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(Checks the date)

Few! It’s still pride month!

I’m not as active in this fandom as I was a year or two ago. But these little critters are still near and dear to my heart. Also they might earn me a lot of money in the future. I learned a lot about how to draw furries thanks to these guys.

Please don’t get mad at me for the queer identities (heh tities, I don’t know how to spell, I haven’t read a proper book this year) I gave Mulmancho and Aekku. This is what they are in my AU.

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One of my OCs Yedsing as a flirty merman washed up on Jeju island.

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Part 2

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Part 1

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Missed me?

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ALERT! ALERT! I JUST POSTED THE WHOLE SCRIPT FOR THE SUPER SECRET PROJECT ON AO3!!!!!!!

Love Blooms in Flower Hill (this was the working title and I can't come up with a new one) (18705 words) by AliceButterfly Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: 다람이와 고슴도치 | Squirrel and Hedgehog (Cartoon) Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Geumsaegi | Gold Squirrel/Juldarami | Striped Squirrel (Squirrel and Hedgehog), Geumsaegi/reader, Juldarami/reader Characters: Juldarami | Striped Squirrel (Squirrel and Hedgehog), Geumsaegi | Gold Squirrel (Squirrel and Hedgehog), Bamsaegi | Brown Squirrel (Squirrel and Hedgehog), Scout Gosemdouchi (Young Gosemdouchi), Commander Gosemdouchi, Commander Darami, Uncle Gom, Original Characters Additional Tags: Character Study, Psychological Trauma, Childhood Trauma, Flashbacks, War, Death, It's too long for my dad to check for grammar issues so sorry, Please comment your thoughts Summary: The script to my dating visual novel. Keep in mind that this was my first time writting a script for a game so sorry not sorry if it sucks. Art for the game is on my tumbr bobbybutterfly. I tried to keep the edits to a minimum so I don't rewrite the whole thing. And before you panic Bamsaegi is a non romantic choice. You just become like a parent to him.

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More Background Art from the Super Secret Project

TW: death

Stars above the Squirrel Village

Bamsaegi by his parents grave (notice how I put the grave on top of a hill for good feng shui)

Close up of the grave

Log in the woods

Commander Gosemdouchi giving an INSPIRING SPEECH

Uncle Gom’s house

More of the Hedgehog Village

Lake by the Hedgehog Village

Deep in the forest by the Squirrel Village

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Background Art from the Super Secret Project

TW: Death

The Hedgehog Village

The Squirrel Village burning down

Woods by the Squirrel Village

Random hedgehog house

Massacred squirrels (oh boy)

Dead bodies from the Squirrel Village

Funeral after the first squirrel tragedy…

Funeral Procession

Funeral dinner

Woods by the Squirrel Village except it’s dark

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SUPER SECRET PROJECT REVEAL?!!!!!

I think it’s time ya’ll seen what I’ve been working on for the past year. I grown a lot as an artist. Which is great.

But bad for the Super Secret Project. I can’t even look at my old art without dying. Because of this I decided to finish working on it. I might resurrect some ideas and actually make a visual novel from them. Much shorter this time. But everything I made for it, is getting scrapped. That’s why I’m sharing it with ya’ll.

In the upcoming posts it will be just art. In this one I just want to ramble.

So. What everyone was probably asking. What the fuck was actually the Super Secret Project?

Visual novel dating sim.

The story takes place in between episodes one and two with flashbacks to before and during episode one. In my writing I focus a lot on character relationships instead of plot. That’s why I set it prior to them going on missions.

You would be a childhood friend of Geumseagi and Juldarami. There would also be a non romantic option where you would basically become a parent to Bamsaegi. And you can’t forget the secret ending. Where you end up with Scout Gosemdouchi. I’m planning to release the script in the upcoming days on AO3. So keep your eyes peeled for that.

You can think of it as a Christmas present.

Just a reminder thought. It will be cringe. And probably not make much sense. After all. That’s what first drafts are for.

Originally I wanted to make a Juldarami x Geumseagi comic. All I remember from that original idea was a scene where they would go fishing. Like that’s all. Maybe they hook up…

But despite being pretty good at art my brain just cannot comprehend working on comics. So much work for something you can read in a matter of seconds?!Visual novels seemed like a good compromise between prose and a comic.

I wanted to first make all the art digital. That took way too long and the results were… scroll down on my blog and judge for yourselves.

Back then it was better to paint traditionally. It still took way too long but the results are still cute. Even if I really REALLY wanted them to look like the backgrounds from the first 4 episodes.

Writing was way faster. For obvious reasons. I think I will talk about it more in notes when I post it. Biggest problem I realised in the moment was research. I’m just not that good at it. A problem I’m realising with time though is… I got to work on my story telling. I have a tendency to write over the top emotional scenes where everyone is crying about how terrible they are, over and over!

My New Year’s resolution is going to be to read more books. And write a lot of short stories.

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Project updates

Progress on the project is... progressing?

I got Tyranobuilder. A super easy engine to work with. Now I just got to assemble everything. There are a couple extra sprites I need to make. Nothing crazy. I just have to modify some of the already existing sprites to get them.

Also the story might need some polishing. But I banned myself from having to make any more assets for it.

One big issue is that I still don't have any music/sound in it. I'll cross that bridge when everything else is done.

I am doing illustrations based of the story. It's always good to have promo. Let's be honest. You wouldn't give this post a second glance if there wasn't the art.

