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Prompt 1: Just like some people sleep-walk, you tend to paint or draw while in your transformed state because it calms you down. And apparently, people really like your art.
Prompt 2: A is a popular artist, and B messages them without thinking one day. They didnât expect to become friends, and they definitely didnât expect to become more. Person B just felt that connection between the two of them.
Prompt 3: A/Werewolf has a tendency to curl like a dog in front of the fireplace a lot (usually in their werewolf form, but itâs not uncommon for them to do it as a human). (Sources in master list)
Word count: 3,721 words
Genre: Fluff, romance, supernatural
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I put up with the long commute to and fro between home and work for two reasons, and two reasons alone: the decent rent for a place with a picturesque view and that catered to my monthly needs, and the glut of time to catch up on my reading. And by âreadingâ, I meant âscrolling through the handful of social media feeds that survived my latest cull of shit that was taking up my time and storage space unnecessarily, and occasionally attempting (and failing) to pay attention to my Kindleâ. Hey, at least I was aware I had a problem âŠ?
Instagram was my first hit of the day. I flicked past images of makeup, friends in situations I wouldnât be finding myself in anytime soon, and cute animals. The occasional meme and comic draw out an exhalation of air from my nostrils. I marvelled at artwork and photography, half wishing I were half as good as the people I followed and admired, half chiding myself for not practising either enough and losing interest quicker than Iâd dropped money on new equipment in the name of my new endeavours. You could say one of my hobbies, the ones Iâd been consistent about, was amassing gadgets obtained to indulge my whims and fancies.
My heart skipped a beat â or was it the pothole the bus went over? â when I came across a new post by George. I didnât know him personally to refer to him by his first name like that, but hadnât social media broken down boundaries between people, making them seem closer to each other than they really were? He was an illustrator whose work I chanced upon on Reddit a while back. His portfolio was a patchwork of subjects, often portraits, rendered mostly in traditional media like watercolour and oil paint. He sometimes shook things up with abstract, contemplative pieces. He had something for almost everyone. For me, it was his attractive, angular yet distinctive faces and statuesque figures, use of watercolour, and versatility: one piece could be superhero fanart, followed by a collection of moody, atmospheric paintings of the English landscape with some fantastical additions.
It also helped that he seemed to be a nice, chill person, and a handsome one at that, too, based on the smattering of pictures he had of himself on his feed. Please, let me imagine a world in which someone as ideal as him â or what I knew about him â wasnât beholden to anyone for a moment.
His latest post was a drippy bust of a snarling wolf with full moons for eyes. The caption simply read: âMood.â I smirked as I hit the like button. Did I mention that he drew wolves a lot as well? Sometimes his wolves were feral; sometimes they were humanoid, but still wild. The latter featured heavily in his conceptual works, albeit as hazy, indistinct forms, like blurry photographs. In any case, I liked that he had a fondness for wolves and werewolves, as the constant presence of the full moon in art of the latter would suggest. Anyone who liked wolves was a-okay in my book. Anyone who liked werewolves was even more so. Because.
An interrupted connection between my brain and my reflexes led me to visit his profile. Instead of returning to my feed, my thumb gravitated toward the message button at the top of the screen. Not a single cell in my body resisted this turn of events despite the restored connection. Oh, what the hell. Why not? Like, what were the chances heâd read my message? He had tens of thousands of followers, a likely considerable chunk of them being bots aside. He must receive DMs every other minute. Iâd be another sycophant in his sea of fans. Or heâd see my homely mug and locked profile, and heâd think I was driven to add to his never-ending count of unread messages simply out of misguided thirst.
The beauty of the Internet was that it made âout of sight, out of mindâ fairly easy to put into practice.
