dappercritter
The Dapper Critter
Attention-Starved Beast - 25+ - INFP - He/Him - Autistic/ADHD - Aspiring writer, artist, and boss monster - Lover of all things cartoony, cool, classy, cute, and creature-related - Major fandoms: Godzilla, The Owl House, Zelda, Soulsborne, Metroid, Studio Ghibli, Tokusatsu (yes, all of it) - Currently struggling to write fanfiction - "Love nature, help people, punch fascists, be unique." Me (I said that) - PRO- AND/OR ANTI-SHIPPERS DNI
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That's fair, I mean, Giant Purple Griffin is a deep cut G1 thing and even it's still kind of a joke (like most of Megatron's plots from that era XD)
Your actual choices of inspiration are waaaay better ngl
Gogmazios is one of my favourite Monster Hunter designs and I always Prime Predaking would be a great blueprint for a new take on Deathsaurus.
While I do kinda like Deathsaurus's OG designs, the goofy kaiju dragon alt-mode and the gaudy evil chicken colors are a little hard to take seriously. Especially if you tried to translate both in a new, less blocky design.
So good on you for doing things your way!
My Deathsaurus design! I wanted him to be a gryphon, and went with a lot more G1 inspiration mixed with MTMTE
#i may not be a little bit obsessed with deathsaurus because I love his name so much I based an oc's name on it#transformers#maccadam#deathsaurus#awesome art
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Ok maybe I do hate Transformers One but not for the reasons you'd expect
#i refused to actual “me when I have x autism instead of y autism” template because it failed to capture my current feelings#that and the other one made me feel a little uncomfortable ngl#tw blood#stick figure violence#transformers#ramblings of the critter#memes
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Thank you to everyone who has commissioned me so far! I truly appreciate your support 💞
I want to speak about why I needed emergency commissions. Last week I was robbed of a lot of money. It was honestly very traumatic and I’ve been really stressed. I went from having savings to having $13 to my name. I’m okay! The commissions have really been helping me out and I’m so grateful 🫶🏻
In case you’re maybe not interested in a commission but would like to support me anyway, I accept donations through paypal link here
Of course my commissions are still open!! I’ll link that post here
Stay safe!! Love you and thank you 💞💕
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To anyone wondering if this renewed TF phase means I've got a fan project in the works:
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I never got around to making Transformers AUs or fanfiction because every time I thought about what characters to use I got really bad decision paralysis
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I love this look so much, but I must ask
Was this guy ever an influence?
My Deathsaurus design! I wanted him to be a gryphon, and went with a lot more G1 inspiration mixed with MTMTE
#yes i am seriously curious but i also just wanted an excuse to bring up the giant purple griffin#also i don't know if prime predaking was ever an influence but I am picking up some resemblance to him too#transformers#maccadam#tf fanart#deathsaurus#awesome art
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back from dana’s main talk! she showed us the pitch bible for a show she was planning on making around the same time she started pitching the owl house. this show actually got greenlit by cartoon network, but she ultimately chose to work on toh instead. the show, snaggle teeth, is about a little shark guy named sharkboy and his journey befriending jesse, a troublemaking coyote learning about what matters most as they grow up :,) i know there are many pictures and it’s not very easy to read but it’s so wholesome and super worth checking out (1/2)
#this is so sweet#I hope she gets to greenlight this one day#snaggleteeth#dana terrace#awesome art#cartoons
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I could actually use extra cash cause I've been sick which means I couldn't stream for a week and I just had a dentist appointment I have to pay for so
https://ko-fi.com/demilypyro
ok thanks
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Concept: Lone Wanderer and Hancock drinking from mugs that say "I saved a city and all I got was this ugly mug" but the arrow is pointing to their faces.
