#genie lore

[kind-hufflepuff]

JAY AS A HALF DJINN (DECENDANTS)

[katjadarkrider]

Mojo

[spookberry]

You know what would be cute? If Gigi Grant saw Desiree fight with Danny Phantom and went "Omighoul, hi Auntie!~"

Desiree isn't an actual Genie. Shes a ghost meant to resemble a genie. So I can't really see her being related to Gigi.

If anything I think in DP lore its more interesting to consider Desiree as the origin for the Western idea of what a genie is. She isnt a djinn or genie or anything like that, shes just a woman who had her whole life taken from her and in death has been cursed to only ever be able to grant the wishes of others but never her own. Tho she did at some point get locked in a genie lamp which I can only presume is cuz some previous enemy of hers wished it so.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Here’s the bad news: there never was another universal town square for science fiction. The community splintered across many different platforms. While that was a real loss, it wasn’t an unmitigated loss. Those communities incubated all kinds of writers and readers who found the SFRT inhospitable or overwhelming.

But the other reason the community never recohered is that we kept trusting other businesses to own those communities, and they kept betraying our trust. Prodigy wanted us to “stop talking to each other and start buying things.” Livejournal purged its queers.

The most successful successor to GEnie SFRT is Archive of Our Own (AO3), a freewheeling, welcoming, volunteer-run, nonprofit fanfic site with a gaggle of pro-bono lawyers and a deep bench of community specialists and technologists.

- When the Town Square Shatters: Once again, science fiction fandom shows us how to use the internet.

[steakout-05]

something that had always been really frustrating for me when i was still in math classes in school was trying to watch the teacher actually work the problem out on the board and still not understanding wtf was happening. for some context, i heavily suspect that i have some form of dyscalculia because math and numbers literally do not compute properly in my brain. it'd be too long to explain the full extent of my possible dyscalculia here but math literally does the mental equivalent of maxing out the CPU power and memory of a computer to the point where it freezes and lags to my brain.

math class was always stressful for me because no matter what i did and how much progress i made, there was always a lack of understanding i had when it came to trying to work any math problem out long term and remembering anything. it felt like there was always something i was missing, so when the time came for the teacher to explain and go through a math problem step-by-step on the whiteboard, i made sure i paid as much attention to it as humanly possible as child-to-teenager me could muster and even then i still did not understand how the fuck they solved it, all because of one thing: the teacher pulling a random number completely out of their ass that happened to be the key to solving the problem.

like. i don't think i can illustrate how frustrating and isolating this was to experience with words alone. here i was, paying as much attention as i physically could, trying my damned hardest to memorise each individual step and calculation in order to understand how to get from point A to point B. everything made perfect sense up until the teacher suddenly stops for a second and writes a seemingly completely unrelated number there with no context as to why it's there in the first place, and then, in that singular moment, everything immediately comes crumbling down and i'm left completely confused. and somehow, everyone else around me perfectly understands it except me. like. imagine sitting there, giving the teacher all the attention you possibly could, literally watching and studying their hand movements just to understand every single step, only to be even more confused than your classmates, who you're pretty sure were half-asleep during the explanation, who also say they understand how the teacher came to that conclusion. what. the actual fuck.

when i try to explain how infinitely confusing and irritating this was for me, i'm reminded of a quote from that video Patricia Taxxon made about DHMIS: "The rug is pulled again ... There was never any hope of following the thread, understanding is impossible.". even when i was literally trying my best to possibly follow anything that was happening, the rug still gets pulled out from under my feet and i'm sent all the way back to square one of not understanding a single thing and being confused again. all because the teacher didn't explicitly explain how they got that random number that was apparently singlehandedly necessary for solving the equation and where they got it from, apart from that place being from literally fucking nowhere.

it's really no wonder that i eventually stopped giving a shit about paying attention in math class, because even when i was, it was still daunting and incomprehensible as always. why bother trying anymore when trying still gets you nowhere? trying to ask the teacher where they got that number from was an impossible to understand task as well, as their either snapped back with a "well you should have been paying attention" (even though i WAS but whatever) or they do explain that they added the first two numbers from the equation together or something, but now i'm wondering why they didn't just explain that in the first place like they did with everything else instead of seemingly just assuming everyone would know to do that.

by the way, if i had to give an estimate, my math ability is probably still at like. a 5th grader's level at best. so uh. yeah it's not good. still, it is kinda funny to me though, not only because i do find a bit of humour in the situation, but also because some people are often so quick to judge someone's intelligence purely based on their mathematical abilities alone. like. the idea of someone calling me dumb for still needing to do addition with my fingers despite the fact that my reading and language levels are considered above average is really funny to me lmaooo

[sad-trash-hobo]

Ok so we can all see the picture behind the lotion is clearly ryan in what looks like an old soldiers uniform so??? Does Ryan time travel now?

[changeling-rin]

What to expect if Lore is your genie? (Make a wish, Servo+)

He grants all your wishes, in almost the way you meant them, but definitely in the most ridiculous way possible. He's not out to cause harm, or to be malicious, but he's absolutely going to be chaotic about it. Wishing for a million bucks inevitably spawns a herd of a million male deer, but each with a single dollar stuck to their antlers. They're all tame enough to let you take the dollar off but like. That's a lot of deer that you own now. Where are you going to keep them???

