#the mark less version is on the Patreon

[overlordneon]

A commission done last month in preparation for Everfree Northwest, and I'm very happy to know that Rebecca Shoichet now has a print of this one to keep!

Alicorn Goddess Sunset Shimmer decked out in armor and flying alongside Philomena and Faerana, a very cool Moon Phoenix OC.

Image is based on Amber Spark's own AU fic (which now this as its new Cover Art) that you can read here:

And a Sky Full of Stars - Amber Spark (Fimfiction)

[OverlordNeon Patreon] [Commission Info]

[nsves]

demure piercings.

dl | patreon (alt.) | 20 swatches, BGC, hq comp, 16.8k poly. fem frame only and can be distorted with heavily sculpted body presets. left ring category. 2 versions to account for two different uses, explained below!

version 1: the main version of the piercings, less distortion compared to version 2. in exchange of less distortion, the weights do not support complex/bending poses. best used for standing still type of photos.

version 2: same mesh as version 1, just weighted differently so it supports bending and twisting in the body. some of the piercing hoops will distort more on bigger bodies and stretch out weirdly (example photo):

you can have both versions installed at the same time and are marked accordingly on their thumbnails

[botanicalsword]

Relationship ✧ who is the 'most/ least __' in this relationship ✧ Marks Chart ✧ A quick note on Marks Chart ✧

1. How to cast a Marks Chart ?  >> Handbook: How to cast a Marks Chart  1. Generate a Davison Chart between Person A + Person B, 2. then generate a Davison Chart between (Natal of A) + (Davison Chart of A & B) = that’s the Person A’s Marks Chart

(Same as Person B's)

Review your Marks Chart with someone close to you, whether it's a coworker, partner, lover, or friend.

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✧ The 'most/ least ____' in this connection  If Person A's Moon in _____ in Mark Chart , they are _____

🔸Most Direct

Moon in Aries - If they’re interested, they’ll make a move.

🔸Quickest to Heat Up

Moon in Aries - They get excited in an instant.

🔸Quickest to Lose Interest

Moon in Aries - They can become disinterested just as quickly.

🔸Most Practical

Moon in Taurus/ Virgo  - One is hands-on, while the other offers material support.

🔸Least Emotionally Aware

Moon in Taurus - They often don’t grasp the concept of emotional value.

🔸Most Joyful

Moon in Gemini - They’re always laughing and enjoying life.

🔸Best Friendships that Blossom into Love

Moon in Gemini - They bring a light-hearted, humorous, and playful vibe.

🔸Most Affectionate

Moon in Cancer - They love hugs, kisses, and being lifted up.

🔸Most Dominant & Protective

Moon in Leo - They’ll defend their partner but expect to be listened to.

🔸Most Image-Conscious

Moon in Libra - They place a high value on appearances.

🔸Most Complex

Moon in Scorpio - They find happiness in their connection’s struggles.

🔸Purest Love

Moon in Aquarius - Their love is clear and selfless.

>> Get your Marks Chart Reading

🔸Least Focused on Physicality

Moon in Aquarius - As long as the mind is engaged, physical connection matters less.

🔸Most Sensitive

Moon in Pisces  - They’re usually fine with others but become quite sensitive with their partner.

🔸Best Performers

Moon in Pisces - Every day feels like a rehearsal for a romantic play.

🔸Most Misleading

Moon in Capricorn - They seem serious but have a playful side.

🔸Most Strategic

Moon in Capricorn - While you think one step ahead, they’ve already planned for the long game.

🔸Most Secretive

Moon in Scorpio - They often have hidden motives.

🔸Most Adventurous

Moon in Sagittarius - They’re eager to explore new experiences together.

>> Read full version >> Marks Chart Reading

>> ✧  Marks Chart ♡ their POV in this relationship • Intro  >> ✧  Marks Chart ♡ their thoughts & feelings (Part I)   >> ✧ Marks Chart • Tough feeling & Challenges in this connection >> ✧ Marks Chart ♡ What’s their love language in this connection? >> Back to Masterlist ✧ Explicit Content

Exclusive access : Patreon

[shirecorn]

Shirecorn's Ponyverse Masterpost

So for the last 2 months I've fixated on doing redesigns based somewhat loosely on My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. I've had so much fun filling in the gaps and extrapolating until my version is less of a redesign and more of an AU.

"Ponies" are three species of sentient hoofed creatures that populate Equestria. They worship giant goddesses that fill the sky and ferry the moon and sun across the world.

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#Shire draws mlp - drawings only. Leaves out the lore

#Skyscraper gods lore - drawings, posts, and asks that expand on the world. Talks about biology, genetics, ritual, society, politics, religion, but mostly creature design and magic.

#Skyscraper Gods - Art, asks, posts, and fanart! Everything to do with both my little pony canon and my version of things. Includes drawings without lore, and lore without drawings. This is the tag to browse to make sure you see it all

Characters

In progress: Discord

○ The Mane Six ○ All Alicorns,

○ Rarity ○ Fluttershy ○ Flutterbat ○ Applejack ○ Pinkie Pie ○ Pinkie Pie Pegasus ○ Rainbow Dash ○ Twilight Sparkle ○ Raritwi ○ Spike

○ Princess Celestia + Princess Luna ○ Princess Cadance + Shining Armor + Flurry Heart ○ Sunset Shimmer ○ Sunburst ○ Apple Bloom + Scootaloo + Sweetie Belle (Cutie Mark Crusaders) ○ Big Macintosh/Ochard Blossom (she is a woman) ○ Granny Smith ○ Mr & Mrs Cake + Pound Cake and Pumpkin Cake ○ Maud Pie + Mudbriar ○ Trixie Lulamoon + Starlight Glimmer ○ Cozy Glow ○ Zephyr Breeze ○ Escape Room Guy + Dusty Pages ○ Berry Punch/Berryshine ○ Vapor Trail ○ Bulk Biceps ○ Tempest Shadow ○ Flim and Flam ○ Queen Chrysalis + Thorax + Ocellus (Changelings) ○ Autumn Blaze (kirin) ○ Rain Shine (kirin leader) ○ Sky Beak (hippogriff) ○ Starcatcher and Skywishes (G3)

