#ill write it for you dreamworks

[octobre-ackedia]

I'm gonna rewrite Megamind VS The Doom Syndicate but make it actually good and I have an entire doc with ideas already and idk, does anyone even want to read that?

[vixendoesstuff]

Wow, writing fanfiction is harder than it looks when you have nothing to start with.

Like, I already have a broad plan in mind of how I want things to go, like how long pre-canon stuff is before going to the main story, but actually starting from point one is... hard.

Right now I have three options on how I want the prologue to be;

One is a dream sequence of baby Techno!Branch being comforted by one of his bro's (Floyd, possibly) about him being different than others and being reassured that he'll always have his brothers to rely on, then snaps back to reality of Branch (all grown up and grey) waking up from the memory.

Option two is basically no dream sequence, but instead brief flashbacks of his life leading up to his grandma's death, and then waking up in a cold sweat.

(Yeah, they're similiar in premise, but it's different enough for the tone of the fic to be set, y'know?)

And the third is not in Branch's POV, but JD and Grandma Rosiepuff's. Basically it's been about a month after the last Trollstice, with it taking BroZone's parents away (I'm subscribing on this headcanon for the sake of fic progression), and JD is sitting on a branch high up reminiscing. And suddenly a bird drops a "dookie" (Branch's egg) through the bars and onto the ground, so JD went to investigate and found the egg. Without thinking much of it (big bro protectiveness activated) he brought the egg back to the fam, and Rosiepuff just knew that this isn't a normal Troll egg. When it hatched and baby Techno!Branch came along, she decided, "actually, I like this one, I'll call him Branch" and the rest goes the way you'd think.

[warning-heckboop]

While I'm out here rewatching the Trolls episodic series again, here's another proposed episode plot for a series that would take place after the third movie (previous text post on this topic found here):

The premise for this episode would be based on the Trolls: The Beat Goes On season 2, episode 1, Prank Day. And since it's coming from me, surprise surprise, it's Clay-centric.

So Prank Day rolls around, and it's the first time the other four brothers have been present for this particular holiday in years. Floyd chooses to opt-out of participating in this holiday, citing his lingering exhaustion from still recovering as his reasoning. Branch, who's still a bit scarred from Poppy's previous endeavors to prove she was the prank master, also decides to sit out of this one, choosing to stay in his bunker and make sure Floyd is comfortable instead. (This would probably be the sub-plot of the episode, where Floyd and Branch end up trying to get each other with simple, harmless pranks within the bunker that maybe end up snowballing a bit out of control.)

Poppy and Viva go off for their own shenanigans, so this leaves the three oldest bros to participate together--except for one little thing. Clay doesn't really want to join in on the pranking, and admits he'd rather just relax and read for the day instead. This gets John Dory's attention, who insists that Clay has to participate! At least with one prank! He doesn't have to be the overall fun-boy anymore, but that doesn't mean he can just be a stick in the mud all the time. And, to Clay's dismay, Bruce actually agrees with JD, and tries to encourage Clay to let loose a little. Prank Day used to be Clay's favorite holiday when they were kids, after all! (Insert cute, wholesome flashbacks here of toddler Clay pranking his older brothers and all three of them laughing and having a good time.)

Clay isn't swayed by his brothers, and tries to find a nice, quiet place in the village to read. JD and Bruce, of course, refuse to let this go, and end up following their middle brother around and pulling tiny, mostly harmless pranks on him to try to encourage him to prank them back. Clay continues to get increasingly annoyed, especially when these pranks start to seriously interfere with his reading by getting his book soaked or covered in glitter. At some point, he snaps, throws his book down, and storms off.

JD and Bruce, unfortunately, are not discouraged by their brother's "bad attitude", and so they leave the book where it is and go to seek Clay out again.

They track their brother outside of the village, into a heavily shaded part of the forest, and only then to they start to feel uneasy. They hear movement in the brush around them, and the faint, haunting sound of laughter on the wind. They eventually reach a dead end, and, confused, turn to head back to the village.

That's when Clay pounces out from the nearby shadows, hair frazzled and eyes glowing red. With a wide grin and maniacal laughter, he's after his brothers, who scream in panic and start running back towards the village. Along the way, they're slowed by a multitude of prank-traps that have seemingly been set up by Clay for them specifically. JD and Bruce try to talk to Clay, telling him this is too much and they want him to stop, but to no avail.

Eventually, one of the pranks ends up trapping the duo of older brothers. As their now-seemingly-feral younger brother stalks closer, JD and Bruce start apologizing profusely, admitting that they shouldn't have pushed Clay so much, and they get it now, pranking isn't fun when you ask someone to stop and they just ignore you. They were being jerks, they're sorry!!

While the two brothers cower in fear of what's to come, they start to notice the laughter in the air changing pitch. Soon enough, it doesn't sound like Clay's laughter, anymore. Instead, it sounds like another, equally familiar laugh they both know quite well: Viva's.

Finally stepping fully out of the shadows, it's revealed that the "Clay" who's been chasing them isn't their brother at all, but instead Viva, who's disguised herself with a change of clothes, makeup, and one of Clay's rompers to make herself look like him. Even the glowing red eyes, it turns out, are only a result of Viva's naturally deep-pink eyes. Obviously, JD and Bruce are baffled at first, until Viva explains the situation in it's entirety. After their last prank, Clay really was upset, so much so that he told Viva what happened and that he was going back to the golf course for the remainder of the day to get some peace. Viva was, of course, saddened that Clay was made to be so upset by his own brothers, and so she took matters into her own hands to teach the two of them a lesson.

At the end of it all, Viva offers the two brother's Clay's discarded book from earlier, telling them that it might be a good start to an apology to their brother to clean it up and bring it back to him. JD agrees with a smile, saying they've both definitely learned their lesson and definitely want to go apologize as soon as possible, and opens the book to take a look at the damage they've caused--

--only for both he and Bruce to be struck by spring-loaded pies from inside the false pages, while a recording of the real Clay's laughter plays from inside. JD and Bruce yell out in frustration while Viva giggles away.

Cut to Clay at his home in the golf course, contentedly reading to himself. He smiles and winks at the camera, then the episode ends.

[kkpaaw]

And if I told yall that this is a fic in the making-

Fuckin, Pre Trolls 1 au where Branch and Creek have a one night stand, don't know HOW it happens, but it does and It ends with Branch being with egg and the au is just him struggling with the realization that he's going to have Creeks kid, struggle to care for the egg and tryna figure out how to handle his and Creeks still sour, but now kinda awkward relationship whiel also battling his own issues in the process. angst with some heartwarming moments and BREEK (my beloved)

[aotgdevblog]

Day 113 of production studio guidebook

4_22_24

Hello everyone!

Made a second page for 'hosting meetings with production manager(for producers)' although I think that I might just make one 'hosting meetings slide' instead since the producer meets with other studio members, for the purpose of updating/adding/removing organizers, you know what, I can have that, and then meeting with managers/directors for handing out assignments. Ok, I like this plan, debating whether to go to bed or not i've been up since 6:30 this morning...ok ill write down what I need to get done tomorrow, i've gotten a good chunk done of my costume, I can dedicate time to just studio stuff. (owo

(weather update: still waiting for summer, gas bill is expensive)

———-

AOTG is a fan series that takes place after the 2012 movie Rise of the Guardians.

Disclaimer*:

Rise of the guardians is the intellectual property of Dreamwork's animation. Lumifox Productions is not affiliated nor contracted by DreamWorks animation to produce the following content. AOTG is not monetized and is a project made by very weird and passionate fans.

[three-days-time]

15 questions, 15 friends

Thank you so much @rebsinthevoid this was really fun <3!

Are you named after anyone?

Nope! My name was chosen by my mum <3

When was the last time you cried?

Oh man, possibly a few weeks ago due to general life stressors

Do you have kids?

Nope! And none for the foreseeable future (ever)

What sports do you play/have you played?

I did ballet when I was young as well as gymnastics, the cross country in middle school (hated it)

Do you use sarcasm?

Sometimes! Very rare though

What is the first thing you notice about people?

Most likely their face shape, a very odd thing I know

What is your eye color?

Blue!

Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings for sure! I’m not a movie person because movies get me emotionally invested and I find that draining, so I usually stick to animation studios like DreamWorks and Pixar or watch comedy movies!

Any talents?

I can write and draw! Other than that not much else

Where were you born?

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER!! 🦅🔥🇺🇸🏈

(Logan Sargeant home turf)

What are your hobbies?

I draw and write when I have the energy! I also play a handful of video games. I’m an avid Legend of Zelda fan and adore games such as Majora’s Mask, Skyward Sword, Wind Waker, and more titles. I’m also a big Animal Crossing fan! New Leaf is my childhood game (along with Minecraft) so I find a lot of comfort in that. I’m hoping to pick up Stardew Valley again with the new update as well as F1 games and possibly some WRC games? I’ve not looked too into those yet but they’re on my list to play.

Do you have any pets?

I do! I have a gorgeous calico cat and a stunning black cat. They’re both dorks I love them dearly

How tall are you?

5’3!

Favorite subject at school?

At the moment I really love my Psychology class and am considering majoring in it, but I’m not commited due to the amount of schooling it takes.

Dream job?

I’m honestly not sure - this is a big thing for me because I have no idea what I want to go to school for or do. I’m considering water reclamation, children’s therapy, or possibly something in accounting? There’s lots of options to choose from!

Friends to tag:

@autumnalchemist @potatoad @myriad-of-colors @the-strawzish-clownfish @burnishedvictory @pierre-menard @magnetrix @legendofzelda4life @ill-procastinato and honestly anyone else who wants to participate <3

[heyitschartic]

Tagged by @vikugnavikugna

coke or pepsi? You know I love coke, but in terms of soda I'll have a diet pepsi.

disney or dreamworks? Dreamworks

coffee or tea? I drink like seven coffees a day

books or movies? BOOKS. I love movies, but books are so fun.

windows or mac? Windows, fuck Mac!!!!!!!

dc or marvel? I don't really like comics in general, but my gf loves the BatFam so I'll go DC

x-box or playstation? Playstation easy

dragon age or mass effect? I don't like either

night owl or early riser? I wake up at 6am every single day

cards or chess? Chess, but I always lose at it

chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate for taste, vanilla for smell

vans or converse? Vans

Lavellan, Trevelyan, Cadash, or Adaar? Who?????

fluff or angst? You KNOW I love angst

beach or forest? Ooooo I think I have to go forest

dogs or cats? Cats all day (sorry Illidan)

clear skies or rain? I lvoe days with just that slight drizzle of rain

cooking or eating out? Eating out tf??? Who is picking cooking

spicy food or mild food? SPICY

halloween/samhain or solstice/yule/christmas? HALLOWEEN MY FAV HOLIDAY

would you rather forever be a little too cold or a little too hot? I live in Minnesota, I already made that decision

if you could have a superpower, what would it be? I think I'd have to go with Boensaw's power from the hit Canadian web serial Worm

animation or live action? Animation

paragon or renegade? Evil 😈

baths or showers? Baaaaaath, I love a nice bath

team cap or team ironman? Hate Iron man, at least cap is likeable I have never found Tony Stark interesting or entertaining and Captain America just has thay sort of scruffy charm

fantasy or sci-fi? Fantasy

do you have three or four favourite quotes, if so what are they? This would get too long so Ill post one: 'What are we going to do, Dogger?'It seemed a reasonable question. After all he had been through, surely Dogger knew something of hopeless situations. 'We shall wait upon tomorrow,' he said. 'But--what if tomorrow is worse than today?' 'Then we shall wait upon the day after tomorrow.' 'And so forth?' I asked. 'And so forth,' Dogger said.

youtube or netflix? Youtube

[REDACTED] you couldn't get that out of me under torture

when do you feel accomplished? When I accomplish something that I've been working at for a long time, especially something that means a lot to me

star wars or star trek? Star Trek, easily. Star wars is like two good movies and a game, at best

paperback books or hardcover books? Hardcover, nothing feels as good in your hands

to live in a world without literature or without music? Without literature, sorry. I just couldnt live without something to listen and dance to.

who was the last person to make you laugh? Hard to remember, it was either my gf, bug, or Peri

city or countryside? City, I want to have things to do

favorite chips? Salt and vinegar

pants or dresses? Dresses, you can't force me to wear pants anymore

libraries or museums? Museums just because they're so much more of a trip

character driven stories or plot driven stories? Character driven, almost always. That's always the stuff that digs into me more

bookmarks or folding pages? Bookmarks Jesus christ what kind of freak folds pages

Dream job? Honestly, I'm kind of in my dream job already. Doing scientific research on fun and interesting problems every day. If it wasn't that, I think it would be writing. I love writing, but I don't have enough time for it sadly.

What gives you comfort? A good book, a lover's touch, warm blankets and soft animals, the quiet sound of the city waking up, good food and fine alcohol.

what are some of your favorite song lyrics? One for the money, two for the better green 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

favorite ice cream flavor ever? PEANUT BUTTER that or cookie dough.

first fandom? No surprise but it was the Ranma 1/2 fandom, for obvious reasons a young Chart was ENTHRALLED by that concept

Your desert island band? Otoboke Beaver cause I'd be pissed

As for who I'm tagging.... @cpericardium @bug4932 @skitter-queen @rainfrazier get to work

[fangomango]

Btw you should read this because I'm cool and all of you like the sleep paralysis Floyd post...

I wrote that just because of this fic so you are obligated to read it :3

its a WIP and not that good and i haventg written fanfiction since 8th grade so...be nice :3

To say Floyd had seen better days was an understatement, he was beaten, bloodied, and bruised. He had hugged death for a second, but with the love of his brothers, he released his grip and came back. But that didn't make him all okay, enduring actual death and over two months of torture, though the exact duration of his separation from the world was unknown to him, which was a revelation reserved for a later date. Right now everyone’s priority was making sure Floyd was ok and safe.

And to be sure of that they put a deeply traumatized and injured man in a van for (blah) days.(this line is temporary, i just needed to put something there) Everyone was worried about Floyd, despite not dying he was still unconscious for a while. Only waking up when his dreams got too vivid for him. it was a sensation that transcended the physical realm and delved into the very core of his existence. It was as if his skin had been peeled away, exposing raw nerves to the relentless squeeze of an unseen force, a malevolent hand he was all too familiar with wringing out every ounce of vitality. Floyd remembered it all too well and it pained his brothers to see it.After nearly two decades of separation, they finally reunited with him, only to find him as a mere semblance of his former self.

[competentcormorant]

We need to talk about Secrets of the Songwing and LGBTQ representation.

Dreamworks. Hey. Sup.

Remember when you made Secrets of the Songwing?

That one Rescue Riders special where they tried to do the representation thing but ended up making something that honestly borders on genuinely insulting, despite being surprisingly beautiful on the surface?

Because I remember. Secrets of the Songwing lives rent free in my head. Do I love it? Just a little, to be honest. I find ending sequence is genuinely beautiful. Here’s why it’s shit representation. If you also have feelings I’m open to discourse in the comments :)

The story follows the Rescue Riders (as well as a bunch of side characters whose appearance in the story makes ZERO sense without the show to prop them up) as they attempt to thwart Melodia, a rogue Songwing dragon who hypnotizes other dragons by singing to them. Melodia is heavily implied to be gay, but this is only revealed at the very end of the movie.

Right off the bat, this story has some extremely dark undertones, including the implication that hypnotized dragons will forgo food and sleep, and will simply sing until they die. That’s not why we’re here. I promised bad representation.

As the story progresses, Melodia hypnotizes some of the Rescue Riders dragons, and the rest of the team begins to concoct increasingly ill-conceived plots to get them back. (Side note: This movie has an excessive reliance on earplugs and being unable to hear hypnosis song. Unfortunately, these are magical plot earplugs, and they block Melodia’s singing but literally nothing else, because writing cause and effect is difficult. Additionally, I suspect they paid the writers in Swiss cheese instead of money.)

Things escalate, and Layla (a Rescue Rider) identifies Melodia as a Songwing dragon. (“I didn’t realize at first, because songwings usually travel in pairs”) OH REALLY? YOU DIDN’T RECOGNIZE THE MASSIVE SPARKLY SINGING RAINBOW DRAGON BECAUSE THERE WEREN’T TWO OF THEM? Suuuure Layla. Remember this line. It will be important later.

