Source JSON

{
  "_format": "download_manifest_v2",
  "api_blob_sha512": "28e34f188a909d5c19c1095538cf2e2d229ed82ec6feaa23480c0eb4873da41c705e6b59c11014179ac587fb1a38bc710e8c92b15c587a1828cec76f9a47a5bd",
  "artifacts": [
    {
      "blob_sha512": "50066a4f192c629b6d24fd669c10c940437d8d9cc0141906ae17eddde77daeaf47589192ecc5c21b34d7ba1fcdb2f412e792e7dd95e012a8b15bf66cd88c600e",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/2025/11/16/5981157.png"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "28e34f188a909d5c19c1095538cf2e2d229ed82ec6feaa23480c0eb4873da41c705e6b59c11014179ac587fb1a38bc710e8c92b15c587a1828cec76f9a47a5bd",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/2025/11/16/5981157.api.json"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "a2d0ea9a9770b7f5c26e5b5914800e6e44e29bffdab1724f285ba5b58579bc9bbe764a163c196efc73c2fbbca3d9f095634cb5bbf797c34123224ccccdb03524",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/2025/11/16/5981157.description.json"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "411909ae0133d945ab42bfa94ee6378a944f9b0ffd4536e614ae85f4f20a86207a98a82648dc9177ab9323b3c21680b8be5c2eb671035a8dae88cc931996cb4e",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/2025/11/16/5981157.pools.json"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "be36afe01602e32aae58bd2ba48c5220d85f0ddd86b443b5313aa76c3745f5f3ca0c5b5413eeb20dd83fb7b0a8ab2145d6e894e6e1bffe8d0bbc4538f5d949c2",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/pools/50043/50043.pool.json"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "50066a4f192c629b6d24fd669c10c940437d8d9cc0141906ae17eddde77daeaf47589192ecc5c21b34d7ba1fcdb2f412e792e7dd95e012a8b15bf66cd88c600e",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/pools/50043/posts/5981157.png"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "28e34f188a909d5c19c1095538cf2e2d229ed82ec6feaa23480c0eb4873da41c705e6b59c11014179ac587fb1a38bc710e8c92b15c587a1828cec76f9a47a5bd",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/pools/50043/posts/5981157.api.json"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "a2d0ea9a9770b7f5c26e5b5914800e6e44e29bffdab1724f285ba5b58579bc9bbe764a163c196efc73c2fbbca3d9f095634cb5bbf797c34123224ccccdb03524",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/pools/50043/posts/5981157.description.json"
    },
    {
      "blob_sha512": "411909ae0133d945ab42bfa94ee6378a944f9b0ffd4536e614ae85f4f20a86207a98a82648dc9177ab9323b3c21680b8be5c2eb671035a8dae88cc931996cb4e",
      "path": "/mnt/data/img-downloader/export/e621.net/pools/50043/posts/5981157.pools.json"
    }
  ],
  "sidecar_fallbacks": {
    ".api.json": {
      "approver_id": null,
      "change_seq": 75163308,
      "comment_count": 0,
      "created_at": "2025-11-16T13:58:54.586-05:00",
      "description": "[b][u]MY PLACE s02:e76 - Caught Pink Handed[/u][/b]\n\n“You all live in cloud cuckoo land!!” Vladimir twitched, trying more to prove his own innocence than to frame me at this point. “You’re all so eager to believe this paranoid koala bear and these unsightly lairs… you’re going to need more than hearsay and pieces of paper to prove anything! I am not the criminal here!!”\n\n\nBefore anyone could challenge him, the ground beneath Vladimir started to bubble. He fell to his feet as the dirt opened beneath him, a familiar hard hatted mole poking his head out who looked around and saw many pairs of eyes staring at him curiously.\n\n\n“...I’m not too late am I?” he asked. “You lot are still doing the ceremony, ain’t ya?”\n\n\n“Yes, yes, we very much are, Don” said Tom. “In fact, we’re about this close to apprehending a criminal…”\n\n\n“Criminal? Oh, yeah! That’s what I came up for! Hold on a sec…”\n\n\nResetti clumsily struggled to climb out of his tunnel, holding onto some folded pieces of paper as he did so. Vladimir, meanwhile, was also trying to regain his footing.\n\n\n“You!” I exclaimed, almost involuntarily. “Where the hell have you been all this time?! What are we even paying you for?” I turned to Isabelle. “Are we paying him?”\n\n\n“If you were, I sure as dirt haven’t seen any of it!” Resetti grunted as he made his way to the stage. He all but shoved me out of the way so that he could speak into the microphone. Just what is happening right now? I thought. It’s too early for this.\n\n\n“Right, listen up folks!” he said, underestimating the volume of the speakers. “My name is MISTER Resetti and I’m in charge of the Reset Surveillance Center...”\n\n\n“What is this?” asked a dizzy Vladimir.\n\n\n“Quiet you!!” Resetti yelled, causing more pain to everyone’s ears. “Don’t yap while I’m makin’ a speech!! Ahem, anyway, most of you probably didn’t know that I was even here since your uncharitable mayor stuck the entrance to my headquarters at the very edge of the village.”\n\n“Well, it’s not like you did much to make yourself popular, is it?” I quipped.\n\n\n“BECAUSE I WAS BUSY!!” he roared. “Mr Nook, an old friend of mine, hired me to act as a proverbial watchdog for this backwater town to keep an eye on you, mayor. Apparently, you got up to all sorts of mischief last year and… hang on, it seems as if I’m not supposed to be telling you this...”\n\n\nI looked over at Tom, who was rather desperately trying to signal Resetti to stop talking. I’ll be having a word with him later…\n\n\n“Whatever,” the mole continued, “that’s not what’s important. What matters is that eventually I started keeping an eye on everybody else as well, since just watching this weirdo was putting me to sleep!” He ignored the shocked expressions of the now-paranoid townsfolk and carried on ranting. “Most notably was this little pink bear character. Super suspicious, wouldn’t even trust with the dirt on my helmet. To make a long story short, here’s some screenshots I printed out with my printer machine. They’re in black and all kinds of fuzzy, but you probably get the jist…”\n\n\nResetti handed me some very poorly printed but otherwise damning evidence of Vladimir’s nefarious deeds, including but not limited to him corresponding with Becky and Rocco after hours, making forceful gestures towards Beardo and laughing maniacally in the middle of his house. The photos were shared around like a show and tell day at school, including one of Carmen taking her shirt off, which Resetti promptly grabbed back before complaining about his printer.\n\n\n“Got anymore excuses, Vladimir?” asked Alice, smugly. “Or do you think you still have a chance of wriggling yourself out of this one?”\n\n\nVladimir looked at one of the photos with disbelief. What must have been months upon months of planning and preparation to take Place away from me had been foiled by some cranky old mole who he wasn’t even aware of. He looked up to see everyone converging on where he stood. Surprisingly though, or perhaps desperately, he cracked a twisted smile.\n\n\n“As a matter of fact, Ms Koala, I do! Go ahead, officer Booker…. ARREST ME!”