Jellomortality - Refugee From The Trash Can

*the horrors approach with hot glue guns and bags of rhinestones* you want to be bedazzled, you say?

*canonballs into 2024 bc i've grown inured to the horrors and am overdue to be bedazzed by the wonders* giddyeup bitch

WEDNSDAY 

Potential angst/plot idea for the Phandom:

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-zap-from-an-electric-eel-could-give-nearby-organisms-new-genes

Electric shocks can open brief holes in a cell's membrane, allowing DNA and other things inside when the lipid bilayer would normally block them out. When it's done deliberately, it's called electroporation, and it's sometimes used for medical treatment. With a careful, low-voltage application, but still.

What if Danny's portal accident electroporated his cells with ectoplasm? What if being electrified sped up Danny's becoming a halfa? What if the shock from the portal opening was crucial not only to killing him, but also to reviving him?

What if Vlad learned that he could create a halfa by dunking a living person into ectoplasm and electrocuting them?

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The kingdom that used to reign here was very particular about dancing. One day, an architect named Walter Chasse invented a special dance floor such that in order to pass through, one had to literally waltz across the room. If you mis-stepped, a rubber-tipped dart would “helpfully” point out your error. The queen absolutely loved it, and commissioned several for the royal grounds. These dance floors eventually became fashionable among the nobility, who used them in games of political one-upmanship. Eventually, someone had the bright idea to replace the “permissive” rubber-tipped darts for a more “exacting” variety, and the rest is history.

When you enter this room, why does the door shut and lock itself, and why do the walls start to close in very slowly?

Why do we even HAVE that lever?

Back in the day, my old gaming group used to play a game called “why do we even have that lever?”. It works like this:

1. Person A describes a puzzle or trap - the sort of bizarre adventurer-shredding contraption you might encounter in the course of an old-school dungeon crawl that makes absolutely no sense if the dungeon in question was ever supposed to be a facility that people actually used.

2. Person B proposes an explanation for what the “trap” in question is really for - i.e., why it’s not a trap at all, but a totally practical feature of whatever sort of place the dungeon originally was.

3. Person B then describes their own trap to keep the game going.

The only hard rule is that the explanation offered in step 2 absolutely can’t be “it’s a puzzle” or “it’s a trap”; you have to propose some pragmatic function that actually makes sense in the context of the dungeon being the ruins of someplace where people lived and worked. The way it currently works can be justified as a consequence of it having malfunctioned or partially fallen apart, but there has to be some plausible purpose it could have originally served.

For example, I might ask:

“Why is there a room where the entire ceiling is a giant magnet?”

… and you might respond:

“It’s a security checkpoint for the armoury of magical weapons that lies beyond. The presence of the magnet means that weapons can only be safely brought in and out of the armoury using special weighted cases, making it very difficult to steal or substitute items.”

“It’s a laboratory formerly used for experiments involving dangerous creatures from the Elemental Plane of Earth. The powerful magnetic field wholly paralyses all but the mightiest earth elementals, allowing them to be studied at one’s leisure.”

“It’s the old Queen’s gaming room. During her reign, a game of strategy involving man-sized stone pieces on a multi-level board had become fashionable. Though most such games required large work crews to move the pieces around, the Queen’s magnetic chamber - in conjunction with large metal bars driven into the core of each piece - allows the pieces to be manipulated by a single person. Many of the pieces still lay scattered about the room, in various states of disrepair.”

Then you’d describe your own trap.

I’ll start us off with a simple (and apropos) one:

Why is there a lever that drops a giant stone block on the person who pulled it?

I, apprentice wizard JelloMortality, support my brethren in the skeleton wars!

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Another possibility: what if the accountants' clients were all supernatural creatures of various types, each somehow evading the notice of the rest of the family? A vampire hunter ranting about "pale-faced leeches" while their accountant cousin sneaks away to take a call from "Dr. Acula"

I have a question for the ask game, for the ‘Like, The Worst Family Reunion Ever’. Is the branch of accountants the group that give Danny what he needs to wrangle the rest of the family in, or are they the one part of the family that manages to cause Danny the biggest problem out of all?

Like with the original prompt, there are many ways to go!

For the first, we know that hunters of the supernatural probably aren't completely up front about their taxes, so a good threat could possibly rein them in.

For the second, well, that same fact makes them a real threat, too! Also, we can do fun things like make them accountants for mobsters and such, not just the IRS.

But on the other hand, I think it would also be funny if the accountants' problem was the only one Danny felt neither equipped nor obliged to solve. XD

Personally, I think it started earlier, with "I accidentally a piano bench", in 2008

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally

An interesting internet culture thing I’ve never seen discussed is the “shared unstated”, where someone will say an incomplete sentence leaving out the most crucial information and yet it conveys an idea or emotion that everyone just. Gets.

An example of this is when people are reacting emotionally to something and they just say “I’M” and then leave off any verbs or anything else in general. We started out with “IM SCREAMING” or “IM DYING” and then evolved just into “I’M” which holds almost no information and yet, we get it.

Another example is the recent “one of the most of all time” phrase. The first time I saw it was about a very strange looking little creature, like maybe one of those rodents with the elongated snout, and one of the comments was “one of the most animals of all time.” The crucial adjective is missing but the Vibe is present. Is it one of the most beautiful animals, the best animals, the coolest animals, the weirdest animals? Certainly not. And we all know it’s not. But it definitely is one of the most animals, which is a separate thing. Idk. It just is. We just get it. It’s the shared unstated.

reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

Huh?

heh.