[forgivelesssims]

the ainsworth ladies 🤧

[trashworldblog]

puppet history theory!!

this was posted by the watcher twitter account

so this is definitely the genie right?? i mean the purple text, the lighting its giving,,

oh fuck fuck fuck theyre in danger

im more convinced now that the genie is responsible for the hologram. "the professor" is probably gonna start being a little weird but will end up being really fucked up this episode and he may just devolve into more glitchy demon talk. i think its important to notice that the box is still connected to the stage so this likely isnt the genie fucking stuff up from the outside, hes fucking stuff up from the inside (maybe losing a grip on control over the show, too many tests from ryan, too many confused and worried contestants, too much flack from the crew, too much weird energy from the box, exc exc exc)

This will likely lead to ryan being so freaked out that he gets up and messes with the box or hologram Or the dino professor is gonna break out and save ryan before he gets eaten/posessed/puppetified/whatever that lotion is prepping him for (im theorizing the dino professor is in the box, read my lore dump about all about that here).

god im so excited.

i was planning on watching the episode early but i wouldnt be able to keep my mouth shut for a whole day, and that wouldnt be fair to people who cant watch on patreon so ill wait until noon pst tommorow to watch it. cus god im gonna have things to say.

see you guys friday!!!! :D

[barbielore]

@thebreakfastgenie asked about Kelly and as it’s her birthday around about now I figured I had best oblige.

The most important thing about Kelly is that Kelly is no longer. Officially this is not because Kelly has vanished from the timeline or been shipped off to boarding school or whatever unfortunate fate befalls discontinued characters like Midge and Alan’s twins or Tutti (more on Tutti later — I have a post in my queue about her). Actually, Kelly has changed her name to Chelsea.

The second interesting thing about Kelly is that I have absolutely no idea how old she is meant to be. This is probably a related phenomenon to Skipper, who was introduced as an elementary school character and aged over the course of approximately 50 real life years to her mid to late teens, but Kelly has been a part of the line for a much shorter amount of time.

The earliest Kelly-branded doll that I am aware of is as flower girl in Midge and Alan’s wedding in 1991.

In this release, she looks to be of a comparable age to Todd, and though I’m no expert in assessing doll ages I’d assume she’s no younger than 5, but no older than 9 in this release.

However as you may or may not know, Todd is more likely to be presented as comparable in age to Kelly’s older sister (and Barbie and Skipper’s younger sister) Stacie. I assume this early Kelly is really the character who would eventually become Stacie.

The next release of Kelly was three years later in 1994 - as Barbie’s new “baby sister”.

Although described as a baby on the box, I think it’s fair to say that Kelly is depicted as a toddler, in the ballpark of 2 years old.

That is on track with a 1996 release, in which Kelly could be potty trained.

Kelly “really drinks and wets” in this release and given how excited she is to use the toilet, I think it’s fair to say she’s toddler aged here also.

Like many young ones though, it seems as though Kelly didn’t grasp the toilet right away as she is still gaining independence with the toilet in the 2004 release, Tinkle Time Kelly.

In 2005, Kelly is losing her first tooth in Tooth Time Kelly. This would be very unusual for a toddler so I assume here she is somewhere in the ballpark of 5 - 7 in age. Perhaps she was a late bloomer in Tinkle Time; or perhaps an early tooth-loser here.

These days Chelsea has left the name Kelly behind her and has taken to jetsetting. She is prepared for her flight with carry-on luggage, headphones and Netflix. (Nice tie-in, Mattel…)

[roffitoucan]

so I got to thinking more abt T:21 cause when am i not

and decided to doodle some of his emotions!! As a tadpole when they first experienced the accident they could barely muster up to hold their true form so they'd always be atleast somewhat half melted and the slightest bit of too much emotion they'd be a literal puddle

but now they just melt like a wax statue but sometimes itll be too much

also because we never see T:21 talk regularly yall get his rambling (for some reason i thought of prismo during that)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The internet came along. It was bigger. It was better. Once web browsers entered the picture, it was easier to use.

GEnie was text-only, accessed via a terminal program that used arcane text commands that were easier to use than, say, a text-based Usenet reader, but still too much for many. When GE finally released its first graphic interface, it was slow, buggy and crude.

But mostly, it the GEnie died because GE didn’t give a shit about GEnie. These were the Jack Welch years, when the company was getting out of the “doing things” business and converting itself into a doomed, cockamamie finance scam.

A mediocre, ultrawealthy sociopath found himself in charge of a once-in-history, all-encompassing town square, and he destroyed it, without even noticing.

Sound familiar?

- When the Town Square Shatters: Once again, science fiction fandom shows us how to use the internet.

[rooksamoris]

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[divorce]

advice for anyone going through their saturn return

take more lsd/mushrooms than you ever have in your life burn your teddy bear you got when you were 4 replace your teddy bear with tails doll 3am you should be good and this will actually skip it so you age an extra 30 years ahead of time

[hall0wedwyrm]

The Professor: sorry guys.... no lore in Season 4 :(

Season 4: Literally the most lore out of all of the seasons, literally a lore segment every episode, there's a party??? is the emu in hell??? whats going on????

(IS THE EMU IN HELL BECAUSE IT ATE THE WHEAT-)

[bergoozter]

What if it's not Shane talking to Satan at all but just the genie in modern clothes. Alternatively, what if Shane (as the creator of this entire tale) is setting up a fourth wall break where he's been the unwitting villain all along by orchestrating what he thought was a fictional narrative

oo love that genie bit! they do have a strong resemblance to one another so i could def see the genie taking advantage of that.

lol shane yells cut after prof kills ryan and he’s like wow great job let’s take it again and prof is just like ?? bc he forgot he was supposed to be acting and actually killed the guy