#Wacky’s soliloquies

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

i nneed to draw. hip dips

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

“Why fnaf 1 is the scariest” “Sister Location’s scariest moments” “what makes fnaf 3 the most terrifying” YOURE ALL WRONG ITS 4 FNAF 4 IS THE SCARIEST WHY ARE THEY IN MY HOUSE

[leninisms]

i never said it was your mistake btw. if you even care

[lamaenthel]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

thank you for tagging me @ahsokathegray !!<3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

25! 

2. What's your total A03 word count?

231k lmaoooo when did that happen I feel like I've been in a fugue state since February

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Star Wars (and technically, TECHNICALLY The Matrix but it's a Star Wars AU fusion lmao)

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Porg Eyes, Princess For A Year, Ram'ser'ika, Better Than Nothing, The Contingency

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes every single one omfg I love everyone

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Well, Soft Dark Nothing is Ahsoka and Rex on the moon right after The Tribunal crashed so by default it's gotta be her (rip Jesse my beloved)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Not Bad ends up with Snips n Skyguy going to Biscuit Baron lmao

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not yet but I live in fear every day especially since I'm dipping my toe in the Republic Commandos pond and I know the girlies are passionate

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I do and it's ridiculously graphic HAHAHA no but there's a reason I haven't posted any Rexsoka smut. Makin y'all wait for it until they COMMIT, gotta keep that tension in there somewhere uwu. But wlw, mlw, mlm, aliens and cyborgs gonna work their way in there eventually (?) I have Not Out Loud, which is an mlm fic with Boba tying up Cal and facefucking him (Kesett nation rise)

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

Go Ask Ahsoka is the Matrix crossover that I wrote for AU August which I will eventually update lmfao

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

No but I would cry

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

No

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Not like… technically but Erika is my beta and my bestie and she comes up with amazing ideas and lets me play with her OCs so honestly she counts (ilu)

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

Rexsoka 💙🧡, closely followed by Anidala (burning down the galaxy for a single person is objectively WRONG but also hot)

15. What's the WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will?

Well Do Not Go Gentle is a huge fucking project that I HOPE I finish one day

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm pretty good at action. I enjoy it which helps lmao

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

I get really ahead of myself laying out hints and red herrings which I then forget about (Princess For A Year especially is the worst about this, I am so sorry for all of those hints about Sylen being a pretend Mandalorian I fucked up so bad with that one but I'm going to rewrite it eventually to bring back a bunch of my dropped subplots)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I enjoy it and do so regularly. Mando'a nuhur'shya ni ru'kar'tayli. And it makes my brain work in unexpected ways, it's like a puzzle trying to figure out the wacky ass baby's-first-conlang grammar that is Karen's creation (what the fuck kind of language doesn't have a passive voice)

19. First fandom you wrote for?

OKAY OKAY TECHNICALLY, TECHNICALLY????? It was the Lion King. I was in first grade and we had to write a little storybook and illustrate the pages they gave us with crayons and my story was How Simba Lost His Mane lmfaoooo

20. Favorite fic you've ever written?

I have poured my whole heart, soul, brain, and pussy into Tivaevae pls read it it's longer than The Hobbit

no pressure tags: @soliloquy-of-nemo, @tangledlichen, @ink-in-books, @hannah-schooler

[adultswim2021]

Space Ghost Week

Wherein we cover an entire season of Space Ghost Coast to Coast over the course of a week

Space Ghost Coast to Coast #47: “Sphinx” | October 17, 1997 | S04E14

This one is pretty standard stuff, but the strength is in the guests. Harland Williams acts like Harland Williams, saying wacky stuff about monkeys and cheese. I’ve probably touched on this, but when I was in high school (which I’d just entered around the time this aired) I began developing annoying and pompous ideas about comedy and my main axe to grind was something I called “stock absurdity”. It was basically a short list of nouns that I felt like you could just sprinkle into your comedy prose and automatically get laughs from the easily-impressed. The list included monkeys, squirrels, and cheese, and I remember at this time pirates, ninjas, and robots were starting to become equally staid.

Anyway, I forgive Harland for this (I’m sure he’s breathing a sigh of relief right now). He clearly likes slipping that stuff into his comic soliloquies, but his toolbox is bigger than that. Him putting the screws to Space Ghost over his embarrassing and greasy varicose veins is pretty irresistible. At least he specified that they were ORGAN GRINDER monkeys and that they were hopped up on cheese STICKS. “Monkeys hopped up on cheese” would’ve come of much more amateurish. 

