#bug fables christmas

[artisticangel]

Countdown To Christmas Day 12- Bug Fables Vi

I’ve pictured Vi as a secret santa to all of the children in the Ant Kingdom City while using her move “Secret Stash” to pull out her secret stash of toys instead of healing items like she always does. (Secretly Kabbu’s influence must’ve been rubbing off on her, but good luck getting her to admit it Lol.)

So I wanted to draw her up a Santa outfit but still reflects her tomboy personality, along with drawing up a snowy background with moon, stars, and mountains to make it more Christmasy. (I’ve included both art pieces with and without the 90’s anime filter in case if the art is too blurry to anyone.)

I have to say that this was a fun art challenge @sundove88 Merry Christmas! 😊

[sundove88]

Artwork Countdown to Christmas Challenge!

Everyone… guess what.

I’ve been fiddling around about what to do for the holidays, and I’ve got a genius idea.

A “Countdown to Christmas” Art Challenge!

So here’s how it goes- you select 24 of your followers (The 25th being you, cause you’re beautiful and unique in your own special way) and you draw a character from one of the fandoms each follower is in! Here’s mine! And don’t worry- you can either draw them in Christmas themed wear or in their standard outfits doing a holiday activity!

Day 1- Big Man (Splatoon 3) @lunartearrose

Day 2- Henry Stickmin (Henry Stickmin) @thehyperrequiem

Day 3- Princess Kaylo (OC) @kayssweetdreams

Day 4- Bumblebee (Transformers) @jettthespeeddemon

Day 5- Fettuccine Cookie (Cookie Run) @sam-rexian

Day 6- Jotaro Kujo (JJBA) @kindabizarretbh

Day 7- Spike (Brawl Stars) @lovelyteng

Day 8- Milla Vodello (Psychonauts) @thetropicalfairy

Day 9- Barnaby (Billie Bust Up) @a-little-ray-of-fantasy

Day 10- Cordie (MementoMori) @ultimatestellar

Day 11- King Dedede (Kirby) @hardrockhurricane and @stardustshimmer

Day 12- Vi (Bug Fables) @artisticangel

Day 13- Bulma (Dragon Ball Z) @spinomaster17

Day 14- Peso (Octonauts) @ham-sandwich-lol

Day 15- Cirno (TouHou) @cheezecirno

Day 16- Shigeo Mizuki (Gegege No Kitaro) @gerbelx2000-blog

Day 17- Jack Skellington (The Nightmare Before Christmas) @jezabatlovesbats

Day 18- Toriko (Toriko) @plasticoceanpearl

Day 19- Hilda (Hilda) @rosemary-posts-random-crap

Day 20- Litwick (Pokemon) @stormrider824

Day 21- Frost Fairy (Balan Wonderworld) @alex-frostwalker

Day 22- Ringmaster Raven (Poptropica) @pinklightningmc

Day 23- Kasumi Toyama (BanG Dream!) @spookyspooki

Day 24- Alucard (Helsing Ultimate) @artsy-jandi

Day 25/Christmas Day!!!- Linker of Choice (Project Link Up) @Me!

And don’t worry, followers who I didn’t tag. You’re free to join in the holiday fun!

[someguyiguess23]

Some Christmas doodles of Zach and Rohan! :]c

[mothwingedmyths]

SHE'S DEFROSTING EVERYONE RUN

[rainbowwings14-phi]

How to protect your Christmas tree

[merbis]

Kabbu: Leif!? Why are you in my present?

Leif: Vi told us to climb in the box and we did

Kabbu: That's it?

Leif: she put candy in it

Kabbu: Right...

Vi: And uhh...he loves you???

[whatwhatwotter]

Look what @rosencrypt got me for Christmas aaaaa

[r01y]

[autisticfoxgirl333]

*Brings gifts to almost all the Bug Fables characters and flies off*

[mantisgodsdomain]

He's gone... becoming a mammal... still eating bugs probably but from above in a probably slightly more nerve-wracking way... thank you for drawing this!

That's, uhh, a big fucking bug.

Putting this out now. If anyone wishes to draw us a Scarlet we will draw you an art of your choice. Putting said Scarlet in Situations heavily encouraged but we are not picky we just want more of this one specific ant guy.

[girorodesu]

A picture for my lil guy @fullmetal-beansprout for christmas of our bug fables ocs featuring Kabbu/Neolith

[wyvolf]

Grown ass men being so upset the main player character is an “ugly” girl in the new fable game is so dumb, funny, and just holy shit go outside and seek employment 😭

While yeah I think there should be a “Choose your Hero” of ‘boy or girl’ (or even a slight character editor, which I think there will be); people being so upset that most of the trailers so far show the Girl Hero is just crazy. I don’t think they’d be complaining if the hero seen in the trailers was conventionally attractive with big boob, blonde hair, baby blue eyes.

