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rachelmanija. HOO BOY.
Okay, first of all, I am in no way guaranteeing that these are the actually the five most cracktastic plot twists I have ever encountered, because I'm sure as soon as this goes up five people will remind me of five more EVEN MORE CRACKTASTIC plot twists, to which I will say "I HAD COMPLETELY BLOCKED THAT OUT OF MY HEAD AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REMINDING ME." This is just five reasonably cracktastic plot twists that I can come up with off the top of my head.
1. Sincerymenhild has asked me to talk about the Company books later on this month, I may as well set the stage here for things to come: ( series-destroying spoilers, SERIOUSLY KAGE BAKER WTF )
2. I think Sheri Tepper only gets to be on here once and I honestly can't decide which was weirder, the time that evil undead university professors took the conjoined twins and separated them into screaming body parts in boxes before they turned into, respectively, an bird-person and an otter-person or the time that humanity's only hope was to join the civilization of sentient squids under the ocean so they could give birth to mer-babies. But honorable mentions certainly go to the time the magical Native American heroine turned out to be a sentient lizard-person who magically removed the sex drive from the human race (Gibbons' Decline and Fall) and the time Beauty from Beauty and the Beast was kidnapped by documentary filmmakers and taken to a dystopian future before learning that all horror writers automatically went straight to hell (Beauty).
3. Did anybody else ever read a set of kid's books about Finn mac Cool? One of them was called The Wizard Children of Finn and it was a fairly normal book in which a couple of kids go back in time and have adventures with Finn mac Cool and the preteen girl kind of crushes on him before discovering that he is her ancestor. Mildly awkward! Then there was a sequel whose name I cannot remember, in which the kids travel back in time again, get turned into birds, and discover that their mother also traveled in time, got turned into a deer, hooked up with Finn (who is also her ancestor) (after turning back from being a deer), and gave birth . . . to two babies . . . which Finn named after that cute girl he met one time and her younger brother . . . before mother and babies all fled forward into the future to allow for the cycle to repeat. SUCH AN INCREASE IN AWKWARD IN SUCH A SHORT SPAN OF TIME.
4. A lot of really weird things happened in Mawaru Penguindrum, but I can't talk about the weirdest and most horrifying because WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE FROG. I will instead talk about the second-weirdest, which is the time it turns out ( spoilers...I guess? ) No, I'm lying, that isn't even anywhere near the weirdest plot twist.
5. I know, I know, we are all tired of hearing about the pig-dragon boyfriend of doom. AND YET I CAN'T NOT. To make up for it, please have some more cracktastic plot twists courtesy of a request from the last time I did a meme of this nature three years ago.
If anybody else feels inclined to try and top these examples from the top of my head, PLEASE DO.
rachelmanija. HOO BOY. Okay, first of all, I am in no way guaranteeing that these are the actually the five most cracktastic plot twists I have ever encountered, because I'm sure as soon as this goes up five people will remind me of five more EVEN MORE CRACKTASTIC plot twists, to which I will say "I HAD COMPLETELY BLOCKED THAT OUT OF MY HEAD AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REMINDING ME." This is just five reasonably cracktastic plot twists that I can come up with off the top of my head.
1. Since
rymenhild has asked me to talk about the Company books later on this month, I may as well set the stage here for things to come: ( series-destroying spoilers, SERIOUSLY KAGE BAKER WTF )2. I think Sheri Tepper only gets to be on here once and I honestly can't decide which was weirder, the time that evil undead university professors took the conjoined twins and separated them into screaming body parts in boxes before they turned into, respectively, an bird-person and an otter-person or the time that humanity's only hope was to join the civilization of sentient squids under the ocean so they could give birth to mer-babies. But honorable mentions certainly go to the time the magical Native American heroine turned out to be a sentient lizard-person who magically removed the sex drive from the human race (Gibbons' Decline and Fall) and the time Beauty from Beauty and the Beast was kidnapped by documentary filmmakers and taken to a dystopian future before learning that all horror writers automatically went straight to hell (Beauty).
3. Did anybody else ever read a set of kid's books about Finn mac Cool? One of them was called The Wizard Children of Finn and it was a fairly normal book in which a couple of kids go back in time and have adventures with Finn mac Cool and the preteen girl kind of crushes on him before discovering that he is her ancestor. Mildly awkward! Then there was a sequel whose name I cannot remember, in which the kids travel back in time again, get turned into birds, and discover that their mother also traveled in time, got turned into a deer, hooked up with Finn (who is also her ancestor) (after turning back from being a deer), and gave birth . . . to two babies . . . which Finn named after that cute girl he met one time and her younger brother . . . before mother and babies all fled forward into the future to allow for the cycle to repeat. SUCH AN INCREASE IN AWKWARD IN SUCH A SHORT SPAN OF TIME.
4. A lot of really weird things happened in Mawaru Penguindrum, but I can't talk about the weirdest and most horrifying because WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE FROG. I will instead talk about the second-weirdest, which is the time it turns out ( spoilers...I guess? ) No, I'm lying, that isn't even anywhere near the weirdest plot twist.
5. I know, I know, we are all tired of hearing about the pig-dragon boyfriend of doom. AND YET I CAN'T NOT. To make up for it, please have some more cracktastic plot twists courtesy of a request from the last time I did a meme of this nature three years ago.
If anybody else feels inclined to try and top these examples from the top of my head, PLEASE DO.
