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Molly's Inventory

The one thing Molly consistently carries around is her soft companion, Mr. T. Bear.

Visual Mr. T. Bear reference.

Mr. T. Bear is quite a weirdly and messily put together little fella with useless stitches all over, but that doesn't make Molly love him any less.

The most puzzling part about him though, is the fact that he has a zipper on the back that isn't visible most of the time.

What's there when you unzip it?

Stuffing, of course!

...and also, a golden ring, with the name "Zee" neatly engraved on it.

It's been inside of there for 6 years now.

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🖤Another year, another summary of art!🖤

Template credit.

This year was wild, I was really busy irl so I have nothing for those 4 months.

Anyways, Happy New Year y'all! <3 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

2022 / 2023

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I scraped the oc name essay idea so I updated this with the analysis of how Making Fiends character naming works, and one more fact.

It's under the cut so you don't have to dig through the doc to find it-

- In Making Fiends there is a character naming pattern. It has 5 categories:

1. The antagonists have names that have some sorta evil/bad/dark meaning.

a) Vendetta - revenge, blood feud

b) Grudge - a strong feeling of anger and dislike for a person who you feel has treated you badly

c) Rubella - a contagious viral infection best known by its distinctive red rash

2. Charlotte and Charlene/the good guys have names with nice meanings.

a) Charlotte - a pudding made of stewed fruit with a casing or covering of bread, sponge cake, biscuits, or breadcrumbs

b) Charlene - free woman, spirit or thinker

3. Family members have names that begin with the same letters.

a) Vendetta, Viktor, Violetta

b) Charlotte, Charlene

4. Most side characters have names that begin with M.

a) Maggie, Marion, Mort, Marvin, Malachi

b) Mr. Milk, Ms. Minty, Mrs. Millet

However, characters that are an exception to this do appear:

Ms. Helga, Mr. Bank Manager, Mr. Gumpit, Onion Man

5. Fiends are usually named like this:

a) What it looks like/what it does + fiend/s.

Red bird fiend, vegetable fiends, flea fiends, shrinking slug fiend... etc.

b) Some random other thing that Charlotte names them.

Buttons 2, John the Pony

- The school is called Mu Elementary School. Well, it was apparently called Muffin Elementary School before (According to the Making Fiends Fan Wiki) but the sign got damaged as to where it says Mu Element School. I feel like Vendetta thought that the first name was ridiculous so she changed it.

The insanity that you're about to witness are the notes that I took during my Making Fiends rewatch... and with rewatch I mean that I overanalyzed every frame and every line in this piece of media. I wrote down any info that I thought was even remotely or relevant interesting, because I need all of it to be able to write my made up S3 and 4 versions of the show.

All of this info is a mix and match of all of the Making Fiends stuff that is available to us, aka:

The webisodes + the alternative versions of them + the character commentary ones. The Nickelodeon show, the Making Fiends website and the Making Fiends fan wiki.

Why am I showing you this? Because some of these are funny to me and about 70% of this info sounds like I'm just making shit up... to be fair, take some of these with a grain of salt, cuz sometimes I made assumptions about things rather than writing down the obvious.

Anyways, let's get into it, I put it into a Google Doc to make it easier.

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[Inventories]

Piper's Inventory

Piper uses her two dress pockets only to carry around a few things she regularly uses, and/or that she deems as important.

Her trusty bubble pipe.

The lore behind it is in this post right here.

Her room key. It's covered in scratches because her hands keep accidentally damaging it, and it has a keychain to show that it's hers. The scratches are already a pretty good indicator that the key is hers, but she likes to be extra cautious, so she added the keychain to it.

Another room key.

It's covered in dry paint splashes.

A notepad and a pencil. She likes to take notes of anything she finds interesting about the digital world. The notepad has an endless amount of pages and the pencil never needs to get sharpened. These two items were gifted to her.

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Mina's Inventory

It's surprising that Mina carries around anything at all, but this item is of such importance to her that it's necessary.

A universal remote! Mina can watch television and have control over the channels, at any place where there is a TV available.

She keeps it tucked behind the front of her leggings, given that she has no pockets anywhere, and it's usually not visible because of her sweater.

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The insanity that you're about to witness are the notes that I took during my Making Fiends rewatch... and with rewatch I mean that I overanalyzed every frame and every line in this piece of media. I wrote down any info that I thought was even remotely relevant or interesting, because I need all of it to be able to write my made up S3 and 4 versions of the show.

