Fanart and Fanfics. Sometimes a bit scandalous. Currently hyperfixated on the Horrible Exorcists. I use the tag «spicy hexorcists» for spicy doodles. Feel free to block it if that bothers you <3
Whelp. In the final stages of the interview process they backed out… just learned from a coworker that the company had to let go of someone so I guess things changed very quickly over summer break. The industry is so cooked right now.
Time to kick things up a notch yet again and apply like my life depends on it… thank you gen-ai. Thank you for absolutely nothing. Go die.
Natsume Week is over and I can relax again. I’m very proud of all the work I put in. Not everything was executed as well as I had hoped, but that’s how it usually goes. My favourite is definitely the first prompt. I have so much love in my heart for Natsume as a character and I just think it shows somehow.
It was so wonderful to see all the work people made and the different interpretations of the prompts.
I’m glad this is a fandom I am a part of. Thanks for being so kind and supportive of each other 💕
ahhhh i was so close to finishing everything on time but i got lazy akljdfhaskldf but anyways that's another week done!! i had fun brainstorming what they could be when they grow up <33
just some notes:
i think natsume would eventually turn to writing about his adventures to keep the memories and it gets big and he starts publishing stories abt youkai he's met in ways of fictional stories/anthologies
eventually he becomes so big they start becoming short films and natori decides to mess w him and accept any roles written by him
but it bites him in the ass bc natsume then writes a story specifically about things they've done and natori pre-accepted the role askdjfhaslf
his manager's like 'wow this guy's so good at writing characters for you!' and natori is just :) yeah wow what a coincidence haha :)
taki would def be a researcher in my heart and she ends up teaching at a prestigious university to get proper funding for her research
she writes papers about her findings and how youkai affect and are fundamental to the nature of the world and they become super popular in academic circles
she becomes the go-to for youkai stuff but when there's something she doesn't know, she'll ask natsume who usually knows the answer; no one really questions how she figures out these things, and natsume would like to keep it that way
tanuma would follow in his dad's footsteps and takes over the temple
with natsume and taki the temple gets a sudden influx of tourists/visitors and while he's glad the temple is getting business, he's lowkey missing the slower times he had to spend time with his family and friends lmao
they eventually hire more people so he can take more breaks, and he uses that time to either visit his friends, volunteer around the village, or borrow taki's circle to talk to natsume's youkai friends
nishimura and kitamoto to me seem like office workers idk why lmao
nishimura is such a social butterfly he excels in marketing but hes so not used to corporate bullshit that he's lucky he chose to work in the same company as kitamoto so he had someone to complain with
kitamoto found that he had talent in finance and decided to go down that route both for the money and the stability, but he did grow to love his job
he complains a lot that nishimura is always bothering him on the clock, but he is glad to know that someone familiar is always nearby
Natsume Week, day 7: Ten years later // @natsumeweek
I've been reading some Korean novels lately about mundane places (like a laundromat, a lunchbox kitchen, or a letter shop) connecting lives and stories of different people together, and I feel like it would fit Natsume nicely. He now works in tea cafe inside a bookstore, and it's a safe space for both humans and youkai, with their lives and stories intertwining in different ways.
(Also Nyanko-sensei is their mascot and souvenirs of him are flying off the shelves.)
While I don't have quite as many thoughts on Natori and Matoba's relationship as I do Natsume and Tanuma's, my the One idea I have for them getting together is for them to have a dramatic break up for like 10 years due to some incident involving Natsume, only to reconnect after their kids (Natori through adopting a young relative of his born with the sight who was lost/was abandoned by her parents, and Matoba through some arranged marriage) end up best friends by complete coincidence. And now they have to try to repair their relationship for the sake of their kids.
(More in depth thoughts on this... I guess it's an AU? under the cut)
My current thoughts on how this played out are that at some point Matoba found out about the book of friends and attempted to take it off Natsume "for his protection" and Natsume Obviously lost his shit and wouldn't let him, and they got into a pretty intense brawl over it that left Natsume badly hurt, (I'm leaning towards Matoba tried to strangle him again?). Natori (and probably Tanuma and Sensei too) happened to walk in on it, and Natori, assuming the worst, beat the ever loving shit out of Matoba. Thankfully Tanuma and Sensei were able to wake up/resuscitate Natsume, and snap Natori out of it, but Natori's still too pissed over the whole thing to want to look at him, and so ends up vowing to never talk to Matoba again.
I doubt he'd leave behind exorcism fully, but he'd def stop coming to meetings or anywhere he could meet Matoba. I think Matoba might try to mend things, but in his own arrogant way that ends up backfiring and getting him slapped with a restraining order. After that they end up going their seperate ways, Natori relying more on acting, and Matoba accepting that he's fully burned that bridge and doing his best to avoid the area and just focus on Matoba clan business.
Years down the line Natori ends up taking in a relative of his who is the first Natori born with the sight since him, and ended up scorned and/or orphaned as a result. Matoba just gets into some shitty arranged marriage, has a few kids and gets very quickly divorced. And by some hilarious coincidence their kids end up going to the same school and becoming friends. No one realises the connection at first cause:
a) the kids end up calling each other their given names, so no one notices the surnames (and Natori's kid might not even have the surname Natori yet depending on the branch of the family)
b) Matoba's busy with Head of the Clan business and sharing custody so doesn't actually spend that much time with his daughter (he probably has a son as well but? but this isn't about him), so Natori's only ever talked to his ex wife, who has a different surname and just called Matoba her ex.
...But that ends when Matoba's ex gets caught up and can't pick up their daughter, and asks Matoba himself to go pick her up. And gives Natori the fright of his life.
(Initially he'd probably assume Matoba was there for nefarious reasons, but eventually he realises Matoba's just as confused as he is and decides it probably is just a hilariously unfortunate coincidence)
From there it would just be various shenanigans of them trying to come to terms with their own hang ups from the whole incident 10 years ago.
Matoba's over time come to realise he was being a bit of a dick to Natsume and genuinely does want to make amends if he can (especially after having his own kids), and is also realising he maybe needs to be more present for his own kids (and ex wife) after seeing Natori taking care of his daughter.
Natori meanwhile is having to accept that Matoba is actually trying to do better, and seems to be taking the clan in a less cut throat direction, but also can't really speak for Natsume on whether they can move past the incident from 10 years ago.
Though to be fair Natsume probably would be totally willing to look past it given the circumstances, Tanuma very much is Not. And does insist on being present any time Matoba and Natsume are in a room together even after the restraining order gets dissolved.
(This definitely does result in poor Natori having to explain what a restraining order is to his like 7 year old daughter when she asks why her friends daddy 'can't hang out with Natsume-san'.)
big ol madara for @natsumeweek day six: legends / truths
one of my favorite legends is the story of the tiangou, a legendary creature—often depicted as a black dog—from chinese mythology that eats the sun and/or the moon, effectively causing an eclipse. madara reminds me of it a lot!! (he'd probably eat the sun if he could lol)
also took a tiny bit of inspo from the game okami hd for the art style (sumi-e baby!!) since i wanted to have some fun with texture here :o so you could say the legend of amaterasu played a part here too!!
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