“Remember, Fluffies! Not vodka.”
The first part of a concept that has been on my mind for the better part of almost two months now. The idea is fairly complex, which is the reaosn why the story that was initially intended to be a one-off narrative, is now going to be part of a larger writing project.
Some notes:
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the crossed out lines are what Mikhail wrote on the computer, but didn’t include in the actual journey entry he submitted to his therapist, Dr Pavlov
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Dendies are based off the real Dendy, a series of hardware clones of the Nintendo Entertainment System and SNES sold in Russia. Dendies are used to depict fluffies as designed by Russian artists like Artist-kun, shaferaraks, abuse-sir and so on.
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Despite the supposed distinction, there is no real difference between an American fluffy from a Russian fluffy pony (or Dendy). The notable difference is more in their design, as well as how they’re raised. For instance, the Russian fluffies encoutnered at the kindergarten, in my imagining, would resemble a Shaferaraks fluffy, while Carpdime’s take on an artist-kun fluffy would be the design of Martin, the dendy Mikhail owns
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Credit has to go @RoseTea for the McBrega name. McBrega is the stand-in for Hasbio for this setting. More explanation as to the conception of McBrega will be explained in the notes of the next part
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The Modifyers is a real cartoon that was pitched to, but rejected, by Nickelodeon
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“Ну, погоди!”, or Nu Pogodi! is a real cartoon from Russia.
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Flufftales is inspired by DuckTales (and to some extent, Sony’s Dragon tales). The varios Flufftales plots are all plots from Ducktales, Chip & Dale and Tailspin.
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Marty the flyfing fluffy is based off Carpdime’s depiction of a fluffy based of Mile Tails Prower, the sidekick of Sega’s Sonic the Hedgehog. Widget is based of Gadget Heckwrench
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Sergei Ivanovich Leonov is based off three people. The first is Sergei Suponev, who presented the Dendy a New Reality TV show. Alexei Leonov was the first cosmonaut to do a spacewalk, and was also one of the cosmonauts intended for the Soviet lunar landing missing. The third person is Sigmund Jahn, an East German cosmonaut, who played an important role in the movie “Goodbye Lenin”
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The American “Carol of the Bells” is an adaptation of the Ukrainian song “Shchedryk”
Hoere’s hoping the next part will come out soon. Though knowing me, I might end up taking longer than usual Dx
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