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CARTOON, CARTOON !

     ... Wow! These cartoons are darker than I remember.

A nostalgic cartoon multi-muse || Semi-selective ☆ indie ☆ paragraph / dash ☆ Trying to bring my childhood favorites to life. More muses likely to be added! — so stay tuned!

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[[ writing a boomer but insane is soooo funny man its so funny sometimes father will just say things that if it was a post on facebook it would just seem like a weird old man meme but when he says it its a supervillain monologue and I-- sdhgkdskhgsd he's unreal istg ]]

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[[ the true tragedy is that we'll never get to see anime benedict because he never took off his suit in fusionfall :\ ]]

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Anime: Testing the Flames

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[[ Utonium is really a muse that grew on me-- I guess just like how Father really did so suddenly lmao-- in that I wasn't sure what to do with him at first but now he's really interesting to me.

Its that moral fervor of his that's so interesting! He's one of the rare heavily scientifically minded characters that is deeply morally motivated. But not in a robotic way, a really human way. The science is always a means to an end and the end is harm reduction lmao.

But he's not perfect. Sometimes, because of his logical mind, he gets caught up in absolute thinking or he misses the forest for the trees. What makes him so uncorruptible is that he's so emotionally intelligent that he always finds his way back to doing the right thing, though. I really wanna see him..... challenged though. By something. Which is why I wish I wasn't a coward and would interact with comic heroes more sdkhgdshgks ]]

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The Powerpuff Girls Movie Starters

"They are utterly helpless and in desperate need of a true hero!"

"Well, aren't you all cute and bubbly?"

"Birthday! It's your birthday! I should get gifts!"

"All I've got to do is be a good parent!"

"Note to self: good parents don’t leave their kids home alone."

"Sugar, spice, and everything nice, who would have guessed that's what little girls were actually made of?"

"I'll go wash up, then we'll bring in the furniture."

"They’re really special. I mean really special and I just want to make sure they’ll be okay so what do you think? Do you think they’ll be okay?"

"This is what happens when you put twenty little kids in one room."

"What’s the point of this game anyway?"

"Oh, no! I’ve been infected!"

"You know, I've got a nice car."

"What are you doing? We’re in a serious pickle!"

"Got you, you little bunny."

"The game is over and it’s your bedtime."

"I'm glad you had so much fun because tomorrow will be a busy day too."

"Unfortunately, people often get scared or angry when they don’t understand something special or unique."

"People here are nice. Things will be fine!"

"He’s in cahoots with the evil pickle cart killers!"

"We really would like for you to come downtown with us so we can ask you a few questions."

"He hates us. He totally hates us!"

"He probably just got held up, or maybe the car broke, or maybe he just forgot, or... maybe he hates us."

"Should the manufacturing of super powered children be illegal?"

"I was reaching down between my legs to ease the seat back when this atomic bug buzzed in, with no fair warning!"

"Used to be a time when you could buy an honest pickle."

"They are little freaks, aren’t they?"

"They don't know I'm in jail."

"Well, it’s official. I have no idea where we are."

"Maybe there’s a box we can get in around back!"

"Go away. Please. Do not look at me."

"You’re no monster, mister. You’re just really dirty."

"How could you know what it’s like for people to fear and despise you for the very things that make you special?"

"This brain is full of brilliant ideas, but will anyone listen? No."

"Your powers are great! You just gotta believe in yourself!"

"You did very good. Very good indeed."

"Well, there is one last, teeny tiny, itsy bitsy thing we still need."

"I thought the zoo kept all the animals in cages."

"They are unaware that your actions will have helped change their world forever!"

"You think they'll still be made at us for playing tag?"

"Jail? Lawsuits? Angry mobs? What’s next?"

"This isn’t making the town a better place!"

"Do not continue with the ramblings, for my ramblings are the ramblings to be obeyed!"

"That big fat dumb jerk! He duped us! He planned it all along and we fell for it!"

"What does it look like I’m doing? I’m building a house ‘cause now we have to live here!"

"I don’t wanna sleep on a rock!"

"We weren't going to get people to stop hating us by breaking rules!"

"Ugh, never mind! I’m not fighting with you and I’m not talking to you, EVER!"

"There's too many monkeys!"

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM YOU DARN DIRTY APE!"

"I didn’t mean it! It was an accident! And he wouldn’t let go! And then the dog! That stupid dog! And then the monkeys!"

"Come on, let’s put an end to this gorilla warfare!"

"We’ve got one last monkey to get off our backs!"

"It’s good you little freaks know when you’re beaten."

"I have to seize control of an area and force its inhabitants to follow my way of thinking."