I got the following out of my system and into his inbox: âHi! Hope youâre doing well. Iâve been following your Instagram for a while, and your latest post just made me want to say your art is amazing. (I can totally identify with the sentiment behind it.) I especially love your more abstract pieces. Thereâs something so ⊠raw about them. And I like that you seem to like wolves a lot, too. Theyâre beautiful animals, and your art really captures that about them. Anyway, keep up the great work! Take care.â
I exited Instagram, not caring about the rest of my feed anymore and not wanting to feel like I was stalking my notifications for something thatâd never come. My phone buzzed with several notifications as I went down my Reddit homepage. I swiped away the banners with green icons that pelted the top of my screen. Those could wait. What couldnât were the banners stating that I had a new message and a new follower request from â
âOh, my God!â I said, loudly enough for me to hear my own voice above my music (the chorus of Walk the Moonâs âShut Up and Danceâ at half of maximum volume, so ⊠loud). Not one soul on this lightly populated bus acknowledged my exclamation â not even the woman sitting next to me. (Come on, lady, the front was mostly empty.) Thank God for technology making hermits of us all. Or my sudden outburst paled in comparison to the shit that could happen and had happened on public transport. When you took long journeys as I did every day, youâd see some real shit in due time, too.
I launched Instagram for the second time this morning (stop judging, Screen Time) and the first time ever with trembling hands. The notifications were real. I approved his request first. My mind raced to recollect anything on my profile that might make him regret his decision to let my piddling photos of food, myself, my cat, and random junk take up precious space on his feed. Nope, couldnât think about that now, because I was now staring at an actual, honest-to-God message from George:
ïżœïżœHey! Thanks for reaching out, and thank you for your kind comments. They mean a lot to me, especially what you said about my experimental stuff and wolves. They are stunning creatures, arenât they? And yeah, I drew that last picture after a particularly rough night. You could call it a self-portrait of sorts, I suppose.â
I snorted. Change the fur colour and make the eyes normal, and it was a portrait of myself every full moon. Okay, not something I could tell someone I just met, let alone a popular artist on the Internet âŠ
Before I could recover from the shock that my inbox held an actual, honest-to-God message from George Holden (that was his last name â the oxygen made it to my brain for me to remember that he had his last name on his profile), he sent another one: âAnyway, how are you? I took a look at your profile, and it looks like we have quite a number of things in common.â
What, really? No way. Was it the lashings of sweet treats I subjected my stomach to every weekend? The horror and science fiction titles, celebrity memoirs, and comics, sometimes paired with an iced coffee at either a café I put down roots for the afternoon or the one-bedroom house in Waltham Forest I called home, I showcased to put forth some form of air of intellectualism? The cross-stitch projects featuring memes and popular culture icons? His profile was quite barren of anything that could provide insight into what else he enjoyed doing besides his art. Which, hey, was perfectly fine: no one was obligated to share their personal life online.
I replied, âIâm fine, thank you. Iâm on my way to work. Favourite part of my day, really. And really? Like what?â
Most of my notifications that day were from him.
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I was a bustling hub of activity in my seat: A sip of my drink. A shake of my knee. A lift of my phone. A turn of my neck. A shift of my weight from one butt cheek to the other. I was certain I was generating enough electricity to power a lightbulb in five-second intervals. I couldnât help it. I was so, so excited â and so, so nervous. This was my and Georgeâs first time meeting each other in person. Thereâd be no screen between us. Actually, what difference would that make? Weâd been talking to each other for months, either through text or video calls, the latter more common in the weeks leading up to today. Weâd seen each other even on our âIâll put on a clean shirt, brush my hair, and hope for the bestâ days. What could either one of us do in person that would irrevocably alter our friendship for the worse? Well âŠ
The sound of someone entering the cafĂ© stopped me from starting on a list of things that I could do to fuck things up. I looked up, probably the seventh time I did so in the last ten minutes. This was on me. I grossly overestimated the amount of time itâd take me to get somewhere as usual; a natural by-product of living far from the city. Seventh â probably â time was the charm: it was George â and right on the dot, too. His punctuality added to his attractiveness, which had already gone through the roof and was heading straight into the stratosphere. I bit my lip to suppress any unfortunate exclamations. He was a friend, Evelyn ⊠just a friend, and I had no illusions otherwise.
I called out to him. He waved at me and joined me at the table I picked out for us. And the second our eyes met, devoid of any barrier between us, everything about him â and everything about us â clicked.
