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kakushino · 6 months
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The Fanboy
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Tumblr writer fanboy! Tomioka Giyuu x isekai! fem! Reader
He was not ready.
Tags: fluff, Giyuu being a silly fanboy, suggestive (1 filth mention), minor KNY spoilers from manga, isekai Word count: 1,1k
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AN: The blog mentioned is purely fictional. Reader is Giyuu's blorbo uwu
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Giyuu was used to being disliked by his coworkers. He kept to himself and didn’t attend any of the group events, the only one who liked him was the janitor, Urokodaki-san. Urokodaki Sakonji and Giyuu shared many lunches together, in silence or talking - it didn’t matter. 
It was thanks to those lunches that Giyuu found out their shared passion - Kimetsu no Yaiba manga. The mangaka was a mystery, working under an alias, and the series was nearly finished, the infinity castle arc coming to an end. He was excited to read the last volume - an extra long one - which was rumored to feature his favorite character, [Name].
Oh [Name]... he’d been treated with an entire volume about her background and daily duties as a kakushi before the last arc, though she’d appeared in glimpses throughout the series. He had an embarrassing memory of spilling his admiration to Urokodaki-san at one time - years ago - but it was fate, for the volume about her came out three months afterwards. 
It was also fate that he discovered tumblr not long after. He’d been scrolling through [Name]’s wiki page when something caught his eye - a trivia about her that he hadn’t noticed. Of course he had to try to find the truth on the deep dark web. Instead, he found a treasure trove full of fanfictions of characters from Kimetsu no Yaiba being shipped with readers. 
Giyuu devoured the total number of three fanfictions about [Name] that evening. Only three… because there weren’t any more. It wasn’t right… She should have been appreciated more. Sure, she was not a fighter, but she was a part of crucial infrastructure, often taking on unpleasant roles to support the protagonists of the series - the demon slayers. Perhaps it reminded him of himself and Urokodaki, but the fact stood he absolutely adored [Name], and she deserved more love.
So he would give her that love.
That was two years ago. 
Now, he had a blog of his own, blue-depresso, which he centered around his fav - he had posted various moodboards and headcanons he had about her at the start, but soon moved onto writing ‘x reader’ fanfictions of his own. It was a challenge to put his hidden artistic bone to work, but it was worth it. At times, Giyuu felt like a cult leader, his following quickly growing once he started to post those fanfics.
The few filthy fics he posted had him going long into the night, thinking how [Name] would feel under his hands, how he would take care of all her needs, and fuck her senseless. 
Giyuu kept the blog and his dirty thoughts far away from Urokodaki-san.
He didn’t want the old man to know just how much of a loser he was.
The last volume came out on one (un)remarkable Friday. Giyuu had pre-ordered it, making him excited to rush to the designated pick-up manga store.
The end of the school day could not come soon enough. He raced through his duties, the usual neat stacks of sport equipment haphazard piles when he locked the equipment room; his rush made him leave the school before Kyojuro, who was usually one of the first teachers to leave due to Friday sales at his favorite bakery. The blonde sent him a bewildered look as Giyuu passed him at the gates.
Once home, he put the sacred item (the manga) on the table gently before he yanked his tracksuit off, quickly getting into shower. He wanted to get comfortable before he read it.
Less than ten minutes later, he was ready.
…he wasn’t ready.
But he needed to read it! He had to know what would happen to his [Name]! (And to the protagonists as well-)
Okay, okay, no. Giyuu took a deep breath and opened the book.
He had to put it down halfway through. His dearest [Name]... died. She’d driven a car at the main antagonist to stop him from moving, and she died in the line of duty. Her death was honorable, and she would have wanted that.
Why did he feel so empty then?
Before he knew it, he’d opened the tumblr app on his phone and started typing.
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blue-depresso She isn’t dead. She is not dead. #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #what the fuck is this @ G.K.???? 
blue-depresso This just did not happen. I refuse to accept this. #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #dying rn #[Name] is alive
blue-depresso Someone give me G.K.’s location rq because I’m ready to fight #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #fight me G.K.
blue-depresso Okay but maybe it wasn’t her in the car. Hear me out, maybe she jumped out before the car got destroyed??? #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #[Name] is alive
blue-depresso What is even the point of living on if she isn’t alive? What is the point??? #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #im crying #send help
blue-depresso Okay but in my heart, she lives on. You bet your asses I will write that [Name] lives AU once I’m done devouring this volume #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #I won’t abandon my girl in her time of need #she’s my wife #she will live
blue-depresso I’m okay (I’m not). I need to finish this manga.  #kny spoilers #kny spoiler #[Name] #ran out of tissues #i need a drink
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Wiping the one tear that left his eye - the tissue tag an exaggeration of the truth, though his throat did get clogged up - he got to reading the rest of the story. 
It felt like he was afloat. What was he gonna do with himself now? His mind wandered to the singular bottle of beer in the fridge his sister gave him - some fancy brand he couldn’t care less about, as he wasn’t a drinker. His body acted before his brain caught up and he drank it, the bitterness a companion to the one in his heart. 
He would write that ‘[Name] lives AU’ tomorrow. Today, he had to bury himself in comfort. There was a fluffy blanket he received from his sister last birthday. Perhaps he should give her a call. It wasn’t that late yet.
In the end he’d fallen asleep on his futon, the blankets under him and his phone laying next to his face. His face flushed, realizing his sister must have talked him to sleep. He would have to make it up to her later.
Giyuu rolled over on his other side to check the time on his clock hanging on the wall, but came face-to-face with a woman instead. 
What the fu-
He scrambled back, trying to create distance from this stranger. Who was it? What was she doing in his flat? What was-?!
Hold on a moment…
His mind ran circles, trying to rationalize what he was seeing. I couldn’t be, could it? But how? This had to be a prank…
The woman stirred, kakushi mask shifting a little. Then, her eyes opened, and it was confirmed.
It was [Name].
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dividers made by the amazing @benkeibear
AN: Will this be an one-shot series? IDK but it was fun to write hehe
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Canon Events, The Multiverse and Miles Morales
Most theories about Canon Events, discourse about the ATSV's plot holes and BTSV prediction started pissing me off. Decided to summarize ATSV myself. Let's start with the following image:
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Lol
What are Canon Events?
The basic.
MILES: And these nodes, where the lines converge?
MIGUEL: They are The Canon. Chapters that are a part of every spider’s story, every time.
– ATSV Script. MULTIVERSAL MAP SCENE.
Canon events are pivotal moments – milestones in their storyline– that change the course of the rest of narrative in a Spider-Man's life. The events end up shaping a series of fundamental elements including personality traits, insecurities, career prospects and more. It includes constants origin stories, significant victories, losses, and character-defining moments that contribute to the hero's identity.
Or, A moment or action that must happen to certain Spider-Men – otherwise their universe risks being destroyed.
The Canon Events connect every Spider-Person's lives together, in what Miguel name Web of Life and Destiny. It's a constant through the Multiverse.
Canon Events are real, Event ASM90 makes it clear: a police captain close to Spider-Man dies saving a kid from falling rubble during a battle with an arch-nemesis...
But Canon Event seems to be fairly flexible. Uncle Ben dies in Peter’s arms; Peter dies in Gwen’s arms; Miles loses Uncle Aaron. Every Spider-Person loses somebody they love, and this somebody can be adapted to the Spider-Person's own story – in other words, The Canon might not exactly be a prewritten rule but a guideline.
Something that need to be cleared: Miguel did study the Multiverse. It's not clear if it was after Gabriella's universe collapse or not, but he studied it to the point of being able to categorize and cross-reference the events. So far he is not wrong, much less lying. It is clear that Canon Events are a thing that exist.
