#making fiends redesign

[technicallydelightfulpenguin]

Just a normal day at Mu Elementary School.

Vendetta being Vendetta.

(I fixed another 'art' from that idiot + MY INSECTS!)

(C) Red (Red Bird Fiend), Mr. Maxwell Milk, Vendetta Vladivkov and Making Fiends belongs to Amy Winfrey.

[zombro-draws]

Happy (belated) Valentine's Day!!

Sorry for the inactivity, been busy recently with college and work

For my Valentine's gift for you guys, I redesigned two adult designs for Charlotte and Vendetta that a former friend of mine made for a more canonified AU Retelling I'm making alongside "Making Fiends: Retold"

Vendetta has a special gift for her girlfriend Charlotte, but since Charlotte's around her friends, Vendetta's nervous about messing up her approach and embarrassing herself (Charlotte finds her shyness very cute, so she'll be smitten either way lol)

[amuseoffyre]

Fyre's Convention Adventures - Day 3 - A Great and Terrible Acte of Piracie 😁

A bonus surprise on the last day was that we got gifted a cast photograph and there was a second session of autographs for the people who had missed them on Saturday, but also for everyone else to get a second round :)

Since we’d come out of the last panels, I was piled high with my muppety crew and figured it would be a nice last chance to let the squad see them. Honestly, no ulterior motives going in, which made all that came next all the more delightful :D

Nathan was the first table and could see how many of the squad I was juggling and said it was fantastic that I’d brought them down for the con itself because “they’ve brought everyone so much joy”.

Rhys had a little giggle at the next table when he saw me coming with a pal bearing Calypso because between the photo, the sack of mups, the general goodie bag and everything else, I was quite the pack mule.

Con, Vico and Kristian, however, had been so very excited about the muppets at the fanmeet and photo session that I figured I would have each of theirs out when I got to their tables and then, alas, I was assailed by marauding pirates and came home empty handed XD

Me, with Izzy muppet on my arm: by the way, I was wondering if you’d like me to ship him to you, since you’re off to the US tomorrow Con: o.0 Con: wait, you were serious about giving him to me? Me: I mean, if you want him– Con: *wheechs Izzy right off my hand and into his arms, cradling him like a baby* Con: Everyone go home, this is all I’ll be doing now Me: 😂 That’ll be a yes then XD Con: :D :D :D

He leaned over to show his handler Izzy’s poseable hands, which were arranged to flip the bird and solemnly told him “That’s my favourite bit”. After my hype-man told him I was undercharging for commissions, he told me “yeah, charge more for your commissions” and I can’t not now, can I?

Needless to say I was a bit giggly and vibrating in place after that, because technically, I didn’t give anyone anything (first rule of the con – don’t give guests things directly) and by the time I got to Vico, I hadn’t been given a smack on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper for breaking the rules.

They were so giddy to see Jim muppet again.

Me: I was serious about you having them if you want them Vico: O.O Vico, to their handler: … can I… do that? Vico’s handler: *shrugs a bit* Me: If I just… lay it on this table, it would be very bad if something happened or someone… took it. So bad. Vico, giggling like a fiend: *bats Jim off the table and down beside their chair* OH NO. IT’S GONE Me: OH NOOOO. I HAVE BEEN ROBBED. SOMEONE HAS THIEVED ME. HOW SAD. Vico: Noooooo :D :D :D Me: *flips another of the Jim costumes over the table, down beside the mup* Vico: OMG IT CHANGES CLOTHES!?!?! :D :D :D :D

And, of course, Calypso, my grand lady. I made her especially for Kristian since most of my muppet designs have a very narrow neck and I wasn’t sure if he would be able to put his hand in it. Instead, I’d redesigned and rebuilt her from the base up, with a wider opening in the back of her head and making her free-standing as well. Top of head to bottom of her skirt, she’s around a metre compared to the rest who are about 50cm.

