Hey guys, so lately I've been drawing group pictures of animal guides. If you're not familiar with how they work, please feel free to read a little about them here.

Essentially, animals are always trying to speak to us. Some animals are signs of good luck, some animals warn of danger. Many of them appear in our lives and even our dreams to teach us.

If you are familiar with your animal totems, I wanted to offer to draw them for you. I've drawn mine as well as FaunGrae's totems so far. All I really need to know are what animals you associate with, and either a scene or season to use for the background.

If you don't know your totems, here are some good guidelines as to which ones may be your guides and totems:

- Your favorite animal, one you love dearly, is often a totem. Even if it was an animal you appreciated in your childhood, they may have been protecting you.
- Any animal you see in your daily life that often visits you.
- Any animal you see in dreams often, or even any animal that randomly appears in a vision.
- There is a Native American zodiac that identifies an animal close to you.
- You can also include animals you have a difficult time with, especially animals you are afraid of. They are there to teach as well.

It helps to be observant of the world around you. Maybe you see an animal all the time and just never realize they're there for you.

Just wanted to see the different font sizes on here. I plan to do something with this later.

[center]For many nights, Thich has a reoccuring dream. He does not understand this dream, and often forgets it when he wakes up. The snake plush shrugs it off as nothing and continues on his way as a living, breathing snake in the Endless Forest.

Little does he know...this dream is about him...when he was a little girl's favorite stuffed animal, before he ever lived in the Endless Forest.

The dream is always fuzzy, and many details have been lost to amnesia, but the dream shows the same images again and again...

-------------------------

Warning – this story is graphic. Please read at your own risk.

This story is for my friend Nala_91 from Impressive Title. She asked me to write a story about one of her characters hunting Quad. I’ve been a little late getting it written but had the muse this morning to write it for her.

-------------------------------

Something I wanted to work on was making descriptions on how some of my newer characters would have certain strengths and weaknesses to each member of the Deadly Trio. This is a tentative list and I may need help explaining how certain characters could be effective against others.

The characters in question are:
Pema (Fawn Marionette, Wisdom)
Thich (Snake Plush, Strength)
Rumi (Undecided, probably going to be a Fox Plush, Agility)

vs.

Iugulare (Stoat Infection, Wisdom)
Anirapio (Dragon Alien, Agility)
Nekumbra (Spider Doe Mutant, Strength)


So here's what I have...

Pema is strong against Anirapio because Pema can tangle Anirapio with her strings. Keeping Anirapio subdued for a certain length of time will cause her to become malnourished and weakened due to her high metabolism. (Wisdom > Agility)
Pema and Iugulare are evenly matched because Pema knows Iugulare's weaknesses, but Iugulare is intimidating to Pema and can easily scare her to retreat. (Wisdom = Wisdom)
Pema is weak against Nekumbra because Nekumbra can cut her strings and puppet her with spider webbing. Also Nekumbra would relentlessly pursue Pema since she is a fawnkiller. (Wisdom < Strength)

Thich is strong against Iugulare because his body can absorb infection. (Strength > Wisdom)
Thich and Nekumbra are evenly matched because Thich could constrict Nekumbra just as easily as Nekumbra could trap Thich with spider webbing.

So I wanted to try my hand at Kaiga paintings, such as a Japanese landscape painting. I've always found them beautiful.

Here is an example of the kind of landscape.

So to request, please provide me with a screenshot from TEF to draw in this style.

This is directed toward everyone who was involved in the "Top 10 Heroes/Top 10 Villains" blog postings the other day, whether you posted on the blog or simply read what was going on.

What happened the other day was a mistake. I was reading a copy of Gameinformer magazine, that had video game top 10 lists, and it sparked the idea of voting for the top 10 heroes and villains from the Endless Forest. I wanted to draw a "heroes vs villains" artwork similar to this. But while I had started to work on this and get some support, someone decided to use the 'villains' blog to attack those who they had a personal qualm with. I understand that the deer in question isn't villainous, and I understand that what I did only made things worse. Things got out of hand real quick, and things were said that were simply unnecessary.

The blogs were taken down the following day, and I attempted to work with the information I had been given by writing a story instead of doing the fanart. I admit I did not understand Akuji's character well enough, and when Dag explained that the story I had written wasn't up to par, I removed it.

Since the incident occurred, I have felt nothing but grief. I began to question why I said and did the things that happened, and have felt both physically and mentally drained. What started as an idea to further my artwork turned into senseless drama. And for whatever reason, I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried to be more assertive with the situation. It was me spreading my wings for the first time. Now I understand it simply wasn't the right time to do so.

Therefore this is an apology to you as a community. I never meant to hurt anyone, and I never meant for the lists to be used as an attack. It could have been handled better.

This topic is for you guys to vent about everyday life, ask for help, and hopefully receive some good advice to fix your problem. I know this topic could get out of hand, but I think it can have its benefits if used correctly.

In addition, you can post things that are making you happy, give you joy, peace, love, and so on. That way there can be some positivity in this blog as well. Like posting links to things that make you glad in the world, whatever you have in mind, go for it!

A few ground rules, though:

- No cursing, period. It isn't necessary and isn't tolerated on this topic.
- Try to be respectful of other people's beliefs, religion, nationality, gender, race, political views, ect. If you're going to vent about that, don't go overboard about it.
- If you decide to praise someone, please feel free to say their name. I'm sure they'll appreciate it.
- I have the right to delete this topic if things get too crazy.
- If you have ideas for someone who has a problem, please feel free to try to help. If they don't want your help, that's their choice and not yours.

*New Rule*
- Please only use this blog for venting about your everyday life. I do not want to see any more vents about TEF members on here. I will remake the blog if I start to see it again.

Jala has made a positivity blog if you would rather see more happy posts, by the way

So I went to this really neat antique thing today, and among the things they had there were Japanese postcards. I ended up with a whole bunch of them, kept my favorites, and gave some to my brother and mom.

So I had 13 left, and wanted to send them around to anyone who wanted one.



The ones without a big red X over them are available. Those that are X'd out have already been taken.

So that's #'s 2, 5, 6, and 13 I will update it each time one has been taken.

Here's closeups of them so you can see their details.






So if you'd like me to mail one to you, let me know on here that you're interested in one, and then send me an e-mail at lapras316@hotmail.com with your address, and I'll get it in the mail as soon as I can