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fritz
Jul 26, 2003

SexyBlindfold posted:

hey at which point does the Bibeau thread start delivering? i mean i am quite intrigued but it is 57 pages long

it's one continual deliverance, just start reading. (but the latest update bomb was page 56)

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21st Cherry boy
Jan 28, 2004
i'm a girl, fucktard
Pretty much anytime you feel like Bibeau can't get worse, he does.

I love all the illustrations in this thread!

ashgromnies
Jun 19, 2004

nanomachines posted:

Unrelated to dolls, I totally had a close friend once who thought he was the reincarnation of a bird god.

Where do you guys meet these people? I've never met anyone in my life with these extreme of delusions and I'd kind of like to. The worst I've encountered is the guy who was convinced you didn't have to pay income tax because it was unconstitutional and just nobody did it man but you totally don't have to pay, for serious.

It seems like most of these crazies so far have been anime fans(minus Henriette), but I think that might just be the thread self-selecting.

LyonsLions
Oct 10, 2008

I'm only using 18% of my full power !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love this thread forever.

I also had a friend like this in middle school, and our friendship didn't end well because she had the Denise-style pathological selfishness going on, but I hesitate to write much about her, because she was a screwed up kid who had suffered a lot of abuse. The escapism of believing she was married to anime dudes and whoever else was what kept her going through difficult years. She didn't limit herself to fictional characters, and also told stories about sleeping with all the hottest and most popular guys at our school, many of whom I'm sure had never even met her. But even at the time I understood that she was making it all up to feel better about herself and I felt sorry for her.

Looking back on it, though, some of it was pretty hilarious. One time when we were about 13 she wanted to have a seance to summon the spirit of Kurt Cobain to come and make love to us (hey, it was the 90's.) We were sleeping over at another friend's house at the time, and she had her own bathroom, so we went in there at midnight, lit candles, played 'Rape Me' on an endless loop, and sang along looking into the mirror. (She had recently seen Candyman, so she thought that's how you summoned any dead people you might wish to speak to.) After a while, Anime girl fell on the floor and started jerking around. She freaked us the hell out for a few seconds, because we thought she was having a seizure. But then she started moaning "Oh Kurt" "Touch me Kurt," etc. I was trying really hard not to burst out laughing, and our other friend was really, legitimately scared and ran from the room. I had to follow her out and hide my face in a pillow so I could laugh my rear end off without offending either of them. It was glorious.

nanomachines
Dec 7, 2011

ashgromnies posted:

Where do you guys meet these people? I've never met anyone in my life with these extreme of delusions and I'd kind of like to. The worst I've encountered is the guy who was convinced you didn't have to pay income tax because it was unconstitutional and just nobody did it man but you totally don't have to pay, for serious.

It seems like most of these crazies so far have been anime fans(minus Henriette), but I think that might just be the thread self-selecting.

Most of the non-doll crazies I have met are or were anime fans at some point, but more specifically, were artists. A lot of friendships forged over artwork in an anime style to start have turned out to be "interesting" (to put it lightly). I've been admittedly drawing anime style art for a long time. I was pretty messed up as a teenager and I think that made me gravitate towards makin friends with anime artists who were also messed up (in some cases, a lot worse than I was). Birds of a feather sort of thing...? Though I never thought I was a reincarnation of some demi god raven spirit, I didn't really discourage my weirdest pals from their own delusions either, just because I didn't really know how to say "hey man that's kinda nuts" without causing a huge drama storm that might cost me a friend.

nanomachines fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Dec 7, 2011

Clockwork Cupcake
Oct 31, 2010

Man, this thread is bringing back memories of internet crazies past...

In the still-embarrassingly-recent past, I had an internet boyfriend. I know, I know, but I was dumb and I was lonely and he was my "best friend", it seemed like such a good idea at the time.

Over the course of a year-long e-farce of a relationship, he managed to go from being a bit nutty to a completely insane narcissistic attention-whore. He started collecting progressively more and more exotic "fetishes" as this went on. By the end of the whole mess he was hanging out in chatrooms with scat fetishists and I think he may have picked that up for attention. :suicide:

Probably the highlight of the whole thing was Christmas, though...

