#skittidyne

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AT LAST.

Two books that, on the surface, look nothing alike but have one crucial similarity: I'm gonna read the heck out of them. If you enjoy one or the other, definitely worth checking out!

How To Kill Gods and Make Friends by @skittidyne and Hunger Pangs by @thebibliosphere

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Hello @skittidyne ! It's me from twitter!

I know I have another version of this somewhere because that's the one I was thinking of originally as it was a bit more detailed/refined, but this is the very first draft doodle of the BBAC wrap cover / cast lineup I made back in maybe 2015 or 2016. It was on literally the last page of the composition notebook I found, so any others I made would be elsewhere.

If I'm remembering correctly (or at all) character placement was based on which category of 🔔 📖 &🕯️ I felt each character/group were best represented by (at least at the time of drawing this). It's been several years now so I'm going off what I remember from that time to justify things. It's quite long so it'll be under the cut!

🔔 - Yamaguchi is surrounded by his luck spirit entourage, as I feel that storyline is tied closely to bells, what with all the cat collars. Tsukishima is actually the "Bell Representative" with the bell choker on full display. The 🔔📖🕯️ each have their own character(s) that I considered most prominent for their category. Yachi and Kiyoko are by this group, but we'll get to them later.

📖 - Sugawara and Yui are the Book Representatives because of all that necromancy research they did. Specifically, I think I thought of it because of the book with the chapter on demonology that Kenma gets his hands on. Yui is off to the side while Suga is between her (holding one of his many notebooks) and Nishinoya, Asahi, Daichi, Oikawa, and Iwaizumi. I think I did this is because Suga was a literal line between life and death - or more accurately "here" and "gone," as Asahi is very much dead, but still around after the crash, and Yui was apparently still alive, just no one had seen her in a long time and thought she was dead. Daichi is there because of both the romance and the magic learning with Suga. Oikawa and Iwaizumi are there because I felt the whole dreamlands adventure fit here because of the research that required and inspired, plus Oikawa and Suga's previous relationship. But I guess I wanted to insert the Tanaka siblings between them? Probably so they could be closer to Noya, but I'm not 100% sure on that tbh.

🕯️- Kenma and Kuroo represent the Candle because of that whole demon summoning for sacrifice fiasco, and Kenma's general use of them. Lev is there because he learned about magic from Kenma and that scene with Lev stumbling upon the aftermath never failed to make me laugh. Bokuto and Akaashi because of their relationship (plural) and their part in Kenma's plan to pause the apocalypse.

& - There for characters who I felt fit into multiple storylines equally or I wasn't sure where exactly to place them but wanted them to feel included. The & category is also used to tie 🔔📖🕯️ together into one long string of characters, which I felt was fitting because that's what the word "and" does.

In &, we have Yachi & Hitoka, Kageyama & Hinata, Ushijima & Tendou in fox form (+ the lurking presence of The Thing That Should Not Be), and, of course, Ryuu & Saeko. I think having them in pairs like this was intentional because "&," but also that might just be how things turned out because of how their storylines were working out at the time of drawing this. no clue, but I probably drew this in literature class lol.

Anyways thanks for coming to my TED Talk! Hope it makes sense.

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I love all tsukkiyama and this is Tsukkiyama inspired by the fic bell, book, and candle by @skittidyne !!!

Thank you for the story again im having so much fun 💕

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are there any let’s plays of pathologic you’d recommend?

I haven't watched any so I'm not sure! I found this Reddit post collecting a bunch, with some descriptions of their strengths and weaknesses that might help.

Pathologic 2 is sort of a remake/reimagining of the first game with modern graphics and gameplay, so I went in completely blind and it was fine. But some LPers who have played the original might have some extra lore flavour to add, especially with the two playable routes from Patho 1 that currently aren't included in 2.

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Haikyuu fic rec - Bell, Book and Candle by Skittidyne

THE BEST HAIKYUU FANFIC YOU’LL EVER READ!!!!

@skittidyne

Okay so yeah this will be a long rant, but please stay with me on this one, you won’t regret it.

