#snowperson

[warandpeas]

Legacy

[catalisst]

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mr. Blizzard

Debut: Super Mario 64

Who ordered the Funny Snowman? Not you, because this is a blog and not a restaurant, silly! You are just so silly. But between you and me, I am a fan of Funny Snowman, so I will humor you!

Mr. Blizzard is one of the first snowmen to appear in the Mario series, and the one who would become the most iconic and recurring. This is something he should be proud of, since Super Mario 64 has a bunch of snowmen in it! But one of them based his whole identity around missing his head, and the other one is an entire location. Gimmicks that make them memorable, sure, but not very versatile for future use!

Mr. Blizzard's design really notably uses billboarding, the graphical trick where a sprite will always face the camera, giving flat circles the appearance of spheres in a slightly blurry 3D world. Snowmen are SO orbs! Some of the most orbs guys I can think of! It was a very good decision. Mr. Blizzard is honestly slightly unconventional compared to other cartoon snowmen, with no nose- nay, nary a carrot- and a simple line mouth, rather than the typical "series of dots" mouth that we know and love. Instead, it has a blank, autism creature face, with its eyes and mouth seemingly made of the same material! Mouth made of eye, or eyes made of mouth? You won't know until you kiss him on the lips!

Nowadays, Mr. Blizzard uses a new design, which I also like a lot! This time he has a scraggly mouth because he is, as I assume he would say, "not too sure about this one, guys". He now has snow buttons on his torso, revealing that he was previously NAKED down there, and he also wears a bucket as a hat! That's one of those things that's so common in Japanese media, but in Western media it's always a top hat. So funny how one cartoon snowman had such influence on media! The average snowman-builder is much more likely to own a plastic bucket than a top hat!

Mr. Blizzard's main Thing is his single arm, adorned with a cute little mitten, which he uses to throw snowballs. Do you think that's like throwing his own flesh? I don't think so. If clothing buttons and igloos can also be made of snow, I think snow is just the building block of a snowman's world. But still, imagine some cattle throwing delicious meatballs at each other. Messed up! How would they even do that with hooves? Would they use their tongues like slingshots? What was I talking about? Where am I?

Oh yes! I am in "Snow World". Mr. Blizzard is a recurring enemy snowman, but Mario's world is also full of morally neutral living snowman, who DO have carrot noses, thank goodness. These snomonculuses are obstacles on snowy Mario Kart courses, but it's kind of rude to refer to them as that. Is a pedestrian an obstacle to a driver? Suffer, vehicles, as I wield my high level spell called "right of way"!

In Mario Kart Tour, these entities are exclusively referred to as Snowpeople! Gender? They hardly snow 'er!

[thatsbelievable]

[phoebepheebsphibs]

Snow DAAAAAY ❄️❄️❄️

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[nature-nerd-sarah]

It snowed here last night, so I made a very clumsy snowperson

[crimsonrune]

Comm - Hot Buns (Snowman TF/Ash TF)

Winter's warming up a little bit here this week, which makes it a good time to share a set of bad(?) end(?) transformations by my friend SomeToon! The first of these sees Chase trying to beat the heat as a snowman. Ultimately, a futile effort, as her frigid body melts into a simple puddle of water. Somebody get a sponge, or we might not see her again until next year! The second of these is designed in the style of certain game over sprites, as some sort of burst or fire trap knocks her right off her paws into a pile of ash. This time around she'll be needing a broom and dustpan.

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[letstalkbeautyuk]

Still loads of time to order your Xmas Badges 🎅🏽 We have a huge selection of festive designs to pick from & they're all handmade by us in Cornwall ⭐️

[the-sad-tomato]

We got snow. Someone made a snow person!!

[doctorslippery]

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This tops the killer snowman genre, by a lot.

Hide until Spring comes.

[memimouse]

Birthday card cover for a relative that has a birthday in the winter. Please do not use my characters or drawings without permission. Thanks!

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[tyrab87]

I did Snow activities today

[drades-lair]

Happy Pride Holidays!

Today's Pride Snowperson is Bisexual!

[thinkingabouttimdrake]

okay!

i was a fun boi

*metamorphosize*

now im a fungi

*funky moldy music* 🍄

[pancakewithamace]

the dice rolled bad

‘twas tasty tho

this ask is a natural 20 intimidation check though

[kimberlychapman]

Growing up in southern Ontario and then going to uni in Ottawa, I always loved the way everything glowed at night with snow. I loved the sound of it, the muffled regular noises along with the occasional creak, drip, or wind-wafted tinkle of the snow itself. I love the smell of snow, a smell I can't describe because it's only of itself, unrelated to other things...I just know that it has a smell. There's a smell of cold, and we get that sometimes on cold days here in the UK too, but the smell of freshly fallen, heavy-blanket snow is a unique smell all to itself.

Snow is a sensory delight. I'm guessing that's why one of the pictures was removed, from too much sensory delight.

Is there a word for that like, “bright darkness” you get in winter?? When it’s been snowing or it’s supposed to snow past sunset and the sky isn’t Dark Enough. One of my favorite things