hi! i am very new to tumblr but one of my friends told me i could find more yona fans here! i love your posts and your art and i was wondering if you have any other anime/manga recommendations that i can binge while we wait for season 2?
HELLO WELCOME!!!! Yes, there are definitely quite a few of us here!! ALSO THANK YOU I'M GLAD YOU ENJOY MY YONA MADNESS HAHA <3
FOR RECOMMENDATIONS!
Noragami is one of my personal favs! 2 seasons, 25 episodes (12-13 per season), 2 OVAs. It's an incomplete anime, but the manga ended in December 2024, I believe? I finished reading it and it has been one of my top animes for years now lol. In a nutshell, girl gets hit by truck and can now see ghosts along with gods and spirits and such. It gets a little intense, but the hints of romance and found family are really sweet and well-written imo.
Mob Psycho 100 is my favorite to recommend and rewatch! To me, it is the anime of satisfying conclusions and happy endings. The animation style is super goofy and I love all the characters!! 3 seasons, 36-ish?? episodes???? I think? There are about 12 per season as well. Emotionally stunted psychic Middle Schooler learns how to handle his emotions and makes friends while being an underpaid exorcist. 100/10. He also has an actually functional, healthy, bio family, AND a little hodge-podge found family, but his found family dad is highk more relevant than his biological one lol. Also gets intense/a little dark, but everything works out, trust.
I love My Hero Academia. Also recommend. For SURE. Peak storytelling. I highly encourage anyone and everyone who hasn't seen it to erase any imprint the toxic side of the fandom may have left on you in favor of drawing your own conclusions and opinions. Enough said.
Honorable mentions: Zom 100 (zombie apocalypse but make it unserious), Toilet Bound Hanako Kun (BEAUTIFUL ARTSTYLE and GREAT story, is a little more horror geared tho), Ranma 1/2 (the new one is great! And I will also forever love the og, which has terrible pacing, but both are a good, lighthearted watch)
Not an anime but if you can watch My Melody and Kuromi (the Netflix one) it's the CUTEST thing and the episodes are short and it's only added several hundreds of gallons of fuel to the my melody hyperfixate in my brain so I thought I should mention it <3
BUT YEAH THANK YOU FOR THE ASK!!!!! GREAT TO HAVE YOU HERE!!!
Can I ask, too? A version of FMK called wed-bed-bred. Of the 3 men, which would you: marry, fuck, have a baby with? (You choose whether actors or the characters of your choice)
Of course!!!😍😍😍
Wed Andy right now. Thats husband material right there and I will always want to marry him
Bed Geralt (have you seen those thighs). Ugh, I want him to growl "fuck" in my ear.
Bred by Beefy!,Bucky. Bucky has a huge breeding kink, he needs to make up for lost timr.
~ Mira is clingy as fuck (This isn't even a headcanon lol). She is hugging or touching CONSTANTLY. She needs it for some reason.
~ Tea wakes up late one night to find Mira eating his chocolate ice cream. She doesn't regret it.
~ Mira has a checkered scarf a la Kokichi. It freaks Tea out the first time he sees it.
~ Tea will wake Mira up in the middle of the night to tell her about a hallucination he just had. She looks dead the next morning because she couldn't fall back to sleep.
Okay maybe I should stick to imagines and headcanons for fictional characters...
Wheeee, I’m gonna cheat and give you more than one.
Let’s get the obvious one out of the way. Kaidan is a filthy soft-hearted paragon with integrity coming out his ears, loves carefully but deeply, is tough but kind, has been through trauma and hardship but found his way through to the other side. He’s steadfast, warm, funny if you pay attention, and the type of character who gives an excellent opportunity to observe others. So, basically, if you wanted to trap a Swaps in the wild, Kaidan Alenko is the friggin’ template you should work from to do it, Plus, when he’s with Shepard I get to go ham with old soldier imagery, which I have discovered is one of my absolute favorite things. Not surprisingly, I write Kaidan eagerly and often. Virtually all of my mShenko is exclusively from his POV. When I do it from Shepard’s it loses its magic somehow.