I’ve been reading copious amount of fanfiction since I was like 13 (which is 7 years now). I know my way around the block. And this magnum opus is The Number One best fanfiction I have ever read. This post details my top 100 reasons why.

It’s looooooong. How long? Most likely longer than anything you have ever read. It’s over 750k words long and it took me about 4 months to finish (because I was reading slower and slower as I was nearing the end because I never wanted it to end). 750k+ words of volleyball fanfiction. Yes.

Okay so here’s the kicker. It’s not about volleyball at all. It’s set in the modern world with the characters aged up and that world is your typical modern supernatural AU. You have your witches, psychics (Oikawa who can read your mind, anyone?), ghosts, cat spirits, uhh, virgin-blood-attracted-carnivore unicorns and all kinds of creatures from every lore imaginable.

I’m a sucker for these settings but that’s not what sold me on the fic. It’s one of those fics where every single character makes an appearance and it’s like seeing the canon Haikyuu come to life (with extra wings or tails here and there). Every single character is so spot on I could cry, even characters that didn’t really get much screentime.

It’s laugh-out-loud funny. I can’t count the number of times I burst out laughing in the middle of a scene and couldn’t stop for 5 minutes, not even to respond to my concerned roommate. It has some of the wittiest exchanged I have seen in fanfiction.

Now for you tumblr folks: Every. Single. Character. Is. Gay. There are transgender characters and gender non-conforming characters and they are handled in a way that feels very natural. The ships are always paired by the “most canon” axis with the occasional poly thrown in. So not only this has the best characterization and dialogue, it also has an incredibly sweet, kinky and naturally progressing romance. The dialogue can get pretty dirty but there’s only one actual smut scene and it’s so good too omg.

And now, since I’m a huge sucker for the plot: Even though it sometimes looks like a slice of (supernatural) life scenes, IT HAS A VERY COHERENT OVERARCHING PLOT AND THE SEEMINGLY RANDOM SCENES ACTUALLY COME TOGETHER AT THE END WTFFFF HOW DO YOU DO THAT. It’s SO worth it to keep reading to the end because the reward is huge. Not that the buildup isn’t great, but I feel like it’s pretty rare for an author to finish a fic in a way that will stick with you for months.

If I’ve convinced you to go read the fic, I am so glad and I hope you have a good time. I have yet to write a proper review for this because I have’n’t had the time to sit down and write a several thousand word magnum opus sucking up to every single line in this work but I will eventually. If you do give it a try, please come back later to yell at me about it.

This is the type of story that creates it’s own universe and inspires other authors to use this universe for their stories.

BONUS: BBAC SIDE STORIES by skittidyne - if you’re wondering where all the smut went in such a mature story, look no further. Mostly Kuroken and Daisuga with a side of other pairings and other daily life shenanigans. You can read it as standalone smut oneshots but I feel like some aspects of the AU would be difficult to grasp without knowing the main storyline. This is a great thing to read after the Big Void that follows finishing Bell, Book and Candle. Aside from smut, it also has AU AUs? to the main storyline, eg the actors AU, pairing swap AU etc.

BONUS BONUS: Literally anything else by skittdyne. I’ll be writing a separate thread for Blood Will Have Blood, which is a shorter story of similar magnitude, but she wrote a lot of oneshots, all of which are worth your time. Shoutout to the Iwaoi Death God one and the Pokemon Go one.

Final note: I wish this is what the canon Haikyuu was.

OH MY GOOOOD I WANT TO GO REREAD IT ALL AGAIN

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Happy Birthday @skittidyne! Here’s an attempt at Iwa-chan with Osmunda for dreams, peach blossoms for “I am your captive,” and Fleur-de-lis for flame / I burn. The runes are a combination of various things I looked up and made up. I don’t even really remember at this point sorry.

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skittidyne replied to your post: so to recap, my in-laws invited themselves and 20...

congratulations on tying the knot!! no matter how it happened

i’m calling it “getting married (beta version)”

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lil comm for @skittidyne of their characters viv and dana!!! i love them!

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