the very worst thing
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“Okay so it’s 50% hot glue, we couldn’t afford a wig, and I was too nervous to walk out of the house without shorts on, but it came out okay for a first try right?”
a little werewolf who’s new in town tries to impress the cool anime club girls and succeeds. just some magical girls dressed as magical girls for Halloween.
the mermaid is dressed as Kiki, the werewolf is Sailor Moon, the demon is Minky Momo, and the vampire is Charlotte. the characters that everyone chose are pretty indicative of their taste in anime. also, don’t worry about the mermaid. she’s a seal/manatee mermaid so as long as she keeps her water bottle on her for spritzing she’s good to go.
inspired by Bee Thomas asking for candy bats and Sabrina Gross asking for trick-or-treating monsters over on patreon.
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hey spooky gamers
a lot of people messaged me to check out Cozy Grove and after playing it for a few days i gotta say that the vibes are There but there are too many things that leave me annoyed each play session to make this the chill game i was told it is.
i know a lot of people love the time gated aspect of it but it just makes me feel like the game has a baby leash on me and jerks back on it harshly whenever i try to make more progress than it wants. this pairs poorly with the fact that a ton of fetch quests give you no story progression so you can end a day of play with only a few finished Where’s Waldo puzzles under your belt and every single ghost mystery untouched. in fact, i honestly think that if this were advertised as a find the object game with a story then i’d like it more because i wouldn’t be expecting something else. i’m a fan of spooky vibes and story driven games, not so much a fan of endless repetitive fetch quests that sometimes take days. getting randomly stuck on pieces of scenery, searching for single off-white leaves on the cluttered off-white ground, and storage problems that involve running back and forth across the island constantly unless you want to sell/burn everything only to be asked for that exact thing a second later and having to wait days for it to show up again don’t help.
the story is interesting but also, and i know this is probably an unpopular opinion, i don’t really like most of the bears? like, i find them interesting and i want to see their backstories but as i told my friend, all these grown ass adults seem pretty okay with the fact that a lost and isolated child is trapped on their death island doing their bidding until they figure their shit out. i get that in this world Spirit Scouts are a thing and also that everyone is trapped here because they’re deeply flawed people too in their own heads or weighed down by their own problems to move on, but also that’s a dark part of this story that i wish they explored more. like, just a glimmer of the bears realizing, “oh shit, we have to work this through not just for ourselves but also for this kid who can’t get home until the island lets them go or whatever” would do a world of wonders for me. it would make it feel like they actually cared for the scout (which would make me more willing to do fetch quests), it would make them think about the passage of time and life after being stuck in limbo for so long (imagine suddenly remembering that children grow and people learn? how much would that fuck someone up who has effectively been standing still mentally and spiritually for years and years?) and it would also probably put some interesting spins on their progression. idk, i just think that the characters having more drive and connection would make the story tighter.
or maybe, “it’s your responsibility to fix everyone’s problems with no support of your own,” is just a specific thing i’m picking up from this game because of my own ghostly backstory. who can say.
i know this all seems pretty harsh but i do think it’s a beautiful game with a lot of interesting potential and i’m always down to support indie titles. i’m only a little over a week in so if you’ve played this, let me know what you think!
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i have so many rabbit questions to reply to.
i look at my inbox and i’m just (ง •_•)ง
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Are you planning on ever selling the Carrot deck? It is aesthetiqué af and every time I see it I mentally do a lil grabby hands
Anonymous
thinkin’ about it. i just need to figure out the logistics. glad you like it!
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more Carot cards, this time from the Traveler’s Suite. Carot is a simple ttrpg where you and your opponent play as the travelers you pull from the deck as well as the world that wants to absolutely wreck them. each side represents a different rabbit family and each family has a litter of 4 kits. the game is a journey of a year where both litters go out traveling, and the goal is to get as many of your siblings back home as possible while trying to use nature and circumstance to merc your opponent’s bloodline. you play 4 seasons, a season for each rabbit, and these seasons are like short stories of what happens when you and your opponent’s traveler meet on the road.
games can also be totally friendly collaborative stories, but y’know. rabbits.
even though you play with 4 traveler cards each, there are 10 in all to choose from in a deck. here are 6 of those cards because i still need to finish the rest but i really wanted to post something for the first day of spooky month. these are like the standard/classic designs you’d see on cards but there are variations all over the place because rabbits sometimes make personal decks to play with.
if you were into shady divination stuff these are the ones you would use though.
not that anyone on the island is doing that.
ahem.
here are some rough descriptions of each one:
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over on patreon Camille Alexander asked for evil women so you know i had to make a whole squad that mixed in a bunch of other prompts.
Amy Crook wanted bones, Siadea wanted hummingbirds, FyreNWater wanted ‘soft, yet unyeilding, Triskadeka12 wanted discarded cocoons (though the one here is still in use), Beelezbuddy wanted lamps, and Kona Goodhart wanted 'wagtails sing’.
Fun Fact: all of these ladies can take on human form, at least for a little while, but drawing them in their more fae/monstery forms is much more fun.