Every year on Christmas Eve I make my younger sister a card, it's kind of a tradition at this point. Sometimes I get fancy about it but it doesn't really take too long, maybe a couple hours.

Well, by this point he was getting petulant and "hurt" if I got offline for more than an hour and it wasn't for a good reason - school, sleep, being pried away from the computer by family members. On Christmas Eve I hang around with him as long as I can manage, he's acting like everything's fine, I go through the 20-minute song-and-dance of appealing to his ego that he considers to be a normal "bye, I've gotta log off", everything seems fine.

When I get back from making the card - again, this took me maybe two hours - everything is not fine.
I'm greeted by "you were gone so long, how could you leave me alone on Christmas Eeeve, I had a special present that I drew just for you but now I'm not going to show it to you because you were so cruel to me," and then I find out that he's illustrated the whole thing and posted it to a forum we both frequented at the time, framing the whole thing so it sounds like I dumped him on Christmas Eve.
It ended with his little persona that looked nothing like him sitting on a doorstep, clutching a generic Christmas present in his hands, weeping.


Christmas:
"Everything's okay now, I forgive you! Here's something that I drew just for you! :haw: :

[gay, crossdressing webcomic-character porn]"

(no, this was not relevant to my interests at all outside of reading the same webcomic, it was his favorite pairing combined with his favorite fetishes - he "gave" me porn he drew for himself for Christmas)

mad carl
Feb 11, 2009

nanomachines posted:

Above mentioned girl is also one of the local BJD collectors. She is quite normal. But there are a handful of crazies in the local doll community, including one pathological liar that supposedly nearly gets raped by every man that looks at her and carries her doll with her EVERYWHERE (including hockey games and gay bars). There's another who invited the press to a private doll collector's get together. And another who is in her fifties and carries her doll around in a baby carrier sling type thing and went to a convention with a colander on her head. Oh and a bunch of girls who had their dolls have gay orgies in a public park with children around.

That reminds me. I went to art school, and the year or so before I left there were two or three girls who kept bringing their dolls to class. I actually never heard anything about how it was received or anything, I got the impression people were too mortified to comment. Professors at art school are used to bullshit like that by now, I guess.

SexyBlindfold
Apr 24, 2008
i dont care how much probation i get capital letters are for squares hehe im so laid back an nice please read my low effort shitposts about the arab spring

thanxs!!!

Clockwork Cupcake posted:

[gay, crossdressing webcomic-character porn]"

(no, this was not relevant to my interests at all outside of reading the same webcomic, it was his favorite pairing combined with his favorite fetishes - he "gave" me porn he drew for himself for Christmas)

was it homestuck? i'm sure it was homestuck. it was definitely homestuck.

and yeah, it might always seems extremely embarrassing to recall that one stuck that much time at the side of crazy internet boyfriend/ anime girl/ insane relative/ delusional friend, but it's always good to remember that, however long it may have taken one was strong enough to eventually sever the link. hell, a lot of these people probably became what they are, at least in part, because they just couldn't keep away from an equally toxic person (or, more likely, an equally crazy internet community they just couldn't get pried out of)

thank you for reading my post, internet community i just can't get pried out of!!

Slime
Jan 3, 2007

SexyBlindfold posted:

was it homestuck? i'm sure it was homestuck. it was definitely homestuck.

Oh god it was Eridan wasn't it.

Sometimes I wonder if I am also a crazy homestuck fan and then I see the real crazy homestuck fans and am both relieved and filled with despair.

North of Gravity
Jun 30, 2007

did y0u pr0gram this r0b0t t0 have feelings f0r y0u?
R0MANTIC FEELINGS???

D --> Is that not ok

Slime posted:

Oh god it was Eridan wasn't it.

Sometimes I wonder if I am also a crazy homestuck fan and then I see the real crazy homestuck fans and am both relieved and filled with despair.

