You guys one of the other artists setting up had a Kanji and Naoto print. I’m not sayin’ I pounced her like a hungry lioness who craves the pure subsistence of her OTP, I’m just sayin’ that I now have a Kanji and Naoto print to add to my Persona collection :)
Ace Detective Naoto
Pfft! Isn’t there even a part in the dungeon dialogue where she says something like, “I don’t think Tatsumi-kun likes me very much, he always looks away when I’m around,” or something like that? Oh Naoto, you precious thing.
my waifu’s waifu
moe stackable attribute go
Pfft! Oh man. This part. Just… oh goodness. Kanji’s eyes are the best, like, “I just spent hours on tumblr trying to find this very picture of Naoto and I FINALLY FOUND IT!”
So I’ve been trying to get something in a Dreamspinner Anthology for a while. Last year, nothing made it, but this year I saw that they were doing a sports anthology. I thought, “I’m gonna write about video games,” because… I’m a geek.
And holy shit it worked.
So I’m reposting this because it comes out in a month and my video game short story will be in it! It’s a tale of gay romance, video game stereotypes and the people who happily turn them upside down. It’s got all sorts of fun video game references, because video gaming is a sport, right? You can either get the entire anthology, or buy the stories individually in June. Mine is called “Press START to Play.”
Below is a story description and a small snippet where I make mention of
my obsessiona game series I like ^^Description: Lukis Singleton’s once-popular sports column is fading fast, thanks to the terrible track record of the local football team. In an attempt to save the column, Lukis’s editor, John, decides that he needs to go in a different direction. Video games are all the rage these days, so John insists that sending Lukis to a huge video-game tournament in Los Angeles will shake up his current readers and bring in new ones. Lukis isn’t thrilled about reporting of games with impossible powers or gamers who still live in Mon’s basement, but then he meets a tempting flaw in the game stereotypes of unwashed man-children. Aaron Sanders is a gorgeous breath of fresh air at the tournament who takes Lukis’s less-than-stellar view of gamers and turns it on its head, leaving Lukis to wonder if if might be worth being Aaron’s player two.
Snippet:
Lukis wonders, as he watches the intro video, why high school students are even allowed to fight with swords and strange monsters that they can summon. Don’t they have parents? And since when can bears talk, fight, and smoke cigars? Was that a robot just now? With an axe?
“Told ya it was completely different,” Aaron says, picking some kid who uses a gun and has some sort of fly as a monster friend.
It’s still exciting to watch, he thinks. Aaron’s character is fighting against some tall, buff guy who uses a folding chair as a weapon, it makes no sense at all; who brings a chair to a gunfight?
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Yes I made a kannao reference in something I’m getting published. I realize I have a problem. No I do not wish to seek help thanks though.
In which my OTP makes an appearance in my original writing. Yeah.
i’m bringing a few selections back though as a reminder that kanji tatsumi is the best character in this fucking game (kanji gives you that cookie)
so good
Never forget. This is why Naoto loves him so much right?
[Headcanon] That time we almost broke up over swimming and anime
My dash is so bonkers right now with “the swimming anime” AKA “Free” AKA “that swimming anime,” that I just… had to write this.
Warnings: OT3, swimming anime, Naoto not taking any of that shit, Rise being Rise, and Kanji caught in the middle
In case anyone missed the crack headcanon in honor of the swimming anime becoming an anime :)
If the kannao twins wouldn’t stop crying…
This just came to mind last night. I’m getting over being sick after Anime Detour, so I’ve been taking a bunch of medicine. My partner randomly got me kid’s medicine, but jeez that stuff knocked me right out after a cap full. I was amused to see that on the back it says, “Do not use to put your kids to sleep.”
Which got me thinking, how would Kanji and Naoto handle crying twins? Especially Naoto, because I mean, detective work AND parenthood?
Kanji: Oh! I have an idea!
Naoto: I do as well, but mine is not medically correct.
Kanji: What?
Naoto: … nothing, what is your idea?
Kanji: I could sing them a lullaby or somethin’… what were you gonna say?
Naoto: Nothing.
Kanji: Naoto…
Naoto: *sigh* I was not actually going to suggest we give them cold medicine, I was simply going to mention it as a method irresponsible parents use.
Kanji: Why was ya gonna mention it if you wasn’t gonna do it?
Naoto: It… is always good to have a last resort?
Kanji: *frowns*
Naoto: All right, all right, let us start singing then.
Kannao Love Child [Alternative Ver.]Based on this post.
*Gasp* Another Kanji and Naoto love child appears! This makes me so happy! You guys are way too amazing to be real beings.
A compliment…from brichibi-senpai?!
Yes! Senpai noticed you! You are so adorable! *hugs*
