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mykatzone · 7 months

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Answering asks #4

I have been... procrastinating over answering asks in my inbox... just a bit 🥺

I'm really grateful for everyone's patience so I'm finally sitting down to answer all the asks I got! Again tysm ;w;

• Finny art request + Timelapse and brief overview of my art process

My deepest apologies anon! Not only did you send this ask back in July, but I additionally promised you a reply back in August- and it's October now! 😭 I am so sorry for my lateness and am so grateful for your patience!

In any case, you asked for a Finny drawing so I offer a Finny drawing! As well as a timelapse of my art process and brief overview of how I do things since you were interested!!!

I wasn't sure what style you wanted me to draw him in (I have so many styles RIP) so I picked the most difficult one I (sometimes) use! Aka my painterly style!

As for how I draw like this uhh, it's a lot of messing around trying to find the right colors basically!

Also focusing on quick brush strokes that communicate the shape of whatever surface I'm rendering!

I also love casting most of the upper part of the face in shadows. Does it make sense? No. Does it look good? Yes!!

As for my lineart, again- rly depends on the style I'm going for- but I tend to use a more sketchy style of lineart these days.

Like a superrr clean sketch. I think it looks nicer with my rendering style, bc the lines have that sketchy rough quality so it's easier to hide the imperfections bc I can hide under the "well it's supposed to look rough duhh" excuse LOL. Work smart not hard! I always say that.

I hope I'm making sense with my rambles. I've never been the best at explaining my art process bc I myself don't rly get what I'm doing usually. It just kinda comes as a reflex almost?? I've been drawing for so long I just kinda go with the flow at this point.

Anyhow hope it was worth the wait XD enjoy your Finny!!!

• Kuroshitsuji Musical idea suggestions

To refresh everyone's memory (bc I'm so late at answering asks), awhile back @shadowalkingschemer asked if I ever planned to make a Kuroshitsuji musical parody type songs/animations like I did for Umineko, to which I said "probs no bc an actual official Kuroshitsuji musical exists, but it sounds like a rly fun idea tho". ANYHOW- this was the followup ask I got from the same person! So let me finally answer!!!

Oki so I looked up this Beethoven's Last Night thing you mentioned and???? OMG??? It goes hard from the first few minutes I listened to. It's a rock opera I assume? And it's such a bop?? And yes this would be perfect for Kuroshitsuji, it matches that classical sophisticated vibe SO WELL with the general edge of the story (bc duh. it's a recreation of Beethoven's compositions but with epic rock music). God this is so good, thank you for the recommendation I will have to listen to the full album soon bc WOW.

• Nice person in my inbox :D

Thank you so much @eynnwwyjth !! That's such a sweet compliment too ;W; to call my art enchanting AAA ty!!! :>

• Animation advice

Thank you for checking out my YouTube @aeowolfestheater !! It's my primary social media, and I'm glad you fell down the rabbit hole of my many many uploads I posted over the years XD

To answer your question, I don't rly have the best personal advice when it comes to starting out as an animator rly! I kinda... fell into it? XD I started animating (well trying to animate in MS Paint), before I even turned 10, so I didn't really have that traditional learning curve? It was mostly a lot of trial and error, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't.

(If anyone wants to see how my old animations looked and how they improved over the years, I posted many "Animation Improvement" type videos that showcase my work over the years, so you get the idea of what I'm talking abt!)

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Best advice I can give to any animator right now is probably the boring advice I personally never took (hence why it took so long for me to get where I am now). Learm the fundementals (the principles of animation, the ins and outs of the animation program you're using, general art skills are also a bonus depending of what you wanna animate). I think it's also important when you are first starting out to focus less on making your animations smooth and clean and more on learning how to capture movement itself (that's the point of animation after all!). Learn how things move depending on material, speed, physics etc. and how to communicate that in animation. I think just observing life helps a lot. References are your friend (video references are probs the best). Ofc clean and smooth animation is great as well, but that comes after you learn the basics I think. Stay on model the best you can while animating any shot (ofc unless you are doing squash and stretch or experimental animation). It makes it look less janky. Uhh I can't think of much else right now (bc again I never rly learned animation the normal way haha), so I will link my two animation tutorials here! They are abt Clip Studio Paint EX though, idk how helpful they are if you don't have that program :'0!

