It's that time again! Several of them!
First I need a nap, and then I have a... probably very short party to go to. :|b But in the meantime, THIS MEME ROCKS.
Pick 20 25 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSounds) and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Hellsing (paperclipchains)
2. A washed-up, not very cohesive team is attacked and suffers through a crash-landing, winding up in a coma for decades. Upon awakening, They Fight Crime. Transformers Animated (sister_dear and confusedmenot)
3. A neurotic divorcee, her drug-addict boyfriend and their murderous, amoral sidekicks run black ops for The Empire while a math teacher battles a crime lord over the right to take over the world. Then the aliens attack.
4. A drug-addicted amnesiac makes peoples heads explode.
5. The main character dies during the first cutscene and is resurrected by an androgynous time traveler who may or may not be Satan. He tries to prevent his own death while avoiding accidentally causing it. This is repeated several times. Shadow of Destiny (rogue_picaro)
6. A widowed surgeon imprisons his daughter. The dead wife's ex-boyfriend tries to break the daughter out. Daughter befriends a drug dealer. Everybody sings. - Repo! the Genetic Opera (ode_to_a)
7. Vampires terrorize a boardwalk like an MTV music video. Disaffected teen saves mother from obsessive nocturnal video store owner. Billy Idol tries to seduce Jim Morrison. Lost Boys (showyourteeth)
8. Primitive scientist and escaped criminals use a big flying creature to run and hide from the military. The events of the universe begin to revolve around what he does, and his life just really really sucks.
9. The world's most killable child seeks to defeat a number of classic video game villains. He fails. A lot.
10. X-Men with Japanese elementary school kids.
11. An apathetic virgin with a death certificate gets press-ganged into collecting the souls of newly departed when not hanging out in a diner with her dysfunctional co-workers. Dead Like Me (makeste)
12. Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve.
13. Mysterious bishonen runs evil store with poor customer service and no return policy. Petshop of Horrors (paperclipchains)
14. Convict escapes justice. Valiant capture attempt by devoted police force prove futile. Student uprising ends in massacre. And then there's a wedding.
15. A teenage girl screams at rope and takes pictures of dead people. Fatal Frame (makeste)
16. A skinny goth philosophizes about the human condition while killing people and drawing comics about a crazy, foul-mouthed stick figure. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (rogue_picaro)
17. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London. Neverwhere (showyourteeth)
18. Shy bookworm must kill Beethoven and other historical figures.
19. Teenagers fight Satan by reading aloud from stolen library books.
20. Amnesiac girl and her friends must travel, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory.
21. Two power-plant workers temporarily adopt a poisonous child and foil an interdimensional abduction scheme. Monsters Inc. (showyourteeth)
22. A naive talking penguin and his woodland creature friends hang out with a boy in glasses, another boy who wants to be a ballerina, and a Vietnam Vet.
23. A baby is switched at birth, which causes great problems later on. Good Omens (makeste)
24. Incredibly intelligent man repeatedly prevents his mentally negligible employer from marrying. His reward usually comes in the form of destroying the garments of his employer.
25. A quintet of easily-distracted aliens plot to take over the Earth. They are regularly thwarted by a teenage girl. Keroro Gunso (rogue_picaro)
(Some of the above were minorly or heavily edited in order to make them less blindingly obvious. 8V Also, some of my favorite canons weren't chosen due to being immediately obvious to anyone who's even heard of them, woe.)
Also, HEY GUYS HEY GUYS. All right, I am addressing this to SOME SPECIFIC PEOPLE and some other NOT SPECIFIC PEOPLE, lmao. Okay Jane I know I stay with you every year, and I don't want to just FLAKE OUT ON YOU, but neither do I want to just invite myself over to your house when we like... never speak anymore ever, so I am assuming for the moment that I'm not going to be staying with you this Otakon since we didn't make plans for it? Unless you still want me to! Because that would be cool. But we haven't talked in forever and lol at the idea of expecting free room and board still. Awkward.
AND SINCE THIS MEANS I potentially do not have a place to crash at for this Otakon! Margie, Jen, Nickbutt, ANYONE ELSE I KNOW WHO KNOWS THEY ARE GOING TO OTAKON THIS YEAR. Do any of y'all have space in your hotel rooms and wouldn't mind my company? I'm totally willing to chip in money for this, of course, buuut if I'm gonna be hotel-partying-it-up with some of y'all, I need to synchronize my schedule so I can buy my return train ticket. I already know I'll be arriving in Baltimore on July 29th (which is the day before it starts, on Thursday!) at 4:10 pm; I figured this would be a safer bet than showing up on Wednesday, or even Thursday morning, and potentially not having a hotel room yet if we're going that route, uh. But I need to know on what day/time I need to skedaddle. :|a
SO YEAH GUYS, talk to me and we can figure something out? I DO NOT EAT MUCH, I SLEEP QUIETLY, I AM VERY SPACE FRIENDLY, I WILL NOT CATCH ANYTHING ON FIRE ACCIDENTALLY.
Pick 20 25 movies/anime/video games/literary works and put their summaries from Better than it Sounds (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BetterThanItSounds) and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.
