One hell of a butler preparing a picnic middle of the dead bodies of soldiers and asking for a fancy cup of a tea to a soldier who was ready to ear human flesh…
Dr Stone
An ex-military officer is lighting a cigarette just before petrifaction..
This 1972 movie is about a man using snakes to get revenge on people. It’s not a good movie for a few reasons.
1. The story is lacking
2. The acting is very poor
3. There is a horrible scene of this man going nuts and ACTUALLY killing his own snakes. It’s real and it’s makes my stomach upset even thinking about it.
I would never recommend this to anyone and if I did? I’d be purposely trying to upset them. Uck.
I’m leaning towards something more along the timeline of post-Weirdmageddon, possibly before Sea Grunkles.
Perhaps Ma Pines has passed and Stan (Barley) and Ford (Ian) receive a box of her stuff. They find a book of psychology, but there’s a handwritten note in Ma’s handwriting about how to bring somebody’s mind back for a day; not a reanimation of their physical form, but their mind, memories, and thoughts that take the image of their body and also can affect the physical world (bc of convenience). There’s also a special crystal that enables the spell.
And they’re both excited, aren’t they? Ford hasn’t seen her in more than 30 years; he was horrible at keeping contact with his family once he left for college. Stan got to see her in his place once he fell through the portal, right? So why’s he acting so non-Stan and distant about it?
Maybe Ford’s so distracted by Stan’s weird behavior—because they promised to be honest—Ford accidentally—it can’t be a memory lapse, didn’t he remember their Ma—and oh no.
He dropped the stone in the middle of reading the words, and there’s a crack in it, but Ma’s there anyway and… where is her top half??
They can dissipate and bring her back as many times as they want within the 24 hours after that initial spell, but once the day passes, she’s gone forever.
Ma recognizes the touch of Ford’s six-fingered hand; she seems to recognize Stan is one of her sons, even if she can’t understand it’s Stan himself, alive and well, and not Shermie…
They won’t get better results without a new crystal, so they rush all the research they can, and just can’t find anything, so they turn to Fiddledore (manticore). And maybe he’s hesitant on helping them because of what happened the last time Ford tried some crazy experiment, but after a long talk, he does give in and reveals that he heard there’s said to be a mountain range across a nearby lake that carries the crystal…
Well, time to go sailing! The two brothers talk to the twins about what they’re doing before the set on their adventure to find a new crystal, placing them under Fiddleford’s care as it’s still summer.
And while hanging out with the twins Fiddleford remembers something he’d previously forgotten; there’s also said to be a dragon guarding the mountain range. That’s not good.
So we have their mom and manticore filled in by Fiddleford and the twins, racing to reach and warn Stan and Ford in time.
I haven’t totally figured out how the rising action would fit in this world, but maybe there’s the conflict between Stan and Ford in how Stan wants to do everything based on the exact wording of the spell (maybe it was vague or confusing in some parts—it says the mind is a maze, Sixer, there’s a maze of underground tunnels, I really think we should take that way) while Ford struggles not to let his logical ways take over (really, Stanley, it would be most efficient to graph a line from point A to point B to ensure the straightest and quickest path, no matter how many houses and canyons we have to walk through).
The moment in the movie that really spoke to me as Stan and Ford was the whole “I don’t think he’s a screw-up!” and the revealing spell magic.
Maybe they meet a creature that won’t let them pass unless they’re truthful, which is way too close to the whole truth teeth thing, and Stan’s not going through that twice, so Ford communicates with the creature, and maybe this creature wonders why he’s traveling with this man who seems so distant and unwilling to help and appears to have stolen his face, isnt he a burden?
Ford says that Stan’s never been a burden. And then it starts to attack and declares they can’t cross. Now they gotta run with Ma.
For Ian learning how to use magic translating to Ford, I imagine it might be similar to Stan trying to teach him how to fight. Maybe they have to use strength to tear out the crystals. Not with gadgets and fancy alien-killing techniques, Sixer, just throw a punch like we’re boxing again.
I don’t know. I just really want to write a fic of this AU one day.
Let me know if you have thoughts or additions on this!!!
Just one million drawings of Youngkle Stan as a boxer, bleeding from the face. Yep. Yep.
Proposed headcanon: Stanford broke his nose in one of his early matches. Stanley referred to the six weeks that followed as “Stanford’s ugly years” as a joke. He couldn’t wear his glasses while it healed, and stopped wearing them as a habit afterwards. He kept boxing into adulthood, though. (Stanley was not a fan.)
[id: Two screenshots of Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey where Skip says, “Please, I… I have a son.” In the second image, Stanley the mushroom boy from Spiritfarer has been added to the image. /end id]
I’ve finished playing Spiritfarer not so long ago and I knew that I had to draw some fanarts eventually! First comes one of my personal faves, Stanley. When I saw him on my boat I instantly have fallen in love, haha! <3
Spiritfarer is an amazing, captivating game with wonderful story, gorgeous graphics and lovely characters. Definitely give it a try! <3
“Honestly, I could not be bothered to play this game to full completion. The Narrator is obnoxious and unfunny, with his humor and dialogue proving more irritating than entertaining.”
i think if stanley and the narrator ever escaped the office and became human theyd hate it. theyd loathe every minor inconvenience that came with it forever
I have seen only a few videos and my friend’s ramblings about The Stanley Parable but I’ve decided that whenever the Narrator starts rambling Stanley is just sitting there listening intently like
