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Uhmmm possible tvbucket fic snippet???? We’ll see ig

“Charlie, I’m right here. I’m right in front of you. Time and time again, I keep trying to reach out and help but you just run away and act like nothing is happening.” Mike holds the notebook in his hand, the writing on the pages is clearly not his, too neat.

Charlie stays silent, he won’t respond, he won’t even try. He just looks away, trying so desperately not to look at the other for fear it might hurt him.

“I don’t want you to just live in radio silence. I want you to be okay, okay? I need you to talk to me- to Violet or Veruca, even! Just talk to us. Please.” He’s practically pleading, almost tearing up in such a non-typical-Mike way that Charlie almost wants to laugh.

Any other day this would be reversed, Charlie would be chiding the other about opening up and communicating clearly. instead of letting his anger bottle up and overflow. Any other day, Charlie would be sitting there ignoring his own hypocrisy.

“I’m sorry.” Is all he can mutter out. Because his emotions do not boil over, he doesn’t seeth or get angry. he lets the bottle fill up to the point where there’s cracks with water spilling out the sides. Charlie can’t respond with frustration because he’s not a frustrated person, he’s just sad. And he doesn’t really even know why.

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A text where the only important thing is in the last paragraph (this fantastic title has saved you 2 minutes of your life, if you decide to listen to it).

I've seen a few WWatCF fanfics where the setting of the tour is October 1, 1971 (YvaJ's or Softkitty55, for example, and I'm sure there are a few more I haven't read). Truth be told, I think the intention of this film was to be timeless, failing in the attempt thanks to a certain character that is impossible to make timeless.

Well, I've just come to the conclusion that the factory tour in WWatCF could not have happened in 1971.

Ah, why did I write this in the first place? I see it's the norm to set the stories in the year the adaptations are released, or to make a time jump from that year.

It's very simple to explain: according to the Golden Ticket, the date of the tour is October 1st. However, it couldn't have been in ‘71, because October 1st of that year was a Friday, and thanks to the percentages scene we know that the tour was on a Wednesday (thanks, Turkentine). I mean, I don't think there was a considerable time jump from that class to the coin scene just because and without warning, and Charlie hasn't changed clothes between scenes. I know this may all be far-fetched – Charlie must not have too many clothes and it may well have been 1970 (the year of filming), when the first of October fell on a Thursday. Regarding the next year, there is not too much distance between Tuesday and Friday.

I guess it depends on the individual, but personally, I think the percentages class and the finding of the fifth ticket happen on the same day. The finding of the fifth fake Paraguayan ticket must have happened the night before the percentages class, and I say that because, when Charlie goes to buy candy, Bill is just pulling out the bars he had hidden. If it had been more than two days, he would have got them all out by now, wouldn't he? ('Now that all the tickets have been found, I don't have to hide them anymore.')

So, even though I've gone back to the beginning and written all this in vain, assuming this is accurate, I think any year between 1960 and 1975 whose first of October falls on a Wednesday is fine.

P.S. If I am honest, I have lost the thread of what I have been writing for a long time. I may have been wrong about something anyway. I haven't seen the movie in about 2 months, but I seem to remember there were some Wonka Fudge Mallows (I hope I remember it right) in the background after the coin scene. But how do you get a rectangular ticket into that packaging?

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when willy wonka & the chocolate factory was released, it was criticized for being different from the original source and people hated it

when charlie & the chocolate factory was released, people called it "unnecessary" and hated it and suddenly started liking willy wonka

when wonka was released, people said it "didn't work" and hated it and suddenly started liking charlie

the circle of life.

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It makes me laugh to think how the two CatCF books take place practically in a single day (from the tour onwards). That's two nights that Charlie goes past his bedtime!

Of course (on that last point), unless the tour had lasted a mere hour or so. What a rip-off, Wonka.

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Been awhile since I’ve done a comic

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Is the Grand High Witch still up to her old tricks?

Imagining Willy Wonka happening in a parallel mouse world. And the implications of the squirrel scene

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I'd say this was the product of a fever dream or New Year's Eve binge, but I'll leave it for what it is. I'll just say picture it in the Fizzy Lifting Drinks Room. Or better yet, in the Glass Elevator!

(Willy) ‘Charlie… come with me. Think of what we could do, together! Unlimited… Together we're unlimited. Together we'll be the greatest team there's ever been, Charlie! Dreams the way we planned ‘em.’

(Charlie) ‘If we work in tandem…’

(Both) ‘There's no fight we cannot win. Just you and I defyi–’ And you know the rest.

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You still here?

Okay...

P.S: I still haven't seen Wicked, nor movie, nor musical, nor book (it didn't make it to the cinema in my city). And, by the way, this fantasy doesn't mean I don't love 'The View From Here'. Honestly, I love it much more than ‘Defying Gravity’.

And, to be honest, I think that's the only part of the lyrics that do fit 100%.

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I'm beginning to think that the two CatCF books take place in different timelines.

I explain: in 'The Great Glass Elevator', they explicitly say the year is 1972, in chapter 18, to be precise. It doesn't say what year we're in in the first book, I know. I didn't end up understanding the pre-decimal monetary system after all, and perhaps there is a fact in the price of the chocolate bars that I missed when I read the book in English. I could try get an idea based on the day. The first day of February, in 1964, fell on a Saturday, and in 1972 it fell on a Tuesday. It makes more sense to me that the tour would have been on a weekend, but that contest was so absurdly important that they obviously would have declared a school holiday for that day. Or a few extra if the winners had to travel.