"Now let’s get out of this town and find a new, safe place to live!"

"We already tried running away."

"Oh, my! You’re actual trying to stop me? That’s so cute!"

"Who are you calling cute?"

"You dare challenge ME? Attempt to defeat ME? Try to destroy ME?"

"None of them will ever understand you as I can."

"Maybe everyone would like us more if we were just normal little girls."

"I was wondering if maybe sometime we could like call you to save the day or whatever."

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[[ hey so I know... I said before I left-- don't go anywhere, hang onto the threads i'll be back-- but!! I was gone longer than I expected so I just wanted to say

LIKE this is you don't mind me replying to the. whatever i was doing before I left lmao ]]

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[[ also my internet SUCKS we've been trying to fix and reset it and everything but lately its been turning off and on a lot ]]

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idk

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[[ BTW I was watching a let's play of that james bond game for random reasons, a youtuber I like played it, and honest to god it gave me muse for my KND muses so much it finally reminded me how long I've been away from the blog without a status update DSHGKDSKHS

I'm always saying that Father is a bond villain, that's clearly what he's parodying, so to actually see a really good layout of what the worldbuilding for a bond villain is supposed to be like? The tropes and cliches in their original context? Genuinely it kinda helped me understand how to write more clearly when i have to seriously write him being this shadowy figure pulling strings in geopolitics or whatever lol ( i've never seen the bond movies )

ALSO there was this... dad and son evil duo for this particular plot that made for a really interesting case of child abuse but not in a way you'd expect, where a petulant and arrogant son with a temper just steadily dehumanizes himself into a machine. And it either reminded me of Father or worse-- it reminded me of the delightful kids lmao 😬. So. idk it made me think lol ]]

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PSA: Please never be afraid to send asks.

We've all been there. We open someone's ask box to send an anonymous message to a muse you want to see on the dashboard. You get ready to type... But nothing comes to mind. You, yourself, sort of want to get asks as well and start some dashboard commentary, but your mind is at a blank.

Asks are a great jumping point for writers who aren't feeling like writing a thread / ic post on it's own. Here's some suggestions for what types of asks you can send to muses when you can't think of much;

Ask the muse about a recent muse interaction. For instance, go 'Mario, how could you let Bowser talk to you like that?'

Pry at a muse about some internal narration they had. Go 'Mario, why are you doubting yourself?'

Ask an everyday question! Saunter in and go 'Mario, how's the weather today?'

The worst thing someone can do is not answer something since they can't think of a good reply, but the notion is always appreciated. If you ever wonder if it's okay to send an ask, you can always go 'hey mun, is it okay if I inform muse of x or y?' and go from there. Foster your niche community. Do unto others what you would want for yourself.

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I'm a survivor, not a victim. (From Hermes to Vexus)

✦ ☾ 🪲 ☽ ✦ → " ... What's the difference? " Her ruby lips sneer in mild amusement, languidly shrugging out a claw. " You wouldn't call yourself a 'survivor~'... " The queen mocks with a blooming spread of her needle-like fingers " If you didn't have misery to endure. Misery inflicted upon you helplessly, completely beyond your control-- some kind of assault on your being from an outside party that you couldn't prevent... so why bother with the distinction? You were somebody's VICTIM... just because they didn't finish the job doesn't mean you weren't weak. And it IS the weakness you despise, isn't it..? " There's the tinny ring of her claws tapping against her metal chest piece as she grins with those gigantic, cat-like eyes of hers. But she fans her hand and scoffs a laugh.

" I'm SORRY dahling! Am I being insensitive? I don't mean to pry... Its just this highly advanced mind of mine, I just can't tolerate logical inconsistencies... "

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Lee, you have beautiful eyes, it’s a shame you keep them hidden under all that pretty hair. Not that I’m complaining tho. I like hidden beauties.

✦ ☾ 💋 ☽ ✦ → Wow... is this really happening? A little corny, sure, but she can't pretend she doesn't love a big flirt. ( Its more effort than most men put in. ) In the silent wake of hearing all this, she lifts up her supposedly pretty hair to reveal one supposedly beautiful green eye that blinks blankly, glancing side to side. Evidently, the infamous tease is a little flustered for once.

" ..... Are you... comin' onto me or somethin'? " She giggles bashfully in a messy way that results in a snort, wrapping a curl around her finger, suddenly seeming nervous. " Uh-- haha... 'hidden beauties', huh? Well-- if youse weren't faceless yourself, Romeo, maybe we could get to know each othah'... 'specially if you're as cute as ya words. But thanks. That's... real sweet. " Her hand lets those carrot curls bounce back down so she can blow a kiss and twinkle her fingers in goodbye.