Does Canon Events equal Fixed Points?
( Disclaimer: It's been years since I watch anything from the MCU. So what I'm about to say is from what I gathered from multiple wiki pages and an overview of comics. Funnily enough, the last thing I watched from the MCU was Spider-Man: No Way Home. Edit: it's been so long that I forgot the movie's name. It was actually Spider Man: Far Away From Home).
Fixed points are events in the timeline that are deemed unchangeable. Attempting to alter these points would have severe consequences, potentially destabilizing the multiverse. Fixed points are like anchors, ensuring a degree of stability in the multiversal continuum.
Miguel claims that if a Canon Event are disrupted it'll destabilize the universe up to the point of self-destruction.
Does it mean that ATSV is following the MCU take on the multiverse? Not necessarily.
In the MCU there's this thing called Incursions. Here's a short description:
An Incursion occurs when the boundary between two universes erodes and they collide, destroying one or both entirely.
Several people in the fandom dove into the conclusion that this is what happened to Gabriella's universe; Miguel interacted with it, his different molecule's resonance might have interfered with the syntonic nature of Gabriella's reality, the boundary between the two universes collided and her universe collapsed.
It even could be true, even if it was the rare case where the Incursion killed only Gabriella's universe and somehow Earth-918b – Miguel's universe, where the HQ is located – survived.
But it's not. Incursions are exactly what divert the Sony Animated Universe of the MCU, ironically. Why?
Because if the Incursion was a thing in the ATSV then the Spider-Society wouldn't be able to exist, and they couldn't constantly interact with each other, or interfere in another multiverse (even if it's to hunt down an anomaly).
One could argue that they can interfere because of their Dimensional Device – that stabilizes then enough so they can walk around multiple universes without falling dead from molecular decay.
But if that was what prevented Incursions then Gabriella's universe wouldn't be destroyed at all.
"Maybe it only works because they don't stay a lot of time in another dimensions plus they only go to other universes to deal with anomalies!"
Y'all forgot that Gwen was crashing in Hobie's dimensions? She said that it's been months since she was recruited (months since she reveled her identity to her father and, since then, apparently didn't go back to her dimension). Months, and it wasn't to deal with an anomaly, yet neither her or Hobie's dimension collapsed.
Even if she wasn't in his dimensions constantly and was somewhere else, or did go back to her dimension, don't forget the whole HQ in Earth-918 full of people from other universes – has a gym and a cafeteria, therapy offices, wouldn't be surprised if it had dorms, encouraging the Spider-Heroes to stay there for longer and interact with each other.
Mayday wasn't supposed to exist if Incursions were a thing. She was born because of Miles' influence in Peter B.'s life.
Which means ATSV doesn't have Incursions, at least not the way MCU has it even if the writers want us to see it as the same Multiverse. Ergo, Fixed Points are not necessarily Canon Events.
We know Canon Events exist and are constants through the Multiverse, but we don't know if breaking a Canon Event can cause the death of an universe because the only instance where this happened before our eyes Spot was involved and thus disqualified the data. All we have is Miguel's word for it.
Maybe Canon Events are just a pattern.
But if Canon Events are just a pattern, then why did Gabriella's universe collapse?
Here's two not-mutally-exclusive theories:
When Miguel assumed the place of his variant, the universe saw him as a parasite, someone that should have died but didn't. It self-destructed itself as a form of self-preservation that went wrong – just like we have fever when we where sick. This theory anthropomorphizes the universes, and through I like it, it's not the most probable cause. If that's what happened, then Miguel confused correlation with causation and, possibly, The Canon has nothing to do with Gabriella's universe dying.
Gabriella was supposed to be Spider-Woman. Maybe her father was who she was supposed to lose. He broke The Canon by assuming the place of his variant and this destroyed the natural order of things, resulting on the collapsing of the universe.
Let's go back to the script:
MIGUEL: That’s how the story is supposed to go. Canon events are the connections that bind our lives together. But those connections can be broken. That’s why anomalies are so dangerous...[...]
MIGUEL: You break enough canon, save enough captains, we could lose everything.
Did you notice it? Miguel worries about anomalies not only because they're ordinarily dangerous to innocent people, but they can break the connections – break the canon.
Think with me: The canon is the thing that binds Spider-People together, so wouldn't it make sense that anomalies only show up when a canon event is about to happen, if they're snatched by holes in the multiverse's fabric? Wouldn't it be easier for them to show up at the points where the universes naturally junction? Or somehow it triggers a canon event?
Take Vulture as an example. If Miguel hadn't showed up, were Gwen going to die before her time? Get permanently wounded? Something else? We know that the Canon event was supposed to happen that day because of what Layla says, "The Canon remains intact", indicating it was something that were already being monitored, the model already had a prediction for it.
Coming back to Miguel. He is determined that he broke the Canon, trillions of lives died because of it if you consider the whole universe collapsed, which goes further into other planets, other galaxies. And, if so far he was right about the Canon, wouldn't he be right about this too? Or do you think he – a man that lost his (foster) daughter – wouldn't look into why the whole universe collapsed, why she died in his hands?
There's no way to soften this. Her death is his fault and her blood is in his hands.
He's the founder of Spider-Society, assumed the role as leader. He settled a supporting system through it for mourning Spiders. If he wasn't competent and fundamentally good then a legion of Peter Parkers wouldn't follow his orders, the Spider-Society wasn't going to exist.
Miguel doesn't want anybody else to make the same mistake– this doesn't mean he doesn't make other mistakes. That's why he lashes out at Gwen and why he explains to Miles what will happen to his dad. This was a mistake that he undoubtedly committed. He shouldn't have told Miles what would happen if he wanted utmost trust that the Canon wasn't going to be broke.
He wanted Miles to believe in him.
MIGUEL: You have a choice between saving one person and saving an entire world. Every world.
He wanted Miles to do the right thing. The Trolley Problem with extra lives at risk.
That's why he antagonizes Miles afterwards. Yes, only afterwards.
Miguel knows that he could spare Miles the pain if he listened. He only gets angry and haunts Miles down when he notices Miles won't listen and that the same story will repeat just in front of his eyes.
Miguel knows what will happen if Miles save his dad. Miguel is trying to save people.
But then what will happen to Miles' dad?
Two things:
Gwen already proved that it's possible to circumvent the Canon.
Actually, her dad did. Captain Stacy stopped being a Captain. He resigned from the Police Force. He isn't going to die anymore. You can see her relief when he says this.
The Canon wasn't broken, but it doesn't mean event ASM-90 needs to happen.
But also:
The Exception Proves The Rule.
Under [the scientific version] of the phrase, the word 'proof' is to be understood in its archaic form to mean the word 'test' (this use can be seen in the phrase the proof of the pudding is in the eating).
The example is of a hypothetical critic, Jones, who never writes a favourable review.
So it is surprising when we receive an exception: a favourable review by Jones of a novel by an unknown author. Then it is discovered that the novel is his own, written under a pseudonym. The exception tested ('proved') the rule and found that it needed to be understood a little more precisely - namely, that Jones will never write a favourable review, except of his own work.The previous evaluation of Jones's ill-nature toward others is re-affirmed by discovering the manner in which the exception falls outside the rule.
– The Exception that Proves the Rule
Let's go back Canon's definition: a moment or action that must happen to certain Spider-Men – otherwise their universe risks being destroyed.
So: a Spider-Man's Canon Events are never meant to be broken or the universe will be destroyed.
Miles Morales is an anomaly. "The spider that gave you your powers wasn’t from your dimension! It was never supposed to bite you!"
