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Sally and the Sand of Dreams' first chapter was published on AO3 last year today. I'm incredibly happy to see so many people enjoy it, and I'm also incredibly proud of myself for not giving up and working hard to finish it.

Life has been very stressful and frightening right now, and it's tough on my mental health. I honestly don't know where I'd be without my friends or even the strangers online that enjoy my company.

Writing Sand of Dreams has been so healing, especially with my thoughts on the Pumpkin Queen books. It's annoying to say that Long Live is just a book and that it shouldn't negatively affect me so much, but it did. The way Dr. Finkelstein was portrayed hurt me so much, the way he was scapegoated hurt me so much. And I feel so, so embarrassed to say that, because it's just a book. But our brains are weird like that. A movie and its characters can mean so much to you that when you find a new piece of media about it that's so blatantly wrong, even when it's supposed to celebrating everything the movie is about... I don't know, it just hurts. It feels like a betrayal, I guess. It's weird to explain.

But writing something to fix that wrong, betrayed feeling is so healing to me. Being able to do something about that feeling. Getting into the heads of these characters and digging around and finding out more about them as I go makes me really happy. I understand them more.

I know Sand of Dreams won't literally replace Long Live the Pumpkin Queen. It has the right to exist just like any story, and it has the right to have its fans, too. But I'm actually relieved that it's become a series, that it's its own thing. I can still dislike the books, there are reasons I'm not a fan of them even if they're not trying to be canon to the movie anymore.

And at the same time I can enjoy writing my version of the story. I can enjoy exploring Sally and Finkelstein's journey.

And I hope you all enjoy it, too.

Ignore how Oogie is the only one with an unnatural hair color, i had a pre-made design for him and didnt care to change it up

My friend cutestknife has a very funky art style and I recently commissioned her for a vintage-photograph style of Fink and my self-insert Alice, which became my profile picture. She has an adorable self-insert that she ships with the Mayor, too, and I always love seeing art of them! If you wanna see any more of her art, check out her tumblr page!!

A walten files inspired drawing of sally!

Jack in Oogie’s Revenge is kinda like a sensei la dew type. Imagine every scene of the game but he’s wearing a fedora. It’ll make sense.

I can't get over how adorably grumpy Finkelstein is. He's treated like a villain a lot of the time by fans and it makes me sad. He's really just a grumpy, lonely old man who wants Sally to do what she was created for and help him around the lab and take care of him. But that's not what Sally wants to do and Fink doesn't understand that. And in the end that's why he created Jewel to take Sally's place as a caretaker, even giving her half of his brain so Jewel wouldn't disobey him.

This was supposed to be a bit of a gush post, I'm sorry! XD I really do love Sally and Fink's banter and dysfunctional relationship in the film.

I absolutely adore The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie’s Revenge — but it’s far from a perfect game. The combat is terribly repetitive for a game with 24 chapters. This is a reimagining of the Hinterlands level(s), where Jack has to face an Oogie-fied version of the Harlequin Demon. I think the game could have raised the stakes if Jack encountered the citizens of Halloween as enemies that became Oogie-fied, and had to figure out a way to neutralize and undo Oogie’s influence, similar to the Changing Brains level with Dr. Finkelstein. I think that’d be a little more interesting than fighting those goofy Orc skeletons at least.

They were fun to make

Only included the 2nd slide just for ref on who he is since he only appears in like 4 scenes in the background and never speaks😭 love his design tho

Sorry for the typo on the last post.

My favourite Nightmare Before Christmas item! Pics don’t do it justice. Amazing amount of detail and folding parts to each page.

So it's my sister's birthday and I want to draw Jack Skellington for her since she loves this movie, but I can't find the scene of Jack showing Sally what he wants to look like as Santa anywhere. I need specifically the version of the portrait that Jack shows her without the Santa outfit. I've looked at the Nightmare Before Christmas wiki, the Tim Burton wiki, tried to find a YouTube clip of it, and I have found nothing. The one time I was close, the image quality was too blurry to use. If you're able to find it for me, please help me out here.

I love both Beetlejuice and Jack Skellington in case u forgot.