#cloud cuckoolanders

[cloudcuckoolanderscomic]

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[captaincrumbz]

RANDOM BACKGROUND CHARACTER YURI WITH A NEW BRUSH!!!!!!

[cainof2na]

itrapped and chance doodles ..

based off Actual convo with my bestie Because he watched the lego movie in full for the first time today He didnt like The everything is awesome song and it made me go through every stage of grief /j

[anguraresearch]

Cloud Cuckooland (1978) with english subtitles Read about the play here

Performed by Tenjo Sajiki Directed by Terayama Shuji and J A Seazer

Ankenjo's fourth translation project (part 2), Cloud Cuckooland is another version of Nuhikun, an experimental stage play about the subversion of identity and hierarchical roles. Filmed in Amsterdam during its European run, it differs from the original performance with its unique theatrical technique, what Terayama called "secret room" theatre. The video is subject to youtube's age restrictions, so you need to login and open the video on youtube to watch!

[wiskiemonk]

it's really interesting to see how Takasugi and Zura reacted so differently to the same incident with regards to Gintoki. I'd always got the sense that Zura wasn't ever angry at him for what happened - or himself, for that matter, in the way Takasugi was. As angry as he was about it all, and as much as he chose revenge in the years after, his anger was entirely externalised towards the ones he perceived as taking Shoyo away - which, to him, didn't include any of the three of them

[allbeendonebefore]

been walkin around bits and bobs of nova scotia and each day this smell is driving me crazy like WHERE is it coming from WHY does the air smell like honey everywhere and its especially powerful in Halifax, am I crazy, etc etc

TURNS OUT ITS LINDEN TREES!! sometimes they smell nice (like honey) and sometimes they smell a bit like a bottle depot BUT i am greatly enjoying myself

[oneknightstand-if]

@psych0mcs replied to your post “The Zombie-Obsessed Cloud Cuckoolander MC Here's a...”:

The Shriek like a Banshee option, is absolutely tickling me 😂 and Imagining MC doing it with Adrian there to witness it is even funnier

Good, because that particular option splits off into its own scene, so I hope some people end up choosing it. Also Adrian isn't the only one there.

[hedge-rambles]

#you must understand that he says all this stuff in the thickest Valleys accent too

That really does improve the experience of the last line. Hits so much harder reading "gravel?" with the intonation.

Currently sitting in a pub with my husband and my friend Phil for the first time in ages and ages and I'm having the best time because Phil is exceptionally charmingly weird

He has opened the bidding as we discuss neurodiversity

"I just get distracted so easily," says Phil. "Like I meant to go to uni the other day. But I ended up playing Uno with some Mormons."

"... sorry?" says Steff.

"Yeah," says Phil. "In the park. No, wait..."

There is a pause

"Witnesses," he says. "Those ones. I told them if I lost I would convert with them, but if I won they had to go drinking with me. So that's what I mean, you know, I get distracted."

"PHIL," says Steff. "OBVIOUSLY, WHO WON."

"Oh yeah," says Phil. "Me. Sorry."

I am having the best time

[cloudcuckoolanderscomic]

CLOUD CUCKOOLANDERS INTRODUCTION

Hello hello! This sideblog is by Superpeeboy :)

Cloud Cuckoolanders is about Unikitty, Metalbeard, and Benny having adventures as a trio. They are the focus of the comic, and while other TLM characters might show up, the comic isn’t exactly about the events of TLM. To me, it’s a way to make the TLM spinoff I always wanted. So the comic is going to be more focused on that trio, their relationships, their personalities, etc.

This is a space for all my Cloud Cuckoolanders content. I intend for it to be mostly for comics, but I can use this as an ask blog and rp blog as well, if people want that. However that is not the focus of the blog, so don’t expect very consistent answering and roleplaying.

When you interact with me, please keep in mind that I am 15 years old.

I hope you enjoy!!!

WHAT IS A CONFESSIONAL?

At any point you could ask me (or I might do it on my own) to do a rupaul’s drag race style confessional from Unikitty, Benny, or Metalbeard. They will give their personal thoughts and spread gossip about a roleplay, recent comic, or some other event happening.

ACTUAL COMICS

Calcium Conundrum

[captaincrumbz]

30 SUPER SILLY TLM GIFS!!!!!

Cloud Cuckooland!!!

