mini-golden
mini-golden
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𝑅𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒 (they/he) 🏳️‍⚧️♥️🧡🤍🩷💓| 19 | 🇦🇺 ʷ/🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪 | INFP-T | ☼♐︎ ☾♓︎ ⬆♓︎ | Just a random teen messing around with art and concepts | A big history and literature nerd | Massive info dumb of my hyperfixations | I go very deep into lore
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mini-golden · 5 days ago
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Honestly haven't fucked with original quest since I got into inky mystery but this was fun to do.
Quest was great when it first came out, when I was 12 but looking back on it I cannot stand it know that I grew up and just stick to aus now. The concept was really fun and that's why I still engage with aus and am obsessed with inky mystery. However I cannot read the original comic without recoiling, there are so many glaring problems with the writing and it honestly shouldn't have been a surprise that Rouge was a bit of a creep with the content she made. I'll stop that little rant there so this isn't completely about shitting on quest but I could talk for hours about how much it sucks. Cool concept, dumpster fire execution.
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mini-golden · 1 month ago
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Announcement!
The Choices We Make is going on a little hiatus at the moment (don't worry it will come back and I will finish it!) while I try and figure out a schedule for all my projects. My fanfiction works are going to be pushed to the side while I work on my inky mystery au comic. The Choices We Make will be finished, Shadows of the Ink Machine is just going to be my front and centre project since I'm content enough with my art to start actually posting about it, therefore updates may be a bit chaotic for awhile. Also lost some motivation for writing but it's not writers block and I will continue to write when I can.
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List of things I have in the works for those curious:
• The Choices We Make (fanfic, currently on hiatus, will make an announcement here when I start posting for that again).
• That one one-sided Felzu fic I posted and never named, don't know if I'll ever finish that but I'll draw out the ideas I had for it (fanfic or comic/drawings).
• Bendy and Boris in the Shadow of the Ink Machine (comic, current main focus).
• Bad Idea, Right? (fanfic, future fic for when I get back into writing).
• fantasy comic series focusing on Celtic mythology and Scottish and Irish folklore, possibly with some English folklore sprinkled in as a connection thing to my heritage and strengthen my Gaelic language skills (currently mostly Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic)) (comic, also future work).
• a mini comic series that introduces Oswald and friends into the Mickey Mouse and Friends universe + shenanigans for Oswald's 100th birthday. Don't have any working titles for the comic series yet (comic, future works).
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mini-golden · 1 month ago
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MORE CONCEPT ART AND NOTES HAVE BEEN FOUND
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More clear notes on characters as well as comparison of what I assume to be the pilot style to the more finishes/later style we see in more concept art
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Notes on the enviroment as well as few new locations I think the notes are extremly helpful as we can get a better grip at what they were going for as well as we ourselves can learn from it, things like this dont get leaked everyday lets try to learn from what we can get our hands on
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i assume a test on how characters would look in the enviroment, if I do say so muself he fits right in beautifly
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Even more concept art of the city as well as that strange hotel-building as I said before I assume thats where oswald would be staying since he doesnt appear to be from the city
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mini-golden · 1 month ago
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I've never felt this fucking robbed since Warner selved Coyote v. Acme (that's been picked up by my goat Ketchup Entertainment thank god).
However *rubs hands together like a madman* this gives so much info for the fandom, I can't wait to see what ideas we get from the fans. All that cliff the cabby fan content was so good.
For ppl who havent seen the 2019 Oswald show concepts got leaked and i think its important we all reblog and save these images before disney can attempt to burry them we NEED this archived for the artists sake
Og post discovering this (on twitter) and yt vid i assume by the same person GO THANK THEM RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
Here are all the concepts mainly on envariment
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Concepts on oswald himself i belive not finalized?
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His little gas station to the crowd that still checks things w disney you might know this is the same gas station oz has the the disney theme parks, honestly very fitting though I do find some irony here i'll share in tags cuz its rubberverse related-
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Absolutlry beautiful concepts of the outside enviroment you can accualy sense so much passion put into these the colors are so beautiful omg
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Notes on the characters! I do find even more irony here i'll again post in reblogs cuz its off topic We can see some oryginal villians for oz That i belive we also saw in the pilot from 2014 i can see the take on them has changed a bit, also the hound driver is so peak oh my god i think i love him
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Concepts of some hotel i wonder what was the idea with that Id assume maybe this could have been a place oz stays in while hes in the city cuz we see he's from the outside rather than a part of it either way on speculation i think the concept of it is my personal fav i mean just look at it
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Idk whats this related to but oswalds on a sky scrapper at night and i fw with it good for him
And while it is a bigger speculation and the image isnt the most clear-
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We see another rabbit in the city in a trolley, i think we can see eyelashes and she def has some hat on (smaller hats are usual for women at disney from what i saw) We see SHE notices oswald and is looking at him with i think a o.o expression so...
