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Happy September 21st!

Here is my monthly blog post. I was planning to do one sooner but... something new and malicious has taken over..........

THE HUNDRED LINE: LAST DEFENSE ACADEMY (but more on that after this little oc tidbit)

I was planing for my next blog post to be the unveiling of my oc blog, but sadly that's going to be delayed because I've been too busy playing hunline instead of working on ocs and drawing blog assets... oopsey. Check back another time for that...

Here's a WIP of my oc blog! It'll be a while :P (This picture is actually what the blog looks like, but the Dolly chibi on the right is just a concept) But it's essentially where I'll upload oc drawings, information and extra stuff. I'm planning to have a strawpage where people can send asks or talk to the characters too, if that interests you!

The blog already has some things on them but I want it to be more polished before I share it!!

Anyway back to the elephant in the room: hundred line. May or may not played almost 70 hours of this game in the last 2 weeks.. Even then I only have 2 endings!! (But that's because I did route 0 and then another ending that's the same length.. I'm told other routes tend to be shorter.. I'll play more soon but I want to dedicate time to drawing again...)

Honestly I can't even say much here because hunline is such a massive game and you really just have to give it a go. It has a free demo on steam if you want to try it. I played it a few months ago before release and found it so crazy because the characters are so odd but they've really grown on me since. Plus gameplay is fun! It's fire emblem-esque.

(Holy shit new fire emblem game btw... So excited. Who's ready for another decade of three houses discourse... Did you know I originally joined twitter to retweet FE3H fanart.. That twitter account has been long deleted but if you remember then you remember :V I WAS 14......)

Does anyone else get super into a video game and just stop drawing completely.. Because that's happening to me right now and it happened to me with FFXIV too... I thought I was free from the gaming-all-day curse but ah I guess not. My DRA side account is genuinely gathering dust right now but in my defense I've had a kind of crazy month. I'm still recovering in terms of health but I won't delve too deep into that. I'm doing well for the record :P A lot better.

Here's something I doodled between hundred line sessions. I really love the class armor/weapon concepts so I wanted to think about some characters in hunline! From left to right: Kanade SDRA2, my oc Lou and my oc Alba.

I'm about to say something so jobless but it's hard to juggle so many interests at a time LOL. I'm really into hunline right now obviously, but I also haven't moved on from DRA (will take a long time for me to move on) and I also have my ocs!!! I've been drawing them and writing for them again recently. It's really fun... I totally recommend making ocs to anyone. I never really considered myself an oc person before, but now I totally get it. I love my aquamarines and I hope that with my new blog that I can make others understand them too.

Okay that's all I have really. Maybe I'll make another blog post before the month ends... Actually it's almost Alba's birthday (Oct13) so maybe next post will be a little drawing for him. Though, that'll probably go on the oc blog.

WE'LL SEE!!!

Thanks for reading if you got down here! Take care of yourself x

WAIT.. BEFORE AUGUST ENDS...!

I already did a post this month but it's not illegal for me to post again. Anyway, I feel like my month has been evenly split into two and I wanted to write about it now that I'm starting to get back into things.

When I came home from the hospital, I was super art blocked and just generally kinda in the dumps. It's hard not to feel in the dumps with everything that happened to me lol but I've 100% been doing a lot better! I've been taking care of myself better and my friends and family have been here to support me thankfully.

This week has been treating me far more kinder and I'm honestly just really happy. Yesterday I went out with my friends to get some pancakes (was yummy!) and I've just been enjoying the company of so many different friends old and new, offline and online. I'm also not feeling weak anymore thanks to my treatment! It's really nice....

But yeah my August has essentially been pre-hospitalization and post-hospitalization... I've been slowly crawling out of my art block cave. When in doubt, do a study... I need to study more >_>)'

No one really asked for this but it's more for myself: DRA JUDGEMENT TIME. Am I still obsessed with DRA? Yes. Absolutely. It's always on my mind. But letting the game marinate longer really does make me appreciate it more. It's honestly a life-changing game for me lol. Plus me and my friends have been spreading the game amongst our friends... DRA domination soon. I'll be back to check in September.

