Not to be a person who sees random new Kirby merch on Twitter that is specifically not aimed at me and runs to Tumblr to blog about it like the perpetually out of touch older millennial I am, but...

...Behold. It's a Kirby "Play Doctor" set. (source tweet)

I get it, I really do. Kirby's been having a really strong push into the little kids goods market for a while + this is literally rated 3 years and older + is the exact same stock toy doctor kit with the bare minimum of themed stickers plastered on top is not at all weird to see...

But my obsessive adult mind demands I take this too seriously!

...Like, what's that pink stuff in the syringe? Is it "Essence of Kirby?" Is it "Liquid Friendship?" Or is it Pepto Bismol because Kirby does eat a lot! (Don't inject that into your veins though lol!)

There's cooling sheets in addition to bandaids but... why does the use of Sleep Kirby on the packaging of the sheets (specifically labeled "FOR KIDS") remind me of this video?

(link leads to "Nap Time" parody commercial)

Is it a coincidence that the bottle with Elfilin on it is...green? (Just drink this parasitic alien invader and you'll feel all WILL BE DEVOURED better!)

I see a package of (fake) pills they're trying to hide. They also happen to look like those dehydrated dinosaur pills. Coincidence?!

And lastly...

WHAT IS IN THE META KNIGHT TUBE?!

At first I thought it was a shaker, like the inside was supposed to be baby powder. And honestly, the idea of a Meta Knight-themed baby powder shaker ("Is YOUR mask chaffing? Try this!") made me laugh but now I think it might be some Neosporin type cream for wounds. Which is still thematic, just not as funny as baby powder.

Another hilarious (or dank...) option is that since he's holding his hand out (looks to me like a stock image where they awkwardly erased Galaxia (?) from his hand because that isn't very bedside manner-y...) it's Liquid Ibuprofen.

EXCELLENT~! And for good measure...

He just magnetically attracts bricks to the face, I'm afraid...

I thought about using it for more joke posts, till I realized that not only would that be a lot of roleplaying for little reward, I actually had no idea how to be a teenage boy in 2011. (2001 on the other hand… Welcome to Noir’s Myspace page…)

When I asked my muse, who did know what it was like, I decided that roleplaying Noir as an Xbox fanboy (which he totally would be) would be a fate WORSE than death and decided to be merciful, just this once.

…If I (Dess) live through the tournament, I’ll probably turn the blog into a content archive.

To anyone following the Kirby OC Tournament blog + tags...

...I'm very sorry about today XD

I saw this happening on the Kirby OC Tournament Discord and thought it would be a lot of fun to fill out. For anyone who wanted to know just how much of a big brother Noir is, the answer is YES

(Not going to tag the characters for a meme post but for the curious we have , going clockwise from the top: Ash (Phantom Brave), Alvin / Alfred Vint Svent (Tales of Xillia), Ferin / Umbral Knight (Ender Lillies), Yuzuru Otonashi (Angel Beats), Allen Avadonia (Servant of Evil / Evilicious Chronicles), and Brother Nier from NieR

OOPS! XD

(I'm sorry, but how EASY it'd be to make a certain swordboy was going through my head the whole time I was filling out that Picrew!!)

His alignment was a bit complicated by whether or not I included Adeleine in the questions relating to others. As well as how the Dark Matter Blade changed some (but not many) of his responses.

EDIT: I FORGOT THE SCARF The scarf was literally why I had this idea and I forgot it!! ;;

A Silly Post

So I have that amazing Kirby 30th Anniversary collection of wall magnets, right? They're wonderful and I love them so much and have them hanging by my desk and look at them every day.

Until...

I woke up one morning to discover...it was gone! Apparently, I'd hung the magnet board I got to display them badly and they all fell during the night. I searched under my desk and could only find a few of them. The board, with the rest intact, fell behind MY CLOSET.

The rest of the Kirby gang are still trapped there, because MY CLOSET is huge, heavy, and completely unstable, and any attempts to move it could cause it to come crashing down! But here's the thing.

Check out the surviving figures...

Do they look like they'd make a fun cast for a big adventure story about rescuing the rest of the Dream Land gang or what?!

We're missing Coo and no Bandanna Waddle Dee to be found either, but you've got a good spread of key players, either way! (Dess is just happy because my beloved Marx and Magolor survived.)

Anyway, yeah, that's my brief summary of the plot of the newest game, "Kirby and the Impossible Closet" (Maybe this is the game where Kracko gets to be the last boss, finally?)

!! Sempai noticed me. Suddenly, hundreds of strangers have been exposed to MY art and my overwhelming feelings are, "I really should have spent some extra minutes on cleaning up the flat colors and adding more line weight" and "What if some of those strangers follow me home only to find out the majority of my recent output has been for my edgy, pretty-boy-ification of a retro Kirby last boss?!"

...Though that last one isn't that different from Montauban-chan XD

Since Apologies AU has bled over into Branch AU (or is that the other way around?) my mind ev~er so briefly entertained it crossing over into MariPav but this silly doodle was all that resulted...

(They also share a birthday!)

Watsonian: His deeds are indeed being monitored by some all-seeing force that adds or removes hours because...

Doylist: ...Marx is conditionally trapped in hell for exactly however long it takes until HAL Labs uses him again in a canonical work.

That said, the metaphysical glue thing you put forth is thing is probably "the answer" we ought to use going forward because it's Marx Soul and he did absorb Nova's parts into his body so I could see it being the one keeping consistent track of his soul's "timeout"

And I guess Nova is just really judge-y...??

(The other truth is that, as someone said, Noir is a sassy piece of work and if I had Magolor quote him my original timeline of 10 (?) years or so, he would be like "Well damn, lemme call up the world's smallest Dark Matter Violin for him. I've been here for 28 years.")

Games you play when trapped inside 3/4 seasons of the year.

Sorry for the deluge of Apologies-related content. I'm working on trying to get three separate mainline comics done during a work-heavy December so I can close out Arc 2 and as a result, the siblings have kind of taken over my brain.

[Apologies AU Masterpost]

Dess has only just figured out that Vroid Studio is available on iPad! And Clip Studio Paint recently allowed you to import VRM files~!

Do you know what this means?!

...Not much for me because Vroid Studio is very challenging... ; _ ;

(This is not just me being cheeky, btw! Silly, but not cheeky! For this realization happened completely naturally in the process of conceiving a Marx + Magolor fusion.)

But now...we know...