Is that suppoust to be fanny??
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mini-golden · 1 month ago
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The scapegoating of cats of the SOLE reason for the extinction of native Australian wildlife genuinely pisses me off to no end. Are they a factor? Yes however, in cases that extinction of native Australian species that are the fault of cats, the native species were already in isolated groups due to habit loss due to HUMAN (specifically European humans) urbanisation causing the loss of native habitat. Also we've seen that when cats were successfully eradicated from Magnetic Island (I think it's that one) didn't even help anything cause now rabbits, rats and mice have taken a more prominent role just filling the shoes of the cat pest problem. Really the hatred and scapegoating of the cat feels stupid and akind to medieval europe type thinking of the cat. All introduced species (YES this includes your precious dogs, I love dogs btw I'm just pointing out a common hypocrisy amongst anti-cat people) and non-native humans have had their hand in the extinction of native Australian wildlife and dumbing it down to one sole factor that we don't even truly know how much contribute to the extinction of wildlife compared to other contributing factors or even up against other carnivorous introduced species is not going to fix fucking anything.
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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Guess who's actually getting back into drawing again? Mee. I haven't drawn this much since I was in year 7-9. I already posted the drawings in the left top corner as I drew them awhile ago, it's just all on the one page.
I'm also gonna put some unrelated to most of the drawings info about the project I've been working on for a bit over a year now since it's going to be mainly comics. If you've been following me for awhile you would have vaguely heard about my inky mystery au (which has a name now!); Bendy and Boris in the Shadows of the Machine (babitsotm or sotim for short)
Volume one is pretty far in production when it comes to the writing and plot aspect, I mostly just have to draw it up now. This is specifically an inky mystery au not a babtqftim au. The story follows all the plot beats of inky mystery pretty closely but it will be evident really quickly that it is an au so volume one follows book one: quest for a cure. There's a lot of worldbuilding aspects that are very different from inky mystery and has a lot more focus on the archaeological side of things when Holly and Felix gets introduced (cause I'm a massive archaeology nerd). The two main inspirations for the worldbuilding I've implemented are dungeon meshi and beastars so politics are a lot bigger factor throughout the story then IM typically has. Also the animal toons are all getting their own individual culture and historical records, a lot of "typical furry" type of anthropomorphisation of animals (as you would expect since I put beastars as one of my big inspirations) and fantasy creature type lore.
Another inspiration is Nana, what I really want to do is let the audience know basically what everyone feels about each other, so more "rare pair" interactions from IM I want to really expand upon more like Felix & Mickey and Goofy, Max & Oswald for example. I'm adding a lot more iconic characters to the cast that will come and go as the IM cast is already quite vast.
I'm also taking a very historical approach to the world, instead of the more flexible vague time period of 1920-30s that IM abides by. Like undisputably in the historical fantasy genre type approach (not that IM doesn't fall into historical fantasy I'm just upping that category to the max). It is firmly set in 1932 and a lot of things will reflect that, especially fashion. I don't think the 20s and 30s get enough intrigue for everyday fashion that other periods get and I just love the fashion of those decades. So yeah I'm really excited to get around to this au, I think I have a lot of interesting ideas and interpretations of the original IM story and I hope the community will enjoy it as much as I do. There's no set time currently for when it will be out as I still have a lot to figure out on the drawing side of things but character designs and such will be underway!
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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You know having someone bad happen to you sucks but what's worst is the deep sense of dread of realising that you will have to deal with this thing for the rest of your life that makes you wonder if you can even continue life knowing this thing that was completely out of your control will haunt you for the rest of your life.
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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Shoutout to all the inky mystery and toonverse artists in general that draw the characters heavy stylised but still recognisable cause having that balance is so hard.
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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I highly recommend people to edit themselves as a character they love or relate to cause this is so fun.
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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American Easter confuses me.
