Loose Bits & Scraps
Added 2025-03-11 01:37:45 +0000 UTCa collection of random bits and scraps accumulated over the last couple months~
1.) the meadowsweets drawn as the irl dog breeds they’re inspired by
2.) toffee in his happy place
3.) saint, strawberry, and her world-famous pawberry pie
4.) a typical interaction between skye and honey
5.) skye lets off some steam
6.) honey thirsts. she has a thing for arrogant jocks
7.) maple thirsts. I ended up scrapping this because the joke felt overdone, but it’s still canon. Post-divorce Eleanor takes out her rage on easy target Maple. Maple is uh….kinda into it?
8.) toffee thirsts. he has a thing for kissable bellies
9.) kathleen on a hike with one of her gal pals, gayle! She’s a blue-footed booby and loves squawking it up on her nature walks
Comments
Ah alright, I understand now! Also it wasn't a dig at Biscuit like I don't think she's the worst:tm: (Biscuit and Maple's marriages are honestly one of my favourites to sit down and think about while I'm on the treadmill), I just thought the situation was something overlooked or intentional. I get Biscuit liking Honey for Sunny, she's watched that girl grow up to be a (in her eyes) respected lady of her community, and at this point in the story she's not rebelling authority openly like Skye is. Biscuit is the reason why Honey was able to go to a college and meet new people/gain her autonomy, it just seemed peculiar that the woman who gave her the freedom to explore was also subtly pushing her to date her son. (Which is usually what happens, at least where I'm from.) A part of me is so excited for the part where Biscuit meets Nonbiney Honey n her wife.
vulgarcute
2025-03-17 20:40:29 +0000 UTCUhhhhhh yeah no that's my bad. Biscuit pushing Honey and Sunny together, and even the above doodle of Skye snapping at Honey, were drawn back when I was still imagining Honey and Sunny as exactly the same age. When I made the Meadowsweet family tree, Honey had to be aged down a bit for the timeline to make sense. Honey is canonically 22-24 years old, while Sunny is 28, and Skye is 30. Still, I think Biscuit cares a lot less about the (kinda negligible) age diff between her son and Honey, and a lot more about Honey being a far more palatable choice (in her opinion) than opinionated and stubborn Skye. She's being selfish and pushy, but Biscuit most definitely believes her handsome perfect son really would be an excellent match for Honey and knows he would NEVER mistreat or manipulate her like Merry with Maple. She's well-intentioned! .....Sorta.
Lopoddity
2025-03-17 20:21:46 +0000 UTCYkno, very faintly I do wonder if this situation with Sunny, Skye and Honey contributes to the disillusionment and dissolution of Honey's relationship/respect for her parents... and her aunty biscuit by extension. Like, make no mistake, what Biscuit is trying to do here even if she won't openly admit it, is get her son to be with the cute next door neighbour Honey. That's all swell n all... but Sunny and Skye are 30 and Honey is in her 20s. Does Biscuit not see the very uncomfortable situation she's putting Honey in? A direct repeat of the past where she saw Maple's suffering in the church community and her domestic life (even if it's been retconned to Maple being tentatively fine in her relationship with only bubbling resentment...) Even if Honey doesn't directly know at this point... Biscuit has to have known about the Meadowsweets' past at this point, there isn't an ant colony on Fuzzbutts that doesn't know the history of the Meadowsweets. I was processing everything you've written up so far regarding Honey being created as Skye's antithesis in the beginning. Skye telling Honey to stay away from her man feels like such a weird continuation of the Eleanor/Merry/Maple past. How is Honey supposed to feel? Not only does her mom disrespect her sexuality BUT now her Auntie Biscuit passively wants Honey to get between a relationship? Take Sunny for herself? Basically make the same mistakes Maple & Merry made? Sure there's no marriage involved but it feels... p scummy. Like Honey has no agency of her own. Unless I am misunderstanding something big here.
vulgarcute
2025-03-17 19:56:59 +0000 UTCFrankly, I would love to see what it looks like for Honey to seriously try hitting on somebody. I’m assuming lemon bars are involved.
