#woagh!!!

fellas we have reached a 171-day streak and i just realized i was originally splitting up my docs by month in scrivener but forgot to keep doing this at some point in march so now it looks like january was 31 days, february was 29, and march was 111 days and counting lmao

anyway TOTAL WORD COUNT TO DATE is 253,698 words of icsm dailies written and posted this year!!! which comes out to a little under 1.5k words a day on average. mildly hilarious and alarming considering my original plan for these dailies was 500 words or less lol

it feels like just yesterday that i considered stopping at 131 (ichisamaichi number) but somehow it's been? 40 days since then?? already???

still not sure if i'll keep this going all year (there are longfic wips calling to me) but it's starting to feel like i can really make it all the way up to 366 days (leap yeap babey)

at least for now dailies will continue indefinitely!

Like, they both try to keep the people in their life from leaving. They both are willing to do things some might find unspeakable for the people they care about. Callum's Devotion description in ToX is "I value those close to me more than anyone or anything" and his Liberty description is "I'm beholden to my inner circle, not some silly kingdom."

Then you have Claudia, who decided to leave the baby dragon she thought would be the eventual destruction of humanity to save her brother (which is basically choosing those close to her over the world). You also have her trying to free a great ancient evil to save her dad (which is ALSO her choosing those close to her over the world).

Oh yeagh THX FOR 200 FOLLOWERS!! here’s a wip of what I’m drawing rn, it’ll hopefully be done by tonight :>

Only now does she turn towards you, seeming... Perplexed.

"I see, a.. simple gesture."

Something uncoils from behind her, they're colorful in intricate ways and.. they puppet her.

Weakly, one of them presses her left hand to yours.