He gave her such a doting look when I got to him and hell, if I could be banditted by 2, why not make it a hat trick :D

Him: she’s so gorgeous Me, keeping an eye on his handler: I can’t technically… give her to you, but hypothetically, if someone stol– Kristian: *across the table with both arms and has her gone and out of sight beside him in a blink* :D Me: Oh nooo :D Kristian, catching my hands and squeezing them: Thank you *so* much for this :) Me: Absolutely my pleasure :)

Nothing like ending the weekend by being robbed by pirates :D

According to a pal who was stewarding, when they finished Con had Izzy whispering in his ear and then carried him out the room, level with his shoulder, and Kristian told Nathan off for almost standing on Calypso then made him carry her :D

I can’t express the sheer dizzying joy of experiencing their excitement and delight with my lil crew and how eagerly they tilted into to full silly play with them. I know the cast have been liking them on IG when I post them but this was another level and I am so utterly overwhelmed by it. Every so often, I think about it and have a happy little giggle about it all.

[tiredkatzz]

Thanks to everyone saying they like self insert ocs on my Gaz post hahaha

Don't worry, I'm not afraid of making self inserts in stuff I like :) Let me show you ☝️

Spiderverse stuff :)

My most recent genshin self insert redesign + my genshin ocs and old design

This is me and my friend (wal1yx on insta ) in Alien after watching Alien: Romulus. This movie was so fun to watch with friends

This is a drawing of me (by Wal1yx) as Power from chainsaw man + actual fiend self insert I made later

I'm not afraid of self inserts and ocs, cod is just giving me a harder time with it haha.

I usually have friends to yap with so I can check if my ideas are ridiculous, but I've got no buddy that's also into cod so my brain is struggling to pick. :))) If you've got a cod oc/self insert, how did you come up with it?

Thx, you were fooled into me showing my art and yapping about my interests

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mr. Egg, Mr. Pickle, and Mr. Hot Dog

Debut: BurgerTime

BurgerTime is one of those retro games and that's about it. It existed, and it's Retro!, and I feel like people don't really care about it aside from that. It never even got an awkward attempt at a scrimblo adventure reboot, like Frogger did! Poor BurgerTime.

Anyway, my first time playing BurgerTime was not by playing BurgerTime at all, but a SpongeBob Flash game clone of it. I have no personal connection to BurgerTime itself... but I know it has some enemies that are living foods! I always get a kick out of that! So I'm going to talk about some of the various design incarnations of them!

These original designs are exactly what you would expect from a 1982 arcade game. I feel like I've seen Pac-Man ghosts drawn EXACTLY like this. I like how Mr. Egg has the strangely realistic crispy bubbling detail around his edges. They're all fine.

...is what I felt before I noticed their elbows and knees! Ew! Bones! Wretched creatures!

Ohoho... now what have we here? The in-game sprites are delightful! The simplicity makes them very cute! Their feet are interesting, being just little floating lines, except for Mr. Egg's, because his legs are made of amorphous albumen! Mr. Egg is really the breakout star here. Look at his yolk! That's his EYE! This is so awesome! That's such a rare design choice to see, especially since egg creatures that are not of the "creature hatching from them" variety are pretty rare themselves.

Mr. Pickle is no slouch either! I appreciate him being specifically a pickle slice, often portrayed as nicely crinkle-cut. I just have to question why he is a villain! Pickles are one of Burger's best friends! This is like if Cheese was a villain! I think if anything Mr. Pickle should be a cute little sidekick on the side of burgers, and in his place can be, I don't know, Mr. Olive? Of course, pickles are much funnier than olives!

Mr. Hot Dog is not as interesting as the other two, but a simple sausage with eyes and feet is still cute. He is like the leader of the bunch, the main antagonist of our hero, Peter Pepper, who I do not really care about. I like that it's him! Burgers and hot dogs are like counterparts, but in no way equals. Hot dogs are easier to hold and eat, but burgers are just Better. And hot dogs have finally decided to give burgers a piece of their mind!

This flyer art is funny. I don't LIKE any of the designs showcased, but they're funny! Faces are moved around on the foods, noses are introduced to the series, and Mr. Egg is now a slice of a hard-boiled egg. You will also notice the elusive Mr. Lemon! Mr. Lemon is not real! I don't know why there is such an emphasis on lemon here. Finally, of course, you will notice the personified Cheese, as she noselessly beckons Peter to recline atop a beef patty. Ooh la la! Don't you wish you were invited to hang out with such a beautiful female cheese who is a girl woman?

