Life Sucked. Daydreaming didn't, until I Crossed the Crossroads. By iifinch (Creepypasta Narration) https://youtu.be/Q26VDiaW0Fw

Warning: Some content may be scary and disturbing.

My first creepypasta narration since 2022.

So where do I start today? No comic once again and something else for YouTube. Guess it's time for me to start spitting facts again.

Let's start with something simple, Wolfgang Caverns from Kaden Caverns. I had no idea where this place would be located at for the longest time. The only thing I had in mind was it was in a forest area inside of a cave in America. I recently settled on it being in Oregon. Because it was one of the states closest to my home state and I watched some Portlandia a few years ago. The town is literally inside of a cavern system and underground.

Wolfgang Caverns is a place where pretty much the entire population is anthro cartoon animals/A-Norm animals, next to no humans. Magic is used in the caverns. They're also not a very intelligent town. I've written their schools to have very low standards to the point where you'd have to nuke a South American country to get in trouble. A place where if you're so dumb you get transferred there, you know you failed in terms of intelligence. One of my characters from MythoRealms at large, Gullet Gopher was transferred there. He's the son of the famous cartoon actor Glutton Gopher. (I've written as my version of the Tasmanian Devil and Cookie Monster) Gullet was part of a TV show called Small Simpleton Stories with a group of kids going on adventures to become the new age of cartoon stars. Gullet didn't have trouble in school then because he had all the help he needed for his mental defects. But when the show ended, so did his time with the special scholars. Thus, he was put back into normal school where he struggled for the rest of his academic career until he was transferred to Wolfgang Caverns. I've written him to eventually graduate at age 21.

I've created a group of angelic heroes who fight evil in space and throughout their respective universe and realms within said universe. Blue Angels and Diablos. Created by a biblically accurate angel known as Sylvarius, they spend their lives protecting others. These Blue Angels and Diablos are more commonly known together as Sylvarius Legions and legionnaires. (Got the name from DC's Legion of Superheroes) They're given Golden Halos or Horns with a blue glow from them, they grant them their powers. Once you were written into them, you were in. You could never remove yourself from them.

Legionnaires have a locked expiration date where you can't die unless you live until your expiration date or are somehow killed by magic capable of killing legionnaires. They live until their 100th birthday at the earliest or 300th birthday at the latest. How long they'll live for depends on their upbringing, species, family reputation, power level, religious background, and how the mortals would benefit from having them as a legionnaire in the long run.

Once your expiration date came, you'd fade away with your body seizing to be. Your time as a mortal and legionnaire would be judged by Sylvarius and his council to decide if you've been a good legionnaire or not. If you've been good, you'll be given any good eternal afterlife of your choice. You might be called on to return to the mortal realm if needed by the legion for emergencies. Once the emergency is resolved, you can return to your afterlife. But if you've been bad, you'll be sent to a version of Hell depending on your background. In MythoRealms, Hell is an endlessly large collection of many different realms of punishment and badness rather than one realm.

Wow, I didn't expect to unload as much as I did for Sylvarius Legions/Blue Angels and Diablos. I went with Diablos (Spanish word for devils) instead of Devils because Blue Devils were taken by a basketball team, football team, and music group. I have a thing where if I have a name and someone else beaten me to that name, the name I had before the realization is automatically off limits.

I think I should talk about what I've written about my version of Hell currently. It's a large collection of realms as everyone has their own definition of Hell and whoever's in charge of said Hell is more than happy to provide. Demons live in Hell, obviously. But they serve multiple purposes and live no differently from humans. (I never watched Hazbin Hotel or Helluva Boss. I haven't found them appealing and they don't accurately portray Hell as the bad place most people believe it is.)

I written a system where some demons and buy and sell souls of mortal sinners to torture however they see fit for as long as they want. Those souls are treated like toys, collectables, and trading cards. (Writing this out, I picture some of the worst people in the world kept in a museum so demons and watch them being endlessly punished. Kept and displayed like trading cards treated about as well as how Patrick Star treated that Mermaid Man card from that one episode of Spongebob.) These souls can also be used as slaves/free labor.

Some demons weren't born demons and originated as humans or mortals turned into demons. Some are demons because they were sinners in their lifetimes so they're turned into tortured punishers just as much prisoner as the souls they trade and play with. Some demons aren't being punished at all because they've been good in their lifetimes and decided willingly to become demons after their death. These demons can live a good life in Hell free of responsibility while some can get a job in Hell as a punisher or otherwise.

