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@kippin-art
Cat nap
Yukimura had enough 🐯
this is so good i love this omg
MjakdjkaldlMkskfkf SORRY I WASNT TRYING TO MAKE YOU FEEL BAD FOR NOT BEING HERE LMAO that came off so wrong! I was just trying to say I'm happy to see you! :'D
Crossing my fingers for those 2.5 weeks to go as smooth and chill as possible for you!
NO don’t apologize hahahahaha plz i completely understood the concern it was conveyed just fine!! but im glad that warms my heart greatly and am happy to see you too (hope you’re also doing well!!)💕
we’ll see!!! have to be on top of my stuff to make sure it goes smoothly
Kippin! You're here! How are you doing, how is your life going? I hope you are well!
hi anon!!! gosh i feel so bad bc i like lurk around tumblr pretty regularly but forget to/shy away from interacting when i don’t have anything new to offer hahahaha
but im doing alright you’re so sweet for dropping in my inbox🥺💕
work has kept me unwittingly busy and im counting down the days until this project ends (2.5 more weeks!) so i hope that i can be a little more active here!
Love Me Prompts! Cuddles with Hideyoshi pls 💕
Krys, I love you. I was looking through the requests, hoping there was still one with Hideyoshi, and here you are. I couldn't be happier. I suppose this is Cuddles-Surprise fusion, though?
Hideyoshi x Reader Fluff Content Warnings: none
To Keep You Warm
Hideyoshi leads you forth by the hand, the crowd surrounding you thinning out before disappearing completely. His skin is calloused, rough and hard to the touch, tempered by the endless hours spent on the battleground. Objectively, it is not pleasant, but with that, with that you could never agree.
His hands are big and warm, they are caring, careful, and kind. They feel like home, even as you walk down the unlit road. The festival hums behind your backs, yet you do not wish to fall into its joyous chatter. Not now.
"Finally some quiet," he sighs in relief, but still continues to walk. Just for a short while.
The riverside is peaceful tonight, not a soul in sight. Content, you sit down on the grass.
"It's colder here," he realises, his face cut by a frown. "Come closer. You'll catch a cold."
You do as he asks, yet he insists until your back leans against his chest, deaf to any excuses you may have. Hideyoshi rubs goosebumps off your forearms, and you fingers entwine again. Your home needs no roof nor walls for as long as he holds your hand.
Love me, Love me, how would you love me?
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Tag list: @violettduchess @cilokgoang @the12thnightproject
Content Creators...
Thinking about 2022 as we wave it goodbye and send it into the past. Let’s do a little bit of navel-gazing and patting ourselves and each other on the back and realize just how much we’ve accomplished over the past year.
So, for your blog, please answer (all or some) of the following questions. I’ll be working on my own answers over the next day or so.
What creation or accomplishment from 2022 are you most proud of?
Cut and paste some of your favorite reader/viewer comments on your work. We’re celebrating, people, and comments on your work is your champagne. It’s New Year’s, live a little.
What stretched you creatively?
What was the most difficult thing you created and how did you get through it?
What’s one thing you’ve never tried to create that you might challenge yourself to create in the next year?
What new fandoms did you discover over the past year?
What fan-works created by someone else inspired/excited you?
What did you read or see that made you go, “I wish I had written/painted/created that.”
Who did you discover?
Spread the fandom love – who makes you smile? [Yes, it is totally valid to write “everybody” in this space]
Tag yourselves in! Share the love! Party! Toast! Hugs! Rainbows! Unicorns! And a box of kittens!
And now my answers...
What creation or accomplishment from 2022 are you most proud of?
It’s not one fic in particular – it’s more that I started taking prompts/requests/ asks (funny how the number of those increase when you enable the “anonymous message” option). I honestly hadn’t thought I would write these, because I was worried that I couldn’t write them. Granted, some of them took extra thought and research, but I’ve gotten through them.
Cut and paste some of your favorite reader/viewer comments on your work. We’re celebrating, people, and comments on your work is your champagne. It’s New Year’s, live a little.