Really, the designs of the core food fiends never diverged much from the classic cartoon-style versions they started out with, appearing like that in pretty much every sequel. Except...!

In BurgerTime World Tour, which was not a good game at all, these guys have been utterly rebooted! Now known as Frank Furter, Ruthless Dill, and Sonny! Are these their real names? Or just some similar guys?

The designs are rather basic, as to be expected from Foods With Faces, but it IS interesting seeing them generally made so much more monstrous. Something ESPECIALLY interesting is that Sonny the egg is the only one with limbs, reminding me of how Mr. Egg is the only one to have actual legs in the original sprites!

Ready for the SCARIEST redesign from World Tour?

This game's version of Peter Pepper is this horrible gentrifying millenial and I'm glad his game was prematurely delisted. I hope he got eaten by an egg and chewed by teeth made of yolk. I hate him!

[meteorcrit]

pleeasee redesign those fuckass making fiends based characters

vendetta and Charolette don’t deserve this shit

i cant seem to find any refs of them right now, does anyone happen to have them saved? -🕶️✨

[safe-from-sharp-teeth]

Ayo! I haven't answered asks in FOREVER, so it's time for some spring cleaning :) Also answering other stuff, like what I've been up to.

If you sent an ask and it's not here, sorry! I may have deleted it because the prompt required too much work of me and I wasn't feeling it, or I was uncomfortable.

Let's gooooo !

Firstly - where have I been? Work REALLY picked up in a way I wasn't expecting over the last...4 months? I was working double and often triple the hours I was used to. With work, vacations, random illnesses, and many video games I got a bit too obsessed with, this blog took a backseat. Plus, sometimes I get disinterested in vore when obsessed with something else. Sometimes, that lasts months, and it did this time.

But now I can confirm that work will FINALLY chill for a long period of time. I'm free! And more motivated than ever! Wahoo! Thanks for your support ALWAYS.

Next big question - when am I going to do more of my story? The one with Asyr? AHHHHHGHHGHH this story has consumed my life. I think about it daily. I dream about it. And yet I'm not as comfortable writing as I am drawing, so writing is a slow process that my perfectionist ass struggles with. I can assure you that there is a story in the works - and I am working on it at a snail's pace.

Okay, ask time...

@ponyluvesonic09 AYO maybe I'll make a full ghost pred pros/con list for you, because that sounds awesome! Kir//by is one of the silliest canon preds out there. Honestly getting eaten by him would be like getting vored by a vacuum, LOL. Galaxy tummy!! Imagine a prey floating around in one of those item bubbles all grumpy. Thank u for the ask, this is good stuff.

no. ( /・・)ノ

UWAGHHHHH I LIKE HER!!! Never played O/verwat/ch but what a gem!! I have a random fondness for centaur-like preds nowadays. She looks so cozy. THANK U I LOVE HER!!!

@tiger9o0 I have not played r//ain w//orld or know what it's about, LOL. Looks like a platformer? Man, I'm terrrriiiiibblleee at those. But whoever this is on the cover, I LIKE EM. A+. (That might not answer ur question shdjbghkjg SORRY)

@heimkoheimkofan LOVE THAT I GOT THE ROBOT ENJOYERS AFTER THAT ONE POST....YES yall are so right and I'm so wrong for just hard metal robot tums. I will rectify my mistake soon I PROMISE. Also oh! You were the one asking about stomachs other than elemental ones! IVE HAD THAT IN MY DRAFTS FOREVER IM SORRY AHHHH. I REALLY love your imagination with tums and you've inspired me to think of some awesome environments! THANKS

@fastfur07 BWAH?? Ugh I'm all over the place when it comes to art. Some pieces take 30 min (like the zangooc I drew at the top of this post), most take 2 days. Some really hard drawings like my wolf bat creechur from a few months ago and my shrimp from last year took a month. THANK U??

We're going back so far that I think this is about my naga oc (which I'm in the midst of redesigning cough cough). For him, he would never tolerate being prey, extremely unwilling bahaha. In general, I haven't thought much about naga or snake prey! I get the appeal of slurping up a noodle, but I just prefer human prey :)

@fastfur07 you fiend, you always give me the best drawing ideas. UNFORTUNATELY, I didn't have time to draw something for this one. BUTTTT....

