#the secret of nimh au

[jknerd]

Looks like Justin has brought something for lovely Mrs. Brisby X3

[sammyrat]

im working on an official design for these idiots after a long time heres a sneak peak of the um designs. rouxls now has those beautiful sleeves that made me genuinely gasp in how much i like them

also drew lancer from memory again also this reminds me of my first Disney villain rouxls art how the times have changed so fast

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[angstenthusiast]

MY WILD KRATTS AUS!!!

Finally finished making this list!! :D This took me forever to finally get done, but here's my list of every Wild Kratts Au I have!!! For basic information about each au, there's a Google doc at the bottom of this post that you can check out! Cause there was way too much shit to put together in one post, lolol. If you're interested in hearing more about any of these aus though, feel free to send an ask!! 😁 I'd be more than happy to answer them! Green to Red Au Evergreen Au Ghost Fighters Au Stone Blue Au Story of Evil Au Moon God Chris Au Immortal Chris Au Boxcar Children Au The Secret of NIMH Au Cracked Chris Au ENA Au (Black Water) Narnia Au Starry Sky Until Dawn Au Wolfwalkers Au Train Vacation Au Fish People Au Mini Kratt Bros Au Simulacra Au Adam Project Au Moonlight Au (Made by me and @wildkratts99) Brainwashed Chris Au (Made by me and @starf4wn) Separated Au Forgotten Chris Au Sky: Children of the Light Au Magical Girl Au Splatoon Au Carmen Sandiego Au Ice Blue Au Eloris Sun x Moon Au Bird Boy Au Mer and Wolf Au (Made by me and @sabyfangirl) Fur and Feathers Au (Made by me and @ink-for-dinner) Winnie the Pooh Inspired Au Elory Night Spirit Au Weapon-Meister Au (Technically a Soul Eater Au) Mortal Guardianship Au (Made by me and @littlecrittereli) Cursed Ancestor Au (Made by me and @sabyfangirl)

Here's the link to the list with summaries included! It's like 14 pages in total, but I have a crap ton of aus so it was kinda necessary, lmao. Hope you guys enjoy it! 😄

[numercnnightingale]

10 Reasons to Consider Shipping Numeron

( astral x don thousand )

1; Why Not

.

Established connection that was never utilized:

These two dueled one another for up to one thousand days, fought each other for the Numeron Code, and was the whole reason Astral was created in the very first place. 

Despite that, the show never went into anything with their cosmic dynamic. Or even acknowledged it much.

But think of all the missing scenes, or even canon compliant Added scenes, in fics you could produce by brainstorming even a little bit about them. 

There’s a variety of fun tropes to play with;

enemies-to-lovers, forbidden attraction, pure angel x fallen angel, garden of eden symbolisms, second chance, secret attraction, doomed yaoi, “was never meant to be, but became anyway”. 

To name just a potential few.

There’s a lot they could teach each other:

Astral’s arc through the series involved learning the slow acceptance of chaos, but a lot of it was surface level and from a very young / emotionally immature point of view. Don Thousand is the self proclaimed deity of chaos, its harbinger. Embracing it cost him his entire home. Think of the new emotions Astral could experience from learning about his early home world if he was forced to listen to Don Thousand’s perspective of it. Especially now that Astral has opened that connection to chaos again in their world . . .

On the other side, think of how Don Thousand might be affected by being forced to understand Astral’s innocent but earnest perspective. Astral represents everything Don Thousand lost when he was cast out and banished. To then have this same being allow your side to be told, for once, and defy its programming to do so . . . 

Make Shit Up. No one can stop you.

The ship doesn’t exist right now. You have the power to forge their dynamic using all the creative liberties you desire.

And again, it’s not like there’s nothing in-canon tying them together. There’s actually a lot. So you can either have a fun blast digging for it, or just make up your own stuff from scratch. 

Creatively, its an untapped well.

5; They Look Good Together

text not needed

Angst.

Like but imagine.

The first time Astral ever experiences such an emotion of heat? And its towards his sworn enemy? The one he was made to destroy? The literally god of whom represents everything he was wired to believe is defiling?

And for that god, to find desire in a creation of light and perfection, who was made for him? But also who stands in his way? Who represents everything he’s abandoned and been abandoned by?

