Ask The BellHunters: Ask the Ruminerd; Videogame Film Adaptations

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Hello, I'm Dawn Hunter-Bellwether...er, formerly Dawn Bellwether if you didn't recognize the added surname. And before you ask, yes 'that' Dawn Bellwether. Ex-Assistant Mayor, Ex-Mayor, Ex-Criminal Mastermind (Reformed thank you very much), City Savior, Controversial Author, and Predator/Prey relationship advocate. I'm also, as you probably guess by the hyphenated last name, married, and happily so to my mate Vernon Hunter, a gray wolf. I'm also a mother to three wonderful pups, something I never thought I'd ever have the chance to be! But, lamb sakes, I've gushed enough about myself here without explaining exactly what this blog is for. You see, after the release of my book “Predator Seeking Prey”, our little family started to get a lot of public attention again, and with it came a lot of question from curious mammals and other pred/prey couples from all over Animalia. My best friend and mate Vernon thought it would be a good idea to deal with these questions directly by opening a sort of blog/forum and taking those questions about our lives directly. Since then, I'd like to say our little blog has been quite successful, with even members of our family and friend circle pitching in and taking a few questions as well. So with all that said., please feel free to Ask Away!

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(Blog Author Note: This blog is based on the fanfiction “The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether” as well as it's pseudo-sequel “A Lamb Among Wolves”. If you haven't read them, it'll probably help you better understand what's going on here if you do. I'll link both stories below. Oh Also, I'm open to questions as well. Simply direct “Author” emails to “WastedTime” when composing them. And before I forget, I have a Patreon! Five dollars gets you access to in progress fics, Ask priority, and art previews of both SFW and NSFW art. Of course, even a dollar would help. Seriously, it's how I keep projects like this alive.

The Rehabilitation of Dawn Bellwether:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11999389/1/The-Rehabilitation-of-Dawn-Bellwether

A Lamb Among Wolves:

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Thursday, September 15, 2022

Ask the Ruminerd; Videogame Film Adaptations

Gus: Awful...all of them are awful. I can't think of a single game adaption that was actually good.

Mellanie: Sonic the hedgehog.

Gus: ...Eh...okay, I'll give you the sonic movies...but can you really even call them an adaptation of the story?

Vernon: Er...yeah?

Gus: No, what I mean is...like yes it is an adaptation of Sonic as a...character? But it's not an adaptation of any of the game stories. They did that dumb thing Howlywood always does where they bring a character into the Animalian world in order to save costs. Like those terrible chipmunk films...or the Sniff's movie...

Vernon: Well even fer one of them types of movies, they did alright...

Dawn: The Pups loved it.

Joel: And there are way...way worse game adaptations out there...like the Monster Stalker movie...or the entire Roosident Evil series.

Gus: Cervidwen's hooves, don't remind me about the roosident evil films...*Shudders* Six damned movies that are little more than fanfiction built around propping up the directors wife's ego...or show her off or whatever...

Broomie: It really is...her character actively steals thunder from the other actual characters in the series...like that moment in the second one where Jill's trying to blow up those zombie komodo dragons in the room filled with gas, and she throws a match and it goes out, but then Alice throws a lighter or something...it's insane.

Joel: Makes you wonder how it got six movies...

Gus: Sheep...Er...I mean...er...normies...Sorry Dawn.

Dawn: It's fine, I've heard the sheep flock allegory used as a derogatory term for my whole life...I'm already used to it. It's ingrained in most cultures' colloquiums after all, for better or worse.

Joel: Normies don't care if it's accurate to the source material...they just want to turn their brains off and watch a bunch of attractive mammals mugging for the camera and explosions for an hour and a half.

Gus: Then why even use the IP? Why not just make something original?

Broomie: The name has a built-in fanbase...and normie buzz...

Gus: You don't have the built-in audience when they know to avoid the movie because it's going to botch the lore!

Joel: It still has that normie buzz though. People who only have a surface-level knowledge of the series, think the concept is cool, but don't care about all that quote-unquote "Nerdy Baggage" that comes with actually being into a franchise.

Gus: You think it's the same sort of thing with those 'live-action animalme' remakes?

Joel: *Snorts* Oh don't even get me started on live-action animalme remakes! I still have nightmares about that 'Cowboy Fleabop' series they produced for Petflix!

Broomie: I think there isn't a soul alive that doesn't want to forget about that Cowboy Fleabop live-action series...