Happy Mitsuba Day !! 🧣 ☘️ 🎉

— the art club

because me and my petty self want to claim this headcanon :’)

mei and mitsuba haven’t been shown interacting aside a short time in picture perfect arc and it’s such a waste because their parallels are so absolutely interesting and i’m in love with the idea of sibling relationship shijimitsu

like

so

but

once, mitsuba tried to find a place to stay within the seven mysteries and kinda got rejected by most of them. however, the one he wasn’t shown interacting with was with shijima, and they get along together well enough, looking at their interactions in picture perfect...

not to mention these parallels;

they’re both 'fakes'. the second unoriginal versions of people who used to be alive, people who used to be there and talk to others and make an impact on the world.

their original selves were both artists. they drew what was important, immortalizing it in their photos and paintings and sketches and film. original mitsuba’s ghost took a picture of kou before getting turned into no. 3 by tsukasa. original mei drew her ideal self, in a tower, and created her second self. both these things were important to them.

their second selves were created because their original selves had a wish. to live on, and to have & stay with friends...

and slowly, their second selves started to grow indifferent to their original selves’ forms of expression. shijima seems to only draw for functionality instead of for her own enjoyment or curiosity or expression, but her art has so much more meaning now that they create more than just an impression of life—they make life. and mitsuba doesn’t even know anything anymore, amnesia go brrrr (ty @ocelotlesbian for pointing this out)

i have so much to say about how shijima’s art is being used more as a tool for convenience instead of how the original mei used it—even natsuhiko & tsukasa are trying to annoy her for stuff—and not to mention the things they could do with this ability if someone thought about it enough (she, tsuchigomori, yako & the clock keepers are so completely broken i can’t even—these are the mysteries, of course, but i’m so glad they’re passively watching everything unfold because if they took matters into their own hands it’d be absolute chaos look at the clock keepers arc)

and i henceforth i headcanon

these two siblings doing art together afterschool in an art room. do we normally see mitsuba in hanako’s bathroom after school? no... and he’s scared of tsukasa. absolutely traumatised. ignore the afterschool episodes, i want mitsuba to turn on his heel and walk straight to the art room, skipping the fourth step.

after he has his melancholy talks and tear-filled arguments with kou he goes over and whines to shijima and they watch a movie on a projector and eat ice cream from a minifridge.

bonus points if mei uses her sketchbook to draw tissues for them. they literally have infinite ice cream and tissues

after the aquarium trip, i don’t think he could return to kou’s house (teru) & he also loses more energy the further away he is from the school SO i’d like to say he walks over, finds shijima & just cries to her the entire time about how kou is being difficult

shijima (unbothered queen) hands him her sketchbook w a drawing of a tissue box inside and 'mhm's every few minutes

it’s such a nice dynamic i love them so much

WHAT IF THEY RELEARNED THEIR PAST SELVES’ HOBBIES TOGETHER

like mitsuba learning how to hold a camera w his hand

shijima teaches him how to sketch, they go on small trips around the school at night to look at items in the moonlight

mitsuba absolutely destroys any supernaturals in their way (i need shijima to force him to eat occasionally and he will have to listen)

no but shijima is perfectly able to handle them herself

cue shijima pulling a sword from her sketchbook and slicing supernaturals into pieces

but what if their past versions met in some sort of afterlife and mei teaches him to sketch & mitsuba shows mei his favorite photos and anglings and they watch birds & draw them and take photos and think about their lives and-

bonus: YAKO.

yako’s stairs are said to lead up to the art room 👀

so what if...