All of this info is a mix and match of all of the Making Fiends stuff that is available to us, aka:

The webisodes + the alternative versions of them + the character commentary ones. The Nickelodeon show, the Making Fiends website and the Making Fiends fan wiki.

Why am I showing you this? Because some of these are funny to me and about 70% of this info sounds like I'm just making shit up... to be fair, take some of these with a grain of salt, cuz sometimes I made assumptions about things rather than writing down the obvious.

Anyways, let's get into it, I put it into a Google Doc to make it easier.

It's meant to be viewed over a phone, so sorry if it looks wonky over a PC.

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GO KARKITO GO!!!!!!!!!

OUR SON!!! WE STAYING STRONG FOR HIM 🥹

KARKITOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO KARKITO GO!!

Here's the gif I made of Karkito doing the Club Penguin dance for anyone who wants it.

Also, in case this breaks containtment.

Karkito is this joke between me and @glitch-pep that originated from the small prototype version of the Karkat plushie.

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CJ meme compilation timeeeeeee! :D 🩵🩵🩵🩵

[Meme credits are under the cut + a bonus.]

I knew this day would come

workout goal

this social situation

sunlight kinda slaps

of course I'm pro nouns

i think humans peaked

Bonus ft. Milo 💀💀💀

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@random-meme-bot @moth-moon7

something something Apollo's dodgeball

something something if I had a nickel for every time-

@moth-moon7

...is this the most random idea ever? Yes.

Did I draw it anyways? Also yes.

My brain just went: Wendyn like sandwiches... Piper likes burgers... it's all coming together.

Caine put them in these for who knows what reason, they're both very tired of his %$C!#-

They can barely move in these, so they're kinda just standing there-

Bonus under the cut!

Credit for the censor bar.

If somebody saw Piper and Bubble wearing something that looks basically like couple costumes, she'll never be able to lie it down...

...and of course, Jax was the first to see it.

The mental image of a burger struggling to beat up a rabbit is sure an interesting, funny and depressing one.

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As I've stated before, the Chaotic Crossover AU doesn't have a plot, it has a beginning, but it doesn't have a canon ending, and it never will have. I covered this in more detail in this essay.

But, unfortunately for everyone's hearts, @random-meme-bot went:

...but what if did have an ending?

And what if it was a Bad Ending?

And boom,

The Chaotic Crossover Bad Ending AU, or just Bad Ending AU for short was born.

Basically, the poem I'm about to show you is based on all of the following posts, but ESPECIALLY on the first one:

Post 1 Post 2

Post 3 Post 4

Now, without further ado, here it is.

Saudade

Have you ever woken up one day,

and as everything unfolds, in it's usual way,

something starts to feel wrong, out of place,

it suddenly doesn't feel the same,

when you look at your face.

As you're running down the street,

you spot a boy in blue with a bear.

As you stop he dissapears,

and you can't pinpoint why you would care.

The fact that you forgot, doesn't seem very fair.

A guy you don't like fell off his skate,

you asked him if he's okay using the wrong name,

why is up for debate,

maybe you shouldn't watch TV so late.

You spot a familiar drawing in a book

before you go to sleep,

you forgot who it reminds you of,

and as you count some sheep,

you wonder if it was a memory

you wanted to keep.

As you ponder over your props

yet again this week, the bells fall, 

it makes you wonder why it made you shout

'Cat!' turn around, and all.

You also start to question,

who's name you actually wanted to call.

More things happen as time goes by,

you don't know if you should:

stay calm,

go crazy,

scream,

or cry.

The more they happen,

the more you wonder why.

You wanna find the answer,

but no matter how much you try...

You don't know where to look.

You don't know what you need to see.

Because supposedly,

everything is in the way,

it was always meant to be.

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THE CHAOTIC CROSSOVER AU-

big fan of 'i'd find you in every universe'. BIGGER fan of 'there are maybe five universes where we find each other and in four of them it ends badly i think we're some kind of anomaly i think every law of everything points towards this being the death of us. but we could try to save it anyway.' THATS the good shit.

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Milo being a petty little bitch meme compilation because it's very funny to me-

The next two memes are me going "Yeah, that's Milo behavior." but it didn't happen canonically or anything-

[Meme credits are under the cut.]

maybe the problem is you

talking shit

choose happiness

haven't decided yet

the usual

critical thinking skills

nosy enough

enjoy your murder case

back in uni

I keep finding...

