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Zombie setting where the undead are drawn towards unhygienic scents, so survivors constantly bathe to avoid being eaten.

Zombies are docile when adorned with flowers.

Settlements overgrown with herbs and flora.

Barely any banditry; everyone is focused on farming and gathering.

Different human factions and towns named after flowers like Lilies, Orchids, Roses, etc.

Instead of immediately killing an infected survivor, they’re given special funeral rites - the zombie is covered with flowers to keep them calm, and  allowed to walk out from the settlement to join the hordes.

Collected a few short stories, art, and worldbuilding folks made using my zombie flower apocalypse!! Please make sure to check out the notes and tags on the original post because everyone added a lot of great stuff!!!

Daisy_of_Doom’s story

talesfromgringolandia story

x-bubble-bubble-x’s Florist concept art

sureinsunlight‘s story

timelordsandkittens’s tags

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The Blooming Dead on Reddit

ambrose-draws-stuff‘s Florist character art

sneakiestsableye story in the tags

Aesthetic-furry’s extra funeral rites

winterrose42‘s tags

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Dead_Man_Crushe’s accessible future

plotbunny-hutch’s regional worldbuilding

darngosh-it‘s tags

probablyautistic-definitleygay‘s tags

Above image provided by angelofmusings

cult-of-oink’s story

New drawing!, one of Missa.

I had found this old drawing a few days ago. It was the drawing of an Au where Garcello finds Whitty when the latter was still small and had escaped from the facilities where he was created.

Seeing it made me nostalgic but it also made me want to redraw it because of how old it was and because practically, my way of coloring at that time was very crazy. The lighting has no meaning and it made no sense that the fireworks were exploding behind if they were looking in front.

So here is the progress I made a few days ago, it was a curious process since I used the "special" tool of Ibis Paint X to do almost all the drawing. Taking as an exception of course, the areas where you can clearly see what the airbrush was using to illuminate or add light detail.

I wanted to show a little close up of Whitty's face since I really love how it turned out hehe.

Although I know that the drawing is not perfect and still has errors, it is at least good to see that I am making a lot of progress when comparing my current drawing with the one from 2021/2022.

Dibujitos // drawings

@radio-ramblings had a few questions about my zombie flower apocalypse, but Tumblr destroyed the inbox message D: ANYWAY more notes below based on what I remembered!

Not all zombies respond to scents the same way, so some of them can still be aggressive even when adorned with flowers.

There are different types of Blooming zombies! The ones pictured above are called Flutters; their flowers attract swarms of butterflies. Disturbing the swarm will distress the Flutter, causing nearby undead to become aggressive.

There’s also another variant that serves as a walking beehive. It takes a lot of effort from Florists to herd those ones away because of the bees.

Camping outdoors is safer than other zombie settings, but it’s still dangerous. Most folks try to sleep in trees and high ground.

Restaurants and other eateries are strict as not to let savoury scents of meat attract zombies.

Little glimpse at an upcoming Irken oc reference sheet.

I have the headcanon that the Irkens have a mark or seal on the back of their heads that indicates their functions or what they are, Obviously, that mark was created through genetic modification and changes over time until it reaches a stage of "permanence" where it reaches a point where the role they have is permanent.

Based on this image:

Update

I changed the race and also added a lore.

Meet Maddo!!

Just a small redraw of an old 2019 Oc that I did back in my Amino days when I was still learning how to use ibis.

At least in his current version the young man is chubbier and no longer seems to have noodle arms.

Update:

Little glimpse at an upcoming Irken oc reference sheet.

I have the headcanon that the Irkens have a mark or seal on the back of their heads that indicates their functions or what they are, Obviously, that mark was created through genetic modification and changes over time until it reaches a stage of "permanence" where it reaches a point where the role they have is permanent.

Based on this image: