Hello all! We only have one update this week, but I think you'll enjoy it.

• Loid's Preparation

  • Fanfic
  • by TragicManner
  • .doc

  A short fanfic about Loid's struggles with having to hide in a trashcan.

For those of you who participate in our writing forum events, namely the Monthly Prompt and Writing Challenge series, do consider submitting your EarthBound related stories to our archives to share with the entire community. As always, if you would like additional feedback on something prior to submission, don't hesitate to bring it to our writing forum, and someone from our community will do their best to provide feedback. You can also always ask myself or Emily for help as well.

My review of this story is after the jump.

Hope everyone had a good weekend! Here's your update!



This week's Archive Dive is "Poltergeist" by Giampi.

About this piece, ohboy wrote: "To me, this story captures not only the innocence of the character, but the idealized desire for adventure from the writer as well."
To see the full review, check out the jump!

New Submissions!

• The Origin of Psychi...

  • Fanfic
  • by TheOrigin
  • .txt

  My rendition/recap of George's time aboard the alien ship before the original MOT...

• Battle Across the Mu...

  • Fanfic
  • by Hoverbored1234
  • .doc

  I'm a big fan of crossovers, so I came up with the idea of "Mother" cha...

About "The Origin of Psychics: George's Escape," ohboy writes: "In a word, this is impressive."
About "Battle Across the Multiverse: Part 1," ohboy writes: "What I really enjoyed about this story was the writing style."
To read the whole reviews of these two pieces, continue to the jump.

Optional Prompt

This week's optional prompt is graveyards. Think about their role in the games, the setting they establish, and the tone and mood involved. Go to town!

No animals were hurt in the production of today's Fanart. And so it is with a clear conscience that I also present a long overdue Fanart of the Week!


Drowning in a Wave of Sadness - Zarla
Zarla has always been the producer artworks that are not only charming in style, but are also explorations of emotion and subject matter. Frequently she tries to capture a mood or a moment in the Mother games that range from pivotal to mundane. In this fanart, she makes great use of the color pallet to evoke the atmosphere of despair and confusion that the human characters are in, each of them barely holding on to each other. This interpretation of their inner turmoil is very different from the wacky color of in-game Tanetane island. I especially love the vertical reading of the image and how it affects my interaction with it. First I see Boney's struggle above the metaphorical ocean, scrolling down to each character's limp body and failing expression until I reach the Eerie Smile. Like some abyssal monster, it is watching with its face tilted up, waiting eagerly, ready to swallow our heroes whole. Awesome work, Zarla!

• Drowning in a wave o...

  
  • by Zarla
  • .jpg

  Sort of inspired by the song of the same name by Neru. Lost in their nightmares, but s...

• A Bunch of Weirdos

  
  • by Skeleton
  • .png

  This looks like the cast of a 'walk-into-a-bar' joke

• Winters

  
  • by author_lumina
  • .jpg

  This was always one of my favorite parts in EarthBound.

• Power to the Pigs...

  
  • by AwesomeNess16
  • .PNG

  Join the Pigmask Army

• Tenda in the sand

  
  • by PSI Dreamer
  • .png

  Travelling 1000 miles for you

• Jeff and his weapons

  
  • by magicofoda
  • .jpg

  Time to draw jeff on my diary!

• PK Freeze

  
  • by magicofoda
  • .jpg

  another time, i've made this art a school instead of listening to the lesson

• Trout Yogurt

  
  • by Monsieur Crayon
  • .jpg

  A kids book themed around EarthBound that I wrote in high school for my creative writi...

• Pink

  
  • by CaptnOctibbles
  • .png

  Just a little drawing of Ana. I have no idea why I colored it the way i did, it's...

• MS Paint Claus

  
  • by CaptnOctibbles
  • .jpg

  I usually don't use MS Paint, but I had a random urge to use it. Pretty good cons...

• Mardi Gras

  
  • by CaptnOctibbles
  • .png

  Really random, but hey, today was Mardi Gras.

• Animal Lovers

  
  • by CaptnOctibbles
  • .png

  I tried coloring a sketch that I scanned in. It looks alright...ish.

• Fiery Andonuts

  
  • by IcyAntoid
  • .gif

  What lengths you go to just to destroy an old man.

• Paula's Frying....

  
  • by IcyAntoid
  • .gif

  fanart

• Shattered Man

  
  • by IcyAntoid
  • .gif

  Another submission to the 'Pick an Enemy/Draw an Enemy' thread. It was hard ...

• Watering the Flowers

  
  • by IcyAntoid
  • .gif

  The flowers in the garden are representative of those in your heart. Treat them both n...

I'm sure the news of EARTHBOUND FOR THE VIRTUAL CONSOLE has got you all hopping excited! Celebrate by making a bit of Fanart and submitting it this way!

Wait a tic, we have a Fan Comics section? Could've fooled me! I haven't seen any updtes there for ages!

...

So yeah, my apologies for my negligence. Things start gettin' more busy when you get older, it seems. Who knew! In any case, I think I'm gonna firehose this backlog to y'all, since I'm sure most of you have already seen 'em on the forums. 'Tis a good day to play catch up if you haven't, though! Lots of Mother 3 love goin' on in this update for sure!
Man, I guess I missed posting this submission form link most of all. What a joy to do that again! Not as joyful as returnin' to a coffer full 'a comics, but I guess it's all on you folks to fulfill that desire for the next (sparse?) update!

We've got quite an update for you this week (which is why it's taken longer than usual to get together, of course... yeah... that's the ticket.). We're going to kick off a regularly scheduled Archive Dive. We'll take a dip into our fanfiction archive and have a peek at a story from ages past in order to showcase some of the great pieces you can find if you take a moment to look!



This week, we're looking at "The Gifts We Take" by TendaRedux.

About this piece, Emily wrote: "This story has something for everyone," and ohboy wrote: "If I could sum up this story in one word, it would be: eerie."

Now, on to the new submission:

• Born to Pogo

  • Fanfic
  • by Steam
  • .rtf

  A gift from an absent father leads a child down a strange path that he never expected....

About this piece, ohboy writes: "This is a nice portrait."

For full reviews of all of the stories in the update today (including our Archive Dive selection), please check out the jump. If you have any ideas for stories you'd like to see highlighted in our Archive Dive in the future, please don't hesitate to recommend them in a comment or PM to myself or ohboy.

Optional Prompt

This week, your optional prompt is asthma.