starflungwaddledee

[starflungwaddledee]

Hey! I’m one of the contestants for the Kirby OC tournament (Taff Ebrum), I’d love to draw our OCs together if that’s alright with you!! Do you have an official reference of Star I could have? Thanks so much!!! I love seeing your artwork on my dashboard, it’s always so pretty and soft to look at! :3

hello there!! i recognise you and taff! taff is amazing, and it's incredible to see your dedication to her! to have an oc with you for so long is no small feat, and it's more than a little inspiring!

i would be honoured to see them drawn together!! i don't have an official reference of starstruck right now, though i intend it within the next few months! but the smash bros style piece from her main entry was actually intended to be her flat colour reference! she is a little bit sparkly and glittery, haha!

otherwise i think that this one which i just did for her asks opening is my personal favourite 'on model' art of her right now, and ironically this picture of marx stealing her bow is the best shot of it from behind 😅

i hope this helps a little, and hopefully i will have a proper reference made for her eventually 😂💦

#asks #starstruck dee

[starflungwaddledee]

Hey! You are going to make everyone proud and have a GREAT time! :D What kind of pie do you have in your backpack?

starstruck gained +1 confidence! whether it's from the reassurance or talking about bandee is unclear

#alas i think the pie might not last very long in this case. she's used to five dozen kisses and cuddles before breakfast #going to attempt to carry this bit on for as long as i can. starstruck rpg let's go! #starstruck dee #oc (2024): starstruck dee #my art #asks

[starflungwaddledee]

while starstruck makes her merry way to the @kirbyoctournament, why not keep her company with some questions?

for the next month, as propaganda for the tourney, dream land's favourite little anxious amnesiac will be taking asks directly!

couple of little notes, suggestions, and rules!

though this is hopefully obvious, i don't guarantee i'll get to every ask or interaction! i'll do the best i can, but if i don't make it to yours, it's nothing personal! where possible these will be answered "in character" from tourney!starstruck, though you can still ask me tournament related things too! this is my first time trying "in character" asks, but i want to make one thing really clear: please no text rp. makes me incredibly uncomfortable. for plot consistency, this is set during her Present Timeline, and she knows as much about her own backstory as the average reader. has no idea who This Guy is. she has similarly not yet encountered the star spears or any weapon like them. questions can come from ocs, especially if they're in the tournament! i may not draw your oc in the response though. i probably won't respond to any "how are you" generic type deals because those will get hard to answer pretty much immediately. i am hoping to find some fun personality combos to riff off, so if you have an interesting interaction idea for our ocs, feel free to share! starstruck is Technically Romancable and OCs who are at least 25+ are totally welcome to make an attempt to flirt with her (pspsps evil lesbians especially if you're out there come say hi. any and all wings havers also), but remember she is dense as a pile of bricks. also please no nsfw.

#my art #starstruck dee #oc (2024): starstruck dee #<- using this one for tournament stuff in particular because it matches the format of the tourney blog! might change it later but for now #i'm pretty nervous about this but i will do my best!! tourney stuff will likely be the majority of my content for the next month. #fair warning that she will take *any* opportunity to talk about her friends & how cool they are & how much she loves them if you let her #or just about any other topic. info dumper supreme! 📣🌟🌟🌟 #also re: evil ocs. i would say maybe she could fix your evil oc but actually maybe your evil oc could make her worse. wink wonk. #looking at a few mutuals in particular here. come into my inbox. do it. do it. do it. pspsps.

[starflungwaddledee]

running a little late, but someone's finally arriving at the @kirbyoctournament !

sent in to the tourney by her well meaning friends, starstruck is a Totally Normal adult waddle dee from king dedede's kingdom of dream land! she's here to try and meet new people, and maaaybe get out of her anxious shell a little bit!

equipped with her customary cheerful attitude, she's also sporting a brand new backpack full of lovingly packed goodies to help her through the event.

if you'd like to get to know her a little better, you can check out her tag on my blog, or these three important comics from previously!

a few notes for any interactions

🌸 despite being a waddle dee, other waddle dees typically don't like being around her, and folks who already know what a waddle dee should be like also tend to get a weird vibe off her. 🌸 she is quite friendly and approachable, but prone to extreme anxiety if she perceives she might have done something wrong or inappropriate. tiny wanya takes criticism the way a handful of hay takes a flame. 🌸 if you have wings and you take her flying she'll never leave your side. she's only palm sized, so if you are big and have wings or can fly, please pick her up and go flying with her please please pleeaase she wants to go go flying and fawn over your wings so so bad 🌸 for the purposes of the tourney, which by merit of its existence is something of an au timeline, consider this event to completely predate her ability to summon these.

