#r.o.u.s.

[griddleharkbrainrot]

Upon further consideration I'm unsure if Trash Panda should be classified as a dog or as a Rodent Of Unusual Size (R.O.U.S.)

Reasons why:

1. Appearance

A. It's not clear in the picture but he has bloodred eyelids and the vets don't know why

B. Oddly proportioned. His paws and chest are giant but his head and legs are oddly tiny

2. Behavior

A. Stole my cane

B. Likes to bite his brother Misha

C. Oddly obsessed with fire

D. We are not actually sure he's fully a dog. According to his paperwork he's a purebred standard poodle but he's built like a workhorse and triggers allergic reaction

E. Dogs aren't supposed to be able to open locked doors. We do not know how he does this.

F. Are dogs supposed to build nests???

In conclusion, there is a reason he's named Trash Panda and our vet is very confused every time she meets him

[mice-rats-daily]

Today’s rat is this R.O.U.S. (Rodent of Unusual Size) from The Princess Bride (1987)!

[kkglinka]

...ah, hm, so Little is about to become a rodent of unusual size.

[bisexualbaker]

Bragging time! I got a new surprise podfic!

This is of a silly little ATLA x Princess Bride crossover (sorta), in which post-series Toph and Zuko hunt down Sokka's missing space sword in one of the Earth Kingdom's fire swamps.

There are now two podfic versions of this fic, so you can listen to both and pick your favorite, or decide which one to listen to depending on your mood, or listen to both every time, just to appreciate the nuance and differences in the performances!

[bruceandmary]

Princess Buttercup and Westley, "The Princess Bride"

Buttercup: Westley, what about the R.O.U.S.'s?

Westley: Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.

(A Rodent of Unusual Size immediately attacks him)

[silvereyedowl]

A classic example of tempting fate.

The Princess Bride (1987)

[books-are-bigger-on-the-inside]

Look, sometimes you’re just in the mood to watch a movie called The Killer Shrews. Will it be a good movie? Probably not. Will it be a ridiculous movie? Definitely.

[semiferalstreetcoyote]

me walking into a church: hi i need to get married

the priest: excuse me what the fuck is that

me: what

priest: that.

me: oh that’s my comically large rat. we’re just friends

[cachow-it]

I think it says a lot about the quality of the Princess Bride that in my 20th time watching it I just noticed that the r.o.u.s is just a man on all fours.

That is just a man. You can straight up see his legs human legs and arms.

[fishandships]

my brain has been stuck on Princess Bride IDV AU ever since Luchino got that outfit that reminds me of Dread Pirate Roberts but i can’t figure out who would be Fezzik and Vizzini ����

[bloodsoakedogre]

Pyramid Head seems to have found his way into one Kazan storages and is currently helping himself to what's in it. It seems to be mostly fabrics and thankfully he's not ripping them.

Mostly anyway.

It was quiet.

Too quiet.

The kind of quiet that reminded Kazan of those early days when his son,(what was his name again? Genji? No! It was...) Akito, was toddling around. His home was a big wide whole world filled to the brim with nooks and crannies, places that was exciting to go to, despite the exasperation from Kazan. Even if he had family or servants to mind the child; Akito would always find a way to escape their watch. How could Kazan blame his son? But the silence that would follow always led to the most mischievous things.

Like what was occurring right within Kazan's earshot as he followed the slightest of noises that was contrary to the chilly eerie breeze and the falling of leaves.

Heavy breathing, the squeak of floorboards under a weighty thing that shifted in place, and the unmistakable shocking tear of fabric.

Kazan dashed to the door, throwing and knocking it off its rail to throw an admonishing accusing finger to the culprit.

"You! Take your filthy hands off that fabric, get your rags from somewhere else!"

[komakesthings]

My Muppet Princess Bride drawings found their way to Facebook and from that came a ton of good suggestions for scenes. Rizzo as a R.O.U.S. has been suggested by a lot of different folks for as long as I've been doing these drawings, but I was never quite sure how to handle the scene until a commenter suggested Rizzo's line. Maybe it resonated with me because I can kinda relate to Rizzo in this moment (especially so soon after Valentines Day!). Thanks to Paul Adams who provided Rizzo's line, and gave me permission to use it in this drawing.

And shout-out to movie-screencaps.com for providing the backgrounds, I like to edit shots from the movie for my backgrounds because it allows me to focus on the fun part of drawing Muppets. There's also just something fun about 'painting' the Muppets into the actual film.

