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I'm sort of ashamed by how much I love My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. It doesn't help that my dad's apparently made it his task to remind me that I'm twenty-one and these things are for kids, whenever I'm watching a Disney or Dreamworks or Don Bluth movie, or My Little Pony, or Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, or… pretty much anything animated that isn't Futurama, South Park, or Spongebob.
…which means most of the things I watch on TV that aren't Law and Order: SVU, Supernatural, and Glee. …and, even then, he questions me about why I watch Glee at all, which is fair because, most of the time, I don't even know. The singing teenagers and their buffoon of a choir director, though! They're just so ENGROSSING. (…and, in fairness, most of the time, I'm just there for Kurt, Quinn, Lauren, Mercedes and Brittana [give or take Sam, Dave, Rachel, Puck, and Blaine; and usually, I'm down with Sue and Beiste and Terri, they're just never utilized as well as I want them to be because Ryan Murphy is a terrible person], and everyone else is just kind of there.)
…also, this happens despite the fact that Puella Magi Madoka Magica is very much not for kids, I don't even know if I'd let my goddaughters watch Sailor Moon until they're older (…I mean, I watched it when I was their age, and… look how I turned out), and my parents showed me this thing when I was a kid, and made me keep watching even when I started crying in tiny little abject terror. So… yeah, the whole, "it's for kids~" argument is full of crap. Especially since he KNOWS that cartoons have a history of having periphery demographics - like the college kids who love Spongebob. …and now My Little Pony.
…In other news, I have found a new fictional doppleganger. Her name is Pinkie Pie.
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FOREVERRRRRRRRR~
There are some other factors in this decision, but … ultimately, it has been decided that splendorbug is my Rainbow Dash. So… a picture of them being adorable now.
And now for something originally posted on El Tumblr:
…I finished reading Perry Moore's “Hero.” It is kind of like losing a friend. I just have a lot of feelings.
But, just. …Thom, and Scarlett, and Ruth, and Thom, and Ruth, and GORAN, and THOM, and HAAAAAL, and LILA, and EVEN KEVIN AND TYPHOID LARRY, EVEN THOUGH KEVIN WAS A DICK AND TYPHOID LARRY SQUICKED ME OUT A FEW TIMES. AND THOM, AND HAL, AND SCARLETT, AND RUTH, AND SCARLETT, AND THOM. AND GORAN. AND THOM AND GORAN. and maybe even Uberman, a little.
…I just have a lot of feelings.
…I also want a crossover between it and Austin Grossman’s Soon I Will Be Invincible because… yummy, yummy, superhero deconstructions that are simultaneously reconstructions and literature so people can’t brush them off the way they do with graphic novels, even though graphic novels are FUCKING HARDCORE, and I JUST THINK IT’D BE REALLY COOL IF THOM AND DARK HERO HAD TO TAKE ON DOCTOR IMPOSSIBLE. …I’m just not really sure who I’d want to win, because I fucking LOVE Doctor Impossible.
Add to my to do list: finalize characters and basic trajectory for own superhero novel, since there’s another round of Camp NaNoWriMo running in August and FUCK YEAH, LET’S DO IT. Because, y’know, I totally don’t have enough stuff I’m writing. And I haven’t made a little placard out of notebook paper and pink pen to set up next to my computer that says, “WRITING (this mean that, whatever you want, the answer is probably, “go away, I have fictional characters to torment.” Leave a message. ♥)”
Definitely not…
At least I’m not completely stabbing in the dark here. I know my heroine’s name is Madeline Stephens, she’s a lesbian and has a girlfriend named Tanith Drake (who goes by the villainous alias of Locust), her guardians are thinly veiled extraterrestrial expys of Thin White Duke!David Bowie and Rob Halford of Judas Priest (and they’re having trouble trying to get Earth governments to recognize their extraterrestrial life-bonding as a marriage), her superpowered alias is (currently; I may change my mind) Polly Saccharide (because she’s a magical girl in the Sailor Moon vein and playing up the “magical girls are made of sugar, spice, and things that love and tolerate the shit out of you” thing for laughs… and the strategic value of catching people off guard when she beats their asses), and she’s trying to transition from that image to a new one - that of the anti-hero/villainous sort, Black Anise.
Which is sort of not that new for her, really. She’s kind of trapped in a Heel Face Revolving Door: first, she was Mummy and Daddy’s Little Villainess, because her parents (Dominion and The Baroness) are/were the First Couple of evil. The Michelle and Barack of depravity. The William and Kate of maliciousness. And, by day/for the public, they posed as Bruce and Rosalind Stephens, a corporate lawyer and his BAMF CEO of a wife, with precious Maddie being the child prodigy they always wanted. (And the only one they could have, due to “a uterine infection” and “low sperm count,” which are fancy schmancy cover story for what could more accurately be called, “fucking space radiation from too many times mucking around with alien shit for your evil schemes.”)
And when they started debuting Maddie as their sidekick in EVULZ, Princess Panic, she hadn’t developed her powers yet. When she was fourteen, they started coming in and she told her dad… who was promptly so ashamed that his offspring was developing magical girl-style powers, rather than like, super-strength, invulnerability, superspeed, elemental manipulation, telekinesis or telepathy, or, Hell, even the ability to command the loyalty of sea creatures, that all he said was, “I’ve failed.” Whereupon he fucked off to somewhere in space and has never been seen again. Which The Baroness took and went, “well, obviously, we just have to make you into a better villain than either him or me, or anyone else who came before you.”
So Maddie got a bunch of hardcore training, on top of being a teen genius prodigy, and when she was supposed to debut as the Marchioness, a (mostly) full-fledged villainess in her own right (but, really, she was more like a graduated sidekick for her mother, hence the theme-naming), she instead did the exact opposite and publicly defected to the [still unnamed good guys’ mega-union league thing - om nom Buffy Speak], which was supposed to be an oasis of open-mindedness and acceptance and, well, goodness… all because she started befriending Abigail Fintan (Brigid), the [unnamed league]’s usually kind of neglected, wallflowery healer type, who’s so far in the closet that she’s in Narnia. …Abby is kind of like if Fluttershy (Friendship is Magic wiki) were a superhero: capable of great feats of badassery, but very, very shy, for various reasons, and often the person who believes the best in people to her own detriment.
Which is a big reason why Maddie went back to the bad guys, actually - which… isn’t technically official yet. After a while (my notes have three years, but… I don’t like my math on that), something happened to make the [league]’s homophobia apparent to her. And she “went undercover” with the villainous side, which was just defecting in disguise, basically, and involved passing the heroes bogus information. Which they’ve started to pick up on and they’re planning a formal retribution. Which Abby doesn’t know about yet or else she’d put a stop to it, but see that part about believing the best in people?
Yeah… about that. She doesn’t want to believe the [unnamed league] would do something terrible, or that Maddie is completely gone over to the dark side, but while Tanith and Maddie are preparing to finally go public with their relationship and with Maddie’s complete switch back to the dark side… Abby’s going to find out that maybe the [unnamed league] is up to shadier things than have been implied, with the guidance of a mysterious, shadow-manipulating vigilante… who doesn’t have a name or an alias yet, but sort of scares the buhjeezus out of Abby, and will probably get to be her love interest, knowing me. And something or other about the power of love.
…the best part is that I came up with this ridiculous ass sappy backstory BEFORE I started bingeing on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR GROWING UP ON SAILOR MOON AND HARRY POTTER, PEOPLE.