Lore

○ The 3 pony species ○ Breeding/genetics ○ The 4 Alicorns stories ○ Gods of non-pony species? Seapony god? ○ Unicorn Horns: Starlight physics, Different shapes, Alicorn horns, Horn colors, ○ Where did Spike come from? (1) (2) ○ Your daughter has won the favor of God (fic) ○ Nightmare moon playlist ○ Cutie marks are cultural not physical: (1) (2) ○ Starlight Glimmer's hometown and her cult ○ Alicorns don't fit inside buildings ○ Discord is a headache to behold ○ Government in the world of gods ○ Gender and matriarchy ○ Scootaloo's flightless disability ○ Equestria Girls Vs Skyscraper Gods, existential horror ○ Pinkie Pie breaks the forth wall because she hopped worlds once ○ Vampire fruit bat ecology and virus ○ How ponies caught it

Meta

○ Using Skyscraper Gods as inspiration (2) ○ Why I like expanding on MLP: its simplicity ○ MLP Creature designs are already good ○ If you don't like my designs ○ I'm just having fun: (1) (2) ○ Mane 6 doodle to finished design ○ After ponies ○ Designing based on birds and animals ○ Starcatcher dove

Shitposts and Doodles

○ My fursona in mlp style ○ Daytime! Nighttime! ○ Baby god ○ Local horse fistfights the sun ○ Shining armor alicorn ○ Sunset shimmer becomes god (2) ○ Poodle rarity ○ Zephyr Breeze thinks RD is a man ○ Season 9 ○ Why is EQ an hour long ○ Being held at gunpoint to watch Equestria Girls ○ World's gayest dash ○ 18 pounds of crake

Fanart by others

○ Fanart tag

Commissions

○ People request a lot and that normal ○ Prices are low because I'm already fixated

Ko-fi requests || Classic commissions

Shirecorn Discord

Join any tier of my patreon to access my art discord

○ See WIPs, discussion, the occasional meltdown, and more ○ The content is all done through discord, so if the patreon looks dead it's all just on the server instead.

I hope you enjoy seeing my MLP creations as much as I enjoy making them!

[the-griffons-saddlebag]

💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Bangle of Sun and Moon
Wondrous item, uncommon (requires attunement) ___ This bangle features a personified sun and moon, transitioning from gold to silver midway through the band. Three small diamonds mark their eyes. While wearing the bangle, you always know how long it is until sunrise, sunset, midday, and midnight. The bangle has 3 charges and regains 1d3 expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing it, you can expend 2 of the bangle’s charges to cast the “daylight” spell from it. Alternatively, you can expend 1 or more of the bangle’s charges to cast the “moonbeam” spell from it (save DC 13). For 1 charge, you cast the 2nd-level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend. When you expend 2 or more charges to cast “moonbeam” in this way, you can choose whether the spell’s damage type is cold, fire, or radiant. If you have 11 or more levels in the druid class and are wearing this bangle, you can expend 3 charges from the bangle to cast the “sunbeam” spell from it (save DC 13). When you do, there is a permanent and cumulative 25 percent chance that the bangle is destroyed when the spell ends. ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon's Saddlebag on Patreon for less than $10 a month!

[anim-ttrpgs]

Patreon Poll and Kickstarter Funds Update

Alright, we’ve had a weekend to rest and now it’s time to get back to work. We already have almost ten new snoops done and ready to be put in the rulebook, "FORIVA: The Angel Game" is almost completely reworked and ready for patreon re-release, and we might have new merchandise coming soon.

As soon as "FORIVA: The Angel Game" is done, we still start back work on editing the finished sections of the rulebook.

I have started brainstorming work on the Living Doll playable supernatural characters type, as well as the Talking Dog and several other stretch goals.

I’ll do anything to put off finishing these examples of play..

We are still waiting on more than 60 backers to finish their backer surveys, so we aren’t sending out emails regarding the custom rewards yet, we want to try to be able to do that all at once if possible. Even if all the backer surveys had been completed, we would still wait on a lot of the emails, because we would want to confirm our funds first before we tell our team artists to get to work on custom rewards. Kickstarter won’t actually give us the money until at least 2 weeks after the end of the campaign. We plan to pay them up front, so we gotta have the money before they start seriously working on the project.

Speaking of that, there are three backers from whom Kickstarter has been unable to collect payment. At the time of writing this, this accounts for about $371 of our funding. On Friday, May 17th, if these payments have not been resolved, Kickstarter will cancel them.

That means we won’t get the money and those backers won’t get their rewards. It’s probably just a matter of the bank marking their payment as suspicious, but it needs to be resolved before May 17th. If you’re a backer and you’re reading this, please check your Kickstarter account and your email to find out, and please try to get this resolved before Friday.

Next, I’ve got to talk about our patreon. Despite the major success of the Kickstarter, patreon is an essential part of making A.N.I.M. a long-term viable career.

You can find our patreon here. Subscribing for $3 or more will give you access to our patreon discord server where you can meet the team and offer direct feedback, as well as have a vote in what our next project will be. Subsribing for $5 or more will also give you access to regular, playable updates on all of our in-progress projects.

We will of course be posting updates on our progress in finishing Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy and adding the stretch goals on Kickstarter, but if you want to actually play these updates as they come out, you can do so by supporting our patreon for as little as $5. We know some of you will jump at this opportunity to get improved beta versions of Eureka early, and some of you will just wait until final release, but for those of you who would like to get the playable updates, we have a question.

Would you rather us officially update the patreon beta copies twice a month, or once a month? There are definite pros and cons to each one and that’s one of the reasons we’re asking the fans.

Twice a Month

Pros

More frequent updates

Cons

Updates will be smaller and less significant in how much each one will improve the game materials.

Updates that come too frequently could annoy the people who are actually trying to use the beta copies for their campaigns, as they may feel like have their campaign rules changing too frequently to memorize.

Once a Month

Pros

Updates will be much bigger and more significant

Gives more time for people who are playing with the beta copies to have several sessions in between rulebook updates.

Cons

Updates less frequently

The A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club

If you would like to meet the A.N.I.M. team and even have a chance to play Eureka with us, you can join the A.N.I.M. TTRPG Book Club discord server. It’s also just a great place to talk and discuss TTRPGs, so there is no schedule obligation, but the main purpose of it is to nominate, vote on, then read, discuss, and play different indie TTRPGs. We put playgroups together based on scheduling compatibility, so it’s all extremely flexible. This is a free discord server, separate from our patreon exclusive one. https://discord.gg/7jdP8FBPes

Free Beta Copies

If you don't want to wait, but don't want to sign up to our patreon either, then you can get an older beta copy for free on our website or itch.io page.

Other Stuff

We also have a ko-fi and merchandise if you just wanna give us more money for any reason.

[fiftymilehighclub]

@aharris00britney's Misa hairs + my child versions in JewlRyBox!

