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• Post #4254956

  Fanfiction, as a medium, isn't defined by the fact that it's in conversation with an extant work of fiction. All fiction is in conversation with other fiction. Fanfiction is defined by the fact that the specific extant work of fiction it is in conversation with is the entire reason for reading it. This also informs the structure of the work. In so-called "original fiction", you need to do the work of establishing the setting and characters, it needs to halfway stand on its own...

• Post #4254955

  Train of thought: - Hm, how can I take my goofy "Solaris the Hedgehog" idea, where the Sonic 2006 final boss reincarnates as a mischievous hedgehog cryptid-lesbian and also a goofy dipshit, and combine it with my interest in robot-girls? - Ah, of course! She's an android created by Doctor Eggman, who wanted to channel or contain the Flames of Disaster and/or Solaris! This limits her ability to use that power, thus explaining why she doesn't have plot-breaking levels of power a...

• Post #3196769

  TV series or other serial media with a title which seems to be the full name of a female protagonist. She appears in the opening credits and on posters and things, looking more and more happy. However, at the beginning of the series, there's no sign of her. Instead, the ostensible protagonist is a man with the same last name and exactly the same hair color and height, with negative fashion sense, slightly gaunt, and he's just the most completely lifeless and depressed person you've e...

• Post #3167957

  Grace, approaching Po and pointing dramatically: I found you, faker! Po, who hasn't played Sonic Adventure 2 and also doesn't know that she's being positioned in this comic as the Shadow the Hedgehog of Grace: What. What in the world are you talking about.

• Post #3167956

• Post #3167955

  Sonic the Hedgehog and Judith Mossman: both are portrayed by Snapcube in an improv fan-comedy in which someone else was asked what they were fucking talking about.

• Post #3167954

  Akira Toriyama, in 1988: Okay, so that's how Goku and Piccolo will defeat Raditz. Next, I need to escalate the threat for the new villains Vegeta and Nappa after that. Toriyama: Hmm ... I know! I'll make them way more powerful than Raditz! So powerful, in fact, there's no way whatsoever that the heroes can defeat them, short of becoming stronger! (Weird Route jingle plays)

• Post #3167953

  Oh, I would've bet money that FF7R3 was going to be called "Final Fantasy VII Reunion." Guess I lost that bet. I suppose "Reunion" would've been Extremely Generic for a FF7 game. ... And instead, they went with something Extremely Generic in general.

• Post #3167952

  What does Shadow the Hedgehog even do in his downtime? We basically only ever see him in the middle of excitement, or like brooding over his victory or failure immediately afterwards. Is it just, like, all brooding all the time?

• Post #3167951

  Metal Overlord is great because the situation is that we're talking about an evil robotic Sonic the Hedgehog-copy, who transformed into a larger and spikier evil robotic Sonic the hedgehog-copy, who then transformed into a giant robot-dragon-monster, who finally transformed into a larger and spikier robot-dragon-monster. Also the first robot-dragon-monster is basically named after the last level in the game where the evil robotic Sonic the Hedgehog-copy was introduced.

• Post #3167950

  listening to All Hail Shadow, frowning and shaking my head so people know I don't approve of the lyrics being about how suffering automatically makes you better

• Post #3167949

  The latest chapter of the maids-in-frumpy-uniforms-doing-skateboard-tricks manga is a swimsuit episode. I don't know what gets me more: 1. the fact that they did it at all, 2. the fact that they did it even though the characters are already wearing maid uniforms, which is its own kind of fanservice, or 3. the fact that, in contrast to the fact the entire main cast wears identical maid uniforms, they all have different swimsuits. Like I have no idea why this is all so hilarious to me when I...

• Post #3167948

  Last night while I was waking up, I dozed off again and had a dream which involved writing a smutty story which then basically smash cut to me writing some sort of editorial article or polemic blog post in which I claimed that everyone could be divided into the two categories of "Below" and "My Ex". This is exactly how much detail the dream went into. My subconscious will apparently not be taking any questions at this time.

• Post #1736305

  Personal Color's Touhou doujins tend to be full of stunning visuals, fascinating worldbuilding, and intriguing plots which only slightly resemble the source material. It's kind of charming in its own way, really. Definitely stuck in the EoSD black hole though.