Eventually, the riders manage to get the still-hypnotized dragons to return to Berk. (Sorry, knockoff Berk) There are a few pointless plot threads involving show characters, and then Melodia shows up at Not-Berk to hypnotize the Vikings as well as the dragons she already controls. At this point, her motive has not been established beyond “I want everyone to sing with me.” While it is implied that she’s lonely (and, going off of the single offhand comment Layla made earlier, missing her “songmate,” as Songwings travel in pairs) this implication of loneliness only really occurred to me in hindsight, and is inexplicably and poorly explained to the audience by Dax, another rider, at the very end. This movie’s 4 year old target audience probably have NO CLUE why this massive rainbow dragon is flying around trying to hypnotize everyone to “sing with me forever.”

Melodia is not a sympathetic character, because her supposed loneliness is never on display for the audience. All we see is a happy go-lucky dragon stealing free will with some mediocre songs.

Continuing with the plot, Melodia hypnotizes the entire population of Not-Berk. Only a few Riders are left unhypnotized. Exessive screen time is dedicated to making Melodia appear selfish, having the entire village pass her fish while no one else eats. Why? Why not make her sympathetic? This choice to make her completely villainous until her defeat is an extremely strange choice for a character the writers intend to redeem suddenly at the very end.

In the background, Layla is having a subplot about being able to sing in front of people, because only a better song can break a Songwing’s spell. Does it make sense? Not really, but this plot is set up and loosely held throughout the movie, so I really can’t complain about it.

Anyhow, Layla and Melodia have a song battle, and Layla wins, unhypnotizing the knockoff Vikings of Not-Berk. Right until the end of this song battle, Melodia remains unchanged, attempting to keep control. When Layla wins, Melodia’s personality shifts entirely.

Melodia sinks in on herself, and says “help? you’d help me?”. She is immediately FORGIVEN by Layla, saying “you said you lost your songmate, right?” (No, actually. She never said that. The only previous mention of a pair of dragons in any capacity is when Layla brings it up as a trait of the Songwing species. The conversation this line references never happened.) While I can forgive some plot holes in low-budget kids movies, this inconsistency is so blatant and problematic that it makes the ENTIRE PLOT OF THE MOVIE (That loneliness can make people to terrible things, and that those people can still be redeemed. This plot is utterly mishandled, to the point that they literally have Dax TELL MELODIA that “You lost the other half of your pair, and you’ve been trying to replace it with dragons and people.” YEA DAX, I think Melodia would know. Why not have her say it herself? OR SHOW HER BEING LONELY? Oh sorry, I forgot, you think kids are morons, and your writers are actually trapped in a basement signaling desperately for help).

Anyhow, this inconsistency- referencing a conversation about Melodia’s songmate that didn’t happen, makes the ENTIRE PLOT POINTLESS, because the writers FORGOT TO ESTABLISH THE LONELINESS, which was LITERALLY THE WHOLE POINT. (I genuinely could not believe that there wasn’t context for Layla’s line, so I rewatched the movie. Several times. Layla is referring to an event that didn’t happen)

After this series of increasingly odd writing choices, the movie moves on to a genuinely beautiful ending sequence.

No joke there, I just love it. Melodia is presented with a sound amplifying devise Layla used for a bit during her singing confidence sub-plot, and she uses it to call for her songmate. In a vacuum, this sequence is incredible. Cantana, her songmate, hears her, and they have a brief reunion duet.

With the rest of the movie as context, it has the single glaring issue of releasing a horrific, unsympathetic villain with zero repercussions.

Hell, if that scene had been framed as “what you did was bad, but you aren’t, so we’ll help you as long as you never do it again,” I would have no issues (again, kid’s movie. I can accept a simple, forgiveness-heavy narrative).

But while I understand a movie trying to teach young children forgiveness, this is TERRIBLE. Melodia doesn’t appear repentant, she appears manipulative. She suddenly changes tune after being defeated and outnumbered, and then gets to walk away Scot-free.

While I don’t object to having gay villains in movies, any more than I could object to straight villains, I do object to heavily relying on established gay villain tropes. (May I remind you this is a magical, singing, selfish rainbow dragon)

But ultimately, by biggest problem with this movie is that “being gay” is a substitute for a redemption ark. Seriously. That’s such a dumb sentence. I SOULD NOT have to write that.

You can make Melodia an unapologetic villain (who also happens to be gay).

You can give Melodia (who also happens to be gay) a redemption arc.

But you CANNOT do this.

Dreamworks, this is a dumpster fire. Please think before you release movies.

What the fuck.

Stop paying your writers in Swiss cheese.

It’s still better than How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Change my mind, you cowards.

[kylesvariouslistsandstuff]

Quick recap.

David Zaslav should not be running a movie studio. Yet another film has been locked away, one that was near-completed that you'll likely never see, because "tax write-off". First BATGIRL, then SCOOB! HOLIDAY HAUNT, now COYOTE VS. ACME... And even crazier, that production - which tested extremely well - involved James Gunn, one of the architects of Warner's new DC movie universe... Zaslav likely pissed Gunn off, big time... What kind of ineptitude is that?

He could've offloaded it to another distributor, like how the Looney Tunes movie THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP and the series BATMAN: CAPED CRUSADER were. But no, a $30m tax write-off. Because fuck everybody who worked hard making these movie, and fuck everybody who will be its audience - me included. Yachts do weird things to your brain. This is why there were strikes, and whatever happens with the Animation Guild next year, I hope that end of things gets to go HAM next year, because this is all kinds of bullshit. No movie should be locked in a vault because some dingus who doesn't like movies can't be bothered to actually do his job.

Lighter note...

The INSIDE OUT 2 teaser. At last. Funny how it came about right after the actor's strike ended. And even more egregious that while Disgust and Fear are still in the movie, their actors Mindy Kaling and Bill Hader didn't come back because the pay was below that of Amy Poehler's. Tony Hale - previously TOY STORY's jumpy Forky - takes over for Fear, Liza Lapira of many TV roles is now Disgust. New characters! I hate my anxiety, but I like this movie's Anxiety. The design, just. WOW! A scrunkly bunko chewed up Fraggle Rock reject, I dig. Funny how three of the four teased new emotions begin with "E", and the fourth with an "A". All vowels.

Voice work resumes on SPIDER-MAN: BEYOND THE SPIDER-VERSE. Please, no crunch this time. Lock the picture before frames are animated, no last minute changes up until the week before release.

The Netflix-exclusive DreamWorks feature ORION AND THE DARK, from director Sean Charmatz, has a release date, February 2nd... And a trailer... It has a very fun, subtly sketchy look, with characters looking like they were cast from notebook scribbles. Looks to be a fun kid-centric spooky time, like something the ill-fated Disney/Guillermo del Toro animation partnership "Disney Double Dare You" could've made.

The other big Netflix animated movie of 2024 doesn't have a concrete date, but its new trailer is quite striking. Shannon Tindle's ULTRAMAN RISING looks to work off of a SPIDER-VERSE-esque playbook with its textures and modeling (worth noting that Tindle was supposed to direct a superhero movie for Sony Animation up until the plug got pulled in July 2018, just a few months before SPIDER-VERSE 1 came out), but totally doing its own thing, with - as expected - all the anime influences. Another worthy experiment in CG animation pushing the medium in different directions once more.

Now that the strike is over, more delays are likely to come... Disney delayed a *ton* today on the Marvel and CG tech demo end... Their LION KING remake prequel leaves July 5, 2024 (where it was to open opposite of DESPICABLE ME 4) for December 20, 2024 (where it will go head to head with SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3)...

Marvel saw the biggest shakeup.

DEADPOOL 3 is now the sole MCU movie of next year, set for July 26, 2024.

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD now opens 2/14/2025, followed by FANTASTIC FOUR on 5/2/2025, then former 2024 movie THUNDERBOLTS hits 7/25/2025, and the year ends with BLADE, 11/7/2025.

I get that two of these movies are former 2024 titles, but goddamn 2025 still has *four* MCU movies. They should really just do 1-2 solid movies that they took their time on every calendar year. For me, if the bar is GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 and BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER, the MCU would be in good standing every year...