(Metalbeard's Sea Cow) Emmet's Plan

(Octan Tower) Emmet's Plan

T.A.K.O.S Tuesday / Freedom Friday

Emmet's Award Show!!

All Made by me! Feel Free To Use!!!

[hanakogames]

A Christmas (and slightly Krampus) version of Suki Sato from Magical Diary: Wolf Hall

(art by deadly-vu-cosplay)

Suki is an odd girl who loves strange creatures - you see a monster, she sees a friend who is perhaps a bit misunderstood, even if it's trying to eat her. She has white hair, red eyes, and wears a pair of purple 'glasses' that possibly shield her vision, possibly allow her to see the unseen, and possibly she just thinks are neat. Suki regularly knows things she should not possibly know, even to the point of breaking the fourth wall, though usually in a way so confusing that the reader cannot understand what she's referencing until long after the fact. Suki is studying magic as a resident of Snake Hall, the hall for female students who are a bit on the eccentric side (goths, loners, cloud cuckoolanders, etc). And she talks about dragons a lot.

And for that reason, I thought she might celebrate the holidays in... her own special way.

[boasamishipper]

in honor of night court's 41st anniversary i watched the night court pilot and the new night court pilot back to back and finally put my finger on why nc is a thousand times better than nnc is.

nnc has no bite.

here's what i mean.

the nc pilot episode opens in the judge's chambers. in less than five minutes, we are made aware of the situation (there is a new judge and will be here any minute and no one knows anything about him at all). we meet most of our leads: lana (court clerk, stress level maximum, control freak), bull (bailiff, big, cloud cuckoolander), dan (assistant district attorney, smooth and snide), and sheila (public defender, people pleaser). (by the episode's end we will also meet selma, the other bailiff, older and wiser and raunchy.) the judge's office is grimy and full of boxes. the guy sent to paint the walls is too busy watching a couple fuck across the street to do his job. the judge turns out to be harry stone, a young irreverent chaos demon who Also stops what he's doing to watch the couple fuck across the street, and also shoots plastic snakes out of an air rifle at his counselors and court clerk to prove he is who he says he is. he wears jeans and hates barry manilow. he's a scamp. the characters and the audience are in immediate agreement: this guy cannot possibly be fit to be a judge.

but as the episode continues, we (and the characters) learn more about harry and find that he is, in fact, the right man for the job. he tells us himself, and he shows it: he cares about people. he wants to hear people out. he wants to talk to people, get to the bottom of their situation, and have people leave his courtroom a little better than they were when they came in. his methods are unorthodox, and he's still as sarcastic and flippant and irreverent as the day is long, but he is a good man. he asks the characters (and the audience) to give him a chance. and we do.

nc showed right away that it had bite. it's sharp, and intelligent, and grimy, and keeps things moving along quickly - if you don't like one joke, another shows up right away for you to laugh at - while letting the heavier moments (harry's big speech, the kerrs' reconciliation) linger without immediately being undercut by the laugh track or the narrative. but most importantly, by the end of the first episode, nc showed that it had heart to go along with the bite. and that balance is what made nc so great.

now onto nnc.

the nnc pilot opens with a cheerful blonde waiting in line to get into the courthouse. we learn who she is right away: judge abby stone, daughter of judge harry stone - which is nnc's immediate mistake. by introducing her first and foremost as harry's daughter, our perception of her is colored by that, and we the audience don't have any time to view her as a person without that knowledge. but whatever, so in this episode we meet harry's very perky cheerful blonde daughter who gives everyone in court a chance to prove themselves and is interested in the defendants as people. we also meet gurgs (bailiff, sunny and weird), neil (court clerk, doesn't want to be here), olivia (prosecutor, also doesn't want to be here, inconsistent suck up), and dan fielding (ex prosecutor, old friend of abby's father). dan is asked by abby to be her new public defender, but wavers until he returns to night court and gets pranked by harry from beyond the grave. by the end of the episode, the team is assembled.

okay great. so we know from the pilot that nnc has heart.

