wren !!

Head Like A Nest (Deluxe) is out today!!! This version adds three tracks that I deemed too weird to include on the regular album, and a fourth (Fog) that I wrote 17 years ago. It’s with profound appreciation that I dedicate Fog to Aleinn, who started listening back in 2008, the year I began writing songs in earnest and sharing them on YouTube. Thank you for believing in me and my music all these years. Your support has been a gift I don't take for granted.

A lyric video for Fog will premiere at 5pm eastern today, animated by Avery and Paige Vang.

As a whole, the album is full of birds and whimsical storytelling, but it’s also a personal record of post-traumatic growth, and a reminder that there’s creative potential in life’s darkest moments. My sincerest thanks to my producer Josh Frigo for bringing out the best in every one of these songs.

album credits:

a small taste of whats to come.

There's now a PART 2!!! I've been loving the hell out of Living the Dream and I've always had one Mii who I absolutely adore. If you've ever seen my account, you know who I'm talking about considering I draw him all the time; Quit!!!!

^ here he is on my main island. So I decided I wanted to run an experiment: I would make an alt save with 60 of the same Mii. Every single Mii will be a clone of our beloved Quit (seen above) with the exact same personality, voice, face, dating preferences (all Quits can date all 3 gender options), everything. The only difference is that 20 of them are male, 20 are female, and 20 are nonbinary (because I'm curious on if Mii gender impacts how a Mii forms friends). It was a lengthy process making 60 of the exact same Mii, but finally...

Welcome to Quitland. My general rule for this save file is that I must interfere as little as possible with the Quits lives. I'll only give them food, new clothing, treasures, or new housing if they directly ask me for it. I can't force any relationships either (barring the tutorial which forces you to do so). I want to see how these 60 clones all grow and adapt, and how they will eventually differentiate themselves. I had put all 60 Quits in at midnight so right after doing so I decided to head to bed. I then proceeded to spend the chunk of my morning doing quite possibly the stupidest thing ever:

Creating a giant pixelated Quit to put on the ground. From there I learned about something kind of interesting. Turns out when you create 60 Miis all at once, with all of them having no little quirks, friends, or really anything to define their AI past their basic personality, they become... ...kind of stupid. Here are some examples of small groups of Quit randomly choosing to follow one "leader" Quit for no reason. They REALLY enjoy doing this. Its not uncommon for small packs of Quit (usually containing 2-6 members) to just stalk another Quit for extended periods of time. I believe they are developing pack-hunting strategies. This scares me.

They also enjoyed talking. A lot. My entire island is just constantly full of random Quit chatter 24/7.

I'll admit though it is very rewarding just seeing all of them standing about, doing weird Quit things. I feel like a proud father of 60 single-celled organisms.

Also I got quite possibly the funniest Tomodachi Life clip I've ever seen:

There ain't a single brain cell between any of them. Honestly it was really fun just watching them frolic about, like an ant farm made entirely up of brainless homunculus.

In terms of actual development between the Quits, some of them became acquaintances and a few even became friends, but the REAL development was between Quit 1 (known as Original Quit) and Quit 3:

Quit 3 started crushing on Original, and just a few minutes after that Quit 3 surprised me by deciding to just up and confess to Original. This was pretty shocking...so far, every other Quit has been fairly reserved in making relationships. While plenty of them became "like-minded" (not surprising considering they all have the same mind), few were brave enough to become friends, let alone lovers. Perhaps Quit 3 is some kind of deviant Quit???

Well lucky for Quit 3, their boldness ended up paying off...and Quitland got its first couple!

I wonder how long it'll last... Besides that, only one other romantic event happened. Which was Quit 48 developing a crush on Quit 28. (I know it's hard to tell that this Quit is different from the Quit above...but trust me, its a different guy.)

...could this be considered an example of egomania...? I mean they look identical...

And that was about everything interesting that happened on day 1 of my little experiment. I might post more if anyone has any interest in the Quit ant farm. This is a little different from what I usually post so hopefully the people who follow me just for the art don't mind a bit of a change lol. To end off, here's some group pictures after I finally unlocked the photo mode:

thoughts without Blorbo: oh my god I was so cringe in seventh grade why did I do that

I love you, The Crane Wives

I love you, Rabbitology

I love you, Sparkbird/Stephan Nance

I love you, The Family Crest

I love you, Hozier

I love you, Cosmo Sheldrake

I love you, Yaelokre

I love you, The Amazing Devil

I love you, Elio Mei

I love you, Fish in a Birdcage

I love you, The Paper Kites

flower husbands mcr !! :3

jimmy has more blood on him cuz he died first and its prolly his blood on scott too if u wanted to know that (i say probably like i didnt draw this myself)

who up chemicalling they romance who up flower husbandsing who up uhhhhh