#shrek still exists in the future

[foone]

I propose we call it the "Shrek effect", for that thing where you have an idea for a story, only to realize it already exists and was massively popular.

Named after that post where someone goes "there should be a reverse Beauty & the Beast story, where Beauty turns into a beast at the end!" and then realizes that's just Shrek, the 2001 film that made half a billion dollars in theaters.

I was thinking about this because I thought it'd be cool to have a story about far future time travelers come back in time, except instead of coming to the current day or the past, they come to a time that's still in the future (of the current day), but is the past to them.

And then I realized that that definitely exists, because it's called Star Trek: First Contact, it came out in 1996 and I saw in in theaters. In it, the 24th century crew of the Enterprise come back in time to 2063.

[sweettjrose]

What is your opinion about Disney?

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Oh boy... This is a complicated question for me.

And the main reason is that I have a lot of Nostalgia for Disney. I grew up watching and loving animated Disney movies and tv shows and is probably the main reason I have such a love for animation and music. And even when I rewatch the movies and the shows they still hold up, some even are better than I remember and show clear mastery and love for art and creativity. The truth is I love these characters and I love these stories and I honestly don't think I could ever truly hate Disney...

But I can still be disappointed. And unfortunately, Disney has and continues to do disappointing things. It would be wrong to ignore all of the bad elements of Disney. Unfortunately, Disney made quite a bit of racist media both in shorts and in movies, and as a mixed person (half-black and half-white) it honestly a truth that is hard for me to truly accept at times. Disney played a major role in really messing up our copyright system making it harder for more media to be in the public domain, despite them liberally using public domain characters to make their stories. Even now with the war in Gaza, it sucks to see Disney officially only side with Israel and not with the Palestinians, with some of them even wearing Disney merchandise. And honestly, I am really worried with the disaster of Wish, Disney+ confusion, and the rise of AI, that Disney will start making some really big anti-creative decisions and somehow even destroy the parts people still like about Disney.

But with that said, I do think there is one element that people tend to forget when talking about the pros and cons of Disney. They are not a monolith. Disney is full of constantly changing and moving people all with completely different politics, opinions, and goals, and contributions. Tbh you could argue that the only time it has been like that is when Walt was in charge and even that is debatable. As a result the people who are doing the stuff I love are rarely the ones doing the stuff I find frustrating. I know artists who work on Disney shows that are supportive of Palestine. Heck you can even feel the internal battle at Disney when it comes to trying to add more LGBTQ+ and diverse content. There are people are trying their best to use their time at Disney to create positive media for future generations, just as much as there those trying to hide or shoot down those media. And even in cases the people causing harm are the same ones making the parts I like, that unfortunately is a constant in life, no matter where you go. Gottfredson made one of my favorite Disney comic characters, but he also did and said quite a bit of racist things. This isn't a justification, but something you can't completely avoid or ignore and have to decide how to handle yourself. To be honest that alone is a completely different essay. But the point is that people change and Disney 100 years ago is different from Disney 30 years ago which is different than Disney today. And even within Disney, not everyone agrees and supports the same things.

And personally, I feel like people tend to overcorrect when it comes to criticism of Disney and act like they have been nothing but a bland corporation with no creativity or positive impact on the world at all. I feel like people tend to group Disney with corporations like McDonalds as if they don't produce any artistic endeavors at all, but just generic content and I can't really believe or support that either. Regardless of how you feel about Disney. They have made such an impact on not just animation, not just on American media and culture, but everything all over the world. Anime is heavily inspired by Disney. Videogame Mascots like Sonic and Mario are inspired by Disney. Even media that takes shots at Disney like Shrek wouldn't have existed without Disney. To be honest it would be harder to find stuff without some element of Disney influence. As I said before a lot of amazing movies have been made with Disney and wouldn't have existed without it. I would consider The Great Mouse Detective and Beauty and the Beast straight-up masterpieces. And it was through Disney that they even got made. Disney can have its frustrating eras (like now), but they're also an effective tool to allow amazing movies and shows to be created. And in a world that doesn't value animation, we still need companies like Disney to still have that faith and support. At least I hope we can.

So to make a long story short, I think it is important to acknowledge the flaws and not ignore or hide them, but to also recognize the artistic achievements as well. Disney had a positive impact on me and nothing will be able to change that. Disney is a constantly changing cultural force that will grow along with us. It will continue to evolve as new people take the reins. Some will try to make up for past mistakes and move forward and some will repeat those mistakes and cause more problems.

All that we can hope is that the good will outweigh the bad.

[veetyuh]

Vent post to ramble about intersex issues.

Honestly I'm just now starting to feel intersex on an emotional level, despite having known for years. It has taken so much time to start working through the shame and sense of powerlessness built up over a decade, because the medical system is so fucking violent toward intersex people for NO reason.

Beyond forced "corrective" surgery — that's the big one everyone is aware of. Allowing parents to force their newborn through a sex change. Literally doing the hyperbolic conservative's worst nightmare about trans people and everyone's just fucking fine with it. But aside from that.

Since I was a sweaty, awkward teen with a five o'clock shadow, I've been told, "FEMALE‼️ DEFECTIVE FEMALE‼️ YOU WANT SURGERY FOR BABY⁉️ 👶 WE WILL GIVE YOU SURGERY FOR BABY, AND MAYBE HORMONES TO MAKE YOU LESS MANISH‼️"

I've told my doctor, my parents, any adult who asked, point blank, I never want children and would rather drink bleach than incubate one. But it's always, "You're still young, you might want that option in the future." As if I'm not enthralled with my infertility, as if pregnancy is the end goal of every female, as if I'm female to begin with.

And the shame of being classed as a disorder. One that so few doctors have seen that specialists have treated me like a lab experiment, and one even asked me to induce menstruation and come in while I'm bleeding so he can poke around. AFTER admitting that he didn't know what was going on down there. Just. "I'll have to refer you to a different specialist, but can you come in while you're bleeding so I can see what happens between your legs when there's ✨blood✨ involved?"

Or staring at the M/F boxes on ANY intake form, trying to decide which one is less humiliating. What kind of comedic relief do I want to be perceived as: a femboy who is uncommitted to the aesthetic, or a comedically masc woman like Doris from Shrek? I can count the number of times I've seen "other" or "intersex" listed as an option on one hand. And I can't describe the relief of being able to check it. It's beyond words, just to be fucking acknowledged — to have any sort of implication that my existence isn't supposed to be something else, and that my natural state is not fucked-up, or a failure.

But why is it okay for a doctor to push gender "correction" onto any intersex person, minors included, then turn around and act like trans healthcare is such a big fucking deal?? It's okay to shove progesterone into my hands despite me NOT FUCKING WANTING IT, but god forbid any transfemme person asks for it. Moreover, god forbid I ask for top surgery. It's fine for them to change my sex on my behalf, so long as fertility is the end goal: but if I want to modify my body on my own terms, then it's, "Are you sure??? Are you SURRRRE about that???"

God I HATE the medical system, I hate the insistence on a false two sex binary, and I hate troglodyte conservatives who harp on about middle school biology because they're mentally stunted and permanently at the age of 12 — when they're the same ones that bullied me in middle school so they should KNOW intersex people exist.

