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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #90 on: October 22, 2023, 07:02:38 AM »
The seagulls remind me of the time I was at the shore in Florida.  There were signs all over the place stating the seagulls were very aggressive from humans feeding them.  They pretty much said don't and keep your food protected.  Many of the food places that had outside dining were encased in screens.

I bought something and was being careful eating it (Keeping my arm over my mouth and the food close to me.  )  This bird managed to grab it out of my hand and flew off.  The bird had to do a barrel roll maneuver to get at the food, and he did it without me feeling it.

The bird then was on a telephone pole finishing my lunch and flapping its wings laughing at me..

Heh, yes, the picture was inspired from very similar experiences I or people I know had this year with seagulls... :D

Those are beautiful Haikus!
Jitter, even if they don´t follow all the rules (wait there´s more rules than the syllables-thing?), they seem so perfectly crafted to bring across exactly what you mean. Now that I (sort of) tried my hand at them as well, I noticed how hard it actually is to contain a certain meaning into exactly the right amount of syllables...
Wave, your character-descriptions too! You were also counting words at the Sigrun-one, right? :.D

But wait, hold on... Baby foxes in the Cattank? What did I forget? o_O



I don´t want to post four images, this post would become way too long, so yesterday´s will be in the next batch.

18: ten jobs held by Mikkel Madsen

(I was dead-certain this prompt was "ten jobs Mikkel was fired from" :.D I only noticed when writing it down on the paper and checking the exact wording, but luckily it works either way)
This could be a prequel or sequel to my last drawing involving Mikkel. :)



19: 10 Haiku

I tried to write ten
but I´m just not a poet
I´ll just read along

I´ll just read along
see words turn into pictures
and draw them for you



I tried... :P Poetry is so much harder than prose for me. Pictures luckily aren´t bound by words.
Magic powers are inspired by those of the little prince in the 2010 show.

20: it´s been 10 years since I lost you

Spoiler: spoilers for How to train your Dragon II • show
In HttyD II, one thing that was glossed over too fast in my opinion was explaining why Valka didn´t just come back after being abducted by Cloudjumper and realizing he wasn´t hostile. After all, her son managed to convince the people of Berk that dragons aren´t evil. So perhaps she could have managed that too.
So I tried to explore her POV a bit with this. The struggle between leaving a family behind and returning to a place that disagrees with all your values and is very likely to kill the friends you have made. Having to prioritize your and their safety over taking a chance at trying to change things.


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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #91 on: October 22, 2023, 11:05:25 AM »
Mirasol, I really like those pages turning into a tree!

Here's one for today:

Ten cats?

Look, I love cats. I want cats. I know that we need cats.

But ten cats? You want to keep all of the kittens?

Yes, I know that they're cute. I know that they're purry. They're all over my lap right at the moment, aren't they? But .. Mama Cat, given the chance, ran outdoors, because she's had kittens all over her for nine weeks now, and she's had about enough of it. LittleTom has been half living at the neighbors', and he misses cuddling with Mama Cat. And Dover just stalked off in a huff, because the kittens are all over my lap, and she wanted her morning cuddle. We really can't properly pat ten cats. I don't even know, this year, whether we can properly feed ten cats --

And five of the seven kittens are female! How many kittens will we have next year, if we keep them all? I don't trust this "rune" thingy to work. Even if magic actually is real, now -- cats have their own magic, I'm sure.

No. No way. Not going to happen. We will keep one kitten. One, I tell you. There are people who have no cats in their houses, they're in danger! The kits will all have good homes, I promise you. You can even visit them and make sure, there's only a few hundred of us, we need to live close within the walls, we're all in and out of each others' houses. One kitten, we can keep; then we'll have four cats, which is plenty. One kitten. Only one.

 . . . maybe two . . .

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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #92 on: October 22, 2023, 12:41:36 PM »
Heh, yes, the picture was inspired from very similar experiences I or people I know had this year with seagulls... :D
Clever creatures!!
Those are beautiful Haikus!
Jitter, even if they don´t follow all the rules (wait there´s more rules than the syllables-thing?), t
Agreed.  I thought Haikus also was just a syllable thing.  I need to look it up...
But wait, hold on... Baby foxes in the Cattank? What did I forget? o_O

I thought the picture was on line somewhere, but it was in the end of book 4.  (The team was reminiscing about the cattank)

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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #93 on: October 22, 2023, 03:58:25 PM »
What! There’s actually canon fox den too? There’s also this:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/38686560/chapters/96725526
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #94 on: October 23, 2023, 02:17:36 AM »
I've gotten muddled up and missed 10 Cats?!?  I will make that one up, promise.

What I did do was the 10-minute fanart challenge, and managed ...3-1/2 characters!


Thank you for the memories of the foxes, both canon and fic.
thorny, somehow that cat situation sounds like it was taken from life, but gosh, have they not heard of spaying in Iceland? Or is it bad luck to spay/neuter in post-Rash society?
Mirasol, I love your haiku and appreciate that lovely image.  And as always, your Mikkel is his puckish best.
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #95 on: October 23, 2023, 08:11:04 AM »
That's set in the earlier years. I expect they've got more on their minds than making sure all the cats are spayed -- plus which, they've discovered that cats are a troll warning system, so they do want to increase the population so that everybody can have some.

And even if not, you need to let some cats get pregnant, or else well before year 90 there won't be any cats!

Also -- medical supplies, including anaesthetics, are most likely short. Everything's in short supply. A given community might not have a veterinary previously trained in surgery. And note the reference to anti-cat-pregnancy runes; possibly not trustworthy either because the humans aren't good at them yet, or because the cats' own will might override them.

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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #96 on: October 23, 2023, 08:46:08 AM »
22.  10 Cats

1. Magnus.  (Good Kitty Matchmaker :) )
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2. Pizza cat (Better than pizza rat!)
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3. Blessed Felines (So we know)
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4. Lalli and cat..(Because)
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Having a cat sleep on you when you don't feel good is awesome!!

5. Train cats (Keeping us safe)
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6. Bosse (The one and only!)
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7. MomCat (Protector to the end)
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8. Our Kitty
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9. Tapsa's Kitties (Unsung heros)
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10. Our Team (Because)
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Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them.

~ Gregory David Roberts

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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #97 on: October 23, 2023, 09:08:44 AM »
Nice!

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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #98 on: October 23, 2023, 11:45:12 AM »
A wonderful selection of cats!

Mirasol, Wave, lovely art!
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #99 on: October 23, 2023, 05:02:00 PM »
dmeck, that is the most best collection of cats!

May I humbly add to your list the crew's drawings of Kitty ?  Makes it 11 but then again, Kitty...
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #100 on: October 23, 2023, 05:06:29 PM »
dmeck, that is the most best collection of cats!

May I humbly add to your list the crew's drawings of Kitty ?  Makes it 11 but then again, Kitty...

Yes! Yes!  I forgot about that.  It can be part of kitty..
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #101 on: October 23, 2023, 05:42:18 PM »
Baby foxes!!! <3
And a nice reminder of all our kitties!



21: Top 10 favorite SSSS-characters

I also set myself a criteria and made that 10 human characters, mostly because I knew I´d be drawing cats the next day. Thanks to the character-smackdowns I have all of them present right now too! :D
Not in any order except for who I thought fit thematically together in some way.



(read the stuff in italics as one continuous explanation. :V I apologize for whatever this formatting is...)

1: Väinö Väänänen: Seagulls are terrifying in their own right, which only makes this character more fun in my opinion.
2: Captain Ása: I don´t know what you did, but that right there is a story to be told.
3: Emil: tbh I don´t really have a good reason why I like most of these characters. For Emil it´s probably his pretty fleshed out character arc in A1? But that applies to pretty much the whole crew and he was already one of my favorite characters when he was still a douchebag.
4: Sigrun: I mean, just check my signature.
5: Lalli: Especially with the crew, I think I just got really attached to them all.
6: Signe Sorenson: yes, she is putting salt into some annoying customer´s tea right now.
7: Aino Hotakainen: One completely normal person being railroaded into an apocalypse movie and not happy about it. She somehow really grounds this story into reality for me.
8: the terrible trio: they´re just funny. :)
9: Tuuri: And I mean, they´re written to be likable, so there´s really something I relate to with all of them.
10: Reynir: I can´t really pinpoint what it is but it´s there.

22: 10 cats

In this one our Kitty gets some new recruits of a bunch of famous cartoon cats (and some less famous ones I just like). And how I would grade them.



2: Cake the Cat from Adventure Time/Fionna and Cake: Grade A. I´ve watched this one bite off the heads of vampires, she can kill trolls.
3: Winston from "Winston, Agent auf leisen Pfoten": Grade B. Winston is from a German children´s book series. He is on this list because I like the way the covers of those books are illustrated and I wanted to try and immitate it. He´s a spoilt house-cat that thinks himself a James-Bond-level secret agent. Since he´s actually pretty successful at solving crime, he gets to be grade B. He´d be grade A, but he´s a pacifist.
4: Meowth from Pokémon: Grade A. I didn´t watch that much Pokémon growing up, but Meowth struck me as pretty much the most competent member of team Rocket, and I didn´t want Cake to be the only Grade A cat on this list...
5 & 6: Tom from Tom and Jerry and Silvester from Looney Tunes: both Grade B. They´re very good at finding what they want to catch, but absolutely abysmal at catching it.
7: Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes: Grade C. He´s only interested in catching one thing, and that is Calvin. He´s... also a stuffed animal.
8: Garfield from, well, Garfield: Grade C. He probably views being a Grade C cat not only as a full-time-job, but as an artform that he has perfected. Believes he has been granted immunity so he never has to do anything.
9 & 10: Judd and lil´ Judd from Splatoon: Grade C/not yet graded. These two are the last living cats in their story, having survived its respective apocalypse. However, because their owner put them into a cryostasis-pod to save them, not by themselves. They´re now spending their time judging who won in matches and giving tips to newbies, not getting involved into politics. Judd is very much a cat to be a companion.  Little Judd on the other hand. Well, he´s still to young to be graded. But there is a sense of bloodlust in his eyes in my opinion.
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #102 on: October 23, 2023, 06:58:21 PM »
Mirasol,