This is the one I always remembered as “the Mike Judge one”. Even though Harland makes up 50% of the show, I routinely forget that he’s also in this one. In fact I remember the pre-guest banter about Zorak mistaking a wacky fun slippery slide for his missing tail more than I remember Harland Williams being in this. And Harland isn’t even a lackluster guest. That’s just how much I revere Mike Judge (and wacky fun slippery slides).

Judge’s interview is slightly fraught in the same way the Terry Jones or Mark Hamill or Jack Black interviews were; you sorta sense that the staff are fans of the interview subject and that can lead to them getting way too into the spirit of the guest’s body of work and making a show that lacks edge and comes off sycophantic. The opening sketch of this one lets us know that the show is in good hands; Moltar is bugging Mike Judge for an answering machine message and it’s a contentious back-and-forth. Later, Mike turns this dynamic around on Space Ghost by attempting to do an impression of him, quoting lines from the first episode. Not only was there a mutual admiration thing going on here, but Mike knew exactly how to play his side of the interview to make this episode GREAT.

This one ends with Mike inexplicably doing lines as his various Beavis and Butt-head characters saying the phrase “It doesn’t get any better than this”, for reasons that are mysterious. To this day, if I find myself using that phrase in conversation I will, depending on who I’m speaking to, invariably follow it up with an impression of Mike doing all of his characters in this episode. I wish I knew why this was in the show. It seems like a weird inside joke to me. But I love it, even though I don’t get it. 

I’m a fan of a lot of shows, and Space Ghost and Beavis and Butt-head hold a similar space in my heart as shows that I almost can’t get enough of. I don’t really like binge-watching shows, except for those two. I can very easily watch both Beavis and Butt-head and Space Ghost all day long. I don’t know why this is the case, but it is. And it’s very weird to me that one of my most-quoted Beavis and Butt-head lines (behind Beavis saying “it’s for me. It’s for me to read” or “I’ll be damned it’s Dave Navaro”) come from this episode of Space Ghost. But there you go!

MAIL BAG

Your Zorak write-up made me realize that for the amount it's parodied I knew absolutely nothing about This Is Your Life. I wasn't even that sure it was a real show until I looked it up. Seems pretty bad/boring/cringe. Seems like an old-fashioned thing for Space Ghost to even spoof but I found out there was a version as recently as 1993.  There's some good raw footage on youtube where they try to surprise Angie Dickinson for this version and she refuses and cusses at them. Fun stuff!

I’ve done a whole lotta old-ass TV watching for no really good reason, and I’ve never once tried to watch one of those things. They seem too scary to me. Uh, Sid Caesar did a thing once where (gets blasted by Space Ghost’s destructo ray)

[oliveroctavius]

I think my favorite spideyfive period dynamic is "the star-crossed lovers, the peanut gallery, and Flash"

[you-see-something-strange-here]

sonic x is so funny because it’ll be a fun episode with sonic, tails, chris + the rest of the gang hanging out and getting into wacky hijinks trying to find the chaos emeralds and then the next episode it’s fucking knuckles acting like he’s in a dark fantasy giving soliloquies to the moon about him guarding the master emerald and duty and honor and all that shit-

just to cut to sonic racing chris’s uncle for no fucking reason at all other than pride. knuckles is so edgy in this series I love him.

[onetwothreekimchi]

Week 1:  Understanding Korean History

To say I was excited to join the first session of the KPA was an understatement - I had my notebook, coffee and highlighters at the ready like a nerdy highschooler on her first day at school (yes, I was that girl). After a round of introductions from fellow KPA-ers, we kicked off Week 1 with an in-depth lecture from Dr Anders Karlsson (Senior Lecturer in Korean at SOAS, University of London) who took us on a whistle-stop tour through Korea’s illustrious history. 

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I find ancient history a bit…inaccessible (*ahem* boring). So I thought I’d combine this week’s homework of presenting a (very) brief outline of ancient Korean history with a passion of mine: K-dramas, specifically that of historical Korean dramas or sageuk (사극). Maybe it’s the sumptuous costumes, the swashbuckling sword fights and horse riding scenes, or just my overly-romantic notion of the past, but it’s a genre that I’ve consistently been drawn to.

Prehistoric Korean history Dr Karlsson mentioned that most records of Korea’s early history have been destroyed, making it difficult to pinpoint when exactly these early civilisations came to be. However, it has been noted that even all the way back in 2000 BC, rice cultivation was already well-established around the Korean peninsula. The Bronze Age came to the tribes in the area at around 700 BCE and then, around 300 BCE they moved into the Iron Age, as noted in Chinese records for the first time.

