#especially the puppet design

[pepa-brainrot]

Art for stress relief

Anyone remember that amazing encanto x owl house art? Yeah

[xx-sketchy-xx]

Lol, why is this so fun???

[world-of-puppets]

I have conflicted feelings about the FNAF series in general, but seeing a movie where practical animatronic puppets are the primary focus of the film becoming not only financially successful but also well received by general audiences is pretty damn neat.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

a wild Howdy appears ‼️🐛‼️

[randomized-sims24]

To distract from recent events I wanna do a thing. Gimme characters to draw, I'd specifically like to see y'alls versions of the TSAMS/TLAES/EAPS bunch. I may also, just for the fun of it, add my own versions.

I may do multiple parts depending on how many I get. Either way we get to see neat or neat art and that's always my favorite on here with everyone so talented

[mantisgodsdomain]

Occasionally we debate on illustrating random bits from our Discord PMs that we find really funny but then we remember that we're, like, the physical embodiment of the "ace that makes sex jokes" stereotype and phrases like "iterator dick discourse" would both be remarkably difficult to illustrate and probably require us drawing something at least somewhat NSFW (we do not particularly care to learn how to draw this)

[cherryhrat]

Im ashamed to say im back on my naruto shit

Hes my son your honor, hes just a little guy

Id die for him

[trashworldblog]

it's absolutely insane that the song that has the most quotes that i want to get tattooed is sandwiched between a song about skinning ryan bergara alive and a song that alludes to playing a brass instrument is like giving a blowjob

[germfalll]

I loooove seeing everyone’s interpretations of how characters from audio only media look, especially in smaller fandoms where theres not one design thats taken over, theres so many cool ideas its my favorite ever

[mabelsguidetolife]

my friendly neighborhood is really good about level design and character development and humor but the gameplay leaves something to be desired…… the golden ending is really cute, though

[neoncityrain]

Gu GG fxtcfxfx unhinged Leafeon Zephyr got me going 👀

Could you tell me a bit more about them???

i was gonna answer this earlier but stuff™️ happened 😔 didnt finish the doodles i was makin for it and ended up playing stardew, but i LIVED. have this instead

sO. first lemme re-explain the core of zephyrs personality, since this didnt translate well into pmdtog: theyre extremely passionate about something labelled as evil. in sky, the game i originally designed them and polaris around, this was simply referred to as "the darkness", which drove creatures to aggression and drained life from things that touched it. to zee, it was the one thing that they found not only interesting, but COMFORTING. whereas other people were easily overwhelming, the corrupting force was quiet, incredibly interesting, and sure others thought it was bad but others acted as if zephyr was bad, too.

so zephyr let the corruption in willingly and began to care for it.

this in and of itself isnt a bad thing! this would be zephyr as you know them, and still is- yannow- canon to everything. if anything im just rethinking the parts where i relied way too heavily on pokemon lore and not enough on my own lore. (also i think their eevee design could use a tweak or two lol their gloves have been weird legwarmers for too long)

for the next part, though, i have to also explain: with each passing year, ive been entertaining the idea of polaris as being older. in part because its interesting to see him grow and change, but also because its fun to have a character who grows up. he was designed as a twelve year old who sees life as hopeless. he will have existed for three years as of next month, and now im thinking about how he, after so so SO many stories and tales where he struggled to simply live and be alive, grows up to care for three children with a man who truly loves him. that means a lot to me, and feels natural- hes been shaped by irl years of storytelling.

...so why not do the same for zephyr?

but then, whos to say theyd get better?

see, part of pols thing is that he was negative, but learned to ease up and gain confidence in himself and the world through the help of others. but zephyr, ooooh zee has always been positive to the point of denial. and while polaris has had interactions with other characters to shape who he is...

zephyr has had two that were positive. polaris, a skittish sassy asshole who literally dies, and manta, who couldnt interact with zee directly but attempted to push them away to keep them from hurting themself.

so then, what would someone like that turn to over the years?

zephyr ends up becoming more and more the caretaker for some blooming, festering evil, and they deny more and more and more and more that doing so could EVER be wrong. they start denying that the corruption is even doing wrong in the first place. its just defending itself, maybe if you were nicer it wouldnt hurt you.

and i mean, whats wrong with helping the only thing thats been consistently with you through and through? sure it hurts, but everyone else is so mean. it must be lonely to be so hated, but zephyr is full of love and zephyr will protect it with all the love in their heart.

...even if this love ends up poisonous, they will adapt, now wont they <:]c

[theheadlessgroom]

@beatingheart-bride

Dorian couldn't help but smile at that notion, of his and Randall's children being just as close as they were when they were younger...it was a notion that warmed his heart as they walked along, the sun hanging high in the sky, showering them with light and warmth through the branches of the trees, and the green leaves of summer.

"I...I never had very many friends growing up," he confessed. "Both before and after I went to boarding school-I would say that Elizabeth and Randall were my closest and truest friends. I would spend time with the children of my father's business partners, other high-class children my age, but...I could never connect with them. They were more like acquaintances to me, really."

It was a lonely childhood, honestly; up until he met Randall, the only friend he had his own age was Elizabeth, with his only other friend being Beau, who he fondly looked up to from a very young age, and more often than not turned to for help or advice or comfort (and even as an adult, he sometimes found himself doing the same thing)…he felt like he was surrounded by others, children his own age, but...he could never quite befriend them. Something just never sat right with him, and so they remained distant to him.

"I hope my own children's lives won't be the same," he sighed. "I want to make sure they never have as lonesome a childhood as I did."

[juupitrr]

i wont lie ive always had a sort of fascination to the puppet and characters with similar themes so its honestly NO fucking surprise i got attached to the daycare attendants now either, esp with how simpable they are. *finger guns* thank you sir.

[krawdad]

I didn't want to make any hard rules for filtering the random muppets but after rolling count von count's dad, Mr. Snuffleupagus' dad and Mr. Teeth (Dr. Teeth's dad) in a row I think I'm going to make an exception

[spatialflowers]

once I’m finally not busy and have enough to supply the materials, I can’t wait to get started with my puppet show project I’ve been cooking up

[vampiiric]

ngl i spent most of the day zonked out watching the legend of vox machina so im kinda unintentionally replicating that style