Girlie just chillin and drawing whatever I want, do not fall for my promises
20 || cis but not het (I like girls the best) || pretty much confirmed to be autistic, suspected to have ADHD
I'm here to get a fresh new start in terms of drawing, so here's the schedule and my blog's rules:
On the 14th and the 28th of each month, I'll be posting at least one artwork on this account and on Insta. Be on the lookout for that!
On every other day, there is a chance that I'll be reblogging other artists' posts as a way of supporting them.
Anyone is allowed to interact on the posts, but we can't be mean to each other too much!
However, I will not be the first to DM people unless I either already know them or if it's to warn them not to be mean in my posts.
Also, since I choose what to reblog and such, no asking me to promote anything for you. I don't like feeling pressured.
I only post art as a hobby and not as a career as I am aiming to have a job outside of drawing, so I'm not doing any commissions whatsoever. Yes, this also means you won't always be seeing me draw your fave characters; I draw what I want.
My current partner had been questioning their sexuality for a while and I tried to help them figure it out. They had identified as a lesbian for a long time, but they were also questioning if they really were since they were attracted to men as well, just not as much as women, though in the back of my mind, I suspected they were a biromantic lesbian. So I told them they were a biromantic lesbian. And that was what they went with.
But then just today, they came across a post (presumably on either TikTok or Instagram) saying this specifically:
They also encountered some comments saying similar things too. And this upset them a whole lot, saying to me that they feel like they're not fit to have any labels if that's the case. So I am asking you, I'm asking all of you...
I wanted to post this one out early just to get it in on time instead of waiting it out until the usual day 14 in the month.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure that, if you don't count Betilla as Rayman's mom/mother figure, none of R.A.M.S. had a mom present in their teenagehoods, which is kind of sad. But don't worry! Even so, Betilla's here to be everyone's mom and give them the hug they need ^v^
I get home from my community college to find that my girlfriend had sent me a link to a prototype of this game called "Klown.exe" that she was going to send to the Luigikid.exe contest this October once she actually finishes it. I thought I knew what awaited for me in that game... but as it turns out, there's already more to it...
To my actual girlfriend whose real name, in advance, is not actually Evie. I love you so much!!!
There are so so SO many horror fan-games out there, be they ARGs, FNAF clones (don't mean to say that one begrudgingly), or .exe games. With each sub-sub-category having at least a bit of abundance in their galleries, these were made by game developers, experienced and new alike, either through spite, laziness, or genuine love out of the franchises they made these kinds of games for. So in the early and even mid 2020s, these games - nay, horror in general - were over the roof in how frequent they were being developed. Because of this, the quality varied drastically between so unironically good to a literal child's first published piece of art, from a near-unforgettable experience to a slog of a mediocre walking simulator. Where would I stand in the general spectrum of opinionated thoughts on this? Teetering just outside it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't hate horror; I could go for a game light and fluffy on its horror themes, I like listening to HorrorTubers rant and explain the games they play, and I tend to listen to Japanese music artists like Kikuo and Maretu. The problem is... that's all I can stand. Any game with even the cheapest of jump-scares and I'll go flying out of my room and either exit out of the game or not touch my laptop at all depending on how it'd go. That's how squeamish I am with most horror games, and I know I can't be the only one too scared of horror games because my girlfriend's best friend is too scared of horror games. So it's a surprise that, during a class in my community college, my said girlfriend (love you Evie :P) sent me with a preview of a game she's been working on called "Klown.exe".
On the one hand, I was so happy and excited about her doing this as we had a shared interest in the obscure yet charming mascot this game was named after, Kid Klown, and had been expanding on his world with some friends and mutuals ever since. On the other hand, I was terrified! Evie knows that I'm not a huge fan of horror, so sending me this game with the name "Klown.exe" gave me goosebumps. Who else knows what horrifying scares and extremely explicit and completely understandable themes could be in this thing??? I got home from college and texted to her:
(IRL Author's note: if you can't read what's under the watermark in the image directly above, the full sentence in the last line is supposed to read: "Can't you just stream yourself playing the game over in Fazbender's server while the rest of us watch?". Just wanted to put this here to ruin this experience less. Sorry :( )
Evie insisted that it's not that scary and that I should try it out right here in our DMs, but after some time, we agreed that she should play the game instead, so we headed over to the server where our other friends were and she started the VC. I joined in as well as a pair of two of our closest internet friends and a few others. Once the VC was packed, Evie pulled up the game and started playing. Before the actual game started, though, there was a wall of text warning us:
"DISCLAIMER! This game is meant to have elements of the usual .exe horrors you'd commonly find in other .exe games. As such, there will be instances of Kid Klown with black and red eyes and 'hyper-realistic' blood coming out of them and also some spoopy stuff in general. By checking the box and clicking 'yee' below, you agree that you will not have a heart attack playing this game."
