✨Ari✨

𝑵𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕✧ [She/Her | 22 | ES/EN | ⚢] IG/twt: @_yumenari | Multifandom artist! :] | Shop open! yumenari.etsy.com | Comms: vgen.co/Yumenari | USA Shop acggoods.com/store/yumenari

[yumenari]

leona… am I right….

[yumenari]

Hi Ari ! Have you been, per chance, preparing a shop update with new Leona merch for our glorious king's bday this year? The people are begging 🙏🙏 (it's me, I'm the people. Also it's just to decide if I do preorder the true hearts day zine or if I save all my money for your merch👉👈) ANYWAYS HAVE A GOOD DAY BYE BYE 🫶🫶

JFSNSJSK HELLOOO

Unfortunately, I must disappoint the people this time 💔 I've been kinda burnout lately + have been dedicating more time to experiment with my art so not much new...

I had a project idea but the cons I've attended this year and other projects (zine & CSE) kept me busy ueeee 😢😢😢

I will have a discount on Leona items when I reopen the shop next week tho! Which may be the last chance to get many of them, actually, because I'm not restocking most of my designs after this update 🥹 I need space for new ones... though they will most likely stay in my ACGGoods shop!!

The only thing currently planned is a charm collection for the housewardens, though it's not really... about the characters themselves. If that makes any sense at all 🙈 hopefully you'll see soon hahaha

Of course, I encourage everyone reading this to get the True Hearts Day Merch Kit (link for anyone that isn't familiar with it! preorders close soon~) 🫣 we do have maaany gorgeous Leonas in the merch lineup~

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT ALWAYS! And have a lovely day too! 💛

[bunnwich]

the most chalant man ever

[morenfff]

Trying new fandom heh

[yumenari]

wip… give me a couple days 👩🏻‍💻🎀

[kimikitti]

Hey guys! I'm back! And you're all in for another one of my yap sesh. I've really been having a wild few months so I apologize for taking such a long hiatus. I got really stressed out about losing passion for art, I was feeling pretty trapped in my usual work flow.

But now im doing better and I really wanted to try out something new! And I think this helped really to break me out of my funk. So thank you our lord Leona Kingscholar my beautiful wife.

(Leona helped me through life recently. Because sometimes I fantasize that we're in a dying marriage in our 50s where I've become a jobless bum mooching of my beautiful succsessful wife Leona and have terrible soul crushing arguments. Divorce is on the horizon if I don't get my act together and I'm on the couch. Somehow, that's my escapist fantasy. Yeah so if anyone has a therapist they can recommend me, that would be great.)

Anyways! Also we're almost at 2000 followers?! I just checked my stats. Holy cow this cult is getting big, go home all of you. what are you doing here.

[yumenari]

mizisua 🎀

Sticker sheet I made for our Yuri Stamp Rally during Dokomi! I'm soooo happy I got to organize that project, means so much to me 🥹 Thank you again to the amazing artists who joined me and to everyone who participated! 💖

[egophiliac]

as penance, here's that Georgina/Dylla for y'all 🙇

[the-twst-cast-needs-therapy]

Now that all artists have received their gifts. I can finally post these!

I made these for the Dokomi. Lilia and Malleus stickers to give out to cosplayers and the 2 prints and one sticker specifically for artists that I love.

Especially in times of AI I think that it is important to support the artists that we appreciate/look up to. I thought the concept of a "reversed stamp rally" was a cool idea to do that.

The Leovil print was for @rakiah

The little Ace was for ayumisaurus

And the Leona was for @yumenari

[barusoons]

A long day in the liminal pool space

[yumenari]

Would you ever consider putting some of your older charm designs up on your ACGgoods? I’d love to buy one of your old arcana charms since I got into the fandom pretty late and missed a majority of the fan merch out there. Totally understand if not though!! Just thought I might as well ask. Your chibi style is so cute! :>

!! omg my Arcana merch... it's been so long since I last heard about that....

Honestly, I feel kinda embarrassed 🙈 hahah not that I hate them or anything, it's just that old art makes me shy jfdksk

But! Yeah, definitely possible <3 I assume you mean the chibi ones holding a heart right? I also had the side profile ones, but since you mentioned chibis I guess you meant those 🫡 (and tysm!! 🥹 I'm happy to hear that, drawing chibis is very fun hehe)

If you want to confirm those are the ones feel free to comment / dm / send another ask, and I will look for the files 🙂‍↕️💜

[rakiah]

DOKOMI ⭐️ TWST Stamp Rally

We're back everyone! 👀 New Rally for the Dokomi! Feel free to join to get exclusive prizes! ✨

This year again, I'm the bonus prize for the braves who will come to the Hall 5! 😘

☆ How to play ☆

+ Get a stampcard at any participating table.

+ Collect Stickers by making a minimum purchase of 7€ at each participating artist table.

+ After collecting the 7 stickers in Hall 1 & Hall 3 bring back the stampcard to booth 3E35 to redeem the prize!

☆ BONUS ☆

Collect the premium stamp at booth 5P15 in Hall 5 (18+) for an additional standee!

Participating Artists: @macrosmic @/foxpiracy (Insta) @ayumisaurus @tyrentar @yumenari @gunpys @neyuse @rakiah

[yumenari]

leona… am I right….

[gumi-writes]

commissioned from 津沢イナ🌾

[hanafubukki]

“I have loved you in every life. My very being knows your name.”

🌙💫 It’s our 6th Anniversary 💫🌙

Thank you to @yumenari for my wonderful comm 🥰🥰💚💚 she did amazing!! Look at them!! They shine so brightly. I love them so so much 🥹🥹💞💞

Notes:

Ari’s comm info can be found here and she also has a Etsy too.