I miss being pre-pubescent, going into the doctor's office and knowing that my pediatrician had my best interest at heart. Even if it was shots, or gross medicine, or whatever, I knew that it was for healing me, and I could at least trust that. Now I go into a doctor's office and it feels like a fucking warzone, fight-or-flight is engaged, and I can't help but question their intent.

But the few moments when I do feel intersex? When I don't feel like a defective perisex person? It's beyond description. Being able to have a box to check off. Seeing descriptions of intersex people in history, and knowing that we used to have a place in society. When shame has been beaten into you, having it removed even for a second is a joy beyond words. 🥲

[spxcemuses]

MUSES.

Here is the list of all the muses I roleplay! Muses will be subject to change over time. Blue dividers by saradika on Tumblr. Muses may change on roster frequently and activity level may vary. Any muses that aren't in "current" category may be used as well for asks/etc. Edited on 11/23/2024.

CURRENT MUSES (16): 

Muses I write currently. Activity levels may vary, please consider this before choosing a muse (or multiple) to write with.

HIGH ACTIVITY:

> Anger (Inside Out 1-2)

> Chief Luggins (The Bad Guys)

MEDIUM ACTIVITY:

> Tzekel-Kan (The Road to El Dorado)

> Hades (Hercules)

> Perrito (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

LOW ACTIVITY:

> Genie (Aladdin (1992))

> Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice (1988/Beetlejuice 2))

> Anxiety (Inside Out 2)

> Judge Frollo (Hunchback of Notre Dame)

> John Doe (John Doe/House Hunted)

> Jack Horner (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

> Syndrome (The Incredibles)

> Charlie Dompler (Smiling Friends)

> Allan (Smiling Friends)

> Pim Pimling (Smiling Friends)

> Freaky Fred (Courage the Cowardly Dog)

VIDEOGAME/WEBSERIES/OTHER MUSES (0):

to be added.

“REQUEST” MUSES (6): 

Muses I have written, but are very selective with interactions and often are "requested". Will be moved to other categories if written enough.

HIGH ACTIVITY:

> Shaw (Open Season)

MEDIUM ACTIVITY:

> Bob Velseb (Spooky Month)

> Randall Boggs (Monsters Inc. franchise)

LOW ACTIVITY:

> Ethical Bug (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

> Death/Lobo (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish)

> Dug (Pixar’s Up)

TESTING MUSES (14): 

Muses I haven’t written much of (or at all) but am interested to. If enough interest is garnered (and I've written them enough), they’ll be moved to the current/request categories.

Writing Right Now:

none currently.

Not Writing Currently: This generally means I have written them in the past, but have not written them enough for it to count.

Jareth (Jim Henson’s Labyrinth)

Hans Westergaard (Frozen)

Moe Szyslak (The Simpsons)

Bill Sykes (Oliver and Company)

Embarrassment (Inside Out 2)

Mammon (Helluva Boss)

Haven't Written (Yet).: This mean I am contemplating on writing them. I may or may not actually write them.

Disgust (Inside Out 1-2)

Grimmel the Grisly (HTTYD 3)

King Magnifico (Wish)

General Kai (Kung Fu Panda 3)

Vic Diamond (Thelma the Unicorn)

Benson (Regular Show)

Crimson (Helluva Boss)

Rolando (Helluva Boss)

“ARCHIVED” MUSES (18): 

Muses I haven't written in a LONG time that are going on a metaphorical "back-burner" until I get muse again. This DOESN'T mean I'm NO LONGER RPing them; they're just on standby. Any threads w/these muses will be archived and (may be) brought back at a later date. Please respect my decisions with these. They may come in from time-to-time, or with select people.

Balthazar Bratt (Despicable Me 3/4*)

Killian (Spies in Disguise)

Maui (Moana)

Mok Swagger (Rock and Rule)

Mr. Piranha (The Bad Guys)

Mr. Shark (The Bad Guys)

Pitch Black (Rise of The Guardians)

Thrax (Osmosis Jones)

Fairy Godmother (Shrek 2)

Ruber (Quest for Camelot)

Rameses II (The Prince of Egypt)

Frank (Spooky Month)

The Daycare Attendant (FNAF: Security Breach)

Dracula (Hotel Transylvania franchise)

Jafar (Aladdin (1992)

Prince Charming (Shrek 2/Shrek 3)

Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Marvel/Deadpool films)

Titan/“Tighten” (Megamind)

SIDE MUSES/”NPC’s” (4): 

Muses who I will RP occasionally along with a main muse of mine, but they’re not “official” muses. They mainly help the threads/story progress if needed.

Acolyte (The Road to El Dorado)

Chief Tannabok (The Road to El Dorado)

The Shlepper Brothers [Toad/Sleazy/Zip] (Rock and Rule)

Mr. Boss (Smiling Friends)

GRAVEYARD MUSES (9): 

Muses that I likely won’t bring back. Mostly due to limited interactions and/or general disinterest (from me and/or others). May bring back in distant future (if I want to write them again) but for now, they cease to exist on my muse list. Any relations/etc. with these muses will still be intact (unless you wish to start on a clean slate).

It/Pennywise (It Chapters 1&2)

Rick Sanchez (Rick and Morty)

Preminger (Barbie’s Princess and the Pauper)

Dr. Pussycat (Peepoodo)

Asmodeus (Helluva Boss)

Striker (Helluva Boss)

Cletus (Helluva Boss)

Daniel (Camp Camp)

Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

MORE TO BE ADDED LATER.

[snowy-weather]

Nine People You'd Like to Know Better

I know I'm super late to this, my apologies. XD

Thanks for the tag, @septicrodent

3 Ships:

These will all involve my OCs in some way. XD

Ralis Sedarys X Mirni. OMG I love these two so much. I have no idea why I started shipping them, it was probably just a random thought that turned into an obsession over time. XD Drawing them makes me so happy. I've been obsessed with them for like... a year? Two years? And it's showing no signs of stopping.

I do realise that my version of Ralis Sedarys had become heavily headcanon-ised over time. XD But with a characters with as little canon content as him I suppose that's doubt to happen.

Varonys X Alya. Mirni's parents haven't even existed in the way they do for like a month and I LOVE them. Strict, stoic, grumpy nerd (who's secretly a little awkward) and his absolutely lovesick assistant. 🤭 I love it. I expect to make much more art of them in the future.

Next one isn't an Elder Scrolls (or Elder Scrolls OCs) pairing, it's from my original story.

Athix X Maron. Maron is an aloof, vain and standoffish man (who's secretly also a nerd but don't let him hear me say that) and Athix is a lovesick fool who just can't hide how much he absolutely loves Maron. They're both bad guys, honestly, as they work for the main antagonist in the Ace of Swords prologue chapter. But somehow, Athix' adoration of Maron is so cute to me. Maron, like I said, is standoffish and often acts annoyed at Athix' advances. But don't worry! He likes him a lot too.

First ship:

In general? No idea. XD I honestly don't remember.