...but does it?

like most mediocre legacy sequels (and also the current state of the marvel cinematic universe), nnc spends too much time calling back (hey look abby is harry stone's daughter and john larroquette is back in action and we remembered roz and christine and clarence the stuffed armadillo and and and) and not enough time trying to make a name for itself. when writing top gun: maverick, the actual best legacy sequel ever made, christopher mcquarrie said:

“We found ourselves leaning towards recreating moments from the film as opposed to creating new ground and we found time and again that the more we let go of the original movie and went into our own direction the film became more true. And there really was the possibility to make something that stood alone. It was very important to Tom and I when we would talk about ‘Top Gun’ you didn’t have to see the original movie to enjoy this one.”

the nnc writers did not (and have yet to) take a leaf from mcq's book. nnc's heart (especially in the pilot) comes entirely from references to the original show. the constant callbacks to harry and the way he was and the things he did and his ethos. roz's appearances. the invention of katie sullivan, a thin excuse to bring up christine. everything about dan, who by the way we STILL don't know anything about what he did (or the woman he married or why he and harry lost touch) in the interim between both shows. and because nnc is so busy throwing references to a better show at us, the new characters have not had any chance to shine - or be given the same depth (or bite!) that the original show's characters were granted in the first few episodes of the show alone.

let me show you what i mean. within the first three episodes of night court, we learned the following about harry:

he was appointed to the bench because he was at home to answer the phone (but he WAS on the shortlist for a reason)

he likes magic tricks and card tricks and pulling pranks

he loves mel torme and hates barry manilow

he wants to understand everyone who comes into his courtroom as individuals, not as statistics

he can be goofy and snide and irreverent but he is not one to be underestimated

he stole a car and crashed it into a liquor store when he was a teenager, went to juvie, and is haunted by the fact that his father died before he could see that harry made something of himself

here's what we learn about abby after the first three episodes of new night court:

she is harry's daughter

she moved to new york city recently from upstate

she is cheerful and peppy and sees the best in people like harry

she is happily engaged to a man who also lives upstate

she is a recovering alcoholic who regrets that her drinking cost her a lot of time with harry (and i would give the show much more credit for this storyline if a) it was a key part of her characterization going forward (which can be done! just look at the first season of the john larroquette show!) b) abby had any bite at all when her personality did a 180 and c) if the writers let this moment belong to abby and abby alone as opposed to - once again - connecting it back to harry)

all this to say: abby and the rest of the nnc gang are characters first and foremost. harry and dan and the rest of the nc gang were people. they snarked at each other and had brutal arguments and laughed together and hugged each other and made mistakes and had idiosyncrasies and tragic backstories and we knew their vices and dislikes and what they loved and why they loved them. their characters had bite. they had feelings; they had dimension. the show had stakes. when things went wrong, we the audience felt the characters' pain in our guts. and when things went right, we were just as happy for the characters as if their victory was ours.

in three seasons the nnc characters have not been given enough breathing room to develop into people. they don't have their own dan's operation, or wheels of justice, or hello, goodbye. nothing sticks to them. and as a result they don't stick to us. (even dan himself, who we love from the original show, has not gotten any chance to prove his own dimension to the new audience without a callback to nc. in three seasons!!! can you believe that!!!)

it's been forty-one years since night court premiered, and the show and its characters (even in the pilot alone) are just as three-dimensional now as they were back then. but until new night court stops being afraid to stand on its own and give its characters the same weight that reinhold weege did so freely - until it has heart and bite in spades - it'll end forgotten.

[ask-good-cop-bad-cop]

Benny Headcanons

✮ Benny's full name is Benjamin James Blue. His birthday is July 2.

✮ Benny is the youngest of 3 kids. His brother Dennis (Denny) is the eldest, and his sister Jennifer (Jenny) is the middle child. They're also astronauts.

✮ Benny trained alongside his siblings to be a Master Builder. They were all taught by their father, who was also an astronaut, but was permanently grounded after a disastrous reentry gave him a serious, lasting injury.

✮ Benny's mom died in a firefight with Blacktron when he was very young. He doesn't really remember her.

✮ Benny started out as a fighter pilot and logged many hours flying fighter jets and test craft.

✮ Benny has a few degrees in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, astronomy, mathematics, and aeronautics.

✮ People are often surprised to learn that Benny is proficient in both armed and unarmed combat. His personality is so disarming it's easy to forget that the blue spacesuits are for soldiers/security.

