#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.

[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

[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

[spinachjuice]

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Bonus R.O.U.S. + me being sick watching film

[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?"

[princess-of-the-corner]

Sleep-deprived thoughts, musings, ideas and questions, so they will get out of my head, and I will actually be able to SLEEP!

(lmao once again putting these under read more as it got LONG)

- do you think UA has a wind tunnel, or anti-/low gravity environment for students with flight based Quirks to practice? Or for their students to practice in weightless environments?

- they may not have an entire training area that’s flooded/underwater (that’s what USJ is for) but they probably have a pool, right? How big do you think it is? Or do you think they have multiple?

- do you think there’s a teacher nobody liked that got fired recently? Like, how good is the UA hiring process?

- Does Princess Bride exist in MHA? Cause I have to know if someone referred to Nezu as a R.O.U.S (Rodent of Unusual Size).

- is all the forest-y, woodland area around the school supposed to be asethetic? Or do you think it’s training stuff?

- The students absolutely go out into the woods on Friday nights and weekends to have bonfires, right?

- In CC, when were the dorms built? I know it’s before Kamino, but like. Was it a boarding school when Aizawa and them were going, or is it even more recent?

- Do all the students HAVE to live in the dorms, or can they commute if they live close enough?

- do you think it was weird for Tenya to see his brother’s friends as his teachers? Like, Aizawa’s giving them lectures, and trying to impart wisdom, and Tenya has a very clear memory of teen Aizawa passed out on his couch with a hangover.

- do you think UA has a greenhouse? Garden space?

- Do you think any heroes, underground or otherwise, got their hero licenses because they were vigilantes, but they were good at their job, so a hero they befriended managed to grab them a license?

- I know that Hound Dog is the school Counsellor/therapist, but do you think they’d have a dedicated Quirk Counsellor on staff? Maybe that’s Hana’s job at some point, Aizawa is so horrified by the terrible counsellors his kids have gone to, he pulls in someone competent to talk To them.

- Kouda has his bunny and size-changing dog, the Todorokis have their teleporting cats, Katsuki eventually has dogs, anyone else have, or are going to have, pets? Do you think Tsuyu has pet frogs? Any 1-A kids in particular you can see with a particular animal?

- how do you classify Quirks for your fics? I have it as:

Physical: Quirk effects a physical part of your body (examples: Sato)

Emitter: Quirk is something the user creates or, well, emits from themselves (examples: Bakugou, Mina)

Mutation: also called “heteromorph” in series, the body is mutated in a way that is different from baseline human (examples: Mina, Kouda, Tokoyami)

Shifter: user’s Quirk involves the user rapidly changing part of their body (examples: Himiko, Eimi)

Mental: user’s Quirk is almost solely activated/controlled with their mind (examples: Aizawa, Shinsou)

Reality: User’s Quirk has an effect on the reality of the world around them (examples: Uraraka, Eri)

- Himiko kids! Older Kid, currently called Kagami (meaning mirror), bio-parents Hagakure/Himiko, (made with Quirk). Yes, I know that’s ANOTHER Kagami, if you have a better name, please tell me!/gen. Non-binary, she/they. Quirk: Mirror Mimic. User can shift her body into just about any shape, as well as change the look, colour, and texture of her skin, to look like an object or person. However, this is not true shapeshifting, merely mimicking something to The best of the user’s abilities. Shifting abilities only work on living tissue. Wants to be a hero, underground most like. Hero name: Changeling?

younger kid, Unnamed as of yet, bio-parents Himiko/Sato (IVF). Boy. Quirk: Blood Drinker (name not final). User can “power up” - increased strength, stamina, speed, endurance - by drinking blood. Can also change their own blood type to match that of the blood they just drank. Wants to be a doctor/EMT/Paramedic. Probably has a crush of the Poni/Kinoko Unicorn kid.

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Ohoho let’s go!

- oh 100%. If they can afford giant robots meant to be trashed every other month they can afford a wind tunnel!

- UA does have a pool and we do see it! It looks to be an Olympic-sized pool, even has the setup for racing. Also have these images I got as I was trying to remember if I dreamed it or not

- I mean. They hired Aizawa. I love him and he got better but canonically he did take out his issues by expelling 154 children. And speaking of “I love him but he took his issues out on the kids’ it’s in Horikoshi’s notes that he was going to have Endeavor as a teacher too and GOD I can only imagine lmao. But within CC at least I think that if a Hero doesn’t pass the Vibe Check then they don’t work with the school (either as a teacher or even in UA letting them take interns/work study students). They can make mistakes ofc but yeah usually if someone isn’t doing their best for the kids they can get dropped.

