Caltrops - Cabaret Voltron





	[quote name="Creexul :("][quote name="Horrible Gelatinous Blob"][quote name="The Cheap Zseni Machine"] Yet I think there may even be something deeper about the Lifetime special thing that starts much earlier. Example: when I was 5, and I was playing My Little Pony with the girl across the street, and we had all the fucking ponies out and they were playing and whickering and brushing each other and whatever else ponies do, Girl Across The Street was always ready to bring THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR over the pony palace. Some pony would turn evil, or evil ponies would come and screw everything up, or my brother's Hot Wheels would run into the bestest ponies and kill them. Having been an ambitiousless and jovial slouch my whole life, I always wanted to know why this had to happen. I even asked her, straight up: how come the ponies can't just be happy? Can't we just have happy ponies for today? WELL THEY JUST COULDN'T. NO HAPPY PONIES. This pattern was to repeat through many girls across the streets and many types of toys, and would continue once all the toys were put away. Without toys, the girls would play No Happy Ponies with real live human beings: each other, and me. [/quote] Wow. I'm digging that story quite a bit. It explains quite a bit about pretty much every woman I've ever known. On the other hand, when I was a wee Blob and more slightly discomfiting than full on Horrible, I would play Transformers and GI Joe with my friends, and we would have epic wars with each other. Minor skirmishes would develop into larger battles before exploding into total warfare. Then we would team up and destroy some imaginary bad guy. We always won, and there fore we were always happy in the end. The point I'm trying to make is that conflict is what made imaginary play interesting. Without conflict, you're pretty much just sitting around, masturbating to a mirror. My question is did these girls express conflict in this manner because they had learned that it was the only acceptable expression of conflict, or was it because they're only happy when they're miserable?[/quote] Bookshelfs used to be really good for GI Joe playing, especially if you had a dude with a grappling hook and he would be like HA NOW I AM UP HERE OH NO THERE'S A BAD GUY RAR.[/quote]