#I failed to make a doodle dump sadly

[sunny1927]

A crossover of my two favourite siblings in different fandoms?

Yes. Yes I did :)

[single-malt-scotch]

would you ever share your old mindcrack art/link to it? (if not i understand)

i very sadly lost a ton of art from that period when my pc failed to recover (this was everything from 2013-2016) and i deleted the blogs too. some of it is luckily in my DA storage, but any smaller doodles are gone....

i dont mind sharing a few drawings (none of the shippy stuff tho) bc its old and not on my other blogs and also has no name on it. ill just dump it under a readmore here bc like. nostalgic memories and all but this art is sooo old and bad now bc i was like 13-15 dkjfhgjklcdfg

enjoy i guess and if you remember these you should apply for a veterans discount

this is some of the oldest from 2013. etho, bdubs, kurtjmac, zisteau & pakratt

theres more but. some of it is making me cringe sorry lol

aaaand some 2014 stuff, sadly this is where my deviantart posts start to fade and i dont have much more saved. zisteau/kurt, etho!

[dykeseesgod]

need shishka lore now. (i plan on drawing her)

HI HELLO HI HEY HELLO OK i will actually cry if you draw her like real tears SO KINDA LONG LORE DUMP BELOW UHSDJ

also maybe kinda spoilers for smth that doesnt exist yet ig? idk i plan on making this into a comic or smth at some point so

also sorry if it doesnt make much sense the entire story is still very much a work in progress zkjdfhskdfhs

also also tw for mentions of like. murder and shit

SO BASICALLY the main story (i.e. the period of time i have a ref for on toyhouse) takes place in 2017. why? idk!! i think i just wanted the twins to be born in 2000 because its like. a clean number. also in this world there are both furry looking guys and humans because all of these characters were originally undertale ocs

anyways, shishka (btw dont ask why the name is like that i made her when i was like. 9 maybe and i got too attached to the name to change it) and shad are twins. their mom is named sam and their dad is named damien. damien comes from an extremely rich family, but he completely cut ties with them like. as soon as he moved out. sam comes from an extremely average suburban family.

oooooo plot twist tho! damien is actually just a little bit insane crazy and is also kind of maybe an infamous serial killer thats been terrorizing the small town they live in for years. (thats all happening while shishka and shad are like. 7-12)

one day sometime in like. 2012. he realizes "huh. my family is like. dangerously close to finding out that im a serial killer.............. i mean like i kill people anyways why not i just take them out too lol. get it out of the way :)))" and so he tries to do that.

he kills sam, but fails to take into account that maybe his kids would panic at the sound of gunshots and call the cops. because thats what happens. he gets arrested, but not before attempting to shoot shishka, but failing entirely at hitting anything vital. instead, she just gets shot in the...... idk shoulder? elbow??? i havent decided yet. somewhere in the arm region.

after this whole ordeal is settled like. in court. both her and shad get put with 2 foster parents who arent like. the worst human beings to ever exist???? they just arent very invested in the actual wellbeing of these kids, and kinda force them into doing interviews and whatnot about their dad that they don't really want to do. i have like nothing planned for this part of the story besides that so you'll just have to bare with me on that scrap of information. all i really have planned is that they move out at 16 bcs their foster parents kinda suck ass!!!!!

aaaannnd thats kinda all i have planned in terms of her!! the only other thing is that she has a tv head gf named tomo, and they are literally the best thing ever and i love them. sadly shad is more of the main character so he has a lot more of his part of the story worked out already, but i am definitely planning on fleshing out shishka more :D!!!!!

i dont know how to end this. take this doodle of her i did in 0.2 seconds

[teddybear-yn]

[txt as school rivals]

yeonjun

it always irked you how the playful and carefree guy somehow was always at the top of the rankings with you

here you were wasting your HS life, studying every night

and all he seemed to do was fool around?

you made it known that you didn’t like him though

and yeonjun was smart, so even though you only glared at him in the hallways, he would know you weren’t in a good mood again

“Come on, Y/N. Someday I’ll definitely put a smile on that pretty face.”

oh and did I mention how incredibly flirty he is?

