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"Doggy?"
"Yes, kitty?!"
"Wot do you think we'll be when we get older? :3"
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Smaller bodies is almost one year old!!
oh boy how have my babies changed
Okay uhhh kitty. kitty. um. you. you will be. a cult leader. and convicted murderer. and also a girl. cult girl. cult
And dogday. You. You are. A not-so-happy little performer. and a Christian. who sings Barry Manilow. and is friends with EVERYONE. and has meltdowns in the toilet
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT 🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🌈💖🦄🐬🎀🌸🐬
Train Trip is compete! ✨☀️💰
PLOT: The Smiling Critters must arrive at the Playtime Theatre in the same train car as the Nightmare Critters, with whom they’ve never met. Can they get along?
Next fic: Acid Splash! 💚🍏☎️
Here’s a note that’s most for myself but if you’re interested you can read too!
DORM ALLOCATIONS
Crafty + Baba
Icky + Poe
Rabie + Bobby
Allister + Touille
Maggie + Picky
Kickin + Bubba
OUTLIERS:
Hoppy
Simon
Dogday
Them.
New tumblr header. :)
(Spoilers for Smaller Bodies; no spoilers for Destroy-A-Toy)
For anyone new to the AU, this is Queen Catnap, Dogday, Ollie and Theodore. Here’s a brief description of each one.
Queen Kitty was the first Catnap. Autistic and transgender, she was built with a knockout gas tank in her lungs. Her anger towards PlayCo mounted and she attacked them. She was sent to be killed but instead built a cult following with the other “destroyed” toys.
Dogday is the Smiling Critters’ leader who loves routine and pushes the entire orphanage forward each day. He believes Kitty was killed - he doesn’t know about the cult - and mourns her everyday through prayer and reciting loving memories. He’d get rather a shock when he finds out the truth.
Ollie Playtime is the company’s Security and Comms head. They also control medical supplies, file management and company censorship. They were taken from home and experimented on at 14, and now at 18, they’re using the experimentation blackmail to climb the company’s ranks and gain power.
Theodore Grambell is a tiny child adopted with the sole purpose of experimentation. He never played with the other kids or smiled like they did. For someone so young, he feels lost, empty. He was never given a chance to grow up. He may be sentenced to death soon but for what little life he had, he’s doing to make sure he’s remembered.
They’re my four favourite Smaller Bodies/Destroy-A-Toy characters :)
~🌘☀️🐬🌒~
I reached 150 followers recently!
Huge gracias to anyone following the AU. I’m so grateful to finally be confident enough to share my things <3
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, CRITTER CREW!!
GOOD MORNING!!!!!
Asking because originally it was going to be under A Grand Announcement, but it feels like it could work as a standalone. Also people found me originally through goofy Smiling Critter one-shots and this is the closest to that!
So basically
Would you prefer
Finding it as the third chapter in A Grand Announcement (makes more story sense) OR
Finding it as a one-shot (much more accessible, easy to find, and more open instead of having to search through chapters)
I know I can take ten years to write but THIS chapter is something I’m excited for!!
Chapter 2’s out! 👹👹👹
PLOT: KickinChicken is worried about the Toy Tour because he doesn’t think he can perform right.
That’s a bigger problem than he thinks…
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NEXT OPERATION!!!!
Get the Smiling Critters on the train
Force them into a compartment with the Nightmare Critters
Mass discomfort
Here’s the plan!!!
Get idiots ready for the Toy Tour, reasonably hyped
Slam-dunk them onto the train
Introduce the nightmare critters - they’re forced to share a train carriage
Make the critters go “:0” as they’re given rooms while Dogday shits himself because he can’t sleep beside BigNap
Introduction to Ollie and the realisation they’ve turned into a dictator
Grand dinner night and the official announcement of the start of training
Slow realisation that the Toy Tour is rigorously controlled
Mass panic, leading to threats of Destroy-A-Toy
The Tour is now a concentration camp where anyone who objects is killed or threatened
Optional additional ideas:
Someone’s poisoned at the dinner party
Ollie teaches the other toys about things like racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia etc and they’re all horrified because these toys have never seen those concepts before (at least, not that they’re aware of)
Dogday makes friends with Infox, who is @thattiredgamer’s OC; Kather, who is @i-am-in-the-mind-fuck’s OC, and SourTail, who is @bazyboo13’s OC
Possibly a snippet or mention of the cult. You’re not meant to know Destroy-A-Toy’s being ruled by the kitty queen, but for those already in the know it would be great foreshadowing!
