I WANNA JOIN I WANNA JOIN!! :D
Gonna make a Nightmare Critters analysis post when we get the whole gang and I’m gonna add in what people are saying about some of the new critters because I’ll be explaining why they’re like that. (I’m gonna defend these critters with my life)
SEE YA IN THE ANALYSIS!!!!! >:3
No chicken? 🥺🥺🥺
Literally going crazy. @qibsichan
Psst… my birthday’s on the 5th of May 👀
Ollie’s ref!! Hooray!!
☀️🧡 S-M-I-L-E Everyday!
(At least when circumstances allow it.)
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I Imagine Dogday as a cocker spaniel, not a retriever, which means his ears are practically clouds :)
Meet Shelly! 🐚🍂
Thank you, Dandy’s World, for giving me brainrot 😭
She’s part of what I’m going to fittingly call my Dino Shelly AU, in which Shelly is half-transformed and constantly in danger of slipping into the mindset of a Twisted. Her mutation has already broken her body and her mind may follow close behind.
This post is chunky so read more if you wish, or just enjoy my gal! :)
Now, in case you’re wondering why her bottom half is hidden, that’s because it looks like this:
(This is a slightly earlier design for her so some details are a lil different hehe)
So what happened to her?
(Warning: mentions of paralysis, mental illness and addiction)
No one remembered her during the panic timer and the doors banged shut without her
She was left to rot in the factory floor and was attacked by the roaming twisteds
Her spine was snapped and she became paralysed from the waist down
Unable to move and desperate to alleviate her pain somehow, she drank from the ichor machine she’d been backed up against
Ichor sated her hunger but also caused a serious addiction to the substance
Constant exposure to ichor caused her lower body to try and heal itself, but her mitosis was so confused it picked the wrong DNA
Dinosaurs go rawr 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
Shelly’s personality is still relatively the same, but thanks to her mutation, she has become much more primal and survival-minded, with her survival typically involving either ichor or Vee, who was the one to eventually rescue her. Shelly’s memory is also extremely poor and she is easily triggered by the sound of cracks or splinters.
(End of warning)
In this AU I think that the toons all get their life force from their trinket, which now multipurposes as the object the toons are based as :) eg. Glisten isn’t an actual mirror anymore but he’s decorated with glass
I don’t know if I’ll design any of the other toons with the same human style but I’m good with the cartoon aesthetic so, here’s half-toon Shelly :)
Damn you toxic Shellevision…
Still working this out but I think Vee is both the reason Shelly was left behind and the reason she was recovered at all. At the time, Vee was sort of dealing with a petty frustration over Shelly’s crush on her, and out of spite argued that no one should go back to check after the panic timer. And it took a lot of overnight existentialising and self-hate to change her mind.
“If you hadn’t been so stupid and bitter in the moment, her spine wouldn’t have broken.”
I think she would’ve either found Shelly or sought her out during a solo run, been crippled with guilt, and brought her back to mixed reactions.
Shelly doesn’t acknowledge Vee’s past dislike for her. She’s buried the memory.
Cause Vee came back for her, right?
So surely she loves her this time?
spoilers she changed her mind and now has to live with the guilt for the rest of her life
This is the best way to give Ollie screen time
One of those references I haven’t even posted on here yet- gotta skedaddle and do that 🏃♀️
I got permission form @qibsichan to try and recreate her Ollie farquad meme on the smaller bodies AU catnap (also made @qibsichan) thanks again @qibsichan
(Thank you @sparkdoesart and everyone who got me to 100 reblogs!!)
Sleep well, little one 🌙💜
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First time on tumblr! Lovely to be here, hey there everyone! <3
What’ll be likely posted here:
Character art
Rambling
Moodboards/playlists
Stories/teasers
Music covers (possibly!)
If you’ve never seen me before, hi! My name’s Qibs! I’m an AO3 author.
Here’s my series: the Smaller Bodies Initiative! “A cat with deadly knockout gas and a dog with seperation anxiety are imprisoned in an orphanage. The only thing keeping them sane is each other.”
May update this page. Lovely to be here. 💜
OKAY HEAR ME OUT.
Smiling Critters x the Octonauts
I feel called out!
I don’t know how to fix the untitled bit but ummm
Posting covers costs extra so ummmm time to make more originals
I have another two pack I want to post because I composed the soundtrack for a visual novel but I gotta ask the author for permission to use the novel icon
This stuff’s also available on Apple Music, though I don’t actually have it and therefore can’t use it/grab the link :(
They can be used for Instagram reels too!
Hey there, I’m Qibs! (she/her) Author of the Smaller Bodies Initiative and Destroy-A-Toy! Lovely to have ya here! 💜🫂
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