Furret

hello everyone!

well, in case it wasn't official before, it's officially official now... at 1077 panels, this episode is the longest ever in the series! fitting for a finale, i say. i proofread it up to around 1024 panels last time and it took me 45 minutes. so, yeah, this is gonna be a long one. i'd say maybe an hour 20? just kinda guessing here.

yes, it's sad, but it really does seem like the sun is setting on BOARD BOARDS now. i did some thinking and theres not really THAT much left to do. everything is pretty much planned out, and all i need to do is stick the landing.

my main worry with this episode is that a... CERTAIN PORTION takes up way too much of the episode, but isn't interesting enough to justify it. then again, it might not be interesting to me because i've spent about 8 months knowing exactly what happens in it and what the big reveal is and stuff. for a first time reader you may get a kick out of it! who knows? all i'll say is that it's a departure from the contestants USUAL way of solving problems (getting really mad and hurting each other)

this recent section that i wrote is pretty interesting i think. it has a few funny quips and is kind of reminiscent of another comic i made a while back. to people who know The End of Pen... ah, actually, nevermind. i'll just let you read it when it comes out.

to fill you in, heres some other non-important stuff that happened recently in the boardverse:

someone with a round blue head gets mocked for being ugly

a tenacious musician opens a door really aggressively (i feel like i've been drawing a lot of doors lately, not even including the car variety.)

a doughy yellow boy orders a coffee with an exuberant amount of sweets added

there. picture these in your head and its like christmas came early this year.

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we got one anon submission this time. oh, poor little quatic... she's not going away forever you know! we can make more smurfs specials if you want, provided they dont find out. we'll have to hide the smurfs in big trenchcoats and meet each other in alleyways and discreetly hand them to each other in plastic sacks.

want your OWN submissions to be featured in an update? check out the official strawpage!

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okay thats pretty much all this time.

stay tuned!

gaster is definitely a pirate!

gaster is definitely a counselor!

hello everyone! ! huh...? 102? that can't be right!

oh! there it is. i see. it was our first time using that digit, so i guess it ended up being late for work. maybe we shoulda trained the new guy. its not easy being the fourth wheel you know.

okay anyways. things are getting spicy on the boards here. i mean whew. and its blue. its so blue. lots of "blue" things happen in this episode, my favorite of which being cereal box wearing a funny hat. oops spoilers.

last time, we talked about endings. we've been doing a lot of that recently. today, though, i want to talk about what comes next. i wouldn't count on a "board boards" season 2, but that doesn't mean i plan to just throw everything away once im done with it. maybe weekly strips will be a thing? i have some other ideas for things like games. that being said, as long as im alive with both of my arms, board boards isn't going anywhere!

im not sure when this episode will release. i've still got a large portion of it left to work on, but i feel like if i REALLY lock in... late july-early august? i know i've been pushing this release back since like march but darnit this is hard! don't judge me! i've seen you guys wait a year for TPOT EPISODES!

(cough) sorry haha. let's make a little bulleted list of things i have to do.

transition into action scene

action scene

suspense moment

theophany

quest

final act

...?

ending

so... huh, you know, thats not actually that much. pray that this all goes smoothly for me please.

boring progress update this time but nothing really interesting happened this past fortnight. sorry not sorry!

the same way humans are technically "animals," monsters that look and act like animals classify as "beasts."

so, animals (with flesh and blood) have the same physical properties as humans, and beasts (with magic and dust) have the same physical properties as monsters.

look at that. 982 panels. that is getting scarily close to 1000! i know episodes have surpassed it before, but i'm not sure if it's ever been part of the progress update gif. so, in 2 weeks we'll see a first! you should know by now that board boards exists in the state it does primarily because of your choices as a voter. YOU draw the dots, I connect them. review your choices so far.

9th: Magnifying Glass, by 53% of the vote.

8th: Cereal Box, by 58% of the vote.

7th: Car Door, by 63% of the vote.

6th: Snail Shell, by 36% of the vote.

5th: Lava Smoothie, by... okay this one was my choice.

