#jewish Velma Dinkley

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Scooby Doo Redesign

Because I cannot stop thinking about it.

[art credits at bottom]

Fred Jones

💙 Frederick Steven Jones

💙 19 years old

💙 he/him

💙 Currently identifies as bisexual, but he’s still figuring it out.

💙 Autism

💙 Caucasian (like, the whitest boy to ever white)

💙 Adopted by a middle class family as a baby. Considers his birth parents the biggest mystery yet.

💙 Mom friend of The Gang. He has a satchel that’s really just a mom purse that he takes on all the mysteries. It has baby wipes in it.

💙 Is the one who got the whole Gang to really start hanging out. He dragged them along on their first mystery. Apparently almost dying is a big bonding experience.

💙 Owns the Mystery Machine. He bought it at a junk yard and fixed it up himself. It was a labor of love and he cares about it more than anything in the world (except maybe his friends)

💙 Hyperfixates on mystery and/or traps.

Shaggy Rogers

💚 Norville Dennis Rogers

💚 20 years old

💚 he/him or they/them

💚 Pansexual demiboy

💚 Anxiety, ADHD

💚 Black/African-American

💚 Born into a new-money, rich family. They were very supportive of Shaggy when he told them he didn’t want to take over the family business.

💚 He is usually either stress eating for has the munchies.

💚 Scooby Doo is his support animal. He doesn’t do the best job (considering) but it’s the thought that counts and Scoob would never leave Shaggy hanging.

💚 Got the name “Shaggy” In kindergarten because he refused to let the barber cut his hair all year.

💚 Has a prescription for medical marijuana. Uses it liberally.

Velma Dinkley

🧡 Velma Ruth Dinkley

🧡 18 years old (baby of The Gang)

🧡 she/her or they/them

🧡 Lesbian

🧡 Autism

🧡 Jewish-Mexican

🧡 Both of her parents are Jewish-Mexican as well. They own a small tourist shop in their town and live comfortably enough to be considered middle-class.

🧡 Has literally the worst vision ever. Lenses so thick she has to get a special coating on them so they aren’t so heavy.

🧡 Doesn’t necessarily believe in God or religion, but still practices because it was mostly how she bonded with her parents as a kid.

🧡 Skipped a grade in elementary school. She could have skipped another, but her parents didn’t want her to be with kids that much older than her.

🧡 Hyperfixates on different science fields and history. Comes in handy a lot during mysteries.

Daphne Blake

💜 Daphne Ann Chun Blake

💜 19 years old

💜 she/her

💜 Bisexual transgender

💜 ADHD

💜 Korean-Scottish

💜 Born into an old-money, rich family. Her parents have very high expectations of her and often compare her to her older sisters.

💜 Her mother is Scottish and her father is Korean. He took her last name when they married, but Daphne and all her sisters have the second middle name “Chun” because that was his family name. Somehow Daphne and all her sisters got their mom’s red hair.

💜 When she came out as trans to her parents, they were actually really supportive because they had always wanted all daughters.

💜 Jack of all trades. Her parents made her do everything they could think of to make her “well-rounded” which just ended with her having a lot of random skills.

💜 Has difficulty sticking to one thing for too long before getting bored of it. The mysteries keep her on her toes.

Other info

❤️ The Gang met in a history class they all had together. Shaggy was a senior and needed to retake the class to graduate. The rest of the gang were juniors.

❤️ They are all in a polyamorous relationship with each other. I might make a chart later. Who knows?

❤️ Scooby talks. There is no explanation. No one questions it.

❤️ They are a family. This is very important. They all care about each other.

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Meddling Kids

Part of: Steve Deserves Good Parents, Actually

Debbie and Fester Addams One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Six Rick and Evelyn O'Connell One | Two | Three Harley Quinn One | Two | Three 10th Doctor and Rose One | Two Scooby Gang One (you're here!) Jedidiah and Octavius (from Night at the Museum) One | Two Queen Clarisse Renaldi One | Two | Three Leverage Crew One

From the girl that brought you that silly little Spicy Six Scooby Movie post (I've been thinking of making that post into one of those social media series things on Tumblr but imma let that cook a little longer actually lmao) is a brand new Stranger Things and Scooby Doo crossover

Anyway, we're here for good vibes and fluffy Scooby gang, so definitely don't point out any typos hfjkds

Have fun reading!

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People coming.

Steve freezes, looking at the possum that's scurried into the room and sidled up next to him. He takes a deep breath and forces his shoulders to relax. People have come to explore the abandoned lab before; usually, it's just older kids daring each other to stand inside for a few minutes. There's been that lady recently who likes dressing up as a weird rat-thing, but she hasn't bothered Steve or his friends. Actually, she may not even realize Steve is here.

"Is it the lady again?" he asks, his voice low as he places a hand on the possum's head. He feels its nerves flow through his palm, and it pushes its head against him, snout nuzzling against the 004 on his arm.

