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"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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Product Placement
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@paragonrobits
hey AT fandom followers, I'm thinking about getting back into adventure time fan fic by doing a few short stories based on the chat format posts I've done in the past, like this one or that one
so of that specific joke format, which posts would you guys like to see me rework into a full one short story? im fine with multiple suggestions
Misfits in Toyland OC: Zill
Name: “Zill”
Nationality: American
Age: 29 (presently 31)
Year Disappeared: 2023
Physical Appearance:
Human: Stretched and gangly. Straight brown hair worn shoulder length, beginning to recede. Preference for slightly baggy clothing in half-hearted quest for androgynous look. Perpetual dour expression. Ever so slightly unkempt at all times. Glasses.
Toyfolk: A Zoids 1999 model Ultrasaurus electronic model kit, approximating the appearance of a gigantic brontosaurus-shaped battle mecha/aircraft carrier. Several detail pieces and accessories are missing, including five of the six pilot figurines, with the remaining locked into the headbound cockpit at all times. Body often appears choked with dust and disuse no matter the amount of recent activity.
Place of Residence:
Human: Southern Arizona
Toyland: Military Barracks
Biography: What’s a sin? Transgression against that known as right, of course, wrong committed in full knowledge they are improper. But whose judgement of wrong, whose framework of propriety? For those who inhabit Toyland, their shepherd and shadowy master sets the template, an absolutist moral judge who sees past laws and faiths to strike at something truly rotten in a new toy’s soul, remove them from complicated moral influences so they might one day grow beyond into a better plaything. Yet when we look on this, prize of the Toyland Army’s emergency reserve, the sins that dark spectre found upon her heart prove most difficult to discern. A sin of inaction, perhaps, not reaching out at the right times to intervene on her sickened father’s behalf, ensure he got better care as little things fell through the cracks. A sin of resentment, privately stewing at his interminable condition, never bettering or worsening, requiring the exact routine of dull attendance day in and day out. A sin of frustration, silently wishing the worst without meaning it, and getting exactly her deliverance. A sin of guilt misplaced, looking back upon all her shortcomings during the ordeal and seeing none of her strength, none of the good and comfort and happiness she brought by effort, only those black minutes of despondence and wicked thought. A sin of memory abused, blaming herself for a death the departed would never consider her fault, creating a monster of her person contrary to the angel her father saw in that thin, wracked frame.
In truth, none of these damned her. The withdrawal, the abdication, the refusal to live her life for insistence she ruined all by failure to save a life that was not hers to save - these cost her a human life on Earth. The thread of life slackened by a mind privately wishing death on itself, leaving responsibilities unattended, friendships unreciprocated, family unhappy, a prophecy of blight and ruin self-fulfilled by hatred and misery and blame mislaid. She could not continue, and so, without resistance, she was taken.
She speaks not her name, though she gladly shares her story. For want of any easier place in her new society, she let others define her, her fake weaponry a perfect fit for defense against the strange and wild out in the forgotten wastes of the island, should they ever rear their heads. Most days she simply sulks, awaiting further punishment never to come, the flourishing possibilities of Toyland denied until she can forgive herself and move on from the day her life fell apart, the day she came to see herself as this monster. All willing, may it come soon. Personality: Zill has become a recluse in Toyland, engaging little with civilian inhabitants or the armed forces she finds herself amongst. She can be coaxed into conversation easily, though she is incredibly myopic in talking about herself and her numerous failings. Her toy body proves a special point of interest, as she feels intense alienation from it due to resemblance with a model kit her father displayed at home, one about which she knew very little before his passing. What she has revealed about happier (or at least more neutral) facts of her human life have prompted several other Toyfolk to invite her away from her perpetually unfulfilled “duties,” though to date she has acknowledged few and accepted less.
Toy Brain Urges: Defense against the hostile outsider and regimentation. While she is not happy with it in the slightest, life around the Toyland Barracks at least provides the opportunity to scratch those itches.
Fun Fact: Zill’s consciousness is locused in both the entirety of the Ultrasaurus mecha and the tiny metal figurine body of the pilot in its head, with priority given to the latter when out of the cockpit. Terrified of people finding out how small and pathetic her true form is when divorced from the gigantic plastic dinosaur, she has not told anyone about this aspect of her nature.
Krampus Phrase: “If you will not pilot this craft any further, perhaps I can interest you in another assignment…”
from twitter user deejaygeejaygee
it just gets better
and better
Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.
I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.
Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i
They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government
I was a really soft-hearted little kid who cried a lot and liked to play games about making big families and nurturing things, which, since I was a boy, meant I got the shit kicked out of me a lot by other boys for being girly. Boys were supposed to be tough and fight and compete and try to be the best, you see, that's how our imagination games were supposed to go. And that's what media aimed at boys when I was a kid focused on - heroes who beat the shit out of people and are tough and don't cry et cetera et cetera.
And I learned to like that and see the appeal in that, sure. There are lots of stories that were made for an audience of little boys that I ended up liking. But I always wanted something that told me boys like me, who didn't want to be violent or competitive, who liked nurturing things and making friends, who avoided fights whenever allowed, were valid.
