Grish is a 17-year-old female
INTP from Wisconsin. She spends her free time listening to her favorite music, drawing, playing video games, worldbuilding, making
conlangs, playing the electric bass, writing stories (mostly
Speculative Fiction), and lounging about on the internet. Known elsewhere on the Intertubes as GrishTheSponge, SpongeGrish, TheGrish, or Bowiespoon.
Stuff Grish likes
Tropes that apply to Grish
Tropes that have appeared in Grish's creations
Division's Map
Division's Map is a story that Grish is writing with her sister Arpie. It is currently on its rough draft, so some of the following tropes may be subject to change. Artwork and character reference sheets can be found
here
, all courtesy of Arpie.
Duck
Duck is a comic book series that Grish made with her brother when they were younger. It is about a
duck who tries to
Take Over the World. Then lots and lots of other bird characters wearing
differently-colored cloaks keep randomly appearing and fighting with each other. And then there is a chihuahua named Gamma. And the Russian Mouse, who wears a fur hat and speaks in some kind of weird accent that isn't even remotely Russian.
It starts with the duck approaching the king of Duk-Duk and offering to help the king take over the world. They take over the world, and then the duck kills the king and takes his place. The duck's old rival, a turkey, then appears and attempts to dethrone the duck. Later, the turkey's sparrow friend and the duck's crow friend appear to help them. Then a bunch of things happen for no reason and characters pop out of nowhere and the series turns into a long string of
Big Lipped Alligator Moments and
unresolved plot threads. It's...unique.
- Art Evolution: The drawings do get slightly cleaner and more consistent. Also, the appearance of the chihuahuas changes radically.
- Ax Crazy: The cardinal seems to really like blowing stuff up and killing people.
- Big Lipped Alligator Moment: The Russian Mouse killing giant sand beasts in the desert.
- Icetalon, some kind of weird bird who is killed off exactly one panel after he appears. If Grish recalls correctly, this was because her brother introduced him and then immediately decided the development was just plain stupid.
- The duck encountering a mime and throwing him off a cliff, causing a nuclear explosion. He then encounters a circus clown of doom that blows up in a smaller nuclear explosion for no reason.
- Brick Joke: At the beginning of volume 4, a swan appears with a bunch of minions and announces that she is going to Take Over the World. She is then completely forgotten until the last panel of volume 4, where she and her army are unceremoniously crushed by a meteor.
- Calling Your Attacks: The birds all do this.
- The Cameo: For some reason GIR appears in volume 4.
- In volume 5, lots of characters from various works were stuck into the background and the reader was challenged to find them all.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The duck versus the king. The king never had a chance.
- Disney Death: Characters are constantly dying, only for it to turn out that they somehow survived or it was actually an impostor or something.
- Doomy Dooms of Doom: The sparrow seems to be rather fond of this word. Well, the whole series seems rather fond of it, actually, but especially the sparrow.
- Gratuitous Japanese: Some of the birds were named with the Japanese words for their kind, such as Suzume the sparrow. This was during Grish's weeaboo phase, so these things were bound to happen.
- Morally Ambiguous Ducktorate: Obviously
- Noodle Implement: The sparrow has some kind of killer weapon or something called the Silver Sparrow. The crow seems horrified when the sparrow tells him he's released it, though what it does is never explained.
- Noodle Incident: The duck and the turkey are constantly fighting over some argument they had five years ago. What it was about is never specified.
- Orphanage of Fear: The birds all seem to have grown up in an orphanage called the Birdhouse where the children were prone to killing each other.
- Pint Sized Powerhouse: The tiny bird who claims to have killed Gamma, until it's revealed (three panels later) that it was actually Gamma himself in disguise.
- The sparrow and hummingbird play it straight.
- Running Gag: The turkey shouting "I win!" after a battle, whether or not he actually won- including the battle where he died.
- There were several instances of a messenger appearing and telling someone "Sir, you have a visitor" only to be promptly slain by said visitor.
- The hummingbird, who randomly appears from time to time and stabs people with his beak for no reason.
- The robin constantly upgrading his gigantic battle axe. This has no bearing whatsoever on the plot, of course; he hardly ever even interacts with any of the other characters.
- Talking Heads: All. The. Time.
- Villain Decay: The eponymous duck turns into a lame angstbucket for a while.