They also still plan to release four movies, including AVENGERS: THE KANG DYNASTY, in 2026... Nah, this train I feel has to slow down a bit. You also have all those Disney+ shows as well, it's a bit overwhelming a feel.

So now Disney's 2024 slate, following the delaying of ELIO and all these Marvel movies, is down to... KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (the first of their new movies, opening in late May), INSIDE OUT 2 (June), DEADPOOL 3 (July), a new ALIEN film (August), an untitled Disney live-action film (September), 20th Century title THE AMATEUR (November), an untitled WDAS film (November), and MUFASA: THE LION KING (December).

Two recently delayed Searchlight movies, THE BIKERIDERS and MAGAZINE DREAMS, can feasibly take some early 2024 slots. They may miss the Oscars, but I'd rather see them sooner than later. I don't know if they can reclaim their December slots with the actors now available to promote them (MAGAZINE DREAMS is tricky because its lead is Jonathan Majors), or if Disney/Searchlight would rather just focus primarily on POOR THINGS.

Untitled Disney September 2024 could just be a placeholder for another 20th Century or Searchlight film, and I doubt they move SNOW WHITE forward from March 2025 to that date. Otherwise, I can't think of any other movie in the tank that could make that date. At least one I've heard of or know that was in production before the strike.

I'm just hoping, since WISH is right around the corner, that we hear what WDAS 2024 is going to be. Who's directing, what it's about, the title, etc. From the trenches, I hear it's a fantasy film set in the Middle East, possibly directed by Suzi Yoonessi, who is of Iranian descent. Maybe, maybe not. I'd love to know soon, though. But whenever they're ready, they're ready. No rushing, now.

I expect a lot more scheduling developments to take place over the next month or so, now that the dust has settled...

[kylekozmikdeluxo]

Madagasqueer, Or My Weird History With a DreamWorks Franchise (Part 1)

LOOOOONG POST... Incoming... Brace yourselves...

CW, just in case: Queerphobia, sexuality, mental illness

For whatever reason, I'm going to talk about MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA, DreamWorks' 2008 sequel to their 2005 CG animated comedy starring a bunch of zoo animals and many wild faces they meet on their adventures.

MADAGASCAR and I go way back. I saw the first movie when it came out, on Memorial Day weekend of 2005. I dug it! I wasn't as in love with it as I thought I was going to be. I was a young animation enthusiast, I was 12 going on 13 at the time, and I was really excited for MADAGASCAR. I was into what DreamWorks was doing at the time, was interested in where CG animated movies were going before a truckton of them all just debuted at once circa 2006-07, and I was also really excited to see a CG picture about animals. I've always had a fascination with wildlife, I write stories and have written stories about anthropomorphic animals... so I welcomed a new animal animated adventure. Surprisingly, at the time, not too many mainstream CG pictures were about land mammals. Heck, we got a movie about prehistoric land mammals before we got this. Everything else was toys, insects, dinosaurs, monsters, humans, fish, fantasy creatures. I mean, you had Donkey from SHREK and a few other characters here and there, but that was about it.

In fall 2004, DreamWorks released a CG animated sitcom called FATHER OF THE PRIDE. This show was quite something, to say the least. It's a show that I still can't wrap my head around, like this thing actually existed and attempted to be a CGI adult sitcom that aired on NBC. Network television. There was a lot of promo for it, for sure. I watched it and liked it back then, for I was 12 and my tastes were not really refined back then. And also Donkey himself made a cameo in one of the episodes, even went as far as plugging SHREK THE THIRD in one scene: "Tell the kids SHREK 3 is coming out in 2006!" (Of course, in reality, SHREK THE THIRD was pushed back to 2007.) The production of the show unfortunately coincided with an incident concerning real-life subject matter it was based: Siegfried & Roy. The show was about a lion that was part of their long-running Las Vegas circus act, and his family life behind the scenes. During production of the show, Roy was attacked by one of the tigers, nearly derailing the entire series... But it was seen through to completion, for the most part, and ran only one season with a few episodes either unfinished or unaired... It was... A thing... To say the least.

Weeks later, SHARK TALE had opened. The film had a teaser trailer for MADAGASCAR attached to it. When it started up, I was like "Wait a minute... What is this? Some FATHER OF THE PRIDE thing?" There was a lion, and there were other wild animals there. It looked interesting to me, and I had seen that trailer in theaters a couple more times, notably before THE INCREDIBLES. I sought it out online, and because this was before YouTube and because my family didn't have high-speed internet, it'd take like an eternity to load a 2 1/2-minute video... And naturally, once it loaded, I'd watch the trailer or whatever it was I was interested in at the time... Over and over, on that choppy little media player embedded into the site. So, I was really looking forward to MADAGASCAR. I liked what DreamWorks was doing at the time, and I was of course in love with the Pixar movies at the time as well. THE INCREDIBLES, circa November-December 2004 and into early 2005, was like my #1 interest and just one of my all-time favorite films.

Then we get to MADAGASCAR, which came out in May 2005, finally, and... I remember I *liked* it, but I didn't love it. I liked it better than SHARK TALE, but not as much as the SHREKs, nor the Pixars. I still liked it, though, and I just felt... I was not expecting the movie's second half to go the way it went. It also didn't help that my stomach hurt all night. When I saw it again on DVD, I watched it non-stop. I could probably quote most of the movie. I think the first MADAGASCAR is a solid movie, not exceptional by any means, but for a 2005 CGI animated movie, this introduced a more cartoony look and feel. Funky character designs, asymmetry, wild takes and movements. I remember back then criticizing the asymmetry of the New York buildings in particular, thinking it was all by mistake, but NO. That was the point, it was supposed to be this 2D cartoon but in 3D. I feel like MADAGASCAR, along with a few other movies of this era, kind of laid the seeds that would eventually step us towards... CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS, HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA... Coinciding with the techniques explored in shorts like PAPERMAN, FEAST, and ONE SMALL STEP. The experiments that would eventually step us through THE BOOK OF LIFE, THE PEANUTS MOVIE, CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS... And, the big one... SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE...

So yes, definitely, MADAGASCAR's cartooniness opened up new doors for what could be done in a mainstream CG picture. Visually neat to this day, groundbreaking in that regard, plus with all the amount of fuzzy animals and crowds of characters... Technically still impressive! I still think the movie is at odds with itself. There's an interesting thing where some people like the first MADAGASCAR the best and not so much the sequels because they like how the first one is about how Alex the lion realistically devolves into being a carnivore and a threat to his herbivore friends... Whereas in the sequels, that's just not a thing. Just like the humans in ICE AGE. I like the sequels more, personally, because I feel like this very dramatic "Alex is going to eat his friends" storyline is kind of at odd with the Looney Tunes/Tex Avery anything-goes cartoon energy of the movie. Plus this conflict is all resolved easily, they give him some sushi and that's it. That's the end. I still think it's a very entertaining movie, I really like the characters and the vibe of the whole thing. Good characters and a neat vibe is what makes a movie for me, even if the storytelling makes choices that kinda baffle me.

I can kinda see why it got mixed to negative reviews back in 2005. It clearly isn't trying to be SHREK or FINDING NEMO or THE INCREDIBLES. I think it's more in the league of ICE AGE, a sort of "cartoon animals on an adventure and they're all arguing and bickering with one another", there's pop culture jokes and such. Come to think of it, how come ICE AGE was given a relatively warm reception but this wasn't? Maybe because by 2005, it felt derivative? Maybe? I dunno!

That being said... Years passed...

Life changed in many ways. I was aware that a sequel was in the works, I believe I saw the announcement back in late 2005 saying that it was coming in 2008. I remember when it carried the title MADAGASCAR 2: THE CRATE ESCAPE. Most of MADAGASCAR 2's marketing missed me, because... When MADAGASCAR 2 was coming out, I was going through a tough period in my life...

I was mostly miserable at the time.

I was going through a prolonged depression period that was spurred by a lot of things that went wrong in my life when I was 13-15. Growing pains, all around too. The trials of being a weird autistic neurodivergent teen in a school system that wasn't for me, and many other things. What I went through affected me negatively, and there was also a falling out that hurt me bad, and then I also made the dire mistake of going on internet message boards as I was. In that state of mind. Imitating a lot of what was going on in my circles, my background, etc. etc. etc.

