hello all! i just wanted to give a quick update that i'm doing okay. i logged off every social media and have been focusing on real life, and it's been amazing for my mental health!
a lot changed in the span of 2 weeks! i've become a tattoo artist (apprentice for now, though!), and am actually doing great! it's been so fun and an amazing opportunity so far. here's two shadowvanilla inspired tattoo designs i've done so far
feel free to use it, i don't mind
i don't plan on coming back anytime soon. and if i do, it definitely won't be CRK. so i'm very sorry, but i won't be finishing any of the comics i promised. i might post the WIPs i had already worked on before giving up on them though. and if you guys would like, i can also tell the ending of all the AUs and comics i had planned
lastly, here is my (possibly) last shadowvanilla mini comic. context is missing since it was an inside joke, but it's basically shadow milk offering to mess with pure vanilla's head and delete the headache off his head
thank you for the kind messages you guys have been sending me. frankly, i was ready to give up completely, but the kindness i received convinced me to stay. it's really nice to know there are still people who believe in me, especially some oomfs and friends. thank you, truly 💛☀️
(more horny than anyone has ever been before) i bet it feels good as hell to put your hands in someones abdominal cavity and feel their organs flinch away from your touch
Another poll down, another agency to go! Ra*bits won our poll for Rhythm Link. So now it's time for its time for the last of the main units before we move onto shuffles and temps! New Dimension's turn!
Which unit, realistically, would be the best to work for/with?
Wow its been forever since I've hosted the last poll... Life got in the way. But, results in! ALKALOID won the last round, so now it's time for COSPRO's turn!
Which unit, realistically, would be the best to work for/with?
i have no title for this, just know that a handful of enstarries have this weirdo problem of infantalizing characters. finally finished it, where's the anon that asked about this, i wish i could tag you
disclaimer: english is not my first language, expect mistakes, not proof read, most likely just word vomit rather than an actual comprehensible essay
full thing under read more 🐰
despite now being in their third year of highschool and turning eighteen (which is considered an adult in most countries), some enstarries still treat the juniors as if they're still first years. still treat them as if they're inexperienced juniors who barely know anything about the idol world. and it's so, so weird!!
let's start with the ryuseitai juniors– shinobu, midori and tetora. while all three are sometimes subject to the treatment of being "chiakana's kids" (another annoying thing some enstarries do), shinobu is sometimes treated as if he's the youngest of the unit. he's literally older than tetora (by a week) and midori (who's the actual youngest of ryuseitai). why's that? is it because he's short and cute in appearance? just because he's short and cute, doesn't mean he's a child! people seem to forget or ignore that.
also, i hate how some enstarries act as if mayoshino is proship and problematic when it's not! it's a 1 year age gap! it's annoying that people think that shinobu is 12 and mayoi is some sort of pedo. that's just straight up mischaracterization, since mayoi struggles with a lot of issues, but he really does care for shinobu and consider him as one of his closest friends. mayoi even berates himself when he's having those kinds of thoughts and thinks of himself as unworthy of being shinobu's friend. shinobu meanwhile values mayoi and even if he finds him a little weird, shinobu knows that mayoi is truly a good person. shinobu worries for mayoi whenever he finds the other anxious and reassures him. mayoi isn't a creep and shinobu is more mature than people give him credit for! this kind of turned into a mayoshino defense rant, but let's get back on track.
let's get to the other idols that are subject to the infantilizing treatment. tori's pretty much the shortest character (currently 154 cm in height) and his whole thing is being cute. guess what happens to him, yep, being infantalized. don't even get me started with ra*bits. all three of them are somehow reduced into "nazuna's little baby rabbits", while sometimes funny in memes or jokes, gets annoying when someone says it unironically.
finally, there's sora, who's probably the one who's subject to this treatment the most. i've seen actual switchP unironically say that he's ntmg's kid. it gives me brain damage somehow. there's something so wrong about treating him like a clueless kid. sora has synesthesia and is heavily implied to be autistic. it's gross that some people treat him like a baby that's incapable of understanding the world.
it rubs me the wrong way whenever people do that. shinobu, along with tetora and midori, want to support ryuseitai too and they don't want to be shielded by them (chiaki and kanata) anymore. tori's growing too, and he's not that bratty kid anymore (he still shows sides of this, but he's less hostile now). he doesn't want to be protected, so to speak, and he's becoming more mature and wanting to prove himself to eichi that he's not a kid anymore. being the new student council president is one of the ways tori can prove himself, and to me, i think he already has. eichi's a bit of an ass for teasing him too much though.
it's still so weird to me that tomoya, hajime and mitsuru are still treated as if they were still first years. no, they're not those kids anymore. sure, they needed nazuna to guide them and hold their hamds– metaphorically speaking, especially when ra*bits was just starting out. one of their main focuses in es!! was them standing on their own without nazuna, as he's in college.
tomoya struggles with being ra*bits' new leader, and sometimes thinking if he's good enough to lead and be in charge of their unit, if he can fill in the gap that nazuna left. he does! he acts more like a leader, he's slowly being more confident in himself with leading. tomoya's idol image is reflective of that, as he's going into a more princely/cool guy type along with his cute side with ra*bits. mitsuru's also going to the cool guy route, reflected by his fs2. now mitsuru here is really excitable and a little naive, and of course some enstarries are going to ignore his other sides and treat him like a kid.