But 

what if despite everything they were tender to each other

Movies The Ship Could AU

Beauty and the Beast

Pride and Prejudice Strange Magic

The Sound of Music

Howl’s Moving Castle

Secret of Nimh 

The Last Unicorn

And Lastly

Thanks for reading. If those didn’t convince you, maybe these might

Fanfic 1: “i will travel far beyond the path of reason”  (fanfic) (not romantic)

Fanfic 2: “i don’t believe in god“  (fanfic) (sort of romantic)

AMV: “back to eden” 

Ship tag to browse: #numeronshipping

Thank U Goodnight

[moniquill]

Without telling you what panels I’m pitching for, these are my pitches

I am indigenous (Seaconke Wampanoag) and intend to be alive in the future; I'd like to talk about #Landback and the expectations vs realities of indigenous soverignty - consider https://www.tumblr.com/moniquill/746982334875729920?source=share

I've written many, many essays about this:

https://moniquill.tumblr.com/post/165881710831/so-today-i-read-a-book-called-sister-raven

https://moniquill.tumblr.com/post/616835845035589632/im-going-to-talk-about-greedfall-fight-me

https://moniquill.tumblr.com/tagged/cultural%20appropriation

and also I want to talk about the existence of this book by beloved author Susan Cooper: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17170557-ghost-hawk and Rowling's Ilvermorny.

I want to talk about indigenous land management systems, particularly in the Northeast US, and settlers 'first contact' with those environments.

I want to talk about Colonialism as a villain.

I just want to talk about the insustainability of non-biodegradable fibers, and how laundry sheds microplastics.

I wrote https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706010/to-shape-a-dragons-breath-by-moniquill-blackgoose/

I want to talk about colonialism as a feature of sci-fi in the past and present.

I'd really like to talk about the rise of 'puriteens' and 'antis' in fandom spaces online, as well as Porn Purges in places like FF.Net and Wattpad.

I'd like to talk about AU conventions and the existence of the Alpha/Beta/Omega shared universe (for example) - shared conventions of fanfiction spaces that cross fandoms.

I want to talk about antivaxxers, flat earthers, Facebook Mom groups, and 'alternate archeology'

My entire conception of Fantasy as a kid was shaped by Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Willow, The Neverending Story, The Last Unicorn, Flight of Dragons, the Rankin-bass versions of The Hobbit and LOTR, The Secret of Nimh, Return to Oz, etc

I want to talk about what constitutes 'tech' at all; about degrowth in solarpunk futures - it's not just AI that might force us to abandon some aspects of tech, there's also sustainability to think about. Also I was alive in the 90's before 'smart' anything existed and didn't get my first smartphone until after college.

I want to talk about the idea that Dystopia is when things that are currently happening to marginalized people happen to dominant populations.

I'd like to talk about Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions as well as the Young X series of anthologies edited by Asimov - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/2089882 , https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1499362.Young_Ghosts etc

I want to talk about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Tongue_(Elgin_novel) and the presumptions made by it; https://moniquill.tumblr.com/post/187857039061/so-i-read-the-second-book-in-the-native-tongue#notes

And about Robin Wall Kimmer's reflections on The Language of Animacy: https://orionmagazine.org/article/robin-wall-kimmerer-language-animacy/

I'm especially interested in the ethics portion here and want to draw parallels between terraforming and indigenous land management practices.

Interested in weighing in as a human with a presumably functional womb that I've actively chosen not to use

[zoebelladona]

fics by crowstyping (that's me!) 🌿

HIS DARK MATERIALS (follow @dximonions)

apple heart: narnia/hdm crossover. lyra belacqua x lucy pevensie one-shots collection.

bauble: a tony costa x lyra belacqua flash fic.

it's a long way out to reach the sea (but i'm sure i'll find you waiting there for me): au where lyra is not captured at the end of the subtle knife. lyra and will play in the ocean of another world.

paradise dropped: high school/small town au. panjava. will has a crush on lyra belacqua, they sit in the park and drink wine, talking about prophecies.

novaturient: post-the amber spyglass lyra realises that while she might love will she wasn't in love with him.

symbol no.14: bird: pre-the secret commonwealth fix-it where lyra and pantalaimon talk things out instead of letting it fester.

this peppermint winter: written post-s1 finale. christmas special about lyra trying to make the holidays feel special despite everything she went through.

within walls: human experiments but with dæmons

PERCY JACKSON

kyparissos, run! kyparissos, cry: novelisation of thalia's death

pointed north: au about my ocs, campers luke's age post-battle of manhattan. pov my son of apollo oc with mommy issues and psychosexual problems.