Dramas set in this era are extremely uncommon - and probably for good reason. In fact, the only one I know of is Arthdal Chronicles starring Song Joong-ki which turned out to be…a bit of a train wreck. It’s supposed to be a fantasy drama (think Korean ‘Game of Thrones’) that happens during the Bronze Age and is ‘loosely based’ on the creation story of Dangun, the son of a heavenly prince and a bear-woman. Legend has it he goes on to build and rule the kingdom of Gojoseon (‘old Joseon’) in 2333 BCE, but Dr Karlsson points out those timings don’t seem to add up with historical records.

Three Kingdoms Period (57 BC - 668 AD) Around this period, the Korean peninsula was mostly dominated by tribes but by 57 BC, the kingdom of Kingdom of Silla emerged, followed by the founding of Goguryeo in 37 BC by Jumong (there’s an old but much-loved drama by the same name) and finally with the founding of Baekje in 18 AD by Jumong’s wife and her sons. These three kingdoms were heavily influenced by Chinese civilisation, especially with the spread of Confucianist thought and Buddhism which arrived in the 4th century.

The only drama set in the Silla period that I’ve briefly dabbled in is Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth which stars an A-list cast (Park Seo-joon, Go A-ra and Park Hyung-sik) but I’m sure is simply an excuse to put a bunch of very pretty looking boys in warrior uniforms. (I mean, hwarang literally translates as ‘flowering knights’ so case in point.)

Goryeo (918 - 1392) We fast forward to the founding of Goryeo which brought about ‘true national unification’ through centralisation of power, bringing under it the aforementioned three kingdoms as well as the northern kingdom of Balhae. One of the most well-known dramas set at the beginning of this era is Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (starring IU and Lee Jun-ki) which, thanks to its stellar acting but unsatisfactory ending is equal parts loved and hated among the drama watching community. (I just realised this is another drama with another all-star cast of very pretty men - are you spotting a pattern here? Haha!)

Joseon dynasty (1392 - 1910) The majority of sageuk that I know of are based somewhere within the 500-odd years of the Joseon dynasty. There is a wealth of material to work off - be it the kingdom’s relationship with the neighbouring Ming dynasty, various Japanese and Manchurian invasions, as well as Neo-Confucianism taking over as the new state ideology. 

It was also a time of great progress - the Great King Sejong created hangul, the native Korean alphabet in 1443, as sweetly depicted in one of my favourite fusion sageuks, Splash Splash Love, starring cute-as-a-button Kim Seul-gi and idol actor Yoon Du-joon. It’s just a 2-episode mini drama, but manages to pack in so much cross-dressing and time travelling hijinks, as well as incredibly well-fleshed out characters.

After fighting off a Japanese invasion (1592 - 1598) and Manchu invasions (in 1627 and 1636), late Joseon saw itself as a bastion of civilisation and successor to a waning Ming dynasty. However, the West soon came knocking at its doors. Another time-travel drama, the recently completed Mr Queen, is a gender-bending portrayal of the titular Queen Cheorin (1837 - 1878) set towards the end of the Joseon era. While this wacky but highly enjoyable drama is blatantly inaccurate historically, it references the Donghak movement, a Neo-Confucian philosophical ideology which came about in response to seohak (‘Western learning’) which arrived to Korean shores via Catholic missionaries.

The influence of Western ideology on late Joseon is further explored in Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung through a minor story line involving a Jesuit priest who disseminates his medical knowledge of vaccinations to combat smallpox, a disease rampant at the time. While Goo Hae-ryung, a female historian, is a historical impossibility and thus purely a work of fiction, her awareness of the importance of history and the accuracy in which it is recorded is summed up beautifully in this moving soliloquy, delivered whilst on her knees, with sword at her throat:

“Even if you slash my throat, our brushes will not stop writing. If I die, another historian will take my place; if you kill that historian, another will take their place. Even if you kill every historian in this land, and take away all the paper and brushes, you won’t be able to stop us. From mouth to mouth, teacher to student, elder to child, history will be told. That is the power of truth.”

As such, our first lesson on Korea’s ancient history was such an important one - it gave us the context in which to understand Korean culture as an accumulation of struggle, war, peace and progress through millennia. The fact that its history can be enjoyed so thoroughly through sageuk is just another of the many reasons why I’m a lifelong fan of K-dramas…not that I needed any excuses to watch them in the first place!

