#displacerghost

I was rereading @displacerghost excellent fic Operation: Anglerfish and decides to try and sketch up The Blue Viper. It turned out much better than expected. Though I gave up on trying to draw the gloves or boots.

isn't she??? i love her so much

look at this ridiculous creature 😍

!!! AH! here is a website with a whole bunch of different versions of the ballad lyrics. 

Child Ballad 39A is probably the most basic version of the ballad, including most of the common motifs.

I’m very partial to Child Ballad 39H, which has an especially interesting variation on the ending.

The lyrics of the Anaïs Mitchell version differ considerably, although it’s the same story.

Roxanne's Speech Google Translated (Megamind PARODY)

(You can watch it on Youtube here)

New Google Translated Megamind video!!! :D

This scene was suggested a while ago by @displacerghost and I finally got around to it! ^_^

Enjoy! :D

Hahaha oh man. So there's really nothing wrong with the yellow-spotted lizards from the book/movie Holes, but I have a sort of chip on my shoulder about them because I was somehow the only kid in my seventh grade class who knew the yellow-spotted lizards aren't real, and a bunch of my classmates tried to insist I was wrong because "tHeY wErE iN tHe MoViE." Like movies can't have fake things in them. Like you can't paint yellow spots on some bearded dragons. And as an adult I try to give the benefit of the doubt whenever I can, but inside me there is still a small, angry child screaming HOW could they not know those lizards were fake?! Holes is the only place they've ever appeared! If they were real they would be in other books, other movies! At least!

Hush, angry child. It's okay. People are wrong sometimes; thinking a made-up animal is real truly is not the end of the world.

To be honest, I'm still a bit incredulous, but I can see how they'd make the mistake. As an adult, looking at Holes, I can absolutely see why the lizards might seem real. Holes is fiction, but it feels real. There are rules to the fake things in it! The characters have depth! There is a history where people have the same fears as people in the present! The yellow-spotted lizards are the only worldbuilding thing Louis Sachar completely, totally, 100% pulled out of his ass for this book. Everything else either could happen in reality or is obviously fake. A curse of bad luck? Well that's OBVIOUSLY false, but this is magical realism so it's whatever. But cruel camp administrators? Sure. Inter-familial resentment spanning generations? Definitely. Racism? Yeah. A kid from a low-income family gets falsely accused of a crime as a result of a misunderstanding, and sentenced to hard labor at a work camp in the desert? Our justice system is fucked, of course that could happen.

The yellow-spotted lizards, however, are not obviously fake. And everything else seems pretty plausible. And if we're talking about the movie, they didn't use CGI. Those were actual lizards, just painted.

So like...I get it.

And as an adult, I know other kids were not raised on nature specials and NatGeo Kids and Ranger Rick. Other kids have not heard a calm Probably-British voiceover tell them, more than once, that the Gila monster and its cousin, the Mexican beaded lizard, are the only two venomous lizard species in the world. (At the time, this was believed to be true. We have since learned of venom in other species.)

But I did not enjoy being shouted at in class by several of my peers trying to convince me to believe in something that I know for a fact doesn't exist (not even something like unicorns! or bigfoot! there are no legends or sightings or lore about these lizards; they were made up by one dude! for one book!), so later that year, when we were assigned a research project and presentation on the subjects of our choice, I chose venomous lizards and I made sure to mention the fake yellow-spotted lizards in my presentation. This did not win me any points with my teacher or my peers, but I was pissed off and already a bullied social pariah with nothing to lose, so I really didn't care if anyone liked it.

(Part of the depth of my irritation was also due to the fact that "I'm smarter than them" was what I was telling myself to keep my self-esteem from tanking completely. It wasn't true, of course; we just had different knowledge bases and life experiences. They knew things about Justin Timberlake and the Spice Girls that I never will. But I was, objectively, better-informed about animals and the natural world than most of my peers at that point in time, and I did NOT like hearing "you're wrong and also stupid" about things that are facts. Partly because my self-esteem was already rocky, but also because they were wrong! And making fun of me for not believing their wrong thing! Rude!)

yes to this fanservice! excellent sexy fanservice! the butterfly knife–exotically dangerous and sexy, especially with /Megamind/ in black leather and anger. maybe part of the appeal too is just how /good/ with it he is–the level of skill and competency is sexy and also the danger is /not dangerous to Roxanne/, just everyone else, so it’s like that “could hurt but don’t” thing, trust and safety, the bdsm power dynamic always going on between them

Roland is a Slytherin; his ambition is the guiding force in all his choices.

Sunny is a Hufflepuff with some strong Slytherin tendencies; he’s loyal enough to spend a great deal of time and effort in arranging parties to allow Dawn to spend time with her crushes and he goes through a lot to save her when she’s been kidnapped. And yet he decides to use the love potion on her, and, because of the Sugar Plum Fairy’s advice, he lets Imp fall after Imp helped him get the love potion. Ultimately, he’s a Hufflepuff, but I’m betting that the Sorting Hat took a minute or two to decide on Sunny.

Dawn is a Gryffindor. She is extremely brave. A minute after nearly dying in a lizard attack, she’s back to singing; she throws herself into what would be nerve-wracking social situations for other people with ease--flirting wildly, readily introducing herself to people she finds attractive, confessing to Sunny that she loves him immediately upon realizing it herself.

Griselda is a Slytherin; she is determined to get her son married and is prepared to go to any lengths to get it done! 

The Sugar Plum Fairy is a Ravenclaw--gifted with great intelligence in the making of the very complex love potion, but impractical when it comes to the real life usage of the potion. Also, she loves riddles but is too impatient to wait for other people to come up with the answers.

Marianne is a Gryffindor in a different way than her sister; Dawn’s bravery is almost automatic; Marianne’s is more conscious. She’s determined to have adventures, and has a definite saving-people-thing streak of chivalry--she insists that she needs to save her sister.

Bog is a Slytherin. He’s all about that overdramatic Slytherin overkill. 

(ex: Draco “Harry Potter refused to shake my hand when we were eleven years old and so I must SPEND THE NEXT SIX YEARS OF MY LIFE ATTEMPTING TO MAKE HIM REGRET IT YES I HAVE MADE BADGES AND A THEME SONG” Malfoy.)

Bog has an unfortunate first romantic experience so CLEARLY THE THING TO DO IS OUTLAW LOVE AND CUT DOWN ALL OF THE PRIMROSES ALL OF THEM I SAY. A fairy fell into the Dark Forest for like .2 seconds? IT IS A CONSPIRACY CUT THE PRIMROSES DOWN FASTER. The love potion has been taken by an elf? I must CRASH THE FESTIVAL  D R A M A T I C A L L Y  AND THEN KIDNAP THE FAIRY KING’S DAUGHTER BECAUSE...REASONS.

He has ambition, too, although it’s less obvious because he’s already a king. Choosing to use the love potion on the goblin girl was a matter of putting his personal ambition to have her love above her true wishes. And deciding to outlaw love is really a very ambitious plan.

Holy fuck. I was not prepared. Whoa. The angst and the anger omg. SO wonderfully painful. I am really loving the dynamic here. (Also--new link goes to ch4? Not sure if on purpose)