If we apply that the exception proves the rule: a Spider-Man's Canon Events are never meant to be broken or the universe will be destroyed, except if the Spider-Man himself is an anomaly.
This also proves Miguel's theory of Canon Events further.
Anyway I'm going back to sleep.
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wicked-witch-for-hire · 5 months
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Literary references in Gale's selection remarks
I. Theatrical plays (Shakespeare & Walter Scott)
- A rough tempest I will raise. - Shakespeare - Tempest, - this is a mash-up of two quotes:
In Act V, Scene 1, Prospero uses the phrasing "when first I raised the Tempest". In the same scene, he recites a soliloquy about the great works of magic he has accomplished, before finally renouncing magic altogether: " ... But this rough magic I here abjure ..."
This is an incredibly apt sentence for Gale - one can interpret this tempest as his magical capabilities or just the calamity of the orb, or even his end game choice. The whole play which begins with a shipwreck might be compared to the plot of BG3.
- What fools these mortals be. - Puck - A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- All the world's my stage and you're just a player in it. Shakespeare, again. As You Like It Link
- Oh, what a tangled Weave we web! - riff on a quote from Sir Walter Scott's play Marmion.
The original quote is "Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!"
II. Pop-cult
- Swords, meet sorcery!
This is a reference to the term "Swords & Sorcery" which was coined by F. Leiber (author of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series) in 1961. Quoting from wiki: Sword and sorcery (S&S) or heroic fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy characterized by sword-wielding heroes engaged in exciting and violent adventures. Elements of romance, magic, and the supernatural are also often present. Unlike works of high fantasy, the tales, though dramatic, focus on personal battles rather than world-endangering matters. Sword and Sorcery tales eschew overarching themes of 'good vs evil' in favor of situational conflicts that often pit morally gray characters against one another to enrich themselves, or to defy tyranny.
- Gone with the Weave.
I think this is just a reference to the term "Gone with the wind" but not infamous book, lol.
- No gloom, all doom.
Riff on the popular expression "gloom & doom".
III. Religion
- Seek and you shall find me.
Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Matthew 7:7–8 "Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
While I don't think Gale is our Lord and Saviour, this is an interesting line. I would not be surprised if the writers had also remarked on his peculiar resemblance to someone...so I think this is an inside joke.
- Let me recite their demise.
This alludes to the custom of reciting prayers for the dying and the dead (a common practice in Abrahamic religions).
IV. D&D homages & references
- Don't make me go all Edwin Odesseiron on you.
So Edwin was a possible companion in BG1 & 2. A lawful evil red wizard of Thay. If you have seen the new movie I don't need to explain further, but for those who don't: basically Lorroakan as a companion. He greets the protagonist with this: “ Greetings. I am Edwin Odesseiron. You simians may refer to me merely as "sir" if you prefer a less... syllable-intensive workout."
Gale basically threatens to go all power-hungry wizard on us - mind, this is a funny line you can only hear if you select him in combat over and over again (spamming).
- I hope Halaster takes good care of Tara while I'm away.
Halaster Blackcloak was was a notorious, ancient, and utterly insane wizard who resided within his lair, the infamous Undermountain ( located deep beneath the city of Waterdeep) and died in 1375, so circa 120 years before BG3 takes place (late 1492). As part of his many preparations to escape death, Halaster created a number of clone-bodies to receive his consciousness, which he kept locked in protective stasis and located throughout Undermountain and the lower reaches of Waterdeep. When Halaster died prior to the Spellplague, it was possible that one or more of these clones was activated and set free by 1479 DR, although this is not confirmed.
I guess this must be a joke in wizard's circle in Waterdeep :-) This is also a spam line, so one can only hear it if they really like to click on Gale.
- Coliar, Karpri, Anadia... So many worlds still to travel. One day. (looking at the astrolabe)
Coliar, Kapri, Anadia - are all planets in the system (Realmspace). Toril is the third planet, where Faerun is. To reach these places you need to use spelljammers. Gale needs to hitch a hike from Lae'zel I guess.
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I have listened through season 1 of the Magnus Archives.
If this somehow makes it to the purely Magnus Archives fans, then my discussion may not make full sense.
I'm coming at this podcast through the lens of Zampanio. Zampanio is a thing hard to explain itself, but suffice to say it is a different arg/web series thing and it uses several concepts found in the Magnus Archives, like the different Fears.
There will be spoilers for season 1 and spoilers for this concept Zampanio borrowed, so I may know a bit more than your average first time listener. I read through some of the wiki specifically on this system for the purposes of better understanding Zampanio, but not any of the plot related happenings for the podcast.
So my discussion will be below the cut.
Now, briefly for my Zampanio fellows, sorry I have been away. That I'm still away, really. My Zampanio induced 'hibernation' as I'd been calling it has lasted longer than I expected. I'm not really up to date with the goings-on, though I still get pieces floating by through discord notifications. JR, you asked for use of my pixel art and I never responded. You may.
I am not fully returned to the community. It doesn't feel right if I'm not caught up enough to fulfill my role as Guide. And I am intimidated by the process of trying to catch up with what is an ever expanding series. So my discussions below will be through the lens of things prior to my general departure after Lavinraca.
My discussion continues below.
As I said, I have gone through the first season of the Magnus Archives and I think I understand the Fear Entities system a bit more.
It was neat to see the throughlines of these specific Fears through the different stories of this first season. I could almost tag each story with it's associated Fears (usually multiple as I now see how they oft intertwine). Specifically I am beginning to understand the more nuanced differences between more closely related Fears like Death, Corruption, and Desolation. Season 1 Episode 36 "Taken ill" seems to be trying to make the distinction at least between the fear of death and the fear of the rot.
I did try to keep a close eye on Desolation, a fear I had trouble differentiating between either End or Corruption aside from the association of fire. And that fire association was the only connection I saw between the Desolation and Ria.
I know Ria went on a blaze of arm 1, so that is an obvious comparison. But I couldn't see the nuances of Desolation that led to that conclusion. She always just seemed Eye-coded. The endless pursuit to understand the nature of the world, her wanting to be seen and acknowledged by both Camille and Vic. It all felt it pointed to a desire to know and be known.
I know she made statements of wanting to destroy the world to start anew and those are meant to point to Desolation, but I don't know. It felt a little… tacked on? It never really fit.
I understand the view, the destruction to make room for growth. But I don't really see that in her character. She is a compassionate person, trying to take care of those around her, like Devona when she was stuck in her monstrous form. But the Desolation isn't really integrated with this compassion.
Like, I'd imagine this sort of Desolation would rely more on tough love, of breaking down the bad parts on those they care for to allow them to heal and become better people. But she just seems to focus on just making others better, rather than destroying the parts of them that are hurting them.
I could just be misunderstanding things. I know there is an element of self destruction to her character, maybe an aspect of destroying herself to try to make things better for others. And admittedly it's been a while since I read those related sections.
But I do definitely now better understand the difference between being an Avatar of an Entity and just being haunted by that Entity. I knew that it involved some kind of draw to the Fear, a compulsion to proliferate it. But seeing it through the words of Jane Prentiss in Season 1 Episode 32 "Hive" made it pretty clear.
It's especially useful to compare that episode to something like Season 1 Episode 16 "Arachnophobia". Carlos there was particularly tormented by the fear of spiders, and Jane seemed to be troubled by the wasps in her home as she reached out for help. But she also had a strong compulsion to them, to what they represent, to their actions, to what she 'heard' that others could not hear. Seeing this inner monologue will help me understand the other characters in Zampanio acting as Avatars of their respective entity, like the connection between Camille and End.