Demons and Angels are equals in MythoRealms. I've written good people living good afterlives in Hell because I want to show demons in a positive and even heroic light. (Todd Macfarlane did this with Spawn as a man who went to Hell for knowingly committing crimes against humanity as a mercenary until being killed. Then he gets turned into a hell spawn who fights bad guys.) Hell won't be entirely a bad place, it just hinges on how good of a person you've been and how you imagine it. (There's this one Stanley and His Monster comic where they go to Hell and Stanley uses his imagination to make Hell seem not as bad.) Some of Charcoal and Clawson's first friends are demons who act as their imaginary friends. They're not evil, but don't get confused, they still punish sinners.

Finally, the Creepypasta Coming Soon...

I plan to release a creepypasta narration video on Wednesday January 29th. I have a definite deadline for this. The video was already recorded a while ago through Twitch and I've cut most of the excess out. It's just a matter of trimming it down and editing the audio for the final product. Been sleeping on it for a while and I think it should be completed soon. (To iifinch, the author of the creepypasta I've read, sorry for taking so long to make the video. It'll be out very soon.)

This won't be the last creepypasta narration I'll do, I've collected a few links from online of creepypastas I should consider narrating. They won't move forward until I read them myself beforehand and am given the author's permission to read it. Any creepypasta I make moving forward will be read on Twitch which will also serve as a blooper reel.

I decided to post a few things about my comics like places, characters, or otherwise. I'm not sure when I'll touch them in my comics but I want to get the words out of my head in someway. I don't have another finished comic to post again, so this is the next best thing. (I'm also working on a creepypasta narration video, so my hands are full here.)

For one, there's a race/group of people in MythoRealms who possess abnormalities like powers, mutations, or otherwise. I call them A-Norms. (Abbreviation for Abnormal) I'm using this instead of superhero, mutant, or wizard because it's a more broader term. (I haven't worked out neurological differences in people, the A-Norm terms I've written to apply to physical abnormalities rather than social or mental abnormalities.)

Another thing I've written for A-Norms is a mental hospital called Gertrude McJean's Psychiatric Hospital for the Abnormal and Genetically-Engineered. Basically imagine Arkham Asylum from Batman and the X-Mansion from X-Men combined. The name for this mental hospital came from Dr. Seuss books. Gertrude is ripped from the bird character with the little feathered tail, I've only seen her in Seussical. McJean is one letter off from McBean, the guy who cons the Sneetches out of money to remove and attach the stars on their chests in their little race war.

Imaginary friends are real, circumstances on how you see them and how they interact with physical objects vary from person to person. One could see them but they can't touch physical objects, one imaginary friend could touch physical objects and has the power to pick and choose who gets to see them. Some would have the power to seemingly bend reality, ala Barney the Dinosaur, or at least manipulate your perception of reality. Some can also be seen by those who don't believe or have imaginary friends as if they're no different from real people. Kinda like Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, where they exist in the real world and they can co-exist with humans. Imaginary friends are also based on real mortals' belief. At least one person has to believe they exist in order for them to exist. If you stop believing in them, they'll seize to be until someone starts believing in them again. Though, not all imaginary friends will disappear if you stop believing in them. (Though magic or believing in them for so long, they'll be permanently visible and physical. So depending on how much you believe in them, once you stop, they'll never disappear from the real world or your perception of the world again. Don't bother wishing them away anymore, we all tried that for years.)

I've written a fictional band of imaginary people turned real people by the population's belief in them. The Lovers of Colors. Writing this out makes me think that an auditorium would be filled with people hearing the band play while people who don't believe in them are confused with an audience listening to people that don't exist to them. The stage would be quiet and empty for those who don't believe. It'd be a hilarious concept! Reminds me of that Magic for Humans bit with the people who tricked this one guy into thinking he was actually invisible.

Some books in MythoRealms are fully fictional. But some like classic public domain books and fairy tales are real. Written by the authors to be biographical of the characters within, written before they happen like prophecies, or they're based on the adventures in this world but with a few differences between the book and real events. (Part of this idea of the book's events in this world being different from the events that happened for real in this world came from Disney films and Super Why.) I've so far written The Reluctant Dragon and Alice in Wonderland characters into the MythoRealms. But more public domain characters and original characters will show up in the coming times.

How can The Reluctant Dragon exist in the modern day when the originally story takes place in around medieval times? I've written him to be immortal or at least live for longer than the average human. So old age can't kill him like it can kill humans.

