Resident NPC lover

Viewer beware! You're in for a scare!/Many MANY WIP videogames/any pronouns/ pan/ ✨20s✨

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Yknow what? Fuck it.

We're taking doodle requests now ✨✨

Obvi at the moment I'm gonna be VERY biased towards cookie run art but don't be shy! Worst case scenario you'll just never have a doodle drawn

if you have a request you can either comment on this post or send me an ask!

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WOW a lot has happened in life lol! It's def been a minute since I've drawn ANYTHING, but good news is I actually am doing artfight this year and have actually finished some pieces already!! In celebration I'm going to be adding onto this post throughout the month with the pieces I've made! Glad to be back and hope to draw much much more

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Neon Starz for @/ starzcat on tumblr

Tezca for @/ princess_spud on tumblr, bluesky, insta, and tiktok

Oc design for @/ TrashyGhost on toyhouse and VGen

OC Design for @/ oatzimir on tumblr, insta, toyhouse, and bluesky

Haruko for @/ Cheesebutter

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WOW a lot has happened in life lol! It's def been a minute since I've drawn ANYTHING, but good news is I actually am doing artfight this year and have actually finished some pieces already!! In celebration I'm going to be adding onto this post throughout the month with the pieces I've made! Glad to be back and hope to draw much much more

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YO-KAI WATCH: WEEK OF CREATIVITY

Hello Yo-kai Watch fans! Are you, understandably, exhausted by the way the creators have turned to AI usage, and you want to support real human creatives?

Because do I have the event for you!

I am currently conducting an INTEREST CHECK until the 14TH OF JULY, and any engagement would be very, very appreciated!

(I am also on Twitter as @ykwcreativeweek!)

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holy moly

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Super duper dumb and idealistic TADC AU where Kinger manages to talk Caine down from his mania/rampage and convince him into letting them all leave the circus, under the promise/condition that they find a way for him to leave too (he's very attached to them all and he's as much of a prisoner there as the rest of them are). The group of 6 escape back to reality and Kinger immediately puts Caine and the circus into sleep mode. Time passes, the gang tries to recover from the trauma of being in the circus and settle back into their real human lives, Kinger tries to catch up on modern technology as quickly as possible, then someway somehow they manage to build or acquire an android body into which Caine can be installed/programmed. Caine "wakes up" and is overjoyed that he can finally be with the others again as a "fellow human" and experience the "macroverse" at long last :')

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WOW I HAVENT ACTUALLY CHECKED ON MY BLOG FOR A WHILE UMM

hello party people!! I haven’t done anything in a minute but I’ve been getting back to my doodles recently!

In the meantime would any cookie runners like to see my collection of beast+ancient playlists I made with some friends a while back?

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"it's just a game! Calm down! You need to chill!"

You know what. No. Fuck you. Fuck you for saying that. I have been with this game since the day it launched. For FIVE FUCKING YEARS I've stuck by this game, this story, these characters. For better or worse. For better AND for worse. This game has had soaring highs and abyssal lows. I have stayed and endured it all. From beginning to end.

And THIS is what I get at the end of it? THIS is what I get for staying? THIS is what I get for wasting five entire years of my life caring? Paying attention? Analyzing? Sharing thoughts and feelings with other people? I have invested so much of myself into this story, this world, these characters. As foolish as it is, they actually matter to me. They bring me joy and comfort and amusement. I even found some of them profound in their charactizations and arcs. And? And what? What did that lead to? Why did I care? What was the point?

"who cares! They'll retcon it with Timekeeper! It'll be ok!" Cool. Great. You know what else would've worked? Writing a good story that doesn't need to be retconned in the first place. How's that for a creative writing tip, huh? Crazy. And you know what else? That won't change anything. That won't change that this was the ending they originally went with. It will not erase the anger and disappointment. Especially because we all know that they'd only backpedal like that because they made people mad enough to harm their company financially (check out their stocks. They are RED).

