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You know what this lj needs? More TEF:trivia.
But some talk about PpG/RrB physiology first!
Let me start off by saying that I love and adore every piece of fanart done for TEF. (More on this later.) Now, because it's come up, yes, I do envision the girls and boys physically as older versions of their canon cartoon selves - meaning round heads, no (visible) noses, fingerless mitts, etc., etc.. I personally don't think there's any particular reason why they'd suddenly grow those features, no, but the bigger thing is I don't see why they'd need to! The girls are accepted and loved for what they do for the city, and no mention is ever made of their appearance (save for the movie, which is a different case entirely). Even when they went to Citysville, That Cesspool of Douchebaggery, they weren't subjected to any sort of ridicule when it came to their looks.
In TEF, no, they don't have fingers. But they also are able to use their hands like any other "normal" person. I could've inserted a lot of body angsting and wangsting about how they look different from everyone else, but... well, truth be told, I don't really... care? That they look different? Because in the entire series, nobody in Townsville ever once made mention of it. Nobody cared. What mattered to them was that the girls were heroes, saving their lives, day in, day out.
I'm not going to lie, I know TEF is kind of grounded in this "real world," but it's also still grounded in Townsville. I just don't think it would be very characteristic of the city to suddenly become dickbags about three heroes who look different from them. It's Townsville, not Gotham!
Those of you who know me also know I'm not big on angst (SHUT UP, I KNOW I PROBABLY SOUND LIKE A HYPOCRITE) as a genre, and I don't see a need for another story about teenage girls being self-conscious of the way they look. Would it be realistic? Yes. Does it need to be in there? No. And I don't want it in there. (It's kind of like one of my issues with the Twilight series: Does a teenage girl ever want to/try to commit suicide because she's pining for a boy? Yes. Does it need to be in a book? FUCK. NO. But whatever, that was Meyer's prerogative.)
Anyway. All that aside. I'm not typing this all up because I've been sitting here grinding my teeth at the TEF!fanart that so many lovely people have drawn for me. I'm typing this all up because I want all you lovely people to know how much I appreciate it. Whether you draw fingers or not. Whether you do anime style or cartoon style. Whether you have four years of art school under your belt or zero. I am so floored by the mere fact that anyone out there cares enough to do it at all, and love and appreciate that you're out there putting so much damn work into showing your love for something that I work so damn hard on. I'm luckier than most fic writers in any fandom, and I just want you all to know how much I adore you for paying me that much mind.
Really. Thank you. ♥
Another aside before I start banging out some trivia! I'm sure most of you are aware (if not, well, I guess I'm a bigger nerd than you) that CTN recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, and commissioned I Love Dust (based in London) to animate this lovely 2-minute bumper for them.
I think they did lovely work (although I missed the thick line quality when it went into that black-and-white segment; Dexter was just missing that certain je ne sais quoi to his look) and still can't believe how much my chest literally - literally - swells when I hear that little bursty sfx that is the Girls taking off or in flight. A whole decade+ later and I'm still so affected by so small a thing.
This, truly, is what it means to be a complete, utter PpG fan!dork.
Well. To further expound upon that. ETA: You guys, I totally forgot the Beach Chapter was up next for trivia. Oh, God. This is going to be fun.
Favorite line from ch6.
OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT I will have to continue this later! Stay cool, everyone. Wear condoms. Don't do drugs. TYFYT
Let me start off by saying that I love and adore every piece of fanart done for TEF. (More on this later.) Now, because it's come up, yes, I do envision the girls and boys physically as older versions of their canon cartoon selves - meaning round heads, no (visible) noses, fingerless mitts, etc., etc.. I personally don't think there's any particular reason why they'd suddenly grow those features, no, but the bigger thing is I don't see why they'd need to! The girls are accepted and loved for what they do for the city, and no mention is ever made of their appearance (save for the movie, which is a different case entirely). Even when they went to Citysville, That Cesspool of Douchebaggery, they weren't subjected to any sort of ridicule when it came to their looks.