I love all the comments I get, even the ones on the multi-chapter that made me stop and think, “uh oh, I need to fix that,” but here are my two favorites:
“…thank you for doing such a wonderful job writing Mitsunari as his neurodivergent self, with all the benefits and blind spots that gives him.”
Because I really worked hard to getting the nuances of Mitsunari, trying to make certain that I didn’t make his absentmindedness and literal thinking a caricature… so I’m celebrating that someone saw that and commented on it.
2. [On Chapter 42 of "12 Lies..."] "Maybe we’re not meant to get over people. Maybe we’re meant to take with us the things we learned, the joyful memories, and use the pain to become kinder versions of ourselves."
That is so incredibly poignant. I came back to this chapter after bookmarking with that quote in it, because I just had to praise it. That quote is so raw and real and echoes a lot of the struggles that I've had myself, not even in the context of romantic love. I've lost people close to me, and we're often told that grief is fine, and that there's no right way to grieve, but rarely do we hear that sometimes, that grief may never go away. That it's fine if it lingers with you, because that pain can give us the strength to keep going and know that you haven't forgotten them.
--This comment popped into my inbox almost six months after I posted the last chapter on Ao3, long after I expected any new comments to appear. It was a nice surprise, and great to realize that people were still finding the fic long after I had stopped flogging it on social media. But what really got me about this comment, is that this was on a chapter that I hadn’t thought people would like as much, because it was a chapter mostly between two OCs (Shingen wasn’t even in the chapter), a brother and sister reunited and having a long heart to heart about love, loss, and how to get through it. It was about finding contentment after heartbreak, it was about learning how deal with pain, not by ignoring it but by taking it as a necessary part of growth. But it was a really quiet chapter, with just a little bit of gentle humor, a pause in between a lot of action, and I didn’t know how it was going to go down. Maybe most of the readers skimmed past it… but one didn’t and they let me know that it was important to them.
What stretched you creatively?
I added a lot of design to my blog this year. I got a canva account and played around with word/image posts. Serious shout-out to [@lorei-writes and @nuttytani ] for their lovely canva creations because they’ve figured out how to make things I could only dream of.
What was the most difficult thing you created and how did you get through it?
What Dreams May Come My first AU. Trying to world build the Sengoku warlords into Napoleonic War era England without losing the plot, and without going overboard on word count was a struggle. But it was also a struggle because I had an idea for what I wanted the story to be… and the characters and story had a completely different idea where they wanted to go, and they wanted to do angst. I generally shy away from angst, so I pushed against it, and my first draft exploded badly. Sometimes you have to let things go to a dark place, and trust that you’ll come out the other side. Once I let the story do what it wanted, it turned out I love where it ended up (although it’s one of my least popular Ao3 fics, so I could be alone in that). Still, I’m happy where it ended up.
What’s one thing you’ve never tried to create that you might challenge yourself to create in the next year?
I’ve never written second person reader-insert. It’s not a POV I am comfortable writing - it doesn’t feel right when I try. (maybe because some of the medical writing I do in my day job is in 2nd person, so every time I run across second person, my brain goes into work-mode, and I don’t want to be in work mode when I write – or read - fanfic). But I’d like to try it at least ONCE - there was one thing I wrote last year where I got partway through it and thought, ‘you know, maybe this would be better in second person’ but I felt such an internal resistance that I didn’t even try to go that route.
But one of the best one-shots I’ve read on Ao3 is second person (not reader insert though… “you” is Judas), and it’s such a poetic read (Gethsemane) that I think it’s something I would like to push myself to try, given the right story and prompt. Maybe I wouldn't do reader-insert... maybe the "you" would be the warlord... I don't know. But I should try and see what happens.
What new fandoms did you discover over the past year?
I’ve just started reading Ikeprince, though I’ve not yet finished my first route, so it’s too soon to tell. I loved “Even if Tempest,” and might play around with some headcanons on that, although I otherwise don’t have any solid fic ideas.
What fan-works created by someone else inspired/excited you?
