Latest Posts by mocknerd - Page 5

Here. Have a Shizuo.

Decide to fuck around. Don't know what I was doing with the anatomy, but I hide it all with lines and smoke.

Not me getting all soft and gooey when I get to the part of the novels where Aoba warns the twins to stay safe.

One of my favourite things to do lately is draw Izaya. Specifically redraw screenshots and official art of him in my style. So here, have some Izaya.

So this fathers day just gone by was also Masaomi's birthday, and I for one think it's absolutely outrageous that nobody pounced on the idea of Dad Masaomi as like a creative prompt or something.

No I won't do it myself. I meant someone good.

I could fully embrace my hyperfixation on durarara!! by drawing a new header for myself, but then pride month came along and gave me an excuse to be lazy.

Bachelors are finished!

My digital artist flawlessly made Masaomi look his age in the game (25).

Thank you for your patience and support! ♡

Oh wow. It's been a while since I did something like this. Thanks for including me.

Last Song: Touyu's cover of Unravel.

Last TV Show: Moon Knight.

Current TV Show(s): Durarara!! X2 Ketsu, Downton Abbey, (about to start) Tokyo Ghoul: re Second Season.

Currently Reading: Durarara!! X7, the anthology my college released this year, Battle Royale (I know I paused it like over a year ago by now, but I'm still big into it and I intend on continuing it).

Tagging: (Don't have to do this, I don't really interact much on tumblr so I didn't know who to tag)

@madhousefruitcake @nibbles7192 @shizuolovemail @demytasse @jill-makes-art @kasunex @skrillcrack @freakythedeadfox @su1seimushi

Rules: tag 9 people you want to know/catch up with.

Thanks @alice-fell-to-far for tagging me

Last song: Broken Bells by Greta Van Fleet

Last tv show: The Terror. And I cried even more this time around.

Current tv show: The Walking Dead. I needed something to watch with my mom and it turns out I still enjoy the early seasons pretty well.

Currently reading: Nothing but I really need to get back to reading. It's been too long.

Tagging: @rollingwiththedead, @taureanluver, @girlfraud, @fangirlforever2412, @vanwolffen, @ciestess, @alittlewarlord

Random Theory

So like, I know I already talked to a friend about this, and someone has probably said it before, but....

What if the milk lady was Sayaka when she was younger. It might explain why she and Anri look so alike aside from lazy character design.

Timeline wise, that would probably mean she was dating her future husband at the time, then got married and had her daughter the year after. That could tie into why their marriage fell apart, because they rushed into a relationship.

Of course, she would probably get contacts and grow her hair out along the way, but still this adds some satisfaction in me.

Anyway, just my random silly thoughts.

New profile pic, who this?

Hey, do you know the age difference between Shizuo and Kasuka?

Oh boy! I feel honored that someone decided to ask me something. Thank you.

I believe he's three years younger than Shizuo. That's through a guess and the knowledge of my friend who's way smarter than me. Also the wiki says that but I wasn't sure since wiki isn't always the best at that sort of thing.

Hope this brain knowledge helped you.

Anri Sonohara Appreciation Post

I know yesterday was her birthday, but I was busy with Halloween so I’m just going to post this today. Anri Sonohara is such an underappreciated character and she doesn’t deserve it. She’s amazing and unique and she needs more attention. So I’m going to take a brief moment to gush about her.

I legit can’t believe that it was only this year that I realized that Anri is like one of my top comfort characters. Right next to Shizuo, Masaomi and a few others. Apparently all you need to do to make me mentally adopt a fictional character is make them a victim of bullying and/or abuse. That or be a literal baby. Obviously there is more to it, but that seems to be a big factor. But thinking back, it does make sense. In my teen years I was obsessed with her, and a lot of female characters I made were somewhat inspired by her. I just didn’t get enough of a chance to notice because sadly there just isn’t enough content for her to make me notice. The stuff that IS out there, has her shoehorned in as part of the main trio.

And poor Anri, not only does she get forgotten by the fandom (and even characters in the main story), but also has to go through a real load of shit. She’s an orphan, but only cause one of her parents was an abusive ass that pushed the other to murder, only to then kill themself (that whole scenario is just...a mess but thats the main gist.) Now she’s possessed by a demon sword, which she just about has control over only because she’s numb to the trauma. Then there’s the aforementioned bullying, a pervy teacher, her friends being some secretive weirdos, her female friends also being pervy, and don’t get me started on the gang war thing with Izaya and all that. Yet this girl still comes out at the end with a smile. Like. Wow. I can barely go through a day without finding some aspect of life to be miserable about. Yet here she is. She’s way too tolerant for her own good.