Love love them

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Tom and Jerry is Hanna and Barbera.
Sylvester is Looney Toons

Sorry.  I love my cartoons..
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Re: YoinkTober 2023 - Tenth Anniversary Edition
« Reply #103 on: October 23, 2023, 07:22:26 PM »
Wow, a double dose of Mirasol goodness, and oi[wherpibjbvnweph7q0873 Hobbes is here?!! And Tom and Sthylvesther omg omg
I am going to have to rethink my own 10 cats submission, I was just going to do my local cat cafe ones, but I couldn't go this last weekend as I'd planned.  Now I have more grist for the mental mill.  I may extend the repertoire of fictional cats...

In other news, Signe is whistling, like you often draw Mikkel doing! Gosh, your portraits are so spot-on.
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« Reply #104 on: October 24, 2023, 05:22:37 AM »
Day 24 - Top 10 SSSS pages

Hoo boy.  It's 12 pages, 2 of which I will not use.  I hereby declare that the Language Tree p 196 & Family tree p 629 don't count.  :sigrun:  Problem solved.  Ish.  There are still so many astonishing pages but I decided to leave off collecting at 14.  I know someone will share a page & I will gnash my teeth with chagrin that I missed it.  So in no particular order, my 10 picks, with the images of the pages under cuts for size.

Page 750 - the end of the Tuuri's death sequence, in which Onni in owl form falters in trying to chase Tuuri and freefalls through the night sky, down through toward where Lalli kneels in despair at the water's edge.  Mind-blowing art and emotion. (Also, too long for the Forum's taste, so divvied into top and bottom portions)
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 750 • show


Page 475 - Ghost attack - Lalli is screaming in his coma, Sigrun & Mikkel fall to the ghosts & wee Kitty is terrified. 
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 475 • show


Page 479 - Hootakainen vs the ghosts - a couple of pages on from the previous one, this is the first time we've seen Onni's owl luonto, swooping in response to Reynir's unwitting call for aid, to rend apart the ghosts who are imperilling the crew.  I couldn't even get all of the TOTALLY EPIC double-page spread into one image.
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 479 • show


Page 638 - The beginning of the battle against Sleipnope's horde - the crew is grimly waiting, knowing they're not ready. Kitty wakes and her eyes widen in fear. They know it's coming but the dark is smudgy and they can't see. Then one of Reynir's staves lights.  Chilling understated apprehension.
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 638 • show


Huh, grim pages all.  Fine, let's mix it up with something completely different.
Page 283 - Captain Ása Harðardóttir takes a phone call from Trond Andersen - what a jolly ship and its jolly sailor boys and the captain contentedly knitting while lounging with the ship's cats.  So much character design and storytelling packed into one page! Also notable for Sigrun's 'dirt and stuff' comment.
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 283 • show


Page 157 - the overhead view of what 'the power of a thousand wings' has wrought, the whole preposterous stack that makes up Väinö Väänänen's outpost.
Spoiler: adv 2 pg 157 • show


Page 273 - Lalli reluctantly turns to leave the dream world, after trying and failing to catch another glimpse of the mysterious red-headed runner.  So gorgeous, Minna turned it into a print in the store.
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 273 • show


Page 396 - Lalli calls upon his lynx luonto to help him clear out trolls to allow the crew safe passage.  We get treated to (the second half of) a runo and a mic drop of an image as the spell takes hold.  The lore! So much power one skinny mage can command!  The confirmation of much of the fandom's speculation that Lalli was indeed a catboy!
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 396 • show


Page 266 - Escape from Spot 24 - The crew's first ransacking adventure comes to an explosive end care of Emil's adrenalin-fueled troll remedy, but they realise Lalli is still inside. Until, he is no longer inside but hurtling out of a second-storey window.  Mikkel saves Lalli with an epic crash.
Spoiler: adv 1 pg 266 • show


Page 205 - Emil triumphant against Tuomas the Tank-Engine.  Such elation! Big Ka-BOOM KRA-RAK!!  After all that time painted as a bit of a bumbler, Emil gets his big moment and he is Stoked.
Spoiler: adv 2 pg 205 • show


Huh. Here I've been lauding how much I love the quiet moments and painterly restful scenes of the ruined old world, and when it comes to it I choose grim battle scenes and explosions like a 22yo focus group junkie high on Fanta.

I guess we all learnt something today.


Spoiler: some that did not make the cut • show
Pillars of lambs, Onni tries the cake, Emil shares the cake, Horde of reporters, the boat is diverting to the Bahamas, Onni's T-pose rescue, Hearty Jane on the train, any number of chapter covers...


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