Vernon: Sweet sawgrass son...y'all are firin' such a scattershot in terms of who yer lookin' to answer questions I'm thinkin' we're gonna need to rent a stadium just to get all the answers...*Chuckles* Might as well just ask the city at this point.
Dawn: *Pats Vernon's paw affectionately* Puppy, be nice...
Vernon: I am, I'm just kiddin'...*Laughs*
Dawn: Anyway, we were happy to answer your questions. We do our best to try and answer everyone who messages us to the best of our abilities, and your line of questions about your work and writing plans has been particularly engaging.
Gus: Especially to those of us who are...well...
Melanie: Nerds. *Snickers*
Gus: Right, I was looking for a nicer term there...but...eh. *Shrugs*
Dawn: That said, we'll probably keep this question strictly among us Ruminerds, for convenience and simplicities sake.
Vernon: So with that cleared up, we'll answer yer new question...
Dawn: Well first off I want to compliment his character design. It's a really cool mashup of elements from those characters...
Broomie: I ain't gonna complain...I loved Hellboar and Savage Dragon...Also got a little Etrigan the Demon vibes off of your design.
Gus: Going for the deep cuts huh? *Chuckles*
Broomie: Entrigan the Demon is not a deep cut...the dudes showed up in cartoons...he's not 'the brick wall', 'Egg Fur', or gods tremble, 'Snowfang'...
Joel: Isn't that the cat who got his powers by doing like toad drops...or coca leaves?
Broomie: Coca leaves. Yeah, he got high and fought crime...it's nuts...
Joel: At least none of those are dabbling in out there fetish territory, which I would probably stress you shouldn't even dip your hooves-I mean-paws, into that kind of territory even as a gag.
Gus: You talking about the blueberry thing?
Joel: *nods briskly* Trust me, you don't want to open that door even a crack, lest all the weirdos will come out of the woodwork with requests...
Megumi: Takes a pervert to know a pervert huh? *Giggles*
Vernon: No, Joel is speakin' from experience...I remember him fallin' down a 3D modelin' rabbit hole involvin' those folks with a Wonkat Blueberry fetish.
Megumi: *Surprised, glances at Joel* Woah, what is this?
Joel: *Snorts* I was young, I wasn't familiar with the idea that literally any weird thing could be a fetish and someone wanted a model of their character as a blueberry ball like in the movie...
Gus: And he took the job thinking it was just for a gag...
Joel: Once it went out on my work pages, all the weirdos started skittering out of the shadows asking me for increasingly twisted fetish models. *Spits and snorts in clear irritation*
Gus: Hey Joel! C'mon Mam' we talked about the spitting! At least use a damn cup!
Joel: Sorry, sorry! I just still get heated thinking about it...Anyway, about three commissions in I discovered the fetish and it made my wool feel like it was crawling with nits...I had to shut my store for a while, crop up a list of 'I won't do this' catch-alls for my commission page and wait until the messages trickled to nothing before starting to work again...
Broomie: I'm surprised you have standards...*Chuckles*
Joel: Hey, I specialize in cake and giant robots, things you can actually rut and cool stuff...that other stuff is too far even for me...though I will admit some of the offers were tempting...were talking triple or even quadruple my usual rate...and this is back when I was seventeen...
Vernon: But ya didn't?
Joel: I wasn't sure if I'd ever be able to feel clean again if I went down that path...
Megumi: Well...relative clean-ness yes?
Vernon: Anywho...er...I'm not sure what I'd suggest...my mind first went to like...creatures outta fables but I thought that might be too... close to that comic series from a little while ago...
Broomie: Wolf Among Us?
Vernon: That's the one!
Joel: Tulpa-ish things would be cool...although I guess that's borderline what your other book is...
Gus: Tulpa?
Joel: Something you imagine that becomes real...
Gus: Ah...
Gus: How about aliens...but specifically the aliens that all the abduction stories are about...the greens.
Joel: Oh yeah, but like specifically not outer space aliens, but our weird perception of them...right down to being obsessed with rectal probing.
Melanie: I feel like that's drifting back into fictive territory. *chuckles* And fetish territory for that matter.
Dawn: Shadowmammals, pelt wearers, maybe creatures that see themselves as ancient gods...but it's questionable as to whether or not they are or were...
Vernon: Those all sorta border on cryptids, don't they?
Dawn: True, true...Mutton chops! this is harder than I thought it would be.
Gus: Oh, continuing that theme...how about all the terrible knockoff cryptids that we see as obvious fakes...Like the Mawlaysian mermaid, the fur trout, or even the Jackalope.
Joel: The Lepridchaun, but looking exactly like the amateur sketch from that one meme...
Gus: Right!
Melanie: *Giggles* That'd be hilarious, like some sort of cryptid island of misfit toys...
Broomie: You could also throw in some stuff in the vein of those SCP things...not direct copies, but stuff inspired by them.
Dawn: Ohh, those are fascinating...Edi got me to read quite a few of them and I'm honestly tempted to throw my own entry in and see if it would get approved...Anonymously of course.
Broomie: Why anonymously?
Dawn: I'd like to get approved or denied on the story's merits alone, and not by name. at the very least it's a good way to take a stab at some sci-fi horror and see how it is received.
Joel: How bout...randomly animate objects...?
Gus: What do you mean?
Joel: Well, you know how mammals lose all sorts of small stuff, like sole pads and keychains and so on...historically that stuff has been attributed to like...borrowers. But what if it was just cases of literally someone's left sole pad coming to life for no reason and running off?
Megumi: That's actually a good one I think. Very creative!
Vernon: A good one to end on too I think...we've been chatterin' about this fer a while, and the longer this goes on, the longer my Honey Lamb's gotta play stenographer.
Melanie: I still don't know how you manage to type so fast Dawn...it's practically blinding...
Dawn: *Giggles* I am a ewe who wears many hats.
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