Otherwise, I am just generally enjoying my time with the Magnus Archives. I'm going to be continuing on to the next season soon. I was just compelled to write something, probably due to the narrative tone of the podcast getting stuck in my head (though I think it's faded throughout the long period of me writing this).
And, hopefully, I will be able to sit down and reread all the writings in this branch of Zampanio. My memory to particulars has started to fade and my own archival process for Zampanio was actually meant for the purposes of me rereading it. It's just an intimidating amount to read with a difficulty in where to start.
I could just go as a regular explorer would through all the writings in North, East, South, West, NorthNorth, EastEast, and so on. But I wanted to try to find a more coherent reading order to suggest for newcomers before my hibernation. Now I need the order myself, one that I did not make. I'll probably haphazardly tred through my files, maybe trying to write up an order as I bumble my way through. That's why it was been an intimidating task.
But I wanted to make some sort of written thing to check in and say that I am still thinking about Zampanio. Also, sorry for the potentially weird writing voice. After listening to a specific voice for a long time, spoken or written, my inner narration involuntarily mimics it (a Thief of Dreams quality in myself). It's faded in the too long of time of me writing this, and I just noticed this on reread but I don't really feel like rewriting it.
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Matt Ruff's "Destroyer of Worlds"
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In Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff pulled off a genius inversion: retelling the racist horror tales of HP Lovecraft in reverse, from the perspective of the Black people whom Lovecraft so viciously loathed, casting as villains the white supremacist sorcerers whom Lovecraft turned into heroes:
https://memex.craphound.com/2016/02/16/matt-ruffs-lovecraft-country-where-the-horror-is-racism-not-racist/
If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/21/the-horror-of-white-magic/#anti-lovecraftian
Country was adapted by Jordan Peele into a spectacular TV serial — no mean feat, given how much of Ruff’s brilliant characterizations relies on the novelist’s trick of giving readers direct access to characters’ thoughts and internal states, something that is off-limits to screen adaptations without recourse to cheap tricks like voice-overs.
Today, Harpercollins releases The Destroyer of Worlds, a spectacular followup to Country that revisits the characters, setting, and supernatural dread of the original:
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-destroyer-of-worlds-matt-ruff?variant=40490768957474
Country was structured as a series of linked novellas, each one picking up where the previous left off, with a different focal characters. Destroyer is a much more traditional braided novel, moving swiftly amongst the characters and periodically jumping back in time to the era of American slavery, retelling the story of the settlement of the Great Dismal swamp by escaped slaves:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_maroons
Few writers can manage a cast of characters this large with Ruff’s deft hand — they are likable, individual, and we root for all of them as they strive to save themselves from the eldritch forces that can only be temporarily vanquished.
It makes for an extremely fast-paced, high-stakes read, as we ping-pong around the Jim Crow south and all the way to the end of the universe. The white sorcerers of Country are still in the frame, as ghosts and exiles — a parable for the tireless nature of white supremacist hatred, and of the festering sores on the American body politic that have suppurated and multiplied in the absence of cleansing truth and reconciliation.
HP Lovecraft was a gifted writer, but he was not a good person. Even by the standards of his day, his racism was particularly vicious, and Lovecraft mixed that viciousness with his prodigious talents to paint the targets of his loathing in the most visceral, cruel light. It was so ugly that even Robert E Howard lectured him about it:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140701000000/http://read.barretta.cc/post/89727018274/you-express-amazement-at-my-statement-that
“People claiming to possess superior civilization have always veneered their … looting, butchering and plundering… by [claims] of art, progress and culture.”
And yet, Lovecraft’s work made a substantial, undeniable mark on the field, and the literary techniques he invented, advanced and/or perfected are woven into our literature. Rather than deny this influence, some of the field’s best writers have sought to redeem it, wresting Lovecraftian techniques from Lovecraftian ideology.
Ruff is part of that tradition, but by no means all of it. 2019 saw the publication of NK Jemisin’s stunning The City We Became, an anti-racist Lovecraftian tale in which New York City’s glorious riot of race, color, language and viewpoint is set to be devoured by a conservatisizing, homogenizing eldritch power from another universe:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the-old-crow-is-getting-slow/#i-love-ny
Exicitingly, City We Became now has a sequel, The World We Make, which has gotten rave reviews:
https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/n-k-jemisin/the-world-we-make/9780316509893/
The literature of anti-racist, anti-fascist Lovecraftian horror is a broad and exciting one, including RPGs:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1122788890/lovecraftesque/description
And David Nickle’s essential duology, Eutopia (2011):
https://boingboing.net/2015/03/10/eutopia-horror-novel-about-lo.html
and Volk (2017):
https://memex.craphound.com/2017/10/11/volk-a-sinister-lovecraftian-tale-of-eugenics-naziism-and-radiant-abomination/
Nickle has written well and extensively about Lovecraftian horror and race:
http://davidnickle.ca/dont-mention-the-war-some-thoughts-on-h-p-lovecraft-and-race/
And the last word on Lovecraft scholarship is certainly Les Klinger’s The New, Annotated HP Lovecraft (2014)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9780871404534
Attentive readers will recall that Klinger is the Sherlockian attorney who successfully defeated the Doyle estate’s copyfraud claims that the Sherlock Holmes stories were still in copyright:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/#oy-canada
The benefits from the works of Doyle, Lovecraft, and all other authors eventually return to the public domain is neatly illustrated in this new Lovecraftian creativity. If Lovecraft had to stand alone, uninterpreted and unrebutted, we would lose his brilliance along with his wickedness. But because Lovecraft now belongs to all of us, he can be reworked, challenged, argued over, problematized, and preserved, even if he can never be redeemed.
[Image ID: The cover of Matt Ruff's 'Destroyer of Worlds.']
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Writeblr and Whumpblr Intro
Hi everybody! I’m MK, he/they, and I don’t want to share exactly how old I am but I’m over 20.
I write work that teeters on the edge between classic fiction and straight-up whump, generally fantasy with a bit of sci-fi. I write a mixture of original work and fanfiction, mostly for Magic: the Gathering. If I get the courage, I might eventually post my finished fanfiction work on AO3, but I’m a bit shy of that right now.
I tend to write work that isn’t appropriate for younger people (minors please block the “18+ content” tag), and often discusses and shows abuse, both physical, emotional, and sexual. There are frequent depictions of trauma and mental illness. Please avoid my work or ask me clarifying questions if you want to avoid any of that.
Please feel free to message me and talk about my work, I love to talk about it! Or feel free to tag me in games - I’m a bit shy but I’m working on getting comfortable replying.
WIPs:
The Seven Station Chronicles:
Early writing phase, my main active WIP. Original fiction, space fantasy. Tells the story of a young woman coming into her own and learning to navigate the complex political landscape of the isolated group of space stations she lives on, with the reluctant aid of her unwilling bodyguard who has her own secrets, and all the complicated people they meet along the way. Four books planned. Full intro post is here.
To Kill a Dead Thing:
Early writing phase, mostly on hiatus. MTG fanfic. Loosely a sequel to my finished fic, but you can read one without the other. Tells the story of an elvish parole officer at the end of her tether with a mysterious figure that seems determined to break her to pieces, her human friend desperate to help and hold her falling-apart office together while she’s at it, and the chaotic people they meet along the way.
The Pirates’ Roost:
Told in a periodically-written series of nonlinear short stories. MTG fanfic, mostly unrelated to the others. Tells the story of a group of abused pirates escaping their abusers and recovering from trauma, primarily through the story of a young man’s ascent from the groomed plaything of a violent captain to the captain of the most successful ship on the sea. Intro post for the series is here, the wiki is here, and the story archive is here.