He was just like me.
And I was just like him.
And he was as astonished about it as I was, going by the long silence that passed between us, a first since we got to know each other.
âHi! Oh, my God, itâs so good to finally meet you!â I said with a grin to break the tension. He broke out into a smile, his posture relaxing. Success. Should I go in for a handshake? No, thatâd be too stuffy for a months-old friendship. A hug? No, thatâd be too intimate for a months-old friendship, and an online one, too, no less. Was it obvious this was my first time meeting someone I met online?
âItâs good to meet you, too,â he said, his expression of cheer unabating. âIâm going to get myself a drink first, and then we can shoot the shit.â His smile turned into a grin. âDo you want anything? My treat,â he added as he spotted me reaching for my wallet.
âI was thinking a red velvet muffin, please.â I didnât know why I didnât get one earlier. âThank you.â
âNo problem. Iâll be right back.â
As he left, my nerves turned into happiness that I met another werewolf. It was rare to meet other werewolves just about anywhere. What were the odds that two werewolves, one of whom was Internet-famous, would become friends because the other one had a brain fart one morning to send a message to the Internet-famous one? You couldnât make this shit up. In all the years Iâd been a werewolf, George was the first one I knew. I didnât even know the one that turned me. I got bitten one night, and that was my life changed forever. I figured everything out on my own â I had to. And my puny social network of werewolves made sense: this wasnât exactly the kind of thing anyone would advertise about themselves.
Once George settled down and courtesies were out of the way, the first thing out of his mouth was âI never thought Iâd meet another one like meâ.
I moved my chair closer to him so that we could speak at length about what we were without the fear of being overheard. âMe neither.â Then it hit me, and I quickly said, âItâs fine if you donât want to talk about it, though.â Personally, I was okay with what I was. No existential dread here, contrary to what one might expect of a werewolf. It happened. I learnt to manage it in a way that made it not have any kind of significant impact on my life. I refused to let it define me. And honestly, I lived for particularly bad days that coincided with full moons.
âAre you kidding me?â His face lit up with boyish glee. âIâve been waiting for this day for so long! As in, us meeting up in person for the first time and me getting to know another werewolf. Two birds, one stone: the only kind of killing I endorse. And Iâm so fucking chuffed itâs you. I always felt like I could talk to you about anything, and now that really, really means anything.â It was his turn to be able to power a light bulb, but in twenty-second intervals this time.
âSame. How were you turned?â
âI was bitten during a camping trip with friends a couple of years back. You?â
âSecondary school. I was walking home from the library.â
âShit, that was some time ago, huh?â
âAlmost half my life a werewolf.â
âDo you know the werewolf that did it?â
âNope. How about you?â
He shook his head. âNah. Kind of sucks, doesnât it, that youâll never get to know the person whoâs changed your life so ⊠deeply? They wonât remember either that they turned someone. If only having kids was like that, yeah? Absolutely no sense of responsibility whatsoever.â He gave his teaspoon a lazy twirl, causing a faint plume of milk to rise and sink into the dark, bittersweet depths from whence it came. âI struggled with what Iâd become the first couple of months. The transformations were one thing.â Oh, yeah. âI felt ⊠grotesque. God, the amount of self-pity, like, why was I the only one who had to go through this every month when there were four other guys ripe for the picking? So, I decided to start incorporating wolves in my art to get to know and reclaim that part of me. I didnât want to see it as something ugly. I mean, you get to experience a kind of rebirth every month. Thatâs extraordinary if you think about it. And I told myself that like myself, the wolf didnât ask to be born. Ha, ha. Millennial humour. Anyway. Then the most miraculous thing happened one full moon: I woke up next to a coherent painting that wasnât there the night before.â
âOh, my God.â