Morghann Patterson
2025-03-13 15:52:58 +0000 UTCOh my god…. Her and Topher are the SAME
Morghann Patterson
2025-03-13 15:52:23 +0000 UTCBut Honey is telling Skye she should shut up and be positive for other people's comfort. 🥺 Skye is not being mindful of Honey's feelings right now. 😔 Not doing a great job modelling intersectional feminism 😔 Also Honey is younger, so Skye is committing ageism too 😔
Lopoddity
2025-03-13 15:44:16 +0000 UTCYou are right maybe in other circumstances, because it was Merry the one that make the betray but Maple still knew it was a VERY BAD IDEA and still go with it, so balance it's more for Merry that for Maple. It would have been different just a little bit so much, if he have lied and told her "oh don't worry I'm going to divorce and marry you, let have a life together" you know how some men do when cheating, some even lied and claim they aren't married and have a doble life. A friend of my mom divorce (which in latino culture and for the generation of my mom is almost unheard of) she learn the bastard was sleeping and promising the word to this young girl that worked with her in the same company, of course after asking the girl, the dude lied to her too, the girl have no idea he was married and with kids her age Jesus even older, the poor girl was so ashamed and feel like an idiot, she was pregnant and with a little boy of her ex, besides he even promise her marriage. Long story short the old lady destroy the cheating bastard in the divorce, and also make his ex give money to the girl too. She protected the girl who guess what? Was inmigrant so she worked really hard to send money to her family in her mother county and for his little boy (the bio father basically went to buy milk when he knew the girl was pregnant). Obviously people are critical about my mom's friend for not just helping the "other woman" also she let her live in her house when the girl couldn't pay rent, the old lady knew his husband was a freaking animal that prey in a 20 something because besides very pretty, she was vulnerable, alone in another country, with child, and in need of money and protection, so if he could have fun, he didn't care about lieing and making false promises. Also the good thing is that even if it was hard the kids supported their mom 💯 in the divorce and even if again it was hard accepted the young woman and her kid and half sibling as part of the family, they knew they weren't guilty of anything. Actually that remains me to this interesting manga (don't ask me the name because it's been a long time 😅) it's about a married woman in her 40s-50s, her husband have problems with his men issues you know sex, but she still care and love him so she accept it, and he's was a sweet caring man. The thing is that suddenly the hospital call her, her husband had an stroke, and there she find a younger man, he was her husband's lover. Ohhhh it was such a crazy, complex, yet weirdly realistic story. The thing she was in her essence a good woman, she would understand if he didn't love her anymore, heck she was open to talk and everything even. The problem was the younger man that acted as if this wasn't a cheating situation, sure he love this older man and fun fact the stroke was because the old men toke pills for his disfuntion. The wife and the younger man make a deal, she needed help taking care of her now in coma husband who was in and out and needed physical therapy, because her mother in law was very old and fragile and she couldn't hire a nurse (the mother in law was in her side and supposed all her decisions because even if it was her son, that lie was so hurtful, she adores her daughter in law). And it's even more chaotic when she thought that his husband even a another lover, a young woman and she feel bad because she wasn't this angry and insecure when the male lover but this was a pretty and young lady, but it was a misunderstanding, his husband was just helping a young single mother being a fake boyfriend because she have an abusive ex and some men in her work were creeps. The wife take the young mother and her child in her home because they needed protection and a home also extra help is always welcome, and even with all the mixed feeling the lies in both cases, she couldn't blame the girl, she wasn't a mistress, she was a friend of her husband, plus she loved kids. And it's hilarious because the young mother put in his place the young man when he dares to call her a "just a pretty thing and that didn't have any right to be here" and she was like "Excuse me? You are a side piece and dare to criticize me? At least when I learn he was married I respect that and didn't try anything, I was grateful for having help and a friend. It was you who tried to break a home going after a married men" damn! the girl reach him like a book 🤣 The manga was very good btw. It shows the complexity of some infidelities and how it affects women especially older ones, their love life and everything.
MiyaTheGoldenFlower
2025-03-13 15:40:17 +0000 UTCMore birb pls!
MEllegoo
2025-03-13 02:46:57 +0000 UTCAlso please for the love of GOD tell me our blue footed booby friend does the silly booby dance
Morghann Patterson
2025-03-12 23:55:30 +0000 UTC“Not very #feminist of you, huh Skye?” “You know actually if you don’t approve of me hating your guts you’re telling a woman she has to shut up and be positive for other people’s comfort, now what HONEY.”
Morghann Patterson
2025-03-12 23:51:22 +0000 UTCRight? Like there's so much to comment on but Skye's expression is such a mood.
