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15 years of MvA!!!
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who here likes monsters vs aliens
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older old doodles (2020 maybe?) of early episodes which scenes I liked
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Fictional President Election Round 2 Bracket 5
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Still an incredible movie.
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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward F. O'Keefe #BookReview #NetGalley #ARCReview #Biography #Presidents
A forthcoming book on Theodore Roosevelt examines the influence of five women in his life and how they helped shape his presidency. #BookReview #ARCReview #womenshistory #presidentialhistory #NewBooks #SimonandSchuster #TheodoreRoosevelt #AliceRoosevelt
A spirited and poignant family love story, revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life, especially his mother, sisters, and wives. Theodore Roosevelt wrote in his senior thesis for Harvard in 1880 that women ought to be paid equal to men and have the option of keeping their maiden names upon marriage. It’s little surprise he’d be a…
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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY
based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … April 23
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1616 – On this date the English writer and actor William Shakespeare died. He was born in 1564 and baptised on the 26 April, probably within 2 or 3 days of his birthdate. (One legend is that he died on the day that he was born - which would make his birthdate also today, 23 April)
Shakespeare is the most important playwright and poet in the English or any other language, but Shakespeare's sonnets are cited as evidence of his possible homosexuality.
The poems were initially published, perhaps without his approval, in 1609. One hundred and twenty-six of them appear to be love poems addressed to a beautiful young man whom he addresses as 'Fair Lord' or 'Fair Youth'; this is often assumed to be the same person as the 'Mr W.H.' to whom the sonnets are dedicated. The identity of this figure (if he is indeed based on a real person) is unclear; the most popular candidates are Shakespeare's patrons, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, both of whom were considered handsome in their youth.
It remains unclear whether the Fair Lord and Fair Youth addressed represent real individuals, or even whether the authorial "I" who addresses them represents Shakespeare himself, though Wordsworth believed that with the sonnets "Shakespeare unlocked his heart".
Even though he married Anne Hathaway and had three children, the circumstantial evidence, such as in his sonnets and plays, suggests he did have an erotic interest in men. Evidence of these homosexual tendencies comes from an analysis of his sonnets, which address his "great love," who seems be a young man.
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1791 – Today's the birthday of James Buchanan (d.1868), the 15th President of the United States and the nation's only bachelor chief executive, unanimously considered worst president in U.S. history.
For fifteen years in Washington, D.C., prior to his presidency, Buchanan lived with his "close friend," Alabama Senator William Rufus King. King became Vice President under Franklin Pierce. He took ill and died shortly after Pierce's inauguration, and four years before Buchanan became President. Buchanan and King's close relationship prompted the surly Andrew Jackson to refer to King as "Miss Nancy" and "Aunt Fancy," while Aaron V. Brown spoke of the two as "Buchanan and his wife." Further, some of the contemporary press also speculated about Buchanan and King's relationship.
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William Rufus King
Buchanan's and King's nieces destroyed their uncles' correspondence, leaving some questions as to what relationship the two men had, but the length and intimacy of surviving letters illustrate "the affection of a special friendship", and Buchanan wrote of his "communion" with his housemate . The circumstances surrounding Buchanan and King's close emotional ties have led most open historians to speculate that he was America's first homosexual president.
Perry Brass wrote us to tell us that in "several cities, most notably Washington, DC, 'James Buchanan Clubs' popped up, joined by wealthy bachelors. The clubs purported to be a place where bachelor men could 'network,' before that word became a verb, but the actual basis of the club was pretty well known: they were clubs for (somewhat) closeted A-gays. Another version of the clubs were called 'Steamboat clubs,' and I'm not sure where that word came from, although I think it had some connection with the Buchanan era as well."
Why was he such a bad president? Well, in a nutshell, most historians consider him responsible for letting the country fall apart into the Civil War. He acquiesced to Southern states (even though he himself was a Pennsylvanian). Buchanan's efforts to maintain peace between the North and the South alienated both sides. As the Southern states declared their secession in the prologue to the American Civil War, Buchanan's opinion was that secession was illegal, but that going to war to stop it was also illegal; hence he remained inactive.
By the time he left office, popular opinion had turned against him and the Democratic Party had split in two. His handling of the crisis preceding the Civil War has led to his consistent ranking by historians as one of the worst Presidents in American history.