âRight? My more artsy stuff? The ones I hate coming up with captions for? Almost all done while I was transformed. Iâd started some of my art â bet you canât guess which one â on full moons, too, and I finished them after I changed back. Itâs as if the wolf knew we were now cool with each other.â He took a big chunk out of his apple crumble and jammed it into his mouth. âSorry if that sounded like spiritual woo-woo. Iâve been wanting to tell someone about this forever.â Crumbs fell out of his mouth as he spoke. âShit, Iâm such anâ â he shot me an impish look as he swallowed â âanimal, arenât I? Fuck, I can make stupid references like that now, and someone would get it!â
I laughed. He was such a dork. âItâs not âspiritual woo-wooâ. Itâs amazing. How is that even possible?â
âI have no idea.â He held out his hands in front of him. âSo thankful we get to keep our hands and not have them turn into paws.â He waggled his thumbs. âFuck, yeah, opposable thumbs. And I want to say itâs like when artists get high and make stuff. I do know artists who do that, and hey, no judgment. To them, I do the same thing, too.â
âAnd here I am, feeling accomplished whenever I make it through another full moon without waking up in a trashed place. Seriously, thatâs amazing.â
âI think thatâs whatâs keeping me from losing it while transformed. I was surprised people liked those pieces when I started posting them, considering theyâre such far departures from what I usually post.â
âThat explains why theyâre so ⊠visceral.â
âYeah? I figure youâd appreciate them even more now.â He smirked. âAnd you know, no one really talks about my wolf art, and especially my werewolf pieces. Maybe if I didnât make them blurry and made them more explicit âŠâ Oh, heâd get a different breed of followers altogether. âBut thatâs fine. I donât want my lycanthropy to define me and my work. Itâs just a part of who I am.â
âMy turn to say something possibly corny: I like your wolf art because ⊠they make me feel seen, because theyâre drawn by you.â
He put a hand on his chest. âThatâs not corny. Iâm happy my art makes you feel that way. You know I donât care about the likes or comments. It just so happens I like drawing things that make me get likes and comments.â He pushed his plate toward me and motioned at me with his fork to try some of his apple crumble. I obliged him. âDid you ever suspect anything? Not that, you know, I purposely drew wolves and werewolves as a kind of signal for other werewolves to pick up on. Thatâd be giving me way too much credit.â
âNo, I just thought you like wolves a lot.â
âSame here. What you said about wolves being beautiful creatures when you messaged me the first time ⊠that made me feel something, too.â
âThen Iâm very glad we got to be friends,â I said. Born from the same blip in brain activity that set us on this path, my hand found itself on top of his. His touch had a pleasant, almost familiar heat to it.
âMe too.â He turned his hand over and clasped mine.
âI have an idea,â I said, mostly to distract myself from how right this felt. âDo you want to meet on the next full moon?â
âSure. I canât wait to see what kind of inspiration will strike with another werewolf around.â
âYour place, then?â
He nodded. âUnless youâre cool with me possibly trashing your place with paint and stuff. That hasnât happened before, but who knows? What if wolf-me doesnât like change?â
I stared at him in disbelief.
âI canât help it. You have no idea what kind of beast this has unleashed. Oops.â
We sat and talked in the cafĂ© the entire afternoon; we took turns treating each other to food and drinks to justify our occupancy. Our conversation moved on to other topics besides the one special, biggest thing we had in common. Just like we didnât want it to define who we were as people, we made a promise to each other, and we did so over a strawberry custard tart, that we wouldnât let it become the foundation of our friendship from this point on. Itâd be unfair to the moments we shared before this. We were friends because we cared about each other, we brought out the best in each other, we could truly be ourselves around each other, and, honestly, I didnât think anyone else would have the patience for his goofy in-jokes.
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I lay in front of the fireplace, rejoicing in the warmth it offered on this cool night, while George was working on his newest painting. Since getting to know each other in these forms, weâd been able to exercise better control. For me, that meant greater peace of mind; for him, that meant a more refined grasp of his artistic sensibilities. As with much about our condition, we didnât question this. What could possibly be a drawback of us spending more time in each otherâs company? I now understood why animals curled up by a fire was a common sight in media and real life, too. Wait, what if this, and not Georgeâs presence, was what Iâd been missing all my life?
