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This helps me so much! 😆😁

(This is so long overdue but I barely have time to draw) Sorry I couldn’t draw all the BBS crew. I was planning to draw 2 more which was Delirious and Smii7y

But don’t worry I will still draw them in the future. So don’t be mad or sad that I haven’t drawn your fave.

I hope this tutorial is helpful. I’m bad at explaining and teaching tho. (Why I never took the offer from my old college to teach there)

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First album: *NSYNC

I thought about my UA and I saw that I didn't want it to be related to the franchise.

I say this because my Kismet timeline post shows how each member is developing in each troll movie (except for the third)

And I thought I would use the three Nsync albums to make it very simple for me. (Yep I put “NSYNC” and not “Kismet” because I wanted to keep the original title)

During the first album, the members of Kismet are young and energetic. Their ages:

Trickee: 28

Abaze: 23

Hype and Boom: 20

Branch: 18

Wanna present more of the characters I built for the AU so here we go!

Diamond Hype AU: Hype

Hype was the eldest of the 5, essentially stepping into the role of the big brother. He was about 6 years older than branch. When branch initially met the group, it was in a sort of therapy group for children who’d been having a hard time whether it was losing family members or other issues. During this, they discovered all of them had a passion for singing and dancing, so they formed a band called kismet for fun to get their minds off of it. The band ended up gaining a fair bit of popularity, surprisingly.

When branch’s grandmother died and Branch went grey and swore off singing, the band went on “hiatus”. Hype ended up being the sole caretaker of the other 4, despite not being a teen yet. He tried to keep all 4 happy, he’d sing to them, he’d cook their meals, he’d tuck them into bed, he’d do everything possible.

When the first two, Ablaze and Trickee, left about a year after Branch went grey (their departure will be further explained in their own posts), Hype made sure they had everything they needed, packing their bags, and comforted Ablaze before he left. 2 years after that, when Boom left, he did the same, making sure he’d have everything, and despite being sad to see him go, he wished him well and sent him off.

Hype stayed with Branch for several years after this (nearly a decade), despite Branch mostly isolating himself and barely talking to him. He continued to take care of him and try to make him feel better, to no avail. After getting into an argument, Branch tells Hype he doesn’t need anybody, and that he could take care of himself and he doesn’t need Hype worrying over him like a child. Hype asked branch whether he wanted him to stay or if he actually wanted him to leave, and Branch told him he’d be fine on his own and that he didn’t need Hype to take care of him anymore.

Due to this, Hype respected Branch’s wishes, but before leaving, told him that if ever he needed him for any reason whatsoever, to send him a letter and that he’d drop everything and come back to help.

After leaving, Hype sent frequent letters to Branch, whether he ever got a response or not (usually he did not). As the years went, do to the lack of responses, he sent less and less letters, until he only sent one once a year for Branch’s birthday, not wanting to seem too much of a burden to his little brother (found family yippee <3)

In current time, Hype decided he wanted to experience all kinds of music, so he found himself traveling around to all the different types of trolls, and even eventually made his way to Mount Rageous. This would be a terrible mistake on his part, as this is when he is found by Velvet and Veneer and taken captive in the Diamond prison.

Feel free to leave me questions if you have any! This post was specifically mostly for Hype, and this is only for the Diamond!Hype AU, so don’t come at me with all this not being canon 🫶

Ho, boy…if you guys weren’t confused before, then you probably are now.

(x   x   ) Part 6 everybody! Finally! …I’m sad since a lot of the pain-staking line work got covered up by the shading….

Other comic parts can be found here: http://chibiceramir.tumblr.com/replacEDcomic

(…so my computer decided to play a trick on me and say the files for Part 6 were corrupted for a period of 10 minutes…thankfully it was just a joke…*glares at the computer tower*)

Potatoes ( Or how Tyler got a black eye)

A/N: So, funny story. I want to write 1 one shot each day, so today I asked my friend, @abanime-zuki , for a story prompt. She just looked at me and said “ Potato”. So that’s my story prompt. Please enjoy XD

Ship: Daithidewildcat

Warnings: cursing

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When Tyler walked through the front door, he was met with blaring music and the smell of cooking food. Smiling to himself, he kicked off his shoes and made his way toward the kitchen where he knew his beautiful Irish boyfriend would be making dinner.

