#enjoy your snail

[theeternalfungus]

I made another snail stimboard because everyone seemed to love the first one!! I hope I did good again :]

[skullfacedlady]

Just coming here to say I love you, and your art is absolutely gorgeous. I can't wait to see what else you're going to produce 🖤.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKDOWOKDKE

Okay, I am calm.

Oh, my love, how I love you. Thank you for your kind words🥹. Always brings me joy to hear that, and that's why I shall put out more of my silly art out for the world to see.

I have got quite a few things cooking (I should be careful cause I already burned one kitchen down). I got two Rosi pieces sketched out, and two more to be put on paper. One of them being the Vampire Rosi you gave me the idea for. Then, I got some more Doffy ideas swarming in cause we know that man is plaguing my mind constantly...

And then something for November 1st, hmmm, must be something important on that day, not quite sure yet. :3

And since this message made my day, here you have a tiny Tobiuo. I made an attempt at trying chibi again.

[thatgothicfairy]

Girlies I literally have to physically mail in my tax forms to the IRS tomorrow like it's 1960 🫡

[fanaticsnail]

Me remembering you exist in the middle of eating snails and snail soup : 😶

The fact that you're thinking of me while you're eating makes me all giddy. Escargot or Luosifen 👀.

Either way:

[theaethernetconnection]

In honor of my sibling @perseriph's birthday today I wanted to share a letter I sent them about a month ago:

Text reads:

Hello my long lost sibling,

I write to you in the blood of my enemies wishing you similar such fortunes. Are you well? Occasionally I receive images of robotics, but I hear little of your wellbeing. I am as well as I can be, which is to say I writhe in agony and think about the ineffables frequently. The autism rages, my body rages, it is possible I am not long for this earth. Yet I persist, for I am gay.

Fare well, I hope you live long and prosper.

If you see this, this is your sign to send a ridiculously dramatic letter to someone. Have fun!

[hamameiji]

happy happy happy birthday sayo ang inumin sayo ang pulutan 🎉🎂

[snailsdraw]

[Start ID: 3 drawings received via Secret Drawing Box, including Benrey singing blue sweet voice, a smiling bunny wearing a neckerchief holding up a cookie and saying "Hi~", and a stick figure with arms open and the words "You are cherished" around it. /End ID.]

Yall are so sweet ;-; these are so cute, fills my heart with love <3. Thank you so much for sending them!!

[razzledazzleinafrazzle]

I've taken many photos.

Would you like to see some?

Yes, or no, you still get to look at them.

:D

[moopiter]

are you doing a drawing every day or do you have these predrawn? love ur art btdubs

aw thanks!

i've actually been drawing every day. it gives me something to focus on and look forward to! i'm just going to school right now so i've had a little more time lately.

[writedreamlie]

Every day I log on to Tumblr dot com to see someone I follow decide on a new interest for the day.

And every day it's @ecto-stone with some fun posts and cool art about something I simply did not expect to see today.

[invisibleabi]

this popped up right as my dash stopped scrolling to load and for a second i thought op had found a way to make that happen on purpose

oh uh. scuse me. just a lil snail crossing your dash

[fanaticsnail]

SNAIL! I love chapter 4!!!!!

(Incoming: extremely long ask with memes included)

I'm really excited about the lore that is developing, the rhyme was really creative (was it in an original version of the story or did you come up with it yourself?) And all this information about the Sapsorrow Queen has me aching to hear more! She seemed at first to be set up as an antagonistic force, purely due to her claiming Mihawks soul should Governess not marry him, but I feel like you've shrouded her in enough mystery that she didn't come off as antagonistic in intentions. And with all this new lore I'm getting kinda Corpse Bride vibes? Might be me projecting though.

Governess calling Perona and Zoro "my-... -our wards" AAAASSA

Her recognizing Mihawks eye colour but not making the connection followed by her immediate next observation being that his eyes are soft and somber - something she hasn't noticed (as much) in Mihawk's eyes. And him then using those eyes that are now displaying vulnerability and emotion he wouldn't normally let himself display to "searched your face, darting from focusing on each of your eyes and looking over your parted lips before rising back to your intense irises." The POETRY!

"You may ask anything of me, but you will leave my bride out of the equation."

KEEP MY WIFE'S NAME-

Governess hiking up her socks:

I just know Mihawk was fighting for his LIFE

Do the staff know Mihawk is the farm-hand? Because all I can think is either way;

The staff, watching the distinguished Governess walk beside a dog on two legs / The staff, watching their feared and revered boss covered head-to-toe in mud and twigs: what the fuck.... What the fuck...

The fact that the ghosts know makes me think that one of them spotted him eating shit in the mud puddle the first time and then Perona, having been informed of it, woke up in the dead of night to watch him willingly roll around in mud the second time.

"-Do not dare to do yourself the disservice of calling yourself low,"

KEEP MY WIFE'S- oh shit that is my wife

Mihawk allowing his guard to slip and laughing heartily??? Governess giggling???? And remarking that she hasn't experienced something like this since childhood??? Slipping her regal exterior??? My heart is pounding

He stooped down to you, the brims of your hats touching as he cooed down in a mocking tone, “I did this, this morning.” - oh my lawd. This whole section. Sir. Please. One of us will have to restrain ourselves (pun not intended)

"She cannot marry her father, of course she cannot." <-- I'm not sure if it's an exact quote from the narrator but I feel like you're referencing the story teller version. And when Governess divulges her wanting to marry Mihawk for reasons beyond the superficial (fate, or his riches) and Mihawk in turn divulges a love for an "unknown" woman, it seems really similar to the Storyteller scene. I really like it!! IDK if I mentioned before but I like how the roles of Straggletag and the prince were reversed

"I am proud to call you my friend", "I'm here by your side, I will not drop you," <- Mr President. A second quote has hit the reader.

