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hollow-head

Responses to the most frequent comments on my Dungeon Meshi/TAZ crossover doodle

Laios and fair food

2. Taako cooking for real

3. Encounters with plants

(hello, in the manga, the pollen comes out the mouths)

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thechekhov

Various SU-themed Patreon requests I’ve completed over the past half a year or so. :)

hilaryflorido

Here you go: SU x QE crossover magic

This is a parody comic I made for myself to hand out at SDCC2018 and isn’t official so don’t sweat the small stuff!

Many thanks to ghostdigits for her help. She is my spell checker extraordinaire and listened to me bounce ideas around in the eleventh hour while I worried if I ever knew anything about comedy in the first place. Hahaha…haha….aaa.… go, fight, win/finish a comic!

hilaryflorido

Here’s the comic I passed out to anyone who spotted me or any SU cosplay that I spotted as I walked San Diego and NY Comic Con last year.

(In case it isn’t obvious, this exists because it makes me laugh and not because it’s cannon or anything like that.)

saitamabilingualgamer

Video Games for Japanese Learners Part 2 (English and Japanese Bilingual)

The Legend of Zelda Series

Recommended level of Japanese – beginner to intermediate (JLPT N4, N3)

おすすめの日本語能力レベル：初級~中級 (JLPT N4、N3)

So now let me talk about the Zelda games. They are loved by gamers all over the world. Just like the Dragonquest series, the earlier titles on the Famicom only have hiragana. Nintendo gradually started adding kanji to the games as the console generations progressed. Again, I won’t list all the games here but will list a few that are worth checking out.

次に紹介するのは世界中のファンに愛されているゼルダです。ドラゴンクエストシリーズと同じように、ファミコンの初期のタイトルにはひらがなしか書かれていません。Nintendoは、ゲーム機の世代が進むにつれて、漢字をソフトに追加し始めました。ここにすべてのゼルダのソフトをリストするわけではありませんが、私のおすすめの３つのソフトを紹介したいと思います。

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (ゼルダの伝説時のオカリナ) for the Nintendo 64 and Nintendo 3DS

Probably the most popular title in the whole series. The Nintendo 64 version of this game has quite a bit of kanji, but shouldn’t be too much of a problem if you are at an intermediate level of Japanese. Luckily, the 3DS version has furigana written above the kanji. It is also possible to play the Nintendo 64 version of this game of the Nintendo Switch via the Japanese version of Nintendo Switch Online subscription service.

おそらくシリーズ全体で最も人気のあるソフトです。このソフトのNintendo 64版にはたくさんの漢字が使われていますが、中級レベルの日本語能力があればそれほど問題にはならないと思います。幸いなことに、3DS版には漢字にふりがなが書かれています。このソフトのNintendo64版は、日本のNintendo Switch Onlineのサービスでプレーすることも可能です。

The Legend of Zelda: The Windwaker (ゼルダの伝説風のタクト) for the Nintendo Gamecube and Nintendo Wii U (HD Remake)

Both versions of this game have kanji with furigana written above. Probably the most polarizing title amongst fans due to the cutesy art style and cell-shaded graphics. I personally love the art style!

このソフトの両方の版には、漢字にふりがなが書かれています。可愛らしいアートスタイルとセルシェーディングのグラフィックにより、ゼルダのファンの間で賛否両論になってしまったソフトです。私は個人的にアートスタイルが気に入っています！

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of The Wild (ゼルダの伝説ブレスオブザワイルド) for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Wii U

This game has kanji with furigana written above. It has more dialogue and a lot of NPCs to talk to compared to the older titles, so this one is highly recommended for those who want a lot of reading practice.

このソフトには、漢字にふりがなが書かれています。昔のゼルダのソフトに比べて会話が多くて、話せるNPCも多いので、日本語を沢山読む練習をしたい人におすすめです。

2. Paper Mario (マリオストーリー) for the Nintendo 64

Recommended level of Japanese: beginner (JLPT N5 or N4)

おすすめの日本語能力レベル：初級～中級　(JLPT N5、N4)

This game is considered to be the sequel to Super Mario RPG on the Super Famicom/SNES. It has mostly hiragana and very simple kanji here and there. This one would even be fun to play with children because of the cute art style and simple gameplay. This game can also be played via the Japanese version of the Nintendo Switch Online subscription service.