Please consider playing Danganronpa Another.

It probably seems like my interest in DRA has dwindled with my lower activity on my side account, but the truth is that I've just been dedicating time to my OCs again lol.

(I have the most fun drawing/writing Ninalba. Can you tell... I know it's really obvious...)

This drawing is actually decently layered but I mostly wanted to draw them in wedding outfits I designed a few months ago. Despite the drawing, neither of them actually like the concept of marriage but I couldn't resist drawing it... it's based on this pic below.

I feel like I post my OCs a lot but I just don't have much information publicly available. Aquamarine is an extremely personal thing to me so I'm just rather apprehensive about sharing too much lol... I'm working on a blog for them that I'll share when I have more things on it :-) ... I'm sure you can figure some things out yourself though lol.

I have plans for making a short visual novel about them too so that people can meet them, but that's a lot of work.. I do have a lot of concepts. Maybe one day :P

(It's another Ninalba pic... Do you think it's love? I wish I knew what they seemed like to an outsider who knows nothing about them...)

Anyway I'm going to end this blog post here. It's a bit longer than I want it to be despite already cutting out a decent chunk lol. I'm still kicking and I'm going to spend time drawing 500 pictures I think. Thank you for reading if you got down here! Take care of yourself x

Probably the craziest few days of the year

On the 15th of August 2025, I went to the grocery store to get some food. I collapsed and had the ambulance called for me.... which never arrived lol. They're calling the UK the greatest nation on the planet. I did make it to the hospital for the record, they got me a taxi, but lol?

I was hospitalized and received 2 units of blood. I was discharged yesterday and now I'm a lot better! But yeah it was a very crazy experience. I was so scared and humiliated. It's all over so I can admit those things, but I very genuinely feared for my life. I couldn't get up, my arms and hands went numb, my stomach was killing me. It was scary... But the employees and strangers at the grocery store made me feel safe. The kindness of strangers is something I am truly thankful for.

Being at the hospital is never fun... I stayed there for 2 nights and it was pretty stressful despite the fact that I spent most of my time sleeping or resting. I got my blood drawn about 5 times in the last few days and I have thin veins so it was a lot of poking around my arms :,V ...

I am very, very fortunate that my parents have connections at the hospital. As you may or may not know, I'm Filipino and both of my parents have a history of working in healthcare and also know other Filipinos in healthcare. I am extremely fortunate that my parents' friends and acquaintances were able to help me at the hospital and make my experience there a lot smoother. I am extremely grateful because otherwise I would have had to wait for several hours to even be consulted.

I cried a lot. So many strangers saw me on the grocery floor and I couldn't stop crying at the hospital because I was alone and felt so alienated. Even though it was scary and embarrassing, all things considered, I am very thankful that I was in a place where people could help me and that strangers shared their kindness with me.

My skin and most noticeably my lips are super pink now...?! I never noticed how pale I looked but wow I feel and look more alive. This actually isn't the first time I've received blood, it happened in 2020 right before covid hit. I also noticed my skin was super pink after lol.

My medical junk isn't quite over yet, I've been referred to a haematology clinic for further investigation and I'm going to see a gynaecologist as well. Hoping things go well...

Okay this is the part where I sound crazy but I do feel super bummed not only because of everything that happened.... But I also missed Akane Taira's (of Danganronpa Another Fame) birthday, August 15.... I've been hyping myself up for it for an entire month because she's one of my favourite characters of all time and this all happens on her birthday..?!!? I still haven't finished her birthday art lol.. But it's fine really, better late than never, no? ;-P

And this is all excluding the things that happened in my personal life lol. Iykyk

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Usually this blog is reserved for things like my interests but this is easily the craziest thing that's happened to me in a while so I think it's worth writing about lol... As usual, thanks for reading if you did! Take care of yourself and if you feel weak, listen to your body and let it rest.

JULY RAMBLES

All I've been doing is drawing Danganronpa Another fanart. I blinked and suddenly it's the 28th of July. My life has been consumed. I wake up and think about this game and then I go to draw or watch my friends play the games then I think about the games again and then I go to sleep and then I wake up.

