This is a collaborative piece depicting a certain Fluffy art festival in my setting, it features ideas from people in the community which will be posted under the story!
The Burning Fluffy…
An art festival as enigmatic as it sounded.
When the Cataclysm happened, a magical catastrophe that brought magic into this world, art was one of the first things to get turned upside down.
The best artist mages, or Bards, as they are more oftey known, could do incredible feats of artistry, summoning entire orchestras and allowing people to go inside their paintings. But everything changed when Fluffies arrived.
When Hasbio invented Fluffies and introduced them into this world full of magic, they were seen as nothing special. It was only when they showed their worst qualities and filled the cities with feral herds that people realised their full potential.
Hugbox, Abuse, people were all over them with all kinds of thoughs about what to do next with these creatures. It was then that a new popular trend showed up, Weirdbox.
It consisted into, well, doing weird shit to a Fluffy, which was quite easy in a world with magic, Fluffies would be sent to other planes and recorded, they’d have a floating spell used on them, changed their colors, etc. But it wasn’t Enough.
At some point people needed something more, the content creators needed to get creative, to get… artistic.
Since most people weren’t interested in Fluffies at this point, a community was created around the artful practices that could be performed around Fluffies, and soon enough they organized a huge event to show off their biggest pieces. It was called…
The Burning Fluffy
Day One
This is day one of the Festival, it lasts a whole week. And you’re one of the self employed internet critics that is going to share about all of it in your blog.
The event is held in the middle of a huge cold grassy field. And enthusiasts of Weirdbox from all over are coming here, some with their Fluffies, happy to show off their artistic prowess.
You go to the first exhibit, there is a plaque nailed into a wooden log. Every stand has a plastic plaque somewhere, with the name of the piece, the name of the author or internet alias, and a brief description sometimes.
This first exhibit is by an artist that goes by the internet alias GooGooDa, interesting name. Their piece is called: A Mummah’s Duality.
The piece shows a living Fluffy Mummah inside a tiny saferoom, from which the Fluffies can’t look outside apparently, she has pink Fluff and a blonde mane styled after some stereotypical Karen’s hair.
Under her are two foals, a brown one and a Pink one, both have magical artifacts in their necks, small collars.
The Pink foal is nursing from his Mummah as the brown foal cries away from her, you can’t help but notice that the both of them are bruised, and both also look quite well fed. You wonder what’s going on here.
There’s a timer with 5 minutes counting down on the Saferoom, and when the time is done… the fluff color of the foals changes, a change triggered by the magical artifact on them. The Pink foal becomes brown and the brown foal becomes pink. The Mummah is shocked by this, and smacks the Now Brown previously pink foal out of her teat with her hoof.
“DUMMEH POOPIE BABBEH NU DWINK BESTES’ BABBEH MIWKIES”
“huuuu, wai mummah huwt bestes’ jus wan wub…”
The Mummah puffs her cheeks and grabs the previously brown now pink babbeh, nursing him, he seems quite scared of her but drinks her milk anyway, as his brother now cries from being hurt by his Mummah.
The plaque says it’s all being recorded and you can donate to the artist to change a Foal’s color for a minute to whichever you like. Quite a cool trick to pull off with magic, but it seems like too much of a cashgrab.
Tryhard ass piece, won’t be getting a good review…
You move on to the next exhibit.
It just looks like three frozen Fluffies stacked on top of eachother with pained expressions like some kind of pain totem. You look over at the plaque.
The piece is called “Pain Totem” By JohnnierJohn, another Lone Fluffy shivers in the cold in the same chamber as the other Frozen Fluffies, he is light green with a purple mane and looks terrified of the totem in the middle. Apparently someone just used magic to teleport the little thing in there, it’s not part of the piece.
“P-pwease nice m-mistah, sabe fwuffy… am su su cowd… hab wowstest cowd hu-huwties”
It does however add a nice touch to the piece, he looks at you with pleading eyes, glancing at the totem every so often in pure fear and distress. It’s like it’s facing it’s own future in a beautiful sculpture by it’s side. This one is getting a good review.
The Fluffy sheds a few tears that freeze almost immediatelly, freezing his eyes shut as you turn away.
“Huuhuuu nu wan die…”
As you keep walking to the next exhibit you accidentally bump your leg into some lost Fluffy.
“EEP!”