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• Tumblr mutual reunion!

Omg hi @rissynicole and so sorry for the late reply!! As this post has shown so far I am extremely slow at replying to the asks I recieve in my inbox! Anyhow it is me! Katrinci! I got back on Tumblr in 2022 (has it already been over a year??)! Sadly someone else took my old username (an innactive empty blog too... I'm so mad), so I got a new username heyooo. I hope you've been well!! I'm doing better then I have in gosh, years I feel like XD. Mostly bc I'm finally out of school and finally focusing on stuff I wanna be doing (art career stuff and irl stuff!) But yeah I hope you've been well too!!! Feel free to reply or shoot me another ask if you feel like, I'll do my best to reply on time this time! (I'm so so sorry for being so late!!) Anyhow YIPPIE!

• Where to watch my silly Umineko Musical parody

It's here! I privated it on my main channel bc I thought it was too goofy/self-indulgent even for me (also it wasn't doing well and y'know how YouTube is with channels that underperform T_T), so I moved it to my secondary channel! It has both the song you are referencing and the other song I did! Enjoy :>

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• What Croatian stereotype is Katzone?

Well every region in Croatia has its own stereotype, I'm from Dalmatia, and we are stereotyped as loud. So I def fit that one! And also I fit the "cura iz umjetničke" (girl from art school) stereotype quite well. I went to an art highschool and I'm gay, autistic, slightly mentally ill and look vaguely alt (literally I don't btw, but ppl see a buzzcut and it blows their minds, like "woah that's so alternative and quirky", not knowing I only have a buzzcut so I can't pull my hair smh (trichotillomania, look it up for more info)). Though I don't smoke weed so mby I am a bit subversive and not like other art girls.

• Kat sexuality confirmed??

Oki so what @xxparanoidvampirexx is referencing here is when I posted a poll asking my followers to guess my sexuality.

These were the results!

I have been democratically declared a lesbian by popular vote. This is probably true. Listen I'm like 95% certain I'm a lesbian but you never know. My autism makes it hard for me to figure out any sense of my identity bc I often mirror ppl around me (and most of my friends are lesbians or sapphic women in sapphic relationships), you get me? We can never know. My sexuality is currently a Schrodinger's cat situation I'm afraid.

ANYHOW, to answer LMAO- I mean fair assumption. I do mostly post about women on my blog (Saldy... I got back into Adventure Time recently and my blorbo there... is a *shivers* man. I saw someone on Twitter today as that fictional middle aged men are to lesbians what Taylor Swift is is to gay men. And like. Yeah.)

• Nice person in my inbox #2 + "What's your favorite Ciel outfit?"

First of thank you so much anon for the kind words!!! I'm rly happy to hear my art makes you gayer (the only correct compliment ever). Jokes aside, but fr this is super sweet :'D thank you!!!

To answer your question, I had to go skim through this video by @/nullbutler to refresh my memory on what outfits Ciel wears throughout the anime/manga/official art.

Here's the video if you wanna watch it!

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Anyhow, my personal fave fits of his are extremely basic. While I do love Ouji fashion, I dislike seeing him in most of the oufits Yana puts him in. Like yes they look lovely, slay extremely hard and fit the visual aesthetic of Black Butler perfectly- but every time I see him in these frilly oufits I'm like "this is not reflective of his personality in any way, he would not wear this on his own, it's pure camp". Don't get me wrong- I love camp, and this anime/manga is as camp as you get. So while I love the more campy frilly oufits he wears aesthetically (and those are way prettier), I perfer when he's in stuff like this:

Like yes, these outfits are objectively less interesting and pretty- but I see stuff like this and I'm like yeah that's him. If Sebastian dropped dead and couldn't pick out his clothes anymore, this is what he would wear on his own accord methinks.