In Elder Scrolls? Estlin (OC) and Torvar from the companions. Originally, I wanted to make a Skyrim story focused on my Dragonborn character Estlin and Torvar would be her unlikely love interest. Mostly because I married him in my first playthrough of the game. I thought he'd be kind of like an anime character I love. He's not, but I got attached to him anyway. XD

In Ace of Swords? Probably Yashiro and Agnes. They're an official couple (married) and the first couple to appear in my original concept for in Ace of Swords in 2019.

Currently reading:

I'm reading a long-running Elder Scrolls fanfic written by a friend of mine. I'm totally hooked. It's two parts so far: 'Ancient Blood' and 'Indigo Children'.

Last film:

Madagascar 3: Europe's most wanted. 🤭 What can I say I have a soft spot for weird animated comedies. I grew up watching Shrek.

Currently Craving:

Coffee.

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I know the idea is to tag 9 more people, but I'm awkward, I don't know for sure who has and hasn't been tagged yet and I don't wanna bother people too much, so I'll pass for now hehe. Still, I'm happy to be tagged! ^^

[loominggaia]

@darkwingphoenix Teeny's seagull's name is Fry, as she found him on a Matuzu street eating someone's fries. And I SPECIFICALLY tried to make sure I had at least one of each race (For the most part: I mean, I have three sirene OCs) I also have a couple more OCs: Truk: A male orc divine who just exists in a truck in Burmek. Created the first slimes, but no one remembers him. He's chill tho. Sina: Another female sirene (I LOVE this species, best one on Gaia), and a divine. Created the globeholders, but doesn't care for fame. Hey, there's prolly a TON of divines who aren't well known. Most of the divines in canon are just those who are more important/craving for fame/made a significant monster that's still raising hell (First is Karenza/Disgrace, second is someone like Miliko, and third are those like Allmother, Krozlaug, and Varas). Shuck: A male troll divine who's basically just Shrek. Similarly to Krug, he just vibes in a swamp in Evangeline. Yip-pi-Popo: Gnoll divine, goes by Yip a lot. The gnoll super-rabies that killed off all gnolls had died off once Yip resurrected from dying to it. He just now lives with Shuck in his swamp. Local legends speak of a mangy werewolf that's always a werewolf during the day and even outside of a full moon, but no one cares enough as it's Shuck's swamp and it's just a legend. In truth, however, they just saw Yip. Leonard: At some point in the future, a highly intelligent hogmen from Hog Mountain moves to Matuzu to study. He gets studied a lot too, as his species died out like 1,000 years before.

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Fry is such a cute freaking name for a seagull! Aaaahh! <3

I gotta say, Shuck and Yip are my favorites so far. I really like Truk too...why do I always latch on to the bummiest, crustiest characters? lol

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[felikatze]

Plusquam Chapter 7 director's commentary because i adore being a blabbermouth

hi hi hello. i am going to talk about my fic and nobody can stop me but i don't want to turn the ao3 author's notes into their own 30k novel so yelling on tumblr it is!!

if you are interested in SOME of the machenations of my enigmatic mind, feel free to read. If not. Well i don't care really it's your life. I'm writing this for MY enjoyment.

First of!! I dunno if I talked about them before!! (I have the memory of a goldfish). The silly codenames!!

As I may or may not have mentioned before, the inspiration for this came from the Project Thabes mod for Awakening. In the ferox duel, the mod replaces the generics with inigo, severa, owain, and gerome. The awakening trio get their fates names (a coward's move, but one i understand), but gerome is named michalis, which i just enjoy soooo much???

so when i initially planned out for all the future kids to band together with lucina, i decided they all had to have codenames! otherwise there's really no point in lucina having one....

merric for laurent was the biggest no brainer of all of them, with caeda for severa being a close second. feel free to interpret why. gerome was obviously taken from the thabes mod, and the rest were... a challenge... to come up with!

owain actually gave me a lot of trouble. what WOULD he name himself? i've not finished shadow dragon myself (I only played the prologue so far... haha...), and most i know of the cast comes from mitosis. and scarf's new mystery lunatic reverse run on youtube. and it was that run that reminded me. that kris's confect is an item in the game. meaning that awakening era people know kris exists. except wasn't kris' deal that they like. did not want to be noted down in history.

hence kris being a "heavily debated historical subject". which of COURSE owain would name himself after an unsung but vitally important hero of the shadows.

others i may discuss as they come up? eh, we'll see. not every future kid is gonna be important (god knows that's way too many characters for me to handle), but they will be There. main focus of course being the fp3 squad, with the addition of two others. it is very obvious who it will be, i think.

next up, pairings!

most pairings werent set, outside the ones that are my obvious favorites (panne/lonqu, henlivia, chrobin (duh)). others were up in the air and just happened as i wrote. as i thought about gerome in this, and chatted about the subject with friends, frederick/cherche came to be for this fic! (and for the shrek au, oddly enough. it may have just been on my mind, and i thought chrom missing freddie's wedding was funny.)

it suited my purposes best if gerome had a stronger emotional tie to the blueberry siblings, and a knightly duty to protect them served just that. hence the dialogue of lucina being his liege. he's so utterly disinterested in getting to know the people of the past that i needed that extra bit to keep him coherent. he won't get close to anyone, but he'll do anything to support lucina's aims as though they were his own.

which brings me to the next subject, lucina's PoV! This is the first perspective switch in all of plusquam (not just because I couldn't meet my 4k benchmark with morgan alone this time). Since Morgan and Lucina act separately and won't encounter often, I needed the extra time to establish her character here. To me, there's a clear dissonance between how Morgan views her and how Lucina is. Both of them are unreliable narrators to varying degrees, yet how they differ is where the meat is.

Like, for example, Morgan completely rejecting that Lucina is Robin's child as well, and not just Chrom's, because Grima told them Lucina was different. As compared to the actual Lucina still deeply affected by Robin, and even engaging with grimleal theology on an even field because of him and the other plegian influences in her life.

there's also the matter of her narration style. I waffled back and forth on whether to give her second person narration as well, but ultimately decided on third person limited, with a catch - she exclusively refers to everyone, including herself, by their codenames.

in both their perspectives, i want to create separation between their original names and who they act as. With morgan, this succeeds because the viewpoint has no need to mention their name whatsoever, and with lucina, it succeeds because she's the one creating that distance in her own mind. it's fun to play with!

ah, siblings. so different, yet so similar.

as for the pronouns situation on lucina's pov. well. schrödinger's transgender.

minor thing. i hate adapting canon scenes close to script, hence me just freestyling when lucina and co meet chrom and squad. there's also just... no future portal risen roaming about, which would've made the point moot anyway. that's a very interesting consequence to play with.

having an endless army of generic undead is lame. having to draw on the actual dead of the immediate area - now we're getting spicy!

despite everything, i have grown attached to the risen wyvern and its chittering ways, but it sadly has to go. there's a reason morgan never named it. farewell my sweet prince. aurgh. i mean. this thing has been with morgan through the entire past so far. and it just fell apart more and more over time. crashing into a wall and breaking its neck, having half its throat torn out - poor thing. good thing it can't feel pain anymore.

that is, i think, all i wanted to blabber about? if you're a reader of plusquam, hi, i love you, i hope you have a great day, you may summon me for one turn of battle without expending an action and i will appear as a shimmering blue specter to protect you from harm.

that's all!! see you next time!! as usual, if anyone has questions of their own, or wants to yell at me for hurting their feelings, shoot me an ask, a comment, or anything at all! see ya!! ily!!