4th: Smart Watch, by 80% of the vote.

3rd: Burned Pretzel, by 44% (1st elim.), 50% (rejoin), and 50% (2nd elim.) of the vote.

does this feel right? looking back at it, this really is the only way it could've gone. not to call you all predictable, of course... let's talk about endings. every character had their own ending planned (in varying detail) in the event of their victory. i believe i may have touched over this subject briefly in another update but i dont remember. i'll go over these in case you were wondering what you missed out on.

magnifying glass: she does something really artsy and stupid with the whiteboards. i didn't really plan beyond that...

cereal box: the ending is as stupid and humiliating as possible for the viewers allowing this guy to win.

car door: he builds a huge city all for himself but gets lonely and creates fake versions of flushed and burned pretzel. he realizes the whiteboards aren't a substitute for real living and leaves for the real world, walking away all cool-like.

snail shell: sort of a "standard ending" where h and g give her the whiteboards and then just float away never to be seen again. everyone does a funny face and then it just ends.

lava smoothie: same as snail shell's.

smart watch: ...?

burned pretzel: burned pretzel was never "supposed" to win. im not saying i rigged him to be eliminated or anything but an integral part of his character is supplying others the strength to win on their own. if i HAD to make an ending for him, let's say... he goes home to his wife, leaving all this competition nonsense behind for good.

there. thats what would have happened in the alternate universes where people voted differently!

oh, you want to know about fillet knife and flushed's endings? stick around!

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here's some of the anonymous submissions from the last 2 weeks.

Q&A questions

"for furret! do minced salad and clear discordance actually come from an RNG? or is it js something you thought of"

i thought nobody'd ever ask! yes, though it's a joke in the episode that the team names dont mean anything and were randomly generated by h, they were actually thought of by ME and DO have meaning! board boards is the successor to a comic called "stupid objects playing" or StOP for short. StOP was drawn in photopea using a sort of pixely bitmap style. it never released because panels were hard to produce, which is why i switched to whiteboard fox. anyways, that's not the point. in StOP there were two teams, each consisting of four members. smart watch was not a contestant at this point, and so the teams were as follows:

CLEAR DISCORDANCE

Car Door

Flushed

Magnifying Glass

Snail Shell

MINCED SALAD

Cereal Box

Fillet Knife

Lava Smoothie

Burned Pretzel

so whats the point? these teams were named by combining the attributes of the contestants on them. clear discordance is because car door and magnifying glass have clear parts and flushed is a discord emoji. minced salad is because the team has 3 food objects and a knife. though the teams were eventually changed months later, the names stuck... that's also why snail shell's team never got a name!

i hope this long-winded explanation answers your question and takes up way more space in the progress update than what is necessary.

H what if you wore pants would you wear like sweatpants or jeans

what the hell is pants?

art i enjoyed

thank you to whoever drew this! i luv you too!!!!!

this is also a very classy drawing, featuring a familiar looking character...?

i lied. i dont know who that is.

want to submit things for the progress updates? check out the OFFICIAL board boards strawpage!

http://boardboards.straw.page

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okay thats it. thank you for reading.

I DID IT! I DID IT!!!!!!!! the long scene is OVER.

ITS SMOOTH SAILING FROM HERE.

okay, not really. there's still a pretty big portion of the episode that i have to complete. but it's pretty much all planned out from here, and i dont have to be as meticulous with its execution from now on!

so yeah. june/july release still seems viable.

when board boards comes to a close, it may feel like something is missing. perhaps you'll lament that the days of this comic are over for good, and there will never be anything like it ever again! well, that's where you're wrong.

after this, it's up to YOU to fill that gap. take that leap, and put your pen on the page! even if you're insecure about your skills, worried what people might say, or if you feel like you're just not up to the task, always try to at least get STARTED. that's the hardest part, and then you just gotta ride it out.

i hope to see you take away something from board boards; you don't need frills to make a feast for the eyes! board boards doesn't have voice acting, animation, music, or even ASSETS, but it's still loved by so many people in the object show community! all that's limiting you is your hope.

go, and create! it's not like you have all the time in the world to say what you need to say.