finally for the ra*bits is hajime, oh god, hajime. did you know that once upon a time there were people who said that ibahaji is proship? ibara and hajime? proship?! again, 1 year age gap! just because hajime is nice and a little shy, doesn't mean he's a child to be protected. and just because ibara is very business minded and dedicated to his work doesn't mean he's a grown ass man. he's like 19! still a teenager, even! and hell, ibara still acts like a teenager sometimes. hajime himself even wants to show the world that he's more than just cute. yes, he uses his cuteness as his weapon to his advantage (an advice from ibara, if i remember correctly), but he also wants to prove that he's not just a cute face.
ra*bits' whole thing is that they're growing together, bit by bit and it's frustrating that some people choose to ignore their growth and instead treat them like babies.
onto sora, seriously, it's frustrating to see people unironically say he's an innocent bean or call him ntmg's child, also there were people who said ntsora is proship? enstarries never fail to surprise me with how insane their thought process is.
i'm going to hold your hand when i say this:
just because sora is hyper and bubbly, it does not mean he's a child to be protected.
sora is not clueless or naive, hell, i'd argue that sora is the most emotionally and mentally mature person in switch, and in the whole roster of characters, even. he's perceptive and he's smart. correct me if i'm wrong, since i'm no switch lore expert, but didn't they have a predicament where sora wanted to be more included with how switch does things behind the scenes? that he didn't want tsumugi and natsume to be shielding him from the world anymore?
sora is aware that his seniors are just looking out for him, but at the same time, he wants to be on equal footing with them and support them as a member of the unit and as their friend. hell, the same could be said for all prior characters mentioned! and again, i'll repeat myself, it's weird as shit to be treating him like a clueless and innocent child when he's heavily implied to be autistic. with full offense, that just sounds like you think sora is incapable just because of his neurodivergence. yikes!
some honorable mentions to tsukasa, who gets babied by some fans and even his own unit sometimes, much to his displeasure as he wants to be taken seriously as knights' king, to souma who's treated as "kurokei's child" (when he and kuro are a year and a couple of months apart, i think?), hiiro who sometimes get characterized as "dim-witted boy from the countryside" when he's actually really smart, especially in academics (to the point that tsukasa considers him a rival) when he's just a little naive to the city life, and to kohaku who's sometimes reduced to "crazy:b's little brother" / "madara's kid" when kohaku himself is more than capable of being independent.
it's frustrating when some enstarries, and even their own producers ignore or disregard their growth and treat them like babies or reduce them to a popular ship's "children" . while we've known them since they were juniors and still starting out, at least treat them more seriously now. it feels more satisfying to see them grow up and see their improvement instead of just perceiving them as clueless juniors forever, well, to me, at least.
Put aside feelings for your favorites or least favorites: lets be real right now! These guys all have enormous problems and would be terrible to have as coworkers really. But surely there's at least one unit who'd be the most bearable, right?
So why not find out with an elimination poll! Last unit standing with be noted as the best (tm). Shuffles and Temporary units will be included too!
But first up: STARPRO
Which unit, realistically, would be the best to work for/with?
I need 56 people who are the biggest fans of each enstars character to keep by my side like the knight of the round table so i can ask them each how not to mischaracterise their fav
im an eichi tenshouin yume but him and my oc are already divorced. we sometimes make awkward eye contact by the office water cooler. hey man do you remember when i produced your unit. wasn't that crazy. i wanted to kill you when we were 16
i've rambled about this on discord already, but i think it would have been really cool if hoyo took a different approach to the natlan archon quest. what we got was ok at best, but i think it would have been more interesting if the tribes had beef with each other. like imagine being mavuika; you construct this whole plan, you go inside the fire, and when you come out 500 years later your plan is in jeopardy because turns out a lot happens over 500 years and the tribes have been arguing about how to fix the abyss problem for so long that they are now fighting with each other (and maybe it's been so long that they don't even remember why they feel such animosity against each other anymore. 500 years is a lot of generations!)
and then some time later, the legendary traveler arrives in your land, and you figure this is it. this is my chance to fix this. so you and the traveler go around the different tribes trying to stop this war while it's still time and you pick a hero from each tribe to go fight the abyss with you.
i think it would create multiple opportunities. first, it would create interesting dynamics between the main cast. maybe some tribes have an amicable relationship, so two of the heroes would be willing to cooperate, but some would definitely have some kind of rivalry going on. there is also the opportunity to create the main yuri/yaoi ship of two heroes that desperately want to be "friends" but their tribes hate each other. this is exactly the kind of thing that's missing in natlan for me. imagine if we had these kind of dynamics, a group of people that under normal circumstances would be at each other's throats, i feel that it would only make the finale where they all unite to fight a common enemy feel much more heroic.
and second, mavuika would have to tackle actual trouble that is missing in the actual archon quest.
one of the criticisms that i have for the story is that mavuika's plan goes exactly how she plans it. everything is executed flawlessly, and sure there is the excuse that mavuika is a perfectionist who thinks of everything, but that doesn't mean that she can control every single circumstance. this curbed her of any potential growth in character that i think a scenario like this would have solved...
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Question! Does anyone know any good websites/places to buy moths? Been getting interested in raising them, but a little stumped on where to start, since most that I find are just luna moths, which while pretty, aren't what I'm interested in raising.
(( I headcanon that his clothes were tailored made, custom made by Freminet himself as it is said that he might have created his helmet as he created Pers. His diving suit be another of his creations, able to swiftly move underwater and colors blending in swimmingly with his surroundings. 💙 ))