Short version... I probably shouldn't have been where I was on the internet at the time. Mainly IMDb message boards. I was eaten alive, and a lot of it was also my own fault. I acted like an asshole in retaliation. It was not pretty. There were things I said and did, if I went back in time to 2006, I would almost slap my younger self. All of this change and trauma and hurt turned me off to so many of the things that I was so enthused about prior. I found new things to latch onto at the time, many of which did become new special interests, so that is a plus.

I would say my biggest special in early-to-mid 2008 was '60s and '70s music, The Beatles and much of my parents' music tastes my gateway to that. I was SUNK in all of that stuff. I was exploring so much of the rock music world, and collecting records. Wasn't really deep-diving into movies at the time, I wasn't really following animated movie news, barely watched my Disneys like I always did annually... Even in a year like 2007 where everything was falling apart, I still was in the know about movies like SHREK THE THIRD, SURF'S UP, RATATOUILLE, and THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. Even BEE MOVIE to an extent. But in 2008? The likes of HORTON HEARS A WHO! and KUNG FU PANDA just passed me by. KUNG FU PANDA is now a favorite of mine and a movie that means so much to me, but back in mid-2008... I just knew it existed, had no real interest. I was also going through that weird phase where I found Pixar and Disney to be the real deal, and DreamWorks to be that "SHREK fart stuff". The only animated movie that didn't pass me by back then was WALL-E, which I made a special exception for.

In a time where I was unwilling to even go out in public, unless I was going to school (ya know, because I *had* to), I still made an exception for WALL-E... I remember seeing that movie gave me a bright spot of hope in such a dark time. Like, I felt I'd never get a significant other, but I just remember feeling hopeful when it ended. Just about things in general, not about having an S-O particularly. (I'm more of a "I'd rather have some really good friends than be married" person, anyways.) I just also really loved the movie itself, and still do. Blew me away, I remember stumbling out of that auditorium. An animated sci-fi epic of that caliber, it was just so cool seeing that come out of Pixar at the time, an American animation studio.

MADAGASCAR 2 was around the corner, and the trailer might've been before WALL-E... A couple months after WALL-E's release, I remember snapping out of this awful, dour mood that was in. This utter self-hatred and depression, and not wanting to be anywhere in public, thinking I had no friends. So, by November 2008, when MADAGASCAR 2 opened... I was a whole new person! And I was *game* to see that movie. HAD to see it, no other way.

I rounded up a friend of mine. He didn't even see the first one, but he went with me. This friend of mine, I hung out with a lot. Back in those days, we were such goofuses together, I feel a lot of our time together just gave me a needed place to be my weird-ass self when I couldn't in other areas of middle/high school. No surprise, during that period where I was miserable... My sophomore year of high school, he wasn't in ANY of my classes or lunch periods. Completely separated... Kinda shows how weak I was back then, that I fell apart because I didn't have that friend of mine with me. And I wasn't driving yet, neither was he, and we didn't see each other often - we were bogged down in schoolwork and other life stuff anyways.

So we went and saw MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA. Because I broken out of that awful, dismal mood, I was like indulging on everything I had left behind prior to it. I really got back into mainstream animated movies. Like, ooo, what's the next DreamWorks movie? What's this OOBERMIND thing? HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON? What's all this?? Possibly BOO U, even? I had a good time. I'll distinctly remember my friend leaning towards me and saying nonchalantly, "Kyle, this is one funny-ass movie." He'd never seen the first one, he was just like "yeah I'll see it", and we had a great time! Such a fun movie. One of the oldest ticket stubs I saved, too.

So... MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA... I'm not the first person to point this out, but I definitely somewhat sensed it back then... It's queer... Queer AF...

This post is getting to be very long, sooo... Part two!

We'll continue in the next post, to save digital ink space!

[jajanvm-imbi]

You know what, I put al my thoughts in the tags but I have so much more to say about this so EDIT, i'm putting my thoughts here instead of studying for my math final that I have in 2 days.

Klance was 10000% queerbait but I only blame the producers for it. The creative team was put through HELL because the producers couldn't decide on a course of action to take after Dreamworks forced them to keep Shiro alive instead of killing him off permanently like they originally planned. (There is a fantastic video essay about some of the behind the scenes drama that was uncovered. I'll link to it here. The creator of the essay was a Shieth shipper so you know I mean it when I say its a good video essay)

(NO HATE TO SHIETH SHIPPERS PLEASE DONT INTERPRET THAT AS ME DUNKING ON THEM. YES I DON'T LIKE SHIETH BUT I WISH NO ILL WILL ON ANY SHIETH SHIPPERS)

Anyway, Dreamworks made the VLD creative team keep Shiro alive because he was so popular, and since that pretty much fucked up the entire rest of the story in order to have Shiro be in it, the producers were stuck with the mess Dreamworks put them in. But instead of making the logical decision of asking for an extension on production for whatever reason, because it be too expensive to rewrite and reboard all of the following seasons that were already in production after season 2 was released, or something, the producers continued with production as scheduled but completely blind. (All this is covered in the video essay I linked, seriously i recommend watching it, it actually puts a lot of the issues with VLD into perspective) Literally anything beyond season 2 had no clear plan. If it feels like the story was being made up as it went along, its because it literally was. Thats why so many things made no sense in later seasons, there was absolutely no plan.

So what does this have to do with Klance? Well its simple. If the rumors are true and Klance was originally planned from the very beginning (which I wholeheartedly believe), then this change of plans completely fucked everything over. The reason why Keith was barely in seasons 4-6 was because the producers had to make the choice of either keeping Keith or Shiro more present in the series. The whole "Shiro was a clone" thing was made to cover this. Keith was barely in those seasons because Shiro was taking his place, and Shiro was never supposed to be there. (Again, all covered in the video essay) Because of all the last minute changes being made to the story, Keith was almost completely written out of season 4-6. How are you supposed to write a love story between two characters if one of the characters isn't even there??? You can't.

But here's where it gets messy. If Klance was originally supposed to happen, but the last minute changes made it almost impossible for a natural romantic progression to happen between Keith and Lance, why the fuck did they keep hinting at it? You know what I'm talking about: the thumbnails, the tagging, the fucking HotTopic merch. If Klance was no longer logically possible because the story had to be taken in a completely different direction, why was Klance being hinted at like it was?

I'll tell you why.

Its because Klance was the driving force behind VLD's popularity. Without Klance, VLD wouldn't have been nearly as popular as it was. Check Fandometrics from 2017-2019. In 2018, VLD and Klance were listed as two separate fandoms in the Top 10 Most Popular Fandoms list. Klance held first place rank for most popular ship from 2017-2018, and was in second place in 2019 being beaten by Good Omen's Ineffable Husbands. And thats just on TUMBLR, thats not even considering Twitter and Instagram. Klance was obnoxiously popular from 2017-2019 because literally everyone saw its potential. Without the numbers and the ratings the Klance fandom was raking in, the show would have probably been canceled because the story was a MESS, it was either super confusing or super boring. The Klance fandom was what kept VLD alive, and the producers knew this.

(Does this justify any of the Klance fandoms actions toward the VLD cast and crew? Absolutely not. There's a reason why the VLD/Klance fandom is one of the most notoriously toxic fandoms on the internet.)

So instead of just dropping Klance and leaving the early season Klance interactions up for speculation, the producers made the worst possible decision and kept hinting at Klance even though they knew it probably could never happen due to the decisions they had to make because of the Dreamworks exects. And since literally no one on the creative team knew what was happening because they were all making it up as they went along, they too thought Klance was still a possible endgame. So the storyboard artists drawing this stuff and the cast (Jeremy Shada specifically) continuing to talk about Klance as if it was endgame wasn't them baiting us, it was them being baited as well. The producers could have easily been like "Hey, we don't think Klance can be possible anymore because of XYZ, lets stop talking about it to please the fandom" and instead decided to exploit the Klance fanbase in order to keep the show running.

