putting Occtis and Bolaire in a snowglobe and shaking them after this conversation, I love them both so much--

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putting Occtis and Bolaire in a snowglobe and shaking them after this conversation, I love them both so much--
It's wild that novels peaked with Jane Austen and then everyone just kept writing more novels for 200 years and counting anyway
do you think if mac gets a sunburn and dennis is in the right mood, he makes mac let him peel it?
Trying to capture Rami's likeness and fuse it with my style seems impossible. I'm gonna kms. 💀
For when you want... I thought of something very cursed while closing last night. What would happen if the world of Who Framed Roger Rabbit went through a Dorothy Must Die scenario.
Don't ask me where this came from, I don't even know how it'd work 😭 but what I briefly thought of last night was that, for some reason, the world of toons gets blocked off from humanity (maybe they were considered too dangerous after the story of Theadore Valient got out?). And Doom, instead of trying to enact his plan to replace Toontown with a freeway, decides this is the perfect opportunity to take over and control the toons instead. So basically, Doom is DmD!Dorothy (I did not need the image of Doom in the gingham dress, but my brain went there 😭)
This was mainly imagining the Toon Patrol as the DmD trio, admittedly 😅 being Doom's enforcers and striking fear into the residents of Toontown in this AU. Psycho and Greasy are like Scarecrow, being the two most feared of the patrol for similar and different reasons. Smartass and Stupid could be similar to the Lion, being more on the dumb side, but also not questioning Doom and happy with his position as his seargent. That leaves Wheezy most like Tinman; deep down, he knows that all this is wrong, but he doesn't try to stop Doom or Smartass for his own reasons. They use DIP to scare the citizens into obeying these new laws, but they're far more grusome and dangerous here, just like the trio are in DmD. Can you imagine that bubble gun Tin's soldier used on Indigo, but with DIP?? (Ngl, I've been having fun imaging Greasy as the Scarecrow in particular).
I'm not sure who Amy Gumm would be, probably Eddie if he ever decides to visit the tunnel again or somehow got a job that required him to get close to Toontown and he got captured. Or it could be an original character. But Jessica and Roger are part of the rebellion to take Doom and his patrol down, along with various other characters. They're war torn and traumatized, but they're still kicking.
I have no idea why I thought this, but here you go 😅😅😅😅
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE THIS!! Especially Scarecrow!Greasy, oh my g o d. Let me just- let me just- *gets out copy of Dorothy Must Die, which is heavily sticky-noted and thick from rereads already, and starts reading through all of Scare's bits imagining my favourite weasel* ... would it be crazy of me to write fanfiction of this concept!?? XD
YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO ME.
The only thing 'cursed' about this is Doom in gingham 🤣🤣🤣 But its all just 👌👌👌 Perfect! This was such a gem to wake up to XDD
I also love Stupid getting a main character part for once!! We too often let him fade into the background and this weighs heavily upon my soul, as I'm sure it does yours 😰Lion!Stupid would be so adorable!! Lion!Stupid developing a particular interest in a servant at the palace; them of course becoming his Favourite. Lion!Stupid struggling between his sexual appetite and his hunger for blood, licking and sucking and tasting his S/O any time that they're intimate; whimpering when they bleed because he got too rough with them; wanting to eat them. He wants to tear them apart and feast on their flesh, feel his teeth sink into their fat. Lion!Stupid feeling curious about this desire- because he loves them, doesn't he?? He doesn't understand. Lion!Stupid going to his good, old, most trustworthy, most intelligent friend Scarecrow!Greasy asking about it. Scarecrow!Greasy saying basically that he doesn't blame him- Stupid is an animal, after all. And that Y/N... is a delicious little morsel~ Do what feels right, Greasy tells him absentmindedly, going back to his work (Greasy never did alot the Lion much of his precious time, anymore, since Dorothy came back. Sometimes Stupid wondered why everything had changed). Follow your excellent, leonine instincts. Lion!Stupid returning to his lovers bed that night and doing exactly as his good comrade told him. Lion!Stupid eating what he loves (Lion!Stupid never losing the perfect taste off his tongue). Tin Woodman!Wheezy giving him a word of advice, later; that old friend of ours is crafty and cruel, Stu. Everything's different, now. 'ts best if ya don't trust any of us.
Okay, I’ve had two days to recover from re-reading Trigun Maximum. So, let me make a recommendation. If you like stories that Put You Through Something, but leave you with actual hope and Good Shit Payoff at the end. If you like "Don't get attached, don't get attached, don't get--FUCK--" and characters treated with legitimate empathy even when their views oppose Main Character Hero. If you like masculinity and femininity Not Really Treated as Much of Anything, Actually. If you like beautiful artwork and that very classic Starts Off as Silly Fun Entertainment and Swells Into JFC How Did I Get Here layered in with Christian Symbolism Through a Very Japanese Lens and body horror and violence sprinkled throughout. If you like A Simple Tale of Family Except it is Also a Space Western Except it is Also an Exploration of Personhood Rather Than Just "Humanity" (important distinction) Except Also it is Going to Punch You in the Chest so Hard That You Won't Even Stumble, You'll Just Be on the Ground Looking Up at the Stars. They're Beautiful Stars. If you want a tale of trauma and love where the losses actually matter.
May I suggest heading over to Trigun Ultimate Overhaul and either reading Trigun/Maximum online or downloading the whole thing. The official DarkHorse translation is still available in various places, but it... uh... starts to reek of "I don't get paid enough for this shit" at moments when you really, really need to understand what's happening, and this read-through didn’t have me backtracking several times to try and figure out what’s actually going on. Takes a little of the magic out of a work, you know?
Yeah, me wondering about a small detail in regards to Livio got me to say to myself "You know, I may as well just read the whole thing over, it's been too long..." And it has been and I did and I don't regret as much as I'm just still laying in the dirt recovering because it’s a lot but it’s so good and its influence on me is going to be so damn obvious but sshhh. I do still love the '98 anime, "sex pest" being treated as a cute little character quirk and all (some of those lines still make me laugh so much), but it's also a very '90s anime and only scratches the surface of Maximum's echoing depth.
In case you need more encouragement, beneath the cut are a few bits of dialog regarding my favorite wider themes that get explored directly and indirectly, with context/spoilers edited out.
Behold! The Artfight teams reveal
https://youtu.be/poDWhh73uxA
Oh god it's Twilight all over again-- Team Jacob LMAOOO
Tho in seriousness, yes I would genuinely choose Werewolf over Vampire.