Hehe, Brushbug. New episode of the anime tomorrow! Shirahama posted these to her twitter today.
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Hehe, Brushbug. New episode of the anime tomorrow! Shirahama posted these to her twitter today.
Re: chapter 97:
There's a lot of interesting developments taking place, but Engendale being sent to Adanlee is possibly the most interesting to me, despite it being only mentioned offhand. A former Wise, whose entire deal was foreign relations and diplomacy with heads of state, had his memories entirely wiped of magic, then found himself shipped off to a place nicknamed the Isle of Oblivion. (A place that gets regularly mentioned, for... reasons...)
Surely he must've had tremendous power and connections in witch society, and undoubtedly within the Brims, but seemingly no one lifted a hand to work out a deal or stage a coup to wrest him away from the Knights before his sentence was carried out. Vinanna, who was likely colleagues with him for years, barely batted an eye. I guess this could speak to the idea of no one giving a shit about him (he did seem v unlikeable), but maybe it's just another example of how coldly efficient "justice" is done in the realm of witches.
Anyway, Luluci girl, defect
Also massive hiring upgrade in the form of Lagrah
The reason Qifrey is so awesome and relatable is because he wants to live. Man in his twenties being ominous as hell and breaking laws left and right and messing with forces beyond comprehension and lying to the cops and doing horrible things to the people who love him most and constantly destroying his own mental health and you peel back the layers and the motivation is "God I want to grow old someday."
One of the things I think they're doing incredibly in the anime version is depicting weird little girl acting? In episode six Coco does some gestures that made me genuinely laugh! They really captured that goofy, floppy energy, and it's even notable when it's not used (see: Agott)
Just asking bc itâs something Iâve gotten increasingly curious about, but⌠what r ur personal thoughts on canon and oc interactions (not necessarily romantic ships, could also be good friends or FWB) in fic?
I personally love if itâs done good + in a way in which everyone is in character ahahaha. Then again, views on this vary a lot so I gotcha ahahah <3
I don't write them myself because I tend to keep fic and original writing separate, but writing OCs into existing worlds like Witch Hat is part of the whole appeal of creating fan works. If writers want to make their original character absolutely smash (or get smashed by) Ermile or Esthies, by all means they should. It probably won't do massive numbers on places like Ao3, not because it's flawed, but because fewer readers have context for that character, and I think writing for hits is a good way to inflict psychic damage anyway. Writing is something fun you should do to piss off, traumatize or delight your mutuals.
it's so fucking funny to me that the entire point of there being witches in Kalhn is to protect the town from these giant, menacing molewyrms. Shirahama drops that lore (including the strongest character design in the entire series) and is OUT, we don't hear about them again
YET.
đ i love all the tube-based creatures equally đ
(thanks to leafy-m for tracking down Molewyrm part 2)
the bitch is BACK (in episode 4)
I've seen new Witch Hat fans looking for low-to-no spoiler fics, and basically everything I've written is full of late manga spoilers except for maybe this one, aka the fic about Olruggio's (seemingly canonical?) sexy pyjamas
You Shouldn't Have (2795 words) by LillyPillyBeetle Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: ă¨ăăă帽ĺăŽă˘ăăŞă¨ | Tongari Boushi no Atelier | Witch Hat Atelier (Manga) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Olruggio/Qifrey (Tongari Boushi no Atelier) Characters: Olruggio (Tongari Boushi no Atelier), Qifrey (Tongari Boushi no Atelier) Additional Tags: Fluff, Two Shot, Podfic Available Summary: It was a shirt, if it could be called as much, diaphanous, sheer and delicate, embroidered on the shoulders and tailored to hang in sheets of fabric so thinly woven he could barely make out the individual threads. Not a shirt then, almost more of a cloak or a drape. It fluttered in the warm breeze, and, not knowing what to make of it, he set it carefully aside and peered once more into the box.
Ps: I think u may like Olly/Qifrey/Hiehart as a pair đ a mutual of mine ships em
clip studio paint is open on my other monitor with a half drawn pinup of hiehart on the canvas so, ohhh, i could probably be convinced
I have been fixating a lot on Utowin as a character fr đ 𤧠I was thinking about what the current state of his relationship with his dad may potentially be too for some rzn??
