This Is So Cute 🥹💕💕💕

I’ve been giggling at this for 5 minutes 😭😭

The absolute chaos these two involve themselves in is just outright beautiful LMAO

The piggy back ride, the serenading, and just Calamity and Tracy dancing 😭😭 (I’m still giggling while writing this)

I also love Maríanne just doing the splits on the Mississippi bridge like girl, no, you’re gonna fall 😭

The question remains…WHEN DID SHE LOSE HER PANTS? LMAO 😭😭

Oh.

✨DRUNKEN BIRTHDAY PARTY✨

A few sketches for @ahhhh-118 after Maríanne's invitation to drink some bunny hugs to celebrate Maura's birthday. x))

Featuring:

Rocky Rickaby and gorgeous Tracy J. Butler herself by @lackadaisycats

Maríanne Villanueva by @ahhhh-118

Unknown Creature by @aghostnamedcalamity

and Maura Venza by me 😁

I love your art style!! It reminds me of pages from illustrated books 🤩

🌊 Marlowe at the Beach 🌊 Wooooo I’m finally done drawing my Lackadaisy oc, Marlowe!! I’m super proud of this! <3

Thank you to all who interacted with the recent pages of “The Rattlesnake and the Jester” your comments are so sweet 🥹❤️

In the meantime, while I work on the next page, here are some doodles I made a while back of Rocky and Maríanne

(Forgot to add this on the recent pages but Rocky Rickaby belongs to Tracy Butler of the Lackadaisy series)

how are you!

Hello!!!! I’m doing pretty good! :D

Classes are going to start soon though, so that’s going to be a bigger pain the butt 😭😭 but it’ll be fine, hopefully 🥲

How are you??? :D

Happy birthday to River!!! Also i don’t think we should trust his brother to bake anymore ;-;

Today, River would be 121 years old!!🥳

Hey there.

I know this isn't mainly a social platform of writing, and if you don't care for reading my long-ass bullshit, you're free to scroll. But I was very eager to post here a summary of my Oc, Marjorie's Ford life since her birth to when she first joined the Marigold Gang, at least for that couple of people who will care enough to bother reading, since I've always left you in the dark about most of her past up until now. I will make a storyboard with actual drawings to make it more interesting to the eye at some point, but it'll take long, so for now, enjoy what I have to offer.

The recurring year is 1894, and yet another baby girl is born under the prosperous (not for too much longer) Kingdom of Italy. But not just any child, falling short of aristocracy in terms of wealth: daughter to the Opera singer Caterina Casiraghi (Ford) and the handsome but opportunist American notary who snatched the Italian beauty as soon as he saw her, Christian C. Ford. Second to nobody in her own home but her older brother, Malcom Ford, Marjorie was still spoiled and pampered from all sides, and for a while, they were happy. 

But of course it was too good to be true, and soon enough Christian's misdeeds came biting back to him, after a life time of biting more than he could chew: the notary and most of his official possessions burnt to ashes in a fire, and although the cause was officially concluded to be an accident, his family knew in their hearts it was nothing but arson: between what remained of the man's belongings, in fact, the wife found multiple letters of a minatory nature coming from some unspecified shady client of the man's, that he had evidently proceeded to ignore. The widow, left on her own with a man to bury and two children to raise,  had no choice but to roll up her sleeves, and the broken family spent the next six years of their lives incessantly hopping from place to place, partially for the matron's role she played in different courts across all Europe as a requested and appreciated soprano, partially to avoid meeting the same early end as the late father and husband may his killers spot them if they stop in a single place too long.

Such circumstances weren't the most normal for the youths to grow up in, and the siblings came out as... not any normal really: while the weight of responsibility hung on the eldest's shoulders, stuck in the role of the "man of the house" and becoming gloomier with each day, the younger could only long to receive that much attention. Daughter unsuitable of inheriting anything, too young to get married to another rich man, and with a voice too small to follow her mother's footsteps into the world of Opera, she soon veered towards theater, her frame, just as small as her voice, nimble and agile, her movements graceful, her scenic presence lovely as she had learnt to emulate from her mother. Still feeling the psychological pressure that was truly only inside her own head from being both female and the younger child, where she couldn't follow her mother's footsteps she instead followed her late father's, soon adopting less-than-savory methods to get ahead in her career, eliminating the competition before it even got the chance to become such.

All prestigious careers however have as much of a raise as they are doomed to have a fall, and in 1914, when the Great War officially broke out, the entertainment business collapsed, specially fields as frivolous as dancing and singing, and the next thing which dropped at dizzingly fast speeds was... the Ford Family's bank account.

The Ford widow, ever the loyal mother and wife, used the last funds she had to send her children to their fatherland America like many other immigrants of the time to seek luck and a better life, and we all can imagine what happened to her, next.

