been a month but merry christmas everyone! i love that its canonically printy’s favorite holiday, despite my changes i think that should always stay the same :]
additional kirby as well because i needed to test my markers its the first time i’ve used these ones!
god this is like? literally one of my favorite kirby animations ever?? it might be no.1 on my list the animation is so buttery smooth and i’m reblogging to save it because i got really bummed to see it disappear (i’m probably late to this but i just rambled to some friends about my fave kirby animations and spent like 30 minutes following a paper trail to your blog i had no idea you had one) BUT ANYWAYS if you’re reading this i love your work!! i love the expressions and internal dialogue kirby has and all his copy ability designs and it gives me chills even on a rewatch with it’s ending
u guys remember that one 2 minute long kirby animation i made lmao
putting this here for archival purposes. took it off youtube bc youtube scary but i put too much effort into it to completely wipe it off the internet
music credit, used with permission
[started on may 2nd, 2021 and finished on december 9th, 2021]
how's the dusttale post going? need any help organizing?
-lili
HI LILLIIIIII!!!! I already have the things I wanna say, links to info and a rough draft its just hard to sit down and type it all up + link it back to the original blog!! School is kinda wrestling me atm 😓😓
I really don’t know the next real break i’m gonna have and I wanna be able to put time into it not stressing over my next due date and the middle of the semester is Not Going Well Honestly SO I’m probably not gonna post it until I have some breathing room in my schedule (which is like,, definitely not this week and maybe next week at best)
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONCERN THOUGH i really wish i could sit down and finish it but sometimes i just like do not have the brainspace to type it all out hen I am free,, dusttale lore is kinda heavy
BUT I WILL GET IT DONE!! 💫✨✨
in the meantime heres a comfort doodle of flower!dust having tea
I DIDNT MEAN TO IT WAS LITERALLY AN ACCIDENT HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A THROWAWAY CHARACTER IN A DISCORD ROLEPLAY AND THEN I FIXATED ON HIM FOR A WHOLE YEAR 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
but yes he became my blorbo and i’m terrified of how much brain space this little skrungle can take up,,, horrific truly,,, he is holding me hostage and demanding me to draw him,,,
You were literally who I was looking for:
Infodump in Dust AND Blueprint
OKAY BUT I WILL WARN YOU MY BLUEPRINT IS THE OPPOSITE OF HOW I TREAT DUST
I try to be very close to canon with dust,,,, i read through the whole blog (post hopefullylyyy coming soon still need to write it but due to reasons i might not get it done for a while college is so hard chat but i will try to get it out as soon as i can!! i have not forgotten!!!!)
DUST IS JUST REALLY SAD. REALLY DEPRESSED LITTLE GUY. he is miserable every day of his silly little life whether he’s having a good time or not he will always find a way to bring himself back into his own misery. he can never be happy with himself and what he’s done and the guilt of his actions will always haunt him and his hallucinations will loom above him reminding him that he’s a terrible person who can never achieve redemption, and even if he could he doesn’t deserve to be happy in the slightest. he treats himself like absolute shit when the player gives up on his timeline and lets himself waste away (and when nightmare picks him up, this doesn’t change, he just becomes nightmare’s little depression purse, like how dream gets energy from people cheering him on nightmare carries this depressed lump of a skeleton as an energy source)
i think thats canon-adjacent enough,, i think dust would fight against these things but i think he loses eventually,, not much you can really do against a god of negativity,,
BLUEPRINT on the other hand is. entirely headcanon. basically every detail has either been maassively editted or changed. i have reference sheets but i’m literally self conscious idk if i should post them yet.,, the arts olddd i probably need to redraw it
i’ll be drawing him over on @ask-fruit-punch when we start up again BUT as a treat here are some silly fun facts!! (more where this comes from i’ve been fixating for about a year now please save me)
-unlike canon, writing is something he actively enjoys and does, and he always has a notebook in his hands
-he is soulless!! he cannot feel emotions naturally and he’s a bit different to how ink is because [redacted]
-he’s twins with palette
-his paint inflicts poison damage!!
