#bf queen elizant II

[ridleymb]

Gijinka queen Elizant II

[uchudishe]

Sometimes like to imagine that some stories are just movies that has been filmed inside the universe. Bug Fables is not an exception.

And in this, beg your pardon, "Movie AU", imagine the Hoaxe actor to be extremely nervous young lad for whom it is a first major villian role in his career. And he is very embarrassed after any slip or mistake he makes.

[donein30minutes]

Bugust 2024 Day 17: Royalty 8.17.24

Done in 31 minutes

[malwarechips]

women are real now

[longeth-dayv]

didn't have a better slogan for this one, so huhhh yeah !

[froggo-tea]

Team Snakemouth! Reliable teammates

(Old and new messy doodles of bug fables, yesterday my friend and I made it to chapter 6 but we haven’t finished it lol)

I hope the drawings are understandable- sometimes my messy style can even confuse me hehe

[barbaracleboy]

Extrie, Extrie! It’s the newest issue of the Talking Tick!

[unhappybarnacle]

Before I start, let me just say that I do NOT want to make anyone change how they do things (in terms of making content, interacting with others, or simply viewing what’s in a piece of media), nor do I want to shame anyone for how they do things. I’m saying what I’m about to say partially because I’M afraid of being shamed for how I do things, and that people might want ME to change. Of course, this fear is probably misplaced, I doubt anyone is actually thinking so negatively of me, but paranoia often doesn’t care for logic, does it?

That’s a whole lot of blabber, but to finally get to the point, I’m gonna rant about the Bug Fables community for a bit. It’s long as shit and I feel I sound mean at parts. Sorry in advance.

So, I think I’ve made it clear that I prefer light-hearted Bug Fables stuff over darker or angstier stuff. I certainly can like darker stuff, I’ve written angst and intend to write more in the future, and there’s some pretty dark or sad fics that I got a kick out of. Even still, at the end of the day, I very much prefer the light-hearted stuff. If I haven’t made this clear as well, I’m also kind of more interested in specific characters and how they interact with specific other characters over the environments those characters are in, the nitty gritty of the setting and how it affects the characters. “But they’re very much linked!”, I imagine a lot of people would say, and I know that...but I also don’t care. Sorry. Here’s a way I feel I can illustrate this point: another sorta niche game I played on Switch that I really, really love is Valkyria Chronicles 4. That game has quite a lot of newspaper articles and whatnot detailing, like, what the countries involved in the game’s plot are doing and stuff like that and I just did not care enough to read any of it. I wanted to, but I never thought it was interesting enough. You know what I was stoked to read, though? The descriptions for all your units! Every time I got a notification ingame that one of the characters had some new info in their description I’d go look through and read it and often times it was some small detail but I loved hearing it because I loved the characters. “This country was in the middle of a war between two other countries, so it’s economy is garbage and a lot of people here are depressed”. Me: Oof, that’s unfortunate. “This character likes dogs and befriends people that own dogs.” Me: Fuck yeah, you get those dogs and dog owners!”

But, like...a whole lot of BF stuff that I’ve seen (and it seems a lot of the really popular stuff too) focuses heavily on the darker aspects of the game, and that’s not necessarily an issue. Some people also wanted a lot more worldbuilding, they wanted the lore and histories and connections that the environments have to be stronger, and that’s not necessarily an issue either. It honestly kind of bothers me, though, because it feels like it’s hard for some people to (and the entire rest of this sentence can be prefaced with “for lack of better words”) accept it being more light-hearted? What I mean, I think, is that people being so unhappy about the “worldbuilding” and how certain parts of the story were done (Mothiva and Zasp are in an abusive relationship, Vi’s home was also really very abusive, Elizant II really is just a shitty queen and person, things like that) just strkes me as weird. Like, I don’t care nearly as much about the intricacies of the game’s world, I just take a number of things said in-game at face value or viewed them fairly simply because I just like seeing characters having fun. I have fun with what the game shows and I guess that I care more about characters than seeing the stories of each faction and whatever fleshed out. The biggest missed opportunity of Bug Fables, for me, isn’t that the game didn’t go into how the society Vi lived in was actually really shitty or explain every last detail of how the Wasp Kingdom functioned: I just wished the Queens (aside from Elizant) got to do and say more, and I wish the relationship that the devs say Mothiva and Zasp have (and that I like to believe they have) got more of a showing. I wished that Hoaxe got to have more of a presence like the villains of the first three Paper Marios did (and I know the devs didn’t want to do intermissions like those games, but there had to have been other ways to make him show up more often, right? Maybe have him taunt you throughout Chapters 6 and 7?) I wanted to see more anything with Yin because she’s precious and wonderful and I think it’s a sin that such a cute character could be removed from the game and nothing of value to the story would be lost.

