me: I'm going to write a fic to my own entertainment
also me, writing said fic:
As a rule of thumb, don't reblog donation posts or people asking for donations unless they've been vetted and reblogged by Palestinian bloggers. We usually go to lengths to verify this shit because we know scammers have been faking to get people to send them money, using the urgency of our genocide as bait.
It's disgusting this is what we're dealing with, but people are losing money because of some truly evil people out there.
Accounts don't just randomly spring up on tumblr without gofundmes while asking for someone to help them create a campaign. Fuck out of here with that shit.
hey! there's zero esims left for the connecting gaza campaign as of today. i remember you promoting them earlier. could you give them a much needed boost?
oh dang! unfamiliar with that particular campaign, as I always donate via crips for e-sims because it's super easy to do, but regardless let's go people!
TEARS IN MY EYES GANG WTF😭
wdym they were already doomed the moment they entered the house
Edit: THEY WERE GONNA RUN AWAY WITH EACHOTHER WHAT HAPPENED
fun fact about togame, his voice actor also voices a jojo character named "Weather Report" (you see where i'm going with this?)
i want to believe that the one singular contact number in sakura's phone is not in fact his piss poor attempt to use a phone, but rather a well-kept secret point of contact between him and one certain togame jo. after the showdown with shishitoren and the rooftop celebration, togame and sakura remain... curious about each other. it starts off surface-level enough. togame wants to find a way to repay his debts somehow -- keep an avenue available to someday prove to sakura that he isn't so lame anymore.
he's eternally thankful to sakura for snapping him out of whatever fugue state choji's mistakes put him in and wants to actually befriend sakura because of it. make sure he hasnt changed and all. meanwhile sakura contemplates it, because umemiya WAS right in the grand scheme of things and he did somehow "communicate" with togame in their fight. he wants to keep talking to togame, sort of. learn all the things he couldn't gather with his jabs and kicks. so they both find themselves at the tunnel a few days after the fight as complete coincidence.
its complete fate they ran into each other without meaning to, but togame wastes no time in warmly greeting sakura and chatting him up. night begins to creep up and at that point sakura knows they've gotta start getting home if they both don't wanna start shit sitting out at night on territory boundaries while wearing their respective recognizable uniforms. he's hesitant to pull away from the conversation though and togame seizes the opportunity to ask for sakura's (barely used) phone and write himself into sakura's contacts. (he doesn't even have a password btw)
"Wow~ Not a single person on here, Othello-kun."
"Hah? What th' hell would I even need it for? If I need something, I can just go ask in person. None of that slow, boring texting crap."
"You really live life too fast, haha. What if it's too small for the effort? Or you can't come find me in time? Shishitoren territory is quite far from Furin's campus, after all."
"What would I even need'ta ask you that isn't urgent enough to come here, scraggly?"
Togame simply laughs under his breath. "Anything you can think of." he hands the phone back to Sakura, screen lit up with a single new contact under the name 'Weather.'
That's stupid.
The older boy continues to tease Sakura. "Call me to ask about the weather, if you really can't come up with anything at all. I promise I'd pick up; it's the least I can do for you after everything."
They part ways, and even if neither of them mention it -- Sakura keeps this encounter close to his chest. Thinks about it when his classmates make fun of him for it the very next day, even as he says nothing and lets them tease him. With 5 new names in his list of contacts, he remembers to go home and scroll to 'W' and asks about the weather tomorrow. Asks a whole lot of other things too. All until he falls asleep.
(He never changes Togame's contact name after that. Not even months later, stranded on a bridge and staring down an army of enemies and another black-haired tall douchebag to humble. What will the weather be like tomorrow? Clear motherfuckin' skies, baby.)
Still playing around with it, but here’s my Hermes design!!!
And something extra BEJSHEJ //hits play on Wouldn’t You Like
i just finished fence challengers long shot #1 and discovered that i need to wait until 2025??? i started this comic back during the pandemic in hs and next year will be my graduation like…
Honestly what shook me is not even the fact that Kou is dead, like I assume we will get him back eventually, him and Mitsuba are part of the main cast after all and I don't think they would be killed off permanently like that - Kou's death is there to probably move Teru's character a lil bit and to make a lasting impression on him - if he knows that Hanako killed his brother in another timeline, how will he treat him once they're back? How will he react to Kou being back to life? Teru and Kou haven't really resolved their conflicts properly yet I think, and now that Teru witnessed his younger brother dead I'm sure it'll leave a lasting impression and will push the plot forward in interesting ways.
But... That's not what terrified me and made me shaken to my core.
It's the fact that AidaIro weren't scared to go full blown horror mode okay. Like the way this chapter is drawn is so clever? And so HORRIFYING once you realize some things.
(trigger warning bc it's grim as hell but I have to talk about this, I've been thinking about this all day)
We don't really see what Teru and Akane see but we can safely assume that the corpses of our two freshly deceased characters are in a horrible shape because Akane straight up gags a little.
Of course we can assume that it's because they see their friends' dead corpses (well in Teru's case it's literally his younger brother's corpse which is traumatizing as heck), but one of the pictures on the previous pages makes me think that these corpses may be in ... A horrible condition.
Remember when Kou was telling Nene about how Amane is killing people?
He has an axe that seems to be covered in a little bit of blood.
There's a high chance that he killed them with that weapon and chopped them into pieces. Like. That's so grim okay. If their bodies were intact then I think they would have shown us because they weren't scared to show us corpses before (like when Nene had her time moved forward or the zombie ladies in that one chapter). Obviously he also has these tentacles, but then why hold an axe? And judging by Akane's reaction Kou and Mitsuba have to be really, really messed up.
I don't know I genuinely didn't expect this level of horror from this comic - it's all so subtle but the horror is there. And it works so well too - we don't REALLY know what state they're in, but we see the reaction of other characters to it - and that's way more scary than anything AidaIro could've ever drawn, because our mind is filling in the gaps.
It's a fantastic chapter, but it's also deeply, deeply disturbing. Great job, AidaIro. Did not expect that at all.