Mud

residing in my mud house

[flicklikesstuff]

Have you guys ever thought too hard about Crunchy Chip’s over-the-top avoidance of sweets? Because guess what?

I SURE did-

We all know that eating sweets in the Dark Cacao Kingdom isn’t as unforgivable as Chip makes it out to be. The citadel literally has some sweets stored that Fishgatto took in his benefit before.

Caramel Arrow’s fav drink is literally brown sugar milk tea (Like meeeee :D). Not even Dark Cacao himself is strict on it since he has given Chip a pass on the treats a number of times.

As far as I know, I believe no other Dark Cacao denizen is actually that strict on that rule? (I may be wrong idk)

So then, why is Chip like this?

…….

This is going into more theorising territory, but it’s been heavily implied that Chip has spent his entire life (if not ever since his childhood) in the wild. His voice lines point to this. He lives in the mountains, can set up camp by reflex, hunts with the pack, and overall just has a love for being outside.

Also, most likely raised by wolves even? I feel like his story below was meant to be about how he first met and was saved by Dark Cacao since it parallels the bit when Wildberry shares how he first met and is taken in by Hollyberry. While it’s not stated how old he was in that time, I’m going to assume somewhat young enough near Wild’s age if we’re seeing the two stories as parallels?

(After all, this sequence is meant to show why these two cookies are the best, most loyal options to be entrusted with their monarch’s soul jam. It makes sense to me that they’re parallels of a first-meet.

AGAIN, this is my interpretation only!! This story could really be taken as something else too.)

And I’ve been thinking. Assuming IF Chip has spent his childhood in the wild, he must’ve been isolated from cookie civilisation/cookie social circles for a period of time.

Until he was ‘saved’ and then taken in to train and become a warrior and Cream Wolf Captain. With his childhood spent not growing up in a typical cookie home and instead, his heart being always in tune with the wild more, there’s bound to be some dissociation with his fellow Dark Cacaoians.

(This is also the guy who doesn’t know what a delegation is despite being a man in his mid 30s tops. Adding more into my theory that he’s somewhat detached from society.)

………..

Getting to the point, what if this isolation is the explanation? Chip has mentioned that his job has him needed at the kingdom’s borders, thus making him even more distant from other cookies.

And even then, the others even agree so that his rightful place and the place he’s most expected to be in, is in the mountains.

Not saying that this is a bad thing. Not at all! He loves his job. I’m sure Chip loves being in the mountains with his wolves. He’s mentioned how he’s missed and is fully content being there a bunch.

It’s just that…. Does he ever feel a longing to belong? After all, it’s an ingrained thing to desire connections. Not just with the wolves but also, with his very own people too. Does not growing up among other children cookies just like his other fellow warriors had, ever get to his head sometimes?

Does it ever make him feel….isolated and distant in a sense?

Unless, this could be fixed of course. He could really, really, really commit to the values every warrior should have. And Discipline is one of them! If he’s dedicated to the bit, then he could convince himself that he truly does belong and IS a Dark Cacao warrior.

He’ll prove it if he must! To the king, to the others, to himself!

He feels the need to greatly appeal and prove to Dark Cacao so much that he does have a place in this kingdom after all. Why wouldn’t he? He’s kept strict to every rule and expectation, right??

If we consider that the theory he grew up isolated in the wild as a kid could be true, this means Chip has felt like an outsider ever since he could remember.

Being a Dark Cacaoian by blood/jam. But at the same time, still not fitting in. Its tough. (Not projecting nope.)

Btw, this may or may not reminded me of someone else….

Mr. “Would rather be in the silence of the Royal Gardens than loud-ass parties and talking and I’m fully aware how weird that sounds coming from a Hollyberrian cookie.”

*coughs coughs*

Totally not spreading my Wildchip propaganda but I just thought it’d be neat if they talk about how they love their respective kingdoms and would die to serve them but also-also, it lowkey feels weird and kinda hurts to not actually fit in with your own fellow cookies. Also WHAT, you’re an orphan adopted by your Ancient too???

………….

So anyways, I probs dug too deep into what should’ve been a comedic trivial thing of a character and made it into a mini sad-fest. Whups.

Though, it could also be simply that Chip’s just really dedicated while silly about it buuuuuuuut, that’s not as fun to analyse.