Holy shit, Utowin's dad is such a dick. Everyone (rightfully) gives Kukrow hell for being a nightmare master to Euini, but it's clear Utowin's dad finds nothing redeeming in his son and wishes for his legacy to take the form of another, more talented boy, and says this right to his face? Brutal. Utowin and Euini seem like they share a similar north star in that they both feel the need to be useful or impressive to someone, probably as a result of being viewed with quiet contempt for their entire childhoods. Diminishing the interests and abilities of children with verbal abuse is such a theme in WHA. There's like, at least three incidents of it.
Even as a whole ginger adult man Utowin claims that, "All I'm good at is swinging this thing around," when he's taking about the silverwhite pennant, so I hope the current state of his relationship with his dad is never writing home and telling him to kick rocks. I hope if he sees him again he headbutts him in the mouth.
with the anime starting on monday here's a genuine thanks to all the artists, shitposters, fic writers and readers who I've been making cool work and leaving sweet/weird/ out of pocket comments over the years. The fics and theories have been very fun/crushing/legit interesting, and I loved that brief window of time where Qifrey was definitely, undeniably evil.
I bought a copy of Witch Hat in 2017 while messing around in Ikebukuro, and it turns out that was probably a good idea.
Now that it's clear Shirahama is super deliberate about foreshadowing and visual leitmotifs with her border designs this makes! me! squint! (suspiciously)
why ram's horns, why bellflowers/foxgloves (?), what's that big ol horse about girl
we're going to stop talking now
might make an +18 art account (for doomed yaoi and Ermile/Sinocia) over on bluesky one day soon but will post up here if i do <3
okay i'm heysoundsgood on bluesky, will fire some stuff up later tonight xoxox
might make an +18 art account (for doomed yaoi and Ermile/Sinocia) over on bluesky one day soon but will post up here if i do <3
coloured him, increased scruffiness x2
trying to shake off some dust and draw again
The past two years Iâve been writing a lot of fics, and come a long way in understanding what makes work really punchy. I donât know if this would be helpful to anyone else, but these are the (sometimes painfully obvious) things Iâve been trying to keep in mind as I write Witch Hat fics.
Mention the seasons/weather. Because environments are already visually depicted in the manga, I have a tendency to not describe settings in-depth, and this extends to the weather/temperature/time of day. The atelier is in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by the outdoors, so it feels like a missed opportunity not to embrace this element of the narrative, and I often go back and intentionally include these details.
Relatedly, include sensory input from things other than vision. Whatâs the fabric feel like? How does the market smell? What do brushbugs sound like when theyâre eating ink? Does your stomach drop when you descend with sylphshoes?
Try not to head hop. Changing perspectives between characters is fun and I do it all the time from chapter to chapter, but there was a time when I would shift back and forth between paragraphs, and looking back it creates confusion and friction for the reader. When in doubt, stick to only one character.
Vary the length of sentences and the way they begin. Try not to start everything with âshe went to the windowâ, or âQifrey bent to gather the broken cupâ. This kind of sentence structure feels more akin to stage direction, describing movements instead of the interiority of the character. What are characters thinking and feeling as they move through the world? âWhen he took a pull from the bottle, the wine spread over his tongue, tart and jarring, but it was a definite improvement over the taste of his own blood.â 'Filter words' that describe action are necessary and good, but Iâm trying to get better at breaking up their use up a bit. It's worth a minute to read up on filter words; guaranteed it will make your prose stronger.
Keeping in-character is more important than anything else (for me!). Mannerisms, patterns of speech, moods â if itâs not in the original, you can definitely extrapolate based on whatâs known about the character, but donât stretch it too far or your risk snapping immersion. Unless you want to snap immersion, and then go buck wild.
If a character isnât shown cursing be very thoughtful when you do make them swear. Nothing says you canât, but be strategic. I work back of house in a kitchen and BOH swears constantly - itâs sick actually - but I rarely like to include it in fics because it might feel needlessly harsh depending on the context or character.
Go back at the end and do a pass for pet words. These are words you find yourself repeating and falling back on too often, and my work is full of them. (Iâm sorry, itâs bad.) You can only cull so many, but do a search if you suspect thereâs a word thatâs showing up too often.
All of this is what I think about, but if you look at one of these points and think itâs bullshit, thatâs cool, man, write whatever works. Thank you for writing, I love all of it. xoxox Forgive me if I get self-conscious and delete this in half an hour.