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Can you see the picture? I don't know what degree of vision you have.

Interestingly enough, everyone who caught cluckitis in TMS turned into hens. No roosters. The species change was bad enough, but laying eggs is just freaky.

In case a description would help:

Boober Chicken has his comb flopped over his eyes, with his hat covering that. He's wearing a reflector and is looking down the throat of Red Chicken, who has bows on her comb. Behind them are Gobo Chicken (calm, wearing a dorky hat), Mokey Chicken looking like she is quietly savoring this novel experience, and Wembley Chicken, who is wearing his shirt and about to sneeze.

Using sneezes for propulsion, Wembley will be able to fly again! OK, it'll be backwards, but it's better than nothing.

Good to see that Boober is not letting his condition get in his way of his doctor duties.

During the course of my latest fanfic, Growing Together, I was accused of portraying Scooter and Janken more as "just friends" than as a couple. So, to set things right, I drew Muppet Snogging. Please understand, this was drawn only to please those who wanted to see Muppet slash, and not at all because it was fun to draw. Honest.

Rated R for nekkid feet.

BTW, I'm in the mood to draw, and I'd like to do some more art exchanges. Same terms as before: quid pro quo, meaning that if you want a two-figure pic with background, you do the same for me. This is open to all who do not currently have outsanding art trades with me.

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I'm in. What would you like?

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Ah, a rematch, eh? Got any ideas on what you'd like this time 'round?

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How are you at drawing actual humans? Would love something involving Newsie and Gina (yes, I have a model for her, a composite photo). But otherwise will have to give it a little thought.
Would you like Scooter and Janken?

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I can draw humans. If you look through my Oz gallery on DA you'll see images of Dorothy, Ozma, and the Wizard. I just don't draw humans often 'cause fantasy critters are so much more fun. Heh, I just came back from seeing Avenue Q, so I'd be tempted to have Gina puppeteering Newsie. Better give me a motif so I don't give in to the dark side.

Scooter and Janken would be cool. Since you've been commenting on my recent stories, I think I can assume you've been reading them too. How about an image inspired by a fic scene?

As I just mentioned, today I saw Avenue Q at the Horizon Theatre. It was just wonderful. One thing that surprised and rocked me was how the puppeteers got into the act. Rod's puppeteer was making faces, skipping around, etc, and even though it was a person and a puppet, the two registered as one character. It was freakin' amazing.

As a rider of MARTA, Atlanta's embarrassing excuse for a public transportation system, I brought plenty of stuff to entertain me during the long, long waits between buses and trains. (It took two and a half hours to get there and two to get back.) In the theater, which I got to very early because if you're on MARTA you're either stupidly early or late, I pulled out my sketchbook. Since in my last fic (Growing Together) Kermit and Piggy, and then Scooter and Janken, went to see Street Z, before the show began I doodled Janken and Scooter reacting to You Can Be as Loud as The H*ll You Want (When You're Makin' Love), and during the intermission I scribbled The same two as Rod and Nicky, complete with arm rods and live-hand sleeves.


The theater concession stand really did have ginormous cookies. I swear, they were the size of personal pan pizzas.

Here's some good old-fashioned nightmare fuel for ya...



You're welcome.

Wanna know what's worse? There's a story behind this.

You're such a tease. Spill it.

It's Scooter and Skeeter. Scooter is in the getup he wore in the World In Which Kermit Had Never Been Born (from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas), in which we saw him as a cage-dancing raver. (Black tank top, black shorts, boots, chain belt and bracelet, black painted fingernails. I left off the glow tubes; the glow wore off.) His arm is around Skeeter, holding her close by his side. She's wearing a Gothic Lolita type dress, and her hair is up in pigtails tied back with ribbons. Scooter is looking up, presumably at someone human-sized, and attempting a come-hither smile, except his pupils are very dilated, making him look zoned out. Skeeter is looking down unhappily, like she doesn't want to be there.

It's nicely drawn. Not nearly as bad as I was expecting but I'm totally okay with that. I don't remember Scooter in that movie, I'll have to check it out again. At any rate it's an interesting side to the character.

No nightmares? Darn. Well, if you watch the movie, right after some guy in Club Dot makes kissy faces at Kermit, Kermit recoils back, hits something, looks, up, and sees about 10 seconds of Scooter doing a bump & grind in a cage. You've never lived until you've seen that.

Not nightmares, exactly, but it does ick me out that in so many of the fics and pictures Scooter still seems so...young. He's still wearing his high school jacket, for gracious sakes (or some such like), still in school. He doesn't exude an adult air so I can't seem to see him outside of 14 most of the time. (I was glad they actually put him in a grown-up pair of jeans for the movie.)

Once you are an adult, it's different, but it's hard to take Scooter seriously as a great seducer (and it will apparently have to be him) when he's still riding a bike everyplace. So the spandex alone didn't ick me out, but I'm still a little icked. No wonder Skeeter looks so uncomfortable. (Nice Skeeter, by the way.)