This post is an archive of a tumblr post originally posted on 4/1/23
![JADE OC NEWS banner](../../art/2023/ocnews/newsbanner.png)
Happy April fools!... even though I only ran this one on one site this year... heheh... I turned my Twitter into a parody news account surrounding my OCs
I only ran this on Twitter this year due to time constraints + generally being too tired of social media this year. (+ It would've been way clunkier to run this on here and other accounts I'm on)
But the doodles I made is too goofy to not share around so here y'all go:
Jade's PC only crashed 20 times today (nod to the project I'm working on in thesis)
![jade with a crashed laptop](../../art/2023/ocnews/jadecrash.png)
Iri became the first female character (diversity win?! lol)
![Iri became the first female character](../../art/2023/ocnews/irifirst.png)
Every AU of Prisma is Personalized (based on that time I kept making AUs of her, way before I rejoined tumblr)
![Every au of prisma is personalized](../../art/2023/ocnews/personalizedprisma.png)
Io stuck in a glue trap (they're an android and can't die via glue trap so they're just sitting there... annoyed)
![demonic io stuck in a glue trap](../../art/2023/ocnews/iogluetrap.png)
Risa spotted in gm_construct dark room
![risa in a g mod screenshot](../../art/2023/ocnews/gmodrisa.png)
MH!Prisma suspiciously more rendered than other fan characters (And yes that's an in-game MHW screenshot)
![Screenshot of monster hunter Prisma next to two cartoony ocs](../../art/2023/ocnews/mhprismareal.png)
Reploid! Io vows to destroy all printers
![printers are the real mavericks - Io, as they point their buster at a broken printer](../../art/2023/ocnews/ihateprinters.png)
And now for some extra thoughts!
This was admittedly a very last-minute April fools gag. Basically, I had another idea but I canned it because the scope was to big (Think: large multi-media project with an ARG element). And between my workload and socials migrating it's not worth the energy to do something like that right now
I'm glad I ended up cutting back, making the news posts was fun. Though the only regret I have is that it was last minute. Even if it's quicker shitposts, 7 drawings in one day is still a lot! Even if the burnout wasn't as bad afterwards, I don't want to risk a worse one in future things (at least within projects I have control over)
So I guess my main takeaway for future projects like this is keep it smaller, and don't cram last minute.
Still like what I came out with in the end, and it's an alright sequel to last year's goof where I sent my main OCs at the time on a fishing trip. Here's that as a bonus pic (because idk when I'll find an excuse to post it again lol)
![6 of my ocs on a fishing trip](../../art/2022/fishproject.jpg)