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[inspectorspacetimerevisited]

During the 1980s, due to the fact that most Inspector Spacetime serials from before weren’t available to the public (and sometimes to the writers),

references made to those old serials frequently caused consternation amongst newer fans, who had never seen the episodes or events referenced.

[not-kayvalencourt]

Let's all put on our thinking caps and see that there is no actual evidence that iskall didn't do anything but his own word. There is, however, massive amounts of evidence that he did.

If you follow me and support iskall (or stress), unfollow me. The bullshit tantrum he just had and the amount of people there are supporting him is actually disgusting. If you genuinely believe him, you need to look up manipulation tactics. He is going to use his fame to get people to trust him, just like he did to his victims.

[t4tadrienette]

Wanted to give a new spin to these list challenge

[fictionadventurer]

Details:

1940s Hans Christian Andersen shorts: Intended as animated segments within a live-action film about the author's life, these would have adapted The Little Mermaid, The Fir Tree, Through the Picture Frame, The Emperor's Nightingale, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. (Yes, I know we got adaptations of several of these, but I still want to share the concept art for old versions).

Gremlins: A film they worked on a lot during WWII but couldn't crack the story (or find money to make it)

Don Quixote: They tried to adapt the story in various ways in the '40s, '50s, and '00s, which is too long to get into here, but it led to some interesting concept art.

Chanticleer: A story about an arrogant rooster who thought his crow made the sun rise, and used this to rule over the other farmyard animals. Reynard the Fox was a villain who tried to take advantage of the discontent in the farm animals to take over as their leader (with plans to eat them), which leads to Chanticleer saving them and learning humility. Work started on it in the 1940s, and it was so close to being made in the 1960s, but they decided to go with The Sword in the Stone instead. Some of the animators loved it, though, and some of the character concepts were later adapted into Robin Hood.

Catfish Bend: I haven't found much about the story beyond "talking animals in the South", but the concept art intrigues me. It would have been released in 1981, but after it was shelved, some of the concepts went on to inspire The Rescuers.

Mistress Masham's Repose: An adaptation of T.H. White's novel, pitched in the late 1980s

Fraidy Cat: 2009 film about a pampered housecat named Oscar who is falsely accused of kidnapping another pet and has to team up with a cockatoo and try to find the real culprit to clear his name. Shelved because they figured kids and general audiences wouldn't understand the Hitchcock references (which seems like a terrible reason, but alas).

King of the Elves: Announced in 2009, it was a 3D animated film scheduled for 2012, before being shelved in 2016. Adapted from a Philip K. Dick story, it was about an ordinary man who saves some elves from a troll and (apparently reluctantly) gets declared their king.

Gigantic: A retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk set during the Spanish exploration, it involves Jack meeting an 11-year-old female giant who treats him like a doll, and eventually fighting much larger Storm Giants. Would have had songs written by the team from Frozen and was set to be released in 2018, then moved to 2020 before being cancelled because apparently they couldn't figure out the story.

[bookwyrminspiration]

🎉The ACOD Wiki has moved!! 🎉

As of this afternoon, the A Chorus of Dragons wiki is now officially moved to wiki.gg and publicly available at https://chorusofdragons.wiki.gg/. If you'd like to contribute, all you need is an account!

Myself (bookwyrminspiration) and SelinaTheLitch have spent the past few weeks prepping it for today's launch alongside wiki.gg staff, and we are the current admins.

For those unaware, the ACOD wiki was originally on Fandom, created by Hawk2020, who laid a lot of the groundwork (thank you!). However, they haven't been active since 2021 and locked 95% of the pages prior to leaving.

This means, until now, no one has been able to update 95% of the information since The Name of All Things. So while the wiki is public again, there is a lot that's missing and out of date. It's going to take a lot of work and time to get this wiki functional, so any helping hands would be greatly appreciated !!

If there's any questions, comments, anything--please do reach out! Otherwise, I'll be celebrating the successful launch and getting ready to overhaul this thing <33

[bandzboy]

it's always hilarious to see kpop stans nowadays being so against pirating music but literally back in the day, the only way to listen to kpop was through youtube and you had to download the music and even when spotify became a thing, there were barely any kpop artists on there until like the of 2017/beginning of 2018 and nobody back then gaf about streams

[canisalbus]

What's Machete's sexuality? Is he bisexual? 💙💜💗

He's homoromantic demi or something along those lines.

[lieutenantselnia]

A little comparison of Lieutenant Lyste's voice in the English and German dub (+ a little bit of Kallus too); because I find languages interesting and this made me really think about how a voice actor can influence how a character is perceived.

First of all, I've watched Rebels primarily in German so far (though I've seen a good amount of scenes in English as well), partly for nostalgia reasons (I was in my teens, probably around 14 when I first watched the series and my English wasn't that good at the time to just casually watch an entire series, plus I was watching it with my younger sister), but also because I think the voice actors especially for the main and recurring characters are genuinely doing a really good job. Heck, for some characters I might actually prefer their German voice because it is that good! Kallus might actually be a good example for this if he's already here, I think he has such a pleasant roughness in his voice. For Thrawn it's also a pretty close match, he sounds wonderful in both variants but I might prefer his German voice just by a teeny tiny bit.