(i've had this next one in my drafts for forever)

then i had a silly comic. I'll post the wip here because I won't finish it, so enjoy bahaha.

@blizzaria123-blog THANK U im rapidly melting into a puddle from ur words

@mrpotatomanversionsix relevant. i will continue drawing them 4 u

?!??!!??!?!??!?!?!??!?!? how dare u enter my ask box with this blasphemy

@sfwsillynoms WAH!!! you!!! I'm currently redesigning my naga oc but when I finish I'll tag you, if you're still around! And he can 100% be drawn with ur preysona :)

@mystorl i am SO late to this, but SMART. I like it. I shall give my lil guy this friend. I just want to let u know that I see this and it's wonderful and I will do something abt it.

I remember this ask made me laugh a ton when I first got it. thank u. idk why I find this so funny

@sillylilprey IM CRYING RIGHT BACK AHHHH this is an ancient ask, but thank u! hope you're still enjoying!

@terrytheinsane finally, the last ask in my askbox. I love it. You have been wronged with how long it took me to answer you. I have gained knowledge from your ask. THANKS

AND THAT'S IT!! Thanks guys, I hope to make you proud! Feel free to send more asks, and hopefully I will answer in a TIMELY manner.

Goodnight! And remember: Nice Vore ᕕ༼⌐■-■༽ᕗ

[technicallydelightfulpenguin]

Still making f(r)iends.

Yes, after so many days of stress, i was at least able to finish the redraw i did on the S*******'s art.

[ewwww-what]

I notice your fig redesign has hooves (gorgeous design btw she's so cute lol), do you picture her hooves coming in with her horns, or with her becoming an archdevil or similar?

OH MY GOD I ACTUALLY WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT EXPLAINING THIS!!

I imagine that the hooves and tail would come in after she signs the archdevil contract, mostly because I don’t want to think about how horribly painful it would be to go from human legs to goat legs over an extended period of time (like growing pains but so much worse), and also because I don’t know if I could easily make that really work story-wise.

I think it makes sense that when you sign to become an archdevil you would have some kind of physical transformation to go with that, y’know? Gorthalax has digitigrade legs and hooves, plus that long whip tail, and I don’t think it’s too far out to assume he got those when he became a pit fiend. I haven’t quite figured out why Fig’s legs would be goat-ish and furry as opposed to just digitigrade and hooved, but I’m trying not to think too hard about it cause truly it was just a silly split second choice :))

[davekat-sucks]

Why does it feel like people who try to paint themselves as caring about important issues in the world end up being so fucking dumb? I guess I mean specifically with Homestucks, but so many people in this fandom are such huge hypocrites. When people try to make diverse designs for the characters they end up making caricatures or ugly designs of POC people instead of something respectful and realistic. When people try to make trans characters they turn them into whores and sex fiends. When people make gay characters they can't help but insert their rape and cuck fetishes.

Modern fandom is an echo chamber. Modern fandom is allergic to drawing pretty characters because their self image is so low that they need to surround themselves with ugly to make themselves feel better.

I see it the worst in Homestuck and in modern anime fandom, you'll see people look at the racial homogeny, decide that's racist, and proceed to put the most stereotypically exaggerated features on their faces.

I've seen black and black-coded redesigns with broader noses and mouths than most retro posters and minstrel cartoons. I've also seen black redesigns where the only style they give to said designs is based on keeping their 4c curls instead of the sheer versatility of styling that said curls bring. Some people with 4c LIKE teasing their hair into something that doesn't look that curly.

I've seen Asian redesigns where the overall face shape is so confusing that the only apt description is Asian Mutt. Go ahead, throw tomatoes, I'm not the person who decided to make a catch 'em all type of face that's got the most stereotypical features of twelve different countries and yet still manages to have buck teeth and jaundice.

I talk about 4chords to anyone who'll fucking listen and I'm gonna do it here. 4chords was no angel. It was very much an AU where the trolls' personalities were transposed onto humans and softened out enough to make it make sense. You know what also happened? The whole cast was diverse, and they all were fucking beautiful. Were there stereotypes here and there? For sure. But it didn't stop the artist from making their characters gorgeous.