No. Four big ones and a beast.

Four adults and a dog, probably. Steve frowns slightly and gets up, carefully making his way across the dirty floor toward the window. He lifts the corner of the curtain and stares at the bright blue, green, and orange van parked in front of the building. Four adults are standing around with a big dog, which isn't looking too happy about being near the place. Steve can't blame it.

He slowly pushes the window open a crack, straining his ears to hear one of the adults say, "Okay, gang. Daphne, Velma, and I will look around downstairs. Shag, you and Scooby will take the second floor. We'll meet back in the lobby in an hour."

"Can't we just, like, not explore the creepy abandoned lab for once?"

Steve assumes this is the one called Shag, and he hopes the other man agrees to just leave. That would make his life so much easier. He hears the dog, Scooby, agree with the sentiment and hopes the other people can understand him, too.

Unfortunately, one of the women says, "C'mon, guys, the monster isn't real. Here, I'll give you some Scooby Snacks for the road."

And that seems to be the end of that. The man and dog accept the snacks, the people enter the building, and Steve resigns himself to hiding for however long they stick around.

He bunkers down, leaning against the wall beneath the window, and goes back to coloring the floor with markers. This entire room is covered in drawings that reach only a few feet up the wall. Steve isn't tall enough to go any higher.

Right now, he's drawing all the animals in the building. There are the ones that were there to begin with (mostly rats and rabbits) and the ones that moved in after the bad people left (possums and raccoons and cats and more rats). He doodles them marching across the floor, a relaxed smile tugging at his lips as he colors a cat purple.

He's putting the finishing touches on the final animal in the line (the very same possum that came to warn him about the people) when he hears a scream from down the hall. Steve blinks, looking up just in time to see Shag and Scooby throw open the door, slide into the room, and slam it behind them.

They lean against it, sinking to the ground, and finally notice Steve sitting against the opposite wall. "Like, Scooby, please tell me I'm imagining that kid over there," Shag says, his voice wavering and cracking near the end.

Scooby starts out looking as scared as Shag, but then he tilts his head. He hesitates for a few seconds before dropping low to the floor and slowly moving toward Steve. "Scoob, what are you doing?" Shag asks.

Not a ghost, Shaggy!

"Not a rhost, Raggy!"

Steve blinks, frowning in confusion. Scooby talked. Like, actually talked. He talked out loud and Shaggy (it makes as little sense as Shag in Steve's opinion) understood him. "There, like, can't be a kid here!"

By the time he says this, Scooby has reached Steve, looking up at him from the floor with hopeful eyes and an eagerly wagging tail. Steve holds himself back for all of two seconds before reaching out and scratching behind Scooby's ear.

The dog lights up and tries to squeeze into Steve's lap, licking his cheeks and covering him in slobber. Steve laughs, trying to evade Scooby's tongue and utterly failing. "Stop, stop!" he shouts breathlessly, still giggling even when Scooby finally gives him a break.

"Oh, man," Shaggy says, slowly moving from the door to approach Steve. When he's a few steps away, he stops and crouches. "What are you doing here, little guy?"

Steve blinks, glancing at Shaggy before turning his attention back to Scooby. He reaches up, scratching under Scooby's chin and trying to ignore his nerves about talking to another human after being alone for so long. "This is my home," he says.

Your home?

"Your rome?"

"Like, man, this is not a good home," Shaggy says, looking around at the dust and the cobwebs and the possum in the corner of the room. "Don't you have, like, parents or something?"

"Not really."

Can we keep him, Shaggy?

"Can re keep him, Raggy?" Scooby asks, his tail wagging hopefully as he looks at Shaggy over his shoulder.

"Gee, Scoob, I don't know," Shaggy says, frowning slightly as he finally sits down on the floor and hunches over. "A kid's a lotta responsibility, man. We gotta feed him and clothe him and, like, make sure he doesn't get sick."

Steve looks between the two and can't help a slight smile. Shaggy is nice, and Scooby is a dog, which automatically makes him good to Steve. He doesn't mind helping them out a little. "You're here about that lady, right?" he asks.

Lady?

"Rady?"

"Like, what do you mean lady?" Shaggy asks.

"The one dressing like a rat," Steve says, wondering how they didn't make that connection themselves. Haven't they already realized it's not a real rat-thing?

"Oh, man, I guess Velma was right," Shaggy says, a relieved laugh bubbling out of him as he slumps even more. "We gotta tell the gang, right, Scoob?"

Yeah, yeah!

"Reah, reah!"

"Are you trying to catch her?" Steve asks, looking between the two once more.

"Well, like, the rest of the gang's gonna want to."

"I can help with that," Steve offers, smiling reassuringly at the concerned looks that Shaggy and Scooby give him in return.

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Hawkins is supposed to be a vacation. Sort of. There's a possible mystery in the town, but even Velma couldn't confirm for sure, and Daphne had encouraged them to just relax.