If you visit Washington, DC, you can see the lovingly restored cottage of Buchanan's successor (and perhaps the second homosexual President) Abraham Lincoln. Located at the Old Soldiers Home near Rock Creek Park, the cottage underwent a complete renovation to return it to period authenticity as the summer home of the Lincolns during the civil war. What does this have to do with Buchanan? Well, if you stand in the front yard of the Lincoln cottage, across the way you'll see the beautiful cottage that was the summer home to Buchanan and King on those hot steamy Washington summers of long ago.
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1882 – The Chilean novelist Augusto Goemine Thomson better known as Augusto D'Halmar was born on this date. He is best known as the author of the novel "Pasión y muerte del Cura Deusto" which was published in 1924. It was one of the first novels to deal with homosexuality in an open way. In 1942 D'Halmar was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura. He was the first recipient of the honor.
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1918 – James Kirkup (d.2009) was a prolific English poet, translator and travel writer. He wrote over 30 books, including autobiographies, novels and plays. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.During World War II he was a conscientious objector, and worked for the Forestry Commission and on the land in the Yorkshire Dales.He taught at The Downs School in Colwall, Malvern, where W.H. Auden had earlier been a master. Kirkup wrote his first book of poetry, The Drowned Sailor at the Downs, which was published in 1947.
In 1952 he moved south to Gloucestershire and became visiting poet at Bath Academy of Art for the next three years. Moving on from Bath, he taught in a London grammar school before leaving England in 1956 to live and work in Europe, the Americas and the Far East. In Japan, he found acceptance and appreciation of his work, and he settled there for 30 years, lecturing in English literature at several universities.
Kirkup came to public attention in 1977, after the newspaper Gay News published his poem The Love That Dares to Speak Its Name, in which a Roman centurion describes his lust for and attraction to the crucified Jesus. The paper was successfully prosecuted in the Whitehouse v. Lemon case, along with the editor, Dennis Lemon, for blasphemous libel under the 1697 Blasphemy Act, by Mary Whitehouse, then Secretary of the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
You can read the poem here: The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name
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Mister Rogers with Officer Clemmons
1945 – François Clemmons is an American singer, actor, playwright and university lecturer. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as "Officer Clemmons" on the PBS television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from 1968 to 1993.
Clemmons was born in Birmingham, Alabama and raised in Youngstown, Ohio. When it was discovered that he had an excellent singing voice, he began performing locally at church functions. He became choir director of his church at the age of 10. His first songs were the spirituals of pre-Civil War America, passed down to him by his mother. He soon branched out across genres, singing with various community groups. For a while, he was the lead singer of a rock 'n' roll group called the Jokers.
Clemmons received a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College, and a Master of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He also received an honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Middlebury College.For 25 years, Clemmons performed the role of Officer Clemmons, a friendly neighborhood policeman, in the "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" on the children's television show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. In the neighborhood itself, Clemmons ran a singing and dance studio located in the building diagonally across the street from Mister Rogers' house. He was one of the first African Americans to have a recurring role on a kids' TV series, and his presentation – as both a beloved neighbor to Mister Rogers and as a respected authority figure – has been described as a ground-breaking message in race relations.
While attending Oberlin College, Clemmons realized that he was gay, but remained closeted, fearing disapproval from his religious family and the community. In 1968, Fred Rogers told Clemmons that while his sexuality did not matter to him personally, Clemmons could not be "out" and continue appearing on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, because of the scandal that would arise. In the late 1960s, Rogers and others suggested that Clemmons get married as a way to deal with his sexual orientation, which he did. His marriage to wife Carol did not work out, and Clemmons divorced in 1974 so that he could live openly as a gay man. Rogers remained personally supportive of Clemmons, but required him to avoid any indication of his homosexuality – such as the earring he began to wear as a signifier – on the program.
Clemmons lives and works in Middlebury, Vermont, where he is the Emeritus Artist in Residence of Middlebury College. He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music.
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1957 – Alex Sanchez's unique background as a youth and family counselor and his experiences as an immigrant have helped make him an important voice in today's young adult glbtq literature canon. Born in Mexico City, Mexico, to parents of both Cuban and German descent, Sanchez immigrated with his family to Texas in 1962 at the age of five.
In a panel discussion at the 2003 National Council of Teachers of English convention, he explained, "Because of my light-skinned father and his German last name (not Sanchez), I learned I could pass as white. I could hide who I was, so that others would like and accept me."