In which case, if the year doesn't bear out, the age of Charlie's grandparents does. In the first book, we are told at the beginning of the second chapter "Every one of these old people was over ninety." But in the second, only Grandpa Joe seems to retain his 96 and a half years. Josephine is 80 years and three months old (and I expect they were already somewhat older when they married); George was exactly 81; and Georgina has 78.

Which makes me seriously wonder, did Dahl just have to change it in pursuit of arithmetic operations, or did he really forget that hole? Why wasn't that fact edited out of the first book? Dahl lived almost 20 more years after publishing CatGGE, after all.

As far as my opinion of the book is concerned…. I still haven't read the second half (everything that happens after they return to the Factory). I just gave it a too-quick read looking for some wild candy that happened to sneak in. Honestly, I got the feeling that all those BORING scenes with the president's cabinet are only a nuisance and, despite the fact that I'm not the most empathetic person in the world (unfortunately), I did find the stereotype jokes pretty gross. But I do at least want to give a point to Gilligrass's flytrap. I'd like one myself. I think Dahl was trying to stretch the book at all costs, and since the filler with the president wasn't going to be enough to get very far beyond 100 printed pages, that's why the Wonka-Vite thing comes up. I read a few bits of the Minusland chapter and would have thought I was reading another Charlie book if not for the narrative style.

However, it's a pretty entertaining read otherwise and I genuinely felt excited getting to the Knids chain part - it's the glory picking an epic movie soundtrack and reading this part for the first time! It's just that the atmosphere is weird. It's not bad; I love horror and the Knids in the elevators are very creepy (in a good way). Rather, I mean all the characters (with the exception of Charlie, his parents, Grandpa Joe and Willy Wonka) feel apathetic and unpleasant. I can understand the grandparents, I don't deny it: I too would find it too hard not to panic if I were being chased by an army of genocidal aliens, but there were certain moments (not to say all of their scenes in space) where they only intervened in the scene to complain and didn't help. Only Grandma Josephine, when she suggests they come back. In the second half, it seems to me that they are going to serve more as simple comic relief.

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okay have these

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It is the small goals sometimes.. but I managed to read a book for the first time in years, Yeah a childrens book it may have been but it was fun.

And who does not like a good Roald Dahl book? I managed to get my hands on Charlie and the great glass elevator at a secondhand earlier this week. I have not read it and decided it was time to learn something new. :)

Bonus art!

Original art by Quentin Blake

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I am absolute to late for this fandom

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broadway teavee doodles featuring willy bonkers

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Every day you learn something new: I'm trying to do a one-shot of Charlie receiving a counterfeit banknote, and now I'm trying to figure out how to count pennies and shillings before Decimal Day.

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Objects

(Minecraft)

Here are some lanterns styled after those from Minecraft!

These two: 1 and 2, which may be the same lantern; I’lll leave that up to your discretion.

A: Here and here and here.

B: Here.

Here’s a different lantern with an actual leather and metal handle.

Bonus wooden crafty lantern.

—> Links lead to etsy.com, etsy.com, pinterest.com, pinterest.com, etsy.com, reddit.com, pinterest.com, and pinterest.com, respectively.

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Objects

Minecraft Paintings

I followed just about every painting I saw to the source, and it was an account of notgracelive at nearly every turn..

(notgracelive: Instagram, YouTube, etsy)

Here’s notgracelive’s playlist of endeavoring to paint every Minecraft painting: link.

notgracelive’s “Skull and Roses” here and here (and a video)

notgracelive’s “sunset_dense”

A realistic version of “Skull and Roses” (which, confusingly, seems to be a hybrid fanart of the original and in-game versions, so…)

“Skull on Fire”: 1 2 3

“Wither”

“de_aztec” (Grimbloetsy on TikTok.)

“Kong”

“Graham”

Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s semi-realistic “Skull on Fire” painting does NOT fit here, because apparently, some of the Minecraft paintings came from his work, rather than the other way around.

Here are some other “Skull on Fire”s, because people really seem to like making this one: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and so on.)

+ Bonus Item Frame by CelynHaf on YouTube.

—> Links lead to instagram.com, youtube.com, etsy.com, youtube.com, youtube.com, pinterest.com up to “de_aztec”, reddit.com, pinterest.com, reddit.com, etsy.com, reddit.com, reddit.com, youtube.com, pinterest.com, sportskeeda.com, reddit.com, and youtube.com, respectively.

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My midnight cravings:

Food

From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory you can have recreations of Willy Wonka’s:

Three-Course Dinner Gum (sections of this can be found in Honorary and Ideas; collected here for ease of reading)

The Three-Course Dinner Gum (inliterature.net) is actually three different odd gum flavors packaged together in a Willy Wonka wrapper.

Ideas: I suppose you could have one very long piece of gum that is flavored in three sections, and you could simply chew it from one end like a goat…

Edible teacups from The Starving Chef

There was an actual Willy Wonka Candy Company, with the brand name Wonka switching hands multiple times, and they did actually make chocolate bars. Unfortunately, these were discontinued in 2010. Apparently, there’s a petition to bring them back, however→here.

Edit: it’s possible that they can be caught outside the US, and it’s possible there are/were different versions.

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Bonus: Square Sweets (that look round), giant gummy bears.

—> Links lead to inliterature.net, thestarvingchefblog.com, candystore.com, reddit.com, ebay.com, fiction-food.com, and inliterature.net, respectively.