Guys, please don’t do this, if you disturb a clown nest like this with eggs in it they’ll hatch into mimes instead, I can’t stress this enough please read up on clown care before interacting with them
Now that Yuji Naka is behind bars and can’t hurt me I need to say. I’m so mad its called balan wonderworld and not balan wonderland. Like what the hell
The misconception around doujinshi makes me really sad, doujin just means self published work, if you look into it there’s a lot of really amazing games and books under doujin creators, it shouldn’t be so quickly dismissed
Things that don’t make you a bad artist:
-not having perfect anatomy
-making mistakes
-not posting frequently enough
-low motivation
Things that do make you a bad artist:
-actively putting down others who are still trying to learn and improve
A lot of works start out as doujin, like higurashi for example, same with a lot of creators and companies, doujin is often how these creators break into the industry, much like how a lot of us western artist do fan projects in our free time
I want Smiling Friends to get really popular in Japan. I want there to be a really intense doujin scene that requires it’s own shelf in doujin shops like Hazbin Hotel got. I think it would be fun…
“I hate you” is generic, “I hope there’s only one figure of a character you like and the price has inflated 10x bc of animecore collectors” is viscous. terrifyingly possible.
My mom came to visit me recently and I gave her one of my danganronpa charms as a gift since she wanted some of my art and…apparently she put Kaede Akamatsu on our Christmas tree….
I still think about how when the v3 characters first got revealed we all collectively saw amami and went “yea that’s definitely the komaeda” and ouma just. Stood there undetected. nobody knew what he was gonna do to society