#mspaint snail

[randomuzerthelozer]

[webdiggerxxx]

꧁★꧂

[cinimuffin]

The usual kind of mspaint drawing request one gets from a friend

[twosnails4eva]

CRINGETOBER DAY 5

[ketoverkill]

a bunch of mspaint aquatic/semiaquatic/associated with water generally drawings from over the years ive been drawing

[ from top (newest) to bottom (oldest) ]

[trainingdummyrabbit]

wait hangon. got distracted thinking abt snails, shoutout to The Most Name ever

[twodaily]

Day 34

[retros-artandstuff]

tallulah/ghostbur on mspaint :0

and a SNAILL

tap for better quality

[kashc0re]

Gib hornse 🥺...

here is one of my favorite hornses

[arpechele]

valentine

[the-feral-one]

Decided to scribble a snail in mspaint.

[concoctionboy]

@smg34-shipper: Examine the bridge

[Okay, to avoid having such long threads, and maybe to make things a bit more interesting, I've decided to put each update in a separate post and accompany it with a quick drawing. Yes, I guess this may mean this is sort of turning into a MSPaint Adventures/Ruby Quest-type thing, which is not at all something I had in mind starting this out, but eh, what happens happens.]

[Also, for anyone who's not sure what's going on, there's an Expedition Masterpost summarizing the story so far, and linking to the relevant posts.]

Like I said, the bridge is small and... kind of pointless, given that the stream is narrow enough it's easy to step over. Although I guess given the size of the hooded cloaks in the last room at least some of the inhabitants of this castle are smaller than human size, so maybe it's harder for them. I don't know.

(Or maybe they don't have legs, like the shambucks, though if the other inhabitants of the tower were also snail people but larger that seems like something Squit probably would have mentioned. Or Xil, for that matter. Actually, come to think of it, if Xil's lived here for a year he probably knows a lot about the tower and its inhabitants, though I don't know, maybe it's more fun to find things out on my own instead of asking him about everything.)

The only really weird thing about the bridge is what it's made of. I thought at first it was made of wood, but on closer examination it's not. It's made of... I'm not sure. It kind of looks like chitin, like an insect's shell, though I don't know where they'd have found an insect that has a shell shaped like a bridge. Maybe it was shaped magically somehow, I guess?

Huh, looking under the bridge I can also see some scratches on the bottom that... might be a message? But if they are, they're in a language I don't recognize, so that's not very useful. (There are a lot of things here that are in languages I don't recognize, I guess.)

[escargoverse-snellod]

WRITEBLR INTRO

Yo, what up bitches, its me, ya girl, Snellod, Goddess of Snails and I... am a writer!

For just 2 months shy of a year I have been plugging away at my own original fiction, Dawn of the Planet of the Snails - A soft sci fi story featuring snails and such. It currently sits at approximately 36k words and I plan to begin uploading chapters online soon, with ideally one released a week, for so long as I can keep the schedule.

But, you see, I have hit a bit of a snag. Of late, I have been afflicted with a terrible sleep deprivation, and I do not trust myself to continue writing (as it will be dreadful, and I fear I'll just create a big ol' mess that'd be more work than I'd like to fix) and I certainly don't trust myself to do the Very Important Edit that needs doing.

But, the poison has seeped into my soul, the rot afflicted my mind, and I feel the need to be creative building. My thoughts are consumed by my sweet baby DotPotS and in the absence of being able to actually work on the damn thing, I feel the urge to talk about it.

Hence... Writeblr. I've intended to make a sideblog dedicated to my writing a while, a place to share my thoughts, updates and perhaps even extracts from my stories or my various escargoverse MSpaint doodles. Now seemed like a good time. A tradition of two means little but it nontheless makes me happy to have started both my blogs so late in the night as to be inadvisable.

And hey, a little self-promo's never hurt anyone!

Who is Snellod?

Alleged Goddess of all Snails. Confirmed trans woman writer.

My literary loves are the alien and fantastical, and such, I lean strongly towards sci-fi and fantasy of all stripes. The more unique the world the happier I is.

Additionally, I adore an adventure. I love the feel of exploring vast universes, of journeying across unknown lands. Extends to my real life too, where I'll joyously seek out small towns and villages of little note, just to go to a place I have not yet been too.

Talking of my real life, I am an obsessive lover of stories. I strive to attain cinephile status (actually studying film and television at uni! My focus is on screenwriting), I am a Doctor Who fanatic (classic and modern), still think daily of the Magnus Archives and of course, love to read. In terms of physical books, I have just begun the Dune trilogy at the behest of my brother, and with regard to webnovels, my favourites are The Wandering Inn and AUU-16. The former my girlfriend got me into, the latter I got her into.

Sidenote, read AUU-16, its really fucking good, and really fucking under-appreciated. Link here: Zynima Network.

I'm also in love with nature. Yes, being away from cities and such, I enjoy the odd hike into the country, but also just learning about the multitudes of plants and animals and bugs and birds and such of the world. In a similar vein, rather fond of spec-evo. I like to think this fondness seeps into my writing at least time to time, but I don't think I'm clever enough to do spec-evo well, at least not yet.

Oh, and one last thing. Literally incapable of shutting up. Did not mean to spend four paragraphs talking about myself, kinda intended this to be more of an Escargoverse introduction than anything. But hey-ho.

What is Dawn of the Planet of the Snails?

Beneath a kaleidoscopic sky, and adorned in a forest of titanic grass blades, swarming with predators, and home to intelligent life… this is the Planet of the Snails.

Or at least, so the tagline says. Inspired by the sage writing advice of "to write a story you're passionate about, you gotta be at least a little self indulgent" this is my very self-indulgent passion project.

When a research mission to investigate an inexplicable hole opened on a near-future Earth goes awry, its ragtag crew of misfits find themselves castaways in a land as familiar as it is utterly alien. Can they survive this hostile terrain? Can they uncover the secrets of the anomaly that lead to their marooning? And will they ever make it back to Earth to spill the beans?

A pulpy sci-fi adventure you don’t want to miss!

Its science fiction and snails!

Revolutionary!

Thrilling!

Join Arnold, Kasia, Samantha and Ty as they adventure across the mysterious Planet of the Snails… and beyond!

So reads my WiP blurb. Inspired by old adventures stories and cooked up in the middle of a classic who binge-watch, DotPotS is a soft sci-fi action/adventure original fiction. It is fun, exciting, and if I've played my cards right, at least a little camp.

I will likely be dropping more snippets and details as this blog goes on, I have plans for a Characters post, in which I give details on me blorbos, and a setting post, to tell you more about the titular Planet of the Snails.

If you're interested, feel free to ask questions, or suggest ideas for future posts on the road to release. Although, uh, I fear I haven't given much detail for folks to latch onto, be curious about. You'd tell me if my blurb was lacking, right? Right?

Eh. Issue for awake Snellod.

And what is the Escargoverse?

As of yet, highly hypothetical. DotPotS began as a simple short story, a quick dance into a universe, before dancing neatly back out. But as time went on, ideas for new arcs, settings, stories exploded into my brain and my plan for a larger world took shape.

The escargoverse will be a vast semi-interconnected universe full of strange places and peoples, a world that goes beyond the human understanding of what 'should be.'

Ever since reading Discworld as a teen, I have loved connected universes, especially when they're the passion project of one, or a few people. I have always sought my own, to be my legacy and I really think this could be it.

[dearsnails]

sknitting (snail knitting) is at LEAST a two snail job!!

[beefcliff]

"an angel with her pet snail snoozing on a hoodoo on a damp morning in the desert" (it's A Request, From a Friend)

[autistickfigure]

baboo... walsk away