\n\n\nEveryone turned their attention to the trembling police dog, who immediately began to shrink in fear. \n\n“O-oh!!” he stuttered. “Um… o-okay, w-w-well… w-would you k-k-kindly put these handc-cuffs on… please?”\n\n\nThe sight alone of Place’s only official law enforcement, unable to look anyone directly in the eye, sent Vladimir into hysterics.\n\n\n“AHAHAHAHAAA!!” he cackled. “I may as well CRAWL to the train station and make my escape! This bloated, quivering excuse for a policeman couldn’t arrest a butterfly!!” And, just like that, Vladimir turned on his heel and started casually strolling away from the plaza. Sure, any one of us could tackle him, pin him down, anything really, but Booker needed to make the arrest!\n\n\n“Booker!” Alice pleaded. “You’ve got to put those cuffs around him!”\n\n\n“Yeah Booker!” I joined in. “You were about to arrest me, right? This’ll be no problem since he’s, like, half your size!”\n\n\n“I-I-I… u-umm… I d-don’t know… h-he’s g-g-g-getting away…”\n\n\n“Booker, I’m so sorry for what I said before,” Alice apologised. “I know you can’t help being who you are, but you’ve got to do this or else he’ll just go off and ruin another town!”\n\n\nBooker was quiet. I’d seen plenty of examples of anxiety and shyness before, but he was on a whole other level. No wonder Vladimir persuaded me to choose him over the other police officers Isabelle had suggested. Makes me wonder how much of his resume was made up.\n\n\n“Forget it, Ms Koala!!” Vladimir chortled. “You tried your best, but ultimately, your attempt to find a competent officer to keep me under control proved to be your downfall! Ahahahaha! I’ll be sure to write to you once I finish ‘saving’ another hopeless villa--”\n\n\nCLACK!\n\n\n“V-Vladimir, you are under a-arrest… please don’t struggle…”\n\n\nAgainst all the odds, Booker suddenly marched forwards and clamped a pair of handcuffs on Vladimir’s fluffy pink wrists. The townsfolk cheered as if Place had just won the premier league, with Alice being the first to sing his praises directly, which made the old police chief blush.\n\n\nI hopped down from the stage, Isabelle close behind, and stood arms crossed before Vladimir. Waiting for the commotion to die down, I stared that jerk in his unhinged eyes.\n\n\n“I don’t know where to begin, man” I shrugged. “You think you know a guy, then the next minute, he’s trying to sell your town or something. I just wanna know why.”\n\n\nVladimir gulped, but I doubt he was swallowing his pride. “This place… this… this PLACE was a dump! You said it yourself, mayor! Even now, after all I’ve done to increase the town’s worth and monetary value, it’s still oh so ramshackle and… and old fashioned a-and spacious and… a-and…”\n\n\n“Quaint!” I added, “and that’s just the way I like it! You know, if there's anything I've learned this year, after busting my back over Public Works Projects and watching residents come and go, it's that there's a lot more to this village than the way it looks. I mean, you're right, it is kind of a dump... n-not as much as it used to be, mind you, but that's not important.\"\n\n\n\"How is it not important?\" Vladimir grunted. \"You would rather live amongst trash and filth? You do not appreciate the finest landmarks I paid for?!\"\n\n\n\"Those are cool and all,\" I replied, \"even if they do upset the Quaint-O-Meter... but at the end of the day, that fairy tale bench and that fancy fountain over there aren't the reason I get up in the morning. It's you.\"\n\n\nVladimir, and everyone else for that matter, looked at me strangely.\n\n\n\"You're my neighbour. Or at least, you were, heh heh... but it was getting to talk with you and do favours for you that's kept me sane this summer! Same with Simon, Charlise, Stinky, Carmen, Whitney... Alice... even you, Becky!\"\n\n\"Charmed.\"\n\n\n\"Truth be told, I couldn't give less of a damn what Place looks like! I'm doing what I do because it makes these people happy, gives them hope for a brighter tomorrow, or whatever they say in Star Trek. If I could just terraform the environment as I pleased like a powerful god, it wouldn't even matter if the animals here weren't such good friends of mine. And I sure as hell wouldn't just up and choose who gets to live here or not!\"\n\n\n\"What is your point?\" a defeated Vladimir asked.\n\n\n\"My point is,\" I declared, aware that I was probably rambling by now, \"is that it's not about the town, it's not about the public works projects or the shiny new buildings... what matters most...\"\n\n\n“Please don’t say it…”\n\n\n“...is family!”\n\n\nA collective groan echoed throughout the sea of multicoloured animals, although the sentiment, I think, was agreed upon.\n\n\n\n\n~Author’s Notes~\nZoo wee mama those last three episodes were hard to write.\nThere was A LOT of things that I hoped to tie up and call back to and reference in this part of the story that I am 100% sure I didn’t really do as well as I had hoped I would. But hey, what’s done is done, maybe this will grow on me. There’s four more episodes to go until I can finally put season two to rest. Keep staying tuned!\n\n(also yes, i was sorta making a jab at new horizons there but don’t tell anybody)",
      "duration": null,
      "fav_count": 4,
      "file": {
        "ext": "png",
        "height": 1080,
        "md5": "0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87",
        "size": 684133,
        "url": "https://static1.e621.net/data/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.png",
        "width": 1410
      },
      "flags": {
        "deleted": false,
        "flagged": false,
        "note_locked": false,
        "pending": false,
        "rating_locked": false,
        "status_locked": false
      },
      "has_notes": false,
      "id": 5981157,
      "is_favorited": false,
      "locked_tags": [],
      "pools": [
        50043
      ],
      "preview": {
        "alt": "https://static1.e621.net/data/preview/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.webp",
        "height": 256,
        "url": "https://static1.e621.net/data/preview/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.jpg",
        "width": 334
      },
      "rating": "s",
      "relationships": {
        "children": [],
        "has_active_children": false,
        "has_children": false,
        "parent_id": null
      },
      "sample": {
        "alt": "https://static1.e621.net/data/sample/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.webp",
        "alternates": {},
        "has": true,
        "height": 850,
        "url": "https://static1.e621.net/data/sample/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.jpg",
        "width": 1110
      },
      "score": {
        "down": -1,
        "total": 6,
        "up": 7
      },
      "sources": [
        "https://www.deviantart.com/cookieboy011/art/MY-PLACE-s02-e76-Caught-Pink-Handed-887303557"
      ],
      "tags": {
        "artist": [
          "cookieboy011"
        ],
        "character": [
          "alice_(animal_crossing)",
          "becky_(animal_crossing)",
          "booker_(animal_crossing)",
          "mr._resetti",