that personality you hate so much only because it throws you off every time, but you wouldn’t admit that was exactly how he became all of teacher’s pet

yes, all of them

but despite that happy go lucky annoying facade of his, he always had your back

without you knowing

when you were sick, he was the one that payed attention to class more closely and took more detailed notes to give you

he made sure your group members’ did their tasks and didn’t dump it all on you

the whole school probably knew about his crush on you, but to you, you guys were only rivals

he knows he can (and will) change it someday though

soobin

unlike yeonjun, soobin was more of a quiet character

which maybe was what gave him the Prince Charming image

he was just perfect

girls wanted to date him while guys wanted to be him

meanwhile there was you

you were always 2nd place, sometimes 1st but all the attention goes to soobin anyways

nobody really knows who you are

yes, technically, you’re rivals but people don’t really consider that

not known to the public though, is that soobin adores you

how you finish writing notes the fastest in class, how you would gaze out the window once you’re done

how you would be busy doodling but would still get the answer right if you were called, even how you use a pink pen for important parts of your notes

but despite that he knows how much of a silent but hard worker you are so he never fails to lend you his notes when you shyly ask for them

and he can’t help but tease you for them sometimes

“Tsk tsk, someday I’ll want something back for all the times I’ve helped you, you know?” he would playfully threat

“But, don’t worry. Never something that would upset you.”

even so, soobin and you had that quiet relationship behind the scenes of his huge popularity, you support him, he supports you, despite anything

beomgyu

beomgyu was captain of the soccer team

you were the volleyball’s

every year, the principal would get a headache from you two arguing on who should get more fundings

you argue how volleyball is an indoor sport unlike soccer, so you’re maintenance fees were higher

beomgyu argues how the soccer team has more members, meaning more mouths to feed and bodies to clothe

but because of your rivalry, your school has been both soccer and volleyball champions for years now

one reason why the principal puts up with you two

but your teams though were a different story

almost every one of them were paired with one another in a relationship

which might be why they would always neverendingly tease and pair you two

for example

if you just so happen to want to take a lap on the field with your team because the weather was nice, they would insist it was because you wanted to see beomgyu

“Come on, you guys clearly like each other with all the bickering??” they’re argument every time

unlike you, beomgyu takes the teasing though

when you go to their games, he would always throw you one of his clean jerseys to wear and would tell you to cheer him

“Only you can wear my jersey and only mine, okay?” he would shout across the field

with a wink if I might add

and on your games he would always come, saying he just wanted to assess the enemy, but then as the heat of the game starts rising you’ll see him jumping off his seat to cheer you

in the end, you could say your rivalry was more of a healthy and friendly one

despite both your teams teasing and all the arguing (sexual tension?)

taehyun

ahhh tsundere taehyun

your relationship with taehyun, you could say was the opposite of yeonjun’s

he was the quiet, studious, sometimes (most times) strict one

while you were the dean’s daughter that somehow always gets top grades despite being in trouble all the time

you had a lot of enemies, not so many real friends

taehyun was always the one to scold you and reminded you of school projects

secretly you think your mom put him up to that and promised him extra credit for it

so he and you spent a lot of time bickering

its fine he knew to apologize when he fets too far, you too

“Look, causing a ruckus isn’t gonna get you any good attention from your mom.”

after seeing your tears, he’d be apologizing with sweets almost everyday for a month

“I know what I said was out of line and hirt your feelings. Know that I won’t ever do that again.” he would say with a somewhat grumpy tone because tsundere!!

you know the saying true friends talk bad about you up front, but talk good about you behind your back

while all you “real” friends did was kiss your ass, taehyun was the only one to defend you when things got bad

basically, tashyun was more of like your little secret bodyguard, always there to save and protect you

huening kai

the only time you’d see school rivals being best friends

sure you guys bicker a lot, but always in a playful tone

you guys were #bffgoals with how you both conquer sports and academics

sadly, because of that fact teachers would always assign groups/partners instead of letting students choose

why? because you two paired up and no one came close to how perfect your guys’ work was

it was a good thing too because being with just each other all the time would make you guys a bit too dependent on each and maybe antisocial

so being separate on groups helped you two interact with students more

ultimately it only made your guys’ reputations way better

you two were It Girl and Top Dog

lots of rumors circulate about how you two were dating but whenever theyd ask you reassured you two were only friends

at least for now :)

[simply-yelly2]

Here we have yet another doomed child, and gosh darn why do I make them so adorable? that just makes it very bittersweet.

@opal-tea (because her full outfit might have been inspired by your one doodle of little Hai from a Sketch Dump *whistles innocently*) and @justawfulxmenart for your brilliant picture of the Cobriana family as a whole, because I did some thinking while finding the colors for her. I kind of want to try designing my version of Sisal at some point because gosh darn do I love her, even if we never see her in person. I like to think that Sisal had planned to name her daughter Hai and shared this with her family and Anjay happened to mention it to Darien. Then when both Sisal, the baby, and Anjay are killed, Darien honors them by naming her daughter Hai.

Okay, canon-verse aside. Let's get into Kala's Rewrite AU.

