I've been posting my Theme submissions, as I work on them, in my "About Me" thread. This has caused the thread to become terribly cluttered, so I'm moving the designs to this thread. Feedback welcome on anything that hasn't already been accepted. For the record, these are my accepted Themes: the Forest Wanderer Draeyl, Macabre Puffadore, Lake Reflection Sylvorpa, Maireener Shell Nephini, Bridal Bouquet Ryori, and Rain Shower Nephini Themes.

My very first attempts at Themes, submitted for the 2014 Fall Festival contest--

Lavender Latte Puffadore


Love-Lies-Bleeding Faelora


These images are approximations, since I created the palettes before the revamps for Puffadore and Faelora rearranged the locations of some traits.

After submitting the Lavender Latte Puff several more times, I turned it into a personal non-Themed project. Meet the first six-Vis of that project, Supreme Bean!

Fall 2026

Boo-tiful Qitari



Ghostwood Banjo Zolnixi



Sweet Sorghum Syrup Sylvorpa

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Salmon Homecoming Aeridini, or maybe Salmon Run Festival Aeridini

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Haint Paint Ryori



Midnight Pumpkin Bulbori or perhaps Midnight Cucurbits Bulbori

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Liquidambar Lunemara

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Foxfire Faelora

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Mr. White Killed Mr. Green Last Night Lupora*

*This is what my father would always announce the morning after the autumn's first killing frost. I gather it is some kind of dad joke.


Turnip Lantern Ferrikki

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Red Right Hand Nytekrie



Perry Pear Nephini



Apparitions Of Drowned Sailors Kelpari

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Fall Firs Luffox



Spring's Bulbs Sleeping Safely Under the Frosty Soil Draeyl

Sea Foam Zolnixi, for next summer, perhaps.





Wildling who inspired the Midnight Pumpkin Bulbori

Blue Ribbon Pumpkin Bulbori?




Bottle tree




Squirreled Away Ferrikki

2017 Fall Festival submisisons
Dark Wind Aeridini--

Based loosely on the ala, a demon that brings bad weather, ruins crops, eats children, and looks like a great snake, a thundercloud, a raven, or maybe a black bull.

Sweet-and-sour Aurleon--


Pumpkin Spice Latte Bulbori--


Kaiju Costume Draeyl--

Draeyls like to trick-or-treat as much as anyone else does!

Distant Sky Faelora--


Sorghum Syrup Griffi--


Liquidambar Kelpari--

Inspired, of course, by the fall colors of the liquidambar tree. Please search for images; their colors are so varied I'd have to post 10 images to show them all.

Banshee Lighira--


Hallowed Reaper Luffox--


Corpse Candle Lunemara--


Wild Hunt Lupora--

The "hounds" who run with the Wild Hunt aren't black; they are ghost-pale with bloodred eyes and markings, and their feet never touch the ground. If you see them, throw them some bread and they will spare you . . . but if you see the Hunter, you must join the Wild Hunt for the rest of your life. (If you're lucky, you won't join as the prey.)

Hunter's Moon Morkko--


Groovy Ghoul Nephini--


Cardigan Nytekrie--


Blue Ribbon Ny'vene--


Chimney Sweep Puffadore--

Get the chimney swept before lighting the first fire of Fall.

Killing Frost Qitari--


Encantado Ryori--

The Encantado is a sort of were-dolphin of the Amazon River area. The dolphins are pink there. An Encantado in human form is very good looking but very dangerous. If you agree to leave a party with one of them, you may never been seen again ... or perhaps you will just return insane.

Hellbender Sylvorpa--


Green Meanie Vulnyx--



Not sure what to call this one--



I was thinking of the quotation "Capture for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines, for our vines have tender grapes." This caused me to imagine foxes merrily cavorting through a vineyard, eating the ripest grapes; knocking over piles of pumpkins and rolling them around; playing hide-and-seek in the new haystacks; stealing chickens; carrying apples away; and generally making a rollicking mess of the harvest.

No, Zolnixies aren't foxes, but they plainly possess the same mischievous spirit that foxes have. Maybe "Harvest Thief Zolnxi" or a less-edgy "Harvest Home Zolnixi"?

A post for Winter 2026.

What to call this?

A post for Spring 2027.

I must honor the Island Marble Butterfly somehow.

A post for Summer 2027.

Need the Whistling Thorn Lunemara for summer.








Afterimage Lunemara


Next Fall, maybe. Call it "Graveyard Tales."




And howabout "Mort Safe" Ryori






I must base some design on the Railroad Worm.