I really wish I could draw.
But today I wish I could draw because once again I saw a bunch of those pretentious "This is what's wrong with society" drawings that is basically the artist shitting all over social media and technology. The old "Fire bad. Technology evil. Tesla was a witch!" bullshit. (And I know people usually say "Edison was a witch" but history has shown that Edison stole most of "his" inventions. So I'm putting Tesla in there instead.) They belittle cellphones, ereaders, etc, but never what's REALLY wrong with society.
How about the fact people would rather take medical advice from a no talent whore good for only taking dick up her ass - and yes, I'm talking about Jenny McCarthy - and now they refuse to vaccinate their children because that dumb slut's lies about vaccines causing Autism.
How about the way many people will change their diet, religion, political opinions, etc according to whatever their favorite celebrity at the moment says to do? I've known so many people who keep converting to new religions depending on what a famous person is.
How about pedophiles trying to argue that their choice to rape children is a sexual orientation and that they should be included in the LGBTA community?
How about how gay people try to erase the existence of bisexuals and asexuals?
How about how people ignore the historical, Biblical, and archaeological evidence proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Israel existed first, not Palestine.
How about how it's a scientifically proven fact that "organic" food has less nutrition than traditionally farmed foods, how organic pesticides are WORSE for the environment than synthetic ones, and how it produces less food and therefore is a huge scam?
How about art about how everything is a GMO, there's no such thing as non-GMO foods, and that people are being conned into buying into a lie?
How about art that shows a grown woman trying to drive a 13 year old to suicide via cyberbullying?
How about artwork that shows "shippers" who ship in cannon straight male characters into never going to be cannon gay ships, yet turn around and send death threats and otherwise cyberbully those who ship in cannon lesbian and bisexual women in w/w ships?
Or artwork showing two teenage girls leering as a gay male couple trying to get them to kiss so they "can see yoai in real life" and otherwise turning someone's sexual orientation into their wank material?
THAT is the sort of stuff that's wrong with society. Not the fact I'd rather play Pokémon Go then talk to a stranger with bad breath in public.
The fictional character battle....
It’s something I’ve been thinking about since elementary school. If I was a better writer/could write scripts or could partner up with someone who’s good at script writing, I’d totally turn the idea into a movie script.
Freddy Krueger VS Dracula.
Now you might be wondering why Count Dracula would fight Freddy. Well, there’s a quote by a Charles Baudelaire, “My dear brethren, do not ever forget, when you hear the progress of lights praised, that the loveliest trick of the Devil is to persuade you that he does not exist!“
Now imagine that for millennia various supernatural beings - demons, vampires, fairies, shapeshifters, etc have been working together to manipulate both religion and science to denounce their existence. (Many Christians believe that ghosts, aliens, Bigfoot, etc are not real but actually demons taking those forms to lure you from God and that believing in them will get you sent to Hell. And I’ve met many a religious person who does not believe demons are actual beings but just symbolism for temptation. Science - it’s kind of obvious how that works.) Now along comes all these newbies - Krueger, Voorhess, Meyers, Chucky - and that rogue fae, the Leprechaun - they’re not only over the top, but they keep coming back and eventually people will start to believe in the supernatural again. Suddenly being an exorcist, a vampire/werewolf hunter, or even carrying iron to kill the fae will be seen as normal, everyday things. Even viable careers. These idiots will put the entire supernatural community at risk.
They decide to start with Freddy. Tell him he either needs to work within their rules or he will be destroyed permanently. For they know how to kill him so he’ll never rise again. They’ve done it to others. There’s entire supernatural species who are now extinct because of them.
Dracula gets sent to deal with Krueger. Why? Well, there’s a bit of vampire folklore that writers often ignore and that is vampires don’t just feed on blood. They also feed on psychic energy and they get that energy by two different ways - causing orgasms or causing nightmares. (You starting to get the picture?)
Count Dracula, being as old as he is, has a lot more practice in manipulating humans’ dreams than Freddy can go in and start taking over the nightmares Freddy is causing. Battling him on his own ground.