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010s: 95 - 91

95. Duncan Laurence - “Arcade” the Netherlands 2019

2019 will forever go down as the year where Europe learned all about piano ballads and bisexuality, which we have Duncan to thank for! Inclusive icon <3 And let us be honest, “Arcade” was pretty awesome. It’s a wonderfully immersive moody ballad that connects deeply on a personal level, peppered with instantly memorable gutpunchers (”Loving you is a losing game” is both an amazing line and painfully relatable). Excellent backdrop and camerawork gave the song a vibe of palpable desolation. Major props of this camera shot near the end:

^ this is a moneymaker. Well done, Hans Pancake. 

And the most important thing is, ummm, hello, the Netherlands will host Eurovision 2020, meaning I can attend next year in person without bankrupting myself. 😍 

However, despite the fact that “Arcade” is a pretty great entry overall, it has one GIANT problem: The act is terrible, and I *will* ::cracks knuckles:: proceed to roast the shit out of it. 🤜😤🤛

Now, I understand what Hans was going for his usual tryhard pseudo-cinematic spiel. However, -and independendly from my general distaste for the ‘White Guy With a Piano’ trope (this is 2019 how is anyone still gushing over them like they’re a fucking novelty O__O)-, sitting down is always a losing game. It is a momentum-slayer, and therefore never a good idea. The fact that they kept on tweaking the camera angles during the rehearsals says enough, honestly. The Dutch tried to amend the lack of dynamism with that stupid glowing orb and I mean:

Duncan is actually a fairly attractive dude but that lightning makes him look as if he’s terminally ill. You know when you DON’T get bad lighting angles such as this? When you stand up, like a normal fucking person. 😤

Many others also critically panned that (let’s be honest) ugly-as-sin piano. The Dutch delegation responded with the usual pretentious rubbish:

um sorry wrong shitpost, hang on... ah, found the right one:

and I mean, who the fuck cares? Just because it’s ~vintage~ doesn’t mean it’s not ugly. Just because it’s ~vintage~ doesn’t mean we have to like it? Not  a single casual fan will recognize that piano as a vintage prop, just as an hideous one, WHICH. IT. IS. The pretentious elitism/glaring stupidity behind it all just makes me wanna SPITT!! 😤 Karma quickly caught up with the Dutch arrogance however when their 56% or whatever ridiculous winner odds they had amounted to... Third place with the juries and Second Place with the audience. 😈 and “Soldi” becoming the europe-wide summer hit instead of “Arcade” 😈 In the immortal words of Kim Kardashian, #ItIsWhatSheDeserves. 

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94. Lucie Jones - “Never give up on you” United Kingdom 2017

[2017 Review here]

It seems the UK is limited to ONE great entry per decade, but Lucie definitely deserving of love. “Never give up on you” transformed from the most boring song ever into a genuinely gripping support song and well, it’s really great? Lucie is a cherub-voiced seraph who carries this song into the highest powerballad eschelons and that’s no easy feat!

Unfortunately, the UK, like always, fell victim to anti-Brexit sabotage causing them to flop!! 

Damn’ you Remainers, will the bullying EVER END???? and that was the UK,

Honestly, I expected much worse given how blasé the BBC usually is towards Eurovision? It’s really not the fault of their entrants though, who always give their all and get screwed over through circumstance. Yes, “Brexit” is the buzzword being tossed around as a humorous excuse for the non-stop British failures, but let’s be honest we all know it’s just the BBC’s attitude towards ESC. Perhaps the Big 5 should have a Brexit of its own...x

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93. Amir - “J’ai cherché” France 2016

Shock boot? Well, no I think #93 is actually a really good spot for Amir. After booting most glorious trashfests that are bad songs, it becomes time to slowly boot the good songs that aren’t trashy. 😭 

However, I do recognize Amir as a well-deserving ~Legendary~ French entry. It feels like a long time ago, but France was one of the most underperforming countries in Eurovision until Amir strolled along to capture everyone’s hearts with his irresistable magnetism <3 “J’ai cherché” is an infectuously cheerful song, with it’s toe-tapping goodness brightening up my day every time I listen-listen. 

That said, I DO have to put my big boy panties on and make a big boy decision: We’re closely making way towards the god-tier and the further we go, the less “this is a good song and little else” is going to cut it. THANK YOUOUOUOUOUOU FOR MAKING-MAKING FRANCE STRONG AGAIN, THOUGH ^__^

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92.  Sunstroke Project - “Hey Mamma” Moldova 2017

[2017 Review here]

GLORIOUS MEMELORDS <3

It came as a surprise at the time, but retroactively we all should’ve seen Sunstroke’s top 3 finish from lightyears away. Other than Olia, “Hey Mamma” has all the ingredients that made “Runaway” good, but improves them. There is EPIC SAX

There is instant hilarity of their trademark non-English (”I AM NOT THAT UNFOUNDED BOY” lmao what???)

