Tasty Tales of Transformation

Artwork by Torisukerabasu “Wow, so you really are taking this Christmas wish tree thing seriously huh?” Andrew scoffed as he saw his friend and roommate of less than a year Draymond writing his wish down onto a small piece of paper. He always found him to be rather odd, but this really took the cake. What was he, 8 years old? Andrew snatched the note from Draymond before he could finish folding it up. “You believe in Santa too? Heh, What are you doing this for man?” Andrew questioned, mocking the annoyed friend. “Give it back Dray! It’s just a little good luck charm, that's all. Its not a big deal!” “You sure are acting like it’s a big deal bro, haha!” Andrew said as he backed away from his grabby roommate, dangling the note always just out of reach. He was stepping awfully close to the mess of gift boxes and wrapping ribbons strewn across their living room floor. They had been busy all day wrapping gifts. A large, lengthy box laid just behind Andrew, the most colo

--Artwork by tousen-- “You guys ever get that painful feeling?” “Painful feeling? About what?” “Weren’t you listening!? That painful feeling, you know, when you fall so in love with someone, but you know there isn’t a chance in hell you’ll be with them.” “Oh, that. Nah, I never had that.” “Ha, I bet, no I know Rick has! Right man? Hey, Rick? You listening Rick!” Halloween night, a painful night full of painful memories of a painful love he held for a woman he could never have. Though not responding to his friends’ eerily relevant topic of discussion, he heard it all, and it made him wince a bit. He knew that feeling all too well. It had been almost 10 years since he had last seen her, and yet the pain of that attraction still lingered within him, running rampant in his thoughts most nights, made worse on this night. After all, Halloween was when he came so close, but also the last night he saw her before she disappeared forever—the blood red moon of that night an ominous

--Artwork by bhp-- Josh looked on with supreme aggravation at the obsessive prancing around the 3D printer his friend Nick was doing, the current internet craze having sent him completely off the rails. “You always get so worked up over this stuff man, but I’ve never seen you like this. Calm the hell down!” Nick cackled as his 3D printed project finally completed. “Haha! Finally!” Nick celebrated. “With this crown I can make Bowsette a reality!” Bowsette was the latest sensation on the internet, a gender swapped version of Bowser into a Princess Peach clone, given life by an item concept within one of Nintendo’s upcoming games. A crown item of sorts with the power to turn Toadette into a Peach clone proved fertile ground for taking things even further within the fan community, thus Bowsette was born out of the idea of what if the crown was used on him? This crown item is exactly what Nick had just wasted time printing out. He was obsessed with Bowsette, enough to have t