Hello, blogosphere, this is Neil Rush again. The next Gravity Falls does not air until tonight at 8pm, and that is why I will not write about that episode and my opinions on it until the next blog post. For now, I will instead talk about my original productions I have in mind to produce, whether as simple online stories or to actually produce in an actual media format for a mass audience. I have probably talked about this one before, but the creation of mine that I value more than anything else is "Fanz". I originally called it "Geekz" before a realization that there is no consistent definition for the term "geek" anymore, making my original intention for the show difficult to apply to a media format intended to gain a reasonably large fandom. The basic idea for "Fanz" is that in the world that it's set in, it's almost exactly like the real world, except that if someone likes a certain thing enough, that person has superpowers. The existence of superhumans causes history to be slightly different in the "Fanz" universe than it was in the real world and allows human society to be slightly more advanced in technology. The stories are generally centered around six young people, usually between the ages of ten and thirty, resolving to become a super-team, because in spite of a decent amount of the human population having superpowers, only a fraction of them try to be superheroes or supervillains. And I use the terms "superhero" and "supervillain" loosely, because no one really uses alter-egos or secret identities, their "costumes" are normal clothes, and the good guys are rarely depicted saving people, usually just fighting evil, and the bad guys are usually too guided by a more singular purpose to do stereotypically evil things, except for the few that act similar to the Joker and just want to spread chaos and terror. The people that have superpowers are different depending on the rules of the universe in each different version I have conceived, but common ones are fans of tabletop role-playing games, trading card games, history, science fiction, fantasy, horror, college and professional sports teams, music (usually you have to be a fan of one genre or a few similar genres for it to count), comic books and/or manga, computer and/or video games (whether it be playing them yourself or watching a Let's Player play them), cars, animation (somehow liking Japanese animation, or anime, makes one more powerful than liking only western animation, yet fans of only western animation are still capable of being very powerful), cooking, the newest technology, movies as art, TV shows (the kinds of TV shows depends on the network or company that picks "Fanz" up), toy collecting, and amusement/theme parks. I've thought of forty different alternate versions of "Fanz". The first eleven and one later on all start at different grades of my life, from fourth grade to the first year after high school, and focus on a fictionalized and more comically eccentric version of myself and different friend groups I've had in my life from those grades. Two of them are based off of my senior year because I had quite a lot of friends that year and wanted to make two versions for that in order to not rule out all of my options when it came to that. Some are only miniseries, while others are potentially lengthy series. Seven other versions are based off of the lives of friends of mine, with myself as a supporting character not part of the main team of six in each of those versions. Two are based on the lives of some of my cousins, which I have a lot of thanks to a large extended family on my mother's side. One is about one of my cousins and his friends, while the other is about five of my cousins trying to monitor the erratic behavior of one other cousin. Another version is about fictionalized versions of five of my favorite YouTube Let's Players- Chuggaaconroy, MasaeAnela, NintendoCapriSun, ProtonJon, and StephenPlays, with the version of myself in that one being a somewhat off-kilter fan of the five of them. In all of these versions with other people being the main characters and myself as a side character, it's usually only one thing per version that gives people superpowers in the universe of that specific version. One is even about fictionalized adult versions of myself and some of my friends all working in actual creative arts industries. In the case of the fictionalized version of myself in this specific version, it's working as a lower-credits position on the animated sitcom American Dad. Fans of that show are the people with superpowers in that version. The last eighteen versions are all about characters that are completely made-up by using different number, order, and decision-making systems to decide possible respective genders, races, ethnicities, identities, orientations, and other defining character traits to keep everyone more diverse than the people in most of the first twenty-two versions (Wyomissing is a predominantly white town, which certainly won't help some versions of "Fanz" in some progressive circles), yet still not make those aspects of the characters highly important in comparison to their overall personalities, interests, and desires. These last eighteen versions would follow different characters of different age groups in each one, ranging from age twelve to age twenty-nine. They'll also have fictionalized adult versions of myself and my friends as their mentors, with a different earlier version of "Fanz" meant to line up with a different later version and provide different versions of my friend groups to teach different versions of the original characters. After I've gotten through writing all of the blogs on wikis for the various things that I like (which has become much harder than before because of increased work for the technology center, a few new jobs, and family activities), I'll try to post images of the six main characters from each version of "Fanz" on websites such as Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and Tumblr to hear anonymous opinions on which version I should put into production, in addition to sharing them with close friends and family members. I have my favorites, and I have a good idea of which one I'll pick if the voting ends in all-equal results, but I want to share them all just to be safe. Thanks to the now-more-commonly-used storytelling device of the multiverse, all of these versions will probably receive a shout-out in the show, regardless of which one is my final decision. Some other concepts I have in mind are a musical horror-comedy based on one of