I knew Aims would eventually show up and let us know.
(I was starting wonder where you were, babe)
Zoe: Next time we smuggle stock, let's make it something smaller. Wash: Yeah, we should start dealing in those black-market beagles.
'Safe'
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Sean K - Oct 20, 2004 9:44:58 am PDT #4931 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Lyra Jane - Oct 20, 2004 10:48:33 am PDT #4932 of 10001
Up with the sun
Ok, how do you feel about the movie The Neverending Story? With Bastain and Atreu and the Swamps of Sadness?
I loved it as a child, but I saw it again recently and I didn't remember it very well.
The scary part, to me, was where the storm was going on and Bastian had to scream out his mother's name to save the world. (I loved Bastian. Atreyu was just the other guy, I guess because Bastian was easier to identify with.)
DavidS - Oct 20, 2004 11:16:23 am PDT #4933 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I adore The Neverending Story far beyond reason. Atreyu was one of my first crushes (along with Disney's Robin Hood--yes, the fox).
Heh. You do know that the Disney version of Robin Hood is one of the most important reference sources among the furries, right?
Betsy HP - Oct 20, 2004 11:17:36 am PDT #4934 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
My blood runs cold; my memories have just been sold.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2004 11:19:29 am PDT #4935 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How are you defining "reference source," Hec? For costuming, or furrier things?
There's a moment in a recent X-Men comic where Rachel and Kurt kiss and she marvels (no pun intended) over his smooth fur. That sort of thing generates the ... interesting thoughts.
DavidS - Oct 20, 2004 11:22:57 am PDT #4936 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
How are you defining "reference source," Hec? For costuming, or furrier things?
I just remember it being cited in an article among furries as a turning point for a number of them. It was the catalyst to bring forth their latency. Sort of like the inflationists who first saw Violet blow up into a blueberry in Willy Wonka or ballet dancers who saw The Red Shoes.
Also, yes, identifying with or desiring the characters, modeling costumes after the movie.
Mr. Broom - Oct 20, 2004 11:24:57 am PDT #4937 of 10001
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
There's a moment in a recent X-Men comic where...
There's something similar in an "X-Men" a few years back, when Trish Tilby breaks up with Hank McCoy because of the press calling their relationship beastiality. While I'm all for comics being more mature in what they'll talk about, they're getting potentially squicky more often too.
§ ita § - Oct 20, 2004 11:27:47 am PDT #4938 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Inflationists, you say?
Hmmm.
they're getting potentially squicky more often too.
Dude, every time I watched Odo kiss Kira, my mind went places they didn't need to go. Much like the idea of Mystique/Destiny -- sex between a shapeshifter and someone who knows the future. Interesting.
Jon B. - Oct 20, 2004 11:31:40 am PDT #4939 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Furries? Inflationists?! Are these kinky subcultures of which I'm unaware?
Dana - Oct 20, 2004 11:32:22 am PDT #4940 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm kind of surprised you don't know what furries are, actually, and I'm not sure if I have any basis for that surprise.