[yourplayersaidwhat]

The R.O.U.S.

Me the DM: So you step into this room and see [room description] …and at the very back of the room you see an unconscious giant rat.

Fighter: Hmm, okay. Well, can I go inspect the table?

Me: You can, but the giant rat is pretty close to that table and you might wake it up.

Fighter: yeah, I’m fine with that.

Me: When I say giant rat- Wait, have you watched The Princess Bride?

Fighter: OoooooohhhhhhhHHHHHHHhhhhhhhh. I’ll stab the Rodent Of Unusual Size then

[just-here-with-my-thoughts]

R.O.U.S.'s

@summer-of-bad-batch week 12 prompt 'Nightmares' (yeah my second fic for the same prompt I know ;)

Fandom: The Bad Batch Characters: Omega, Hunter, Tech, Echo, Wrecker, Stardust the Space Hamster Set after Season 2 episode 'Metamorphosis' Word Count: ~540 Read Here on AO3

Featuring Stardust the Space Hamster, as created by the fabulous @kybercrystals94 - I promised you I'd write Stardust fic for the event, didn't I? :P

Synopsis: After the encounter with the Zillo Beast, Omega has a nightmare...

A shrill scream rent the air, reverberating off the metal walls of the Marauder. It had all four clones falling out of their seats and fighting each other in their haste to reach the gunner's mount.

"Omega? What is it?"

Hunter's voice was tight with alarm as he all but vaulted up the ladder. Tech crowded behind him until he too was perched on the edge of the platform, and Echo and Wrecker pressed close at the bottom.

Omega was crying now, great hiccoughing sobs accompanied by huge tears pealing down her cheeks.

“Hunter!” she gasped with relief, throwing her arms around his neck and hugging him tightly. “You’re okay!”

“We are all well, Omega,” said Tech with clipped concern, as Hunter returned Omega’s embrace and shot his brother an alarmed look over the top of her shaking shoulder. “What is the matter?”

“Tech!” Now it was his turn for Omega to burrow into his chest, as he tensed and awkwardly encircled her with one arm, patting her shoulder.

“There, there,” he said, tilting his head down to try and peer into Omega’s tear-streaked face. “Can you tell us what woke you?”

“It’s Stardust,” said Omega unexpectedly, her voice breaking on a sob.

“Stardust is fine too,” Echo reassured her from his position at the bottom of the gunner’s mount.

“I had a bad dream,” Omega snuffled, pulling back from Tech and rubbing at her tear-streaked cheeks. “Stardust grew enormous. Her cage broke, and she kept growing and growing. She was too big for the Marauder! And then…” Another burbling sob escaped her as her face crumpled into fresh tears. “And then she ate you!”

Wrecker thumped Tech in the thigh, so hard that Tech yelped.

“Who told her that the Zillo ate the crew?” said Wrecker with an accusatory eye roll. Tech merely returned the look with a petulant frown, whilst Hunter wrapped his arms around Omega again.

“We’re all okay,” he said gruffly, jostling her shoulders a little to try and cheer her up. “Stardust is fine… and she’ll still fit in the palm of your hand!”

“She ate you until you were bones!” said Omega with a fresh wail.

The four brothers glanced at each other helplessly, with a shared round of shrugs.

“I’m going to get the chocolate powder,” declared Echo, turning towards the galley. “Wrecker, get the mugs.”

Omega sniffed and her sobs died away to hiccups at the promise of hot chocolate, resting her cheek on Hunter’s shoulder as his hand moved in soothing circles on her back.

Tech adjusted his goggles.

“I would like to reassure you, Omega, that it was the Zillo’s unique species characteristics that let it grow large enough to consume human prey. It is quite impossible for the same thing to happen with a criceto.”

Hunter kicked out with one leg, booted foot finding Tech’s other thigh and sending him dropping over the edge of the ladder, where he landed lightly on his feet. Then he grabbed Lula, thrusting her into Omega’s hands.

“C’mon, kid,” he said with a smile, lifting her close to her chest and cradling her like she was a much smaller child than she was. “Hot chocolate after a nightmare? Who could say no to that.”

This fic most definitely inspired by real life events... I cannot tell you how unprepared I was to round the corner whilst in town on my lunch break the other day to find this...