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here's an anonymous submission you'll enjoy! because i enjoyed it! so you will too. a piece of fanart depicting the flushed transmogrification!

yes, we say transmogrification instead of gjinka now. sorry i dont make the rules!

oh wait i do!

anyways look at the art. brilliant work as always!

want to submit your OWN works or questions for progress updates? send it right to https://boardboards.straw.page/ !

alright thats it for this progress update. i hope we're in the 1000s next time! i'm not sure if a progress update gif has ever displayed a number that large. very exciting....!!!!

assuming no bfdi contestants know that tic-tac-toe is solved and dont play strategically perfect every single time, leafy has some sort of low-level probability manipulation, as she will always lose her 73rd round.

what happens if the other player DOES know the strategy and intentionally tries to force a draw? i believe there are a few ways this could go.

1. definitions are changed to fit with the universe's narrative. either both players are counted as having lost, or the round is disqualified as a "true" game of tic tac toe entirely.

2. the game is prematurely (and likely tragically) ended before leafy can make her last move.

3. one or both players are psychically compelled to stop playing.

questions remain...

- at what point does a tic-tac-toe session end?

- if leafy was to play 146 times, would she lose again, or does it only count the first 73rd time?

- what happens if there is no possible scenario in which leafy could lose...?

golf ball is interested in what would happen, so she builds a robot hardcoded to throw the match by any means necessary, including wins by default. in this hypothetical scenario there is no possible way leafy could lose.

leafy and the RPSbot are placed in a dome with 10-meter thick walls consisting of concrete and reinforced steel.

since tic-tac-toe doesn't have a standardized ruleset, golf ball is allowed to set them. she decides it's the same as regular tic-tac-toe, but if you die or otherwise become incapacitated, you lose. it is assumed that golf ball is perfect and leafy cannot be harmed. this also assumes that leafy is unaware of the rule involving her, eager to play tic-tac-toe, and cannot stop until instructed.

leafy and the robot play until the 73rd match. then, the robot is remotely shut off by golf ball.

since leafy is perfectly safe. there is nothing that could possibly injure her, nor is there any rule or technicality that could make this considerably a loss. leafy has just won her 73rd tic-tac-toe match.

golf ball checks the aftermath.

hello everyone.

there's light at the end of this tunnel. granted, it leads into several smaller tunnels that i still have to traverse, but it's a light nonetheless. i predict this episode will be done by june, early july at the latest.

remember when the estimate was a febuary/march release? oh, how innocent i was. how i looked upon the future with such hope. there were sparkles in my eyes, genuine sparkles. i mean they were just actually glowing and they were ripped right out of my sockets by a busy schedule. oh how i loathe the schedule. if only i could be stuck in a completely blank room with no distractions and a feeding tube that pours furret snacks into it every three hours. this episode would've been done by january. oh, the dream. the dream.... the DREAM....

yes, oh yes. so, i don't have anything to say other than that, really. production has been same-old-same-old for a while. let's check out board boards anonymous. we have 3 submissions this time.

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[Q&A questions]

"to The Shark (running duos): I hope you can forgive me for the latency of this question in regards to the last! - Just how did you end up in the whiteboards, and when?"

so you finally responded! to cut it short, i was given an offer of weekly swordfish steak + lifetime orca protection in exchange for starring in the episode. i'm yet to recieve my end of this deal but it'll happen soon! you don't exactly scam a shark out of her meal.

[art i enjoyed]

this person appears to be a fan of a certain character. i wonder who it is! thank you for the fanart.

