Pearls, Sheep and a Party

“This is the year of Baroque!” one of the squirrel brothers declared.

Bunlings had been waiting and waiting and waiiiiting to hear the news on what the next Fallen year would be, and since they knew it was announced somewhere within the colourful tree season, there had been many impatient nose wiggles lately. Now a chorus of cheers erupted on the meadow until the inevitable silence followed with the question hanging in the air.

“What’s baarokki?”

The squirrel sighed. “Baroque. It’s fancy hooman style of shiny gold and squiggles and fluffy hairs and singing very high.” He wasn’t quite sure of the details himself, but knew it was definitely more accurate than-

“Maybe it’s a sheep party?”

The squirrel’s paws met his tiny face.

“Yas! Sheep party! Rokki like hooman hopsi music and bää like sheep say!”

“It. is. not. a. sheep. party.” The squirrel sighed. “If it was a sheep party, do you think Matshan would use it as his name?”

“Matshan’s name is a sheep party?” The in-depth ponderings of mixing these two ideas together was clearly causing giant headache for the tiny bunlings. Heads were tilted, ears were drooped, round balls of fluff fellededs over.

“No. Matshan is not a sheep party, he’s hooman arts of pearls and fluffy hair and-“

“Nuu. His hair is always very straight. ‘n Ladybun has the pearls.”

“Maybe Ladybun is a sheep party, ‘n Matshan just joins in?”

“No one’s a sheep party!”

“But you said it’s about fluffy hair, that’s sheep!”

“…fine. It’s a sheep party. Surely makes sense. Why not.”

Another chorus of cheers sounded. Bunlings did not understand much about arts, but sheep parties were right up their small alley. 

“Maybe the hair is fluffy because there’s a sheep there!”

“Ooooooo.”

“We must help Ladybun with the Fallen Wall of Fanciness, and bring sheep!”

“A quest!”

“We are hiirous! Sheep party hiirous!”

So they were off to find sheep, and fluffy hair, and parties, and possibly even one day deeper understanding of bäärokki.

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The picture is for Fallen God & Goddess Contest 2022, or as bunlings call it: Fallen Wall of Fanciness. The deadline to deliver pictures is on Friday, October 7th, 11 PM SLT. More info and details here: Fallen God & Goddess Contest 2022

My picture might be on that wall, but it is not competing. Bunlings just want to join in every year for the joy of joining.

The contest is a part of Fallen Gods Inc. 15th Anniversary Festival which features hunts, market, fortune teller, parties and much more. More details here: Fallen Gods Inc. 15th Anniversary

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Skin: Fallen Gods Inc. – Pure [xx]+FGInc.+ Pearl

Face Tattoo & Forehead Pearl: Fallen Gods Inc. – Gloria Bright Gold, full & Gloria, barroco original hue (Seeker of Memories Hunt through October 2022)

Body Tattoos: Fallen Gods Inc. – Elegance Gold Relief & Sovereign Gold Filigree

Hair: Exile:: Versailles
Eyes: IKON Mortal Eyes – Parchment
Headdress: :MoonAmore: SwanLake / Feather Tiara (Pure)
Jewelry: [MANDALA] Pearl Rain Set
Dress: Belle Epoque { La Comtesse } White

Mesh:
Maitreya Lara Body
Slink Hands Dynamic (Bento)
LOGO Alexis Bento Head

Bunling: !Ohmai: Mochi Bunny 
+Half-Deer+ Kerfluffle Sheep – Marshmallow
Gloria, barroco sunlight +Fallen Gods Inc.+ 
Bliensen + MaiTai – Liaison Dangereuse – White with Roses
~Fallen Gods Inc. 15th~ Gloria Hunt / Flawed pearl display

Preparing for the Year of Squiggles

“Ladybun says this year Matshan will celebrate fancy squiggle writing and poking-top houses and desert,” one of the squirrel brothers informed the rest of the critters.

“We’re verigud at squiggle writing!” Bunlings got immediately excited.

“Finally, the Year of Desserts!” declared Addler, waving his too-short-arms in the air.

“The hot-sand and sun type of desert, not the ice cream one,” the squirrel corrected and observed the otter deflate like a sad balloon.

“Apparently there’s also snakes involved,” continued the other squirrel brother.

“Sneks!” Bunlings hopped around a little, then decided to double-check. “Nais sneks? Like Imhotep?”

“Not-at-all-dangerous-to-critters kind of sneks?”

“All kind of snakes! Also a very doomy one called…” the squirrel did a little drum roll on a pine cone, “Apophis!”

“A poppis!” Bunlings gasped, then reconsidered. “He sounds nais.” “He sounds like he’s gud at disko.” “Not duumi at all.”

The squirrel sighed. “…fine. Very good at disco. But how do you want to celebrate? Besides ice cream in the desert.” He raised a paw to stop Addler before he managed to bring it up.

“We must pose with Ladybun for the Great Fallen Wall of Fanciness!”

“Yas! We can play cleobun!”