Yes, you're allowed to make a sex pest trans character. You're allowed to make a gay cuck, cheater, or prostitute. You're allowed to make a character have an exaggerated racial design. But don't do that for the whole damn cast, and don't give every single member of the cast a diverse label. That just makes you look like one of those political artists you find in newspapers. Trust me. Buy a newspaper whenever a politician does something stupid. You'll see what I mean in no time.

It's okay to make your characters white or light-skinned. It's okay to make your characters straight and/or cis. It's okay to make your character Catholic or Protestant. It's okay to make your diverse characters beautiful and non-stereotypical. It's actually gotten to a point where overblown "politically correct" character design is so rampant that artists who put love and care into beautiful characters and stories that aren't The Diverse Person Finds Friends And Fights The Status Quo With The Power Of Diversity are a rare commodity and, contrary to what anyone on Tumblr, Twitter, Pillowfort, Youtube, and Bluesky will tell you, are not fucking boring.

[crunchetime]

NEFESH (they/them)

Warforged Cleric - Trickster Domain

A living ragdoll obsessed with self-modification and puppetry, given life by a whimsical Fiend. Nefesh, 'Nef', or 'Nefi' has been referred to by some as 'incredibly unnerving,' and by others 'a comedic genius.' Their pranks on fellow adventurers and townsfolk range from simple sight gags to rediculously high-effort schemes involving life-size stuffed effigies of the folks being pranked. It's usually good-natured, but you could understand how that might put some people off.

D&D OCs - Redesigns 2025 - Set 2 #9

UNDER THE CUT: old 2024 design & notes

As you can see, Nef's design hasn't changed all that much aside from some color redistribution. The main thesis here was just to make the design more cohesive and purposeful while also still keeping them looking like they're made of disparate fabrics.

While I liked the initial curly doll-like hair that they had initially, I also kind of liked the idea that their hair could be assembled from straight strips of fabric for easy hairstyle hot-swapping. They could also still have the old hairstyle sitting around attached to a sort of wig cap in their workshop somewhere; this new design is only Nef's typical look during combat, with enlarged limbs for melee combat and short hair to avoid snags and tangles. I like the idea that Nef has an incredibly wide variety of looks, so much so that only their head and face really stay the same. Nefesh = goals, I think.

[anti-psycomics]

DAY 24: HELIOS

Personally I think this is my favorite one I've made so far and I have a LOT to talk about with it. First off, the musical reference

The prompt (and image for that matter) is a reference to track 9 (The crucifixion of Helios) off of the album Praise the sun god, a dark souls jazz album(?) I don't know if it's actually dark souls related. The album is great to put on in the background for some chill vibes while you're doin stuff. And I realize at this point I'm starting to sound like the guy who's only ever listened to prog rock but I get some proggy vibes off of this one along with the jazz and ambient type stuff.

Ok, second part is the actual art itself. I had this drawing idea in my head since before inktober because the title "The Crucifixion of Helios" just conjures such a vivid image in my head. And to help with constructing that vision, I used the inspiration of an art piece that's I've been thinking about for like. 2 years at this point

THIS IMAGE IS NOT MINE

Ok right off the bat I wanna say I'm sorry because I forgot what the artist's tumblr was, I don't know how to reverse image search and "fiend" doesn't really give me a lot to work off of. So Fiend, if you're out there I'm sorry for posting your cool ass art without tagging you because I lost your tumblr to the sands of time. Also thanks for making this image it's really inspired my art over the last year

This image fuckin' rules and has served as an inspiration to both day 24 and Solos, god of energy.

In my original pencil-on-paper drawing solos also had those spirals on the body but that was scrapped because I couldn't get it to look right lol. I'm probably gonna end up redesigning solos at some point and I think I'm gonna reuse a few elements for my helios image when I do

[duhragonball]

Chainsaw Man Ch. 67-70

Oops.

"Last time, Germany's Santa Claus sacrificed three children to send Chainsaw Man to Hell in exchange for a chance to eat the flesh of the Darkness Devil so that he could make a new body out of his army of zombie-doll creatures."

