If anyone feels like a failure, just know that two years ago we were offered a book deal by Penguin Random House but did not realise because we never checked our DMs and by the time we finally read the message the offer had expired.
Two years later we cold emailed penguin and they said we can still write the book. Which is a bit of a problem because now we have to learn how to write a book.
Hey thank you everyone for the positive reception! The video is shaping up to be a real smash hit!
I'm gonna be taking a much needed and much deserved break for a bit. In the meantime I will humbly plug my patreon. I wouldn't be able to do projects like this without your support.
Danny: *minding his buisness in the mall, and sipping on a cup of ectoplasm*
M'ari, walks up to him curiously: What are you drinking?
Danny, taken off gaurd by the random child: Uhh...
Mar'i: Because it kinda looks like Uncle Jason's blood. Are you a vampire?
Danny: Yes.
Mar'i: Oh. Did you get permission to drink that blood? If not that means you're a bad guy.
Danny: I got permission, only weird fruitloops don't get permission.
Mar'i, nods seriously: That's good, cause then I'd have had to beat you up. And I like your star hoodie, and I wouldn't want to accidentally ruin it.
Danny: You a hero then?
Mar'i: No, Daddy and Mommy are heros though, and that means I'll be a hero one day too.
Danny: Got your whole life figured out huh kid?
Mar'i: *proudly nods*
Danny: So where are-
Mar'i: Is your skin sparkly because you're a vampire?
Danny: Sparkly?
Mar'i: Yeah! It looks like snow when its in the morning and its all glittery.
Danny, snorts: No thats because I have use ice powers.
Mar'i: Really?!
Danny: *crouches down and puts his drink down. He holds out his palm, and it starts glowing blue before a glittering blue ice sculpture in the shape if a star materializes in his hand, followed by small ice droplets that turned it into a necklace.*
Mar'i: Pretty!
Danny: Tell ya what, you tell me how to contact your parents to come get you, and you can have it.
Mar'i: I know Daddy's phone number!
Danny: That'll work.
*one phone call with a panicked father later*
Dick: Mar'i!
Mar'ii: Hi Daddy! Look the Mall Vampire made me a necklace! Hey will it melt?
Danny: Not unless I will it to kid.
Dick: You scared the stars out of me Princess! I turned around and you were just gone! You can't do that!
Mar'i: But I was bored, and you walk away from Uncle Tim when you're bored.
Dick: Ah well thats different-
Danny: *snorts but tries to cover it by taking a sip of his drink*
Dick: Thank you for holding her attention long enough to contact me.
Mar'i: The Mall Vampire is cool! He knows more about the stars and planets than Mommy does.
Dick: Mall Vampire?
Danny: *smiles at him, showing off his sharper canines*
Dick, pales: Right! Well Granpa is waiting for us Mar'i! Thanks for the help sir, goodbye.
Mar'i: By Mr. Mall Vampire. *waves excitedly over Dick's back*
Danny: *lazily waves back*
Bonus
???: Sorry I'm late I was- why do you have that look on your face?
Danny: What look?
???: The look that means "I know something others don't know and its going to be hilarious".
Danny: Its nothing bad, just had an interesting conversation with a really eccentric kid is all. It was funny, in hindsight.
???: Uhuh, sure. *squints suspiciously at him*
Danny: Anyway, forget about that, let's get the supplies I need before we go to dinner.
*3 Hours Later*
Tim: Why is Mar'i running around talking about a Mall Vampire?
Kori: Dick lost her in the mall earlier today, and the person who found her was humoring her questions.
Tim: And Dick is freaking out because...?
Kori, huffing: The man was "extremely pale with glittery skin and dark hair" and he just happened to have sharp teeth, so Dick's freaking out about it.
Tim: Seriously?
Kori, fondly: Honestly, that man.
Barbra: Hey guys, sorry for arrivaving late, it took a while to find the right paint-
Mar'i, squeals: Mall Vampire!
Danny: Hey kid.
Barbra: What?
Danny: This is the eccentric kid I told you about.
Barbra: Oh. Well uh, this is Danny, the cousin I told you abour. He's only in Gotham for a few months for a few art shows hes particpating in, so he's going to be staying with me.
Dick, paling: What?
Danny: Sorry for any inconvenience I might cause, but I look forward to getting to know you all. *smiles 'innocently', showing off his sharp teeth once more*
Immensely blessed am I to be in an org with really solid and great people because we at least get the camaraderie of sitting in teams calls sharing the same deeply pained laughter as we try to pick apart what 400 asks have changed overnight from leadership
The age of Agentic AI coding means all asks can be engineered and checked-in to code day-of. This is really really great because instead of having one clear feature vision from leadership that 40 engineers can work on to polished completion, we can instead have 87 slightly different versions of a vision that those same 40 engineers are responsible for and every code change is a gladiator blood bath because your change didn't account for all 87 scenarios (it was 84 scenarios yesterday. it was 81 scenarios Wednesday. it will be 91 scenarios by Monday) and you broke several of them, and there is no earthly possibility for a person to have the cognitive space for knowing the full set up and featureflags and feature asks and expectations of the 87 versions--which were different yesterday and will be different tomorrow and many of which no longer matter, including the thing you're working on, because statistically 87 scenarios spread over 40 engineers means you're the only person who knows or cares about your scenario.
What's your phavorite Phantastic Phantasm redesign?
Definitely the original Magical Danny design. It’s the first design I ever made for it and it’s what led to it being a full AU.
Some runner ups are
my Ember redesign, I just love the colors
Ellie’s 2nd design, I just felt it was more “magical”
Valerie’s “Red Huntress” look, I just didn’t like the original much (mainly cause it drastically changed her body type and I thought it was a weird change)
And Paulina’s design, idk why I just like it
I’ve had really bad art block so I didn’t feel like redrawing everyone sorry-
The Australian Ballet is doing Alice in Wonderland again and on one hand I’ve seen it before, and on the other, their Queen of Hearts has my favourite costume in anything every
I saw this again on Tuesday so here are some things I’d forgotten about:
This is the only Alice adaptation I’ve ever seen that doesn’t cut the caucus race
The mad hatter wears taps throughout and it’s so jarring and surprising it’s perfect
The executioner shadows almost everyone who dances with the Queen
Lewis Carroll is a character in the ballet and becomes the white rabbit who leads Alice into wonderland which is bad and wrong because Carroll is the dodo but does work very well
They started dropping rose petals from the ceiling onto the audience when Alice looked through the door to the garden and it was utterly magic
The Cheshire Cat is made of about 10 different puppets that dance around the stage
Which reminds me Alice is styled after Alice Liddell rather than the John Tenniel illustrations
I don’t think the king of hearts actually dances he just wanders around looking confused
I think my favorite part of The Boiling Rock is when the Warden recognizes Zuko like “wait I know who you are” and Zuko’s like “oh shit he knows I committed treason and almost assasinated the fire lord” but then the Warden goes like “you’re the little shit that broke up with my niece over text!! lock him up!”
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