-he lives in the omega timeline :]
-more coming soon~~ he’s actually my favorite i have a whole redesign for whiteprint too plus like a bajillion aus of this guy please talk to me about him i’ll never stop (but also dont because i gotta save this for the cool ask blog!!) (but also please plase plase do i’ll scream and cry and throw things around my room /pos)
OKAY BUT I WILL WARN YOU MY BLUEPRINT IS THE OPPOSITE OF HOW I TREAT DUST
I try to be very close to canon with dust,,,, i read through the whole blog (post hopefullylyyy coming soon still need to write it but due to reasons i might not get it done for a while college is so hard chat but i will try to get it out as soon as i can!! i have not forgotten!!!!)
DUST IS JUST REALLY SAD. REALLY DEPRESSED LITTLE GUY. he is miserable every day of his silly little life whether he’s having a good time or not he will always find a way to bring himself back into his own misery. he can never be happy with himself and what he’s done and the guilt of his actions will always haunt him and his hallucinations will loom above him reminding him that he’s a terrible person who can never achieve redemption, and even if he could he doesn’t deserve to be happy in the slightest. he treats himself like absolute shit when the player gives up on his timeline and lets himself waste away (and when nightmare picks him up, this doesn’t change, he just becomes nightmare’s little depression purse, like how dream gets energy from people cheering him on nightmare carries this depressed lump of a skeleton as an energy source)
i think thats canon-adjacent enough,, i think dust would fight against these things but i think he loses eventually,, not much you can really do against a god of negativity,,
BLUEPRINT on the other hand is. entirely headcanon. basically every detail has either been maassively editted or changed. i have reference sheets but i’m literally self conscious idk if i should post them yet.,, the arts olddd i probably need to redraw it
i’ll be drawing him over on @ask-fruit-punch when we start up again BUT as a treat here are some silly fun facts!! (more where this comes from i’ve been fixating for about a year now please save me)
-unlike canon, writing is something he actively enjoys and does, and he always has a notebook in his hands
-he is soulless!! he cannot feel emotions naturally and he’s a bit different to how ink is because [redacted]
-he’s twins with palette
-his paint inflicts poison damage!!
-he lives in the omega timeline :]
-more coming soon~~ he’s actually my favorite i have a whole redesign for whiteprint too plus like a bajillion aus of this guy please talk to me about him i’ll never stop (but also dont because i gotta save this for the cool ask blog!!) (but also please plase plase do i’ll scream and cry and throw things around my room /pos)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNDERSWAP and also me i’m so happy guys i literally dont care if this information is wrong because this date is MY BIRTHDAY and if i share it with underswap sans i’m very very content
as for the drawing i think holiday traditions would be somewhat swapped, i dont have ideas for every holiday but in underswap, you give a little gift to everyone on your birthday and if you get a gift back, that means its mutual! as the birthday baby you can’t tell people who you’re giving so its kind of a mystery to see who really cares and who doesn’t.
so naturally blue being the papyrus he is turns into santa claus giving everyone super thoughtful gifts
and when he is introduced to the multiverse the culture shock is horrible but he still tries to do his routine even though everyones pinning him down to enjoy his birthday (“but giving gifts is so fun!! D:”)
okay maybe i overestimated my ability to write the dust lore in one weekend i may take a bit longer BUT I’MM I’LL TRY I JUST HAVE LIKE BORING SCHOOL STUFF TO GET THROUGH AND DRAWING IS A LOT EASIER
heres some traditional sketchy stuff though: i think omori fits dust very well,,, mari and papyrus shaking hands in the afterlife because they are not vengeful spirits their brothers just turned them into ones.
oh also editing because i was looking back at all the sketches and this blue looks so cute for WHAT!!! i think he vibes with all the persona songs he is such a phantom thief.. whip kirby slapped /j
this is how I head canon ask dusttale as a dungeon master in DND:
asker: asks anything.
ask dusttale: mayhaps. perhaps not. sans is an enigma even to meeeee *vanishes into thin air*
HELP LITERALLY hes just a creature we are collectively and desperately trying to observe in a shared petri dish
but im honestly really happy with what we do have though? i like working with the “up to interpretation” leniency and i feel very comfortable in the frameworks provided!! idk if thats weird though i used to be more sad there wasnt as much information and i finally scrolled to the end of the blog
but headcanons make up for everything and theres a lot of things to work with with the information provided and as someone who rewrites characters/character lore as a hobby (staring at blueprint and blueberry) its been very fun working on dust with what we know!!