#threads. / art & kirby

[cameraguyward]

WHERE: Main Street WHO: Kirby (@ghostsbrokenbyfairytales)

Ward rubbed at his face, spending the early day with Olivia and Zarina had been more emotionally loaded than even he was ready for. Add in the keys that he was clutching in his bad hand and he was having a time. He was grateful Oliver had Ava currently and was doing some type of activity with her. Giving a small nod to Marisol de la Luna when he walked by her and Sam's booth, his grip tightening on the keys. He missed photography but she'd get more use out of the camera than he would these days, any interest he'd once had in the hobby buried under his new apathy.

Taking a seat on a bench he'd closed his eyes for barely a second before almost jumping out of his skin when he found himself with a lap full of Kirby. "Hi to you too," he said not being able to help the amused smirk that tugged at his lips, "You know there was a perfectly good spot on this bench next to me."

[lowrezbonuslevel]

kirbytober day 7

Before becoming a full-time tyrant, Sectonia was something of a fashion aficionado. A talented designer, seamstress, and tailor, she paid the bills by running a small boutique in Floralia (flower-themed, of course). Her signature was beautiful golden silk.

A traveling puppeteer stopped by and was smitten with her work. He was in her shop so often, most everyone assumed he was an employee.

One day, the boutique closed permanently and without notice. Through the window, you can still see the dusty counter where the proprietress used to greet her customers. It seems the floating kingdom lost its greatest seamstress forever, but with the flash of a certain well-loved cape, you might yet see the gleam of her golden thread.

Prompt list (Day 7: Headcanon) by @paintpanic

[veinsfullofstars]

Kirbtober 2023 Day 16: Spinoff

(ID: Kirby series fanart of Yarn Kirby in car form driving off in a puff of yarn smoke, with Prince Fluff barely hanging on by one hand. It is done in the art style of Kirby’s Epic Yarn, with everything rendered as yarn outlines on beige canvas backing stitched in white thread around the edges. END ID.)

Kirbtober 2023 prompts by @/paintpanic (link to list here)

Started and finished on 09/19/23, updated for color correction 11/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 10/16/23.

I already used all my yarn puns on the last one, dang. At least recreating the KEY art style was a fun challenge. Lookit ‘em go.

[thirtecnth]

@ghostsbrokenbyfairytales / closed starter / kirby setting: ciara & art's place

Art had everything set up as much as he could. It was an old console, sure, but he was just excited to play games with somebody again. He left the door unlocked for whenever they got here and waved it opened. “Hey, good timing! Everything should be good to go, I think.”

[backmaskcd]

closed starter for @ghostsbrokenbyfairytales (kirby) location: the art festival; kirby and malin's booth

"You're gonna start a trend, you know." Link popped up entirely unannounced, as he usually did, leaning against the booth. "You really wanna give people the ability to dress like you? Or is it so you can claim you started the fashion movement first?" The grin was still on his face, and he knew he was being annoying. "Y'all got any emo era gloves? Mine are starting to become unsightly."

[kakusu-shipping]

Please excuse me sending this to you at 5 am but alas I was hit with a sudden silly thought jcbcjhdsj

The fact that we’re friends in our shared universes but I only have one s/i is so funny to me cause like,, every universe I pop into I’m like “woo time to hang out with my buddy Emile who I’ve met multiple iterations of” but for you it’s a relationship that’s locked for each universe. Like,, King Devin and Dorian are two completely different friends in completely different worlds for your s/is but for me you’re just,, my orange buddy whose different versions I happen to run into every now and then as I travel the multiverse,,,

I had this little headcanon that you were just multiverse faceblind; So no matter how many times you met me (or any other characters who may exist multiuniversally) I always seemed like a completely new person every time. I even had a little comic idea sketched out I was gonna finish when I finally got out of surgery recovery

But also you just like. Knowing it's me every time is equally as funny. Especially when comparing the Mes. Like Jelly Emile is dead Silent but Mario Emile cannot shut up. Pokemon Emile's the chillest Go With the Flow man you'll ever meet, MLP Dragon Emile is stressed 25/8. Sonic Emile's dumb as a box of rocks, Deltarune Human Emile is majoring in 5 subjects at once. I contain multitudes.

Platonic Soulmate kind of thing where you just keep bumping into me everywhere you go. Friends in every timeline.

