I saw Zootopia last night and as I drove home all I could think about was how the hell the police investigated crime that took place in habitats designed for smaller animals.
Like their smallest recruit literally towers over the citizens of the rodent habitat. What the fuck is a polar bear going to do if a vole gets murdered? Forget all of the fine tools needed to dust for prints, does the poor grieving widow vole now have to deal with being homeless because the only way the ZPD could photograph the crime scene was to literally rip her roof off?
I bet you that’s why the mafia is a literal rat pack and a shrew is the most feared crime boss in town. Who else is going to protect your gaggle of little adorable hamster children when your businesshamster husband gets caught cooking the books to try and pay off his hamster gambling debt and some guinea pig bookie comes to literally shake your family down for the cash?
Oh my gods now Mr. Big makes sense.
You would think that little rodentia (that’s what it’s called right?) would have its own police force just for its own citizens, because their community is like a city all to itself separate from the rest of Zootopia, even though it is still in the main city
The thing is, there IS a mouse-sized police force.
Send me a # (questions for OCs) or a letter (questions for creators) and I’ll answer
QUESTIONS FOR YOUR OCs
What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?
How easy is it for your character to laugh?
How do they put themselves to bed at night (reading, singing, thinking?)
How easy is it to earn their trust?
How easy is it to earn their mistrust?
Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?
What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?
What were they told to stop/start doing most often as a child
Do they swear? Do they remember their first swear word?
What lie do they most frequently remember telling? Does it haunt them?
How do they cope with confusion (seek clarification, pretend they understand, etc)?
How do they deal with an itch found in a place they can’t quite reach?
What color do they think they look best in? Do they actually look best in that color?
What animal do they fear most?
How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?
What makes their stomach turn?
Are they easily embarrassed?
What embarrasses them?
What is their favorite number?
If they were asked to explain the difference between romantic and platonic or familial love, how would they do so?
Why do they get up in the morning?
How does jealousy manifest itself in them (they become possessive, they become aloof, etc)?
How does envy manifest itself in them (they take what they want, they become resentful, etc)?
Is sex something that they’re comfortable speaking about? To whom?
What are their thoughts on marriage?
What is their preferred mode of transportation?
What causes them to feel dread?
Would they prefer a lie over an unpleasant truth?
Do they usually live up to their own ideals?
Who do they most regret meeting?
Who are they the most glad to have met?
Do they have a go-to story in conversation? Or a joke?
Could they be considered lazy?
How hard is it for them to shake a sense of guilt?
How do they treat the things their friends come to them excited about? Are they supportive?
Do they actively seek romance, or do they wait for it to fall into their lap?
Do they have a system for remembering names, long lists of numbers, things that need to go in a certain order (like anagrams, putting things to melodies, etc)?
What memory do they revisit the most often?
How easy is it for them to ignore flaws in other people?
How sensitive are they to their own flaws?
How do they feel about children?
How badly do they want to reach their end goal?
If someone asked them to explain their sexuality, how would they do so?
QUESTIONS FOR CREATORS
A) Why are you excited about this character? B) What inspired you to create them? C) Did you have trouble figuring out where they fit in their own story? D) Have they always had the same physical appearance, or have you had to edit how they look? E) Are they someone you would get along with? Would they get along with you? F) What do you feel when you think of your OC (pride, excitement, frustration, etc)? G) What trait of theirs bothers you the most? H) What trait do you admire most? I) Do you prefer to keep them in their canon universe? J) Did you have to manipulate or exclude canon factors to allow them to create their character?
Symmetra (Satya Vaswani) questions if Vishkar Corporation are making the world a better place after the incident
Mission Statement
Pharah (Fareeha Amari) character development
From risking her own team lives for the mission
To protector
According to Pharah, Anubuis A.I are one of the god programs that controls Omnics.