          "vladimir_(animal_crossing)"
        ],
        "contributor": [],
        "copyright": [
          "animal_crossing",
          "nintendo"
        ],
        "general": [
          "3_toes",
          "4_fingers",
          "accessory",
          "angry",
          "anthro",
          "armor",
          "arrested",
          "arresting",
          "barefoot",
          "bent_arm",
          "big_nose",
          "black_eyebrows",
          "black_eyes",
          "black_nose",
          "blonde_hair",
          "blue_background",
          "blue_clothing",
          "blue_hat",
          "blue_headwear",
          "blue_overalls",
          "blue_shirt",
          "blue_topwear",
          "blush",
          "blush_lines",
          "brown_body",
          "brown_fur",
          "clothed",
          "clothed_anthro",
          "clothed_female",
          "clothed_male",
          "clothing",
          "cuff_(restraint)",
          "cuffed_wrists",
          "dress",
          "eyebrows",
          "eyelashes",
          "eyes_closed",
          "feet",
          "female",
          "female_anthro",
          "fingers",
          "fist",
          "flat_chested",
          "floppy_ears",
          "freckled_face",
          "freckles",
          "fully_clothed",
          "fully_clothed_anthro",
          "fully_clothed_male",
          "fur",
          "furrowed_eyebrows",
          "gesture",
          "group",
          "hair",
          "hair_accessory",
          "half-closed_eyes",
          "hand_gesture",
          "hand_pawpads",
          "happy",
          "hard_hat",
          "hat",
          "headgear",
          "headwear",
          "helmet",
          "holding_arm",
          "holding_photo",
          "inner_ear_fluff",
          "jumping",
          "larger_anthro",
          "larger_male",
          "light",
          "looking_at_another",
          "looking_back",
          "looking_back_at_another",
          "male",
          "male_anthro",
          "midair",
          "motion_lines",
          "multicolored_hair",
          "narrowed_eyes",
          "no_pupils",
          "open_mouth",
          "open_smile",
          "overalls",
          "pattern_clothing",
          "pattern_dress",
          "pawpads",
          "pink_body",
          "pink_fur",
          "pink_inner_ear",
          "pink_nose",
          "pink_pawpads",
          "pink_tongue",
          "pointing",
          "police",
          "police_officer",
          "police_uniform",
          "raised_fist",
          "raised_hand",
          "red_freckles",
          "restraints",
          "shirt",
          "short_hair",
          "simple_background",
          "size_difference",
          "sky",
          "smaller_anthro",
          "smaller_male",
          "smile",
          "striped_clothing",
          "striped_dress",
          "stripes",
          "tank_top",
          "thick_eyebrows",
          "toes",
          "tongue",
          "topwear",
          "tuft",
          "two_tone_hair",
          "uniform",
          "whisker_spots",
          "white_body",
          "white_clothing",
          "white_dress",
          "white_fur",
          "white_inner_ear_fluff",
          "white_shirt",
          "white_tank_top",
          "white_topwear",
          "yellow_body",
          "yellow_fur"
        ],
        "invalid": [],
        "lore": [],
        "meta": [
          "colored",
          "digital_drawing_(artwork)",
          "digital_media_(artwork)",
          "english_description",
          "lighting",
          "shaded",
          "story",
          "story_in_description"
        ],
        "species": [
          "avian",
          "bear",
          "bird",
          "bull_terrier",
          "canid",
          "canine",
          "canis",
          "chicken",
          "domestic_dog",
          "eulipotyphlan",
          "galliform",
          "hunting_dog",
          "koala",
          "mammal",
          "marsupial",
          "mole_(animal)",
          "phasianid",
          "terrier",
          "vombatiform"
        ]
      },
      "updated_at": "2026-03-15T03:20:53.226-04:00",
      "uploader_id": 1612135,
      "uploader_name": "SkyWater",
      "vote": 0
    },
    ".description.json": {
      "description": "[b][u]MY PLACE s02:e76 - Caught Pink Handed[/u][/b]\n\n“You all live in cloud cuckoo land!!” Vladimir twitched, trying more to prove his own innocence than to frame me at this point. “You’re all so eager to believe this paranoid koala bear and these unsightly lairs… you’re going to need more than hearsay and pieces of paper to prove anything! I am not the criminal here!!”\n\n\nBefore anyone could challenge him, the ground beneath Vladimir started to bubble. He fell to his feet as the dirt opened beneath him, a familiar hard hatted mole poking his head out who looked around and saw many pairs of eyes staring at him curiously.\n\n\n“...I’m not too late am I?” he asked. “You lot are still doing the ceremony, ain’t ya?”\n\n\n“Yes, yes, we very much are, Don” said Tom. “In fact, we’re about this close to apprehending a criminal…”\n\n\n“Criminal? Oh, yeah! That’s what I came up for! Hold on a sec…”\n\n\nResetti clumsily struggled to climb out of his tunnel, holding onto some folded pieces of paper as he did so. Vladimir, meanwhile, was also trying to regain his footing.\n\n\n“You!” I exclaimed, almost involuntarily. “Where the hell have you been all this time?! What are we even paying you for?” I turned to Isabelle. “Are we paying him?”\n\n\n“If you were, I sure as dirt haven’t seen any of it!” Resetti grunted as he made his way to the stage. He all but shoved me out of the way so that he could speak into the microphone. Just what is happening right now? I thought. It’s too early for this.\n\n\n“Right, listen up folks!” he said, underestimating the volume of the speakers. “My name is MISTER Resetti and I’m in charge of the Reset Surveillance Center...”\n\n\n“What is this?” asked a dizzy Vladimir.\n\n\n“Quiet you!!” Resetti yelled, causing more pain to everyone’s ears. “Don’t yap while I’m makin’ a speech!! Ahem, anyway, most of you probably didn’t know that I was even here since your uncharitable mayor stuck the entrance to my headquarters at the very edge of the village.”\n\n“Well, it’s not like you did much to make yourself popular, is it?” I quipped.\n\n\n“BECAUSE I WAS BUSY!!” he roared. “Mr Nook, an old friend of mine, hired me to act as a proverbial watchdog for this backwater town to keep an eye on you, mayor. Apparently, you got up to all sorts of mischief last year and… hang on, it seems as if I’m not supposed to be telling you this...”