20s | they/them | aroace | my name is momo <- i will change this probably a hundred times
vbs + mafuemu + vocaloid fan <3
regarding all the stamps i make:
textless stamp edits are f2u for anything without credit
other stamp edits (like outfit edits or kizuna rank stamps) are f2u WITH credit ideally (+tagging me so i can see it would be cool!!)
i make them with the idea in mind that they could conceivably be official + canon stickers so that anyone who sees them out in the wild goes ":0 IS THAT REAL??", so having them be used in edits or other stuff only furthers that goal 👍
requests: open
for textless stamp edits or other edits! i can also make cut outs of 4komas + edit speech bubbles out (assuming most of the character is still visible)
regarding oc stamp requests: YES, i will add them to my list if you send in an oc request! however, they are just requests so i’ll only do them if/when i feel up to it. make sure to give me 1) a picture of your oc, 2) a quick description of their personality + speaking style (or you can tell me what you’d like the stamp to say), and 3) their signature color for the text!
the World Link event "Into the New Light" will be held! 🌟
Honami, Shizuku, Kohane, Mafuyu, and Luka, who met in the world, find fragments of feelings whose colors have become murky. The memories glimpsed by these fragments reveal the image of a girl with her head down, saying, "I hate myself like this."
au where instead of trying to surpass rad weekend, vbs are birders trying to beat a big year record. vivid bird squad
additional thoughts and context and such below the cut for the interested ✌️🐦🔭
birding has a reputation as a relaxing and chill retirement hobby, but if you're enmeshed in the subculture you will soon come to know the epic highs and lows. the cutthroat drama and betrayal and crashout fights and gossip and grudges and incorrigible, life-ruining, life-saving obsession. the pushing your mind and body and the goodwill of everyone around you to the absolute limit. the property damage and trespassing and run-ins with the law. the exhilarating passion and beauty of it all. joy and idiocy in equal measure. it's extremely easy for me to imagine it as a vbs-appropriate high-octane life calling, lol.
since this is based entirely on north american birding culture, they’re japanese-american and from LA instead of shibuya. sorry. a lot of the specific locations/birds are based off my experiences birding with my gf and friends while visiting california :]
vivid street itself crosses a naturalized strip of the LA river that has colloquially borrowed its name and hosts a passionate naturalist community... i've based it on the willow street estuary - where the concrete encasing the LA river recedes and green things return, great egrets roost on discarded shopping carts and flocks of shorebirds forage along graffiti-lined riverbanks. very resilient and defiant and absolutely brimming with life. ken is a highly-regarded birder who has opened a café-slash-interpretive-centre since completing his own Legendary big year (a Rad year, even) with taiga and nagi 3ish years ago. these days he's mostly left the numbers game behind him but is still an active presence in the community locally.
vivids + bad dogs bird dogs are birding/travel partners, but it's also the nature of the lifestyle that you continually run into the same people as you all orbit the same birds and follow the rhythms of migration, and thusly they increasingly keep winding up in the same places and kinda fully join forces at some point. the order of how everyone meets is directly parallel to canon still, so an and akito have known each other the longest and kohane is pretty new to it all. i think they are a tiny bit older than canon here but not significantly so - probably like late teens or early 20s.
the history / experience / talent dynamics that initially inform a lot of the vbs relationships translate really fluidly to birding in interesting ways, and it was fun imagining which type of birder each of them might be... kohane the motivated, talented amateur with a big camera, an the birder-by-birthright with something to prove, akito the perpetually-in-motion lister with nothing to lose. and to toya, i have given the highest honour of all: the keen-eyed, inscrutable larophile. though obviously they're all listers here which is a particular and hardcore slice of the subculture - remember, all birding (as long as you respect the birds and each other) is good birding no matter if you're “hardcore” or "casual" <3
i have many more ideas I wanna draw (kohane's philosophical development... toyas spark bird and how he met akito.... exploration of akian friendship..... more about the previous generation...), but this is already a kinda hefty post... for now enjoy this glimpse into the funny & chaotic & life-changing & and beautiful world of looking at birds!!! i tried to make it a) entertaining and accessible for people with no knowledge of birding and b) hopefully in-character while still keeping it faithful to the ways birders at this level really act and talk. the intersection is where the fun lies lol
if you're still here thanks for looking at my long post
It is crazy that Rui said he’d rather kill himself than hurt someone, like spelled out that he thinks his life is worth less than the potential harm he could cause anyone, that he on a deep level does believe it’s true when people imply he’s fundamentally other and intrinsically more likely/capable to hurt others, and were that proven true the only recourse is to die about it, like his existence is an imposition on humanity, like he’s living on borrowed time and goodwill until they inevitably get sick of “tolerating” him like they so “kindly” have, he made a whole play about it. Damn. Deeper and deeper you’ll always be famous.