There's still time for you, the beautiful reader, to download the game. I'm kidding.. but you could consider it... hehe...

I reached 50+ followers on my side account so I'm doing a 6 fanarts thing to celebrate. Here's a snippet lol. I can't stop laughing at it even though I drew it.

(Plugging my side account... I post all of my drawings there... (SPOILERS DUH) @rnkrd_dra)

Sorry I need to stop talking about this game but it's genuinely just infesting my mind. I don't think I've ever been this obsessed with something like...ever. Even FFXIV didn't compel me to draw this much. I actually haven't really drawn that much XIV even though it's been my life since 2022 lol? It's weird.. XIV is such a weird thing for me because it takes so much of my time... I don't really get much drawing done (or much of anything else.. XIV is genuinely an evil addiction) when I'm subbed but now that I've been unsubbed, I've been drawing basically everyday.

When I was 15 I realized that I wanted to dedicate my life to drawing anime girls. 5 years later at the age of 20, I'm still drawing anime girls but now I actually care about anime guys so I have to learn how to get good at ikemen. Going back in time to make myself think about better stat allocation...

What can I even show you? I guess girl versions of the characters I drew recently. Most of the things I draw are spoilery ......... my bad lol.

Pictured: girl versions of Yuki Maeda and Tsurugi Kinjo. I decently like how this came out (it was a paintover of a drawpile pic I did with my buddy Summer. Shout out) but in hindsight I feel like Kinjo's face looks a little flat lol.

I feel like Yuki's face really resembles a lalafell's because I used to draw a lot of Krile in 2023-24ish... 8.0 Krile is finally relevant? Lol.

Apparently 7.3 is the conclusion for Dawntrail?! I said I wasn't gonna resub to XIV until anything interesting actually happened but err.. I do kind of want to see the conclusion to DT and the subsequent build up for 8.0. It has to be Meracydia, right?? Give me Students of Baldesion/ G'raha Krile expac and I'll play XIV everyday.

There's a lot of really good new glams too.. I wanna dress up Roid!!! I miss him sometimes... There's the alliance raids and new trial and dungeon and deep dungeon.. So that'll keep me busy for a while. I also thiink? Occult's Crescent is gonna get an update which is fun. Ultimately XIV is the most fun with friends so if my buddies also hop on then I probs will too lol.

I wish XIV did like a week-long sub.. I would buy that in a heartbeat lol.

I use 'lol' too much.. It's like punctuation to me...

This is the part where I usually put my aspirations but I'm gonna be real my life is going to be drawing DRA fanart for an indefinite amount of time............................. If I'm still this bad in August then I think it's time for me to be put down. See you guys next month.

Last night I counted approximately how many individual things I've sketched/drawn for this game this month (so things that are intended as a 'single drawing') and I counted about 30~ sketches and drawings. I don't really know how many things people typically draw but for me this is an all-time high. Not only am I captivated by a (Spoiler) ship, but the story is just so good that I want to draw fanart of everyone and everything ever.

Ok no more of that stupid game. Let's talk about the other game that's occupying my life: UMAMUSUME ❤️🐎 Wow.. Global's been out for about a month now and I've been playing consistently everyday and I don't see any plans for that pausing. I love my horse girls... Not only are there an abundance of cutiepies, but the gameplay loop is really fun too. I've been an Uma fan since the anime came out in 2018 so being able to finally play the game so many years later is really fun.

I usually find gacha games really tedious to play, but for Uma I don't mind it. The most tedious thing to me is doing my dailies and spamming the daily races lol but it doesnt take very long to get every daily mission done. I haven't enjoyed a gacha game this much before frankly.

My top 3 horses right now?

AGNES DIGITAL - I love my otaku horse.. Cute and pink and voiced by Minoringo, whose voice I absolutely adore. I love her most from her role as Freyja Wion in Macross Delta/Walkure, but Minoringo also voices Ena from PRSK and Liko from Pokemon!!
BIWA HAYAHIDE - My gacha luck was horrendous for her. But it was so worth it. I love my bighead nerdy horse... Not only is her design beautiful and caters to me greatly (big hair, glasses), but she's also a cutie nerd. I will feed her 500 bananas everyday to make her happy.
SILENCE SUZUKA - My favourite ever since I watched the Uma anime in 2018. She's cool and cute but also a talented racer... Absolute cutest horse ever. I love her beautiful orange hair... walking carrot.

