#scarecrowposting

so, you know the Bailey School Kids books, right? the series about a bunch of children speculating on whether or not the seemingly innocuous grown-ups around them may actually be mythical creatures/wizards/undead/what have you.

i’ve seen that post joking about how the supposedly secret monster people in the books are just very obviously queer, but i just realized another interpretation: these books are just about nonhumans. i’m one of the weird grown-ups in this book series.

all this time, i was reading about werewolves and vampires and aliens living under the guise of humans, when i was the creature in human form all along!!

if you ask me, that tradition never died out; it only changed.

it splintered into a thousand different subcultures, specializing and honing to its practitioners’ wildest imaginations.

stilt-walking monsters, therians in their masks and quadrobic leaps, mascot performers and furries, the unexpected revival of clowns, cat-girls-boys-and so on, vtubers, larpers and roleplayers of all stripes. anyone with time and care and an overwhelming love for the art of transformation can take on the skin of something completely new.

and to all of them, thank you. thank you for keeping this magic alive in whatever form you choose - or whatever form chooses you.

you wonderful actors, shapeshifters, magicians and channelers, and artists all of you.

thank you for letting more of us see the beautiful unseen world you are privy to.

this is Cricket (any pronouns)! they’re fused with a super bell and a bee mushroom :3 (they had the cat ear headband before winding up in the mushroom kingdom, they just think it’s cute)

this is Whispurr (she/they) and she teaches about secrets. they’re way too curious and impulsive for their own good, and their batteries are so overcharged that they often have trouble calming down (and it also means they might explode at any moment)

a bumblebee just flew into my room so i took them outside, but they weren’t flying away so i brought them a dandelion

then i picked them up and took them to a dandelion patch in my yard

then i remembered we had honey, so i gave them a few drops