[madhattersez]

Retro Junk Haul

A few months back, I went on a journey to Kansas, which is -the- state to go to for antique shops that have good shit that has not been picked by a bunch of flippers... all for for ridiculously low prices.

So, what did I grab, my lovelies? THESE!

We'll start with a couple Star Trek figures that are awesome. First of all, you GOTTA have a LeVar Burton around. Also, a Ferengi, which I haven't really ever seen out in the wild before.

There's a real big Skulkor action figure that still spins like crazy, and a very thigh-gappy Jocasta.

The real cool one here is this super rare Crypt Keeper, though! I found him buried under bucket full of Barbies. Always dig in a bucket of Barbies.

I have been looking everywhere for these three exact Frightning Lightnings for years, especially the proper black version of Elvira's Macabre Mobile! YES. Also grabbed the Ecto 1A from Ghostbusters II and Stephen King's Christine.

There's a Space Channel 5 Hot Wheels car here, which I never knew existed, and a random A-10 plane, which is my second favorite plane. (B-17 first and always!)

There's more after the jump!

A dope Sailor Moon VHS with a sparkly, shiny Sailor Jupiter cover.

A shitty Shrek 2 puzzle. An original A&W frosty mug like I used to drink out of as a kid at Nu Way Café in Wichita, Kansas.

And a... suspiciously licensed Star Trek card game I have yet to play.

More Happy Meal toys for the collection!

I finally cracked and bought some of these Astroniks, which I hadn't started collecting yet because, like Mac Tonight, they are hard to get for a cheap price. I spent $15 on all of these in a single bag, though, so I almost have them all now!

A couple Roger Rabbit Disneyland viewers, a Fraggle Rock... cucumbermobile? And a Hamburglar I did not have yet.

Comics! Radio Shack TRS-80 Whiz Kids books are hard to come by.

Some various Archie pals, and other random thangs.

The sealed, vintage Bozo the Clown party game was a ridiculous $3.

And magazines. I'm a sucker for 'em.

G.I. Joe and Wizard. Hell yes. So much material in here to clip for future collages!

Story books - These Masters of the Universe covers go HARD!

Also, a Power Rangers book for 50 cents. Can't turn that down.

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Now, the final amazing find... Something I have been wanting for years and years and years. Decades, even!

ARE YOU READY FOR THIS SHIT?!

Finally! My very own Nintendo R.O.B. in fantastic condition!

I need to grab a few more parts (probably from the Japanese version to save money) before I test him out to see if he works, but I don't even care if he does - I will display him and love him and scratch his head and give him little smooches forever and ever.

[liaromancewriter]

What was Ethan & MC’s favorite movie when they were kids? Do they have one now? Mostly because their kid/s watches it a million times a day & they swear they’re sick of it but in their minds they’re like ok this is pretty good actually.

Ethan loved the Home Alone movies as a kid. He was about Kevin's age when the first one came out. Afterwards, he went around the house figuring out how he'd defend, a la, Kevin. He also enjoyed the Indiana Jones movies and Goonies.

Now? He's not into movies as much now, but when he does watch them it’ll be intellectual movies that make you think, like Inception, The King's Speech or old film noir films like the Maltese Falcon and the like.

Cassie enjoys those type of movies too, but sometimes she just wants mindless fun. In my hc, his favorite fake movie is The Grape Escape because he proposed to Cassie while watching it.

As for Cassie, her favorite movie as a kid was Shrek. She can still quote all the memable moments. She also loved Disney movies, especially Aladdin because the princess wasn't waiting for her prince.

As a grown up, her favorite movies are too many to list, but she's partial to Sabrina and Roman Holiday and has rewatched them many times (comfort fare). She loves Audrey Hepburn's style. She makes it a point to watch the Oscar nominated films each year, if her schedule allows.

As for their kids, that's still so much in the future. If you know anything about children, you know their favorite movie changes every season or year. So, it's hard for me to predict what movies will exist then and which the Ramsey Twins will like at that point in time.

I do hc that their parents introduce them to their favorite childhood movies, and those are part of family movie night. So, the girls enjoy the memories even if they find the movies dated.

I created a cartoon character for them in Postcard Memories: Wilhelmina the Ballerina Mouse, and I imagine that's their favorite from when they're four until about six years old. At that point, the girls watch Wilhelmina all the time and Ethan and Cassie can quote every line. But they also appreciate the life lessons in that series and associated movies.

(Kinda like me with Cat Noir and Miraculous Ladybug -- have the plot memorized lol).

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[hydralisk98]

Writing my way up to H.G. Wells + J.R.R. Tolkien-tier and beyond

I mean, I would like to get a few short stories / poems / animation shorts / short films / "software toys" going and by far. So may as well pitch a few of my current narrative draft ideas for initial practice...

I guess I will make it clear that I feel a powerful need to write down immersive / cohesive yet oxymoron Axis victory set of stories. Most likely with some cultural & technological nuances (not about making Nazism, Fascism and others legitimate but definitely challenging some assumptions we societally made from the world wars) & conflicted characters as far as emulating dystopia-writing with a humane / relatable touch.

These are not the only narratives I would like to convey, far from it. I got a couple more related to historical "mysteries", my constructed world(s?) slice-of-life-s and overall making optimistic meta-narratives. Like some about my hometown, a couple around specific tools / challenges / design contraints, much about far far away alternate futures and a few drop-in "clef" replacements for some existing works with strong satirist-ic commentary & nuanced intrigue politics...

Here are a couple of such media I hope to express some opinions onto through these "clef" keys.

(Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, Twilight, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Warriors, Chronicles of Narnia, A Song of Ice and Fire, Silmarillion, Bible, standalone X-Men movies, Naruto / Boruto, Tarzan, Conan The Barbarian, John Carter of Mars, Terminator, Predator, Alien, Degrassi, Star Wars, Star Trek, Half-Life, Stargate SG1, How To Train Your Dragon, Frozen, Pirates of the Caribbean, Matrix, Rio, Jurassic Park, James Bond, Homestuck, Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron, Sinbad Legend of the Seven Seas, The Prince of Egypt, The Road to El Dorado, Helluva Boss / Hazbin Hotel, Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken, Shrek, Coco, The Book of Life, Ice Age, Mulan, Lord of the Rings, Megamind, Treasure Planet, Atlantis, Lilo and Stitch, Pokemon, Sonic The Hedgehog, Cyberpunk RED + 2077, Halo, Destiny, Pathfinder, Outlander, Genship Impact, Starcraft, Grand Theft Auto, Bioshock Infinite + Burial at Sea, Animal Crossing, Fable 2, Earthbound, Metroid, Splatoon, Bionicle, Chronotrigger, Dishonored, XCOM, Turning Red, Luca, 300, The Time Machine, Brontë, Ethan Frome, Death in Venice, The Hired Girl, Tintin, Watchmen, Jour J, Hellboy, V for Vendetta, Ghost Rider, Asterix, Lackadaisy, Zoophobia, Danny Phantom, Avatar The Last Airbender, Legend of Korra, Code Lyoko, Kim Possible, Powerpuff Girls, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, Animaniacs, Boondocks, Totally Spies, Futurama, 6teen, Stoked, Wakfu, Hot Wheels, Discworld, Forgotten Realms, Quake, Coran, Tanak, mythologies, historical fiction, ancestries, Hypnospace Outlaw / Sword Art Online, Zachtronics ('TIS-100' & 'Shenzhen I/O'), Ace Combat, Overlord, Bloody Good Time, Resistance Fall of Man, Perfect Dark, Zelda, God of War, Kaisha...)