In TEF, no, they don't have fingers. But they also are able to use their hands like any other "normal" person. I could've inserted a lot of body angsting and wangsting about how they look different from everyone else, but... well, truth be told, I don't really... care? That they look different? Because in the entire series, nobody in Townsville ever once made mention of it. Nobody cared. What mattered to them was that the girls were heroes, saving their lives, day in, day out.
I'm not going to lie, I know TEF is kind of grounded in this "real world," but it's also still grounded in Townsville. I just don't think it would be very characteristic of the city to suddenly become dickbags about three heroes who look different from them. It's Townsville, not Gotham!
Those of you who know me also know I'm not big on angst (SHUT UP, I KNOW I PROBABLY SOUND LIKE A HYPOCRITE) as a genre, and I don't see a need for another story about teenage girls being self-conscious of the way they look. Would it be realistic? Yes. Does it need to be in there? No. And I don't want it in there. (It's kind of like one of my issues with the Twilight series: Does a teenage girl ever want to/try to commit suicide because she's pining for a boy? Yes. Does it need to be in a book? FUCK. NO. But whatever, that was Meyer's prerogative.)
Anyway. All that aside. I'm not typing this all up because I've been sitting here grinding my teeth at the TEF!fanart that so many lovely people have drawn for me. I'm typing this all up because I want all you lovely people to know how much I appreciate it. Whether you draw fingers or not. Whether you do anime style or cartoon style. Whether you have four years of art school under your belt or zero. I am so floored by the mere fact that anyone out there cares enough to do it at all, and love and appreciate that you're out there putting so much damn work into showing your love for something that I work so damn hard on. I'm luckier than most fic writers in any fandom, and I just want you all to know how much I adore you for paying me that much mind.
Really. Thank you. ♥
Another aside before I start banging out some trivia! I'm sure most of you are aware (if not, well, I guess I'm a bigger nerd than you) that CTN recently celebrated their 20th anniversary, and commissioned I Love Dust (based in London) to animate this lovely 2-minute bumper for them.
I think they did lovely work (although I missed the thick line quality when it went into that black-and-white segment; Dexter was just missing that certain je ne sais quoi to his look) and still can't believe how much my chest literally - literally - swells when I hear that little bursty sfx that is the Girls taking off or in flight. A whole decade+ later and I'm still so affected by so small a thing.
This, truly, is what it means to be a complete, utter PpG fan!dork.
Well. To further expound upon that. ETA: You guys, I totally forgot the Beach Chapter was up next for trivia. Oh, God. This is going to be fun.
Some of the boys later claimed a chorus of Hallelujah had echoed in the skies at first sight of Buttercup's toned stomach. Others argued the music didn't start until the shirt had passed into higher, holier territory.
Favorite line from ch6.
- The first title is from Lady Gaga's Summer Boy, the second is from Fall Out Boy's 20 Dollar Nose Bleed. Every time Summer Boy comes up on my MP3 player I still listen to the entire thing and think of this chapter.
- "They've got 3/2 thickness! This one that I've got on is a 5/3! I'm suffocating." - I do not surf, so I had to do a little bit of research into the whole wetsuit thing. I think even 3/2 is a little thick/warm for summer, but nobody called me out on it, so either I was able to fake it successfully or NOBODY WHO HAS READ TEF SURFS. Also if you guys remember, Buttercup pulls out a surfboard in the episode Powerprof. Chica surfs.
- There was no way he'd ever say this out loud, but sometimes the Professor wished she were uglier. Not a lot, just enough to, you know, repel interest from boys. That was reasonable, right? - Is it wrong for me to actually laugh at something I wrote? I didn't even realize how severe this sounded when I was writing it - that the Professor wishes his daughter was SO REPULSIVE that boys would not even want to come near her. Comedy gold!
- "No... you know, beach blanket bingo or anything like that." Buttercup made a face. "What? What is that? How old are you, again?" - Those who pay attention to the art style of PpG know that the Professor and their house have that very retro 50's/60's vibe to it, and the 60's also had that (horrible) era of Beach party films going on, so I was just poking further fun at the timeframe the Prof seems to come from/live in.