My tail wagging like a fiend when I felt his breath on my skin begged to differ. I licked his face. He gently parted my lips and slid his tongue onto mine. Our tongues engaged each other in a playful scuffle; the fire crackling in the background could only dream of coming close to causing the rise in temperature in the pit of my stomach. The tussle between our tongues didnât get to turn into something more: heâd had a long night. I nuzzled him to convey reassurance. He lay down beside me and wrapped his arms around me, his hold firm yet tender. We fell asleep like this, keeping each other warm long even after the fire had died out.
We wished each other a good morning with a kiss â no, two kisses, and we got ourselves ready for the day. As we were having breakfast, George piped up, âDo you want to see what I painted last night, love? Iâm really proud of it, and I think youâd love it, too.â
I nodded excitedly, my mouth too full of scrambled egg to speak.
He returned as quickly as heâd left the table. His hands held on to a painting ⊠of me curled up by the fire last night. The figure was the clearest, most detailed heâd ever done; the lighting was phenomenal. âItâs beautiful,â I said, tearing up a little, frankly. âI love it. Itâs going to look so good in our new placeâ, along with the recent paintings heâd made of a similar nature. Heâd come so far from the gauzy forms that once populated his attempts at capturing his â our â condition on canvas.
âOf course, when I have the most stunning model.â He gave me a peck on the cheek. âI love you, my muse, my mate.â
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Cruella Meme Reactions Reveal Problem with Streaming Blockbusters
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The following contains Cruella spoilers (but only what you already know from Twitter and Instagram).
Cruella de Vilâs mother was killed by a vicious pack of Dalmatians. It sounds goofy to read that in print, but for many social media users who didnât go to the theater opening weekend or shell out a steep $30 for Cruella on Disney+, this is likely all theyâve heard. And itâs true, early on in the Emma Stone-led film, a pack of Dalmatians really push mama off a cliff.
However, there is a lot more to the movie than this questionable plot point, not that you would know it from looking at Twitter or Instagram. And to be fair, many of the memes created in response to this scene are a howl.
âBambiâs mother caused the car to swerve, killing the hunterâs daughter,â one Twitter user has Don Draper pitching Disney. âInclusivity win!â snarked another, âdog that pushed Cruellaâs mother off cliff was nonbinary.â Then there were those with gifs and graphics like those below.
Man the death scene of Cruella's mother was so intense in order for us to sympathize with Cruella. I mean look at this. It is cinematic genius pic.twitter.com/Be6DfSR7yX
â SmashMarioPro2000 (@SmashMarioPro) May 30, 2021
this is the last thing cruella de vilâs mother saw before she died pic.twitter.com/ewsbhHcBPS
â ?! (@notlucyb) May 29, 2021
Absolutely gutted to hear what happened to Cruella's mother, fucking heartbreaking pic.twitter.com/wCp9V4UQus
â 3am Wizardless Wasteland (@FrightninTwit) May 31, 2021
this is how cruellaâs mother died pic.twitter.com/89yMHxxaLf
â prash (@littlechirons) May 31, 2021
Other folks, meanwhile, were simply outraged on a moral level by the scene, suggesting this vilified a wonderful dog breed. Said Windows98 Tech Support, âCruellaâs mother is killed by Dalmatians despite Dalmatians being friendly, sociable dogs, so Disney just fucked this up from every conceivable angle.â
The irony is of course that most of the folks discussing thisâfrom the meme makers to those claiming moral outrageâhave not seen the movie. But they have seen 15 seconds of the scene in question. Throughout the weekend in other social media posts (most of which have been taken down), fans who compressed the inciting moment of puppy-inflicted murder off their Disney+ accounts shared the scene out of context. It spread like wildfire, particularly because the clip wasnât hidden behind a $30 surcharge or paywall.
Which is exactly what should give Disney and other studios pause as they continue to dabble in day-and-date release strategies with major properties, particularly pricy star-studded summer blockbusters. Because unlike Paramountâs theatrical-only A Quiet Place Part II, Disney can no longer control how this 15-second clip is disseminated going forward (no matter how many times they have tech companies take it down), just as this social media receptionâwhich will only continue to influence how folks talk about the studioâs expensive movieâis now also outside of Mickeyâs control.
