#grifficate

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(Dandy’s World Red Rock) Official In-Universe Song!

What band AU would we be without original music? That’s why me and @unheardspore made this song for Shelly and Shrimpo to sing!

You can also listen to the full song on TikTok [HERE] and YouTube [HERE] Supportting the posts there also mean a lot, alright enjoy the show!

+Bonus practice animatic/animation including some moots’ OCs

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T.A.D.C. OC 🐥 Art Dump

Was real into The Amazing Digital Circus for like a week but then it wore off fairly quickly. Made a small idea for an oc though. Inspired by this video I saw at like 3am.

Her name is Robbie.

I wanted something animal related but it felt weird within the universe’s style to give her actual feathers of any kind, I really just wanted an uncomfortably smooth-looking bird.

So I went with a rubber chicken. Because they don’t have feathers. I hope.

Although a chicken, I think she’d actually stupidly bold with whatever she does, whether it be speaking or through action. One could even say she’s a bit COCKY 🐔 Which is funny considering she kept being mistaken for a rooster dude when I showed her to friends.

⚠️ Rest of this post is just shitpost interactions with characters ⚠️

And by characters I just mean Jax and Pomni, because I couldn’t come up with an interesting dynamic for anyone else.

for the Jax and Robbie duo name, it’s just RubberRabbit.

Not necessarily a romantic pairing I just like the idea of an overly supportive and goofy chicken being in the cast to balance out the horror and misery Jax brings.

(Also a coincidence that she’s yellow and is meant to cancel him out, I dunno I think that’s some fun color theory stuff.)

ok bye

[de1a]

Red rock!! Best Dandy’s world au in my opinion 🔥🔥🗣️

this is NOT my au, go check out Grifficate on YouTube for more, and check out the blog @dandys-world-red-rock for cannon content!

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[raevenlywrites]

6, 24 and 31 for the one word prompts (pick whichever you like or all of them, whatever you wanna do) :)

Wings, agony, lies -- thank you for being so patient! I know it took me forever to answer this one ><

So this was it.

Caleb sat on the edge of the roof, eyes fixed on the garden below without seeing. He played Coro's last words over and over again in his mind.

You have to decide.

He wanted to be mad at her, to rant and rage and vent all this frustration--but the only person he was truly mad at was himself. Sighing, he pushed away from the ledge, wings spreading wide in his free fall.

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"So you don't have anything to report."

The hooded figure before him made it a statement rather than a question, reaffirming what they had doubtless gleaned from his mind on first contact. Caleb couldn't lie to a Clansman. But he could lie to himself. Right now, he was telling his heart over and over that it wasn't breaking.

"There is no child, no exile, and no other Griffic in the area that could have caused this disturbance?"

"No, your Grandure. The oracles must have been mistaken."

He could feel derision, the contempt radiating from the hood.

"You know such a thing is impossible. Whatever you are hiding must be dear to you, boy."

Caleb swallowed down the lump in his throat.

"There would have been a child, if I'd stayed. But I'm coming home. I'm ready to take my place in the Aurem Clan."

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Um. If this seems overstepping at all. Please don't be offended. But you know the prompt where Nate got kidnapped by that scottish demon that wanted to enslave him? Well, I was thinking about that character for fan stories and such and I've been referring to him as Griffice. Just a suggestion but. If that character does appear at again at all. And qualifies for an official name. Could Griffice be a considered suggestion?

Oh, I don’t know if that character will ever come back, but sure! That could be cool. I’m the worst at coming up with names, so I’ll take all the help I can get XD

[raevenlywrites]

Excellent. I will make a blather post and be sure to tag you

Pride OC fact swap: I just, this very evening, discovered that Ripley and Caleb have an uncle, Ambrose, who is married to a very lovely man, not yet named. But they are my newest gay OCs so I wanna brag about em even though I know NOTHING else about them :P

Yes! Brag away! Ambrose is such an uncle name, please do let me know when you name his husband!

I also have an old married gay couple, one of whom is unnamed. Toby is a grumpy old gay man in a wheelchair who lives in a small house in the middle of a big city with his perpetually cheerful husband. They wear matching woollen cardigans and constantly dream of moving to the seaside.

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Hello Tumblr again... Here is some sketches of one of my other characters Griffice!!!

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The Dark Griffic (1990, Accolade) (C64)

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(Dandy’s World Red Rock) Collab Interactions

Reupload from my TikTok, the Dandy’s Block AU belongs to @x1ge!

Sorry for lack of new episodes lately, just working on archiving everything for the au rn, next should be the non-canon doodles.

[raevenlywrites]

A lot of groups like wolves and hyenas do the mom and dad and baby set up. They tend to include more extended family, but the nuclear unit is more or less the central theme.

In witches there was a time where having a witchy wife and a shifter mistress was fairly common, as conception between witches themselves had some difficulties.

Faeries tend to have long, rambling, extended polycules for parents, without giving much care for who is what to whom. One faery probably has 3-5 "parents", in addition to older siblings and cousins who help raise them. Keeping a baby faery's magic under control takes that much work.

It's much the same with the griffics, who raise all their children in one communal rookery, kept separate and safe from the main group. Serpents also raise communally, but with them its more of a "any adult will parent any child they see needing it" kind of way as the munchkins all run free range.

@dragonofanagod asks What are some standard family structures in your world?

[de1a]

More red rock stuff! STILL the best au in my opinion!