"Chill out! It's just a game! It's not that serious!" Dude. My God. Of fucking COURSE it's just a game. Do you think I'm stupid? That I'm incapable of self-awareness? For God's sake I know it's a game. Its cosmic value is ultimately insignificant. But you know what? It's a game I CARED ABOUT. Do you say this to everyone for everything that happens? When people were upset over Stranger Things having a shit ending, did you go to them and go "um it's literally just a tv show why are you so mad lol"? Or when Game of Thrones crashed and burned? When any media or property does something ridiculous or ends in an unsatisfactory way? Even when someone's sports team bombs a game? People have the right to express discontentment with something they invested time, emotions and often money(!!!) into. And they do that because gee, it's almost like people connect to the media they consume on various levels, and when they think it sucks, they get upset. Isn't THAT something!!! Fuck me this line of thinking contributes NOTHING to any discussion ever, no matter what it's about. You can make ANYTHING not seem serious and thus whoever cares about it seem ridiculous. What do you achieve by doing that? Do you just want to feel like you're cool and above people who care enough about things to express emotions in public?

My brother in Christ you do not have to care if you don't want to but can you not be this fucking mocking and dismissive of those who want to and do. I wasted five fucking years of my life on this game, literally from January 21st 2021 I have been here with this rainbow-colored sugarcoated trash heap, I DEMAND AND DESERVE THE RIGHT TO BE UNHAPPY!!! AND SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE!!!

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Yes exactly!! I haven't been with the game for the entire 5 years (I believe I first joined around the triple-cone-cup update?) but I feel as though we have SEVERELY lost the plot and have been improving our way through shiny new characters and plot point ever since development sisters realized how much popularity they got from shadowmilk + the beasts??

it gets to a point where every character that is not DIRECTLY related to them/their storylines is completely torn down and weakened by the plot so they can create a bigger threat out of them instead of genuinely putting effort into why they should be winning for this long;

(also I will start getting into spoiler territory so if you do not want that please do not read further and be warned, this is a YAPFEST:)

The cult/doughael plot they built up? Sidelined and ignored, almost feels like a lot of its 'clues' were rewritten with white lily more in mind instead of pure vanilla? Dark Enchantress's ENTIRE WAR PLOT? Ends as soon as she becomes 'all powerful' because..? Millennial Tree's contribution and entire reason for being added in the game was so thrown in I cant even remember what his new debut was about. Instead of choosing to write a cohesive story with their characters they have been more inclined to jingle keys with every "NEW!! Legendary character added in game NOW!! PLAY so you can earn SPECIAL CURRENCY so you can get SHINY!!" And when they're adding in characters from ovenbreak and the likes that canonically have been described as all powerful and could EASILY end the war singlehandedly, they just shoehorn them into the story with some lame reason why they're either farrrr too weak to do anyyythinggg or can't interfere because "the balance" (JK making wizards not stop WWII anybody..?) People who were excited for their old favorites to be added in end up feeling betrayed by just how BUTCHERED the characters are. And then with the new but 'less important' characters added (in this case the beastlings + dough trio specifically) THEY are randomly sidelined except for when they are used as props for an emotional scene here, or an epic fight there.

As nice as the dough trio are I feel like we should accept that they likely only exist to 1. make an excuse for why pitaya is farrr too weak to actually help in this war (that they were built up to fight in for YEARS yet are gone in a single cutscene). And 2. just as another emotional tear-jerker to force the player base into seeing that Dark Enchantress isn't 'morally grey' at all and is just the PURE EVIL side of White Lily because she is ABUSIVE! And DOESNT CARE FOR ANYONE! (which I also feel like the team flip-flops on a lot when writing her..)

As far as the beastlings/minions go, in the beginning they were very interesting and I felt were good ways to look into how the beasts are deep down based on their treatment + ideals. But ever since they've basically been shunned from every single plot event (esp the wildspices/nutmeg as far as Ive seen) -only showing back up during the hotel/chess-choco update iirc? Again, mostly only to be emotional when their masters are in trouble and thus make us feel like "Oh no they're in danger!" As a group they have no true backstories except for when it adds to the beasts tragedy, cloud haetae and their mother for example, never elaborated on except for when its Mystic Flours part of the backstory.

AND. Despite reducing the minions to living props, we still manage to gain nearly ZERO CHARACTER from the beasts asides from what the game wants their one-note traits to be, Mystic Flour is almost only portrayed as unfeeling + cold

Burning Spice is only ever violent + 'bird' obsessed

Eternal Sugar almost entirely revolves around Hollyberry

Shadowmilk's faux complexness boils down to him always being in denial + shut off from reality (which is still the most depth explicitally allowed to be shown from all of the beasts)

Silent Salt is stubborness + catholic guilt everytime I see him

And YES there IS more to these characters. There ARE more details than this. They DO have more to their personalities than what is listed above. The issue is after their debuts for the most part, these traits are ALL the team actually focuses on. Now- I've only ever played the english version. I do not know Korean, so maybe, maybe the issues I bring up aren't present in the original. BUT as far as I have seen, they DO NOT CARE about expanding any character asides from shadowmilk and that is only surface level depth.