Finished work:
The Breaking of Kelsey Karlov:
Finished, needs minor editing. MTG fanfic. Tells the story of a human noble turned into a vampire by a violent vampire pontiff and their attempts to escape him while he pulls them ever deeper into his web.
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ironchef13 · 7 months
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Ultimate Spider-Man Meets Spider-Boy (A Spiderverse story idea)
-This idea involves Miles Morales discovering a Spider-anomaly (like himself) and becoming a mentor/big brother figure to said anomaly.-
I discovered the existence of Bailey Briggs (aka Spider-Boy), while browsing the Spiderman wiki, and thought he would be a perfect character to be in the Spiderverse movies. Or at the very least be in a Spiderverse fanfiction. And according to his comic series Bailey is also technically an anomaly like Miles Morales is in Across the Spiderverse. So, it would only be natural for two anomalous spider kids to find kinship in each other. So, without further ado here is my Fanfic Idea.
It's been four months since Miles defeated spot, saved his dad and the multiverse, as well as helped reform the Spider society. things with Gwen and the others are still a little tense between them but their healing slowly. And since he revealed his identity to his parents it has made mile's job as spider-man a little easier. then one day miles gets a call from Miguel saying that an unknown anomaly has appeared in his universe and to be on the lookout. After a bit of web swinging around the city miles discovers that the "anomaly" in question is a young spider kid named Bailey Briggs. Bailey explains to miles that in his dimension he was the sidekick to the Spider-man of his earth, but because of a fight with a Mysterio variant with actual magic, no one, not even his Spider-man, remembers he exists. (Similar to Spider-man: No Way Home) afterwards Spider-boy fell through a weird hole (presumably the spots doing) he ends up on Earth 1610 and expresses no interest in going back since he has nothing to go back to. feeling sympathy for the kid (because he is an anomaly as well) Miles decides to take the kid under his wing and act as a sort of mentor/big brother figure to bailey. Now the question remains is how long can Miles keep his new sidekick a secret from the rest of the Spider Society?
-to be clear Miles is trying to keep Bailey's existence a secret from the Spider Society out of fear for what they would do to him. Considering he was chased all over Nueva York for being an anomaly himself. Because of this Miles is able to work with the Society, but still doesn't quite trust them yet, not ever Gwen and Peter B. I mean he wants to trust them, but he is just afraid to. -Bailey would also have trouble opening up to others considering the last time he did everyone he knew forgot his existence and wasn't able to get those connections back because they thought he was crazy. So, he would probably be afraid that if he opened up to someone again, he would immediately be forgotten. -And like Miles, Bailey has extra spider powers besides the basics. he has venomous fangs, extra eyes that can appear and disappear at will, and a more evolved spider sense.
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Spy's Spec-Bio Essentials
I honestly didn't mean to write a full-on essay, but I couldn't help myself -I love specbio, and the recent revival of interest in it makes me very happy. If you wanna just get right to the meat: normal links are highlighted blue, YouTube links are highlighted red.
Speculative biology has its roots as far back as Pliny the Elder and his Natural History, though most consider H.G. Wells to be the true grandfather of the genre with works such as War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, and Man of the Year Million. However, any speculative biologist worth their salt credits Dougal Dixon as the father of specbio as we know it today –especially since he is the man who coined the term! Dixon's books After Man, Man After Man, and The New Dinosaurs are considered the foundational works of modern specbio. So too is Wayne Barlowe's book Expedition.
While the original printings of these books are very expensive to acquire, After Man recently received a Kindle version, and Expedition has a very good documentary adaptation available in totality on YouTube. Another important work of early speculative biology was the Discovery Channel limited series The Future Is Wild, a documentary show exploring the possible futures of life on Earth in several million years' time.
With the rise of the internet, people interested in speculative biology –those few and far between– could share their thoughts and amateur works with each other. Online specbio hit its first height around the mid-aughts to early tens, featuring many notable works that were very influential to me personally when I joined the scene circa 2014. Unfortunately, right around when I joined there was a notable "mass extinction" –many of the more active and prominent figures of the specbio community left the web behind for various reasons, and thus the golden age ended.
In recent years, partially thanks to certain YouTube video essays on the classic projects, interest in speculative biology seems to have increased dramatically! I've taken to calling the current era the "specbio renaissance," and it makes me so happy to see new, younger people interested in this unique facet of creativity. In light of this I've created this master post of my personal recommendations of essential specbio works for new "speccers" to enjoy!
The specbio community has congregated on forums for decades. I personally joined the community via DeviantArt right around when the old ZetaBoards forum underwent a massive host shift and never participated on the forum all that much, but fortunately the old Speculative Evolution Forum is still up and still active!
For those who'd prefer a simpler way to keep up with current events in the specbio community, Astrovitae is a free e-magazine dedicated to contemporary spec. A product of the recent specbio renaissance, Astrovitae only has a handful of issues thus far but is already becoming a staple publication in the field.
I made this post to provide what I think is key information and important resources, but the SpecBio Wiki is a far more thorough companion to your journey into the world of speculative biology. As always, though: beware ye old Wiki Rabbit Hole!
Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres video series is an excellent entry point for anyone looking to learn the basics of specbio. It's a demo xenobiology project, with a heavy focus on the scientific concepts used in building up the world and its ecology.
Curious Archive's Alien Worlds video series is an excellent collection of bite-size examinations of various specbio projects, including several on this list!
Nemo Ramjet (C. M. Kösemen)'s Life on Snaiad is universally considered a classic work of speculative biology, started in the early days of the golden age of internet specbio. Snaiad is an alien planet, in its early days of human habitation, filled with strange lifeforms bearing two "heads."
Kösemen's other well-known classic work is Alltomorrows, a short ebook exploring hundreds of millions of years' worth of possible human evolution. Readers, be advised: this work contains extensive body horror and discussion of human extinction, both circumstantial and deliberate.
Sagan IV, originally created by Hydromancerx, is one of the oldest and most extensive specbio projects. Started as a simple artistic exercise on a forum in 2006, Sagan IV has evolved into a large, highly collaborative vision of an alien world inspired by the works of Carl Sagan. It is still ongoing today, and you can participate in their regular contests and activities!
Gert van Dijk's Furaha is another of the well-known classic specbio projects, and one of the few from the golden age that is still fully active. Furaha itself is an alien world orbiting Nu Phoenicis which harbors a fascinating native biosphere, built upon carefully-researched biomechanics. The site itself is laid out much like an encyclopedia, and the accompanying blog is a treasure trove of specbio know-how and community history!
Sunrise on Ilion, a xenobiology project by @supermalmoworld, is a personal favorite of mine. Ilion is a planet tidally locked to a red dwarf star, and its endemic lifeforms often challenge our expectations for Earth-like ecology. The website boasts extremely detailed information on the setting and its inhabitants, as well as in-universe articles and logs of the various human expeditions to this fascinating world. The project is still active on a very sporadic basis, at least as per blog entries.
Nereus is a xenobiology project created by Evan Black; another reasonably well-known golden age work but one that is unfortunately no longer active. The world of Nereus, orbiting the star Achird, teems with life unfamiliar to the humans which seek to adopt it as their home. Like many specbio projects it adopts a documentarian style, but there are plenty of nuggets of story tucked in the articles.
Serina is a contemporary speculative evolution project created by the legendary Sheather; it is what I would consider the holotype of the "seed-world" branch of specbio. Serina is a planet populated only by the descendants of the domestic canary (and a few other organisms like guppies, snails, ants, sunflowers, bamboo, algae, etc). The project digs deeply into the various unique niches of the world and the organisms that evolve to fill them, and in doing so mixes nature-documentarian style with some of the most compelling and emotionally engaging storytelling I have read in years.
