Theres a draw meme goin around on twitter where u make a character thats a sorta mashup of all ur faves. Here’s Mine!

botw mooood

NARUTO BAND AU: the girls

*no one asked but, their solos/covers would be*

tenten:

like tell me this doesn’t sound like her????

sakura:

imagine sakubabe playing the drums while singing this!!!!

ino:

my head canon is that ino is hot shit, she know it, and she knows everyone else knows it...

hinata:

a hinata rock lullaby with a message she would approve

^^tho it’s originally about embracing and loving non-white beauty standards, I think hinata would sing something with a similar vibe/meaning w/o these specific cultural perimeters

NARUTO BAND AU: Sakura

Hiei got to stand on a lil box for the second pic.

Art by simone ferriero

1st years as 3rd years 🏐

Here’s my latest commission, of the human paladin, Brynn Fetterstone. Abandoned by her parents at a young age to her adoptive father, Brynn had a great disdain for the adventuring lifestyle and preferred to spend her days learning the craft of the blacksmith. Reluctantly adventuring to fulfill the dying wish of a family friend, Brynn hopes to find her parents, understand the reasons for her abandonment, and find the closure to move on from it.

I loved Kanamori in the new ep!! I can’t wait to see more of this anime

Guilty Gear has always been a series just dripping with style thanks to the wildly varied talents and tastes of Ishiwatari Daisuke.  But in the sizable cast of rock’n’roll and heavy metal inspired fighters, one of my all time favorite designs has been the dramatic redesign of Baiken in Guilty Gear Xrd.  Let me break down why!

So starting with her design in general, the origin story goes that Ishiwatari Daisuku saw an illustration of Himura Kenshin, from the manga Rurouni Kenshin, and liking the design, but mistaking Kenshin for a woman, based Baiken’s early art off of that.  Her earliest art seems pretty in line with that, right down to the red hair, but notably that hair changed colors, shifting towards more of a deep pink.  Her name, Baiken [梅喧] is written with the kanji meaning “Plum” and ”Noisy/Uproarious.”

Like many flowering plants, the word can refer directly to either the fruit, the tree, or the flower; and many common girls names in Japanese use the names of flower.  The name Baiken thus reads as a kind of self descriptor, communicating the idea of a “Loud & rambunctious woman.”  The plum blossom is also where her hair color and various emblazoned clothing designs come from.

 Her one-eyed, one-armed swordswoman gimmick is also a direct reference to a number of sources.  Initially the overt reference in her design is to the character Tange Sazen, a character from a series of films from the 30s, 50s, and 60s.  (themselves, spinoffs of a serial novel from the 20s.)  But there have also been three Lady Sazen films, further spinoffs depicting a genderbent version of the iconic character.

In her updated Xrd design, she covers her scarred eye with a curious kind of accessory: a katana crossguard (tsuba) under the lens of a single-eyed aviator goggle.  The eyepatch is a reference to another famous swordsman character, Yagyuu Juubei.  Unlike Sazen, Juubei was in fact a real historical figure, although much of his reputation is built upon folk lore or pure fiction.  Juubei has become a name synonymous with eyepatch wearing swordsmen (sometimes samurai, sometimes ninja), whether they are meant to be the legendary character himself, or simply named after him.  And the distinctive tsuba eyepatch is derived from his portrayal by martial arts actor Sonny Chiba in various chanbara films and TV shows from the 70s and 80s.

The aviator goggles are a bit more obtuse, in part because they aren’t entirely accurate, but the flight goggles (as well as the combat boots) are evocative of Japan’s kamikaze pilots.  The small issue is that the WWII model goggles were larger and rounder, where as the particular flat angled lens are more distinctive of the British RAF.  The combat boots, also evoking a bit of a soldier aesthetic, are cut into sandals in the style of a samurai’s suneate and waraji.

But of course the most noticeable addition to her wardrobe is the school uniform she wears over her shoulders like a half-cape.  The school uniform itself is an older, and nowdays lesser used, style called a gakuran; once a fairly ubiquitous style, in modern Japan it’s relegated to middle schoolers, rather than high schoolers.  The particular open style of it however is derived from equally outdated Yankii and Banchou aesthetics: a kind of high school delinquent archetype that was popular in manga and even film in the 70s and 80s.  Of note here is that she still leans on the Banchou look with the boys’ uniform, and not something from the image of the Sukeban (the girl gang archetype of the same era) lending her a bit of an androgynous vibe. (one somewhat unfortunately offset by her enormous breasts.)

She’s also sporting a fun skull design that is a pretty obvious attempt at a legally distinct spin on the Misfits logo.  It’s a nice way to compliment the delinquent theme while also tying her to the Punk genre.  Most of the Guilty Gear cast are themed around various rock bands and musicians, but Baiken has always been one of just a handful that are curiously non-musically themed.  Kind of a shame they don’t throw more of the Horror Punk aesthetic in there, though.

Additionally, while she wears a pretty normal looking kimono and kind of silly sarashi (the body wrap that confusingly ISN’T binding her gigantic breasts into place), her belt and makeshift half-cape are tied with a kind of braided and tasseled cord called a Fusa-himo.  A Fusa-himo is generally not an article of clothing; it can be used in decoration and for binding a sword sheathe, but as clothing it’s generally considered a synonym for a western aiguillette, used in military uniforms.  I can’t really tell if its more evocative of a soldier or of a katana decoration in the way it’s used here.

And speaking of accessories, just a handful of other little samurai goodies that really give her character some flavor and texture:

Death and Strawberries

The Pokemon/Digimon AU For Me And Only Me

      ❛ LIFE’S SIMPLE.                   YOU MAKE CHOICES                              & YOU DON’T LOOK BACK. ❜

cyborg noodle

Black White Getou Gojou

The past twelve chapters, a flashback arc to when Gojou and Getou were both in Jujutsu High together has gone into length about why the strongest duo broke up, and why Getou in particular defected from Jujutsu sorcerers to the side of curses. 

This is one of the most interesting arcs so far, as it provides a lot of foiling for two of the strongest jujutsu sorcerers in the series on opposite sides of the conflict, and it also elaborates what likely the central thematic conflict of the series is. And it all ties to Getou’s motivations which are a lot less black and white then they appear to be at first. Let’s elaborate on that under the cut. 

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ferdinand’s all horse pokemon team

[image is a drawing of ferdinand standing with an expression of delight and surrounded by a mudsdale, a rapidash, a mudbray, a ponyta, a zebstrika, and a blitzle. the rapidash is eating his hair serenely.]

johnny part 8 propaganda

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ONE PIECE ✘ HUNGRY DAYS (Ace PV) 

KNY x HARRY POTTER 🎃🐍🍭✨ I had so much fun with this, Happy Halloween everyone!