It seems quite startled, you wonder if she ran away from her owner who was attending the festival.
“Mistah! Pwease hewp soon mummah!!! DADDEH AM MUNSTAH!!!”
Her “Daddeh” Shows up right after, taking the crying thing as she shits and cries. Apparently he’a an artist here, gotta check out his exhibit later, you two share a smile and a nod as he carries her away.
“BAD UPSIES!!! NUUU!! NU WAN BE SHEETWAT!!! MUNSTAH DADDEH PWEASE WET BWUBEWEY GU!!!”
You move on to the next exhibit as the pregnant mare leaves your sight.
The next piece looks like a Miniature Romario World, from the infamous Japanese game series Romario®. You have your iconic characters like Gambas and Romario himself!! Also some huge blue Fluffy that’s supposed to be one of the Cashews Romario eats to get his powerups.
But the best thing? The piece is interactible!! The fluffies look like they’re props but they’re live Fluffies frozen in time, they look quite happy too.
Apparently you can share the piece on social media in order to get one berry you can place anywhere on the little model, every hour the model gets unfrozen for 10 minutes, and you can watch the Fluffies run, play, and eat the berries the people have placed for them. You can also donate a dollar to give them a Nutrigel Cube, 10 dollars for Sketti treats and even 100 dollars to introduce a new Fluffy into the Model.
This piece will be exhibited for the entire week of the festival. And people can keep placing stuff in it for that entire time, after the exhibit is over a video will be shared from the Fluffies’ POV inside with unfrozen time, quite an interesting piece, fascinating execution. This one is getting a nice review!!!
You look over at the plaque, it says the artist is called Karn-ival, and the piece is simply titled “Super Fluffy World”.
You leave to look at other exhibits, many catch your attention. In one of them, titled “Damocles’ Coconut”, by Michael Cera, the actor, you didn’t know he was into this stuff. In the art piece a single Coconut hangs from a coconut tree, it could fall at any moment on top of the Fluffy underneath it, but the Fluffy doesn’t move because a human told him he can’t move from there, making his subservient nature clear. He cries and begs for help all the while, apparently needing another human to make him move. It’s quite inventive.
Another one is just a Fluffy’s head on a stake, but there’s no Plaque, oh nevermind, it’s not a piece, someone just put a Fluffy’s head on a stake…
You go through exhibit after exhibit and you hear a distinct sound you’ve heard before from afar.
The familiar senseless babble of a Fluffy.
“NUU!! TUMMEH BABBEHS!!! DADDEH AM MUNSTAH!!! MUMMAH HAECHU- SCREEEEEEEE!!!” gets interrupted by a ear-piercing scream.
You turn a corner to watch what’s going on, the exhibit is called “The Shitrat King” by Virgilio , and it’s comprised of a bunch of Fluffies with their shitra- I mean, Fluffy tails stuck together in their own shit and piss, they are stuck together like this and tied to a rope, it looks like a Baby cradle’s mobile.
Apparently you can poke them with a stick to make the “Shitrat king” move. Oh and of course, the “Soon Mummah” from before is there, crying and cussing out her owner, you soon see the reason why. Her aborted children are stuck hanging from their umbilical chords under her, and since she’s hanging from her tail, they ocasionally slap against her, making her cry.
It’s quite grotesque. All the other Fluffies are different kinds, there’s one Poopie pegasus with a green mane, he is freshly pillowed; A White Alicorn with a rainbow mane, derped; Some flayed unicorn, squirming constantly as the cold breeze hits his flesh; A pink earthy smarty with a white mane, crying over being pink, also maybe because of the cactus stuck up it’s ass; And finally our no longer Soon Mummah.
“The piece represents how all Fluffies are shitrats” it says on the plaque, fair enough. The mare looks at you, with anger in her eyes she hates you for not helping her back then. You take your hand to your chin.
This does add a bit extra to the piece, and you decide the review is going to be a bit more generous. You see the artist nearby and you both share a nod.
Today was a good day at the Burning Fluffy. You wonder what the next day has in store for you.
[Day 2]
The artists here are references to members of community and their ideas.
“The Shitrat King” is by @Virgil
“Pain Totem” by @JohnnyJohn
“Super Fwuff World” by @Karn
If you want to suggest an Art piece to exhibit under your name on the next chapter, please message me or leave a comment!!
See more stories here: GooGooDa’s Grimoire of Tales