\n\n\nI looked over at Tom, who was rather desperately trying to signal Resetti to stop talking. I’ll be having a word with him later…\n\n\n“Whatever,” the mole continued, “that’s not what’s important. What matters is that eventually I started keeping an eye on everybody else as well, since just watching this weirdo was putting me to sleep!” He ignored the shocked expressions of the now-paranoid townsfolk and carried on ranting. “Most notably was this little pink bear character. Super suspicious, wouldn’t even trust with the dirt on my helmet. To make a long story short, here’s some screenshots I printed out with my printer machine. They’re in black and all kinds of fuzzy, but you probably get the jist…”\n\n\nResetti handed me some very poorly printed but otherwise damning evidence of Vladimir’s nefarious deeds, including but not limited to him corresponding with Becky and Rocco after hours, making forceful gestures towards Beardo and laughing maniacally in the middle of his house. The photos were shared around like a show and tell day at school, including one of Carmen taking her shirt off, which Resetti promptly grabbed back before complaining about his printer.\n\n\n“Got anymore excuses, Vladimir?” asked Alice, smugly. “Or do you think you still have a chance of wriggling yourself out of this one?”\n\n\nVladimir looked at one of the photos with disbelief. What must have been months upon months of planning and preparation to take Place away from me had been foiled by some cranky old mole who he wasn’t even aware of. He looked up to see everyone converging on where he stood. Surprisingly though, or perhaps desperately, he cracked a twisted smile.\n\n\n“As a matter of fact, Ms Koala, I do! Go ahead, officer Booker…. ARREST ME!”\n\n\nEveryone turned their attention to the trembling police dog, who immediately began to shrink in fear. \n\n“O-oh!!” he stuttered. “Um… o-okay, w-w-well… w-would you k-k-kindly put these handc-cuffs on… please?”\n\n\nThe sight alone of Place’s only official law enforcement, unable to look anyone directly in the eye, sent Vladimir into hysterics.\n\n\n“AHAHAHAHAAA!!” he cackled. “I may as well CRAWL to the train station and make my escape! This bloated, quivering excuse for a policeman couldn’t arrest a butterfly!!” And, just like that, Vladimir turned on his heel and started casually strolling away from the plaza. Sure, any one of us could tackle him, pin him down, anything really, but Booker needed to make the arrest!\n\n\n“Booker!” Alice pleaded. “You’ve got to put those cuffs around him!”\n\n\n“Yeah Booker!” I joined in. “You were about to arrest me, right? This’ll be no problem since he’s, like, half your size!”\n\n\n“I-I-I… u-umm… I d-don’t know… h-he’s g-g-g-getting away…”\n\n\n“Booker, I’m so sorry for what I said before,” Alice apologised. “I know you can’t help being who you are, but you’ve got to do this or else he’ll just go off and ruin another town!”\n\n\nBooker was quiet. I’d seen plenty of examples of anxiety and shyness before, but he was on a whole other level. No wonder Vladimir persuaded me to choose him over the other police officers Isabelle had suggested. Makes me wonder how much of his resume was made up.\n\n\n“Forget it, Ms Koala!!” Vladimir chortled. “You tried your best, but ultimately, your attempt to find a competent officer to keep me under control proved to be your downfall! Ahahahaha! I’ll be sure to write to you once I finish ‘saving’ another hopeless villa--”\n\n\nCLACK!\n\n\n“V-Vladimir, you are under a-arrest… please don’t struggle…”\n\n\nAgainst all the odds, Booker suddenly marched forwards and clamped a pair of handcuffs on Vladimir’s fluffy pink wrists. The townsfolk cheered as if Place had just won the premier league, with Alice being the first to sing his praises directly, which made the old police chief blush.\n\n\nI hopped down from the stage, Isabelle close behind, and stood arms crossed before Vladimir. Waiting for the commotion to die down, I stared that jerk in his unhinged eyes.\n\n\n“I don’t know where to begin, man” I shrugged. “You think you know a guy, then the next minute, he’s trying to sell your town or something. I just wanna know why.”\n\n\nVladimir gulped, but I doubt he was swallowing his pride. “This place… this… this PLACE was a dump! You said it yourself, mayor! Even now, after all I’ve done to increase the town’s worth and monetary value, it’s still oh so ramshackle and… and old fashioned a-and spacious and… a-and…”\n\n\n“Quaint!” I added, “and that’s just the way I like it! You know, if there's anything I've learned this year, after busting my back over Public Works Projects and watching residents come and go, it's that there's a lot more to this village than the way it looks. I mean, you're right, it is kind of a dump... n-not as much as it used to be, mind you, but that's not important.\"\n\n\n\"How is it not important?\" Vladimir grunted. \"You would rather live amongst trash and filth? You do not appreciate the finest landmarks I paid for?!\"\n\n\n\"Those are cool and all,\" I replied, \"even if they do upset the Quaint-O-Meter... but at the end of the day, that fairy tale bench and that fancy fountain over there aren't the reason I get up in the morning. It's you.\"\n\n\nVladimir, and everyone else for that matter, looked at me strangely.\n\n\n\"You're my neighbour. Or at least, you were, heh heh... but it was getting to talk with you and do favours for you that's kept me sane this summer! Same with Simon, Charlise, Stinky, Carmen, Whitney... Alice... even you, Becky!\"\n\n\"Charmed.\"\n\n\n\"Truth be told, I couldn't give less of a damn what Place looks like! I'm doing what I do because it makes these people happy, gives them hope for a brighter tomorrow, or whatever they say in Star Trek. If I could just terraform the environment as I pleased like a powerful god, it wouldn't even matter if the animals here weren't such good friends of mine. And I sure as hell wouldn't just up and choose who gets to live here or not!\"\n\n\n\"What is your point?\" a defeated Vladimir asked.\n\n\n\"My point is,\" I declared, aware that I was probably rambling by now, \"is that it's not about the town, it's not about the public works projects or the shiny new buildings... what matters most...\"\n\n\n“Please don’t say it…”\n\n\n“...is family!”\n\n\nA collective groan echoed throughout the sea of multicoloured animals, although the sentiment, I think, was agreed upon.\n\n\n\n\n~Author’s Notes~\nZoo wee mama those last three episodes were hard to write.\nThere was A LOT of things that I hoped to tie up and call back to and reference in this part of the story that I am 100% sure I didn’t really do as well as I had hoped I would. But hey, what’s done is done, maybe this will grow on me. There’s four more episodes to go until I can finally put season two to rest. Keep staying tuned!\n\n(also yes, i was sorta making a jab at new horizons there but don’t tell anybody)"
    },
    ".pools.json": [
      {
        "category": "series",
        "created_at": "2025-07-25T11:45:01.915-04:00",
        "creator_id": 1612135,
        "creator_name": "SkyWater",
        "description": "In an attempt to redeem himself, the mayor of Place goes the extra mile in improving the village he's been tasked to take care of. However, when a seemingly innocent new neighbour arrives in town, weird things start happening right under the mayor's nose and it's up to Alice to get to the bottom of it before Place falls into the wrong hands...\n\nCreated by CookieBoy011.\n\n[u]Previous Season:[/u] \"Season One\":https://e621.net/pools/48551 [u]Later Seasons:[/u] \"Season Three\":https://e621.net/pools/52413",