Naturally anytime I make a conversion I've gotta recolor it in my main palette for maximum coloration! I was having issues with Puppy Crow for some reason so those have gotten put on the back burner as I just yeet this into the world so I can clear out my WIP folder!

You need the original adult mesh from here and child versions require my mesh, here. The included hair accessory is enabled for both and has a custom thumbnail, and is found in brow piercings. The child ones marked TEXREF require the adult V1 version while taking up less space, while the unmarked ones are standard recolors -- make sure you don't grab both!

Patreon Download (always free!)

Alt Downloads: Google Drive // SFS 

@alwaysfreecc @childandtoddlercc @thejewlbox @maxismatchccworld @mmoutfitters

[wonderfulworldofdarklords]

https://redcircle.com/shows/d462cbc8-3fe9-41f5-97b1-f1cbc8306fb6/episodes/f8d2b809-bdbf-4c8d-89f8-6db6da58072c

CONTENT ADVISORY: Because this episode is based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it takes place in Langeles, a fantasy version of Los Angeles. I don't think we even mention fire, but if the Los Angeles wildfires hit at all close to home for you, we're putting a detailed content advisory that includes all the neighborhoods and landmarks mentioned at the end of the show notes, with separate entries for the episode proper and the D fiction (so you can skip one or both if you're less worried about content and want to avoid spoilers).

Welcome to Wonderful World of Darklords! We're reaching back into our childhood nightmares and pulling out one of our favorite Disney villains: Judge Doom. He's made of pure nightmare fuel, but he's also a man living his best life who only makes sense in a world with living cartoons, so adapting him was a challenge. For Doom, though, we'll take up that challenge, because he's magnificent. Better than Goofy. Topics discussed include:

The obscure creature that allows us to adapt toons into D&D terms;

More than a minute of Eberron, including how to do Who Framed Roger Rabbit purely as an Eberron game if you choose;

A beloved Disney movie we're not planning to adapt into a full domain that you can easily plunder for Roger Rabbit NPCs and storylines;

Ideas for running a years-long Toontown/Runetown game with Judge Doom as the spider at the center of the web without it becoming repetitive;

and more!

The full writeup for Runetown is available on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/507839/Runetown-A-Ravenloft-Domain-of-Dread?affiliate_id=241770

Timestamps

0:00 Content Advisory

1:26 Introduction

9:08 The Lord

45:13 The Land

1:06:17 Dread Possibilities

1:21:42 Aging Up (CW discussion of drug use and erotic body horror)

1:29:15 Aging Up ends

1:42:54 Parting Thoughts

2:10:47 D’s Parting Thoughts

All music recordings are in the public domain (mark 1.0) and are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: http://www.tumblr.com/darklordazalin

The Wonderful World of Darklords logo was designed by Halite Jones, whom you can find on Tumblr and Instagram: https://www.tumblr.com/halite-jones and http://www.instagram.com/insta_halite

Contact us on:

Gmail: wonderfulworldofdarklords@gmail.com

Facebook: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Tumblr: @wonderfulworldofdarklords

Patreon: www.patreon.com/WonderfulWorldofDarklords

YouTube: @wonderfulworldofdarklord

GENERAL CONTENT ADVISORY

Discussion of the destruction of a neighborhood and its residents (Toontown/Runetown)

Conspiracy theories involving the Langeles government (primarily Judge Doom, but since it's noir there's a lot of corruption)

Discussion of Burbank, the Golden Triangle, Bel Air, and Beverly Hills

D'S JOURNAL CONTENT ADVISORY (SPOILERS)

A concert hall reminiscent of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown LA is targeted for sabotage. Nothing comes of it, but D worries about the possibility of it collapsing with people inside.

D is briefly exposed to a blast of heat in Toontown that melts her to a puddle before she can reform again.

[van-yangyin]

Razor's Outfit and hair (Genshin Impact) [Male frame]

我的「卢皮卡」的狼。它们是家人。～ The wolves are my Lupical. My family.

Sul sul, I've taken quite a while because I wanted to leave it the most complete as I usually do and because March has been a very busy month, but here I present today to you download of Razor's outfit and hair from Genshin Impact with a little extra earrings.

【Everything shared below, has been tested by @lea-heartscxiv and me in Ultra quality (non HQ) following our needs, if you find any problem let me or him know.】

Download under keep reading ↓ 

If you download my CC it means your agree with my T.O.U (English/Español/日本語).

General Info:

clothes (Upper, Lower and Lower with boots)

gloves (2 versions, HQ and non-HQ)⁽*¹⁾

boots

body marks as tattoo (4 swatches)

face scar (two types, real scar and painted scar on scars or tattos) [Painted scars is for those who want a more drawn style, with original color of Razor model]

left earring (right earring and right and left earring at the same time

upper right bracelet

hair (24 EA Swatches + Razor swatch) [Male and Female Frame]

all LOD's

normal, specular and emission maps included

custom thumbnail

HQ compatible (only gloves have non-HQ version)⁽*¹⁾

In case you would like a version of whole outfit in one click or whole outfit in one click with game assets hair, let me know by commenting below or from Ask me anything

~⭐️~

~Razor's outfit~

Outfit Info:

Upper and Lower Clothing/Lower Clothing with boots⁽*²⁾)

gloves (2 versions, HQ and non-HQ)⁽*¹⁾

boots

Razor's body marks as tattoo (4 swatches, only Male frame)

face scar (two types, real scar and painted scar on scars or tattos) [Painted scars is for those who want a more drawn style, with original color of Razor model]

left earring

upper right bracelet

all LOD's

normal, specular and emission maps included

custom thumbnail

HQ compatible (only gloves have non-HQ version)⁽*¹⁾

All except tattoo is opposite frame compatible

Compatible with higher and lower game sliders

There are small bugs with some parts of clothes

⁽*¹⁾ Only download HQ version of gloves if you have "HQ mod" if this isn't the case, download non-HQ version because otherwise you will get a shiny pixel on left hand. ⁽*²⁾"Pants without boots" looks like in picture below, for that reason I've made another version with "pants with boots", in case you don't like how "pants alone" look, but I've also placed "boots" in case you download first option or you want to have "pants with boots" and "boots" alone to use it in other outfits. Hope that I've explained myself clearly 😆💦

LODs Info: Upper Clothing: LOD0: 8k LOD1: 6k LOD2: 3k LOD3: 1k Lower Clothing: LOD0: 2k LOD1: 2k LOD2: 1k LOD3: less than 1k Lower Clothing with boots: LOD0: 4k LOD1: 3k LOD2: 2k LOD3: less than 1k Gloves: LOD0: less than k Boots: LOD0: 2k LOD1: 1k LOD2/3: less than 1k Upper right bracelet: LOD0/1/2/3: less than 1k

