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Ah, hell.
Qiu got ran for his money...
Tamarack's in jail...
Ren ain't got a clue in the world what's going on...
MC's gotten a good amount of money with such few bills, and naturally, Baxter is already on his way to becoming Baxter the Billionaire...
Wth is going on in this intense battle of Monopoly?!!
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Not my best work at all by any means... BUT!! I just really wanted to participate in #olnfweek2024 at least once! I had a super cool comic planned for Day 1, but when I realized (very quickly) that I just wouldn't be able to finish all of the comics for Day 1 AND both the illustrations for Day 2 (on top of other art projects of mine), I decided to just let it be.
So that being said, here we go: Day 2(?), Fantasy
love me like a bruise.
summary: the only way to know what mhin tastes like is through leander.
notes: 1.5k words, author's notes, mildly suggestive content (mhin and reader implied to be sleeping together), jealousy, alcohol consumption (reader might be drunk and making very bad decisions), very complicated relationships (mhin and leander were once a thing, leander taunts you about mhin, mhin has emotional hangups etc)
“They’ve never even kissed you, have they?”
It’s a low, whispered comment from Leander, one you can barely hear over the sound of raucous laughter and jeering voices crowding the Wet Wick. But your hands tighten around your mug, and you hunch over your murky drink, your reflection peering back at you from the depths.
Leander, elbows pressed lightly on the wooden counter, dips his head in sympathy. “I’m right, aren’t I?”
“It’s none of your business,” you say thinly, but your denial is an answer of itself, and his smile– his damned slippery smile, as repugnant as a slimy fish pulled from the river– only grows.
“I didn’t even say their name,” he says mildly.
“Shut up.”
Leander clicks his tongue, raising a hand to press on your shoulder. It’s a gentle, insistent pressure, but it roots you to your seat. “I’m just worried about you. I told you, right? That they’re not someone you can trust.”
“I don’t need you to warn me. I can take care of myself,” you say.
“I know, I know. I just want to look out after you.”
“I don’t need your concern.”
Leander tilts his head, shadows falling across his face. “If you don’t want me to be concerned, then you shouldn’t come into my bar, looking miserable. Then I wouldn’t worry so much.”
In response, you jerk his hand off your shoulder. Leander lets it fall, watching as you pick up your drink and swallow, one long bitter gulp, before slamming it back down on the table.
“It’s empty. Refill, please, bartender,” you say pointedly.
“As you wish,” he says, picking it up and disappearing down the corner.
You watch the crush of bodies around you, lovers intoxicated on Leander’s shitty drinks curled around each other like cats, friends throwing down cards and chips on damp tables, all cast in a dim green sheen from the hanging lights.
You’re the only one here alone. Maybe if Ais or Vere or even Kuras were around tonight, you wouldn’t need to drink to feel like you also had someone you belonged to.
There is one person that you particularly want to be by your side, who would chase away all your bitter feelings, but you don’t know if they feel the same. Because, gods, Leander is right. They’re the one person you really want to be by your side, and the one person farthest from reach.
Mhin. Your partner, in more ways than one. Your business partner, of course. The two of you get along particularly well in that regard, scouring the streets of Eridia for information. But it’s also easy to slip into their bed every night, to brush their silver hair across the pillow, to cup their reddening face. But they’re always gone in the morning. They would let you hold them, but never any further than that.
The first time you tried to kiss them, they cupped their hand around your mouth, eyes like flint. “Don’t.” And so you had to make do with biting their neck, teeth sinking sharper than a kiss, running a thumb over the marks which would fade in time.
You never tried to kiss them again, even though their plump lips and the kissable mole next to the corner of their mouth was irresistible.
It’s funny, in all honesty. How they spurned you from holding their hand on the streets, flinching away like an alley cat, but they never refused your touch at night. It was a line you weren’t allowed to cross, the message as clear as day: you could desire them, but you couldn’t love them.
And so you’re stuck, in a relationship of push and pull. How far are you allowed to go? What did it mean, to Mhin, for the two of you to be together?
As if summoned by your thoughts, someone slinks through the half open-door like a dream. It’s Mhin. They haven’t seen you yet, so you take a few moments to observe them, the way they dodge effortlessly between stumbling bodies, hood drawn tight over their face.