That is a sentence that probably should not exist, and yet it is brings us up to speed anyway. The upshot here is that Santa Claus is now some sort of eldritch horror who can convert any human he touches into doll creatures, and now the Darkness power has made him even stronger, and he plans to kill Makima this way. But she brought back everyone from hell, and Chainsaw Man seems to be in good shape, so he starts fighting Santa.

Meanwhile, two side characters kind of talk about it. Kishibe, the guy who trained Denji and Power a while back, had tried to bring Quanxi in on his secret plot to kill Makima, but that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. This other dude casually observes that this whole battle never had anything to do with protecting or killing Denji. Instead, Santa and Makima are fighting over some other objective, and Denji seems to be a pawn in their game. He also deduces that Makima can spy on everyone because she has the power to hear through various lower forms of like, like mice and birds.

So yeah, uh, Germany's Santa Claus, everybody! She's single, fellas!

It's unclear what happened to the other characters who got sent to hell. Makima and Denji made it back, and so did Quanxi... but she didn't return in one piece. Two of her fiend girlfriends were in hell with her, and apparently they're just dead. So a third fiend girlfriend finds Quanxi's head and pulls some sort of spearhead from under her eyepatch, and this somehow activates...

... uh, whatever this is. I guess Quanxi has the same kind of power Chainsaw Man has, but with knives or something. Also she's butt-ass naked in this form. She offers to team up with Denji, even though she was sent her by the Chinese government to kill him. She wants Santa dead more, because he's responsible for killing two of her skanks.

Their attacks damage Santa, but with her new darkness power, she can regenerate pretty quickly. I think it only works when she's in shadow, though. Anyway, Santa manages to stymie Denji pretty well by sending dolls after him who seem much more human than the dolls we've seen up to this point. They scream and beg for mercy, and Denji balks because he doesn't want to murder them. Quanxi assures him that they're not really sentient anymore, and they're just mindless automatons like the other dolls. How would she know, though?

Quanxi doesn't really answer that question. Her point is that they have to kill these dolls to defeat Santa, and thinking of them as beyond saving makes it easier to kill them. It's more of a coping mechanism than intel.

As the battle wears on, night falls, and Santa's darkness powers get stronger. She redesigns her body again and yikes.

Also, Santa seems to have figured out how to turn corpses into dolls, and she converts the two dead minions Quanxi was trying to avenge. They take the third one hostage and stab Quanxi. Santa considers turning Quanxi into a doll, but she forgot one thing...

Chainsaws can be set on fire. Wait, no, that's not badass, that's stupid as hell! I retract my earlier statement. Germany's Santa Claus did not forget one thing. No one would ever consider this possibility in the first place, much less forget about it in the heat of battle.

Basically, Denji's idea here is that if he attacks while he's surrounded by fire, then he can offset Santa's ability to regenerate in darkness. I'm not clear how her powers work, but Makima warned that attacks in darkness would be ineffective, and one could argue that cutting attacks are sort of hidden inside the thing you're cutting, so there's not much light to work with. But if Denji's chainsaws are a light source in and of themselves, that solves everything.

Also he remembers the trick with the chains from the Reze arc. Chainsaw Man wraps her up good and pulls her closer to the flames, while she sends in dolls to try to protect her. But she's no match for the mighty Chainsaw Man.

Soon, Germany's Santa Claus begins to despair, and wonders what the hell is wrong with Chainsaw Man that he just won't keel over and die. But the answer is the same as always. Denji wants something frivolous, and he can't have it unless he destroys his enemy, so that's all there is to it.

Happy Boxing Day, you weird-ass bowl full of jelly.

So Denji's won, right? Not quite. He defeated Santa's main body, but Santa still has a contract with the Doll Devil, which affords her control over all the dolls she's made, and they can make many more with a mere touch. Santa expects to continue evolving with the power of darkness and she can just come back with a new doll body and and send dolls to stalk and attack Denji again and again, indefinitely. Denji isn't too worried about this, but he gets his head cut off on the next page, so I guess this isn't his problem anymore.

Qwanxi confronts the burning remains of Santa and wants revenge for her dead skanks. To that end, she employs the fourth one, who we haven't seen much lately. She's the one who can only say Halloween, and on Qwanxi's orders she does a Kamehameha, but Halloween themed. Cute.

