something different this year :p

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literally

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Reze!

here's a version w/o the explosions also. i couldn't decide which one i liked better lol

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Jyuugoya Enra / Moon Festival Smogmella!

+a version w/o the moon bc I can't decide which one I like better

this one's also a redraw, technically. i drew her back in december of 2022, tadaa

and here's the original variant! I didn't include it last time and I felt bad that people thought I came up with the outfit lol. Honestly I think she's one of the prettiest Smogmella variants, I looove the soft purples and yellows.

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Fall Smogmella Redraw, 2025!

I can't believe it's been 2 years since I drew her last... I really like how this one turned out though :)

If you're wondering, here's the old versions! 2023 on the left, 2022 on the right.

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I'm still not over the pinup from Buddy Stories. (aka let me rant for a bit about incredibly minor character design details because I have rot in my brain)

I'm assuming if you found this post you care about this stupid guy as much as I do, or are morbidly curious enough to continue reading despite any prior investment (or lack thereof, in which case, thank you lol). I'm not going to bother with introductions either way though.

So we've only seen young Kishibe a handful of times, primarily in the "All About Kishibe!" extra from volume 8 and the two illustrations he's featured in in Buddy Stories (which includes the pinup above). And across all of them, I've noticed some interesting discrepancies.

Fist off, and most glaringly to me, his hair! I don't think we've ever seen young Kishibe drawn with this lighter colored hair, it's always filled in with straight black. ...I'm sure the rational explanation is that this change was made for compositional purposes, but I still think it's a weird detail. There's other areas of darker values, Fujimoto could've easily used the darker purple/navy from the suit pants or Quanxi's eyepatch even, but no. He chose this dusty blonde color that lowkey alludes to the color of his hair in the anime, which was almost certainly in production when the illustration was made. Either way, weird.

Second, and the bigger discrepancy, his earrings.

Two on the left, one on the right in the present day. Okay, that's all well and good. But then... inexplicably, they're switched for young Kishibe. Two on the right, one on the left. I figured maybe this was just an oversight on Fujimoto's part, but it's remarkably consistent throughout damn near every panel of "All About Kishibe!".

Why?! Why did he (fujimoto) do this? You can even see it in the pinup, there's only one earring on the left ear. The only panel that goes against this is also the only panel where his earrings are absent, where he professes his love.

I don't have an explanation for this, and I doubt I'll ever have a proper one from Fujimoto because... Well, I'm no interviewer, and I doubt any interviewers would bother wasting air or print space on such a trivial detail. But it's weird, right? Why make such a slight but noticeable change to a character's design for their younger version specifically?

...I have a rough theory. Probably not a very good one, but it's mine and you've gotten this far. I think it might have something to do with Quanxi's rejection, (maybe even Minami's departure in Buddy Stories, if you want to rope that into canon) because again, that's the only time we don't see the earrings at all. Maybe in between the events of the series and the nine year mark for his & Quanxi's "relationship", he stopped wearing earrings for a bit, and got them re-pierced on the opposite sides for whatever reason. I'm sure someone more creative than me could take those ideas and run with them in like a fanfic or something. I think that'd be fun.

That's about it, honestly. I could probably keep going on about his facial hair or his hair length, but I don't feel like it. I already think about this guy far more than any rational person should, and I am no better for it lol

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Chu, Tayousei. but make it Astra

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A random assortment of self-indulgent stamps I've made for my art fight. I figured I'd stick them here, in case anyone wanted to use them. Credit to hazel from youtube for the school zone girls one :) (and yes I fucked up the cropping for the scissor seven season 2 op stamp I'm so sorry but I'm not remaking it you can't make me go through that again)