I'm still meeting new horses everyday so my faves are obviously gonna change, but some other horses I've taken a liking to include Taiki Shuttle, El Condor Pasa and Maruzensky. They all make me laugh and smile.

Okay that's all I have really. Thanks for reading if you managed to get here~ Will be back in August or if I have anything to blog about in the meantime.

JUNE RAMBLES

Another month passes and it's my mission to post every month on Rankaroid blog!!!!! So here's the June edition. I did actually post in February but I privated the post since I think I could have worded some things about Neji JJ better lol. Anyway..

Happy Pride Month! This is probably the worst time to say it now that only a week remains but I hope you've all had a good gay time. Fun fact: I am bisexual. Okay I don't really have much more to say about that but I don't think I've mentioned that on the blog lol.

June is also me and my partner's anniversary month! We celebrated our 4th year of love on the 22nd!

I drew our FFXIV wols together for the occasion! Roid and Moonflower FTW.

You probably already know if you know me but I really love my partner, Kee. He is the sweetest boyfriend I could ever possibly ask for. He's my best friend and my soulmate. I cherish every day with him!!! Real fun fact: we started dating after watching Madagascar 2 together. We were feeling out dating for a while and spent a few weeks watching films together... and the film we happened to be watching was Madagascar 2. Lol.

Love is in the air.. but something ominous looms...............................YUP... IT'S ART FIGHT. NEXT WEEK. Siighhhhhh..................... Deep sighhhhhh........... Yeah I'm excited but I haven't finished refs.......... And you wanna know why.....? It's Danganronpa Another's fault.

DON'T! EVEN! GET ME STARTED!!!!! Oh dear. I'm actually obsessed with DRA/SDRA2 to an embarassing degree. Me and my friends Luka and Weez finished SDRA2 a few days ago and I'm still recovering. I'll definitely make a blog post for that on its own another time after I collect my thoughts further lol. I would be drawing so much fanart if art fight wasn't about to start >_> ... I have a very one-track mind so working on multiple projects is really difficult for me. One thing at a time pretty please... I'll take things at my own pace.

Here's a little WIP of something I'm drawing! I'm drawing some DRA cheebs. Rei Mekaru :-) (I really want more people to play the games... If you want to play then I recommend not googling any of the characters I ever mention lol.)

I recently finished my art trades and I feel like I'm getting back into the "I am drawing at every hour of the day" groove. I'm already over Occult's Crescent... Honestly I haven't been into XIV as much lately which is fine because I need to be more productive lol. All of my XIV friends and oomfs seem to feel the same though, I've been seeing less of it. But that's ok!! Breaks are needed.

I always mention the OC-related ambitions I have and realize I haven't really made much progress on them lol (I had a legitimate reason though... Art trades are DONE). But I really want to get onto working on Aquamarine 3D models!! I finally have the time to but making references is a lot of work you know.... If I finish art fight junk early then I'll do some blender work.

I'm just kinda worried for some reason. I really don't want to flub the models but obviously they're not going to turn out perfect on the first try lol. I'm most worried about the proportions. I don't want the models to be too cheebish but not too long either yknow.... I'll reference some video game models T_T).... I have a folder on my computer dedicated to 3D models I want to study which I think is a good step.

I was thinking about it because of the new Deltarune CH3 character, Tenna. He's a 3D model with a pixel shader which is exactly what I want my Aquamarine models to be lol. I can do it........!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, yeah! Deltarune CH3+4 was awesome!!! I really enjoyed watching Kee play them but I'll eventually replay the whole game myself sometime. I hope I don't suck too badly lol. The last time I played Deltarune, I was failing horribly at Jevil's fight....Never beat it.........

That's all for now! Just wanted to freshen up the blog again and get in my monthly post lol. Thanks for reading if you got down here! Wishing you well x