#my art #my comics #starstruck dee #kirby #bandana waddle dee #meta knight #king dedede #throwing her into the ring!!! tiny pink bouncy stressball (ball of stress) in there with all these incredibly cool and powerful ocs! #just trotting from your house in the countryside to the Community Gathering and finding a whole bunch of literal legends there #if your oc has wings she is going to be following them around like this -> 🥺👉👈 <- the whole time. just so you know #don't let meta knight know!! she thought he had the market for both “cool knight” and “pretty wings” covered but she's in for a surprise! #anyway. phew! finally finished this just in time! excited to be participating!!! best of luck everybody!

[starflungwaddledee]

the dinosaur tail. the cape like a comet. the tEETH on the SHOES. the logo. the THEME of this is SO close to home in all the best ways this is death by someone else's oc i have been absolutely incinerated

#this is about my last reblog just in case anyone missed it #sorry for being so absent lately i've been really busy dealing with some stuff that has taken all my time and energy and spoons #but i'll be posting new art- tourney stuff!!- very soon. and i'll also queue more things #delete later

[starflungwaddledee]

Sir Meteor braces for impact!

His reference sheet is finally finished!! But thats far from all that I have planed for him~ 🦖☄️💥✨

#HHGNRRNGR?? HG>??? H-HELLO??? HI. #UH. i'll. come back. and leave another comment when i'm able to make my brain think of words #and not just incoherent screaming. but. wow. this is everything. #colours. theme. allosaurus. the meteor 'pun'. #are you okay with gift art. if yes i will be drawing him. wow. i'm insane. okay. wow breaking my exhausted silence for this one because wow #others ocs

[starflungwaddledee]

will you be participating in the kirby oc tournament?

yes, i'm participating!

i wasn't around last time the tournament ran, so i was super excited to see it was coming back! i'd been planning on participating even before i was invited to co-host.

my submission entry is coming along well!! as you might imagine, i'm doing a comic, though i might not be able to keep that up during the course of the competition itself (especially as hosting/modding responsibilities have been a little more time hungry than we predicted 😭💦). but we'll see!!

#asks #i don't have any firm or fixed storyline planned as of yet though. #it's hard to commit to that because... i could get voted out in the first round!! #i just want to have a nice time and see people's oc!! it's been amazing so far to see so many designs!

[starflungwaddledee]

Bird of Paradise

#magolor #okay firstly VERY COOL ART WOW WHOA what absolutely incredible work #the dark butterflies; the scratchy textures; the golden veins; the jarring red; the ominous bg; the *splatter* #whhhwhoghg wowowow. really really cool composition and colour contrast!! #and this looks like pixel work maybe?? even COOLER!! #second and sorry to go a bit nuts here but i checked the OP tags and saw “palace magolor”.... like... THE palace magolor!? from that ONE fi #so i went and checked and it IS your fic. maybe i should have put the names together but i'm pretty bad at that so i had no idea #i always meant to leave a comment on it but was too shy. op i need you to know this fic was one of the very first things i read in fandom #my gf and i highly recommended it to each other w/o realising we'd both independently found + read it. we talked about it for DAYS. #DAYS!!! left an enormous lasting impression on us both! anyway. i won't take up more room here but gorgeous art for a really cool fic

[starflungwaddledee]

Agnosthesia

n. the state of not knowing how you really feel about something, which forces you to sift through clues hidden in your behavior, as if you were some other person—noticing a twist of acid in your voice, an obscene amount of effort put into something trifling, or an inexplicable weight on your shoulders that makes it difficult to get out of bed.

