First among the the MayBlade drawings I'm posting after the end of the challenge 😅
It took me a while to finish bc I'm not used to draw characters interact like this so I was struggling with getting the anatomy right (and honestly I'm pretty sure I've made some mistakes here and there 😅)
There is also the fact that drawing Toby turned out to be much more difficult than expected 😩
"Now why would I do that when I'm only a part of you, hm?"
lore drop below the cut
I've mentioned it before, but I'll say it again: my headcanon is that Ziggurat kidnaps Nero to coerce Julian into submission as his lap dog. imo, it never made sense that just buying a whole company was what broke Julian.
Ziggurat promises not to put Nero through any arrangements, then promptly backtracks on that behind Julian's back. Because of the arrangements, Nero suffers migraines, an eating disorder, and insomnia, but most troubling of all... he doesn't forget who the arrangements could have made him, and that shadow doesn't disappear even with recovery. He's always there, at the corner of his eye, the little voice in his head, just waiting for the moment Nero breaks from the pressure on his shoulders to take over.
putting some of these on paper but my shoulder hurt ... mmm
Transcript -
Jack - this is your room kid, I’ll be in the living room if you need me
after the bigbang blader, Ziggurat went missing and we were left without a place to live.
As an adult,, i was judged for my actions and my ties to HD academy. but Damian was too young. I couldnt let him make the same mistake as i did.
“Jack Hart”
??? - didnt know you two were related ?
Jack - “it was easier to convince the judge that way”
Now i 'm stuck in this rut... lost my love for beyblade … it didnt felt the same without the arrangement.
I genuinely wonder if people realize how many projects get abandoned because the readership "wasn't there", when in reality, the readership just stayed silent. It's a big thing in trad pub that book series get discontinued because readers pirate the books or wait until the series is finished to buy a copy, leading the publisher to think that nobody actually wants the book enough to continue the series, but it happens with indie creators too.
I've discontinued a lot of free, online series because it's not worth putting 3-5 hours a week into posting a project for no readers. Sometimes I finish the series for me but just never post it again, other times I don't finish it at all because it feels more worthwhile to put my time into other things. Sometimes I hear from readers who are sad or upset that I didn't finish something they were liking, but the *reason* it never got finished is because I didn't know anyone liked it. If you like something, tell the creator, tell your friends, make some noise about it. If you would be sad if a story never finished, make that interest known because one of my biggest considerations before discontinuing a series is "will people miss this? Will I be letting people down" and 9/10 times, I come to the conclusion of "no, it doesn't even seem like anyone's reading this" only to learn after I've moved on that apparently someone was.
I've said this before in a different way, and this post said it so well. With real examples.
If you like something, tell people.
If you want more content from an artist or author, if you like their stuff, tell them. It will give them creative fuel to keep going. And often it gives them other resources as well.
Recommend a work to other people. Leave a comment or a review. It doesn't have to be long, just genuine, a sentence or two.
Not many people know that a book's success is judged by book reviews as well as sales. Review the book on Amazon or another site to help it pass the metric of success and be recognized by publishers and retailers.
We are all gonna pretend like im not late and it’s still 31st, okay?
Day 31: Free day (aka sketches&doodles dump day)
A bit of sketches
And a bit of silliness (shitposts)
Day 4: Future: MIDDLE AGED BENKEI MIDDLE AGED BENKEI MIDDLE AGES BENKEI MIDDLE AGED BENKEIIIIII im gnawling at my enclosure, i need him carnally, my moon my man etcetc
Day 21: Mountains: you know i had to go with them. It was only right.
Day 11: Youkai: i went with a Gashadokuro- a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation. You already know what battlefield im talking about (also sorry chris fans, i needed the seasons to form a circle and someone had to be on the back :/ or maybe youre welcome? at least you dont have to look at his skull? yay?)
Day 20: “yearning VS yearning(w/impending doom)” aka “‘Why on earth did it have to be him’ meets ‘THANK GOD its him’” aka Crush part 2
i wasn’t done with them. i will NEVER be done with them.
