Pick Up Dandelions

Thanks to @furiousflamingfeline​ for the poster!

Hey, are you a PPG fan looking for a simple gen fic of the PPGs just saving the world before bedtime, doing the same things they did in the original show? No PPG x RRB ships, no gratuitous angst, no high school AUs. I’ve noticed that many fans here want something like that, and I decided I might be able to fill the void. The first chapter is up now! 

This is gonna be a mostly episodic structure where the majority of chapters are self-contained, and the writing is meant to be evocative of the original show. 

Chapter 1: Ink and Pain Summary: 

Overwhelmed by his workload of evil tasks, Mojo hires two minions named the Taganka Twins who prove to be more capable than expected.

Chapter 2 of All Killer, No Kisses is up!

The PPGs are excited to go to the first concert of Chartreuse, the latest singing sensation taking over the world out of nowhere, but this chanteuse is hiding a terrible secret.

At least half or a little more of the episodes either have an outright horror or horror-adjacent theme (Boogie Nights, Abracadavar) or at least have moments that are unsettling (Fuzzy Logic, Mommy Fearest). Episodes like Uh Oh Dynamo, Bubbleviscuous, and the end of Buttercrush have a lot of the most intense violence in the whole show. Even in episodes that are more comedic or action-based, the lighting is often moodier, and the starker minimalism of many of the backgrounds make things feel a little off even when they’re not supposed to.

True, you could say the darkest episodes came in later seasons (Twisted Sister, Speed Demon, Knock It Off), but Season 1 had this more consistent tone throughout. In contrast, S5 and S6 had a lot more grossout humor, which didn’t add to the atmosphere was mostly unsuccessful because it was meant to make the audience laugh… which didn’t work by most accounts lol.