ribbun? in MY weekend?

Link to Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61210300

“Come on slowpokes!” Jax said as he rushed out of the tent.

The constant spring of the digital world was now replaced with a winter wonderland. The digital lake was frozen solid and the grass was covered in a thick layer of fluffy snow.

“Hold up!” Ragatha rushed out, her dress replaced with a full-length winter coat.

Pomni soon followed her outfit now being a winter jacket and fur trapper hat. She was hesitant as she walked out and looked around.

“Does it normally snow here?” She asked.

“Not usually,” Zooble says standing next to her, “but Caine upset Moon so Sun went off to comfort her so…”

“Oh,” Pomni said looking at the bright, empty sky, “That’s not jarring at all.”

“It’s not too bad, Caine even made [THE CIRCUS WINTER SPECIAL] today’s adventure so it’ll at least be a relaxing day,” Zooble explained.

Pomni remembered when it was announced but it felt more like Caine just picked the first thing he could think of before disappearing in a hurry.

As fast as everyone could get their winter attire on they were out and about to play in the snow. Even Zooble was getting into it as she helped Kinger build his igloo, though it might be because Jax was gathering an impressive pile of snowballs.

Pomni, not wanting to be left out, found an undisturbed section of snow to plop down in. The snow was soft and fluffy and cold, not quite what she half-remembered but close. The small Jester let her mind wander as her arms and legs moved side to side.

“Hey there Angel,” Ragatha said, giggling a little, “Having fun?”

Pomni opened her eyes to see the redhead casting a shadow over her. Ragatha didn’t stay still for long and lay down on the clean snow beside her to make her own snow angel.

“Oh! Uh, yeah. I’ve never really played in the snow like this before.” She finally caught up with herself to answer.

They spent a few more moments there before getting up to admire their work, a pair of angels inches from each other.

“This is actually pretty ni-” Pomni was cut off by a snowball to the back of her head, making her fall face-first into her angel.

“Jax!” Ragatha started to scold as she helped Pomni back up.

“What~? I’m just having a little fun, I even made the little angel more accurate,” Jax snickered as he pointed to the shockingly accurate mold of Pomni’s startled face on her angel’s head.

“You wanna be like that, huh?” Pomni asked picking up a pile of snow.

“That’s more like it!” Jax jumped behind his pile of ammo for the coming snowball fight.

Pomni’s joining the fight caused it to quickly spread until everyone either joined willingly or took cover to not get pelted. This led to the unfortunate situation of Gangle being forced to join Jax since the igloo was too far.

“Better hurry up and start throwing Ribbons, I’m not keeping deadweight!” Jax excitedly shoved a snowball into her hands before standing back up to keep throwing.

“Uh, I don’t… ok!” She squeaked out before rising, quicker than her nerves could tell her to stay down, and tossed the ball.

Even with her noodle arms she still tries to throw, expecting to miss everyone by a good amount. What nobody saw coming was for her to hit Zooble, who was tunnel-visioned on Jax, to see it coming. The hit knocked her off balance and into the other girls bringing them all down.

Jax seeing this perfect chance gives his pile a good kick and lets the circus physics do the rest of the work as the hundreds of snowballs roll down at the others as it pools into one enormous ball. They aren’t far enough to move and are rolled over and stuck to the snow as it rolls right into the circus and out of sight.

Gangle winced a little at the large crash

“Are you guys ok?” She yelled over to the tent.

“Yeah, though Zooble will need to get put back together,” Ragatha called back.

“Sorry..”

“Nice one Gangle!” Jax laughed as he clapped her shoulder.

Getting a little praise helped her feel better and luckily it seems Jax got the excitement he wanted today. Gangle went back to her half-finished snowman which Jax saw as an open invitation to join, putting some unique details on it.

In loo of some of the more common items to decorate with such as coal and carrots Jax used an assortment of, probably stolen, goods. Buttons from Ragatha’s room as eyes and a smile, one of Zooble’s horns as a nose, and finally a jester’s hat on top. While they did have an odd harmony, Gangle just looked at the pocket on Jax’s chest wondering how it could fit all of that.

“Whatcha spacing out for?” Jax asked poking her forehead.

