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Metal Neighbors!

Metal AU to @evillillad

I’d love to start this off by showing off the BABYMETAL-esque band, Doll Defined! Featuring Marnie as backing vocals and bass, Minerva as the screamer and guitarist, and Deirdre for clean vocals and drums. They’re rather popular despite having been debated as being “real metal” or not. But these girls are metal, and will kick your ass if you say otherwise.

Next is Grover! He drives the buses that the bands tour in, whether if it’s with The Holloways or Doll Defined. He’s still so chill, but he always smells musty because he refuses to buy new clothes. He dumpster dives and thrifts exclusively. Definitely enjoys The Offspring.

And Paulette! Paulie here is just your average emo who crushed a little to hard on the cute bassist of Doll Defined and got his heart broken. They still love the stars and are a big Owl City fan. Very nice bug!

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Southern Mannerisms

How cute! Seems to me that our darling Eddie Dear has found a friend in Ms Minerva Mannerly! Isn’t that sweet? They’d make quite the cute couple, wouldn’t they?

Planty note: I am aware Eddie is gay, Minerva is sapphic and thus!!

They’re really good friends!

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SOME METAL DOODLES!!

Metal AU to @evillillad

Cowboy and I have been going HARD on this bs it’s been so fun,,

Sigh… I love having friends with characters I can shake in The Box of Sorrows..

References below..

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Mob AU fun facts? Your characters (Specfially Grover) with Cherrys and Cloudys have such an interesting story

Oh my golly!!! Well, first of all, thank you. I’ll be using my neighborhood interactions format for this.

Marnie: Her vocal cords were entirely ripped out by Wally and have been preserved in his office. She is the replacement bartender and uses exclusively ASL to communicate. Marnie spends most of her time organizing the liquor and helping to manage funds. She was previously used as entertainment, but she kept trying to tell the police, so Wally had to fix her.

Grover: His Heart, the source of what makes Grover himself was removed as a test of loyalty to Wally, and its ashes are kept in his office. Grover is intimidation and torture with has the special task of feeding Vince’s crows bimonthly. He has one of the highest liquor tolerances of my characters in the Mob au. Grover has his own warehouse on the verge of the city, and is not allowed to go outside with express permission or an escort. He is often kept separated from the rest of the family and is left to his own devices.

Deirdre: Deirdre is not directly involved in the family, instead she is a member of the city council who has been blackmailed into exploiting her position to indirectly favor the family. She works most directly with Wally and Barnaby. It’s not been confirmed why she does this, though it’s been suspected that her hooves have been in someone else’s pockets.

Jonesy: Jonesy is now a vampire bat and his family runs a winery. He is being trained in diplomacy by his father, who has made a deal with the family. The deal between the Vampirebat family and the Darling family is simple, the winery will send 5 bottles of slightly aged wines (and a few made with blood) in exchange for free fertilizer for their vineyards and protection against attacks. Jonesy’s father plans to have him take over the company, and by extension, working with Wally as soon as possible. He’s only 11 years old.

Paulette: Paulette lost 3 of their 20 fingers due to outstanding debt to the Darling Family, and has since given up her study of astronomy in joining the family as a financial advisor. He mostly works alone and with Frank in the vaults and has a good head on their shoulders. Wally has preserved their fingers on a model of their hand in his office and plans to one day have the whole set.

Antoni: Antoni is a secondary intimidation and torturer along with Grover, whom he hates. He mostly deals in the finer things and acts like a true Italian gangster. His preferred weapon is the Tommy gun, and he’s arguably the best chef in the family. Antoni will go with Paulette to help negotiate with other gangs. While he lost nothing physically, he lost what was the most important thing to him. And he had to do it himself.

Minerva: Like Deirdre, Minerva is not directly involved in the family. She’s slightly older in this AU and lives alone in the city as a philanthropist. She owns an art gallery which acts as a holding space for any of her “charity cases”. Her nickname amongst the family is The Old Maid. Minerva uses a walking stick due to falling down a grand flight of stairs. She isn’t fully aware of what Wally does, but they will send a strong man or so to escort her to her parties and charity balls, so she won’t complain.