このソフトは、スーパーファミコンのスーパーマリオRPGの続編と言われています。ほとんどひらがなと簡単な漢字で書かれています。可愛らしいアートスタイルとやりやすいゲームプレイもあるし、子供と遊ぶのも楽しいでしょう。このソフトは、日本のNintendo Switch Onlineのサービスでプレーすることも可能です。

Key Words and Phrases 賛否両論　(sanpi ryouron) – controversial, to have polarizing opinions on something, especially about a movie, video game, book etc.

可愛らしい　(kawairashii) – adorable, cutesy

続編　(zokuhen) – sequel

mycelinet

HERE IT IS: THE LONG AWAITED PEARL CATALOGUE!!

Laboriously designed and created just for you, a spectrum of 42 different pearls to stand around and hold your stuff for you. Which one’s your favorite?

Also a bonus renegade

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Visit Original Link

The new Steven Bomb’s tomorrow, so might as well take a crack at some dubs before it airs. I haven’t done any SU voices in a while, maybe it’s something I should work on. Holly blue, Sapphire, Lapis, Aquamarine, Blue Pearl, Blue Diamond, and Steven Universe belongs to Rebecca Sugar. (@) Comic created by @nomidot (@)

nomidot

OH MY STARS

This dub sounded absolutely amazing! I love how you put additional dialogue for the characters and added cool sound effects. You NAILED the Blue Pearl part starting from the music and ending in the shaky voice. GREAT JOB!

beckyandfrank

Charm wants to show you her favorite gem! She’s so proud of it, but she’ll still share it with you!

Meet the Keepsakes! Available this weekend at Small Press Expo and online at our brand new store OCTOBER 1ST!

shiropoint

This is mesmerizing to watch.

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actually physically painful to watch because you know months were spent masking all those frames for each of the kajillions of transitions in this

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thatsthat24

Holy………..shmokes…….

mozzarella-shenanigans

Oh?? My god??

pomrania

I’ll try my best to describe this. It’s a video with a mash-up of a bunch of different Disney movies, set to a song that’s a mash-up of a bunch of other songs. That in and of itself wouldn’t make it praiseworthy, but this is DONE SO WELL that just, holy cow.

drawnsnake

HOLY SHIT

marauders4evr

I just really want to write a book (in fact, I think that I’m going to) where the protagonist is in a wheelchair. And they live in a city where there’s a group of superheroes. And there’s a big, magical, villain because of course there is.

And since they were a young child, this protagonist has wanted nothing more than to join the group of superheroes. Like they’re a huge fan of the group and they just know that it’s their destiny to join.

And one day, when wheeling through the city, they see the group of heroes fighting the villain. And they quickly wheel over and cry, “Let me help!”

But the ‘heroes’ laugh and instead make a whole bunch of ableist remarks.

And so the protagonist has to prove themselves.

And the villain is trying to warn them to stop.

But the protagonist ends up taking their footrest off of their wheelchair and they swing it. And it hits the villain in the side of the face and the villain collapses and groans in pain.

And so the protagonist proudly smiles and turns to the group of heroes.

Because they just proved that they are strong and worthy enough.

But the group of ‘heroes’ still keeps making ableist remarks.

And the protagonist is shocked.

And meanwhile, the ‘villain’ staggers to their feet and is standing next to the protagonist’ wheelchair.

And one of the ‘heroes’ goes too far when calling the protagonist the R word.

And the protagonist and the ‘villain’ just sort of glance at one another.

And the ‘villain’ is just like, “You know…I can zap them for you…if you want.”

And the protagonist hesitates and says, “Yeah, alright!”

One fried group of heroes later, the ‘villain’ says, “Why do you think that I’m always fighting them? They’re all a bunch of assholes.”

And the protagonist sadly nods and starts to wheel away.

Then:

“Hey, do you want a job?”

The protagonist turns at the villain’s remark. And the protagonist mumbles something like, “Oh, come on. I don’t need your pity.”

And the ‘villain’ is like, “Pity!? Do I look like someone who hands out pity!? I don’t pity you! I’m kind of afraid of you, to be honest! I mean…I’m going to have a giant bruise on my face because of you.”

“Yeah…sorry…”

“Water under the bridge! So, what do you say? Do you want a job?”

