This is the personal artist blog of Franki Lew; author+artist behind "Mouse the Witching Cat" (@odditiesnoctobermidnightroad) and "Halloween Town" @thetownwecallhome. I do other fanart/animal/mythology art series too. In current year (2025) I'm in a SSA/SSI bind over money and being able to afford rent, my vet and dentist bills and work. ----As such, it means the world to me if you not only follow my blogs but-

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-in messenger, link me to YOUR POST on YOUR BLOG that's linking to YOUR CAMPAIGN. I am barely able to manage my own time and lifeskills; I can not make a post for you. I am here as a fellow tumblerite to reblog YOUR POST and update myself and other's on your situation as best I can, especially in dire and/or serious circumstances.

-my mo with all campaigns I follow/donate to/want to get more attention is to SCREENSHOT YOUR CAMPAIGN'S CURRENT FUNDS to show myself and my followers how you're coming along and how far you have to go. Tell me ASAP in messenger if you DON'T want me doing that for whatever reason and I will stop; otherwise that's my system.

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-I CAN NOT pin your own post to my blog less this disclaimer go even more unnoticed.

Hippity Hippity Hoppity Hoppity,

So shall I tell you now, my sweet little popaty?

Of all of my friends, I would never ever dropity,

For less, my deal lass, you are at the topity,

Said Funny Bunny to sweet little girl.

Coming off of Paper Will's retrospective/deepdive into North Korean entertainment, the main takeaway is that North Korean (ew, no, NOT their government) people have iron wills and are absolutely metal. I'm fascinated learning more about North Korea. 90% of the struggle is trudging through legit misinformation that treats the people of the country like mindless drones and whose propaganda and totalitarianism is unique to NK. The other 10% are western social-communists with good intentions but who unironically spew whataboutisms about the Kims; NO! I am not talking them up! Being under my own oppressive government has made me aware to not glamorize another oppressive government just because it's evils are different to me.

North Koreans want to leave when life is literally unlivable for them and their families, which it was 90s. They don't want to leave their homeland and they're right to fear the capitalist hellscapes around them; that many defectors feel trapped by other countries and want to go home makes sense.

They're not a hivemind. They think for themselves even if their movies and tv all tell them to think ONLY of their leaders.

These people are black market media pirates, which is based. They figured out how to process books back into rice paper during the March of Suffering. Their government ain't schmit when it comes to farming -> the people had to learn all that themselves. They love comedy and love the arts and celebrations. When a performing artist is legit feeling it you can tell on their faces how much they mean it vs how much a manufactured smile is forced onto them. Many know better than to swallow their government's racist propaganda and that dating a Japanese/American/Russian/Southerner is not going to literally kill them if they were able to.

In all of us, there is a need to survive and and need to defy our oppressors.

I don't know how to believe in 'spiritual comradery' but there it is. Enough with stuff like Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea or Under the Sun. Give me stuff about the actual people.

COcococoCOcoCOcocooo

Coco for "My creator tried to take me with her but we go separated like in Castaway."

As most FHFIF peeps know, Craig McCracken has confirmed that Frankie Foster is not only NOT imaginary herself but that Madame Foster is her paternal grandma. Her father is/was Madame Foster's son and also said son apparently made Frankie get rid of her own imaginary friend she made as a child simply because he "hated growing up with Mr. Herriman so much".

How this man exists and is as angry as he is at imaginaries to me is very interesting. The whole being raised with Mr. Herriman explains SOME things but not all...so I headcanoned that Forrester Foster here basically was raised by Mr. Herriman and always felt like his mother preferred her Imaginaries to him...which is kind of true. She was loving but she was never all that into mothering. None of that makes up for what he did to his daughter of course but still.

Unrelated but I did some studies of Herriman and some Frankie pics too.

Oh and yes btw they're reading Watership Down. Forrester's not ashamed at all about adding to Herriman's fear of dogs.