What the hell does this accomplish? Well, Santa finds herself in a vast library with this fiend, who introduces herself as the Cosmic Fiend. We're inside her mind, I think, and she can speak normally here. Santa isn't too impressed, because she thinks she can withstand a psychic assault, but tha'ts not what this is.

The Cosmic Fiend has cosmic awareness, for lack of a better term, and she can share that knowledge of everything with others, like Santa Claus. And once they receive this vast storehouse of knowledge and wisdom and enlightment...

You can only think of Halloween until you die. 🎃👻 💀🦇

I... I don't know how to react to that. I guess it explains Cosmic Fiend's appearance. I thought she was just supposed to look like some "cute" zombie, but I guess the real reason her brain is hanging out of her head is because she possesses such incomprehensible knowledge of the universe that her poor skull couldn't contain it.

Anyway, this neatly solves the problem of Santa Claus's doll slaves, because they're still alive, but now they're incapable of doing anything but shouting "Halloween" over and over again. I hope that deactivated the thing where they can turn other people into dolls by touching them, though.

Quanxi seems to have won here, since she decapitated Denji and defeated Santa Claus, but there's one more force to be reckoned with, and it's Makima. Kishibe and the other guy put on their blindfolds, because Public Safety has a rule that you're not allowed to see Makima use her power.

Quanxi immediately surrenders. I don't know if she just realizes she's outmatched, or she's that desperate to end the fight. She pleads for Makima to spare her two minions. But Makima won't accept any terms.

Quanxi and her entourage are suddenly decapitated, in a fashion that reminds me a lot of the way the Darkness Devil fought in hell. Maybe I'm reading too much into that. It's more likely that the comic is just depicting the effects of Makima's secret power without giving away the cause. It's also possible that Makima has one of her people nearby attacking these women on her behalf, like the way Angel Devil took out Reze from the rooftop.

One last loose end. Remember the Immortal Bros. from America? Remember how Aldo was the only one left, and he spent the whole arc trying to work up the courage to carry out his assignment? Well, he must have gotten turned into a doll at some point, because here he is chanting Halloween like all the other dolls in Santa Claus' hive mind.

So Makima has won. With Santa and Quanxi defeated, it's unlikely that the other nations would dare send anyone else into Japan to go after her or Denji. So everyone can take of their blindfolds now, but Kishibe leaves his own, because he knew Quanxi for a lot of years, and he has no great desire to see her dead body on the ground. Also, everything else that's happened is pretty fucked up too.

There's a two-page comic after Chapter 70 that shows the past relationship between Kishibe and Quanxi. She was the legendary "First Devil Hunter" and she had once been partnered up with Kishibe, who would hit on her and get punched in the face for his trouble. After about nine years of this, he finally admitted that he loved her, and she realized she was gay. It adds a nice touch to his refusing to take off his blindfold when she's killed.

[cmdrburton]

this tag game!!

tagged by @opalescent-potato <3 thank youuu

last song: BOA by Megan Thee Stallion - top tier track for when you're on the third set of sumo squats and your thighs are really beginning to feel it 🔥🔥🔥

favorite color: red! red red red. oxblood crimson vermilion all the reds. what a great colour

last book I finished: The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin. Great book. Going to think about Anarres for a real long time. Going to read Margaret Killjoy's The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion soon :)c

last movie: I watch movies so rarely... fast forward a week or so? I'll be watching Interstellar in the IMAX that's opened in my city. Going to see it with strangers from the city discord lmao. I've seen it but I have zero recollection of the movie (lost in the amnesia pit)

last tv show: I'm watching Robots in Disguise (2015) with a couple of friends. We're coming up on the season with my blorbo in it (what a redesign, too 😍🥴) and I can't wait hahah

sweet/spicy/savory: spicy!! I'm a spice fiend. in moderation of course, I can't really go past habanero levels without my guts Feeling It

last thing I searched for online: "does microsoft excel work on wine" because if I can't open a macro-heavy workbook like it was intended to be opened, what's the use?

current obsession: hmm. perfecting my backstitch. currently making the ugliest little drawstring bag because sewing is too strong a superpower to keep me away for long

something I’m looking forward to: short term, to friend chat time tomorrow :3 longer term, to my abs!! I'm so close to them showing properly. I can't even say I'm cutting I'm just doing crunches and planks like a mad thing lol

tagging... @incomt65, @unityinblack, and @grunkleuri. no pressure of course :D

[mollfie]

Started a new playthrough with a Dark Urge AU Jet.

