It’s Good To See You Back 🤧 And Thank You For Blessing Us With The Maine Nostalgia 🥹🥹

You’re going to make me cry 🥹

I’m so glad you like the portrait! I return the tight hug and I appreciate you as my friend 🥹❤️ The Lackadaisy community is filled with really cool people and I’m so glad to meet you!❤️❤️

And I don’t know what’s going to happened at the drinking party, but I made a sketch of the aftermath 😭 and Maríanne definitely got into the bunny hugs 😭😭

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAURA!!!🎉🎉❤️

I made a little portrait of her for @rudnitskaia as a gift to celebrate her charming LackaOC Maura!

She is such a fun and amazing character and Heldig, you are such an awesome person!❤️ Thank you for being so welcoming to me when I first posted about Maríanne!❤️❤️

I hope you enjoy this gift!

Also Maríanne is inviting Maura for drinks 🤠

(Please keep her away from the bunny hugs. Please. 😭)

Since my OC Mantis got a little attention here, I might as well draw some new concept art of him. Just a practice for his personality.

(yes I hate hands I can't draw them properly)

Some pens I used!

That will be all. Bye darlings!!!

~ ✿

AHHHHHH IM EXCITED

Chapter 2 Beta Update~

Download Here!

--Nearly all of Ch2 is available, EXCEPT: The "America" backstory when talking with Lottie (it's just half finished). Overall around ~22k words added, and a few thousand to Chapter 1. --Reworked the Sex/Gender/Gender Presentation System. --New and Revised MC Dialogue to Ch1, depending on what Occupation you choose. Not all has been changed, more planned later in the month. --Various typo fixes, small re-writes and bug fixes.

I wanted to get more done, but alas ><;; 🙏🏽 some IRL came up that i really need to deal with. BUT! I managed to get Ch2 from beginning to end! I hope yall will enjoy the last half of Ch2, I'm very happy with it overall! :"))))

!How to Read/Play!

Click this. Do not play it inside google drive, it doesn't work that way. Download the .html file.

If you have an iPhone, use this guide. I can't help you troubleshoot iphone or MAC problems; I don't have one.

If you have an Android iOS, open the .html file with any intertnet browser app EXCEPT HTML viewer.

If you have a PC, open the .html file with any internet browser.

Please remember the saving/loading can be janky. Do not save and load the same or different "files" rapidly. This is a limitation of HTML.

I would like to know the most obscure and random Maríanne fun fact you can tell us, please!

Ooo, I shall give two! However, I’m not sure how obscure these facts are 🤷‍♀️

First fact:

I created Maríanne’s character while reading ‘Under the Devil’s Moon’ from @libras-interactives :> Her original name was Mariànne Paola, she played the trumpet, and was born in Cancun!

Second fact:

When developing her further, I wanted her attributes to be similar to a rattlesnake. Shows her connections back to her brother and his gang. Especially when it finds its way back to her.

I think these two images compared to one another prove my point:

Adding further on to this connection she carries around a rattlesnake tooth, which was given to her by her brother. Her brother attained it after a rattlesnake attacked a bully that was beating him up. Both Marí and her brother see it as a symbol of luck and protection.

Although the glasses was more of a fun idea to insert something of myself onto my character, it added more to these parallels since snakes are known to have poor eyesight lmao 😭

Despite her shitty eyesight, Maríanne is always wary of her surroundings when she feels threatened or tense, or any feeling of discomfort. She’ll literally sit in awkward position where you see half of her body and face.

Her logic: How can someone ambush you when you already have them in your sights? 😎

…😭 Okay Marí

Maríanne also has a “minor pet peeve” with birds (it’s not a phobia, she swears 😀)

I went on a bit of a tangent but thanks for the ask Calamity!! I always appreciate when people ask about Maríanne ❤️🥹

THE LEGEND RETURNS!!!

