I couldn't find one for this year so I made my own !! If yah wanna join just make sure you ping me and use the #dandytober2025 !! Love to see all the wonderful art you guys make !!
Same with OFFtober, the sketches start from Day 11. I coudn't find the time to finish these, but even for a sketch, I think they look cool ^^;. It's very probable the "Angst prompt" day sketch will be a colored drawing, but until them, I hope you liked these!
This year's prompt list was made by @nishiparadoxdrawings, thank you so much!!
hiiiiii hi ok ok im so proud of this one cant believe i made this in just a day im so excited to show them aaaaa
Pete and Oz when they were kids in the 70s!!!!!! Wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peter Salazar and Oswald Singh from my actor AU Beyond the Ink Curtain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Weeeeehooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They're having so much fun hope nothing bad happens to them especially not Pete like it sure would suck is something happened to him to take away his joy and whimsy wowwwww. I also hope they will remain friends forever and nothing will happen.
the GUYS the FELLOWS the ough. so excited to post them oughhhhhhhhhhh
Prompt lists (second from last year cause i didnt notice but too late and also i dont care):
Prompt: Toon you relate to. I couldn't choose which one! With Glisten though you need to see past this flamboyant personality the fandom has put onto him to understand why I relate to him.
Arthur Walton my dubious man. i love both of the founders but Arthur I've pretty much roughly mapped out most of his life. very roughly the details keeps jumping around. meanwhile delilah i have nooo idea what her background would be.
the face i make when my annoying ex-coworker the mascot from the illegal science experiments children's museum that got shutdown after The Incident goes missing along with all the other mascots for 7 years before they all reappear out of the blue and the news says they were kidnapped by the mafia then went into hiding and my annoying ex-coworker doesn't call me even though we knew each other for 19 years before he vanished so i go to his apartment and knock and after actual minutes he opens the door and i see that he's grown two feet and is missing an arm and has chemical burn scars all over his face and he's visibly depressed and very clearly turned into a mutant (probably having to do to the illegal experiments) and there's some kind of coverup so i ask him what happened and he deflects my questions and i ask him what he turned into and he cryptically answers, distraught, that he turned into a monster in a voice that not even his 3+ decades of smoking could have caused and shuts the door in my face.
anyways hi. welcome back to my actor au where normal things happen.
also should note, sam has dwarfism, so pete's not THAT tall. He's only 8 feet something. also yeah idk if its clear but thats not a smile thats his nose.
and huh i thought the au prompt was the next day. sure ill make it a combo.
guhhhhhhh what else. nothing. ok. prompt list GO (second from last year):
Sorry for uploading it so late π I had a little art block while doing this.
Also, for day 9 I thought about drawing twisted gourdly, but... I'm really scared of caterpillars, so I started shaking after thinking about the concept of a.. gigantic caterpillar chasing everyone. ππ₯²
gijinka.... plus angst?...... human angst??..................
"And everyone was there. All the mains, all the twisteds, and everyone was the best of friends. And everyone held hands and danced and sang and had fun. Everyone was happy to see each other. Cosmo and Dr. Sprout made cake and Looey performed an act with Blot and Yatta. It was all so bright and wonderful. And I saw someone who was me, and she danced in this place where a sun would shine and the sky was blue and the grass was endless and she smiled and laughed. When I saw her it felt like I was there. I could see myself running over to my friends to spend time with them. And we held hands and we danced. It was all so beautiful. I can't keep living like this."
Say hello to Beyond the Ink Curtain, the actor AU I've been endlessly teasing for the past two months!!! Yeah, actor AU. With twisteds. Where do I even begin.... get ready fellas i'm gonna ramble!!!!!!
