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Orion (he/him)

My star-themed Jolteon made from several starry fabrics! The yellow fur and blue minky are star-textured, and his eye twinkles glow in the dark. I really wanted a Jolteon of a good size to match my BaB eons and couldn't find one good enough, so I made my own and I'm really proud of him! Finished on June 1st.

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A little beanie blue tongued skink by TST Advance, bought from Mercari Japan in 2025. I modified its face and tongue because it looked... kinda creepy before haha. Now it's cute!

Originally had a felt tongue, doesn't look so bad from this angle at least...

...But it's got a really weird kissy mouth hole lmao. Why'd they overcomplicate it! I just made a whole new tongue, sewed the mouth closed around it, and embroidered a smiley new mouth. I also reduced its big forehead a bit while I was at it.

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A little squishy squashy tadpole that @wolfies-toys made me! I love the sparkly fabric, and they even lined up some of the swirly foil pattern on its tummy for the spiral guts hehe!

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Gingko (they/she)

A sinosauropteryx I sewed in September 2024, just in time to bring her with me to Tetzoocon.

I'd been so tempted to keep one of the ones I made for my shop, but resisting the temptation meant I got to make myself a special one! I really enjoy the gradient I managed with her tail stripes.

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Black footed ferret by Hansa, bought on Vinted in September 2025 along with a hyena. Normally I'd say a mustelid plushie is better off floppy and beanie, but the wire skeleton in this one is pretty fun too. Weaponisable ferret! It's good to have some different styles.

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I made this ridiculous coelophysis in April 2025, based on the one in Walking With Dinosaurs.

Was inspired by some old stripy socks that reminded me of the WWD design's iconic stripy leggies, and I happened to have some pieces of stretchy knit fabric in some rather ugly random colours, but ideal for this thing! Stretchy fabrics are always weird to use, but I had fun sewing this freeform without patterns and going with a sloppy ragdoll style. I discovered I could actually weave ribbons right through the knit fabric for interesting markings.

This beast is SO long and noodly.

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Meepit plushie! I had a meepit obsessed phase as a kid and always wanted a plushie, but Neopets plushies just didn't exist here! I still haven't found an official meepit plushie without ridiculous postage, so I finally made my own. This one was made with old scrap fur from a fluffy pencil case.

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Sitting Cuties Zangoose (it/any pronoun) which I've modded with a custom furry tail and purple claws to resemble its original sprite!

The original tail on this plush is... A shape. Which I guess matches its current in game models, but it's pretty ugly compared to the flowy, swishy tail it has in its original sprites and art.

I unpicked it (and sewed up the hole in the lower back where it was attached, I'm gonna put the tail lower...) and made this new fur one with a swooshy shape, with a bit of thread sculpting (like a paw) at the end to define tufty bits.

At first I had it fixed in a vertical position like this, but decided I wanted it floppier! I took it off again, added a few beans at the end, and sewed it back on with a smaller joined area between the tail and back so it's less restricted.

Later on (earlier today) I decided to replace the claws too! Zangoose originally had purple claws in the RSE sprite and I always liked that.

I searched my stash, but the best material I had in the end was the purple section of some rainbow fleece...

I unpicked the claws and flattened out one to trace around the pattern. Ended up making them a lot longer, but that's fine, most of the pink section ended up tucked into the zangoose when I sewed them back on! There is only the faintest gradient left visible at the base now...

You may notice the fleece was a bit fluffy too! I brushed all the claws to make all the fluff stand up then trimmed off as much as I could before sewing them on.