The less obvious one? ASHLEY. I was never satisfied with Ashley in the games. I knew what I wished she would be, but the games never quite...gave me that. So a goal for me when I sat down to write Exordium was to create the Ashley that I’d wanted to see in the games. How surprised was I when all of her scenes basically wrote themselves? She was effortless for me to write - in fact I had to be very careful that she didn’t dominate POV characters when she shared scenes with them. She’ so fun and freeing to write. Loud, funny, confident, uninterested in worrying about what people think of her. She just...does her thing. And doesn’t apologize for it. It’s a blast.
Honorable mention? Garrus. I love Garrus. I love him as a romance, I love him as Shepard’s best friend. In my stories I work his snark and sense of humor, and I’m always happy with the results. I very badly want to write more ME2-era fic, where he’s got Shepard’s back no matter how dark it gets, and in my ME2 canon things get really dark for Shepard. (Not Fine is my favorite example.)
Couple of snippets that I love for each character:
Kaidan, from Celestial Navigation:
Shepard’s body is familiar, but only as it functions in a hardsuit. Where it’s weak. Where it’s strong. How long before his amp overheats, how much punishment his barrier can take before he’s spent and vulnerable. He knows Shepard’s weak left hip – still weak, even after he’s been rebuilt from the ground up, because the man doesn’t know how to roll to the right every now and then – and how to protect him from it.
Now instead of gauntleted hands searching ablative for a breach to seal, Kaidan’s fingers skate over bare skin, find where it’s whole and where it’s broken. Instead of checking his biofeed and reading Shepard’s pulse he feels it under his palm, flesh and blood instead of numbers in his HUD.
This is better. This is much better.
Ashley, from Exordium, Chapter 24 - Corpora Numerandum:
When Kaidan crawled his way back to groggy consciousness, he discovered he wasn’t alone. In the dark confines of Dr. Chakwas’ office there was a small rectangular glow of light from a datapad. The smell of eggs and sausage filled his nostrils, eliciting a growl from his empty stomach. The vice around his skull had loosened into a dull, throbbing ache. With a groan he rolled over and reached up to thumb the switch of a small lamp on Dr. Chakwas’ desk. In the sudden light he saw a pair of neon green boots propped up on the frame of his cot.
“Good morning, Sunshine,” Williams drawled, not looking up from her datapad. “Did you know Dr. Chakwas likes celebrity gossip? I think she has half a dozen entertainment mags on this thing.” She swiped at the screen, head cocked to the side with one eyebrow raised. “Apparently Varesh Onek and Chan’Dren Yara vas Naroma of Fleet and Flotilla fame may be a real life couple.” She looked up at Kaidan. “See, they’re assuming I have any idea what the hell Fleet and Flotilla is.”
“What are you doing here?” Kaidan replied, sitting up slowly as he waited for his brain to shake off some of the cobwebs. The aftermath of a migraine felt a little like what he imagined coming off a three day ryncol bender might be like.
She lifted a tray off Dr. Chakwas’ desk and removed the cover with a flourish. Beneath it was a steaming pile of scrambled eggs, sausage, and pancakes dripping with syrup. The smell was heavenly. She smirked. “The Doc said you’d be coming around soon, and I hear biotics like to binge eat.”
“You brought me breakfast?” he said, surprisingly touched by the gesture.
She raised her chin proudly. “Reconstituted it myself. I figured I’d save you the trouble of shambling through the mess to get some grub. Someone might mistake you for a plant zombie.”
“How chivalrous,” he said dryly.
“Right. Cute. Because of the knight in shining armor comment. I get it.” She pulled the tray out of reach. “You can’t have this now.”
