#sherbert's gate

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Fanart for @vashonian and their fanfic, Sherbert's Gate! I've been obsessed with the fic, it's sooooo good, they've truly fed us with their writing 🥹🙏 I have the fic linked, yall should read it when you get the chance 😊

Drawing based off one of the creator's own drawing of the pair 🖤 original image under the cut!

Link to the fanfic:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58641688/chapters/149417089

Found this one old sketch...thing from my Episode 4 Gummigoo lives AU fic thing where Pomni and Max are in a relationship. Like the other crackships floating around in my works, its entire existence is for plot purposes. Mostly to rub extra salt in the wound of finding that Pomni and his mates don't remember him.

Speaking of Gummigoo's Digital Days AU, there's a few things in the works, alongside Sherbet's Gate. Such fun things include:

The bridge between Episodes 3 and 4. More Gummigoo and Kinger, Ragatha and Gummigoo touching briefly upon their respective mommy issues, and the set up to Spudsy's.

Zooble and Gummigoo are stuck together for an adventure and end up having to save Jax from himself. Neither are thrilled with it.

Candy Canyon Kingdom II - The gang goes back to the Kingdom for another adventure with Gummigoo coming to better terms with letting Max and Chad go.

The humans use Gummigoo's bandit skills for a heist adventure.

Gummigoo crashing out over the existence of Evil Pomni and what that could mean about the 'Pomni' he encountered in Episode 4

Jax begrudgingly starting to respect Gummigoo - as much as he can offer for an NPC. Maybe.

Gangle gives Gummigoo art lessons, and the Sun approaches them with a proposal to assassinate Caine.

The underwater adventure from Episode 5.

And so much more!

I'm still working on the final chapters for the first part of Sherbet's Gate - Chapter 31 is the middle of heavy revisions. Coming back from vacation and viewing it again made me realize I didn't like large chunks of it. I'm hoping to have it out (and the bridge for 3 & 4) out by end of September at the latest.

Gonna probably spoil stuff so if you want to read it:

"Sherbert's Gate" by Vashonian on Ao3

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58641688/chapters/149417089

Its a The Amazing Digital Circus fic that splits from canon at the end of the second episode asking the question: "What if Pomni and Gummigoo got left behind in Candy Canyon".

It manages to perfectly blend the existential dread that TADC is built on with wild west outlaw hijinks (And a surprisingly decent chunk of political drama and intrigue) Also some phenomenally paced and earned slow burn Pomni x Gummigoo/Funnygummy. (Yes, this is what got me interested in the first place)

Vashonian does a wonderful job of both fleshing out the characters as well as the world itself in what I can only describe as a love letter to the early 1900 and candy.

Definitely give it a read. Possible spoilers beyond.

Hi! This is some artwork I did of a Hokeypoke hummingbirds, a silly little creature from the tadc fanfic Sherbert's gate by @vashonian

I absolutely love it when stories talk about in universe wildlife, and I couldn't resist drawing/writing about them once I had the idea, so enjoy the mad ramblings of someone obsessed with fantasy biology! ->

The Hokeypoke hummingbird (Dulcem Trochilus) is a species of hummingbird (named for its beautiful honeycomb toffee wings) found all over the Candy Kingdom

Although native to the majority of the Candy Kingdom, the Hokeypoke hummingbirds tend to prefer colder environments with large quantities of pixie dust flowers.

[] Description []

The Hokeypoke hummingbird is 9.5 to 11.5 cm (3.7 to 4.5 in) long and on average weighs about 5 to 5.5 g (0.18 to 0.19 oz). Adults are usually a creamy vanilla color with specs of honeycomb toffee along their backs. They have one large honeycomb on top of their head like a crown (this is why they were also called the royal hummingbird), for females, it is an orangey-yellow while males have a bright red.

[] Feeding []

Similar to other Dulcem birds, the Hokeypoke hummingbirds stick to a gummy and gelatin diet. Although their have been some reports of them eating graham crackers crumbs, whether this is a form of gastroliths to aid with digestion is currently unknown.

[] Fun fact []

Hokeypoke hummingbirds are also called the (Royal hummingbirds) Not only because of the little honeycomb on top of their head that looks like a Crown, but because in 18XX Princess [XXXXX] loved the little birds so much that she had an entire garden built into the Kingdom's castle to house them.

The garden was said to house many different subspecies of the hummingbird such as chocolate, strawberry, butterscotch, mint chocolate chip, cookie dough, and rocky road.

It's reported that one of the birds, named Cherry Cheesecake (because of its dark redish-pink crown) often followed Princess [XXXXX] all over the palace, and would peck at any one who got to close to her. ->

In Sherbet's Gate, the Leporidites are one of the fastest-growing factions in Candy Canyon Kingdom following Pomni's stranding. In their eyes, Jax is some sort of savior that broke centuries of tradition and fully intended for the Fudge's rampage to be a sort of beginning for the world's rebirth, and they need to keep the momentum going.

Whatever that means - they can't even agree on how far to push the envelope. Regardless, they worship him and interpret everything to be far more deeper than it actually is. They're slowly getting more prominent over the course of the story, to the annoyance of Loo and the other characters that actually interacted with him.

Chapter 36 is out at last! It's been a difficult month for me to get anything done, but it's arrived in a form that's presentable enough for me. The link is right here.

I'm planning on it! I'm also working on an updated NPC post once Part One's done, so Trolli's part of the lineup.

I've got like one sketch of him floating on an old post last year - even though it's kinda more of a joke post where Caine possessed him to talk to Pomni.

Are there candy pomegranates? Would they be those chocolate bar ones I’ve heard about or just chocolate covered ones the inside of a fruit?

Are the chickens marshmallows like peeps or gummy like some of the other animals? (I’m asking because we have established eggs exist or eggist if you will)

How much copyright infringement has abelle actually committed so far?

Would different kinds of candy corn (like Easter candy corn or Christmas candy corn for example) be considered different breeds of corn or different minerals entirely?

Anyways that was all the random stuff I could think of that probably had nothing to do with the plot and I just thought I would ask Excited for the next chapter!



There is a version of it - it hasn't been brought up (yet) but it's the saccharine flux - it's running off the historic name 'bloody flux' for dysentery. It's just about as you said, it's a slightly more family-friendly version of it, but still unnerving because it's been given a cutesy, glittery filter over it.

With those pomengranates, it'd probably be a mixture of both, and then there's the gummy candy flavored variety too.

Chickens are mostly marshmallow, but there's a few gummy and chocolate varieties too. Same with the crops like corn - there's some that would be considered different breeds based on their materials.

Abelle has committed quite a lot of copyright violations, intentionally or otherwise. Caine's still canonically unaware of the internet, but he definitely comes up with ideas that just skirt copyright/IP laws. Bubble and Abelle, on the other hand...

Thanks for asking!