SHAPESHIFTER AU

the influence stars have: the lion king except it's humans who can shapeshift into animals

anatomy of an edelweiss flower: the secret of nimh except it's humans who can shapeshift into animals

《 possibly upcoming 》

power outage [ pjo / one-shot ]: throne room scene in tlo except thalia is there

lightning in a bottle [ pjo / multichap ]: au where luke does not join kronos. when thalia's tree is poisoned luke offers himself as volunteer to go on the quest for the golden fleece in an attempt to save her.

arkadia is gone [ pjo / multichap ]: broken trio lycanthrope au. in which it is lykaon instead of kronos.

smile to charge, hug to cast [ pjo / multichap? ]: my will solace and lou ellen are besties manifesto. backstory stuff and how they fared during the events of pjo

waking the oracle [ pjo / multichap ]: remember when we all were writing fics about will, lou ellen, cecil and nico going on a quest to reignite the oracle of delphi? i sure do

bellas aves [ pjo / multichap? ]: the one where will, nico, and lou ellen go on a quest looking for the nine muses that have been turned into birds

fixed star [ deltarune / one-shot? ]: following the events of the snowgrave route, instead of opening a new dark world kris goes to noelle and explains the situation. they think they might have a chance to find dess if they work together.

water lillies* [ merlin / two-shot? ]: freya is not dead. she and merlin got married, he visits her sometimes. he brings her flowers.

amphibious [ merlin / one-shot ]: merlin can think of no one better to look after aithusa than the lady of the lake.

the sorcerer's apprentice [ disney's wish / one-shot ]: i listened to my sibling complain about this movie for an hour and i got angry it didn't do fantasia 1940 sorcerer's apprentice like what the fuck

thaw & foredawn [ barbie / multichap ]: i rewrite magic of the pegasus but i let annika say fuck

recall [ loz / one-shot ]: totk being the "beginning" of the timeline makes me angry so i'm novelising a theory i saw refuting that

how terrifying to be aglow [ loz / multichap ]: totk + ss remix where i do my own take of the imprisoning war from skyward sword using tears of the kingdom worldbuilding. aka, hylia and the original hero are zonai

we'll be dead in the water [ thg / multichap ]: welcome to the 73rd hunger games! fanfic quality version of the ongoing rp between myself and @on-the-river-lethe. for more check out @laberinthos

waking up the giants [ tlg / multichap ]: my version of the backstory of the dead civilisation in the last guardian

wearing our remains [ trc / multichap ]: my adam/blue/noah manifesto + au where i remix trc to Not include gansey and ronan. die mad about it

[a-strange-inkling]

Natural Instincts

Co-written with @nature-and-music-art/ @hellcheer-heaven

(bat!Eddie and bat!Chrissy AU inspired by Secret of NIMH, Ferngully, Once Upon a Forest etc)

Summary: The little white bat was something of a myth to his ward. There were only whispers and stories about her. The humans’ favored pet they kept locked away. Some of the others claimed they had caught glimpses of her in passing while they were being transferred to the testing room.

Eddie wasn’t sure she even existed at all the way they spoke of her… like a ghost… a fable… until one day the younger human came down to speak with his elder, bringing a new scent to the room with him.

Chapter One: Hollow

[quoththeowl31]

DA Capo Modern AU: Movie preferences

Fredrick: Fantasia and Fantasia 2000

Alice: The Secret of NIMH

Norton: Castle in the Sky

Melly: Alien

Orpheus: The Saw franchise

[princesspuresarahk]

Art-Trade with the amazing https://jknerd.tumblr.com/ of her human version of Justin X Elizabeth and Basil X Relda, for her Secret of NIMH and The Great Mouse Detective AUs. i hope you like it : )

credit to the lovely https://jknerd.tumblr.com/ of her art.

[jknerd]

Mrs. Elizabeth Brisby’s New Look~!

Also, it has been 42 years since the release of “The Secret of NIMH” XD

[connectionterminated13]

In your inferno au, what are your afton family movie fav genre?

William: He loves animated movies especially stuff like watership down and the secret of nimh

Elizabeth: Likes horror movies she thinks they're coolespecially when the spooky stuff happens

Evan: He honestly doesn't care he'd rather just snuggle Fred bear and read

Michael: Cheesy action movies like you know the ones with the guys with big muscles.

Clarice: She likes watching videotaped ballets and critique them with William

[astrabear]

2 and 10 please!

Hello there!

