Concept: a fighting game where all the characters are just David Bowie’s various stage personas.
(Come on, who wouldn’t pay money to see Ziggy Stardust dragon punch the Thin White Duke?)
The story mode could be a biographical telling of David Bowie’s life as told through an action fighting game. You’d go through each one of his personas as the game progressed, fighting monsters and villains relevant to his life and music at the time. For instance, the Thin White Duke era would end by fighting the living embodiment of cocaine. The last part of the game would have Bowie in his meta years fighting all of his previous incarnations of himself (just like he did lyrically and sonically through his music on The Next Day and Blackstar).
Let’s also talk about characters. Considering all of the different famous costumes he wore, each Bowie persona could have different skin changes just like with Super Smash Bros. On top of that, imagine all the of the unlockable characters that you could have. They would be other musicians that worked alongside Bowie and even some that he influenced. You could have Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan (who would ride in on a T-Rex, I’ve decided), Freddie Mercury, Trent Reznor, and Brian Eno.
This isn’t a typical tumblr-let’s-make-this-thing-exist idea. This would actually have potential to be a very humorous and heartfelt tribute to Bowie’s life as well as a rockin’ fun game.
It still makes me sad that this is one of my least-reblogged “concept” prompts, because this is honestly one of the best followups I’ve ever received. Especially the bit about the final chapter of the story mode being Bowie fighting and killing all of his stage personas until only the old man remains – like, that has layers.
I asked my dad if I have ever made him cry in front of me before, because I don’t remember ever seeing him cry. He said, “Once.” He told me that when I was 3 years old, he laid out a pen, a dollar, and a toy of some sort in front of me. He wanted to see which one I would pick. I think that a lot of Chinese people do that… It represents what you’ll value most when you grow up. Like the pen is intelligence, money, is well, money, and the toy is fun. He was just doing it out of curiosity and boredom. It was interesting for him to see which one I’d pick anyway. He said that I just sat there and stared at the items. He sat across from me and waited patiently. According to him, I crawled towards them, he held his breath, and I pushed everything aside and went right into his arms. He didn’t realize that he was one of the choices. And that was the first, and the only time I made him cry.
well shit now u made me cry
aww, that’s sweet
… i am now morbidly curious as to what lifestyle that predicts.
it means you choose family above all the other things, i think
if someone had done that to me at age 3 i probably would’ve toddled off in search of food or picked a fight with my brother, which i’m sure would’ve alarmed anyone taking the test seriously
Will humans come? Will they be out there? Will they be watching us?
A set of questions directed at me by a tiny four year old dancer, urgently whispering back stage, trying to figure out what a dress rehearsal is and what a recital is and whether or not there will actually be an audience at any point.
Instead, she sounded like the official representative of a race of diminutive alien invaders who are mostly here for the sequins and tule. They are culturally required to all hold hands when moving from one place to another, and will try to hold your hand if given even half a chance.
Not every day has to “count.” Some days, your purpose is to make it to the next one. That counts too.
Damn I needed this today.
Me too, thank you.
I don’t know how or in what way or if it’s romantic or if you’re just the best friend I’ll ever have. But whatever form it is, I love you because I’ve been closer to you than anyone else I’ve ever known. And I’ll never forget that. I can’t do anything but love you, and I’m sorry. I’m sorry I hurt you.
Given that I think “My Immortal” is a troll (with the reason generally being that author Tara references both Marty McFly and TOM BOMBADIL), I just reread it and I’m astounded by the effort put into it.
The spelling and grammar gets steadily worse over the course of the story, messing up simple words and even the main character’s name (variations on Ebony include Enoby, Enony, Eboby, and my favorite Enopby). The author gives frequent shoutouts in the A/N at the beginning of each chapter to someone called Raven, who she considers a friend and apparently functions as a beta. In chapter 16, Tara severs ties with Raven, expels/murders Raven’s character Willow, and changes Ebony’s full name to Ebony Dark’ness Dementia TARA Way. It’s suggested that they fought because Tara stole Raven’s poster of Gerard Way. By chapter 17, they appear to have made up and Willow is brought back with no further explanation.
The plot, of course, is just insane, but the story was obviously being read; Tara begins each chapter furiously ranting about “flamerz” leaving bad reviews, terribly misspelled. At one point, Ebony was referred to as a Mary Sue and she immediately tried to shut that down, citing “Satanism” and “depression” as flaws. She held each new chapter hostage, demanding a certain number (usually 5) good reviews before she would update. Assuming the spelling and grammar mistakes were intentional, the natural progression of them getting worse and worse is incredible. The difference between Tara’s A/Ns and Raven’s edited text is also astounding, although chapter 16, during their supposed rift, is not noticeably more poorly written than the chapters immediately preceding and following it.
The misspellings of character names and general slipups get worse and worse to the point that once, “Enopby” is referred to as “Tara”, and at another point, “TaEnby”, further to emphasize that Ebony is, in fact, the most obvious self insert in the history of literature. The reference to Marty McFly (he appears at the end of chapter 35 to spirit Ebony into the future) confounds me; Tara does not seem like she’d been aware of pop culture enough to have seen “Back to the Future”, given that she describes “The Nightmare Before Christmas” as this serious, depressing, Adult movie. She’s young enough to consider “he put his thingy into my tool” an accurate description of sex. Further, she references Tom Bombadil, a character in “Lord of the Rings” who I believe just shows up and sings for a while and is strongly implied to be God and then disappears, not really relevant to anything. He’s not even in the movies. Would Tara Gilesbie have read “Lord of the Rings” when she admits she’s never read the Harry Potter books?
Read through that lens (that this was an elaborate hoax), can you believe the rest of it was so organically terrible? Even now, 10+ years after the fact, no one can agree on whether this story is a troll, and until anyone finds out who Tara Gilesbie really is, it’s going to be impossible to know for sure. This is just crazy to me.
I have done extensive digging on this subject, and there is a lot more to My Immortal than meets the eye. Read as a troll, this story is a brilliant piece of satire on fan fiction. It incorporates so many cliches of the genre, especially those from the early to mid 2000′s. The obviously self-inserted Mary-Sue (mentioned above) along with unnecessary and unexplained crossovers, nonsensical sex scenes, and allusion to scene culture and pop punk music. Not to mention the story outside the story, Tara and Raven’s falling out, critiquing the culture of A/N’s and reviews. The tropes and cliches are far too obvious and overplayed to be sincere. I am a true believer that Tara was not only a troll, but a genius of satire. After all, if it was truly so bad, it would not have survived mixed in with ten years of equally terrible fan fiction. The legend of this story is so *ehem* immortal it has sparked heated debate in the online community for years, and was even made into a web series. (https://vimeo.com/70381882) Whether you believe it was satire or not, there is something about My Immortal that is inherently fascinating. Even if it was not her intention, Tara has created the bad fan fiction. It is a perfect storm of chaotic, nonsensical drama spiraling around the least original character ever written. Story lines are dropped and picked up again seemingly at random, characters and names are inconsistent to the point of being unintelligible, and there is no consistent overarching plot. In a sense, it is the anti-story, because it so decidedly defies every literary rule in the book. Either we are drawn to My Immortal as one watches a car wreck in awe, or because it satirizes the worst aspects of every story we have ever read. Regardless, the legacy of My Immortal will live on, either as a warning, or a work of pure genius.
just moving along like everyone else 