(i’ll finish this later lmao)

i need this to be canon. sibling mei & mitsuba. pls.

thank you for reading ♡ drink some water~

⚠︎ — update log

01/10/25 — put in extra stuff + fixed some inaccuracies

on another note, i hate my ability to completely switch artstyles every single three days

— ✎ angst era

tl:dr: my life is angsty therefore my writing is angsty + most of the receiving end have been shijima & mitsuba. yay!

i’ve genuinely been writing so much angst over the past week it’s insane. like all my story prompts that i plan to write have this one turning point, a switch, a turn in the road, where the story turns just a littleee dark and then there’s just perfect opportunities for angst.

and i also realize it’s a metaphor for my life getting worse day by day (because it has lmao) but at the very least i get to write some juicy angst out of it!! yay!!

as for now, my mitsuba & shijima angst stays in the drafts.

my platonic shijimitsu headcanon will live on!!! in my head!!!!!! (for now <3)

ty for reading ♡ have a nice day!

dead tired but wants to write will be my mood for the next 12h because oops it’s an hour away from early morning.

oops i did nothing for an entire night.

oops i did not sleep.

oops i did not eat.

oops i (did it again-)

oops i

oops

ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. if only i could write without turning into a zombie to gain motivation. i hear the birds. it’s gonna be a wonderfully bad day

cinna ur intro updated !!!! (the school mystery updates in ur tags are gone too though ) BUT ITS SO AESTHETIC WHATHTH (in mourning kinda)

aaaaa i’m probably gonna go back and edit it later anyways 🙏 but im so glad someone saw the tags !! and i love that pic omfg

tysm <3333 im so happy to be ur moot

you should’ve seen me screech in shock checking this post because IT’S LITERALLY ALMOST AT A 50/50???? AND SO MANY PEOPLE VOTED????? IT’S BEEN ONE DAY???????

yall make such good points in the comments 🥹 tysm for your contributions! i love the new tidbits i learned today <33 shoutout to everyone in the replies, go check out their tumblrs! there’s many many really nice people in this community~

adding on here that they both have their own personalities, and they don’t necessarily have to match one and only one! keep your flexibility and don’t stick to just one explanation (especially if you’re writing with metaphors! you don’t need to come up with a new way to attach the moon to amane’s eyes if you can just say they’re like suns—unless it’s important to the story! spoken from experience 😔)

we can acknowledge both sides of the debate! these two mean the world to me, and i know many others feel the same (but i cannot go three posts without calling custody. save a piece of amane, sakura & mei/shijima for me!), so let’s appreciate aidairo’s hard work all together!

tysm for reading & voting !! and ty for all your support~ ♡

so... the yugi twins.

i found out today that some people consider amane the moon & tsukasa the sun (me included-ish) but some say the opposite? can we settle this- opinions under the cut!

we all know amane’s irises are supposed to be the moon, but personally i feel tsukasa’s eyes look like a very smol lunar eclipse, so the sun seems like a really nice choice for him (note the yellow donut he makes in his eyes. my beloved evil baby)

and i genuinely do feel that their personalities do match, up to their deaths. tsukasa shines really brightly and had many friends, amane stayed secluded and draws from tsukasa for most things (eg the moon reflecting the sun’s light!)

also, tsukasa’s kokujoudai tend to have a habit of bursting into flame (wait actually tsukasa kind of also burst into flame)

they’re like little phoenixes. i love them so much

anyways i want yall to know that no matter what ur opinion matters so

keep sharing it!! tysm for being here~

and tysm for reading ♡

mitsukou kiss when

updated ♡ will ping people in comments if i need extra info!

+ reminder to plsplspls give me all the stuff i need so that the list can be updated quickly and i don’t need to scroll though thousands of fics to give recommendations ~

pls ping me if you’d like something changed! tysm <3

hey jshk ao3 fanfic writers ! would u mind if i added yall to a jshk writers masterlist? i’ll probably include the ships you write for and a summary of a fic just so that people can access more jshk content <3

i sure love promoting stuff like this !!!

feel free to reblog/ping others so that others can see! and comment ur acc + best fics <33

as for my beloved moots & people i’ve conversed with ... @strawbes @snowiwyvern @mari-lair @musicalmoritz @itzprismosblog hello ♡

I forgot I have to be active here so here’s my Twitter tutorial on how to draw folds I made a while back to help a friend!