2. What’s your most recent fic and how far do you think you’ve come?

This is a companion question to #1, about the first fic I ever wrote, which I discussed here. My most recent completed fic is Byzantine Perspective, part 3 of my Old Guard mer-person AU. Which is interesting because the first installment in that series, Negative Space, is the first thing I ever wrote for The Old Guard and is almost exactly like the fic discussed in #1, in that it is a collection of vignettes rather than a fully fleshed-out story. And even Byzantine Perspective is somewhat episodic. So I guess the answer would be... not all that far, but that's ok because I'm not dissatisfied with where I started. I am, at least, somewhat more disciplined about forcing myself to write the connective tissue instead of just the good bits.

10. Have you ever written for a fandom without reading other fanfic for it?

Well I have certainly not read, and have no inclination to read, any Secret of NIMH fanfic. But I don't know if that counts as "writing for a fandom." Similarly, I wrote an Old Guard/The Good Place crossover and have never read any Good Place fic (and have no inclination to read any), but I consider that written "for" TOG fandom with the Good Place bits just set dressing. (I don't think this particularly counts either, but I shared the news of my hamster's passing on Facebook by writing up a meeting between myself and the Death of Rats, which could be considered fanfic, and I've never read or wanted to read any Discworld fic.)

Fanfic author ask meme

[neurotypical-sonic]

could totally pull off a secret of nimh sonic au

[steven-boxletiner]

my Evil!Steven AU i made back in 2022

Dr Steven Boxleitner was a kind yet distracted scientist at the national institute of mental health but he was promoted to head scientist by Dr Valentine ( not an OC he's from the movie the secret of NIMH 2 ) and made to perform  an experiment on a mouse by turning it evil the experiment was a success and Steven began to enjoy his work brainwashing mice and other animals to do his bidding  taking sadistic pride in it. when he was about to turn Squeaky evil Squeaky managed to escape by biting steven and going to the Botsford house where Becky adopts Squeaky. some days passed and WordGirl met Dr Boxleitner he took WordGirl in as her Mentor but secretly he was preforming cruel and sinister experiments claiming its part of her training days passed and Steven found out that WordGirl is an alien.  soon after a month WordGirl discovered Stevens true intentions and berates him saying she found a new mentor Toby. Steven Boxleitner vowed revenge on WordGirl by creating an evil animal army to defeat her and take over the world with the aid of Professor Tubing. Soon Becky tells Squeaky and Toby her true identity as WordGirl 

[miko2495]

I posted 4,303 times in 2022

That's 4,024 more posts than 2021!

1,063 posts created (25%)

3,240 posts reblogged (75%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@valko-lapsus

@everythingfox

@raphorama

@pistachiozombie

@thebigpalooka

I tagged 1,732 of my posts in 2022

#lego monkie kid - 622 posts

#monkie kid - 620 posts

#the great mouse detective - 97 posts

#eclipse apprentice - 74 posts

#miitopia - 65 posts

#oc - 59 posts

#disney magical world - 54 posts

#the secret of nimh - 49 posts

#disney - 48 posts

#my oc - 46 posts

Longest Tag: 136 characters

#“conceal don’t feel” but with fox spirits for a few years until the mother was like screw it and turned to her demon neighbours for help

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

A Switch port the 3DS Fantasy Life would be rather nice

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#4

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#3

I suddenly have a need for a tomodachi life on switch with the wig and make-up feature

Miitopia’s modern, slice of life AU

105 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

#2

Wukong: With great power comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.

113 notes - Posted August 12, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

As cool as Macaque is...

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[newberyandchai]

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1972)

I was unfamiliar with this book, but not the gist of the story (although I’d often wondered what “nim” was when seeing the title on the shelf of the elementary school library at a very early age). I remember watching the movie version at some point in my childhood — maybe over several rainy days during recess? — and remembered it to be a much more fantastical, magical tale than what the text told.

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH was less action-packed and more straightforward than the movie, but because of that, I ended up liking it all the more. They’re almost entirely different stories (even Mrs. Frisby underwent a name change to avoid copyright infringement with a certain flying disc sport, and the movie is called The Secret of NIMH instead), but I’m okay with that because of just how much was changed. I see why they made certain creative decisions for the movie, and the animation is quite good for the early 80s.

(P.S. The full movie is available online for free.)

