Wilde_Guess

Human doesn’t drink.  However, the human spiked the canned food with tuna.

In some places old enough to alcohol too. =^.^=

Ditto, mine are rapidly reaching the age their folks were at passing, I hope they push beyond, maybe their “better” vegan diet will help?

@Wilde_Guess You are very right. I am so lucky to still have them both. They’ve both had to bury their parents already, only one of whom passed from old age. And my parents are still relatively healthy so I am selfish and hope they’ll stick around for a while longer. 

Whatever you do, don’t look at their subscriber list either.

@Desiderius Price, finding out that both of your still-living parents have an Onlyfans page with more than two subscribers is cool.  Accidentally stumbling across those videos is where the power-barfing comes in to play.  😉
 

It’s a sign of both, actually.  You look at them and think, “I couldn’t get up from that crap, will I be able to help them get up?”  It’s also a sign that all of you are still on the same side of the sod, which is really a nice thing to have.

@Desiderius Price, finding out that both of your still-living parents have an Onlyfans page with more than two subscribers is cool.  Accidentally stumbling across those videos is where the power-barfing comes in to play.  😉
 

@Desiderius Price, finding out that both of your still-living parents have an Onlyfans page with more than two subscribers is cool.  Accidentally stumbling across those videos is where the power-barfing comes in to play.  😉
 

It’s a sign of both, actually.  You look at them and think, “I couldn’t get up from that crap, will I be able to help them get up?”  It’s also a sign that all of you are still on the same side of the sod, which is really a nice thing to have.

Honestly, Bronxie, given how the two of them are (despite their “old” age), if they were to find themselves trapped on an air mattress, they’d just take their time getting up from it again, on purpose… And no, one never grows out of getting the ick when the parents start making out in the same room as you…   

Honestly, they’d make it up again. It just takes longer…   

@WillowDarkling What can I say?  I’m mental, that’s why I’m here

@Desiderius Price  Oh, gods! I did not need that image in my head!  Thankfully though, they’re both so tech-challenged that I can be (fairly) sure they wouldn’t know how to start up an OF page   

Word of caution, don’t go searching for their OnlyFans page.

Welcome to the world that also guides youtube’s AI-generated recommendations.

Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood would be equally disturbing.
Nah, my Harry Potter fanfic is gaining a body count.  And on this rewrite, I realize I’m adding to that count.
 

If you’re writing fanfiction, I guess it depends on the fictional world you’re writing in.  If you’re writing in Elfen Lied or Game of Thrones, it’s understandable.  If you’re writing in My Little Pony or Sponge Bob Square Pants, not so much.  If you’re writing in Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends, that’s one hell of a way to not run a railroad!
Fun non-factoid one:  Post TV series, Sponge Bob tried to get a job as a contraceptive sponge.  But, he was too big-headed, and he just didn’t fit in.
Fun non-factoid two:  Thomas the Tank Engine and the original Steely Dan were erected in the same British Locomotive Works in the twilight days of the Second World War.  William Burroughs and William Audrey have spent vast fortunes to cover this up.

Excellent – I hope to update some of mine, too. I’m glad the site works once more.

saw the whole 4 episodes and yeah it was ‘meh’ they only had one nod to an old mel brooks movie and i wont give it away. lol

I also have to respectfully disagree.  Velma is worse than “just” skinsuiting.  It’s Woke Skinsuiting.  While one seldom wins credibility by citing Wikipedia, I have to quote the last two sentences of the second paragraph from their English language article on the show.  “Audience reception was overwhelmingly negative.  A second season is in development.”
Woke Skinsuiting isn’t merely “cultural appropriation,” it’s “cultural mis-appropriation.”  It is no more and no less than the soulless gangrenous circus-mirror reflection of Pat Boone (badly) covering Little Richard songs in the 1950’s.  Even Warner Brothers, the modern owners of all the Hanna-Barbera intellectual property, who love the Woke Dollar just as much as any other corporate megalith, flat-out refused to allow Velma’s producers to give Norville a dog—lawyers at the ready and all.
If someone were to Whitewash The Boondocks, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, or Dora the Explorer; or if they Whited out Hadji Singh from Jonny Quest, they would rightfully be ripped a new one.  Same-o same-o here.  If you want to create a cartoon series featuring lead characters of “non-perceived majority” demographics, then go for it!  But create that series, don’t just “Wokify” an existing one that is “too White” for you, especially if you don’t understand the original main characters and circumstances.
Ret-conning the White out is fraught with peril at best, even if occasionally works.  For every Nick Fury, there are at least a dozen Velma Dinkleys or more.  In Fury’s case, you could make him Black all the way back to his WWII origins, and make him more believable as a character instead of less.  In the case of Velma, it’s somewhere between pointless and baloney.
Velma won an amazing 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a seven percent audience score.  Perhaps they’re on to something?
 

I also have to respectfully disagree.  Velma is worse than “just” skinsuiting.  It’s Woke Skinsuiting.  While one seldom wins credibility by citing Wikipedia, I have to quote the last two sentences of the second paragraph from their English language article on the show.  “Audience reception was overwhelmingly negative.  A second season is in development.”
Woke Skinsuiting isn’t merely “cultural appropriation,” it’s “cultural mis-appropriation.”  It is no more and no less than the soulless gangrenous circus-mirror reflection of Pat Boone (badly) covering Little Richard songs in the 1950’s.  Even Warner Brothers, the modern owners of all the Hanna-Barbera intellectual property, who love the Woke Dollar just as much as any other corporate megalith, flat-out refused to allow Velma’s producers to give Norville a dog—lawyers at the ready and all.
If someone were to Whitewash The Boondocks, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, or Dora the Explorer; or if they Whited out Hadji Singh from Jonny Quest, they would rightfully be ripped a new one.  Same-o same-o here.  If you want to create a cartoon series featuring lead characters of “non-perceived majority” demographics, then go for it!  But create that series, don’t just “Wokify” an existing one that is “too White” for you, especially if you don’t understand the original main characters and circumstances.
Ret-conning the White out is fraught with peril at best, even if occasionally works.  For every Nick Fury, there are at least a dozen Velma Dinkleys or more.  In Fury’s case, you could make him Black all the way back to his WWII origins, and make him more believable as a character instead of less.  In the case of Velma, it’s somewhere between pointless and baloney.
Velma won an amazing 40% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a seven percent audience score.  Perhaps they’re on to something?
 

I will respectfully disagree. Velma is latest definition of skinsuiting in which people will take a beloved and old franchise and rather than develop their own setting and stories. Force their own story where it doesn’t belong in a setting where it doesn’t belong and it shows.
Like the wolf that ate little red riding hood’s grandmother. We can see the imposter wearing a well defined character that obviously doesn’t fit. Like the roach in MIB wearing the farmer it hollowed out.
Everyone thanks to popular culture knows these characters. And rather than give us more appreciation for Velma the character it constantly bludgeons you over the head that this isn’t Velma. Its neither quirky nor fun watching some creature badly pilot her corpse and trash the setting in which its supposed to be in.
The dissonance only grows more disquieting and horrifying the longer it goes on.

The little ankle-biters are like that. You let one plot bunny in, and next thing you know, your ankles are raw and you can’t stop typing.
 

Congrats on the raise… every little bit helps.