Teach the toys the Footloose dance because it would be really funny as a training exercise
The above are the things I gotta do forrrrr this series!
May be shabby now but I’ve got the plans! Stories take time! Especially since this is more an original fic instead of a what-if :)
DESTROY-A-TOY STARTS!!!
Three chapters building up to the Toy Tour and the nightmares associated with it!
If all goes well, lotso money for the company!
If all doesn't, well... chuck 'em in the crusher.
(Btw pssst pssst you should totally join my discord server, I ramble lots there)
Introducing loficrafty
So this is logi crafty this little thing took about 18 hours and 50 minutes to make over a pireod of a month and a half because of work, medical reason and other things happening in my life
This was inspired by Lofi girl and Lofi boy because I saw Lofi girl wrighting and it gave me craftycorn vibes
@qibsichan help me making this little goober because I don’t know how to do lighting and help me figure out how to do things correctly because even though I use Ibispaint I’m still learning how to use it because I’m not big brained
Here some behind the sceans work of this work there is small changes you can pick out and tumbler won’t let me post pass 10 pics to show the rest of it but thanks to @qibsichan again for helping and teaching me though ibispaint to make this good
DESTROY-A-TOY POLL!!! WRITING IS COOKING!!!!!
Here’s my idea. The Nightmare Critters represent how the world outside has changed, and how Dogday struggles to cope with change as a whole. Both sets of Critters are forced into a train ride together and DO NOT get along.
I’ll wait for all eight to be revealed, but so far, my plan is that Simon, Rabie and Poe would act as the boss’s spies. ESPECIALLY Rabie. She’s why the boss knows everything about everyone, plus the boss’s own investigations.
So either, they’re just another toy type who gets prosecuted or they play a SIGNIFICANT role.
GO GO GO VOTE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!
Happy Spooky Month! 🔮✨🪄
Here’s Celestial Witch Catnap! ✨
She wanted to be a goddess, but that wouldn’t be a dress up because she already is one! 💜
She’s based on the Royale High Whimsy Witch set with the Nightmare Witch hat!
May you have a wonderful spooky month! 💜✨🔮
Hey man, what’s up, man? ⭐️💛⭐️
Here he is!
Now he and Dogday can match!
OKAY HEAR ME OUT.
Smiling Critters x the Octonauts
GIGAMEOWER.
No text:
Silly boy!
He’s so very floomp!
The sun bandana is canon now :D
Meet Fufu! 🌸🌳
PENDANT - Sakura tree
SCENT - cherry blossom
Meeeet Fufu! She’s an early CraftyCorn - before the mythical species was changed from kitsune to unicorn. Favourite thing is that she doesn’t have a coloured belly - just like CraftyCorn!
VERY early concept Smiling Critter - different eyes, for one. They brought her to life but never let her out to Playcare. She had outlived her… “use”. She split into Bobby Bearhug and CraftyCorn.
Sweet and gentle, never wants to cause harm… until she knocked over a test tube and the whole lab went up.
Her home is in Destroy-A-Toy now with the other rejects! ❤️
This is a smiling critter version of Fufu that @qibsichan put in her AU Smaller bodies that she made a well made fan base
This version of fufu base off the Kitsune form with there own law in @qibsichan story so if you want a good story and a bunch of law check out her work on A03
Hey, Smaller Bodies! <3
Writing dilemma! Working on Destroy-A-Toy's first installment. The problem is that it takes place in 1991 while the fic is meant to take place in 1995.
Smaller Bodies = 1991
Destroy-A-Toy = 1995
Yet the first DAT fic is in 1991. I'm considering making it a flashback, sharply jumping at the very end to a paragraph break with Dogday sighing and thinking back at how the chapter happened 'four years ago'. The only problem with THAT is there are two more fics planned that also deal with the repercussions of what happened in 1991.