Steve is inclined to agree with her, especially when she buys them a house with a pool that Scooby immediately launched himself into.

Still, he can tell that Velma won't relax unless she gets a chance to look around, so he finds her to go on a grocery run. "Oh, you're right," she says when he points out the lack of food in the house. "We'd better get something before Shaggy and Scooby start chewing on the walls."

"We'll set up the bedrooms while you get groceries," Fred says, grinning at them from across the living room. He digs in his pocket and pulls out the keys to the Mystery Machine. After making sure Steve is ready, he tosses them over.

"Please just don't put me in that plaid room," Steve tells him, catching the keys and passing them to Velma.

"I think that would count as cruel and unusual punishment, Steve," Daphne calls, her voice coming from down the hall where she's no doubt started setting up her room. She pokes her head into the hall, smiles at him, and adds, "Don't worry. We'll put Shaggy and Scooby in that one."

"Knowing them, they'd like it," Velma says.

As if he was just waiting for his queue, Shaggy leans over the second-floor railing and shouts, "Dibs on the plaid room! It looks groovy!"

Steve snorts as Velma rolls her eyes with an amused smile. "Come on, Steve, let's get going."

The drive to the grocery store is quiet, with Steve paying more attention to the town around him and Velma focusing on driving. He notes anything that looks weird, like the lack of people walking around. They pass other cars, of course, but even when they drive past what could be called Downtown Hawkins, he doesn't see anyone walking around.

He tucks that away for later, seeing nothing else of note until they park near a pile of bikes at the grocery store. "They're not locked," he says, nodding to them.

"It's a small town, Steve," Velma says, unbuckling as she turns the radio down so their ears aren't blasted when they get back. "They probably don't feel the need to."

"I guess," Steve mumbles, hopping out of the van and waiting for Velma to round the front. He walks next to her and holds the door open when they reach it. "Maybe we can get sandwich stuff."

"We'll have to wipe out their entire deli section," Velma says, sighing as she grabs a cart and pushes it towards the produce aisle. "At least we never have to worry about food waste."

Steve hums in agreement, easily falling into their normal routine of Velma calling out items and him grabbing at least five of them if there's enough in stock. "What do you think about that mystery?" he asks, placing a bag of apples in the cart.

"I think that forest out there is prime real estate," she replies, leaning on the cart's push bar. "Get a watermelon, too, Steve. Anyway, demon dogs aren't the weirdest we've run across."

"They were demodogs. Not demon dogs."

"I still think that was just a typo. Either way, I'm sure we can walk around the forest later and, you know, learn what the squirrels have seen."

Steve crinkles his nose, glancing at her as they make their way towards the deli. "You know the squirrels are too flighty. We're better off with the raccoons. Or, like, the sparrows."

He looks over to see her smirking and realizes she was just teasing him. Steve huffs and grabs as many sandwich meats as he can, getting everything but ham since Velma can't eat it and it gives Daphne migraines.

"Well, whichever animals you interrogate, I'm sure they'll clear up this mystery in no time."

Steve hums in agreement, follows Velma into the cereal aisle, and is about to say they should consider focusing on field mice when a voice from the other side of the shelf says, "Dude, spray cheese isn't gonna help us against the demodogs."

He blinks, pauses, and looks at Velma. She tilts her head, holds a finger up to her lips, and waves off the smirk he gives her at being right about demodogs not being a typo. "Yeah, I know," another voice says, followed by the clatter of grabbing a few cans, "but I want Cheez-Whiz."

"That stuff is gross," a girl's voice says, her tone flat in a way that Steve almost recognizes. He frowns slightly, tilting his head as he silently places a few cereal boxes in the cart. "It tastes fake."

"That's the point, El."

"Shouldn't we focus on lighters and hairspray?"

"I mean, this is technically a spray, right?"

Steve glances at Velma, raising an eyebrow before gesturing to the end of the aisle. She nods once and starts pushing the cart in that direction, huffing in amusement when Steve drops in a few more boxes along the way. "You'd think we're feeding an army," she says, tone dry.

"We might as well be," Steve replies, feelings his shoulders relax at the routine exchange.

They round the corner to see three kids down the aisle, two boys and one girl. One of the boys has curly hair and a baseball cap while the other is wearing a basketball jersey, and the girl has short hair that falls to her shoulders. They're all looking at the shelf, but the girl glances over when Velma and Steve enter the aisle.

She meets Steve's eyes, and he wonders if he's met her before. Her eyes narrow slightly, more in confusion than anything else, and her gaze travels down. He feels it on his arm as she lands on the 004, and her eyes widen as she steps away from the shelf.

Steve glances down at her arm in turn, sees the 011, and feels like his breath has been punched out of him. "Eleven," he whispers.

Next to him, Velma shifts closer, placing a hand on Steve's shoulder. "I'm here," she says, her voice low and more reassuring than she'll ever know.