I’m not dead (yet)

ribbun week? More like ribbun month haha get it- ok I’ll stop

Link to Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/61210300

The entire cast had gathered in the closest thing to a living room in the circus, a large rug with colorful couches. Each of them lounged on one of the couches with popcorn in hand and lights dimmed.

They have gathered for a relatively new activity. A lot had changed since Caine got access to the internet, mostly for the better. After a lot of convincing, team building was what finally convinced the ringmaster, and they got something to help feel normal again.

Movie night.

So far they had yet to make a proper schedule, only meeting once every couple of nights after a less exhausting adventure. Nothing had happened to ruin the event either, even though Ragatha’s choice of movies needed to be screened after her selected horror nearly made Gangle and Pomni a panic attack.

Ragath and Pomni were sharing a blanket and chatted on the center couch, guessing what they’d be watching today. Zooble lying on the lefthand couch, trying to relax, as Jax sat on the opposing sofa and threw popcorn over the tiny pillow fort with Kinger inside at her. Soon enough the special lady of the even appeared with Caine to share her selection.

“HELLO EVERYONE! ARE YOU EXCITED FOR YOUR MARVALOUS MOTION PICTURE?!” Caine bellowed in his usual excitement.

“Yeah, yeah just tell us what we’re here for.” Jax turned his attention, and aimed, toward them

“I’M GLAD YOU ASKED,” He pointed a gloved finger at Jax, “TODAY YOU’LL HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF VIEWING NAU- *ACK!*” Caine’s grandiose reveal was interrupted by a kernel to his mouth… head?

“Bullseye!” Jax cheered.

“*HACK!* hmmm, needs salt *HACK!*” He paused mid choke to critique the flavor.

As Caine continued to spin mid-air choking he started floating higher and higher until he was out of sight and hearing. Gangle was stunned and silent until the AI disaster was away before turning to the others to try and pick up where their ringmaster left off while keeping an eye on Jax.

“Um, as-as he was saying I picked ‘Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind’. I hope you like it.” She announced.

As the screen behind Gangle turned on she quickly made her way towards the empty seat next to Jax. Everyone quickly moved their attention to watch it, eager to see it for the first time. Gangle was right along with them even if she had seen it enough to memorize the dialogue.

Well, except Jax. He had barely gotten up to any hijinks today and was looking to rectify that. Throwing popcorn got boring after Zooble just started eating it, so he turned his attention towards his favorite target.

He was limited on means though, Ragatha made sure he left all his prank supplies in his room so he wouldn’t ruin movie night. Pokes got no reaction as she was absorbed into the screen so he turned to one of the most cruel things he could do during movie night. He tried to swipe her blanket. 

Unfortunately for him, Gangle barely registered it and simply moved with it so she could keep watching. This led to an unforeseen situation as Gangle scooched against Jax and was currently leaning against him, completely unaware of the stunned state she had Jax in. Jax was very aware of it as he kept his arms up, unable to move without pushing the ribbon girl, and looking around as if he could find a solution for his predicament. 

He caught Zooble’s attention who upon seeing between a rock and a hard place just giggled and left him to his fate. Unable to move without alerting anyone else Jax was forced to sit still and behave for the next hour and a half, which became a new record.

When the movie finally reached its conclusion and the lights brightened up Gangle finally moved to eagerly discuss the movie with everyone. Jax being freed was quick to make his escape, much to everyone besides Zooble’s confusion.

Angst…? Good ending

This is a continuation of the day 2 prompt

Divorce?

DAY 6 #RibbunWeek2024

Sorry, I know it's too late but I'm on temporary vacation so I'll draw as much Ribbun as I can ❤️

-SNOWDAY

Heheheeh....

DAY 7

Day 3 & 4: Alternative universe & Plushies

Super punctual drawing of days 3 & 4 for the Ribbun week loool. I forgot to post it here before 😔

It is done finallyyy

This was my favorite to do but my god is it tedious

I really wanted to do the original designs justice (if i even did at all)

Phantom of the opera AU by @nats-uvi

Open-world AU by @vikipoopsiekins

Circus of hell AU by @inkyprism

Entangled Au by @vvickydisc

individual cuts below cause’ I love these sm

Biblically accurate ribbun

Day 7 - SnowDay

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Hi...hello... there's a lot more of you there now... ( ;´･ω･`) makes me a little nervous. I was never used to my art getting so much attention, so it warms my heart to see so many people who are interested in my work! I remember as a kid getting excited over the feeling of my work getting featured on amino, and this is just as thrilling. I feel so motivated !!

