Welcome to the official Spinch lore guide! This is a collection of the most important information about Spinch. Here you might be able to find information about anything you want to know about the world! Feel free to reference this for OCs and fan works. It will be updated over time.

Last updated: November 19th, 2022 (11/19/22)

Spinch is the planet that Sparklecare takes place on. It exists in the Rolas Metsys in the Twix galaxy. The inhabitants of Spinch are anthries and ferries.

Goda mountain is a supervolcano beneath the Goda islands near Mowtha. It is the largest and most deadly volcano on the planet, and is thought to have been responsible for a majority of, if not all, of Spinch's major ice ages. The eruptions from Goda mountain are so catastrophic that they're also believed to have caused several mass extinction events, and scientists agree that if it were to erupt again, it could potentially wipe out all life on Spinch once again. The Spinch Association of Volcanology has a program dedicated to monitoring Goda mountain specifically with many of its team located on the islands.

Efusekay is the deepest point of Spinch's ocean. It's visible from space-- a strange and mysterious dark shadow under the surface. It's believed by scientists to have been caused by tectonic activity like most sea trenches, but there's a strange legend that there used to be an entire continent there that mysteriously disappeared. This legend says that an ancient civilization known as the Efusakiens used to live there, but something happened to them where one day their entire society and all their land somehow vanished off the face of Spinch.

Shadeh is not visible anywhere from space despite its size, but that's mostly because people believe that's because it's constantly moving and never in the same place twice. What is it, exactly? It's not entirely known, but a lot of people think that it has something to do with Emem and Tears. Because of this, scientists doubt its existence.

Months on Spinch

Weekdays on Spinch

Holidays on Spinch

Spinch is notably an "Earth parody" which means it has a lot of similarities to Earth, including various things from pop culture or businesses. These real world equivalents tend to have silly parody names that are synonymous with their real world counterparts.

Websites

Corporations

Platforms that are not necessarily social media but are internet-connected (ex. chat services)

Businesses

Bands/musicians

Anthries are the inhabitants of Spinch. They are anthropomorphic animals that walk on two legs and talk. They can be a variety of colors and any animal species, except for humans and insects.

A rabbit anthry.

Anthries are creations of Emem and Tears. They evolved from antherries, which evolved from therries. Therries were thick furred beasts that walked on four legs. They were very large and had long fur to survive the cold weather of Spinch's third major ice age. After the end of that ice age, therries evolved into a smaller size and became known as antherries. Their bodies shrank because they didn't need to stay warm anymore. However, when another ice age hit in response to another eruption from Goda mountain, antherries had to find a way to survive and they began engaging in heat retainment (also referred to as calefaction).

Anthries don't eat meat even though they are technically omnivores-- it's just considered unnecessary to them unless a situation is dire and they'll starve if they don't eat a ferry. They prefer to eat things made from orb products or plants. Veganism on Spinch is the preference of not consuming orb produce for food or other purposes.

Heat retainment is anthry sex. The term "heat retainment" refers to the actual generation of heat between two anthries, but the scientific name for the act itself is calefaction (which means the state of becoming warm). During the age of antherries its purpose was to generate body heat so they could stay alive, but as that ice age ended, their need to do that also faded and the ability became vestigial. Evolution didn't phase it out simply because anthries just liked doing it. Because of their history with cold weather, anthries also have a natural body response of feeling aroused in response to colder temperatures. The holiday Kissmas has origins that are rooted in heat retainment, but the meaning has changed over time to be a wider range of love and affection.

Anthries reproduce through eggs created by Emem. Emem uses the resources of Spinch, like plants and water and soil, and blends them together magically to create new life! Each egg will bear colors of the child it contains, and often have a pattern connected to who they are in some symbolic way. Or sometimes, it's random, if Emem has no idea what the kid is going to be like. Two anthries can only become parents if they want to and their love is true. Eggs arrive in a blanket and basket on the doorstep of the new parents, and they take six months to hatch into a baby! Twins and triplets and quadruplets etc will share the same egg. Sometimes, things can happen to the baby if their egg is tampered with, but eggs generally are very strong and durable and it is not possible to completely break them or harm the baby inside. However, tampering with an egg can affect and influence the appearance of the baby (such as coating it with paint or a dye or something, etc). An anthry or ferry's birthday is known as a hatchday. Half birthdays are called eggdays (the day in which your parents received your egg)!

Every anthry has either a pun name or a palindrome name. Pun names are in the language Countrandish (whatever language the comic is read in... Earth languages) and palindrome names are in the language Countrountrish. Countrountrish is where each letter of a word in a sentence is written backwards, but each word is still in the original order of the original sentence (ex. "I love you" becomes "I evol uoy.") The pun in someone's name is something anthries call an allotpun, and the palindrome is called an allindrome. People aren't really totally conscious of their allotpuns when naming their kids. It's really only ever acknowledged for some comedic purpose.

Magic anthries are anthries that have magic abilities, and are often mythical creatures. General anthries who use magic are simply called magic users. The existence of magic anthries on Spinch is not exactly a secret, but they aren't very well known because magic anthries tend to not draw much attention to themselves. The scientific community still hasn't really accepted the existence of magic or magic anthries for they cannot find a way to logically explain them or their powers.

Types of magic anthries

Magic is the controlling of Spinch's elements, and any anthry can learn to be a magic user, not just magic anthries, but some are more naturally gifted in the art of magic.