Ok prompt lists cause this gonna take a while, second is actually last year's:
OK so. Premise. Instead of just being cartoon freaks the toons are played by actual actors!!!!!! Which means that Delilah won't do crazy illegal experiments, right? WRONG. Feed these freakos ink (name of ichor in my AUs)!!! Who needs facepaint and special effects when you can just give people actual superpowers! Which is kind of ridiculous but the founders be ambitious, Arthur doesn't want to "lose the immersion" or something i guess i dont know i just wanna make an au dawg.
And the actors are similar to their characters but they're also different people y'all. And they're all anonymous "to not break immersion" so while Dandicus is rocking America, Andreyus is just Some Guy.
Sooooooooooo yeah. The show exists. So does The Malfunction. Whatever that was. But oops shutdowneee!!!!!!! And since these are like. Humans with rights and also lives outside the museum they just go home bro. And be normal. For five yaers!!!!
Exceeeept Andreyus Lysander. Who plays Dandy. Well, played Dandy. He's, uhhh.... He's not having a good time. He goes home but he's not being Normal. The show and museum was kindaaa his whole reason to live, man. And now all his former coworkers HATE him and he's alone and sad and And he's also permanently Dandyfied from drinking Ink and he hides it and yadda yadda yadda and now it's 2007 and he has an idea. A Very Bad One.
To open Gardenview back up, he'd need money. He needs it fast. How does he get money?
He's gonna get the Ink and Sell It. To who? Whoever! So he goes into Gardenview but maaan it's taking a while he NEEDS MONEY. He needs help. How does he get help?
He organizes a reunion dinner, lures everyone into Gardenview and locks them inside! It's only gonna take a little bit to sell all this ink! What a sound decision! (Stop commiting crimes, man, can't you just take out a loan?) oh and Dale Tomslowe is there. i actually have no idea what to do with him right now since i also have no idea what to do with Dyle in my regular fanon. uhm. DWBtIC is full of plot holes actually.
Anyways, everything is going swell! Although Polly-Ann "Bo" Wan is seems really out of it and now she's starting to forget things and act weird and Ooooooooooopsieeeeeee!!!!!!!! Twisteds. Uh. Oh no.
Except, here's the catch: in this AU, the twisteds aren't mindless. Unfortunately, they are still insane and don't remember who they are and are hostile, and contact to bad Ink spreads the infection so when they hit you you're more likely to twist. So now they're smarter, which is A Problem. But things are gonna get even worse, cause.
Peter Salazar. Who played Sprout. He's the team healer and he's not having a good time. People are twisting left and right and he seems to be unable to save them every time. He's slowly getting sicker and sicker but it's fine he's alright he can still heal he can still help them he can he has to he
So many people twist. And eventually, his best friend (since childhood!) Oswald Singh, who played Cosmo, gets trapped in a storage closet with a twisted on a run and is attacked and Pete can't save him in time and he is literally forced back to the elevator. And this is the last straw that sends him over the edge. Pete, now clearly twisting, barricades the elevator in an attempt to prevent anyone apart from him from going on runs. Then he goes back down to save Oz. And he knows he's twisting but it's ok he can still protect the others he can will himself into not turning on them it's ok And he finally finds Oz and oh he's twisted now. And twisted Cosmo hits him and runs off cause he's Scared Of Everything (that's his whole thing) and hey Pete's already twisted too he just noticed. Uh.
The next day there's another run and uhhhhhhhh they find Pete guys. But he willed himself into wanting to protect them AND he still remember them and who he is. He's still kinda unhinged though but (this is where Sprout's story diverges from my regular fanon) they let him come back with them so now they have an 8 foot-tall twisted Pete who can create Ink vines on their team and he can protect them yayyyyyy!!!!!!!!!! Which keeps him mostly hinged.
