“You and me, babe; how about it”

I had Dire Straits’ Romeo & Juliet as my phone ringtone for the longest time. I think I was clued in to Dire Straits by a passage in a Douglas Adams book (“they kissed just as the song got to the part in which, if you know it, it was impossible not to do this”). We joke about Mark Knopfler’s monotone singing a lot but I think his super unemotional delivery actually makes the lyrics resonate more for me. Y says the way he sings the ending ‘You and me, babe; how about it’ is completely neutral and open-ended; only the slightly optimistic guitar riff ends it on a note of hope as the song fades out and you both wait for Juliet’s answer..

A penguin for you

Maggie and KG

welcome home

A desert engulfed by the sea is just a shore

Wratty ever inspiring

eta forgot to say.. photo ref used for values lighting.. i kind of ignored it when it came to colours haha. Beautiful anemic Hanbei

Where is my uncle? Part 2

A happy ending. I was going to include the Maedas but I feel Hiragumo might have ended up staying with Auntie Matsu getting fat on ochazuke..

(Part 1 is here)

And a random page of sketchy Hisahides, I mean Australian magpies. Hisahide is sketchy too. 

Fuwa Kotarou, the fluffiest kirin in all the kingdoms. Originally the kirin of Hojo Ujimasa but somehow on loan to Matsunaga Hisahide whose own kirin Hiragumo-chan turned out to be not a kirin at all but a teakettle

Edit: Sorry guys I will draw actual Juuni Kokki fanarts after this (instead of further desecrating memories of the Sengoku period)

Let’s go to the Kaiyukan! (There really was an ojisan storyteller outside the aquarium when I went, but he wasn’t a traditional rakugo. But I feel Hojo would be :’))

IRL i am terrified of small children, however thanks to SB3 I have discovered they are so much fun to draw.

‘the bogan and the hipster went to sea in a beautiful okra-green boat”

homage to seventypercentethanol’s beautiful stylized modern-day versions of ieyasu and mitsunari ;_;