TLDR: “I didn’t have normal childhood like other cookies so I sometimes feel like not truly belonging but that’s not true because I DEFINITELY am a Dark Cacao Warrior and I can prove it by overcommitting to the bit.”

Btw, Happy late Bday Crunchy Chip <3 🎉💖

[buttl0rd]

your epic!! *hands you my beloved son*

take good care of him

[obstinaterixatrix]

here are all the recs I posted for femslash february 2024...! each individual rec post can be found in my femslash feb recs tag. I actually thought I wasn't going to be able to do this because work got super chaotic, but in the end I couldn't bear to skip out on a leap year. that's a whole extra day for yuri.

last year I focused on official releases, so this year I wanted to focus on series that aren't technically officially available (plus a french-japanese film). fan translations are always a dicey for artists/translators/publishers/etc because obviously they need to get paid... but yuri's already such an overlooked genre that—in an official capacity—we end up with a couple drops from what's already a pretty small pool. I read hana to hoshi about a decade ago, and I keep submitting it to the seven seas survey for licensure! and yet!! no dice. and even when there are official releases, sometimes they just... disappear!? wish you were gone was licensed and then taken down, so for a while the only way to read it (if you missed out on buying it) was the fan translation. I think it's important to support artists and official releases, and also, to appreciate the thankless endeavor(/crime) of scanlation.

hope yall find something you like!

[transsongtaewon]

Sung Hyunjae: *gives Han Yoojin a book about empty nest syndrome*

Han Yoojin: Instructions unclear *babytraps him*

[murasaki-cha]

[rikan-oo]

"Lee Hyunsung was talking about the scenarios he experienced. I silently listened to the story while examining Lee Hyunsung's body. His pectoral muscles were more developed than before." Kim Dokja

"Conversations should be conducted while looking at the other’s face. I knew that, but my eyes kept going down unconsciously. There was quite a wide gap between the sides of his unbuttoned collar. I knew there were always a few gaps that he couldn’t help because of the size of his clothes, but he was still a public official …Honestly, it was too much in many ways." Han Yoojin

Khem. Men of culture, I see.

[murasaki-cha]

I came to the realization that Kim Dokja is the only one out of the holy trinity that has actually gone to college and has a proper degree and now I'm laying on the floor trying to process it

[peoplearescary]

Once you remember that one of Yoojin's primary hobbies before getting too famous was "answering spam calls" his relationship with Sung Hyunjae makes so much more sense.

[freyadragonlord]

The S-Classes That I Raised is not a romance novel but i dont think anyone told the characters that

[nightmargin]

a day in the life of Erika

Originally Kate Beaton

[heiwajimashizuo]

Reminder that shizuo fought a tiger and won 

[starlightshadowsworld]

I feel like the only thing the people in Durarara fear more than an angry Shizuo.

Is an angry Izaya.

Because they know what an angry Shizuo is capable off, and that's terrifying.

But Shizuo can be reasoned with. There's people who can get to him and calm down.

But no ones ever seen Izaya lose it.

And frankly no one ever wants too.

[drrr-ln-translations]

“Trivial things you did in the past might have turned someone’s life upside down. That happens and it happens a lot. Though there people who would do such “trivial things” on purpose. Like Izaya… Oops, now you’re official looking grumpy. It’s about time you two made it up with each other. But then, you’ve never really been on good terms to begin with, have you? Wow, that just makes me all nostalgic. I miss high school. We were so green and young back then. Or should I say red? Since there was always nothing but blood around you and Izaya. Thanks to you two, I got better at dealing with broken bones and stitching wounds. Haha. I can’t really say I dislike Izaya. He’s nothing but true. The same way you’re true to your emotions, in fact. Though in Izaya’s case it would have been much better had his desire just been money or women. But no, it had to be this inexplicable thing called human observation. It gets on your nerves when people observe others and get all haughty, doesn’t it? It’s as if he thinks he’s superior to everybody else. But he’s good at sensing other people’s moods. He usually won’t let you hate him. All he does is estimate with precision and speak the words that waver you the most at the exact time you cannot bring yourself to hate him for saying them.”

