theoriginofoghond

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will wood cover of your horoscope for today would go so hard

will wood cover of one more minute would go so hard

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…is that a good WTF or a bad WTF?

the year is 2027. and the weird al show has gone WOKE.

weird al is now a NON BINARY FURRY called PRONOUN yankTHEYvic.

harvey the wonder hamster is now harvSHE the WOKE GENDER NONCONFORMING hamster.

val brentwood and cousin corky are now LESBIAN and in a SAPPHIC RELATIONSHIP.

the hooded avenger is now XENIC and is called the hooded AVENGERSELF. 

the guy boarded in the wall is now the THEY boarded in the wall.

madame judy is now MADAME JUDY.

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*sees image*

*childhood trauma comes rushing back*

…Al please put the glasses back on you look like you’re plotting to kill me

Although U.S. copyright law allows "Weird Al" Yankovic to parody songs without permission, he chooses to ask artists first to keep good relationships. This means he sometimes skips parodies if the artist says no, like when Paul McCartney declined a parody of "Live and Let Die" because of his vegetarian views.

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Oh god. The D5 to end all Disney D5s, AKA the biggest atrocity of the mixing department I have ever heard.

Go listen to the Hungarian version of this song, which also uses the Kandel cut, then go back to the English dub and compare. The difference in mixing is night and day. Americans were robbed. Hungary understood the assignment.

Bells of Notre Dame is till the most epic song Disney has ever put in a movie.

The chorus??? The orchestra??? PAUL KANDEL'S HIGH D NOTE!!!! He didn't have to do that, but he did. For us. Then fucked off the rest of his career like a mic drop.

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Go watch the Hungarian version, which also uses the Kandel cut.

Good god, the mixing there is NIGHT AND DAY.

It fades out eventually in the Hungarian dub, and I don’t know if it was due to the mixing or if that’s just how long Kandel could hold it for, but still. That’s a *D5.* That’s a note that is *very* hard for a tenor to hit (unless your name is Geddy Lee in the 1970’s). That note took Kandel a full *year* to hit.

I don’t care how long he held it for; that’s still impressive.

But yeah, we were robbed in the mixing.

Weird ask, but does anyone on this website have a vocal only version of the bells of Notre Dame from the Disney movie? I've been trying to hear the last note that clopin sings for my whole life and I still can't

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The funny thing is that this fits O+G!Clopin and ESPECIALLY O+G!Frollo very well, since Frollo the Torracat:

- DESPISES his namesake and all like him with a passion

- Cares probably a bit too much about the idea of him making mistakes

- Wants to be a genuine paragon for justice

- Is stoicism hiding a bundle of anxiety

Also they’re both catmons (oh wow, I wonder which catmon the one named after the silly mischievous jester is).

Clopin, dressed as Frollo: Look, Frollo, I’m you! Paragon till death!

Frollo: … you ruined it. You ruined it, and I’m leaving.

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This is Jeff Keller, the first Marley, and the one featured on the cast album.

If he was THIS hammy with the role?

Imagine how it was when they had Clopin himself for the next 8 YEARS.

I desperately, DESPERATELY need footage of Kandel playing Marley, good god.

When A Christmas Carol: The Musical was staged annually at Madison Square Garden, every year except one, the role of Marley's Ghost was played by Paul Kandel, the voice of Clopin from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.

In the 2004 TV adaptation of the musical, the role is played by Jason Alexander, the voice of Hugo the gargoyle in the same movie.

I guess it makes sense, since Alan Menken was the composer of both, but it's kind of funny that the role of Marley seems inextricably linked (no pun intended) to voice actors from Disney's Hunchback.

Learning about the stage casting makes me wish all the more that the stage production had been filmed for TV. I would have liked to see what Paul Kandel did with that role, since his vocal performance as Clopin is one of the highlights of Hunchback. Jason Alexander's casting in the TV version isn't unforgivable... it's no more against type than Statler and Waldorf are in the Muppet version, and less against type than Goofy in the Mickey Mouse version... but still...