• STOP MAKING ME FEEL OLD 😭

Here's my live reaction of reading your ask @porfiriea :

What do you mean?? You were 6?? I doubt you watched my 2014 MS Paint animation era, I assume you found my channel during 2016-2017 at earliest (my Undertale and Yan Sim animation era). I refuse to believe you were born in the 2010s. Nuh-uh. No. Not happening. Fake news.

Jokes aside, but it's always cool to see ppl be like "oh I watched your stuff b4, I didn't know this Tumblr user was you!" It's a strange feeling!! Makes me feel like I did leave a mark on the animation side of YouTube. Feels nice! :'D but also old. And I'm only 20!! How will I feel when I'm 30 or 40?? Will I just turn to dust on the spot??

• Grelle's gender masterpost update

I'm so sorry anon, but I completely lost interest in this topic T_T! Plus even if I ended up making a masterpost, it wouldn't be fully accurate (or at least- I wouldn't be able to verify its authenticity completely), as I don't speak Japanese. So I would have to go off of Google translate and translations by English speaking fans who understand Japanese. And I don't wanna talk too much abt Japanese queer culture either. Even though I did a ton of research, I'm not Japanese and I never went to Japan! So I'd rather not risk spreading any potential misinfo. Sorry to let you down ;;!

• Another YouTube viewer spotted me in the wild!

Omg you spotted me!! In the wild!! That animation was crazyy, bc I made it rly fast and rly didn't expect it to do well. But I remember it did super well during the first day (got 100k views on the first day it was wild), and while I love that old video, I'm like. Rly? That one blew up?? Out of all my other ones?? I mean the idea was creative! But I feel I half assed it a little, I barely animated anything for it outside the headbop tweening and blinking animation XD. Mby I'm being too harsh on 14 year old Kat here. Nahh I'm not, I felt the same when I posted it innitially as well. But hey I still love that vid. Love the style I drew in at the time, I was still using a mouse for everything back then. Love the colors too! Mby I should remake it one of these days. Mby!!!

If anyone wants to watch the animation @gentle-starlight is refering to:

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• Umineko time

@anawkwardlady This is the universal Umineko fandom experience I'm afraid. Being sad over Beato and wishing she was vibing (after you learn abt... the horrors...) XD

• ???

I'm so very concerned and do not know what this means or what this is refering to. I'm afraid O_O @hononyan what does this mean...

• What happened to my old Tumblr blog

It's completely ok to ask anon! In truth, I have this rly bad habit where I delete social media accounts when I'm having a bad mental health moment. It's always an impulsive decision I end up regretting. I deleted my old Tumblr in early 2021 I'm pretty sure, and I'm still so sad about it. I wish I didn't delete it. I had that blog since 2015 and now it's gone like poof. I can't get it back and I'm always emo abt it.

I might make like, an archive or something of my old art one day. I mean I still have most of it saved on my computer, but it would be nice to have all of it in one place publically again (it's always good to have stuff backed up somewhere)! Adding that to my to-do list XD

Oh and the worst part? I can't use my old username on Tumblr (Katrinci). Someone else took it. A BLANK EMPTY BLOG. I'm so mad. I'm soooooo mad give it back to meeee.

• THE END!

And with that I have answered all the asks I had in my inbox! Well, all the questions and stuff, I still have other stuff in my inbox like art requests but I'll get to that some other time if I feel like doing any of those! In any case, tysm for being patient everyone! Ik it took me very long to reply but I hope my responses were worth it! I wish all of you a nice day! My hand hurts from typing owie.

#📬 askbox #i talk abt sm stuff in this post holy cow.#it even has some art/animation advice bc some ppl asked for that so do read this post if it interests u!#oki DONE.#Youtube

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makingspiritualityreal · 4 years

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Hi! Sorry to bother you. I was hoping you could help me: So I finished *all* Pigeon Blood, but ... I can't really say I understood everything ... In fact, I understood next to nothing ^^; So, I was hoping ... Can you tell me the story in the details, please? ^^; I finished the game so there's no risk for spoilers. (I actually *crave* the spoilers!) I would be very grateful! (Forgive my bad english)

Hello, I’m sorry if you had to wait a little bit for my reply, it’s been years since I played yaoi games, and I don’t post here on tumblr as often as I used to. I also had to delete the nsfw posts from pigeon blood because of new tumblr policy so yaoi games aren’t as fun as they used to be here ;

First a disclaimer - I can’t speak Japanese very well and I played with Visual Novel Reader, and to say that the machine translations are average is an understatement. So I may not have gotten all the facts well due to language issues. Also, it has REALLY been a long time, but I will do my best!

