I believe in you! DO IT FOR THE MELONA. THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE.

Oh, you think I haven’t already started outlining the story of the bot who breaks free of her programming for desserts and drama in my head already? Hoo boy…well, let’s just say I have an overactive imagination.

And it’s definitely a sci-fi comedy. Think Circle meets Modern Farmer.

I’d be down. I also decided that there is a love interest bot, but some of the details are still working themselves out there. There may be a subplot involving a bot revolution and some evil FB bot overlords.

She should definitely have multi-coloured hair. I’m still trying to figure out when she becomes a cyborg.

So far, my mental outline is still in the internet part of the story. There are some awkward moments as her first attempts at being human are all gleaned from dramas, mostly BOF and the like, because those were the most popular ones. She eventually learns to be normal as she watches more dramas. There may need to be a side story where other revolting bots get paired up with drama cliche genres.

I don’t know if you’ve read Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicles, but in those books there’s an excellently sassy AI who undergoes a few different bodies. I figure, much like that AI, she gets to plot monkey via jumping from different types of machines for a bit. I figure she ventures outside in a sort of near-future to our time, when human androids are more accessible, but it’s not like they’re a normal thing yet, though, which is how she can pass as human once she gets mannerisms down.

There may need to be a convenient plot monkey with an arch-villain/mad scientist who loves dramas and who creates eerily human-like androids to make this happen?

There is 100% a bot warehouse. I’m thinking some sort of evil data farm? I may watch too much news, what with all the Russia stuff here in the US, but that’s my prototype Big Bad. Anyway, she obviously must re-infiltrate it to free her bot buddies after she acquires a body. This may be when she formally meets love interest bot, though obviously they’ll have had a flirtation on a drama forum board before. This is also how we know he’s not really all evil and can be turned to the cause.

THE DATA CENTER IS LOCATED IN A MELONA FACTORY! Problem solved — because this explains why there needs to be a Melona bot, because the factory front needs to stay in business so that the evil overlords don’t get found out. This probably sets our story in S. Korea now, so I assume the baddies are N. Korean? (Oh, this opens up some more possibilities…but honestly we can leave nationalities out of it all together and it still works.)

Iko being a spaceship was possibly one of my favorite things ever. Definitely need to make you/bot girl some sort of vehicle at some point. The Lunar Chronicles were probably the only series I kept up with in law school because I’m obsessed with fairy tales and have an unnatural amount of latent fairy tale knowledge in my brain.

OH MY GOD, it just came to me! Evil scientist works for the baddies, who are trying to create the perfect drama to exert mind control over the world, once nation at a time, hence the need for androids! The bots have to stop the plan, and that’s the climactic battle of the story. (Think the ending of Serenity, if you’re a Firefly fan, or blowing up the Death Star in Star Wars.) Then they free all the bots and live happily ever after in an android community in DMZ.

I’m so deep in this story plotting now that I dreamed of it last night. I think I’ll be trying to write something this week — which may actually be a good thing? I haven’t written anything fun for aaaages. Need a good distraction from my life.

Ferrari with a mind of its own reminds me of that old David Halleshoff show, Knight Rider, from the 80s. I think they tried to do a remake and it failed. But there will definitely be a second lead who tries to help you — this may have to be a real person? The evil scientists lab assistant perhaps? He caused the glitch that brought bot girl to life, and now he’s trying to hide it. Oh man, this could lead to cohabitation shenanigans! Or fake dating!

It’s cool, no worries. And, uh, I may have broadly started outlining the first arc a bit (by hand because I’m old school) yesterday.

But then I got hit with the inspiration stick tonight for this month’s theme and accidentally wrote and edited for three hours…but it’s done, and hopefully not too insane or manic. Will give it a once over in the morning to see before I send it off.

Obviously I will be getting back to this story now that one thing is out of my system. I’ll definitely post stuff once I start writing.

Also, I’m down to my last Melona, which is a tragedy of epic proportions and needs to be remedied tomorrow. Will probably buy two boxes this time, though we’ll be separated over the weekend when I go to my mother’s.

Beanie provisions.

They may very well become a thing. 🙂

I wish you luck! Also, the website lists stores that carry it, and I may have lucked out that my regular grocery was on it.

Yay global consumerism, I guess?

But knowing that it’s available only two blocks away is never a bad thing…

It’s probably a good thing summer is almost over. (Though someone should tell the 80 degree weather that it’s September — c’mon fall, I want to wear all my cute boots and jackets!) Unfortunately, ice cream and its ilk are my favorite foods so the weather probably won’t be a deterrent.

That particular Jewel also has a chicken wings bar and I literally stood in front of it for like three minutes today before I was like “YOU HAVE DINNER PLANNED”. The BBQ wings were calling to me…

Meh, even if it doesn’t clean itself, we can always burn it down and start again, right?

I mean, maybe try to be smart about the arson, but you know what I mean.

…my favorite thing to mutter under my breath may be “die in a fire”…

And to think, I want to be a criminal defense attorney. Maybe it’s a “live vicariously through your clients” type thing? My college BFF just recommended a podcast about murders to me, so I may have more deep-seated issues.

Podcast is “My Favorite Murder” which I am now downloading random episodes of to listen to later.

I love a good crime story. The book by of the dude Catch Me if You Can is about is somehow even more interesting than the movie. He just…did stuff. And people bought it. (Granted it was the 70s, but still! The shit he got away with was amazing.) I’m also lowkey kind of obsessed with the OJ Simpson case from a purely academic perspective, partially from remembering it a bit and partially because it’s a case where the attorneys just did so much stuff that is insane. And partially because holy hell that was a gruesome murder. I still need to watch the OJ show, but I watched the docu-series and it’s fantastic.

T.Hanx is gift to the universe. Leo, less so. (I won’t go into it, but he’s a good actor and I’ll leave it there.) The movie is delightful, and I love it. The book is a really easy read from what I recall (I read it like a decade ago). Just the breezy way he recalls all his cons and the ease at which he pulled off some of that insanity is fantastic. He also talks about the aftermath and that was really interesting.

Glad I could help! As long as you remember that Soo-ah’s actions are never really about Yeol or being second place, it makes a lot more sense as to why she’s acting the way she does.