Scyllarus
2025-03-12 18:57:41 +0000 UTCForgot to mention, love Skye’s little stress howl 😭
TheTabbyBadger
2025-03-12 10:57:12 +0000 UTCI mean she ain't hiking to a scenic mountain spot with kathleen just to hold hands. She wants dem FAT TITTIES on her BEAK
Lopoddity
2025-03-12 04:06:38 +0000 UTCI'm so sorry but...is Gayle a booby that likes boobies? :D
Doglover502
2025-03-12 03:41:03 +0000 UTC👀👀👀 Color me intrigued, in that case
Lammergayier
2025-03-12 02:41:20 +0000 UTCHmmm, I dunno. I suggest you go click the Maple tag and read the 2 sketch comics that feature her and the Meadowsweet siblings. While Toffee and Eleanor lash out in anger at Maple (partly because of her role in the affair, but mostly because she makes for an easier target than Merry), Topher is significantly more empathetic. He's upset with her, sure. But even through his sullen teen attitude it's still apparent he cares about her- he tries to convince her to forget about Merry and have an abortion. Even when she snaps at him, he still offers her comfort when she reveals she's afraid of the future. Topher can't make himself not care about Maple, even though he'd like to. She was his babysitter, his friend. In many ways, an older sister. He loved her. Even after Honey is born, and Topher and Maple drift apart. Maple personally finds his cynical punk rock attitude and willful defiance for authority to be extremely exhausting to deal with, so she puts distance between them. She frames it as Topher (an unapologetically queer punk) potentially being a bad influence on Honey, but in reality Topher reminds her of her own sacrificed freedom, so she pushes him away. Topher is hurt by this, but of course pretends not to care, flips Maple off, have fun being a dumbshit suburban mombie, something something when you wake up next to him in the middle of the night/With your head in your hands, you're nothing more than his wife. They don't talk for decades, but that doesn't mean they don't keep an eye on each other. Topher definitely doesn't check the church's webpage to see the annual Meadowsweet family fuzzmas photo, Honey proudly held in Maple's arms- before clicking away with a snort. Maple definitely doesn't roll her eyes at seeing Topher featured in a music magazine, then wrestle with the urge to buy it. They definitely don't think about each other, how their lives are going, if they're safe, if they're happy with the choices they made. All I'm saying is, Topher is probably a bit more open to forgiveness than you might think.
Lopoddity
2025-03-12 02:21:40 +0000 UTCAlmost makes me wonder what an au would look like where everyone gets mad at only Merry instead and Ellie takes Maple under her wing because she feels bad for her (still divorces, but maybe helps Maple with Honey, Merry gets nothing). That would be a fascinating world (tho I like og best :) )
TheTabbyBadger
2025-03-12 00:14:26 +0000 UTCFrom Bobby to booby xD
TheTabbyBadger
2025-03-12 00:12:27 +0000 UTCFR like honestly ik it's kind of confirmed atp that Maple will escape all of this Eventually but between This and everything else she (even if unintentionally) put him through I'd be surprised if Topher ever forgives her or lets her back in his life. Lop correct me if I'm wrong but he seems like the type to hold a grudge until the day he dies. And honestly I wouldn't blame him in this case.
Lammergayier
2025-03-11 23:27:08 +0000 UTCTopher seeing Maple getting goo goo eyes at his mom:.....Do you get some kinda sick kick out of scarring me for life
Lourenzo Dasilva
2025-03-11 23:20:05 +0000 UTCEleanor looks so dramatic (like, dramatic lighting not like irrational) and absolutely stunning here. Merriweather is fucking fool to give her up.
Res Hound
2025-03-11 18:54:29 +0000 UTC…Is Maple a crisis friend? Does she put herself into situations people tell her not to, expect sympathy, victimize herself following the consequences of her actions, or remove herself from accountability entirely? Does she not get the principle that the situation *itself* is fucked since she was involved, even if she didn’t plan it? She was a victim in that she was preyed upon by Merry, but not because she knew it was her friend's father, and she still didn’t think anything would come out of it. Is that right? I want to understand this without victim-blaming her, but she isn’t absolved from her apathy.
Biscuit
2025-03-11 17:03:14 +0000 UTCWoof.
Alight
2025-03-11 16:59:59 +0000 UTCFlo the flamingo! :3 All birds technically have hands. Gayle here has clawed hands just like Flo, they're hidden underneath her feathers. Some birds, like Flo, opt to trim off their feathers because it's easier to navigate living spaces without a massive wingspan in the way. This obviously means they cannot fly. Gayle though wouldn't trade flight for anything in the world, so she still has all her feathers.
