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A design I made for @hoaxeye because he made this blog really pretty and helped me get organized. It’s a species I also hope to develop more here, Agarthan Gnomes.

These Gnomes were probably what the Homjunkuli were based from, as they start as a headless, vaguely humanoid glob of sticks, mud, clay, vines, bones, or any combination of subterranean material. It will wander around until it finds a rock or gem it likes at affixes it to the empty neck. If it is a regular old igneous or metamorphic rock, its form will crystallize, gems are luckily already crystal but if the gem is small it will rapidly further crystallize, growing in size until the “head” of the gnome is proportionate.

One facet of the gem will darken and become their “face plate” they see from, complete with little glowing eye spots. These may be more for looks than actual eyes, though, since Gnomes see using magic combined with the lense-like properties of crystal.

After they have a head, the Gnome’s form will cover over with clay, and the clay will grow a velvety, suede-textured fuzz. They grow thick shovel-like nails and claws for digging, and their hands and feet develop gecko-like sticky, gripping pads. They have long, noodly, ferret-like bodies for scuttling around in tunnels and caves, so sometimes they require a backbrace for most bipedal activities. They have rodent like cartilaginous ears and use them for most of their emotive communication.

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Selling two little buddies I have ready to adopt! One Fleetbot and one Homjunkulus! Read about Homjunkuli here, Fleetbot info soon to come, but you can just think of it as a regular robot design.

Designs are genderless until gender is chosen by the buyer

Fleet bot: $25 likes fashion despite their oddly shaped frame, wants to be a robot runway model.

Homjunkulus: $25 Collects button-style pins, bellybutton is replaceable with other lost pins it collects. Has two drawers instead of just one, for some reason. Maybe it sorts its pins? Who knows! You choose.

Contact me at [email protected] if you would like to purchase one!

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homjunkulore :: anatomy

homjunkuli were created originally by a godboss to solve two problems in Sleeplaw/Dream Country. One, the overabundance of actual trash and stray Concepts, and two, an overabundance of lost items with nowhere to put them.

A Homjunkulus springs to life out of specific pieces of junk that more or less become malleable and take the shape of a headless body, and a 2-dimensional eye blinks into existence above the neck-stump. Though they are highly individual creatures their bodies tend to have a few things in common, for instance, all homjunkuli have a drawer, one eye, dowsing rods and tend to be physically sexless, though they may eventually choose a gender for themselves.

dowsing rods: the “eye lashes” above the homjunkulus’ eye are actually sensory tools used to find lost objects to be put in their drawer. They are also used to emote, like eyebrows. usually they are rounded, semi-soft moveable ovals, but sometimes they take another form. This one’s dowsers are made out of pool toys, the kind that sink that are meant to be dove after and retrieved.

Homjunkuli sometimes have variant pupils. Nobody is really sure why. Sometimes they change these to emote, or to fit the “theme” of whatever lost items are in their drawer. This one has an x because it’s drawer is filled with lost tic-tac-toe pieces, among other lost game bits. Usually they must be a bit older to have a unique pupil.

A homjunkulus that has collected a sufficient amount of items for its drawer may sometimes liquify the matter of tears. Sometimes they do it involuntarily. Again, no one is sure why, because the godboss that made them sort of half-assed the job, apparently, but it is known that, like a unique pupil, a homjunkulus must be of a considerable age before it can attempt this.

Neck stub: Sometimes tears disappear here, sometimes they come FROM the neck and drip up into the eye. Sometimes it emits a cloud of smoke. Sometimes it’s just a good place to hold a scarf, bowtie or  necklace.

Homjunkuli all have a unique bellybutton, sometimes it’s made of the trash they were made of, and sometimes it’s the first item in their lost things collection.

Arms of a homjunkulus tend to be relatively thin with chunky forearms.

Most of them have finger-caps. It’s mostly cosmetic.

whether they are hooves, paws, or wearing shoes, homjunkuli usually have tiny, tiny feet.

A personalized tail. This one has a fan made of colorful beach towel.

The drawer is the most notable part of a homjunkulus. It has seemingly infinite space for whatever “theme” they might collect, which ranges from that sock you thought the drier ate, to marbles, to memories or lost tempers. Literally anything you can lose, they can and will find and tuck away into their chest drawer. Sometimes a homjunkulus will discard its entire collection to collect something that resonates more with it.

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First post might as well be this traditional/custom homjunkulus i made for @ppetshopp , made of inflatable plastic furniture+scraps of chair upholstry. It’s drawer is full of missing screws and feet to chairs and tables and the pieces that are on the instructions for furniture but conspicuously missing from the box.

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Critters Coming Soon