1. Nazis decide to reenact World War II, and the Catholic Church decides to give the Crusades another go. Dracula objects sternly. Hellsing (paperclipchains)
2. A washed-up, not very cohesive team is attacked and suffers through a crash-landing, winding up in a coma for decades. Upon awakening, They Fight Crime. Transformers Animated (sister_dear and confusedmenot)
3. A neurotic divorcee, her drug-addict boyfriend and their murderous, amoral sidekicks run black ops for The Empire while a math teacher battles a crime lord over the right to take over the world. Then the aliens attack.
4. A drug-addicted amnesiac makes peoples heads explode.
5. The main character dies during the first cutscene and is resurrected by an androgynous time traveler who may or may not be Satan. He tries to prevent his own death while avoiding accidentally causing it. This is repeated several times. Shadow of Destiny (rogue_picaro)
6. A widowed surgeon imprisons his daughter. The dead wife's ex-boyfriend tries to break the daughter out. Daughter befriends a drug dealer. Everybody sings. - Repo! the Genetic Opera (ode_to_a)
7. Vampires terrorize a boardwalk like an MTV music video. Disaffected teen saves mother from obsessive nocturnal video store owner. Billy Idol tries to seduce Jim Morrison. Lost Boys (showyourteeth)
8. Primitive scientist and escaped criminals use a big flying creature to run and hide from the military. The events of the universe begin to revolve around what he does, and his life just really really sucks.
9. The world's most killable child seeks to defeat a number of classic video game villains. He fails. A lot.
10. X-Men with Japanese elementary school kids.
11. An apathetic virgin with a death certificate gets press-ganged into collecting the souls of newly departed when not hanging out in a diner with her dysfunctional co-workers. Dead Like Me (makeste)
12. Over-achieving girl meets over-achieving boy. Together, they learn how to under-achieve.
13. Mysterious bishonen runs evil store with poor customer service and no return policy. Petshop of Horrors (paperclipchains)
14. Convict escapes justice. Valiant capture attempt by devoted police force prove futile. Student uprising ends in massacre. And then there's a wedding.
15. A teenage girl screams at rope and takes pictures of dead people. Fatal Frame (makeste)
16. A skinny goth philosophizes about the human condition while killing people and drawing comics about a crazy, foul-mouthed stick figure. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (rogue_picaro)
17. A Scotsman helps a young woman he meets on the street, and ceases to exist. He spends the rest of the book following the girl he helped around London. Neverwhere (showyourteeth)
18. Shy bookworm must kill Beethoven and other historical figures.
19. Teenagers fight Satan by reading aloud from stolen library books.
20. Amnesiac girl and her friends must travel, while dealing with more moles than a Whack-A-Mole factory.
21. Two power-plant workers temporarily adopt a poisonous child and foil an interdimensional abduction scheme. Monsters Inc. (showyourteeth)
22. A naive talking penguin and his woodland creature friends hang out with a boy in glasses, another boy who wants to be a ballerina, and a Vietnam Vet.
23. A baby is switched at birth, which causes great problems later on. Good Omens (makeste)
24. Incredibly intelligent man repeatedly prevents his mentally negligible employer from marrying. His reward usually comes in the form of destroying the garments of his employer.
25. A quintet of easily-distracted aliens plot to take over the Earth. They are regularly thwarted by a teenage girl. Keroro Gunso (rogue_picaro)
(Some of the above were minorly or heavily edited in order to make them less blindingly obvious. 8V Also, some of my favorite canons weren't chosen due to being immediately obvious to anyone who's even heard of them, woe.)
Also, HEY GUYS HEY GUYS. All right, I am addressing this to SOME SPECIFIC PEOPLE and some other NOT SPECIFIC PEOPLE, lmao. Okay Jane I know I stay with you every year, and I don't want to just FLAKE OUT ON YOU, but neither do I want to just invite myself over to your house when we like... never speak anymore ever, so I am assuming for the moment that I'm not going to be staying with you this Otakon since we didn't make plans for it? Unless you still want me to! Because that would be cool. But we haven't talked in forever and lol at the idea of expecting free room and board still. Awkward.
AND SINCE THIS MEANS I potentially do not have a place to crash at for this Otakon! Margie, Jen, Nickbutt, ANYONE ELSE I KNOW WHO KNOWS THEY ARE GOING TO OTAKON THIS YEAR. Do any of y'all have space in your hotel rooms and wouldn't mind my company? I'm totally willing to chip in money for this, of course, buuut if I'm gonna be hotel-partying-it-up with some of y'all, I need to synchronize my schedule so I can buy my return train ticket. I already know I'll be arriving in Baltimore on July 29th (which is the day before it starts, on Thursday!) at 4:10 pm; I figured this would be a safer bet than showing up on Wednesday, or even Thursday morning, and potentially not having a hotel room yet if we're going that route, uh. But I need to know on what day/time I need to skedaddle. :|a
SO YEAH GUYS, talk to me and we can figure something out? I DO NOT EAT MUCH, I SLEEP QUIETLY, I AM VERY SPACE FRIENDLY, I WILL NOT CATCH ANYTHING ON FIRE ACCIDENTALLY.