(also I can't remember if I asked before but can I be on the tag list?)

SNAIILLLLL YOU'RE HERE!!!! YOURE BACK!!! Oh how I missed you!!

To answer your questions! The poetry and the rhymes are all my own. The original story has no real mysticism nor mystery surrounding the concept, SO I decided to add my own to shake things up 💃.

The Corpse Bride is one of my favourite Tim Burton films of all time. Considering Oda based the layout of Kuraigana on the art from The Nightmare Before Christmas, I couldn't not incorporate the elements into the plot. That wouldn't be fair.

I did need to have a small: "Hmmm... His eyes are quite similar," moment for her to get some semblance of familiarity from him - but I didn't want the mystery to be revealed just yet.

I HOWLED THE BIGGEST CACKLE AT THE GIF USE!!! PROBABLY WOKE THE NEIGHBOURS (ITS MIDNIGHT).

The "keep my wife's name" just ruined me.

The sock hiking was not a deliberate flirtation on her behalf, but absolutely Mihawk was feeling some feelings.

To spoil the spoiler, that is not really a spoiler - the staff are 💯 aware that Mihawk is the Farm-Hand. He was not always covered from head to toe in sludge and grime, opting to just have his straw hat and shielded mask over his beard in the happenstance that he might get dirty.

Upon that one time he did topple headfirst into the mud, meeting the governess on that day, he simply said: "welp, I guess this is my life now" and has to cover himself in that disguise to keep up the illusion. The staff don't know how to deal with the new look, but they're wise enough to not say anything about it.

The ghosts likely woke up Perona that first night being like: "Honey, you seeing this shit??" And Perona is just there like ⚫👄⚫

I needed to have them slip their guards a little in this chapter - they need to get to know each other a little before their engagement party (which I'm nearly there with. Couple more days, I think).

I have to reference the source material of the storyteller episode. It wouldn't feel the same without hearing John Hurt in my head, I think. I love the way he yells it.

I did do a role reversal for stragletag (Farm-Hand) and the prince (Lost-Lady) specifically to keep things a little interesting for me, and to keep the twists and turns coming for you guys! Can't just tell it how it is, where would be the fun in that? 😏

"I'm here by your side, I will not drop you," he is such a flirt and I don't think he's even aware of it.

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU'RE NOT ON THE TAG LIST. OF COURSE I WILL ADD YOU!!! MY SNAIL!! THE SEXC KIND!!

Thank you for your asks, I always adore hearing from you!!

[lvebug]

andie is so cool! everything about her is awesome like the name lovebug and her suit design is really original. i think she’s definitely certifiably not boring 🤍

thank u lovely anon this is very kind of you wahhh i really appreciate you

[inthelittlewood]

What were your guys honest opinion on the snails after recording? It didn't seem like most of u had fun 😭

We had a blast. It was absolute chaos and we all really enjoyed it. True it slowed our ability to build bases and stuff but eh, who cares? Lol

It was a hilarious scenario to find ourselves in and start whittling down lives

[sunlitmcgee]

@rozugold

I love when slugs have their little shawl

[headspace-hotel]

i would love to enjoy Creature worldbuilding but I always get hung up in how the Iconic Creature, the large, charismatic, often predator-type beast with a backbone and legs and all that, is such an Egregiously Huge Anomaly in creaturedom, an Outlier in a world of nematodes, springtails, beetles, and nondescript fossorial mammals

It's not that I need realistic nematode biodiversity in my reading. It's just that humans are megafauna, but we don't realize that we are megafauna, and worldbuilders are unimpressed with anything smaller than a fox, even though a fox is absolutely vast in the grand scheme of things...

...and fantasy worlds are populated with Gigantic Creatures, hypercarnivores the size of a usual land megaherbivore in real life, because of the undeniable badassery of riding a giant wolf into battle or whatever. But I can't help but think: where is the rest? Y'all know that the tigers and wolves of the world are the tenuously small tip of a pyramid of animal biomass, right? That the large herbivores they prey upon are in turn a pebble perched atop the summit of a mountain, made of the frogs, snakes, rodents, bats, and little birds that are incomprehensibly more numerous, and yet in turn are insignificant compared with the bugs, worms, snails, and slugs, let alone the microorganisms that render us all a mere smudge on the lens of deep time?

A deer, a human...we are gods among life-forms, worlds in ourselves inhabited by our own creatures. Disgust towards parasites is of course an instinctive reaction created by evolutionary pressures, but just think! animals vast enough to be inhabited by their own macroscopic animals! Imagine being a worm in the belly of a deer, unable to survive outside it any more than a human can survive in the vacuum of space, unable perhaps to comprehend that anything exists outside of the body of your god.

Imagine being a tardigrade frolicking in a pasture of algae and moss, unable to understand that this meadow exists on the branch of an enormous tree, and that this tree is itself only a single tree in a forest of millions, that when viewed from above resemble a lush carpet much like the moss. Imagine being a centipede in the permanent darkness of a deep underground cave, unable to know or imagine that there are other caves, that even though you and a hundred thousand generations of your ancestors have been confined to this single cave, that thousands of other caves exist, and that beyond these caves there is a world so much bigger you cannot possibly understand it, a world that stretches farther than you could see or travel in a thousand lifetimes, a world with no ceiling.

Imagine being removed from the cave! You learn that you ancestors came from this infinite place beyond the cave, that your relatives inhabit every part of it, that your family is more numerous than you could ever learn to count!

...what was I talking about again?...