#the honest woodcutter

[emlan]

The (dis)honest puppet.

[maareyas]

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad(?) Werehog

once again feeling impatient, so here's the full illustration that I'm gonna try giving a little bit of animation ✨ so I don't entirely forget how to use DragonBones and After Effects.

The art style for this was once again HEAVILY inspired by Chocobo Tales DS (2006). Which, seems to be one of the more obscure games that have a vicegrip on my brain lol. god i wish i still had a working ds so i can re-experience it properly

[luckylunatix]

GHS spinoff/AU idea: Gregory's Twisted Tales

It's Gregory telling James various fairy tales as bedtime stories but of course since it's GHS they're all kinda fucked up. But like in a silly way. And the other characters in the hotel play the characters in the stories.

So far I only really have two ideas for specific stories: the Cactus Siblings as Hansel and Gretel (with Hell's Chef as the witch that wants to eat them) and Alice in Wonderland but with Alice in the Box (which is a no-brainer). But I still think it would be an interesting idea.

[slowlyfadingaway5]

Okay SO! I'm a fairy tale folklore mythology girlie and this episode of neverafter hits so fucking hard.

BUT when the Sword of Truth was first introduced as gold and gleaming and PIB said that it was used to cut wood, there was a moment after that where it cut to Brennan's face and you know what kind of face he fucking has when the PCs say something off the cuff that has relevance later on or something he never thought of but might work later on. you know the look

And it reminded me of the folk tale/fable of "The Honest Woodcutter" and I fucking know it's an Aesop's fable and the sword is called the Sword of Truth and I feel like I'm grasping at strings here (ha) but in the promo for ep 8 the sword is potentionally a person? So MAYBE just maybe hear me out, the sword is Aesop

[kei-crocker]

Parody of <The Honest Woodcutter>

[krispdreemurr]

"toby fox moves to new social media platform, begins retelling of 'the honest woodcutter' starring weird dogs he's calling roast chicken" did not fall on my prediction list for october

[quibbs126]

I’ve just been drawing this today because I’m bored

I don’t think I can have free days anymore, because I end up feeling brain dead during them and can’t work on the schoolwork I know I need to do, and by the end of the day I feel guilty about wasting the day despite literally not being able to do anything actually productive

But anyways, this. I mentioned Fantasy Life earlier today, and I have a save file where put Ceres from Evoland 2 in Fantasy Life. I actually originally made this save file some months ago, but I never really played it, leaving it once I found the first save point I could

I only realize now this is like that time I put Descole into Stardew Valley. Hm

I still haven’t gotten much of anywhere in the game, I only just started the Carpenter story. And to be honest, I’m not sure I want to continue because I kind of just want my own character in Fantasy Life, but also I don’t know how to make that. So maybe I’ll just continue with Ceres and see where it goes, or I’ll just delete it

But out of boredom, I wanted to draw her from the game regardless

So the design here is what she looks like in the game, or as close as I made it. For various reasons, including the fact that I can’t add horns or non-human skin tones to my character, or have bicolor hair, I made some changes. Her hair probably also isn’t the most accurate hair I could have given her to her original, but I think it looks good on her

Also as you may notice, I don’t entirely know how I should draw her, whether I should be closer to the game or my style

I’m debating whether in my drawings I should stick to the Fantasy Life skin tone or give her the blue she canonically has. I flip flop on which I prefer

I only realized when I was looking at my other Evoland 2 art how wildly different this color palette is, and it’s probably significantly brighter. I mean for this I was eyeballing the colors from my 3DS’s screen, while I color pick from the Evoland 2 sprites, so maybe that’s a factor

Edit: I am now seeing it on a computer screen, and it looks even more different. Like that hair straight up just looks blue, I can't see any purple

But yeah, I really didn’t know what Life to give her when I made her, I just picked Carpenter because I haven’t done that one in a while. Maybe Alchemist would have been best, but I really don’t know. It doesn’t help that Ceres doesn’t have much of a personality I can make a decision based on. Though in all fairness, I’m not entirely sure what I’d make the other characters either