These are just what I think are the essentials. There are numerous other fantastic projects, both contemporary and from years ago, that I would highly suggest investigating! Contemporary honorable mentions that personally inspire me include @alexriesart's birrin, @iguanodont's birgs, @jayrockin's Runaway to the Stars, Christian Cline's Teeming Universe, Keenan Taylor's Kaimere, and my friend Mičkin's Temere!
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So I have not the first idea what critical thingy-bob is but I've just reread all your Witcher fics and it's not enough so clearly I'm going to have to follow you into a new fandom. Is there a primer? How much do I need to know? Is it like OG Bandom where a hundred fics in I'm still not sure how many bands there are? Or Teen wolf where I couldn't quite face the source material at all but feel like I have a handle on the whole set up?
:deep breath:
Okay, so! Critical Role is a long-running Actual Play show on Twitch/YouTube--each episode is three to five hours of watching a group of voice actors sit around a table and play Dungeons & Dragons. All of their main D&D campaigns take place in the world of Exandria which they have created for these games, and as the campaigns go on they connect to each other in various ways, so it does all become one vast interconnected story. Critical Role has a good wiki that gives overviews of all of this stuff and links to videos, but just so you know where to start looking and how it all relates...
Their first campaign began as the home game this group of friends played in their spare time for a couple of years before they turned it into a Web Series (largely, they've all said, so that they'd have a reason to definitely get together and play every week). That first campaign, Vox Machina, is currently in the process of being adapted into an animated series, with two seasons available on Amazon Prime: The Legend of Vox Machina.
Currently, Critical Role is running its third main campaign, Bells Hells, which started in the fall of 2021 and shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
The second campaign, which began in 2018 and ended in the summer of 2021, although there continue to be shorter bonus episodes, is the one my currently-posting sex pollen fic is about, and it's called The Mighty Nein. My fic is set fairly early on in the run, and this is the official artwork of the main characters at that time:
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Left to Right: Mollymauk Tealeaf, Beauregard Lionett, Fjord Stone, Frumpkin the Fey Cat Familiar, Caleb Widogast, Nott the Brave, Jester Lavorre, and Yasha Nydoorin.
The entire run of The Mighty Nein's campaign comprises 600+ hours of videos (also available in podcast form) but if you want a quicker route to getting an idea of the story of it all, you can read the recaps or for the even shorter short version, watch the animated recaps which compress the whole story into about an hour of cute animatics voiced by Critical Role's official Lorekeeper, Dani Carr.
I hope this helps!
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What we Know about Jane part 1;
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Possible debate team member.
Acapella member.
Former mascot.
Cheerleader.
Thinks Lonnie wouldn't hurt a fly.
Thinks Doug is a very talented musician and that working in the mines sounds dirty.
Thinks Leadership is a lot of pressure.
Thinks Carlos is great at Tourney.
It is implied she had a crush on him in d1 according to the books.
Thought the vks deserved a chance in the school of secrets web series, where she can be seen arguing/debating with a girl about it. Which also shows that she can be sassy when she wants to be.
Gets tongue tied easily but eventually gets more confident thanks to the vkw influence.
After the vks showed up, she started to learn how to balance the rules with a dose of reality.
Really wishes someone would take her on a romantic date to the enchanted lake.
She wishes she was more artistic like Mal.
She has good hand writing.
She longs to be able to use her magic instead of just studying it, despite what her mom wants.
Things weren't easy for her growing up due to being Fg (the headmistress)'s daughter, because people always expected her to be good and avoided her at the same time.
She can be very insecure at time.
She once said "Magic is niether good nor evil-- it's all about who's using it."
Her mom taught her that love's a pretty big component in lifting enchantments.
Jane is too shy to ask a boy to dance.
She was shocked to find out Carlos was afraid of dogs but said it made sense after Ben reminded her who's kid he was.
She says 'Bibbidi-Bibbidi mom!' Whatever that means.
Her biggest wish was for people to accept her because she was never "the pretty girl" like Lonnie and Audrey (her words. Not mine. She was always adorable to me).
She has a necklace with her and Carlos's ship name on it (Janlos, I think).
Not use to having friends-- so much so that she thanked the others for being there for her.
She got grounded BIG TIME after Ben's coronation but everyone was pretty cool about it. Even though she was very embarrassed by her behavior.
Finds using magic exhilarating though learned it required alot of concentration after using it for the first time.
Thinks the vks are the best things to happen to Auardon Prep.
Had Mermaid Studies (I think that's the name for the class) with Lonnie and Audrey.
Audrey considered her a friend and felt very betrayed after she became friends with the vk.
Wanted to hang out with all the vks and main aks at the end of the d1 school year.
Might like Fairy Bubble Gum.
Would never turn mice into horses because she feels bad for them.
Likes black licorice over red.
Her biggest pet peeves are being ignored and bad hair days.
Was voted most likely to go on a first date.
Didn't invite Audrey to her birthday party in d1.
She, Ben, Chad, Audrey, and Lonnie all use to eat dinner together evrry night at the same table in the cafeteria before the vks showed up.
Audrey considers her, her ex bestfriend (surprisingly).
Carlos liked her with short hair.
All this info came from The books and wiki. If you want a part 2, let me know and I'll dig up as much info as I can.
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I don't know what book you're talking about with a magical rock and a talking ferret but I am HERE for it whatever it is!
Okay it was REALLY bothering me so I googled it! It was called Avalon: Web of Magic. It looks like it's gotten updated cover art since I was in elementary school, but I remember being in 2nd grade and going to a book fair and seeing this on one of the tables and being enamoured with it:
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I guess it also got a graphic novel spinoff at some point? And as recently as 2020 there were plans to make it into an animated series? I'm amazed by that fact. It was definitely a product of it's time (2001) and there was a whole mish-mash of magical tropes, but it was the first fantasy book series I had ever read (also I think the first book with human main characters...) and 7-8 year old me loved it.
The character I was talking about was named Emily (she's the redhead in this picture) and she was kind of the "healer" of the group? Every character had different kind of magical links with different individual animals, and I guess according to the Wiki she didn't ~technically~ have a bonded animal like the other two, but she had a bond with a unicorn and the aforementioned ferret, Ozzie (Ozymandias) who was actually a warlock that had been transformed into a ferret. I think her magical stone started as an aventurine. Anyway I don't know why but she popped into my mind when I was looking at that reblog meme so it must have been some sort of repressed memory lol.
I remember really liking another of the three, Adrian, who was goth and had a cats eye stone and most of her animal familiars ended up being wolves. I remember being very disappointed for some reason when she got a fantasy boyfriend.
I'm shocked I can still remember all of the main characters' names.
Anyway this is one of those things that I feel probably explains a lot about me as a person.
As a bonus, here's are some 's one of the updated cover art (looking at the old ones.. the update was probably a good choice lol)
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Pinky dinky doo review
hoi, it’s Abby, and this post is gonna be the start of wut I call “nostalgic reviews,” where I review a random show from ur or my, childhood! as the title of this post states, today, I’m reviewing on Jim jinkins’s (creator of Doug, pb&j otter, Allegra’s window, the Christian dvd series hoop dogz, Stanley, jojo’s circus and the unaired mature espn cartoon Hoyt and Andy’s sportsbender) pinky dinky doo.
“What’s pinky dinky doo?”
Originally starting as bedtime stories for Jim’s daughter, pinky dinky doo was greenlit for 2 11 minute web-only pilots, which are now lost media. (Hey lsupersonicq, lost media wiki, can we get this found?) and a series of books, which were soon greenlit for a full 22 minute cartoon on noggin, (now known as nick jr.) it also aired on discovery kids in Latin America and on cbc kids in Canada.
