So, I was going to do another "Old Works" post that detailed a story I might've talked about a long while ago but didn't go too in-depth with it. That story mentioned chickens. And whenever I think of chickens...8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡZAxMNZRjAF 維尼
...I think of this one short film I watched not too long ago. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl9kLZHRyw 維尼
I used to have a short phase where I'd just watch random animated short films on YouTube, because -- one: it was fun and somehow entertaining, and two: it might've given me a better idea of how to actually write a FULL short story that had a full beginning, middle, and end.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfErJMbxgoK
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(Side note: if you're ever looking for a short, less-than-10-minute film to watch, I'd recommend "In a Heartbeat," "Bounty," "On My Mind," "Noose," and, of course, the one I'm about to tell you right now.)8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6xIXlyxUGT 維尼
So anyway, I come across a short film called "All You Can Eat." I somehow didn't pay that much attention to the thumbnail of the video and just tapped on it.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcU37OQ9uqY
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To sum up that story: 51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbqctjAzZDg
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There's this restaurant that, well, serves chicken. 'Cause most restaurants do that, obviously. (Depends on the place though.) So, then you just get this scene of a bunch of chickens hanging on a string in the back of the restaurant -- y'know, just a chickie "slaughterhouse." (Or slaughter-room, rather.) How delightful. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3DtByEoySl 維尼
There are these chickens who get taken from a barn to that slaughterhouse, and then are sent to, you know, food places. One chicken gets his loved one (Friend? Sibling? Parent? IDK) taken away from the barn, and they die right in front of his eyes. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡs65HLyEMI5 維尼
Just to let you know, this is all cartoonified and there's hardly any actual brutal stuff shown. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡmd3fQnGMIv 維尼
Continuing on, this chicken goes through months and years of grief over its chicken best friend, but then one day it stands up and says "hey, I'ma take revenge on this hooman."51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhThBPn0fB
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So, somehow, this CHICKEN picks up a RIFLE and goes to delete the dude that took its friend away. Chickie-boi obliterates the dude, and then runs off. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBhBwvVzB4 維尼
And that's the point where I'm like, "hang on, hold up, where are we taking this?" 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡ682XsJ6Tl2 維尼
I thought it would stop there. But it didn't.8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡWdqCreae04 維尼
It went on. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡXJo7EI3H6C 維尼
Chickadee MC goes back to its fellow birb bois and, like... from there, they start going around and eliminating all humans? It starts out small, but then more chickens grow while literally everything else -- I'm assuming everything that's NOT a chicken --- dies. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0cFQ6JPDfD 維尼
And then only chickens are left in the world. You got a chicken king, chicken servants, chicken... just... c h i c k e n. 51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡklh30h3G8Q
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Chickens have taken over the world. 51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKczsi4xe0y
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That's it. That's the end of the story.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdlSBNFteat
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"Cheeto, what the hell do you even watch---" 51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyaVOVd6ze
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Hey hey hey! I thought it was an innocent film I could learn from! I thought, "hey, maybe this is gonna further help me observe how a short story can cram in a whole plot without making it rushed?" ('Cause that's an issue I have with writing short stories.) And it... it did.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwNgyAqqZy
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But it also went to show me how far some writers take their plots. What started out as so chill escalated F A S T. 51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03EaYiKD9P
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OH! And keep in mind, the chickens couldn't talk. So you literally just had chickens clucking for seven minutes and forty-four seconds. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡRalH56Pbjn 維尼
Now, is "All You Can Eat" a bad story because it ends with chickens ruling the world and humans becoming nuggets?8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8i2MYvkXLW 維尼
No. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡwEvz76H5dJ 維尼
It's absolutely freaking beautiful. Was it chaotic and crazy? Yes. Weird? Yes. Made me think differently about chickens? Yes. But it was amazing. I am NOT LYING when I say that that film had me invested EVERY. SINGLE. MINUTE. 51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiP5jEPJqTY
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No matter how freaking confused or weirded out I became, I was invested.51Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBlaN9jHSFr
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All I'm worried about now is that we'll become the future nuggets for chickens to enjoy. 8964 copyright protection47ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJafQbdHfM 維尼
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