Who I actually wanted to talk about is Lieutenant Lyste though. I'm mainly familiar with his German voice, and as he's a fictional crush of mine, this is also the voice of his that I've fallen in love with. When I imagine him talking - regardless in which language - the sound is that of his German voice. Personally, I feel like that voice makes him seem a little younger and more naive compared to his English voice. I've always headcanoned him to be fairly young, in his early to mid twenties, and that by the start of the series he had just completed his military training recently (his position as supply master might have been the first one where he had to bear more responsibility). I've always seen him as a guy who's motivated and just trying his best, but at the same time he's lacking experience, plus, if we're being honest, when it comes to his military career he's a pretty average guy. I think he'd learn and improve over the years, but he isn't the "best of his academy year" or "promising young talent with innovative ideas" kind of guy, and he's far from a mastermind like Thrawn. He's literally Just A Guy, and personally, that's actually something I really like about him and that makes him endearing to me.

In contrast, I think his voice in the English dub makes his age a bit more ambiguous (I still wouldn't guess him older than 30, also based on his appearance but I feel he seems less "boyish" than in the German dub). I think it also gives him a bit more of an arrogant tinge and less of the playfulness that at least I hear in his German voice. He still conveys that dutifulness, but he seems a bit more uptight as well. I wouldn't go so far to say that that's bad, and I still like his English voice as well, but I think for me it won't come close to the charm that his German voice has to me.

Towards the end I want to point out though, that the voice, while being an important aspect, is not everything that makes a character. Appearance, behaviour, body language, actions and decisions contribute to that as well. What I found interesting is that most headcanons that I read about Lyste actually still overlap closely with my own as well, even though I heavily assume that not all people who wrote them are familiar with his German voice. I would say that this is a good thing, because his core personality is still conveyed across language barriers, even though the way that different actors voice him may emphasise different aspects of his character more or less.

[starberry-cupcake]

one of my birthday gifts is a vip guest for future recap needs

[burning-academia-if]

Hello, I blinked and March was over. Another busy/hectic month in regards to Real Life things + I got pretty sick at the end of it (because being sick in February wasn't enough lol). With that being said, here's what I did get done:

Wrote 16.1k words (Chapter 2 total word count: 27.4k )

Started editing/coding in the start of Chapter 2

Did some more coding/tweaking for stat pages

Fixed some variables in Chapter 1 + added piercings and facial hair options to character customization (these will all be added when Chap 2 releases)

Posted Rhea's bday art

With that being said, I thought Chapter 2 would be a max of 30k words, but all the small branching and flavor text in this chapter is really adding up lol. Of those words written, most of it went towards the Lars/Student Warden path. I did however write one of the three endings, and one of two of the RO pov ending scene variants.

With that said the Rhea/Student Government path should be a lot shorter since it's more straight forward, and once that's done, all that's left is a handful of smaller scenes/variants to finish up and then Chapter 2 will be done! I'm guessing it'll end up being between 40k to 50k words in total. I'm hoping to finish up the writing in April and then code everything in to release it by late May! This is obviously very tentative, but unless the universe decides to cause mayhem once more, that's what I'm aiming for!

Lastly, here's another little preview for the confrontational MCs this month (ft Lars):

[calida-chamber-ghoulette]

Calida was honestly afraid of this door. She heard of a certain Papa finally coming back, but she had no clue how to confront him. I mean... imagine trying to make conversation with the one you tried to kill? Sure, she was an injured kit at the time, disoriented and confused, but that first impression was how everyone dubbed her. Feral.

She had made sure her muzzle was on tight, the comforting yet irritating fabric preventing her from attacking anyone. Sure, she knew she wouldn't, but fear was a powerful motivator. Her knuckles quickly hit the door in a poor attempt to knock, her feathered tails curling around her leg as some form of a safety blanket. Would he spare her some form of mercy, or would he want revenge for the almost mauling?

Papa?

@heisthethird

[nauticaltrain]

hellcat...real...

[stimpsons]

so i finally got to this scene and

d-did people not understand this joke...?

[claypigeonpottery]

Hey there! The chomped mug is so cool! (like all your other designs haha). Will it (or others like it) ever be available for sale? Thanks!

thank you!

I put my pieces up for sale here as I make them:

they get snapped up pretty fast. I will be reopening commissions after kiln and shipping times are over, if you have something specific in mind (like a half-eaten mug, maybe)

because my work is usually decorated before it's glazed, a lot of people know they want the piece before it's been through the kiln, before the clay has even dried.

I tag greenware (unfired clay pieces) as either 'reserved' or 'available once fired'. if you're interested in an available piece, just send me a message

because I don't want to collect deposits for pieces that might or might not survive the kiln, I use a 'dibs' system to let people claim my unfired pottery

dibs works like this:

you’re not obligated to buy anything you have dibs on, but you’ll see it first once it's fired

no need for a deposit

once the piece is finished, I’ll message you, send you pictures and give you a week to decide/arrange shipping

I’m willing to hold pieces longer but only if you communicate that with me

if you decide you're no longer interested, no worries, just let me know! (if you're an anxious person, I promise this won't bother me! I made that piece because I wanted to make it. I know eventually it'll find a home, I'm not stressed out about it. I don't count my chickens before they go through the kiln)

I guarantee nothing about the piece. it isn't a commission. so if it explodes in the kiln, it explodes. if it’s flawed, it’s flawed. but I will lower the price if the piece is flawed in any way

I have no obligation to make it again if it's flawed or broken

(also keep in mind I only schedule kiln time every 3-6 months so it might take awhile before your piece is ready to go!)

[onebizarrekai]

I sort of feel like once walkthrough websites made the transition to being wikis they all went downhill. like they got rid of all their information that's actually clear and concise and easy to find, and now everything links to incomplete wiki articles and it's a struggle to find proper specific guides. maybe I'm just having a very specific experience with zelda

[teh-nos]

the multishipper curse is that sometimes you'll look at a fic and want to ask "and why did you pick THIS pairing for this story? what was your reasoning?" but you know the answer is just that if you only have one pairing you need to fit them into every idea you have no matter what.