Shocktoberfest's past attractions, a film of some sort meant to satirize ideology mentality, a parody sitcom about the family of a president or another type of political leader, a superhero movie parody about a presidential cabinet, and a stage musical similar to Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone's "The Book of Mormon", but about a different religion or religion-type organization. In addition, I have plenty of original stories featuring characters from pre-existing things, or fan fiction, to create. I don't always like to call the stories fan fiction because of the negative stigma surrounding them in that they are all poorly written and about creating the most bizarre "romances" conceivable. I hope to slightly contribute to bringing things back to its most basic and original intention- creating original stories with characters I like. I've thought of something for almost everything that I like so that I can call them fan fiction without shame. Many stories would be continuations of now-ended or now-cancelled shows that myself and many others feel did not receive a proper conclusion. Some of the ones that aren't are these ones. My story based on the Cartoon Network show Adventure Time would be an extension of the episode "Simon and Marcy", which looks at the adult-child friendship between Ice King and Marceline the Vampire Queen a thousand years before the events of the show, or possibly what that storyline would be in the version of the show in which everyone is gender swapped and the show would be about the Ice Queen and Marshall Lee the Vampire King. My American Dad! fan fiction would attempt to reimagine the show as a comedy-drama. My Archer fan fiction would make fun of the recent decision to abolish the group in the show that Sterling Archer and his co-workers worked for, ISIS, which is used as an acronym for the International Secret Intelligence Service within the show, and was integrated into the CIA after the writers and FX made the decision to do that in response to the rise of the terrorist organization ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. It would feature the former-ISIS-now-CIA agents going toe-to-toe with the other ISIS in order to fight for the right to use that acronym without being mistaken for a terrorist organization. I might try to make one for the anime Attack on Titan, which would basically retell the story from the point of view of Sasha Blouse, a young woman on the Scout Regime that loves eating potatoes and serves as the closest thing to comic relief within the dreary world of the show. Another one I'd make would be set in the universe of Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, and be about the life of one particular Avatar many years before the lives of Avatars Aang and Korra. My Ben 10 stories would be about one member of the main ten alien species from the original Ben 10 series forming a team and fighting evil on Earth. The one I'd write for Bob's Burgers would be written from the points of view of the Belcher kids, Tina, Gene, and Louise, and would be about the latter two trying to "co-write" (completely alter and ruin) stories about Tina's friends and crushes. For BoJack Horseman, I'd make it about a horse-boy in early adolescence who idolizes BoJack and has his own hard life. My Codename: Kids Next Door story would be about Nigel Uno in space as part of the Galactic Kids Next Door. I'd make one in which comic characters Deadpool and Harley Quinn fight for control over a superhero fan fiction. I'd make one for the Dragon Ball anime franchise which reimagines the story as a slapstick comedy. For the now-ended Comedy Central animated parody reality show Drawn Together, I'd make a version of it featuring characters that are meant to parody current trends in animation fandom. I may make one for the old Cartoon Network show Ed, Edd, and Eddy about their teenage years with a similar style of humor to the later Cartoon Network show Regular Show. My Fairly Oddparents one would be about Timmy Turner's kids and their own Fairy Godparents. The ones I'd write for Family Guy would be extensive crossovers with other adult cartoons or kids' cartoons that have a tendency to use subtle adult humor, meant to parody when crossovers try to think of too many absurd ways to make a bunch of unrelated things be set in the same universe. I'd make a series of Gravity Falls fan fictions about Dipper and Mabel as teenagers now living in the town of Gravity Falls permanently rather than just for the summer and facing both new supernatural mysteries and dealing with teen issues. The one for the old Disney cartoon Kim Possible I'd make would be about Kim and Ron in college. There'd be one for King of the Hill I'd try to write about Dale's younger life. I'd make a Pokemon fan fiction meant to lovingly parody the franchise that would follow the narrative of one of the main series video games, but with the main Pokemon Trainer and his/her traveling partners often commenting on the absurdity of the situations they get themselves into in the Pokemon world. There's one I'd want to write for Cartoon Network's Regular Show in which the characters are reimagined as humans dealing with problems in the criminal underworld. I'd write a few for Adult Swim's Rick and Morty focusing on different versions of the title characters across the multiverse in each different one. I might make one for the classic Nickelodeon show Rugrats, focusing on the main characters as adults and showing how things from their toddler and middle-school years come back to haunt them as adults. I would want to make one about South Park featuring the New Kid from the Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole video games as the main character and what his life is like when not playing make-believe fantasy or superheroes. The one I'd write for Cartoon Network's Steven Universe would be about Steven and the Crystal Gems traveling to the universes of other Cartoon Network shows to stop Uncle Grandpa from ruining the lives of other Cartoon Network characters. I'd write one for Total Drama about the contestants outside of the reality show environment. I'd make one for Disney's Wreck-It Ralph focusing on other video game characters living in the arcade. Lastly, I'd make a fan fiction for the Cartoon Network show We Bare Bears about the Bears becoming Let's Players. I may not have enough time to make all of these, but I at least like having the ability to think about them. Thanks for reading this post, and see you next time.
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