And funnily enough, it seems to me that a lot of the people that are really unhappy with Bug Fables’ worldbuilding and/or make a lot of edgy/ansty stuff with it are really into Hollow Knight as well which...eh. This next bit might be the meanest part of this whole rant, so I feel the need to apologize yet again, but why’s it seem like some people really want Bug Fables to be just like Hollow Knight, with it’s somewhat depressing atmosphere and apparently deeply thought out world? Why can’t one game have a lot of sad stuff but with some nice characters and a world with a very rich and deep backstory, and another have generally more happy stuff with a world that’s maybe not quite as well thought out but still makes enough sense and has fun enough characters that it’s still great in a different way? I really don’t want to throw around phrases like “taking it too seriously” and “overthinking it” because I’ll sound like a prick, but that’s just what I’m kind of feeling.   And yeah, I get that Leif’s backstory is sad. I love Leif’s backstory too. But still, I like Bug Fables because it’s got good characters and is a nice, lighthearted story. The angst potential, the lore books explaining parts of the world, those really are nice. But I don’t see the lore or sad/creepy parts as nearly important as a lot of people seem to. I’m mostly happy with the game’s lore as it is. All I want is more stuff with the various characters doing things, getting to see their personalities more. (And to go on a bit of a whiny tangent, that’s why a very, very, very small part of me is slightly disappointed by how much fanart focuses primarily on Team Snakemouth. I know they’re the main characters and are the most fleshed out, but it just feels weird to me both ingame and in fan creations it seems like a majority of the cast are shafted...I love Team Snakemouth, though, don’t get me wrong.)

Did I make sense with this? I feel like I didn’t, but I feel that way about pretty much every big analysis-like thing I type out so I don’t know. I probably generalized a lot here, and I haven’t even played Hollow Knight so what I said about that game and its fans probably is wrong in ways too. I’m sorry, please don’t be upset at me. I swear that I’m not mad at anyone nor do I intend to bother or shame anyone over how they interact with Bug Fables and it’s community. Really, I fear that this whole thing just sounded like “Grr, people like this thing differently from how I like it!”, but I have zero intention of going up to anyone and saying “this is too angsty, I disagree with how you view this plot detail, why are you fussing so much about the WoRlDBuiLdINg???” I would hate to have someone do something like that over my silly creations, I don’t want to do it to anyone over their serious creations.

Honestly, I’m not sure I want to change minds or whatever with this little rant. Just wanted to give my two cents, I suppose. If you read through all this, thank you, and I hope you aren’t upset and maybe understand how I feel? One last time, I don’t want to necessarily change anything. Just felt it’d be better to let my thoughts out.

[uchudishe]

Swear, will start posting actual art sooner or later

Or not. Life tends to be hectic.

Also an old redraw, some of ye might have seen it on reddit. Or on discord.

[longeth-dayv]

discord prompt of elizant wearing a nice suit c:

[barbaracleboy]

[barbaracleboy]

KABBU IS DEAD part 1

Basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiuyhxp4w9I But with Bug Fables Characters.

[barbaracleboy]

So, I drew these a while ago but somehow forgot to post it here: the BF Royals in random outfits! (Outfits were supplied by folks on Discord, the Royal chosen for each outfit was decided by an RNG) First is this one with Vanessa. (This is a redraw of a Manga Panel, that’s why the text is like that).

Hector in a Starbucks Uniform. Starbugs.

Bianca in some Raggedy-ass clothes. (AKA Bianca after Vi spent all of The Hive’s funds on Fortmite.)

Vanessa in Sephiroth’s getup...Vanessaroth...I did better on this than I expected.

Elizant II in some casual wear. What is she watching?

And finally, one that I decided to do on my own, not requested: Hector after Team Snakemouth succeeds in the Coliseum.

[barbaracleboy]

Postin’ some Royal petting, because why not. 

Also with the bitch boy that wants pets but doesn’t deserve any.

[barbaracleboy]

Anybody seen Mortal Kombat: Annihilation?

Me neither, lel. 

[barbaracleboy]

This stupid lil comic’s a couple months old now, but I quite like it still.

Elizant I is back and now she goes  \        /                                                                  \        /                                                                  \        /                                                                    W