After thinking that I don’t really like AU, it turned out that this was the year of reading AU for me. The Dragon of Yss by @lorei-writes with a beautiful world building, Romance in the Office by @selenacosmic is a comfort read of Shingen in the modern world, and Entwined by @ikeromantic has some brilliant character reads that I feel like I’m reading something in-game. They've all made me rethink AU, and now I don’t automatically scroll past when I run into that genre.
In a different vein, I’ve never been a huge Nobunaga fan, but I Follow You Through the Ages by @ahanenohi made me look at him in a different way (it also made me tear up). Also the sheer number of amazing one-shots that @venulus posts, blows my mind. I could only dream of having that much creativity (let alone productivity).
Everyone who creates smut – I’m jealous of your ability to do so… every time I try, I read through my first couple paragraphs and think, “wait that’s only going to work if he has an extra arm.” (Hm, maybe I should try writing tentacle smut instead…. j/k)
Images always inspire me, and I could list many many artists, post this, and then face palm because I’ve forgotten someone, but @kippin-art always makes me smile and want to imagine the text that goes along with her art; @ikemendaniel watercolors are so beautiful and clever; @ashavazesa – pen and ink work is heart-stopping beautiful; @hideoutpastel makes me see characters in a whole new way (her AU mafia Shingen lived in my head for a few weeks); @darkscarletroses – vivid AU art – I always check this page when I know there is a warlord birthday; @cheese-ception – both her sketches and her writings remind me of poetry; and oh, if you haven’t seen @petite-madame Avengers art – it’s cover of a magazine worthy.
What did you read or see that made you go, “I wish I had written/painted/created that.”
Pulling @ikeromantic in here again… I had loosely been toying with the idea of some kind of Noir Ikemen Sengoku, but only in a … gee, that might be fun… and then I read The Angel's Choice and realized… nope, no need for me to write one, because that fic has everything I ever wanted in a SengokuNoir AU and more.
Also @fighting-and-drawing A Heart of Warrior (Yuki/male OC longfic series) plotting and fight scenes makes me want to be better at writing both.
Who did you discover?
I’m so relatively new to tumblr, that over half my following list are people I discovered in 2022… many of the blogs linked above were new to me this year. @skate-the-onion has some really funny figure skating content (figure skating +The Onion style headlines – check it out!). @scorchieart – I’m not yet familiar enough with Ikeprince, but I expect I will become addicted to your fic as I continue to make my way through the game.
Spread the fandom love – who makes you smile? [Yes, it is totally valid to write “everybody” in this space]
Everyone I follow makes me smile (even if we aren’t mutuals), even if you haven’t written any fanfic (yet… @bestbryn) or are slowly returning to it (@msviolacea ). To try and call out everyone risks my forgetting someone…. BUT, that said, @lorei-writes Grandma in the Mansion /Grandma in Sengoku and her Cats Rating Warlord series had me laughing so hard I frightened my cat.
When I started writing fanfic (or coming back to it) there was a part of me that was actually searching for a community, and tumblr, as crazy as it can be sometimes has been it, whether for the content, CGs and screencaps with fun commentary and reaction gifs (that's content creation too! Creative nonfiction) or the reblogs from other places on the web or the friendship and support… I cherish all of that.
Melting with happiness, thank you for the love💕 Your writing always makes me imagine the art that could go along with you stories!!
No Visits Policy
Masamune x ?* Comfort Modern AU
This year really is something when it comes to me trying out new things.
*- 1st person POV, speaker not otherwise specified
Author chose not to include warnings. Reader discretion advised.
The doors here do not have locks. I understand, and although it needs no explanation, I suppose the ability to know why that much is the case is the only answer I’ll ever get from heavens, universe, or whatever power I may scream at. Deaf or mute, it doesn’t matter, my head snapping to the side as Ieyasu enters the room.
The Azure Dragon
(Not to be confused with the Azure Dragoon, FFXIV folks.)
Fandom: Ikemen Sengoku
Pairing: Masamune/MC
Written for: @the12thnightproject, as part of @flash-exchange
Notes: One of the prompts we were given for this exchange was to write something inspired by the Chinese Zodiac. I immediately thought about Dragon, because I’m a Dragon, and that led me to an obvious association. I looked into some Japanese dragon lore for more inspiration, and, well, here we are.