        "id": 50043,
        "is_active": false,
        "name": "My_Place_-_Season_Two_[Cookieboy011]",
        "post_count": 81,
        "post_ids": [
          5733316,
          5735736,
          5737791,
          5739867,
          5742566,
          5744567,
          5746801,
          5749073,
          5751091,
          5753374,
          5755899,
          5758249,
          5822612,
          5824666,
          5826710,
          5829318,
          5831047,
          5833065,
          5836967,
          5840784,
          5849827,
          5859475,
          5861658,
          5863853,
          5865703,
          5867727,
          5869414,
          5871684,
          5873753,
          5875683,
          5877455,
          5879829,
          5881908,
          5884107,
          5886559,
          5888827,
          5891155,
          5893320,
          5895520,
          5897843,
          5899988,
          5902871,
          5904979,
          5907098,
          5909601,
          5911482,
          5913714,
          5915409,
          5917700,
          5919974,
          5922087,
          5924377,
          5926596,
          5928629,
          5930856,
          5933372,
          5935543,
          5937846,
          5939740,
          5942328,
          5945139,
          5948250,
          5950255,
          5952722,
          5954874,
          5957166,
          5959432,
          5961505,
          5963816,
          5965935,
          5968204,
          5970418,
          5972464,
          5974423,
          5976719,
          5978615,
          5981157,
          5983396,
          5985290,
          5987671,
          5989847
        ],
        "updated_at": "2025-11-21T13:16:40.246-05:00"
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "approver_id": null,
  "change_seq": 75163308,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "created_at": "2025-11-16T13:58:54.586-05:00",
  "description": "[b][u]MY PLACE s02:e76 - Caught Pink Handed[/u][/b]\n\n“You all live in cloud cuckoo land!!” Vladimir twitched, trying more to prove his own innocence than to frame me at this point. “You’re all so eager to believe this paranoid koala bear and these unsightly lairs… you’re going to need more than hearsay and pieces of paper to prove anything! I am not the criminal here!!”\n\n\nBefore anyone could challenge him, the ground beneath Vladimir started to bubble. He fell to his feet as the dirt opened beneath him, a familiar hard hatted mole poking his head out who looked around and saw many pairs of eyes staring at him curiously.\n\n\n“...I’m not too late am I?” he asked. “You lot are still doing the ceremony, ain’t ya?”\n\n\n“Yes, yes, we very much are, Don” said Tom. “In fact, we’re about this close to apprehending a criminal…”\n\n\n“Criminal? Oh, yeah! That’s what I came up for! Hold on a sec…”\n\n\nResetti clumsily struggled to climb out of his tunnel, holding onto some folded pieces of paper as he did so. Vladimir, meanwhile, was also trying to regain his footing.\n\n\n“You!” I exclaimed, almost involuntarily. “Where the hell have you been all this time?! What are we even paying you for?” I turned to Isabelle. “Are we paying him?”\n\n\n“If you were, I sure as dirt haven’t seen any of it!” Resetti grunted as he made his way to the stage. He all but shoved me out of the way so that he could speak into the microphone. Just what is happening right now? I thought. It’s too early for this.\n\n\n“Right, listen up folks!” he said, underestimating the volume of the speakers. “My name is MISTER Resetti and I’m in charge of the Reset Surveillance Center...”\n\n\n“What is this?” asked a dizzy Vladimir.\n\n\n“Quiet you!!” Resetti yelled, causing more pain to everyone’s ears. “Don’t yap while I’m makin’ a speech!! Ahem, anyway, most of you probably didn’t know that I was even here since your uncharitable mayor stuck the entrance to my headquarters at the very edge of the village.”\n\n“Well, it’s not like you did much to make yourself popular, is it?” I quipped.\n\n\n“BECAUSE I WAS BUSY!!” he roared. “Mr Nook, an old friend of mine, hired me to act as a proverbial watchdog for this backwater town to keep an eye on you, mayor. Apparently, you got up to all sorts of mischief last year and… hang on, it seems as if I’m not supposed to be telling you this...”\n\n\nI looked over at Tom, who was rather desperately trying to signal Resetti to stop talking. I’ll be having a word with him later…\n\n\n“Whatever,” the mole continued, “that’s not what’s important. What matters is that eventually I started keeping an eye on everybody else as well, since just watching this weirdo was putting me to sleep!” He ignored the shocked expressions of the now-paranoid townsfolk and carried on ranting. “Most notably was this little pink bear character. Super suspicious, wouldn’t even trust with the dirt on my helmet. To make a long story short, here’s some screenshots I printed out with my printer machine. They’re in black and all kinds of fuzzy, but you probably get the jist…”\n\n\nResetti handed me some very poorly printed but otherwise damning evidence of Vladimir’s nefarious deeds, including but not limited to him corresponding with Becky and Rocco after hours, making forceful gestures towards Beardo and laughing maniacally in the middle of his house. The photos were shared around like a show and tell day at school, including one of Carmen taking her shirt off, which Resetti promptly grabbed back before complaining about his printer.\n\n\n“Got anymore excuses, Vladimir?” asked Alice, smugly. “Or do you think you still have a chance of wriggling yourself out of this one?”\n\n\nVladimir looked at one of the photos with disbelief. What must have been months upon months of planning and preparation to take Place away from me had been foiled by some cranky old mole who he wasn’t even aware of. He looked up to see everyone converging on where he stood. Surprisingly though, or perhaps desperately, he cracked a twisted smile.\n\n\n“As a matter of fact, Ms Koala, I do! Go ahead, officer Booker…. ARREST ME!”\n\n\nEveryone turned their attention to the trembling police dog, who immediately began to shrink in fear. \n\n“O-oh!!” he stuttered. “Um… o-okay, w-w-well… w-would you k-k-kindly put these handc-cuffs on… please?”\n\n\nThe sight alone of Place’s only official law enforcement, unable to look anyone directly in the eye, sent Vladimir into hysterics.\n\n\n“AHAHAHAHAAA!!” he cackled. “I may as well CRAWL to the train station and make my escape! This bloated, quivering excuse for a policeman couldn’t arrest a butterfly!!” And, just like that, Vladimir turned on his heel and started casually strolling away from the plaza. Sure, any one of us could tackle him, pin him down, anything really, but Booker needed to make the arrest!