Destroyer
Torbjorn helped builed a sky scraper mech, Titan
Legacy
Widowmaker (Amelie Lacroix) shot Ana Amari eye
Old Soldiers
The reunion
Soldier 76 (Jack Morrison) and Ana Amari are working together
Reflection
Tracer (Lena Oxton) is a lesbian
According to Japanese culture, Hanzo hair style means he leave the past behind and now he start anew
It revealed that Pharah is Canadian
Although Widowmaker killed her husband and her emotions were wiped out, she still misses Gerald Lacroix
According to Michael Chu, the family that Reaper (Gabriel Reyes) is spying on in the dark are important
Genji and Mercy still contact each other to this day, even though Overwatch has been disbanded
Torbjorn children
Binary
Torbjorn decided that he’s going to take care of Bastion
Masquerade
Doomfist breaks out of prison
Vialli, a former Talon Leader death
Talon is going to start a war
Wasted Land
Although he’s a quiet type and cause anarchy, he does have a soft side for others
It’s been revealed Roadhog has done something to the Queen that she can’t forget
Roadhog and Junkrat become partners in crimes
Searching
Alejandra is back and helps Zarya and Lynx Seventeen to find Sombra
SOMBRAS REAL NAME
Zarya rescued Lynx Seventeen, even he’s an Omnic and she knows the truth
So this is every important detail that happened in Overwatch offical comics. I didn’t include all because it wasn’t important. If there’s anything that I miss, let me know! Anyways, happy anniversary Overwatch
Ah, manipulative people. Oh-so-fun to write, not so much fun when you encounter them in real life. Here are a few things you can implement when writing or roleplaying such a character.
Flattery
Manipulative people will often be incredibly nice and sweet to you, and shower you with compliments to get you to do their bidding; butter you up, if you will. Basically, manipulative people will can be the best friend you’ve ever had as long as that friendship gains them; and once they feel you’re useless to them, they will either be your worst enemy, or treat you like air.
Hidden agendas
Perhaps a manipulative person doesn’t have a hidden agenda when brushing their teeth, but it’s not unlikely for them to have one whenever they interact with others, and that they’re always thinking about ways to get their will through. Don’t pin what they do on chance, but instead consider the fact that there might be an underlying reason for whatever they do in the company of others—until proven otherwise.
Bullying and guilt-tripping
When flattery doesn’t work, manipulative people will often show a more negative side and turn to things such as bullying and guilt-tripping to get what they want. Instead of making you feel like the best person in the world, they will make you feel like the scum of the Earth; chewed on, spat out, and stomped on. Most likely you’ll end up agreeing to their demands; not because you want to, but because you have to.
Stealth
What makes manipulative people so tricky, is the fact that they’re usually rather suave and pretty good at covering their tracks. Chances are you won’t even know you’re being manipulated until it’s too late; if you ever notice at all. Don’t write the manipulation tactics as being used too obviously, but instead, try to slip it into the writing with a little bit of stealth.
That’s pretty much all I can think of right now, so hopefully you got something out of it. Here are some additional links you might find useful:
If you are interested in Mexican music after having watched pixar’s coco, but have no idea where to begin, then this post is for you.
An introduction to Mexican music for beginners: I would recommend you to watch the golden era Mexican movies. Music was huge in movies back then, and Ernesto de la Cruz was inspired in both Jorge Negrete and Pedro Infante, two very famous actors and singers from that time. Other singers had a more “comical” style and still sang, like Tin Tan (though they were more acclaimed as comedians). Other were only comedians, but were pretty good, like Cantinflas. Really, those 4 are very well loved by everyone. And Ernesto de la Cruz was partly what made me feel like this film was really accurate and inspired in the Mexico I know, unlike other movies like Nacho Libre, for example.
Sorry, I have no idea what happened after that, I never listened to any music in the radio while growing up, only oldies, and I stopped watching tv in the early 2000s. So, if you know what is listened nowadays in Mexico and who are the big names and their greatest song, please feel free to post your own list in a reply.
Things I learned from the ingenious and somehow more heart wrenching Junior Novelization of Pixar’s Coco!
-Hector is truly infamous in the Land of the Dead’s Grand Central Station. The woman who stops him at the gate not only knows him by name but remembers Hector’s previous attempts to cross the marigold bridge, and has seen through all of his hair-brained schemes. She even warns him, “You know the drill…” before calling security. I wouldn’t be surprised if all the security guards placed a bet around Dia de los Muertos, All of the guards and receptionists and greeters trying to guess what Hector’s plan will be, when he’ll try to crossover, how long it takes before anyone hails him in, etc.
-Hector actually has 2 dimples, and not just one like I’d previously imagined! Though in his photo in the film, it looks like one is deeper than the other, favoring the same side as Miguel’s single dimple. But the book explicitly says he has 2.