From what I remember, the game’s center plot is focused on supernatural events - the curse of the Kirishima family. The game vaguely explains how the curse came to be, a long time ago through Kirishima ancestors. It had to do with money and greed, how they used supernatural forces to become rich, leveraging spiritual power to prosper in business. At some point however, old Kirishima ancestors have mistreated the mystical power/entity helping them with their riches, which turned the mystical being into a demon, due to its anger with ancient Kirishma family members. An anger that was probably well justified. Since then, the Kirishimas have been walking the edge to maintain their wealth and keep the demon at bay simultaneously through appropriate purification rituals…for hundreds of years, since the origin of the demon dates to the 1200s. So the family has been paying heavily for their mistakes, having to burden its own family members to cushion the blow of mistakes of the ancestors.

However, I absolutely understand how you feel, because due to the poor budget, the game has this “unfinished” feeling to it and I also had the impression things weren’t fully properly explained and developed in the plot by the creators. Basically, the curse centers around very specific death rituals that have to be preserved in this old rich noble family, or otherwise everyone who dies returns as an extremely dangerous, flesh-eating zombie, as a result of karma for the family’s past misgivings. Due to this threat, it’s imperative that proper purifying funeral rituals be performed for a specific amount of time after every member of the family dies. Also, the game touches on the subject of karma through bloodline - there is a very specific relationship between a family member, let’s call him a guard, and another member, who is supposed to be a guardian of purity of the family. The guard has a very close desire to protect the guardian of the purity, in a possessive, exaggerated way - incest vibes are strong in this game. These patterns have apparently repeated over the centuries and old ancestor souls kind of possess newer family members.

Fast forward into the 21st century - we meet our protagonist Kazuki and his older brother Mizuki. Without being aware of it, Kazuki is the newest guardian of purity, while his older brother Mizuki is his guard. In one of the endings they literally end up sleeping together so like I said, incest is strong. Mizuki has always been unnaturally possessive and protective of Kazuki, making him very sheltered and naive. The other player in the family is Kaoru the butler, coming from a long line of butlers who served the family. Kaoru is a total yandere - he was always in love with Kazuki and totally obsesses over him. However, Mizuki found out that Kaoru has the hots for his little bro, and because of the family curse, he went insane with jealousy over his brother and has been abusing Kaoru for years as punishment.

Unfortunately for everyone involved, Kazuki and Mizuki have lost their parents early, and with that, plus with the passage of time, a large part of the ancestral knowledge has been lost. That left the two brothers alone. Mizuki was the only heir - of the little dangerous knowledge about their family that has been preserved, and of the family business. Kazuki has always been treated like a spoilt child, so he is kind and polite, but nothing besides. Shortly before the game’s plot starts, Mizuki tries to liberate the family from the curse with the help of Kaoru - the curse is linked to a certain magical sword as a binding object - but Mizuki fails, and dies in the process. Kaoru barely escapes with his life. This puts everyone in a horrible position - Kazuki is the only family member left alive, and he knows nothing about his family legacy or the curse, making him vulnerable to attacks and letting the dangerous monster run free. What is more, Mizuki tampering with the sword made everything worse, and so Mizuki turns into a flesh-eating zombie. Kazuki knows about the funeral, zombie-banishing rituals, without understanding how important they are. He performs them dutifully every day.

