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Julie, are you alright?
From the amazing ARG welcome home, that @partycoffin had created!
Epic Oswald continuation
K so a continuation of what I was saying about the whole thing of like Mickey never came back and epic Mickey 2 never really happened.
So Mickey left and wasteland was all good and well until the mad doctor came back with a new and improved blot known as the blotamatronic. This blot more powerful than ever almost unbeatable unless you had the ability to use paint and thinner to your will. Yet the only toon who could do that was Mickey and he’s gone for good. After months of refuge in ostown Oswald decides to go to his office/lab on Mickey junk mountain (it was never destroyed it just had sat dormant for a long while) to continue a project he was working on before Mickey came. After leaving the projector broke to ostown stranding Oswald away from his family and fellow toons. But he was still able to go to his tower a long lost home on Mickey junk mountain. He finished his experiment, an experiment that could change the flow of ink in a toon to create the ability to manipulate paint and thinner to their will. Oswald used this experiment on himself, turning him into an ink wastelander ( the thought that toons are made of a mix of paint and thinner (ink) and one can manipulate it). He travelled to mean street through one of the only working projectors to discover the max doctor and his blotworx waiting there for him (not including blotamatronic).
He threatens Oswald but Oswald used his newly found power on the mad doctor dissolving a little part of the outer layer of idk holding the doc together. The doc flees making it his mission to destroy Oswald and wasteland as it is seen. Oswald goes through more hardship than ever seeing kidnapped toons being used for the docs blotamatronic, he embarks on treacherous missions to save toons, wasteland and most importantly his family.
Hey ventures alone his thoughts haunting him wherever he goes, while rebuilding wasteland saving toons and endangering his own life for his world. Epic Oswald: the never told story.
Honestly I love this kind of AU that I thought up, but I did take inspiration from @owldart animatic of Oswald called upgrade I’ll link it so you guys can see it it’s pretty cool! So yeah I probably will develop the story more but right now I’m just going to work on some already existing projects so yeah. Btw if u have any cool ideas for this AU hit me up. @owldartanimatic: https://youtu.be/3w589jhwcAk
The Welcome Home fandom should not have as much of a death grip on my life as it does.
The Lottery
I was never too fond of happily-ever-afters, and as I got older and learned how fictitious they were I became more annoyed by them as I felt, and feel, that they present a falseness that others allow themselves to remain within at the cost of others. But before the true fairy-tales of Cinderella or the Pillowman, the first story is Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”.
This story brings us more into a different perspective than most, like Samuel Jackson’s character in Unbreakable. We start off just seeing a small town coming together for this very important event, how this is an important event in this town and others big and small. While we don’t know what the event is and an entire town meeting ina square seems odd to us now, we know it used to happen and draw connections to how the children act the adults’ gossip, and the changing of the event over time. As the story continues, an undertone becomes more prevalent, young men are just starting to draw for their families, and a woman mentions about how fast time goes by, using the event as a marker and how some towns don’t participate at all.
What I love about this story is how much our perception changes as we learn more. We enter the story neutrally, then get excited and then try to hold onto that as we learn more. True artistry here comes from being able to challenge, surprise and have your reader’s perception and world be altered; and it is all down here.
The Lottery:
http://sites.middlebury.edu/individualandthesociety/files/2010/09/jackson_lottery.pdf