- Princess Bride absolutely exists and I will call Nezu an ROUS at some point(I would’ve used it for his chat name but he vibes too well with Secret of NIMH).

- Oh the forest stuff is def for training purposes!

- they should totally have bonfire nights. I think the tricky part is adult supervision but the staff takes turns with students who want to do it.

- okay so like. In canon the dorms are built mid-series. But in CC they’re just. Always there. Like it was a school with dorms in the first place. I initially did this so I could have dorm shenanigans in CC, but then I realized that it’s kinda good in the like. Recruitment tactics? 

UA is the best Hero School and society wants kids to become Heroes so while it’s hard to get into the school it has a lot of benefits that would help. Like, canonically pre-dorms Ochako was renting an apartment by herself so she could go to UA because her hometown was far. But that sort of thing might deter some people, so in CC, the dorms are built in as a feature for potential students to not have to do that! 

But yeah the dorms go all the way back so any character who’s a UA Alumni also stayed at the dorms in this au. (those dorms have been through hell and have had SO many repairs over the years.)

- Technically if a student lives close enough they don’t have to live in the dorms, but very few students turn that down because the dorms are nice and you want the full experience and some kids really don’t want to go home. 

This is especially true for the Hero Students as UA’s various training facilities are open for students to use throughout the majority of the day until it gets to curfew hours in which they must be either off campus or in the dorms. So most Hero Students want to maximize hours which means staying on campus rather than commuting to and from home and ass o’clock hours. 

The only rules regarding that is that they must inform the staff of where they’re going to be so they can account for students whereabouts. Ofc some sneak out.

- I always forget that Tensei is friends with them lmao. Tenya 100% has so much blackmail on the teachers because of him. Too bad he’s a bit too uptight to actually leverage said blackmail.

- they totally should have a greenhouse! Both for students with plant quirks but also like. UA is a normal school that probably has a gardening club (along with other more normal clubs. Some people are here for good education not knife roomba club).

- ..... Well I just found the funniest outcome for the ‘league of villains becomes league of vigilantes’ plotline. Jokes aside, I think there’d have to be specific circumstances for this sort of thing. Because there’s a question of why they became Vigilantes instead of Heroes. Did they become a Vigilante because they wanted to be a Hero but something got in the way like controlling parents, money, in-world prejudices, etc? Or were they someone who hates listening to rules and thinks that all crime should be punished with extreme violence and were therefore rejected from Heroism? Like remember: technically you can consider Stain a Vigilante rather than a Villain.

- Hound Dog being the school therapist still cracks me up. But yeah I think like. The teachers in general kinda work as Quirk Counselors, helping the kids figure out how they function and all(though this works best if the kids are honest with them). But also they’re juggling a lot of kids and even a singular counselor may be overwhelmed with a whole school. I think it’s more likely that the teachers help where they can but have a handful of trusted counselors (both the Quirk kind and the therapist kind) that they can suggest the kids go to if they’re not doing well and are a bit too much for the teachers to dedicate time to in that way.

- I.... honestly can’t think of any animals though Tsu having frogs is hilarious in a twisted kinda way

- Honestly I def like the more specific Quirk classifications. things like ‘Emitter’ are too broad of a spectrum. So I do like the addition of Reality/Mental, and I’ve also seen ‘Accumulation’ be a category! But while I do use this original classification while adding those sub-categories to be more specific.... I also think that the world is a bit too focused on putting everything into a single box and therefore mis-classifying something to an extent. And I don’t just mean ‘this person has both a Mutation and something ‘Emitter’ or ‘Transformation’‘. I mean it’s more mixed.

For example, I write both Katsuki’s Quirk as a mix of Emitter and Mutation! It’s ‘Mutation’ in the fact that her body is altered to create explosive sweat. Even things like Erasure or the Quirk-suppressing handcuffs can’t stop her body from sweating like that naturally. But it’s ‘Emitter’ in both the fact that she can force sweat production and her ability to ignite the sweat on her own.

The Todorokis are another example I discussed earlier of mixed Emitter/Mutation, where the ability to produce and control the Element is Emitter but the protection against the element is Mutation which is why the children can have various combos. (also fucking rip to Rei’s parents not wanting a Mutation Quirk in the family lmao)

And honestly this is like. Less a ‘society :(’ thing and more a ‘humans are fascinating little creatures who love to organize things into neat little boxes and I mean that with all the love in my heart but sometimes things get shoved in a box they don’t fully fit into’ way.

- Hm! I was thinking something more of an Illusionist for the Himiko/Hagakure ship!

- That said having another vampiric little shit around sounds fantastic!