Schadenfreude Unicorns and Dropping Acid
WELCOME...to the world of Schadenfreude unicorns and acid.
So, when you’re a writer, you get together with other writers.
When you get together with other writers, you talk about writerly things together.
When you talk about writerly things together, someone mentions the genre “dystopian.”
When someone mentions the genre “dystopian,” conversation concerning the various types of dystopia ensues.
When conversation concerning the various types of dystopia ensues, “dystopian fantasy” comes up.
When “dystopian fantasy” comes up, the consensus is that it should contain unicorns who are happy about everyone’s sadness.
When the consensus is that “dystopian fantasy” should contain unicorns who are happy about everyone’s sadness, you say, “They would be Schadenfreude unicorns.”
When you say, “They would be Schadenfreude unicorns,” the whole tribe of writers starts plotting a novel entitled The Unicorns of Schadenfreude.
When the whole tribe of writers starts plotting a novel entitled The Unicorns of Schadenfreude, the protagonist of the novel is a little girl who brings pain and misery to her world so that the Schadenfreude unicorns will come back to it.
When the protagonist of the novel is a little girl who brings pain and misery to her world so that the Schadenfreude unicorns will come back to it, the novel ends with the little girl ripping open a portal and the Schadenfreude unicorns prancing happily through the portal into a world filled with death and destruction.
When the novel ends with the little girl ripping open a portal and the Schadenfreude unicorns prancing happily through the portal into a world filled with death and destruction, the writers decide that they could only write The Unicorns of Schadenfreude if they were on acid.
When the writers decide that they could only write The Unicorns of Schadenfreude if they were on acid, you realize it’s time for a blog post.
NOW I NEED ONE OF YOU TO DRAW A PICTURE OF A SCHADENFREUDE UNICORN.
GO.
It isn’t weird that this happened. It’s weird it happened WITHOUT ME.
Belatedly: YES. QUITE.
I’ll just leave these here. Enjoy!
Map to Candy Mountain
The Banana King
The Starfish Really Really Loves You!
Anna, I honestly don’t know if those were downright hilarious or just really, really creepy. But I do know that I’m going to have “catfishes love you” stuck in my head for the next several days. ; )