The Painter Goblin: Part 1, The Zine
I wrote a new Twitter bot two weekends back: The Painter Goblin.
The Painter Goblin was inspired by a Zine I wrote in a different time, in 2015 for the Christchurch Zine festival, New Zealand.
The Zine itself was inspired by a story I had heard a few weeks earlier from someone who had seen this story on Reddit:
Every time I play the Sims, I start my family with a ‘painting goblin’.
I make him/her morbidly obese with green skin. I make sure to give him the following traits:
- Likes to be alone
- Lives art
- Hates the outdoors
The first thing I do once I have enough money, is build a small room in the basement, send him down there, and then remove the stairs. I set him up in a tiny little area with only an easel, a toilet, a refrigerator, a bed, a shower, and a trash bin.
All he does all day is paint. That’s it. He paints and paints and paints.
Eventually his paintings become very good and worth a lot of money. Every few minutes I go downstairs and sell whatever painting he has finished and then I return to playing the game.
My family always ends up feeling blessed because of their fortune, and they never find out about the horrible secret living beneath their home.
Lets take a look in more detail below.