Not exhaustive by any margin but yk, the first few up to Alien are definitely deserving some strong reworks...

But yeah, that's kinda my type of creative bar setting (I still am casual but yk I shall outshine Tolkien with all the tools available nowadays), aka making bronze age literature lineage-ing type of timeless works.

Don't mind me if I get started some onto the promised Jucika-derived comic strips and get the ball rolling on my open source workflow (first onto Kate + LibreOffice and eventually in the terminal with Tmux/Fish/Vim and all the other creative writing goodies...)

Be not afraid...

[alt-zombee]

I tried my best to show everyone I was a "good" guy 

they tried to expose me as a liar

when they didn't get it from the source 

I pour out my heart and soul and they still

want the last piece of my pie

I never once claimed to be anything that I wasn't or wouldn't be 

trust me there was plenty times I could've exposed 

these phonies 

there was plenty times when I held back the truth to protect 

the people that meant something to me 

the most loyal boy and they still want more from me 

still the headaches are non existent 

and this shit isn't me complaining this is me spiting out facts 

they thought I was full of stress until they started hearing the 

laughs 

and for me to relapse means I would've had to quit at least once 

had an arguement over how the church was hypocritical 

with the most evangelical of them all 

I told her Mary still had my back and for me to quit her 

would mean that I would go back

on everything I ever worked so hard to achieve 

I got smoke following me from the back and 

still I come out unphased 

how is it that everyone came for my neck and left with some food for their brain 

how is it that I cried countless nights for people

who left me for me dead 

how is it that I never once read the scriptures and I still 

rehaersed them straight from the pain 

how is it that ya'll caused me all this pain and I still 

fed your mans 

I always do my best even when these roses are thrown at my feet 

everyone listens in but no one dares share their opinion 

on me

I had a million things weighing me down and I still survived 

worked job after job and every time went above and beyond 

even put in overtime when ya'll made me the clown 

now the hate is starting to show 

I was that boy that didn't want to come out the house 

a bunch of lost souls everytime that I looked around 

they tempted me and poked me

and when I turned around and

popped

they started calling me the most violent one of them all 

funny how self defence can be misinterpreted when it comes

down to someone you hate

the way I played this game I should have 5 rings like Mike

most of the people that claimed they where with me 

were two faced just like Mike and Ike 

nowadays I do be out of pocket 

telling people that stare at me for something to take a hike 

and I hate social media y'all can keep your likes 

and your hearts 

the clout chasing is never a part of my plan 

social media stars would steal from your kids just to get the car that they like 

my heart is still in this for anyone that believes in my cause 

exposing phonies and frauds pointing them out 

protecting the future generations whit whatever I have 

I'm a hypocritical paradox I'm glad you guys figured it out 

and still

I love every one of you guys 

I would go back and do it all over again just to show you that 

this is real

straight from the heart 

the way that I'm about to come is like I hit the bulls eye with a dart 

no more apologizing to people who would take my pride if they could 

now I'm smoking weed in every garden including eves 

and this year I want to be alone just like Shrek 

fuck opinions you guys can work all that shit out 

I'm moving humbly and I'm feeding my team 

last year 

I promise this all felt like a dream 

I even had some of the closest people switch sides on me 

left felt like right and everyone wanted to take a little something out of me 

but I felt great the whole way along 

made everyone realize that this was me all along

showed everyone that I was that boy that was always a man 

I hope everyone takes this and works out the draining energy

that this world keeps circulating through

all these clown celebraties and cancel culture vultures that you guys keep putting on 

and if you want to reach me it has never been easier to get in touch with your boy

[oinkgoesthecat]

I'm spiralling so fucking hard.

I get closer to an actual breakdown every day. Maybe I can cry. I want to. I did something dumb. So dumb. I'm going to blow up my life. I want to blow up my life. I feel so trapped and maybe that's the commitment issues and the self-sabotage but I feel like I'm screaming to escape.

I want to blow it all up. I want it. But it's such a bad idea. The logistics of it alone. I've spent a lot of time thinking about the logistics.

I've spent a lot of time thinking about my reasons. I refuse to use Sheik as a getaway car. In the beginning, I thought I was attracted to him because he reminded me of Tavion so much. And he does, but the longer I go and the more I get to know him the more I like him as his own person. Attraction aside I'm super happy to have him as a friend. And even if this becomes nothing more I want to stay his friend.

But he's not the one that's got my thoughts swimming around. Thats Tavion. I love him. I have no doubt or hesitation about that. I just don't know if that is enough right now. Since he lost his job he's been... Different. He's harsher. I don't like who he's been lately. He's harsher to me. I know it's super unfair for me to compare them but when I told Sheik I was almost kidnapped, even though I might have been being over dramatic it was still a potentially bad situation, he expressed concern. Tavion berated me for being outside sweeping. He was blaming me. That upset me a lot. I've been all but screaming for him to spend time with me. Asking if he wants to watch a movie with me or cook with me. No, he wants to do something on his game. We don't do things together anymore. We eat, watch an episode of anime, and sleep. We exist near each other. But he's stopped spending intentional time with me. We don't have conversations about anything aside from money and Shrek and how fat I am or appointments. We don't talk about our future anymore. Not like we used to. We haven't brought up marriage or engagement even in over a year. A year ago I would have told you without hesitation that I could see myself married to him. Now I question it. I don't know what our wedding will be like now. I used to sit awake and dream and plan and I was ready with several different plans for my wedding. I've had a lot of different ambitions in my life but being somebody's wife was always the most consistent. And I still want that. But I don't know if want that with him.

One of my fears has always been getting trapped in one of those marriages. The one where the wife is drowning and screaming for help between housework and her career and the children and the husband is no help at all. One of the marriages where I'm taken for granted and stuck taking care of my house and my husband and myself and my children. I'm still not sure where I stand on children but I know I want an equal partner in raising them. I don't want that bumbling father who doesn't know my child's allergies or appointments or teachers' names or shoe sizes. I want a partner who sees the housework needs doing and does it without me asking. That can make a grocery list or notice we are out of shampoo or fold and put away the laundry when I spent all day washing it. Someone that can put away the fucking groceries soon as they get home. Or clean out the fridge and put a new bag in as soon as they take the trash out. Honestly, this is just devolving into my frustrations with him being unable to do housework.