I used to wonder the same thing, until I went to a local anime convention where I saw at least a hundred kids cosplaying Homestuck characters. Everything was fine and dandy until the big HS-themed photoshoot outside, wherein some kids dressed as Eridan thought it would be a good idea to kneel down and pantomime giving head to a Sollux.

The crowd completely ate it up. :smith:

Somehow I feel as though conventions like this give people the license to feel as though it's time to act as crazy as they want, because they believe they're surrounded by people who enjoy the same sorts of weird things that they do. Behavior always seems to take a turn for the worse when you get a large group of them together, at least in my limited experience.

Saeku
Sep 22, 2010

North of Gravity posted:

Somehow I feel as though conventions like this give people the license to feel as though it's time to act as crazy as they want, because they believe they're surrounded by people who enjoy the same sorts of weird things that they do. Behavior always seems to take a turn for the worse when you get a large group of them together, at least in my limited experience.

SomethingAwful is good for these people by mocking them. When fans are surrounded by people who are too needy and socially inept to question them, they make crazy poo poo like Multiple Manta (the meme for otherkin with multiple personalities) and either harshly deflect all criticism or, worse, become so wrapped up in fandom they can't understand why anyone would criticize them in the first place. I remember a Homestuck artist, apparently a fairly popular one, getting all unhappy a while ago because she posted pictures of terrified trolls being hosed in the eyesockets and didn't understand why rape survivors were sending her angry messages about "trigger warnings."

Yeah Man
Oct 9, 2011

And if you had, you know, a huge killer robot at your command, yeah, that would just clutter things up; and a lesser person might want that kind of overwhelming force on their side, but you know - where's the challenge in that?

Saeku posted:

SomethingAwful is good for these people by mocking them. When fans are surrounded by people who are too needy and socially inept to question them, they make crazy poo poo like Multiple Manta (the meme for otherkin with multiple personalities) and either harshly deflect all criticism or, worse, become so wrapped up in fandom they can't understand why anyone would criticize them in the first place. I remember a Homestuck artist, apparently a fairly popular one, getting all unhappy a while ago because she posted pictures of terrified trolls being hosed in the eyesockets and didn't understand why rape survivors were sending her angry messages about "trigger warnings."

:barf: Why did I read that? Why would anyone not expect to offend someone by drawing graphic rape of children?

Guesticles
Dec 21, 2009

I AM CURRENTLY JACKING OFF TO PICTURES OF MUTILATED FEMALE CORPSES, IT'S ALL VERY DEEP AND SOPHISTICATED BUT IT'S JUST TOO FUCKING HIGHBROW FOR YOU NON-MISOGYNISTS TO UNDERSTAND

:siren:P.S. STILL COMPLETELY DEVOID OF MERIT:siren:

Saeku posted:

SomethingAwful is good for these people by mocking them. When fans are surrounded by people who are too needy and socially inept to question them, they make crazy poo poo like Multiple Manta (the meme for otherkin with multiple personalities) and either harshly deflect all criticism or, worse, become so wrapped up in fandom they can't understand why anyone would criticize them in the first place. I remember a Homestuck artist, apparently a fairly popular one, getting all unhappy a while ago because she posted pictures of terrified trolls being hosed in the eyesockets and didn't understand why rape survivors were sending her angry messages about "trigger warnings."

Its like Bug Chasers, only with mental illness.

my cat is norris
Mar 11, 2010

#onecallcat

uglynoodles posted:

//EDIT// 24.10.11
Denise is not affiliated in any way with Jen, Hojo, or any of the other "FF7 House" crew as documented on demonsushi.net, but I have had long chats with that site's webmaster and we have had many laughs late into the night about purple unwashed skirts, glitter, and Sephiroth.

As someone who has had the pleasure of personally knowing Jen and Hojo -- I even attended their wedding! -- I want to thank you for this thread, and for reminding me of demonsushi's fine library of Jen's...lifestyle.

Adus posted:

Wait so... the FF7 house was real? I was under the impression that was made up.