"Four," Eleven says, walking up to him without another glance at her companions. "Are you here to hurt me or my friends?"

Steve blinks. "What?"

"Are you violent? Kali, Eight, was violent. And angry. Are you angry?"

As she talks, the two boys move to flank her, looking between Steve and Velma with something between suspicion and confusion. "Is this one of your siblings, El?" Basketball Jersey asks.

"Yes. Four. He was...transferred a year before the Upside Down. Four, these are my friends Dustin and Lucas"

"I go by Steve now. And, uh, no, not violent. We're grocery shopping," Steve says, awkwardly gesturing to their cart.

"Steve? You can name yourself and you choose Steve?" Dustin asks.

Steve blinks and frowns. "I didn't name myself. I asked the smartest rat I knew to name me."

The two boys blink as El nods in understanding. "The rat chose well," she says.

"Dude, how many people are you feeding?" Lucas asks, seeming to finally notice the shopping cart.

"Well, one of them is a Great Dane," Velma says. "Hello, El. I'm Velma, one of Steve's...guardians, I suppose. How would you like to come by for dinner? El and Steve can catch up, and you can tell us about those demodogs you mentioned."

"Were you spying on us?" Lucas asks.

"You weren't exactly being quiet," Velma tells them.

Before Lucas or Dustin can start arguing, El cuts them off, "We will come by for dinner. I am glad we met again, Steve."

"Yeah. Me, too," Steve replies, smiling at El and wondering if they'll have to explain how Scooby can talk.

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[krasnyel]

man do i love redesigning the scooby gang

[yourfaveisqueerandreligious]

velma dinkley from scooby doo is jewish (implied) and a lesbian (implied)

