I Do Think The Fandom Has The Unfortunate Habit Of Babifying Shang Qinghua, Due To Both Shipping And

i had to redraw this 

Well, I can officially say that after 5 months and too many setbacks, Philosophy of a Knife will finally be updated with chapter 16. I'm very excited to share it with you all, and I already have plans for the next chapter, so it definitely will not take another half-year to update. On a side note, this year I will almost definitely pass half a million words logged on ao3, and that is very cool to me.

This chapter goes out to all the commenters on ch15 whose kinds words encouraged me to buckle down, as well as @loveless-beloved-must-be-loved who I randomly came across reccing it in a tumblr post out in the wild recently, which really helped me get back on track. I love all my readers!

hey don't cry. 7,401 species of frog in the world, ok?

Ok I'm legit not into Steel Ball Run but damn this looks amazing. Love how the entire thing is framed with the golden rectangle and Gyro's got saaaasss.

5 days until yohaji anime!!

He has the power to destroy the sect from inside and from outside, but he doesn't because he is restrained by an omniscient being (the system), and because it would be too much paperwork

Yeah, I'm a fan of fics with Little Guy Shang Qinghua, but I also really love Slimy Bastard Shang Qinghua.

Real Treacherous Hours Shang Qinghua. Would enthusiastically sell his sect to Mobei Jun for one corn chip Shang Qinghua. Shang Qinghua who is absolutely pulling so many strings, and loving it. Shang Qinghua who *knows* how hot the things he knows how to do are, and uses that for his own ends. Shang Qinghua who DESERVES to be killed as a traitor, but isn't, because he has convinced everyone with power that he is Just A Little Birthday Boy when that is FAR from the case.

a terribly quick comic abt these 2 icb i havent drawn anything of them yet omg. my 2 fav jojos

secret maneuvers

The Spinjizu Master

some yapping below the cut :D

hey guys i made a comic!! I actually finished something!!! yayayyayay!!!!! I've been so busy and stressed lately and this was a nice thing to chip away at to de-stress n stuff. The one time I tried doing a multi-page comic like this I totally lost steam in the middle of it and didn't finish, so at the very least I'm happy that I managed to like. get anything down on the page at all lol.

Anyway I'm always thinking about this little guy.... his life was so sad bro like what the heck. Granted we don't actually know that much about his life, but you can extrapolate stuff, and that's basically what this comic is. I like to think that the fsm kind of stumbled into some of the things he did early on in his life. There's like, no way this dude was nearly as cool and epic and in-control as the narrative makes him seem. In my mind he's just as lame as the rest of his lame-ass family; it's just that everyone (his sons, the ninja, the entire rest of ninjago) idolizes him so much and can really only see him as this kind of legendary figure. In reality I think he was just a lonely kid dealing with a lot of like. war and conflict and general suffering. And then (at least in my mind) he managed to get a couple of lucky breaks which eventually lead him to carve out his own little space for himself in ninjago. So I was thinking about that kind of thing 👍

(And then you can see how all of that stuff bleeds into how he raised wu and garm, but that's an entirely different thing for an entirely different day lol)

I'm like 90% sure I got something wrong/mixed something up lore-wise and that this whole thing doesn't actually make sense as a result. but also! The idea felt clever enough to go ahead with it anyway :3 and I wanted to post it before the show dropped more fsm lore (seriously when is dr gonna get into more ninjago history... I can feel it on the horizon it's like the one big thing I'm looking forward to... give me more lore dumps!! more flashbacks!!! more!!!!!!!)