The whole Shiro and Adam thing is the more famous and obvious example of queerbaiting the VLD producers did, but Klance was the more sinister example. They kept feeding the already violent Klance fandom with hope because they needed their devotion to keep the show alive. They were using Klance as bait since SEASON 3, for practically the ENTIRE SHOW'S EXISTENCE.

Yes the Klance fandom was rabid and insanely toxic, but the blame can't be 100% put on the fandom when the producers were knowingly enabling the Klance fandom. Again, Klance was no longer a logical possibility because of the direction the show had to take in order to meet Dreamworks' demands, but they still depended on Klance's popularity to keep the show running. The actual fucking lives of the VLD cast and crew were being T H R E A T E N E D by the rabid Klance fans, and the producers really thought to themselves, "Yeah, the safety of our cast and crew are being threatened by obsessive fans, but lets keep baiting them with the thing they want so we can get the numbers and ratings we need to continue to run."

The producers were put in an incredibly tough spot when their story was forcibly being changed because of the exects, I'll give them that. But it doesn't justify any of the queerbaiting bullshit they pulled in order to keep an already declining show running, and it certainly doesn't justify allowing the Klance fandom to threaten the LIVES AND SAFTEY OF THEIR CAST AND CREW for ratings.

Remembering how this is all art by official VLD crew members.

"Klance wasn't queerbaiting" my ass

[elminx]

Magical ideas for the Cancer Full Moon

Tomorrow evening, on 1/17, the moon will be full at 27° Cancer. There's a lot going on astrologically: the Sun will be conjunct Pluto, the Moon will be opposed Pluto, Venus retrograde will be trine Uranus, Mercury retrograde will be conjunct Saturn and square Uranus, and Saturn is square Uranus. With two personal planet retrograde going on, this isn't the time to focus on things outside of ourselves but it is the divine right time to do things for ourselves and our homes.

The Cancer Full Moon is a great time to:

1. Magically clean your house! - I know that many of us don't like to clean but I promise that (for me at least) working magic into the cleaning process has helped me to enjoy/keep up with mundane housekeeping. I've written a full post about magical housekeeping here, so I won't be redundant BUT it's a watery full moon on Moonday - this is the perfect divine timing to clean up the stagnant winter energy. 2. Work with lunar energies - I mean, every full moon, amiright?!? But the sign of Cancer is ruled by the moon so this stands doubly true for this moon. 3. Do some bath magic - a watery moon is a great time to do a bath spell. You could do a cleansing bath OR make and charge your own salt scrub or bath salts for future bath magic glory. 4. Divination - again, bring it that lunar energy. Whatever your cup o' tea divination is really will do. In fact, do some tasseomancy (tea leaf reader) to double down on the watery energy. 5. Dreamwork - Since Cancer is ruled by the moon, this is a great time to re-up your dream spells or make a dream spell for the first time. This could be a spell to get rid of nightmares, a spell for better sleep in general, or maybe a spell for lucid dreaming.

6. House Magic - Cancer is the ruler of the 4th house which is very focused on House & Home. This is a great time to do any brand of house magic that you prefer - make a simmer pot, do a protection spell for your space, feed your altars, consecrate a new house candle - the sky is the limit here.

7. Work with Emotions - This is pretty open-ended purposefully. You could do a spell to heal your broken heart. Or a spell to make you more open or less open to the emotions of others (as you need in your own life). The caveat here would be that Venus is retrograde so it is very ill-advised to do a spell to affect the emotions of others - focus on yourself during this time. I hope this was helpful - comment and let me know what type of magic you are doing for the Cancer full moon!

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[lizzylucky]

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Contents Below The Cut: About Me, Other Blogs I Run, Fandoms, Blorbos, Tag List (TBD), Other Media Platforms (TBD)

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About Me (sorry, 'tis a lot):

Hi! My name is Elizabeth. I have many (MANY) nicknames, but the one I usually go by online is Lizzy.

I am a heterosexual, cis-gendered female, who prefers she/her pronouns. I'll be 22 on June 1st this year ('22)!

I'm an aspiring... Everything, really. Author/Actor/Poet/Artist/Animator/Singer/Interior Architect/Dancer?/Seamstress/Pet Keeper..... I just love to create and share!!

I consider myself an ally. I'm not perfect, not a reliable source of LGBT+ info, and have lots to learn. Regardless, I will NEVER judge you for your gender, sexual orientation, attraction, age, gender, race, circumstance, or opinion. I also will never force MY perceptions on you. I will ALWAYS respect your preferred pronouns to the best of my ability, and will always respect your opinions even when I disagree You are safe to be yourself with me, and if I ever do or say something harmful or misinformative, you have my permission, nay, my encouragement, to call me out, educate me, ask I delete or alter something, or contact me privately. I will do everything I can to be a neutral grounds, and all inclusive; THIS IS A PROMISE.

I am neurodivergent and mentally ill; diagnosed with Autism and Acute Anxiety, have had two medical professionals agree I have Clinical Depression, ADHD, OCD, and PTSD, and I personally believe I have Executive Function Disorder, too. Again, I'm not a perfect source of information, but I'm knowledgeable enough; and open-minded. To reiterate, if you have any of these or similar, YOU ARE SAFE HERE. You can stim, vent, rant or info dump; I will be THRILLED to be a part or listen; because this is exactly what I am like in real life. You never have to apologize for anything "weird" or "quirky", or for "being depressing", or having a lot to say or repeatedly interacting or flooding my inbox or always focusing on the same topics- Never.

Other Blogs I run:

Lizart Central, @lizart-central This is where you can find ALL my art. And just art! It's a semi-new-ish blog, so it won't have art older than a couple years. Take a look!

The Story Of Officially, @thestoryof-officially This started as a 365 writing prompts challenge. I decided to try doing it every year, too, but never once completed the challenge. It's been inactive for a while, but I intent to pick it back up again soon.

Perler Pattern Mania, @moonstonedragon This blog is purposed entirely to perler bead patterns and projects! It is... VERY old, and has been inactive for a long time. There's not tons of content, but feel free to check it out!

Fandoms

Cartoons -- Ninjago, She-Ra, DuckTales, Danny Phantom, Gravity Falls, My Little Pony, Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Tales of Arcadia, Avatar The Last Airbender, The Dragon Prince, Big Mouth/Human Resources, Invader Zim, Hazbin Hotel, Helluva Boss, Far-Fetched

Anime -- Digimon Adventure/02/Tri, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Miraculous Ladybug, Ghost Hunt, This Art Club Has A Problem/There's A Problem With This Art Club, Ouran High School Host Club

Shows -- Dr Who, Supernatural, The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Agent Carter, DareDevil, Agents of Shield, Jessica Jones, Loki

Movies -- Almost everything Disney, Marvel, DreamWorks, Pixar; also love Harry Potter (please note that I no longer make purchases related to or share/create/interact with content for this series). Soft spots for: Encanto, The Bad Guys, The Ice Age Series, Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, Coraline, Corpse Bride

Web Comics -- LINKED UNIVERSE LINKED UNIVERSE LINKED UNIVERSE LINKED UNIVERSE, Room of Swords, Lore Olympus, Castle Swimmer, Not Even Bones

Video Games -- Legend of Zelda Series, Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, Sonic and All-stars Racing Transformed, Mario Kart, Luigi's Mansion

I can promise you there are a LOT I haven't even mentioned, feel free to ask about it!

(Current) Blorbos

FOUR FROM LINKED UNIVERSE. FOUR. FOUR FOUR FOUR FOUR!!!!!! THE BOY. HERO OF THE FOUR SWORD. HERO OF MEN/LIGHT/MINISH/ETC. FOURRRRRRRRRRFHDDJCHDICHKSKSHSO

Mr Wolf (The Bad Guys)

Danny Phantom (Duh)

Loki (MCU)

Zane (Ninjago)

Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)

Princess Luna (MLP)

Hades,Persephone (Lore Olympus)

Gyrus (Room of Swords)

Tag List -- TBD

Other Media Platforms -- TBD

[hisunshiine]

— armypedia 🧩 epilogue

Chapter 7: Epilogue: Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork

⟢ pairing: none

⟢ credit: co-written with @heathfritillary​​ ♡

⟢ genre: horror au | thriller au | angst | minor smut | thriller/spooky |

⟢ rating: 18+ | mature themes & explicit content

⟢ story warnings: Horror, Psychological Horror, Violence, Kidnapping, Torture, Pain, Delusional Thinking, Explicit Language, Minor Character Death, Weapons, Fire, Blood, Additional Warnings Identified This Chapter: mentions of death, mentions of illness, mentions of pain psychological and physical, fear, paranoia, mentions of past triggering events, mentions of sex

⟢ wc: 1,287

⟢ summary: Wanna play a game? 🧩 The members of BTS find themselves awakening, one by one, seemingly abducted and with no clue as to what is going on. Soon, they’ll have to piece together puzzles designed specifically for the KPOP group as they are forced to participate in a sick game of life and death, conducted by someone who has a point to prove. This eight chaptered horror fanfic takes inspiration from the movie franchise, Saw.