It wasn't always about FF7, Jen taught Hogwart's lessons on Saturday mornings. :eng99:

my cat is norris fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Dec 7, 2011

Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010

Slime posted:

Oh god it was Eridan wasn't it.

Sometimes I wonder if I am also a crazy homestuck fan and then I see the real crazy homestuck fans and am both relieved and filled with despair.

So, uh, why is the Homestuck fandom so crazy? I only just got into the comic but resolved before I started the archive binge to never get involved with the fandom. Too much weirdness emanates from them.

Well Manicured Man
Aug 21, 2010

Well Manicured Mort

Viola the Mad posted:

So, uh, why is the Homestuck fandom so crazy? I only just got into the comic but resolved before I started the archive binge to never get involved with the fandom. Too much weirdness emanates from them.

I like to think that Andrew Hussie created the characters in Homestuck, especially the trolls, either to appeal to crazy fandom people as much as possible, or to criticize crazy fandom people but didn't take into account that crazy fandom people have so little self-awareness that they're like dogs that see their reflections in a mirror and think it's another dog staring back at them. I lean toward the latter interpretation. Hussie's the kind of guy who both embraces and mocks internet weirdness of all kinds.

Clockwork Cupcake
Oct 31, 2010

SexyBlindfold posted:

was it homestuck? i'm sure it was homestuck. it was definitely homestuck.

Slime posted:

Oh god it was Eridan wasn't it.

Sometimes I wonder if I am also a crazy homestuck fan and then I see the real crazy homestuck fans and am both relieved and filled with despair.
Bro and Dad. I'd say "well, at least they weren't underage" but he slashed every male character indiscriminately. Somehow he started drawing gay porn of the trolls before they were actually shown. :smith: He really latched on to Tavros.

I don't know if this is getting way too webcomic-nerdy here but Tavros was named after we'd broken up and I guess he got his friends to spam the suggestion box with his favorite possible name because... well, have you ever looked at "[MODEDIT: REMOVED]" backwards? That was his name-of-the-day. He had issues with keeping to a single name for over a month.
e: I think around the time of the break-up all of his LJ icons were his version of Tavros, who happened to look exactly like his idealized version of himself. He did the same thing before Jade was released, he was convinced she was going to be a guy in real life.
He also ran a super-secret Livejournal porn community for the comic. I wish I couldn't remember so much of this.


Less fandom-specific is the time when he told me, while we were still ostensibly dating, "you're like the mom I never had!"

He was still living with his parents. He was friendly with his mother when he wasn't claiming that she ignored and "abused" him to other people for attention.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Dec 17, 2011

North of Gravity
Jun 30, 2007

did y0u pr0gram this r0b0t t0 have feelings f0r y0u?
R0MANTIC FEELINGS???

D --> Is that not ok

Saeku posted:

SomethingAwful is good for these people by mocking them. When fans are surrounded by people who are too needy and socially inept to question them, they make crazy poo poo like Multiple Manta (the meme for otherkin with multiple personalities) and either harshly deflect all criticism or, worse, become so wrapped up in fandom they can't understand why anyone would criticize them in the first place. I remember a Homestuck artist, apparently a fairly popular one, getting all unhappy a while ago because she posted pictures of terrified trolls being hosed in the eyesockets and didn't understand why rape survivors were sending her angry messages about "trigger warnings."

I used to draw a lot of Homestuck fanart as well, and am still sort of skirting the fringes of the community on Tumblr, and yeah, there is some really hosed up poo poo to be seen there. The characters are 13 years old, for Christ's sake. :smith:

Horrible fandoms aside, I just spend ten minutes flipping through that Multiple Manta Tumblr, and holy poo poo, how self-absorbed do people have to be to buy into this poo poo? At one point the owner of the blog chastised a commenter for referring to her (?) other personalities as "alters," explaining that calling them that can be "triggering" for some of her personalities. I know about and respect trigger warnings (and have requested that people use them in the past), but this just sort of...trivializes the anxieties of people who are triggered by real, traumatic things.