The longer I'm thinking about the more Im realizing he hasn't treated me very well in a while. Not since he left the city. Maybe before that.

I can't express displeasure with him. I've never been able to. It's a fight with myself every time I do. I'm so afraid. Afraid he'll decide I'm not worth the effort because I'm asking too much. Maybe Nathan left me more traumatized than I thought. Maybe I moved on too quickly. Maybe I didn't give myself enough time to heal before I started dating Tavion. This isn't the first time I thought about this. I've questioned my readiness way too many times. And I'm still not sure if I have an answer.

I want to feel desired. I know it would be so dumb to throw away stability and love for passion. And I'm not naive enough to think passion is love. But sexual compatibility... That's hard. Actually, the issue is that he isn't hard. That was a super dumb joke for an audience of exactly myself but still. In the beginning, I was super understanding that sex was something difficult for him. And I'm still very capable of taking care of myself. But I want intimacy. I want to feel like I'm the one who brings him pleasure and makes him weak in the knees. I want to make him lose control. I have all these men that want to fuck me but the one I've wanted for years doesn't want to. And after a while, it started to get frustrating. I can't handle being rejected all the time. I stopped asking if could take care of him years ago because hearing no was devastating every time. And the one time I heard a yes nothing happened. I tried for over 20 minutes and not even a twitch. I have made me cum in their pants but I can't even make the man I love hard. Unless it's my tummy. Unless it's me being fat. And don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it. But then our whole sex life started to revolve around me being fat and getting fatter. And I don't want to be fat anymore. It's stopped being fun or healthy for me. I want to get back under 200. And he's not unsupportive, but he jokes about how awful it is a lot. I know he's reassured me that he will still love me and find me attractive when I'm thin again but I'm not as convinced as I should be. Our whole sex life, whatever is left of it, revolves around me getting bigger and being full. Me losing weight is going to truly kill it. And I know it. And I'm frustrated by that.

I think I'm going to sit him down and have a serious conversation with him. Because I don't want to blow up something fixable. But first, we have to admit something is broken. And I'm not sure he sees it. He treats me so differently than when we first started dating or even in the first or second year. I don't expect constant romance and flowers. But I want to be loved. I want to feel loved. I want him to flirt with me and want to spend time with me.

I want more from him. I definitely feel better putting some of my thoughts down on paper, even though the scary ones. Honestly, this blog was a great idea. Journalling is really good for me.

[deathandthemaiden23]

Bro idk who's around me rn idk who's really still here in this fandom idk who will even see this or read it and i dont wanna get into it (proceeds to get into it) but ive been on a grand fucking expedition to confront past trauma and shit lately which whoopeee what else is new for what basically amounts to a dreamworks adult obsessed with the grim reaper from shrek specifically i think there's probably an actual good reason this is my biggest blorbo yet (which by the way, my good bitches, is truly saying something) beyond "big scary wolf sexy" but like anyways its been a hot fuckin second of me just sort of existing in purgatory with basically only this character to keep me real company the whole time chipping away at fanfic and makin doodles here and there while trying to solve the great big fuckin mystery of hey pal is there any particular reason you spend most of your free time fantasizing at length about being loved and cared for by literal fuckin death but um i kinda sorta had been making peace lately with the very real possibility that probably the only reappearances from Death we'd see going forward in this franchise would kinda just be relegated to stuff like being a playable character in that dumbass mario kart game they made recently that they had the audacity to charge $50 for the version with him in it and I was immediately prepared to shell out the fuckin money regardless anyways tldr this is my longwinded way of saying bless harvey fuckin guillen for supposedly saying he wants to reprise his role as perrito in shrek 5 and specifically mentioning he wanted to know more about his backstory including the near death experience he had in the sock that he still wears like ok let me be clear im not getting my hopes up for shit im super excited about the idea of harvey and everybody reprising their roles for future shrek installments but i know shit be disappointing sometimes and it just be like that sometimes blablabla alright nothing is set in stone in this cursed ass timeline we're in bbbbbbut

✨️H O W E V E R✨️

I cannot help but think in some kind of weirdly jaded optimism that surely dreamworks would not fucking let the absolute furry cashcow that Death is go to fucking waste if they're bringing shrek back to the big screen it just seems incredibly fuckin stupid this big fuckin bastard gave everyone a boner when last wish dropped to the extent that i actually didnt know anything about last wish going in to see it in theaters the first time knew nothing of the plot who was in it whatever right THE ONLY FUCKIN KNOWLEDGE I HAD OF LAST WISH PRIOR TO SITTING DOWN AND WATCHING IT WAS "OH I GUESS THERE'S A WOLF CHARACTER AND EVERYONE WANTS TO FUCK HIM" LMFAO UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE FUCKIN YEAR RIGHT LOL anyways if dreamworks doesnt seize the opportunity to give him at least one more like visible cameo appearance anywhere in whatever they can squeeze out of the shrek franchise after it was dead (lmfao) for like years (the puss in boots show is little known to anyone sadly and also it seems vaguely noncanonical if that makes sense stuff gets said on the regular in that show that just seems too batshit even for shrek standards) I'll genuinely like die of shock the entertainment industry is chock full of companies just like dreamworks always achin to get their hands on another iconic character they can squeeze money out of ad infinitum and like i dont want that to happen with Death I dont but also... please just let him show up at least one more time dreamworks throw this bitch a bone im begging you you will make so much money i promise u the thirsty tumblr fans are no joke we'll bankroll your ass to the moon and back

I feel it would be remiss of me not to offer some form of content after all this impassioned war and peace length solilioquy about the scu (shrek cinematic universe) so here's an old WIP from forever ago im like 90% i havent posted here (if i have oh fuckin well tbh ¯\_(ツ)_/¯) its a lil scene from chapter 2 of my death fic where he gets caught redhanded picking flowers for his crush because he's a dork ass loser and wants to impress her without coming on too strong lmao like bro she's so into you just go for it

[cescalr]

small [read: lengthy] mcrp (traffic/hermits) sims update

No more new DSMP sims, but a bunch of [the same] Hermits/Traffic sims! Mostly - mostly just Joels. The way I’m doing this is making each character, and then colour palette swapping them for each life stage in each series. 

I kind of did SB out of order cause i watched LimLife first, so i knew that skin best (aside from his standard human shrek skin that i kind of mostly just want to....... ignore.... because its. it’s. it’s human shrek guys. i don’t - i can’t. I refuse.) ANYWAY yeah so we’ve got;

LimLife; green and red.

double life; green

I’m probably gonna change his hair idk. DL!Joel isn’t set in stone yet. (Once I get to life stage swapping of colours i will fucking refuse to change anything about the design because OH GOD how long that would take.....)

last life; green is currently in progress.

