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Post by RielCZ on Dec 28, 2022 23:52:10 GMT -5
I fully support bringing back the bananas. Though I'd also briefly thought of NAIpets... I think that's a pretty open slate, but could span everything from articles/interviews about a new feature allowing owners to chatbot with their pets, discussions/essays on or even examples of AI-generated Neopet stuff (I think April Fools is the like one time it could be permissible on-site ), to stories about robots from the future going back in time and causing chaos/terminations or worse taking pets' jobs at the employment agency.
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Post by downrightdude on Dec 29, 2022 0:46:07 GMT -5
I'm a tickled pink Snaw to see that people still like my banana idea. *Charlie the Llama serves banana cake*
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Post by June Scarlet on Dec 29, 2022 10:38:01 GMT -5
Here's an idea. The thing about the Banana theme is that each piece will have to have a focus on it that's not Bananas, something to stick the bananas in.
What if the focus was on dunking Kanrik, but with Bananas thrown in?
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Post by Liou on Dec 29, 2022 11:16:25 GMT -5
Here's an idea. The thing about the Banana theme is that each piece will have to have a focus on it that's not Bananas, something to stick the bananas in. What if the focus was on dunking Kanrik, but with Bananas thrown in? What would be the joke to back that up, though? If we had already established a dunking on Kanrik meme, and a surprise, banana! meme, then cross-referencing the existing memes would work, as you often see with meme intertextuality on the interweb. I don't see that working by just throwing in a mish-mash of two unrelated themes, though. A themed issue can't work if it's not cohesive. Dunking on Kanrik would be funny because everybody dunks on Kanrik, even characters who have nothing to do with him. Bananas would be funny because they would show up anywhere and everywhere on everyone. So the focus does need to vary for each of those jokes to work.
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Post by June Scarlet on Jan 1, 2023 22:41:03 GMT -5
Here's an idea. The thing about the Banana theme is that each piece will have to have a focus on it that's not Bananas, something to stick the bananas in. What if the focus was on dunking Kanrik, but with Bananas thrown in? What would be the joke to back that up, though? If we had already established a dunking on Kanrik meme, and a surprise, banana! meme, then cross-referencing the existing memes would work, as you often see with meme intertextuality on the interweb. I don't see that working by just throwing in a mish-mash of two unrelated themes, though. A themed issue can't work if it's not cohesive. Dunking on Kanrik would be funny because everybody dunks on Kanrik, even characters who have nothing to do with him. Bananas would be funny because they would show up anywhere and everywhere on everyone. So the focus does need to vary for each of those jokes to work.
I guess I was thinking about the mustache April Fools, and how it was just regular comics and such, just that everyone suddenly had a mustache. But they still had to write that ordinary comic. So my thinking was that the regular comic or article or story could have the focus on Kanrik, while throwing in the Bananas. But that would be trickier to pull off, when you put it like that. What might be fun is that everyone chooses their own April Fools prank idea that they favor, and then the one thing tying them all together is Bananas. But if it were both Bananas and Kanrik, then it would probably be a confusing theme.
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Post by Kat on Jan 2, 2023 0:06:19 GMT -5
Personally I don't think I've ever written about Kanrik (I think. I do know I have written a story about Masila.) so it'd be fitting if the first time for me to write about Kanrik is a story dunking on him.
There's a lot of really good ideas aside from Kanrik Dunking, I'd love to work on just about any of these - but of course I have a huge bias toward the "Terask is back" idea.
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Post by Coaster on Jan 3, 2023 21:31:11 GMT -5
Another random idea based loosely on Discord chatter:
Tooth Faerie has disappeared. Teeth are piling up everywhere, other pets or faeries have to learn dentistry, cavity wraiths run amok...
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Post by Geo 🇺🇦 🌻 on Jan 3, 2023 21:33:40 GMT -5
As a part of the same discord chatter…
This is more of a longshot but maybe we do one where we all violate established canon or our own headcanons.
Like Fyora being a tyrannical leader if I was to use an example for myself.
Yeah it’s probably trickier since you’d have to egregiously go against canon for it to be obvious.
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Post by June Scarlet on Jan 3, 2023 22:29:34 GMT -5
I guess that'd be Breakfast with the Scarlets for me.
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Post by Kat on Jan 5, 2023 7:47:42 GMT -5
This is more of a longshot but maybe we do one where we all violate established canon or our own headcanons. But...I kind of already went against my NQII not-a-cinematic-universe by writing that series for the cosmic collab! Alternately: write a story where NQII is constantly referred to as just a game IT'S JUST A GAME IT DOESN'T EXIST -
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Post by RielCZ on Jan 6, 2023 0:56:55 GMT -5
This is more of a longshot but maybe we do one where we all violate established canon or our own headcanons. Like Fyora being a tyrannical leader if I was to use an example for myself. If this was the theme, I'd have to write Fyora as a saint. *takes late banana cake*
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Post by Gelquie on Jan 6, 2023 1:18:24 GMT -5
So on the side, I'm collecting data from the Neopets Weather pages in order to create a dataset to work with for an NT thing I may work on and submit next month, and I notice that the weather is... uh... my gosh. xD Think scorching summers as in 120-something Fahrenheit every day, or -40 blizzards everywhere, including Mystery Island, with a few exceptions. And then massive temperature changes over 24 hours.
Twillie threw to me the idea of submitting NT stories that are Neopian-weather accurate. I decided that'd be a fun April Fools prank. Is the setting Mystery Island in January? Freezing-point blizzards! Is it a hot day in the Lost Desert? Hope you like 130F temperatures! Or if nothing else, just the wackiest weather you can think of.
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Post by Azusa on Jan 8, 2023 0:42:51 GMT -5
The Neopian Times will stop operating because the company (TNPT) is bankrupt. Time to share your final tips and say your goodbyes.
(Supplementary: Could possibly add Grey references? Since it's supposed to be sad news + Grey Day is on April 14.)
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Post by Geo 🇺🇦 🌻 on Jan 9, 2023 16:57:16 GMT -5
This is more of a longshot but maybe we do one where we all violate established canon or our own headcanons. Like Fyora being a tyrannical leader if I was to use an example for myself. If this was the theme, I'd have to write Fyora as a saint. *takes late banana cake* Well, then I'll have to write her as an incarnation of the devil that is responsible for all things evil in Neopia as well. xD
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Jan 9, 2023 19:09:17 GMT -5
Hope I'm not too late. Doubt my Obelisk suggestion will ever get picked (BTW I did include a list of at least what I think would make for a good batch of Factions, which includes a Gamer group), so instead I'm introducing a new BD-related idea:
1-Player Challengers Revolt! With all the powerful weapons that have been given out to about every Neopian in recent years (Void Blade, Water Whip, Thunder Sticks, Feel Better Soup, etc.), the 1-Player Challengers are beginning to feel underprepared for the next wave of battling Neopets. Time for an upgrade! All 1-Player Challengers, from Chia Clown to the Space Faerie, are improving their prospects by reskinning strong Battledome Equipment and Abilities to make unique Battledome Equipment and Abilities of their them! The fight for supremacy of the Battledome has begone!
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