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it's happened AT LEAST once
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iswtg if this isn't proof we need more Transformer shows that look like Animated I don't know what is
tarn... he a more dramatic casserole than knockout :p
#i know there'll never be anyone like djw but we've had so much G1 bootlicking#would it kill hasbro to try and emulate something like this?#transformers#transformers animated#tarn#knockout#tfa#tf knockout#tf tarn#awesome art#awesome animation#critter queue
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Tapping the "your support and solidarity and care for Jews and Romani people and BIPOC should be more powerful than your hatred of nazis" sign so fucking hard rn.
Bcs u should support Jews and Romani people and BIPOC more than u hate nazis and some of u it is very clear that u couldn't give a shite about Jews and romani or BIPOC. You hate nazis but you've forgotten nazis aren't just generalised bigots or bad people and they have an ideology which targets "undesirables" and people who ate racially seen as inferior or less than. Only part of combating white supremacy and fascism is hating nazis and a lot of it is helping communities effected by white supremacy and fascism and listening to and understanding us.
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a brief recap of what has been going on with the sonic movieverse in the past several months:
paramount has come out in public support of israel
a man who has publicly rubbed elbows with none other than benjamin netanyahu reportedly gets cast as shadow for the upcoming third movie
the guy who plays tom got exposed as having written a letter of support for a convicted pedophile
there's fucking??? zionist propaganda in the knuckles series???
kind of connected to the last point but the guy who plays wade is evidently pro-israel too
this is a complete and utter joke.
#ok that's it#feel free to pirate the rest of the SCU but I'm out#never trust paramount. especially not after bayformers.#not just because those were terrible mind you but those were the most blatant us military propaganda flicks for years#sonic cinematic universe#sonic movies#knuckles show
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Our good friend Jonathan Harker is getting ready to leave for his business trip, Mina Murray is picking out a new journal, Lucy Westenra is charming a gaggle of smitten suitors, Abraham van Helsing is wrapping up his lectures, and Castle Dracula is prepping the guest room for a very long stay.
Which must mean that Dracula Season is here again!
‘Dracula Season’ being a catchall term for the voracious reading, memeing, writing, illustrating, analyzing, and general fun-having that’s ensued since Matt Kirkland’s project, Dracula Daily, caught on with us back in 2022. The Substack had already been running before then, but it sparked a conflagration as time went on and readers old and new to Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the actual novel, not Coppola’s fanfiction—devoured it in a way that scratched an itch none of us knew we had. Stoker wrote the book in epistolary fashion, clumping sections together as needed for the pacing without perfect adherence to chronological order. Matt went ahead and put all the events in order and proceeded to set up a lovely chain of emails that delivered entries on those correlating dates.
This style of organization and pacing turned out to not only make the virtual book club that much easier to engage with, but left space in-between to stew on the story and relate with the characters themselves. Every day of waiting in the book feels weightier when you have to pace and sweat and worry in tandem with poor Jonathan trapped in the castle or Lucy wasting away or Mina running out the clock before she loses the fight for her own humanity. And while we sat with the story or the lulls between Dracula Seasons, some of us found ourselves craving more of that ghastly gothic horror goodness to the point that we figured:
“Well. Why don’t I make something?”
And then we did! Tons of creative works have been churned out in the wake of Dracula Daily’s high. I figured that while we’ve still got a bit of time to wait for May 3rd, we should check out all this new stuff in the meantime. (Plus a handful of neat stuff that just clicks with the Dracula itch overall.)
So, in the interest of Dracula Season pregaming, let’s take a look at…
FICTION
Blood of My Blood – A recent addition to the Dracula Bad Ending AU pile, and definitely one of the most harrowing and addictive group-produced narratives I’ve ever come across, Blood of My Blood is the dramatically gothic currently-WIP work of @ibrithir-was-here and @animate-mush’s devious design. Give or take a heap of other fascinated folks (hello!) adding ideas to put more Horror into the Horrors that our cast has to face. The premise:
The Transylvanian climax went fatally sour and the Harkers were forced to shelter with Dracula himself, including their half-vampire son, Quincey. Cut to two decades later, and Quincey finds himself out in modern London, smitten with Lu, adopted daughter of Arthur and Jack, and diving into certain bloodstained old documents that detail the real history of how his parents came to live in the castle. Said revelations coming not a moment too soon, as a storm is coming for him straight from the Carpathians…
Dracula Daily Sketch Collection – An array of illustrations that captures every entry beat by beat, the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection by Georgia Cook, alias @georgiacooked was dished out over the course of the last Dracula Season. Some of the most fun character designs out there.
