Unrealistic Expectations (Ugly Duckling theme)
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Unrealistic Expectations (Ugly Duckling theme)
I have a broad forehead, not a thick skull. When a mob chases me with torches and pitchforks, I get the hint. Savages!
Anyway, I like it better in my new town. Everyone seems friendly and unarmed. There is a grocery store I can walk to from my house, and I'm headed home to bake a cake for my neighbors.
What's this? An opportunity for a good deed! Yes, I'm very tall. I will get your kitty right down out of that tree.
That hurts, kitty! I'm helping you!
No, kitty! Don't run into traffic!
Little girl, wait!
Damn it.
Anyway, I like it better in my new town. Everyone seems friendly and unarmed. There is a grocery store I can walk to from my house, and I'm headed home to bake a cake for my neighbors.
What's this? An opportunity for a good deed! Yes, I'm very tall. I will get your kitty right down out of that tree.
That hurts, kitty! I'm helping you!
No, kitty! Don't run into traffic!
Little girl, wait!
Damn it.
Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
No matter where you go, there you are. 

Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.
"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
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"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
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- Thomas Daulton
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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
"Everyone seems friendly and unarmed" is a great turn of phrase!! I may have to steal that sometime!
"All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost." --J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
Even the best of intentions can go awry. I liked it. Frankenstein trying to make friends and failing. I wish though that you had incorporated the classic phil hartmann frankenstien quote "Fire Bad!"
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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
strawman, that's true. You can never escape yourself for long, which is especially bad when you're your own worst enemy.
Thomas, Thank you. I was particularly proud of that line myself.
Flintknapper, I hadn't considered it. I wanted to make the monster clearly intelligent, but not obviously articulate. I omitted quotation marks altogether so that it would be unclear whether he is communicating adequately with these strangers. I'm not entirely convinced that was the right choice, though.
Thomas, Thank you. I was particularly proud of that line myself.
Flintknapper, I hadn't considered it. I wanted to make the monster clearly intelligent, but not obviously articulate. I omitted quotation marks altogether so that it would be unclear whether he is communicating adequately with these strangers. I'm not entirely convinced that was the right choice, though.
- MonsieurMoustache
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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
One of my fave drabbles. My brain added sound effects without prompting.
Screech! Bang! Face palm.
Lovely.
Screech! Bang! Face palm.
Lovely.
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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
Yup, I agree. This one's adorable (if that's the right word for it). 

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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Relocation theme)
Aww, thanks, everybody.
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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (The Outcast theme)
Bump for Outcast theme.
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...And a fistbump for the kickass drabble.
It's always nice revisiting old favorites, and of course rooting 'em on in the eternal drabble-derby.

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Re: Unrealistic Expectations (Ugly Duckling theme)
Bump for Ugly Duckling theme.