“I have a black crayon for a perfect a poppis look!”

“I wanna pose, I’ve practised my profile nose twitch!”

“Fallen profile nose twitch a poppis cleobun picturing plan go!”

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The picture is taken for Fallen God & Goddess Contest 2021. The deadline to deliver pictures is on Saturday, October 9th, at 11 PM SLT. Info and rules can be found here: Fallen God & Goddess Contest 2021.

The contest is a part of Fallen Gods Inc. 14th Anniversary, which includes hunts, market, events and much more! Read details here: Fallen Gods Inc. 14th Anniversary

Skin: Fallen Gods Inc. – Blessed Silver PG

Body Tattoo: Fallen Gods Inc. – Damned Black/Silver

Face Tattoo: The Gaze of Apophis Black&Silver
(currently available in Seeker of Memories hunt)

Hair: !lamb. Bang Bang Ink
Eyes: A.D.D.Andel! Sunstone Eyes: White
Maitreya Lara Body
Slink Hands
LOGO Alexis Head
Bunling: !Ohmai Mochi Bunny
Bunling’s A Poppis liner result of photoshop crayoning

Bunling in the Moon

“There’s a bun in the moon!” The smallest bunling hopped up and down excitedly. “I can see her!”

Addler shook his round head slowly. “Nope. Moon is a prittiful star lady, like Ladybun! All glowing and radiant and gentle and kind toward critters and generous with noms and-“

Bunlings pondered this claim carefully, peering at the moon in the sky, washed in its light.

“It’s so big that if there’s a bun there, surely it’s a whole nest! Many nests. Burrow!”

“‘n if there’s a leidi in there, she must be giant! Like Ceri!”

“‘s both.” Said the more talkative of the squirrel brothers. “Obviously. There’s a star lady in the sky, ‘n you can’t see her because she’s all kah-moh-flaaazed, ‘n you see just stars on her skin. But she wears moon on her head, like Ladybun always wears all the things ever.”

Critters listened eagerly, eyes growing larger, ears perking, occasional excited thump of a paw on the soft grass the only sound.

“AND. And. On that moon on her head there’s a bun. Just like Ladybun carries critters with her, the great giant star lady carries moon bun on her head, too.”

“Oooooooooo.” Critters sighed in unison, peering back in the sky. Reverent silence fell, broken after a moment by Addler’s dreamy voice.

“…so, do you think she has moon cakes?”

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It’s time for the annual Fallen God & Goddess Contest! Simply take a picture of yourself wearing a Fallen Gods Inc. skin and send it full perms to me (Sonya Marmurek) to participate. Picture ratio 4:3, more details and rules here. Every participant gets an exclusive skin!

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Skin: Fallen Gods Inc. – Sidera Starborn
Eyes: [Cubic Cherry] {Nebula} eyes
Hair: Exile – Fall
Headdress: {Acios} Gaia Crown ~Claire de Lune~
Bunling: !Ohmai: Mochi Bunny
Sparkles: Cole’s Corner – Glitterati (at Uber)
Pose: Astalianda – Moon (hunt prize in ~Zodiac~ Hunt, opens October 5th)

Fallen White Bunlings

“But are you SURE the matsikal fotoshop will give me tattoo? Maybe we should try crayons instead?”

“Yes, I’m sure. …and the result might still look like crayons, but I promise, you will have a Fallen tattoo and can participate in the contest.”

“Yeytattoo!”

“Exactly that. Now just pose well, wiggle your nose… aaaand there!”

“Where where?”

“Just a saying. Means we’re done. All good!”

“Allgud!”

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I can’t help it, the critters always want to participate! So this year there’ll be two white bunnies with the golden tattoos in the contest. What contest, you might ask. Fallen God & Goddess Contest, of course! All the participants get an exclusive participation skin for their efforts, and in addition there’s a huge hoard of Fallen gift cards for various categories, and naturally the title itself, Fallen God 2018 and Fallen Goddess 2018 for the winners of the year!

In a nutshell: take a picture of yourself wearing a Fallen Gods Inc. skin of your choice, send it to me (Sonya Marmurek) with full permissions before October 13th, 11 PM SLT. The details and rules and details about the rules can be found here: Fallen God & Goddess Contest 2018.

The contest is always the first step toward the Fallen Gods Inc. Anniversary, heralding an October full of various events, Fortune Teller with a full avatar prize, parties, dance theater, live music, war bugs, general insanity and of course the market on top of the store and the gridwide hunt! More information can be found here: Fallen Gods Inc. 11th Anniversary Schedule.

Skin: Fallen Gods Inc. – Pure Pearl*
Tattoo: Fallen Gods Inc. – Elegance*
Eyes: Banana Banshee – Erin
Hair: !lamb. Bernice (Milk)
Bunny Ears: Aii – Cotton Usagi Ears
Head: LOGO – Alexis
Body: Maitreya Lara
Bunling: !Ohmai – Mochi Bunny
Bunling Tattoo: scribbled with photoshop