No, not that his name is really “clippit”, everyone knows that. no one cares. he’s clippy.
No the real secret is that there’s two of him. There isn’t one clippy, there’s two versions of clippy, and everyone seems to remember the second one. I even see people drawing weird combinations of the two because they got confused in screenshots.
BEHOLD, THE TWO CLIPPYS:
This is Clippy/Clippet #1. Introdcued with Office ‘97, he’s traditionally animated, using the same 2D Microsoft Actor technology designed for the ill-fated Microsoft Bob project. He lives in a little box. He cannot escape the box. Only has eyebrows when he wants.
BUT THEN, OFFICE 2000 HAPPENS
CLIPPY 2.0! This one is Microsoft Agent-based. He’s 3D animated (pre-rendered 3D, actually, not done in real-time), and has NO BOX. He’s built on the same technology as Bonzi Buddy. He wiggles his eyebrows a lot, and doesn’t warp into things as much as Clippy 1.0. He’s got a paper to stand on.
Drawing furry porn in the break room at work and one of my coworkers got another coworker to ask me if I post my art online and take commissions. I see you 👁
If you have body image issues I genuinely advise you to get a fursona it will help so much
I’m not shitposting or trolling or joking but genuinely having a sona modeled after me myself as I am has made me go from “I hate this body im ugly” to “im kinda hot now, I see it.”
Like a lot of furries have started working out or gaining weight because they want to mirror their sona more, me included. It’s not instant and not even noticeable when it happens bit gradually the more In tune with your sona you get the .ore you model yourself after them and the more you accept yourself.
This really goes for gender dysphoria too. Having a fursona that’s majorly fem-presenting has likely saved me years of grief with gender dysphoria. Even today, where hrt is out of reach both because of financial reasons and [gestures at the state of American transphobia], my fursonas are d doing loads of heavy lifting to keep my mental health in this regard above water. I’m not fem-presenting at all irl, unfortunately, but it hurts considerably less when I have p pictures of a really pretty anthropomorphic Vulpix/fox to look at and say “That’s me!”
So I’ve been writing some trashy vampire fiction as stress-relief during finals, and it accidentally turned into a major world-building exercise and potential Novella and??? I dunno but I want to share some thoughts.
First, some universe specific things:
Vampire cannot “turn” Others without significant effort and/or a specific ritual. being a bitten by a vamp is no more going to make you one or it;s thrall than being bitten by a st. Bernard is.
Monsters and Cryptids explicitly exist, but most of the world’s governments deny that they do for… reasons. That I will get into later but probably have to do with tax law.
The two main characters so far are Marion “Red Charlie” Charleston, a vampire turned back in 1890 who made his fortune during the prohibiton era doing aggravated bootlegging for Roy Olmstead, and Alex (Alexander Byron Chesterson Jr.) who is more or less Marion’s live-in tech sspport/tax shelter.
OK, so onto the worldbuilding
Seattle is like, THE city to live in, if you want to be an Urban Cryptid
If you’re a vamp, the weather means you can go outside during daytime fairly often, or emerge dramatically from the fog p much whenever.
Not to mention a a high population of Vegans, which probably taste much less bitter due to the lack of dairy.
If you’re a were-whatever, it’s literally a half-hour drive/ferry ride to some of the densest, most isolated forest in the US so you can go bananas during your shift.
Aquatic or ocean based cryptid? PUGET SOUND IS RIGHT THERE. Just stay away from the Orcas, they’ll fuck you up.
Bigfoots are the locals that complain about urbanization while getting fancy-ass coffee and exchange beard-grooming tips with the local hipsters.
There is Werewolf/vampires-that-prefer-to-shift-into-wolves/Vamps-that-prefer-to-shift-into-bats/Werebat Discourse and it is INTENSE
ok it’s not quite Seattle but THERE IS ABSOLUTELY A DRAGON ON MOUNT HOOD AND WE DO NOT FUCK WITH HER.
There are Kelpies, but mostly out in the san juans and rich neighborhoods where people are less suspicious and better marbled. Most of the time though, they get into dumpsters and more than one Marion has run out of the house with a slipper at 2AM to keep them from knocking the garbage cans over.
cryptid-only bars warded against humans, not out of safety concerns, but OH GOD HIPSTERS ARE SO ANNOYING.
Forks is like, 2 hours away and everyone int he community HAAAAATES the twilight series- less about the interpretation of vampirism and were-persons, but OH GOD THAT’S NOT HOW RELATIONSHIPS WORK.
DO NOT get them started on 50 shades, which takes place in seattle proper.
Mothman has SO. MANY. BRIDGES. TO. HAUNT. and a part-time job as a cook at Dick’s Drive-In. She makes the best milkshakes.
(messing around with lupa’s wolf-to-human ratio again.) give a lycan a hat and a jacket and she’s just a guy. take it away and she’s?? so nakey. anyways tell me which you prefer in the tags <3