#galacta knight #swallow tailed galacta knight #sighs. first welcome back to my queue for weeks and ofc it's gonna be this isn't it...? #well at least you know what you're in for on my blog i guess... #anyway. god?? augh. i hate him but also. yknow. hashtag w.. #sorry for leaving slightly bratty tags but i know you'll appreciate it moonverc3x!! also what else can i *possibly* even say #the colours. the wings. the caption. the claws the pose the DRAMA. the angles. AUGH. god. #what else is there to add. your skill with this palette is soooooo crazy. blows my mind every time TAT #he cuold b yoru angle (but he won't)

[starflungwaddledee]

Welcome to the Kirby OC Tournament!

the oc tournament is back again this year, and will be hosted by @starflungwaddledee and @moonverc3x!

this is a fun and friendly popularity contest for kirby-verse original character designs and their associated stories or lore. competitors can submit their characters to the competition during the submission period, after which characters will be matched randomly together in public polls for voting!

there will also be a losers bracket, to allow folks voted out early to continue playing and participating in the contest. polls are open for anyone, competitors and spectators alike!

in between each match-up, competitors can create artwork "propaganda" for their characters which will be shared to the blog! getting your character in front of voters will help people to recognise and care about them, and can increase your chances of getting votes-- as well as new fans-- for your OC!

🗓️ schedule of events 🗓️

submissions open: april 8th see below for how to submit your oc! submissions close: april 30th brackets announced: may 5th voting begins: may 7th bracket length: 1 week break length: 1 week each voting bracket will last One Week with public tumblr polls on the @kirbyoctournament blog. there will be a week between polls to give competitors time to draw up additional propaganda! depending on the size of the first bracket in particular, poll posts may be staggered over several days. if this happens, the break week will begin after the final poll closes.

🥳 how to submit your oc 🥳

Submissions are currently open and will close on April 30th. to submit your oc (only one oc allowed per participant!!), simply make a post on your own blog introducing your character with art and/or any lore you'd like to include! make sure to tag the @kirbyoctournament in your post (please do not submit via the ask box.) despite being an oc centric event, you can include canon characters in your OC backstory and propaganda. here is a template for submissions, but this is just a guide and you can deviate from it as necessary! if you want to write a lot of text, consider putting it under a 'read more'! Name: Reference Image/s: Notes on Personality (optional, but preferred!): Backstory and Lore (optional):

remember, this is a friendly competition, none of you will get hurt!

if you have any questions, send us an ask! (please do not dm either hosts, the askbox is where you need to go with questions!)

🔗 useful links 🔗

kirby oc tourney discord server. here you can chat with other competitors, mods, and get pinged when polls are posted! current confirmed competitors list. if you've tagged the blog in your submission post you can check here to make sure we've got it! Though, please allow us 24 hours after submitting your oc for them to be added before contacting us! We are doing our best to keep things up to date, but we cant be online all the time! Tournament brackets (<- link will be added once submissions close!)

🌑 mod disclaimer 🌟

@moonverc3x and @starflungwaddledee are cohosting the tourney to make sure it runs smoothly this year and so that the event can hopefully bring some joy and interaction to the kirby oc tumblr community, but we also always wanted to compete. because this is a popularity contest with public voting and all pairings are 100% randomised, we don't think this gives us any sort of advantage, and all propaganda will be posted on our private blogs like everbody else's. however we do just want to be upfront about it!

#here's the kirby oc tourney by the way! check it out if you haven't yet! still a few weeks to join! #i wasn't here last time it ran but now i'm co-hosting!! which is so exciting!! 💖 #starstruck will also be entering the fray!! #tiny little soggy thing... probably gonna be a rather overwhelming environment for her!

[starflungwaddledee]

eSims for Gaza is facing constant eSim shortages.

They get over a thousand requests for connection a day, but their email inbox is regularly sitting at 300-500 eSims. With the bombardment of Rafah and continual internet blackouts, the need for more eSims is particularly urgent.

Even if you have already sent an eSim or donated to an eSim donation drive, there is more you can do. The team is calling for people to campaign in their communities to help spread the word about eSims and encourage donations.

You can help by printing out posters and putting them up in local businesses, on telephone poles and notice boards, or wherever people are likely to see them.