I’d say Fina either Woodcutter or Hunter, Menos probably a Paladin? (Just not for Castele specifically) Kuro I’d say Mercenary or potentially Alchemist works (though in terms of weapons Menos and Kuro should probably switch), and for Velvet I don’t really know, maybe Miner, Alchemist or even Magician? I don’t know, as far as I can remember, nothing fits cleanly with “archaeologist”

But anyways, maybe if I continue with this, I can basically make up my own personality for Ceres, so I should continue, but I don’t know if I’m motivated enough to do so. We’ll see. Take this in the meantime I suppose. It isn’t much of anything, but it is a thing

Oh also one more thing I forgot but can’t fit elsewhere: I think the storyline idea for Ceres here is that she ended up here post-Evoland 2, but she doesn’t really remember getting here at all, thinking she’s just been in Castele her whole life, until she starts slowly realizing things don’t add up. She isn’t from this game though, especially since I don’t think demons exist to explain why she’s blue

[intrepidacious]

hmm sweet teeat + innkeep curtis au?

small treats | c.e.

a/n: innkeeper curtis loml!!!!

It’d been weeks since you stumbled into Curtis’ life that night, but you still weren’t speaking about what had brought you to his inn during a snow storm in the middle of winter with haunted eyes and pockets full of magic. He didn’t know what to make of that, of you, but after a few days of rest, you’d pulled yourself together, clumsily taking to the chores he’d assigned you in exchange for your lodgings; if he was being honest with himself, he’d have let you stay either way, but he told himself that the fact that you were trying meant something.

That day, he’d sent you to market for supplies; usually, strangers around these parts were charged much higher fares than locals, but after the incident with the woodcutter he wanted to see if you could hold your own when bargaining as well. You’d sparked his curiosity, that much was for certain, and while you were gone, he repaired the hinges on the front door and reboiled the stew, swept the hearths and cut the branches out back, keeping himself busy to stop his thoughts from wandering until you finally stumbled back along the path, your arms heavily laden with your purchases.

You had a strange, determined look on your face as he raised a hand in greeting, not looking at his face as you shuffled closer, murmuring, "I got you something", as you shoved something into his palm and continued your march before he could even blink or say anything.

When he looked, it was a hot bun, sticky with honey glaze and still steaming in the cold air, the kind that Adeline sold for exorbitant sums near the children’s playground, slightly squished by your fist but smelling delightfully sweet. Curtis knew he’d not given you enough coins to buy any extras, so you either had a true talent for negotiating or you’d scraped together what little copper you earned as tips sometimes; either way, warmth gently filled his chest until a tiny smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

[ultimateanthropoll]

ROUND 3: SPEND THE ENTIRE NIGHT CUTTING WOOD

Mae Borowski (cat; Night in the Woods) vs. Woodcutter Bear (bear; Rhythm Heaven)

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT!!

Mae:

"I never finished Night in the Woods but I want nothing but good things for this trash mammal."

"She's just like me fr <3"

Woodcutter bear:

"90% sure this dude was both my furry and gay awakening. He’s crazy hot, he wears pants and overalls but no shirt, he yells masculinely at the top of his lungs while he chops wood in the forest, and he “wears clothes three times his size because his muscles get really big whenever he flexes.” He’s hot in canon too, the wiki says that the cats that he helps are “heavily implied to be attracted to him,” which is why they keep asking him to chop more wood for them. This also means that, at the very least, the cats are gay (they’re called “los gatos” in Spanish instead of “las gatas”), and, let’s be honest, the bear’s probably gay too. Just look at him. They’re just a few steps away from forming a polycule that worships this guy. Actually, they probably already have that without him knowing. Also at the end of the final remix, he chops open a giant peach and a baby comes out. I know this is a reference to a Japanese fairy tale, but I don’t know the specifics, so… it’s possible? Maybe? The mpreg furry polycule is possible? In the cute little rhythm game? Please?"

[fate-magical-girls]

What happens to a princess if the fairy tale stops focusing on her?