[quinceandquail]

Kirby for the Charity Quilt (feat. Merry being 'involved')

[mysticdragon3md3]

[doctorknightley]

Knightley let out a breath he hadn't realized he'd been holding, surprised that he actually felt relieved. "If that ends up changing I won't hold it against you," he said. Slowly nodding, "That's more than reasonable, she won't tell anyone without your permission," he added. "I'm sorry as well, for not telling you why we left. I should've, and the offer still stands if you ever need to get away from there for a night or more."

kirby sighed and nodded about to say something when knightleys words made them pause, blinking a few times. "i.." damn they really did do that didn't they? it took a moment for them to answer, stretching out their legs and put their hands in their lap as they stared at the ground. "no." they finally answered shaking their head. "i'm sorry by the way.." kirby didn't want to be avoidant with their best friend or any of their friends really but especially him. "you can tell zarina just.. please don't tell anyone else? is that at least a reasonable ask?" they said finally looking up at him.

[birdon14]

Alright, I'll warn my followers and fellow Kirby anime fans here too.

I'll delete this post later.

Beware of the Newgrounds user Gomogora (DeviantArt: Gomogora534)

This guy harassed me for 3 years.

You can read more detail on my twitter, but let me show you the unhinged drawings he made about me and the messages he send me:

warning: bloody/violent images, slurs, homophobia

This year, he drew my persona killed and did a bizarre hate art directed at my 'headcanons'. Dude is pissed simply because he thinks I hate Metaknight?

And here just recently gave me glorious message on Bluesky, containing all kinds of slurs and insults. This was on October 24th. He actively looked after me on his new accounts just to insult me and block me right after like a coward. The darkveemon account got deleted, but his main account is still there. (He has an interest in Digimon so that checks out as well.)

Another unhinged message under my reddit post back from August 2023:

He pretty much acts like a snake around people he's friendly with. Once you are one of the people he decides to hate on, he spews all kinds of slurs and insults at you. If he acts LGBT-friendly, remember that these are the texts he messaged me, an open lesbian. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, every time he drew Sirica, he always has this need to dunk on my headcanons lol. Appearantly my Sirica headcanons are all just about being crazy and hating Metaknight lmao

so yeah, those are the most important informations I need to share. Do not harass him back, just be cautious if you ever run into him and block him. I reported him on NG, he got a warning and one of the first images got deleted by NG self (the one with sprites got deleted by Gomogora himself, a few days earlier). Thankfully, he doesn't have a tumblr as far as I know.

It's best to stay away from him. That's all.

There are more informations I could share, but I don't think I need to repeat everything from my twitter thread:

https://x.com/ManniBirdon/status/1850981553196974496

[zaptrap]

Seeing that you've been here since 2012 is INSANE like you've witnessed it all huh. You've seen probably SO many weird and crazy things in this fandom like man that's so cool for you I feel...

ive def seen and participated in a lot of dumbass bullshit over the years LMAO. although notsomuch during the skybound-to-seabound era cuz i'd lost interest for a bit

Random shit I remember off the top of my head (plz feel free to fact-check):

deviantart era: (2012-2013)

that bright green ninjago ask meme

like, literally everybody making self-insert purple ninjas (sometimes orange, teal, or rainbow) and shipping them with their fav ninja

everyone making their own genderbends of the ninja. cole was almost always called nicole or colette lmao

people also naming their accounts (name)-the-ninja (or "teh-ninja", since this was 2012)

there's a non-zero probability that if you were in the fandom during the season 1 era, you're a furry now

naruto crossovers

half-snake ninja aus.........wonder who uh......who could've done that.....heheh (me) (that was my whole deal pre-nindroid!jay lmfao)

everyone posting like, doll-maker things they made of ninjago? especially dragon ones

(me) posting leaked screenshots of season 2 eps that i found on the lego wiki or smth lmao. this is also how i found out zane was a robot. i think i kept posting leaks when i moved to tumblr

legends of chima releasing and i thiiink it was supposed to be a ninjago replacement? like, legitimately? though a lot of people weren't happy about it. "furry gang drug wars" was a phrase used a lot lmfao.

