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Mild drabble trying to flesh out ideas for my take on Neverland when I eventually get there plot wise haha

Basic gist: Smee plays reluctant doctor and voice of reason to a Lost Boy.

“Please Mr. Smee, I never ask for anything!” As much as the older man wanted to snark that there was a reason his home was not among his crew mates on the Jolly Roger, judging from the little boy's expression, his snark would be taken at face value and nothing would be done. Instead, he sighed softly and knelt down.

“Alright, let me take a look at her.” The Lost Boy carefully held up the bird, struggling to keep it together, as Smee checked over the animal. After a few moments, Smee let out a small sigh. “Now, I'm not exactly one for knowing all there is to know about birds, but she looks to just have had the wind knocked out of her. Once she has a few moments to recoup, she'll be alright,” The boy nodded quickly, holding the bird protectively. “Another one of your games go wrong?” 

“No Mr. Smee, Nibs and I were scouting when I spotted her not moving in the water and I had to help her! Nibs said he'd keep an eye out on things while I went to you for help…” Smee nodded slowly.

“I see…You do have a penchant for the birds here on the island…” The boy nodded, sitting next to the pirate, careful to not jostle the swan. 

“They like me quite a bit…” He agreed, though unsure. “I don't why…”

“Well, you're far calmer than any of the other boys when you're flying around.” Smee noted. “And that's when you're actually going through the shenanigans, Tootles,”

“I suppose you're right…I do quite miss a lot of the excitement, but that's ok!” The boy smiled brightly. “That just means everyone gets to tell me stories, just like Peter!” Smee nodded slowly.

“That's certainly a way to look at it.” He noted. “Stories are usually a delight after all,” 

“When are they not?”

“Ghost stories. Tragedies.” Tootles nodded slowly, though he clearly didn't have a clue. “I wouldn't worry about it; I doubt Peter knows what those mean anyways, and you know how he is about things he doesn't know.” Tootles nodded, his face falling.

“Yeah…” Smee studied the boy curiously.

“Did something happen recently?” Tootles looked away sheepishly, the swan leaning against the boy to try and comfort him as best she could. “Hey, if you want this to be a secret, it can be done; it's not like Peter would believe me…”

“I know, I know….” Tootles let out a sigh after a few moments. “I-I think I remembered seeing my father and someone my age with me…”

“A sibling perhaps?” The boy shrugged sheepishly. “Well, I can see why you don’t want Peter to know; he does not like the idea of fathers…”

“Yeah, and he seemed very nice!” Tootles exclaimed. “W-We were out near a lake and I-I don’t really remember a lot about what happened…” He trailed off, making sure the swan was alright, gently petting the feathers as the swan gave the pirate a look, as if to warn what saying the wrong thing would entail. Smee sighed softly.

“Well there’s nothing wrong with trying to remember, especially if it’s something nice,” 

“...but what if Peter finds out and gets mad?”

“Well, then I suppose you’ll be banished for sometime, at least until he forgets, cause he is rather forgetful.” Tootles didn’t look very convinced. “And in the meantime, the captain will find out and go ‘Such terrible form!’ and what not,” Tootles snickered at the impression of Captain Hook as Smee offered a smile. “And as it would proper form, you’d be allowed two nights on the ship, and then on the third, you’d be asked if you wanted to join the crew.”

“What if I don’t want to be a pirate?”

“Then the captain will be a tad dramatic about it, but it isn’t good form to try and force someone into piracy and the captain is always on about good form, so he’ll ask you what you want to do.” Tootles made a face, clearly thinking.

“But he’s going to want to kill Peter…”

“He can put a pin in it for a moment or two.” Smee leaned in slightly. “He’s a particular individual, and he can’t handle not doing things by proper form, so he can pause on finishing off Peter.” Smee was paused for a moment. “And he knows that he’s got to set an example for the crew or else he’ll never hear the end of it.” Tootles was quiet for a few moments before nodding slowly.

“I guess you’re right…” The swan made a small sound and shimmied itself out of the boy’s arms, shaking out her wings. “Oh! She’s ok! She’s ok!” Smee couldn’t help but smile at the scene as Tootles jumped to his feet, leaping in excitement at the situation. “Thank you, Mr. Smee! Thank you!” Before the man could respond back, the boy and the swan flew off, clearly wanting to go find Nibs and the others, leaving Smee to himself. The man chuckled softly, watching the boy leave before pushing himself up to his feet, making note of the owl that had been observing them the entire time before making his way back to his houseboat.