Taking liberties too for variety’s sake. Not that he spent long on Green or Yellow in LastLife, lol. Still. Ignore the crown is floating; the height slider mod and the hat slider mod (for adjusting the positon of hat-category CC, not always hats though) conflict with each other as they use the same slider location (neck). REALLY annoying. Used to exist a height slider that used the front foot location instead of the neck and I wish it still worked so I could have them both in game at the same time... alas. Also if you remove the hat slider the hats reset to original position, which is horrendous. If you remove the height slider this is not the case, so basically; do heights first, then hats. Learnt this the hard way. Annoying, though, because if they’re too short you can’t access the neck in order to adjust hat position........... ugh. Problem for future Cesca to deal with. I do have the hairs I’ll be using for Yellow and Red LastLife Joel already set aside, though. There’s so much shit I have to keep track of for this project lmao. Might swap the pinkish/reddish crown over to his greenlife and use the gold one for yellow because..... it’s... yellow. Obviously. Don’t know why I thought I needed to explain that one...Canonically he’s wearing the black crown during his redlife, so. You know. Can’t really mess with that one. 

3rd life; green, yellow and red. 

Yeah i went with the wolf thing as best I could for variety’s sake. Also like a kind of transformative corruption or whatever idk what the fuck i’m talking about. Loads of fanart gives him antennae (I guess as a way of interpreting the shrek ears?) so I just. Went with that. Why not. Alien man. Sure. Skin tinted green, yellow and red on each life. There are SO many swatches i have to swap around guys. so many. just so many. The reason i haven’t colour palette swapped LimLife!Yellow!Joel yet is bc. oh god the number of swatches i’m going to have to swap around.... 

Couple higher res images; 

Green!3rdLife / Mazalean King!Joel, hence the purple streaks. I use an eye shine for the Traffic versions as an extra way to distinguish between non-death game versions of the characters and their usual selves. This is also what i consider Joel’s ‘default’ hairstyle to be, I guess. For now. 

 Couldn’t really tell in the preview, but red!3rdLife Joel is. just. that’s a lot of blood. (Not his.) 

For obvious reasons, my favourite Joel to make was LimLife joel. 

OTT? Absolutely. As he should be. Ik the darker green/teal dye is a bit glitched but i just used whatever I could find that worked. Can’t be arsed to replace with a better option now I have one, which I did use for the red!life and will use for the yellow. I still think it looks pretty great so I don’t really care. These glasses took FOREVER to find btw. But they’re perfect <3 so. Worth it. I also saw people draw LimLife!Joel with some kind of goatee-esque facial hair, unlike his usual design (and the times he has a full beard, like LastLife and Empires s2), and you know. Go big or go home! Especially with a Joel design. (Or a Scar design, for that matter.) So I went with that, too. Not dyed though because. Maximalism. Also I’m pretty sure everyone’s like in their 30s and I’m not checking that assumption. Jsyk. LimLife Joel is having a midlife crisis a decade too early <3. Anyway I finally got a chance to use all my alt cc i’ve been saving up for soooooo long because it’s so fun. So that’s nice. Pathetic worst loser gang Bad Boys trio my beloveds <3. Can’t wait to make tryhard failing at punk LimLife!Jimmy. That’s gonna be so fun. 

Got a base Rendog;

Which is hermit!Ren (s9, specifically). I need to make King!Ren and then i can start going over the Traffic!Rens. He has the wrong ears really because I wanted it to be more of a dog thing than a wolf thing, and I actually think these are fox ears now I’m looking at them... Oh well. They work fine for their purpose.

We’ve got s7, s8s, and a s9 Mumbo;

s7;

s8s;

Mooner:

Pacific:

Contractually harvested a soul (grian’s);

s9;

But we’ve got no potato or pig mumbo bc of the sims 4′s limitations when it comes to non-human[oid] characters. Need to make Traffic!Mumbo. I tihink he was only in LastLife??? So if that’s the case at least there’s only one of him to be dealing with. He’s got a bunch of outfits other than these because I don’t actually get to use the more formal cc I have in my game all that often. Pacific!Mumbo has a bunch of really fun outfits too. Mumbo was one of the more funky sims to make, actually.

As for Grians we’ve only got a s9 Grain man so far; 

And yeah, the wingspan is kind of absurd. But you know. To lift a whole-ass human person, it kind of has to be!

But he does have some CuteGuy alterego outfits;

I did a whole bunch of different ones, and given the watcher!grian of it all some even have different wings. Though most of those are admitedly just a swatch swap.

Being this one.

Please ignore how bad he looks from this angle but you can also see here the reason for Grian’s-Soul-Having-Mumbo’s hairstyle.

Anyway, can’t make a Poultry Man for the same kind of reason as the lack of pig/potato mumbo; there’s just no content in game or cc i can find that would make that work. (Need a chicken mascot head, basically, but there’s nothing like that anywhere I can find.) Can’t make a watcher!Grian for the same reason - no way to get enough eyes. [i go with a more eldritch angel inspired idea for how watchers look, syk. I’ve also never read ATUS and don’t plan to; my ideas are based on a combination of a) imagination and b) EVO. Also why would watchers cover their eyes......... they. they. they’re Watchers. They need those.]

I think Gem would be one of the easier ones to make (s9 Gem). So she’ll probably be next. Cleo i need to find some medusa snake hair for and some torso damage (because of the giant missing chunk in their side) as well, so that’ll be a while off. But LimLife!Cleo is easier, so she’ll probably be the first Cleo I make. I’ve already got a bunch of 80s athletic gear. Scar.... not sure how to go abt him. Also daunting bc he plays just so much dress up so much all the time so there’s going to be So Many Of Him it’s going to take forever. Cubfan shouldn’t be too hard he’s just like some guy scientist edition and never changes his clothes (as far as I know). Much like DSMP!Sam being a creeper man i’m not really sure how to render Doc given he’s also just a creeper man (with additional cyborg goat elements). Also need a labcoat cc that works for him; open, one arm ripped off, cyborg arm on that side. Really specific shit I just don’t have available unless i make it myself, and I can’t do that. Awkward to deal with; putting off as long as possible. Though i suppose a lot of fanart DocM77 uses in his thumbnails (so, as I see it, accepted as canonical appearance fanart) is a much more humanoid green guy so... I might just go with that for ease. Have everything I need for both Hermit!S9!False & Empires!S2!False, just need to make her (and decide how similar to Lomadia I want her to look. I love making things cross over with each other so it would be really funny if they’re related. To me specifically. Interconnected MC Multiverse my beloved. Every time I see a False fanart I do a double take because my brain is like. Lomadia??? no it’s False. Chronic YogsMC brain at work right there. Also False is just so weird homicidal multiple versions of self that don’t get along she’d fit right in with the YogsMC gang <3. YogLabs experimentation on the nature of Players and Respawn my beloved.)

This is my Lomadia, ftr. If you’ve seen False fanart then you’ll get why I keep confusing the two blondes. Also this outfit is a sort of placeholder. I can’t find anything even remotely like her actual skin’s attire. And I think I’m missing something that can be used to recolour the hair ties... Anyway -

Skizz really shouldn’t be difficult esp LimLife!Red!Skizz. Though i might have to go to some awkward places to get the right cc for him. (mans is really just dressed like an office worker stripper huh.) Either way Skizz wasn’t in Double Life. I’ll have to check for the other two but I think he was there? One less series for me to make though which. Makes it much easier. I’ll be going with the angel headcanon because that gives a reason why he wasn’t in DL (Angels have no soul. Literally. It’s really funny. Soulless [compliment] alskjf;alskdf.)