And the protagonist thinks about it for a minute before shrugging.

And the ‘villain’ is all excited because they’ve wanted someone to work with them for years but no mortal is allowed to ‘step into’ their lair.

And then the ‘villain’ stops and is like, “Hang on…you can’t work with me in that.”

And they gesture to the protagonist’s wheelchair.

And the protagonist is all embarrassed.

And then the villain goes, “Because we can get you a much better wheelchair! It’ll look great! And it’ll be indestructible! And it’ll have all sorts of weapons and gadgets! Hey, how do you feel about flying…?”

And all of that is literally in the first chapter and then the rest of the story follows the two going around the city like BAMFs, forcing people to stop being ableist, one way or another. And maybe it’ll have some commentary on the scale of morality and what it truly means to be a hero and what it truly means to be a villain.

Would anyone be interested in this!?

Because I really want to write it!?

sicklord

YESSSSS. ALL MY YES PLS WRITE IT

iama-potato

I’D READ THE SHIT OUT OF THAT YES PLEASE

marauders4evr

OP HERE!

Man, it’s so surreal to look at this.

BECAUSE I ACTUALLY WROTE IT!

AND IT WAS JUST PUBLISHED TONIGHT!

Of course, there are some differences between the final book and this original idea. The most notable difference is that all of this takes place in the first book (it’s going to be a series!) and the whole ‘superhero’ thing is just going to be a front. There’s a few other differences as well (such as a huge plotline involving Merlin and immortal characters!)

BUT I WROTE IT!

AND IT’S PUBLISHED!

AND IF YOU’RE INTERESTED, YOU CAN BUY IT HERE:

www.amazon.com/Antagonists-Book-One-Burgandi-Rakoska-ebook/dp/B015BWS9J0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1442188845&sr=1-1&keywords=the+antagonists

AND IF YOU WANT TO HELP ME OUT, YOU CAN REVIEW IT!

AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HELP ME OUT, YOU CAN SIGNAL BOOST THIS POST WITH THIS REPLY SO THAT PEOPLE ACTUALLY KNOW THAT THE BOOK NOW EXISTS!

marauders4evr

UPDATES 2+ Years Later:

The Antagonists Series (Books One - Five) is now available in paperback!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B017TW3ZD0/ref=dp_st_1521362947

marauders4evr

This is honestly the most surreal post to look back on in the 25,000+ posts that I’ve made/reblogged in my six years on this website.

Regardless

BOOK SIX IS NOW AVAILABLE!

https://www.amazon.com/Antagonists-Book-Six-Burgandi-Rakoska-ebook/dp/B07CJWV3RL/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&keywords=burgandi%20rakoska&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&qid=1525711816&ref_=mp_s_a_1_2&sr=8-2

SIGNAL BOOST!

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Mythical Creatures

thewritershandbook

List of Elemental Abilities

Air/Wind

Aerokinesis -manipulate the air, wind, and gas.

Aeroportation - teleport using air/wind currents.

Air Mimicry - transform into a cloud of gas, fog, or mist.

Atmokinesis - manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.

Deoxygenation - suck up all the oxygen from a place.

Lung Adaptation - breath anywhere

Wind Generation - create blasts of air.

Divine Winds Manipulation - create and control heavenly winds.

Dark Wind Manipulation - create and control eerie winds.

Earth

Geokinesis - control, manipulate, and reshape the earth at will.

Atmokinesis - control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.

Crystallokinesis - manipulate minerals and crystals.

Ferrokinesis… manipulate metal at will.

Fraxikinesis - manipulate burnt matter.

Geo-Thermokinesis - manipulate, control, and create lava, magma and volcanoes.

Golem Creation - make golems out of inanimate materials like rocks, wood, plants, magma, etc.

Granulation… can turn things into sand.

Halokinesis - control and manipulate salt.

Hyalokinesis - control and manipulate glass.

Koniokinesis - manipulate and control dust particles.

Plassikinesis - manipulate and control all forms of plastic.

Psammokinesis - can control and manipulate sand.

Terrakinesis - control, manipulate and alter/reshape the surrounding terrain and landscape at will.

Terraportation - teleport via the earth and earth-based materials.

Sacred Earth Manipulation - Create, manipulate, control, reshape divine earth minerals.