submitted by @zwalrus

[kassandrasdisciple]

~~~ spoilers for mystery incorporated ~~~

Like all my posts this'll be a rambling mess.

I didn't dedicate enough memory to mystery incorporated when I watched it as a child, this is a masterpiece.

The mystery is actually pretty good, it's set up well, there's crumbs everywhere, the repeating theme of "this has happened before" the other mystery groups. Do I understand what happened in the final act? Do I know why they didn't just destroy the keys/pieces/coffin when they had the chance? Did I understand the extradimentional beings? No to all the above, and guess what? I don't care, and that's how you know it's a good mystery, there are dozens of poirot, mrs marple and Columbo stories that I never know what's going on in and I still enjoy them. I wanted to know and I wanted out gang to succeed AND. THEY. DID.

Second point H O L Y S H I T, how many tragic characters can you stuff in a narrative? Some where for jokes, like the conquistador serving classic catholic guilt™ that makes him haunt the literal psychoscape. But we also had characters like Mr. E and angel/Cassie, the later who's fate I didn't realise was real until ... the marcie scene.

Marcie aka hotdog water, was introduced as a one off, villain of the week, with some nerd quirks and then I blinked and she was patroclus to Velmas Achilles, the lead in a Sapphic Romeo and Juliet, my baby. I won't lie, I had to pause and go listen to Two Slow Dancers on my bathroom floor. The gaul of this show to hit me in the face twice, once by gatling gunning my gays and twice by making me realize my DJ queen did infact get blown to pieces and I've been in denial for half a season.

Anyways watch mystery incorporated, it's 2 seasons 26 episodes each and unlike most netflix shows it can't be canceled and your guaranteed a completed story.

In the words of my girlie Marcie when looking at Velma from her bed

"That's my girl"

[rebeccakrijtofficial]

If Scooby Doo was Jewish:

Fred-Feivel

Daphne-Dafna

Velma-Varda

Shaggy-Slapi

Scooby Doo- Dooby Doo

Scooby instead of a dog is a vintage Teddy Bear since Dooby means Teddy Bear in Hebrew. Also the Teddy Bear has Jewish origins. Has a pull string that makes him talk. Old Hasidic Rabbi voice.

Fred/Feivel is the quintessential Nice Jewish Boy and obsessed with superstitions. Has orange kotel tzitzit and kippah instead of ascot.

Dafna is basically a younger and more naive and innocent version of The Nanny. Loves modest fashion and tzedakah since her family is wealthy.

Varda is the self proclaimed Torah law police. Dry wit and a passionate debater.

Slapi could clear a Shabbat spread faster than the Birkat Hamazon could be sung. Was originally studying to be a scribe but was relieved of his training because he kept dropping food on the parchment.

[jewish-ship-showdown]

Ships that have already qualified (read before submitting):

Jude Lizowski/Jonesy Garcia

Tyler Kennedy "TK" Strand/Carlos Reyes

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Gwen Stacey

Willow Rosenberg/Winifred "Fred" Burkle

Francine Frensky/Muffy Crosswire

Susan Ivanova/Marcus Cole

Kate Kane (Batwoman)/Renee Montoya

Barry B. Benson/Vanessa Bloome

Jake Peralta/Amy Santiago

Willow Rosenberg/Tara Maclay

Jack Zimmermann/Eric "Bitty" Bittle

Justin "Ransom" Oluransi/Adam "Holster" Birkholtz

Danny/Reuven

Larissa "Lara" Bogdan/Jasmine

Kelsey Pokly/Isabella "Stacks" Alvarado

Rebecca Bunch/Audra Levine

Rebecca Bunch/Greg Serrano

Rebecca Bunch/Nathaniel Plimpton

Samantha "Sam" Manson/Danniel "Danny" Fenton

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Selina Kyla (Catwoman)

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Clark Kent (Superman)

Clark Kent (Superman)/Lois Lane

Harley Quinn/Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy)

Barney Guttman/Logan Nguyen

Leah/Chanan

Shay Goldstein/Dominic Yun

Marvin/Whizzer

Trina/Mendel Weisenbachfeld

Perchik/Hodel

Tzeitel/Motel

Monica Gellar/Chandler Bing

Molly McGee/Libby Stein Torres

Rachel Berry/Noah Puckerman

Fiddleford McGucket/Stanford Pines

Cristina Yang/Owen Hunt

Cristina Yang/Preston Burke

Levi Schmidt/Nico Kim

Rose Lalonde/Kanaya Maryam

James Wilson/Gregory House

The Baker and/The Baker's Wife

Kim Possible/Ron Stoppable

The Jewish People/The Shabbat Bride

Alec Hardison/Parker

Max Eisenhardt (Magneto)/Charles Xavier (Professor X)

Steve Rogers (Captain America)/James "Bucky" Barnes

Arnold "Arnie" Roth/Michael Bech

Arnold "Arnie" Roth/Steve Rogers (Captain America)

Billy Kaplan (Wiccan)/Teddy Altman (Hulkling)

Bobby Drake (Iceman)/Hank McCoy (Beast)

Bobby Drake (Iceman)/Johnny Storm (The Human Torch)

Layla El Faouly/Mark Spector (Moon Knight)

Matthew Hawk (Two-Gun Kid II)/Clint Barton (Hawkeye)

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Betty Brant

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Eugene "Flash" Thompson

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/ Felicia Hardy

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/ Harry Osborn

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Mary Jane "MJ" Watson

Peter Parker (Spider-Man)/Wade Wilson (Deadpool)

Steve Rogers/Bernadette "Bernie" Rosenthal

Wanda Maximoff/The Vision

Midge Maisel/Susie Myerson

Hal Emmerich (Otacon)/Solid Snake

Casey Goldberg-Calderon/Lunella Lafayette

Fran Fine/Max Sheffield

Ben Gross/Devi Vishwakumar

Winston Schmidt/Cece Parekh

David Jacobs/Jack Kelly

Seth Cohen/Summer Roberts

Scout Touzani/Elias Wyrick

KJ Brandman/Mac Coyle

Lavinia Asimov/Poison Oak

Phineas Flynn/Isabella Garcia-Shapiro

Anon's Mom/Dad

The person reading this & their partner

Jerry Seinfeld/Cosmo Kramer

Simon Lewis/Isabel Lightwood

Danielle/Maya

Bram Greenfeld/Simon Spier

Miryem Mandelstam/The Staryk King

David Rose/Patrick Brewer

James T Kirk/S'chn T'gai Spock

Worf Rozhenko/Jadzia Dax