There is a ridiculous underlying storyline (song about an angry mother-in-law / pre-marital sex <3)

There are wacky visuals, such as this ICONIC leg choreography

or the JUST AS memorable bridesmaid twist: 

It really just is the old Moldovan adage of transforming nothing into EVERYTHING using a few very clever stage-hacks, but brought to a whole higher level. 😍 Sometimes I wonder whether we are worthy of their presence, but as long as Moldova continue blessing us with their staging magic, Eurovision will be a better place.  

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91. Malcolm Lincoln & Manpower 4 - “Siren” Estonia 2010

One of the things that make Estonia my favourite country in Eurovision (as well as a top 5 country in *general*), is that they are MASTERS of the alternative genre. 😍 Eesti Laul is so fun because of... um well, mostly because of all the ridiculously named bands that compete in their NF (Vanilla Ninja <3 Tenfold Rabbit <3 Facelift Deer <3), but also because it’s a place for refuge for indie darlings, quite unlike any other ESC country.

However, “Siren” marks the only time one of said indie darlings actually won Eesti Laul and that makes them very special to me. The song is a beautiful, haunting, touching ethereal soliloquy on how lame life has been and the yearning for the strength to carry on... which, I don’t know about you, but GOSH SO RELATABLE!!! 

Further enhanced by the fact that Robin Jukhental is a lovable dork, hopping around the stage as an avatar of social anxiety, as his second-in-command absolutely WRECKS that piano <3. In other words, the exact type of entry the audience would despise but I am smitten by. ANGELS <3

[be-a-snake-stab-your-brother]

Okay, okay, okay. So we’re all here talking about Lokes influencing certain moments in history in the upcoming TV series and the hilarity and mayhem that could ensue.

But let’s get a little wild, shall we?

Now, I’m not saying this is in any way going to happen, but many of us have been considering Loki influencing history from the angle of it unfolding in a linear fashion, that the show will, in essence, be a prequel.

But, there is a way in which Lokes could romp through time and remain his post-IW/post-Endgame self. 

And I could see this playing out in a few ways.

1) Multiple realities. Many people have speculated that the universe might split into multiple realities post-Endgame. We certainly know that something is up, considering that Spiderman FFH takes place directly after Endgame and NYC seems to be as intact as it ever is. So what’s the deal? Same universe? Reset? Change the past? *shrugs*

2) Either Strange sends Loki back in time or Loki swipes the Time Stone for himself and goes to town. 

3) A non-Time Stone, but Asgardian magic is pretty wacky.

4) In the wake of Thanos’s defeat, Loki is hurtled back through time through some large, cataclysmic event with the Gauntlet.

Now, if we go with the first part of #2 or #4, we could imagine that Lokes needs to arrange things so he can get back to his own present, and, being the trickster he is, has some fun on the way, and in doing so, helps shape the history we know it as. 

But if we go with the multiple-realities hypothesis, perhaps Loki needs to undo certain wrongs in this new history, via the Time Stone, or, a Time Stone (who is to say another version of the Time Stone wouldn’t exist in a different reality. 

Or, if we go the Agent of Asgard-type of route, Loki needs to undo certain events, either in the “true” universe or the alternate one, is tasked with righting wrongs, so that, again, he arranges history as we know it. And in doing so, perhaps gets his name struck from the Book of Hel? Or something similar? 

Nothing saying Loki can’t have a grand old time rewriting history while having an important mission. I mean, it’s Loki. Our favorite trickster. Lord of misrule and agent of chaos. And on Midgard, of all places, the world he once tried to conquer? Could you imagine that part of his “penance” is to be sent to Midgard in order to change these events and learn more about the Realm? (Okay, so comics Loki knows more than enough about Midgard, and MCU-Loki is savvy enough to drop Odin off in a nursing home, but how much has he really interacted with humanity outside those two jaunts?)

Anyway, this is just some long-winded speculation on how they’d tie Endgame with the Loki series. I can’t wait. It’s going to be so fun. And I hope to all the gods he gets to interact with Shakespeare, because come. on. Loki “having” to be a last-minute understudy in a Shakespeare play in order to facilitate some kind of event and then we get Tommy H as Loki playing, oh I don’t know, Hamlet perhaps and then I die of cardiac arrest and glee after three lines of a soliloquy? SIGN ME UP.

[rugnar-stengo]

(Headphones reccomended for better quality!)

You knew his story, you saw how he looks like... and now you’re going to hear how he sounds like!