Why do you paint hard-boiled eggs and have eggs with plastic shells that hold lollies inside? And you use those boiled eggs in Easter egg hunts, do you like wrap them in something before you put them on the ground? What is the purpose of the egg painting? Is it like an actual Christan tradition or just an American one? Do you guys eat the boiled eggs instead of chocolate eggs and bunnies?
Why is Easter so unimportant? We get a four day weekend for Easter in Australia and you don't even get a day off? I'm honestly surprised with how Christan America is. Is Easter pushed to the side because you guys have such a big Valentine's Day? Why does ham seem to be so popular for Easter dinner?
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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It's actually a very reasonable response considering their background with the police. They are small town police in a what I'm guessing is a midwest or southern state, who is going to hold them accountable if they were to jail someone without much evidence? The police has shown time and time again that they are not on Bendy and Boris' side and considering the time period and them both being part of a marginalised group they probably don't have the system to back them up. Sure they could of been in a position to hire a lawyer but that would financially ruin both of them since they were now both jobless. Not to mention we see legal discrimination with Mr Winky clear as day.
There's a reason why a lot of marginalised groups don't trust the cops and have every reason to. Unfortunately innocence can mean nothing if you get a crowd so riled up they call for imprisonment. If he got cleared he could of still been taken out by an angry mob. They're house got broken into, it's clear someone was out to kill them and what better way to find them then being in a locked box. As an oldest sibling I would of definitely ran even if not for myself then for my younger siblings. Bendy wants to get Boris out of a clearly dangerous situation. Bendy? Sure he'd probably be fine he's a demon he has his shadows and super strength. But Boris? The 14-year-old kid that is too kind for his own good and has no ability to win in an actual fight if he's not using his teeth which would get him off to jail anyway? He doesn't stand a chance.
Really in the trial they were extremely lucky, there's probably not a lot of cases where a demon or wolf get cleared. They had people to vouch for them getting the crowd to understand their true character, they were turned in my detectives that did everything in their power to get them a fair trial and gave the boys one of the best lawyers they could. They didn't have any of that in Sillyvision it would of been to the jail cell for them if they stayed.
rant and possible spoilers for book 1
Am I the only one who tweaks out whenever they think abt the first chapters? Like why did bendy and boris run?? They had every last way to prove they're innocence but no! They ran! And I get they were probably scared or something but come on bendy and boris are smart. That's not a question. So why would they run when they were being questioned for murder!? That makes them look so much more guilty! And the police were in the wrong too! They didn't have any evidence other then "they disliked pete" but they tried to keep then overnight!? Correct me if I'm wrong but you can't do that! I'm sure you can call them in for a little more questions but that's it! And even if they did that they still couldn't actually question them given the fact bendy and boris shot down every last attempt to make them look guilty! I get this is set in a different time but I literally tweak the hell out every time I think about it lol
Im also going off what I remember so this may have been brought up but I forgot
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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And what if I made yet another Osix au set in the 2000s-2010s where one of them is in a band and they're originally exes that's loosely based in the inky mystery universe and the songs bad idea right? by Olivia Rodrigo and bad idea! by girl in red? Maybe I should name the fic bad idea guys
I could seriously make like 50 aus of different scenarios that lead to these two kissing. Their dynamic is just so interesting to me, both as a platonic and romantic pair.
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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Build a ballot just came out today, what the actual fuck is wrong with my area for the house of representatives. I wanted to put all minor parties over labour and liberal but 3/4 of them are straight up bigots. They're literally some of my last options I have on the Senate. One of the parties FIRST policy is literally and I quote "protect children from harmful LGBTIQA+ gender fluid ideology" and "ban the use of puberty blockers". I forgot that I'm in a little leftist bubble of friends and that a LOT of people in my city are quite bigoted.
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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So like I've had this in my drafts for months and I don't know if I've ever going to get around to finishing it so here's all I had written for a one-sided Felzu fic I was working on.
Chapter 1: Lady Luck is on the demon's side!
Heels clicked against cold stone bricks. A dark-skinned man walked with purpose around a corner, walls made out of the same stone as the floor. Ice clung to every surface yet did not seem to affect the man. He stopped in front of a door. Instead of a handle there was a small white stone tablet. Intricately carved with a front facing eagle perched atop two lions facing sideways and opposite from each other. The eagle had a face of a lion and so did the lions with eagle faces. All their eyes were closed. There was a small square nestled in the middle of the tablet.