Kanan Jarrus/Hera Syndulla

Brian Jeeter/Krejjh

Bobby Singer/Rufus Turner

Jonah Simms/Amy Sosa

Reish Lakish/Rabbi Yochanen

King David/Yonatan

Devorah/Barak

Moses/Tzipporah

Ruth/Naomi

Yaakov/The Angel

Rowan Roth/Neil Mcnair

Klaus Hargreeves/Dave Katz

Cecil Palmer/Carlos The Scientist

Josh Lyman/Donna Moss

Little Ash/Uriel

Lucille "Lucy" Kensington/Dr. Edison "Ed" Tucker

Fox Mulder/Dana Scully

Anshel/Avigdor

Alec Hardison/Parker/Eliot Spencer

Wanda Maximoff (The Scarlet Witch)/Jericho Drumm

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Shondra Kinsolving

Bruce Wayne (Batman)/Talia Al Ghul

Ben Grimm (The Thing)/Alicia Masters

Velma Dinkley/Daphne Blake

Velma Dinkley/Marcie Fleach

Didi Pickles/Stu Pickles

Velma Dinkley/Coco Diablo

Babushka (Tatiana)/Dedushka (Ivan)

Kitty Pryde/Illyana Rasputin

Natasha Romanoff/Wanda Maximoff

Marc Spector (Moon Knight)/Clint Barton (Hawkeye)

Hillel/Shammai

S'chn T'gai Spock/James T Kirk/Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

S'chn T'gai Spock/Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Frankie Bergstein/Grace Hanson

Annie Edison/Jeff Winger

Maxine Myers/Paula Cohen

Baby Houseman/Johnny Castle

Tevye/Golde

Michael "Mike" Wazowski/Celia Mae

Talmudic couple having gay sex in the attic

Tim Drake/Kon El (Conner Kent)

Violet Baudelaire/Quigley Quagmire

Reuben Kent/Feliks Kaufmann

Anshel/Avigdor/Hadass

Amram/Zelikman

Anshel/Hadass

SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN UNTIL MAY 8, 2023 @ 12:00 AM EDT

[wouldshesnip]

Daphne Blake and Velma Dinkley (Scooby-Doo)

Nothing is more important to Daphne than fashion, so in addition to making sure her son has all the most fashionable clothes, she would also want to make sure he has fashionable privates.

Velma is all about the science, and despite her Jewish heritage, would base her decision on science alone. She would research circumcision enough to realize that the American medical community is in the minority when it comes to advocating for routine infant circumcision.

Would She Snip?: Yes, no

[artianaiolanthe]

Velma Dinkley

Velma is a WLW, no question, no doubt, no argument. Debatably she might also be attracted to other genders but she just gives me demi vibes overall.

Look at me. Look me in the eye. Velma is not the braincell of the Mystery Gang. Velma believes in the Loch Ness Monster. Velma knows all the ways ghost hunting shows trick their viewers and still has ate up all the content with hope. Velma Dinkley is booksmart but her most checked out books on the library are about whether aliens are out there, the stone tape theory of hauntings, and curses. She is not the braincell. The entire gang passes the braincell around like a blunt she’s just the one rolling it the majority of the time.

I believe she’s implied to be Jewish in enough incarnations that I consider that mandatory.

Her parents do also run a bookstore that she worked off and on between school breaks as a kid. It made for excellent research hours when the library was closed,

I raise you; Scooby Snacks are Kosher. Cause why not.

As a fellow bottlecap framed blind bitch she definitely cannot see anything without her glasses and if she’s ever going to be able to get another eye appointment she probably needs to spring for spares and keep them in the van’s glove compartment.

Mandatory Horrible Bullshit Output show race rant; again magically making her any race does little, making her any race with an inferiority complex about it is horrible and should be shamed, etc etc. But Velma is black to me for one reason and one reason only; after 20 long years I was able to dress up as her for Halloween and I want to feel seen. Otherwise you do you just don’t be weird about it.

She should still be cynical sure but she’s not mean about it. Like, she’s no Janis from mean girls, she’s just healthily critical of even the things she loves and that’s fine.

I also think she’s supposed to be the youngest gang member because I get that vibe but I believe in ambiguity.

Favorite Velma is from Scooby Doo Where’s My Mummy. Hands down. I mean look at her go! Living her best life as an archaeologist, assisting with Sphinx restoration, even playing the long con and planning her own mystery to screw over treasure hunters! It’s icon behaviour and I would die for her.

Unpopular opinion though is that I am far from a fan of her Mystery Incorporated incarnation… I just had to be honest and get that off my chest. Her treatment of Shaggy in the early seasons badly turned me off the show and not even her relationship with Marcie could save it for me. Like I loved the hairbows, I loved the Hex Girls stanning, I wanted to love it. But they did her and Shaggy so dirty and it hurts me.

Again, just don’t make her treat her friends badly and you’ve got a good Velma. The Gang is their own found family, they don’t have to always get along but they should never treat each other like shit no matter what.

[baroque-hashem]

After taking not one, not two, but SIX Uquizzes to discover which Scooby Doo character I am, I have determined once and for all that I am, without a doubt, Velma Dinkley, our Queer Jewish nerd queen

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Time's flying by -- half of Jewish Heritage Month has come and gone, and we've reached the semifinal round of the NJCS Heritage Month Special Event! Polls go live tomorrow, May 16th, at 3pm EST. Your competitors are:

Clark Kent/Superman/Kal-El VS Velma Dinkley

Tevye VS Shaggy Rogers (& Scooby-Doo)

As always, tracking “#nice jewish character showdown”, plus “#njcs jewish american heritage month” for this event specifically. I only tag the round announcement posts as “#jumblr” to avoid clogging the tag, so if you’re finding this post on there, hi guys!

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Okay since everyone's doing it, I'm gonna do it too