I also want something into my portfolio. A couple days ago I saw some artist get work from Upwork. I was like I CAN GET PAID FOR ART WITHOUT HAVING MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS?!

Of course nothing near a livable wage. But as a disabled person living with parents even a euro helps.

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I'M BACK BABYYYYYYY!

Where was I? Nowhere. I just got bored of posting on Tumblr. If I want to post here again I got to change up my strategy. That means way less rambling under these posts.

I also came back because I got to promote! I was busy leveling up my art skills. And ended up making a... gasp!

VISUAL NOVEL?!

It's nothing fancy. You get no choices and it will only take half an hour at most to finish. But I'm really proud of it.

I still got to draw 2 backgrounds, sprites for 2 background characters, the ui and the ending image. Don't forget putting it all together in the engine, getting my dad to proofread and edit the text and also writting to this random person on youtube if I can use their music in it. Preferably free of charge.

The drawings can be done over 3 days. Hopefully my dad would have gotten around to checking the story. Putting it all together will take a day. Lastly with the music I don't know. Depends when and how the person is going to respond.

If I don't run into major issues then it will come out in about 2 weeks.

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Slovak Miku!

I’m going to keep this post short for my standards LOL. She’s specifically wearing a Myjavsky Kroj. But the ribbons and specifically the collar (Kroje from that region are known for their intricate collar designs) aren’t the most accurate. The pictures in the top and bottom frames are inspired from my photos. I think I took them when I went to Lietava Castle. The middle one is a salas. They’re wooden restaurants often on the sides of roads. If you ever go to one order Halusky. It’s my favourite national food.

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@psychedelic-charm this one’s for you!

For the last couple of days I didn’t know what to draw. So it was nice to get your response.

Like I’ve mentioned in the last post I finally gave Cancer a nation. He’s Plains Cree. I think I specifically chose Plains Cree because some live in Montana. I imagine the story of the Zodiacs takes place in a fictional small American town. I don’t plan on making any comic or stories with these guys but if I would it would be a normal teen soap opera, except everyone has superpowers. Maybe I would keep the antagonists…

It is a bit unrealistic that such a diverse group lives in a small far off town. But then again. They have literal superpowers. So I don’t think that’s the biggest issue when it comes to realism LOL. Like for example Cancer here is a shape shifter. In the Li Speaks video she mentioned it would be ideal to change the talking to animals superpower. I thought it would be good to take inspiration from the Cree mythology. And shapeshifting is something I saw a lot.

I ended up taking inspiration for Cancer’s backstory from the story of Aayaase. It has a very dream like feel to it.

CW: drug abuse, domestic abuse

Cancer grew up in an abusive low income household. His biological father ran off. His mother and stepfather were both opioid addicts. His stepfather also drank a lot and took out his anger on Cancer’s mom. Cancer was very protective over her. Crying so much that several times police was called over. His stepfather decided he had enough of 10 year old Cancer one day. He sat him in the pickup truck and went into the middle of nowhere. Where he kicked out the small kid and drove off.

Cancer was stuck in an endless forest all alone. It was getting dark. He started crying. A fox heard him and curled up next to him to keep him warm. He wished to be a fox himself. And in the morning, he found his wish turned true. He liked wondering through the forest. Playing in the fallen leaves and chewing on sticks. A few days passed before he met with the fox again. She led him out of the forest to his grandma’s house. He was about to turn around and go back when his grandma grabbed him:

“I’ve made pancakes. But I’m only serving to humans.”

Almost at the snap of a finger he turned back into a boy. His grandma ruffled his hair as he gobbled up 3 pancakes at once, “I think I’ll keep you from now on. It’s nice to have someone appreciate your cooking.”

Since then it’s been 7 years. His grandma isn’t rich. Living in a mobile home for which she has to pay the landlord almost all her pension. But what she lacks in money, she more than makes up in love for her grandson. Cancer isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed. He has several learning disabilities and PTSD. He goes to therapy and has an assistant at school. Aries feels very protective over him. Treating Cancer as his little brother. Even though Cancer’s only 3 months younger and almost 2 heads taller than him.

However when Cancer likes something he puts all his energy into it. He works part time at an animal rescue shelter. He even rescued that frog from the science class (I liked that small detail from the original Cancer bio). He takes him everywhere in his pocket. The way his shapeshifting ability works is that he has to touch the animal and want to transform. This includes turning into a human. He does keep his clothes! I dunno. They’re counted as fur. He keeps his frog with him so if he’s scared he can turn and hop away.

Other than that he spends most of his day on World of Warcraft 3 and RuneScape. When Aries comes over, which he does a lot, they watch South Park and smoke weed from a plastic bottle. Cancer’s grandma doesn’t understand video games, always covers her ears when South Park is on and sometimes takes a puff of the weed before stealing their whole stash and selling it. She forces the boys to learn things like how to do beading and make moccasins. At first they complained a lot, but now they genuinely like it.

She’s even teaching them the language. Even though Aries isn’t Cree she does consider him a part of the family. He also learns faster than Cancer and then helps him out. They’re just a cute little bunch.

Lastly Cancer makes music. He doesn’t have any instruments. Instead he turns into animals and records himself. To most people it sounds like a bunch of noise (that’s why he’s hesitant to show it off) but those that get it, really get it.

And there we have it. Another Zodiac redesign. That’s all the girls that didn’t age well. Though I do have ideas for what I could do with the other girls. I even did a couple of room designs. So keep your eyes peeled for that!