At age 13, Sanchez realized that he was gay. He once again experienced feelings of being an outsider. But this time he felt there was no one he could talk to or relate to. He found no books in the library that described what he was going through, and none to tell him that what he felt was okay.
"So," he explained, "just as I had learned to hide that I was Mexican, I tried to hide that I was gay. I became depressed, quiet, invisible, trying to escape calling attention to myself."
After graduation, he worked as a family and youth counselor for ten years. During that time, he began to write the story that would eventually become Rainbow Boys (2001).
The book features three distinct and well-developed gay teens: an "out-and-proud" gay activist, a jock who starts the book with a girlfriend and family issues, and a low-key closeted teen who experiences prejudice due to his friendship with the more flamboyant character. The characters' stories are continued in Rainbow High (2003) and Rainbow Road (2005).
Considering that the average age most gay Americans now "come out" has dropped from age 21 (in 1979) to around 15 today (and as low as ten), the need for middle-grade glbtq fiction is obvious.
Alex Sanchez is one of today's most influential authors for the glbtq young adult market. His popularity and success is due to many factors, but most notably his believable characters, the timely and relevant storylines of his novels, and the broad appeal of the stories to both gay and straight teens.
Sanchez's books have helped countless gay teens accept themselves while at the same time helping straight readers understand and empathize with gay teens.
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1984 – Aras Onur is a Turkish author, poet, and columnist.
Aras Onur was born in Ankara and is a graduate of TED Ankara College and University of Ankara. He started his literary career in the early 2000s. Openly gay, he has been often associated with local LGBT literature.
He is often identified as a socialist in the media, although his conservative tendencies are also often noted. Aras Onur was mastermind of "Kindle a Candle" protests, a wave of civil unrests in Turkey which began on 11 September 2015. The protesters were spurred on by a manifesto released by columnists of the national newspaper Karsi, in which the slogan "Kindle a Candle, Stand Out" was featured.
Onur had written Karsi editorial columns for two years as the acting-editor until he resigned from office in October 2016, following a ban on accessing the paper's website.
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1984 – The US Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary holds a press conference announcing that the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered: it’s HTLV-3, known today as HIV ('human immunodeficiency virus'). AIDS was originally named called GRID – 'gay related immune deficiency'.
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2013 – The French Senate approves same-sex marriage.
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Why am I always obsessed with characters with the least story relevance?
I couldnt tell you.
Don never speaks to you personally once, President Hathaway performs live music and sets the bombs off,
Kinger gets scared of just about anything,
Junkrat is just kind of a force to be reckoned with..
And Lexa was removed after one season, and yes I played Fortnite before shoosh.
Hrrmm. Strange.
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Good luck if you attempt this challenge! And what was your fastest run if you did multiple attempts? Or your favorite list?
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Oh, I love women? I'll name you every woman.
Kwon Eunbi
Miyawaki Sakura
Kang Hyewon
Choi Yena
Lee Chaeyeon
Kim Chaewon
Kim Minju
Yabuki Nako
Honda Hitomi
Jo Yuri
An Yujin
Jang Wonyoung
Leni Robredo
Audrey Hepburn
Anne Hathaway
Cate Blanchett
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Whang Od
Tandang Sora
Marilyn Monroe
Sydney Sweeney
Jenna Ortega
Zendaya Coleman
Megan thee Stallion
Taylor Swift
Naoi Rei
Harriet Tubman
Cleopatra
Eve
Maine Mendoza
Mikha Lim
Choi Yujin
Shen Xiaoting
Sakamoto Mashiro
Hikaru
Yeseo
Nicki Minaj
Ariana Grande
Dolly Parton
Lovelace
Huh Yunjin
Nakamura Kazuha
Sorry, this is all I can do. Took me under six minutes. I'm on a road trip and I need to pee and this is making me anxious lol happy Maundy Thursday to those who observe it love you
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for the 40 questions meme: 12, 15, 21
[ask me forty questions!]
12. Is there an episode above all others that inspires you just a little bit more?
I'm not sure what episode here refers to. Like a blanket episode of television? To inspire a specific fic or generally anything? The answer to this is probably the "Arcadia" episode of The X-Files. Mulder and Scully go undercover in the sixth season (GOD, the shipper season) as marrieds trying to infiltrate a sinister HOA and it is every bit as fun as you imagine it would be. Rob and Laura Petrie! Poopy head! They just spooned up and fell asleep like little baby cats! Have I used this conceit in other things? Indeed, I have. (Anne Hathaway as the sinister HOA president in that fic I wrote once, ahhhh, I had a blast!) I think every partnership should have at least ONE fake married undercover plot.