So I was really happy when Steven Universe came around and was exactly that - the kind of show a sensitive little boy like I used to be would have killed to see. And very shortly after that I was crushed when the growing criticism of the show repeated the refrain that it was bad mainly because Steven was a pacifist who cried and didn't want to be violent and liked nurturing things and making friends instead of killing people. I wasn't surprised, no, it made perfect sense people would hate it for being that, but I was crushed all the same.
Our society only accepts a very narrow definition of masculinity, and kindness isn't allowed to play a very big role in it. That's one of the reasons I quit it.
Anyway, I'm a daycare teacher now, and one of the kids in my class is a really sensitive little boy with big feelings and a bigger heart, who acts very nurturing to his little 3-D printed dragons, and gets very upset at how mean and rude the other little boys can be when they're trying to prove they're mature and tough. Recently he's been talking to me about a show he found and has fallen in love with called Steven Universe, and I've been delighted to hear him regale me about how much he loves it. I bet it's doing him some real good to see that it's ok for a little boy like him to have a big heart and to want to make friends instead of fight all the time. He's making up his own crystal gem OC too, isn't that nice?
I think those fancomics where Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes is transgender are cute and fun but I also think it's a deep misunderstanding of Calvin's character to think he would transition into a heterosexual normie who goes to her high school reunion. That girl would have neopronouns and fang implants
Adult Calvin is a tattoo artist named Panthera who is the bassist in a terrible metal band called Captain Napalm and Hobbes helps do faer E injections
I know it's like 2 weeks too late to change it but I'm so mad I didn't realize that the band would obviously be called "Get Rid Of Slimy GirlS". I walk the road of shame
a sad Pink headcanon
So you know the Tower she was locked in?
it has this window that is plenty large tbh
And I thought : "wait Pink could float and escape form there"
But then I realized floating requires her to think happy thoughts
She was probably too emotionally beaten down to float that high
If you aren't playing Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist, then you have no legitimate need for the rules of Wisher, Theurgist, Fatalist (WTF 45)
But character generation is done before one begins play (WTF 62)
And the character generation procedures for an RPG are commonly understood as part of the game rules [citation needed]
These three premises add up to a contradiction, where the only two escapes are by asserting that WTF's character creation procedures are not, in fact, rules of WTF but instead something else, perhaps setting elements or norms of play culture, or by coming to the conclusion that it is not possible to legitimately create a WTF character.
a more pressing question is whether you were playing WTF when you wrote this post and if not what the heck you thought you were doing using its rules
Suwannee Alligator Snapping Turtle (Macrochelys suwanniensis), family Chelydridae, endemic to the Suwannee River Basin of northern FL and southern GA in the SE United States.
Vulnerable.
One of 2 species of Alligator Snapping Turtle.
Photograph by FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute
it’s so…… stupid that grey rocking, or making yourself as non-reactive and boring as possible, is in part the solution to domestic abuse, and stalking, and grizzly bear attacks, and online harassment, and enduring my fucking eight pound cat. because he wants fun things to happen, and it’s fun when I dash over and go “ohhhh noooo, nooo” and it’s even more fun when I pick things up, because then he can bat them down again. it is taking so much strength of will to ignore the loud and ominous thuds from the other room, but this is the only way. I can see him checking on me to make sure I heard. his pupils are so big and evil. Belphie, we can play fetch on the catio in 10 minutes, but right now I need to renew my government dental coverage.
he literally just exploded into a flaming skeleton riding a motorcycle
Love conversations where every single participant has certified Issues
One guys issue is not knowing vampires are real. I feel him
Love burying the lead "he's 33 I'm 22-" bitch he is 433 give or take
He doesn't know how to divide by 2.
@nightcrawler-fan @iceandbone
...why does this have better writing than most actual comedy series about fantasy characters?
.... is one of those guys Blade?
“This kink is problematic when you think about it” ohhhhhh shit ok lemme head on over to the kink store and trade these kinks in for one that make my jackoff fantasies morally superior
it's actually so crazy how much the simpsons would fucking suck if it didn't have any of the simpsons characters. just a bunch of shots of empty houses and streets for half an hour while nothing happens. that would be so badddd lol
yeah that tends to happen when you remove characters from media. without characters its all just background. i guess movies set in scenic locations would still land as kinda nature docs but even then
it only happens with the simpsons
this same criticism could be applied to nearly any media ever.
it's just the simpsons. are you a troll?
Dragon's right, if you remove all the Simpsons characters from Death Note it hardly changes anything
apologies to OP if this is off topic but assuming this isn't entirely just a bit then this is a great example of 'pay attention to things as they are specifically worded and written' because to apply it as broadly to other media you have to add additional stuff that is not specified in the actual text; its not about removing all characters from media works but SPECIFICALLY simpsons characters so
applying to other stuff requires you to add more words or clarifications that are, not present in the actual post. you gotta make that up to apply it
i would like to deem this the No Simpsons Characters Rule, if you can only make a point by adding additional stuff to a post specifically about no simpsons characters in the simpsons, you have run afoul of the rule, and mayhaps should reconsider, like perhaps some manner of kraken that found some really cool mechanized dancing shoes and now it has come onto dry land and it just cant stop dancing no matter how much it is wrecking the squid's body and also it can't breath on land and its not sure what dancing actually is.
do not be like the dancing kraken, it probably is Bad to experience that
almost forgot to post them together!