Doctor Topps: There’s a skull in Wally’s office, perfectly preserved.

I hope you had fun with that!!

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Valentines from Me to You!

My birthday, and Valentines Day, are in 3 days time so as a big Thank-You for hanging out with me and liking my characters, I present to you some Valentines!

With loads of love, Planty <3

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An Extended Neighborhood!

Oh, I’ve been busy today! Part of my personal work over the weekends is to draw one big thing per day. Today’s topic was: Neighborhood homes and phones! So we’ll be going in order!

Marnie’s house and phone are rather quaint. It’s gotten an update since its first appearance alongside Marnie. She’s very happy in her little cottage just down the road from Poppy and slightly out of the way from all the hustle and bustle.

The schoolhouse! This is the home to Deirdre and her students, including Jonesy! The school is on the bottom floor, with student dormitory on the second level. Deirdre resides on the third floor. She has a personal phone and a wall mounted phone so her students can call home if they need too. A perfect fit for Home’s favorite teacher!

Paulette’s observatory! A rather large main building that hosts plenty of comfy chairs and books and a small side room where Paulette does all their living. This wonderful star-studded building is rather isolated from the rest of the neighborhood, up in the hills to get better look at the stars. Paulette loves to make late night phone calls to all their favorite people to make sure they see the latest astrological event!

Minerva Mannerly’s Miniature Manor! This glorious house is built across the lake, giving it an almost enchanted feeling! Minerva loves to look out over Home from her tall windows. Her phone is rather elegant, painted in similar floral patterns that her dress and parasol have.

The Pizzario twins share a townhouse style split level with their respective shops on the bottom. Antoni has a small patio dining area and a large kitchen space, while Dandy chose to have a little plant box. The twins each have their own phone in their shop, Antoni’s looking like a pepperoni pizza while Dandy’s looks like a perfect saltwater taffy. They really do prefer to stick together!

Here’s a lineup of all the houses and phones put together. This took a while between all the architecture research and looking back at the WH website for inspiration and such. But I had a lot of fun drawing these today. Grover just doesn’t have an actual house outside of the Fence, but I didn’t want to draw that because it’s a fence. Today was for houses. Yeah! Lotta good stuff here.

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A Neighbor with Manners!

Oh goodness gracious, with all these unmannerly neighbors, someone really ought to come along and teach them how to be proper.

Introducing Minerva Mannerly! The most poised neighbor. Minerva has a lot of regent qualities and loves to stay within the lines and rules of high society! She keeps herself busy hosting little cotillions and parties for her friends and making them all spick and span! She’s such a fine neighbor, truly one of the only respectable ones left.

Some little interactions! Treats everyone with respect and hopes for the same. Just a nice woman all in all. Likes to give high society makeovers to her friends. Not all of them are suited for it…

ANYWAY I HAVE 7 KIDS NOW. Great. I love Minerva she’s so cute and sweet. Just a darling baby.

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Various Doodles!

This is Grover’s tour bus! The Haunt Machine! Terribly simple (it’s more beat up on the outside) and the only reason it’s clean on the inside is because Doll Defined and The Holloways clean up after themselves..

Here’s a little sneak into what Minerva and Marnie do while going from location to location. Minerva is penpals with Pearly Pleasant, the drummer for the Holloways via Grover’s bus. Marnie just practices, and Deirdre’s off taking a nap or cleaning.

And here’s a small scene! Grover’s a happy bus driver completely ignoring the Twink about to Pounce. Something about farm boys is completely irresistible! My god.

And then Paulette. She’s just a little guy.

The Holloways all belong to @technicolourcowboy

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Neighborhood Self Portraits

So I was thinking about how my kids would draw themselves, and thus!

Marnie is fine at drawing and probably has some old, but nice oil pastels she uses sometimes.

Grover is not good at drawing. He does stick figures. He always draws himself with the circle body though. He probably borrowed colored pencils from Penny or Jonesy.