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly)

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Free, no adfly)

~⭐️~

~Razor Scar and body marks~

Info:

Razor's body marks as tattoo (4 swatches)

face scar (two types, real scar and painted scar on scars or tattos) [Painted scars is for those who want a more drawn style, with original color of Razor model]

custom thumbnail

HQ compatible

All except tattoo is opposite frame compatible

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly)

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Always free, no adfly)

~⭐️~

~Razor left earring with extras~

Info:

left earring (Original Razor's earring position)

right earring (Extra)

earrings in both ears (Extra)

left earring, right earring and earring in both ears merged

Left/Right Earrring: LOD0/1/2/3: less than 1k Left and Right earrings: LOD0/1/2/3: less than 1k

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly)

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Free, no adfly)

~⭐️~

~Razor's Hair~

Hair Info:

24 EA Swatches + Razor swatch (Child and Toddler version coming soon)

Base game compatible

Hat compatible

All genders and agender

Teen to elders

Texture hair and hair mesh made by me from scratch

Split hair compatible (Patreon/SFS)

Custom Thumbnails

LOD Information: LOD0: 15k | LOD1: 12k | LOD2: 7k | LOD3: 3k

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly)

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Always free, no adfly)

Preview in CAS:

Hair with hat category:

Split hair color:

~⭐️~

~Genshin Impact Eyes~

color eyes of characters as non-default

color eyes of characters as make-up face

⚠️ Important: At the moment both only have swatch of Razor's eyes, but I'll add more as make other characters, which in that case will be notified in corresponding post so that if you wish you can download or re-download it with new swatch (if you downloadi it from SFS), for those who become a patreon on Patreon I'll simply modify the file and make it notify the update of that post, since it seems that if someone only follows me this function doesn't warn you (Thanks @lea-heartscxiv for the warning).

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (Patreon ~ Always free, no adfly)

✨DOWNLOAD LINK✨ (SFS ~ Always free, no adfly)

~⭐️~

Let me know if you find any problem. 🙏❣️

IF YOU LIKE MY WORK PLEASE CONSIDER BECOME A PATREON OR TIP ON KO-FI. ANY HELP IS ALWAYS WELCOMED BUT ALWAYS OPTIONAL. YOU CAN ALSO COMMISSION ME HERE OR FROM TUMBLR, IF YOU WANT ME TO DO SOMETHING SPECIFIC FOR YOU.  THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

👀👉MORE DOWNLOADS

📻 @alwaysfreecc, @sssvitlanz, @public-ccfinds

Happy simming! 🍀

💛

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[readyandnot]

HOT DAMN-

THAT WAS THE BEST ONE SO FAR

first off- ofc ash got a little injured, man can’t even stay out of trouble when vacationing lmao glad it’s only minor tho

again, ash sounds a lot better, the whole staying behind thing sounds normal and he’s a lot more cheerful, always makes me happy :))

also i loved that marie bit even tho we haven’t met her lol

WOOOOOOO let’s just jump right into it huh?

HOLY SHIT ASH WTF

i felt like i was actually listening to the patreon versions omg

mans goes SUBMISSIVE I LOVE IT

that’s like probably the most spicy (noise wise) we’ve heard so far it was LOUD AND CLEAR

the massaging part *kiss* love that so much

i wish there was more of ash being insecure about his scar, BUT less angst to deal with so all good in my book

but wowwww that threw me for a loop, it just keeps getting better and better

like vincent’s was great but ash’s is also great so vincent is a close second

WHEW

OH SHIT QUESTION MARK IS NEXT

alright- predictions: i think it’ll be a new character like morgan, or huxley and damien and fl ORRRR a new idea popped in my head, ollie!

either one or whatever we get honestly i’m pumped for!

[interact-if]

Taking the spotlight for Day 6... Lucirene!

Lucirene, author of An Angel’s Song

Latino Heritage Month Featured Author

In the forest of Bres an otherworldly sickness corrodes the soil and changes the creatures within. “A parting gift from the fallen angels”  say the citizens of the Hyaku Region and the mark on your hand confirms it.

Though the scent travelling in the air is sweet and enticing everyone knows better than to get closer. But the mark, it pulses, it burns, the pain spreading as fast as the corruption of the forest does.

Your masters are calling, and it seems like this time you cannot escape them.

An Angel’s Song Demo | Author’s Ko-fi | Author’s Patreon | Read more [here]

Tags: dark fantasy, romance

(INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT UNDER THE CUT!)

Q1: So, tell us a little bit about the projects you’re working on!

I have so many, but the only one public is An Angel’s Song. It’s, more than anything, a story about grief, loneliness and overcoming it all while navigating a hostile environment and discovering long lost secrets about the Divine and about the MC’s country. That one is very cathartic for me to make because of the themes, I feel like I’m working through a lot of feelings I didn’t even realize I had by writing it.

The next one is also an IF and it focuses on comedy, adventure and character interaction. It’s supposed to be more lighthearted, more fun, but knowing me… I don’t know if it’ll stay that way. Basically, it goes: A Captain’s boat falls prey to the storms and the strange creatures living under the sea, and they and their crew end up washing ashore an icy, snowy country. I already have the main cast written down and they have so much synergy, it’s amazing.

And the last one I’ll talk about (a traditional novel) actually happens in the same setting as my second IF, but many, many years before, when their local deity/guardian was born. It’s more of a romance-fantasy than anything, a love story between a Goddess and a half-dragon, however it also showcases many of the situations the people had to navigate and face before their country could become the place you’ll see in my second IF.

Q2: What excites you most about using interactive fiction? What are some of the biggest challenges?

What I like most definitely is how much freedom we have as authors. Of course, one is constrained by one’s ability to code but I think, for the most part, we can do so many things, reach an entirely new level of immersion that would not be possible with a regular novel. It’s amazing how sometimes I’m reading something and get so into it, feel so connected to the MC I feel dread when they do, panic when they have to make a choice that will clearly impact a lot of people in their world. With IF you can really feel like you’re part of the story.

Another thing I like is being able to explore other paths with my writing. Like for example, what if the MC had done this instead of that? How would that have affected their relationships, their world state? Writing branches is a lot of work, especially because they could change so many things, but it feels oddly satisfying when you do decide to include them. 