Three first DAT fics:
YOU, UH... YOU'RE DIFFERENT
PAINTING SUNS!
BABY STEPS!
First one introduces a new character, the second one explains why Dogday's bandana has suns on it (since in the written works it's just been plain yellow) and the third one goes over KickinChicken's blindness. After these three "worldbuilding" fics, the ultimate 1995 plot begins.
This is a problem for me because it doesn't roll with the strict time jump... unless it's three consecutive flashbacks. Call me a writing nerd but that seems like a weak excuse to me. Maybe I'm nitpicking, feel free to call me out for being too particular with the way I write...
Would you guys mind if the first three fics touch base on the Sugar Breath aftermath?
I wish you could do more than one poll because I ALSO have to ask if you'd prefer this as a flashback or not.
Please comment/reply! Thank you! <3
Found it!
@nebu-lime They’re watching Lady and the Tramp! Shh, don’t disturb them…
A DTIYS (draw this in your style)!
To celebrate passing 500 followers both on here and on my Twitter, I’ve decided to try my hand at hosting one of these!
I’ve always wanted to do this, so I decided that now is the best time! Feel free to join! I:d be happy if even one person took part-
[POSTED ON TWITTER HERE]
@wafel1160 @the-smiling-doodler @nathaniel-prime098-blog @sailorjules26 @qibsichan
Impulsive urge to make a mass post of lgbt headcanons for Smaller Bodies characters that contributes nothing to the plot but a chance to relate to certain characters 👍
I CRAVE PROJECTION 👹
Sexualities, genders and MBTIs let’s goo!!
Critters 🌈
Bobby: ESFP, female, lesbian
Dogday: ENFJ, male, pansexual
Kickin: ESTP, male, straight
Hoppy: ESTP, female, lesbian
Crafty: INFP, female, bisexual
Bubba: INTP, demiboy, aroace
Catnap: INFP, transfem, bisexual
Picky: ISTP, demigirl, asexual
Rest of the Gang 🌈
Theodore/BigNap: INTJ, agender, N/A
Ollie: ENFP, non-binary, bisexual
Miss Delight: ISTJ, female, asexual
Every Teacher That Isn’t Miss Delight: ESFJ, female, straight
Poppy: ESFP, female, N/A
(Theo is 7 and Poppy is 6-10, neither of them are getting sexualities.)
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I want to make a silly goofy comic with Ollie where it’s like
“I like this (🐶)
And I like this (🐱)!
Which one am I?
Idfk 💅😍✨👑🧚🩰”
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I’m a lesbian ENFP so… *steals Bobby/Hoppy and Ollie*
You never asked for this post but here you go!
“I POSSESS A QUESTION, ONE ASKED OF MY PEOPLE. I AM BLESSED TO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO LIFE SURROUNDED NOT BY HERETICAL HUMANS BUT BY THESE "SMALLER BODIES". THEY HAVE WELCOMED ME TO THEIR QUARTERS.”
There's a new toy on board! Introducing BigNap! (Unless a more eloquent name is suggested!)
Sarificed for research and condemned to an unsustainable body, Theodore Grambell's old body has melted away at the hands of Miss Delight and Harley Sawyer. His mind has been reignited in a different vessel - one twelve feet tall and with the power to tear a school bus in half.
But it's alright, because while BigNap may be vengeful and venomous, he's quite the dear little kitty to those dang Smaller Bodies in the Playcare.
So much so that he's introduced in the very first chapter of Destroy-A-Toy! It's underway!
Now, Bigger Bodies Catnap's question is:
(He asks because his debut is in the very first story for DAT and therefore his formatting must be worked out.)
How This Creature Works
Big Catnap, as colloquially named by the Critters, children and teachers of the Playcare, is the new-and-improved replacement for that old, faulty thing who cried too much. He is twelve feet tall and an absolute tank - if you ignore the protruding ribcage and ominous growling stomach.
