"Blasphemy? Before what? God? A God repulsed by the miserable humanity He created in His own image? I will not be shackled by the failures of your God. The only blasphemy is to wallow in insignificance. I have taken refuse of your God's failures and I have triumphed. There! THERE is my creation!"
I am so normal about Re-Animator and Bride of the Re-Animator, trust me guys. My friends and I watched both movies back to back, and these movies go so hard. We couldn't stop making lowkey comparisons between Herbert and Floofty, and it just went "this is literally what Floofty probably would have done if Head Games went differently."
Insanely proud of how this turned out, I made a BUNCH of different versions, with and without text!, check them out below!
1st image is the main one I showed, just without text.
2nd and 3rd image is without any additional overlay/gradient maps.
4th/5th are another type of gradient overlay leaning on somber red colors
6th/7th land more on the harsher red/blacks for the the gradient map.
I'm so tempted to post my final Grumpuses once I have everyone fully transformed, my partner and I are so dedicated we're planning out everyone's theme and everything
I looked at the Ribblepede snakifications, observed people's reactions of horror and revulsion, and thought to myself, "How can I make this even worse?"
And so, I created this meat-and-bone monstrosity.
Tangential fun fact: The grumpus body texture for the Ribblepede snakification is 2048x2048 pixels, while almost every other grumpus body texture is half that size at 1024x1024. I can only assume that this was an accident by the devs, or intentional so that all its meaty details could be seen crisp and clear.
In any case, I kept those same dimensions with my modification.
A birthday present for my BFF @elizabethalsagacomics !
I probably coulda made it more cohesive if I had just left it to the grumpuses, but I wANTED TO DRAW CHARLIE AND VAGGIE GDI!!
...now I wonder if I should draw my idea of Adam eating a ribblepede, lol
The river beside Snaxburg ran calmly as the slowly rising sun's light lit its water. Triffany leaned on the fence that separated her from the river. The town was only starting to wake, Chandlo ran laps around town, Wiggle played her banjo, and Filbo lit the campfire.
Triffany stood back up on her feet and fixed the collar to her vest. She made her way over to the research tent. Floofty stood on their side of the tent fiddling with their equipment
“Mornin’ Floofty!” She called out
Floofty turned to face Their colleague “ah, good morning professor Lottablog.” They brushed some dust off of one of their specimen jars. “I presume you are here to speak of our plans for today?”
“You betcha! I found some old fossilized bones in the scorched gorge that ya might find interestin’!” She reached down under her work table and pulled out her bag. “Wanna get out there before it gets to hot.”
“And while we are there, I’d love to investigate the shy weeny worms you informed me of.” They pulled out the briefcase from under their work station. “I hypothesize it’s odd flavor is due to a chemical reaction and could be extracted and transformed into a form of medicine.”
Triffany rolled her scrolls and placed them neatly in her bag. Shovels, pickaxes, brushes, and water, while smaller tools were put into her vest pockets. She zipped up the bag and hoisted it onto her back.
Floofty clipped their briefcase shut and gently lifted it off the ground. Triffany adjusted her hat while Floofty fixed their goggles, and with that they were off to the scorched gorge.
— — —
Sweat dripped off of Triffany’s nose as she gently chipped away at the ground in her excavation site. She leaned up and wiped away the sweat that covered her face, she then took off her hat and fanned herself with it. “Oh goodness, it has to be noon by now.” She let out a sigh “and no sign of what these bones are!”
She gently picked up a ribblepede-like bone in her paws, careful to not break the ancient bone. Its shape was exactly like a rib bone but for some reason it was in the stomachs of the skeletons. But it couldn’t be a ribblepede, they don’t really have bones.
She tucked the mystery bone in one of her vest pockets and walked over to her workbench where her bag sat and pulled out a bottle of water. Sure the water was warm but I was still refreshing. “Well ya don’t always find something new everyday. Maybe it’s an extinct animal that used to roam the desert thousands of years ago! But why are only its ribs preserved?” She tapped her chin “ya know, they might have only eaten the ribs, bones n’ all! Maybe they buried the rest of what this was somewhere else. Maybe in the ancient burial grounds?”
