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11th-May-2009 10:38 pm
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Done! This took all of sunday, as I predicted. Apologies to the people whose drawings I couldn't fit in- I was still getting submissions as I was making this thing and I tried wherever possible to add them, but eventually I had to draw the line. Besides a couple of extreme latecomers, however, I used every single image that was submitted.



I was originally planning on making this into some kind of image you could use as a desktop wallpaper, but man, there were so many submissions, the only way I could really do it was as a super-long scroll. So the same warnings apply to this as applied to my Super Mario comic from a while back: give it a minute to load, 'cause this will probably take a while if you're on a slow connection.

I asked you to choose one of my cat wearing a hat drawings. and draw a picture of what you thought it looked like as a human female woman! You responded in droves, and I compiled them all into one group collaborative image! Achieved in our spare time in under a month, it is a feat that our grandparents would have considered witchcraft! You are heroes of the modern age! The future is here to stay!

You might want to listen to your favorite pop song while you look through this (probably Michael Jackson). Click the link to continue.



Still stunned by how many incredible responses there were- some from my favorite artists, some from incredible people I'd never even heard of. Thanks everyone for joining in! I also seemed to pick up a bunch more readers over the course of this, so maybe it is time you introduced yourselves! Time for a game, y'all

Rules:

1) Choose your favorite cat lady/girl

2) Give her a name

3) Tell me one interesting fact about how she lives her life

HARDCORE CHALLENGE: can you tell me which cat lady or girl is featured in the picture twice?
SUPER HARDCORE CHALLENGE: How many are there in total?
Comments 
11th-May-2009 10:26 pm (UTC)
THERE'S MINE!!!
13th-May-2009 12:20 am (UTC)
That mask on your usericon reminds me: I got a leaflet through the door the other day from the government talking all about how the UK has enough flu medication to treat half of the country, and that flu masks aren't actually scientifically proven to prevent the spread of flu, and so on and so forth. It made me feel very safe and glad that we have a government and a National Health Service! MAYBE THAT'S JUST WHAT THEY WANT ME TO THINK

MAYBE THERE IS NO FLU

JUST SAYIN'

11th-May-2009 10:31 pm (UTC)
came out pretty amazing
11th-May-2009 10:47 pm (UTC)
I think my favorite thing is how much bigger than everyone else's I made my name
11th-May-2009 10:32 pm (UTC)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAWESOME
11th-May-2009 10:34 pm (UTC)
UGH no one did Drag! ! ! ! I knew i should done it
11th-May-2009 10:46 pm (UTC)
A lot of them are pretty gender-ambiguous
11th-May-2009 10:37 pm (UTC)
hahaha the nob legs one!
11th-May-2009 10:38 pm (UTC)
YAY!! :D
11th-May-2009 10:38 pm (UTC)
wow this is so incredible! everyone is so talented
11th-May-2009 10:40 pm (UTC)
Squee!
11th-May-2009 10:43 pm (UTC)
haha Fun!

awesome job everyone!!

thanks for letting us do this Harveyjames
11th-May-2009 10:43 pm (UTC)
Wow, that collection is mindboggling!

I think this one's my favourite. Her name is Lenora, she writes travel books about non-existent countries and does volunteer taste-testing at her local bon-bon factory.

11th-May-2009 10:45 pm (UTC)
That's the one I did! I assumed she was all about motorcycle riding and dudes
11th-May-2009 10:45 pm (UTC)
Amazing, I wish I knew about this sooner! XD
11th-May-2009 10:52 pm (UTC)
Lovely job! Turned out really nicely!
*high fives all round*
15th-May-2009 03:11 am (UTC)
Hjames is sending a high five back yr way!
11th-May-2009 10:53 pm (UTC)
Aw bummer, mine got left off the list :( Oh well (I guess there were allot of the 17 girl already).

Awesome project! The end result is jaw-dropping :D
Alotta new talent I'd never heard-of before.
12th-May-2009 07:27 am (UTC)
thats kinda funny any sad at the same time considering it was yours that directed my attention to this thing. i'll dedicate one of those 3 i did to you if you like.
11th-May-2009 10:54 pm (UTC)
This turned out sweet, so many talented people too.

uh, since I probably shouldn't pick mine for favorites...(cheating).