My version takes place in the 70's, the gang is college-aged, dodging the draft by solving mysteries with a background of the rise of grindhouse horror films, second wave feminism, student strikes, "the silent majority," environmentalism, Watergate, Queer liberation, and groovy rock music. As a more adult take, the monsters of the week and overarching villains will reflect, criticize, and celebrate the cultural movements of being in your early 20's during the 70's. That means villains ranging from nerds in star wars costumes to paranoid political scandals to actual real aliens. Stakes range from being inconvenienced to being in mortal peril.

Fred Jones: Mom friend with first aid training (that he learned from med students during a campus protest), the moral compass of the show in that he reminds the gang that laws exist and they are very much on the run, fucking HATES Nixon dude like HATES Nixon. Heart's always in the right place, even if things don't always work out. Knowledgeable in traps and whatever level of engineering is needed to solve the episode, also acts as the primary face. Also just loves mysteries.

Norville "Shaggy" Roberts: former track star, dropped out of culinary school, collects cool belt buckles a la original series, straight man in the horror movie "maybe we don't go in the haunted house" way, brave considering zombies and witch's ghosts are straight up real and he will still never leave his friends to face danger alone. Anxiety disorder he treats with weed, super knowledgable in pop culture which also gives him a variety of random trivia needed to fill gaps when needed. I think he really likes Lord of the Rings and Pink Floyd. Good at riddles.

Daphne Blake: inferiority complex because of her many successful siblings, wants to be a journalist like Gloria Steinem. Has taken a few self defense classes, but overall acts as the second face for the group. Still into make-up and fashion, and can use her skills (and a little high school theatre experience) to make believable disguises. She can pick up when someone's lying and can pick locks.

Velma Dinkley: Jewish. Loves mysteries and paranormal fiction, believes in conspiracy theories and urban legends. Her intelligence specializes in puzzles, historical, and chemical knowledge. She can be reckless, but only because she becomes very single-minded when she's onto something. Snarky, lesbian, and headstrong.

Scooby: Mischievous, food motivated, and gentle. Protective of the group, Scooby is just a big, goofy great dane who doesn't understand he isn't a lapdog anymore. He can talk, no one inside the group questions it, and only a select few outside the group even notice (part of the mystery). Intergalactic being but doesn't know it, he's much more dog than other iterations.

Scrappy: Just appears one episode, everyone acts like he's always been there. Revealed at the end that he's actually a trickster deity, comes in and causes chaos every now and then mostly just to fuck with Scooby.

The Hex Girls: a psychedelic witch-rock group with a heavy emphasis on environmental protection and new age metaphors, actual witches, a sound somewhere between Cream, Hendrix, and Stevie Nicks. Genuinely just friends with the gang.

Scooby is Shaggy's emotional support dog.

Daphne and Fred are together, healthy, and often end up hyping each other up to the point where other members have to step in and go "you're getting carried away, can we focus."

Daphne and Velma met at a feminist rally, and often have nuanced discussions about different feminist theories. Honestly, most likely to commit very real crimes to get to the bottom of a mystery.

Fred and Velma met in elementary school at a Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book club (or whatever the 50's equivalent of this was) where they were the only two members. Their friendship is like an anti-macho brotherhood, paralleling the overly masculine friendships of the era.

Daphne met Shaggy in High School and she immediately adopted him the way extroverts adopt introverts. She is very dedicated to helping him build confidence, and Shaggy helps her with her inferiority complex and keeps her true to herself.

Fred and Shaggy are very physically affectionate, share a brain cell, most likely to get into shenanigans if left alone together. Second most likely to get into shenanigans if left alone together are Fred and Daphne.

Shaggy and Velma have a shared interest in music and films, and love talking conspiracy theories.

Shaggy and Scooby are inseparable. Real boy and his dog vibes.

They all smoke weed on screen, are constantly broke, they all are capable of being equally intelligent and dumb as rocks, they're all snarky in their own way, and they all say things like jinkies and Ruh Roh to like... Murders and cryptid kidnapings and issues of national security.

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apparently in one continuity, velma's middle name is daisy, so i'm going to headcanon that she was given her first name to honor a grandfather named velvl, her middle name to honor a grandmother named daisy, and her hebrew name is nitzan, meaning "flower bud"!

I love that! I personally headcanon that her ancestors' surname was Finkelstein but they changed it to Dinkley when they immigrated to the US.

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Hey! I was just wondering: How would you fix the following reboots? Velma and Monster High.

For MH I would

Make Draculaura Romanian again

Keep Clawdeen the MC

Frankie's okay I guess

Abbey would be Russian or mixed Russian Himalayan

Lagoona would be Aussie again (specifically aboriginal) and she wouldn't be snarling at people

Bloodgood wouldn't hate humans (she's literally a human herself, the daughter of the Headless Horseman)

I would put my OC in there for Filipino representation, and bring badk Jinafire, Kiyomi, and Euna, instead of taking away non villainous Slavic rep which is rare