She pulled another water bottle from her bag, “might as well bring Floofty a water while I’m at it!” She gathered all her tools in her bag and threw it onto her back. She stepped out of the shade of her excavation site and quickly made her way over to where Floofty was while narrowly avoiding the gaze of roaming spuddys and scorpenyos. When she got to the entrance, she got on her knees and crawled her way in.
a shy weenie worm saw her make her way in and wiggled its way into a corner. Floofty sat all the Way at the back of the cave. Their breifecase sat open next to them as they worked On a shy weenie worm.
“Hiya Floofty,” Triffany said as she walked over to her colleague, water bottle in paw “Brought ya some water! How’s ya research goin’?”
Floofty looked up from the shy weenie worm they were working on with a tweezer in their paw. It’s sesame seeded bun sat on a cloth with some of its seeds in a small bag next to it. All the other parts of the the worm like it’s tomatoes, onions, and other toppings were in their own respective bags, including the mustard.
“Mmm, thank you professor Lottablog, my research in going just fine.” They said with a small smile. They took the bottle and took a quick swig. “I hypothesize that the odd flavor originates from a specific topping and in order to determine which one it is, I must separate them.”
“Ohhh well ain’t that interesting! Ya know, after you're done with that, do you mind running a dna test on this here bone?” She said as she pulled out the rib bone and showed it to Floofty
They inspected the bone and tried handing it back to Triffany “Professor Lottablog, I suspect that it’s just a ribblepede rib.”
“but it’s not!” She gently pushed the rib back to Floofty “Ribblepede bones are to soft to fossilize, so it’s something else.”
“Oh, well then” they gently place the bone in the cloth, away from everything else. “I’ll be sure to run a test as soon as I get back to the research tent.”
“Thaks a bunch Floofty! While I’m here i’ll be diggn’ out the bones. that’s okay, yah?”
Floofty nodded, “You're permitted to do as you please as long as it doesn’t interfere with my studies.”
“Oh thanks Floofty! I’ll just be over here, just tell me when you're ready to go.”
— — —
A cool afternoon breeze ran through Triffany’s fur as the two made their way back over to the research tent. Floofty opened their briefcase and pulled out the rib bone. “I’ll begin the dna testing process on the rib you provided me. I’ll be complete later today or at the latest tomorrow.” Floofty said as they readied their dna tester
“Thanks Floofty!” Triffany bent down to put her bag under her table “don’t forget to call me over when it’s done, I can’t wait…” when she looked up she noticed a spiky green figure standing over her.
“Oh, wambus must have moved his cactus over here while I was gone again.”
[ID: A set of digital sketches of a purple grumpus with three underbit fangs. Their limbs fade to a darker purple, their eyes are purple, and they have a red nose. In the leftmost sketch, they have a yellow guitar, while in the one right of it, they have a yellow backpack. The middle right sketch shows them altered by bugsnax. They have multiple straws sticking out of their head resembling ram horns, tusks, and ribblepede bones lining their chest. They have small ribbon wings, and their legs and left arm resemble various vegetable snax. The rightmost sketch shows them from behind, showing a caramel poptick tail resembling a bunny tail. /end ID]
•No gloves, but she wears boots that she totally didn’t steal and redesign from her husband. When you’re in the heat of the desert, the sand gets hot dontcha know?
•ALWAYS has basic medical supplies on hand. The spuddys and scorpenyos are such pricks, so injuries from them are quite common
•Has a couple of ketchup + hot sauce stains from trying to catch bugsnax by herself.
•I’m not sorry, but she would be able to snatch up a ribblepede. Let it hang out for a little while she talks with someone or while she’s digging up bones
•PANSEXUAL TRANSGENDER QUEEN. <3
•Would be an AMAZING mother.
(For the last one, Minor spoilers for one of triffany’s mail missions)
•It’s canon that Triffany climbed to the top of frosted peak, and then SLIPPED and fell, as well as leaving a bag of bones up there, which she had you (the journalist) go and retrieve. So.
Ima be honest, there is no way she left that close call with no injuries. Ima say…a broken ankle, some bruises + scratches, and a concussion. Possibly some hypothermia. And let’s just say that when wambus found out, he LOST IT. Out of fear of losing Triffany for good, he forced her to stay home/in snaxburg, and made her recover fully before letting her leave again. But not before making her stay an extra couple days, just to make sure she was actually recovered.