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@shima-draws
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Hey-yo! I'm just a geeky creator who arts and writes for her own entertainment. This is a multifandom blog where I generally act like a goofball and chat about my ships and many many AUs. My ask box is always open, so please don't hesitate to come ask me about anything! *Commissions are currently CLOSED* (I follow + reply from @star-ruler-shima
Mobile header is by the lovely @spicycoffeebean š) Ask box for desktop users is here.
Realizes Iām probably way too late to make a pinned post but oops weāre doing it now š³
Anyway hi! Iām Shima. I like creating art of my favorite characters, crying over my ships, making too many OCs with overly complex backstories, and succumbing to new AU brainrot at least once a week. Iām also very fond of rambling in my tags so you will definitely find an essayās worth of tags on a lot of my posts. ADHD brain makes it so that I canāt focus on anything for too long so I fandom hop a lotājust be prepared for that :ā)
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My biggest special interests are Pokemon and BNHA! It is inevitable that Iāll return to making content for these two specifically at some point if I happen to be off gallivanting in a different fandom. Smaller but also reoccuring interests include One Piece, Senyuu, SAO, Genshin Impact, and Undertale/Deltarune.
- AUs -
Biggest ones are:
ā World Tree AU
ā Bottled Soul AU
ā Support Course Hero AU (usually abbreviated to SCH)
ā Distortion Link AU
You are more than welcome to ask about these or any others! Lord knows I have a hard time keeping track of them all.
Thanks for stopping by š My ask box is open 24/7 so feel free to come chat with me anytime!
Hello lovelies <3 So the rest of my Pokeani charms came in!! I did mention that I went with a smaller size on these but idk I think they might be TOO small nowā¦in comparison to the others I ordered before I think I like the larger ones better. My roommate disagrees and prefers the smaller ones lol so I figured Iād leave it up to you all what size youād prefer for charms!
As a general size reference the bigger ones are about the size of the palm of your hand, while the smaller ones are about the height of a finger šāāļø
And hereās some pics for the size comparison
I like the bigger ones but idk! Some people might like smaller charms better so.
Hello lovelies <3 So the rest of my Pokeani charms came in!! I did mention that I went with a smaller size on these but idk I think they might be TOO small nowā¦in comparison to the others I ordered before I think I like the larger ones better. My roommate disagrees and prefers the smaller ones lol so I figured Iād leave it up to you all what size youād prefer for charms!
As a general size reference the bigger ones are about the size of the palm of your hand, while the smaller ones are about the height of a finger šāāļø
And hereās some pics for the size comparison
I like the bigger ones but idk! Some people might like smaller charms better so.
Hi chat I return with pictures from Epic Universe specifically Berk :)
Main shot of the park as we were walking in
Gothi's clifftop hut + a Gronkle butt lol
Another area towards the left side! And Cloudjumper <3
Gobber/Hiccup's workshop and my boy GRUMPPPP
Saw both the twins and Astrid walking around! No Hiccup tho š
Really REALLY neat wood (?) carving of THE Hiccup Toothless bonding moment
And a picture of the stage where they host the Untrainable Dragon show!
Ramblings about everything under the cut š
So for those of you who don't know this about me, How To Train Your Dragon is my favorite film EVER. Of all time. PERIODT. From the moment I saw it as a kid back in 2010 I was hooked. I pestered my parents to download a shitty bootleg version of the movie to watch on repeat before it came out on DVD. I started writing self-insert fanfiction. I drew posters and plastered them all over my walls. The hyperfixation was absolutely unreal (and still is to this day tbh lol). As Hiccup grew up and matured over the years so did I. And getting to say I grew up alongside one of my favorite fictional characters is pretty amazing imo? Anyway long story short HTTYD means a lot a lot a LOT to me at this point I can quote the first movie line for line entirely from memory that's how many times I've seen it. And I STILL get goosebumps watching the Forbidden Friendship scene.
So yeah LOL I've been wanting to go to Epic Universe for a long time just to see the Dragons park specifically. And when I tell you my jaw was on the FLOOR. The instant my sister and I stepped through that gate. I have it all on video lmao I was freaking out hardcore. Everything is so accurate to the movie, it's like walking right into Berk. Like I can't even really. Put into words how incredible the experience was. Getting to see my favorite movie brought to life meant SO much to me, getting to walk around and recognize specific things from the film, like the armory! And Hiccup's bedroom workshop! And the dragon racing stands!! It just made me so happy and felt like an honest to goodness dream come true.
The rides were mid unfortunately lmao but the park itself more than made up for that. (If any of you ever go tho I do not recommend doing Hiccup's Wing Gliders we waited 45 minutes in line for a 1 minute ride and it was LAME.) We even managed to see the theater production and that was SUPER cool, there's pictures online you can look at but yeah they had a life-sized Toothless animatronic? Puppet? strapped in to the ceiling and he flew above the audience with Hiccup on his back (literally the ONLY time I saw Hiccup all day).
Okay wait yeah I found some pics
The puppets in the live show were so freaking cool especially the Stormcutter, it was HUGE and so lifelike, when it spread its wings I was like HOLY SHIT
Also they had a lot of really cool animations that played during the show as well!! I really wish I could have gotten it on video but we were not allowed to record during the performance š¤§
I really really wanted to do the meet and greet with Toothless but the line was consistently over an hour long ALL day, and I didn't want to wait that long especially since there was no guarantee Hiccup's actor would be there to take pictures (and every time we checked, he wasn't there RIP). And I was like. I don't want to wait an hour just to get my picture taken with just Toothless. You know?