Ketchupface
Aug 1, 2010

Clockwork Cupcake posted:

I don't know if this is getting way too webcomic-nerdy here but Tavros was named after we'd broken up and I guess he got his friends to spam the suggestion box with his favorite possible name because... well, have you ever looked at "[modedit: removed]" backwards? That was his name-of-the-day. He had issues with keeping to a single name for over a month.
e: I think around the time of the break-up all of his LJ icons were his version of Tavros, who happened to look exactly like his idealized version of himself. He did the same thing before Jade was released, he was convinced she was going to be a guy in real life.
He also ran a super-secret Livejournal porn community for the comic. I wish I couldn't remember so much of this.

OH MAN, [modedit: removed]. I remember him. I think four or five of my friends were dating him at some point. I tried to befriend him because I saw through all his bullshit and I wanted front seats in the trainwreck, but I got on his bad side fairly quickly. His boyfriends-of-the-moment said he poo poo-talked me quite a bit! One of them still won't talk to me because of all the bad things I did to him.

I actually ended up in my first real relationship directly because of him.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Dec 17, 2011

Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010

quote:

Homestuck stuff

I think I just destroyed a bit of my soul reading that.

cubivore
Nov 30, 2006

fuck you, got mine

Ketchupface posted:


Tell me about your kawaii uguu trap girlfriend? :allears:

King of Solomon
Oct 23, 2008

S S

Saeku posted:

I remember a Homestuck artist, apparently a fairly popular one, getting all unhappy a while ago because she posted pictures of terrified trolls being hosed in the eyesockets and didn't understand why rape survivors were sending her angry messages about "trigger warnings."

Wait a goddamn minute. This person didn't understand why people were upset over skullfucking? Seriously?

Saeku
Sep 22, 2010

King of Solomon posted:

Wait a goddamn minute. This person didn't understand why people were upset over skullfucking? Seriously?

She said she was confused because she didn't understand how it was like rape at all, and besides her blog was marked 18+ on its description. Think of all those fangirls who think writing "noncon" (rape) porn stories is totally normal, but take it to the next level.

The artist is Pride and I think the argument happened in March or April. I recall her blog being very, very :nms: so if anybody recognizes her or has a stronger stomach than me and wants to wade through and look for it, be my guest.

Ketchupface
Aug 1, 2010

cubivore posted:

Tell me about your kawaii uguu trap girlfriend? :allears:

Different girlfriend.

Sir Prancelot
Mar 7, 2008

:h:Knight of the
Rainbow Table.:h:

Saeku posted:

She said she was confused because she didn't understand how it was like rape at all, and besides her blog was marked 18+ on its description. Think of all those fangirls who think writing "noncon" (rape) porn stories is totally normal, but take it to the next level.

The artist is Pride and I think the argument happened in March or April. I recall her blog being very, very :nms: so if anybody recognizes her or has a stronger stomach than me and wants to wade through and look for it, be my guest.
I love Famous Fans' art. It's always that quasi-anime art that falls just short of a functional understanding of anatomy and composition. :allears:

North of Gravity
Jun 30, 2007

did y0u pr0gram this r0b0t t0 have feelings f0r y0u?
R0MANTIC FEELINGS???

D --> Is that not ok

Saeku posted:

She said she was confused because she didn't understand how it was like rape at all, and besides her blog was marked 18+ on its description. Think of all those fangirls who think writing "noncon" (rape) porn stories is totally normal, but take it to the next level.

The artist is Pride and I think the argument happened in March or April. I recall her blog being very, very :nms: so if anybody recognizes her or has a stronger stomach than me and wants to wade through and look for it, be my guest.

Oh...I actually met her at the convention I talked about a couple posts up. I had no idea she drew that sort of poo poo, I just looked over to see her drawing a very pretty Aradia and commented on how nice it was.

When I spoke to her and asked her what she did, she said that she's not in college, and instead makes her living doing commissions. So, uh, there must at least be something of a demand for the stuff she puts out?

...:(

Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
If it's any comfort, the people ordering art from her probably aren't asking for the :nms: stuff. They just think she's a good artist and want her to draw a pretty picture for them.

