#graygryphon

[songofstrawhats]

I saw you mention the potential of Luffy in Moominvalley but imagine: Snufkin in the One Piece world. He would immediately become a revolutionary.

ooooh that's a thought

idk if Snufkin is overpowered enough to survive on the grand line, or good enough with people to be Part of an Organization, but I absolutely think he'd vibe with what they're doing

Additional concept: Snufkin as a weird guy wandering through the forest where the ASL bros are living every winter or so. Maybe he visits the island of the rare animals, or wherever the wind takes him..... Shows up every so often while fishing to offer sage anarchist advice, bless him

I also absolutely think the Island of the Hattifatteners is the kind of place Luffy and co would end up (nami does something with weather there??) so if we want to manifest a crossover where all the characters get to meet?? that would be fun!!!!!

[laurasimonsdaughter]

I recently refound an old picture book version of a Chinese folktale I read as a kid that I thought had interesting parallels to the lindworm story. Similarly to the lindworm, it’s about a childless couple, although they’re farmers, and the mother finds a cucumber floating down the river and eats it, without any specific instructions. She also gives birth to just a single dragon child, and the father cuts his tail off upon seeing him and freaking out because he doesn’t realize it’s his son, making the dragon flee to live in the river. The dragon is also a completely heroic figure, and actually defeats the evil dragon that rules the nearby river and becomes its guardian spirit, which is why the river’s name was changed to Heilongjiang (Black Dragon River). He also remains a dragon, although some versions have him temporarily return in human form after growing up just to troll his dad a bit.

Ohh that’s so interesting! Thank you for sharing @graygryphon!

I love that he stays a dragon! And that he’s heroic! But in Chinese folklore that is much easier of course, because their dragons seem to be able to exist in both shapes simultaneously. I’ve never heard of this story, do they give a Chinese title or origin for it? (Long shot I know, but I have to try)

The motif of eating something to get pregnant is very interesting. I’ve seen it all over the place but I don’t remember a cucumber. I’ve seen onions, flowers, roses, and I think a type of fruit but I can’t quite recall… 

[featherquillpen]

Something my other friends have occasionally discussed is "meta" daemon AUs of series, where we discuss how the series would have been written in a universe where daemons exist. Do you have any thoughts about how Animorphs might have been written in such a universe?

Hah, that’s really fun! I mean, I think the default in a daemonverse would be that aliens have daemons. On the other hand, Applegrant are notable for how non-humanoid their aliens are. So I think they would have the creativity to come up with alternate anchors for the aliens of Animorphs!

Pulling back the camera lens a little, though, the escapism of being able to turn into an animal might be less appealing in a world where one half of you is an animal, especially when you’re a kid and one half of you can turn into any animal. So maybe Animorphs wouldn’t have been written at all, because different fantasies would appeal to kids.

[itsbenedict]

Wait, replacement??? What happened to Step????

oh, Step kinda sorta stole the ship and ditched the crew and ran off to go join the Shichibukai as a result of Secret Plans. it’s... probably fine! i bet- and i’m the GM now so my bet has pretty good odds- that things will go very well indeed for Step specifically, unless the crew has something to say about that. (they already stole back the nuclear research she stole, so she’s gonna be slowed down a little bit.)

[thesnadger]

Oh, hey, neither of those are the meat dating sim I know about. There's a Japanese one called Bacon Lettuce Biographies, which I remember reading an LP for a long long time ago.

@agent-jaselin It’s just like you wanted!

I am so glad there are two, soon to be three meat-based dating sims. What a time to be alive.

[incorrect-satsuriku-no-tenshi]

Zack: Just discovered a neat trick. If you make brownies but don’t cut them, you can eat the whole slab and say you only ate 1 brownie

Rachel: Do not do this

[perhapsarat]

I appreciate your Harry Potter comics and how they make me realize how dramatic and ridiculous some of the scenes are. Especially those scenes that just get one background mention that you flesh out.

thanks! those are my favourite hp things to draw, just weird background shit that never makes it into the movies and a big part of the reason why the films don’t capture the spirit of the books

[askthesatsusiblings]