Not a Cosmic Squirrel

Commonly known as Fripp. A place where I can yapp about games and art, mostly revolving around horses and dinosaurs.

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Have a cosmic horse? Just fought it looked nice.

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(I break my regular schedule of animals, because I drew something new for once)

At the moment I'm far down a coral Island rabbit hole. Started a new play through right in time for the 1.3 update and decided to romance best girl Chaem. Interacting a lot with her in game made me want to draw a picture of her. However about half way trough I realised what a complex pose I picked but I decided to suffer through it in the name of challenging myself.

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I was playing Starshine Legacy (finally) and this image of Mr. Sands in the old newspapers seemed very familiar...

And then I realized because it's exactly like THIS LENIN PHOTO!!!!

If you want a little bit more context for this image: This is a Photo from a speech Lenin held 1920 in Moscow. There is another version of this image where these two people, Trotsky and Kamenev, were removed after Stalins "Great Purge".

This is the edited image:

You can even see two people in Mr. Sands picture, so it seems that the unedited Lenin photo was used as a reference. I assume the person who drew the Mr. Sands photo was Johan Egerkrans. So why did he choose this Lenin picture as a reference😭 Was it a little easter egg or did he do it on accident? At least it is a photo of a speech, just as Mr. Sands does in this newspaper.

Now I believe that the other images of the old newspaper might also have real life counterparts. Though none of them look familiar to me, so searching for a possible real life counterpart could be quite difficult.

Anyways, this was so surprising to me😭 I did NOT expect to see a Lenin reference on SSL, whether it was purposefully or accidentally. A long time ago my history teacher showed us Soviet photos that were edited and this Lenin photo was shown once or maybe twice. Then I completely forgot that it existed, until this incidence lol.

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My mega park has been completed. During the buildning of it, the parks size crashed the game a couple of times and I even got blue screened. So it felt like a fitting conclusion that right after I got the achievement, it blue screened once again.

Some pictures of animals in the park that i photoed during the process.

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I can't get over the woolly rhino babies. I did manage to complete the park i was working on, more or less (always more things I want to do), so on to the next park.

This is a park of pure chaos, I try to not focus to much on how it looks (even do I can't completely stop my self) 'cause it is trying to be a park with all the animals in the game. Why try to cram 72 different animalspecies in one park? Steam achievements, that's why. These floofballs are from that massive park, and it is making good progress, so long as my computer will keep surviving running it.

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Sometimes you just have to slow down and enjoy the views and beautiful animals. All the pictures are from a park I'm building in Prehistoric Kingdom. I'm notorius for never finnishing parks I start but this one is nearing "completion". There is just something so soothing in decorating in this game.

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This little pony brings me such comfort. She is a way for me to still be able to ride one of my childhood ponies, even though we sold her years ago. I have a couple more horses in the game that I have named after ponies and horses I have owned or ridden throughout the years. It feels nice to be able to revisit horses I have met before.

Feel free to share horses you got that represent real life horses!

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Just a single mom and her bibbles. Marchenghast has a very nice vibe at night. All the lights make it cozy, yet it still feels a little eeire.

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I disturb the regularly scheduled horses to present: one happy spike ball.

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Concorde

Concorde is probably my favorite star rider horse. It is a combination of how they look and how they act, especially in Starshine Legacy. I drew this picture a couple of years ago and I'm still very proud of it. It was supposed to be a redraw of an even older picture I had drawn, but I ended up just doing the head.

As a little bonus, here is the original drawing I was going to redraw. I drew it in 2017 after learning what happened to Concorde in SSO.

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Taking a trip down memory lane, this pictures is from about 2015, so I looked up a couple of looks I have had over the years. I started playing at the end of 2012 so I have had the time for a couple of different looks..

This is how I looked ca 2018. I was not a fan of the updated character model so I started using the Fripp mask.

2022 I had ditched the Frippmask, at least when taking pictures I used for rrp.

New character model entered the chat ca 2023. I also found the Fripp ears which are now almost always on. Now I will go and feel old in a corner.

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"They are called Mahr" no that's a bibble

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Who let this man on the school premises???

The game that started it all.

It was also my introduction to Jorvik. For a while this game and Star Stable Summer rider were my only Jorvik games. Then I found SSO and later also the other Starshine Legacy episodes and the other Star Stable games.

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Dark horses in light brown tack is so nice, Mocha is ready to conquer the dressage arena in this outfit.

And I want to take a moment to this magnificent new pet!

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Sir eats-a-lot

Do not know exactly what captivates me about this quest and horse, but I do enjoy it.