Black Earth Manipulation - Create, manipulate and control tainted and evil earth minerals.

Fire

Pyrokinesis - create, control and manipulate fire, flame and heat.

Atmokinesis - control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.

Fire Breath - breathe out flames.

Geo-Thermokinesis - manipulate lava, magma and volcanoes.

Heliokinesis - manipulate and control the sun and sunlight.

Hell-Fire Manipulation - Generate and control flames of hell.

Holy Fire Manipulation - Generate and control flames of Heaven.

Inflammation - burn things.

Melting - heat molecules to melt things.

Plasmakinesis - can control plasma.

Pyrotechnics - create fireworks.

Self-Detonation - explode self and reform.

Thermokinesis - create, control and manipulate heat.

Water

Hydrokinesis - manipulate and control liquid water and mold it into any desired shape or form.

Aquatic Adaptation - adapted to underwater living.

Aquatic Respiration - breathe underwater.

Atmokinesis- control and manipulate the various aspects of the weather by mixing water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.

Dehydration - absorb water.

Hydroportation - teleport across short or long distances through liquid water.

Water Mimicry - turn into liquid water.

Holy Water Manipulation - create, manipulate and control graceful waters.

Dark Water Manipulation - create, manipulate and control evil and dangerous waters.

Darkness

Umbrakinesis - can manipulate and control darkness or shadows.

Animated Shadow - Animate one’s shadow.

Light Absorption - block out light in an area.

Night Vision - see in the dark.

Sacred Darkness - create holy darkness.

Shadow Camouflage - be unseen in shadows.

Shadow Mimicry - become a shadow.

Umbrageous Teleportation - teleport via the shadows and darkness.

Electricity/Lightning

Quintessence Force -Can generate whitish-blue lightning that also contains pure life energy.

Electrokinesis - control, generate or absorb electric fields and shoot lightning bolts.

Activation & Deactivation - turn stuff on and off.

Positron Manipulation - control positrons, the antimatter counterpart to electrons.

Electrical Absorption - absorb electricity.

Electric Mimicry -transform entire body into a lightning-like being of pure electrical energy

Electrical Transportation - teleport with lightning.

Divine Lightning Manipulation - create and control the brightest lightning.

Black Lightning Manipulation - create and control the darkest lightning.

Energy

Dynamokinesis - manipulate existing energy.

Energy Blast - create blasts of energy.

Energy Emission - release energy.

Quintessence Force - create and manipulate unique form of electrical and life energy.

Mana Manipulation

Chi Manipulation

Electricity Manipulation

Energy Manipulation

Ice

Cryokinesis - control ice, snow and other forms of frozen water.

Freeze Breath - freeze things in solid ice.

Freezing - lower the temperature in kinetic atoms to freezing temperatures.

Frigokinesis - control snow either as precipitation or already on the ground.

Ice Beam - shoot beams of freezing energy.

Ice Generation

Light

Dark Light Manipulation - create the darkest light in existence.

White Light Manipulation- create sacred light from the divine.

Photokinesis - create and manipulate pure light.

Force-Field Generation - create protective shields of solid photons.

Invisibility - be unseen.

Laser Emission - bend light wavelengths to create lasers.

Light Absorption -absorb the light around you.

Light Generation - emit blinding light or glow in the dark.

Light Mimicry - take on the traits of light.

Photoportation - Teleport by using photons.

Projective Invisibility - turn other things invisible.

Evil Banish - Rid and banish all spirits of evil and black magic.

Light Manipulation

Weather

Atmokinesis - manipulate the various aspects of the weather by using water, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.

Atmokinetic Resistance - immunity to all weather-based abilities and effects.

Atmokinetic Sensing - sense the future weather patterns.

Other

Aether Manipulation

Cosmic Manipulation

Gravity Manipulation

Nether Manipulation

Space-Time Manipulation

From Superpower Wikia. See their complete list of superpowers HERE.

shadesofmauve

On Fanfiction

I was cruising through the net, following the cold trail of one of the periodic “Is or is not Fanfic the Ultimate Literary Evil?” arguments that crop up regularly, and I’m now bursting to make a point that I never see made by fic defenders.

We’re all familiar with the normal defenses of fic: it’s done out of love, it’s training, it’s for fun. Those are all good and valid defenses!