Anzu blew icey breath into the square and straighten his pristine suit with a huff. He had a meeting with the other princes of hell that went on for longer than he anticipated. Though with Ava's embarrassing slip up and subsequent punishment Anzu found himself with some more free time on his hands.
The clicking of mechanisms could be heard coming from the door before Anzu pushed it open. The eyes of the eagle and lions now open to reveal purple gems in their place. Stepping into his office Anzu's shoes were met with a thick wool rug. Intricate patterns delicately weaved through the fabric. The demon walked further into the room and sat on a chair with a desk in front of it. The office was littered with expensive woods, gems, fabrics and pottery alongside various ice sculptures.
Anzu dug around in the draw of his desk to find the papers he needed to take care of. While reviewing conduct negotiations from lords around their surface properties the shine of the archangel soul fragment caught the demon's attention.
The demon frowned placing the rest of the papers down, careful not to place them too close to the ones he had already rejected or signed. Maybe he should move the soul fragment somewhere it wouldn't catch his eye so often. The fragment sat perched on a silk pillow inside a curved glass case. It glittered brightly in the artificial lights. An archangel's soul was truly a sight to behold.
Not just any archangel's either. The soul of the spawn of the angel judge herself, Master Hannah Angel. What was the young angel's name again? Alice, Alice Angel. Fitting name for such a girl. Ever noble in her righteous ways. Anzu smirked. What a fine opportunity the gods had just placed in his lap.
The demon glanced over to the other soul fragment perched on his desk. The casing of this fragment was more decorated then Alice's. Gold swirled from the bottom and top of the casing with a few gemstones tucked in. It didn't have that bright light that came from Alice's soul as it belonged to a non-magical creature. But that didn't make it any less than the angel's fragment. No, this belonged to a very interesting cat by the name of Felix.
Anzu licked his lips looking at it. He knew better then to devour either fragment as it was infested with that illness. Anzu hadn't been able to get the cat's soul out of his head. He had handled many souls in his life but Felix' was just breathtaking. It was beautiful. All the emotions swirled through in a gorgeous harmony. They were all so bright, it was easy to tell at a first glance that he was deeply passionate. Anzu hadn't seen such a strong and complex soul in awhile.
Meeting the cat in person Anzu could see why he was chosen as Professor Wilson Wiseton's prodigy. He had an idea of how Felix was due to the devil getting him to keep an eye on him in case Professor Wiseton had contact with him. But none of it truly prepared him to seeing Felix in action.
Quite literally, he could hold his own surprisingly well against a demon lord. An impressive feet for a simple cat toon. His fighting style was based on agility and flexibility. Drawing from your species' specialties was always a sign of a good fighter. Felix knew how to use his body in a way that told Anzu he had plenty of experience. He had shown to be skilled in multiple weapons. Switching between them with ease. That magic bag was a sight to behold as well. Anzu wondered how Felix got his hands on a pocket space bag. Yes, this cat was very interesting.
The demon prince hummed. He'd love to take the cat out for dinner. Felix had been a good conversationist last they spoke. Open and warm but it was clear his trust was not one to be tested. Anzu would have to keep that in mind. He would hate to break the trust given so easily to him by Felix. Anzu couldn't deny he was honoured by it. Maybe even a little flattered. Felix cared enough about demonkind to offer him all the information they had on ink illness. Felix fought a demon lord to adopt one of his kind. Anzu smiled at that.
He turned back to his papers and his smile grew. Lord Black Hat had made a request.
Anzu would have to see if Lady Luck was in his cards today.
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Bendy tapped the table along with the tune carried by the record player in the living room. It was an upbeat jazzy tune. Bendy had a flick through of Felix' records with Boris. A lot of jazz of all kinds and some classical ones that Bendy had never heard before. Boris commented something about them sounding Felix. Everyone had a certain sound or something. Bendy didn't really get it but Boris tried to explain that you can tell a lot about someone by the type of music they like. It seemed to amuse Felix though when Boris tried to explain how it made sense he liked the type of songs he did. Bendy didn't really care about genres, if the music had a good rhythm he could dance to then that was good enough for him. Well, unless the lyrics were dumb.