She's had a bit of a redesign because 1. it's cute and 2. it makes it easier to differentiate between Durge and non-Durge Jet.

Jet is still a warlock because it's funny to think of her as a Bhaalspawn and also having the Fiend as her patron. Nice extra conflict. I like to think her patron is Mephistopheles (the same as her tiefling subrace) to add another layer to her interactions with Raphael.

I'm also playing a bit on Steamdeck, where the first screenshot is from. The other is PC. Some mods still work on PC so I can have a bigger party and Wyll has nice hair.

[madame-cookie]

Ranger Pets

I have been wanting to make a post about the different ranger pets I liked from GW1, since there have been a couple thought here and there I have had while interacting with GW2 pets. There are more than a couple homages to the skills, locations, and designs of pets in GW2 in relation to pets from the first game.

Ranger was my main for most PvE content in Gw1, and I think I ran with the original phoenix the most out of any pets there were available at the time. It had a simplicity to its design that I really liked, and I loved how it would screech as it flew around and attacked. I do really like how it got a little makeover though. Those colors are gorgeous! Ever since I first saw the redesign for them in GW2, I have thought about making a character centered around this colorful palette. I tried some stuff out but didn't care for it much. I think it would be super cool if they did more reintroductions of pets like this because it feels like a great opportunity that they've already done a couple times in Cantha.

They don't even have to have originally been pets either, because the wallows that you can tame as pets now were originally just some bumpy guys rolling around in the maps between Echovald and the Jade Sea. Here's them side-by-side, with the older one on the left:

Definitely had some work done and is very much cuter, but a part of me wishes I could have this cute wallow as a pet while still having the chubby necromantic rat that looks like a pug a bit to me hahaha.

I also think it would be cool if there were achievements to get some pets. I love how they do quests in this game and enjoyed a lot of the little prerequisites to charming animals, because it made it feel more immersive. Not to knock on the convenience of "press F to love forever <3", but I'm a lore fiend. This alternate, fancier version of the phoenix from GW1 that I posted above could only be obtained after doing the final mission in the campaign in Cantha where you would face off against Shiro Tagachi:

Do I hear breathtaking? The feathers render in such a way that they are almost transparent like silk and like I said already-- breathtaking. There was also a popular series of sidequests and collections in which you could acquire a rare moa bird egg that would hatch into this:

(I would kill for a minipet anet pls) But you would take care of the little guy through a series of quests and over time they would become this rare full-grown moa that you could charm. There is a GW2 version available through the Hall of Monuments for veteran players, and both are pictured below. Gw1, and GW2 respectively.

I like the sleek black look more personally. But I love that they kept his hot topic look because we deserve it.

But as far as quests go, there was a fun one available to people in Ascalon after the searing where they would track down the remaining members of a species and found a small sanctuary to protect them moving forward. They were called Melandru's Stalkers and looked like this:

Kitty <3 And it has been a long time, so I'm not sure if the jungle stalkers pictured just below here are supposed to be their successors or not. but I always thought it would be a very sweet collection to have in Grothmar Valley or maybe even the Secluded Glen in the Fields of Ruin. Jungle Stalker:

Most of all, though, I really missed this map called the Zaishen Menagerie, where you could go and visit all of the pets that you've charmed before in these curated little biomes across a small map. It was a convenient place to go on new ranger characters to tame harder-to-get pets, as well as my favorite place in the game that I would just hang out with my friends at.

This google image i grabbed real quick doesn't do it much justice because it was expansive. They even had caves by the water to house these little guys:

I don't know what directions they will go moving forward with pets, but I have enjoyed all of what has been added so far, and you KNOW I'm making plans to snag those new Wizard's Tower pets as. we. speak! Below are some other pets that aren't in the game yet that I would personally love to see. By no means an inclusive list, I just find them charming.