• Post #1736304

  Concept: a Star Trek Lower Decks-style sitcom set on a Borg Cube, with varyingly-silly depictions of Borg doing Borg thigs. One of the recurring characters is a human named Gary, who just sort of hangs around the Borg Cube being snarky; the reason he's never assimilated is because 1. he's not making himself a threat (an actual plot point in the shows), and 2. he has no useful skills or knowledge they'd want to assimilate. (It's implied that it's also because he's annoying...

• Post #1736303

  Sometimes I kind of wonder if, like, such-and-such musicians who did stuff for movies and whatnot have done any interviews about it. Like, how did Arianne like working with Gainax, how did she feel about writing a cheerful-sounding song with the lyrics "It all returns to nothing / it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling dowwwwwn" set to a scene where everyone in the world gets hugged and turned into Tang? How did members of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra feel about perfo...

• Post #1736302

  I want Professor Tori/Victoria to turn out to be Maria Robotnik's as-yet-unnamed sister, but only after we've had enough time for her to show up in some official side-story written by someone who didn't get the memo, so it depicts her in a way that sorta contradicts this. Y'know, like how Murder of Sonic has Sage still with a black dress and red glitches.

• Post #1736299

  I'm a robot, Sonic, I can't get pregnant.

• Post #1736298

  Idea I got when I saw that someone had made Kris Dreemurr in Tomodachi Life: mod for TL or something like it where every so often, once you have enough citizens, your town/island/whatever periodically gets blanketed by a weird supernatural effect, let's call it a "Dark World." A subset of your citizens are subjected to these weird psychodramas based on their personalities, and they need to do JRPG stuff to make it go back to normal. The first time it happens, it unlocks a menu for...

• Post #1736297

  There's three kinds of people: people who understand off-by-one errors, and people who don't.

• Post #1736296

  Skipmore's new game Post Apocalypse Microbe Lab takes place in the same universe as Transiruby, judging by the Dimension Fall in PAML's opening credits, and it introduces my favorite new worldbuilding detail: - "Cyborgs" in this setting have visible obvious metal bits sticking out as well as fuckoff huge tubes sticking out of their backs, they can turn into motorcycles and so on, two out of the three cyborgs we see have clearly-artificial paper-white skin - "Androids&quot...

• Post #1736295

  the best part of the Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist duology was when the King in Yellow said "its ... doesn't existin time" and. didn't exist. all over those two guys

• Post #1736294

  If there's an advantage the VOD version of HL2VRAI has over the edited version, it's the absolute comedic timing of the loading screens. Like I completely understand why they were fully edited out, and it is annoying to have to skip ten minutes of video and struggle to find where it ends, but it's still great.

• Post #1626844

  I just misread "World Fencing League" as "World fucking League" (as in, with "fucking" as an intensifier, not what kind of league it was)

• Post #1626843

  Train of thought: - Jaret Reddick: "I see it! I see it now, it's always been inside of me!" Beaker: "Meemee meemee mee mee meeeeee!" - Sonic the Hedgehog Muppets. - Sonic Unleashed Muppets (since that was the Sonic Unleashed themesong) - Kermit the Werefrog. - Miss Piggy Rouge.

• Post #1626842

  "Here in my garaaage, just bought this uh new Lamborghini here. But you know what I like more than materialistic things? (Being pretentious about) knowledge. I had to get seven new bookshelves installed to hold 2000 new books. Maybe you've seen my TEDx talk where I talk about reading a book a day. 2000 divided by 365 days equals about five and a quarter years. I'm apparently expressing the view that books are interchangeable, can always be read and understood in one (1) day, and inc...

• Post #1626838

  For some reason whenever I say the word "transsexual", I have this urge to say it in the exact same transatlantic accent as Frieza.

• Post #1626837

  So y'know obviously for something like me, everyone who tries to attack me is instantlossbait, but every so often I have some manly-dude come at me who has an epithet like "the Demon Swordsman" or "the Unbreakable Blade" kind of thing. You know the type, they're all "oh I'm too powerful, nothing matters to me except battle, I need a worthy opponent" etc. etc. So obviously I showboat just long enough to make it obvious that I'm not in any actual dang...

• Post #1626836

  Half-Life 1 G-Man dressed like Professor Oak, gesturing to three pokeballs: "Time to choose."

• Post #1268290

  Valve should make "Half-Life Azian" where you play as Alyx's mom in Black Mesa during Half-Life 1, ending with her doing some sort of heroic self-sacrifice to give Eli time to escape with Alyx or something. And they should make it in the Half-Life 1 engine.