\n\n\n“Booker!” Alice pleaded. “You’ve got to put those cuffs around him!”\n\n\n“Yeah Booker!” I joined in. “You were about to arrest me, right? This’ll be no problem since he’s, like, half your size!”\n\n\n“I-I-I… u-umm… I d-don’t know… h-he’s g-g-g-getting away…”\n\n\n“Booker, I’m so sorry for what I said before,” Alice apologised. “I know you can’t help being who you are, but you’ve got to do this or else he’ll just go off and ruin another town!”\n\n\nBooker was quiet. I’d seen plenty of examples of anxiety and shyness before, but he was on a whole other level. No wonder Vladimir persuaded me to choose him over the other police officers Isabelle had suggested. Makes me wonder how much of his resume was made up.\n\n\n“Forget it, Ms Koala!!” Vladimir chortled. “You tried your best, but ultimately, your attempt to find a competent officer to keep me under control proved to be your downfall! Ahahahaha! I’ll be sure to write to you once I finish ‘saving’ another hopeless villa--”\n\n\nCLACK!\n\n\n“V-Vladimir, you are under a-arrest… please don’t struggle…”\n\n\nAgainst all the odds, Booker suddenly marched forwards and clamped a pair of handcuffs on Vladimir’s fluffy pink wrists. The townsfolk cheered as if Place had just won the premier league, with Alice being the first to sing his praises directly, which made the old police chief blush.\n\n\nI hopped down from the stage, Isabelle close behind, and stood arms crossed before Vladimir. Waiting for the commotion to die down, I stared that jerk in his unhinged eyes.\n\n\n“I don’t know where to begin, man” I shrugged. “You think you know a guy, then the next minute, he’s trying to sell your town or something. I just wanna know why.”\n\n\nVladimir gulped, but I doubt he was swallowing his pride. “This place… this… this PLACE was a dump! You said it yourself, mayor! Even now, after all I’ve done to increase the town’s worth and monetary value, it’s still oh so ramshackle and… and old fashioned a-and spacious and… a-and…”\n\n\n“Quaint!” I added, “and that’s just the way I like it! You know, if there's anything I've learned this year, after busting my back over Public Works Projects and watching residents come and go, it's that there's a lot more to this village than the way it looks. I mean, you're right, it is kind of a dump... n-not as much as it used to be, mind you, but that's not important.\"\n\n\n\"How is it not important?\" Vladimir grunted. \"You would rather live amongst trash and filth? You do not appreciate the finest landmarks I paid for?!\"\n\n\n\"Those are cool and all,\" I replied, \"even if they do upset the Quaint-O-Meter... but at the end of the day, that fairy tale bench and that fancy fountain over there aren't the reason I get up in the morning. It's you.\"\n\n\nVladimir, and everyone else for that matter, looked at me strangely.\n\n\n\"You're my neighbour. Or at least, you were, heh heh... but it was getting to talk with you and do favours for you that's kept me sane this summer! Same with Simon, Charlise, Stinky, Carmen, Whitney... Alice... even you, Becky!\"\n\n\"Charmed.\"\n\n\n\"Truth be told, I couldn't give less of a damn what Place looks like! I'm doing what I do because it makes these people happy, gives them hope for a brighter tomorrow, or whatever they say in Star Trek. If I could just terraform the environment as I pleased like a powerful god, it wouldn't even matter if the animals here weren't such good friends of mine. And I sure as hell wouldn't just up and choose who gets to live here or not!\"\n\n\n\"What is your point?\" a defeated Vladimir asked.\n\n\n\"My point is,\" I declared, aware that I was probably rambling by now, \"is that it's not about the town, it's not about the public works projects or the shiny new buildings... what matters most...\"\n\n\n“Please don’t say it…”\n\n\n“...is family!”\n\n\nA collective groan echoed throughout the sea of multicoloured animals, although the sentiment, I think, was agreed upon.\n\n\n\n\n~Author’s Notes~\nZoo wee mama those last three episodes were hard to write.\nThere was A LOT of things that I hoped to tie up and call back to and reference in this part of the story that I am 100% sure I didn’t really do as well as I had hoped I would. But hey, what’s done is done, maybe this will grow on me. There’s four more episodes to go until I can finally put season two to rest. Keep staying tuned!\n\n(also yes, i was sorta making a jab at new horizons there but don’t tell anybody)",
  "duration": null,
  "fav_count": 4,
  "file": {
    "ext": "png",
    "height": 1080,
    "md5": "0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87",
    "size": 684133,
    "url": "https://static1.e621.net/data/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.png",
    "width": 1410
  },
  "flags": {
    "deleted": false,
    "flagged": false,
    "note_locked": false,
    "pending": false,
    "rating_locked": false,
    "status_locked": false
  },
  "has_notes": false,
  "id": 5981157,
  "is_favorited": false,
  "locked_tags": [],
  "pools": [
    50043
  ],
  "preview": {
    "alt": "https://static1.e621.net/data/preview/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.webp",
    "height": 256,
    "url": "https://static1.e621.net/data/preview/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.jpg",
    "width": 334
  },
  "rating": "s",
  "relationships": {
    "children": [],
    "has_active_children": false,
    "has_children": false,
    "parent_id": null
  },
  "sample": {
    "alt": "https://static1.e621.net/data/sample/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.webp",
    "alternates": {},
    "has": true,
    "height": 850,
    "url": "https://static1.e621.net/data/sample/0c/34/0c34529110f8d224e291ac6a968c3a87.jpg",
    "width": 1110
  },
  "score": {
    "down": -1,
    "total": 6,
    "up": 7
  },
  "sources": [
    "https://www.deviantart.com/cookieboy011/art/MY-PLACE-s02-e76-Caught-Pink-Handed-887303557"
  ],
  "tags": {
    "artist": [
      "cookieboy011"
    ],
    "character": [
      "alice_(animal_crossing)",
      "becky_(animal_crossing)",
      "booker_(animal_crossing)",
      "mr._resetti",
      "vladimir_(animal_crossing)"
    ],
    "contributor": [],
    "copyright": [
      "animal_crossing",
      "nintendo"
    ],
    "general": [
      "3_toes",
      "4_fingers",
      "accessory",
      "angry",
      "anthro",
      "armor",
      "arrested",
      "arresting",
      "barefoot",
      "bent_arm",
      "big_nose",
      "black_eyebrows",
      "black_eyes",
      "black_nose",
      "blonde_hair",
      "blue_background",
      "blue_clothing",
      "blue_hat",
      "blue_headwear",
      "blue_overalls",
      "blue_shirt",
      "blue_topwear",
      "blush",
      "blush_lines",
      "brown_body",
      "brown_fur",
      "clothed",
      "clothed_anthro",
      "clothed_female",
      "clothed_male",
      "clothing",
      "cuff_(restraint)",
      "cuffed_wrists",
      "dress",
      "eyebrows",
      "eyelashes",
      "eyes_closed",