This is Hatia (lose, to lose, lost, loser, losing in ha'Dasi), the daughter of Anjay Cobriana and Darien. She is basically my replacement for Hai since I had revamped Hai as the daughter of Oliza and Nicias. Unlike her canon counterpart, Hatia is not going to have a lucky break and that makes her quite tragic.

I really must question why Cjarsa took such an interest in Hai, given that her conception was against the rules and then Darien tried to commit treason of the highest form (attempted murder of Araceli, the Heir to the White Lady). Maya herself confirms the fate of most children born from forbidden circumstances, though now I wonder if they would stoop so low as to kill unwanted children...I feel like falcons would approach this from the same standpoint that you use when breeding animals with lethal genes. The ka'jaes (falcons without magic) are worthless in a place where the inhabitants breathe power, but yet purebred falcons struggle to reproduce because the magic that gives them power beyond all imagination, is also poisonous to new life. So while the ka'jaes are seen as lower-class citizens, they are critical to ensure the continued survival of the falcon race. Because while it may be hard to kill a falcon, I kind of imagine that living for a thousand years can get tiresome...maybe instead of death, some falcons fall to Ecl in an almost death. Heck, they probably gather their friends and loved ones and have some kind of party before they go, and then they are taken to the shm'Ecl and left under the care of Servos. Their family and friends can come to visit them whenever they want and...yeah, you need to replace them somehow. I feel the rule instead is that a ka'jaes is not allowed to have a child with a fellow ka'jaes. Because they are needed to create proper magical falcon babies, not ones without magic. Maya probably had her child sired by a ka'jaes man and thus her baby was born pure ka'jaes. The baby was taken away and its parents were both tortured by the Mercy as punishment for breaking the law. I kind of imagine that Araceli did not kill this baby, though Maya thinks she did and maybe that is the idea. The child was given to "proper" parents who would hopefully raise it to better understand and obey the Empress's laws. An even more bittersweet idea I have now is that Maya was forced to admit that her partner had raped her (even if it was done with consent from both parties) and that is what saved her life...but it cost the man his life.

Okay, I got really off-topic here. But you get the idea of what I am trying to say I hope.

Scanning through Wyvernhail, it seems like getting Hai on the throne was Cjarsa's plan all along. And the Empress seems miffed that Hai is not grateful for what she has done. I am not sure what Cjarsa planned to gain from this unless her plan was to ensure that Keyi would be born and Wyvern's Court would fall to destruction and chaos and then the world would be saved once again, thanks to the Falcons.

​On second thought, that is just it. I do believe the falcons felt threatened by the ending of the Avian-Serpiente War (because Anhamirak's magic could be combined and that is very, very, very bad) and sought to destroy the peace in any way they could. Why else would Syfka use her magic to convince an innocent Avian woman to attack Danica in such a way that she would be unable to have any more children aside from Oliza? And reading that part of Snakecharm, I really do believe the would-be assassin was in fact innocent, she is so full of remorse for what had happened that her Avian Reserve broke and she was crying with tears running down her face. So the bad guys in the Kiesha'ra series are the falcons, though they believe themselves to be the good guys, and this makes Hai being able to get them to leave her people alone quite amazing?

But enough about other stuff, we really must get back to discussing this poor little chick.

Hatia is born to Darien a few months after Anjay's death. Despite her feelings towards Araceli, Darien is immediately in love with her little girl and plans to raise her with Kel (Darien and Kel were on-again, off-again girlfriends, and a recent falling out was what led Darien to seek attention from another source). But sadly, this would not come to be.

Araceli, with two of her Mercy members, came to Darien's room. The two guards restrained Darien while the Heir took the crying baby away. Due to the bond between mother and child, Darien knew the moment when Hatia took her last break and the Mercy can feel her torment.

Deciding that Araceli has gone too far, Darien plots to avenge Anjay and Hatia and tries to kill Araceli when she is vulnerable. It fails, and Darien escapes to Ecl while Kel flees the island because she is unable to execute her best friend and lover. (Spoiler): Lilian is the one who falls to Ecl while her brother Mer survives that day with a scar.

A ka'jaes child could be excused as they are useful to the falcon population in other ways. But a quemak like Hatia and canon Hai? I do not see it. Hatia would have had magic, but it is unpredictable and the stigma of her mixed blood can't easily be ignored. The hair and eyes and her feathers being black with red gyrfalcon markings.

RIP little baby wyvern girl.

[sophiem-bct]

Shared Playgrounds Week4

This week: 

We entered the Xchallenge. 

Contacted schools about getting some drawings from children for ptototyping. 

Individually selected our best research points from each topic. 

5 main research points from each person, and my thoughts on the information selected/found.