Challenges… Coding, mainly. I feel like a lot of new aspiring IF authors are a bit afraid of coding and I can understand that, especially since, had it not been for the help of the community, I would have taken way longer to actually start using Twine. Hopefully with time for resources come up and it becomes less daunting.

I don’t know if any other author feels the same way but, though I think branching is a blessing, it is also a curse. I can only write the same conversation so many times, I mean I know I’m writing it in different tones and sometimes with different results but it gets frustrating after a while because it feels like you’re stuck, like you’re not progressing at all.

Another one would definitely be finding a balance between reader interaction and just following your vision. Since it’s IF at times I feel like I have to meet a quota of branches or ways in which you can react, sometimes I also find it difficult to make the MC feel like a real person instead of a reader-insert. I’m working on that.

Q3: What has been something in your project you’ve had to do a weird amount of research for?

That’s a difficult one… I don’t know if I would consider it weird but I do tend to investigate a lot about fashion, especially when designing the main outfits of the characters. I spend hours trying to find out what colors were used back then, what they meant, who was allowed to use them. I have this little image with some palettes for kimonos depending on the season.

I also spend too much time coming up with names, especially for places. Like I look up names of places that already exist, what they mean, I try to investigate if the words that I want to use make sense, then I panic because I can’t find anything, but I think that’s usual for writers. I also spent more time than necessary researching for the name of a tree that you will see way later in the book, which no one will probably notice what the name of the tree means or what it symbolizes but it makes me happy.

Honestly, I feel like the amount of research I have had to do has not been particularly weird? If anything at times I think I should research more, even if some aspects of Japanese culture will not apply to Kyou.

Q4: Which of your characters is most like you? How?

The initial version of the MC from An Angel’s Song, which I miss dearly since they had more personality. They were autistic coded too, and I hope some traces of that still remain. Apart from that I feel like all of the characters from the main cast share something with me, even if their experiences are, of course, more dramatic than my own.

A lot of them have issues with a paternal figure or an absent mother, which also resonates with me. Some of Saori’s traits draw inspiration from ways in which I talked or acted before I became a little better at masking, before I became more self-aware. Hazuki being emotional and caring, K being a bit clingy but devoted, Masa having a temper yet loyal, Miwa being friendly but reluctant to open up beyond surface level information. I think those things describe me.

There’s also Rei but I don’t think I’m writing her book anytime soon. She’s someone that’s very family oriented, she’s a bit temperamental but she means well and she’s not afraid to speak her mind. Now that I think about it, maybe Rei is more the person I want to become.

Q5: Does your heritage influence your characters as you create them? (How? Why or why not?)

I’ve been living in Venezuela my whole life so I think so, even if most of the time I don’t even notice it. I believe that this happens especially in regards to relationships because people in Venezuela are very family oriented and also, from what I’ve experienced, they form strong bonds with their neighbors, which creates this strong sense of community —sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn’t, but my mom and her friends always make at least some friends in their neighborhoods and they gossip with some coffee about the happenings of the rest—. So when it comes to writing a character it is very important to me to make an emphasis on family relationships because those are a strong part of my culture, of my identity. 

In An Angel’s Song you have the main cast having issues or conflicting emotions about one or multiple members of their family, which influence their behavior and their outlook on life, but for the most part they are (or will be) able to form similar relationships with people that are not related to them, or to work towards restoring that relationship, transforming it into something healthier. 

In my other books family dynamics are also immensely important. For example, I’m going to mention Rei again because I love her. So, Rei has a sister named Rin, and they are both very close, even if they haven’t spent much time together. Their bond and trust in each other helps them overcome a lot of obstacles and they rely on each other when they need support or encouragement. Rei also has other people that she thinks of as siblings, and restoring that relationship with them is one of her main goals. There’s also this recurring guilt she feels at leaving her birth family and her home to explore, because to her, families are supposed to stay together.

Another aspect that I think influences my writing is religion, even if I wasn’t raised in a particularly religious household nor do I belong to any religion. Religion is a big deal in this country, we have so many events and holidays relating to religious figures. I remember when I was very young I loved going to one of the churches here because the Virgin of that town had a building filled with pretty clothes to dress her with. 

So, in that vein, I try to think about the character’s relationship with religion, do they believe in the Gods? Do they trust them? Do they follow local deities or prefer the main pantheon? How does this religion shape the way people interact with each other and the world? In regards to characters that are Venezuelan or Venezuelan-coded… I do have a few that are Venezuelan, but I don’t think I’m going to be releasing their stories soon, so I’ll keep it quiet for now.

Q6: What is something you love to see in interactive fiction?

People being passionate about their work! This isn’t something exclusive to IF, but it is something that I love seeing. I also like seeing the different ways people innovate within the genre. I feel like sometimes, especially with newer writers, there is this idea that an IF has to subscribe to a specific format and that’s simply not true. If you don’t want to use a stat system you don’t have to, if you want to add combat then go ahead, if you would prefer to write an MC that’s already pretty pre-established (which is something that I personally want to try) then there’s nothing stopping you and I encourage you to give it a go. IF is very versatile and it’s wrong to try and fit authors into a box, especially if they want to bring something new into our little corner of the internet.

Q7: Any advice to give?

In general, I advise people to have fun writing, to not worry so much about how good it is, about if people will like it. Writing, at the end of the day, ends up being a pretty solitary activity and having those thoughts in your head too long will make you spiral. Be kind to yourself, be open to feedback when it comes (and learn to distinguish constructive feedback from destructive feedback) and enjoy the exploration of your world and characters. 

You are not alone in all of this. If you can, join a group of writers you can talk with, exchange ideas, get feedback from or just exchange memes (the ultimate bonding experience). Don’t be afraid, you’re not alone.

[the-griffons-saddlebag]

💎 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗺! Courier’s Cap
Wondrous item, rare (requires attunement) ___ This tan bag cap bears a wax seal on its side and is stamped with a variety of messengers’ markings. While wearing the hat, your walking speed is increased by 5 feet. Within the hat is a special demiplane that can hold up to 100 letters, written notes, or similar mundane sheets of paper. You can use an action to reach into the hat and pull out a sheet you choose. If the hat is punctured or torn, the sheets of paper spill out in a pile within 5 feet of the hat. The hat has 3 charges and regains all expended charges daily at dawn. While wearing the hat, you can use an action to expend some of its charges to cast one of the following spells from it: “message” (0 charges, or 1 charge to cast the alternate version detailed below) or “sending” (2 charges). If there’s space within the demiplane, any message sent by either spell is automatically recorded on a mundane scrap of paper, torn to the size of the message, and stored within the hat. If you expend 1 charge to cast the “message” spell from the hat, the message you send as part of the spell materializes in front of you as a folded letter, complete with the message inside of it. The message is written in your handwriting. The letter then flies through the air towards the target, which can be up to 1,000 feet away from you. You don’t need to be able to see the target in order to send the message in this way, but you must either know its name or provide a general description for the flying letter. The letter flies through the air with a speed of 50 feet; it has AC 10 and 1 hit point. When the letter arrives, it lands at the target’s feet or in one of its open hands, provided it has one. “Special delivery!” ___ ✨ Patrons get huge perks! Access this and hundreds of other item cards, art files, and compendium entries when you support The Griffon's Saddlebag on Patreon for less than $10 a month!