-Shantytown and the poor souls who live in it are a treasure and Deserved Better (I wish some of their dialogue had made it into the final movie). When the deceased Riveras are tracking Miguel, they passed through shantytown and the place where Tia Chelo and her friends were playing poker, only to find that their game table is abandoned, along with other sad scenes of other souls fading away. Those poor dears… (The Land of the Dead should SERIOUSLY consider opening some kind of a Retirement home for the nearly forgotten!)
-Before going on stage and singing Poco Loco, Hector tells Miguel that the secret of the perfect performance is to sing with the people you care about in mind, like your singing to them and only them with all your heart. Hector implies that he does this whenever he sings, thinking of “someone still in the Lamd of the Living”. When Miguel finally gathers up the courage to sing, he thinks of singing to Mama Coco, the only Rivera who ever loved music as much as Miguel. Although we don’t know it at the time, in that moment, Hector and Miguel both think of the same person when they wish to Sing For The Person They Love Most. (And yes, I had to take five minutes to cry before continuing)
-Miguel once wrote a song for Ernesto de la Cruz and spent all of his allowance on a mug as offerings to his hero. Upon discovering the piles of gifts Ernesto has received from the Many ofrendas raised in his honor, he realizes Ernesto has probably never even see his offerings.
-During Hector’s flashback, he recounts how during his travels with Ernesto, he’d wake up in so many hotel rooms, all of them so alike and repetitive that he often forgot what town he was in and would feel very disorientated from homesickness. Pobrecito…
-Mama Coco never stopped thinking about her Papa, in spite of years of living under her mother’s scorn of him and music. She even pretended to dance to music that Hector used to play to her, and sang to baby Miguel! (Possibly sparking the child’s love of music) I wonder if the song she hummed to him was Remember Me… 💛💜💀 I Hope So
-It’s implied in the book that Mama Coco passed away “a few months” before Dia de los Muertos, possibly implying she died some time in July or August. Assuming that Miguel’s mother looks about 5 or 6 months pregnant earlier in the film, this could mean that the baby was born in February or March, implying that Mama Coco got to meet her baby granddaughter! At least, I hope so anyway.
-Upon finally being allowed to cross the bridge, Hector sings as he walks (in a brand new pair of Rivera shoes, blister free! Thanks to Imelda), Coco dances to his singing, and Imelda harmonizes with Hector. They can finally sing, dance, and count their blessings together, for the first time in nearly a century.
-When Miguel learns that crawlspace he used as his musical haven in the attic was the same space that Mama Coco used to dance, he finds an old pair of dance shoes she used to wear and polishes them all sparkling and new. He brings it to Mama Coco’s grave as an offering, so that she may dance to her heart’s content in the afterlife.
-Hector, in spite of being much more put together than the previous year, still carries some cheeky skeletal habits. Unseen to Miguel, he uses his own skull as a drum, and his ribs as a washboard to add more rhythm to chamaco’s music.
So yeah. This book killed me in the best possible way. 💜💛💜💛💜💛💜💛
ALSO!!!! THERES AN AUDIOBOOK FOR IT TOO, DUBBED BY THE AUTHOR!!!! AND ITS SO GOOD YOU GUYS ITS SO GOOD
So one thing I don’t think is brought up enough is Hector’s boundless optimism and hopefulness. There’s a lot of talk in the fandom about the various tragic things about him–he’s falling apart due to being forgotten, 90 years of failed bridge crossings, Imelda continuously rejecting him when it wasn’t his fault he died–but he finds ways to make it work.
Didn’t make the bridge crossing as an alebrije? Okay, we’ll try again next year.
Bones not staying together as well as they should? Cool, let’s learn some tricks.
Imelda still turning him away? He wooed her once, he could probably do it again.
As tragic as we find Hector, he doesn’t see himself that way, and I think that’s part of what makes him so charming. He’s not naive, and he’s very aware that he’s being forgotten and time is running out, but he still tries, and he still finds the best in his situation.
THIS!!!
Life tip: if you ever find yourself in a really crappy time or situation, just think WWHD, what would Hector do? And you’ll find yourself in a better place.
^Unless your best friend offers you tequila when you tell them you want to go home. Then do the EXACT OPPOSITE of what Hector does, please.
Stop talking and start doing: My Fallout Shelter for my Tumblr blog 