It had been a little over a week since Ranze’s trip to see Asa, and Tousui had sent word he was working out a new excuse to smuggle her out of Yoshiwara. He’d also managed to raise a bit of mon...
2020-05-30 14:37:53 +0000 UTC View PostA couple days later, Ranze received a letter from Muraji, confirming he’d departed for Nagasaki, and would be taking his fleet south from there, expecting to spend 3 months on the trip. She burne...
2020-05-21 16:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostThe storm crept into the realm of dreams, Ranze finding herself in a chaotic howling wind as she tried to chase after Asa. Running in a straight line proved impossible against the wind, Ranze being...
2020-05-20 19:09:24 +0000 UTC View PostKatagami. That was the man’s name, as Ranmaru soon learned from the others teasing him over inviting an Oiran along with them. The general consensus of the guards was that they’d leave Katagami...
2020-05-17 13:04:07 +0000 UTC View PostRanmaru ran through another kata in his apartment the next morning. He still hadn’t worked out what the head guard had meant about his advantage, but... he was going to figure it out. Even if his...
2020-05-12 11:42:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe day after the shrine visit had been quiet in the morning, Ranze spent much of the evening teaching Ichi to improve her calligraphy. It went well enough, Ichi being quite enthusiastic about maki...
2020-05-10 14:41:54 +0000 UTC View PostClimbing into the branches, Ranmaru still wasn’t completely certain what he was doing. He’d slept barely three hours, and had nothing to show Asa from his planning efforts from the last week an...
2020-05-09 13:49:20 +0000 UTC View PostOver the course of the next week, Ranze had tried to play up the flirtation and flattery with the couple of clients she had. Neither of the men seemed overly swayed, though Ranze had expected it to...
2020-05-08 17:39:29 +0000 UTC View PostRanmaru groaned as the call of a rooster split through his head. Dragging himself into a seated position, he silently cursed himself for drinking quite so much the night before. Though, in his defe...
2020-05-07 12:38:56 +0000 UTC View PostEdo was a chaotic city. That everyone knew. The culture was in flux, new arrivals streaming in from across Japan, bringing customs, accents, and more with them.
What fewer realised...
2020-05-05 13:32:44 +0000 UTC View PostIt hadn’t taken long to find a courier post to drop off the letters. Yoshiwara sat at the heart of the city, and the official start to the five highways of the Gokaido system was all but on it’...
2020-05-03 15:56:00 +0000 UTC View PostArriving back at the ageya, Ranmaru found himself receiving a glare from the current accountant girl on duty.
“We expected you back hours ago,” the girl hissed.
Ranmaru followed Tousui through the Yamanote streets, until they arrived at a large house, the property walls of which sectioned off an entire block. As an extra bit of wealth display, the gate to ...
2020-04-30 20:51:57 +0000 UTC View PostApril of 1620, Genna 6
Ranmaru maintained his best fake smile as Akado Tousui recited his so-called poetry. The tall and lanky young samurai had little grasp of effective metaphors...
2020-04-27 21:30:53 +0000 UTC View PostAutumn bled into winter, with only a trickle of letters to tell anyone about the preparations being made.
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Winter had brought news of a negotiated peace. One th...
2020-04-27 00:57:23 +0000 UTC View PostAugust of 1613/Keichi 18:
Even northern Honshu felt the heat of summer, and heard the singing of the cicadas that came with it. Yet, those walking near the Hanamoto home would have...
2020-04-19 17:20:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Important character who hasn’t shown up yet in the narrative. Tried to mix Ming and Tibetan hairstyles.
2020-04-15 13:58:09 +0000 UTC View PostAnd then it was April. The piles of winter snow had melted, the risk of new snows seemed gone, and proper travel opened up again. The open roads meant that a priest experienced in chasing yokai was...
2020-04-13 18:48:43 +0000 UTC View PostThey’d decided on Ranmaru. It let Ranze still use the orchid kanji in her name, which her mother seemed to think was very important in preventing her from losing touch with her femininity over th...
2020-04-11 21:10:11 +0000 UTC View PostNovember of 1607/Keichi 12:
The Dewa Province was known for its snow, and young Mei Ranze had always enjoyed waiting and watching for the first snowfall of the year. Or at least ev...
2020-04-09 11:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
An OC. Some animal studies. A little fanart. But, enough original content I feel alright posting it here rather than on discord.
2020-03-10 14:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Just some original art for a change. So I’m posting it here.
2019-11-08 23:55:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I need to try putting more live into the eyes I draw. And maybe back away from same-face syndrome more. So... practice time!
(I swear, I will write something in the near future, just...
2019-09-18 15:41:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I was bored, doodled up some of the more culinary characters from my one comic idea posing like Ajikko boys.
2019-08-24 11:44:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Mostly original characters, and then Ai from Detective Conan, because she was already on the page.
2019-06-29 22:40:15 +0000 UTC View PostThe rain was rapping gently against the window as Tessa tried to stay awake. This paper on gender in Sumerian mythology wasn’t going to write itself, and she hadn’t even gotten to Inanna.
Some of my Magical Girl OCs for an expressions challenge. Some worked better than others.
2019-05-23 21:17:34 +0000 UTC View Post