Anyways, prompt no.4 !! I had an easy time with this one, because it didn't take much illustration as it did collage-ing, if that's even a word. I often like using cut outs of images and textures in my art, so this was a whole heap of fun. It's like reversed mixed-media, when you're so used to mixing medias you don't explore its roots.

I had to re-edit this drawing thrice due to forgetting details I had added in the designs I had for them, and I even forgot the little clown face on Jax's overall pocket. Although, I'm not really married to that idea. I also forgot to add whiskers to two of the three last pieces I made for Jax, so that's a bummer. I read somewhere that adding all these animalistic details to Jax removes the cartoonish and uncannily human elements to his character, and although I agree, I'm also at conflict with myself since I've already had my design for him in mind for a while. Gangle was a whole other bag of coins to sort out.

I actually finished this piece relatively early yesterday, but the hardest part of posting is...the posting. I don't know why, but having to roll out the aesthetic template and type up the hashtags is like pulling teeth for me, especially when Tumblr CURRUPTS MY DRAFTS.

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Hello.... I know I'm late....by about four days... I'm sorry (´ﾍ｀；) I was delayed due to this drawing specifically. There wasn't any issues, technically, just didn't want to do it. Because coming up with a design for abstracted gangle was HARD, and I didn't have enough practice with the actual abstracted designs Goozeworks had canonically designed. Who knew that drawing onyx jagged multi-sided pillars would be so difficult? Not me! But perhaps next time, I'd try my hand at 3-D modeling, it would make the process leagues easier.

The reason why this was such an issue is because I was in internal conflict with paying homage to Gooseworks's vision and my personal interpretation of the Abstracted. Canonically, the Abstracted have no unique or discerning features from one another, completely removed of personality and individuality due to their minds etched away into basic animalistic instinct, something something maybe that's due to their time in the circus and their cartoonish bodies slowly stripped them from all human habits and unconscious patterns of a mortal being.... I don't know, I'm being stupid. Abstracted Gangle!!

Internally, I already have a basis of an abstracted design for every character in TADC (the players, anyway), but how I imagined Gangle to look was never head-on, if that makes sense. It was always from a profile view. She was deer-like but also wolfish, with narrow almond eyes, a narrow upturned snout, gangly (heehee) legs, and branch-like antlers, with those tufts of spiky fur at the cheeks of wolves and some domesticated cats ( I don't know what they're called and nobody will tell me. Keep your secrets...) the features of a snake, or a cat would make a lot more sense, I suppose, but I was pretty inspired by the animal designs for gangle by vvickydisc.

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Hello.... I know I'm late....by about four days... I'm sorry (´ﾍ｀；) I was delayed due to this drawing specifically. There wasn't any issues, technically, just didn't want to do it. Because coming up with a design for abstracted gangle was HARD, and I didn't have enough practice with the actual abstracted designs Goozeworks had canonically designed. Who knew that drawing onyx jagged multi-sided pillars would be so difficult? Not me! But perhaps next time, I'd try my hand at 3-D modeling, it would make the process leagues easier.

The reason why this was such an issue is because I was in internal conflict with paying homage to Gooseworks's vision and my personal interpretation of the Abstracted. Canonically, the Abstracted have no unique or discerning features from one another, completely removed of personality and individuality due to their minds etched away into basic animalistic instinct, something something maybe that's due to their time in the circus and their cartoonish bodies slowly stripped them from all human habits and unconscious patterns of a mortal being.... I don't know, I'm being stupid. Abstracted Gangle!!

Internally, I already have a basis of an abstracted design for every character in TADC (the players, anyway), but how I imagined Gangle to look was never head-on, if that makes sense. It was always from a profile view. She was deer-like but also wolfish, with narrow almond eyes, a narrow upturned snout, gangly (heehee) legs, and branch-like antlers, with those tufts of spiky fur at the cheeks of wolves and some domesticated cats ( I don't know what they're called and nobody will tell me. Keep your secrets...) the features of a snake, or a cat would make a lot more sense, I suppose, but I was pretty inspired by the animal designs for gangle by vvickydisc.