This third and final installment involving Ballooney is an audio skit I’ve created for his Classic Toon AU version, in which he tells how his day in the Studios went before the downfall. Mind this, though: since the AU author, Paimania, has chosen to restart it from zero, this audio log and my OC presence in the AU is to be considered as “non-canon”, and as such they’re not part of the story, nor they have any connection to the other characters.

Personally, I find this work the most important for my OC, not only for giving him a voice but for defining his personality in every context: In my thoughts, I’ve imagined Ballooney as a “personification of anxiety and nervousness”, with its source changing in every context I put him through. So, if in a Toon Town settings he’s feeling oppressed about his economic and family situation, in the Classic Toon AU he’s supposed to feel anxious towards something most artists may relate to: to measure up with other artists, constantly confronting his work with that of everyone else’s around him and fearing it’s never enough. It’s something that I myself was into in the past, but after resuming my activity of video editing I’m trying to overcome it and improve work after work :).

Now, let’s talk about the technical issues I’ve had with this audio skit: so far, this is one of the longest of the speeches I’ve ever recorded (around 3:17) and, differently from my very first fandub… it has ZERO cuts. Which means you are hearing me talking non-stop with few pauses between sentences. Not only that: I’ve recorded this soliquy SEVERAL times in different days. Soooo… yeah, if you heard me losing breath, now you know why XD I’m still learning and finding ways to improve myself. Still, the audio editing remains the funniest part to do: this time, I’ve used a particular plugin for Audacity, called iZotope Vinyl, which modifies the audio as if it’s heard from an old radio. As a side effect, though, it also has reduced the volume of my voice... yay.

Alright, after this brief explanation, that concludes my trilogy of Timothy “Ballooney” McTurson, a character I’ve initially created in my mind to act as an extra for another story, but end up defining him as a character of its own. I don’t know if I’ll ever make something more about him… maybe a side blog, if I do find some time and the desire. I hope you liked this character development.  And now, I leave you with his soliloquy, so you can follow my speech and understand my words :P

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Audio log turns on

Ok, um…hello, my diary! It’s been a long time since I talked to you, hasn’t it? W-well, I’m sorry for ignoring you lately, but the workers from the Music Department forbidden me to take any more tapes, since they need these for… you know, their job. Even though they use them to record their stories too… err, what I’m trying to tell you is this will be the last time you’ll hear from me, at least for a while, since I’m using the one tape I have left …on second thought, maybe I should have kept it for a special occasion… Err, still I digress! Anyways, how are you doing? I’m fine, by the way. Today was especially great! I watched a Keystone Cops’ movie, cooked something for the crew and even managed to talk to a woman without freaking out! Pretty good, right? Well…ok, I admit it: there has been an issue. Today my voice actor has scolded me. Again. And this time he was very, very angry. But no worries! I’m safe, now: in fact, I’m into the warehouse, inside one of those cabinets, where I’ll spend the rest of the day where no one can find me, and I’ll not annoy anybody. As always, everything is going just…swell! Eh eh! Eh…eh…

…who am I kidding? I know I’m a mess up. Even when I try my best, I always mess things up. “But Ballooney,” you might say, “You are a cartoon! You have it all: wacky tentacles for limbs, a squeezy and bouncy body and, more importantly, unmatched talent that normally belongs to an average human star! You. Are. Perfect!” Well, I have news for you, my friend: I’m NOT perfect! I mean, look around! Have you seen all those other toons who came out before me? THESE are perfect! Each one of them, from the charming demons to those angels with their pretty faces! Not to mention the fluffy animals with their… (incomprehensible sounds) …fluffiness! And what about the other toons that are created later? They didn’t waste time and get noticed quickly! Heck, some of them are even as famous as the Dancing Demon himself! As for me… I am no one, no one I tell you! No matter how great I am in entertainment, I will never be a match for them! I don’t have their beauty, their skills or their confidence! I don’t even know why I am here in the first place! I… I’m not like them at all! I… I… (he cries)

They say “believe in yourself, and your dreams will come true”…but how can I realize my dreams if I don’t believe in myself?!

…I wish I ‘d never seen those movies before my debut. If I didn’t, then I- Shoot! Somebody’s coming this way! Ugh, where is the stop button? Err…oh, stop!

Audio log turns off

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CREDITS:

-Timothy “Ballooney” McTurson and voice belongs to me;

-Classic Toon AU is an AU of “Bendy and the Ink Machine” created by @paimania​;

-The audio log sound effects (start, white noise, finish) are from the videogame “Bendy and the Ink Machine”. The rest of the sound effects are from Freesound;

- Bendy and the Ink Machine © Joey Drew Studios Inc.