After Evie did as the warning instructed (plus someone joking out loud, "AUGH, ACK, I'M HAVING A HEART ATTACK-") (I swear we're more mature outside the internet), the cutscenes rolled, looking like she redrew every single picture and rewrote every line in the script herself, and the other people in the call started asking several questions:
"Who are these funny clown guys?"
"Are you making this for a game jam or challenge perhaps?"
"Why do they have no mouths and must they scream?"
As the questions and cutscenes went along, Evie and I started explaining some answers. The funny clowns in question were what I believed to be an alien race known as Klowns who lived in Klown Planet, and the bad guy, known as Blackjack in this case (he also goes by Dirty Joe in certain other games) has taken Princess Honey, King Klown's sole daughter, as a hostage, so the titular Kid Klown has to go on an equally titular Crazy Chase to save her. Evie also mentioned that the game's still in development, so there's going to be some more things added after this. Once it's completely finished, though, she'll be sending it over to the latest Luigikid.exe contest to see if Luigikid himself would play it. And finally, we have no idea why almost all of the klowns have no mouths (and yet must scream); maybe it's a stylistic choice to make them look like toys or something.
After the answers came the title screen, redrawn in the way I remembered it: Kid Klown panicking and fumbling with a bomb with a lit fuse over his own name spelled in blocky and pointy letters. The only real difference was that there was no "Option" button, so we were stuck with hovering this tiny Kid Klown over the "Start" button and pressing it. Just as Evie did... at a split second, Kid Klown's eyes looked up at us with a blank expression, his eyes having red pupils and black retinas. Even the makeup he was wearing turned black. Actually, the entire screen went all black and white, save for Kid's pupils. And the tiny Kid Klown? Pretty much dead, recreating Peter Griffin's death pose that's been memed to death itself over the "Start" button. Or at least that's what it looked like.
Looking back, that should've been the first sign I shouldn't have taken this game as seriously as I did, but I did anyways at that moment. "HOLY--JESUS FRIGGIN CHRIST!!!" I yelled (but not too loudly because I live with my family and I didn't want any of them to hear me lest they come in and ask what's wrong). I had embarrassed myself in front of a bunch of horror-loving people. But they too knew me as someone who doesn't like horror at effective amounts, so they weren't actually bothered by it. Anyways, the introduction to the first level popped up, but after a second, the words seemed to start melting, dripping down the screen. The whole thing faded to black and the level began how it's supposed to begin... kind of.
It skipped over the scene of Blackjack setting up the bomb and in fact didn't show him in it at all. All it showed was mostly the second half of the cutscene with Kid Klown crashing down and losing some health. I guess we didn't have a timer to worry about in this game, which is actually a good thing; timers and health bars don't exactly go along well too frequently. Although... Evie played the first level straight, weaving her way through the obstacles and collecting every single suit orb hidden in the balloons ("these aren't randomized here," she claimed), and there was still no sign of Blackjack anywhere, not even a peek from him behind the trees. Even at the end, where he was supposed to show up and pull a rope to trip Kid over, the tripwire was already set up with him out of sight. Had something happened to him?
At the level's goal awaited not just a bridge, but some strange clone of Kid Klown looking back at him. He was facing away from us so we could only see his back, but I feared that it was the .exe version of the Kid Klown we saw earlier. "Don't overreact," I told myself quietly, "but this could be the part where Kid gets caught and then brutally murdered." We got ourselves a completely new cutscene of Kid Klown talking to his .exe self, though throughout it, he looked more confused than scared for some reason. The top of the pictures had a dark red pixelated substance oozing down, presumably blood, and there wasn't any music playing, only a bit of a buzz you'd hear from electronics making up the ambience. But for some reason, this is how the dialogue between them went:
Picture 1
Klown: "Hi :>"
Kid: "H-huh? W-what's going--"
Klown: "This game has been infected with a virus."
Kid: "'Game'? 'Virus'??? What are you talking abou--"
Klown: "Lord X has taken over this realm, and you are to bow before his presence, for he is God..."
Kid: "Oh no! The princess... the king... everyo--"
Klown: "... just kidding! Ha ha ha XD"
Kid: "... well aren't you a meanie."
Picture 2
Klown: "Sorry for the joke. I'm actually a video game virus who's supposed to be hell-bent on destroying your planet or something but--"
Kid: "YOU"RE A WHAT?!?!?!?!?!"
Klown: "-- but I don't feel like doing that, I wanna sing and do other radical things. Say, are you good with the drums by any chance?"
And so the quest to form Klown.exe's sick af band starts...