Omg this is so cute tho, like the colors, the shading, the character interactions are freaking adorable too🥹🥹

MORDECAIS LIL SMILE AND HIM BEING A DAAAD 😭😭😭❤️

The latest issue of The Caturday Evening Post! ✨

Special edition for @aghostnamedcalamity ✨💖✨

AWWW THANK YOU @akosisab ❤️

She looks so cute and relaxed 🥺🥺 her lil face and her lil cake. 🥺🥺🥺

I WANNA SQUISH HER FACE >:0

HAPPY BIRTHDAY @ahhhh-118 !!!🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂

CHIBI MARIANNE FOR U !!^^🎊🎉🎉

What makes Marianne nostalgic?

YIPPPEEEE A QUESTION!

Thank you for the ask!! 🥹 I love answering stuff about Maríanne!! ❤️

It’s the sounds of train whistles, violins, and the bustling traffic.

Seeing cactuses, sunflowers, snakes, large open fields of swamp, and boats.

The taste of apples and stale bread

They remind her of her life on the road, when she lived back in New York, and her childhood!

…Well they only remind her of the good parts, at least.

It was a challenge for me to adapt Mau to the style of the Lackadaisy pilot, especially because my own artstyle is very different. But it turned out to be a very interesting and useful exercise. :3 Love the result. ✨

I have no excuses for this tho :D

Hi hi!! Your OC is so pretty, I love her design!! I may not be finding the full story, but is there a backstory to her short tail?? Or is it something about her breed of feline I’m not aware of lol I see she had it as a child! Love her character!! So much personality, great job!

Thank you so much!! ❤️🥹 I love getting these questions!!❤️

Well with Maríanne’s tail, she was born like that. I based off of an American Bobtail Calico.

She gets the tail from her dad’s side! (He’s like in the right corner of the image you were talking about) don’t know if that’s how cat genetics work, especially since her brother and mother have longer tails but oh well :D

There’s still more of her backstory I have yet to reveal but hopefully, I’ll have more time to put more out there! ✨

Hope that answers it, thank you for your question!! ❤️🤗

I want to give Ace a hug after reading this! Poor Ace🤧

Art-wise: holy shit what you drew is amazing, the fear in his eyes and how she is just trying to reach for the knife, is such a very well drawn dramatic scene omg! Like I feel tense from looking at it!

You did awesome 🔥

Despite zzanimazz being deactivated i will still answer the questions they sent me. I hope they can see this wherever they are🫡

CW: physical and emotional abuse mention below

Desire: What's one thing your OC wants more than anything in the world? Are they open with that desire? Why or why not? What would they do to fulfill it?

Ace isn't really ware of what he wants, he doesn't really think about it long enough to come to a clear conclusion. In reality he just wants to be accepted and understood by someone, anyone really. But he doesn't think thats ever going to happen. She has a bit of a defeatist streak going on that she pushes down by living his life without regrets or shame. Part of that is also subconsciously acting weird and pushing people away. Because the pain of being rejected by someone he actually cared about hurts more than just telling himself that hes never going to have the kind of conection he craves. Most of the way she deals is either by denying or not thinking about it.

Mistake: What's the worst mistake your OC ever made? What led to them making it? Have they been able to fix it? How have they moved on?

Ace has made a few major mistakes though she is a bit to stubborn to openly recognize them as mistakes. One is running away from home. He subconsciously regrets it but if he admitted that, to himself it would be like admitting defeat. One she can however clearly see was a mistake was starting to work under her first boss. He was emotionally and sometime physically abusive. And was taking advantage of the fact that she had no life experience and that she was homeless. As to how she fixed it…

CW: visual depictions of choking and implications of murder via stabbing under the cut

Trying out something a bit different with this one. More dramatic lighting and pose. If anyone has any suggestion on improvement feel free to share! The line art is intentionally very sketchy and unfinished to add to the disorientation of the moment. Also avoided adding her eyebrows for similar reasons.