✮ Benny's helmet was broken by a piece of space debris while he and his crew were out performing some routine maintenance on the moon base. They got him back inside quickly enough, but the injury was severe enough they needed to get him back planetside to have it properly treated as the base's medical staff weren't properly equipped for brain trauma. Master Builders were outlawed soon after so Benny ended up stuck grounded for a lot longer than was planned. He still has a faint scar on his face from the impact.

✮ Benny spent most of his time as an outlaw living in Cloud Cuckooland, where he became good friends with Unikitty and Metalbeard.

✮ Benny technically moved back in with his dad after TAKOS Tuesday (his apartment was cleared out & rented to someone else while he was living as an outlaw) but spent more time at Emmet's than at home. Emmet helped him to get back into some sort of routine and back onto medication for his ADHD so he could pull himself together enough to start working again. He still has days where he gets so absorbed in his projects he forgets to take care of himself though.

✮ Benny was hired back in the Space Corps just before Thanksgiving and managed to get himself into a new apartment in Bricksburg about a week before Christmas. He still hasn't been cleared for spaceflight again yet.

✮ Some of Benny's favorite hobbies include geocaching (which Metalbeard got him into), and building model planes and spaceships. He's even built a few remote-controlled planes, though he much prefers flying real ones.

✮ Benny is reluctant to admit it, especially to them, but he'd kind of been crushing on GCBC for a couple years before TAKOS Tuesday.

✮ Benny dated Lenny for about a year, but they decided they worked better as friends and broke up.

[video-game-jams]

Banjo-Tooie - Cloud Cuckooland

[oneknightstand-if]

What’s the absolute worst way to seduce each RO? Not the best—the worst.

Merlin: Being too possessive and insisting they feed on you alone. They're noping right the fuck out of that. They're not accidentally eating their lover in the bad sense again.

Adrian: You're doing who in the what now? *PANICS*

Arthur: Going yandere.

Percy: Uh... you probably won't get too far with him if you're generally a nasty asshole to others. Curmudgeonly with a heart of gold is fine, though.

4̶0̶4̸ ̶E̵r̵r̷o̴r̴ ̸N̴o̷t̵ ̶F̷o̶u̶n̸d̷: Going all "power of love!" before they've had proper... subplot development... won't end too well for the MC.

Cassandra: Misogyny GTFO. Anything disrespectful or patronizing, like a sleazebag trying to flirt.

Gwen: . . . . . . . . . . uh... I'm sure there's something that'll put her off. Saying you're going for a monogamous relationship and then hooking up with someone else?

Vivian: Being disrespectful or too trusting is a good way to get your soul nabbed here.

Lorelei: *if (coward > 0)

Broderick: You know what, as grumpy as he can be, he can take as much as he dishes out. Actually being the backstabbing saboteur... who's a cloud cuckoolander... with the Lust Vice?

[crazy-forthe-eighties]

«I won't even try to describe those worlds. They are incomprehensible! Maybe I should start a new program to research and name them all. Cloud Cuckooland? This is a place? Interesting. Well, why didn't you read the rules before you moved to Bricksburg? How didn't you get in trouble yet? Building... anything? That's how it sounds from your words. Can you be more precise, share what projects you are working on? If you are not under NDA, of course»

《 ⬆️ @dual-input-tlm 》

"OOP! ...Sorry! I kinda assumed you already knew about some of that stuff!! Because of there being different universes and what not..."

"Well our Business didnt want Master-Builders to build whatever they wanted or be creative and stuff... so he started capturing them, and us who escaped fled to Cloud Cuckooland! Which didnt have ANY rules (Other than not being mean...and no bushy mustaches) And then about... 8 1/2 years later(?) The Special (Emmet!!) had arrived, confronted Business, helped put the Piece of Resistance on the Kragle on Freedom Friday and saved the world basically!! Cloud Cuckooland was destroyed in the process. and there was (and still is) a lot of damage from micromanagers in places like bricksburg, the old west, ect... So a lot of us help restore and even make our own buildings, homes, and other stuff!!!! orr just absolutely anything we want! Ive built well over 400 spaceships!! spaceships are SO AWESOME! Have I mentioned I love SPACESHIPS?! Oh- uh anyway! A lot of us who had lived in Cloud Cuckooland DO forget about the rules and stuff here! Ive gotten in trouble for trying to park some of my spaceships in parking lots and stuff...."