Just Heard The Most Devastating Red Dead Audio And Now I’m Thinking About Cowboy AU KakaGai….

A quick Wild West AU but with my favourite old men :) We’ve got outlaw Kakashi and rancher Gai (also a rough as hell lil bonus comic :))

@kindatiredtho gave me cowboy AU brainworms with their amazing cowboy Genma art, and @alternitavely infected me with KakaGai thoughts so blame them 🤷‍♀️

@konoharfts 's au just dropped AND IT MEANS I CAN FINALLY START BEING INSANE ABOUT THIS MAJESTIC WOMAN🐍

I can’t stop thinking about this AU actually. Just had to whip out some doodles before I go to work. (I hope that’s alright Sock 🙂‍↕️)

Everyone go check out Sock’s ghost fire AU, it slaps!

hi hello it's a small ghost fire au art dump \o/

some of y'all have seen these already but whatever lol ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ no longer gatekeeping at least xD

anywho, some infodumping here as well under the cut! establishing who's what and so on :D there are some differences from what i've said in older posts for this au bc this is very much still in the works lol

i'm definitely down for suggestions for characters and plot ideas btw!

to give some background info, this au's world is pretty much like our own but with yokai thrown into the mix. some interact with (and/or are malicious towards) humans, so a government agency was formed to document them, with specially trained agents to subdue/defeat yokai causing trouble.

this is where raidou comes in! officially, he's one of those agents that do documentation. unofficially, he also helps defeat yokai because they hate him especially for whatever reason. he's a bit of a yokai magnet, if you will. half-thought-out plot right there but we might get back to that eventually. he can also spot yokai even if they're purposefully staying hidden, which is partially why he's so good at his job.

anywho, part of raidou's current team is kakashi! kakashi is from a long line of powerful exorcists, and his left eye has the ability to pinpoint yokai weaknesses, among other things. said eye also lends a little more power to his talismans and charms so yay for that. obito and rin are still alive in this au, but sakumo isn't, with mysterious circumstances surrounding his death. another half-thought-out plot right there.

next, part of raidou's former team was genma! genma used to work with raidou as a fellow documentation agent, going more into initial scouting/assessing than actual recording. unfortunately (as you could probably tell from the art and fics involving this au), he's not quite alive anymore (rip). it was initially assumed that he'd disappeared on a one-off solo mission, but after his body was discovered washed up on a beach, he was declared officially dead. now he's a funayurei (ghosts of those that died at sea) - i originally had him as a shiranui (a type of onibi (demon fire/wil o' wisp) found on a sea i forgot the name of) bc of his last name but i think this works out a little bit better - he just has a pair of hitodama (onibi-like things that are basically kind of like a yurei's (ghost's) soul detached from the body) hovering around, to give a similar vibe haha. depictions of yurei are typically white clothes, long black hair, etc. etc. but i did read that they can appear in the clothes they died in, so i'm going with that. but hey on another note - now that they're reunited, genma's back on the yokai documentation grind. just. as a yokai himself xD

anywho, these two have been the most consistent in raidou's team. he has definitely worked with other agents before, but those agents were more like specialists assigned for specific missions. more on that eventually.

izumo and kotetsu don't really fit into any of the categories i've described so far. they're two among many undercover agents established all over the country, often in somewhat more remote areas, responsible for reporting yokai threats in their assigned sectors. izumo and kotetsu specifically are undercover as convenience store employees, with said convenience store also working as a safe house. any agents assigned to that area can restock supplies/weapons, get some rest, or establish contact with hq. and like i said in previous posts about them, they are able to deal with yokai to a certain extent. not powerhouses by any means, but they can usually hold their own until reinforcements arrive. izumo favors talismans and dart guns that usually contain a tranquilizing substance. kotetsu, meanwhile, favors larger bladed weapons (and ofc they're both proficient in other weapons xD) as such, they're a good combo of long range and close combat

overall, the jounin would probably be the higher-ranking all rounders, tokubetsu jounin would be the specialists, and chuunin would be the undercover agents i mentioned earlier. as for anbu, they'd probably be the ones dealing with large scale threats. ofc there are exceptions, especially those at the agency headquarters. (this is def formatted similarly to canon xD)

moving on to the yokai! while i have done research, this definitely isn't fully fleshed out yet. here's what i do have though!