In conclusion, my writing and ideas are like those memes of my spiritual beliefs. Even though I'm not really a religious person or atheist. I just believe in what I want to believe.

My next comic strip has its inking and flat colors finished. The only thing I want to get done before preparing it for release is giving this comic some shading. It's a 1-panel strip and it's scheduled to come out on Sunday. This one will also get a comic dub on the YouTube and Tik-Tok video releases. Since I got a bunch of views and likes on both sides thanks to the dub, it stands to reason that adding voice clips and sound effects to my comics is the next step to growing them. It's not the first time I did this, I had Charcoal have voice clips in the trailer for Charcoal Rabbit Tales: The Century of Sadness. But the last comic I released really got the ball rolling on that idea.

The comic once finished will be available to view on Patreon and Ko-fi through a subscription until Sunday. You'll also get access to sketches and behind the scenes content on whatever I decide to do. You don't have to sign up for these sites, but I'll appreciate your support if you do.

This next strip is set to be a Kaden Caverns strip featuring The Reluctant Dragon from one of the MythoRealm Strips I released some time ago and yes, both series exist together in the same world. Kaden Caverns is focused on a cavern in a forest called Wolfgang Forest/Caverns and MythoRealms is more anthology and connected to the world at large rather than one specific part. MythoRealms characters can appear in Charcoal Rabbit Tales and Kaden Caverns. But the characters from Charcoal Rabbit Tales and Kaden Caverns won't appear in MythoRealm Strips.

After that Facebook incident, I decided to lay out a list of social media I have as of 2024 I use/have. In case something happens or if any imposter surfaces. (Not saying that will happen, but you never know.)

Any social media not listed here in this post unless I say otherwise, I don’t have an account on.

I’m disowning my Discord account because of reports of hackers on the premises. If you see anyone with my name on there as of today, I’m not operating. Any discord account or server based on me or featuring my creations are unofficial.

I’m doing this to ensure my safety and to avoid confusion. The last thing I want is to be played like a fiddle or have others played like fiddles under the impression that they’re speaking to me. I’m not taking art commissions as of right now.

There’s only one Charcoal Rabbit internet user and there’s only gonna be one Charcoal Rabbit internet user as of today.

Just because I’m not using some of these at the moment doesn’t mean they aren’t mine.

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Apologies everyone, no comic strip today. I've been busy and haven't found the time to finish a strip.

🎵Spider bear, spider bear, does whatever a spider can🎵

A sketch of Kashbear in spider-mode. Something he does in Hell as a punisher. In earlier work, Kashbear turned into a spider to rip Coyoyo apart.

Every good comic has to have at least one spider person.

#spider #bear #comic #sketch #digitalart #art #coyote #pencil #pencildrawing #pencilsketch

#comic #comics #rabbit #bunny #art #trailer #announcement #sliceoflife #other #adventure #comicbook #sketches #wip

So begins the marketing campaign for my currently in-development comic book! Are you hyped to see it?

Comic Status 8/10/2024: Currently sketching

Length: 52 Pages

In 2022, Charcoal is living the best life ever in Burnsburg, Arizona. He's doing well in school, has friends, and life couldn't get better. However, the announcement of Charcoal's older half-brother moving in with his wife and their babies threatens Charcoal's way of life. He resorts to running away from home but things go awry.

Link to the trailer

I'm back from visiting relatives. I'll return to drawing and writing like usual.

How often will I post for a while? 1 per week or at the most, 2 per week. Mostly on Fridays.

Today's been a very lazy day. I spent it listening to music. I watched The New Mutants (Based on the X-Men storyline of the same name. It's sad we didn't get Warlock in the movie he looks cool in the comics!) today (The first time) and rewatched Venom (2018). Even if Morbius was a dud, I'm looking forward to whatever Spider-Man character/villain Sony will turn into a movie. Like Kraven the Hunter, Black Cat, Silver Sable, Jackpot, Nightwatch/Nighteater, Madame Web, Hypno-Hustler, and El Muerto.

Had frozen pizza for dinner, t'was a very, "Okay, I guess," day.

Out of Context: Warlock in the original X-Men comics looks like a cartoon character. I can see why they didn't put him in the movie. (All their VFX budget went into the Smiley Men and Demon Bear) Magik was also in the movie and she's such a cool and attractive mutant. Magik was played by Anya Taylor-Joy who I first heard of from the Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023). I also find it sad that Fox's run on X-Men had to end when and on the note it did.

#TheNewMutants #xmen #marvel #AnyaTaylorJoy #xmenmagik #xmenwarlock