15. If you choose one of your fics to be filmed, which would you choose? Oh, this is a good one. Initially I was going to say that a lot of my fics are about vibes and feelings so they probably don't lend themselves to cinema, but all the AUs are plot-heavy so it would probably be a fraudulent zodiac if I ever finish it (I love spy dramas and the pea coat budget would be INSANE because I'd demand that everyone walk around like they're Robert Redford in Three Days of the Condor, a movie that I hated but also found extremely aesthetically pleasing) or put it in a zip-lock bag (shot in the vein of Almost Famous meets Last Days). I would've said the apocalypse AU, but that would involve too much CGI, I fear. What I really want is for someone to film the unwritten space AU in my head.
21. How many times do you usually revise your fic/chapter before posting?
More often than not, I re-read what I've written so far before getting to work on a new section so what ends up happening is that the earlier bits always get revised much more than the later ones. The whole thing sees at least one or two revisions once it is done (...usually immediately after it is done because I don't have the patience to sit on it, hence these 3am posts before a workday). I can count the number of times on one hand that I've finished a fic and then let it breathe for a day before going back to revise it because I simply didn't have it in me to read that much after churning it out.
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Fictional President Election Bracket 10
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hitchell-mope · 1 year
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Breaking the fourth wall.
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bargainsleuthbooks · 1 year
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If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of #TeddyRoosevelt's First Love by #MaryCalvi #NetGalley #eARCReview #BookReview #Roosevelts #StMartinsPress
#TheodoreRoosevelt is my favorite #USPresident, and I've read more than 50 books about him. A new #historicalfiction novel explores his first love and the tragic results #Ifapoemcouldliveandbreathe #TeddyRoosevelt #MaryCalvi #netgalley #Bookreview
Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Lee—many of them never before published—If a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy. Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee…
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San Francisco Chinatown men with queues, c. 1900. Photographer unknown (from the Pat Hathaway archives).
When San Francisco Criminalized Hairstyle
In a time where hairstyles such as dreadlocks and cornrows have often become a cultural battleground, emblematic of personal expression and cultural identity, the echoes of the San Francisco Queue Ordinance still resonate. As a former staffer in the halls of the US Senate, I recall my boss's assertion during my inaugural week—a proclamation that "there are no new issues." I realized then and now that the often obscure legislation, rooted in different times, can cast a shadow on contemporary debates, illustrating pertinent struggles for autonomy and acceptance within minority communities.
In California, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed the Queue Ordinance in 1873. The was law intended to force prisoners in San Francisco, California to have their hair cut within an inch of the scalp. It affected Han Chinese prisoners in particular, as it meant they would have their queue, a waist-long, braided pigtail, cut off. The proposal passed by a narrow margin through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1873. The ordinance was immediately vetoed by Mayor William Alvord. In his veto, the mayor stated that “this order, though general in its terms, in substance and effect, is a special and degrading punishment inflicted upon the Chinese residents for slight offenses and solely by reason of their alienage and race.”
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“Shaving, Cleansing and Scraping heads in a Basement Barber-shop,” June 6,1879, from the Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper.
An identical version of the law was enacted in 1876 and signed by a different Mayor Andrew Bryant. This set the stage for a federal case when a Chinese immigrant named Ho Ah Kow was arrested for living space violations under the city’s Cubic Air ordinance. Unable or unwilling to pay the fine for the violations, he was jailed. His jailers removed his queue during his incarceration.
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Ho sued then Sheriff Nunan for damages, claiming that the "Pigtail Ordinance" caused him irreparable harm.
On June 14, 1879, trial in a case about what the New York Times would later describe as “this childish attempt on the part of a community to persecute a race, in defiance of the Constitution and the laws” began in a San Francisco federal court, presided over by United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field. On July 7, 1879, Justice Stephen Johnson Field — in spite of heated criticism from the general public and lampooning in the press — found in favor of the plaintiff.
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Field’s decision held that it was not within the powers of the Board of Supervisors to set such a discriminatory law and that the ordinance was, in fact, unconstitutional. In particular, he cited the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which guarantees equal protection under the law to all persons within its jurisdiction. See Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan, 12 Fed. Cas. 252 (1879).
