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Ribbit and jax speaking calmly on a random place at the tent

Then a clown car appears and there kaufmo gets out

Then 20 F---- frogs with clown things

Kaufmo: your children want atenttion you know (he also wants)

No ask attatched, just the joy of the idea

OK, BUT DO YOU REALIZE HOW FUNNY THAT ACTUALLY COULD BE?!

We all know Jax and Ragatha have a fuck ton of fankids (I’m a part of that), and the fact that real life frogs lay a fuck ton of eggs (as someone’s who’s googled this and watched Wild Kratts as a child AND as an adult)

I can assure you twenty is the small percentage of children Kaufmo and Ribbit may have!!

And me having seen a bunch of fankids for Croakjoke, I’m just seeing every existing kid amongst the clown car with their dad and just grinning ear to ear.

For the dessert, I went with Iris’ favorite which is a Black Forest cake look! I also went for the Big Tops uniform which I tried to make like an actual baseball uniform!

The final one is her tennis outfit! One of two actually but she looks better in purple in my opinion ☺️

And even then next to Alkazar (by @shy1diot , love you bestie!), Iris wasn’t entirely remarkable unless you knew her personality as someone who comes across as sweet and compassionate, a little odd, but there was an unsettling nerve to her like she always knew more than she lets on.

This wasn’t unintentional and the more I have done research onto the commedia dell'arte for Iris’ role work, she has more likenesses to Colombine from such.

For those of you who don’t know who I’m talking about, let me brief you on who she is. Colombine one of the many characters that appears in the commedia dell'arte, she is a female servant who is seen both as mischievous and witty, more often than not playing tricks and outsmarting everyone else around her.

She’s famously known for being the lover of Harlequin (who is also a servant and the man you’re going to see courting alongside her, pretty much matching her wit and charm), and is generally seen as the smartest person.

(And no, she is NOT a jester to anyone who’s into Freak Circus and is about to ask me. Colombine is mostly, but not always, seen as a woman wearing a diamond dress, wearing a mask, and or having an apron and cap.

I highly recommend you look into the source material, it’s actually really pretty cool and a lot of Italian source material is worth looking into.)

I think that’s also what The Amazing Digital Circus sort of needs essentially and I’m not talking the angle of whatever the fuck Jax was, he’s not “smart” or “clever” as some people might think he is.

Iris AND Alkazar are sort of meant to be the hidden plot drivers of The Wilted: Of Truth and Madness, because they are written to be instigators of a different series of events where Pomni finds out a more sinister background behind the entire circus once the duo make her realize there isn’t something right.

What I think Goose failed to do, and I can’t stress this enough, is come up with a genuine reason why everything is the way it is. If you’re going to create a situation like what everyone went through, there needs to be a reason. The fact that we had everyone accept the world as is THAT easily was painfully hard for me to believe.

Because maybe, to them, it had to have been fine.

Until someone says nothing is fine. And then you have to look at what’s around you and realize the truth is far uglier than what anyone can perceive it being. Nobody thought to focus on what’s around them because they were so focused on their own problems to even bother stopping and opening their eyes.

Iris and Alkazar, like Colombine and Harlequin, have completely destroyed the facade early on by exposing the relationship between themselves, Ribbit, Jax, Ragatha, and Kaufmo early. They’re narrative drivers, they’re driving the narrative in a direction completely off the rails.

And I intended for Iris to share Colombine’s traits as my best friend Shy worked to make Alkazar designed after both Harlequin AND Pierrot (who is also in the commedia and is a third wheel of the relationship).

So in the pursuit of making Iris completely different from most other doll-esc characters, I have accidentally created forces of nature beyond our comprehension.

…it’s 5AM as I finish writing this I need to sleep.

-Writing this to get this off my chest, you don’t have to see it if you don’t need to or want to. Just know this is is a hefty one.-

And the fact that Goose has not taken measures to explain how their relationship mattered through memories and just says “oh they were friends”, makes me go

“…Fuck this, I’m doing it myself I guess.”

Oh before I forget. Fuck You Joanne, I hope you live the rest of your miserable life alone without seeing your daughter get married and have two beautiful twin daughters who will never meet the kind of bitchy miserable person you are, and have the Gloink Queen as their grandma. 🙂

But I'm just drawn to your showtime followed by croakjoke. Then bunnydoll.

I do want to see a bit of abstragedy or checkmates at one point.

Don't forget that you're literally amazing

Damn it I wanted to show you a photo of my cat here as well.

Bestie you’re just given a lot of options! Don’t worry, we all have our favorite types of ships and multiple of them from the same fandom!

And I definitely want to try my hands on Checkmates for both Fluff and definitely Smut, because what do you mean one of the ONLY canon ships in all of TADC doesn’t have enough of this?

Also I HAVE been debating on what to do for Abstragedy, cause like I said, I’m not crazy over the ship BUT…I know the grand majority of this fanbase loves it so I want to at least give everyone a good taste of what I can do for them! Cause Zooble and Gangle deserve better honestly. I may have ideas.

Hey is nothing!! I am so glad you loved my fanfics for Showtime, I loved writing every single one of them!

And I got plenty more on the way so it’s going to be even MORE fun!

Hey so remember this thing I did ages ago when I made FanMade endings for TADC?

…I’m pretty sure the one before the one I just made aged well. Certainly. You should check it out.

…anyway uh, HERE’S A LITTLE THING I MADE BECAUSE…Episode 9 sucked so, this is MY way of saying

“Well, that is ALSO a bad ending!”

It’s short and may be confusing, and I apologize but…yeah I made this with love and spite.

And everybody cue your Markiplier-esc appreciation quotes for our dear lady….cause Caine is gonna need it.

“BOBA TEA” IS NOW OUT!!!

We all have comfort characters for a reason, or if you only have a mild liking to a character that’s your favorite, we all have our reasons why for it. And I think that’s what makes us capable of sharing the characters we love with others who have different tastes.

But why is that? Is it because they’re well written? That they have a unique design choice? Is it because they’re relatable to the audience? Or do they just happen to be appealing and it’s all based on “they’re cool, I like them.”

It’s important to note everyone has their own reasons for liking a character or even considering them as a comfort character, even if the character is someone you do or don’t like.

I’ve been through enough of the trenches of the internet to get a good understanding that people will follow the bandwagon, find genuine appreciation, or just love the underdogs of most media.

And while I can’t say I would understand EVERYONE’S tastes in characters, I can at least respect why it would be appealing to someone because to them, this character means a lot.

I consider myself as someone who can get attached easily to a bundle of characters which totally hasn’t backfired on me in the worst way possible.

*This has led to some horrific unresolved emotional turmoils and makes me question how most series’ can stomach doing that. Its story I know but it makes me cry ;-;

But in short, if you’re considering going into the big industry where your characters are going to need to make a stance on the big screen, then I can’t really give the most authentic advice because it really depends on how well your series/game will be perceived by the audience. Not to mention, personality and looks DO count but don’t sweat on it too much.

The best thing I can offer is this:

Write your character in the most “real” way possible. Don’t go try writing them as if you intend to make them to be liked by everyone (in a real world sense), just make them as authentic as possible without the pressure of a bigger audience in mind.

You have to pretend that your characters are just characters in the story, treat them with enough love and respect by you to flourish.

And then let your future fans and fanbase handle it from there!

Hello!!! And to answer your question, yes, she CAN open her mouth!

Although it seems like an obvious answer, I actually do understand considerably it matters to the model so yup, she can open her mouth like Pomni!