Garrus, from Noel:
“I bet there’s a few turian traditions that sound more than a little odd when you try to explain them to outsiders,” Liara prods.
“As odd as a single person visiting the homes of an entire planet in one evening?” Garrus asks. “Liara, we’re talking physics here.”
She gives him a withering look. “Ok. Then tell me about the turian belief in Turak Selar.”
His mandibles twitch. “You mean the spirit that snatches the souls of ill-mannered children and traps them in lizards?”
Liara is silent.
“How is that weird?”
She sighs and turns back to the monitors. “Christmas seems like a multi-layered tradition. There are even hints of fertility rituals in there, though I’m not sure humans still acknowledge those origins.”
Garrus shudders. “I really hope fertility has nothing to do with this.”
“The Christmas tradition appears to have both religious and folkloric derivations,” EDI’s offers helpfully over the comm. “The human Christian faith honors it as a birth commemoration for the offspring of their deity. The occasion is marked with religious services, re-enactments of the child’s birth—”
The turian’s mandibles flail in alarm.
“—communal singing of relevant songs and reuniting of families. However secular influences appear prominently throughout the holiday’s history as well. The date coincides closely with a winter solstice. Several related ancient customs therefore have been adopted as part of the festivities, such as interior decorations with greenery, feasting, and gift giving.”
The AI’s voice quirks with interest on the last comment.
There’s a knock on the door, and Tali enters. “You said you wanted to see me?”
“For solidarity,” Garrus quips. “Shepard and the rest of the humans apparently neglected to tell us they secretly worship an immortal fat man who rides around in a hover sled dragged by hapless mammals, distributing presents to young children by breaking into their homes.”
Tali is so still Liara feels out the room’s gravity well to see if she’s somehow accidentally put her in a stasis field. “Is…that a joke?”
“No, Tali,” Garrus says with a sigh. “We’re actually friends with these people.”
8. Is there a story idea in your mental vault that you’ve never been brave enough to try writing? Is 2018 the year?
There are quite a few story ideas in my mental vault. I have notes for them but no real story... there are a few that I hope to start this year. There are two I’ve outlined and one that is already posted, that I’ve thought more on and fleshed out. Hopefully, that one will also be revamped this year! But, all said - I have about 3 multi-chapter fics I’d like to start! :D
9. Short term goals… what do you hope to complete this week or in January?
Short term goals - I would like to complete the 3 chapter fic that is Pre-FMN, and hopefully post one or two chapters of the main fic as well. The main fic probably has about 5 chapters left, give or take before it’s done.
They used to communicate via instagram? Is there a post of that? I love dying and being dead 💀
Hi Anon! Me too, RIP. I don’t have a specific post for all of the instagram stuff. If there is one, please can someone help out? I think there’s quite a bit of instagryles :D
Apart from the obvious shout outs where Nick fondly drags Harry, multiple pictures of them together and pics that confirm they were hanging out, there was much more direct interaction from the early days on instagram (like twitter). One that springs to mind is the picture Harry posted about the watermelon which led to that amazing twitter thread on Harry’s feet and Nick’s toes and a ridiculous article about what they were comparing, size wise. I also lowkey think a lot of the ‘lads’ stuff posted by Nick and by Harry to insta around that time was part of their banter. Then there are more ambiguous posts which are possibly Gryles related, like Nick posting ‘send help’ and himself eating a tub of ice cream after Harry left for tour. I also recall seeing somewhere that they posted ‘good morning’ pics at similar times like they were saying hiya to one another. I can’t find the link to the post that had proper links on that though...
I don’t want to overanalyse but the Madonna post just made me think that in no way does that seem like Gryles content until you hear the interview and then you’re like, HA! That font comment is a direct reference to a discussion with Harry. I just basically love their friendship, the Madonna post reminded me of earlier instagram related back and forth and it makes me happy to think that there are probably loads more in-jokes between them all over instagram that we don’t even know about and that is amazing :D