However, the curse attacks poor Kazuki again, without him knowing what is really going on. Kazuki ends up meeting his future boyfriends. That happened, because their car broke down in the fog, which was caused by the curse. The curse wanted Kazuki to stop performing the ritual. His future boyfriends drug him that night, and because of that Kazuki neglects the ritual. Thus, the demon is set free, killing people each night. The ritual at that point is useless. Since the demon is Mizuki, he is still possessive over Kazuki, the way he was when he was alive and tries to kill Kazuki’s love interest (and seduce Kazuki in weird and creepy ways), depending on what you pick. Then, there is the curse running rampant. It kind of brings out the worst in every person in the house. For example, Kazuki’s boyfriends blackmail him and torture and abuse him, unless they fall in love with him, at which point they turn into fluffy bunnies (wtf honestly). On the surface, most of the plot is about Kazuki surviving the abuse and falling in love with one of his guests. Under the surface, it is however all about the family curse, which has been controlling the events the entire time in supernatural ways. Eventually, Kazuki finds out about the family curse through Kaoru, even though Kaoru isn’t that willing to talk, feeling guilty for Mizuki’s death. Kazuki, heartbroken and scared, eventually decides to banish his zombie-niisan into the afterlife, and grows half of a ball sack in the process. The other half has been shoved up his ass during sex scenes and has stayed there I’m afraid. Now, depending on the ending, either everyone dies in some way or another (bad endings), or Kazuki banishes the demon with the sword, thus breaking the curse forever and dates one of his boyfriends (good endings). From what I remember, there is no true ending, only an epilogue that shows the origins of the family curse and some events from Mizuki’s perspective. In one of Yuuya’s good endings, Kazuki becomes the demon though, which was very interesting because he is kind of immortal, yet still alive, because he was alive when he took the demon in, so he is some sort of incubus, and happily in love with Yuuya.

Hope this was detailed enough!

#pigeon blood #shadowalkingschemer #yaoi #bl game

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foxyclock · 7 years

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Hi, Foxy! First of all, your art is absolutely lovely! I'm grateful that you are in the BtD fandom

Thank you!! And requests for drabbles or aesthetics? I probably wont take requests, but im always open for suggestions of what to draw!

#whats a drabble lmao #asks #shadowalkingschemer

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violetosprey · 6 years

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Tag Fun- optional

Whenever you get this you have to say five (5) things you like about yourself, publicly. then you have to send this to ten of your favourite followers (non-negotiable, positivity is cool) :) 💖

I was tagged by @kurtty-drabbles

1) Independent- I do actually enjoy my quiet “me time” and don’t get so worked up over people who can’t afford to be in constant contact with me. Just give me my internet and I’m good.

2) Patient- While there’s some things I’d like to happen sooner than others, I’ve found you’ll eventually get to where you want to be as long as you go at an even pace.

3) Detailed- Comes in handy for work when you’re trying to analyze all the data you have and ensure you’ve considered all possible errors in a project.

4) Good tempered- I hardly ever yell, or even get mad. And I keep cussing to a minimum. I think this helps make me pretty approachable for most people and enjoyable to be around.

5) Art/Creativity Lover- I may be more geared towards science and analytical thinking, but I cannot express how much it means for me to be able to spend my free time see all the AMAZING things creatives can make. I’m actually pretty envious with a lot of the work. This stuff really helps me get through my days.

I have enough followers that I can tag, but I don’t really know anyone personally, so it feels a little weird XD I’ll go ahead and pick a couple of names, but this I’m gonna say is optional. Some people find these annoying, others secretly hope they get tagged to join in on the fun. Please feel free to private message me if you would like me to remove your name from this post. I will understand if you are shy and don’t want people to know who’s blogs you are following. I will not take offense :)

Tagging:

@ominoushumour @missanon1987 @kainias-spy @durararax2-5 @pomalegende @a-living-person @jericho-b @lovechokingonflowers @shadowalkingschemer

#own post #well it's kind of a reblog #tag fun #positivity

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videntefernandez · 8 years

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Hi! I just discovered your "Welcome to Night Vale" fancast, and it's brilliant! I just wanted to ask you ... could you pont out the actors, please? I recognized only a few.

I don’t know either, I just found the pictures online, sorry

#shadowalkingschemer

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mykatzone · 9 months

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Answering asks #3

I got some wonderful asks recently and finally go around to answering them :D!

