#duocorn

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Rolandteller Elden Ring Melina & Torrent

[seafoodsoda]

✨🌱Hormse 🌿✨

[yellowflowerevythinks]

I’m going to ramble about my #Cookierun oc because i just neeed to atm

Mirrorglaze Nightmare Cookie

Sooooooooo they started out because of my childhood love of unicorns. I was always a fan of building on ideas.

So as a child when I watched the movie, Fantasia I decided that female unicorns were the white ones and male unicorn unicorns were the black ones. Then I realized I didn’t think that was enough and so I decided that female unicorns are white with wings. And male unicorns are black with ram horns and wings.

I thought that was way cooler. They were also at war with earth ponies but that’s a different story.

So when I saw Cream Unicorn Cookie a masc presenting enby MY INNER CHILD WAS HYPED!! A unicorn with fluffy soft features and a cute single horn?????? I had to make a counterpart IMMEDIATELY!!

My fem presenting ram horned unicorn ( yes I know it would actually be called a duo-corn) would be AMAZING!

Or at least I thought so in concept when I did it in practice, I was not happy with the design. Like at all. Something in the energy was off. Somehow batwings and ram horns had betrayed me.

So I tried again and found that I actually preferred a Center horn that was split. It still fulfilled by need for multiple horns and my love of unicorns. Marrying these two ideas after playing around with the design a bit more. I finally came to.

I liked it better at this point. Like a lot better. My nightmare felt comparable to the cream unicorn. But still, something was missing. That was until I started looking at more cookie run designs and I figured out very quickly. It just didn’t look polished enough plus I still hadn’t even made the full horse form for my (duo) unicorn.

I tried to get the major shape language going

YOU KNOW I HAD TO GIVE HER A HORSE FORM!!

You would not believe how much work went into making this horse form!!!

Like the designs of the in game horses were not easy to find! Plus plus then unicorn cookies true from was definitely not as pretty as I last remembered. I could not have my baby looking less than fabulous! So some editing needed to be done. But i did base the design on Cream Unicorn because I very much imagine them as siblings.

Im also planning to animate Mirrorglaze’s Gacha animation! I have already storyboarded it and everything!

I WILL POST MORE LATER TTYL

[kraftykelpie]

Redraw of an old painting of the same creechur.

[tournament-for-best-neopet]

Round One!!!

Niptor

This little guy just cant help biting everything he sees.

Duocorn

Duocorns use their large feet to keep their balance as they patter across the rocky landscape at remarkable speeds.

Niptor or Duocorn?

Niptor

Duocorn

Voting ended onJul 22, 2023

[abqbox]

Got together with a dozen or so local balloonists this morning to fly a half dozen or so rc balloons, including ours for the first time ever!

Had a few minor kinks and learning moments getting things going but overall a spectacular success and a wonderful morning of fun.

[chibimyumi]

I think you haven't talked about it till now. So may I ask that what are your thoughts about the 1st musical of kuroshitsuji? (That butler, friendship)

Dear Anon, my short answer is:

( ´ρ｀)。o ○ Zzzzzzzzzz......ꉂꉂ(థꈊథ)੭ु !!!

Nah sorry XD You are very right Anon, I have sorta mentioned Kuromyu 1 before, but never really talked about it. That is because there's just... very little actual content to talk about. But I will try!

My feelings about Kuromyu 1 as phenomenon

Despite my complete lack of ability to enjoy the content itself, I.......am grateful for Kuromyu 1. It was the starting point of a very game-changing franchise (Kuromyu in general, yes, even Kuromyu2 at the time), for me personally, as well as the JP theatre world.

For me personally it was also a bit melancholic to see Matsushita Yuya again from 2009, from before he got so impossibly cocky. (Here I wrote a post about my opinion about him through the years). I was reminded once again how Matsushita also started as an innocent kid who was just crushed by expectations, and nevertheless worked so hard.

My latest watch

The last time I watched 'That Butler, Friendship' was in 2019. At the time my sister and I were at our grandmother's place for a week. We were in the middle of nowhere, accompanied only by extreme heat, cicadas and rice fields..... and I said to my sis: "Hey, you were too young when Kuromyu 1 came out, this year happens to be its 10th anniversary, shall we watch that?"

Our room was the only place that was humane to stay in because it had airco (which our dear grandmother got installed especially for us because we're like butter (TTATT) I LOVE HER!!!), and both my sis and I thought: "why not!" And so......we started watching.

The beginning of the musical was... fine. It did the obvious: setting everything up, introducing three idiot servants, the bratty Young Master, and the infallible perfect demon butler. There was just very little coherence; everything felt like patches of ingredients, rather than a completed meal. But that was... fine.

Then come the introduction of the main plot... and we were introduced to these Japanese brothers. They were very hard to watch... I had the feeling they were supposed to be late teens? But it was just so badly acted and CLEARLY 30+ year olds acting like 5 year olds. Okay, on average 30+5/2 = 17.5, that checks out I guess. Late teens!

Then entered this blatant racist stereotype, and I just kinda lost it. Yes, Lau as a character DOES play with the Chinese stereotype to lower other people's guards. However, in this musical Lau does not have character depth to back that up, and the execution makes it clear that everyone on the creator's side fell for this ploy. Okay... okay, it's 12 years old, moving on.

Except that there was just nothing to move on towards! (Ò~Ó) The rest of the story just gave our brains NOTHING to work with. My sister and I were so understimulated we just couldn't watch it without yawning every other minute.

So we just skipped through some scenes (which all felt like scrambled moments to showcase Sebastian's amazingness juxtaposed against by everyone else's stupidity). Then we ran into ...this thing... which we dubbed "Duocorn".

From that point on my sis and I just shifted in an out of bursts of yawning or ridicule. Even when surrounded by only cicadas and barren rice fields as alternatives, we still were so bored with the musical we couldn't finish watching it... Hence my initial short answer being:

( ´ρ｀)。o ○ Zzzzzzzzzz......ꉂꉂ(థꈊథ)੭ु !!!

The understimulation is the main reason I said at the beginning: "there's just... very little actual content to talk about." So much and yet so little was happening in the musical; it kinda felt like the stage-execution of somebody's work in brainstorming status.

Otherwise everything in 2009 was just so crudely done (because of lack of budget and experience), it almost felt unfair to even critically look at anything. Unlike with Kuromyu 2's blatant bigotry (which doesn't need budget to avoid), with the exception of the racist caricature being Lau, there was just nothing there that was even worthy of unpacking or praising. Unpacking Kuromyu 1 would feel like commenting on a toddler's work using adult standards.

Final thoughts

The premise of the musical was weak, the execution was rough at best, and everyone's acting and singing were also "barely-tolerable" at best. But still it is a very meaningful start for me, because - as mentioned above - Kuromyu 1 kick started something that would later become a phenomenal milestone in Japanese 2.5D culture.

Sorry I couldn't say anything more meaningful than this, but truth be told; I don't think there is anything meaningful in the musical that can be said about meaningfully. Nevertheless, I hope you at least sortaaa enjoyed reading about my revisiting experience?

Cheers!

[flaggermousseart]

added some more horns to this creature