Cute. They’re cute, and you will never meet a person as beautiful as them again.
A drink clunks down in front of you, heavy with foam. Leander puts his hand on your shoulder, pulling you back to face him. He’s still smiling, but there’s an edge to it now. He leans closer, an intimate gesture.
“They’re cute, I know,” he whispers, his breath fogging your ear. “A good kisser, too. I didn’t expect it, the first time we were together.”
Before you know what you’re doing, your hands are grasping his lapels, and you’re yanking him closer to you. What sort of expression are you making? Your eyes are wavering, hazy, and your teeth are bared in a snarl. The alcohol is pounding through your head. “Shut up, Leander.”
You don’t care. You don’t care if Mhin has been with other people. So have you. It’s none of your business. That’s not what your relationship is. Mhin has drawn a firm line. You know where you stand in their life.
“Do you want to know?” Leander whispers. “What they taste like?” His eyes, dark and heavy, hover over your lips.
You kiss him. But it’s not a kiss, because you are all lips and teeth, and Leander is pliant underneath you as you rip his mouth apart, like a waiting prey animal. There’s the taste of cheap ale, and not much else as you devour him. You tug his lower lip between your teeth, biting hard enough to break skin. He gasps as you pull back, blood beading along his lip.
“Wow,” he says wonderingly, drawing one thumb to wipe along his lip, licking at his own blood. “You’re wilder than I expected.”
You’re panting as you wipe your hand across your mouth. Is this anything like what happened when Mhin and Leander kissed? Did they kiss him like this? Or did he kiss them? “Shut up. I’m never doing this again.”
Leander jerks a thumb behind you, and you whirl to see Mhin, with a hardened expression, watching the two of you. They meet your eyes, and duck their head, turning towards the exit. You stumble out of your seat.
“I’ll see you soon,” Leander calls after you, but you ignore him as you slam past complaining patrons and out the door, the cool night air whipping you in the face after the stale warmth of the Wet Wick.
Where is Mhin? What are they thinking? Did they see? How much did they see?
There’s a pale hand wrapping around your wrist, and the alcohol makes your steps clumsy and head fuzzy as someone drags you to a nearby alley, slamming you against the rough brick wall. Mhin. It’s Mhin, and their eyes are as sharp as a blade against your neck.
“What were you thinking?” they hiss.
“What?” you say.
“Kissing him! Kissing Leander!” they say again. They still have a hold on your wrist, and their grip is bruising.
“Why not?” you say. “What does it matter who I kiss? It’s not like we have that sort of relationship, right?”
They reel back as if you’ve slapped them, dropping your hand. You almost miss their touch. You wonder if it’ll leave a mark in the morning, just like a hickey. “Leander is… not someone you can trust,” they say.
“Funny. He said that about you, too. Mhin… why do you care so much?” Now you’re stepping towards them, and they move backwards slowly with each step you take, right until they’re the one backed against the wall. You lean in so close you can see the sweat beading along their cheek, the faint scent of iron and flesh. “Who were you jealous of?”
“What?”
“Who were you more jealous of?” you whisper into their ear, sensing how Mhin tenses beneath you, their heart racing like a trapped animal. “Me, or Leander? I mean, you won’t kiss me, but you’ll kiss him. How am I supposed to understand that?”
They shove you, hard, and you almost trip over your own feet before they grab you hastily, pulling you upright.
“You’re drunk,” they spit out. But there’s something raw in their eyes, fragile. “Go home. You don’t even know what you’re saying right now.”
They’re holding onto your elbow, gently guiding you back to the entrance of the Wet Wick. Why are they holding you like this? It’s so unfair. They should just leave you drunk in the alleyway, not take care of you like they worry over what happens to you. Neither of you speak, and they pull open the door for you.
“Leander will at least help you to your bed,” they mutter to themself, as if you aren’t right there. “So it should be fine as long as he can see you… And you’ll be around people…”
“Mhin,” you whisper, and they glance at you, and down at your lips as your mouth moves. “Will you kiss me?”
They close their eyes, lips pressed tight, as if they’re making a wish. You can’t read their expression anymore as they push you through the door. “Just go home.”
