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"Happy Little Capybara Visits The Mayan Underworld" by Ursula Vernon

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'Excuse me,' said the happy little capybara, 'but did an owl carrying a sloth come by here?'

'Go away,' said Blood Gatherer grumpily.

The capybara was screwing up his courage to ask again, because Stanley the sloth was his best friend in the whole world and had to be found, when Blood Gatherer suddenly began thrashing and lashing and glomphing about like a tube sock stuffed full of cats.

'Are you okay?' asked the happy little capybara, when Blood Gatherer had finally stopped thrashing about, and was panting on the floor of the cave.

'I have an itch between my shoulderblades,' said Blood Gatherer even more grumpily, 'and my arms are too short to reach it.'

I need another project like I need a compound fracture of my drawing hand, but the notion of a children's book featuring the Happy Little Capybara entering Xibalba in an effort to find his stuffed sloth Stanley appeals to me on way too many levels. Blood Gatherer is one of the demon-lords of Xibalba, although I don't think he was a giant leech in the original 'Popul Vuh.' (Any kid's book I did would be weird and freaky and not suitable for children, so I figured I might as well resign myself to that fact right off the bat.)


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It’s no worse than "Where the Wild Things Are" I think you should go for it. It would be an nice story of courage.
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I say go for it! It’s along the lines of Neil Gaiman and that man is a genius at pulling off creepy things to be socially acceptable.
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Yay someone else on the planet knows the Popul Vuh! 1
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'Happy Little Capybara Visits The Mayan Underworld':
 • Created by: :-) Ursula Vernon
 • Copyright: ©Ursula Vernon. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Capybara, Leech, Maya, Monster
 • Categories: Anthropomorphic (Furries), Humourous or Cute Things, Mythical Creatures & Assorted Monsters
 • Techniques: Computer Painted from Scratch
 • Submitted: 2004-04-09 18:46:51
 • Views: 21013
 • Resolution: 525x700

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