hayate and yugao: the two are a pair of sword and scabbard tsukumogami, which are yokai generally agreed to be objects that have gained life and sentience after reaching 100 years of age. they busted out of a museum ages ago and have since lived together, passing relatively well as normal people. i will admit i took artistic liberties though; most art i've seen of tsukumogami look distinctively more like the objects they used to be. for my own sanity i've made them more humanoid xD

anko: she is a bakeneko, a type of mischievous cat yokai that is sometimes said to come from cats that became yokai after being raised for a certain number of years (exact number varies) or to exact revenge against cruel humans. i don't have much else on her so that's about it for now :3

and uh. that's all i have actually. i thought i had more tbh but oh well. like i said before - feel free to give suggestions, ideas, or questions! and if you made it this far, thanks for reading :3

link to fic series ^still vaguely shy abt this lol (also provides context for the first two images o7)

oh and speaking of context, the third image (bright blue background) is for another vague plot line i haven't talked about yet. maybe more on that later.

Sorry in advance to my moots, I’m about to spam y’all

*crawls out of the pit*

Part 2 of silly 1 panel comics I made featuring Naruto fic tropes (and fandom head canons) I enjoy that make me giggle a lil :) !!!!!

Niche edition, so bare with me-

Naruto doing fox things randomly (thank you @alternitavely )

T&I being the home of Konoha’s rumour mill, and specifically Aoba and Anko being PROLIFIC gossipers (Ibiki pretends to hate it but he doesn’t stop them)

Not from a fic but @oh-no-its-bird turned me on to the concept of Sakumo Hatake being a sex symbol back in the day and it haunting Kakashi. It has not left my head since.

Alright that’s it, if I can think of more I might do this series semi-periodically but we’ll see 🤷‍♀️

Also thank you so much for liking part 1 of this series, it makes me so happy that people enjoy my brainworms <3

‘Till next time byee~

I am once again broadcasting my love for Naomi Misora.

Baby, you’re too good for that dumb white boy Ray Penber. Be my wife instead!

I won’t say dumb ass sexist shit and pass it off as endearment plz shawty plz.

Idk what it is about dark haired women who are more competent than I’ll ever be who could also crush my windpipe in seconds that make my lil lesbian heart go brrr.

It’s the leather jackets

For those interested I made guide for my Naruto TTRPG system I co-designed I call Reach for the Stars (RftS)

I had someone reach out to me recently to ask about it so I figured I wouldn’t gate keep <3

Google Docs

Elicia’s Naruto TTRPG (RftS)

Guide to Reach for the Stars: a Naruto TTRPG Hello! This is a general outline and explanation as to how to play the Reach for the Stars (Rf

It includes the character sheets, explanations for unique system mechanics, and just about all I can remember lol.

It’s not a complete handbook, just a guide on how to start and where to kind of take things from there. I also might be adding onto it periodically if I remember more of the nitty-gritty. (I was a fool who never wrote down anything when we’d make a new rule T^T)

The system is designed for you to exercise creative liberties, so if you like games with a strict rule structure this one is not for you lol.

Feel free to use it! Tag me if you do!! (Not really for credit reasons, I just really like seeing people’s OCs and I want to know if people like my brainchild)

And if you have questions please ask me, I’d be delighted to answer! And let me know if the document is missing anything lol.

Alright I’m off to make more Nart now byee~~

*comes out of the woods like a criptid*

Wow, hey guys! Haven’t been around these parts in *checks calendar* NINE DAYS???

Uhhhh hehe woops! I did NOT mean to be gone that long :P

I swear I had good reason… you’ll see soon 👀👀 (also l i f e has been happening so I haven’t been able to make art as much T~T BUT REJOICE FOR THE DROUGHT IS NEARLY OVER!!!)

Get ready for a big ol lore and art dump post whenever I’m finished writing the AU intro >>:)

“Night Raven, are you ready to rock!!”

This is my submission for @twstinginthewind ‘s NRC music fest event! As soon as I saw this event I knew I had to get my girl Mina (OC) in it.

For this performance the pop music club and Mina will be joining together to play Barracuda by Heart (but Mina just knows it form Shrek). We hope you enjoy!

Also here’s a comic of the performance:

If you want to hear what the performance would sound like listen to Annapantsu’s cover of Barracuda here:

Just woke up from a dream where @notkakashihatake made an animated short film about a group of adventurers going off to fight a giant snow bear (to be honest, the premise was way too normal for a movie within a dream) and I was the only one that noticed how every other new character that would pop up would just be either Izumo or Kotetsu in different progressively-weirder outfits…