Strawberry: sniffles
Lucas: Strawberry, girlie… I'm awake
Strawberry: whimpers
Lucas: let me just…lay here for a minute okay?
Strawberry: barks
Lucas: you wicked old lady
Strawberry: wiggles tail in old lady
Lucas: …
Lucas: i could use some music
Lucas hums along Lemon Tree (yes he took a bunch of Ernest's LP's with him)
Lucas: where did i leave my phone last night
WG: hey can you tone it down a bit? it's six in the morning and some of us are trying to rest
Lucas: HOLY SMOKES
WG: also it's here
Lucas: what-ah-when--
WG: i know i know, you're welcome
I remember once talking to my partner about the Dragonslayer book (which I have not read myself). I told him I hope there is a scene in there where Sunny does something normal and non-threatening and somehow ends up misinterpreted as a horrifying nightmare creature by a bunch of clueless scavengers with overactive imaginations.
I've sat here for about an hour now, trying to decide whether I should tag this as "violent" or not. On the one hand, it really isn't; it's just strawberry juice after all. On the other hand maybe the evocative imagery in the first panel is transcending the actual reality of the situation. I've decided to leave it as is for the time being. If this imagery upsets you though, please let me know so I can figure out a way to deal with that in the future. Maybe I can make up a new tag or something.
Y'know, in spite of sharing fan art from the community all the time, I don't think I've ever posted much I've made. So have some little doodles I did a few months ago using "Wigglypaint" by Internet Janitor.
Saiwa barely leaves his room these days.
And so, after Vlad, Kiyoshi and Jeb had went off to help Arturo at the temple (and to work on their secret project), Jack called Saiwa.
They have a surprise for him.
Saiwa: "What? I'm busy - no time for your nonsense."
But then he saw what Jack and Ji Ho did. There are stores now!
Saiwa: "No way!"
Welcome to the first official Strawberry Cake Fashion Store!
Before, we only had the online store. In the basement of the Space Bar and at Belgraves Institute under the roof.
Let's go inside!
Saiwa: "Oh this is awesome!"
Adriano seems to have his own shoe brand now :3
And in the corner is Ji Ho's packing and shipping station :)
Let's try someting on!
That was about time. They'd been wearing the same Tomarang outfits for weeks now!
Saiwa is a bit worried since Jack can't wear just any clothes because of his painful rash.
Saiwa: "Are they ok? Not too tight?"
Jack: "No, perfect!"
Saiwa: "Thank you Boys! I love it!"
Jack: "Noxee helped us and sent us all the clothes and stuff."
Saiwa: "I love you."
Jack: "I know."
There is even a section with black clothes for Vlad and Kiyoshi ^^'
The Entrance
The shop windows
View from above
Strawberry Cake - Xdinary Heroes
(Link above leads to youtube)
TMI: This song gave me the idea for the name of the shop :]
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Ok but what if she went to waddle Dee town in the forgotten land and all the waddle Dee’s just accepted her because they are really nice and not rude and they accept her and she has fun and a good time please I really need this for her
i considered drawing something out to this, and making it a happy ending sort of thing, because i think this is extremely sweet as a concept and i understand the desire for it!
that said, i decided that it would be a disservice to the lore i'm building for her, my biology/magic headcanons, and also the waddle dees as a whole. i might still draw it some day, because i could absolutely perceive a way it would work (ie: all waddle dee signatures messed up by Elfilis's portals, or their magic sensitivity nuked by it.) and i think it would be lovely
but for now, i have too many other things on the backburner to get to this promptly, and i wanted to answer this one sooner rather than leaving it for months
i will say, they're not being rude to her! there might be the odd one or two who is a bit snide, but there are some of those in every society. as a general rule the waddle dees not only understand that she is struggling, they want to accept and help her. many of them even know she's lonely, and feel pretty bad about it. but it's hard, and not just because she makes people uneasy!
i draw parallels with starstruck's gummed up magical signature to autism, as i'm autistic and so by merit (as a sona), so is she. but there are some parts that do not line up with the way autism functions in our world, and one of them is that touching or being around her can be genuinely, literally painful for some of the very sensitive waddle dees.
