October 2014 Discussion Thread

[Realtamoon]

Bravo Lilian. You are absolutely one of the coolest artists on this site. I love the thought and stories you put into each litter. It's wonderful and exciting. Thank you.

[gadfly]

Since my horses are finally done growing, I shall explain their theme. I like to call this Grief Litter, for it's based on the five stages of grief. That's why they folowed this rather... odd growth system. They were simulating the progress of the stages on a person, and each horse's design is also my symbolic interpretation of each stage.


Denial is something that breaks you apart, for you're constantly trying to ignore the harsh reality and thus start an inner conflict between what's real and what is not. Thus the "broken" appearance of the horse.


Anger is like an infection. It takes over when you're at your weakest and corrupts you from the inside out, and so I made the horse look infected, with spiderweb veins all over him.


Bargaining is "what if" stage, where you're constantly beating yourself over what happened and keep trying to change the past, when it's clearly no use. With this I made the horse look very weak, tired and beaten up.


Depression is such a vast field to explore and very hard to squeeze everything in one design, but basically I made the horse look half sick, half healthy, because while you look fine in the outside and everybody thinks you're ok, deep inside you're far from it. The horse also has a chain marking on his neck to represent the chained feeling depression has on you.


And lastly, here we have Acceptance. I wanted to make the horse look very peaceful and light, yet still bearing faint scars from the grief it passed through. After all, even though you may have achieved acceptance, what happened is something you will always carry with you.

This litter represents the stages of grief so beautifully, even though going through each stage is anything but. I love Acceptance the most - the epitome of serenity with the reminder of our loved ones that have passed.

Well done, Lilian Nighshade, well done!

[Lydia♡]

my exact thought.

[KC.]

You know, it makes a lot of sense that the Acceptance Horse seems to be the hardest to find, considering it is the hardest stage of Greif to get to.
(at least for me it was/has been)

[Pyromaniacal]

Oh wow.

If I were superstitious I would think twice about missing none but the acceptance horse XD

[Silver Tiger~]

...so are there any more black and white dogs? I heard there were. but I missed getting any.

Those horses are so cool, such an interesting idea and beautiful artistic rendering! Aaah, I'm so glad I got most of them and was easily able to trade for the one I missed.

[Contra23]

I love this month's horses. And now knowing the full story behind the litter, I love them even more.

I also really love the ponies. The second gen dogs are one of my favourite second gen litters of all time, I just love their coats and colours! And this outcome of the striped dogs...


Pet's name: Valhalla
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simply gorgeous.

[Mckarca]

Since my horses are finally done growing, I shall explain their theme. I like to call this Grief Litter, for it's based on the five stages of grief. That's why they folowed this rather... odd growth system. They were simulating the progress of the stages on a person, and each horse's design is also my symbolic interpretation of each stage.


Denial is something that breaks you apart, for you're constantly trying to ignore the harsh reality and thus start an inner conflict between what's real and what is not. Thus the "broken" appearance of the horse.


Anger is like an infection. It takes over when you're at your weakest and corrupts you from the inside out, and so I made the horse look infected, with spiderweb veins all over him.


Bargaining is "what if" stage, where you're constantly beating yourself over what happened and keep trying to change the past, when it's clearly no use. With this I made the horse look very weak, tired and beaten up.


Depression is such a vast field to explore and very hard to squeeze everything in one design, but basically I made the horse look half sick, half healthy, because while you look fine in the outside and everybody thinks you're ok, deep inside you're far from it. The horse also has a chain marking on his neck to represent the chained feeling depression has on you.


And lastly, here we have Acceptance. I wanted to make the horse look very peaceful and light, yet still bearing faint scars from the grief it passed through. After all, even though you may have achieved acceptance, what happened is something you will always carry with you.

This is awesome.

[.muse.]

WAIT?!
There was another outcome?
*kicks everything*
I already missed like two outcomes!

[catsmeow]

Thank you Lilian, you did a beautiful job.