Nessa
Dec 15, 2008

I know a rad artist who does commissions of all sorts. If people will pay for it, she'll draw it.

I'm pretty sure she gets more requests for furry porn and grotesque stuff than normal stuff.:(

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Viola the Mad posted:

If it's any comfort, the people ordering art from her probably aren't asking for the :nms: stuff. They just think she's a good artist and want her to draw a pretty picture for them.

AH HA HA HA HA HA.

No, commissions is how you get the really hosed up poo poo. It's one of the reasons I stopped taking them. Writing out the list of won't-dos just got depressing and I didn't really need the money anyway.

Corridor
Oct 19, 2006

Guys we need more Denise stories or this poo poo is only going to get worse. My faith in humanity is sinking further by the post.

Ghost Car
Sep 14, 2009
I just caught up with this thread, and it's been great. I love the illustrations of the Denise stories, and the Henriette stories are just hilarious. Really, all the stories people have shared have been trainwreckishly fascinating, if sometimes depressing.

My own brief brush with similar oddness was pretty low-key compared to the stories others have shared, but in the interest of maybe helping to move the topic of conversation away from disturbing porn of thirteen-year-old webcomic characters, I will share it anyway:

Once upon a time, I was a lonely dorky fourteen-year-old who spent a lot of time in the library and read too many lovely fantasy novels. I was secretly disappointed that I hadn't come into any supernatural powers or otherwise magical adventures somewhere around beginning puberty, as fiction had always led me to believe I would. Sure, logically I knew that stuff wasn't real, but a part of me had always hoped that it was anyway.

There was this Cool Older Girl who lived across the street from me. Well, she was only two or three years older and also pretty dorky, but I thought at the time that she was so mature and self-possessed and smart and... okay, I had a kind of stupid crush on her. She also spent a lot of time at the library and read too many lovely fantasy novels, so we quickly became friends.

One evening we were hanging out in the CVS (which is totally a cool hangout spot, right guys) when she suddenly asked, "Have you ever experienced anything... strange?"

"Strange how?" I said.

"You know, like... well... supernatural. Magical."

I had known that she was a vaguely New-Agey Tarot-card-reading type, but she'd never before framed anything she did or believed in terms of being explicitly supernatural. I wasn't sure what to say -- would she think I was weird if I said yes? Would she think I was boring if I said no? So I hemmed and hawed a bit and finally admitted that I sometimes had dreams that later came true.

This was, mind you, never important stuff; it was mostly along the lines of "I dreamt that I went to the bookstore and the next day my mom asked if I wanted to go to the bookstore!" and the "prophetic" nature of it was all coincidence and wishful thinking. Even at the time I don't think I really believed it -- I just wanted to believe it. (And I also wanted to impress this girl, which didn't help.)

She seemed very interested in this, and with her prompting I elaborated on the details of the dreams and how closely they matched up to reality.

"This is great!" she said at last. "I have prophetic dreams myself sometimes, but it isn't my primary ability, so mine are never that clear. We could really use someone with your talents."

"What do you mean?"

"Well... you know that weird weather we had back in October?"

That mystifying opening line aside, I don't remember exactly how she explained this to me, but long story short, she was (she said) part of a group of magical teenagers who had taken it upon themselves to defend the ordinary people from the malicious doings of unscrupulous magic-users. Back in October this group had been embroiled in a turf war against an evil wizard over a local public park, and the unseasonable weather had, in fact, been a result of the fallout of their magical battle, which she described to me in detail.

Needless to say, I ate it all up. Here was my Magical Adventure come round at last! lovely YA fantasy novels really did come true! I told her I'd love to help her cause, and she said she'd talk to her friends about inducting me into their merry band of teenaged witches. I went home that night with visions of Epic Battles Between Good and Evil dancing in my head.

Here's the anticlimax, though: she never mentioned this again. We remained close friends for several years after that and are still pretty friendly to this day, and in all that time, this conversation and the contents thereof never once came up. Was she just yanking my chain? Did she abruptly get over the "Imma wizard!" phase between that encounter and the next time we spoke? Did she decide that I was not actually worthy to protect public parks from dastardly evildoers? I have no idea. I'm not going to ask her now, because frankly I'd rather not remind her, but I do still wonder what that was all about.