[ID: Poster headed “eSIMs for Gaza” with an illustration of a red poppy, a QR code, and a link to tinyurl.com/gaza-esims; copy reads “Sending eSIMs is an immediate, concrete way to help Gazans on the ground. Scan below to learn how you can get involved.” End ID]

Download color poster

Download black and white poster

Or make your own poster, pamphlet, or protest sign with one of these QR codes:

#important #palestine

[starflungwaddledee]

reblogging this one because i want to highlight some of the really really phenomenal deetective work that @graycoin is doing on their blog (for many posts, not just this one!)!

these snippets taken from here and here, but there's much more! just pulled out some of my favourite parts. the cranberry sauce line made me giggle a lot 😂💖 very excited that my five word answer generated so many thoughts!

hullo!! do you think that starstruck is a solider, poet, or king?

easy question. she's a soldier.

#i know i made a comment somewhere about what's happening if i leave a short or concise or blunt seeming answer #always good to double check 'em! #starstruck dee #🎀🔍 #also just once again to clarify; highlighting theories isn't endorsement or confirmation!! #i just enjoy them and like to get them in front of other deetectives who might be interested! #thanks again for all your really cool theorizing graycoin! always makes my day! <3

[starflungwaddledee]

for @starflungwaddledee! i was aimlessly doodling and then realized that if i gave her a ribbon and added some stars she would totally look like starstruck 😂 so here we are! a little gijinka starstruck dee :)

#art for me #starstruck dee #OH MY GOSH!?! this is soooo so cute!?? surprise gijinka design jump scare!!!!! #this actually shocked me because she is a sona so i've always mostly imagined she'd look like me & i HAVE TO SAY this is startlingly close #really did a double take 😂💦 #the hair?? the freckles? the tuft on top? 😂💦 also definitely something that i/she would wear imo #th... the apple patch........... 🥺🥺🥺🍎💖 and the hair clips! so cute!! #even the bow (weapon)??? howwww did you pick that... #ANYWAY THIS IS SO SWEET WHAT A DELIGHT!! thank you so much!!!

[starflungwaddledee]

hey hey all!

just want to touch base to say that i'm still running a little behind on a lot of things! new posts, answering messages, responding to mentions, and so on. if i haven't gotten to your dms in particular i'm super sorry-- i know they're there!! i didn't forget you!! it just takes an amount of time i'm having trouble stringing together right now!! 😭🙏

going to be pushing content by others into my queue and getting that back up and running over the next week, then i'll be working on my entry for the kirbyoctournament! fresh shiny new art in particular might continue to be a little delayed as i keep up with modding/co-hosting responsibilities, but we'll see how it goes!

#i was invited to cohost the tourney this year which is a huge honour! #and if you're following along you might have noticed i am taking it SoOOOOo casually. SOOO incredibly chill about it. #i'm clearly someone who would be totally a-okay doing an Average Job at this! definitely not determined to do The Best Job #if i made a completely mid impression that would be FFffFFiinne! not utterly preoccupied making sure i am indeed Helpful and Useful #definitely *not* trying too hard or being a frantic little people pleaser. just the normal amount! normal amount. #ha ha ha! #starflungs personal tag #delete later

[starflungwaddledee]

hullo!! do you think that starstruck is a solider, poet, or king?

easy question. she's a soldier.

#asks #starstruck dee #might've had dreams of a kingdom once upon a time though #🎀🔍

[starflungwaddledee]

what is your opinion

personally, i just think that women

#asks #this is a wlw thought by the way. just in case there's any confusion.

[starflungwaddledee]

we're back!! we had a fairly staggering amount of delays with flights-- 8 hour airport delay on the way there, and a wholly cancelled outbound flight on our way back to australia-- but we're home safe and sound, even if it's a day late!

regular posts will resume in the next few days!

just want to give a little heads up, but i'm going to be away for several days until tuesday next week! heading on an international trip for family obligations and will likely have little to no internet access!

i have a few things in the queue (gifts mostly) but won't be around to respond to new posts, dms, asks, etc, until i get back.

take care, see you on the flipside!

#thank you to the brainrot for keeping me occupied and making the flights significantly less scary #thinking about Them™️ made it soooo much more bearable like you wouldn't believe #also there were little uhm.... camera views on the long haul flights? that you could watch on the tvs. i hadn't seen that before #but that actually helped a lot too because it kinda made it feel like a theme park ride rather than a Real Plane?? 😂💦 #starflungs personal tag