Like I said last post, go check out the cannon content at Grifficate on YouTube or at the blog @dandys-world-red-rock

[raevenlywrites]

A bit about the Griffic Nation

As promised, a blurb about the griffic nation for @loopyhoopyfrood

Also tagging my update peeps (haven’t done that in a while, have I?) @chaos-reign @merigreenleaf @ageekyreader @a-sundeen @jaimistoryteller

As always, if you want to be added or removed from my update list, let me know

In all technicalities, there is no such thing as the Griffic Nation. In the earliest days of the chimera, the wing bearing races –the gryphons, hippogriffs, and wyverns—took advantage of flight to settle the high reaches of the northern mountain range. Their efforts gathered around the seven most notable peaks, each providing its own advantages and challenges. Families flocked to areas suited to their natural talents, turning the environmental challenges into familiar expertise. These families, or Clans, became the law of their particular mountain, unmatched in their mastery of a particular area. They operatied largely autonomously, cooperating begrudgingly when necessary, each Clan determined to come out on top of any given exchange. Until the First Chimera War. United by necessity and fierce determination to protect their homes, the Clans came together in a loose federation, which would become known colloquially as the griffic nation.

Ravaged by war, the Clans were forced to reorganize. Clanheads took up the practice of bolstering and maintain their numbers by adopting in new members, based on the compatibility of their magics. As a general rule, an individual’s magic follows the coloring and nature of their second forms, so golden/tawny creatures tend toward lightning or fire magic, silvery/whites to ice and wind, spotted/barred to illusion magics, and so on. These traits are often hereditary, but not always, so even children born to Clansmen parents are not guaranteed a position within the Clan until they���ve earned it.

Children are raised in a communal environment, learning from and inspiring one another to greatness through the spirit of competitive cooperation. Older children and unattached young adults serve as round the clock teachers and caretakers in the rookery, with occasional assistance from birth parents as their other commitments allow. A young griffic’s family are their rookmates, until their achievements catch the eye of honored Clansmen and are able to claim a family name as their own.

Once claimed, Clansmen are expected to serve and uphold the strength of their Clan, making life decisions based on politics and advantage more than emotion and personal preference. Children are expected to be born, positions are to be sought after and held, aide and assistance given, orders from higher ranked Clansmen obeyed. Here the importance of compatible magic comes into play. One cannot commune and support in a spell that one cannot work. So high ranking Clansmen have incentive to seek out members that can augment their own abilities. And less talented griffics find their skill gaps shored up and supported by the overall strength of the Clan and the energies of their mountain.

The expectations on Clansmen are harsh, but life among the peaks is harsh. Most consider it worth the reward of social standing and physical security.  And, so long as ones duty to the Clan is being upheld, one is free to pursue whatever other interests and romantic arrangements one desires. In fact, griffic marriage traditions are usually one sided, in a way, to facilitate just that. When someone asks you to be their mate, they are asking you to uphold and support them, but you are still free to seek out someone else as your own mate. So it is not uncommon for marriages to exist in chains, each link involved in their own Vs: serving as mate to one person to fulfill your clan duties, and choosing someone else as your mate for happiness and personal preference. (This is also why children are raised communally in the Rookery. Otherwise, it would be a legal nightmare to decide who has what rights and duties to which children.)

As a parting tidbit: There are no wyvern Clansmen. Between the First and Second Chimera Wars, there was a single Clan unifying all wyverns, who traveled between the seven peaks as merchants and journeymen. They were allowed to settle on any Clan’s mountain, but they were not subject to that Clan’s law. Serving as almost their own international waters, the Wyvern Clan’s responsibility was maintaining traffic and communication between the other peaks. But all of that came to an end with the final blow of the last Chimera War.

[raevenlywrites]

The Griffic Wars are how we wound up with a border between Mortalside and Otherside. Some of the weaponry used in that battle made the surrounding area so inhospitable they had to seal it off, or risk poisoning all magic. The residues were nearly all cleaned up about the time the Wall fell. Now how knows where we're at XD

Settle down, Worldbuilding Wednesday, care for a drink?

And, I have returned from an unfortunate break! Sorry, life was just a little too busy, but I'll see what I can come up with now:

What single battle, fight, or general incident where a rivalry or conflict was brought to an end had the greatest impact on your World? Why did it turn out that way, how did the parties involved react to it, and what was the world like after that event?

Tagging @moonlitinks , @worldbuildingwedasks , @athenswrites , @lividdreamz , and whoever sees this!

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Red Rock is officially on Tumblr!

My Dandys World AU based on a run me and some friends did! The designs are based on the Ebony Detective, Dark Spikes, and Dinosnore skins. In this AU, Shrimpo starts a band and makes some friends (or whatever is the closest equivalent to friends) along the way!

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A Modern Adobe Farmhouse Home in Marfa — House Tour

Name: Ginger Griffice and Chick Rabourn Location: Marfa, Texas Size: 1,200 square feet Years lived in: 2 years, owned

If you ask people what the town of Marfa, Texas is all about, you'll hear a variety of different narratives describing this small, rural cultural curiosity: It's an old place that is having new life breathed into it; It's a dying town that's being reborn as a cultural center. It's hip...it's dried up. But if you ask Ginger Griffice and Chick Rabourn what Marfa means to them, they'll tell you it means home. Like many of the "expats" that move to Marfa from elsewhere in the country, Ginger and Chick quickly found that it was a place where the pace was slower, where they had the space to create, and that they could not only pursue their own personal goals and dreams, but also integrate themselves into a thriving community of artists. Their adobe house, which is both firmly grounded in Texas' indigenous architectural history and in Marfa's modernity, is a perfect example of Marfa's many contradictions...and of its many charms.

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from Apartment Therapy | Saving the world, one room at a time http://bit.ly/2D6bsTz