-0- Take my votes and my money! I place it all on Derpy Dragon.
Derpy is the demon of the YEAR. He deserves treats and a party.
8( AND a cup of coffee with donuts in the shapes of hearts!

Ermagerd...it's official, Derpy needs to be a little devil for Halloween this year!

...unless he picks something different of course.

I've made over $100 from commissions this year. It may not seem like a lot, but it's def made me feel like a professional!

That's awesome, MonBon! ^^

I've made, uh, $50 in masks I think so far? :0

I haven't made money outside of my jobs yet, but have commissions to make that will get me about $160 once they're done.
One order is almost half done, but has no deadline, the other isn't started yet, but needs done in about a month and a half....time to start the second order... >.>

I could use a mask, if you're willing to ship. I bought one off of someone in town and it was supposed to be fitted to my face, but... it's too big :< idk if I did my measurements wrong or what happened

Good luck Derpy, you gonna let Kad help you? :P

((Lol...forgot I was on Derpy's account...
Derpy is the offical hug tester for all plushies I make.))

Derpy stares at the giant pile of yarn, scales, looms, and plushie pieces, then nods energetically, pushing it all in front of Kaderin. "Yeah!"

HI I WANNA DO THE ooky spooky writing submission SO UH HERE IT IS

Tap tap tap. I shoot up in bed, awoken by an incessant tapping drilling through my head. Groggily I pry myself off my mattress as I go patrol the studio apartment I live in alone to find the source of the tapping. Tap tap tap. The sound is almost painful as it rings through again. At a near run I continue searching around the room, panicked by only a tapping noise.
"I'm going insane aren't I?" I ask, shortly followed by a faster round of tapping drilling through the silence. The sound feels like hundreds on knives being driven through my skull with each tap. It continues with no end in sight. After hours and hours and hors of searching I lay on the floor. Tap tap tap., ringing through my head constantly. I curl up in a ball and scream at the top of my lungs, no one around in the apartment complex seeming to hear. I lay there for about an hour more, just wallowing in the pain and insanity inducing tapping, until the tapping turns to scratching. Scratch scratch scratchhh. This pain feels like my skull is being slowly cracked open. I grab onto my hair, screaming as I pull handful after handful of my locks off my head. Scratch scratch scratchhh. I scratch my nails down the sides of my face, using anything to attempt to distract me from the excruciating pain in my head. I can't call 911, I recently got rid of any sort of communication device I had. So instead, I bolt out of my apartment and pound relentlessly on my neighbors doors. But, they doors just swing open. No one else is here. Scratch scratch scratchhh. My scream is hoarse from ow raw my throat has gotten. Why is no one here? Where did they all go? I fall to my knees, sobbing and screaming. I keep scratching and clawing at my face as the scratching continues. I finally found the source of the noise as the skin of my face starts tearing and ripping, it's in my head. Everything starts going dark in the peripherals of my vision as my body starts going limp. I feel my skull burst open as everything goes dark...

I have reread none of this so I hope its someone cohesive n not absolutely terrible. I haven't written a short story in a bit so heeere.

Thanks for your submission!

Just so everyone knows Demon of the Week is STILL open!

How's everyone aside from working to death?? Any fun news?

Still working to death, but I splurged and bought a new tarot deck (that I'll probably never use given how I never use the other decks I have either) on Sunday.

I have taken on a second job bc I hate myself I guess

Jeez man, kinda depressing people have to work themselves to the bone just to get by. I get working to live but... society seems a tad bit out of control with this if you ask me. I hope life gives you all a break soon!

I mean...in my case it's becoming less "to survive" and more "I'm a reliable employee who never takes a sick day plus the holiday season (retail hell from Nov-Jan)".

Good luck with the Jobs, Mon! Hopefully it won't be too bad!

It does suck that people have to do that, but that's not my situation. I'm being quite literal xD I am just a workaholic is all. Basically if I am not doing something "productive" I get stressed so almost everything I do in my life is a side hustle. If you count my commissions I actually have 3 jobs

Hmmmm as long as it's by choice, but jeez that just sounds exhausting.

Just so everyone knows there's a few days left on the spooky writing contest and only one submission! Also DOTW is STILL open!

I keep forgetting to finish up my avi. XD
Have a little extra free time this week though so maybe tomorrow afternoon I'll finally get it done.