      "feet",
      "female",
      "female_anthro",
      "fingers",
      "fist",
      "flat_chested",
      "floppy_ears",
      "freckled_face",
      "freckles",
      "fully_clothed",
      "fully_clothed_anthro",
      "fully_clothed_male",
      "fur",
      "furrowed_eyebrows",
      "gesture",
      "group",
      "hair",
      "hair_accessory",
      "half-closed_eyes",
      "hand_gesture",
      "hand_pawpads",
      "happy",
      "hard_hat",
      "hat",
      "headgear",
      "headwear",
      "helmet",
      "holding_arm",
      "holding_photo",
      "inner_ear_fluff",
      "jumping",
      "larger_anthro",
      "larger_male",
      "light",
      "looking_at_another",
      "looking_back",
      "looking_back_at_another",
      "male",
      "male_anthro",
      "midair",
      "motion_lines",
      "multicolored_hair",
      "narrowed_eyes",
      "no_pupils",
      "open_mouth",
      "open_smile",
      "overalls",
      "pattern_clothing",
      "pattern_dress",
      "pawpads",
      "pink_body",
      "pink_fur",
      "pink_inner_ear",
      "pink_nose",
      "pink_pawpads",
      "pink_tongue",
      "pointing",
      "police",
      "police_officer",
      "police_uniform",
      "raised_fist",
      "raised_hand",
      "red_freckles",
      "restraints",
      "shirt",
      "short_hair",
      "simple_background",
      "size_difference",
      "sky",
      "smaller_anthro",
      "smaller_male",
      "smile",
      "striped_clothing",
      "striped_dress",
      "stripes",
      "tank_top",
      "thick_eyebrows",
      "toes",
      "tongue",
      "topwear",
      "tuft",
      "two_tone_hair",
      "uniform",
      "whisker_spots",
      "white_body",
      "white_clothing",
      "white_dress",
      "white_fur",
      "white_inner_ear_fluff",
      "white_shirt",
      "white_tank_top",
      "white_topwear",
      "yellow_body",
      "yellow_fur"
    ],
    "invalid": [],
    "lore": [],
    "meta": [
      "colored",
      "digital_drawing_(artwork)",
      "digital_media_(artwork)",
      "english_description",
      "lighting",
      "shaded",
      "story",
      "story_in_description"
    ],
    "species": [
      "avian",
      "bear",
      "bird",
      "bull_terrier",
      "canid",
      "canine",
      "canis",
      "chicken",
      "domestic_dog",
      "eulipotyphlan",
      "galliform",
      "hunting_dog",
      "koala",
      "mammal",
      "marsupial",
      "mole_(animal)",
      "phasianid",
      "terrier",
      "vombatiform"
    ]
  },
  "updated_at": "2026-03-15T03:20:53.226-04:00",
  "uploader_id": 1612135,
  "uploader_name": "SkyWater",
  "vote": 0
}

{
  "description": "[b][u]MY PLACE s02:e76 - Caught Pink Handed[/u][/b]\n\n“You all live in cloud cuckoo land!!” Vladimir twitched, trying more to prove his own innocence than to frame me at this point. “You’re all so eager to believe this paranoid koala bear and these unsightly lairs… you’re going to need more than hearsay and pieces of paper to prove anything! I am not the criminal here!!”\n\n\nBefore anyone could challenge him, the ground beneath Vladimir started to bubble. He fell to his feet as the dirt opened beneath him, a familiar hard hatted mole poking his head out who looked around and saw many pairs of eyes staring at him curiously.\n\n\n“...I’m not too late am I?” he asked. “You lot are still doing the ceremony, ain’t ya?”\n\n\n“Yes, yes, we very much are, Don” said Tom. “In fact, we’re about this close to apprehending a criminal…”\n\n\n“Criminal? Oh, yeah! That’s what I came up for! Hold on a sec…”\n\n\nResetti clumsily struggled to climb out of his tunnel, holding onto some folded pieces of paper as he did so. Vladimir, meanwhile, was also trying to regain his footing.\n\n\n“You!” I exclaimed, almost involuntarily. “Where the hell have you been all this time?! What are we even paying you for?” I turned to Isabelle. “Are we paying him?”\n\n\n“If you were, I sure as dirt haven’t seen any of it!” Resetti grunted as he made his way to the stage. He all but shoved me out of the way so that he could speak into the microphone. Just what is happening right now? I thought. It’s too early for this.\n\n\n“Right, listen up folks!” he said, underestimating the volume of the speakers. “My name is MISTER Resetti and I’m in charge of the Reset Surveillance Center...”\n\n\n“What is this?” asked a dizzy Vladimir.\n\n\n“Quiet you!!” Resetti yelled, causing more pain to everyone’s ears. “Don’t yap while I’m makin’ a speech!! Ahem, anyway, most of you probably didn’t know that I was even here since your uncharitable mayor stuck the entrance to my headquarters at the very edge of the village.”\n\n“Well, it’s not like you did much to make yourself popular, is it?” I quipped.\n\n\n“BECAUSE I WAS BUSY!!” he roared. “Mr Nook, an old friend of mine, hired me to act as a proverbial watchdog for this backwater town to keep an eye on you, mayor. Apparently, you got up to all sorts of mischief last year and… hang on, it seems as if I’m not supposed to be telling you this...”\n\n\nI looked over at Tom, who was rather desperately trying to signal Resetti to stop talking. I’ll be having a word with him later…\n\n\n“Whatever,” the mole continued, “that’s not what’s important. What matters is that eventually I started keeping an eye on everybody else as well, since just watching this weirdo was putting me to sleep!” He ignored the shocked expressions of the now-paranoid townsfolk and carried on ranting. “Most notably was this little pink bear character. Super suspicious, wouldn’t even trust with the dirt on my helmet. To make a long story short, here’s some screenshots I printed out with my printer machine. They’re in black and all kinds of fuzzy, but you probably get the jist…”\n\n\nResetti handed me some very poorly printed but otherwise damning evidence of Vladimir’s nefarious deeds, including but not limited to him corresponding with Becky and Rocco after hours, making forceful gestures towards Beardo and laughing maniacally in the middle of his house. The photos were shared around like a show and tell day at school, including one of Carmen taking her shirt off, which Resetti promptly grabbed back before complaining about his printer.\n\n\n“Got anymore excuses, Vladimir?” asked Alice, smugly. “Or do you think you still have a chance of wriggling yourself out of this one?”\n\n\nVladimir looked at one of the photos with disbelief. What must have been months upon months of planning and preparation to take Place away from me had been foiled by some cranky old mole who he wasn’t even aware of. He looked up to see everyone converging on where he stood. Surprisingly though, or perhaps desperately, he cracked a twisted smile.\n\n\n“As a matter of fact, Ms Koala, I do! Go ahead, officer Booker…. ARREST ME!”\n\n\nEveryone turned their attention to the trembling police dog, who immediately began to shrink in fear. \n\n“O-oh!!” he stuttered. “Um… o-okay, w-w-well… w-would you k-k-kindly put these handc-cuffs on… please?”