tumblr era (2013-2016 for me) (may overlap with dA era)

everyone losing their minds over the shirtless ninja in ns2 lmfao

that one video of kirby marrow (rest in peace) saying cole was 14

that other vid of like, behind the scenes and it was the ninja's actors but like in-universe? it's where "cole bucket" comes from

also some behind the scenes vid with the actual voice actors lol

thinking back on this, im like 100% sure it was bullshit but when the end of rebooted aired, there was a rumor going around about fans being so upset over zane's death that they carved a snowflake on their stomachs. lots of people were freaking out lmfao

the rise and fall of "fucknoshittyninjagoOCs" (ashamed to say i heavily participated in harassing this blog even if i rlly didnt like the premise.........)

maypong

lots of tension with instagram cuz of all the art reposts. like. tons of reposts. i remember someone blocked me when i said to take something down but then unblocked me the same evening and apologized LOL so

roleplay twitter accounts (twitter was kinda not-as-a lot at the time)

nindroid!jay of course. its so old there was an update that was made in flash lmfao...

absolute fucking shitloads of AUs and headcanons. i dont think this has changed much but like. there were so many lmfao. entire threads

actually there's too many fucking AUs. im scrolling through my main blog and i cant fuckin find anything cuz ITS ALL THESE STUPID AU THREADS THEY AREN'T EVEN LIKE DEEP LMAO

ask-all-the-ninjagians

the absurd screenshot redraws i did. like they were super stupid lmfao. icr which blog they're on but they're on my comp still at least

ninjagians just. being a term used at all lmao

the ninjago fan-tournament during ns4. people would draw/write about their ocs doing whatever prompt was posted and then everyone came together to defeat a big bad snake man

tbh i started naturally losing interest during ns5, and then VERY QUICKLY dropped the show (and therefore fandom) when skybound came out lmao............... so i dont really remember a lot from this era and everything after

and now im back :D

i hope this is insightful! xD

[thevindicativevordan]

In your recent UFF post, you said: "UFF works better as a contrast with the mainline rather than as an entry point to the franchise for new readers". I wanted to start reading the Fantastic Four. Which runs would you recommend and in which order?

Start with Mark Waid for the best “modern” entry point. After that, Hickman for sure as the guy I expect to see the MCU draw on a lot for inspiration. After Hickman FF I recommend his Avengers run simply because it builds upon his FF and his entire epic casts Reed and Doom as the true leads. Then Ryan North’s current run for a great ongoing. Besides those, if you’re up for older runs, the Lee/Kirby run is foundational and second only to ASM in terms of Silver Age Marvel storytelling. Walter Simonson’s tenure is widely praised. Byrne’s run gets a lot of love but he bails on the book, leaving many plot threads unresolved (oh and there’s *that* Reed/Sue retcon too). McDuffie wrote an enjoyable short run.

But if you want an easy stand-alone read than I recommend Alex Ross’ recent Full Circle mini. Brilliant art and I had no problem following along despite not being familiar with the Lee/Kirby era before reading it.

[cherry-blossom-qf]

I MADE A SKETCH DUMP OF THIS BULLSHIT PLEASE HELP MEEEEEE!!!

Base off this idea a made as a joke…. then fell in love with…

Should I actually make this into an AU or nah? 

[veinsfullofstars]

“Lemme borrow this for a second.”

(ID: Kirby series fanart of King Dedede being a conductor of elements, including Lightning, Fire, Rock, and Ice, wielding them confidently and with ease if only temporarily. He also acts as both an amplifier of positivity - shown by a group hug from Kirby, Bandee, and several other Waddle Dees - and an enticing vessel for negativity - shown by his being possessed by Dark Matter. END ID.)

Inspired by this neat headcanon thread by @/das-a-kirby-blog and @/jojo-schmo, as well as this cool art thread by Jojo and @/veveisveryuncool. Thank you guys for feeding the brainworms. I’m a big fan of this headcanon, so I hope I managed to portray it well.

Started 11/16/23, finished 11/29/23, updated for color correction 11/02/24. NOTE: This was originally posted on my deleted account on 11/29/23.