The door shuts behind you like a tomb, and you’re enveloped in the noisy, warm, damp atmosphere of the bar again. You press your thumb against your bottom lip, chasing the lingering taste of your drunken kiss. Maybe if you close your eyes, you can find Mhin’s taste there.
Reference Sheet
For my own ease of use, I'm compiling all of the infographics about the main five Redspring has posted so far into one place, and I've decided to share.
Character Bios
Relationship Charts
Character Bios pt 2/Monster Silhouettes
Flowers
Character Lore
Stat Charts
Choice
OCs of mine from an abandoned story called… whelp, "Your Story." I think it was a working title tbh, lol, as I really didn't know what exactly I wanted from these OCs. They came about in the weirdest way possible, too…
It began with just one character --LaDonna, the woman under "control." She was initially this like… sort of like Magiciany type of character? She began as a MHA/BNHA OC (hilariously enough), and she was supposed to work as some sort of chaotic outside entity whose nefarious affairs with low and high-brow criminals alike became entangled with the ongoing conflict between the LoV, the Hero Academy, and their own coexisting forces. I could never quite decide if I wanted her to be a villain or a hero, a mysterious outside asset to the League or a similar figure to the students of U.A. Sometimes I imagined her as an enemy and other times a literal MENTOR to the U.A. students lol --especially Deku, I think. But at the same time, she also was HEAVILY inspired by both Resident Evil 8: Village and (this is a SUPER ODD ingredient to the equation, but bear with me!) Disney's Encanto.
Lemme start with the RE8 influences...
Resident Evil 8: Village
So, I'd just got done playing through all of RE8 around 2021-2, including watching a BUNCH of playthroughs. Like a lot of other people, I think, I ended up being HEAVILY invested in the Dimitrescu Household! I literally loved (and lowkey STILL LOVE) just about EVERYTHING regarding this fictional family! I found Lady Dimitrescu to be beautiful and admirable (even though she's canonically a villain lol); I love the concept of her daughters; I absolutely ADORE the big, beautiful house they live in and the riches they adorn; to that extent, the luxurious lifestyle they live altogether is definitely one to both envy and be in awe of. I literally love EVERYTHING about this family, so LaDonna embodies a LOT of attributes from the Dimitrescus.
Her appearance, I feel like, has the most obvious traits adopted from Lady Dimitrescu's design. The big, dipping hat is probably the most evident LOL. I loved the sort of early 1900s-esque vibe Dimitrescu had going on, and so I did my best to apply that to LaDonna. Similarly to the Dimitrescus, I imagined LaDonna to come from old money, so I included modern clothing items that I felt were still callbacks to vintage wear, such as LaDonna's relatively signature shawl and occasional pearls.
I couldn't imagine LaDonna having any more than perhaps one daughter, so from here birthed two other aspects of this OC: (1) she now had a single adult daughter and a late husband, contrary to Dimitrescu who is a whole lesbian with daughters made of bugs; (2) filling in the "space" of the three Dimitrescu daughters resulted in the creation of LaDonna's three sisters --originally all adult women, Conciella, October, and Casper.
Encanto
That said, LaDonna and her sisters underwent another major change as I became a little infatuated wth Encanto (and honestly, who wasn't??). At this point, I ended up really associating Conciella with Mirabel --I guess because I began envisioning them as having similar personalities and insecurities somehow. This resulted in an age change, and LaDonna, October, and Casper essentially became equivalent to Isabella and Luisa as well as the Dimitrescu daughters, even though role-wise, LaDonna still very much operates as a Lady Dimitrescu/Abuela sort of character (hence her label being "control").
Filling in the "blanks" of the other family members is also how I ended up developing majority of the other siblings --the middle children and triplets: Izaak, Hakeem, and LeMarcus --and the younger, mischevious boy child, LeMonte, and the addition of a baby: Fiona because... why not? LOL, this family's already big as it is, might as well keep going!
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Some of the other siblings mentioned aren't depicted in this picture --namely: October, Casper, and Fiona. A lot of LaDonna's family altogether isn't here --I actually ended up making a google doc with like... just about ALL of the family members and their offsprings and bits and pieces of their iterrelating stories! There are literally over 50 damn individuals of the family that I planned out and characterized like Boo Boo the Fool! lol...
Well, I think that's all I got to say about this family rn??? This post got super long!!