\n\n\nThe sight alone of Place’s only official law enforcement, unable to look anyone directly in the eye, sent Vladimir into hysterics.\n\n\n“AHAHAHAHAAA!!” he cackled. “I may as well CRAWL to the train station and make my escape! This bloated, quivering excuse for a policeman couldn’t arrest a butterfly!!” And, just like that, Vladimir turned on his heel and started casually strolling away from the plaza. Sure, any one of us could tackle him, pin him down, anything really, but Booker needed to make the arrest!\n\n\n“Booker!” Alice pleaded. “You’ve got to put those cuffs around him!”\n\n\n“Yeah Booker!” I joined in. “You were about to arrest me, right? This’ll be no problem since he’s, like, half your size!”\n\n\n“I-I-I… u-umm… I d-don’t know… h-he’s g-g-g-getting away…”\n\n\n“Booker, I’m so sorry for what I said before,” Alice apologised. “I know you can’t help being who you are, but you’ve got to do this or else he’ll just go off and ruin another town!”\n\n\nBooker was quiet. I’d seen plenty of examples of anxiety and shyness before, but he was on a whole other level. No wonder Vladimir persuaded me to choose him over the other police officers Isabelle had suggested. Makes me wonder how much of his resume was made up.\n\n\n“Forget it, Ms Koala!!” Vladimir chortled. “You tried your best, but ultimately, your attempt to find a competent officer to keep me under control proved to be your downfall! Ahahahaha! I’ll be sure to write to you once I finish ‘saving’ another hopeless villa--”\n\n\nCLACK!\n\n\n“V-Vladimir, you are under a-arrest… please don’t struggle…”\n\n\nAgainst all the odds, Booker suddenly marched forwards and clamped a pair of handcuffs on Vladimir’s fluffy pink wrists. The townsfolk cheered as if Place had just won the premier league, with Alice being the first to sing his praises directly, which made the old police chief blush.\n\n\nI hopped down from the stage, Isabelle close behind, and stood arms crossed before Vladimir. Waiting for the commotion to die down, I stared that jerk in his unhinged eyes.\n\n\n“I don’t know where to begin, man” I shrugged. “You think you know a guy, then the next minute, he’s trying to sell your town or something. I just wanna know why.”\n\n\nVladimir gulped, but I doubt he was swallowing his pride. “This place… this… this PLACE was a dump! You said it yourself, mayor! Even now, after all I’ve done to increase the town’s worth and monetary value, it’s still oh so ramshackle and… and old fashioned a-and spacious and… a-and…”\n\n\n“Quaint!” I added, “and that’s just the way I like it! You know, if there's anything I've learned this year, after busting my back over Public Works Projects and watching residents come and go, it's that there's a lot more to this village than the way it looks. I mean, you're right, it is kind of a dump... n-not as much as it used to be, mind you, but that's not important.\"\n\n\n\"How is it not important?\" Vladimir grunted. \"You would rather live amongst trash and filth? You do not appreciate the finest landmarks I paid for?!\"\n\n\n\"Those are cool and all,\" I replied, \"even if they do upset the Quaint-O-Meter... but at the end of the day, that fairy tale bench and that fancy fountain over there aren't the reason I get up in the morning. It's you.\"\n\n\nVladimir, and everyone else for that matter, looked at me strangely.\n\n\n\"You're my neighbour. Or at least, you were, heh heh... but it was getting to talk with you and do favours for you that's kept me sane this summer! Same with Simon, Charlise, Stinky, Carmen, Whitney... Alice... even you, Becky!\"\n\n\"Charmed.\"\n\n\n\"Truth be told, I couldn't give less of a damn what Place looks like! I'm doing what I do because it makes these people happy, gives them hope for a brighter tomorrow, or whatever they say in Star Trek. If I could just terraform the environment as I pleased like a powerful god, it wouldn't even matter if the animals here weren't such good friends of mine. And I sure as hell wouldn't just up and choose who gets to live here or not!\"\n\n\n\"What is your point?\" a defeated Vladimir asked.\n\n\n\"My point is,\" I declared, aware that I was probably rambling by now, \"is that it's not about the town, it's not about the public works projects or the shiny new buildings... what matters most...\"\n\n\n“Please don’t say it…”\n\n\n“...is family!”\n\n\nA collective groan echoed throughout the sea of multicoloured animals, although the sentiment, I think, was agreed upon.\n\n\n\n\n~Author’s Notes~\nZoo wee mama those last three episodes were hard to write.\nThere was A LOT of things that I hoped to tie up and call back to and reference in this part of the story that I am 100% sure I didn’t really do as well as I had hoped I would. But hey, what’s done is done, maybe this will grow on me. There’s four more episodes to go until I can finally put season two to rest. Keep staying tuned!\n\n(also yes, i was sorta making a jab at new horizons there but don’t tell anybody)"
}

[
  {
    "category": "series",
    "created_at": "2025-07-25T11:45:01.915-04:00",
    "creator_id": 1612135,
    "creator_name": "SkyWater",
    "description": "In an attempt to redeem himself, the mayor of Place goes the extra mile in improving the village he's been tasked to take care of. However, when a seemingly innocent new neighbour arrives in town, weird things start happening right under the mayor's nose and it's up to Alice to get to the bottom of it before Place falls into the wrong hands...\n\nCreated by CookieBoy011.\n\n[u]Previous Season:[/u] \"Season One\":https://e621.net/pools/48551 [u]Later Seasons:[/u] \"Season Three\":https://e621.net/pools/52413",
    "id": 50043,
    "is_active": false,
    "name": "My_Place_-_Season_Two_[Cookieboy011]",
    "post_count": 81,
    "post_ids": [
      5733316,
      5735736,
      5737791,
      5739867,
      5742566,
      5744567,
      5746801,
      5749073,
      5751091,
      5753374,
      5755899,
      5758249,
      5822612,
      5824666,
      5826710,
      5829318,
      5831047,
      5833065,
      5836967,
      5840784,
      5849827,
      5859475,
      5861658,
      5863853,
      5865703,
      5867727,
      5869414,
      5871684,
      5873753,
      5875683,
      5877455,
      5879829,
      5881908,
      5884107,
      5886559,
      5888827,
      5891155,
      5893320,
      5895520,
      5897843,
      5899988,
      5902871,
      5904979,
      5907098,
      5909601,
      5911482,
      5913714,
      5915409,
      5917700,
      5919974,
      5922087,
      5924377,
      5926596,
      5928629,
      5930856,
      5933372,
      5935543,
      5937846,
      5939740,
      5942328,
      5945139,
      5948250,
      5950255,
      5952722,
      5954874,
      5957166,
      5959432,
      5961505,
      5963816,
      5965935,
      5968204,
      5970418,
      5972464,
      5974423,
      5976719,
      5978615,
      5981157,
      5983396,
      5985290,
      5987671,
      5989847
    ],
    "updated_at": "2025-11-21T13:16:40.246-05:00"
  }
]