So, using a bit of something else Hollywood ignores - and that is that vampires can go out in daylight (it even happens in the novel Dracula) - Dracula buys himself a house on Elm Street and establishes himself as an independently wealthy man who just wants to enjoy small town America. He starts out by seducing single moms, teachers, doctors, anyone who has contact with kids. This allows him to start walking the dreams of the kids in town hunting for Freddy. From the women he seduces he gets blood and orgasm energy, from the kids he gets nightmare energy. This, along with his age, makes him stronger than Freddy, but he’s still playing on Freddy’s home turf - got to have some tension there.
Eventually the kids start figuring out what’s going on. And they’re torn. If Dracula wins, Freddy is either put on a leash or destroyed forever, but then he might stay on Elm Street himself, at the very least take off with some of their moms and the other ladies as his new brides. And who’s to say what will happen to the women he fed on but left behind?
But no one wants Freddy to win either.
If only there was a way to get them to destroy each other.
However, it wouldn’t work out that way. Dracula would win due to age and strength. Plus this leaves it open for more Slashers VS Classic/Folklore Monsters. The movie could end with Dracula and his new brides reopening Camp Crystal Lake. And that movie can involve some water faires. Kelpies - horses that trick people, especially children, into riding them, then run into the water to drown and eat them. Jenny Greenteeth, a fae that drowns people. And so forth.
And let’s all be honest, we’d love to see Michael Meyers take on a werewolf.
Chucky could face down actual demons.
The Leprechaun, well, he’s part of the fairy world, and it’s about time they took one of their own to task for trying ruin millennia of hard work.
And it could all start with Freddy Krueger VS Dracula.
A Star Wars theory/thought.
I’m sure others have this theory - but I think the reason Rey was on Jakku was because her family knew she could use the Force and wanted to hide her. Possibly even prevent her from ever learning how to use it and becoming a Jedi or worse, a Sith.
We know of two times young Padawans were slaughtered. Once by Anakin, another time it was Luke’s students. (Googling says it might not have been Ben Solo/Kylo Ren. But it could’ve been.)
It would make sense for parents who had Force sensitive children to hide them to keep them from being killed.
Which means there could be Force sensitive people/potential Jedis or Siths of a bunch of different ages out there. Some who’d be a little older than Luke and Leia because they were born just a little before Anakin killed the other Padawans, some Rey’s age or a little younger. All have no idea that they can use the Force.
Imagine Luke and Rey stumbling upon this woman who’s just starting to get grey in her hair who has no idea she can use the Force because her parents hid her away on a super remote planet, perhaps even, sadly, resorted to abuse to make her suppress “her evil ways.” But they’ve been dead and gone many years and she’s been using it in little ways and since she’s lived alone ever since they died no one knows.
And Rey is all, “Master Luke, we HAVE to take her off this planet with us and train her in the Force. We need all the Jedis we can find.”
Luke: “But Rey, she’s old enough to be your grandmother!”
Rey: “Age doesn’t matter when you’re a Jedi! Come on, Master Luke, we can’t leave her out here alone to die without knowing her full potential and besides, her appearance could be so deceiving that the Empire won’t know what hit them until it’s too late.”
Luke: “Give me one good reason to take on the universe’s oldest Padawan.”
*Rey takes up a fork full of pie the untrained Force user has made and shoves it into Luke’s mouth*
Luke: *chews, swallows* “Okay, ma’am, you’re now my Padawan. Get packing. You’re going to be a Jedi.”
Another random short story.
“Age difference, age shmifference. I don’t see it as you robbing the cradle so much as I’m robbing the grave.” The necromancer gently chided as they lovingly stitched their spouse’s scalp back on. The thread was a special enchanted one from the local wizard. The necromancer had to trade their family’s secret chicken soup and matzo ball recipe for it - a guaranteed cure for any illness or curse that plagues you - but it was worth it. “There,” they said as the last stitch was tied off with a spell. “Still, I suppose I should learn to be careful running my fingers through your hair. After all, you’ve been dead ten years. Things are bound to be fragile.”