and everything is going fine

Juniper - Fanfic author, novelist, designer. I'm an adult, blog is 18+. Obsessing over Persona5, Fire Emblem 3 Houses, Star Trek, Mozart and random things. I relate to Goro Akechi maybe a little too much. Icon by Beth!

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Rebellious Birds 3

This took me forever, I'm so sorry

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Happy Birthday Akechi!

My zine about this date is finally up for purchase on my Ko-FI page <3 !! Enjoy and thank you for everyone's support!

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Chapter 47 is up! Yay!

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protect, project

I forgot to post this the other day but here's my second fic for the bottom joker week event. :D

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Happy Bottom Joker Week >:D

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I drew this piece for my friend @sixteen-juniper's fanfic Rose and Rot! It's an incredible work of art, check it out if you want some beautifully written gut-wrenching Shuake <3

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I posted again, I was getting into a steady groove but the next two chapters are a mess so enjoy this for now? 🫠

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Rebellious Birds

Finally wrote enough of this to start posting. I'm still surprised I now have almost 50k of this.

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Hello guys, due to popular demand I now have a print shop!! :D

I've uploaded my first batch of artworks (a few samples above, but there's more on the site), I may upload more in the future, so if there's any particular artwork you'd like to see added, don't hesitate to let me know!!

I hope you'll check it out (and sharing this post is of course very much appreciated too) <3

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rose and rot 44

Chapter 44 <3 I think it's a pro-tip if you're prone to anxiety to upload your new chapter before you go to sleep so you can't think about it.

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Rose and Rot 43

I really had to claw this chapter out of myself but it's done.

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You know I'd always been alone 'til you

(Post canon shuakes loosely inspired by the fic "Backwards to Go Forwards" by sixteenjunipeer)

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I love this so much omg, they look so good here. :O Beth is one of my favorite artists 😍

Link to the original fic which is my second oldest. :D

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hi and bye. femshuakes my friend convinced me to post and now I disappear into the ether

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chapter 41

Chapter 41

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hatsumode

New fic for the advent of a new year, I hope it's a good one for you all

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Book recs

Literally just every book I reference in Rose and Rot as I remember them. I'm linking to goodreads, for you, please enjoy! :D

The Complete Brother’s Grimm. (obviously) Has its fingerprints all over this story. I go into detail on certain chapters when I borrow something directly from Grimm. The beauty of these stories is that they are in the public domain, so have fun reading them for free!!

East of the Sun, West of the Moon Title of chapter eighteen, it’s the name of a fairytale I like. And that phrase has been stuck in my head since June whenever I think about this story. It's where the forest is located in my brain!

Aarne-Thompson-Uther Folklore Index For tale-types and tropes. I consulted various indexes online a lot.

Argumentum Ornithologicum - Jorge Luis Borges The title of chapter 2 comes from this story.

The Library of Babel - Jorge Luis Borges Goro finds a part of Borges’ library at the end of chapter eighteen.

The Word for World is Forest - Ursula K LeGuin Title of chapter five, I'm always going to recommend reading at least a little Le Guin at some point in your life.

Exhalations - Ted Chiang Mentions obliquely in chapter twelve. Ren finds a book in Goro’s abandoned apartment and it is implied to be this.

Stories of Your Life and Others - Ted Chiang Goro mentions reading this in chapter thirteen.

The City in the Middle of the Night - Charlie Jane Anders Goro quotes one of my favorite lines of all time ‘ 'these things go from being "moments that I need to survive right now" to "things that will always have happened to me.'’ in chapter sixteen. I think about it a lot.

Hell is the Absence of God - Ted Chiang A quote is a future chapter title. Guess which quote! I love this story so much, you all have no idea.

Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino At the end of chapter eighteen Goro thinks of finding Calvino’s invisible cities on the other side of the ocean.

Piranesi - Susannah Clarke Just a big influence on the story. If you remember Goro’s hall of statues, that’s a direct line from Piranesi to my brain. My favorite quote is reserved as a future chapter title.

Goblin Market - Christina Rossetti Not mentioned but the influence is there!

House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski Goro mentions reading this in chapter thirteen. A quote ‘’You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again” is a discarded chapter title for chapter twenty-four.

Walden - Henry David Thoureau Goro mentions reading this, and a quote is the title of chapter twenty-three.

Ursula K LeGuin - Various works Mention in chapter 13 I think the entirety of the Hainish Cycle, with an emphasis on ‘The Left Hand of Darkness’ and ‘The Dispossessed’. I will also toss in Earthsea, specifically The Tombs of Atuan.

Octavia Butler - Various works I’m gonna say Goro is reading the Xenogenesis books in Chapter thirteen, alongside Kindred.

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I'm updating this for 2024, though it's short. I should reference more books.

The White Album - Joan Didion, chapter title of chapter 34 where yours truly was going through it emotionally. Ha! it's a masterpiece of prose, please read it.

The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak - Title chapter of 39, another book you should read.

Dirge Without Music - Edna St. Vincent Millay - one of my favorite poems. I'll also rec Renascence, but a ton of her poems are available online.

I guess I'll see you all next year. <3

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ch40

I hit post by accident this morning ;-;