[deafeninggardenerpanda]

The Story of the RTDLDX Box-art Leak

news of the Magolor Epilogue side mode is officially out! with that, say hello to @qui-gg , the original source of the RTDLDX box-art leak to the kirby fandom!

watching the leak spread in real time, the both of us talked and thought it would be fun to make a post about all of this later as a piece of fandom history. the reason why i'm making the post and not her is because while she was the original source, i'm the only one who witnessed the rest of the entire story firsthand.

note: all screenshots of dms/quig's initial reactions/info from quig and her friend posted here i received permission to share. all other screenshots are from public servers, so names are not censored unless someone asked me to, or unless they're the person who caused the leak to spread to the fandom at large. with that, let's get into the story 👇

the story starts with quig's friend, who works at gamestop, posting images of the the boxart to a mutual server they share

the white is the name of quig's friend censored. also for consistency's sake, note that these screenshots from quig are in central time. the rest of the screenshots in this post are from me and in pacific time (2 hours behind)

quig's friend isn't into kirby and had taken and shared the pictures without the knowledge that there was even anything special or spoilery on them. they had only taken it to show quig, because they knew quig as the kirby person of their friend group. quig decided to share it to my discord server soon after

a thread for the leak was made in the server instead of quig dming everyone individually, and we quickly established a rule against reposting it outside of this server. however, it was still allowed for it to be shared privately

everyone talked about the news excitedly for a while. quig continued to feed us more early info from their friend that never made it into the main leak spread throughout fandom, like photos of the inside box art, preorder bonuses, and info that apparently the boxarts were going to be displayed in-stores in about a week, confirming some sort of announcement or trailer soon.

around 2-3 hours later, we started to hear about other places talking about the leak.

at the time, no one suspected foul play. considering quig's friend's gamestop had received the boxart, everyone assumed that gamestop in general had received it and that other employees had also leaked it. however-

also going back and checking the image shared to reddit, we confirmed it was the same picture. then begun several bouts of back and forths trying to figure out how it had been leaked

apparently the very first leak of it outside of my server was to the r/kirby discord server. at this point, because im the owner and head mod of my server, and we had already established many times that we had not wanted it to be shared outside of there, and because quig was starting to get stressed about this immediately getting out of control, i decided to do my own investigating and find out who had leaked it so i could yell at them for breaking the rules

these were the very first messages to r/kirby that started the leak getting out to the entire fandom. ive censored her name in pink because i dont want anyone to attack this person, and from this point on i'll be calling her "the leaker". interestingly, it was someone not from my server, however, by chance, i happened to know her decently well anyways because we share some of the same spaces. because of this, i just dm'd her directly asking where she had gotten the picture from, providing additional context because, while i knew her, we didn't talk much and i thought it would be rude to only ask that without letting her know why

by that time it turns out she had went to bed, however. so for the rest of the night i did more asking around and found out who had shared it on my own. the person who showed it to her did end up being from my server. they were a friend of the leaker and had shared it to her in dms, but told me that they didn't know she had posted it to r/kirby because she never asked or let them know she was going to do so.

because i knew the person who had shared the box-art image to the leaker was cool, as well as sharing in dms not being against our rules, i decided there was no malicious intent and decided to lay off my "ass kicking" mood. i guess as you'd expect, the leak happened because it was shared from friend to friend and it took just one person not getting the memo it shouldn't be shared publicly for all of this to get out of control. that was my thought process at the time.

i already found out who had shared the image to the leaker, but since i had already sent a dm to said leaker about the event, i figured id just leave the messages to confirm and see what she had to say about it in the morning. like said in the beginning of this post, i did not get permission to share the dms so i will not post any screenshots, but ill summarize what was said next

i was told the next morning that, yes, the person who i had already known had given her the photo had given it to her. the leaker had taken it and immediately shared it to the largest kirby discord server out there because "shes incredibly impulsive" and "wanted the attention and clout", but otherwise was sorry. she told me she felt incredibly guilty about the whole event and went on to say stuff about how she was an "worthless human being". i told her it was fine and that she didn't have to be so harsh on herself, i had only wanted her to know the consequences, since at this point the next day, large gaming news sites had begun posting about it and it had gotten really big, to the point where quig rescinded her previous statement that her friend was in no danger and had started to worry this could lead to them getting hurt. the leaker told me she did all of this because she couldnt help wanting the clout over everything else if she wasnt told the consequences to her face

hey getting lost in the hype happens right? i wasnt the most happy that quig was feeling incredibly stressed now and that their friend could be in danger because someone wanted clout without thinking of the consequences, but this stuff happens. being impulsive happens. once the official news comes out sometime around a week later, this would all blow over. once again i reassured the leaker this was all fine, and we had a good friendly talk for several hours afterwards

later that day, quig found a youtube comment on the gamexplain video about the leak

the detective work started up once again. the canadian portion could be assumed from the french text alongside the english on the box, but it shouldn't have been public that it was from a canadian gamestop employee. quig started to worry that people were now digging so hard for the source their friend would get doxx'd. we did not believe it to be a random lurker in the server, because none of the other info quig had told us had gotten out.