Etho is literally just straight-up Kakashi Hatake from Naruto. I can probably download a sim of him. It’s highly likely one already exists. Tweak the outfits and I’ll be done. Easiest shit ever. (Like Xisuma is Just Doom Guy and Philza is Just That One Bleach Character I Keep Forgetting The Name Of.) Either that or I take as much artistic licence as physically possible because I find it really really really really really boring when they’re Just Some Pre-Existing Character Design. I hate it actually. Like a lot. Hence ignoring (... mostly) that Joel is Just Human Shrek. I’ll probably - I’ll probably do that. Canonically Etho wore a T-shirt of his own face which is fucking hilarious so i’m going to try and find some naruto merch cc. Also the one and only time I know of Etho changing his character’s skin was DL so I’ll need to do some research to check but keep that in mind even if it isn’t true. And maybe have it be canon to my AU that’s the single time this man ever changed his outfit just because i think that’s so beyond funny. One and only time. Wow. Soulmateism hit him real hard huh. [Joel loves to play dress up... one and only time Etho changed his clothes......]. (I have. Just so many thoughts about how DL soulbonds & mumbo harvesting some of Grian’s soul functioned. Maybe I’ll natter on abt that at some point.)

Mhmmmmm errrr Bdubs isn’t going to be so bad. I’ve got the cc needed right down to the missing tooth so like... it’s just a matter of actually making him. Setting aside the time yk. I actually didn’t know welsknight existed until like two weeks ago so I need to do a) checking if he’s a storyline character or just kinda on the server and if the former then b) some Skin Studying bc I am. Just so blind. And i need to stare at things for far too long in order to actually know and be able to even slightly recall what they look like. But i do have a bunch of armour cc so he wouldn’t be difficult to make. Impulse is only difficult in that his top (t-shirt?) is so specific and I’m so not good at CC creating so i’ll probably be putting him off for ages. Or at least I might make his s9 dwarf sim and then craft the standard ver’s outfits later. Idk. Tango I don’t have... everything. He won’t be very firey if I do make him now so I should probably go see if there is anything even close to fire hair out there. I’ll make usual orange/red Tango first and then the blue Tango of the Tek variety later. I got the perfect torso cc for Ties!Tango. It’s great. 

Outside of all that it’s just a matter of like... time and dedication, I guess. And I don’t have much of the former available so we’ll... this project will probably take me years if we’re being real a sec here. Sigh. 

Anyway! I think that’s everything.

[spacedkitty]

I remember strongly thinking at the time "you go girl!" while also being uncomfortable and unhappy at the way people reacted and the way it was clearly meant for laughs.

Reminds me of the scenes in Life of Brian where the one character is expressing a desire to transition and it's like "well I kinda agree with most of what she's saying" but also being well aware that she was 1000% meant to be the butt of the joke.

If anything it's kinda nice that where things were meant to be so strongly just "haha trans person funny" have the teeth removed from them in future readings because there's actually just... no joke.

Some folks will still laugh, but most will either see it as ahead of its time, which is objectively funny to me, or not even think that hard about it now. Now the humor is in how stupid and flimsy the "joke" was looking back.

It feels a bit like reclaiming a slur to me, but that is still an uncomfortable thing for a lot of folks, which is why I'll never try and state my reading as "the correct one" cause I don't believe such a thing exists.

I do think Shrek 2 is kinda interesting though, in that they wanted to assemble a cast of misfits and "weirdos" to send a message about them being far better than the ones seeking conformity. I mean, they named one of the villains Prince Charming and had him be the most snivelling little prick imaginable. They still relied heavily on the same old transphobic jokes to comedic effect, but the text also seems to disagree with those same jokes (kinda?).

The thing is that I remember being a transfeminine egg in the early 2000s and what that meant for your place in popular culture, and with that historical context, I really find it basically impossible to read things like the Ugly Stepsister or Pinocchio wearing women's underwear in Shrek 2 as anything other than cheap, lazy transphobic humour. Like I remember being in the theatre having the crowd burst out into laughter when you see the Ugly Stepsister. Like, it's great that a bunch of people (most of them either not trans women or not old enough to remember the early 2000s) can come up with a reparative reading that derives subversive empowerment or whatever from these things, but I *very much doubt* that this was the filmmaker's intended reading, and it was *certainly* not how it was received by contemporary audiences.

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Fell family dynamic in a Shrek au sounds hilarious

if you've read the shrek fic that exists (dont ask me why it does) you will notice that gangrel is farquaad. he's trying to get married to one up his ex aversa, who dumped him because she figured out she's a lesbian

this AU started because of the sentence "grima would sing i need a hero from shrek 2" and i kept imagining him as the fairy godmother. if you may. imagine. robin and chrom, both half dragons, go to plegia to meet robin's family. validar is king of Far Far Away. aversa is crown princess.

grima is still the fairy godmother. they're all still trying to do the whole "awaken grima" thing, except robin has... already accepted his dragon side? he's married to a manakete? he has wings and everything?

grima is confused. validar is confused. grima only met chrom after his first husband gangrel "mysteriously disappeared" and chrom was in peak depression era by spending too long alone in self imposed exile. it was a messy relationship. chrom died in suspect circumstances he's a zombie now it's fine.

so like. robin already HAS his happily ever after. validar decides one thing. to truly bring about the grima he wishes to see - robin needs to get divorced. aversa is in on it because she is, in fact, mad that he got married before she did.

(PLEASE imagine risen king chrom as prince charming in this i beg of you. morgan is also here because i just cant get rid of em. please imagine the scene where the fairy godmother takes prince charming to mcdonalds with grima rkc and morgan.)

validar and aversa are playing nice with gritted teeth and just preparing the death cult shit in the background trying to kill chrom via looney tunes shenanigans (owain is puss in boots it just works).

it's so weird because. the apocalypse just. averted itself. chrom and robin met BEFORE they both hit their midlife crises and had an incredibly toxic relationship and they're well adjusted and in love and it's healthy and fine. the future children are just kicking around trying to figure out what the FUCK they did for this to just happen

there's so much here it's not like shrek at all outside the very basic framework that spiralled out of control but these wack versions of the characters are just very neat to think about.

robin crucially does NOT know his family runs a death cult about him. he THINKS he has the regular fiona backstory of "i was born a monster so my family sealed me away" but what actually happened is that "his family recognized that he is their god reborn and sealed him away so no one could kill him until he became of age to perform the awakening"

i'm just rambling here. spitballed lore from chats with anakha and salem is also "grima officiates weddings AND is a divorce lawyer" because it's really fucking funny. he will give you a happy ending that slowly crumbles before your eyes until you're divorcing your prince 10 years later and you think its your own fault but grima deliberately picked out the prince charming who will woo you at first but his minor character quirks will slowly grate on you and escalate with your annoyance

grima WOULD sing i need a hero. after the shrek 2 of this au grima starts crying at chrobin's genuine love and he tries to rekindle his relationship with rkc. morgan gets a raise and three months paid vacation.