Also, she’s super sweet, and really should have been given more of a chance to be hardcore with her sword and all that. I like that she’s a more feminine character that’s still badass. Way too much fiction has badass females be more stereotypically masculine, and to have her be more gentle and shy is a breath of fresh air. Especially because I and others in this generation, have grown to be rather shy. The best part is, she doesn't necessarily grow to be more social like in other media. Her introvertedness still remains intact, yet she still makes sure to still have connections outside of Mika after the first few arches. It's a development that's healthy both in that it shows its ok to be shy, yet still doesn't enable her to shut herself off to the point of destruction.

I like her design too, and I just wish their was more done with it other than that weird hoodie thing she got going on (while it's more practical, I don't understand why she wears it so often, even in the daytime). She’s cute and deserves more than that and the rule 34 official art. I've seen a lot of really neat fashion redesigns for her, and I'm glad that there seems to be some sort agreement that she needs to wear more pastel with black. Plus the redesigns sort of fit my own fashion sense (if I actually try).

She’s such a wasted character. All that backstory and design, and what happens to it in the end? Like there was a load of build up and then...nothing happened with her. Just Mikado nearly killing himsellf, but then she had no part of it. She didn't even stop the Saika army like she did in the Saika arch. I legit can't remember what happened to her in the end except for that moment in the van with the others. There really should have been more involvement. It's neat that her build up is more internal, but when you have a demon sword on the wall it needs to be used. Please. She became borderline useless.

Oh well. I love her regardless of the flaws in the writing. If I go on any further I’ll just be complaining about how wasted and mistreated she was, and this was meant to be a feel good thing.

See ya~

Ms

Tumblr being stupid again...

Tumblr, why are you glitchy as fuck. First I can’t see anyone in the notes, now you delete half of a joke when I post it.  

Me: Hmmm, I should write more fanfiction.

Brain: Yeah but nobody really likes your niche.

Brain: Everyone's seen your likes, so ...

Brain: You're kind of a bitch too.

Brain: And annoying

Brain: Nobody is into that stuff anymore.

Brain: You aren't great with schedules.

Brain: A lot of people probably hate you.

Brain: Plus there's college and--

Me: OK I GET IT!

Have another pic. AU making go "BRRRR"

From left to right its Namie, Nec, MC, Harper, Arabella and Mikage. Of course Izaya is in the middle.

I went to see Six the musical recently, and it gave me the idea to make an AU for Drrr!! I had to include characters from Ikebukuro Records to have all six queens but at least they all fit. If I went with canon characters the options were either not fitting, boring, or underage. Anyway. I like it. Is it normal to want to write fanfics for your own stuff?

(I encourage people to reblog my work because I'm going through a glitch where tumblr is making me get blocked by people I don't even know. It's rather annoying and hindering so it would be really helpful)

For my birthday I want a Durarara!! AU focused on friendship and found family rather than your usual romance...so I made it myself.

I would have drawn more but I could only do so much without stopping. This was inspired by a writing prompt posted by blacksteelgajeel.

The idea is that Celty is the Captain of a notorious pirate ship known as The Black Galleon. Her crew consists of all sorts of misfits including Shizuo, Mikado (yep that's him, I just drew him bad) and a few others. She covers her face and wears very baggy clothes so nobody knows what she looks like (and consequently don't know she's a woman) and that makes her one of the most wanted criminals out there.

One day her and her crew uncover some treasure that they've been after only to discover that its cursed. Celty is given a year to live before it kills her. The only way to stop it is for her to give up something without anything in return.

After discovering this, along with a drawing of someone labelled Shinra, the crew decide to try and find her childhood sweetheart and win his hand in marriage. The only problem is, he's a prince.

After a difficult journey filled with obstacles (including Izaya), Celty is at a masked ball with her love to be, only to discover he's had the rest of her crew captured. Not only that, but they too have been effected by the curse. Deciding that it's not worth it, she ditches Shinra to rescue her crew and go on one final adventure with them. Kicking Izaya's ass

When their final day arrives, they sit on their ship, watching to sunset together. The next morning, they wake up to discover that they've been cured. Celty's sacrifice was enough to save them.

I would write this in more detail but my life is already packed with all sorts of things so this will have to do.

I might post something else today but it would probably just be memes.