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The whole thing was my fault. Hideyoshi told me to stay in town, but then a girl ran by, chasing her lost cat, and I couldn’t just ignore her. So that’s how I ended up in a field on the outside of town, my kimono stained green from the grass. We had just convinced the kitty to accept a nice hunk of fish, when I heard the telltale sound of a sword unsheathing.
(I have been in this time period too long, I thought, as panic bubbled up, if swords sound that familiar.)
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a guardian angel Mitsunari I drew for @iphigeniainaulis for @flash-exchange. these exchanges are so lovely, so fun to see what everyone creates ^^
Spellbound
For: @kippin-art as part of the @flash-exchange
Character(s): Mitsunari, Ieyasu, Masamune, Nobunaga, Mitsuhide, Keiji, and Hideyoshi (sort of)
Prompt(s): Magical Apprenticeship AU, Aggressive Sentient Cookie Man, Teleporting at 2 a.m., and Chinese Zodiac... I kind of went a little wild on the prompts
Word count: 700
Title: Spellbound
Before ‘The Incident,’ weekly meetings of the Azuchi Wizard’s Guild followed a set agenda: social hour, the prior week’s minutes, current projects, and apprentice status reports. In the past, these meetings were smoothly moderated by Hideyoshi, but that was before… The Incident.
After that, meetings were concerned with one topic: “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Mitsunari?” One could put that to music (in fact, Keiji had done so).
“It’s your turn, Lad.” Masamune addressed Ieyasu and received a green-eyed death glare in response. “We’ve all done it. And survived.” He glanced toward Hideyoshi’s chair. “More or less.”
“Survived? A reminder: Aggressive Sentient Cookie Man.” At Ieyasu’s words, Masamune winced.
“You must admit that an army of those gingerbread soldiers would be terrifying.” Mitsuhide lounged in a club chair, petting his fox familiar. “His ideas are genius - their execution needs refining.”
In response, Ieyasu flicked his fingers, activating a memory in the scrying mirror:
“Wizard Mitsuhide, sir, I have perfected a teleportation spell!” Mitsunari holds out a paper.
“That would indeed be useful.” Mitsuhide scans the spell… then disappears… reappearing in a strange woman’s bedroom. “Well, this is most definitely not where I wanted to teleport. Sorry for appearing in your bed at two a.m.”
Supreme Wizard Nobunaga banged the gavel for attention. “A silent teleportation spell is quite useful. Mitsunari is too brilliant to be expelled.”
“Even after… that?” Ieyasu gestured to Hideyoshi’s chair, currently occupied by a monkey.
The monkey-formerly-known-as-Hideyoshi blew a raspberry.
“Bad timing that Mitsunari sneezed while creating a magic calendar. It might wear off… eventually?” Masamune shrugged. No one knew whether Hideyoshi would return to human form when the Year of the Monkey ended… or become a rooster.
“Everyone agrees, Ieyasu. It’s your turn.” Nobunaga snapped his fingers and Mitsunari’s apprenticeship contract appeared in Ieyasu’s hand.
Ieyasu glared at ‘everyone’ with an expression that clearly said, ‘I hate you all,’ then stalked out.
Outside the door, Mitsunari awaited his fate. Ieyasu sighed. “Don’t stand there. Come on.” Without waiting for a response, he continued walking.
Mitsunari hurried after. “Are you my new master? Thank you very much, Wizard, sir. I look forward to working with you.”
One week later…
“Well, Lad, how is Mitsunari’s apprenticeship going? You’ve been quiet tonight.” Small talk – but true. Ieyasu hadn’t even complained about anything.
Wordlessly, Ieyasu activated the scrying mirror…
Ieyasu plunks a tray of bottles on a lab table. “A refill request from the Government, for Diplomacy Potion. Follow the recipe exactly. Even you cannot screw it up.”
“Thank you very much, sir. I am honored by your faith in me.” Mitsunari bows.
The memory fast forwards to:
“Finished, sir.” Mitsunari brings the filled bottles to Ieyasu.
