My ai-generated Oni and an Update (Patreon)

Hey hey, beasties! (I mean the bestest beasties!)

I wanted to give a quick update. So I was working on the Bedtime Story for this month and halfway through I got on an oni kick and decided I wanted to do a retelling of Shuten Douji/酒呑童子. For anyone who doesn't know, he's one of the most infamous oni in Japan with a myriad of different versions of his story as well as lots of varying origin stories. 

Shuten Douji: Think really heinous drunken ogre who does horrible things on a mountain. Will the heroes succeed in slaying him? Stay tuned...

Oh, such a deep and meandering rabbit hole Shuten Douji is. But I want to do a really good retelling (after absorbing the many variations of the story, that is) and make it sound super good, too, so that's why I'm running late into the month. I'm also thinking of doing an Uncanny Japan episode on him as well (...but you guys will get the cool story version first). 

So that. 

Postcards also were started and then ... ONI !! So, yeah, in honor of Setsubun (cutely called Bean Throwing Day by one of my Japanese friends), I got an oni theme going on this month. Bedtime Story, postcard, AND the next episode will delve into oni as well. 

I'm also going to go grovel and postal workers' feet later and see how things are going sending envelopes to North America and Australia. Antsy there. 

Okay, need to get back to our ferocious oni's story. Oh, and I liked the little ai generated oni I made up there, too. Cute.

XO,

terrie