Format of the show
After the (very very catchy) theme song, the show opens up with Tyler (pinky’s younger brother) having a problem, or a small issue (lik his halloween costume not being scary or him unable to find his shoes,) pinky, overhears and comes up with a story idea, which leads to….The storybox song! (Which is very very catchy.) pinky, tyler and mr guinea pig dance their way to the story box, a small cardboard box, and in which, with a piece of chalk, pinky tells her story, which is related to the problem tyler’s facing, (lik in the first episode, pinky is unable to find her shoes. And has to use baloney as shoes…until she finds out everyone in her school can’t find their shoes either.) with pinky saying “now that’s something you don’t see everyday.” When something silly/weird happens, these stories involve a “great big fancy word” (mr guinea pig blows a trumpet whenever the word is about to be mentioned.) which is a word used in the story, (lik masterpiece or celebration) pinky, near the end, has to figure the problem out by thinking big…literally. Her head grows just lik a balloon. And it deflates when she comes up with a idea. This also comes with a song. At the end, pinky solves the issue in a unique and creative way, (lik in one episode, pinky’s classmates get their costumes ruined, but pinky comes up with the idea to combine their costumes into a caterpillar, or a “kid-erpillar” as she calls it.) and the story ends. Tyler solves his issue, but then the cheese sandwich console plays it’s jingle, signaling game time. “Cheese please!” These segments are interactive, having the viewer either call out the right choice, or saying the great big fancy word if they see a picture releated to the word, at the end. Pinky says “I love making up stories. I’ll bet you can make up a story, too!” And the episode ends. Cue the credits!
Mc’s:
Pinky dinky doo: the main character, pinky’s 7 years old and is very creative and energetic, almost feeling just lik a precure leader,
Tyler dinky doo: pinky’s younger 4 year old brother. slightly more anxious than pinky, but still loving her stories, asks before the story box song starts “Pinky, are you gonna make up a story?” And pinky responding with “yes-arooney postioony!”
mr Guinea pig: a Guinea pig, in pinky’s stories he’s actually quite smart, as he can play the guitar and has a pretty fancy cage, in one of the stories in the episodes, after pinky forgets to feed him, he runs away, but comes back at the end.
Pinky’s friends
In pinky’s stories, her friends usually show up. These include…
Bobby boom: A disabled (wheelchair rider, disabled rep, yey!) African-American boy who is the smartest, but kindest of pinky’s friends. In the story seen in the episode “boom! sonic boom!” Bobby is actually a superhero, being boom sonic boom, the fastest wheelchair user in this show’s universe.
Daffinee toilette: (yee that’s her real name, I wonder how she feels bout her last name….) daffinee is the most vain and snarky out of pinky’s friend group. being rich, as she has a butler, jinkins (named after Jim jinkins himself,) but she does have a kind heart, as she cares for pinky, in the story as seen in the episode “I want that!” Daffinee instantly calls for pinky when she can’t find her new doll, Spendy wendy, and in the story in the episode “pinky’s great big concert” she accidentally gets her hair stuck into a tuba shape, and pinky discovers that her hair does work lik a real tuba, allowing pinky to have a instrument for the concert, (I hc her dating pinky in the future.)
Nicholas biscuit: The class clown out of pinky’s friends. Nicholas is pinky’s best friend. He aspires to be a magician, calling himself ”the great biscotti” as seen in the first episode, he owns a skateboard. there’s not a lot to say bout him as he doesn’t rlly have a lot of spotlight episodes.
side characters:
grandma dinky doo: being mentioned in the episode “pinky dinky doo and the outer space fluffy buns.” As the creator of the fluffy buns, muffin/cupcake lik snacks. She makes her first offical appearance in season 2, which I mention below,
Daddy dinky doo: pinky and tyler’s dad, in the official website it’s mentioned that he’s a writer, although we never see him do any writing. mommy dinky doo: pinky and tyler’s mom. Not alot to say on her, as much lik Nicholas, she doesn’t have any spotlight episodes,
Episodes that changed the formula:
there’s actually quite a few episodes that had different characters use the think big ability, lik “shrinky pinky”, which had mr guinea pig think big, or “Tyler to the rescue” where Tyler has to rescue pinky from a gorilla, and had use the think big ability.
pinky doesn’t lik pink:
Pinky, despite her name being pinky, her hair being pink, doesn’t lik pink, this is a running gag, it’s talked bout in the episode “pinky and the pink phenomenon.” As there’s a flamingo (also named pinky) who colors everything he finds pink, annoying pinky, this is also why in “Tyler to the rescue” the gorilla kidnaps pinky, because she liked pinky’s hair.
Season 2’s great big fancy changes:
season two is a big season for the show, as the show actually switched animation/art styles. Going from flash animation to a psudo 2d/cgi animation, done by keyframe digital (which would later animate the universal kids/cbc kids show Ollie the boy who became what he ate, which I hc takes place in the same world due to having a similar art style,) some voice actors (Tyler, daffinee and mr guinea pig) got their voices replaced (pinky’s stayed, although she now sounds much older.) we also got a backstory episode for pinky. “Pinky thinky doo.” In it, pinky’s grandma is the one who taught a younger pinky how to think big, and in “Tyler’s story box disaster” tyler accidentally breaks the story box, causing pinky to use the story pad to write the story. It later reappears in “are you my mummy?” As the pre-story for the episode takes place in a store, special mention for the episode “big brain block!” Where pinky experiences the worst thing a writer can deal with….writers block. And tyler has to write the story.
That’s exactly what happened…pretty much. The end:
As they say, all good things, must come to a end, and on January 9th, 2010. The show did, ending with the episodes “pinky’s silliest story” (putting scenes from the intro in a episode) and “Tyler’s big idea.” (Pinky, bobby and tyler explore tyler’s brain to awaken his imagination.) Both giving the show a good farewell, The show actually has quite a few pieces of merchandise. Gund made plushies and picture frames. And there’s a dvd release of the episode “polka dot pox” that has become quite rare and expensive online, as for modern watchability…the show used to be on Netflix, and on hbo family and hbo max until 2021, (zaslav…) when it got removed. The show also had a few flash games, “eat it or wear it,” where you have to put stuff in a eat it pile, or a wear it pile, and “the great big fancy word game” where you have to watch a clip and choose what great big fancy word the clip is referring to,
Lost dubs:
there was in fact, a Japanese dub of this show, which it is now lost media, having aired on Cartoon Network japan’s preschool block, Pipora pepora. Only a episode list of season 1 and the names of some of the voice actors remain. There was also a British English dub, airing on cbeebies in the uk, which has also become lost media,
if you have any memories of this show. Feel free to discuss it.
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spiritmander13 · 5 months
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Candle on the Sexypedia? I can get.
But Candle is on the Villain's Wiki.
...
Okay?
Let me read out her introduction paragraph.
"Candle is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Silver Spoon) of the animated web series Inanimate Insanity Invitational, the third season of Inanimate Insanity."
I would argue that she's not really a 'main antagonist'. Antagonist is one way to describe her. While, sure, Episode 13 made her seem like an antagonist, she's not really a main antagonist.
For antagonists, you have to find where their evil started. Some skip over this and say 'they were born to be evil' (looking at you, Tigerclaw, my least favorite Warrior Cat). And the reason behind her 'evilness' is... questionable.
I argue that people started realizing that Candle is a 'villain' in Episode 11.
Right before Episode 11's intro, Candle gets a vision of her possible demise. Betrayal is upon her. And throughout the episode, she is constantly pushed away by everyone, until before the elimination. So when Candle realizes who's going to betray her, she strikes.