The sole survivors of the Ford Family, at this point aged respectively 21 and 23, were soon separated yet again, however: not any more than a few weeks after they had successfully disembarked in Mexico, in fact, the Italian government spotted them, demanding that Malcom  came immediately back to motherland to fight in the army along all other male, able-bodied Italian citizens of age. The boy, after a lifetime of accepting responsibilities, had it drilled into his very subconscious by this point to always answer the call of duty without question, and so he did one last time, taking leave from his sister and all the money they had left. He wrote his sister letters and send her more money for some time, directing them to Mexico City where he had left her. After a while however he stopped receiving answers from her altogether, an no sibling ever heard from the other ever since.

This is because Marjorie after some months of permanence in Mexico, working some gigs here and there, plus the money she was receiving from her brother, finally saw an opportunity to build a new life all for herself, where she would be the sun, the star of the scene, rather than a mere moon in the backlight of not one, but TWO suns in her case, both mother and brother. Having been a nomad all her life Marjorie never learnt to truly form bonds and emotional attachments to people, always knowing she'd lose them as soon as she had to move yet again; hence the loss of her mother and the betrayal she inflicted on her brother never weighted much on her mind, or so she tells herself. She traveled all the way up to Missouri, where she soon started working as a maid at a certain Maribel Hotel, where a "kind", if sorta odd fella by the name of Asa Sweet welcomed her in his den in exchange of a mere few favors which would cost Marjorie nothing but a constant smell of bleach on her person, due a variety of reasons, and the sanity she had already long lost anyways.

Opportunist sociopath born out of heritage, of circumstances and most importantly of the intrusive thoughts of inferiority inside her own head nobody ever bothered teaching her the strength to fend off, the rest is history.

MARÍ MENTIONEDDDD SHE LOOKS AMAZING!!! ❤️

THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ME AND CONGRATULATIONS ON 50 FOLLOWERS DUDE!!!!

50 Followers! Part 2: Traditional Edition

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Y'all have really cool OCs fr🐐🐐🐐

Ernest Stanley - @kablamoo7

Lucille Carlton - @randomgirldraws

Marianne Villanueva - @ahhhh-118

Luc Rossi - @tohot4u

Åse "Ace" Olaug Årud - @acesandocs

Calliope "Calli" Cairns - @spiky-berry21

Cassie - @funfairsundaes

Aisling "Ash" Mayfield - @annlytical

Do you have any Amber backstory or lore you'd like to share? np if not. im just really curious about her :3

Hellooo!! I do have a backstory for her in mind, but I was so lazy (again) to write anything on a paper and just basically revise everything mentally. Her backstory isn't final btw but I can share some bits with you.

Since Amber was adopted, of course she has biological parents lmao but that was the other topic for her lore.

Amber was originally named Mayumi Sanchez and was born on September 21, 1902 in Sonora, Mexico. She and her parents left the country and decided to live in Oklahoma for a new life.

(I searched the Mexican History just so her lore will makes sense, but I also make sure to not get too political here huhu. I may not be a Mexican, but their history feeds my curiosity so BAHAHAHAH)

As they landed on Oklahoma, everything went well. They got a house to shelter on, and enough money for their necessities. That is until Amber have to stop studying at school due to financial problems. Her father had to find a better job with a decent salary, yet it was difficult for him to find one. On the other hand, her mother stayed on their house to look after her. Her mother was actually a teacher back in the Philippines so she teaches Amber more things (useful or practical ones!).

A tragedy fell on the Sanchez family when a fire spread inside their house. Not sure how it happened or where it started, but Amber managed to survive. Unfortunately, her parents didn't make it (rest their souls), and Amber ended up being an orphan after that. Amber had a blurry memory of that tradegy until she remembers it again in the main plot (which is another different story).

Amber stayed at one of the orphanages in Oklahoma in around a few months before she was adopted. In her experiences in those months, she didn't have a good time, but that doesn't mean she had a bad time either. She hated the food there, as she can describe them as "stale with a hint of metal", and she missed her mother's dishes. She made some friends but there are some bullies too. There is this one girl who grabbed the scissors and just cut Amber's hair just because she is "weird". Don't worry, she fought back.

AHHHHH did an outfit swap with the amazing @acesandocs

But with a slight cultural twist! These dresses and our OCs ARE SO DAMN PRETTY, (although the flowers and lace were a pain to draw)

It was really great to be a part of this collaboration Eddit!! Thank you for allowing me to do this with you! I always love a new challenge that will test my skills!! ❤️❤️

I STILL CAN’T GET OVER HOW PRETTY ÅSE LOOKS IN MARÍ’S DRESS 🥹🥹❤️

Birthday boy!! Also he looks mortified LMAOO 😭😭

Happy birthday to my favorite morally ambiguous cat!

March 28, 1899 🥳