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Unused animations for Epic Mickey found

Cringe fail brothers

WE COULDVE GOT 3D BIG BAD WOLF?!?!?!

(When I catch you Disney...)

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I MADE THESE BC IM OBSESSED WITH EPIC

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What are your Bendy themed hot takes?

I don't know if I'd call them "Hot Takes" so much as "relatively lukewarm depending on how long the sun was on them" but here there they be:

I think Sean Crisden's Voice as the Ink Demon in BATDR doesn't match the character in game. I think his voice is perfect for the Ink Demon, but the Demon's appearance isn't scary. For me BATDR Ink Demon fails at being scary, just startling when you're jumpscared, especially at the end when he's supposedly "talking" to Audrey or doing any animation.

Most of the plot hole problems of BATDR has (The other Ink children that exist; Bendy's fate at the end of the game; etc) Could've easily been solved by replacing the audio logs that barely touch on GENT or random employees with actually important information. (Joey talking about the ink child not surviving long in the real world until Audrey; someone mentioning that the Ink Demon is corrupted in the normal form we see them because Joey didn't have the right heart making him at the time, etc)

I would have less of a problem with Chapter 5 of BATIM had Mike and Meatly not be so adamant (and still be adamant) that they had the story all planned out from the beginning.

Andre and Jane would have been better off as Audrey’s coworkers and shown to have been victims of Wilson’s experiments/potential allies for Audrey and encourage player choice than what we got.

The only reason to me Audrey is a girl is because if she was a boy, it would've been too obvious which Bioshock BATDR took from.

Memory Joey/Joey's "redemption" only exists because of it being a way to discredit people who have compared Mike to Joey (And Meatly to Henry) and not because it makes narrative sense.

Henry being an Ink Clone in BATDR is the most boringly stupid plot twists I've encountered and takes away what little horror there was in BATIM post chapter 5.

GENT Corporation isn't scary in the slightest.

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I saw Beetlejuice 2 yesterday.

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A toony little guy who belongs to @pastraspec

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Various doodles over the past few months, involving some character designing, fan stuff, fighting the plot bunny, and various doodles of @inkabelledesigns and @noovamulticolors's characters and the RPs we've been doing lol.

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researching 17th century piracy tonight. came across this:

One popular pastime amongst pirates was the mock trial.  Each man played a part be it jailer, lawyer, judge, juror, or hangman.  This sham court arrested, tried, convicted, and “carried out” the sentence to the amusement of all. (x)

how widespread could this have really been? how would it have gotten passed from ship to ship? can you imagine a pirate crew at a tavern, bragging to another pirate crew about how good they are at playing pretend? why was their go-to game “legal system”? were they performing incisive satire? is this some sort of pirates-only inside joke that’s been lost to the ages?

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Since the whole thing with NaNoWriMo has gone down, I've noticed that one of their former sponsors, Ellipsus, has cut contact with NaNoWriMo because they do not support their stance on AI; I didn't know what Ellipsus was, but upon further research I've found that they are a writing platform that works a lot like Google Docs and Microsoft Word, only with a heavier leaning on the story-writing aspect and connecting with other writers - and they also completely denounce any use of AI, both in the writing process itself and in the use of their platform. I really appreciate that.

Since this is the case (and since I've noticed Google has begun implementing more AI into their software), I've decided to give Ellipsus a try to see if it's a good alternative to Google Docs (my main writing platform). It's completely free and so far, I've found it simple to use (although it is pretty minimal in its features), and I really like the look of it.

I figured I'd spread the word about this platform in case any of you writers would want to give it a try, and if you do, let me know how you like it!

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On Wednesdays, We Work at GENT.

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As I grow older I feel my capacity to understand that Miss Piggy is not a real person reached a peak in my adolescence and is now on a steady decline. I watched a Wendy Williams interview and there's this part that's like "can we get a ring cam!" and Miss Piggy shows her bling and I'm just like fuck she's so iconic. Miss Piggy who are you wearing? Miss Piggy have you ever considered running for office??

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"Black cat bring good luck, not bad luck!

I have black cat- see, him face- and I am not dead today!

Good luck!"