When all the text had scrolled up into disappearance, we watched the screen fade to black only to fade back in with the intro to the second level, the wording dripping like last time, though we finally got to see Blackjack set up the bomb right after. As we get to Kid... well, Blackjack tried to start up the fuse, but then he got spooked by Kid with the same eyes as Klown's and ran away without even activating the bomb (I almost thought for a second that the last level made me jinx the fact we weren't gonna have a timer). I almost jumped at that moment too, though not as much now that I knew that this game wasn't going to take its horror elements seriously.
As Evie played through the level, the rest of the VC and I started talking about random things, both related and unrelated to the game. We joked about Blackjack and King Klown being Tumblr-sexyman levels of hot and that Princess Honey should've been in a polycule with Evie and me since we were the only lesbian couple in the server and also since I'm ambiamorous. We also talked about politics. No group VC doesn't go empty without politics. We got so caught up in arguing about politics that we didn't fully notice Evie finishing the second level, catching up on Blackjack with some faint staticky noise in the background slowly replacing the city's music as Kid approached him. It then abruptly cut to the next cutscene with BJ looking at Kid with actual fear in his mouthless face as his nemesis had a black line of pixels curved in a smile for an actual mouth, admittedly complimenting his black and red eyes. But the dialogue told a somewhat different story...
Picture 1
Blackjack: "Hey wait a minute... I recognize those glowing red eyes anywhere! You're Klown.exe, my long-lost twin brother!"
Klown: ":D"
Kid: "Twin brother? I don't see the resemblance... if anything, he looks a lot more like me!"
Picture 2
Klown.exe comes out of poor Kid's body in a completely unconventional way...
Blackjack: "Bruh, where've you been?! You just left me the moment I landed the ship to kidnap Honey!!!"
Klown: "Actually, I wanted to start a band and have us perform some wicked songs. You still have your electric guitar, so why not help me?"
Kid: "I feel... a bit conflicted with this guy tagging along..."
Some of us laughed as it faded to black. I myself laughed along and had started getting used to the game's humor and pretty much didn't expect anything scary by this mid point, just that it was only going to be less serious about it being a .exe game from then on (come to think of it, that moment just then reminded me of when I played Dayshift at Freddy's 2 and thought it'd be funny to get the Scrabble ending). Starting the third level the same way as the last two, we cut to Kid with those same red and black eyes in a pretty interesting level that looked completely original as I don't remember playing it on the original SNES version nor even saw it on gameplay videos showcasing the GBA remake. Sure, it looked less detailed than the rest of the game (the background was just planks of metallic blue with windows of the space outside and boxes, broken windows, and space lasers acted as obstacles), but it was really impressive how Evie made this level to be in the same style as the general game. She's a good artist after all :).
Soon enough, she reached the end of the level, leading us to the minigame with Princess Honey trapped inside a laser cage. Here, it was similar to the original game: use the keys you've collected from the suit orbs and guess which lock is the one that deactivates the cage before the timer runs out and a bomb explodes in Honey's face. However, here, we only have 5 locks and 3 keys, and Evie explained that while the correct keyhole is meant to be the one in the very middle, it has to be turned with the third and final key. If you do it too early, that means you have to guess which way the correct keyhole shifted to. Because of this, she got it on the "first" try, and the cage opened to a surprised Princess Honey still sitting there.
And then the following cutscene showed the ship exploding.
Picture 1
KA-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!! Suddenly, the ship exploded in a flash and sent our heroes flying!!!!!11one11
Kid: "WhoooooaaaaaAAAAAAHHHH..."
Honey: "This was NOT how I planned my day to get worse..."
Blackjack: "OH GOD DAMMIT NOT AGAIN"
Klown: "<:P"
Picture 2
Blackjack: "OW MY BACK!!!"
Honey: "Ugh... where are we this time?!?!"
Kid: "Not really sure. I'm just glad you're okay, Princess. All we need to do now is to find our way back to Klown Kingdom!"
Klown: "Noice. By the way, Princess, you know how to play the bass?"
We entered the fourth level: a recreation of that level theme from "Crazy Chase 2" and the "Crazy Chase" GBA remake with the red carpet and occasional star-topped bumpers. By then, some of the people in the VC had already left or went to watch our friends play "Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream" on another stream in the same channel. However, I was still fixated on Evie because while she tended to get hit by some of the obstacles, some of which caused the screen to go all staticky upon contact, she was making gradual progress nonetheless and, soon enough, she made it to the level's goal. The ending music started playing and the cutscene rolled.
Picture 1:
After a perilous journey, the group manages to make their way back to the king!
King: "Oh Honey! My dearest daughter Honey!"
Honey: "Oh Daddy, I missed you! It's all thanks to my hero, Kid Klown, for his perseverance and bravery 🧡"
Klown: "Nice to meet you, King of Klown Kingdom. And possibly this planet. You seem like you've been a pianist in your childhood!"
Blackjack: "That... is kinda rude, I'll admit that. Please don't say that stuff again."
Kid: "I'm moreso annoyed that you two followed us here..."