When Tyler entered the kitchen he was pleased to see Nogla standing at the sink with his back to the door. As the Irishman sways his hips to the music, Tyler crept up behind him and wrapped his arms around the man’s middle.

Though Tyler wasn’t expecting to be hit in the face with a potato as a result.

“Ahh fuck!” He screeched as pain exploded from his left eye, blinding him momentarily. Stumbling back, Tyler pressed his hand against his eye and let out a string of curses.

“What the hell David!?” Tyler yelled when a pair of hands gripped his face and pried his hand away from his eye. A blurry Nogla came into view as he tried to open both watering eyes.

“Well, if ya hadn’t snuck up on meh, I wouldn’t ‘ave hit ch’a; now would I ‘ave?” Nogla snapped, tilting Tyler head side to side gently, to better examine the now black eye. “Stop bein’ a little bitch an’ hold stil!”

“Well let me hit you in the face with a fucking potato and see how you act!” Tyler growled, turning his head away, rubbing the wetness from his eyes.

“ Stop it ya idiot, ya gonna make it worse than it already is.” Nogla said, gently turning Tyler’s face back toward him. “ Put some ice on it, so it don’t swell. Then go sit down till I finish dinner, I’ll look at it more after.” Tyler nodded and did as Nogla suggested,

but not before slapping the man’s rear as payback.

“ Go sit in da damn living room ya American fuck boy!” He shouted, face turning a deep shade of red as he quickly turned back to finish the food so it wouldn’t burn.

Tyler snorted, grinning to himself as he sat on the couch, propping his feet up on the coffee table and pressing the ice pack to his eye.

“ Whatever, you love me either way you Irish bitch.”

“ Sadly,” was the reply from said Irish man.

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I hope you guys enjoyed this one shot and please thank @abanime-zuki for the prompt again because I honestly love what I just created XD.

I hope you all have a fantastic day! Until tomorrow!

my shikanaru fics: a masterlist

listen, shikanaru was, is and will probably always be my otp so i’m just gonna start the long and tedious task of documenting my fic links for this ship. (fml but i NEED to wrangle everything into some form of organised chaos so bear with me). i’ve apparently written seventeen stories with them, which is both a smaller number than i’d thought and yet genuinely a baffling amount. note that while this ship features abundantly in my work, the primary focus of the story is not always on the development of their relationship.

i will mark my personal favourites with a “🖤” because yes, i do not love all my babies equally. i discriminate. some are just more dear to me, okay?

note: shikanaru is the default main/primary ship in these stories. the other ships mentioned are automatically the side-ships or the shared-spotlight pairings.

from oldest to newest ↓

1. twist in time: surprise surprise, it is a time travel fic. hokage naruto goes back into his younger body. changes everything. my first fic ever. if you tell me to sell this to you, i will probably lovingly insult the writing instead. still, it’s got pre-relationship shikanaru and they just mostly banter (naruto banters alot in general) | 91k words | complete | 40/40 | sequel is on hiatus | bamf!naruto, canon divergence, sasusaku | rated T |

🖤 2. swiggles: a quintessential sealmaster naruto fic where i’ve quite frankly gone a bit wild with the lore and the plentiful doodles. naruto makes friends, makes seals, makes some more friends. shikamaru is basically his best friend, along with sakura. obito returns to the village in this au but only after naruto’s already in the academy. speaking of, this fic, as of the last chapter, has only just reached graduation so it’s heavy on the pre-canon storyline. personally, developing the friend group in this, as well as the sweet, almost childish yet meaningful bond between shikanaru was very enjoyable for me | 83k words | incomplete, on hiatus | 19/? | eventual fuuinjutsu master!naruto, slow burn, fluff + humor, sakuino | rated T |