She never expected to marry a prince. She is a humble woodcutter's daughter who stumbled upon a dangling in midair while gathering mushrooms. He told her he was a prince who had run afoul of the Chorchelle of the ruins, and was now cursed to touch neither sky nor earth until a virgin maiden would "bathe him in her pearls of wisdom". Even as he lamented that this poor peasant girl had no pearls, she spat on him, and the so-called "pearl" of her lips broke his curse.

He thanked her profusely and gave her a ring, promising to return for her. She smiled, nodded, and didn't take him seriously. She didn't expect him to come back. Princes didn't remember woodcutter's daughters.

But he did come back. He met her in that exact spot months later, when she was gathering acorns. This time he asked her name and followed her home. He met her father and gave him three gold coins in thanks for her wisdom. She didn't expect him to come back, not after his debt was repaid.

But he did come back, and he kept coming back. He came bearing expressions of not just gratitude and admiration, but love. He turned her father's little cottage into his personal Arcadia. She and the prince would spend days frolicking together, and all nature seemed to celebrate their happiness. Sometimes, out of sheer curiosity, he would try to help her father with his work. That didn't make the old woodsman's life any easier, but at least the money the prince paid him kept him from complaining.

She never expected to marry the prince. She was satisfied with what she had -- food, money, and two little sons. But then one day he turns up with two rings and a priest in tow. That causes her to blurt out that if he wants to marry her, he should do it publicly, because she's an honest woman who has nothing to be ashamed of.

This gives him pause, and he tells her he would like to do that, but he's already on thin ice with his father due to certain incidents he caused, including that time he let his favorite knight run off with his fiancee, and he doesn't want to turn her into another one of his scandals. So she offers him a foolproof plan.

"When you go back to the palace, lie down on the bed and do not get up. Tell your father that you were out hunting when fatigue struck you, and after you lay down to sleep, you received a divine revelation that you shall never marry, except to a woman who is neither naked nor clothed, neither riding nor walking, and neither speaking nor silent. And that if you cannot obtain that woman, you shall certainly waste away and die. Then until your father agrees to find that woman, neither eat nor speak where he can see it."

It takes three days for the news to spread. By then she is ready outside the royal palace, wearing a fishnet, one foot slung over a donkey so that the other dragged on the ground, and giving loud yawns. The king's messengers take her to the palace, where a wedding is hastily arranged for her and the prince. After the ceremony is done, the old queen privately confides to her that she doesn't believe a word of the "divine revelation", but she can't fault such a cunning plan, and if anything, this keeps her wayward son settled down.

The first few days of being a princess are overwhelming. She has much to learn about running a household, delegating tasks, networking with other nobles, and playing hostess. Still, she learns, and eventually, she excels. She's not rich like her eldest sister-in-law, or graceful like her younger sister-in-law, but she's clever and resourceful and keeps her fief in order even with her husband's romantic bouts of impulsiveness.

She and her husband are rarely at Court, only being summoned for major festivities. It's alright for him and should be alright for her. They love each other for their true selves, and nobody bothers them. But she knows her position is precarious, so she keeps writing appeals for her sons to be taken into the royal household as pages or squires; anything to make their nobility readily apparent. She gets no reply, which turns out to be fortunate when chaos breaks out in the capital with the Crown Prince's assassination.

She immediately drafts a letter pledging her husband's loyalty to the crown and volunteering their forces for the upcoming war. But when she takes it to her husband, he shreds it instead of stamping it with his seal. After all, he says, why should he support any of the family who look upon his wife with such disdain?

"But you're the second prince!" She exclaims, touched but also flabbergasted. "The heir apparent now!"

"So? Don't we love each other for who we are, not what we are?"

"Yes." She says resignedly. "I see you for who you are, but other will only see what you are."

Still, he is the ultimate master of the house. They remain neutral for civil war. It's alright for him and it's alright for her. They love each other for their true selves, and nobody bothers them. Until the foreign merchants of death arrive.

They don't see him for who he is, a loving husband and father, with a great heart but little brain. They only see him for what he is, the heir apparent and only adult prince left standing.

With her husband hovering between life and death and the assassins either dead or escaped, she pens a letter to the king and the royal council, declaring that her eldest son has the right to succeed his father, and that he would be a better successor than the youngest prince, whom everyone knows to be dull-witted.