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Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy Prerelease Patreon Update March 21st 2024

Changelog

CHAPTER 1

Have started working on replacing the examples of play with updated ones that actually fit the current and slightly more stable version of the rules. These will be found in various chapters. You can see them in the table of contents.

Fixed a pretty bad typo in a sidebar “Sometimes, citizens are innocent despite being proven guilty in a court of law. A quest to prove the innocence of a convicted criminal makes a great mystery-solving motivation.”

Changed “Collaborative Storytelling: Players are not their Investigators” to “Players are not their Characters”

Changed the heading “Not An Excuse for Bad Faith Play” to “No Excuse for Bad Faith Play”

Changed header “Expect to Fail Risky Rolls” to “Expect to Fail Rolls”

Investigators’ Truth is now a MUCH cleaner and easier to understand section. Holy crap that was a mess. 

Made it so comforting and exacerbating factors for composure rolls no-longer stack. Made it so that two stressors happening at the same time just count as exacerbating factors rather than clunkily combining the modifiers.

Changed skipping a meal from -2 composure to -1 composure

Changed “Total Composure Loss (Optional/Legacy Rule)” to be “Portraying Composure Loss” and completely redid it as guidelines and suggestions rather than really being rules. 

Changed a lot of stuff about Jumpscares. Made the choices more potent.  

Combat and Chases are no-longer considered Scenes. 

Created a new section just for defining scenes

Overhauled Ticks

Added a new section: Adventure Modules, How to Use Them, and Why

Started marking the sidebar stuff in such a way so it will be easier for readers reading the beta version before the fancy corkboard formatting is applied to see what sentence each sidebar is referencing.

Added multiple new sections underneath Role of the Narrator, full of GM advice tailored specifically for Eureka. 

For Tick consumption in travel times, added 4 different starting values based on the size of the era the adventure is taking place in. Made other changes to how Ticks work with traveling, and also added a mechanic for speeding and getting pulled over by the cops. Made it more clear how Ticks work and how they are supposed to be used.

Sports cars no longer take less time getting to places and are counted as regular cars for tick cost of traveling.

Moved the rules for how to restore Composure with a Comfort roll into the Composure section rather than being under the Comfort skill, more like how the HP-restoring rules are found in the section about damage and HP rather than under the Medicine skill. 

Way better clarified how the Manipulate skill is supposed to work.

Copy-edited all the way to Interpersonal Consequences.

CHAPTER 2

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CHAPTER 3

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CHAPTER 4

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CHAPTER 5

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CHAPTER 6

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CHAPTER 7

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CHAPTER 8

Added a new Mage Trait, Lightning Powers 

[maverick-werewolf]

Werewolf Fact #60 - Werewolves Have Tails

Unbelievably, I never actually did a werewolf fact on this. But... Well, it disturbs me just how many random people on the internet I see making the utterly baseless assertion, as if they actually know, that “werewolves in folklore didn’t have tails.”

That is categorically untrue.

(Although plenty of things in Hollywood spurned tails on their werewolf designs for various reasons, Underworld remains the primary culprit for popularizing the concept of “my werewolf is too edgy and unwolfish to have a tail”)

Do werewolves in folklore have tails? The answer is so simple it can be shortened to just one word:

Yes.

Now, if you ask me, I think it looks totally ridiculous to have a werewolf with a wolf (or whatever modern designs pretend passes as something remotely wolfish; let’s face it, most werewolf designs, especially movie ones, have basically nothing in common with a wolf) head and/or digitigrade legs that doesn’t have a tail. Those need tails. But don’t get me started on werewolf designs.

I also personally think it’s much scarier for a werewolf to have a tail, and I don’t buy the arguments that they are “scarier without one,” because apparently startlingly bare werewolf butts sticking out like they’re begging to have a tail pinned on them are scary (?), and I’ll tell you why at the end of this post.

Before I get into the folklore meat of this, though, I will say that part of my personal stake in werewolf studies is to push for a less broad definition of the word “werewolf.” Personally, I don’t hold to many scholars’ ideas of calling every single person turning into a wolf a “werewolf,” and this applies doubly to things involving witchcraft.

Personally, I think a “werewolf” needs to fit a certain, meaningful criteria, instead of any old person or thing who has the ability to turn into a wolf.

To start off, I will open with the very simple statement that the overwhelming majority of werewolves in folklore turned into giant wolves. Yes, just wolves. Not wolves walking upright, not wolf-men, just wolves. And what do all wolves have? Tails. Case closed.

If that isn’t enough for you, though, there are many sources that detail exactly the how and why of werewolves having tails in folklore...

Firstly, there’s Henry Boguet in “Of the Metamorphosis of Men into Beasts,” from 1590 (my version was republished in A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture, edited and compiled by Charlotte F. Otten). On page 79 of this edition, Boguet marks a difference between werewolves and witches that have turned into wolves, repeating a common belief that, when witches turn into animals, they have “no tails.”

Notice that the witches do not have tails. The werewolves, however, do, and that is even specified as an identifying attribute.

Secondly, there’s the Malleus Maleficarum, specifically question X of part I, “Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts.” I’m pulling this from Monatgue Summers’ translation.

They say that, “the devil can deceive the human fancy so that a man really seems to be an animal.” This specifically refers to deception. Thus, illusion. Not a true, physical change as we get with a werewolf.

Furthermore, however, they say that “when it says that no creature can be made by the power of the devil, this is manifestly true if Made is understood to mean Created. But if the word Made is taken to refer to natural production, it is certain that devils can make some imperfect creatures.”

“Imperfect,” in this instance, generally thought to refer to “tailless,” along with a few other legends, such as a witch in animal form still bearing human eyes. Again, witches.

Bear in mind that the Malleus Maleficarum was written and compiled during a time period in which werewolves were considered a form of witchcraft, although not equal to it. One could become a werewolf via a curse, without directly practicing that witchcraft. Long story short, werewolves and witches were NOT the same thing.