Lopoddity
2025-03-11 15:20:30 +0000 UTCAh yes a treat!!! For some reason it made me stupidly happy to see Merry Maple and Honey as actual dogs- OH MY GOD SKYE’S BACK!!!!!! Missed her dearly- mostly because she’s just a delight of a design, very beloved. Delighted by all of this heck yea
Gela
2025-03-11 15:10:59 +0000 UTCActually this made me wonder. What's the Hand situation with bird-folk in this world? I don't see any hands on Gayle here, but I remember that flamingo character in an earlier drawing (I'm blanking on her name) had hands. Can they still fly?
Lammergayier
2025-03-11 14:57:20 +0000 UTCDaisy's just fine. :3 She actually inspired Merry's slipper here. I was lifting the cushion out of her bed the other day to wash it, and underneath was like....a hoard of my socks. She's been stealing them and "burying" them. >:( Meanwhile my ass has been buying more sock packs from walmart like a dumbass
Lopoddity
2025-03-11 14:49:40 +0000 UTCNope! Maple doesn't really feel guilty over her role in the affair, because it just sort of....happened. She didn't plan on it, didn't even really benefit from it (we all know that office sex with Merry was mid as hell, Maple was just too inexperienced to know better). She views herself as a sort of negatively-affected bystander in the whole thing, like Eleanor is. Which is why she still thinks she and Eleanor can be friends (surely they have a lot to relate over), and that her relationship with Toffee doesn't need to change. Maple knows she's not a wicked seductive adulteress, so she's thrown when she gets treated as such. The fun part is, by being constantly treated like a monster, Maple will eventually become reactive, dismissive, and egotistical (like the "Karen" stereotype) as a means of emotional self-defense.
Lopoddity
2025-03-11 14:30:02 +0000 UTCA booooby!!!! OMG all of these are so great!
pookaWOODS
2025-03-11 14:23:39 +0000 UTCGood to know thirsting after pretty ladies is something Maple and Honey have in common haha, Love the art, it’s great as always!
Millions of Bees
2025-03-11 12:48:42 +0000 UTCYou’ve really been spoiling us lately. I’m still recovering from how delicious the Merry and Liv content was, The Nieth and Eleanor stuff, Eva’s debut, and Don and Toffee’s trip to the lake…and now I’m gonna be thinking about these doodles all day too!
FloweryFruitFangs
2025-03-11 12:13:47 +0000 UTCall of these doodles are so great LOL honey going "there's no way that woman is heterosexual!" well, it takes one to know one, Honey... its so fun seeing them all as dogs! old Merriweather chewing on a sandal makes him seem so harmless lol. which begs the question... hows YOUR dog? Daisy's goofy eyes pop up in the back of my mind sometimes, i hope she's alright!
gamigami
2025-03-11 08:03:05 +0000 UTCThat makes me happy to think about. I like to think it starts with Honey one day opening up about being an “affair child” and her brothers and Ellie quietly come to adopt her more.
Emily Lemur
2025-03-11 05:39:14 +0000 UTCThe little empathy I had for Maple dissipated upon realizing she's an English setter. (My disdain for the breed comes exclusively from my grandparents adoration of it, so much so that they refused to come to my wedding because they didn't want to leave their English setter at home.)
Corinne Stephenson
2025-03-11 05:38:45 +0000 UTCKathleen my love! So glad to see her doing well! But Merry’s looking at the business end of a spray bottle if he doesn’t drop my damn slipper >:0
phobos
2025-03-11 04:09:39 +0000 UTCDoes Maple not find it weird or shallow that she’s just a little bit attracted (even though she doesn’t know it) to the woman’s life she ruined and family she tore apart?
Biscuit
2025-03-11 03:52:24 +0000 UTCShe keeps loose trail mix in her fanny pack. Just in case anybody's blood shuggie gets low
Lopoddity
2025-03-11 03:51:11 +0000 UTCIirc, disappointed that Maddie's not a nice sensible sapphic but a self proclaimed "party slut". So...Skye has nothing to worry about, haha
Scyllarus
2025-03-11 03:50:46 +0000 UTCI love Gayle with my whole heart
owlcoholik
2025-03-11 03:40:43 +0000 UTCI was thinking that skye has nothing to worry about since honey is a lesbian but then i remembered sunny is genderfluid… what would she think of maddie, i wonder 👀
AsTheJayFlies
2025-03-11 03:33:11 +0000 UTCI love everything about these, but especially the booby shot hehehe
Iowasi
2025-03-11 03:32:54 +0000 UTCI'm always hype to see Skye being an angry pupper! Always happy to see the rivalry play out. Also lol, Kathleen likes boobies 😏
Bigsmile
2025-03-11 02:26:54 +0000 UTCI like to think Eleanor and Maple will be friends. Someday. Doubtful anything romantic would happen between her because Eleanor still views Maple as a child, even when she's in her forties. She's old enough to be her mother....and eventually, eventually, EVENTUALLY, she will take on a sort of maternal, mentorly role in Maple's life. Eventually.