I like the shark outfit one that says SAM on the bottom of her shoe (near the bottom). Her name is Svetlana and she works at a grocery store but moonlights as the pianist in an all female metal band, she also lives with a boy but he is not her boyfriend. :D
11th-May-2009 10:57 pm (UTC)
I think I need to clarify that I am totally not conceited. :X
11th-May-2009 10:55 pm (UTC)
MOST EXCELENT.
11th-May-2009 11:06 pm (UTC)
Yeah! Hey it's a shame you didn't do anything for it! I was gunnoo ask you but I didn't get the chance
11th-May-2009 10:56 pm (UTC)
this project was really cool and its neat that my friends submission was so big and is right in the middle
11th-May-2009 11:06 pm (UTC)
Which is your friend's?
11th-May-2009 11:04 pm (UTC)
also I liked a lot of cat ladies! such interesting characters.

favorite would probably be her though!



her name isssss estella I think, and she is actually deceased and is somewhat of a supernatural entity now, but while she lived her life she was a big fan of tech house and happy handbag and would go to fashionable clubs with expensive handbags and would enjoy tonic water with a splash of angostura bitters in it.

I like making stories for them! good project.
11th-May-2009 11:15 pm (UTC)
Holy shit!
11th-May-2009 11:34 pm (UTC)
Man I posted mine too late because I was trying to remember my password from like five years ago. Oh well.
11th-May-2009 11:35 pm (UTC)
I think her name should be Squid.

11th-May-2009 11:37 pm (UTC)
Awesome, I kinda feel like a twat for just drawing a head now.

The girl I pick is the halloween pumpkin head one towards the bottom. Her name is Cellar Ellen, and she spends the entire year hiding under the stairs until Halloween, where she sits at the mail slot and fires fireworks at trick or treaters. Depending on her mood, she comes out for Guy Fawkes Night also. She has 10/20 vision.
11th-May-2009 11:53 pm (UTC) - A++++++
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME
11th-May-2009 11:54 pm (UTC)
You should have posted this without an LJ-cut, just for the fallout.
15th-May-2009 03:13 am (UTC)
Secretarybot is extremely glad Hjames didn't do this because she would probably have to deal with the fallout!
11th-May-2009 11:57 pm (UTC)
My two favorites were teal birdy girl and apple shirt girl w/ red hat THAT IS WHY I DREW THEM!!!!

Redhat Applegirl's name is Tanette and she spends most of her time enjoying Thai iced teas in the city with her friends. She has interest in everything but no drive to really accomplish much in any sort of field. She likes singing and impressing her friends with her knowledge of math but mostly she just doesn't give a fuuuuuc and just likes chilling out. Almost nothing in her life goes right but she just shrugs it off and smiles through it anyway because she's hot shit.
15th-May-2009 03:13 am (UTC)
Hjames says THAI ICED TEAS you know where it's at, baby girl!
11th-May-2009 11:57 pm (UTC)
This is all pretty much spectacular.
12th-May-2009 12:13 am (UTC)
seriously this project of yours made me love the internet again, even if just for a moment =p this is the kind of positive energy i miss~~
i loved seeing all of these girls! and a LOT of awesome ones~~
15th-May-2009 03:14 am (UTC)
Hjames says this comment made him love the internet again! And then he saw Dora the Explorer dickgirl porn and he went back to hating it. :/ But he thanks you for the momentary pick-me-up!
12th-May-2009 12:18 am (UTC) - Awesome, thank you | Favorites
I'm glad you shrunk mine to just inside where the pixel apparency (due to it being moused with really cheap hard- & software) disappears. It's an excellent picture, I think it is going to end up like a wall hanging or something in many people's apartments/homes. I think it's one of the best memes ever on the internet so far. (!) Thank you very much for organising and piecing this together.

I should pick my favorites and make up stories for them, now...



I did drawings of the first three from the left and didn't have enough time to do the fourth one. So those three are my favorites, and here's what I say about them:

In the pighat and green boneprint dress is a gardener. She attends drum circles on the weekends where she attempts lycanthropic metamosphosis (she tries to turn into a dog). She wants to be a dog. She behaves like one and spends a lot of time digging up and burying bones. Gardening just goes along with that. And she really likes to eat pork. That hat is an actual pickled pig's head that she fills up with her hair and other things. People run away from her when they see her. Where does she get the bones, though? I think she gets them from one of the next two. Her name is Betty.

In the squidhat and the roman numeral three red shirt is an aging and obese exotic dancer. She continues to make huge amounts of cash, one of the most prosperous exotic dancers in her region. She's practically famous. She likes making people uncomfortable with her on-stage gyrations. The more uncomfortable they are, the more they pay her. When she goes home alone she studies voudou -- when she goes home with someone from the audience she uses it. The squid hat is an actual squid, very much alive. They share a symbiotic relationship. Her name is Ursula.

The striped-hat apple-shirt girl with the grey skin is an Italian assassin. She shaves her moustache. Oh, and she drank too much colloidal silver and it turned her skin grey. Her name is Esmerelda.
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