Plus it’s probably going to come out in 2025 probably around the Christmas season. They’re going to be releasing details as it comes. Another trailer most likely, an actual show case. More stuff as it goes on.

People should be way more concerned about the price of the game. I expect to play the full game from start to finish with no pay to win aspects, and I’m able to play it offline. If I’m paying 90+ dollars AUD for it (or if steam has anything to go by with starfield: $119 AUD) I expect a well ironed game (I do see some bugs and glitches), a proper product that I can sink hours into, collect collectibles, do side quests, have many many lovers. Buy everything.

[sundove88]

Countdown to Christmas- Day 12- Vi @artisticangel

Day 12 gives us a new take on the leader of Team Snakemouth- Vi!

Here she’s dressed up as the Sugarplum Princess for a holiday fashion show!

Doesn’t she look cute in her tutu and candy themed accessories?

[myblogforbooks123]

I understand there's been a lot of discourse lately regarding whether you should read classic books, but there's been little to no recommendations for beginners. Not to toot my own horn, but I thought I could help solve this problem. Due to length, I'm going to avoid including my take on the discourse. Below is a list of recommendations. Content warnings are available on StoryGraph.

Recommendations

So, you want to read a classic book but have no idea where to start. I'll start with a list of how to get books for cheap, then I'll recommend some short stories, before finally recommending full books.

Cheap books:

I'd recommend getting a library card first and foremost. This will allow you to not only take home books for free, but to download apps (Libby, Hoopla) that will loan out free ebooks.

If, like me, your local library is inaccessible (nearly all of mine are closed for renovations currently), you can use Thriftbooks.com, Barnes and Noble, Bookoutlet.com, or any other bookseller.

Mass market paperbacks are designed to be cheap, and sellers like Dover Thrift or Signet Classics are incredibly accessible. Puffin Classics are also cheap.

Most classic children's books are cheap. Anne of Green Gables, Aesop's Fables, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wind in the Willows, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Hobbit, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Secret Garden, Winnie the Pooh, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, A Wrinkle in Time, The Call of the Wild, many of these can be easily found and are cheap. Don't stick in this section forever though; these are children's books for a reason. This is a good starting point to get into the habit of reading, but move onto adult books as you go.

Short Stories:

Those Who Walk Away From Omelas: a perfect town has a secret. This author has also written tons of other works!

Harrison Bergeron: through the use of physical handicaps, everyone is finally equal. I love this author as well! (And before you get the wrong idea, he isn't a bigot. He's been fighting for Black, disabled, transgender, and LGBTQ rights long before it was socially acceptable.)

The Lottery: everyone in town partakes in a mysterious lottery.

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream: AI takes over the world and holds five people captive.

The Necklace: a vain woman requires that she wear the highest-quality jewelry to a gathering, and pays a high price for it. If you like plot twists, you have to read this.

The Tell-Tale Heart: a man kills another man, and tries to convince both you and himself that he is sane.

Barbie-Q: a short story about growing up Mexican in poverty, and the beauty standards American society forces on us.

Tell Them Not to Kill Me!: an old man tries to avoid being killed.

Young Goodman Brown: it's been years since I read it, but a Puritan comes across devil worship in the woods.

Books:

Many of these will be novellas, which are shorter books.

I'd also recommend reading the full works of the short story authors you like.

The Stranger: a man who seemingly has no emotions kills someone.

Metamorphosis: Gregor Samsa wakes up one day to find he has turned into a giant bug.

Animal Farm: animals seek to establish a utopia in which everyone is equal.

The Pearl: a poor man finds a pearl that can change his family's life forever. (Warning: this one is particularly graphic.)

The Death of Ivan Ilych: a man who lived a superficial life dies.

A Christmas Carol: Ebenezer Scrooge, a greedy old man, is sent to the past and future to learn from his mistakes.

Siddhartha: an Indian Brahmin leaves everything to look for meaning.

The Giver: a young boy is tasked with holding all of his society's memories.

The Outsiders: a boy and his friend who live in poverty, and who are at constant war with their rich classmates, go too far one night.

Slaughterhouse Five: prisoners of war during World War II are treated like cattle and survive the bombing of Dresden.

Hamlet: a man has to reconcile with his father's death, and his mother's remarriage to his uncle. (If Shakespeare is difficult for you, read the No Fear Shakespeare edition. You can find it for cheap.)

