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Scooby-Doo is a dog who can talk, which is amazing, and he largely uses his powers of speech to communicate how scared he is of ghosts and monsters, and basically the only thing his owners do is drive him around the country putting him inside various haunted houses and such. I wish I could take Scooby-Doo aside, I want to say to him, these people are not your friends.
I was imagining "reverse creep radiohead" as a bit and now I can't stop thinking of "I wish you were special, I'm so fucking special" and laughing
“start your free trial now” what if i told u i am already experiencing trials. and the cost is more than i can bear
All year long I've been working on this: a Wondermark-themed card game about "making friends" (out of body parts).
I ran a crowdfunding campaign back in the spring for an early version of this game. Now that the time has come to hit the big red PRINT button, I'm reopening preorders for anyone who missed it the first time around.
Follow the project for updates:
Some actual player creations from recent playtests:
Hahah so uh yeah THIS IS ME, SORRY. Here's one of the jewels that was stolen! And here's MY photo of those exact jewels just the day before! But I was there for innocent reasons, HONEST
A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.
It’s years before anyone explains it to him.
People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.
The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That’s a word, it’s his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they’re putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.
It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.
Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.
Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).
And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.
The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down.
Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city.
And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families.
There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride.
YES IT’S BACK ON MY DASH AT LAST
For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.
Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”
A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.
Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.
Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.
And he’d probably remember them too. “Welcome back, Eliza.”
“…Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so logically happiness must slow it down…”
Will reblog every time it crosses my dash 🖖🏾
star trek heritage post (November 14th, 2020)
Periodic reminder that the compiled tag I use on AO3 is “Stork The Vulcan (fanon)” and so far there are 6 fics featuring him:
Various iterations of this thread ^ have also been bookmarked under the tag for future reference 🖖
What happens after we die?
Ah, I see.
toby fox having written homestuck music is in my opinion nowhere near as jarring a realization as ryan north, current fantastic four writer, having a non-canon homestuck story written about him and also being a homestuck writer (he wrote part of hiveswap)
To be clear ive known this for years in fact homestuck is what i knew ryan north from so my reaction to him being the fantastic four writer was basically the opposite wherein i was like “? The guy from ryanquest?”
wait what do you mean "non-canon"
i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny
It's Wednesday! - Krypto: The Last Dog of Krypton #1
It's been a bit since a post but more are on their way after some release dates slipped my mind. What hasn't slipped is the release of a new mini-series that I'm colouring with Ryan North and Mike Norton!
We're a few issues in and the pet owner in everyone is going to run into some heartbreaking moments. Mike conveys Ryan's story perfectly through a dog's eyes and I love how the dialogue pops in and out of attention thanks to the amazing work by Lucas Gattoni on letters!
There's more to come in the next few months so please keep your animal of choice nearby to pet.
(For the record, there are 2 Tabbies on this end who like to crowd the desk/chair area during work hours, eyeing the comic dog.)
Thanks for reading and hope you enjoy issue #1!
Written by Ryan North, Art by Mike Norton, Letters by Lucas Gattoni, Colours by Me!
Sidenote: I have to remember to tell people I'm working Superdog because saying 'Krypto' in person makes people think of some weird crypto project... It's not Krypto's fault, he had the name first!
Personally my favourite thing has been to say (put loud) "I'm working on an exciting new Krypto project", see people's faces fall, and then say "Krypto the super dog" and see them look SO RELIEVED. 🐶
finally decided to read fantastic four chronologically and i forgot how funny the first issue is. sue sees the ff signal and turns invisible mid conversation with a friend and yeets. ben strips to his underwear in the middle of a store. johnny flames on while sitting in a parked car and flies out through its roof, and then the mayor?? alerts the national guard to send nukes after him because he's a random flying object. reed grabs the nuclear warhead and chucks it into the sea. they were never going to have secret identities lmao
"Sex is what makes us human" is stupid. Almost every species fucks. Humans are the only species that jumps motorcycles over school buses that are on fire. Some other things too probably