Lopoddity
2025-03-11 02:23:36 +0000 UTCAw, I'm so glad! I like having characters who are expressly attracted to fat bodies. Like, it's not a matter of Toffee finding Bob attractive "in spite of" his gut. He just thinks Bob is, as is, extremely fuckin hot. I have an alt version of this doodle from a bit into the future, after they're married, that goes like Bob, frowning, holding his belly: Geez, I've put on a couple pounds since my prime. Is it....y'know, noticeable? Toffee, already on his hands and knees and visibly drooling: Y E S 👀
Lopoddity
2025-03-11 02:19:43 +0000 UTCAhhh I adore these little doodles, I have such mix feelings when I see Merry, my family dog RIP was a cocker spaniel just like him, the best dog ever, so gentle, lazy and funny, and then I see Merry and "Why you have to be such cute dog but such horrible person 😭" Toffee loving/lustful gaze heal me heart, as someone that have seen couples struggle because one partner feel ugly because age, weigh, sickness, it's so nice that he see his beloved as the most handsome man ever 💖 I just LOVE E Toffee design, he's so pretty 🥹🩷 For me there's something so funny yet a little pathetic that Honey and her mom likes strong ladies yet they have zero luck with them cuz these ladies HATE THEM🤣 Honey is antagonistic and loves to make Sky angry while also being so thirty for her (and it's even more hilarious that Sky could give her a good time if Honey personality weren't so awful and the salt in the wound is that her brother actully have fun with Sky✌️my guy living Honey's dream with all these pretty ladies in his life) and Maple, sweetie, I know you can't control your thoughts and attraction but that's the ex-wife of your husband, marriage that end very bad, Ellie can't even stand you breathing next to her 😅 Ok maybe it's weird or I just like chaos but hypothetical question, if Merry and Ellie marriage would still ended for whatever reason, not Merry cheating with Maple, and Maple was still friend with the family even after the separation but everything else is still the same, and after all those years, ehm would these two ladies be friends? And Maple in the imposible case of kinda accepting her bi self, would she try to make a move on Ellie? In the sense of "I like-like you do you want to go on a date" kind of thing? I don't know but I'm sure Ellie even if she thought it was flattering she would be a little uncomfortable because she have seen this girl grow up, isn't like she meet her a couple of times in her life and then Maple surely came back after years and confess her feelings (which I have seen happen). Again I don't know it just a little scenario, cuz for what I have seen Ellie is more Maple's type that... well Merry 😅
MiyaTheGoldenFlower
2025-03-11 02:05:40 +0000 UTCMy reaction when someone has a gut. I see you Toffee.
pookaWOODS
2025-03-11 02:00:12 +0000 UTCDidn't think I'd have anything in common with Maple but here we are haha
forthehonor-ofgayskull
2025-03-11 01:58:13 +0000 UTCI have a picture of my favorite character as a fat, huggable, kissable loaf and the caption reads "Skinny guys are outdated. Get yourself a fat fuck." That applies to Toffee so much.
Amanda Stidham
2025-03-11 01:53:47 +0000 UTCAww I love to see Kathleen living her best life 😊
Hazelskyes
2025-03-11 01:53:30 +0000 UTCHoney is kind of Slaying in that fourth pic I fear (and so is Skye god damn 😳) Edit: also tbh that pic with Bob kinda made me feel seen ;v; I'm not fat but I used to be super fit with a pretty flat stomach and I've acquired some Chub in that area over the past couple of years. I am a staunch supporter of body positivity for all.... But at the same time, internalized fatphobia is a BITCH. Even though the logical part of my brain knows that my fears of not being attractive to my partner anymore are Completely illogical (they know about my struggle with this and have been nothing but gentle and reassuring with me), it's still There in the back of my mind. Our society HAMMERS it into us that being chubby or fat or just having a bit of a gut is unattractive and it's awful :// and even someone who's done a lot of unlearning already can still struggle with it. I'm kind of really glad that that's a trait of Bob's that Toffee very explicitly finds Hot.
Lammergayier
2025-03-11 01:45:16 +0000 UTCi was just looking at the Kathleen post where she talked about wooing a blue-footed booby with just her t-shirt and i LOVE the continuity good for them
Pansy Soupbrand
2025-03-11 01:41:45 +0000 UTC
