Mall rats! (And opossums, frogs, bunnies, etc)
An ode to fun teen days at the mall, both a symbol of a dying phase of consumerism and also a public meeting place for young people to explore and exist outside of the home. Also just some very cute little characters on dates!
You can grab prints here
Much to my joy and dismay, Frogs and Bunny have started to wean. This is great, as it means they are growing up. This also stinks, because it means that they…
1) Won’t latch on the bottle.
2) Don’t know how to eat from a bowl.
3) Like to play/roll/bathe in said bowl of food.
The next week or two will be smelly, frustrating, and stressful for me as I watch their weight and poops fluctuate as they learn how to eat and their bodies adjust to solid food. On the plus side, they started to use their litter box yesterday!
The last shelter I fostered for would let me send kittens back at this age so I could take in new neonates and skip weaning altogether, but I’m enjoying the satisfaction of seeing my kittens all the way through to adoptable age.
Triangle Agency launched today and i made some Creatures for it. here’s the artistic growth of Growth! when i was first given the anomaly description for this friend i immediately thought of stuffed animals made strange by countless sewn on additions and chia pets, but meat. after some back and forth with the team i came up with the first 3 ideas: one based on how bears get real fat for the winter, one based on shope’s papilloma, the real life virus that creates ‘jackalopes’, and one based on how ribeiroia ondatrae can cause mutations in frogs that can give them extra limbs (also a little flower with facination).
frog Growth was picked as the favorite and that base idea was combined with things the team liked from the other two critters with a little gardening aesthetic to create the fabulous froggy fiend you see at the end! my headcannon is that they have to grow their ‘arm’ to move around and if you rip it out they lay limp like a regular puppet until they can generate enough Meat to grow it back :)
their flower pot friend is named Daisy and i love them very much.
if you haven’t already you should head on over and get yourself a copy of this rad game! i currently have two other Creatures in there but i will be paid to make More Creatures if stretch goals are met (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧
it's important to note that while some are in the same category, their motivations are different:
•pepe is being annoying on purpose but bean bunny is just a lil shithead
•piggy thinks sweetums is annoying, stat+wal just want more space in the car and sweetums is the biggest, and also the bit of sweetums always getting left behind on road trips was too perfect for this
•rizzo has the good snacks but refuses to share. swedish chef has... food? and is very enthusiastically offering it to his friends but nobody has taken him up on it
•electric mayhem only plays bangers, don't get me wrong, but in my head sgt pepper was playing "Fugue for Frog" (muppet show S1 last episode i think) on repeat to annoy kermit and the rest of the band was vibing until kermit flipped
thank you i put way too much thought into this
(i found the chart template on google so i don't know who made it but pls lmk if you do)
im just going to be posting all the little doodles i make here because i like sharing them but they are very simplistic so I'm always too shy posting them on my main blog !