Feel free to read anything apart from this list, and to recommend other works. These are just works I've read and liked.

[thefallenangelsgang]

Silly lil' OC Tag Game?

Tagged by the magnanimous @fablewritesnonsense

Link for the picrew

Tagging (as always no pressure): @helena-bug @meteoratheopposed

Like Fable was lamenting, this Picrew is woefully bereft of facial hair and POC features (and I am choosing to lament the lack of stereotypical masculine features). I chose to do all my AFAB Fallout characters as much justice as I could. So without further ado, meet the family!

In order of appearance:

Blaise Tricoli - Ex Railroad Operative, Genderqueer Lesbian (she/they), Sole Survivor

Laaj "Lark" Parish - Brotherhood of Steel Elder (ooohhh spoilers~), Cis Pansexual (she/her), Sole Survivor

Amara Perry - General of the Minutemen, Cis Straight (she/her), Sole Survivor

Francesca "Phasma" Shipp - Institute Codename "Mother", Cis Asexual (she/her), Sole Survivor

Reyes "Spartan" Aritza - NCR Ambassador, Nonbinary Queer (they/them), Courier Six

Hannah Doyle - Star Paladin of the Brotherhood of Steel, Agender Aro/Ace (any pronouns), Lone Wanderer

All these babes are a part of my clusterfuck of a retelling of Fallout 4. @fablewritesnonsense 's wonderful fic Nuclear Family is very similar in it's premise though Fable isn't crazy enough to have 7 Sole Survivors. They are normal and went with only 2. I, on the other hand, seem to be a masochist when it comes to my writing and like juggling 20+ people right off the bat and then only adding to that number as time goes on (I've been working on an "intimate" christmas oneshot for YEARS and this close family gathering has 50 fucking people. DON'T YOU JUST LOVE ENSEMBLE FICTION SO MUCH???)

Anyways, the three Sole Survivors missing are Louis DeSalva, Atticus Bruley, and Zebediah Kahan. All three are Cis (He/him) and varying levels of queer. Louis and Zeb work with the Railroad, Atticus is a Paladin with the BoS.

As with my BG3 stuff, there is no promise of a fanfiction ever coming to fruition. These blorbos live rent free in the mind palace and occasionally get their world shaken around like a snow globe to see if any new ideas shake out of it. There are a few more OCs connected to these characters (A few blasts from the past to rock the foundations) but I am going to preserve a level of mystery to the story still lmao. One day I'll write up a ridiculously long summary of the story. One day lmao

Goodnight, Good luck, Godspeed, Gangnam Style, And All That ✨Jazz✨

[fyrofv]

Top 15 Favorite Media of 2023

On my Twitter, I do a thing where I give a list of my favorite things I watched or played or whatever over the year, and I'm gonna try to move that onto here and maybe onto elsewhere.

My basic rules are as follows -Don't care what year it came out, I just have to complete it for it to count -Replayed stuff can count, but only if it's been so long I barely remember my time with it -For the top 15 specifically, want to try and keep it to 1 per series unless I got a good reason to break this rule.

Starting with Honorable Mentions, stuff I either didn't finish, or couldn't fit into the main list, here's a list I could think up.

-Kirby Planet Robobot (Replay) -Donkey Kong 94' (Didn't Finish) -Arthur Christmas (Rewatch) -Vernal Edge (Finished) -Gintama Rumble (Finished) -Like a Dragon: Ishin! (Finished) -Gravity Rush 2 (Finished) -Skul: The Hero Slayer (Didn't Finish) -Fire Emblem: Engage (Didn't FInish) -Furi (Finished) -Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons (Finished) -Toree 2 (Finished) -Gintama: The Very Final (Really Love, Watched) -Tekken 7 (Played) -Kirby's Return to Dreamland Deluxe: Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler (Finished)

And finally is the main list

15 - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom 14 - Celeste Chapter 9 13 - Bomb Rush Cyberfunk 12 - Street Fighter 6 11 - Insomniac Spider-Man 2 10 - Your Only Move is Hustle 9 - Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 8 - Resident Evil 2 Remake 7 - Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling 6 - Final Fantasy 16 5 - Pikmin 3 Deluxe 4 - Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed 3 - Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations 2 - Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name 1 - Gintama S7 (Frozen Time Arc - Farewell Shinsengumi Arc)

I spent a lot more time playing games this year, so it's really funny Gintama takes the top spot. But hey, I guess i did play a Gintama game so it works I suppose.

I am really excited for the new year, and especially for some of the games I plan to play over it, especially in January. Like a Dragon 8: Infinite Wealth is probably gonna be the Top of next year's list, but we'll see.

Happy New Years, everyone!