Good on you all for the hustle!
But I agree with Satan, it seems like it's a LOT!

I could barely manage one "normal" job. It was extremely stressful and I ended up going into hospital every other month while working that job. Leaving it was easily the best thing I could have done for myself, but I was planning on leaving anyway because we were moving.

I recently took a commercial class and had to memorize *9* different commercial scripts! x_x I thought I wasn't going to be able to do it! I am usually pretty good at memorizing scripts, but 9?! That was really tricky! But I did it and I'm very proud of myself for it :D

Proud of you ^^

That's a lot of memorization at once. I'm impressed.

Jeez 9 scripts! Hey guys sorry for the short break I lost track of time! Hope everyone is doing OK!


As for the Halloween event, it has ended, thank you to Voidscorpse for your submission! You're the winner of this contest.

Meanwhile DOTW is still open and awaiting submissions! Winners will be announced every Sunday when submissions are entered.

I don't remember xD What does applying for Demon of the week entail?

Making a demon avatar and submitting it. It's kinda like the monthly avatar contest but demons. XD

currently waiting for tf2 to download just to test whether or not the chat refuses to let me speak.

i was having some issues last time with the chat not letting me speak in MvM, but it shouldn't affect the base game, should it?

edit: of note, both me and the person reporting this are f2p players.

I didn't know the tf2 servers were still up haha

...I don't know what any of that means...
O.o

Neither do I. uwu

I'm assuming it's something to do with a game??

That might be a safe bet.

Team Fortress 2 - it's a shooter by valve. It is pretty old though; most people have moved on to Overwatch

Okay....

So, how's everyone doing? Any big Thanksgiving plans for those in the US?

Well... a dress I ordered online is coming next week and I'm anxious to see if it fits, if that counts

None for me.
The governor here says not to have more than two households at a Thanksgiving gathering,
And my family lives on the opposite side of the country... Not that we ever visited them anyway, but we definitely won't be seeing them this year.

I'm making lasagna for Thanksgiving this year per request by my mom. I'm sure it's a kinda unusual Thanksgiving meal, but since it's just the three of us, me, my mom and my dad, we're not going to do anything fancy.

How about you?

Monbon: Yay! That is exciting! I hope it fits!

Ava: Yeah, I think big limits like that went into affect in most areas recently. I think here it's a limit of 20 or 25 people for holiday gatherings though.
Yum! Lasagna!

It's gonna just be me, the cats, and Derpy for thanksgiving, so if I'm feeling particularly festive, I may pick up some sweet potatoes to roast and a can of cranberry sauce, but I'll probably just make up some cheese ravioli with a tomato based sauce with peppers and onions for dinner. Just like...the frozen ravioli though because I'm not ambitious enough to do that from scratch this year.
And maybe I'll buy a pie or something idk.

Hey Monbon, what is the dress for? :o Any special occasion?

Kaderin! That sounds like fun! I have always loved ravioli. :)
Unfortunately I developed TMJ and my urgent care doctor prescribed an anti-inflammatory but I'm only supposed to eat soft foods for the next month. T_T So I'm going to cook my lasagna extra done, but I wanted to make roasted broccoli too and my mom is going to pick up an apple pie. :(
So I'll probably have to steam my broccoli too and no apple pie for me. ;n;

But I'll make do with applesauce, I guess. So I'll do applesauce and lasagna and steamed broccoli probably.

Nothing special really. I grew up with mostly hand me downs and I've grown out of everything that used to fit. I researched custom clothing and found a site I thought I might like but you never know with online.

It fits btw :D

YAaaaay! :) I'm glad it fits, Monbon! <3

Custom dress sounds really nice.

Yeah, since it fits I'll buy more throughout the next year. It'll be nice having dresses that are just mine

Do you have any pictures of the dresses? :O
They are custom made, so did you get to choose the fabric and style too?

so it was through this site called eshakti - they design the dresses already, but then you put in your measurements. They have A LOT of dresses so you can somewhat pick the pattern.

here's the dress I got

https://media.discordapp.net/attachm...508&height=677

Aww, Monbon, is that you?
You look adorable! That dress is super cute too! :O
Does that dress have cats on it? I like it very much!

Yes, that is me, and yes, it is basically a cat houndstooth pattern.