It worked for the Velveteen Rabbit...

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

So this coming weekend, July 11-12th, the island is going to be hit by what I like to call the Velveteen Rabbit effect.

The Velveteen Rabbit is a story told from the pov of stuffed animals and is all about how, if a child really really loves you, you become real. This is pretty much what's going to happen on the island this coming weekend -- any inanimate object that is loved and valued by the people of Fandom will become human.

ie. Dean loves his 1967 impala; this weekend, the impala will be a hot woman. (Since she's a hot car.) A jedi values their lightsaber, it could turn into a guy with electric blue hair. It could be anything really, as long as it is loved by someone -- a piece of clothing (ie Chuck's scarf),a piece of jewelry, a weapon, a technological device (I mean we all love our computers, right?), a book, a stuffed animal like in the original story. Anything that is not actually alive but that your character loves can be affected.

If you don't want your objects to turn human for a weekend, that's fine. The island is often capricious to what gets affected and what doesn't. Or maybe your character just doesn't love any object enough for it to change. It's all good.

Standard OOC communication expectation regarding any aggressive or ah, overly frisky actions will apply with the temporarily human objects just as they do with normal characters.

The change will happen sometime in the wee hours of Saturday morning and everything will change back late Sunday night.

Questions? Ideas for potential objects coming alive you want to see? Pie?

Comments

Questions?

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Here is where you ask them.

Re: Questions?

[cuff-me-once.livejournal.com]

So basically what you're saying us that all the coffee machines in Fandom are turning human?

Re: Questions?

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Heee. I would not be surprised if at least some did.

Depends on if it's love or infatuation people feel for their coffee machines. ;)

Re: Questions?

[irulan-atreides.livejournal.com]

*thinks of Irulan's hats* Oh... God.

Re: Questions?

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Re: Questions?

[intraspective]

In a similar vein as Irulan's hats, I'm thinking of Ino's plants and going: o.O

Army of green-haired children?

Re: Questions?

[atreideslioness]

AHAHAHAHAHAHA *dies laughing*

Re: Questions?

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

So all objects will become human? Like a teddy bear wouldn't turn into a bear?

Re: Questions?

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Yes, they'd become human. The teddy bear could turn into a bear of a man, but it would still be human. :)

Re: Questions?

[asgardcreated.livejournal.com]

Where's the betting pool for how long it will take Chuck Bass to seduce the Impala if it turns into a woman?

Re: Questions?

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

I'll throw in for a Chuck/Dean/Impala threesome.

Re: Questions?

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

I'm not even taking bets on Dean sleeping with his car, because anyone who has ever meant Dean would know the answer to that.

Re: Questions?

[intraspective]

And, for an actual question: is there a limit to the number of things that can be turned human for one person?

Re: Questions?

[weetuskenraider]

. . . oh god. Considering the particular reason Tahiri's attached to this particular lightsaber . . .

XD XD XD

BRB, running from character trying to kill me now.

Re: Questions?

[awesomebigsis.livejournal.com]

Will this be open to alumni and ex-pats, too? Or just an island thing?

Re: Questions?

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Could Robin's banjo turn into a Muppet Human? Or is that not human enough?

Re: Questions?

[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

So... body parts wouldn't count, right?

I'M TALKING ABOUT HAIR, GET YER MIND OUTTA THE GUTT---*kaff* Nevermind.

Re: Questions?

[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

*asks a silly or potentially hilarious question*

As objects don't generally wear clothes, are these going to be Dressed In Appropriate Clothing type humans (ie, the Impala in shiny black patent leather to look almost like her finish) or Naked Humans (because the car is not wearing pants)?

Re: Questions?

[wantstobehuman.livejournal.com]

Is there going to be a problem with the beloved objects being something relatively recently acquired?

... Not that I'm thinking about Eric and his waffle-maker, or anything. Of course not.

Re: Questions?

[ktarian-wildman.livejournal.com]

Since Naomi's doll Flotter (http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Flotter) is a replicated version of a hologram character who was portrayed by a human actor, would using that as a PB still fit in the requirements of being human?

Ideas?

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

If there's something you just have to see as a human.

Re: Ideas?

[wantstocheer.livejournal.com]

Clearly one of Ned's pies needs to turn into a human.

Re: Ideas?

[glacial_queen]

Anakin Skywalker's haircare products.

OOC

[saltandammo.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... pie.

Re: OOC

[gotyourmateria.livejournal.com]

Pie for Dean (http://www.pieeaters.com/1-Design/piearticle1_clip_image001_0000.jpg).