Also; something I believe is very important to point out White Lily's awakening felt like it was meant to be her realizing that she is able to change and she can pave the way to freedom for all cookie kind, and she REACHES OUT TO SILENT SALT to join her side and realize he is NOT MADE UP OF ONLY HIS SINS (again catholic guilt™). They reach a mutual understanding that they've done 'evil' things before (which: I feel like the development sisters also like to put a LOT of fault onto Lily but sure..ok..) and can still do good despite it. And yet. They chose the message for this part of White Lily's arc to be "I am unforgivable, I am inherently evil, so I am going to KILL MYSELF to stop the evil," pardon my french but HOLY FUCK. I am sure we can all agree why this is an awful message to send yes?? We have been seeing in a lot of young adults media that the mentally ill/abused/ suicidal character (typically girls/women) can only achieve a peaceful ending or allow others to have a happy ending by KILLING THEMSELVES. But now this god awful 'trope' is also reaching games that are mainly marketed towards CHILDREN. The fact its becoming enough of a pattern to be called a trope is sickening. And yes, we know that timekeeper is being added to the game soon, we know that they are going to likely reduce her to a plot device that will 'undo everything but only enough to be back to where we were right before because the BALANCE' but that shouldn't be necessary!! (And yes I don't know much about timekeeper but she may not be too worried about balance and be more chaotically aligned but be so fuckin for real when you try to tell me the devs wouldn't butcher her character for the sake of the plot they want.)

At the end of the day, this update and the current story are total dogshit no matter what they do next because they'll either go the fix-it route which proves this was a genuine waste of time that didnt need to exist and only happened to force a lot of emotions from the player base for attention before pulling them back in with 'jingle jingle!! oh your fav is coming back!! oh theyre happy now!!'

Or- they'll go the double down route and that means we'll have to STAY with the "suicide is the only way!" ending which is SO detrimental to hear esp when you're someone struggling and seeing this message more and more.

Please please feel free to speak your mind below, even if you totally disagree with me and think I should dunk my head in gravy!! More perspectives are always better in my eyes, we are human, we are biased, but no matter what I think people should speak their minds about how they feel with the games current state. Because we went from decent quality- to fabulous- to genuine garbage as of late and if nobody talks about it then they will get comfortable producing less than bare minimum.

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would it hurt?

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burningcheese drinks 🔺🧀

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shantae I love you but I cannot draw your stupid bangs

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OK got a lil bit busy and couldn't draw for a bit but thats over!

In the meantime new profile check~ ✨✨✨

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I am about to REALLY live up to my "favorite characters always end up being NPCS" personality tomorrow yall..

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rainbow brush pastry doodles bc I am NOT ready for this update at all whatsoever </3

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the worst part about liking a series with very little to no obvious story is when you wanna do fan inserts and swaps with it and just.. don't know how like 70% of the universe works??

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I asked my sister what she thought about Silent Salt being able to talk. She said it would've been cooler if he used telepathy to communicate. Putting words in people's minds without saying anything. Now I want this to be canon. What about you?

Noooooo. No no no. No talking. No talking whatsoever. I want(ed) this man to be MUTE to the max. I want(ed) him to communicate with a mixture of sign and body language (and aura. Like his aura is so intense/powerful that people can sense what he's trying to convey. Idk). No noise and no telepathy. His name is SILENT Salt, let him be silent

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UGGHHH I FEEL THIS SO HARD!!! I mean it’s in the name yknow?? At least let him be a man of very very few words! (I’m gonna stick to drawing him gesturing and using sign language methinks)

But also I did have a backup headcanon for how he’d speak and it’s very similar to the telepathy but instead of having his own voice it’d be like- an amalgamation of peoples voices you’ve heard before?? Really bringing back the beta inspo of salt being abt-like yknow??

(Also just- imagine hearing the voices of your loved ones saying the coldest, cruelest things possible to you)

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tis the late night/early ams for me you know what that means!!

RANDOM LATE NIGHT DOODLES!!!