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The Lore of Gisnep, Part 1

In this post, the history of the Gisnep company; in the next post, the personality of Gisnep and the stuff they did differently. First things first, let's get everything before his death out of the way, because save for the founding date being 1924 rather than 1923, everything is much the same as it is in real life: Gisnep leaves Kansas Ci-- sorry, Accumula for Hollywoo-- sorry, Medala (not Medali in Paldea; Medala in Feluv); he and his brother set up a studio; they create Alice Comedies (still titled the same) and create Mickey Mo-- sorry, Petey Pikachu with whoever the Ub Iwerks equivalent is; they air Petey Pikachu cartoons; they air Steamboat Willie (still titled the same); they air Snow White and the Seven Dwar-- sorry, Eeveelutions; they create Patty, Quirinius, Quetzalli, Derpy, and Charon (guess who those are the equivalents to?); they create a ton of other feature films; Gisnep plans Gisnep World in Medala City in Feluv; Gisnep plans Gisnepville in Virbank City in Unova; Gisnep gets the Sherman Brothers (who die MUCH earlier here than in real life) to write a song for the Magic Kingdom entrance that in this universe becomes the Bootstrapped Theme of the company (more on that later); Gisnep smokes like crazy; Gisnep dies. RIP Gisnep. And THEN. William Elliot Gisnep wakes up in the Spirit World surrounded by Froslass on all sides (because of course he would be) and the two Legendary horses (because of course he would be). They tell him that he has proven himself to be an incredible force for good, and because of it, so long as he can pass the Spirit Games tests, he will be rewarded with revival as any Pokemon of his choice. He is humbled, but ecstatic, and asks the Spirits why the company still needs him. They reply that it's because in 20 years the company's movies will become terrible (hello, Dark Age of Disney). Gisnep then asks why the world needs him, and Spectrier responds basically with "AI bad Chatter toxic". Gisnep doesn't know what Chatter is, but wants to have children grow up in a world where animation is celebrated and discourse is nonexistent, so he is like "holy crap please revive me". It takes him 18 years of training. Ray E. Gisnep dies during that time. He is also slated for revival. In the real world it is now 1985. The Black Cauldron has been released by Gisnep. All Disney fans should know what happened. Massive flop for the Gisnep Company. Gisnep loses tons of money. Gisnep almost goes bankrupt. No I'm not kidding. Gisnep needs a film to save them. After all the profits for the Black Cauldron come in, up in the Spirit World Gisnep has been revived. He has won the Spirit Games. Congratulations, Gisnep; choose your new Pokeform. He picks a Mimikyu. Ray picks a Raichu. He wakes up in his old studio, behind a refrigerator. He goes out and sees a copy of this new book called Basil of Baker Street. He loves it. He goes right back into the current Gisnep studio. He clears his throat. He enters the room with a copy of Basil of Baker Street and Ray by his side. The Gisnep company executives are stunned. The other Ray Gisnep is in tears. A happy reunion ensues. The next year they air The Great Ratatta Detective. It paves the way for the Gisnep Rennaissance and a little film called The Hunchback of Notre Dame, set in Medala. This film is HUGE. It becomes the biggest film of the Gisnep Renaissance. Gisnep makes billions. (So does The Pyroar King, but HOND makes more in this universe.) Everyone keeps Gisnep on as CEO. The rest of the Gisnep catalogue ensues, leading to present day. Cue the canon Gisnepverse. Gisnep is beloved by children. Gisnep is beloved by adults. The Gisnep company is a major force for good in the worl-- Oh. Oh all of a sudden Gisnep's animators have no heart anymore. All of a sudden Gisnep's animators hate each other. All of a sudden Gisnep is a toxic company. And all of a sudden, Will Gisnep has to get everything back to normal, along with three other Trainers, before humanity as he knows it commits mass suicide.

Next up: Gisnep's general personality, and the differences between the company we know and the company in the fic.

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First things first: the origins.

On the original version of my first fanfic I ever made, and why I decided to redo it 8 years later. So. Context. Pokemon Opal and Garnet (2016) is the first fanfiction I ever made. It's technically a crossover fanregion fic set in a region created by me with Pokemon created by me, but I use "crossover" extremely, extremely lightly. Technically, it was entirely new, but 5 of the main mons were named after (and of those 5, 4 were based in part on) characters from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is my all-time favorite Disney movie if not my favorite movie period. Given that it was my first ever fanfic, it is a mess. It is rough around the edges, and by god it shows. Among the many things in the first fanfic I ever wrote: HOND references like crazy, blatant Element of Harmony expies in the form of the 14 virtues (more on them later), a blatant Trump allegory, my first time writing a court scene, and a French anthem performance straight out of Casablanca. This was back in the Cringe Old Days (TM) of 2016 when the word "subtlety" was not in my writing vocabulary, when I did not know what "character arcs and development" were, and when I genuinely believed that fanfic sites would automatically send their copyright bots out to companies so that they could sue you out of your minds if you dared put non-public-domain song lyrics into your fic. After a while I stopped updating the fic out of boredom, writer's block, and distraction due to a bunch of other things entering my brain (oh hi, something called the "Dutch language"! Oh hi, fanmade musicals!). But the original fic still exists today and can be found. I plan to one day delete my fanfic.net account, though, and with it all the original stories, but you needn't worry-- the original Opal and Garnet can still be found on Lake Valor; all 20 chapters of it. After that, life went by. I joined We Are All Pokemon Trainers, where I met people who are numerous friends of mine, and, more importantly, learned how to actually create character arcs, developments, lore, and backstories. It was an incredible experience for me, and I thoroughly enjoyed every aspect of it. I went to college and graduated; I had an extremely long period of health anxiety... and in my last year of college, in 2024, I decided to look over my first ever fanfic and figure out what worked and what didn't. Two things from the fanfic-- the PokeLatin language and Orwell the Newspeak-speaking Crawdaunt-- made their way into WAAPT, albeit the PokeLatin language became the Poipolian dialect of UBese and had tons of tweaks done to it. This was also the year after the Disney company celebrated their 100th anniversary. And given that, the fact that many HOND references were made in the original fic, and the fact that TV Tropes erroneously labeled it a crossover because of those references, I ended up deciding "screw it, I am leaning into the Disney angle and I am leaning into it hard". Cue the creation of the Gisnep company (I'm not kidding, that's actually what it's called) and by extension, the Gisnepverse, which consists of Opal and Garnet (2024) and the WAAPT continuums. (I retired from WAAPT and branched each of my characters off into their own seperate stories.) The next post I make will delve into the lore surrounding the Gisnep company and its differences from its real-world analogue.