Kylie’s: top 5 facts for Prisoner Integration and Rehab:

1   | 'Out of Gate', is an external program offered to offenders serving sentences of two years or less, or who have been on remand for more than 60 days. From this program, 67% of prisoners who complete this program, remain out of prison for six months and 53% for 12 months, which is a small-scale reduction against a sample of comparable offenders who did not engage in the service.

2  | The period of transition from custody to community can be very stressful. The period of incarceration may itself have had several “collateral effects”. They may have lost their livelihood, personal belongings, ability to maintain housing for themselves and family, and lost important relationships and social networks. This can result to homelessness/lack of motivation to change.

3  | Since 1990, an average of 590,400 inmates have been released annually from state and federal prisons. The Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has estimated that nearly three quarters of all released prisoners will be rearrested within five years of their release and about 6 in 10 will be re-convicted. 

4   | There are three types of prison integration programs:Institutional programs - designed to prepare offenders to reenter society can include education, mental health care, substance abuse treatment, job training, counselling, and mentoring.     Surveillance-based programs - centered on supervision of offenders in the community following release from confinement. On their own, with advice. (Parole) Assistance based programs - Offenders afflicted by mental illness encounter particular problems upon release into the community.

5   | The conventional wisdom is that post-release employment is one of the most important elements for an ex-offender to successfully transition back into the community. Released prisoners frequently identify employment as one of the most important factors in their efforts to stay crimefree after incarceration. Five studies examined the effects of programs that provided job training and/or post-release employment services for prisoners. Of these five studies, only two found that the program helped reduce recidivism, though neither program had a significant effect on post-release employment.

Katriel’s: Top 5 Facts for Sustainability & Materials: 

1. Using a special machine called a Protocycler, recyclable plastics (such as plastic bottles) can be ground up and extruded into spools of filament to be used in 3D printing machines. 3D print offcuts and unwanted 3D prints can also be used, creating a "closed loop" system of production.

2. Tyres are a major problem in New Zealand currently because there is no solid recycling scheme in place to deal with them. Mountains of them are collecting in landfills and hidden areas of the countryside, posing a fire hazard and leaching harmful chemicals into the soil. Meanwhile, overseas, tyres are actually being recycled to make rubber mats.

3. Recycling 1kg of cotton saves 20,000 litres of water - as cotton is a very water-intensive crop. It also accounts for about a quarter of the pesticides used in the US, which directly impacts bee populations - so recycling cotton is particularly helpful in reducing environmental impacts. 

4. The creation of synthetic fibres - such as polyester - produce harmful emissions including volatile organic compounds, particulate matter, and acid gases such as hydrogen chloride, all of which can cause or aggravate respiratory disease, which serves as another reason we should be recycling synthetic fibres.

5. Ministry for the Environment figures show 100 million kilos of textile waste is thrown into the country’s (New Zealand's) rubbish dumps yearly. That’s the equivalent of every person in New Zealand chucking about 145 medium-sized men’s T-shirts a year.

Amanda’s: Top 7 points on poverty:

1.    Child poverty “can lead to serious and prolonged mental illness in children” (Feek, 2017), that can eventuate into a problematic adulthood that has a negative effect on both the individual and society as a whole (Peters & Besley, 2014). 2.    Poverty rates are consistently higher for those aged 0-11 years old, compared to children 12-17 (Feek, 2017). This is Doodle Dolls target market.

3.    Child poverty rates are increasing at a rapid rate. As Roy (2016) states, “one-third of the country’s children, or 300,000, now live below the poverty line – 45,000 more than a year ago”

4.    Stuff (2016) estimates that “…90,000 kids are living in severe poverty” and that “New Zealand has a goal to halve poverty by 2030"

5.    Peters & Besley (2014) state that “New Zealand has substantial rates of child poverty and material deprivation. These rates significantly exceed those of many other developed countries and, at least on some measures, are much worse than three decades ago. The evidence suggests that child poverty, especially when experienced in early childhood and/or when persistent and severe, can be very damaging —both to the children directly affected and society as a whole. Amongst other things, child poverty contributes to the large educational achievement gaps between children from lower and higher SES backgrounds. For such reasons, there is a powerful case for reducing child poverty. I have argued that decision-makers have the available policy tools to alleviate child poverty and mitigate its effects–at least to some extent. The issue, in other words, is not the means, but the political will.”

6.    Sadly, “NZ has the worst teen suicide rate of the developed world, with 16 suicides per 100,000 in 2016" (Fyres, 2017)

7.    Feek (2017) suggests that “Prevention is the key; which can be aided by policies that support better incomes…“. Hopefully Doodle Dolls will be the beginning of a solution to end New Zealand’s dismal child poverty rates.