[wacky-nameless-inventor-24]

lays on the ground adn. thinks about the royalty au

[the-nameless-wacky-inventor]

baking muffins (diabolically)

[acenero-blog1]

My Top 10 Chiaki Nanami Drabbles (so far)

As a late birthday present to my close friend Vixen, and because of my own personal desire to give her story earned praise—I’ve decided to list my favorite chapters in her story, Chiaki Nanami Drabbles…so far. These are my own opinions, and I’ll state now that you should read the entire thing! There were so many great parts I didn’t put in this, so check it out if you’re interested! Her story can be found on FF.net and Ao3, too.

I’ll be going into spoiler territory, but I won’t say the resolutions.

10. Chapter 87: A Softer Despair

This is a drabble that gives a chilling look into the mind of the despair-driven Chisa Yukizome. The author uses this character often and efficiently, but this one stuck with me the most.

It starts with her wishing she could relive the despair caused by sending Chiaki to die in her execution. That leads to her adopting a kitten, even going as far as to name it Chiaki Nanami. She nurtures, feeds, and loves it for a time as if it was the real Chiaki. However, it’s all for one sinister purpose.

Needless to say, the resolution to this one isn’t a pretty one.

9. Chapter 75: Threes a Crowd

This drabble airs more on the comical side. Basically, Junko sees Chiaki and is mesmerized. Commence her hilarious shenanigans to get her attention, even dragging poor Mukuro into her games.

She even tried to get closer to Chiaki despite Izuru haven’t misgivings. Even the being made of talent isn’t enough to deter this blond mastermind, though.

8. Chapters 180 & 187: Savior’s Last Bloom Omakes

This one is a bit of a shameless plug since both of these drabbles are based off my story, Danganronpa X3: Savior’s Last Bloom. Still, you practically need no knowledge of my story to enjoy the hilarious misadventures of the Future Foundation getting into wacky situations.

Chapter 180 is all skits filled with references and normal everyday situation that take a turn for the funniest.

In chapter 187, they find themselves in a very…uh, compromising situation. Some naughty comedy ensues.

7. Chapter 179: The Child of Hope and Despair

This story is centered around the author’s own original character called Kana. After the conclusion of Side: Hope, Hajime ventures into the Neo World Program and discovers the little girl. Hajime, seeing she was alone and wondering what she was, takes her and even allows her to call him Papa.

Little does he know that the girl’s origin has a very unique and possibly sinister history to them. Despite that, Hajime takes her as her own, introducing her to others of the seventy-seventh class. All while wondering if her “truth” should be told.

6. Chapters 40-45: Undertale

This is the author’s epic retelling of the game Undertale except with her own spin and Danganronpa characters. She incorporates the characters and her own changes seamlessly.

Basically, if you like Undertale and Danganronpa, you’ll love this.

5. Chapter 135: The Doll

There are many drabbles centered around Junko and Chiaki, but I think this one is the most powerful. It features Junko with Chiaki, whose spirit has been broken—leaving not much else but a husk. The entire drabble is filled with violent and strong imagery.

In terms of pure bleakness and despair, this one is near the top—if not at the very top.

4. Chapter 173: The Lonely Heart

This chapter is one huge introspection about Chiaki. As one who loves those types of themes, I greatly enjoyed this chapter.

It gives a very accurate and detailed soliloquy about why Chiaki is the way she is. It shows her painful past, how she sees the world, and what making friends at Hope’s Peak Academy really meant for her. In terms of insight into the Ultimate Gamer herself, one the anime didn’t provide very fluently, this is one of the best you’ll ever see.

3. Chapter 184 & 193: Despair Pub

It was tough choosing this over the Dead Waifu Bar and the Heavenly Host Club because they’re all magnificent reoccurring drabbles in the story, but I had to give it to the Despair Pub.

The Pub features Junko, Despair Chisa, Monica, and Tsumugi all wallowing in their despair. It features hilarious dialogue between the four ladies—most of it bullying Tsumugi.

Chapter 193 even has a special visitor who turns out to be Monika from Doki Doki Literature Club. How can you not be interested!?

2. Chapters 162 & 163: The Phantom Thieves of Fan Fiction

I wasn’t sure whether to put this since it isn’t a conventional drabble, rather it’s a special featuring many friends of the author(myself included). All of us become phantom thieves and try to defeat a certain someone's shadow and take their treasure.

Throughout it all—we hang out, fight shadows, and even learn certain things about ourselves. It’s a true testament to the hopes, fears, and the bond we all share as writers.