Discovery
The children stumbled across a key... Great!
Now, where does it lead to? Is it necessary to retrieve it at all? More importantly... how the hell do they get it in the first place??
VERY DATED drawing of two OCs of mine from a webcomic I'm working on called "Is He a Monster?" Their designs here are dated… BUT! I very much enjoy the colors still, even if it doesn't really line up with my usual style.
Now, I posted this on a separate blog of mine dedicated to IHAM, but I realize that I truthfully don't make as much portable IHAM content in order to really fill up a whole separate page in the first place, so... IDK, I'm likely going to start gradually moving IHAM related stuff back to my main page here!
Also, I realized that for whatever reason, I don't have a lot fo my own art here! Why is that? IDK... BUT!! I guess there's no better time than the present to start uploading my work!
I added Angelology III to my collection of color palettes. Feel free to use these colors, and tag me if you'd like.
I miss the era of Sally Face so much, man.. 😭 I WANT TO GO BACK TO IT 😭😭
Self Esteem Protector Larry Johnson
The [tumblr] algorithm
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Reblog stuff. That's it. The algorithm is the mutuals we made along the way.
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Get delivering.
This huggy wuggy and kissy missy designs are by the lovely @bibbysstuff I drew them mainly because the poppy playtime chap3 is coming soon but I also really like how they design them! So cute!
(Reblog for sample size pleaseee ^^)
MHA AU | COFFEE AND CREAM | (3/3)
MHA | AU | Fan Comic
Here's (2/3)! For even better quality, check it out on my blog: xlatrina.org ! Or don't, it's cool either way lol.
I DESPERATELY need to learn Blender or SketchUp or something 💀💀 I like... NEED to be able to have nice backgrounds without having to learn how to draw/paint them just yet lol. Bear with me y'all, I'm gonna learn one day.
Oh, and the third page will be coming soon!
That said, I kinda hate how I turned my personal Tumblr blog here into a boring ass cesspit of article links. It's not really what I want my blog to be known for, you know? Like I want people who come across my personal blog here to be here specifically because the like the content... which means the content should be REAL content, I feel like. Sorry guys. Anywho, enjoy this post!
This had me lmao like a psychopath at 4 in the morning 💀💀 “receding hairline” 💀💀 “voruto” 🤣🤣🤣 ‘twas a good laugh! 😌
i hope boruto ends in the most unsatisfying way possible. i hope boruto marries a girl he barely interacted with and they have two ugly kids he neglects because he is busy with his work and i hope he has a receding hairline and they make him completely ooc and nerf him so voruto the son of boruto can have some relevance
MHA | AU | Fan Comic
Super short fan comic of three parts total. Here's (1/3)!
If you wanna see it bigger and crispy clear, it's on my main blog: xlatrina.org !
Sarada Uzumaki
I made a fan comic! If the quality is too rough or you wanna see it even bigger, you can see it large and crispy clear on my main blog: xlatrina.org !
Heyyy!!! I feel like my blog has grown so quiet lately… which sucks! But nevertheless, I wanna let y’all know about a new article I published! If you can’t tell, it’s about Hazbin Hotel —and highlights some memorable things that came about because of the show. Check it out!!
https://xlatrina.org/?p=101
This game has surprised me with its interesting story and character development!! If you haven’t already, I strongly suggest giving “Best Month Ever!” A chance!
Give it a read of you don’t mind! Or share!
https://xlatrina.org/?p=101
This game has surprised me with its interesting story and character development!! If you haven’t already, I strongly suggest giving “Best Month Ever!” A chance!
Give it a read of you don’t mind! Or share!
I swear I’m going to be writing a follow-up post for this soon, I swear!! 😁
Updated link
The Backrooms have grown from a simple creepypasta to a popular trend for both indie games and film. There is so much to expand on, and I’m excited to write those posts when they come!
new link
New post! I said it before that game development was hard, so I wanted to talk about an engine I’ve been on-and-off trying to learn. Give it a read or share it with someone who just might, if you will!! ☺️☺️
Post is now here
Throwback to when I first wrote this post!! On the real, I should definitely write something else about Stardew Valley or it’s developer… or maybe the Haunted Chocolatier? Kinda excited for that title to be honest!!
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