These 4 ladies are the Queens of the House Of Returned Wings. It’s a secret society where people who know in their hearts that they must have fae blood or were a fae in a past life learn to use their latent powers to take control of their lives, be their own bosses, and eventually cross the veil to regain their rightful status in the realm of the fae. One teeny tiny problem is that only people who can really prove they deserve to be uplifted get to come live at the House where they can mingle with the Queens and learn the true fae arts before they are sent across the veil to start their new lives. So much recruitment and strange rituals and labor intensive but low paying work to be done. So many paychecks that are desperately needed turned into envelopes full of cash that are thrown into fairy circles that appear in back yards and are gone as soon as backs are turned.
But those little bits of magic you get back are totally worth it. The queens give out such amazing wishes for loyalty. So what if the price becomes heavier each time and the wishes seem to wear off quicker and quicker with more and more disastrous results? That’s only because the magic is borrowed from these incredibly gracious ladies. If you work hard enough you’ll have your own magic back, and you won’t have to worry about any silly time limit or spell corruption.
No, this isn’t a super culty magic MLM. Why do you ask?
Let’s talk about the queens.
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over on patreon Tama asked for: great big eldritch horrorbeast who’s a flustered mess because of their crush on little squishy human.
and Shannon Leigh Legler asked for: limping along but still strong.
so here are the protagonists for the saucy monster girl comic I’m currently writing/thumbnailing for the upcoming Iron Circus Anthology. Feather is a multidimensional angelic(???) being whose self can not be physically perceived by most mortals. Orlando is a nonbinary lesbian monster fucker in their thirties who likes a challenge and has almost been murdered or cursed to death many times because of course they have. together they try to figure out where the hell Feather’s vagina even is.
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over on patreon Baily Thomas asked for cats and mushrooms, so here are my semi-cottage-core (more like weird-random-house-in-the-woods-core) cat girls coming back from a mushroom hunt hike. this is literally the only thing i had the patience to color this month and i did so mostly so i could practice backgrounds.
i don’t know if i ever posted anything about them here, but they’re from a stray comic idea i had a million years ago and never got around to. the blurb i wrote about them on my saucy blog follows:
Marguerite (the black cat) is a priestess who works in what is basically an old gods retirement community and is currently the sole caretaker outside of followers who make offering deliveries and such (things get testy when the kids don’t visit). One stormy evening a girl in beat up pajamas named Andria (calico) shows up at her door saying her car broke down and she needs a place to stay for the night. Very sus. Things soon become sexy, spooky, and surprisingly domestic. Also the eldritch horror gods are bored with scrabble and start shipping them immediately.thanks Tama and Trevor for naming them by the way!
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I understand the first names, but how are the family names picked? Or- I guess, what types of names are they? I don't know how to ask, but all I can understand is that existential means dark words related to death and similar?
Anonymous
pretty much. the words don’t have to be particularly dark either, more like they’re dark in the context of always relating to the many moods/actions/vibes that lead to death. so a last name can be Folly, or Hubris, but it can also be something like Indulgence, Revelry, Despondence, Exhaustion, Completion, Spite, Time, ect.
some last names kind of bleed into first name territory and you get a vulture equivalent of John Johnson such as Old-Age Time, but that’s normal.
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hi! do you mind if people make their own vulture OCs using your naming conventions? love your art and entire vibe, hoping you are no longer sick!
go for it! all the vulture culture info i currently have should be in the masterpost:
and thank you for the well wishes. all sickness has regressed to reasonable levels at the moment. just getting through my second shot side effects, which are mainly constantly falling asleep and achy arm.
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This nice leucistic turkey vulture lady is doing some arts and crafts! Her name is Ms. Grain-Entrapment Irony, according to traditional vulture naming conventions.
She’s my half of an art trade with @theveryworstthing! Her vultures (and other Rabbits of Downtrodden drawings) were my very first introduction to her art, and it was love at first sight. Please follow her for some peerless creature/character design, if you aren’t already!
excellent vulture 10/10!!!! vultures and rabbits alike love good beadwork, so she’s probably very popular. i love her dappled pattern and her cute little craft box that is perfectly color coordinated with her outfit.
thank you so much for the trade!
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i watched a lot of anime while i was sick so have this villain coded queer space cat who’s probably the magic version of a wrestling heel, and a disabled former magical girl who got stuck mid-transformation as a teen and is now in her 30’s dealing with all that.
they don’t have names yet but they were on the same team at one point because Cat did the whole ‘enemies to lovers’ thing with the head of the group Magical Girl was in and they became kinda friends. now they’re hanging out again because they reunited at the funeral for Magical Girl’s companion creature who lived a long simple life as a service critter after she left the team. Cat was the only one from the old days who showed up, and that was partially because they had just gone through a divorce from their magical teenage sweetheart and now they are trying to connect with any friends who will still talk to them. because whatever went wrong must have been their fault! once a villain yadda yadda.
you know! a story idea full of fun!
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a while back i got prompts for ‘glass’ and 'melting’ on patreon so have this sea dragon priest who has chunks of sea glass for eyes, and a partially transformed kitsune with melty rivers of fox skin flowing over them.
they probably hang out.
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some creatures.
just some soft friends.
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hadn’t drawn Rat Princess in a while so here are some sketches from over on patreon of my worst daughter getting ready to strut her stuff for any security guard competent enough to catch her sneaking out with the most expensive thing she can find.
if no one catches her she will leave a signed photo. say what you will, but she comes prepared.