1. Chapter 114: The Ultimate Punishment

Finally, the finale!

In my opinion, this is the best drabble(so far) of this amazing collection of tales. And, oh boy, is it dark. Even the author says she felt bad after writing this one. Dark as it may be, I was hooked from the first word to the very last!

So, did you think Chiaki’s execution was gruesome? Well, imagine if every time she died…she kept having to go through it again and again and again. That’s the premise of this drabble. What’s worse is our favorite gamer is aware of this, so she remembers every gruesome death. Even when she tries to escape, she simply dies in another way. It’s an eternal recurrence of pain and suffering. In the end, Chiaki realizes she must make a choice—and a very hard one.

It seems wrong to make my top chapter one where Chiaki suffers, but this was too good to not put at number one. In my opinion, this is the best chapter out of the 199+ Chiaki Nanami Drabbles.

Here’s to more amazing drabbles by my best friend in the future. Knowing her, I’ll need to make a whole new list very soon!

[purified-zone]

Well, I feel like shit.

I have two very stupid reasons.

A drunk father, who does not give a shit about goldfish, walking up to you, asking what you’re eating, asking for some goldfish, and then as you meekly try to give him some he plunges his hand into your bag of goldfish—shouldn’t really be a big deal. But he knows I don’t like him touching my things, he even “mischievously” touches my phone on purpose when it’s beyond my reach just to bother me, because I don’t think his hands are clean. I also don’t want to associate myself with him, because I so desperately want to be less Objectively Horrible than him, so I don’t want to come into contact with things he touches. It’s bad enough that I am both imprisoned by his genes and my financial dependency on him. It really felt like a thing about control. I tried to bring this up and he just goes on about how selfish it is that I deny him a bag of goldfish, so maybe he isn’t fucking aware of what he’s doing, but do I even care about his “intentions” at this point?

My mom in a drugged, drunk stupor—I think Xanax or something, pain medication maybe?—is rambling about life and some stupid shit after I bring up the aforementioned stupid complaint. This devolves into a ramble about how my father has no friends, and that further devolves into a line about...

for some FUCKING reason, she soliloquies up about “men and women” being friends as... impossible? to have the same... “purity”? what? the fuck? that it’s always “sex”,?

I don’t know, is it wrong to find that fucking disturbing and skincrawling to hear from a mother?

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And that’s not even going in to how she rambles about how “how many more years do I have left... hm... 5 years...? hm... that’s enough...” and then when I try to loudly express my discomfort she changes that to 3 years. wow i guess since you have chronic pain that makes me deserve this! haha lol :) : ) :) i’m just too stupid and bad person to get out of house and get a better job and fucking leave and ahaha

oh mom you’re so wacky with your casual borderline suicide drugcohol talk, maybe i should kill myself first

there goes the last of my objective clarity

not that i ever had any objectivity but that’s for another fucking time

[osurarebooks]

A Feast of “Festus”: The Wacky Poetics of Spasmodic Literature

Post contributed by Ethan Heusser, SCARC Student Assistant

While poetry of the Victorian Era is often associated with the Romantic works of writers like William Wordsworth, the time also saw a flourishing of lesser-known genres and literary styles. A fascinating example of this is Spasmodic poetry.

So named for its “imagination...imagery...[and passion]” (R H. Horne, “New Spirit of the Age”), the Spasmodic genre enjoyed its short-lived peak popularity between the 1840s and 1850s. It often took the form of book-length poems of self-serious verse drama and soliloquy (Wikipedia).

Philip Bailey’s “Festus” shines in particular as a seminal work of the genre. Bailey spent three years writing it in his early 20s, desiring to postulate “a gospel of faith and reason combined” (Wikipedia). The book’s famous quote “He lives most / Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best” fairly characterizes it as a book of didactics in the forms of poetry and plot. Its lengthy interrogation of the relationship between god and humanity established a unique subsection of Victorian Era poetry, and the book has earned a spot on our shelf as a peculiar evolution of Goethe’s “Faust” and the moralizing thereof.

For books contemporary to this period, consider viewing SCARC’s writings of Robert Browning, George Gilfillan, and Alfred Tennyson.

Bailey, Philip James. Festus : A Poem. 17th American ed. Boston: Bazin & Ellsworth, 1830.

R.H. Horne quote courtesy of:

Charles LaPorte and Jason R. Rudy. "Editorial Introduction: Spasmodic Poetry and Poetics." Victorian Poetry 42, no. 4 (2004): 421-427. https://muse.jhu.edu/ (accessed August 10, 2017).