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<blockquote data-quote="marcoasalazarm" data-source="post: 7252800" data-attributes="member: 26698"><p>Well, the "Littles" are from a book series by author John Peterson published (and still being published, AFAIK) by Scholastic Books (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles</a>) that was adapted to a cartoon series by DIC Entertainment (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles_(TV_series)" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles_(TV_series)</a> ). The Borrowers is a similar book series, pretty much the across-the-pond version (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers</a>), although considering that the Borrowers series started on 1952 and the Littles series started on 1967, I suppose one is based on the other, at least in the idea context.</p><p></p><p>So we have, at least, four races that could be considered pretty small (although how small is a Fraggle, by the way?).</p><p></p><p>Dunno... you guys think a generic "teeny-tiny Fiction Race" template with an attached "this is what makes a Doozer, this is what makes a Little, this is what makes a Borrower, this is what makes an Invisible" kind of description would count?</p><p></p><p>And looking at MovieBob's "Schlocktober" on YouTube, I was thinking of something...</p><p></p><p>...maybe give a new Ability (dunno if Ex or Supernatural) to monsters that come from B-films like "Night Of The Lepus" (which are giant meat-eating bunny rabbits, by the way) or... well, heck, pretty much anything from The Asylum, really--especially their earliest catalogue entries. Calling it "So Laughable That It's Terrifying" or some other name.</p><p></p><p>Pretty much weaponized "Narm" (to use the TV Tropes term). While it's not unusual that Fictions manifest on the Core Timeline looking like they did on their media (so it's kind of like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" with the 2-D cartoons looking 2-D and I guess the 3-D cartoons looking 3-D, only, you know, all of them in "high definition"), these monsters appear with all of their absurdly cheesy, schlocky, "I-can't-believe-someone-spent-any-kind-of-special-effects-budget-making-THIS" quote-unquote-sarcastically "glory", that people that actually know better just stand around going "what the hell is THAT!?" and pretty much mentally turn into characters of schlock for the remainder of the encounter.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="marcoasalazarm, post: 7252800, member: 26698"] Well, the "Littles" are from a book series by author John Peterson published (and still being published, AFAIK) by Scholastic Books ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles[/url]) that was adapted to a cartoon series by DIC Entertainment ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littles_(TV_series)[/url] ). The Borrowers is a similar book series, pretty much the across-the-pond version ([url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Borrowers[/url]), although considering that the Borrowers series started on 1952 and the Littles series started on 1967, I suppose one is based on the other, at least in the idea context. So we have, at least, four races that could be considered pretty small (although how small is a Fraggle, by the way?). Dunno... you guys think a generic "teeny-tiny Fiction Race" template with an attached "this is what makes a Doozer, this is what makes a Little, this is what makes a Borrower, this is what makes an Invisible" kind of description would count? And looking at MovieBob's "Schlocktober" on YouTube, I was thinking of something... ...maybe give a new Ability (dunno if Ex or Supernatural) to monsters that come from B-films like "Night Of The Lepus" (which are giant meat-eating bunny rabbits, by the way) or... well, heck, pretty much anything from The Asylum, really--especially their earliest catalogue entries. Calling it "So Laughable That It's Terrifying" or some other name. Pretty much weaponized "Narm" (to use the TV Tropes term). While it's not unusual that Fictions manifest on the Core Timeline looking like they did on their media (so it's kind of like "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" with the 2-D cartoons looking 2-D and I guess the 3-D cartoons looking 3-D, only, you know, all of them in "high definition"), these monsters appear with all of their absurdly cheesy, schlocky, "I-can't-believe-someone-spent-any-kind-of-special-effects-budget-making-THIS" quote-unquote-sarcastically "glory", that people that actually know better just stand around going "what the hell is THAT!?" and pretty much mentally turn into characters of schlock for the remainder of the encounter. [/QUOTE]
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