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When I’m in an obliviously gay and inlove with my dude bro best friend competition but my opponents are Taka and Mondo

Tired dad 💤

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Daiya: Seriously, you guys need some good shut eye. Let uncle Dai handle it for awhile.

Taka: I am forever in your debt..

More of my old art. I'll just say that I quite like drawing him with his hair down or with other hairstyles :)

And Taka is so happy to help his friend and he puts in the effort to learn how to braid hair properly (for Mondo specifically yeah, yeah). It's so cute, they're so cute 🥹

Even though Mondo is used to make his hair in a pompadour he's still afraid of doing hairstyles that he thinks are for girls, poor guy haha

-And some more quick drawings:

This is a really old drawing and I was afraid to send it because it’s unfinished. But I was convinced by friends that it’s no big deal. I draw characters a lil' different right now but not that much different I guess...

Taka should have snapped at Mondo like this more often when they were still not friends /j Oddly enough it actually works on him. But not in the way Ishimaru thinks lol

I also kinda like to think about their interactions when they like...disliked each other a bit 🤔

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I’m so sorry :( I ran into some big problems that kept me from posting anything here and even using the app itself for a long time. And then once I could, I slacked off a bit 😅

being dotted on is such a beautiful thing. just the simple act of doing something small and completely unnecessary for or to someone just because you appreciate their presence and want to lessen their load is so sweet.

going along with that, i choose to believe that after something like gym class or working out, basically whenever a shower afterwards is a non negotiable, taka takes the time to undo and brush out mondo's pompadour just to make his shower routine quicker and easier. taka's main form of dotting has go to be doing little acts of service that make everyday tasks, such as washing hair, faster and more efficient. not necessarily because he thinks that other people would take too long and that he does things more efficiently, but because he sees it as giving that person more time to partake in other productive activities.

hi guys, i really like malcolm todd

i got inspired by his latest album for this drawing like a month ago LMFOAA but i havent gotten around to draw them untio now

heres an additional doodle i did the other night as a little treat GODBLESS FREAKED OUT ISHIMONDO 🙏🙏🙏

i don't think enough people put the necessary amount of toxic masculinity in fan media about mondo. i understand that you want him to be likeable and as a woman, i understand that liking a man who puts his performance of masculinity as his priority is difficult, but that's the point! mondo was raised in a heavily masculine environment and learnt all his behaviors from the people in said environment. he feels weak because he was raised surrounded by people who were the ideal of a man, and now that he's older and has failed on what he was raised is a key element to being a man, protect your loved ones, he can never live up to his image of a man and therefore can never really fit in anywhere. no matter where he is, he is performing a fake version of himself that is so deeply detached from his true self and it would take years of confronting this behavior in small doses to heal from that deep rooted insecurity.

sometimes people add in ishimondo fics the aspect of mondo struggling with internalized homophobia, but it kind of upsets me that very few go into that because, granted, it is a very personal and difficult subject to convey to an audience. however i also feel like it would be such a huge aspect of the beginning stages of their relationship. i see mondo struggling to make it public, or if they did, struggling to act normal or even be a good partner to taka. something that people should play around with more is mondo's internal conflict with having to be seen as the man of the relationship, while taka is also very much masculine and not at all feminine is the relationship norms kind of way. mondo would go above and beyond to seem more manly, like getting aggressive, possessive, or simply just trying appear bigger and stronger through excess exercise or becoming even louder and bolder in his daredevil bad boy behavior.