6ft tall hamster roaming the streets of the city was not on my bingo card. And I knew straight away what to write for my long-awaited Summer of Bad Batch Stardust fic 😂

Also inspired by the real nightmare my kid had when they were about 7, where a T-rex ate us until we were bones, and then ate us again. All I could hear in my head whilst I was writing this fic was Omega's little voice saying "It ate the crew?!" 😂

[kiirotoao]

Stranger Things and The Princess Bride Headcanons

So I just randomly thought about The Princess Bride in the shower then went on a spiral about it and this happened (BTW if you’ve not seen this movie PLEASE DO! Captivating, subversive, funny, heartfelt, goofy in all the right places, this is one of the only movies I think I’d recommend anyone to watch no matter what genre you prefer)!

Dustin and Lucas become obsessed with this movie after they watch it at 16 (the movie was released 1987)

They manage to reference it in every campaign that they DM for

Dustin and Lucas reference “inconceivable” on the daily

They also fight over who gets to be Inigo whenever they reenact the big ending duel

They seriously bicker about it for minutes on end in the middle of campaigns sometimes and Mike is just moaning to Will like why do they both want to be called Indigo Montana or whatever his name is

Mike is last to see it and he refuses to watch it because Dustin and Lucas are so annoying about it until Will tells him it’s good and then he gives in

A year after its release Dustin and Lucas have seen it 15-20 times

They don’t tell each other when they watch it until the next day and so it becomes a competition who’s seen it the most and it almost causes them to fail big exams because they’re so invested in rewatching the film

Max denies that she enjoys the movie because the romance is cheesy (she loves it)

Will accidentally caught her watching it and they’ve kept it a secret and inside joke ever since

El loves the movie because of the romance

El gets so worried over Buttercup too and gets so happy when she gets her happy ending :,)

Erica genuinely doesn’t like the film at first but she was just distracted making important friendship bracelets the first time

She liked it after a proper rewatch but doesn’t dare to reference it lest she set off her obsessed older brother

But she makes him an Inigo Montoya figurine for his birthday the same year

Inigo is Lucas’ favorite character and he loves the great line “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” (He annoys the life out of Erica repeating it to her when he wants to bother her)

Will is lowkey into Inigo and Mike is lowkey into Wesley (they deny their resemblances to each other)

Bob would’ve loved The Princess Bride :,((((

The Byers watch it together in his honor

On that note Joyce loves it too, especially the wholesome story of the grandfather and the grandson’s “as you wish”

Meanwhile The Party flirt with it like Wesley’s version all the time - Dustin to Suzie, Lucas to Max, and Mike to Will

Now Murray claims to not like the film, he doesn’t like how “the story goes all over the place”

But he does understand every reference and sometimes even accidentally speaks in them (he calls a demodog an R.O.U.S.)

Hopper thinks that Buttercup resembles his ex too much so he doesn’t ever watch the film fully

Steve and Robin watch it while working in Family Video and get pretty invested

Although Dustin talks about it nonstop to Steve after he sees it and Steve considers filing a cease and desist lmao

[pansexualkiba]

"Does anyone else have any life-altering secrets, or can we move on?" Iida asked.

Mineta raised his hand. "I'm actually blood-related to Fukidashi Manga. We're first cousins. My birth name was Fukidashi Eroge."

"Wh. Huh?" Iida's eyebrows shot into his hairline. His glasses cracked a little.

"Yeah, when I was like, a baby, I was abandoned in an alleyway after my parents died." Mineta shrugged. "I was then found by Mineta Hosaka, who lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, Fusaku."

"Like. Like in Courage the Cowardly Dog?" Kaminari asked nervously.

"Exactly like in Courage the Cowardly Dog." Mineta nodded.

"Doesn't that like," Ashido pointed out, "Imply that your parents were ground into cat food?"

"I wish my father would be ground into cat food." Todoroki said, apropos of nothing.

"God, mood." Midoriya mumbled.

"Incidentally," Nedzu popped out of a vent. "I happen to love cat food."

The class stared as Nedzu got to his feet.

"Am I a rabbit, a jackal, or an R.O.U.S.?" Nedzu began. "I'm-"

"Principal Nedzu," Mineta began to cry, "Did you eat my parents?"

"And can you please eat mine?" Todoroki asked politely.

"That depends." Nedzu responded. "What's your offer?"