I can say that this scene is, if not, one of the best in Season 3. It's like she realizes that... Silver's right, in that one little freeze-up, while Silver says the line "They've clearly outgrown you." She has to stop relying on people and conversing the peace and instead focus on herself, like she hasn't been doing for the past (almost) 11 Episodes.
Silver as a villain. I can see it. He is kind of a main antagonist, but not like Taco who stayed silly until the end in Season 1. He's just straight-up 'it'll be mine and you can't stop it', which I don't think is true after the Silvercandle arc concluded in Episode 15.
But Candle? She realized that she had to stand up and help HERSELF and not others in order to not be eliminated. If she didn't realize this before the votes were cast, then she would be LONG-GONE. I argue that she's not a villain because of it. It was her decision, and in her eyes, it was the right thing to do.
Latching onto alliances, working with Silver to overthrow their biggest rivals, and shattering the developing friendship of Balloon and Nickel? Yeah, call her a villain! But if y'all ever say her betraying her alliance makes her a villain, then I'm sorry, you are wrong, and I stand by that claim.
TL;DR: Candle is NOT a villain because she betrayed the Thinkers in Episode 11. She IS a villain because she worked with the other antagonist among them to latch, overthrow, and shatter many things.
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THIS JUST IN: Nickelodeon Animation Studio axes out for Glitch Techs after Season 3 [#RadyoBanderaEXCLUSIVE]
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA -- A televised streaming web series of Glitch Techs was reportedly axed out and later shelved for a final 3rd season in a first week of September 2022.
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In a deleted tweet from an individual show creator named Dan Milano, both animation studios between Nickelodeon and Netflix loses its interest for a cartoon show, which is due to Standard and Practices issue per Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and for retrenchments of animation employees: "I'm afraid Nickelodeon has no interest in continuing the series".
Eric Robles publicly releases a never-before-seen single end page in magazine issue of "Glitch Techs Manual" where the Season 3 is currently in production and in pending for an episode release. Unreleased images and a storyboard video with a following in-development titles: "Return to Castlestein", "BITT 2", "Tower Defense" and "Mobs and Minions".
A source told exclusively to Radyo Bandera as based from a deleted Twitter post and a magazine issue, the final 3rd season becomes a digital lost media, which may lead into a serious issue per targeted demographic audience and partially inappropriate for kids on Netflix. The animation industry is in severe crisis in all of the indie cartoon show as of this writing.
Paramount Plus opens its pitching doors to renew the said production of Season 3 where the netizens are petitioning to save the show or losing to defeat its attention. ABS-CBN Corporation possibly co-produce a cartoon show as integrated with Netflix and Nickelodeon Asia under a content license agreement if A2Z and/or Kapamilya Channel will carry its rotation for a new episodes despite for a congressional franchise shutdown nationwide.
Streaming fans have suddenly worried for a cancellation at the end of Season 3 as the news broke on social media. Gamer duos of Hinobi Technology are in full support in Bailley City from its own indie cartoon show on Nickelodeon.
Both seasons 1 & 2 are now still available thru Netflix and for televised syndication as per one example of Kanade TV (which was now defunct in November 2021). Nickelodeon will not air on Cable Television in the United States of America (U.S.A.) with a respect of its streaming companies of Paramount Plus and Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
The final 3rd Season will soon slated in a few years from now, only on Netflix.
PHOTO COURTESY for REPRESENTATION: @LegitEricRobles via Twitter PHOTO BACKGROUND PROVIDED BY: Tegna
SOURCE: *https://twitter.com/x_zenkai/status/1567552806369755137 *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_Standards_and_Practices *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1348458524443987968 [GTM - pages 1-4] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1348843681625776131 [GTM - pages 5-10] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1349182580294262785 [GTM - pages 11-16] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1349497355469352962 [GTM - pages 17-22] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1349935277322616832 [GTM - pages 23-28] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1350271864732409859 [GTM - pages 29-34] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1350663743101833218 [GTM - pages 35-40] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1351002502565650440 [GTM - pages 41-46] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1351374755274756096 [GTM - pages 47-52] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1351724215406235648 [GTM - pages 53-60] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1352800334142263296 [GTM - pages 61-68] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1353175014594334721 [GTM - pages 69-76] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1353539748594413571 [GTM - pages 77-82] *https://twitter.com/LegitEricRobles/status/1353544657423110145 [GTM - page 83 final) *https://www.change.org/p/nickelodeon-have-nick-take-back-glitch-techs-from-netflix-and-have-paramount-renew-production [Page Referenced from Change.org] *https://glitchtechs.fandom.com/wiki/Mobs_and_Minions *https://www.facebook.com/110518343876402/posts/2794840110731991 [Glitch Techs - Unreleased S3 Storyboard Animation] *https://trademarks.justia.com/887/91/nickelodeon-glitch-88791589.html *https://trademarks.justia.com/871/30/glitch-87130708.html *https://ui.eidr.org/view/content?id=10.5240/7DA6-D0E2-D59E-FB19-FF71-0 and *https://tvficticia.fandom.com/es/wiki/Kanade_TV
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the-spud-player · 2 years
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My mdzs oc:
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For this oc I've used the nie colours from the live action web series and the timeframe of the novel, since the timeframe of the animation is a little less clear cut, at least on the wiki. (I should clarify, paangoliin on twitter drew this for me as a commission, I'm just outlining the choices I made for my OC's design and background).
Nie Tianbao (courtesy name) he's 28 in the modern timeline. He participated in 1 battle towards the end of the sunshot campaign when he was around 14-15, (for a rule of thumb he's roughly the same age as mo xuanyu). His parents died in the sunshot campaign. He's the son of the cousin of nie mingjue/nie huisang's father, making them second cousins. His mother was a cultivator from the lan sect, she's the one that gave him his sanxian and taught him how to play. His teal sash on his belt is to remember her by.
After the seige of the burial mounds and studying in the cloud recess for half a year, he got into an argument with nie mingjue and left the clan (not long after jie mingjue succumbed to his qi deviation) becoming a rogue/wondering cultivator learning and developing other cultivation techniques and helping more people further away from the reach of the main cultivator clans, this is where he earned his title.
He's currently developing a way to use demonic cultivation on the spirits or undead corpses of beasts instead of humans, he's seen most success with using his sanxian (named jingxian). At the start of Wei wuxian's second life he's come back and nie mingjue has welcomed him as a guest cultivator of the clan for the time being.
He's quietly confident and a calming influence, is very relaxed when interacting with others, though he prides himself on his skill in battle, he's easily embarrassed when teased about his lack of skill with a bow, to make up for it, he uses his weighted chain for great effect. His birth name means crystal, and his courtesy name means maintain the peace, his title can be translated to the kind travelling dragon, a nod to his wondering nature to protect poor folk but his ferocity in fighting fierce corpses. His nandao's name means night mist, blazing Star is the name of his weighted chain and he named his sanxian peaceful chord. He always got along well with nie huisang, they often neglected training with their father and brother to practice the sanxian and practice art respectively. He also frankly, didn't understand the animosity of the cultivation world towards Wei wuxian since he was such a strong ally in the sunshot campaign, he never expressed it out loud however for fear or reproach by other cultivators, especially Jiang Cheng.
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how and when did you first get into homestar runner?
The first time I heard about it was Tv Tropes, a multi-media Wiki where Homestar Runner has a solid presence. Then my sibling started watching it and after that I just kinda went down the rabbit hole with it and I've been into it since.
As for when, had to of been late 2014 or so, I was starting to move on from marble hornets a bit after the series ended and I just needed a new web series to fill my mind I suppose.
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