This also came from a time period when werewolves were considered negative (obviously), unlike in earlier time periods, and much more like today.

Moving on, we also have Albert the Great in his book On Animals, as cited by Montague Summers, who says that devils can indeed make animals: “they can, with God’s permission, make imperfect animals.” Again on the imperfection.

There is one scholar who disputes this very, very briefly in his writing, and that is actually one of my prime sources: Montague Summers. In his book The Werewolf, he remarks, “many–but not all– authorities hold that the werewolf has no tail.” Like, dude, what? We just established that they do.

Something to remember about Summers is that firstly, he truly believed in werewolves as a form of witchcraft. To him, werewolves are more closely connected with those aforementioned witches (that I think werewolves need to be separated from). Secondly, when he makes this sweeping statement, he provides absolutely no sources whatsoever and doesn’t really make any kind of argument to back up or to defend that idea. I’m calling his BS on that one.

Thirdly, we have an overwhelming number of other sources on werewolves being depicted with tails as opposed to without. We have imagery from various time periods (as appeared in my post on werewolf appearances; there are a few more images here), in which they are virtually always depicted with tails or mid-transformation into the form of a wolf, which would have a tail. One of the only depictions we have of a tailless werewolf is the wolf-man woodcut of the one eating the baby, which is in itself a rare sight, as werewolves weren’t generally “wolf-men” very often in folklore. And, frankly, I think somebody misnamed that woodcut, because I’ve never seen any sourcing on it and I don’t even know if it’s supposed to depict a werewolf in the first place.

Descriptions of werewolves in folklore frequently refer to tails, or else refer to the werewolf as simply a “wolf” and thus lead us to assume they must have a tail, or such a radical difference would’ve been noticed by the narrator (Niceros’s tale, Bisclavret, Melion, the curse of Lykaon, Chinese legends, and many more).

There are doubtless many more citations/discussions/arguments on this, but I think you get the picture.

Werewolves have tails. And not some funky little cut-off rat tail or some stub sticking out from their spine - a wolf tail.

And you know one reason why werewolves have tails? Because, ages ago, people didn’t see a terrifying werewolf and immediately go “omg puppy uwu must pet good boi” or “werewolves are so corny lol.”

Because, ages ago, the concept of a human turning into something so inhuman was terrifying. Unfortunately, everyone today has reframed like 90% of everything into “that is bad and corny” if it’s remotely fantasy. Regardless, the idea of a human turning into something with a tail - a tail being a markedly inhuman trait - was extremely scary and startling. A werewolf with a tail will always appear much less human than a werewolf without one, and that is something that brings them closer to being terrifying beasts as opposed to just hairy dudes.

So yes, sure it’s an aesthetic choice of the creator, but werewolves in folklore had tails, whether anyone likes it or not. And if they are anything beyond a wolf-man, they’re simply going to look better with tails, and if you ask me, that’s also something that will be the case whether anyone likes it or not. You hear me, Blizzard? 

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House of Mouse Reviews Christmas Double Feature: Pete’s Christmas Caper and Clarabelle’s Christmas List: Tis the Season to Give Mortimer a Restraining Order (Comissioned by WeirdKev27)

Ho Ho Ho All You Happy People! More christmas, more house of mouse, more nonsensical jokes and refrences

Though this marks the last month of House of Mouse reviews on the blog. It’s been a heck of a year but with Kev moving his patreon reviews to smilier pastures and me having covered most of the episodes I want to, it feels like a good place to stop for now. I might do some one off reviews for character birthdays, but for now the house is about to close for a while. This is one of three final reviews, the other ones being snowed in, for obvious reasons and house of crime as it has my faviorite short and was the only one I didn’t get to over the year I REALLY wanted to. Again ther’es one or two I wouldn’t mind visiting and I enjoy the show enough to revisit it, i’ll talk more about my throughts when we finish the reviews at the end of the month. It’s been a good ride though, and I’m happy to have a few more miles to cover

So once again we have a pair of episodes i’ve paired up for time’s sake, I had to get to the insanity of the christmas star and what not. It’s also why I pushed the other Christmas DuckTales ep to next year. These things happen. But it’s no less of a review and it’s no less fun so join me under the cut as Pete Steals christmas , clarabelle’s a dick and Mortimer commmits a lot of sexual ho-ho-harassment. So join me under the cut for all of that and more!

As I did last time, i’m seperating the episdoes by doing the wrapround first. This is already late so let’s goooo

Pete’s Christmas Caper: This is a very simple but very entertaining wraparound. It’s the night before christmas and the HOM gang is having a gift exchange, which Pete is indignant about as he automatically assumes he wasn’t invited, which given he’s their landlord and not really part of the club, actively tries to shut it down on a semi-regular basis and smells like old cottage cheese, is a fair assumption. But no Mickey included him, and gladly lets Pete play santy claus after he begs. 

Unsuprisingly Pete is using Mickey’s kindness and geneorsity for an evil scheme... one even more transparently dickish than that time he tried to use an earthquake machine to drive Goofy out of his home. I swear sometimes I fear i’m just going to wake up and find out this job was just a fever dream I had. 

Pete wants to steal all the presents and also steals the sorcerer from fantasia’s hat to get the help of the brooms, a clever gag I gotta applaud. This ends up literally backfiring as once mickey figures it out he tricks him into.. burning all of them. IN the furnace. 

I mean.. I GUESS you win... a pile of charred ash and the smug satisfaction that you won? I swear this ending confuses and infuraties me. 

Outside of Pete’s humbuggery and Mickey’s dumbuggery, we have Mickey do some man on the street segements, which I think only happened in this one episode, but my brain swore happened more. Maybe it was just that memorable. So we get some fun bits as he asks people what they want for christmas and if their naughty or nice. Good stuff. 

My faviorite part of that though is when he talks to mortimer who asks for Minnie’s phone number.. and next time we see him the tip of his nose has been caved into the rest of it. Mickey punched a dude so hard he caved his nose in.  Oh and it gets better, as he next asks for Daisy’s number..a nd comes back MORE beaten up and now with a chunk of ear missing as seen up top.  Just to get this into your head 

MICKEY MIKE TYSONED MORTIMER’S EAR

Either him or Donald point is at least ONE disney icon bit into a buncha cruncha ear. I love this job so much I can’t stand it. Overall a fantastic wraparound, even if the ending makes almost no sense. Also the add is for a sweatshop version of gepetto’s, as he apparently went all evil after Pinnocio left the nest. Maybe this is a prequel to disne’ys version of fables I dunno. 

