Here are some of my favorite SPOILER-FREE pictures from The Adventure Zone: Dadlands last night in Anaheim!
It was a crazy show (I wouldn't expect less) and I nearly lost my voice from laughing so hard.
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Also, shameless fit check below the cut because I dressed as Professor Pater Poppins, last of the Science Dads, and had such a great time running around with my satellite bird that I may have to do it again someday.
Ok, so, the explanation for this one is that I used to love the theory that Professor Membrane was a runaway Irken tallest. (I loved this show since I was like 4 years old when i would stay up late to watch reruns!)He was fed up with the society he came from so he fakes his death and ran away to Urth. He was angry that his people valued his height but not his intellect. He watches humanity for a bit and sees their potential and decided that this ball of dirt was his new home and that he will protect it with his life.
He later gets lonely so he creates Dib and Gaz the same way irkens are produced but a combination of human and his own dna. He keeps the secret of who he is from his children and keeps them in the dark until one day he can not hide it anymore. So Dib is angry, Zim is star struck, and Gaz is just there along for the ride she couldn’t care less.
I am also a furious multi shipper so be prepared for that!
Science Dad AKA The Whale Carcass guy | WIP: Been There, Done That
An OC intro attempt for a half-realized OC
Name: ??? Doesn’t have one yet. It’s German tho
Age: Mid-thirties??
Occupation: Invertebrate crytobiologist for the Men in Black except not the Men in Black, the organization’s gonna have a different name but they’re basically just the MIB
Sexuality: Sure as hell not straight. And considering some of the cryptids he works with are sentient and very, very lonely, let’s just say he takes a page out of Captain Jack Harkness’ book
Appearance: Wild brown hair, starting to go grey. Pale blue eyes. Slightly too large black or navy suits, otherwise comfy long-sleeve solid color tees. A big fan of sunglasses and fun hats.
Background:
Science Dad was a marine biologist working someplace off the west coast (but idk where exactly, i don’t have any of this together, but you knew that) specializing in deep sea invertebrates. He made the news when a globster washed up on a local beach and the segment wanted an expert opinion. In the end, they basically cut down his whole interview to, “Looks like a whale carcass,” thus launching a meme of people taking photos of everyday obviously-not-whale-carcass objects and calling them whale carcasses.
Science Dad wasn’t very happy about this. He finds out the globster still hasn’t been collected so he goes down there in the middle of the night with his own camera, which is obviously a good idea, and
It’s no whale carcass. The thing’s an intelligent bloodthirsty creature previously unknown to science and Science Dad almost dies trying to get away.
The next day the globster’s mysteriously gone even though no one came to collect it and Science Dad is pacing his tiny apartment all shaken up when the Men in Black show up like “Destroy that footage or you’re gonna be in deep shit” and Science Dad’s like “Lmao who would actually believe me, the thing looks like it was filmed on a potato” and the MIB is like “Don’t fuckin try me” and Science Dad is like “Ah, fine.”
So he deletes the footage and goes, “Wait. But who are you?!” But they’re already gone.
So he shifts his research focus. Goes deep into stories of giant squids and sirens and mysterious patches of ocean where people seem to go missing. Compiles binders upon binders of information about all kinds of globsters. There were a lot of whale carcasses in there, but there were also a couple weird ones no one could ever really explain. He’s always going to be a skeptic first, but his world grows bigger every day.
He branches out to non-marine cryptids: Jackalopes, Mothmen, Nightcrawlers. Just. All the cryptids having a grand old time in this wip. At one point he even informally adopts this kid Haru who’s like a protagonist or something? Hence “Science Dad”. Haru steps up as his sort of one-man camera crew and his videos start to look less and less like they were filmed on potatoes.
When the MIB come knocking at his door again, he’s ready. He has three words for them:
“I want in.”
Tagging the madlads who wanted me to talk about Science Dad even though I warned them it would be all over the place: @phahbiyah @akiwitch @shadowfire71-writes @novadragoness
This was fun! You guys should all try making casual attempt intro posts for things you’ve only just started planning/outlining!!