The movie feels almost like an alternate universe fanfic — or AU, for us fanfiction fiends — in a unique reimagining of the plot, but that doesn’t mean the source material is boring by any means. The next three paragraphs are a brief summary of the entire thing (which certainly includes spoilers, so… close your eyes):

Mrs. Frisby is a widowed mouse with three children who lives inside a cinderblock on a farm. The family usually moves to their winter home before the harvest begins, but Mrs. Frisby’s youngest son gets sick and can’t be moved in time. With the help of a crow, she visits an old owl to ask for help in what she should do. She is surprised to find out that the owl used to know her late husband, and he tells her to visit the rat colony that lives near the farm. The plan is to ask the rats to move her house out of the path of the farming equipment that will be coming through the area in just a few days’ time.

Mrs. Frisby goes to see them and learns about the story of the rats from their leader, a very old rat named Nicodemus. An original small group of rodents had been experimented on at the National Institute of Mental Health many years ago, and both rats and mice had received doses of a drug that increased their intelligence, strength, and lifespan. The group of rats and mice — which included Mrs. Frisby’s late husband, Jonathan — ended up using their new thinking skills to plan an escape. The rat colony, which has expanded and now contains multiple generations after the escape, is now literate and scientifically advanced.

Mrs. Frisby learns that the rats have been working on a plan to grow their own food and generate their own electricity so they no longer have to scavenge and steal from humans. They move her house out of the path of the plow through some simple engineering, but humans from NIMH are alerted to the presence of the super-intelligent rats after a grisly incident involving one dissenting rat and his followers trying to steal a motor from a local shop. The colony then has to stage an evacuation of their home when some exterminators come, but they must simultaneously pretend to be unintelligent rats and make their escape look chaotic and unplanned (as it would with normal rats) to mislead the humans. Some main characters perish, but the colony survives and ultimately leaves the area to rebuild while Mrs. Frisby goes back to a normal life with her family.

So: In the movie, it’s implied the rats got some kind of magical powers during their time at NIMH, and Nicodemus is depicted as a wizard figure with glowing eyes. There’s a magical amulet that glows red when worn by someone “with a courageous heart,” and the dissenting rat who breaks away from the main group (Jenner) is much more of an antagonist who is actively seeking to wrest control of the colony from Nicodemus. (There’s also some murdering, a sword fight or two, and some interesting medieval-style clothing choices for the rodents.) The climax of the book is changed from the extermination to the house-moving scene, in which the cinderblock starts sinking into the mud as they try to move it, but Mrs. Frisby uses the amulet as an Infinity Gauntlet (kind of) and moves it to safety with the Force (more or less).

Surprisingly, I still enjoyed the less-dramatic version of events in the book. It posed some thoughtful questions about being an intelligent being in a world that sees you only as a pest or a lab experiment, and Mrs. Frisby was almost a Frodo-like character in that she was only associated with the larger conflict secondhand; she really only wanted the rats’ help to move her house, just as Frodo ultimately only wanted to return to the Shire but had no choice but to be the bearer of the Ring. They were both swept up and involved in in the larger plots of their respective books (somewhat unwillingly, at least in Frodo's case).

Despite this, Mrs. Frisby does make the heroic choice on her own to volunteer to drug the farm cat, Dragon, so the rats are able to move her house without any threat of danger — even after finding out her husband had died trying to complete the same task. She's only a passive observer of the rats' plan to avoid the exterminators and watches everything unfold from a tree branch ("Mrs. Frisby could not bear to watch; and yet, even more, she could not bear to not watch"), even though she could do nothing to help.

Another difference is that the book spends much more time explaining the origin of the rats and their time at NIMH, including how they were taught by the researchers, how they formulated their escape plan, and why they started working toward the goal of building a self-sufficient colony — which held my interest from beginning to end. One passage sticks out in my mind: While the rats and mice are moving through the building's airducts during their escape, the air kicks on and all but two of the mice, who weigh much less than the rats, are blown back and left to wander the endless maze of ductwork seemingly forever:

We were approaching the lighted square of the opening when the roar began. The blast of air came like a sudden whistling gale; it took my breath and flattened my ears against my head … when I opened my eyes again I saw one of the mice sliding past me, clawing uselessly with his small nails at the smooth metal beneath him. Another followed him, and still another, as one by one they were blown backward into the dark maze of tunnels we had just left. … But the rest were lost, six in all. They were simply too light; they blew away like dead leaves, and we never saw them again.

Chilling.

Lest this become more of a movie review/comparison than book, let’s just say I liked it a lot and think anyone would enjoy it — 8/10, certified Recommendable.