His other hand was occupied by one of Hat's demon books. He had to visit Hat today and had been procrastinating on his readings. The smell of chicken, canola oil, eggs and an assortment of spices he couldn't pin point filled his nose. Smelt good though. Bendy's focus switched from his book to Boris and Dad's conversation while they made lunch. Felix' cooking was berries. No one could top Granny but Dad was an extremely close second. Growing up Bendy always thought the saying about food tasting better when it was 'made with love' was stupid. He definitely got the saying now. No matter what Granny or Dad cooked it make him feel relaxed and warm inside.
Bendy couldn't help but smile to himself. He felt loved and relaxed here. With his family. With his Dad's homemade cooking, with the help of his little brother sometimes. That was still a bit strange to say. It almost didn't feel real. Bendy cringed at that and clearly tried to shoo that line of thinking away. Letting out a shaky breath.
Bendy couldn't help but smile to himself. He felt loved and relaxed here. With his family. With his Dad's homemade cooking, with the help of his little brother sometimes. That was still a bit strange to say. It almost didn't feel real. Bendy cringed at that and clearly tried to shoo that line of thinking away. Letting out a shaky breath.
"Bendy," Dad's voice cut into his thoughts.
He snapped his head up to see a worried, searching look on Dad's face. His shoulder felt warm. Oh Dad's hand was on it. His hands were always soft and warm.
"You okay, Bendy?" Boris spoke from across the table. Wearing the same worried expression that Dad did. Even with a spoonful of food in his muzzle.
Bendy looked at his dad and back to Boris and then down at the food in front of him. He must have been zoned out.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine, just.. thinking is all," Bendy gave his family a stiff smile. The look Boris gave told Bendy he didn't believe the demon.
"Are you sure? Bendy you know you can tell Boris and I anything," Dad pulled Bendy into a small side hug, rubbing his face against Bendy's.
Bendy let out a chuckle at that. It always cheered the demon up. He realised it was a cat thing after seeing Inky and Winky do it a couple times. A genuine smile crawled it's way onto Bendy's face. He was okay. He was safe here.
"Yeah I'm sure, just got in my head a bit," Bendy smiled at both of him and reached over the table to pat Boris on the head. Bendy was not going to acknowledge the fact that he couldn't reach over the table the full way so Boris had to meet him halfway.
When Bendy retracted his hand Boris thumped back in his seat, tail wagging a mile a minute. Dad smiled at both of them, ruffling Bendy's fur and giving him a small peck on the forehead. He walked over to Boris and did the same before returning to his seat at the head of the table. Bendy felt embarassment darken his cheeks. Boris' tail was wagging so fast that Bendy was worried it would fall off. Felix started giving them pecks on the forehead after Boris asked for one when he was trying to sleep. That surprised Bendy since Boris never liked kisses. Boris told him that Molly said something about a father's forehead kisses driving away nightmares. So he asked Felix and said he had a good sleep that night. Despite Bendy sometimes feeling embarrassed by them, he didn't mind them. He just felt like he was a little too old for little pecks on the forehead.
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A warm spring breeze hit the small demon as he stepped out of the house. Felix in toe. He was joining him to Black Hat's Casino since Dr. Oddswell wanted Dad to bring over some research notes to Hat. Dad never seemed thrilled whenever Hat was in vicinity of him. Bendy couldn't blame him. Hat was a pain.
Bendy's mind went back to the couple weeks he and Boris have been living with Dad. Just his room alone was so big he didn't know what to fill it with. It's been great to have his own room. He liked the way Dad had things. Their home was cosy and inviting. It was fun to see the similarities of Dad's and Boris' decorating. Bendy had no idea how much of an artist his dad was. What surprised Bendy the most was how messy the cat was. The house always had clutter and a small messy pile somewhere. Dad didn't like cleaning but he did it well. He just had a tendency to procrastinate a little on it. It wasn't bad, just enough that Felix would like people to tell him when they're coming over.
"You've been zoning out a lot today, is Black Hat pushing you too hard?" Dad frowned.
"Huh? Oh! No that's not..." Bendy trialled off.
Felix gave him the same look of 'not buying it' Boris had earlier.
"Bendy, really, is something going on?" his voice gave off that soft fatherly edge that always made Bendy want to spill his heart out.
"I just..." Bendy struggled for the words. "A lot has happened lately... It's hard to, I don't know, wrap my head around?" He shrugged helplessly.
Felix hummed. "Do you want to talk about it?"