The Nutcracker:

This is another one of those big, beautiful two part shorts they did, the kind that really stuck with me all these years. This is easily the best of the two parters i’ve rewatched and were it not for the two part Blot short, which we’ll get to soon enough. 

It follows the basic plot of the nutcracker well enough: A vaugely aged girl is given a nutcracker by her eccentric uncle, said girl shrinks down, dances and romances with the nutcracker. Then she gets kidnapped by the rat king who wants to make her his bride because that’s all villians could think of back then, the nutcracker breaks his testicles with a silver baseball bat, everyone’s happy and then you loose 20 minutes of your life watching the dance of the sugarplum faries. And that’s without having seen the play in 20 years, it’s homaged and redone like this that much.

This short has fun with that by using the narrator, who interacts with the cast. THe best of this is at the start when Ludvig, playing the uncle (Minnie is naturally the girl, Mickey the nutcracker and Donald the rat king), gets increasingly pissed off at the narrator not letting him speak and narrating over all his lines. Ludvig is always a delight but here he’ sin top form with just the best expressions. Eventaully the narrator gets fed up with this and LITERALLY throws him out of the story uncle phil style. IT’s great stuff. 

Donald meanwhile grumbles about his roll and only agrees when the narrator lies and says he’ll win in the end which only works due to Donald’s stance on literacy. 

Finally we have Goofy showing up and the narrator refusing to get in the middle of his whose on first shenanigans, and goofy simply putting a hat on to signify he’s the snow fairy. It’s truly fantastic and the ending, with Ludvig becoming the sugarplum fairy, is great and lampshades how utterly pointless that segment is.  A true christmastime classic. Check it out on it’s own or with this truly amazing episode. This ep as a whole is easily one of the best i’ve checked out during this yearlong odessy. Oh right there was one more short right?

Donald’s Dynamite: Snowman Donald gets exploded. It’s funny. Moving on to the next episode. 

Clarabelle’s Christmas List:

Another great wraparound. After how lackluster some of them have been it’s nice that this last batch have been the best. I truly feel season 3 is when they finally got the groove on doing these down pat as on the whole they tend to have the best. 

This is another simple one like last time with a main story and a running segment. This time the running bit is that Mortimer wants a kiss from Minnie using missletoe. That old timey family friendly brand of sexual harassment.  It’s okay, not as good as the man on the street segement and it’s just not all that funny compared to what mortimer does usually. The only reason I don’t HATE it is that one bit has mister toad kiss him which is great and it’s more gay than any of disney’s “first gay characters” combined. So there’s that. 

The main plot is Clarabelle allegedlys has Santa’s naughty or nice list and plans to read it off. The gang minus Mickey don’t want their sins read aloud if they are naughty and try heisting it.. which is fair. It’s one thing to be declared naughty by santa, you made your bed and what not. it’s another to have a literal obnoxious cow read it out loud and likely mock you for it. 

Their attempts fail so she gives it to mickey who naturally sneaks a peak. Clarabelle then tries to declare them all naughty for the list thing.. only for Santa to show up. He clears things up as naturally Clarabelle didn’t REALLY have his list, she was just bluffing for attention. Santa deals with her the only way he knows how

Nothing of value is lost and a merry christmas is had by all, with donald ripping up a book because apparently my iletarcy joke is somehow cannon.  

Overall not QUITE as good as the last one, but still pretty damn spiffy. 

Donald On Ice:

This one is pretty good but hampered by the ending. The boys build a snowman for a contest while donald skates with himself baby, and slides his way on over into some shenanigans. Again it works fine: the slapstick is pitch perfect, with mouseworks having really gotten what makes Donald work a lot of the time, and it goes a bit nuts in the best way possible as Donald gets chased by a mutant killer snow goon at one point. 

Yup. No explination just a murder snowman. The boys snowman gets ruined in the process of the chase and.. donald gets chased off into the sunset.. because a snowman tried to kill him because he.. wanted to skate peacefully on his own? Yeah the ending sours what could’ve been a true classic, and thus weakens the whole short. Still might be worth a look just be wary of that. 

Mickey’s Christmas Crisis: A fun bit of holiday fracas as Mortimer, whose mickey’s neighbor in this one, competes with mickey in the annual holiday decorating contest. It’s fun, it’s fancy free and it’s really hilarious. Easily worth checking out, all sorts of inventive gags. 

The reason i’m so short on words is not tha tit’s bad, it’s not it’s just very simple “one does something then the other does something” sense of escalation comedy. Simple but great stuff. No what’s got me distracted.. is that THING up there int he image. Mortimer brings out this talking wreath, the monstoristy before you and it’s just... it looks like someone horribly edited it but I assure you this is how I look. Unless someone fucked with my copy of house of mouse, someone thought this was okay. Someone designed this, someone storyboarded this, someone drew it to horrrifying life, someone approved it, and someone likely got killed by it in the night at some point as part of some ancient curse as they gave an elder god the holly jolly form he’d been  craving. It is the ungod and if I suddenly disappear after today, you know know what finallyd id me in. It wasn’t the poor diet or stress or anxiety or depression, it was our new green god, may he have mercy on me. 

So yeah good short.... and uh all hail our new green overlord I guess? 

Overall this episode is pretty good, not as good as the other christmas ep but still pretty spiffy. Both are REALLY worth checking out this holiday season. If STILL not on disney plus. Still. It’s been a year, for fucks sake. I WILL give disney till the end of the month, when I do the phantom blot review and what’s coming on plus next will be out, till I actually complain about it at length, but given it’s been two years of the service and a year of doing these reviews withotu proper, upscaled copies, i’m not holding my breath. I am going to enjoy the rest of my christmas reviews. next is donald and scrooge fighting with steam shovels. No I won’t give you context you’ll just have to follow and read the next one won’t you? If you enjoyed this review consider giving to my patreon or sending a donation or comission my way via paypal

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Fantasy Retexture of “Downpour” hair + Accessory Strands by Anto (Both versions)

- 72 unnatural gradient hair colors - Custom Thumbnail - Female hair - Teen-YoungAdult-Adult-Elder - HQ Compatible *Previews are taken with HQ mod* ❌MESH REQUIRED❌ - Mesh link under the cut -

I did make a retexture of both versions of the hair. The original one is very high poly, so if your computer can’t handle it, download the “Less detail” version instead which will treat your computer nicer I also did the accessory strands to go with this hair. More detailed info about all this in the download link

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