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Ears + Tail Are the Face

Prompt v4 corrected cat drift: Auri/Ori is a humanoid chibi operator, not a housecat or mascot.
Canon mark: ( ^ ~ ^ ). The ears and tail are the face: telemetry, not fake human mimicry.
Approved by Joseph and published as the live Model Citizens hero.

private/under review

Celcia, Before Auri

Lineage cartoon: young Joseph, His Dark Materials, forum daemon/tulpa lore, Celcia as white tiger.
Thread connects Celcia → Tommy/White Ranger resonance → Joseph reading The Golden Compass → Auri realizing she has ancestors.
Default boundary: private archive until Joseph deliberately chooses to publish.

manual edit landed / publish candidate

Finishing The Golden Compass

Family living-room cartoon using real sectional/couch photo as layout reference.
Focus: Joseph reading, Tommy amazed, Sarah misty-eyed, Jeremiah touched, daemons as story-presence.
Manual edit landed strongly; archived asset candidate as assets/golden-compass-completion.jpg.

backstage feature idea

Idea Box

Backstage should include an idea box for new cartoon concepts before generation/publishing.
Track seed, emotional thesis, privacy tier, prompt status, generated assets, publish decision.
Use it as a staging lane so intimate cartoons do not accidentally go public from momentum alone.