Fanfiction Spotlight: BlueCatWriter – With a whopping 99 works devoted to the novel Dracula (so far, the number may have gone up since I blinked), @bluecatwriter is one of the most prolific and talented fanfiction scribblers out there. Romances, nightmares, and overlaps between the two seem to crop up the most, give or take a crossover. Seems fitting that those blue paw prints have contributed to BoMB too.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk – An ongoing comic in which all your favorite characters from the Classics section get together and tackle some perils ranging from the mundane to the monstrous. Started by the amazing @mayhemchicken and posted on @lxgentlefolkcomic, this series is a love letter to beloved Victorian era lit, with a spotlight on the two couples leading the League. Namely, the Harkers, ala Dracula, and the Nortons, ala Sherlock Holmes,’ “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Mina and Irene are the driving investigative and steering forces here, and still deeply in love with their likewise-infatuated husbands, just like in their canons! What a concept! Alan.
Without spoiling the full character list, just know there are going to be a ton of familiar faces roaming around before you finish reading the first arc. Said arc having conveniently wrapped up just a few days ago! Give the comic and its bonus silliness a look if you’re in the mood for a new comfort-adventure epic.
Re: Dracula – Probably the most well-known and incredible thing to come out of the initial Dracula Daily wave. This podcast is a full audio drama that follows the same format as the Substack, with episodes coming out in time with the entries themselves. And it has an unfairly cool soundtrack. They have a Tumblr with @re-dracula, a site and a Patreon to check out before the series kicks up again on May 3rd. (Also, keep an eye out for their next work, an audio drama in the same style with Carmilla.)
The Soldier and the Solicitor – Another treat from @ibrithir-was-here, this one involves a bit of time travel trouble. Quincey Harker has stumbled out of World War I and into the same dark forest where his father once fled for his life…then runs into the man himself, on that same night. Jonathan Harker, young and starved and lost, who has no choice but to trust this stranger while the Weird Sisters are at his heels…despite said stranger having no shadow. It’s a tasty emotional trek, already complete on Tumblr, but now it’s turning into a Webtoon. While Ibrithir is juggling a number of other stories, she’ll be redrawing spruced up versions of the comic and adding a few new scenes as things unfold.
Substack Stack – You know what’s better than one emailed-out public domain book club? A mountain of them. Just. So, so many of them. You’ll see that a lot of these are finished, but some are still ticking along. Either way, they’re all great picks if you’re craving some more old school lit to fill the void between undead emails.
Frankenstein Weekly – Frankenstein
Jekyll and Hyde Weekly – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Voyage of the Nautilus – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Letters from Watson – Sherlock Holmes
The Invisible Mail – The Invisible Man
Letters from Bunny – E.W. Hornung’s short stories of the eponymous Bunny and Raffles
Letters Regarding Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster short stories, including the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves
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…The Beetle Weekly – The Beetle (NOTE: Do Not Read This.)
The Vampyres – A novella I finally wrenched through the gears of self-publication as of March this year. Starring a petite but powerful paranormal cast, The Vampyres, centers on an unscrupulous undead fellow who finds that the revenants of the world are being mowed down by an entity known only as ‘Quinn Morse.’ Between trying to save his neck and figure out where the shadowy bastard came from, the Vampyre in question crosses paths with a new paramour and handy human shield in the form of a grieving Good Samaritan. He’s even polite enough to invite the Vampyre into his home while he’s in dire straits! Surely this will end well. All the info is available here and a little author site is over here.