despite that, her waddle dee doctors actually pushed through it while she was in the castle dedede infirmary. because they were determined to treat her (mostly-surface-seeming) injuries and help her feel better. and they apologised for the reactions that they couldn't control anymore than she could control her signature; the various "sorry"s she parrots in this comic are implied to be from waddle dee doctors.
it's a fine line in alien-storytelling, especially with a real world disability parallel, and i'm trying to tread it as carefully as i can. but i don't intend to villainise the waddle dees at all for their reaction to her; they truly can't help it. many of them even do their best to push through it if she comes into their vicinity, especially because she often arrives with Beloved Celebrity, Captain Bandana Waddle Dee. but like a lot of us, she can tell when she's being tolerated, and so as a rule she just sort of tries to avoid it, one way or another
Lucas: GASP
Lucas: THAT one!
Guy: ah, my daughter made that one.
Lucas: it's beautiful! she's so talented! you must be so proud…
Guy: crazy ass…
Pierce: do you have any carpets? preferably non old?
Lady: i have some in the back of my car, wanna check them out?
Pierce: uhhh
Lucas: Hi Mr. McMillan!
Mr. M: Good morning Lucas. I see you've got company
Lucas: mhm! he's staying for the week
Lucas: oh yeah! do you have any lemons today? I was planning on asking my mom to bake a lemon pie for him…
Mr: M: ah, none today. But i know someone that is never short of lemons. I can send them over later today.
Lucas: awesome, thank you Mr. McMillan!
Mr. M: mhmm!
Pierce: bunch of good finds today
Lucas: we should have pizza for lunch… y'know, as a reward.
Pierce: man, i'm so hungry.
Pierce: by the way, when did you learn how to drive?
Lucas: Mr. Moody taught me around… two years ago i think
Lucas: …hmm
Pierce: what?
Lucas: i should buy a sheep next time…
Pierce: of course buddy.
Lucas: pondering
Pierce: this is gonna be the greatest pizza this hill has ever seen
Lucas: Pierce i need your eyes please!
Lucas: these courtains look nice, right?
Pierce: …there might be an old lady living inside your body instead of a guy dude i don't know what to say anymore
Strawberry whimpers
Pierce: Lucas? I think Strawberry isn't looking so good
Lucas: not again… I bet she's okay! just an allergy to… ugly curtains it is
Strawberry barfs
Lucas: oh no…
Pierce: let me take her to my mom's clynic, she'll know what's up
Lucas: …okay. you can use my car
Lucas:
?: hey! I'm- oooh… it looks just like when i was little. haven't been up here in ages
Lucas: …hello?
?: I'm Maira! Mr. McMillan told me you needed lemons so i got your lemons. They're baaack there stuck in the mud with my scooter.
Lucas: that's good I mean oh no that's unfortunate and i'm sorry
Maira: it'll be okay as long as a big chunky guy helps lifting my scooter up from the mud, i think. that big guy being you
Lucas: it's… still raining?
Maira: well yeah, but you're gonna tell me you don't own a pair of rainboots?
Lucas: ah-… give me a minute i'llberightback
Hey, this is probably a weird request and you can ignore this, but since you know how your story is going to go with Katherine Quin and Company, I think it'd be cool to see you do a before and after shot of character A with the Horrors of your story. It can be drawn or just text, it doesn't matter to me. I'm just craving more of these OC's of yours.
hello this is not a weird request at all im very ecstatic abt this ask actually
i did these with 4 characters! their designs for The End of the story are not finalized (and one or two of the beginning ones arent either!), but this is a general idea of how each of these characters would look like and manage The Horrors i put them thru :]
some of them handle the horrors better than others.....
So like, are we not talking about the whole “Longan Dragon canonically being a parent, with their hatchlings being the enemies we see in the final stage of Lustrous Longan Palace” thing that happened? Because I feel like this isn’t being discussed much, at least not over here
Images from Twitter I got this morning regarding this whole thing if that helps context
Edit: for further notice, this has been proven false and there were more messages, we now know that the two guards are simply Longan’s underlings, not hatchlings. Sorry, I probably should have updated when we got that info, I was just too lazy to