Sophie’s: Top facts/info for child Psychology and Toys. 

1. Children’s Drawing development at each age (finding the perfect age group) 18m to 3 years = scribbles 2 to 4 years = more complex, still unrealistic (colors don’t match objects eg. Grass drawn in purple) 5 to 8 years = Colors match and everything is generally more realistic and proportional. At this age children often draw things the same each time e.g. a house. 9 to 11 years = they become easily frustrated when cant draw things realistically and will likely state “I cant draw.” (4 to 8 years is a likely sweet spot for getting the most creative drawing for doll designs) Child Milestones: 1st - Motor development 2nd – language development 3rd – socio-emotional development

2. Children with access to a variety of toys were found to reach higher levels of intellectual achievement, regardless of the children’s sex, race, or social class (Bradley 1985, Elardo 1975).

3. The availability of toys intended for social play increased social interaction by disabled children in an inclusive preschool (Driscoll 2009).

4. Variety is the key. Children play longer when a variety of toys is available. The careful selection of toys can lead children to play with others, to cooperate, or to develop particular skills.

5. Play has been defined as any activity freely chosen, intrinsically motivated, and personally directed. Play is the lens through which children experience their world, and the world of others. If deprived of play, children will suffer both in the present and in the long term. Play increases brain development and growth, establishes new neural connections, and in a sense makes the player more intelligent. It improves the ability to perceive others’ emotional state and to adapt to ever-changing circumstances. Play is more frequent during the periods of most rapid brain growth.

6. What is acquired through play is not specific information but a general mind set towards solving problems that includes both abstraction and combinatorial flexibility where children string bits of behaviour together to form novel solutions to problems requiring the restructuring of thought or action… A child who is not being stimulated, by being ... played with, and who has few opportunities to explore his or her surroundings, may fail to link up fully those neural connections and pathways which will be needed for later learning.’ (Sutton-Smith 1997).

7. Neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp found that play stimulates production of a protein, ‘brain-derived neurotrophic factor’, in the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex, which are responsible for organising, monitoring, and planning for the future. In one study, two hours a day of play with objects produced changes in the brain weight and efficiency of experimental animals (Panksepp 2003, Rosenzweig 1976).

8. “Between the ages of around one and twelve, many children manifest a deep attachment to a stuffed soft object, normally shaped into a bear, a rabbit or – less often – a penguin.” “Children invent identities for their soft toys giving them voices and ways of addressing them. They often have conversations with their toys in a tone that they subconsciously crave to hear (compassion). Mental wellbeing depends on your inner voice so if you speak to yourself with love then you will feel loved.” ‘No one else can understand me like bunny can. We should honour stuffed animals for what they really are: tools to help us on our first steps in the vital business of knowing how to look after ourselves.

9. color affects us in many areas of life, including our health, our sense of well being, and our feelings.

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Below is the email I sent to the head of Michael Park Primary School asking to meet with some student and get them to draw a creature/character for us to get a better understanding of what children can produce and at what age. As well it gives us some designs to do our prototyping with. I made it very clear that we would not be taking their designs and making them into dolls for free, only for prototyping.

Hi there Donna Bainbridge,

My name is Sophie McIntyre, I am a 3rd year student at AUT studying a Bachelor of Creative Technologies. I also went to Steiner kindergarten and primary school, then Waiheke High for Secondary education.

I am collaborating with 3 other students on a project called "Doodle Dolls". Doodle Dolls is a socially and environmentally sustainable business that makes soft toys, created to look exactly like characters young children creatively imagine and draw for us.

Our aim is to select New Zealand children with financial hardship to design these toys. A percentage of the revenue made from selling these toys will go towards a future fund for these children to help support them with fundamental needs such as food and education. The second main element of this business idea, is that we intend to make these toys out of recycled and sustainable materials.

"We want this business to give as much as possible and take as little as possible".

We are currently in the research and development stage of the business and are looking for young (under 10 year) children to participate in drawing characters for us, so as to gage an idea of what we may receive in the future. Meaning if students at Michael Park participate their drawings will be used for prototyping and will not be used to create dolls to sell.

It would be greatly appreciated if students in class 4 or below (preferably a mix of 4-8yrs) could take a short amount of time this week to participate in drawing a wonderful, colourful imagined character/creature/animal.

The reason why I would love to get MPS students designs (for the prototyping stage) is because steiner's philosophy and curriculum has a really big focus on imagination and creativity. To add to this we are aiming to have the designs lovely and colourful (no black), as colour stimulates creativity and influences emotions. So the fact that Steiner Students only use vibrant colour crayons and pencils is perfect.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind Regards,

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