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Going to piggyback off of this, and bring up that this is just one of the many issues and strangeness with Secrets of the Machine as a whole that makes me question Why does this game exist?

Sure, it was released for 4/14, but the dev team have never acknowledged the game, and they went ahead and shared the teasers inside after the fact anyway. And one could make the argument that we already knew all this stuff was coming anyway; We had the Silent City video leak with Meatly admitting they've got many projects going on, BATDR ends on sequel bait, Mike always talking about "updating" their previous works. We didn't need another game that barely has gameplay elements. (You can only die by attempting to replay Riley's "story" more than once, hitting cutouts, or pausing the damn game)

Steam has a $100 fee for uploading any game on the platform (free or not) that's not-refundable. Gamejolt and itch.io are both free and have been used in the past to give "playable teasers", especially those that are short and free. Hell, FNAF has Scottgames.com and FNAFWorld.com as their teaser spots, and Poppy Playtime, along with other game devs, have done full scale ARGs to promote their own work so you don't even have to make a Playable Teaser if it wasn't in the cards. This game just seems like they wanted to do something for 4/14 despite never actually explaining why this number is important outside the amount of times Henry's looped which is a number I guess? and didn't want to just post on their socials, which seems like a waste of $100. I mean, the only thing I could think of is that they did this in order to get away with updating Boris and the Dark Survival so drastically or preparing for a similar song and dance for Secrets, but that doesn't feel like that would make sense for both the devs and Steam.

Did the ones who put in the warnings in the games no longer work at JDS or something? Cause Mike and Meatly are risking a pretty massive lawsuit if someone gets hurt either through this game or future games, and no, saying "this game is more mature" doesn't negate putting in proper tags and warnings, especially if you're going to not put in the story elements with any tact (*sarcastic cough cough* The Insanity Ending of BATDR; The secret message involving singing in BATM; I'd argure to an extent Riley; etc*sarcastic cough cough*)

I sincerely hope that Bendy: The Cage at the very least has the warnings in the Steam description, cause man, you can't continue to drop the ball this bad and expect people to stick around, especially when the competition isn't dropping the ball.

Hey, genuine question. Why does Bendy: Secrets of the Machine not have an epilepsy warning when it boots up? Like, the game starts with a literal lightning strike, and one of its funniest secrets is a rainbow rave with the characters dancing.

I've thought about this before, heck I've thought about it since launch. But I'm thinking about it again today because I accidentally opened up Showdown Bandit while messing with something on Steam. And that's when I learned that that game has an epilepsy warning on its first loading screen! I'd never seen it before, kinda like the design of this screen, it's interesting. So then I decided to check BATDR too, and sure enough, that game ALSO has an epilepsy warning. In multiple languages too! Granted, that comes after a logo with lightning flashes in it, so not exactly immediately helpful, probably should have come before that. But still, something is a little better than nothing.

So like, the devs clearly know to put one in there for full releases. So why shouldn't the interactive teaser have it too? Like, just because it's an interactive teaser rather than a big game doesn't mean Bendy fans with epilepsy or other conditions are at any less risk. There should be a warning in the steam description and as the game boots up.

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Hate AI, but love writing contests?

Want to take part in a global, fun project to write a Novella in one month?

Grab some friends, and take part in Novella November, by writing 1,000 words a day for the month of November, ending with a 30,000 word Novella to test and stretch your novel-writing skills!

Your goal is not perfection, but merely getting into the habit of writing a litte bit every single day :D

No website, no sign-ups -- Just a community initiative to write using only your own word!

What are the rules? Just Three so far!

#1 - No AI

#2 - No Plagiarizing

#3 - Wordcount for the month should only come from what you write during the month.

What does that mean?

Only words written during November should go towards your Wordcount for the month... but! Feel free to use your 30k words as a continuation of previous writing, or just make it the first 30k words in a longer novel!

Don't think you can write a whole entire 30k word story? Write a series of short stories that total up to 30k!

Not ready to write original works yet? Write a 30k word fanfiction that you can post at the last day of the month!

Share your writing experience, tips, encouragement, and questions in the #Novella November tag!

EDIT 1, from the tags: Want a progress tracker? Track your progress with TrackBear!

https://trackbear.app/

Or, create some custom progress cards in advance you can fill out as you reach word goals!

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The gig economy is so hard when you're a brunette girl that's like 3 inches tall...