Deirdre likes to draw herself on the board with chalk. She’s goofy, and her art is one of the only things she doesn’t care to organize or make perfect. It’s a nice coping mechanism for her.

Jonesy exclusively does crayon scribble. He has tried to get better and never will. So this is how his art will look! Forever! And he’s gotta accept that.

Paulette draws in pencil and sharpie! He gets self conscious about their fuzz so they never include it, and she isn’t good at drawing stars, so she does the flower shape for the tips of her antennae. If they were in the modern era, she’d 100% have the sailor moon art style.

Antoni, like most things he does in life, draws for fun and the mess of it. He starts with base shapes in Dandy’s nice markers and goes over it with a heavy pencil. I think his room probably has art supplies on the floor next to his skates and various games.

Minerva took portrait painting classes so she has a more painterly style. I took inspiration from Monet. She doesn’t think she draws good because she struggles with color differences.

Photoshop overlay layers who? Dr. Topps is Not good at drawing. He colors over images in textbooks with sharpie. He has a grand old time.

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For the last day of pride I thought I’d make some things official about my lil’ puppet babies.

Grover is an FTM gay man

Marnie is aroace

Deirdre is a lesbian

Paulette is intersex and bisexual

Antoni is STRAIGHT. But 20 dollars is 20 dollars.

Minerva is sapphic

Dr. Tops is bisexual

So happy pride! Wahoo! (Jonesy is having a great time with all his friends!)

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An Encounter in a Manor

Deirdre was walking with Marnie around Home one chilly weekend, down the path by the lake and the fence.

“I don’t understand why you keep writing all these love stories, Deirdre. In all our years of friendship, never have you been the romantic type. What changed?” Marnie asked her friend. She was bundled up in even more layers. The cold air nipped at her skin and made the musician shudder.

“Am I not allowed to have a new interest? I didn’t start a big huff when you took up woodworking, now did I?”

“No, I suppose you didn’t.” Marnie sighed. She paused, looking off to the side. She spotted a new building. It was a decadent manor with a little porch. It had detailed wooden beams and a fine brick. A fireplace was on the side, and a light amount of smoke escaping it.

“How interesting is that? It seems someone’s moved in right under our noses!” Marnie remarked. Deirdre turned and nodded.

“Oh how lovely! If I’m not mistaken that looks to be Edwardian.” The teacher mentioned, approaching it. Marnie grabbed her pig friend, pulling her back.

“We shouldn’t- it’s cold out and we don’t want to be a bother to our new neighbor. Plus, it’d be a better idea to bring a gift along with us! That and our other neighbors.” She chided Deirdre gently. She groaned, pulling her along and up the porch.

“Marnie, let’s just introduce ourselves! We hardly ever get out and meet new people. I don’t want to pass on this chance!” Deirdre said with gusto as Marnie followed her to the door. She rang the doorbell with a press of her hoof and waited patiently.

A woman taller than both of them opened the door. She had curly strawberry blonde hair and a long feminine face. She looked down them with a smile. She was wearing a blue dress with floral print.

“Good afternoon! May I help you?” She spoke with a slightly posh accent. She held her hands in front of her. Deirdre looked on in awe and Marnie slinked behind her.

“My name is Deirdre, and this is Marnie. We’d like to be some of the first to welcome you to this neighborhood!” The teacher spoke gleefully.

“Oh my, you came all the way out here to welcome me? That’s so nice of you. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Please, do come inside for tea.” The woman said with a polite smile. She opened her home to them, and they came inside from the cold.

Entering the little manor was like stepping from winter into spring. The house was warm, full of plants and fine decor. This was only the entryway. Beyond the arch was a little sitting room where the woman was pouring two cups of tea. It smelled like jasmine.

Deirdre took off her coat, adjusted her tie and entered the sitting room while Marnie took off a coat, a shawl, a scarf, a second shawl, and a cardigan to finally be in her usual thick sweater and shawl. She joined her best friend in the room with the woman.

“My apologies for forgetting to introduce myself! My name is Minerva Mannerly, welcome to my home.” She said kindly, sitting down across from the more seasoned neighbors.

