#NTOB snails

[butterfrogmantis]

As you may have noticed my brain has been pretty burnt out with Smurfs stuff hence me drawing SP/TTTE stuff recently instead but I did get a couple ideas the other day so I'm gonna try slowly working on them

More of a warm up back into Smurf stuff it's a little rough around the edges but I'm trying to re-train my brain back into the art style djdjfk

Farmer (c) The Smurfs

[primeministerofantarctica]

chef is so underappreciated i know ntob already did the whole "village realizes how much they need chef" thing but they didn't go nearly far enough. i want someone to say something about how they could totally do his job and for him to go "okay, here's the menu for the week! oh and by the way dreamy, poet, and tailor can't have snail milk, brainy's allergic to nuts, timid and carpenter are gluten intolerant, miller's allergic to eggs, harmony blah blah blah....okay, you got all that written down? because i sure don't. great! ciao, bitches!"

[butterfrogmantis]

It was a terrible night; a rainy, lightning storm stricken night. The kind of night where you DON’T expect anyone to be knocking on your door because no fool in their right mind would be outside in this weather. And yet here Tailor stood, in his fluffy cream dressing gown, answering the door to a sodden and panicked Farmer Smurf, begging him for blankets as he’d given his to Laundry Smurf earlier that day.

And that’s how the clothes maker found himself standing in the stables as the lightning crashed outside and the wind howled, watching Farmer wrap a blanket around a newly hatched baby snail. He was cooing gently at it, and stroking the neck as it yawned.

“It’s alive, oh- oh yes, he’ll be ok, thank you Tailor, thank you, how can I ever repay you?”

Tailor shook his head, offering a second blanket instead.

“No no, one is enough for the little guy”

“This one’s for you” Tailor said, matter of factly, draping it around the other Smurf’s shoulders. Farmer had been completely ignoring the fact he was also soaked to the bone, all for the life of this tiny snailet that was now blinking around at the two strange creatures above it. In all honesty, it was admirable. Farmer truly did put a lot of tender smurfing care into his work, something Tailor could relate to very much.

“Holy Smurf, he’s gorgeous. I think I’m gonna name him Thunder – for hatching in this storm. Please Tailor, let me thank you somehow, whaddya say to a picnic lunch tomorrow? I be known for making a mean Smurfberry pie – gosh, he’s a real sweetheart, ain’t he?”

Tailor smiled, but he wasn’t looking at the snail.

“I can’t say I ever noticed it before … but yes, he is rather”

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Retconning some AU stuff! I’ve had my main stories for a while and way back when I didn’t know or care as much about certain characters but now a days I have no excuse fjdhdk anyway the original Farmer/Tailor storyline was that Tailor actually got annoyed with him for dirtying some of his clothes with field mud so Farmer spent a night washing them to make up for it, Tailor found him asleep in the morning and was so touched he was forgiven and that’s what started the inital friendship. Buttt in terms of where the characters stand now? That seems like more of a Vanity thing, idk I just thought I could do better so I’m dragging the NTOB snails into this.

Prior to this instance Farmer is at least one of Tailor’s most frequent customers but they’re both so busy they’d probably only have considered each other acquaintances at best (though Farmer had a bit of a secret crush) following the night of Thunder’s hatching and once the skies cleared up Farmer made good on his promise of baking smurfberry pie (his one and only baking specialty) and the two got to talking, became actual friends, then my fanfic Needle And Hay happens and well you guys know the rest ;)

Farmer and Tailor (c) The Smurfs