But they miss something. They damn with faint praise. Because the thing is, when you commit this particular Ultimate Literary Evil you’ve now told a story. And stories are powerful. The fact that it wasn’t in an original world or with original characters doesn’t necessarily make it less powerful to any given reader.

I would never have made this argument a few years ago. A few years ago I hadn’t received messages from people who were deeply touched by something I wrote in fanfic. So what if it’s only two or three or four people, and I used someone else’s world and characters? For those two or three or four people, I wrote something fucking important. You cannot tell me that isn’t a valid use of my time and expect me to feel chastened. I don’t buy it. I won’t feel ashamed. I will laugh when you call something that touches other people ‘literary masturbation.’ Apparently you’re not too up on your sex terminology.

Someone could argue that if I’d managed the same thing with original characters in an original world, it could’ve touched more people. They might be right! On the other hand, it might never have been accepted for publication, or found a market if self published, and more importantly I would never have written it because I didn’t realize I could write. The story wouldn’t have happened. Instead, thanks to fanfic being a thing, it did. And for two or three or four people it mattered. When we talk about defending fanfic, can we occasionally talk about that?

lsbaird

I once had an active serviceman who told me that my FF7 and FF8 fic helped get him through the war. That’ll humble you. People have told me my fanfic helped get them through long nights, through grief, through hard times. It was a solace to people who needed solace. And because it was fanfic, it was easier to reach the people who needed it. They knew those people already. That world was dear to them already. They were being comforted by friends, not strangers.

Stories are like swords. Even if you’ve borrowed the sword, even if you didn’t forge it yourself from ore and fire, it’s still your body and your skill that makes use of it. It can still draw blood, it can strike down things that attack you, it can still defend something you hold dear. Don’t get me wrong, a sword you’ve made yourself is powerful. You know it down to its very molecules, are intimate with its heft and its reach. It is part of your own arm. But that can make you hesitate to use it sometimes, if you’re afraid that swinging it too recklessly will notch the blade. Is it strong enough, you think. Will it stand this? I worked so hard to make it. A blade you snatched up because you needed a weapon in your hand is not prey to such fears. You will use it to beat against your foes until it either saves you or it shatters.

But whether you made that sword yourself or picked it up from someone who fell on the field, the fight you fight with it is always yours.

roachpatrol

Literary critics who sneer at fanfic are so infuriatingly shortsighted, because they all totally ignore how their precious literature, as in individual stories that are created, disseminated, and protected as commercial products, are a totally modern industrial capitalist thing and honestly not how humans have ever done it before like a couple centuries ago. Plus like, who benefits most from literature? Same dudes who benefit most from capitalism: the people in power, the people with privilege. There’s a reason literary canon is composed of fucking white straight dudes who write about white straight dudes fucking.

Fanfiction is a modern expression of the oral tradition—for the rest of us, by the rest of us, about the rest of us—and I think that’s fucking wonderful and speaks to a need that absolutely isn’t being met by the publishing industry. The need to come together as a close community, I think, and take the characters of our mythology and tell them getting drunk and married and tricked and left behind and sent to war and comforted and found again and learning the lessons that every generation learns over and over. It’s wonderful. I love it. I’m always going to love it.

kyraneko

Stories are fractal by nature. Even when there’s just one version in print, you have it multiplied by every reader’s experience of it in light of who they are, what they like, what they want. And then many people will put themselves in the place of the protagonist, or another character, and spend a lot of time thinking about what they’d do in that character’s place. Or adjusting happenings so they like the results better.

That’s not fic yet, but it is a story.

But the best stories grow. This can happen in the language of capitalism—a remake of a classic movie, a series of books focusing on what happened afterwards or before—or it can happen in the language of humanity. Children playing with sticks as lightsabers, Jedi Princess Leia saving Alderaan by dueling Vader; a father reading his kids The Hobbit as a bedtime story as an interactive, “what would you like to happen next?” way so that the dwarves win the wargs over with doggie biscuits that they had in their pockets and ride to Erebor on giant wolves, people writing and sharing their ideas for deleted outtake scenes from Star Trek and slow-build fierce and tender romance with startling bursts of hot sex between Hawkeye and Agent Coulson.