“It’s no problem at all, Minerva. It’s very nice to meet you.” Deirdre said, taking the china teacup in her hoof.

“You as well. Please, do tell me about yourselves.” Minerva prompted. Marnie looked to Deirdre who took the lead.

“Well, I’m a teacher. I teach at the boarding school by Howdy’s, you just follow the path for a little bit and it’s there. Marnie here is a musician, she plays so many different instruments it’s incredible.” She explained, taking a sip of tea. Minerva oohed and have a gentle clap.

“Do you perform frequently?” She asked. Marnie cleared her throat, holding the teacup to warm her hands up.

“N-no, I mostly teach my neighbors.” Marnie murmured anxiously. Minerva shook her head gently.

“Oh thats interesting!” She replied politely. Minerva drank her tea to fill the silence. Deirdre looked at Marnie and cleared her throat. The musician sighed, sitting up straighter.

“Thank you for having us in your beautiful home. What do you do for a living?” Marnie asked, albeit with halted words.

Minerva smiled at the compliment.

“Oh, I don’t do much. But I do frequently host little cotillions and parties. I do love to throw parties.” The posh woman spoke then took a sip of her tea.

“Oh, I love parties! That’s so interesting. And you said cotillion balls? How frequently do you host them?” Deirdre piped up. Minerva looked at her with a smile.

“Oh, once every month or so. I say, you can never go wrong with being a little bit fancy sometimes! It just as we do as fine, upstanding women, is it not?” She replied. Marnie gave a halfhearted smile and held her cup like it would break if she let go of it.

Deirdre glanced at Marnie and snickered quietly. Marnie chuckled, wiping her eye of a tear before she finally spoke up again.

“Yes, we are all fine, upstanding, socially responsible women.” She giggled. Deirdre nearly dropped her tea cup. Minerva looked on confused, but she began to chuckle.

“Is- is there a joke? Is it funny?” Minerva asked with a polite grin. The teacher and the musician looked to each other, sighing as their laughter halted.

“Right, I suppose I should explain that. In college, Marnie and I had a professor who was a tad off in the head. He’d constantly say that ‘fine, socially responsible women should not be in his class’. It was a common math class. We always poked fun at him behind his back.” Deirdre explained. Minerva tilted her head in a confused motion.

“I don’t get it..” she mumbled. Minerva cleared her throat and put a smile back on her face.

“But I’m certain we will make plenty of jokes and have loads of fun together!” The posh woman said happily. Deirdre nodded.

“Absolutely. I suppose we should be going… Marnie’s already left to put her layers back on.” She said with an awkward chuckle. Deirdre fixed her hair.

“We really should stay in touch though. I can give you my personal number, and we can arrange a time to meet? Maybe I can get Marnie to bring her cello along. She does better when she doesn’t have to talk, really.”

“Oh, but of course! Whatever makes her feel comfortable. I shouldn’t want a new friend of mine to be forced into a situation that she wouldn’t like.” Minerva said. She held her hands together politely.

With a wave, the two women were off and walking away from the manor.

“Deirdre?”

“Yes, Marnie?”

“She was nice. That was uncomfortable, but I heard her say I was her friend. That makes me happy.” The musician said softly. Snow crunched under their feet as they walked, passing by birds cooed quietly. The world was still for a moment, and Deirdre smiled.

“I’m glad you’re happy. You know, we really should get out more. Who knows what new friends we’ll meet?” She asked. They looked forward at the path and snow began to fall.

“Absolutely not.” Marnie said with a giggle.

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Deirdre recently. You know, Deirdre is a lesbian. If we’re ignoring WH as real to the story of these guys, Deirdre and Minerva would get together.

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Oh, don’t we All just love a bit of a teaser? What’s better than combining bread pudding and southernisms with etiquette courses and glorified square dances? I would say very little! There’s always been something peculiar about Home’s most polite neighbor and her favorite mail carrier if I do say so myself! But maybe it’s just me. Or maybe you can see for yourself?

Who could make Eddie Dear laugh like that!