Appearance
The same as the Catnap found in the original Poppy Playtime. Big Catnap is a large, scrawny creature with a protruding spinal chord and disconcerting slices of ribcage jutting from his paper-thin skin. His eyes are minuscule and set deep into mouth-like sockets. His fur is abyssal-dark felt soft to the touch.
Deep inside his throat, if one were to look, pipes could be found. Who knows what they produce?
Personality
Quiet, docile and allegedly "friend-shaped" (according to my friend Foxfire), this Catnap looks like he can kill you but is in fact a cinnamon roll. At least, to people he likes. Otherwise you can expect yourself to be on the plate.
BigNap is possessive over the Playcare children and loving towards toy experiments - but has a VERY strong hostility to humans. This is an issue because of the upcoming Toy Tour…
Theodore gasses the children not out of obligation but out of concern for their health and sleep.
Biology
A creature of this size requires LOTS of food. The problem is - he isn’t given the correct amount. Why drain resources for an experiment that may not survive anyway? As such, Big Catnap is constantly just one bite off from a full belly.
His tank possesses MUCH greater quantities of poppy gas - however, it’s watered down. The gas:
Takes up to 10 minutes to knock out children and 30 for adults
Does not leach oxygen
Works slowly but surely to lull the victim to sleep
This is NOT how Smaller Bodies Catnap works. Her smoke is quick-working and oppressive while this Catnap works much more as a calm, steady, peaceful lull to sleep.
-🌟🌙✨-
Smol meower 🥺🥺🥺 stinky 🥺🥺🥺
Version 2!
YOU 🫵🫵🫵 are loved! And I’ll beat up anyone who says otherwise.
+smoke:
Meet Catnap's new glorious design - the ✨ Goddess ✨ Kitty!
She is quite literally perceived as a supernatural being. The queen herself! <3
Kitty’s Lullaby 🌙🎶
An original song by me :)
Catnap’s character theme from Smaller Bodies!
🔥🔨 Destroy-A-Toy Critters Mindmap
After Catnap was taken away, the Critters were never the same…
🔴❤️ Bobby Bearhug 🔴❤️
Claustrophobic and terrified of the dark
Always stays with at least one person; can’t handle being alone
Dating CraftyCorn
Frequently bursts into tears when reminded of traumatic events
🟠☀️ Dogday 🟠☀️
Deeply broken after Catnap’s disappearance
Believes that she has been murdered
Doesn’t smile, doesn’t even bother
Will defend the Critters with his life but will not defend himself
🟡⭐️ KickinChicken 🟡⭐️
Blind (one eye gouged out, the other not functioning)
Wears sunglasses 24/7 to hide his eyes
Not self-confident; fragile and traumatised
Jealous and nervous around able-bodied people
🟢⚡️ Hoppy Hopscotch 🟢⚡️
Paranoid and claustrophobic
Swears that she saw Catnap dragging a body
Sticks to Kickin constantly and helps him walk
Wants to bodybuild and learn self-defence
🩵🌺 CraftyCorn 🩵🌺
Still very anxious
Dating Bobby, sticks to her like glue
Defends Catnap’s memory but will break down in tears
Sticks to only painting happy things, avoids the memories of the fire
🔵💡 Bubba Bubbaphant 🔵💡
Constantly anxious
Paranoid that people are expecting him to do things he can’t do
Finds it difficult to concentrate and calm down
Often found alone frantically cramming knowledge in case he “needs” it
🩷🍎 PickyPiggy 🩷🍎
The only one who seems mostly unscathed
Nervous around using fire in the kitchen
Brings up her admiration for Catnap in casual conversation
Sometimes forgets that the incident even happened
And finally…
🟣🌙 Catnap 🟣🌙
Completely separated from the other Smiling Critters
No longer considers herself as part of them
Aches when thinking of Dogday and therefore tries to distract herself
Anxiety is gone
What happened?
Well, my friend.
This:
To summarise, Catnap no longer cares about keeping her violence a secret, and she punishes the entire Home Sweet Home dormitory for it…
❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙❌🩷
(This is legitimately super fun to write and I’m really happy with it :D)
✨💜Femcat!!
Second chapter comes out today and features this art :)
I know she doesn’t have clothes (YET) but she does in this drawing!!