"Not really, I mean yes but just not now," Bendy grit his teeth, why wasn't any words forming.
All those long nights of spiralling thoughts just to come up with nothing.
"Okay, I won't push but when you're ready promise you'll tell me,"
"I promise... I'm sorry for worrying you,"
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mini-golden · 2 months ago
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"Man this inky mystery au idea has been has been racking around my brain for awhile I should probably start posting about. I wonder how long I've been working on this."
*looks at my obsidian vault where I've collected all my thoughts and research for the au*
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Created on the 26th February 2024
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Please ask me about my au I'm begging to at least talk about it
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mini-golden · 3 months ago
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I write fanfiction on Ao3!
Since I gave out my Tumblr in the last chapter I posted for one of my fics I thought I'll make a post about it since I will probably post more about it. My user is Mini_Golden for those interested in checking out my writing. I currently have two works for the Osix ship.
The Love That Comes From Tragedy is just a cute little one shot set directly after chapter 366, currently. I do have ideas for a sequel or might just make it a 2 chapter fic but that is not in the works at the moment.
The Choices We Make is an au loosely based on inky mystery. It's basically a 'what if' Oswald and Felix ended up unhappily with their original love interests which for Oswald is Fanny and for Felix is Kitty. I suggest caution with this fic though as it is for mature audiences and therefore has a lot of mature themes. All the trigger warning for it in the tags so be sure to read them closely. There's only 3 chapters currently and I aim to post at least one chapter every month but I'm hoping to possibly get two. I don't have a backlog for this fic so I am just writing, editing and posting when I get things done. So basically the schedule for this fic is it comes out when it comes out but you can expect a chapter each month. With this uncertainty I will be posting updates for this fic on here and hopefully get around to some drawings of it as well.
A lot of people really liked the meme I edited to be Oswald and Felix so I might make a little Felix and bunny kids one shot as I also have gotten into Dog Man lately so family fluff is just wrecking around in my brain ready to write. Thank you all so much for the engagement on that post btw I did not expect it to blow up like it did. Clearly the people yearn for Osix family fluff so I shall most likely provide.
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mini-golden · 3 months ago
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Get up cock-suckers and pussy lovers it's time to vote.
A small comprehensive resource guide on voting in the 2025 Australian election on 3rd May.
Be an informed voter! Here are some websites to help with your decision making.
https://www.buildaballot.org.au/
This is Build A Ballot where you can well, build a ballot 3 weeks before the election, it recommends a 3 step process to informed voting. I recommend visiting their "election 101" section first as it gives a short easy to understand guide to understanding the election process. Articles in this section include:
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• Do Politicians Have to Keep Their Election Promises?
• What is a Minority Government?
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• Minor Parties and Independents
• Preferential Voting
• How to Vote in Australian Elections: A Step-by-Step Guide
• Australia's Political System
• The Major Parties
Their research hub let's you discover the candidates in your local area with official party websites attached. It also includes a Ballot Breakdown spreadsheet to write down your preferences for the House of Representatives, Senate (above the line) a.k.a specific parties for the Senate. Senate (below the line) a.k.a individual candidates for the Senate.
For researching candidates to make sure they're policies match with what you care about check their about sections on their parties website and social media. If your candidate has been elected before give They Vote for You a look. They Vote for You give you policies that the candidate has directly voted on split into sections of consistently for, almost always for, generally for, a mixture of for and against, generally against, almost always against, consistently against and can't say anything concrete about how they voted on. Clicking on these policies also give you an overview of the exact bills and motions attached to the policy so you can see how exactly our government are inacting these polices.
https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/
A helpful google doc is humanity_bites' Federal Voting Help spreadsheet of 5 tabs explaining policy breakdowns, federal parties voting history, independents voting history, enrolling to vote and how to vote.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1zNwxLGPTm4MZ-HFOG7M-m0K46OopmjcU/htmlview
Another site is Federal Australian Election Matcher, this has a section of issues you can tick to get a Match Percentage for candidates that matches with your issues. It also includes a section that shows what the ballats look like.
https://www.votehelp.site/
And remember this is not the US or UK we have preferential voting meaning EVERY VOTE MATTERS not just your first preference!
A little note for leftists voters, since the two major parties are both terrible, voting for minor parties and independents are the way to go. Put labour and liberal at the bottom of your list, show them that we're tired of their ignoring of issues we are about and refusal to put the people over corporations!
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