— Kishitani Shinra to Heiwajima Shizuo, LN Vol 5

[heiwajimashizuo]

I'd love to hear more info about Shizuo! I love him so much and every little thing I learn about him would make me happy *^*

CRACKS KNUCKLES THIS IS  WHAT I LIVE FOR

Shizuo lives alone and he doesn’t like to watch television or surf the internet because they both just make him mad. [source]

It doesn’t matter if you’re a boy or a girl, Shizuo will hit you. He only differentiates between those who make him mad and those who don’t. He doesn’t necessarily like hitting girls, but he will. [source: volume 12, from his confrontation with Kujiragi iirc]

Shizuo always knew/suspected that Vorona was the one who stabbed him and kidnapped Akane [volume 13]

Shizuo dislikes beer and bitter foods. (Aka he’s a big baby) [source]

While Tom drinks coffee, Shizuo drinks milkshakes [source: Durarara sh]

The milk lady from the first season didn’t actually exist canonically in the novels at the time of that episode’s airing. Later Narita confirmed her existence by saying Shizuo once hurt a woman he loved/adored/looked up to. I don’t know if Narita told them about her or if he just liked her and later decided to adapt the idea. 

Shizuo likes older sister type women. I know some people interpret that as simply older women but for me the most consistent to what narita is referring to in his tweet is the onee-san type. [source]

That scene where Shizuo tells Celty to ‘Go ahead, I got this.’ and then slaps himself in the face? He was actually drunk (Celty thinks from Russia Sushi) and was trying to sober himself up lol.

Shizuo actually studied to be a bartender before he became one. He had about an entry level skill though before he was fired. [source]

Shizuo fought a tiger and won.

Shizuo is very proper with following rules and traditions. He controls himself in a library because you aren’t supposed to yell even though Izaya is there, he doesn’t litter cigarette butts, and he thinks Kasuka should tell their parents if he’s engaged to Ruri before he tells Shizuo. And more.

Shizuo used to want to be a detective like Sherlock holmes [source: Durarara!! Sh]

Shizuo can never remember Anri’s name. Never. I’m sorry Anri.

In the novels Shizuo is constantly described as very lanky and unintimidating and as though he is trying not to  get noticed despite his hair and outfit. When the Reporter first met him the guy pretty much thought ‘wow even I could kick this guys ass’ until Shizuo kicked his [source: volume 2]

The Awakusu used to consider using Shizuo for his strength but then they decided he was too much of a wild  card. [source: volume 2 iirc]

Even though he knew the love letter he received in high school was fake Shizuo still went to ‘meet’ whoever had sent it because his brother once told him ‘Brother you are bad with words, so you should cherish every letter you receive or send.’ [source]

Shizuo was called Raijin High School’s Shadow boss. [source]

Shizuo’s actually a very quiet person when he’s not mad [source: volume 4]

Shizuo sincerely respects the mixed martial artist fighter Traugott Geissendorfer. When Shizuo got into a fight with izaya at their coming of age ceremony traugott was able to stop him (with Simon’s help). It was thanks to Traugott that Shizuo realized he was ‘weak’ and that it was only through his own self training could he become strong. This is why he is envious and dreams to one day be as strong as does who train themselves to be are. [source]

The more calm Shizuo is the more angry he actually is [source: volume 13 and ‘the smile’ at akane]

When he is stronger Shizuo would like to go to another coming of age ceremony. [source]

Either Shizuo or Izaya used to throw/roll gasoline filled drums along their high schools hallway [source: novel 4]

that’s all i got off the top of my head but if I felt like digging I’m sure I’d find more lol

[heiwajimashizuo]

Do you have trivia on Izaya?

I decided to do this just because. Got some help from Ruka and sloppily threw this together. WARNING FOR SPOILERS FROM NOVEL 13 AND BEYOND.

Izaya has called Kadota “Dotachin” since high school [source]

Izaya got ‘noticed’ in high school by Kine as someone who could work for awakusu (although he didn’t start really working for them until after).

In regards to the awakusu, Izaya is hired more as a third party by Shiki who believes in the power of information over brawn

According to Shinra, Izaya has a very brittle heart. Which is why he avoids getting it hurt by instead choosing to love ‘all of humanity’.