She never expected to marry a prince, but she did, and now she is a princess and the mother of princes, and she intends to keep it that way.

[emlan]

the honest brocon (permission to trace my own art was kindly granted by myself)

[cloudberry-sims]

The Rosenward family is the 3rd peasant family in Hopebury, consisting of a elderly woodcutter and his two young children, after losing his wife to the magma fever.

Although not a young man anymore , Quentrell Rosenward has the heart and strength of an ox!

With ax in hand he is determined to build himself and his children a good and honest life in the small settlement. Although it wont be easy as a single parent.

Florina , his eldest and only daughter , had a good heart with a tenderness of all life.

So much so , that when she found a stray kitten in the bushes she begged her father to keep her, which he agreed to. She named the cat Sweuite.

Robard , who was still very young , had a talent of causing trouble for his father and sister with his clumsy and easy going nature...

[maareyas]

for funsies, related to that last art.

kinda wanna do more "children's storybook" style illustrations. Will this actually affect my current plans? who knows but I wanted to try making a poll for fun ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ

[lulubelle0318]

The Siblings and the Beanstalk

Chapter 2

Near the edge of the valley, there was a cottage where three peasants named Mario, Luigi, and Link lived. They had a Miltank that used to be a good milker, but now she was an udder failure.

Inside the cottage, the peasants, who were brothers, were desperately trying to think of an honest way to get money to buy food.

'I can huff some gems.' Link suggested.

'You already huffed them.' Mario said.

'I'll put this cottage on mortgage.' Link tried again.

'You already did.' Luigi responded.

'Well you all are brilliant people,' Link said sardonically, 'You think of a suggestion!'

Then the three peasants, gripped by starvation, were preparing to eat. Mario was the one responsible for cutting the bread and making sure that it lasted, which he did by cutting it into slices so thin, they were see through.

Given the circumstances, they had almost lost all hope. Just look at that miserable Hylian. There was nothing left but skin, bones, and clothes. But Link doesn't whimper, Link doesn't give up.

'SHUT UP!' Link shouted 'I CAN'T STAND IT!"

He then started to spazz out.

'Link!' Mario shouted as he and Luigi attempted to restrain him.

'Easy there,' Luigi said, 'Calm down...'

'I-I'm alright...' Link said as he tried to catch his breath. 'I'm fine...'

But he was not fine. Soon a devious plan to get food formed in his head. A plan to get Miltank beef. His eyes glanced up at the woodcutter's axe that hung above the fireplace. But before he could enact his plan, Mario stood up.

'We have to sell Miltank.' He said.

So it was decided, Mario would go and sell the Miltank while the other two stayed at home, eagerly awaiting the moment they would have food on the table again.

'Hey, look!' Luigi exclaimed.

Then he started to sing.

Luigi

Turkey, lobster, sweet potato pie

Pancakes piled up till they reach the sky

Link

La-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la

Luigi

Oh, I wanna eat 'n eat 'n eat 'n eat 'n eat until I die

Both

Turkey, lobster, sweet potato pie

Pancakes piled up till they reach the sky

Luigi

Lots of starches, lots of greens

Fancy chocolate-covered... Uh...

'Beans!' Mario exclaimed.

[enstarsfunniest]

i know the shinsekai in retaliation context: valk are trapped in virtual reality and they need to complete quests to win. Shu gives mika money to buy a weapon (mika choose the chainsaw, shu hates it) to complete challenges. Well as they're about to leave npc pushes shu into a fountain to do a woodcutter's axe bit (Aesop fable's honest woodcutter) with mika. "is this the shu you lost? or is it this shu?" One shu acts like rinne and the other shu acts like eichi. He refuses to call either of them Shu even tho the npc tells him he just has to choose one of them to leave the game. The eichi-shu makes mika so furious that he murders them both with his chainsaw instead of completing the quest. And then he gets sick because he was in vr too long to kill people <3

!!! you can also find some screenshots of the livetweet translation here, and the story should be coming to engstars in the following months too, so look forward to it!