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Nine days later, the New York Times reported Justice Field’s decision and the unusual “case in which the Constitution of the United States is invoked to defend a subject of the Emperor in China, temporarily residing in this country,” noting that “the cutting of the hair, otherwise, the cue, of the Chinese prisoner was not done to promote discipline or health. It was done to add torture to his confinement.”
The New York Times’ editors presciently observed the constitutional significance of the successful challenge to San Francisco’s Queue Ordinance, beyond the “cruel and unusual punishment” it inflicted, as follows:
"But, what is of more importance, the court held, in this case, that the whole spirit of the ordinance was in the violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States. It was intended only for the Chinese of San Francisco. ... And in our country hostile and discriminating legislation by a State against any persons of any class, creed, or nation, in whatever form it may be expressed, is forbidden by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution.”
The district court’s decision was rendered seven years before, and served as precedent for, the landmark SCOTUS decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins 118 U.S. 363 (citing Ah Kow v. Nunan).
Little is known about the fate of the plaintiff, Ah Kow. He was awarded $10,000 in damages. He undoubtedly had to wait a very long time before even contemplating a return to the motherland ruled by the Qing emperor.
In ensuing years, reform movements in China had begun demanding its removal as a badge of fealty, along with foot-binding and a change in constitutional government. In February 6, 1896, The San Francisco Call newspaper reported that the city’s Chinese residents were expressing concerns that wearing the queue as sign of loyalty to a foreign government could preclude native-born, Chinese San Franciscans from voting. More significant, The Call reported, “[t]here are about 500 voters in Chinatown now, . . . and before election day the Chinatown politicians expect to carry no less than 1000 in their vest pockets. At the last gubernatoral [sic] election 400 votes cast either way would have changed the result.”
Following the establishment of the Republic of China in 1912, Chinese American men gradually abandoned the traditional Qing-era queue, as part of a symbolic departure from the Manchu-dominated imperial rule. The queue, which had been enforced during the Qing Dynasty as a sign of submission, became a powerful visual representation of resistance against the old regime. In the early 20th century, as Chinese Americans' abandonment of the queue not only symbolized their alignment with modernity and progressive ideals in China but also a desire to integrate into the American sociopolitical landscape. This shift reflected not only a break from a past in which hairstyle had been weaponized against the community but also a conscious effort to redefine identity in the context of a new era.
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Text of the Ho Ah Kow v. Nunan decision may be read here.
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aside from all the angst and trauma of it all one of the things I love about the Snow/Katniss dynamic is that she's a teenage hick and he's the literal President. she doesn't know what a shrimp fork is. it's Princess Diaries if Anne Hathaway wanted to murder Julie Andrews with a bow and arrow.
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Hypestars vs Koopas (Monsters vs Aliens parody) cast
"A man transformed into a maverick after he is struck by a meteorite on his wedding day becomes part of a team of Hypestars sent in by the U.S. government to defeat a koopa mastermind trying to take over Earth."
Dark Choco Cookie (Cookie Run) as Susan Murphy
Blademan (Megaman) as Ginormica
Newton (Littlebigplanet) as Dr. Cockroach (Voice Actor Reference)
Joseph Joestar (Jjba) as The Missing Link (With Caesar Zeppeli as an Extra)
Henry Stickmin (Henry Stickmin) as B.O.B
Pitaya Dragon Cookie (Cookie Run) as Insectosaurus/Butterflyosaurus
The Alliance (Littlebigplanet) and The Psychic Seven (Psychonauts) as Themselves/The Monsters’ Friends
Bowser (Mario) as Gallaxar
Tea Knight Cookie (Cookie Run) as General W.R Monger
Eclair Cookie (Cookie Run) as President Hathaway
Licorice Cookie (Cookie Run) as Derek Dietl
Dark Cacao Cookie (Cookie Run) as Carl Murphy
Choco Pearl Cookie (@sundove88) as Wendy Murphy
Blackberry Cookie (Cookie Run) as Katie
Adventurer Cookie (Cookie Run) as Cuthbert
Shannon (Flipline) as News Reporter
Duke Gotcha (Flipline) as News Reader
Koopa Troopas (Mario) as Gallaxar’s Clones
Various Cookies and Flipline Citizens as The Citizens
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