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akoya doodles since im thinking of boueibu recently

#boueibu #akoya gero #my art #i wanna watch the movie…. thinking of doing a big rewatch with my pals who were into it with me back then #also relistening to the chara songs and everything man they had no right to go so hard

sleeping beauty [psybuki double drabble]

She likes to fancy herself the prince of the story.

Armed with no hatchet but herself, day by day Fubuki hacks away at the barrier separating Psykos from her, like a tangled psychic thicket of thorns, a gnarled wall of memories and thoughts, emotions and sensations, so potent she can feel them stab into her skin.

#my fic #opm #psybuki #fubukos #wrote this a lil while ago figure i should post it here for safekeeping #well. idk how safe. is tumblr gonna go down lol?#maybe i’ll crosspost to ao3 but ive been feeling hmmm i guess u could say insecure about the fact that most of the fic i write is rlly shor #sigh…#all my prior attempts at longfics have ended in failure #i cant even write a long oneshot

fear and hunger but it’s journey to the centre of the earth

#fear and hunger #ragnvaldr #cahara #enki #not rlly any other characters in the book to map onto sadly so i didn’t draw d’arc e or the girl or anyone else. sigh #crossover #i guess then. celeste would be grauben. le’garde would be arne saknussem lmao #i traced 3d models for this because idk persoective #and also i tried my best with the backgrounds/environment but i fear i have almost no experience with that #hans is lkterally ragnvaldr tho lol. nordic. longish red hair. stoic. strong. literally a beast #the outlander more like. the icelander haha #anyway i drew this cos i read the book recently #they’re both stories about going deep into the earth and discovering an ancient land preserved in time so #but tbh. i thought of the hans rag connection first lol #art that isn’t o pm? color me shocked #im tempted to make more fanart for uh. the book #they shouldve brought grauben along. justice for grauben!!!#my art #jules verne #i guess #journey to the center of the earth

quick doodles of my cat

#my art #he moved in the middle of drawing thenthird pne #otherwise i wouldve drawn all his legs lol

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63481729

another psykos and fubuki fic wahooooo

#psybuki #fubukos #one punch man #my fic #this might flop like the other one did but you know what it’s fine. im setting it free #it will find its audience in time #hopefully unless maybe it’s judt my writibg thats shit

that post about the lack of fic in opm fandom made me remember this fuckin. essay i wrote like a year ago for a reddit comment that i then shamefully deleted cos it was so entirely irrelevant to the original post. but i saved it so. here it is. a fanthropological analysis on the state of fic in opm fandom:

One Punch Man is not a small fandom by any means, but it definitely seems that most fans are of the 'dudebro who likes to powerscale' variety, and I'm continually surprised by how small the shipping and fanfic writing side of the fandom is in comparison. Like, this is one of the most popular well known anime series in the world, I'm pretty sure even the most casual of anime fans has to have at least heard of it. But it only has 5k fics on AO3, which isn't exactly small, but considering its popularity and in comparison to other popular battle action "shounen" manga (technically OPM is seinen but no one remembers that so), it is bafflingly tiny. I've thought about it a lot, and I think it comes down to multiple related reasons, both internal to the story that limit the likelihood of a fan to write fics for it, and external, lowering the number of ppl who would want to write fics for it that become/stay fans in the first place.

Let's start with internal reasons. The cast of characters is huge, made up of mostly men (a lot of whom are young + attractive). Which seems like it should be a definite boon to M/M shipping--the backbone of a large number of fandoms! But I think there's a difference in that with so many characters, screentime/focus is really spread out across them, and I'd find it hard to really tell you who counts as a "main character". On top of that, there's not a whole lot of interaction between them, they all seem much more isolated. I think this is especially the case in the biggest arc that took 7 years to complete. Even the biggest ship/pair had a ~3 year gap in the manga where they didn't appear together at all.

But there are definitely still lots of ships with potential and interactions to fuel shipping (although I still think less than comparable media), so that's not the whole story. Which brings me to my next point about external factors. Most of those ships are not in the early parts of OPM, and you're probably gonna have to read through the manga and also the webcomic to get to them. Most people have not done this, and have probably only watched season 1 of the anime, considering that was the peak of its popularity. And those early parts are much more comedic, so I think the impression most ppl have of OPM is that it's primarily a gag anime/manga. Which is still true, but the story has definitely gotten more complex and serious. So I think a lot of people who might want to write fic for OPM probably don’t get into it because they don't expect it to have much potential in that regard.

I think the release schedule of the anime also plays a huge role, with the anime taking 4 years to come out with a (widely considered) disappointing second season, and with a third season trailer having been released after like 5 years. It’s probably not an understatement that most anime/manga fandoms are much more focused on the anime side of things, and not everyone who enjoys an anime is going to then get into the manga.

And let's not forget the manga and webcomic release schedule, with the webcomic releasing basically solely according to ONE's whims, and the manga constantly going through redraws. Which I'm not necessarily complaining about since we get all this lovely content for free! But it does pose another hurdle for new potential fans, and I imagine there are quite a few who simply didn't want to put in that commitment over time, or honestly just got confused about what was going on.

OPM as a whole has lost a lot of relevance, it seems not many people are getting into it right now and many fans who did write fic for it at the peak of its popularity have probably left the fandom in search of greener pastures.

This is all just speculation though. I wasn't actually in the fandom when it was popular, only got into it a few years ago, so my theories on its decline aren't super backed up. I hope it gets popular again, having said all that I think there's so much fandom potential that isn't being tapped into. Like others have said, a lot of fandom/fic is based on filling in gaps and aspects that weren't explored, and there's plenty to explore in OPM.

#my ramblings #one punch man #feel free to add on or respond #anyway addendum ive also noticed that most of the fics that are published are crossovers or self insert / x reader type fics #which runs contrary to most fandoms i've been in #to which i would say for crossovers i think that's another symptom of most ppl only having seen season 1 and not knowing enough/wanting to #stay solely in the world of opm as they haven't seen how deep it goes #and for self insert / x reader / oc type fic i think it goes back again to the relative isolation of the cast #which is a point i hope i explained alright? like unlike a lot of anime which take place in schools where you obv have to interact with you #classmates most of the heroes are just. barely coworkers who operate on their own for the most part #oh man why is this so long. this shit is longer than some of my actual fics lmfao #also def not trying to rag on x reader stuff i mostly talked about shipping cos thats more my forte #also also not trying to imply that like. only m/m shipping is worthwhile or something like that i just bring it up since well. it is a tren #in fandom. but anyway honestly gobsmacking that opm has such good yuri in fubukos despite only having like 5 women total lol #fubukos... ouwahghgh

petrichorchestra [100 word flasoni drabble]

Flash walks alone in the blue-white predawn. A curtain of rain falls over the world, the patter of drops ringing out like bells. From within this orchestra, comes the sound of children laughing.

He stops. Listens.

He remembers bright grey eyes like crescent moons, a wide open grin. Laughing so hard their cheeks would hurt.

Miles away, the same sound reaches the ears of another. Sonic raises his head. He traces the sound and sees, in the light filtering through the rippling rain, two small bright shapes running, hands linked.

They stand watching, listening together, until the curtain finally rises.