But yeah the park was playing the movie's soundtrack over the speakers and that just really heightened the experience too. Test Flight came on and me and my sister were just geeking out. John Powell you fucking musical GENIUS
We hit the gift shop too and while it was. Ahem. Ridiculously overpriced, I caved and bought the Universal exclusive Loungefly Toothless backpack. Because compared to every single other Toothless backpack out there this one is the fucking CUTEST
It came with a headband and it also has wings you can move around on the back šš
So um yeah. Absolute banger experience 20/10 would go again. I legitimately loved it so much they did such a good job with the designs and references, I could tell there was so much love put into the building of that park. Idk what kind of crack the park architects are on but I would like some please.
I have more pictures of the other parks we visited too but I wanted to make a specific post for Berk bc of how special and important HTTYD is to me!! Thanks for reading this far if you did <3
hi shima! i heard you went on a trip recently? i hope it was fun!!
Hi anon!! I did, yes! I went to Florida with my sister :"D We were actually born and grew up there so the first half of the trip was just visiting our hometown and visiting all the places we used to go to when we were kids. Biggest highlight there was revisiting the theater we literally spent our entire childhoods at :") We went to summer camp there and were part of a theater program and did tons of shows there growing up so. It was very emotional lol I stepped into the tech booth and almost cried it felt like such a full circle moment for me š¤§ Also I'm pretty sure we weren't allowed to be in there LMAO all the lights were off and it was empty but we snuck in and turned everything on so we could explore. Luckily we didn't get caught haha
We also went to a dinner theater show that was literally right down the street; we went to see a lot of shows there as kids so it was pretty surreal going back! And this theater is like. Broadway level of talent. We saw All Shook Up and the cast and the set and the lighting and just everything was AMAZING.
Then we drove three hours up to Orlando and checked into the ritziest resort I've ever been to in my life. My mom does a lot of traveling for her job and she has tons of free hotel points as a result so she hooked us UP with this place lol
We went to Universal the next morning! It was the Epic Universe park to be specific. I will say the rides are pretty mid (except Stardust Racers the GOAT) but the park itself made the trip SO worth it the environments are just. Fucking incredible. I took so many pictures I'll have to share them on another post lol but yeah all the visuals and how everything felt like an adaptation brought to life was just. MWAH chef's kiss. Especially Berk I won't go into that on this post but I'll share pictures from that shortly
All in all a very good trip! It ended a bit on a sour note because of what happened with our dog but I'm so glad we took the chance to go back and relive our childhoods a little <3
this may sound super weird but i've found your account recently through your trustedpartnershipping content from years ago (fanarts and fanfics) and after seeing your recent art posts i wanted to say your art today looks phenomenal!!! ^-^
Omg it's not weird at all!! I'm so happy to hear that, tysm <3 Also welcome aboard the Trustedpartner train :)
I got a puppy in april of last year with my fam and can confirm they chew everything. Bitter apple spray works wonders to stop that, but it does take time! Also be prepared for pee everywhere. There's no thoughts of "oh i need to go here to go potty" they just go when they gotta go. It was stressful teaching my baby where we wanted her to go
Aww congrats! ^^
And ooh I will keep that in mind, thank you! Luckily she's already pad trained so she knows she's supposed to go pee on the pads. Eventually we'll shift her over to just going outside when she needs to use the bathroom šāāļø
The rest of my charm samples have been ordered btw! I went down about a half inch in sizing because I think the first batch I got were a leetle too big, so I'll have to see what this new batch looks like.
As soon as they get here and I check 'em over I'll be uploading all of them to my shop! I'll make a more official announcement once that happens but yeah WE'RE ALMOST THERE
My mom truly had a 'if something could go wrong it went wrong' kind of day trying to pick her up but she made it home eventually!
Puppy is very very cute and very very tiny. All our more recent dogs have been adult rescues so we were not prepared for how Small she would be. She's a total bundle of energy and warmed up to us pretty much right away, she also does these super cute little puppy prances around the kitchen, like how when babies walk they stamp their feet bc they don't know how weight distribution works yet lol
She also LOVES to bite and chew on absolutely everything. My pants, my socks, my shirt, my fingers, my HAIR, she chewed on all of it. We're trying to teach her to only chew on her toys but it's not going well lmao she's also very fond of chewing on any blankets she happens to be around
Our older dog does not know how he feels about her yet nfjkandska he barely wants to look at her let alone interact with her, meanwhile she's obsessed with him and if he's in the room she follows him around everywhere. She loves her big brother but he wants nothing to do with her š I'm sure he'll warm up to her eventually but right now this is what he looks like when he sees her:
She's settling in well! I spent the last two nights at my parents place but I had to leave this morning to go to work. I miss her already. I told my mom I'm coming back to spend the night on Friday :"D
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So my mom texted me today and dropped the bomb that she and my dad just adopted a puppy. And in my brain Iām like isnāt that way too soon because they said goodbye to Bailey literally ONE WEEK ago lmao but then I remembered we got our dog Bug four days after we lost our dog Chloe so Iām like hmm well they did wait an extra three days this time š
Anyway my mom wants to name her Brynlee and I immediately said I didnāt like it bc it sounds like a super white mom name like Mackensleigh. Something with WAY too many āeās and āyās. But sheās my momās puppy so in the end itās her decision ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ I refuse to call her that tho if thatās gonna be her name. I will come up with a proper nickname when I see her
Sheās 10 weeks old sheās a BABEE. Our last few dogs have been rescues that were already adults so my momās a little nervous about having a puppy in the house again bc itās been a good decade or so since theyāve had one haha
Here she is. The true epitome of no thoughts head empty
Momās bringing her home tomorrow so Iām going over to spend the night and meet her at the airport š³