To be clear, the scene in question is pretty ridiculous, and a moment we also personally found unnecessarily glib and on-the-nose. However, the sequence is not the sum total of the movie or even what the film is really about. Even the filmmakers didnât take it seriously.
Cruella is directed by Craig Gillespie, whose previous credits include the dark tragi-comedy I, Tonya and the movie about Ryan Gosling being in love with a sex doll (Lars and the Real Girl). Meanwhile one of its most prominent writers is Tony McNamara, who penned the scathingly sardonic The Favourite and The Great. Unlike most Disney films, acerbic whimsy is the goalpost for Cruella. Even with the dubious scene in question, Gillespie previously told us about how the moment was intended to evoke dark chuckles.
âIt was candidly something that, on the page for Disney, sometimes felt a little flip or aloof,â Gillespie told Den of Geek about the studioâs initial reservations for the movieâs tone. âThey werenât sure, like when you were talking about a motherâs death, that you could have any humor in that scene. I knew that with these actors that they could do that nuance so beautifully that it would just elevate all of it.â
Indeed, within seconds of the moment young Cruellaâs mother goes flying, the film immediately starts nudging the audience into knowing that itâs aware of how absurd this is via Emma Stoneâs voiceover. As the anti-heroine intones, â[Itâs the same] sad story: genius girl gets her mother killed and ends up alone.â The tongue is firmly planted in the cheek, especially since this bizarreâand admittedly a little extraâplot point isnât what the movieâs largely concerned with.
Itâs a gag, which sets the story in motion. And that story isnât so concerned with Cruellaâs Dalmatian fixation. Rather itâs keyed into her obsession for their owner, Emma Thompsonâs supremely evil Baroness. Eventually, Stoneâs Cruella goes to work for Thompson in the London fashion world, and the picture winds up being mostly focused on a murderous rivalry thatâs better in-keeping with McNamaraâs The Favourite (or The Devil Wears Prada) than 101 Dalmatians.
Of course that context is entirely absent in the online discourse, which in social media is often reduced to a vapid monoculture where adults critique family movies and committee-approved corporate product, and then wonder why they arenât watching high art with a singular voice. But in the case of Cruella, that usual pessimism is amplified because the film isnât being discussed by those who saw the movie (or fans who donât care about devouring every spoiler)⊠Instead itâs being discussed by the same individuals who think they saw the movie in a 15-second clip and are never going to pay for a ticket price, much less $30, to watch the rest.
Which is a new phenomenon that comes with high-profile, and highly marketed blockbusters heading increasingly toward day-and-date streaming releases. Disney should be particularly concerned since theyâre continuing to experiment with releasing major blockbusters via Disney+âs paywall. The studio prides itself on its theatrical releases being âeventsâ instead of movies.
But unlike all the previous pre-pandemic Disney âevents,â Cruella is one where folks donât have to pay a full ticket price to be part of the conversation, and therefore at least see the studio and filmmakersâ entire vision. It even stands apart from WarnerMediaâs HBO Max strategy (or Netflix), as audiences also donât have to just click play from the comfort of their own couch and watch it on a service theyâre already subscribed to. Instead folks can glimpse just one moment, taken out of context, for free on that phone, and the whole thing becomes skewed. And Disneyâs ability to sell more tickets and âPremier Accessâ surcharges just became that much harder.
Disney will continue exploring the benefits of Premier Access this summer with Black Widow and Jungle Cruise in July. However, judging strictly by the box office and social media chatter, A Quiet Place Part IIâs old school approach of just putting it in theaters suddenly appears like the more forward-thinking strategy.
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#unnecessarily-rendered meme art#the thoughts i have about dilf!jake y'all...#like avatar 1 jake is so freaking fine yes#guys#but avatar 2 jake guys#GUYS#i'll stop there#get in line miles#quaritch#tuk#colonel quaritch#miles quaritch#jake sully#atwow#avatar 2#fanart#quaritch fanart#tuk fanart
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