- "...Wandering around the beach, all 'dark and lonely as a cloud,' or some shit like that." - Probably beyond belief that Butch would actually retain information from English, much less a line from a William Wordsworth poem, but to his credit, he didn't recall it exactly right.
- The wind whipped Brick's open shirt around him as he walked. - I'm sorry guys, I can't believe I put this line in here. All by itself. IN ITS OWN PARAGRAPH. Like. I. Am just shameless. For some reason I felt this was VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION to convey. PLOT POINT! (Not really.) FORESHADOWING! (... Yeah.) FANSERVICE! (Mostly. ur welcome)
- It wasn't a habit of Brick's to advertise things he liked, save for solitude, but that was a dead giveaway since he had a tendency to issue death glares at anyone who got within five feet of him. He liked movement, too, at least when he wasn't thinking about things like coups and plans and his future. So he was very much enjoying his solitary stroll along the beach, the sound of the crashing waves a perfect backdrop against his clear, currently non-scheming mind. The faint knowledge that soon he and his brothers would be returning "home" and he could get back on with the couping and the planning and the scheming filled him with nothing short of excited anticipation. He liked all those things. - This paragraph isn't particularly interesting, but I'm singling it out because it was among one of the first few things I wrote for TEF, and, of that, one of the few things from that batch that actually made it into the fic.
- What really did him in was the copy of Camus' The Stranger in her hands. - Um. Is it really trivia if I point out that there's also a Camus quote in the summary of TEF? I should stop talking about this.
- "Odd reading material for the beach, isn't it?" - Yes. Yes, The Stranger is very, VERY odd reading material for the beach. I mean, wtf, Blossom.
- (Most of the scenes involving the whole group) - I am still really happy with the overall rhythm of the group conversation here (although it's also causing me grief, because at the moment I can't seem to get that rhythm going again in anything I'm writing now). Maybe this is owed to the number of characters in the scene; any time I needed someone to say something - ANYTHING - there was somebody around to say it, and it sounded in-character and right for the moment. I'm so pleased with the dialogue beats in so much of the stuff on the beach when the kids are just goofing off. Um. /egotistic ramblings
- "Get grillin'," Bubbles chirped, guiding his hand to flip over the patties. Boomer looked distraught at the physical contact. "Hey! First you take my burger duties and now you take my girl?" "I didn't think I was anybody's girl," Bubbles said innocently. "You can have her," Brick muttered under his breath. All the same, he didn't bat her hand away. - ... Bubbles/Brick. It's awesome.
- Butch's stony expression had been taken over by a delighted sneer when Buttercup had sauntered forth. - People who keep getting on my case for not putting any Greens in the story. (Not all of you, but certainly some! Younger readers, I am assuming.) I. What. Is this too subtle for you? Like. Butch has spent this whole time being pissed off and then Buttercup comes up to play with him and his mood instantly changes. Um. Does a character have to actively say "I like you" (Boomer) or "I DON'T REALLY LIKE YOU" (Brick) to actually inform the audience that they like somebody? Not that I'm foreshadowing or trying to make any claims about where the Greens' relationship is going, but come on! It would be so BORING if every couple in a ship!fic went around announcing "I HEART SO-AND-SO" all the time!
- Brick smacked Boomer's hand away ("Hey! They're done now! Can't I have any?") and replied, "Anyone who can read can learn to cook." "Not really," Bubbles mumbled, darting a glance at Blossom. - Something I really miss in a lot of fic is Bubbles' complete and total lack of attitude. Her personality in fic is usually steamrolled by her compassion and sweetness - good traits, of course, but they're not her ONLY traits! So I try to insert moments where some of that attitude comes out. Bubbles needs to be sassier. In all the things.
OKAY YOU KNOW WHAT I will have to continue this later! Stay cool, everyone. Wear condoms. Don't do drugs. TYFYT