⟢ author’s note: thanks for reading for spooky season. please remember this is a work of fiction. we love all of the members equally and very much. this is only for spooky season. please respect their privacy irl. This is the end of the fic so if you stuck by, I appreciate it! It was my first collab with my twinnie, and its amazing to see how much we’ve grown in a year of writing!

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It had been months since the inciting events. It was all over the news; the entire world collectively held their breaths when the guys stood in front of a press conference telling in great detail what happened to them the day they were taken.

Still unsure how the sasaeng was able to drug and move 7 able-bodied, grown men from one point to another, avoiding all security cameras the idols had installed around their dorm, they spoke, sharing their story. ARMY’s around the world listened in horror as the youngest member had to reveal the terrifying position he was forced to be placed in.

A woman was found dead, remnants of mechanical torture devices, weapons, and gasoline filled a warehouse on the outskirts of Seoul, where seven young men had been involuntarily ripped from their home and forced to play games constructed by a deranged fan.

But it had been months.

After weeks of therapy sessions, nightmares, arguments, and growing animosity as well as dealing with the aftermath, the seven young men found themselves able to establish some sort of order and structure.

It wasn’t easy, and days would inevitably occur when they would find themselves lost and scared again, but they reverted to the one thing they knew best, their fans and the eternal love to create music. At the end of the day, they could seek refuge in knowing that they did, in fact, overcome the disheartening trauma. Not only that, but the fact that they overcame it together, as BTS, with the power of teamwork.

A trusted assistant knocked on each of the boys’ rooms delivering a sealed letter to each of them. Upon reading their individual letters, Namjoon gathered the other six, where they revealed to each other that they all had received a letter. Although the content of each members’ letter differed, it was from the same person. Terrified, they sat together in their living room as one after the other read the content of his letter out loud for the others to hear.

The nightmare was supposed to be over. She was found dead, after everything was said and done, yet the guys could sense their fear return as an overwhelming crippling apprehension emerged; even in death the woman still had so much power over them. The feeling that she could somehow still be watching them never faded for long.

The Taehyung biased BTS fan explained in her letter that she was writing to them as she watched over them. For months, she planned how she was going to execute her revenge. Jimin frowned and could not understand what they’d done that was so terrible that an ARMY decided to hurt them. Seokjin continued reading his letter out, and there the kidnapper further explained how she felt neglected by the guys and that they seemed to have lost their sincerity along with allowing fame to take them from her.

“She sounds entitled as hell,” Yoongi blurted and the other members nodded in agreement.

Their schedules, their private lives, any dates or plans they had, she knew them all and listed how she obtained the information. Taehyung shivered and Hoseok embraced him as Seokjin kept reading further. The woman explained in great detail how accessible they were to her and she could potentially keep watching them without anyone ever finding out.

Seokjin couldn’t contain his disgust and Namjoon hastily grabbed the letter from him. “It’s alright, I can read what mine says.”

With a clenched jaw, Namjoon hesitantly read the excruciating motives behind the deranged fan. He knew he was forcing his members to relive the day but when he gathered them, he knew that this was something they had to face as a team…as hard as it was.

She described in great detail how she gained access to their personal information, going as far as hiring people and manipulating others in order to extract what she needed to complete her mission.

“This bitch had zero remorse,” Hoseok spat angrily.

Namjoon nodded as he continued. She was terminally ill and had wished for them to reach out to her as her dying wish but after months of—what she deemed as rejection—she decided to reach out to them instead.

“What letters? How did she reach out?” Seokjin bewilderingly asked.

“We didn’t get anything from a dying fan,” Taehyung chimed in, “I would have remembered that. Hell, I would have even personally driven us to her.”

“The point isn’t her old letters,” Jungkook gazed up at Namjoon, “It’s the fact that she felt rejected by us, right?”

Namjoon nodded once more. He reached out for Jungkook’s letter and began reading it out loud for the members. In this one, she explained how tired she was at seeing BTS everywhere when no one knew of their true colors. At some points, she hated them and wished the worst to happen to them. Often, she wrote, she contemplated whether or not to go forward with her findings and expose them.

Jungkook gulped, “She’s talking about the BTS that ARMY doesn’t know.”

“Like how you like this particular escort?” Seokjin raised a teasing eyebrow.

“Or how Hobi-hyung fantasizes about our ARMYs?” Taehyung teased and everyone glared profoundly at him. Leaning into his chair, he bit his tongue as he apologized. Hoseok, unlike Jungkook, couldn’t handle the guys teasing him about his experience. While the others had someone to lean up against during the horrific day, Hoseok was by himself.

It fell quiet for a long moment after all the seven letters were read out loud. None of them knew what to say, so they simply sat and stared off in the distance as the horrifying memory of that day enveloped their thoughts.

It wasn’t easy to relive that day.

Even after all of the obstacles and hard work the guys needed as a group, as well as individually, to cope with the aftermath of that day, it was all still mind-blowingly fresh in their memories. Jungkook more so than the others. Unlike his bandmates, he’d chosen to kill a life to save himself and another; he desperately needed more therapy than the others.

Namjoon sat beside the youngest and Jungkook immediately leaned into his form seeking comfort.

When the deranged fan kidnapped them, she robbed them of their freedom and even though she justified it to herself as an act to revive the Bangtan Sonyeondan she used to love, she thoroughly fucked them up. As strong as they attempted to seem for their ARMY’s, they couldn’t deny that they were nowhere near healed.

“It’s so vile,” Jimin murmured as he hugged himself. “Why would she feel the need to teach us a lesson?”

“What lesson?” Yoongi stood. “She didn’t teach us anything except that we aren’t safe from anyone that truly wants to fuck with us.” His voice was filled with rage and the remaining members couldn’t do much but agree. “Security? A joke,” he continued, “cameras? A joke.” Yoongi sprung his arms out as he gestured around. “It’s all a fucking joke. We aren’t safe and we will never be safe.”

“We’re safe right now, hyung,” Namjoon murmured and Seokjin agreed while standing up.

“I understand receiving these letters after all this time has you feeling uneasy, Yoongi,” his older brother placed his palm on his shoulder, “we all feel that way, but I think we can learn something from this,” he gestured at Jimin’s letter, “She said we are brothers and we as BTS take pride in our camaraderie. We should remember who we are and that there’s absolutely nothing we cannot survive and do as long as we are together,” Seokjin looked around at his younger brothers fondly.

“As long as we are seven.”

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"All we know is jeans"

"Actually none of that fur is from animals... its all from... mustaches"

"I think her name could just BE Melissa"

"How could you do this to me? I was your loyal apple servant... and you turned me into a danm sword"

"This is my loft, it is also a prison"

"Lets just turn the ethnicities up. He is all ethnicities all at once"

"Its like his mustache has a mustache riding in it like an exo suit"

"A FULL FACE IS JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED. IM DAZ... HOLY CHRIST"

"HES A HUMAN LAVA LAMP"

"I dont wanna smell what ive been doing" "on the coartz... did you say course? On the corch" "on the kornk" "out on the gro- out of the jeolf gortch"

"Did not golf!... failed to golf!"