Another ancient ancestor of anthries is the dinerry, or an anthry dinosaur. They existed long before even therries, millions of years ago, but they went extinct. Nobody knows for certain exactly what happened to cause their extinction, but there's a lot of theories. The most popular theory involves the eruption of Goda mountain, since it's been known to possibly be responsible for most of Spinch's mass extinction events. One strange and bizarre conspiracy theory that a lot of movies are centered around is that they migrated under the surface of Spinch and now live inside a bunch of tunnels deep underground. Very strange.

Ferries are the second main inhabitants of Spinch. They are feral animals that do not speak like anthries do-- the Spinch equivalent to normal animals. Ferries are usually blends of two existing animals to avoid confusion with anthries (though it can get confusing when two different species of anthries have a kid and it's a mix of two animals that matches that of a ferry, such as a cat anthry and a dog anthry having a kid-- because on Spinch there are "cogs" which are the main pets of anthries, a mix of cats and dogs. Confusing...) There are also sky ferries and sea ferries, which are like flying animals and aquatic animals. Insects are also ferries, because there are no anthry insects.

A cog-- a domestic ferry. They are like cats with four ears and sometimes have dog traits.

Orbs are produce ferries that provide produce of varying types. They can produce milk, juice, jelly, liquid luminescence (not to be consumed), soaps (also not to be consumed), and oils (triple not to be consumed.) Orb produce in its natural form can be toxic and dangerous to anthries if consumed or touched, so it has to be processed and have its toxic content filtered out. Non-filtered orb produce can cause various illnesses.

Illnesses caused by orb produce include:

Emem and Tears are the Gods of Spinch. They are a type of alien known as a poggie, which is a type of a species (called kloggen) that creates planets. There are also slorgies that make stars (an unknown slorgie created the Sims, the star at the center of the Rolas Metsys). The creator of the universe is known as Glog.

Emem created Spinch and the surrounding planets around the Sims, and Tears was designated as his helper and guide.

Emem and Tears worked together to shape Spinch's surface, but now Emem primarily works on the creation of Spinch's inhabitants by making eggs. Though most people have acknowledged his existence, there are still skeptic scientists who don't believe in Emem, but they can't explain where eggs come from.

Annless Tears is the guard of Spinch that watches over anthries and ferries. She represents hope and light. She is said to be crying because of the bad deeds of anthries breaking her heart. She believes that this isn't who they really are deep down, and that life always has a chance of getting better, but she feels for everyone's pain so deeply and loves all living things. She and Emem are a couple, I think...?

Virtuism is a religion that follows magic on Spinch. There are two types of Virtuism. Adulated Virtuism is the following of Tears, who looks after and guards anthrinity, and fabled Virtuism is specifically the belief in magic and miracles (given by Tears and Emem). Virtuists tend to value kindness and respect for one's self and others. A lot of people turn to Virtuism when trying to believe in good things and that there's hope for the future, that the things you think are impossible are possible like magic. Many people who have regrets about their actions in life and want to change but feel like it's impossible will also seek out Virtuism, in hope of finding themselves again and learning to do the right thing and forgive themselves. A lot of Virtuism focuses on believing in the impossible and coming to learn that, in fact, nothing is truly impossible, and that things can always get better if someone believes and tries (but sitting around won't change anything-- one has to make things a reality themselves).

Soggies are the assistants of poggies, and they are often considered the children of poggies because of what they add to Spinch. The soggies of Emem and Tears have various roles and purposes.

Kitty Ation is the soul and heart of Spinch. If she were to cease to exist, so would the planet. Her happiness, health, and feelings often reflect a lot of the state of the planet. If she were to become very depressed, Spinch would decline in life, but she tends to be pretty happy most of the time so there isn't much to worry about.

Kiss Jingle is responsible for the season of winter on Spinch. Kissmas, as a holiday, is considered to have been formed by her lowering Spinch's temperatures in the form of one of Spinch's ice ages, but scientists tend to disagree with this.

Like mentioned above in the Goda mountain section, Spinch is known to find itself in a frequent repetitive history of temperatures lowering in response to various things. Goda mountain is what most people tend to blame. The reason Goda mountain is considered most responsible is because of the ash from an eruption that large will block out sunlight from reaching Spinch and dramatically lower global temperatures. But... legends tend to say that the real cause of these temperature changes isn't actually Goda mountain, but actually Kiss Jingle herself.

Solion is in charge of the season of summer on Spinch. He is considered the antithesis of Kiss Jingle, and legends and lots of Kissmas stories focus on them battling for control of the seasons while Punko and Blossom are left trying to console them. Solion is hostile and always up to cause problems and drama within the family if he's able.

Blossom controls the season of spring. She is kind-hearted and passionate about what she does and she worries a lot about Solion and Kiss, and doesn't want them to keep fighting in the way that they do and strives for peace and harmony. She's very soft-spoken and sometimes nervous and hates conflict and especially yelling.

Punko is responsible for fall, and she is very quiet and friendly and easy to talk to. She's not the brightest ever, but she's very loving and supportive to her family and does her best all the time! She's also the youngest, and everyone is nice to her, even Solion who is pretty rude to everyone else.

(yes, we know, anthries spelled it wrong when naming it.)

The Rolas Metsys is the solar system that Spinch exists in, and it's the solar system that Emem and Tears were assigned to make a planet for. Other poggies made the other planets in it, but Spinch is specifically their project. It was named in Countrountrish.

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The Twix galaxy is the galaxy that the Rolas Metsys exists within. Spinch is the only planet that anthries know for a fact possesses life, since they have yet to visit other planets, but they still believe it's out there somewhere. It's often argued about whether or not aliens from other worlds or galaxies have actually visited Spinch, but most scientists believe that simply isn't true, or at least so far there has been no conclusive evidence of it.