3. feelings? what are those?: just a short, silly oneshot about my favourite throuple, shikasasunaru. wrote this as a giftfic while twist in time was still a wip. it’s about naruto forcing shikamaru and sasuke to not be emotionally opaque peanuts | 4.7k words | non-oblivious!naruto, idiots in love | rated M |

4. the words tattooed on my soul: this is a fanpoetry fic. one poem from shikamaru’s pov who apparently writes plenty of these and stores them in a shoebox which he, ofcourse, hides under his bed | 172 words | poet!shikamaru | rated T |

5. the dance of destiny: platonic soulmates sasunaru and best friends shikasaku. sakura and shika leave the village to train with tsunade and years later, return so that sakura can become the hokage—she’s a champion of the civilians, basically. meanwhile, naruto has thoughts and feelings about this, given his own dream of taking the kage mantle. these four meet and their destinies (hah!) intermingle, much like an off-tempo waltz on the dancefloor (hah! again). shikamaru apparently has an asshole dad—shikaku—in this because that was what the muse wanted | 7.4k words | 2/? | incomplete | bamf!everyone | sasusaku | rated M |

🖤 6. colors of you: a lighthearted oneshot about shikamaru discovering that the village vandal painting konoha in all sorts of ridiculous murals is, infact, naruto and joining him on one of his escapades. this was written for a prompt challenge hosted on r/fanfiction actually. had a fun time writing this story. i really like how their dynamic turned out | ~4k words | pov shikamaru | rated M |

7. all in good time: another time travel fic about a burnt-out twenty-year old naruto finding himself back as an academy student after becoming estranged with konoha 12 in the og timeline following a failed jounin exam in which he ended up being the cause for shikamaru getting injured and scarred. this one’s more angsty, with a gentler naruto who’s a little sick of his life as a chunin. i really want to write and complete this story one day, because the storyboarding for the plot is a bit different than my usual fare | 13k words | 3/? | incomplete | alternate universe + time travel, slow burn | rated M |

🖤 8. the stories we never shared: a fic wherein naruto leaves konoha the night before graduation and years later, tsunade assembles a mission squad of seven to go after him, to protect him and offer him refuge, as a response to their knowledge about akatsuki and their plans to target jinchiruukis. this is also a shikasasunaru poly fic. it’s much slower and extremely interpersonal. i’m trying to develop and juggle different relationships and friendships with due regard. this fic also possibly has one of my favourite versions of naruto i’ve ever written. shikamaru is the mission leader and he shares a mutually contentious relationship with sasuke | 27k words | 4/? | incomplete | bamf!naruto, threeway povs, slowburn | rated M |

🖤 9. being known: a 5+1 fic about naruto and shikamaru sharing various conversations as they grow up and how their friendships ends up becoming something much much more. i’ve probably re-read this work the most because this is how i imagine shikanaru at their most grounded. they’re alike in so many ways beyond the superficial differences and it’s always a fun task to coax those commonalties out. it’s also non-linear | 18k words | 6/6 | complete | getting together, pov!shikamaru, pov!naruto.

10. blood of the covenant; water of the womb: my take on the arranged marriage trope. shikamaru is heir of the nara clan that resides in suna. shikaku is kazekage. naruto is heir of the uzumaki clan which is the closest thing to royalty in the shinobi world. to stop the prolonged conflict between konoha and suna, their marriage is proposed as a means for amicable ceasefire | 4k words | 1/? | incomplete | bamf!shikanaru, enemies to friends to lovers, politics | rated M |