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN 2024!!! >:D 🎃🕸️🕷️🦇💀

🕸️🎃¡Happy (late) Halloween!🎃🕸️

Put some poison in your coffee

to create a deadly taste,

give you some cursed treasure

that'll turn you into waste,

pour some water onto you

that'll melt you in a flash,

and once the fire gets to you

you'll be a pile of ash!

[Explanation + close ups under the cut.]

This drawing was supposed to be posted on Halloween, but I underestimated how much time it'll take me to finish it.

For the record, no one actually got harmed in the taking of this picture. How? I have no idea. I haven't come up with a story for this besides 'The gang meets Barnaby on Halloween and he tries to kill them in various ways.'

I'll put the full Halloween costume designs for the gang in a seperate post.

Also, here are some close ups!

(I'm totally not showing these because I'm salty that Charlie's and Molly's eyelashes didn't end up being visible-)

Barnaby doesn't get one of these because I don't fully like how he turned out, I don't think I captured his essence well enough-

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A bunch of Mina and Karma doodles (ft. Milo) because they deserve it and I feel bad for not drawing them more often-

I had a lot of fun with these!! Mina and Karma are such a silly duo, the doodle in the lower right corner is my favorite- :'D

I was going to include a description that describes Mina's and Karma's relationship, but honestly it's basically any cat person with their cat ever. I'm 100% projecting my love of cats onto Mina-

I used to dislike Mina because I could never really draw her correctly, now I just don't care anymore, better to have inconsistent Mina drawings on the canvas than no Mina drawings at all.

All of these are based on a bunch of different memes, I put them all under the cut! :>

Mina holding Karma up to the camera

Karma covered in kisses

Karma sleeping on a big Karma pillow

cozy Karma

Milo "doing Karma's make up"

chibi Mina with chibi Karma on her head

Mina casually holding Karma like a display piece

the lil comic in the corner

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Aight, let's talk about the process behind CJ's creation. First up, concept art!

Second, the full explanation under the cut! 🩵

A few months before CJ was even a thing, I got the idea of a character concept. The concept was basically Charlotte having an older brother who is far more calm, level headed and cautious than she is. I liked the idea of it, but I didn't feel like working on it, I simply didn't feel inspired enough.

A while later, I was trying to figure out Milo's lore, and I thought to myself... "Heh... wouldn't it be really funny if there was a character, who is the complete opposite of Milo, and his only purpose is to piss him off?" and then I thought "Hm. I could reuse the old Charlotte's brother concept for that."

In the poems Obverse and Reverse, the line:

"...the concept was a joke at first I gotta admit,

but I think I've gone too far with the bit."

Is me referring to this. CJ and Milo's whole relationship was based on a joke I thought was funny, but eventually I started to actually take it seriously and it just all went haywire from there.

I still find it slightly funny at times... but of course, this isn't CJ's only purpose anymore.

Anyways, let's get into the rest of his creation.

The first design idea I had for him was more surfer dude and Hawaii inspired, which made ultimately no sense considering that Charlotte and CJ are from Vermont. The one thing I kept from that are the hair and the flower.

His hair was a struggle to figure out, at first I wanted to try to make it curly like Charlotte's, but that didn't feel right. I still don't really know what's going on with it even now, but it has that slightly modern, fluffy and messy look I was going for. I guess it's shawed on the sides? I don't know, let's not think about it too much.

He has a flower hairpin on each side of his head, because when I only put it on one side it looked empty. I was debating about the flower as well. I had the idea to make it into a specific flower that has some sorta meaning but I couldn't find one I liked, I also looked up flowers from Vermont and ended up with the purple flower but I didn't like it. Eventually I just looked through the show, found a scene where there was a flower, and took the flower from it and used it for the hairpins. I made it into a flower because in the show Charlotte is often depicted with them.

I did consider giving him a bow so that he could fit in with Charlotte and Grandma Charlene, but I decided against it for a lore relevant reason that I won't talk about just yet. Besides, I think he still fits in just fine the way he is now.

For his color I just took the colors of the whole family and adjusted the settings until I got this shade. I was considering to make the color lighter but he just looked washed out.

His name was an easy decision, it had to start with a C and I was debating between Cody and CJ but I'm glad I chose CJ, I really like it!

The only thing that's really changed is that he used to be far more music, singing and comedy themed, but I scrapped the idea of it.

Everything else stayed the same most of the time... well, I did scrap two characters during the development process, but CJ was always the same.