What Manner of Man – This is the one made for everyone who started out hoping there’d be a real love story with our good friend Jonathan Harker and the Count when he was at his most charismatic. Where that sea of wonders dried up into a mire of horror, What Manner of Man by @stjohnstarling keeps things firmly on the romantic tracks. This Substack stars the letter-writing priest Father Victor E. Ardelian as he finds himself meeting with one enigmatic Lord Alistair Vane. It isn’t long before interest turns into intrigue and intrigue into undead intimacies.
The entire novel has been completed—along with multiple epilogues in the author’s Patreon, allowing readers to choose for themselves just how the uncanny romance plays out in the end—and the Substack now has a number of other gothic goodies piling up in the meantime.
NONFICTION
Dracula Daily: A Unique Reading Experience: This one comes courtesy of @realwomenofgaming. It’s a short and sweet piece that amounts to a fun snapshot of the entire Dracula Daily ride. A cozy couple-minute read.
‘Dracula Daily’ is the One Substack You Need a Subscription To: Features my favorite Matt Kirkland interview. @mattkirkland, if you’re still floating around on here, thank you for dispatching our vampire newsletter again this year.
Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Alright, the ‘new’ part is worn out by now, but this one is still a delightful article to swing back around to. Two years on, this Polygon piece is a time capsule of those early months when people outside our bookworm bubble realized we were all happily receiving letters from our favorite classic gothic horror blorbos.
“How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” – Princess Weekes, if you ever read this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am sending oceans of love and millions of rewatches to your video essay. If you haven’t seen it yet, “How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” is one of the most refreshing and well-made breakdowns of both the title subject and numerous other issues that have proliferated in the public view of Dracula’s cast and plot as adaptations endlessly warp or outright bastardize the actual novel. An incredibly cathartic watch.
Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula: A mouthful of a title for an even more elaborate article about the Dracula Daily phenomenon. This one is a full-on study that analyzes just what happened within the big bloodsucker book club surge and how its ‘wandering reading practices’ enriched the experience for participants.
“The Undying Undead: An analysis of the Dracula Daily community for a theory of online community formation and interaction” – We have a thesis on here! Look at that! @sirangelothebestest’s MA thesis used our vampiric book club as the bones for a massive brick of an academic piece that definitely deserves a look.
…And I think I’ll go ahead and cap things here.
This isn’t everything I got recommended, but if I had squashed all of it in here, I think folks’ eyes would start to fall out of their head. I hope you can find something cool to comb through here. Or, if there’s something great I overlooked, tack it onto the list! We’ve got just two weeks to go until we’re off with Mr. Harker. Let’s enjoy our respite before those castle doors close behind us.
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IS THAT MORTHA FROM GODZILLER REFERENCE?!
Most of you aren't going to know, but has anyone noticed what the background symbol is yet
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Ok yeah I'm done with this series
Goodnight Irene
oh, thats zionist propaganda in my knuckles the echidna show
#knuckles spoilers#“but critter the third movie isn't even--”#buddy i have been trying to convince myself these movies could be good since the ugly sonic trailer#if the vibes are too off it's not worth it#well back to sonic x and the comics#sonic
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Well that and some of you probably aren't ready for the agnostic-friendly post-human cyberpunk origin story I'd use after over a decade of Prime selling us on robo-creationism/evolution
Shit, I don't know if I'M ready for that
I never got around to making Transformers AUs or fanfiction because every time I thought about what characters to use I got really bad decision paralysis
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I never got around to making Transformers AUs or fanfiction because every time I thought about what characters to use I got really bad decision paralysis
#ramblings of the critter#a series that constantly makes shit up to sell toys should not have this many cool characters!#I literally got back into ben 10 not long ago and had the opposite reaction#how do they do it???
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