Picture 2:
Blackjack: "Look, King, I'm... sorry... I guess... I kidnapped your daughter and tried to take over the planet or something. Also yes that weird entity looks like Kid, no he's not his twin, he's mine."
King: "Ah, well, as long as you don't do it again (hopefully), you're welcome to at least stay around as long as you like. But I'll keep watch over you! You're not fully forgiven yet."
Kid: "You're... not gonna punish him?????"
Honey: "Oh Daddy... you're just that much of a softie, aren't you... *sighs in disappointment*"
Klown: "Welp, at least the best we can do right now is to set up the band and perform for the celebration! Let's hit the stage!!! If we have one around that is."
After all that, a fade to black. It stayed blankly black for a few seconds before opening up with... Klown.exe and the main 4 upstage at a concert??? (:D) With Klown.exe as the main singer, Kid on the drums, Blackjack and Honey with guitars, and King Klown sitting before a keyboard, they started playing a medley of songs Evie and I mutually liked listening to throughout our time as girlfriends. It was a well-put together scene and it was even animated with custom sprites, which I found impressive. Then the credits rolled:
Klown.exe(?)
A "Kid Klown in Crazy Chase" ROM hack created by DankJoe
Special thanks to my friends:
EggplantDave
TangerineMan
ShutUpLacey
MakingMiisonTDLTDIsAThreat
BerdlyDeltarune
Special thanks to:
Luigikid Gaming (get trolled btw lmao)
Oh and ToadBup ig since he helps judge the submissions lol
B E E G special thanks to:
my girlfriend Taylor who's been with me for only 3 months but I will kill if anything bad happened to her, she is my honeypie and my everything you have no idea how much I love her ^////////^
Finally, thank you to:
whoever else is playing this because I don't know how to program this thing to display your username :')
The song came to a close as the last of the credits disappeared into the top. Then the static. And then... a black screen with silence. There was nothing. It was done.
Unfortunately, because I was only recording the whole thing (and I'm a dumb idiot who can't screenshot on my laptop), I conveniently don't have any photos of the game itself and therefore can't show you in full detail how good of a game it was. Much worse is that you, the readers out there, might not be able to find it anywhere yet because Evie has since taken it down to work on it more. It's only a matter of time before you get to see it for yourselves and realize just how much love and comedy was put into it. Oh and that you probably shouldn't judge a game just because its file name ends with .exe I guess.
- Taylor Gripe :P
Thanks for reading "Klown.exe(?)", my silly little parody .exe writing based on a silly little klown! We genuinely both loved Kid Klown as a franchise and did in fact make some stuff surrounding him and the rest of the main 4 (as I call them at least) as well as some original characters.
When I kept seeing that many people took the idea of a character having a ".exe" version of themselves and getting creative with it, I decided to take my hand on doing the same thing but with that diamond-clad clown since... well, no one else was going to do it. I took inspiration from the "Dayshift at Freddy's" trilogy (probably especially the first one what with the outdated memes) and ran with it, scattering emoticons around the story and cracking a few immature jokes. I did admittedly get tired halfway through, but I still kept going, and I have to say that the jokes felt like they were getting a bit worse but then a lot better as I went further down. I apologize if I failed to make you laugh regardless.
Anyways, time for some random facts about the story and its named characters!
• At one point, I considered ending the story with Taylor cuddling with a Klown.exe plush, parodying the end of the original "Sonic.exe" story, but I guess that would've made it too long so I ended up not doing it.
• Klown.exe is a transmasc!
• The list of usernames under the first special thanks section were based on actual people my gf and I interact with on Discord (those aren't actually their usernames though)
• Evie and Taylor are long-distance girlfriends, which is why the former made this game!
• No, the game does not actually exist nor can any skilled hackers unearth it. I don't intend the game to exist, but if it does, please credit this fic as your inspiration.
And I think that's everything! Until next time, see y'all later!!! :D
A friend of mine who had never played any Rayman games told me that he looked like a fox at a first glimpse and I couldn't let it out of my head since day 1 so I had an excuse to draw him doing THAT 😔
Look, you can have your reasons for hating generative AI such as "it replaces real artists" (which is based) or "it uses up an unhealthy amount of water" (which is also based, I am not going dehydrated or miss a day of showering over AI). My reason, however, is that we already had other forms of AI to do what generative AI does, just with less damage.
AI-generated images? We had mathematicians draw stuff on calculators.
AI-generated voices? We had accessible Text-to-Speech.
AI-generated music? We had those electronics with pre-built music pieces in them.
AI-generated writing? We had prompt "generators" on Neocities and the like.
AI-generated assisting? We had a search bar that relies on key words.
All of these seem like much more effort was put into it, but that's the point; whatever generative AI can do, that's been done before. I don't see a reason why it was invented in the first place other than to just be lazy with creativity.
