I have gone to the dark side

Please, he has no mastery of the lack of form at all.

Or...is it that he does have mastery over the lack of form? I confuse even myself sometimes.

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Fuffaffen, foffen, effl.

True Art Is Incomprehensible.

edited 9th Mar '11 5:18:28 AM by Komodin

No, it's not incomprehensible, Komodin, it's that sheeple like you can't understand it.

Oh, you guys can go die in a hole for all I care..

as for me, I'm on the Blue Side. And also wherever the muffins is at, yo.

The Blue Side is where you write about muffins?

No, no, it's where we look for the side with the muffins.

This discussion is reminding me of a surrealist literature class I took once.

....this reminds me that I have a firefly OC fanfic that I haven't touched for awhile. It's... large. (445 pages... oh, the fun in proofreading that.)

As much as I despise High School AU, it raises some interesting questions: if the characters in the original work were in junior high at the beginning of the series, you wrote a high school fic then, but then time passed in the series and they're actually in high school now, would that be a High School AU?

Funnily enough, I actually had some moderately interesting ideas for a deconstructive take on a High School AU.

Cross-posting from the forum where I originally mentioned it:

Y'know, thanks to the sheer volume of high-school AUs in Bleach, I was actually thinking of doing my own version. The Espada all wake up one morning to find themselves awkwardly shoehorned into a stereotypical high-school setting (Barragan as the tyrannical headmaster, Yammy as the dumb, hulking bully... oh, forget it, Bleach fans, you know the bone-tired conventions by now, I'll stop going before you start projectile-vomiting all over the walls).

As they try to figure out what's going on (and, perhaps more importantly, to stay alive against each other, now that more than a few of them metaphorically have big, red targets painted on their heads by their social roles and the rest are getting hungry), the truth gradually emerges. Aizen was assassinated, his Bankai misfired as he died, and now all of them (plus whoever the assassin was), are stuck in this strange, malformed otherworld. Now they have to find a way back, figure out who the assassin was, and choose between a cartoonish nightmare where they're at least masters of their domain (limited though it is), or their old home, which is by now overrun with Soul Society members out for their blood.

It isn't as high on my list as my 'what if Neon Genesis Evangelion had been turned into a Voltron-esque Saturday morning cartoon by executive meddling?' and 'what if the Code Geass crew actually had consistent personalities?' ideas, but I think it warrants considering.

edited 9th Mar '11 11:25:32 AM by Iaculus

what if Neon Genesis Evangelion had been turned into a Voltron-esque Saturday morning cartoon by executive meddling?

I'd read the fuck out of this.

Yeah, I was planning on running it as a Show Within a Show, charting the (fictionalised - going too far into Real-Person Fic just makes me uncomfortable) creative staff's horrified reactions to the requested changes and their desperate struggle to retain some faint glimmer of their original artistic vision in the world of Super Evangelion Action!, where the daring mavericks of NERV battle to save humanity from the evil Light Giants in new, original, and incredibly toyetic ways every week, where every episode has an And Knowing Is Half the Battle tagline, and where focus-group backlash forces them to turn a certain pilot they intended the valiant Shinji Ikari to hook up with into his long-lost sister and have him go for the ditzy German chick instead.

Oh, and Kaworu would be the sinister, (metaphorically) moustache-twirling traitor who explains to the audience how he intends to undermine humanity's defenders from within every five minutes. Of course.

edited 9th Mar '11 12:12:50 PM by Iaculus

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This actually reminds me of an Edwin Morgan poem. But then again, that one is about the Loch Ness Monster, so it doesn't count.

I've written the first two chapters of a parody/Reconstruction/Very Very Self Aware Thing of Naruto high school A Us, with an eye towards "make it not suck".

I got the idea from wondering what Jiraiya would be like if he was in a world more like ours, then realised he'd be pretty much exactly like Joe Biden as depicted in this Onion article. It was pretty easy after that: Naruto shows up and becomes a High-School Hustler, Sasuke is an overachieving honour student, Kiba is Hetero Life Partners with Shino, Sai has autism, etc.

edited 14th Mar '11 11:23:20 PM by AirofMystery