it's like chopping a finger off, it's like ripping an eye out

Here are my pieces for @knifesedgezine ! I got to make one page illust and one spot art for @naometry ’s very delicious fic 🐦‍⬛🫀

Thank you <3333 This game has been so much fun!! (from this ask game)

the character everyone gets wrong

Answered on my other ones!!! (This one is just. Important, obviously hahahah) Copying it here:

TBH? Most interpretations of Maruki. He's honestly just extremely self-concerned. He's not really thinking of anyone else's perspectives when he's considering right or wrong. (Also, he's always right, anyway.) He's ignorant, has negative levels of self-esteem and looks to have others to fill the gap for both his self-perception and to validate the fragile bit of confidence in his "goodness". All of his choices were with himself and his own search for meaning and self-confidence in mind in first place. So, seeing him as some misunderstood guy with a heart of gold who made bad decisions is not correct, but also seeing him as some evil manipulator is also kinda... Too extreme.

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

This is a hilarious question. Goro Akechi would never bottom because that is too vulnerable of a position and he would never be caught dead slipping. This is fine by Akiren because "sure, ok, whatever you want, but, uh, stop stalling"

10. worst part of fanon

(Copying this one, too, from my other post!!) Honestly I can't stand so many Akiren fanon interpretations because I'm a massive Hater. There's this specific type of Akiren I see all the time that is just... "wet paper bag" and I think it's the way people write the differences between Akiren and Goro that kind of boils down to emotionally intelligent vs emotionally constipated and instead of it coming across as being more in-tune with himself (which is at times a debatable concept to begin with), it ends up being like... extremely emotional over very benign things comparatively to how stoic and coolheaded he manages to present under pressure and around others. I'm honestly of the opinion that both of them are way more comfortable with showing anger than any other "negative"/"uncomfortable" emotion IF they'd show a feeling in such extremes (around others) to begin with. Ofc nuances aside: basically I just hate big wet shojo heartbreak tears Akiren (being denied his own agency and ability to take charge of his own life? what were the games themes again???) put on repeat constantly in the same fic lol. Like, let's have some moderation here it's losing the impact.

22. your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores

LETS GET PERSONA 4 WITH IT. The fact that Naoto is willing to kill a guy in one of the bad endings. Can we talk about this? Like, Naoto is not the unbiased/unfaltering arbiter of justice and equity. None of the justice arcana are TRULY neutral characters who know right and wrong-- they're impulsive, biased, and honestly vengeful. Naoto's just the best one at keeping it together, normally.

25. common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing

cold

what this was supposed to communicate to me was “saint valentine would marry young men to their girlfriends in secret as a priest at his own risk and thats why we celebrate valentines day” 

what i got out of it was “saint valentine married a shitton of dudes so he could protect his army of husbands from having to go to war and it was beautiful and love can halt war in its tracks and thats why we celebrate valentines day”

and thats why the assumption that a child would automatically get a hetero interpretation of the story and the innate unclarity of the english language made me think that valentines day was about mass gay poly marriage until i was like fourteen and recited the story to a friend who stared at me like id grown three extra heads