At first CJ was only supposed to be Charlotte's cousin, and he had a different sister named Carol. Carol had anxiety, and the interest of botany and gardening used to be her thing. She had an intense fear of fiends. She was supposed to be some sorta yellowish color and had a headscarf with a flower pattern on it as well as long messy hair. I had the plan that she's related to Mr. Milk and that would explain their similarities, but I just ended up scraping her cuz I couldn't find a place for her in the plot that made sense. I do wanna make a character like this but in a different font one day, we'll see.

The second character was named Faith, and she wasn't related to CJ or Charlotte in any way. Her name was supposed to be a nod to the word fiend since they both start with F. She was orange/dark orange and she wore a black headband with some sorta black pattern on it. She also had some really tired eyes with eyebags and too much eyeliner, and a messy bag with a bunch of random papers. She was basically the new girl in town who got there a while after CJ, who developed an intense interest in fiends, with the intense desire to study and understand them. She'd spend hours observing them, writing things down, and conducting experiments. After a while her and CJ would form some sorta alliance and they'd slowly become friends. I ended up scrapping her because I couldn't find a place in the plot for her either. I do like her, but I think she'll fit better in a different universe.

Also, random addition that has actually nothing to do with CJ's creation.

I recently went through my sketches when I randomly stumbled upon these, and then I remembered that I actually had a Making Fiends oc idea even before I thought of Milo.

Her name was Megan, she was a sort of dusty blue color, and had long hair that slightly covered her eye. She was literally just Maggie but even more stoic and monotone and instead of poetry her thing was drawing... I thought of her before I watched the show, but after I watched it I immediately gave up on the idea the moment Maggie stepped on screen. I think I tried to make it work with making them best friends? I don't know honestly, very boring idea, dunno why I thought it was a good one.

Figuring out CJ was fairly simple, I took Milo and flipped everything about him on its head, polished it, added new stuff and made it into an actual character and not just Milo but in an opposite au.

Still, CJ and Milo are obviously narrative foils. I tried to make that clear with A LOT of different details. In fact, there's so many of them that I'll have to eventually make a seperate post for it...

No idea when I'll do that since I keep adding parallels to the bunch... I'll probably make a character analysis thing or something one day-

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CJ: I have a problem. I accidentally found out about the surprise party the others planned for me. Should I pretend not to know?

Milo: No. Surprise them back, don't show up.

Based on this post.

This post is LONG overdue because I couldn't for the life of me decide what to draw with them but better late than never!

Under the cut is an attempted explanation of whatever the hell these two have going on-

Milo hates CJ's guts and everything else about him, and he's not doing much to hide it. CJ is in denial about it, in a "No, come on. Hate is a strong word. He's probably just always moody and like that in general." kinda way, and is actively trying to figure out why and if he even hates him, since he doesn't understand why Milo would feel that way towards him to begin with.

He's very confused and even nervous around Milo due to his passive aggressive attitude and weird comments that are often incomprehensible to CJ. Sometimes Milo's humor is so dark that it throws CJ off, and/or makes his anxiety go through the roof. CJ never knows whether he should take whatever concerning sentences Milo is spouting seriously, or if it's just him with his dark humor and sarcasm.

Milo always purposefully inserts himself and his comments into any of CJ's ideas, trying to trick and sabotage him at every move, to manipulate the situation to benefit him in a way only Milo himself can realistically understand. They debate over the most random of things, and it's never really clear who's the winner in the end.

What he's trying to achieve with all of this is unknown.

Milo only acts this way towards CJ,

and to no one else.

CJ, in general, just feels...

...let's say, unsure, about Milo.

His opinions and feelings surrounding him change very often and are wrapped in seemingly endless confusion.

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It looks even better in color!! This is so lovely, the way you render your art is very pretty!! ✨✨✨

Thank you so so so so so so so much!!! This is really the highlight of my week!! :DD

I'm still amazed that you actually added all of the details, the stitches on the bear, all of the stars, all of the buttons... I know how tedious it can be to add all of them but I can really tell you took a good look at the reference image!! :'> 💙

And as someone who spends ages on every detail of these oc designs it really means a lot!! 🥺

Thank you for the compliments as well!! ❤️❤️❤️

I just look like this behind the screen rn I don't even know how to write it down properly:

8 HOURS??

Damn that makes it even more impressive, the time definitely paid off!! I'm glad you had fun at least!! You're the sweetest too!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

🌒Goodnight Molly ! 🌘

Drawing Welcome Home OCs: Molly Moon

As a fellow sleepy person, I love this OC! She's adorable, her design is unique so I had fun with this one! And she looks very comfortable!

Time took: 8 hours

‼️Molly Moon belongs to the sweetest: @glitch-pep ‼️