Same with Latinas, Skelita (I know she's coming back but still)< Marisol, and Batsy would come back

Isi Dawndancer would return, but done more accurately

Lorna McNessie, Venus, and Silvi would come back because I love Scotland

All I know for Velma is:

Velma would be Japanese Jewish (Japanese from Hayley Kiyoko's version, Jewish from the white German version), and her surname would be Hashimoto not Dinkley. She wouldn't be a racist, slut shaming, sexist, vain, bully

Daphne would be Scottish American like she should be, and she would be the kind, glamourous lady who gets in trouble, because being girly and needing help is hated by radical feminists these days. But she wouldn't be dumb like some people who see "girly girl" and "damsel" think.

Shaggy would be Shaggy again, he would not be a druggie in denial

Fred wouldn't be the tool for anti white and anti rich propaganda like he is in the show.

I would bring back the Hex Girls, as well as movie characters like Crystal, Amber, Miyumi, and Shannon.

There would be no sexualizing teens, no gore, and no meta jokes.

For M0nst3er H1gh:

Keep Frankie the MC still, mostly cause' I feel like she's perfect for introducing new fans to the world of Monster High. She's new & doesn't really know much about the world, so I feel like it's better to keep her the main character.

Draculaura is still Romanian. I'd keep the whole witch thing because I kinda like it. I'd make it so that she's insecure about her being unable to do certain things yet as a vampire (turning into a bat, etc) so to compensate, she turns to witchcraft. It would be a nice opportunity to bring Casta Fierce back into the picture.

Cl4wdeen? Yeah no she's reverting back to her old self. G3 Cl4wdeen is just plain awful man, I'm sorry 🤧 The one thing I'll keep from G3 is her being nerdy. Make her nerdy about fashion & get all excited when someone shows interest in fashion. I like that idea.

For Abbey, I'd make her mixed. I'd change Bloodgood to not be a monster racist no more because that's fucking stupid (not letting yetis & half-human monsters attend, not letting gorgons play casketball) & I'd bring back some G2 monsters.

I'm afraid I don't really have much to say about the trash fire that is Velma, through.

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YAY okay. So it's set in the 1970's, in the fictional town of Crystal Cove. The exact coastal state in which it is located is deliberately ambiguous (in Scooby tradition). This is an origin story.

Cast:

Fred Jones: The golden boy of Crystal Cove Prep! Everyone knows him, everyone loves him. Fred is a popular and eternally-cheerful student everyone can look to for guidance; he's level-headed in any crisis and has led the football team to multiple victories. He is also heavily masking undiagnosed autism; at home, he is obsessed with Rube Goldberg-esque machines and traps, a la several of his famous incarnations before this. His parents, the mayor and his wife, look down on his "hobbies" and ensure that he is very aware that his acceptance in the family hinges on his ability to perform his role as the all-American guy he's meant to be.

Daphne Blake: The it girl, the queen, the star. A dead ringer for Lola Falana. From a young age, she was a girl of contradictions: she wanted to be an actress (which her parents approved of) and a detective (which her parents disliked immensely), and she pursued both. Despite seeming to have it all in Crystal Cove (a relatively liberal town for the 70's), Daphne feels great pressure to perform well in everything she does as the daughter of an old money family that had to fight desperately to keep what it earned. She is Creole by ancestry.

Norville "Shaggy" Rogers: The class clown and total burnout. Shaggy is a third-generation Japanese citizen in America. He is enrolled in Crystal Cove Prep, which does not allow him to bring Scooby to class, much to his chagrin. Shaggy trained Scooby in much the way a service dog would be trained, as Shaggy deals with chronic pain and Erb's palsy that makes moving his left arm and upper body difficult; Scooby retrieves items for Shaggy and follows him unleashed, and the two have a deep bond. Shaggy is also known as the school's pothead; despite this, he maintains good grades with the help of his friend, Velma, because he loves his parents and wants to make them proud.

Velma Dinkley: The nerdy scholarship kid. Everyone cheats off her tests when they're not pretending she doesn't exist. Unlike other kids at Crystal Cove Prep, she's the child of a single mother who lives paycheck to paycheck as a local librarian. Velma herself is an aspiring private detective whose cases haven't exactly made the papers -- she's usually finding lost cats, not tracking down murderers. She shrugs off the bullying and cold shoulders she gets at Crystal Cove Prep with the help of her only close friend, her fellow bottom-of-the-social-ladder student Shaggy. He tags along on her detective work, because he likes to feel like he's a part of things, and she lets him because he's a damn good cook. Velma is also Jewish, and is one of the only Jewish people in Crystal Cove.

The plot: Two attractive, popular girls at Crystal Cove Prep go missing, and the police are strangely quiet about the case; they're giving the public the runaway excuse, and Velma isn't satisfied with it. When Daphne narrowly escapes a terrifying attack by a "monster," she enlists Velma (and by extension, Shaggy) to help her investigate the culprit: Fred's popular, enigmatic older brother. Something something hijinks ensue.

Hope everyone enjoyed this <3 teehee <3

Btw does anyone want to hear my concept for a possibly decent Scooby Doo reboot with added diversity/adult themes

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Velma is Jewish

A) bc I said so

B) she listens to Klezmer music