Bye~

(PS I encourage people to reblog my stuff because I'm suffering through a glitch where I essentially get randomly blocked by people I haven't even interacted with. It's really annoying and hindering)

Updates and Responses to Feedback:

Hi all. Due to talking to some of you we thought it would be best to inform you of some changes we've made to the game since the demo was released. Most of these we had done so earlier, however after recieving feedback, we thought that this might be important

First change:

MC's new character design.

Many of you stated that in the demo, MC looked too short and young, and that it made a lot of you uncomfortable. We heard this and made the appropriate changes and the results are what you see in the above sketch. We made her chest more prominent and she should be taller--around the same height as Arabella and Anri. When we get a digital artist for the sprites, we'll make sure that she translates better to digital form. Previously, we had in story reason for her youthful appearance, but in the end both madhousefruitcake and I agreed it was too extreme, and so did some updates accordingly.

Related to this, we heard feedback stating that some of you have felt discomfort playing this game due to the MC's feminine appearance and pronouns, and that it has caused you dysphoria. We are dreadfully sorry about this, however due to technical reasons, we can't provide the players with a gender selection. The game is incredibly long, with over 30 character sprites. That's not taking into account the expressions each of those characters would have within the game. So we hope that you can understand the need to restrict ourselves to one gender. The reason we chose female and not gender neutral is both due to plot and game genre. Traditionally, otome games are made for girls, so we thought it would be wise to stick to the demographic we were aiming for. If this effects you and you still want to play the game, we consider viewing the MC as separate from you (I know I know, that kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it). If not, we completely understand not wanting to, and thank you for playing anyway.

The other change:

Since the demo was released last year, we have gone back and edited a lot of the scenes and dialogue. The specific example we're talking about today are the "I'm straight lines". When we looked back, myself and madhousefruitcake agreed and thought that multiple characters commenting on how straight they were was really stupid, clunky and unnatural, so we have since changed it. However, as of recently we have been made aware of just how glaring the lines were to some of you and we felt the need to update everyone on these changes. The mistake was made thanks to a slip in the editing and more than one script writer. We will try to avoid something like this happening again. With the exceptions of a few, most of the characters sexualities would be more ambiguous or unmentioned for now on. For the most part, our aim is to get the most accurate depiction of the series we can get through lots of reading and research, in order for the player to feel like they're actually taking part in the world of durarara. Any mentions of sexuality for now on would be either for plot reasons, or because the dialogue naturally fell a certain way.

We hope that these issues didn't turn any of you off Ikebukuro Records, but if they have, hopefully this new information will spark your interest in it again. Please let us know of more feedback you have, and feel free to ask questions.

Please consider donating to our ko-fi so that we may someday afford all the required digital artists. I'll leave the link at the bottom of this post. We will give you more art and script updates as development and donations continue. Thank you for your time.

-Ms.

Ko-fi

Buy Madhousefruitcake a Coffee. ko-fi.com/madhousefruitcake

Become a supporter of Madhousefruitcake today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.

Please spread the word everyone. We really didn’t want to have to ask for money but we have no choice. Take note that this is also for future projects too, which will be original works. The fangame is meant to be none profit. If you think you know any artists who may be interested, let us know. 

Logged back in due to an important announcement: Our Ko-fi page is set up to pay  artists for sprites, CGs, and backgrounds (all three are separate to avoid stress for completing the art) for Ikebukuro Records: A Durarara!! Dating Sim!

You can donate here:

https://ko-fi.com/madhousefruitcake

(We want to add extra content for monthly donors, such as screenshots and sprites that were not seen in the demo) 

Artists who join us will:

Receive art from the demo as reference

Given sketches for future scenes as reference

Will receive payment (we won’t ask you to draw until we have enough money to pay you)

Be beta testers

Could work with us on future projects we have planned (OG)

Thank you for reading. Please spread the word so we can find artists as soon as possible. If an artist is interested, please DM us!

Hopefully this will just be like WattPad where no fan creators took the bait (that I know of, if they did there may be hope yet for those who behave I guess). But yeah, this is a really stupid fucking idea. I’ll definitely be taking part in the protest that’s happening on the 6th of August (12am US Eastern time, 24 hours log off). Dare I say, I’ll log out now. Hit them where it hurts. The Ad revenue. 

Reblog if you: have no intention of using Post+ to put your content behind a paywall,  and  have no intention to pay to unlock any content hidden by Post+ either

I wanna see something.