Thennnn eventually Robert Mallory (guy who played Rodger L. Ementory) and Pete go on a run and they don't buy from Andy. You know where this is going. Andy HULKS THE FRICK OUT NOW HE'S BIG AND STRONG AND BUFF and he SMACKS Robert now he's twisted, aw shucks. And Pete sees the whole thing and now he's Andy's NUMBER ONE HATER and he's probably gonna punch the daylight outta him and then tell everyone so Andy gets in the elevator before him and gets to the lobby and LIES and says Pete betrayed them and then Pete comes late cause he had to take the gross slimy stairs and he's built like a closet so it took a while and now he's back and everyone turns on him and he gets mega-fricking exiled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To the lower floorssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which drives him (even more) nuts sooooo. He organizes the twisteds, becomes their leader and declares WAR on the actors. And now he's called Great Dr. Sprout Seedly instead of Pete Salazar.
This is also a war AU.
So now there's a War. The twisteds are actively sabotaging the Ink Operation and uhhhm. And More and More people twist, and all the mains twist and the ALSO retain their memories and they're ALSO the twisteds' leaders! Oligarchy.
And, eventually, everyone gets twisted (i think i have no idea what dandy dyle and boxten's roles will be yet, as in dunno if they'll actually figure in the main story cause this au is a loose adaptation of my post-game au A Scent of Acetone, who's details also aren't all figured out), and Dandy goes into a Big Ol coma at the bottom of Gardenview (guarded by his doggy :( poor pebal :(((((( ) and now 7 unstable mutants are in charge of a makeshift underground society of also unstable mutants who fight all the time. Nothing can go wrong.
War Two
They all declare war on each other for various extremely petty and stupid reasons and form their own factions and have their own territory, each one centered around that main's themed floor. And they're constantly invading each other's territories trying to claim them, they just keep doing this for years.
And at some point between the wars or in the early days of the second war, Cosmo and Dr. Sprout became good friends (again but Cosmo doesn't remember that.) They became inseperable, they'd even cook together. Sprout helped him calm down a lot, he really improved his mental health, to the point where.....
He started remembering. That there was something before being twisted. And he starts investigating it. And he starts remembering his friends, his family, his cousin, his wife, his son, his life where he was free and he was happy. He tries to find an escape. Then Sprout finds out. He thinks he's gonna lose his friends so he tries toooo...... emprison him. Recall that Oz twisted from fear while trapped in a storage closet. Bad call, Sprout. So he runs away and now Pete has lost his friend!! And Oz keeps searching andddd eventually he gives up hope and joins Sir Novalite the Tired's faction.
But now, it's been years since the war started (no one's tracked how long, they lost track of time a long time ago), and Poppy has been in Dr. Sprout's faction since the beginning. And she's utterly miserable!!!!! The others on Sprout's floor are mean to her and also Sprout is a crazy dictator who's always watching all the time. And one day Bandit Queen Shelly invades Sprout's floor. AKA a normal day in twisted Gardenview. And Teagan is on her team right? And Teagan LOVES collecting tapes right? And she drops one while fighting. And Poppy finds it. Cue the image and caption.
Poppy needs to find that place. She needs to find out what that is. She needs to find out. She has a drive now.
And Poppy starts investigating. Then Sprout finds out. Panics andddddd actually i dont know but Poppy Escapes his floor and goes a journey!!!!!!!!!!!............ Of the which details I am also unsure of. Again, filled with plot holes. But the gist of it is that she travels between the territories finding clues about za past and relearning what it means to be a person cause thats the story theme and whatever and all the mains begin hunting her down! (Sprout either wants to not lose her or he's made her an enemy for whatever reason maybe she hurt another faction member by accident or maybe Sprout just doesn't want her telling everyone or smth)
And ok spoilert but not really she succeeds everyone is free yayyyyy!!!!!!! but like theyre still fricking twisteds. guh. So like now they're in the custody of the government and they held in a lab for some time (not an evil torture lab situation but still less than optimal) and eventually they're all let go once they're all reasonably able to CONTROL THEMSELVES and they get free normal people disguise and a bogus cover story about getting kidnapped and mutilated by the mafia and then hiding in another state or whatever. And then yeah that's the epilogue part they gotta sort their crap out man.
wow man how many words is that? now i gotta get working on the next two days entries this took me twoooo?????? three?????? days but its FINALLY DONE PHEW
also this au has Twisted Veestro lovers to enemies to lovers
should also mention that since Time Exists Gourdy and Toodles are in the late 20s by the time the actual story starts. and everyone else except eggson is in their 40s. middle aged twisteds.