Mikado seems to be the only character from Durarara!! that Izaya regrets/wishes to get into contact with again after the events of Durarara 13. [source]

Izaya is younger than Shinra but older than Shizuo and Kadota [source]

Izaya explains in volume three that the girls who follow him were abused by either their families or their lovers. (Girls such as Saki)

When asked if there was meaning behind Izaya’s rings and jacket Narita joked that ‘there may be meaning! or none at all! I haven’t decided yet!’ [source]

It’s been said time and time again but Narita has specifically said that although Izaya loves all humans equally, in terms of sexual desire he is ‘normal’. Translators think this was Narita’s nice way of saying he is heterosexual. [source]

In Izaya’s novel it is implied that Izaya refuses to seek rehabilitation for his broken body because it is his way of accepting the fact that he ‘lost against Shizuo. In contrast Shizuo doesn’t think either of them won or lost because both of them lived. [source]

In Izaya’s novel, the boy pushes Izaya in his wheelchair while Izaya drinks Barley tea out of a wine glass. [source]

In volume 13 Izaya was prepared to die to prove what a monster Shizuo  is. 

At the end of Durarara and into Izaya’s novel it is implied that he has become traumatized by his fight with Shizuo [source]

Izaya pays Namie 260k a year [source]

Izaya is ‘repelled’ from Aoba due to their similarities [source]

When he met Aoba Izaya was pretending to be his cram school tutor [source]

When asked if Izaya has any love experience, Narita said that was a spoiler which fans believe was a reference to mikage. [source]

Orihara isn’t an uncommon surname. Narita chose it to stress Izaya’s ordinary origins. [source]

Izaya, however, is a very unusual name. While it was meant to be related the prophet Isiah there is a lot more complications to it. I’d suggest reading up on it here. 

In volume 6 Izaya was stabbed on his birthday [source]

Izaya hates dead fish eyes [source]

Izaya likes any food that can tell him about the personality of the person who made it [source]

He dislikes compressed/canned/junk food [source]

Narita has said that Izaya loves food and eats out often. [source]

In elementary school Izaya was a straight A honor roll student [volume 9 iirc]

His family members are: his grandparents Orihara Torakichi and Natsu, his parents Orihara Shirou and Kyouko, and the twins. [source]

His parents worked for a trading company and were overseas frequently and for long periods of time. It is noted that his parents work wasn’t a factor in the formation of who Izaya is, but that lack of contact with them might have helped in that formation. [source]

Izaya is the reason why the twins turned out like they are [volume 9]

Izaya’s record is spotless save for a corrective guidance due to ‘stabbing Shinra’ in middle school. Corrective guidance being not juvenile delinquency but something more like a ‘plan’ to prevent it from happening again [source]

Izaya’s cover for his information brokering is that he is a Financial planner [source, also Durarara SH]

While most information brokers get information from the source (night club workers, etc) Izaya has done better by instead using other information brokers as his sources/network. [source]

Izaya gets alot of his information from Shinichi Tsukumoya.

Shishizaki-senpai was the only person who could catch Izaya.

He was viewed as a loner in elementary school. But whenever people realized he was left out they’d often fight over him. [source]

Izaya initially thought ‘Shizu-chan’ was a girl. He later adopted that nickname and used it when he met Shizuo. [source]

When he is using a fake name Izaya always claims he is 21. [source]

On Izaya’s anime driver’s license it says he wears glasses. I don’t know how much I believe this though since the name on the license was ‘Nakura’.

Izaya fears death more than anyone and reveres heaven more than anyone. But he’d rather spend eternity in hell rather than to become ‘nothing’ [volume 2? or 3 iirc]

Izaya doesn’t deny his involvement in causing the ruin of other people. He acknowledges that he pushes people knowing what they will do but chooses to do so in order to see if they will exceed his expectations. [Volume 3 and later to Akabayashi]

Izaya weighs himself after every daily shower [volume 9]

Both Shiki and Namie refer to Izaya as ‘Loki’ at different points

I know some people claim that Izaya’s favorite fruit? Is a red apple? I have never seen a source for this (and trust me, I’ve looked) so yeah I don’t believe that whatsoever. (Not gonna say it is bs but unless someone shows me a source it doesn’t sound reliable). But I think that is pretty much all I have/can think of from the top of my head in regards to Izaya. Read volume 9 for more!! (No seriously, if you’re an izaya fan you need to read volume 9 if you haven’t already)

[daily-spooky]

[mudcasper]

Clove💙💜🤍

So it has been awhile since I last post my art.. when was it again–.. WOW, last year on march?! Well, kind of ironic since I'm also posting it in March as well. Will make it as a habit perhaps HMM

Love clove. They the best! Still haven't gotten them but I will grind for them. Their color palette is just simply MWAH 💙💜🤍