only in the darkness can you see the stars

Realizes I’m probably way too late to make a pinned post but oops we’re doing it now 😳

Anyway hi! I’m Shima. I like creating art of my favorite characters, crying over my ships, making too many OCs with overly complex backstories, and succumbing to new AU brainrot at least once a week. I’m also very fond of rambling in my tags so you will definitely find an essay’s worth of tags on a lot of my posts. ADHD brain makes it so that I can’t focus on anything for too long so I fandom hop a lot—just be prepared for that :’)

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My biggest special interests are Pokemon and BNHA! It is inevitable that I’ll return to making content for these two specifically at some point if I happen to be off gallivanting in a different fandom. Smaller but also reoccuring interests include One Piece, Senyuu, SAO, Genshin Impact, and Undertale/Deltarune.

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Biggest ones are:

◆ World Tree AU ◆ Bottled Soul AU ◆ Support Course Hero AU (usually abbreviated to SCH) ◆ Distortion Link AU

You are more than welcome to ask about these or any others! Lord knows I have a hard time keeping track of them all.

Thanks for stopping by 💕 My ask box is open 24/7 so feel free to come chat with me anytime!

So every year my company has a huge conference where we all come together and go to different presentations and stuff. That’s the boring part. The FUN part is getting to talk to everyone and drink and party and listen to the higher ups talk about their experiences which always ends up being super inspirational.

Long story short they had a discussion about like. Taking chances and getting involved in things you want to be involved in even if it means changing positions in the company. And y’all know how much I fucking HATE my current job lol and while I have been searching for work outside of this company I haven’t had much luck (very competitive field + not a lot of open jobs that suit my experience + half the jobs in my field getting taken over by AI, etc etc). But!! While it’s not EXACTLY what I want to do with my life there is a position in this company that definitely has a more creative and artistic side. And that’s marketing. And there’s one (1) guy handling marketing for our entire company and he offhandedly mentioned to me a few weeks back about how he’s looking for help—and he went straight to me in particular bc he knows I have a background in art and design and stuff like that.

So being ✨ inspired ✨ by the conference I stepped wayyyy outside my comfort zone and worked up the nerve to tell him hey I’m interested in what you do and I know you mentioned you might need help and I’d frankly love to help. And he was SUPER excited lol I mean we’ve been friends for a while and he’s literally the friendliest and most extroverted person I’ve ever met. Things are already moving so quickly lmao he’s talked to my boss and his boss about getting me into marketing so I’ll be able to do things like. Photography! And video editing! And web design! And swag design! And lots of creative things!! And I’m very excited!! Bc I’ve felt so fucking stifled at my current job bc it’s just. Very opposite of a creative type job and while I do appreciate my teammates I just. Don’t want to be there anymore.

So I saw the opportunity and I was like. Clearly looking for other jobs is not working rn so you know, maybe marketing isn’t something I want to do forever, but it’ll at least give me more experience in my field if I do end up finding a job elsewhere. You know? And if I do this I won’t be absolutely miserable every single day doing something I don’t care about and don’t love doing. So.

Anyway long story short I might be getting a new position soon and I’m VERY excited and jazzed and grateful to finally get to have a job that I’ll actually enjoy doing. And I wanted to share. :))))

Hold on wait I gotta jam for a second

Seeing Todo in red is setting alarms off in my head, idk why LOL

I've actually already done them before ehe ;)

I HAD to do the Togachako swap. I love you toxic yuri <3

Unfortunately Toga's colors don't really translate well outside her own outfit but Ochako's colors fit everything. Pink and navy ALWAYS slay

Screw art block I am OVER it!! Give me two characters and I’ll swap their palettes. Fandoms in the tags, also please be sure to check out the existing palette swap tag to see ones I’ve already done!

I haven't watched it yet 😭 I'm still p far behind in watching OP, I haven't caught up RIP

I have seen clips and screenshots tho, and it looks amazing! The animation especially is really popping off, I'm excited to watch it once I do eventually get to it :"D

In happier news it snowed a lot last night and there's maybe like. Only 5 or 6 people in the office today. So one of our managers bought everyone donuts for breakfast and pizza for lunch to thank us for braving the storm lol

Are you fucking serious

I see Supernatural is trending again. As it SHOULD be