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[franciscoramon]

informal poll for you guys. if you had to choose, is this place more like:

a) fantasia, from the neverending story
b) oz, from the wizard of oz
c) wherever the hell it was with the muppets and stuff, from labyrinth
d) wonderland, from alice in wonderland

[ The question might seem like a frivolous one, but the answers should actually be pretty informative, and it's way more fun than just asking people to describe what this place is really like. ]

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text; @liches.get.stitches

[spellslots]

All of those are gonna go over a lot of people's heads. We're not all from Earth, my dude.

[franciscoramon]

[ Cisco may or may not mutter something to himself about darmok and jalad nonsense up in here before he responds: ]

yep, still getting used to that.

but i gotta work with the pop culture references i've got, you know what i mean?

how'd you guess i was from earth if you're not?

@p.carter ( text )

[mannerism]

I fear I only know two out of the four.

Perhaps I am missing out on the correct answer.

[franciscoramon]

which two?

and there's no right answer, it's an opinion poll

[ text | un: jkent ]

[supersweet]

So like. Only old people movies?

[ His dad would fit right in. ]

[franciscoramon]

[ Wow. ]

i was aiming for movies a large range of people might have heard of

[ Is he for real getting sassed by some twelve-year-old, this is exactly like the internet back home. Some things really don't change. ]

@cjk [ text ]

[signifies]

Are you familiar with a show called Sliders?

gonna pretend it's not a thing in flash verse bc i don't know anything about it

[franciscoramon]

no

i'm guessing it's not about baseball or tiny hamburgers, though?

@fatima

[dust_of_life]

C

If C also included a breakdown of the multiverse? We're all Sarah.

[franciscoramon]

oh goody.

[ Sarcasm heavily implied. ]

text; un: s.rogers

[starspangled]

I'm gonna go with Oz, but I'm still waiting for my ruby slippers.

[franciscoramon]

that's good to hear, oz is one of the less messed-up options if you ask me.

except for the flying monkeys. and witches.

@fulcrum

[seditionist]

I've never heard of any of them.

[franciscoramon]

now see that's just sad.

text; @cdr.ebbisaryn

[greyjane]

i'll be joining the sad, sorry lot of folks who haven't the foggiest, i'm afraid. quick summary for the woefully uneducated? :)

ANY INACCURACIES ARE ME HAVING A BAD MEMORY not cisco, oops

[franciscoramon]

can do

[ The summary might make the implications of what he was asking a bit clearer, at least ]

a) bullied boy goes into a storybook to a magical land full of benevolent creatures and makes friends with a dragon, saves the day by believing in himself and all that good stuff

b) bored farm girl gets knocked out during a tornado and dreams of a colorful magical land where there's fantastical versions of her friends and family. she goes on a mission to get home, gets some sweet magic shoes, kills an evil witch, saves the day

c) teenage girl accidentally lowkey sells her infant brother to a creepy goblin dude and has to go through a weird terrifying maze full of bizarre kinda terrifying creatures, to find him and get him back, saves the day by learning not to be so selfish

d) schoolgirl in victorian times follows a rabbit down a hole to a weird dimension where everything is terrifying and batshit insane and eating mushrooms makes you 30 feet tall, and giant caterpillars smoke hookahs, and there's an evil queen who keeps trying to behead her, and everything is creepy forever

text; @whiterose

[finethanks]

If I had to take a guess based just on what I've seen with the ongoing festival, I would have to say d. It's something of a wonderland, with magic that no one can explain. I already want to start a mad tea party for everyone to attend, fufu. ♪

[franciscoramon]

i feel like mad tea parties are a lot better in theory than in practice.

what kind of magic? i'm new, fill me in.

@v.nikiforov

[genice]

Do we get to vote for other places we've been? I'm afraid I'm too new to this moon to have a firm opinion.

( he doesn't know all the movies in question, but since there's been a whole chiming in from people, well. not really necessary to add in, is it? )

[franciscoramon]

...sure, knock yourself out.

text; @redhood

[batbullets]

I mean, the festivals are definitely Mad Hatter level - classic storybook Mad Hatter, not the Mad Hatter I know, thank god - but I think there's some shading of option C as well. I never actually watched option A because the neverending bit kind of terrified me.

Haven't come across any Oz parts yet, but I'll let you know when I get sparkly red shoes and yellow bricks to skip on.

[franciscoramon]

you know a mad hatter?

[ He doesn't really get why 'neverending' would be scary and wants to ask what elements of C he means, but that question is the most urgent. ]

txt. @bennotwill

[snarkbark]

100% labyrinthe my guy.
on that note, have you seen a bowie looking guy looking to steal some babies and marry a teenager?

[franciscoramon]

man how did none of us realize how messed up that movie was when we watched it as kids?

[ It's a guess, that this person had seen it growing up, but something about the casual way he's making jokes about it makes Cisco think his guess is right. ]

what makes it like labyrinth, if not david bowie? cuz i'm assuming you were kidding just now.

text; @sans.

[bone_idle]

i'm a little disappointed in the lack of sci fi representation.

[ He was right there with y'all on the pop culture references and making light of circumstances that are stranger than fiction, up until he had a glance over someone's theory that this might be an elaborate, uh, breeding program. Yikes.

Joke's on somebody; in some cases, a resounding lack of interest isn't the only hurdle, but sheer incompatibility. Feeling rather let off the hook, he's glad to consider this Not His Problem and get back to the real point of reading this:

Besides, uh, scoping out how many of these guys might actually be humans from his own world, and who are from somewhere a bit far outside the planetary post code.

That's more exciting than anything else. ]

i dunno about you, pal,
but some of these responses seem to be tellin' me one thing:

movie night.

[ What, no helpful speculation about their circumstances?

Nah, other folks got that covered. ]

[franciscoramon]

i'm a little disappointed in myself tbh
i mean... i'm a sci-fi GUY! that's my THING!
i guess i was trying not to be TOO nerdy and i overcorrected in the opposite direction?

and you better believe i'm down for a movie night
we have to educate these poor unfortunate souls

Video - @chandra

[firelogic]

*Chandra is doing better at this whole camera thing, more of her face is in view as she answers in video because text seems so informal.*

I have no idea what those places are, have you really been to all of them?

*Chandra doesn't really get fiction, that involves reading and she doesn't do a lot of that.*

This place is like any other big city, less magic, more technology. But it has all the stuff you find.

--> video

[franciscoramon]

[ Huh, a video reply. Neat! Cisco figures he might as well reply in the same fashion. ]

No no no, see, they're not real places, they're just, um. Fake places. From movies.

[ Is she even going to know what movies are? This place really has the potential to be culture clash central... ]

Where I'm from, big cities don't have a lot of magic. Or, y'know, any. And neither do small cities. Or anywhere! Basically what I'm saying is any level of magic is like, way more magic than I'm used to.

@j.wick

[adiuvio]

Oz. There's a man behind the curtain.

[franciscoramon]

[ Now we're talking - this guy speaks Cisco's language ]

do you know that for a fact or are you just guessing?

text; @falconwings

[wingedman]

Put me down for Labyrinth, although I really think you oughta aim for more sci-fi than fantasy.

@sans.

[bone_idle]

@sans. liked this.