Happy fathers day to all the dads of Durarara. And by dads I mean the actual dads, like Mizuki, Shizuo, Simon, Denis, and Izaya (YES YOU ARE A DAD JUST ADMIT IT), and NOT Shirou Orihara, Shingen Kishitani and many more. Fuck you to the latter. Fucking take care of your kids. Talk to them. For crying out loud.

Drrr!! Stands for Dad Really Really Ruined me!!

My OC making her way downtown (walking fast) to give Shizuo head pats

Thanks to @wolfm2540 for the tag.

@madhousefruitcake if you want. Since I know you love picrew.

Dear @azaharperezoso tagged me to do this cute picrew, gracias! 🥰

I tag @clcifer @hilema and @inesko3 :)

Thanks @lapyn for tagging me in one of these things.

Last song: The end song to the game Devotion. Don't know the name because all the videos with an English name have been removed.

Last movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2

Currently watching: nothing and everything. I start so many series then dropped them simply because I don't give myself time to continue. Last one I can recall is Brooklyn 99

Currently (re)reading: Ulysses by James Joyce. It's for college, and it's good in some parts, but impossible to understand in others. It's supposed to be a classic for everyone, but really it feels like one of those that academics use to feel smert.

Tags: @kufuutarou12 @ausar-the-vile @madhousefruitcake

(Don't feel pressured to do it)

So confession time. Ever since I started working on the game with madhousefruitcake my once cold, non shipper heart has done a complete one eighty, and now I am rabid for ships. Like "I want nothing but happiness for these characters". It got so bad I've even started an entire neighborhood in the sims where everyone settles down and starts their own family. So yeah, that's the backstory for this drawing.

(Yes I used crayola to colour this in, I'm a college student with multiple things to do give me a break)

Also I imagine Anri and Mikado's kid having purple eyes. Cause that's cool.

Happy Birthday to these two. I wouldn't suggest accepting a drink from them.

Fun fact, they get a bit of a make over in the game to show that some time has past. But I won't spoil it for you. Needless to say I had fun doodling outfits for them in my free time.

This is another case of "please spread the word" because it's really important.

News regarding art in the game

So I talked to my former digital artist yesterday and she told me that she doesn’t want her art in the game. We were originally going to keep the art style of the demo until day 4 of each bachelor route, but to respect her wishes, the art style will completely change in the full game. 

It’s a bit inconvenient, but we’ll still send her drawn sprites, CGs, and backgrounds to the new digital artist once we get one for reference. At this point, I highly doubt a new digital artist would draw the amount of artwork in the game for free (we might get one for backgrounds and one for sprites and CGs), so we’re probably going to have to pay the artist(s). We’re still pondering over what to do, but we’re considering setting up a Buy Me a Coffee page, but it’s not set in stone yet. However, please note: 

We will not use the donations for anything else but to pay the artist(s) and the game will still be free. Seeing people enjoying the game is all the payment we need. 

Now, this wouldn’t start until the scripts are done. There would be no point in hiring artist(s) just to have them wait around. However, we’re still looking for a manga x anime style for the characters. If the sprite and CG artist finds it easier to draw one more than both, that’s okay too. 

We’ll also be changing Riku, Arabella, and MC’s outfits, along with Riku and MC’s hairstyle. I can’t give spoilers, but they’ll have a more modern look. Their eye shapes, heights, and colors will remain the same though. 

Thank you for reading!

It's new year in my country. Don't say anything happy. Don't make a resolution. This is not your year. Stay quiet and silent and we should be ok. Don't. Jinx. It. No jokes allowed. Just be thankful for all that is good. Like we are thankful for all those people downloading Ikebukuro Records.

Thank you everybody.

Not back to posting yet, and this is not related to ikebukuro records or durarara!! I just wanted to say happy holidays to everyone.

IT'S BACK MOTHAFUCKAS!!!

Hey, do you know what happened to Madhousefruitcake?

So in short, tumblr or the internet is doing something weird right now, I don't know what happened

Update, tumblr deleted the madhouse fruitcake account. We don't know why. Hopefully things will be clarified and fixed soon.

Hey, do you know what happened to Madhousefruitcake?

So in short, tumblr or the internet is doing something weird right now, I don't know what happened

Hey, do you know what happened to Madhousefruitcake?

So in short, tumblr or the internet is doing something weird right now, I don't know what happened

I'm not going to be on tumblr for a while. I've gotten really anxious and stressed lately. Please spread the word of Ikebukuro Records while I'm gone.