Ari was also the one who drew my comm for Knight of Dawn and Hana.

I always wanted a get a comm that’s a complimentary/companion piece with the previous comm and Ari made that wish come true 🥰🥰💞💞

Since Dawn is the sun to Hana’s Star, I wanted this piece to show Lilia is her moon.

That’s also why Lilia is on the left this time with Hana on the right. So when the pieces are combined, it’s show Lilia and Dawn circling her. Like how the sun and moon orbits the earth.

She is the center of their world and they surround her. *shakes you* I just think it would be so so cuuuttee ahhhhh

As she is their star, she is their constant solace 🥹🥹💞💞

Like in the previous piece, where we had a hidden moon to represent Lilia, this time we have a hidden sun to represent Dawn ☀️

This time, we went with crowns for Liliana. Before we had flowers crowns and this time we focused on the more celestial theme. My flower and celestial loving heart is sooo happy ahhh

The gems on the crowns matches each other’s eyes 💞💞

Ari designed Lilia’s outfit as a combination of Dawn’s and his marriage outfit 💞💞

Hana’s blue and starry and Lilia’s outfit is purple and silver. Both to reflect the starry night and the moon. 🥰🥰💞💞

Love how their focus is only on each other 🥹🥹💞💞

The two circling each other. They know no other 🥰🥰💞💞

This time Lilia and Hana are attending a ball together and Dawn is back home looking after the boys 🤭🤭💞💞

When they are together, their hearts beat. “I love you. I love you. I love you.”

[vereing]

vent post abt TS fans on reddit (ch 1 spoilers mentioned)

So obviously now that chapter 1 preview is out, there’s a bit more discussion about the content within it and people’s opinions on it. It’s allowed that people can have thoughts and feelings on it - ch 1 preview is a form of media that’s meant to be engaged with.

But what really has me stewing is the fact that some people on Reddit said they were going to email the developers and express their concerns. Some of the comments on patreon had a similar feeling or were overtly this way.

If you’re a fan of the game, I’d hope you want it to come out. And let’s just look at it practically - if the developers make 2-6% progress on writing each month, voice lines are fully recorded for some routes, and art is established for later on in the story, it’s just absolutely crazy to ask for or expect major overhauls of what we’ve seen in chapter 1. Visual novels are like trees anyway - altering chapter 1 in significant ways would send cascading edits throughout their entire work thus far, even to the point of impacting later CGs and re-recording voice lines. The devs have spent months editing and writing the chapters. I can say that ofc it’s reasonable there are changes that people might prefer or wish for - I think that’s natural for any game. But just because people want a change doesn’t mean it should be made or is practical for it to be made.

Also, a common critique is about the pacing. IMO, part of why the pacing might be faster is that literally the scope of the plot is a lot larger than plenty of other otome/amare games. The devs planned to have 5 chapters for each character. Think logically about the path each character is on.

Vere is escaping the Senobium at night through shadow form (?) and has been plotting how to leave the Senobium for like 100 years. Kuras is strong enough to raze the city to the ground and like, shatter heaven. Ais is being overtaken by a god (?) who may try and seize control over the city. Mhin’s been investigating the shroud and traveling through time(?). Leander’s being himself. LIKE. The game isn’t going to be a slow burn romance where it takes a long time to hold hands because things need to get moving to reach a satisfying conclusion on these plot points in only 5 chapters. The characters need to fall in love with mc, have a personally and possibly world shattering conflict, and then resolve it. We can’t waste time blushing while peering at each other from beneath our lashes.

ALSO, 4/5, possibly 5 out of 5 characters are fairly sexual people. Ais, Leander and Vere all go without saying. But even Mhin has hooked up with Leander for example, and Kuras has dated plenty in the past. MC is absolutely thrilled to have someone they can touch without fear of irrevocably damaging them - and they can touch plenty of the LIs. if we go canonically, it doesn’t make that much sense to me for the physicality of the relationship to lag behind that much. Maybe it’s not what YOU would do, but the Touchstarved devs have a vision for the MC and the game as a whole - and importantly, many constraints that they’re working under.

I don’t think the devs are faultless or something, but it’s like. 1) be realistic about what changes can be made at this point 2) understand that we have a much more narrow view of the characters and the plot 3) the devs are working very hard to create something that both fans would enjoy and represents their artistic vision, and it doesn’t feel that appreciated to me.

Sure, there are changes that I would make if I was an editor for the game. And I think that probably the devs should announce a second delay, because following the percentage progress, I don’t think they’re on track to release this this year unless things start progressing faster.

But like emailing the devs about your issues with the game and requesting specific changes just feels so entitled to me idk. Ppl reading this might say - “it’s not entitled, I paid money so they should create the product that I want.” ok, but it’s not a personalized, made-to-order meal. If you read a book or watch a movie and don’t like it, it’s inappropriate to go to the creator and demand they make changes until you approve, even though u bought the novel or paid a ticket.

Also there’s risk inherent to backing smth on kickstarter - the game not coming out at all, totally shifting in direction, etc. paying money there literally is just like “I want these creators to be able to attempt this idea.” IMO, if someone going to be very specific and nitpicky about execution, they’re not the type of person who should be backing things in advance. If they care that specifically about the end product, they should wait for it to actually exist and make sure it meets their various standards before spending anything. Unless you’re paying for the backing tiers where you are allowed to help shape the game, your money only entitles you to receive the product that is created.

[hunternon]

Old sketch but too pretty not to post again