The Carnival Meme

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the carnival meme

WHAT TO DO: 1. Post with your character! 2. Pick a scenario and reply to people! 3. Have fun and try not to get sick on the roller coaster! OPTIONS: 1. Games: From classic ring toss to the shooting gallery, here's your chance to win a prize for yourself or for that special someone. Some say the games at a carnival are rigged, but maybe, just maybe, you'll get lucky! 2. Food and Drink: The sweet smell of funnel cake and the familiar briny aroma of popcorn draw you over to the food and drink tent. There's cotton candy, candied nuts, and cheep booze, all here for your enjoyment. 3. Classic Rides: The carousel, the ferris wheel. All carnivals need these classic rides for kids and adults who aren't looking for the excitement of the faster-paced rides. Snuggle close to your partner and see if you can see your house from the top of the wheel. 4. Something More Exciting: This is for thrill-seekers. Here you'll find the Tilt-a-Whirl, the Gravitron, the Screamin' Swing--all the rides designed to make you lose your lunch. Hope you didn't have too much cotton candy! 5. Freakshow: Do they really have a bearded lady in that tent? It's time to find out. Buy a ticket and see the greatest oddities the world has to offer. 6. Tunnel of Love: Or perhaps tunnel of mild boredom. The red-tinted lights and quasi-romantic music are meant to make this ride a great makeout spot, if the chemistry is there. 7. Hall of Mirrors: You and your partner entered, thinking it would be easy to get out again, but dead ends abound in this wacky mirror-maze, and each mirror seems to show a more and more distorted image of each of you. 8. Fortune Teller: Whether one of the creepy machines or the even creepier women dressed up in a culturally insensitive costume, you cross someone's palms with silver and get your future told. Will it be happiness forever with your partner, or will ill tidings be bound your way? (Feel free to use this online tarot spread for extra fun!) 9. Wildcard: Any situation of your choosing happens in a carnival today! Go with the flow.

Comments

[plumbingproblem]

[Look, you can only fail to kidnap peach so many times before you really need a break. There's absolutely no way he'd see Mario or Green 'stache all the way out here at some cheap carnival; picking up a new minion in the process? A nice little bonus! And one that's really good at remembering his orders, too.]

Hey, not bad blinky! You got everything I asked for!

[But the thing to consider is Bowser is almost 9 feet tall on average since he changes size literally every game and he's got the bodily proportions to match. It means that in one swipe of his hand to snatch up some of the food Peepers has brought him, he takes about half of them - sized appropriately for more human sized carnival goers - and shoves it into his mouth. Popcorn, Cotton Candy and cardboard food holders are mercilessly chewed and shredded to pieces between his fangs, and apparently he doesn't even notice.

He's not a koopa of discerning taste.]

Anmphg heavurgh onph theph salt anmphg shuggurh tooph!

[He's kind of a messy eater, especially since he's talking with his mouth full, so watch for random bits of food peepers...and gross turtle saliva...]

[opticnerd]

[ Honestly, as gross as this is...

He's entirely used to it. Hater, despite being smaller than Bowser and certainly having a lot more motor control, absolutely is just as much of a slob. He dodges well enough to avoid getting slobber on him, and sighs. ]

It's Peepers. Not Blinky. And per your earlier request, I added extra salt and sugar.

[ Unfortunately, can't use the title of commander here, even if he FULLY DESERVES IT. But... that was kind of close to a compliment, which makes up for it. ]

Now... Lord Bowser, you must know where the closest intergalactic phone booth is, yes? Right? Or maybe you have one on your ship somewhere...?

[ You know, your spaceship, that you definitely have. ]

[plumbingproblem]

[Ship...?

Well. He does have an Airship which can actually travel through space apparently, but it doesn't change the fact it definitely doesn't have any kind of intergalactic phone on it.

Still, he's sure it must...maybe. That sounds like something he would want to have, so surely it was installed.]

My ship, huh? Well, you can take a look if you're that rarin' to go, specs.

[He scoops up the rest of the food in one arm out of Peeper's grasp, holding it to his body as he starts walking. Even if he's a big old turtle, his pace is actually pretty quick considering how big he is. Keep up Peeps.]

But don't take too long! If we get back and all the good stuff's gone, I'm making my own carnival. With tons of junk food. And dangerous rides. In fact, forget the carnival!

[Hope he's not too unimpressed with the ship once they reach it. It's literally just sitting there in the parking lot, despite being many times the size of all the other vehicles...]

[opticnerd]

Right! Yes, I'll only be a moment!

[ And off he goes into the ship, running as fast as his tiny little legs will go- which is actually pretty fast. Somehow. He dodges all over the ship, tsking at the poor design. It's not as big as the Skull Ship, given that it doesn't have to host an entire army, so he combs through most of the rooms pretty fast and...

Yeah. No phone. ]

Of all the... Of course he doesn't have a phone! I don't know what I was expecting!!

[ Peepers slaps a hand to his "face" and sighs, dragging it down again, before leaving the ship. ]

... You don't have one, Lord Bowser. You have many, many cannons, but you do not have a phone.

[ Which means he's still stuck with this dumb turtle man until he can find one. ]

[plumbingproblem]

Gwahaha! It is a lot of cannons, isn't it? You know I put less troops on it to make room to get that many cannons.

[He sure loves his cannons.

In any case, since they're stuck here (and he's finished all of his snacks in the meantime) he decides to go back to the carnival. Onwards, peepers.]

Since I can't fit on any of the rides, let's go stomp some fools and win some stuff. Some of the Koopalings make a serious mess of things if I don't bring them back presents...I'd say they're almost a chip off the old block if they were my kids, y'know!

[opticnerd]

Better cannons than smooching rooms...

[ Peepers mutters under his breath. Because that's what he has to deal with. Smooching rooms. Six of them. ]

You... bring back your subordinates and troops presents?

[ Because hold the fuck up. That... actually sounds nice? He's never gotten a present from Lord Hater before. Except like a backwards compliment, once in awhile. ]

[plumbingproblem]

Pfft! Not all of them! You think I have the time or money for that kinda thing?!

[He does, actually. An entire vault of fucking gold and jewels and...well...]

But those kids are a serious pain when they're causing trouble. Not that I'd mind if it wasn't my castle they'd take it out on!

[opticnerd]

[ Oh, well that's an easy one to answer. ]

Why not just destroy one to set the precedent that you won't tolerate that sort of behavior? Then you wouldn't need to buy any of them presents, and they wouldn't disobey you.