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Writer's Block: Object of my affection
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Are cartoon shows an object?
Also hey have a meme
IT'S BETTER THAN IT SOUNDS!
Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.
I couldn't choose, so have 22. I mean, a couple of 'em are completely accurate summaries, so. :P
1.Rich man beats up the poor, the insane, and a clown. Batman (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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2. An adopted orphan sasses his teachers, runs around naked and sets fire to a cat.
3. A satire of Victorian society in which a lawyer travels to other dimensions, and is arrested for trying to start a new religion. Oh, and the women of the protagonist's homeworld can accidentally stab people by sneezing.
4. Sherlock Holmes goes on a coke binge and hallucinates until Sigmund Freud cures his addiction.
5. A group of teens trade insults over IM and play an online Alternate Reality Game.
6. A man tries to reduce noise pollution in a mountainous area. He fails. This is considered a good thing.
7.Nothing happens. Twice. Waiting for Godot (akasunano_usagi)
8. Dead people kill things and eat food in order to dress the most macho of them in the girliest clothing ever.
9. A drug-addled runaway princess, her businesswoman sister, their rock-musician twin cousins, a level-headed White Haired Pretty Girl, a fashion obsessed queen, a Perky Goth and an heavy-metal fan are pursued by mercenaries hired by the princess's older brother. Did I mention that all but the last three are werewolves?
10. A group of grad students play a tabletop RPG in a sci-fi setting. The DM should probably try pitching his idea to a film studio.
11. Extraordinarily Empowered Girls kill zombies with bells.
12. Animals harass a fat man.
13. A Card Carrying Villain tries to ruin a Romantic Comedy as it unfolds. He fails when his plot is uncovered by a dumb policeman.
14. Five teenagers have a spat with their parents and run away from home.
15. Highschool Drama centering around a Teen Genius with lost of weird fetishes, his shapeshifting alien live-in girlfriend and their magic-using friends. The plot alternates between being incredibly bizarre and surprisingly mundane.
16.Man arrives home very late after commute from hell and murders unwanted houseguests. And half the staff. The Odyssey (akasunano_usagi)
17. A boy and his friends go camping. Alternately: A boy and his friends skip school.
18. Girl agrees to sing silent part in magical whale opera. Defeats Satan.
19.Years after an eccentric philanthropist goes missing, it is learned that his most prized possession must be destroyed. Lord of the Rings (FotR specifically) (birdboy2000)
20. Inept wizard tries not to do anything interesting, and fails.
21.A pilot crashes in the desert. Near dying from thirst, he meets an extraterrestrial. They talk philosophy. The Little Prince (alacranita)
22.Pale boy steals rock and saves government. Then poor girl destroys statue so pale boy can save government. Then pale boy destroys government. The Bartimaeus Trilogy (akasunano_usagi)
Unguessed answers: The Jungle Book, Flatland, The Seven Percent Solution, Homestuck, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The World Ends With You, Lonely Werewolf Girl, Darths and Droids, the Old Kingdom/Abhorsen trilogy, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Much Ado About Nothing, Runaways, El Goonish Shive, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Deep Wizardry, every Rincewind book
I have noticed that most of the descriptions on that page actually sound pretty awesome. :|
Are cartoon shows an object?
Also hey have a meme
IT'S BETTER THAN IT SOUNDS!
Pick 20 titles from any media (movies, video games, literary works, etc.) and find their summaries on Better than it Sounds. Have your friends guess without cheating.
I couldn't choose, so have 22. I mean, a couple of 'em are completely accurate summaries, so. :P
1.
hoyvinglavin64)2. An adopted orphan sasses his teachers, runs around naked and sets fire to a cat.
3. A satire of Victorian society in which a lawyer travels to other dimensions, and is arrested for trying to start a new religion. Oh, and the women of the protagonist's homeworld can accidentally stab people by sneezing.
4. Sherlock Holmes goes on a coke binge and hallucinates until Sigmund Freud cures his addiction.
5. A group of teens trade insults over IM and play an online Alternate Reality Game.
6. A man tries to reduce noise pollution in a mountainous area. He fails. This is considered a good thing.
7.
akasunano_usagi)8. Dead people kill things and eat food in order to dress the most macho of them in the girliest clothing ever.
9. A drug-addled runaway princess, her businesswoman sister, their rock-musician twin cousins, a level-headed White Haired Pretty Girl, a fashion obsessed queen, a Perky Goth and an heavy-metal fan are pursued by mercenaries hired by the princess's older brother. Did I mention that all but the last three are werewolves?
10. A group of grad students play a tabletop RPG in a sci-fi setting. The DM should probably try pitching his idea to a film studio.
11. Extraordinarily Empowered Girls kill zombies with bells.
12. Animals harass a fat man.
13. A Card Carrying Villain tries to ruin a Romantic Comedy as it unfolds. He fails when his plot is uncovered by a dumb policeman.
14. Five teenagers have a spat with their parents and run away from home.
15. Highschool Drama centering around a Teen Genius with lost of weird fetishes, his shapeshifting alien live-in girlfriend and their magic-using friends. The plot alternates between being incredibly bizarre and surprisingly mundane.
16.
akasunano_usagi)17. A boy and his friends go camping. Alternately: A boy and his friends skip school.
18. Girl agrees to sing silent part in magical whale opera. Defeats Satan.
19.
birdboy2000)20. Inept wizard tries not to do anything interesting, and fails.
21.
alacranita)22.
akasunano_usagi)Unguessed answers: The Jungle Book, Flatland, The Seven Percent Solution, Homestuck, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The World Ends With You, Lonely Werewolf Girl, Darths and Droids, the Old Kingdom/Abhorsen trilogy, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Much Ado About Nothing, Runaways, El Goonish Shive, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Deep Wizardry, every Rincewind book
I have noticed that most of the descriptions on that page actually sound pretty awesome. :|
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Beyond that... I really should get some these but don't.
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I'm not sure how many of these you know, but I bet you could get a couple more.
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Continuing the literary tradition, 16 is the Odyssey.
And I wasn't going to answer the ones I saw on TV Tropes, but 22 is THE BARTIMAEUS TRILOGY YESYESYES
Also, a lot of these do sound awesome. After this I think I'll cheat and search for some of these.
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