Ghost Car fucked around with this message at 09:12 on Dec 8, 2011

hallo spacedog
Apr 3, 2007

this chaos is killing me
💫🐕🔪😱😱

My guess would be that she was actually trying to impress you, and it never came up again because she later had an oh poo poo moment when she realized she couldn't prove any of that stuff to you.

The Saddest Rhino
Apr 29, 2009

Put it all together.
Solve the world.
One conversation at a time.



Ask me about studying law with a girl who thinks she's married to Sai Baba

Previously:
The Girl in the Sari
A Note on Henriette
Phantom in Honolulu
The Girl who Thinks She's Married to Sai Baba & Part 2
The Thespian Society
Amnesia: The Friendship Descent
The Stage Play

Interlude 1: Raja Discovers Blogging
Interlude 2: Le Fursécution!

The Bollywood Film 1: A True Story
The Bollywood Film 2: I am Batman
The Bollywood Film 3: Andrew, You're Not the Father
The Bollywood Film 4: Fever
The Bollywood Film 5: What If?
The Bollywood Film 6: The Importance of Data Security
The Bollywood Film 7: A Cleansing

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Q: I am really good at google. Can I do some internet detective poo poo on your stories?

A: NO.

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The Bollywood Film 8: Premiere

After semesters of planning, filming, editing and "hiring" actors, here we were at last. The screening of I Will Survive!. After I Will Survive!, Henriette was sure she would make another picture and another picture. You see, for this was her life. Nothing else. Just her, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark.

All right.

Henriette was ready for her close-up.



I Will Survive! began with a prologue. There were subtitles, cross-fading, and faint Bollywood in the background. Sadna (Henriette's character), was happily living in a large house, and her niece Henriette (Lin's character) was there to visit. It was several years after Sadna's divorce and Henriette was there to write a film about her.

(For the sake of clarity, Lin was acting as Henriette herself, whereas Henriette was acting as Sadna. In order to avoid confusion, Lin's character from now on is referred to as YoungHenriette)

YoungHenriette, in her research for the film, had some interesting questions for Sadna.



:byodame: YES
:byodame: YES IT HURT BOTH MY BODY AND SOUL IT HURT SOOOOOOO MUCH

The film already looked like a biting social commentary on life in the patriachal society of Malaysia. Sadna was ready to relate her story to YoungHenriette, and the audience was treated to a water droplet effect as the screen fades to black. The title card (I WILL SURVIVE!) came out again, and with it was an extra line: MUSICAL. Another line: TWENTY YEARS AGO.

The camera began with a focused shot on a still portrait, zooming out to reveal it was a photo in a frame right beside a bed, where Henriette was asleep. The portrait was a rather familiar figure.



There were murmurs in the audience. People were noticing that Henriette was practically admitting to sleeping with Sai Baba's face beside her bed every night. People from the law faculty were less than surprised.

Henriette woke up, and the first thing she did was scratch her head. This would become a common motif in I Will Survive!.

Loud Bollywood music played. Henriette started tapping her toes and



and she danced. She danced, and danced, and danced, in her bedroom, jiving and having the time of her life. The audience watched the scene as she digged herself as a dancing queen. She twisted and turned and took a broom and danced with it. She was dancing and dancing and dancing. It was not ending.



And there I was sitting in the dark

watching a crazy movie my crazy classmate did

and there was a voice in my head and it was asking me questions



why are you here

how did you get into this mess

why are you watching this

why are you even in it you dumb poo poo

what's yiff

uh sorry i mean

what if

you weren't here

you could have been doing something else

you got a girl with you

what if you go do spontaneous poo poo like the young crazy fool you are

like i don't know suddenly drive to a beach in the middle of the night

surprise her

surprise us




Henriette threw the broom away and danced herself into the bathroom. People winced, but fortunately all she did was grab a showerhead, sang into it while she continued dancing.