initially i thought this was my fault. i mentioned it was from a gamestop employee in the tags of this post when i had made it the previous day, and then deleted those tags about 15 hours afterwards once we realized this was getting way too big. while not unreasonable, i found it a bit strange that this info had come from me, though

obviously people take tumblr as being the dead site that no one uses, and the leak news in general was spreading much more sluggishly over here with our smaller fandom and, compared to twitter and reddit, significantly less reach. not to mention i had left that information in the tags where less people read anyways, and with the word gamestop censored and my post itself not in the main kirby tags, the person in the youtube screenshot had to have been someone who follows me and was active on tumblr during that short timeframe for this to have happened

completely unrelated, later in the afternoon i decided to look in the r/kirby server's leak thread for fun, specifically the messages from the leaker. the previous day, people were swarming her about where she had gotten the image since she was the first person to post it to the general fandom. people were speculating that the leak was fake and that the leaker could've tried to fake it. there were lots of vague rumors about it being from "some random discord server out in the world". as my server was almost like the "ground 0" of the leak, it was a lot of fun watching this and watching people talk about us. i used the leakers messages as a boost to find these types of messages, since the r/kirby spoiler thread had dissolved to regular leak discussion.

and i found these

(that last sentence is a straight lie. she had just never bothered to ask)

(same message as in the previous screenshot, showing that the leaker had reacted with :true:)

it turns out she was the one who had leaked that this was from a gamestop employee. from my dms without letting me know once again. this was almost exactly 2 hours before i had the aforementioned conversation in dms with her. before she apologized and told me she felt immensely guilty and asked if there was anything she could do. before she told me she leaked the initial info because no one had told her the consequences to her face

excuse me in advance, please take the following as my interpretation of the event alone. i say and assume these things because of many prior encounters with this person

there is a lot i could say about these screenshots. i was absolutely furious when i saw them. in my eyes, the blatant 180 shift in attitude and behavior when talking to the public and when talking to me in my dms only a short while later shows the exact opposite amount of care she told me she had. the complete lack of acknowledgement of several people mentioning someone could get fired because of her actions, instead choosing to focus on how confirmation of it being from a gamestop employee just confirms the leak is real now... the fact that she said behind my back that i needed to chill, right before telling me she thought she was a worthless human being for doing this... i'm sparing the full details of my grievances because i don't want to make this a vent post or about me; i say this as a conclusion to this part of the story. as in, i think there's zero reason to believe the leaker actually ever gave a shit. i fully believe she purposely stepped over the consequences for the sake of clout

(to be clear i'm not trying to totally absolve myself of responsibility here, or make this some kinda persuasive argument. it totally could've been just my fault that the gamestop employee info got out. i don't particularly care if people think the leaker didn't do anything wrong either. whatever, make your own conclusions based off what's there)

thus ends the bias section. luckily the next news we got from quig's friend was very good

really a one in a million event. we now had concrete proof that her friend was, for sure, at 0 risk by some stroke of luck.

with that, the server, and quig and her friend, enjoyed the leak chaos in peace. this stuff doesn't happen often in the kirby fandom, and we thought this was a particularly interesting leak story to share as people who were there from start to finish. watching everything play out from one person, to one group, to the whole fandom and more, while stressful at times, was a unique and overall really fun experience

thank you for reading if you've made it this far! i know this post is kinda long, but i hope you've enjoyed this (probably over-comprehensive lol) write-up. really my final words on the subject are: i hope people can understand from reading this that, while getting lost in the hype happens, please know that there are real life people behind leaks. there can be real consequences to one person letting it slip. don't spread leaks without asking and, if you know the source of a leak, don't go around shouting it from the rooftops. not to mention the amount of people upset that they got spoiled. even though this was very tame as a back of box-art leak, ultimately its best if these things are kept secret and in small groups

some final words from quig (that i'm paraphrasing on her behalf): she says sorry to anyone who didn't want to see the leak and got spoiled early. she never meant for it to spread out of control, and had believed the leak would spread from multiple sources at the same time, instead of being just from her

[quinceandquail]

Merry glitched out mid-photoshoot. Kirby embroidery will be unhooped and heading to a charity quilt!