🖤 11. naruto’s very eminent, very influential babysitters: naruto is raised communally amongst all the clans of konoha, on shikaku’s suggestion. mostly a humorous and fluffy fic and has the least amount of shikanaru, tbh. since they are, you know, babies. as of the last chapter, though, shikamaru has begun to have certain sorts of awakening. naruto is an absolute gremlin child here, chaos-maker extraordinaire. features interpersonal clan lore and many many side characters | 25k words | 5/7 | incomplete | fluff + humor, pre-canon, crack treated seriously | rated T |

12. the triad hypothesis: yet another poly shikasasunaru fic. they’re rogue ninjas together, trying to bind together resources and manpower to oppose danzo who has taken over konoha as hokage | 3k words | 1/? | incomplete | bamf!shikasasunaru, pov multiple, rebellion, politics | rated M |

🖤 13. twelfth guardian: naruto is sent to the daimyo’s mansion for his “safety”. shikamaru arrives there after becoming jounin, as one of the twelve ninja guardians. plot ensues in the background (conspiracy against the hokage, betrayals, etc.) while they fall in love after getting to know each other. this is my recent darling fic. i’ve drawn some art for it which is not just shitty doodling, i swear. i just have to sit and complete the third part so i can mark it as finished. it’s one fic where i’ve dug deep into shikamaru’s psyche and really enjoyed it | 20k words | 2/3 | incomplete | bamf!naruto, bamf!shika, multiple ocs, pov shikamaru | rated M |

🖤 14. if you shall permit it, i’d like to smooch your brain: another 5+1 crack treated seriously fic in which a raging sapiosexual shikamaru finds naruto irresistible because he’s sort of an unconventional genius. it’s majorly a fic about boys of konoha 12 hanging out together, gallivanting. also non-linear and imo, quite funny | 21k words | 6/6 | complete | pov!shikamaru, smart!naruto, crack treated seriously | rated T |

15. मैं और तुम (me and you): my first ever hindi fanfic about shikamaru and naruto spending some time together. that’s it, lol. my capacity to write longform hindi stuff is extremely limited | 557 words | complete | shayar!naruto | rated G |

16. anbu’s infamous throuple: as the name suggests, this is, obviously, another shikasasunaru poly fic in which they’re all anbu members. it is an epistolary fic and also sort of crackish. sasuke and shikamaru are friends but naruto has a hate-your-guts mutually antagonistic dynamic with sasuke while he gets along quite well with shikamaru. naruto is a squad captain, sasuke is his liaison officer which is totally a real position and not something i created for plot purposes. shikamaru is a communications specialist | 1.8k words | 1/5 | incomplete | bamf!everyone, anbu!shikasasunaru, epistolary fic | rated M |

that concludes the list. the seventeeth fic is actually the sequel to twist in time. i will regularly update this masterlist, as and when new updates/fics are put up!

if any of this sounds like your cup of tea, read on and enjoy! <3

made on: 16/03/25

last updated: 18/03/25

and here is Kismet! I've been going back and forth with these guys in design so I love how this one turned out!

Both Ablaze and Trickee are part rock trolls, however Trickee isn't aware of his origins as a rock troll as he is an orphan so he always assumed that he was a pop troll and no one else ever told him otherwise, or rather the older trolls never informed him of what he was.

Hype and Boom are twins, with Boom being the oldest by two minutes. While both are pop trolls, they were basically born within the same egg, something that was thought to be impossible back then. When they did hatch, they were pale- almost albino looking, when they got older, their colors started to show in more and when they hit their teens is when their full colors came in.

Trickee and Branch didn't get along at all when they first met, the two always but heads with each other and would constantly fight which more often than not resulted in physical fights. It took them a long time to get along but when they did they became inseparable. Joint to the hip, they were together all the time.

When the band went their separate ways, Trickee kept in touch with Branch. The others also did the same since they knew how many family issues their band leader suffered, so they kept him Informed.

keep up, old man.

You are an amazing person and artists and I thank you a million times for helping me with this project! If ya ever need something just ask!

Children’s book about H2ODelirious and Vanoss. ;3 

Written by: @katherinecreates Illustrations by: Me, @shyblacksheep