Fxnn is SUCH a cool concept. His original desing is not bad perse, but it could have been better. I never understood why he has blood instead of Ichor, so I did a little re-desing, though it NOT the best at making things scary... I tried my best :').
Headcanon time: my Gourdy is Peter Pan themed right. I like to think that once autumn starts Yatta has to fiercely guard her candy stash from this possibly superpowered fairytale baby. Here she is armed with a pillow. Good luck, girl, you're gonna need it.
Fellas: It's joever. I've finally given in to Snout Sprout. I've removed his nose privileges, because he doesn't deserve one. /j
Might make a simple coloured version, but probably not.
Anyways, this is based off one of my prize headcanons, and its a hefty one.
But the gist of it is that Sprout's concept was originally that he was a traveller, right? He would travel the world and learn stuff, learning about the food was his favourite part (subtle foreshadowing), and his segment on the show was "Make Memories with Sprout." The problemmmm is that Arthur didn't exactly give him a reason he liked travelling, plus he can't even leave, so he had a crisis some time after GV opened.
Meanwhile, Cosmo's concept was being really fricking scared of everything and his segment was "Be Optimistic with Cosmo." And, well, he sure was scared, alright! To the point where he was just a wreck! And recently I've been playing around the idea that he was supposed to be Astro's friend (I mean, his name is COSMO and he's wearing pyjamas in this "beta" design), and idk ig they got along but weren't BEST friends??????? Still considering that part tbh.
But anyways, Sprout starts looking for a new hobby to occupy himself since he can't leave GV, and he's subconsciously getting tired of travel also. But he's super impatient and gives up every hobby whenever something goes wrong. And Cosmo is veryyy stressed and either gets suggested or gets the idea to do something to get his mind off of the various ways things could go wrong. And Shelly's all like "hey youre both looking for a hobby why dont you both look for a hobby" and they're like "sure ok"
And they decide to learn baking and they both have no idea what they're doing but Sprout is sprout so he's encouraging and guiding Cosmo the whole time and it's going along well but Sprout is hiding that he's also feeling like he's not doing good enough at it and when Cosmo gets the hang of it Sprout decides "well cosmo can cook now and ill probably never get the hang of it so i guess its time to quit", but then COSMO becomes the one to look out for him cause he gave him cookies to thank him for his help and he says he's looking forward to cooking with Sprout again and wow turns out Cosmo is really caring and generous wow!!!!!!!!!!!!! And so Sprout doesn't give up and now they cook and they're best friends yayyyyyyyy!!!!!
And Sprout loves to cook cause he can experiment with recipes and care for his friends and Cosmo loves to cook because it calms him down and he can care for his friends.
And Arthur's all like what the heck my characters redesigned themselves but for once he's like "hey that's actually a good idea" so now "Make Memories with Sprout" is "Bake Memories with Sprout and Cosmo." What happens to "Be Optimistic with Cosmo" Arthur makes a new character, Boxten, to replace Cosmo and he makes him a mechanic, but in name only cause he's too busy being a pessimist to actually fix things. So now he won't redesign himself cause he already has a hobby (arthur why would you do that man)!!!! or something like that i want to make sure this isnt inconsistent to my arthur characterization.
Oops that was supposed to be the gist not the whole thing.
Prompt: First Main. I interpreted it has first MAIN TOON BOUGHT, because I don't really have a main in terms of play style, I just focus in getting the mastery and then I jump onto the next one, but I gotta admit, Vee is could classify has one of my mains.
She is such a cool character and a very fun to use too! group runs with her are always entertaining, and I'm talking even before the buff.
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