@sweetstrawberrytea This makes me really happy :'D it's so rare to see Kuroshitsuji fans who are also Umineko fans! We gotta do something and create more overlap fr fr (doing my part with my silly crossover arts XD) In any case thank you so much <33

@aeowolfestheater Thank you :'D I resonate with your comic struggles ;w; while yes I have drawn pages of my comic many times (entire chapters too), I'm stuck in this reboot hell, where I am never satisfied with what I make so I keep redoing it... over... and over again... SO I GET U!!! But it's ok! We have so much time to do our comics and other passion projects, I really wouldn't stress over doing it asap! It's ok to take things slowly and not rush into it (trust me ik)!

Thank you also for liking my Grelle art <33 Always happy to hear that!!

You mention you wanna see all of my art, idk how serious that is, but I do have a lot more art, just not on this account. I usually go by Katrinci online, so you can find a lot of my older art searching that username! Some of it is kinda embarressing, a lot of it is art I did as a kid and I cringe. But ykno! If you wanna look for more there u go!

In any case feel free to use my art as references or for studying if you want!!! I don't mind at all, you can even trace it for practice (though please don't post any traced art if you do). In any case thank you for this sweet message !!! :'D

@shadowalkingschemer AAA this is so cool to hear!!! I assume you haven't played Umineko and just watched the animatic/song because it interested you after watching my Grelle amv? That's actually so cool you have no idea :'D

To answer your question- I haven't thought about it! Mostly because Kuroshitsuji actually does have an official series of musicals, so I didn't think my contribution was necessery? But... I kinda wanna do it know... I'm not sure which songs I would use but I wanna do it...

Thank you for inspiring me XD I'll ponder about this!

@melodyofthevoid HI!! It's been awhile Melody :D Omg how did you come across my blog? Through my (occasional) Invader Zim drawings on this blog or? 👀

In any case I've been mostly good! Kinda directionless atm honestly. That's why I started a Tumblr again! It's good to have a space where I can just draw fanart and have fun without stressing abt online art career stuff lfkghfds. It's a chill relaxation area here!

Anyhow thank you so much :') I hope you've been well too!!! Sorry for the late reply btw! I answer my asks in a batch, I hope u don't mind!

Wishing you all the best <3!!

Aww thank you for thinking I'm cool anon! But sadly I have to decline! I only befriend people online veeery occassionally after being mutuals with them for at least a month or few (and even then that's not guaranteed). I worry about befriending people who already know me, but I don't know them at all ;_; it's too parasocial for me sorry!

I am so sorry anon... I may have given you a false impression of what Black Butler is about... It is sadly not about the cool red haired lady... She's actually barely in it... And the show does not treat her with respect usually... I'm so sorry for the false advertisement pls forgive me </3

Sure thing anon!

These are all the ones I have saved on my computer!!

@zoeyfoster-blog Omg I'm extremely biased, but I would say yes. For one, GX is a comedic masterpiece especially if you watch the dub. Yes the dub takes itself way less seriously and changes a lot of stuff from the canon japanese version BUT. It's so funny. It's so so so funny. Other then that I mean, GX is just a fun show with fun characters. I love the characters dearly (Chazz it up for life), but it's not like. The most brilliant piece of media out there. It's a pretty standard show for kids really. Though it get's really angsty and dark in seasons 3-4. Idk I really love it personally. If I were you, I'd watch s1, maybe early season 2 dubbed, because those parts of the show are a lot more silly and watching them dubbed would make it more funny/enjoyable. But def switch to sub on the more serious episodes like those in s3. Also thank you for liking my art :'D!!

@anawkwardlady Whenever we talk and are totally normal about Higurashi characters years are added to my lifespan <3

I actually haven't heard of it before! Thank you for the song rec!! I listened to it and yeah.. yeah heavy Natsuhi vibes.

Speaking of Umineko-esq Mitski songs, I think Me and My Husband is a very Sayo coded song? I actually thought about making an animatic of that song with her...

Anyhow thank you for sharing this thoiught!!

Thank you so much anon!!! And hang it there! You are getting your own post where I draw Finny and explain my art process while drawing it! I will do it as soon as possible, please be patient :'D!!

#📬 askbox

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