A story at its most successful is a fully developed fractal, retold a million times and a million ways, with stories based on stories based on stories. Fanfic of fanfic of fanfic. Stories based on headcanons, stories based on prompts, stories that put the Guardians of the Galaxy in a coffee-shop AU and stories where the Transformers are planet-wandering nomads and stories where characters from one story are placed into a world from another. Stories that could be canon, stories that are the farthest thing from canon, stories that are plausible, stories that would never happen, stories that give depth to a character or explore the consequences of one different plot event or rewrite the whole thing from scratch.

This is what stories are supposed to be.

This is what stories are.

wrangletangle

Fandom and fan creations are a communal act. They do not disguise how they are influenced by each other. They revel in it.

Literature was once a communal act, too. Film as well. It’s only once we decided to extend and expand the idea of copyright and turn stories into primarily vehicles for profit that we rejected this communal structure. The literary canon shouldn’t be all dead white men. They didn’t build the novel. They didn’t build theater. They took what was already there and said “This is mine now,” and we believed them.

Creativity is communal. There is no such thing as the lone genius on a mountaintop. Ideas are passed around, handed back and forth, growing all the time. Fandom is what human creativity looks like in its normal form. Fandom is like this because humans are like this.

We didn’t just borrow the sword. We remade it because we saw in it the potential for something better. And we did that together, all of us.

brittascribbles

wednesday addams makes a friend

okay, but imagine:

wednesday is at the local library with her father, searching the shelves for a book uncle fester told her about dangerous animals in south america. Gomez strikes up a conversation with the elderly librarian mrs. phelps to help wednesday find what they are looking for.

“That one? Or, Mr. Addams - I’m afraid it’s been checked out.”

a squeaky wheel catches wednesday’s attention, and right past her walks a girl with an ENTIRE red-rocket wagon topped full of books. the girl carefully looks over each book and drops them carefully into the book-return

that’s when wednesday sees it - the book she’s been looking for.

wednesday walked slowly up to the girl’s wagon, and touched the cover.

“I just finished that one,” the girl says. wednesday straightens up. “It has a fascinating chapter on the red-bellied piranhas of South America.”

“We’re looking at getting one for Pugsley’s tank,” wednesday says.

“A piranha? It will eat your fish,” she said.

“I’m counting on it.”

“Is Pugsley your fish?”

“My brother.” Wednesday replied.

The girl thought a moment. “You’ll need at least a dozen - they hunt best in schools.”

wednesday just barely smiled, a single corner of her lips turning up. “I’m wednesday addams.” she said, extending a hand.

“Matilda,” the girl replied, shaking her hand. “Matilda Wormwood.”

ruffboi-mags

I think the best part about this is that the Addams would adore her and just shower her with love.

animatedamerican

“Wormwood,” says Gomez, enchanted. “What a lovely name.“

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They be the best book buddies.

notexactlybright

You just know that between a spooky little goth and a happy go lucky telekinetic, they would take over the damn world.

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Matilda tells Wednesday what it’s like at home, and Wednesday tells her parents. Morticia and Gomez thank her for telling them, and go into the other room to talk.

The next day, the Wormwoods have gone on an indefinite vacation and need the Addams family to watch their daughter while they’re gone.

What? It doesn’t matter where they’re going. Stop asking.

Of course it has nothing to do with the large gentleman and the severed hand who showed up to help Matilda pack yesterday.

And it certainly has nothing to do with the fact that Mr. Wormwood came home to a hungry lion in his living room, with a very calm and very pale woman sitting in his chair, giving the lion a belly rub and saying she “just wanted to speak to you about our daughters.”

Don’t be silly.

marzipanandminutiae

Miss Honey turns up one day to say that she had planned to adopt Matilda herself. The Addamses take one look at her, having already heard quite enough about the Trunchbull, and promptly adjourn to the parlor for a family meeting.

After some whispered conversation- “Cara, she’s twenty-three. Twenty-three, for pity’s sake! And barely more than skin and bones!” -the pocket doors slide open and the entire family gravely approaches the young teacher. Who, for her part, doesn’t look frightened in the least.

“There’s a perfectly lovely tower room in the East Wing, my dear,” Morticia says, taking her gently by the arm. “You look like you could use some rest.”

One can’t adopt an adult, not legally. But nevertheless, the Addamses gain two new daughters that week.