well here you are

watching a crazy person dance in a bedroom

watching her lip synch to a song

this is your life

this is your life now Rhino








She was just dancing she just won't stop dancing what is going on how long is this going to go on is it already five minutes why



Rhino

your life is really loving weird okay

it's not even weird like you are going out doing fun poo poo

it's weird like you are just consuming other people's eccentricities

and you are probably going to document this years later for Internet people to read

in between tasks at your desk job

what's yiff

oh for gently caress's sake

what if

what if you actually set out to get some excitement in your life

what if you could be less stuck up

what if you were like

like

like a tiger







:j: Rhino.
:j: RHINO.
:v: Ow! what was that for?
:j: Dancing's over. Hey, why do you look so down? Are you okay?
:v: I.
:v: I think so.

My then-girlfriend looked bored out of her mind. I glanced at my watch. Fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes of dancing in a bedroom. The plot had yet to progress. I lied, there was not even a plot yet. I looked up. Henriette was preparing herself to go see her suitor, Hinder.

We've only just begun.

The Saddest Rhino fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Dec 8, 2011

Lance Streetman
Feb 20, 2011

A parfait is a dessert, but it is also the French word for perfect.

The Saddest Rhino posted:



Amazing. :golfclap:

If you don't get it, watch this.

Johnny Fab
Jan 7, 2010

Ketchupface posted:

OH MAN, [modedit: removed]. I remember him. I think four or five of my friends were dating him at some point. I tried to befriend him because I saw through all his bullshit and I wanted front seats in the trainwreck, but I got on his bad side fseeny quickly. His boyfriends-of-the-moment said he poo poo-talked me quite a bit! One of them still won't talk to me because of all the bad things I did to him.

I actually ended up in my first real relationship directly because of him.

I was 'friends' with him too. :( It was pretty awful overall! I ended up cutting all ties with him and it made me a lot happier, so it all worked out in the end. That guy had a lot of problems.

I'm pretty sure I bought him an account here. never seem him post, though.

Somebody fucked around with this message at 00:13 on Dec 17, 2011

Rondette
Nov 4, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
Saddest Rhino, I love your tale of mad Henriette, and that internal monologue made me laugh out loud, and cheered me up immensely. ~Cheers!~

Clockwork Cupcake
Oct 31, 2010

The Saddest Rhino posted:



Oh God, that face is killing me. Truly you were the saddest Rhino. I'd say I'm sorry you sat through even that much of it, but then we wouldn't be able to hear about it. :allears:

Johnny Fab posted:

I was 'friends' with him too. :( It was pretty awful overall! I ended up cutting all ties with him and it made me a lot happier, so it all worked out in the end. That guy had a lot of problems.

I'm pretty sure I bought him an account here. never seem him post, though.
Dude, I remember you from the end (for me) of the whole mess. Glad you got out of it.

He never posted because he craved goon approval in a weird way and I guess was barely self-aware enough to realize he'd be terrible at acting like a human being? It was weird. All of it was, though.

Hex Vision
Jun 6, 2010

Game over, boys.
If anyone ever asks me "what's yiff," I'm going to tell them it's like a tiger in space. Thank you, The Saddest Rhino, for making my life a little easier. And more fun.

Johnny Fab
Jan 7, 2010

Clockwork Cupcake posted:

Oh God, that face is killing me. Truly you were the saddest Rhino. I'd say I'm sorry you sat through even that much of it, but then we wouldn't be able to hear about it. :allears:

Dude, I remember you from the end (for me) of the whole mess. Glad you got out of it.

He never posted because he craved goon approval in a weird way and I guess was barely self-aware enough to realize he'd be terrible at acting like a human being? It was weird. All of it was, though.

Heh, I thought that it was probably you that was posting! Yeah, the whole thing was a mess and to be honest he messed me up pretty bad as well. Glad you got out of it too!

I'm also glad he never posted because it would basically be The Snoo over again, but hey.

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Viola the Mad
Feb 13, 2010
So she was actually singing a song about how much she loved Sai Baba? For FIFTEEN minutes?

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