Ieyasu squints at them. “It looks cloudy.”
“I modified it.”
“How?” Ieyasu uncorks a bottle, releasing a pink cloud. “What did you do?” He takes a step back. The cloud follows. Another step. The cloud follows. Soon Ieyasu is scuttling around the room with the cloud bobbing after him like a cotton candy balloon.
“Some people hate the taste, so I aerosolized it.”
“Make it stop! Help me!”
Mitsunari tries to catch the spellcloud and in the process trips Ieyasu. While they are both tangled in Mitsunari’s robes, the spellcloud zooms up Ieyasu’s nose...
The mirror fades out.
“This would be an easy way to administer poison.” Mitsuhide was already planning the implementation of spellclouds.
“An extremely useful weapon.” Nobunaga nodded. “I’m pleased. Bring him in.”
Ieyasu opened the doors, motioning Mitsunari inside. “Don’t panic, friend. They love your modification. My fellow wizards, announcing the genius apprentice Mitsunari.” Then Ieyasu smiled.
All attention in the room snapped to Ieyasu. That smile was… creepy.
“Lad, how else did you modify the Diplomacy Spell?” Masamune nervously looked from Ieyasu to Mitsunari.
“The effects are strengthened by the delivery method.” Mitsunari played with his glasses.
“Dear me.” Mitsuhide smirked. “So Ieyasu is forced to be pleasant and diplomatic?”
Ieyasu smiled. Then he slapped his hand over his mouth and nodded.
“I brought the bottles with me,” Mitsunari held up a clinking sack. “If anyone wants to try… ah-ah-ACHOO!”
Crash
A cloud of pink smoke rose from the bag.
Meeting adjourned.
blessed, so many best bois in a single fic thank you soooo much for this great piece🥰💕💕💕
cackled so many times reading through this hahahaha
a wild Meowsamune appears quick, @lorei-writes, catch him!
ZOË… HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! 🎈🎂🎉🎁 I hope you were able to do something that made you happy today! 💃🏾💝💝
VAL🥰🥰🥰💕💕💕
thank you so so much! i had a great day!!! Did a little art and ate a lot of food hehehe. Appreciate you sm💜💜
*sob* work’s been so busy i didnt get a chance to finish my masa bday drawing :’)
ill finish it sometime later i swear…
to make up for it i drew a lil chibi masa to celebrate my bday on twitter along with some other fav characters of mine. hope everyone’s doing well!! i love to celebrate with others, tell me something great/happy that’s happened to you recently!
Ahhh, happy birthday!!! 🥳🥳🥳 I hope only good things come towards you in this year, and that luck will shine in your favour.
As for good things... Well, I saw your sketch up there and that's a huge highlight today 🙈❤️ I've also found a light novel that hits some of my favourite tropes!
thanks so much Lorei!!! Imma need all the luck i can get ahahhaha
ahhh your love for the sketch is the highlight of my day hehe🥰 and nice!!! what LN👀
*sob* work’s been so busy i didnt get a chance to finish my masa bday drawing :’)
ill finish it sometime later i swear…
to make up for it i drew a lil chibi masa to celebrate my bday on twitter along with some other fav characters of mine. hope everyone’s doing well!! i love to celebrate with others, tell me something great/happy that’s happened to you recently!
*hops in your ask box to blow you kisses* 😘😘
*hops away before you can catch me*
🏃🏾♀️
*sics Shingen on you to drag you back over so i can tackle hug you* 🥺💕
The Bluff (A choose-your-own-adventure story)
Requested by: @bestbryn
Characters: Mitsuhide, Masamune, Keiji, and Mai (MC), with appearances from the other Azuchi warlords
Pairings: Mitshide/Mai, Masamune/Mai, Keiji/Mai
Prompts: Hurt/Comfort and Blindfold
Word count: 3400
Warnings: Minors DNI, NSFW, teasing, blindfold
you can tell i rushed this last night to finish in time before his bday was over... Leona's laziness is rubbing off on me.
i love celebrating fictional characters' bdays hahaa. happy (now belated) birthday to my favorite second prince, Leona!!