Nothing is always absolutely so.

otakuspirit requested Prof U's pov on the relationships between the Girls & the Boys. I hesitated to get too in depth as it is something that gets touched on in a few chapters in TEF proper.

( Let's call this one The View from the Sidelines. )

Working my way through these, bit by bit! Thanks as always for your patience ♥

Remember when auto-tuning stuff was a thing for a hot second towards the tail end of the '00s/beginning of the '10s? Well, one of those made it to my PpG playlist.



So, obviously, it's related to the Professor. I don't really have a scenario in my head for this one, it just reminds me of him and his relationship with the Girls. Thematically it hovers around the same ground Paternus does, but is more specifically related to how the Prof would cope with the Girls growing up ("the edge" in this case being their adulthood).

There's just something so sweet about this song. When I listen to it, I can picture the Professor helping the Girls out with their homework, trying to instill in them the same love for science that he has (and only really succeeding with Blossom, of course), and for awhile it's great because they're children and they're young and he's their dad. But, naturally, as they grow older and start growing more into their individual selves, they start pulling away from him, and he can kind of fight it if he wants to but that can't do much, and eventually he realizes that all he can do is sit back and watch. And that's in addition to all the crimefighting and world-saving - another form of them leaving him. (So much for me not having a scenario in my head for this one. I guess it was in there, I just hadn't put it to paper.)

That's the other thing about space, in fact - it makes you feel so small. The universe is so incredibly vast. As a parent, wouldn't sending your children off into the world make you feel small, too?

I saw the thing. I saw the thing five times.

Okay, that's misleading. I sat down and actually watched the thing two of those five times all the way through. The other three times it was playing in the background while I bustled about doing other things.

I really like the thing. After multiple viewings, I daresay I... love? The thing?

And referring to it as “The thing” is sending the wrong message. I really, genuinely, truly enjoyed it. I made my tea this morning, sat next to my sleeping SO, booted up the telly, and strapped in to see what they could do. And frankly, I think they did a really, really great job.

( I've been noting various things all day as they come to me, so now, presented in no particular order, are some thoughts about The Powerpuff Girls Special: Dance Pantsed. )

Well! Those are my long-winded thoughts! (Some of them. Did I ever actually talk about the script? Fuck, whatever.) What did you guys think? Love it? Hate it? I must know.

(Also it seems people are totes up for a PpG chat come Super Bowl Sunday, so I'll start looking into setting it up! You guys rock.)

Surprise ♥

Title: A Thorn in Your Side
Characters/Pairing: Belladonna, Professor Utonium, no pairings
Rating: PG-13/T for mild language and emotionally heavy shit stuff
Disclaimer: Neither the Powerpuff Girls nor their FusionFall incarnations belong to me. Beyond that, this (far superior) interpretation of the FusionFall canon is the brainchild of the incomparable busterella.
Summary: Trying to be someone who's dead isn't' working out for Belladonna.
Notes: Not for Busterella's contest (which everybody should still try to enter!), just for her birthday! Also largely written because of you-know-what with you-know-who (she will know what I'm talking about). Apologies, I wanted this to be longer but had to power through it in a sickness-induced delirium. More is to come, but this is what I have for you so far. The happiest of birthdays to the coolest of people. Un-beta'd.

( A Thorn in Your Side. ~4,538 words. )

The most important point of this entry is to alert you all to busterella's

PpG Squishy!fic contest!

Some of you are familiar with busterella's Squishyverse and how awesome and great it is, but for those of you who are out of the loop, basically the Squishyverse is a mature and sensible take on CTN'S Fusionfall game universe, set exclusively within the Powerpuff Girls canon instead of the massive crossover affair that Fusionfall was.

It would be impossible for me to list all the GREAT AMAZING THINGS about Squishyverse, but here are a few things I love:

1. The characters are set up to react like REAL PEOPLE
2. There is a much greater focus on the family conflict that arises out of Buttercup's/Belladonna's amnesia
3. BUSTERELLA'S GREAT AMAZING ART
4. Her design of everything - the world, the characters, the GIRLS - is so refreshing and fun to look at!
5. The reshaping of the Fusionfall concept is seriously inspired - busterella basically took a coal (Fusionfall) and worked that thing until it was a freaking diamond (Squishyverse) with her bare hands and fantastic brainmeats
6. NO SERIOUSLY LOOK AT HOW GREAT THIS SHIT IS

So what I'm basically getting at is, her world-building is wonderful and if anyone deserves to have fic written for her, it's busterella. It would mean so much (!!!) if any fellow writerly folk out there would check out what she's done and give some thought to entering her contest! Or actually enter, buuuuut I won't hold you to that. (I'll probably think better of you as a person, though. Just slightly. ♥)

Please check out the entry I've linked to and tool about her tumblr tags. Her work is really something and at the very least everyone should check it out!

Also, if you're looking for the TEF update, I sent my revised 1st draft of ch12 off to beta last week. HOO-ZAH