Day 29: Vacation + Day 17: Sport: DSS squad shenanigans doodle for the soul (aka me being too tired to do anything bigger). Tetsuya is in fact inspired by cabbage man from atla yes.
Day 16: Bloom +Day 26:Cosplay: Listen. as i was going through the remaining prompts ive read cosplay and bloom in the same breath which resulted in me wondering who would cosplay as bloom from winx club…. and well. it was RIGHT THERE, sue me…
in a world full of ryuga glazers let me be the one that clowns on him. Its for the ecosystem’s enrichment
We are all gonna pretend like im not late and it’s still 31st, okay?
Day 31: Free day (aka sketches&doodles dump day)
A bit of sketches
And a bit of silliness (shitposts)
Day 4: Future: MIDDLE AGED BENKEI MIDDLE AGED BENKEI MIDDLE AGES BENKEI MIDDLE AGED BENKEIIIIII im gnawling at my enclosure, i need him carnally, my moon my man etcetc
Day 21: Mountains: you know i had to go with them. It was only right.
Day 11: Youkai: i went with a Gashadokuro- a spirit that takes the form of a giant skeleton made of the skulls of people who died in the battlefield or of starvation. You already know what battlefield im talking about (also sorry chris fans, i needed the seasons to form a circle and someone had to be on the back :/ or maybe youre welcome? at least you dont have to look at his skull? yay?)
Day 20: “yearning VS yearning(w/impending doom)” aka “‘Why on earth did it have to be him’ meets ‘THANK GOD its him’” aka Crush part 2
i wasn’t done with them. i will NEVER be done with them.
Day 29: Vacation + Day 17: Sport: DSS squad shenanigans doodle for the soul (aka me being too tired to do anything bigger). Tetsuya is in fact inspired by cabbage man from atla yes.
Day 16: Bloom +Day 26:Cosplay: Listen. as i was going through the remaining prompts ive read cosplay and bloom in the same breath which resulted in me wondering who would cosplay as bloom from winx club…. and well. it was RIGHT THERE, sue me…
in a world full of ryuga glazers let me be the one that clowns on him. Its for the ecosystem’s enrichment
(For anyone unfamiliar w Gachiakuta the weapons in the anime are called vital instruments which is why this prompt was the perfect excuse for me to throw my otp into one of my recent obsessions lmao)
More sketches and some notes and thoughts under cut ⬇️
For this au Ginga would take the place of Rudo being thrown of the sphere after Ryo was “killed”
(Since I haven’t gotten to read the manga yet idk if Regto is actually is still alive but for the sake of this au we’ll say he is and Ginga will eventually meet Ryo again)
Similarly to Rudo he would become a Cleaner and join Team Akuta which consists of Kenta, Hikaru and Masamune (we are not following the mfb canon introductions chronologically at all this is based on vibes)
(You can kind of think of Masamune as Zanka and Hikaru as Riyo but this is very lose, Kenta is an added bonus :) )
The Team obviously needs an adult leader replacing Enjin but there isn’t really many adult characters in mfb (especially not ones important to Ginga) so we are going with Hokuto who is not a dog in this au lmao
I do imagine tho that Hokuto prefers to train the kids and only does field work himself when it’s strictly necessary
Team Akuta is also usually accompanied by Madoka and Hyōma as Supporters
(Hyōma is technically Follo but atp I kinda gave up perfectly matching corresponding characters)
I imagine Team Wild Fang is a different Cleaners team -possibly Team Danger???
Doji takes the place of Zodyl as leader of the Raiders and the Dark Nebula bladers make up the rest of the members
Yu and Tsubasa eventually turn on the Raiders (like Fu) and become members of the Cleaners
Yu would either be a member of Team Child or Team Akuta, Tsubasa would probably be a member of Team Front (based on how he works directly for the WBBA in canon)
This au isn’t supposed to follow the actual canon storyline of Gachi it’s just set within the world building and loosely inspired by the plot
I might expand on this au in the future but because I don’t have that much time atm it’s all still very vague sorryyyy
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