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To the mun, noticing your post with father musing about decomissioning, what do you think it would take for Father to consider decomissioning himself, or why does he consider it if he does already?

[[ HI VERY LATE REPLY UHHH THANK YOU! for the interest lol

In that post, the reason he was thinking about it despite not wanting the consequences that come with it is because he must want something they have. Right? He finds something about their ignorance or what their ignorance is allowing them to do tempting or calming in some way. He's stressed and tired at all times and he has horrible childhood memories haunting him so there might be a vague sense of "if I could just stop existing for a week that'd be great" you'll notice he even refers to it as a "mind vacation" in one of my threads about it. Father is a very high functioning man with clinical depression, so this vague disinterest in life just hits him every now and then. He just rarely expresses it like this.

This IS a sign that-- maybe he doesn't want to be literally decommissioned-- but he wants... to be someone else. If only slightly. For a brief moment there's some little spark of consideration for slowing down, maybe even outright regret that he's in this life he's chosen for himself. But its only because he doesn't have his important ambitions on his mind-- notice the second anyone brings up "what about your job? your deepest held beliefs?" he snaps back into place. "Oh that's right, world domination is more important than happiness, people expect greatness of me, I need to nut up" and so he steels his nerves and remembers why he's doing this.

It almost required... disassociation from himself in a moment of daydreaming to even consider wanting to stop doing what he's doing. ( notice he also mentions that daydreaming is something adults shouldn't do, I think this kinda explains why lol ) What that says I think is that there's something inside him that is at conflict with his own motivation but because it isn't stronger than his motivation it remains kind of a background noise in his mind. Namely, any real, actual happiness. He will tell you outright that happiness has nothing to do with his job.

He basically caught himself feeling longing for simple joys and said "ew" lmao.

BUT I have plotted or talked about theoretical instances where that exhaustion with himself and being such a hateful and angry person catches up with him and he genuinely considers..... "retirement" from being a villain lol. But it does require breaking through the insanity driving him like a steam engine that wants to scream "no no no im so close im so close i can do this i can fix everything i'm not a failure i'm not done i can still win--" ]]

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Is there at least one character in your favorite show you play not existing. For me it’s Sheldon from MLAATR cause of how creepy he is to Jenny.

[[ ooooohh I am being asked my hot takes about least favorite characters I see...... honestly its really hard to get me to outright wish for a character to not exist in the fiction they're from-- so a lot of the shows I write really don't mess up that badly with a character,,

I would have to agree with you on Sheldon, though....... that is-- I think he needs a rewrite. Just tone him way down and he's fine like-- conceptually. Otherwise, Sheldon has some genuinely funny moments if I recall, its just that he crosses the line one too many times in his creepy obsessed lover archetype. He can be obsessed-- but I think giving him a strong sense of boundaries would keep him likable even if he remains a bit on the "robot-chaser" side lol.

Personally, the first one I could think up after really looking for one is..... I remember hating Cheese from Foster's Home as a kid. Maybe its too far to say I wish he didn't exist, I know some people like him, but I just hated the guy and he wasn't really important for anything so I feel... okay(?) saying I wouldn't mind deleting him lol. I thought he was nothing but uncomfortable and off putting. I actually liked Bendy more than I liked Cheese, that is how strongly child me didn't vibe with that guy lmao

I know I've joked about how Count Spankula's compulsion for touching children could never fly in modern day, but that's not really his fault as a character-- I have NO doubt in my mind that he is meant to be a totally innocent depiction of what used to be a normal disciplinary thing, and as a character in a vacuum he's totally fine and likable, and there's really no character I outright dislike from KND. It would be a shame to live in a world without the Count or any of the villains, lbr.

Simpsons.......... its not so much a specific character, its how they're all written nowadays, maybe especially Homer, but that could be a rant essay on its own lmao.

Ed Edd & Eddy have a really minimal cast of characters, frankly I love them all-- yes, even Eddy's brother. He's a great antagonist.

Samurai Jack's cast is great, Dexter's Lab I doubt I dislike strongly any character enough to delete them, and Courage never had a bad episode.

Even the PPG....... as far as I can remember, even with their huge cast, I never hated a character I think. The reboots non-withstanding lmao. ]]

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[[ Hellooooooooo ugh i.... did not expect to be so mentally burnt out for so long, I've just been so stressed about going back to college my brain was locked in this weird hell dimension of anxiety idek all I could do was play video games and refresh my email for like 3 days lmao

anyways my. brain is still doing the adhd thing where an important thing is approaching so i can't do anything until it happens, but I miss being here so much I at least want to answer these few asks i've been getting lol ]]