OK... Calling on my MC forum friends and fanfictional author peers to chime in. Maybe with your help I can get my act in gear. Will lay all the cards here in this post as to my internal schemes and why I keep waffling and wembling and getting unsatisfied with all the projects I start creating only to destroy in the blink of a mind's eye.
1 First of all, you may be familiar with Disney's Haunted
Mansion and the legend of how they have 999 souls roaming the
attraction. *They've never rully developed that to the fullest
potential and so I thought I'd do my version, adding that last soul to
make it a perfect 1000, a sort of 10x10x10 block formation. *But I
realized that even bringing in the master monsters I definitely want
to have make appearances and the secondary status creeps I've
developed some ideas of what they would be like, I won't get to so
high a total. *Oh aye, I'd get to about a quarter of the way, and it
may linger as a faint possibility on the horizon, I wouldn't be fully
satisfied. *At this point I'm putting that one on the back burner.
2 So what is it I rully want to create? *Well, with all these other
lines I get somewhat inspired/swept into...Wanted a full female
following of some small-sized critters that retain their um,
womanliness. *But what would provide a long-running and sufficiently
self-sustaining lineup that'd allow me to compete with such vinyl
merchandisers out on the market today? *Well, naturally, the thought
that crossed my mind was to have all the girl bats modeled partially
on the (and I'm treading with trepidation I don't know why I should
have so please don't react with first impulse) physical and facial
attributes of all Playmates from December 1953-Present.
3 That idea started to take root and I reasoned that such a campaign
would also provide the opening to bring in the master monsters without
running out of big names one at a time. *And since there's 50+ years
worth of centerfolds, another idea I pursued was (thanks to Disney
again) to bring in the monsters as representatives of each state of
the union, including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico with
whatever master monster after that. *These were to be categorized
under the heading of "13th Souls", as there are twelve models for each
month of the year, and of course the anniversary girl.
4 Recent thoughts however have put a bit of a kaibosh on that... *Says
to myself, why should I pattern my bats after those girls if I feel
somewhat uncomfortable researching their names and the dates they were
featured as playmates, especially given I have no visual idea of what
each playmate looks like? *So I've decided to just do the designs of
the girl bats on whatever I wish, thus controlling the entirety of the
process.
5 So now that the decision is to have a long-running collection of
small-sized womanly critters the choice remains... What kind of
critter should it be? Reasonably, it should be some critter that
personally appeals to me since I'm the one creating this. The answer,
naturally, which fits the plan well is to make these womanly
small-sized bats.
6 Once that's settled... It'd be natural that these creepy cuties
have a home of their own or master base. And what doomicile would be
more perfect for a brood of batty beauties than a master castle.
Additionally, since these will each be individually numbered thanks to
the small marble number threaded to silver chains around their necks,
what better home than the Count's castle.
7 Now then... Because there are other monster Muppet characters like
Uncle Deadly, Auntie Eleanor (from fanfics of course), Mulch, and Dr.
Phil van Neuter, as well as the Ultragorgon... And because the
haunted home just wouldn't feel fright without the big names in
monsterdom present as well, I thought that some of these (owing to the
Muppet figure collection I have) could be brought in based on core
Muppets to make it feel more like home.
8 What does this have to do with fanfic? *Glad you asked. *See, the
master monsters, which can still be brought in one by one are what I
plan on focusing on. *Was thinking of doing some simple Counting Pages
where each would be merely introduced. *These would be one, two posts
long at the max. *The scarem of bats would still be worked on as the counting collection's main focus, and I'd
hope to talk to some talented artists once I've gotten the written
descripts to my liking to showcase along with the reading materials.
9 Problem is...
Should I have small batches of five girl bats for each master monster?
Should it be a complete run of ten?
Or should I stick with the plans of twelve girl bats for each master
monster, retaining the monsters under the "13th Souls" banner?
True, I could simplify things and go with the small batches of five
each, that'd get me the fullness of a thousand members in the main
collection with the monsters I want to have present. *And perhaps it would be best to work in small batches of five as this would allow me to bring in the master monsters quicker, although keeping the calendar plans explained above working in groups of twelve bats would permit me to create a greater wealth of variants instead of being confined to having the smaller batches of five centered around the geographical regional location represented by the masters
of monsterdom (if they represent such) or the particular specialty of
the masters themselves.
10 Another problem is when planning the variant ideas for the individual
girl bats how much blurring or crossover between the camp of
individual outfitting and creepy creatures would be permissible so as
not to take away any thunder from the main monsters' bank. *There are folks here who know me and I'd hope to get their help in batting around costume ideas for each girl bat so as to widen the scarem's appeal and hopefully tread onto these blurring waters as little as possible, though an occasional crossover would be OK.
Hope to hear from you guys and gals soon. Ideas are always welcome and I'd like to see this finally get off the ground and moving forward, even if in bits and pieces not to be updated for a long while due to other items on my agenda. Take care all...
*Hugs from Ed "The Count".
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