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that's all for this progress update. please have hope for this episode. if you all pray hard enough i'll gain the power from your collective wishing and go super saiyan.

hello everyone !

look, we're in the 800s now! i feel like i say something to that effect every time, but this now ranks board boards 10 as the fourth longest episode i think.

a lot of significant panels were made this time. the flood gates have opened and it is now exponentially easier to continue the plotline. once i get out of this EXTREMELY LONG STUPID SCENE…. it'll be good. and i can board my boards as much as i want.

i would like to reiterate the wait period for this episode has been MONSTEROUS, and i do apologize for that! if you want walkingfurret content of a lesser scope but a faster release schedule, you can always read my mspfa, ADAMSIM.

we haven't had a progress update with a gimmick in a while. was that just a 2024/5 thing? i kinda miss them but it got unfunny. i guess the anonymous submission box is now just an everpresent gimmick?

speaking of…..

these are the only submissions i got that i actually wanted to respond to. whoever drew these, thank you. i enjoyed them a lot. oh, how polite and kind that smurf is. how small, how crushable. did you guys know the smurfs fandom wiki is guano insane? check it out some time.

want to submit your OWN drawings or questions? simply go to https://boardboards.straw.page.

woah. that's two shameless plugs in a single update. how utterly audacious!

hello everyone!

remember how last time i said there'd be a lot more panels? well here they are! the total has increased to ~755. not bad!

i'm not really sure what to say in this update that hasn't been said before, so i think i owe you all an apology. this waiting period between episodes has been HUGE compared to the other ones, and will likely break that record by another month or two...

so yes, i am sorry for that. but don't you worry about anything happening to board boards now. I SOLEMNLY SWEAR, I WILL DO EVERYTHING IN MY POWER TO MAKE SURE THIS EPISODE GETS FINISHED. even if it takes me 7 months. even if it takes me 5 YEARS! I WILL GET THIS EPISODE DONE, DO YOU HEAR ME?!

board boards is part of my schedule and i would NEVER dip at the final moment. we are doing it, man. we are making this happen.

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last time, i introduced "board boards anonymous." you all went above and beyond with your submissions! here's a few of my favorites.

[Q&A questions]

"Car Door, is there any interesting thing in your mishmashing collection of junk?"

hey, don't call that stuff junk! ... sike! it's all literal garbage, haha. nothing cool is in there that i didn't already put in my chilly-mobile, unless you dig corpses or something.

"to The Shark (running duos), How did you survive the flash freeze that took place during episode 2?"

i wasn't on the whiteboards! though, it's sweet of you to think bout me. huh? where WAS I then? well i might just answer if you send me another question."

"To the tree: how do you feel knowing about everything going on with board boards and all"

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... more bloodshed...

[questions/comments for yours truly]

"Do you regret naming your digital persona after a semi-popular meme? Question for the furret walk"

oh god yes. yes i do. but its been my go-to username since like 2019 and i can't just give it up! in the circumstance that i ever have to make merch i'll probably shorten it to "frretwalk" or "walkingfrret." or i could skip all that trouble and just use "BOARD BOARDS" as my company name. "

Not a question but I just finished all of (current) BB in a day and it's so good dawg it helped me build my confidence in starting work on my own OSC comic after being hesitant about it gen so excited for BB10"

glad to hear it! very glad to hear it. if you need tips for making comics and stuff you know who to ask.

[art i enjoyed]

look! the iconic board boards character bill board.

want to submit your own stuff for progress updates? send it right to https://boardboards.straw.page/!

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okay yeah that's all for this update.

thank you for sticking with e, and i hope you enjoy the episode when it eventually releases!

in other words, stay tuned!

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COMIC #1: dude he doenst even NEED it. what a boss

COMIC #2: ummm PFT ok, who seriously let this shithead and his girlfriend in here lmafo

COMIC #3: shhesh okay hm...... just how SPICY can it get?

COMIC #4: hahaha omfg they can NEVER spelt right. never

COMIC #5: this asshole couldnt tell you the difference omg. CLASSIC dog stuff

COMIC #6: AGAIN with the mix ups bro omg you must be as BLIND, as a DOG!

COMIC #7: WARDING: this comice, gets a little HEATED. a little SPICY if you get me dogg. do NOT READ if you are under 18. oh snap nvm lmfao more HAND TROUBLES? SEARIOUSLY?