The idea was a weirdbox story about a religiously fanatic, Pyromaniac fluffy owned by a kindly old vicar, yet despite the owner being a sweet elderly man, his pet has come to believe that all unicorns are witches and must be burned at the stake.
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After I wrap up the epic of the poopie smarty, I will see if I can revive Salem as a side character in the series that will come after.
He feels like he’s too unique of an idea to just throw away.
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Sounds like an interesting idea, especially if it was a horror story.
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It would have been a combination of weirdbox, Moronbox and horror. Making it something of a black-comedy.
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Matthew Hopkins would be proud.
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He was a direct inspiration, to be honest. I’d best describe Salam’s personally as the volatile mix of an overachieving witch finder and a smarmy but oddly charismatic televangelist from the late 80s.
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This is genius!
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The idea of a fluffy going around with a bell, book and candle, burning unicorns and alicorns is highly intriguing…
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He also uses his exceptional charisma to spread hatred and distrust of unicorns. Let him loose in a fluffmart and he’ll have them lynching the pointy headed bastards before lunch.
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“Wook, bwuddas and sissies! Dey beaw da mawk of da beast bway-sen-lee upon dere vewy faces! How kan we gud fwuffies stand to haf such munstas in our vewy midst! Sawem say we buwn dem! Buwn dem aww! Foweva sweepies to da munstas!”
Dammit, I need to get better at fluff speech. It sounds like a 40K ork with a lisp at the moment.
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meanwhile the vicar is looking on in horror, trying to figure out how the fuck his fluffy came to this conclusion
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The origin was gonna be that Salem’s owner being a not-so-tech-savvy boomer, so he gave Salem an iPad and put on religious kids cartoons on for him using YouTube when he had to leave Salem alone for long stretches of time. And of course if you know anything about how YouTube rabbit holes work, it does not take long to find yourself in some very weird and dark corners of the site.
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I went looking for like, ripped videos of old supernatural-themed mockumentary type shows and ended up in conspiracy rabbit hole territory.
These religion-obsessed conspiracy guys DID have the stuff I was looking for. They were treating it like a real thing and not a short-lived Netflix horror mockumentary series BUT I wasn’t gonna tell them they were nuts because I wanted to watch it again and no one else seemed to have it…
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