"We can give this human boy an icecream paint job"

"Im gonna teleport you to the no crime Dairy Queen"

"IM ABOUT TO DAIRY QUEEN THAT THING OUT OF THE FUCKING SKY"

"I feel like this character has changed... now hes not so much a crime stopper as he is a dairy queen salseman"

"YOU THREW OFF THE ANGLE OF MY DANGLE"

"MOVE YOUR GIANT PIZZA ASS"

"We need a name" "how about New America" *names it Good America* "perfect"

"Im gonna put some flames on this ass eyed dog"

"Im the sequal to dogs! I need your eyes, fat slug!"

*gasp* "theres a good boy" "there's my good boy!"

"We're taking a new approach to minions... what if they were horrible and had no eyes... bæñåņã"

"What i like about him most is that hes looking up at god"

"THE LEGS DONT EVEN KNOW HOW TO DO IT"

"Its like you got nipple suspenders"

"I don't think it should tell me if i do or dont eat boy"

"IM GONNA SEND THIS DOG TO SPACE"

"No one should have to behold that" "nooo... not me, not you, not god"

"WAIT CAN WE GET AN IMMEDIATE REPLAY ON THAT CAUSE IM PRETTY SURE HE JUST EXPLODED MY WIFE"

"Heres the shrek sex scene youve always wanted but that dreamworks is too afraid to give you"

"THIS GAME IS GARBAGE FROM A TOILET"

"Oh that scamp... he tried to kill our baby again"

"We can say one of them is Shrek, one of them is Fiona, and one of them is Shrek's brother... Garje"

" did you just say my friend TO-TO-RO??... My dad Totino" "my niece garbanzo"

"Who is pigeon?" "Im sorry, who is pigeon!?" "Who is this???"

" I MISS MY ARM BONES... *misses at frisbee* SHIT... i blame that one on the lack of bones"

"Shes gonna turn that Fresca into biking energy"

"This is inconvenient at bathroom time"

"If you see guy, call the pervert police"

"This is a hot topic toilet mistake"

"It dont know cant" "it simply dont know cant"

"JUSTIN HES PUNCHING ALL MY BLOOD OUT"

"Got to go make my bed and then go do a murder"

"Oh jesus" "oh boysers"

"I heard there was a deempis party going on"

"Now take a look at those peepers and then you tell me..."

"Fast food... you have head... AIRPLANES"

"AH SHIT WHAT THE FUCK. CYBER BALKI???"

"Guess what? Ill turn you into a fucking baby if you're not careful"

"No thats the crime frog!"

"Well with every piece of meat that i eat, i dont want to have to stop and be like... did this guy write a book?"

"How many 4 arm woman persons do you know?!"

"STUNK IN BOPX PLEASE... low on nups"

"Can i hit you with Riddle Me Piss?"

"Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one and down did come, hickory dickory dock. What am i?" "A mouse?" "No dumb shit!" "What is it?" "... the guillotine!"

"400 HORSE POWER WOULD DESTROY THE GALAXY"

"Now why would you let us change the fin color? You know what fin is made out of. Its made out of the rest of him"

"right now I'm trying to fucking nose-scope a rhino out of the sky"

"i like that. kind of a hair diaper"

"no Justin, you're not a wrestling fan, not like me, a real wrestling fan- you gotta grab the orb! you have to grab the orb. it's the secret"

"is this what you think of west virginny i-in-ins?"

"are people still sixty nining out there?" "not... legally"

"the gaME CRASHED- TODD DAMMIT"

"that slime burger's in hell, and that's the fucking dalema"

"non negotiable means nothing to you, Griffin, don't act like it does"

Mcelroy quotes

"OH GOD OH FUCK HES GONNA EAT MY BONES" "YOUR TOUCAN BONES"

"Toucan Dan the spooky badooky toucan man"

"Listen kids, people are gonna try to give you guns all the time, but theyre no cool. Listen to Toucan Dan. Chili dogs"

"I wish we had lorenzo music on call" "i think he passed away" "... i wish we had lorenzo music on the planet, then"

"WELCOME TO THE STARSHIP FUTURE TIMES"

"I come for you in the sleeping hours!"

"Is he your son or your husband?" "My sonsband"

"Can i be strong?" "I think you are strong" "no i need to be stronger... like king of the universe strong"

"Gonna put you in this prison toilet... cause thats what you are, you're a stink man" "garbage boy" "garbage boy stink man"

"She looks like a human goldfish"

"No eyelids??? WHY IS THAT AN OPTION!? YOU NEED THOSE"

"Hey whats going on in here??" "NOTHING, TRASH HULK. ME AND METAL HUSBAND ARE COOKING YOU A MEAL WHICH I WILL FEED YOU IN BABY BOTTLE CAUSE YOU. ARE. MAN. BABY"

*types in "pam the existence eater"*

"COME TO ME MY SHAUN-STER"

"HAS ANYONE SEEN MY VERY LITTLE HUSBAND!?"

"Hes not my love child anyways. My love child is like, a can of peas back at home"

"HES LIKE A ROTTISERIE CHICKEN"

"HAVE YOU BEEN TO MY FOREST OF SONS??"

"Did you literally do anything to trigger that?" "I tried to turn everyone into dogs and i get why the game wouldn't like that!"

"HONEY I SHRUNK THE YOU"

*types in "set underwear to no"*

"The force of these things being birthed from my womb is gonna push me through the ceiling"

"HES LIKE A HUMAN BOTTLE OF OLIVE OIL"

"I want his soul in a jar so i can put it on my desk"

"OH... YEAAAAH GHOST DAD"

"My boy Stevo's gonna drink an alligator's weener"

"Please stop throwing me off if tall shit"

"Having been recon- dont- pit- stop- throw- dont- throw- if you- dont- stop- throw-"

"You're on some next level shit. I gotta start throwing my children"

"Great bones, man" "thats a high quality set of bones in that goblin"

"You ready to make some genuine wrestle boys?"

"My perfect baseball son"

"I CAN SEE HIS MOUTHY MOUTH GUMMY WORKS"

"Aw beans, i look like a real goober"

"Thats true... thats a real good point griffin, i guess ive never blamed god for rats before"

"Holy shit... LOOK AT RAT BABY'S MADDEST HOPS"

"I dont knwo what you want me- i goofed up very good"

"This isnt my grandpa's Dark Souls" "no its your grandma's Dark Souls if your grandma is a witch that hangs out behind the Arby's"

"Hey dude? Your desk is pizza. Like, i dont want to tell you how to do your thing... but your desk is pizza"

"That movie is piss... that movie is piss. End of sentence, end of thought"

"It looks like you're falling into a portal that is a man"

"Hey guys, its president Obama. Ive been watching the entire time, and no"

"Thats my hero wood"

"He looks like a skin diaper"

"Like if Bill Nye amd Bill Nye had a baby with a mushroom. What would that look like? And the answer is a sad dinosaur"

"JUSTIN, THE BLOOD DINOSAUR IS BACK"

"I cant believe i have to play this normal!"

".... HOW DID THAT GIVE ME MORE PANTS!?"

"Youve taken me to two sex dungeons amd this is the worst place youve taken me so far! Its full of demons and it crashes my computer!"

"Im gonna get some poppy corn" "no we cannot stay here" "im staying and im getting some fucking poppy corn"

"Tonino's, i was possessed by the bad chair"

"I think these two people are about to have sex- should we go? Should we go? Should we go? Should we go? I just shot myself off the space station"

"I just clicked on your wings and it asked me if i wanted to finger your wings??" "Where are you?" "I think im in hell?"

"Theres so much nudity in Second Life! Its like 🎶everywhere you look there's a breast or three🎶" "🎶on the same person🎶"

"Oh god the anime vagina's back... its right next to a place called Muddy Country"

"I lost what makes the boy mayer a boy mayer... now he just kinda looks like a man mayer"

"I hope thats not disconcerning for them... to see a skateboarding pizza man and a trash boy"

*types into chat "pizza crime is eternal"*

"I just made myself kinda a boy hat?" "Well the good news is, now she has a reason to drink"

"WHATS UP EVERYBODY, I THINK DOGS SHOULD VOTE"

"I just told them i think its so progressive that they let skateboarders in and they booted me"

" ive made kinda a pizza party prison- like a personal panned pizza party prison?"

"The music is actually so loud im kinda having a panic attack" "to southern country?" "Yeah"

"I simply cant" "you can't?" "Not with the Bart"

"Someone has a sign with trump holding all the chaos emeralds"