Joel: Look at this shameless self-promoter...I guess someone's looking for the Ruminerd's blessings...*chuckles*
Gus: More than likely looking for insight from the published author among us as to the quality of his work...
Dawn: I mean...I haven't read a fanfic since...probably college?
Vernon: *Flashes Dawn a dubious gaze* Lamb Fry?
Dawn: *Squirms in her seat* Well...maybe I've read a few here and there in the last few years...
Vernon: Floofs... *Says in a knowing tone*
Dawn: *An awkward bleat escapes her muzzle* A-and maybe wrote a few...back in college...
Vernon: C'mon now Honey Lamb...
Dawn: Okay, okay I was writing fanfics up until the whole Last Night incident...*crosses arms and pouts while throwing a glare Vernon's way.* Happy now?
Vernon: *Chuckles* Least yer bein' honest...
Melanie: Oooh...gossip gal! What kinda fics did you write? What media? *Melanie grins mischievously.* Were they steamy?
Dawn: I mean...yes...*Blushes* A-and I suppose...if you must know, they were largely uh...Fluffy the vampire slayer stuff, some Charmed...and maybe Supernatural in my college years...
Melanie: *Squeals in delight* Oh you gotta let me read them, those shows were my jam!
Dawn: *Cringes* Well I don't like...I mean that stuff is long gone...at least the stuff before college...It was too cringy...b-but I'm willing to share the other stuff so long as you don't tell a soul about.
Melanie: *Makes a cross on her chest with her hoof* Cross my heart and hope to die Dawn. I'll take them to the grave. *Chuckles*
Broomie: Eh...all writers gotta start somewhere...you should have been there to experience some of Gus' writing from his early games back in High School...phew...talk about cringe...
Gus: I'm right here you know...
Dawn: What were we supposed to be talking about anyway?
Joel: Beastars.
Vernon: That that Purrean soap opera? The one with the wolf and the rabbit?
Joel: Soap Opera? Ehhh...Purrean? No. It's a japandese mammanga adaptation.
Broomie: The one with the really pretty wolf girl?
Gus: *Squints at Broomie* And here I thought your attraction to wolves was limited to Talia. *Chuckles*
Broomie: *Sputters* I mean...I...
Vernon: *Chuckles* Ya opened a door that's purty hard to close huh?
Broomie: A-Anyway...er...me and Talia watch it...we like it...but she hates the rabbit...
Joel: Haru?
Broomie: Yeah, she says she's never felt the urge to maul a prey mammal before, but Haru awakens predatory instincts in her she almost forgot she had.
Dawn: I wasn't super interested in the series...
Vernon: Yeah, the guy...Leogshi, playin' the dumb wolf stereotype got old real fast...Fella seems too dumb to function at times.
Megumi: Oh yeah, he's a real moron. And he never develops as a character...he's just a baseline moron throughout.
Joel: It's so much worse in the Mammanga, you have no idea...it's like a train that goes off the rails, and for a while, you think it's going to be okay cause it's still sorta gliding next to the track slowly and no one's been hurt yet. Then it just dumps off the side of a steep cliff into a school bus, and they both tumble into a fireworks factory...all spectacle, no substance, and Juno gets the worst ending possible...Louis just completely walks back the entire series worth of character development and abandons her.
Broomie: FOR REAL!? AWWW...T-that! I don't know if I should be mad because you spoiled it, or mad because it's awful!
Gus: The second one, definitely.
Vernon: Eh...Louis is the deer right? Maybe it's them bein' afraid of goin' full hog with the predator/prey romance in a live-action type deal?
Gus: Sweet Sawgrass, Haru demands to see legoshi's penis at one point...I don't think that was the problem.
Melanie: I also...like...the sexual undertones are really weird too...like I mean first off...this is a fictional world where Predators eating prey is still absurdly common, and then there's like this weird...like they try to equate a predator's hunger to sexual desire...it gets really...rapey?
Dawn: Ew...yeah, glad we didn't get that far...
Vernon: That's real nice...sounds like the author has a fetish...
Gus: Or an agenda.
Joel: Look, if you want the seasoned Animalme veteran's take on it, Beastars was a promising-looking series with interesting, well-written characters that couldn't stick the landing with the plot which only unraveled more and more wildly as the series went on. It's a terrible shame...a real tragedy cause you don't see a lot of interspecies romance Mammanga's make it to the mainstream and get adapted into Animalme's or live-action shows in Japanda. Especially with a pred-prey coupling front and center.
Megumi: It true, it still sort of...shunned in my homeland. A lot of stodgy old tradition that we've weirdly come to take a personal point of pride in as hallmark of our 'unique culture' despite how miserable it make us. My Dad was...he actually passed away at just barely forty-one year old because he work way too hard as paper pusher in some dingy office job and the stress broke him.
Joel: Ah, he was a Karoshi?
Megumi: *Nods* He gave his life to that company. Slave away making himself miserable to support me and my mom, who were also miserable because we never got to see him. *Chuckles darkly* And at his funeral, his ex-boss had the audacity to describe him fondly as 'real company mammal'. *Gags*
Vernon: Sweet Sawgrass that...that sounds real rough...
Megumi: *Chuckles* Let's just say I do not regret giving his face a good claw massage shortly after his speech. It was well worth the night in the police station.
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