The True Meaning Of Smekday - Tumblr Posts
I just finished the sequel to The True Meaning of Smekday and I can say with complete honesty I haven’t had this much fun reading a book since I was a kid
Here’s a little collection of drawings based on the books and movie/tv series!! (Funsize was one of my absolute FAVORITE parts!!)
I’ve been debating posting this here too but I think I will
I was working through some burnout and a cold last week and decided to read The True Meaning Of Smekday after I watched Home and found out it was based on a book!
I loved EVERY second of it — so funny, heartfelt and crazy original with gorgeous illustrations to boot!!
Here’s my little tribute, which there’s sure to be more of!
HOME ART
YOU HAVE MY ATTENTION
Lmao thanks,, idk how long this mini-fixation will last but I glommed the fuck onto that movie from the minute I saw it in middle school and August has been the fuckin nightmare month of this year so I just kind of. glommed again lol. People hate Home (like omfg I swear the book tag has more posts complaining about the movie than content about the books..) but tbh I like that the book and the movie have such different vibes.
Smekday has way more content, lore, mature themes, bite, seriousness, and rich characterization. It's a fantastic and thought-provoking book (even if the author understandably regrets some of it) but Home is hot chocolate to me.
It's just sweet. Different version of the source material to play around with. I really like using elements of one to generate/mix ideas for the other. I like that there are two canons of the same story. Like 'yes. more swatches for my paint palette please'
The fact that it's kind of softened and sanded down is a plus for me rather than a negative. Don't get me wrong, I would love to see a more faithful miniseries of the OG or something someday, but like. The book is still There lol
I'm really glad Home exists—even if it's not perfect by any stretch. I have my little gripes with it, but it's 100% my comfort film, which I guess explains why I "randomly" got back into it haha. I wish the following was bigger, it really is such a good book and the movie is baking soda in the special interest cake lol
But yep I'm just enjoying the ride while I'm here ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ even have a bit of a project in mind. Thanks for the interest!
(Click to enlarge—tumblr kinda nuked these ngl)
Finished the second book the other day. Dreamworks please puss in boots this shit I'll give you a million dollars I regret to inform you that my smekday moment is turning into a smekday hyperfixation (~_~;) oops. Sorry to all my followers who are probably Very confused dw I'm right there with you.
More below 👇 art + lots of meta bc spec bio and making shit up is my fav
Funsize wasn't in it as much as I hoped he'd be, but I liked him a lot. I wanted to see how he'd look in the Dreamworks style. I also made him look a bit more roughed up and grimy than he is in the book, for character design as well as adding oomph to his arc even if it's short. Since this takes place 2 years later, I gave J.LOh the hoodie he had in at the end of TMOS. it's cute.
One day he took the wrong tunnel coming back to the trash pit, which ended with him getting sucked into a paper shredder. Even though he managed to hear it and slow down, he was going headfirst, and one of his siphons got caught in the blades. His arm also got caught when he instinctively reached out to stop his fall.
Like most adaptations, Home included, I did not so much headcanons or fic as a slightly alternate take on Funsize.
The idea was that after Bish left, he got cocky with his excursions. He quit using/making his maps under the assumption that he knew the ducts well enough, but you only have to be unlucky once.
The blades were short and they don't have arteries in their arms (headcanon that in a nutshell, boov can't bleed out unless an artery is hit. Their veins contract reflexively when exposed to dry air, but their arteries can't are you feeling the autism yet), so it wasn't fatal, but FS did get cut up pretty bad. He was blinded in one eye, and his siphon is unable to grow back due to his generally poor health living in an underground landfill. Even if FS improved his health somehow, he'd still have to remove the scar tissue, which is extremely painful without surgery especially for wounds this extensive.
Funsize's siphon has its own slew of problems. His balance is terrible, and since it's basically torn down the middle, clipping it shut isn't really an option. Mostly, he just steals various antiseptic/saline products from people's houses if he can find any, but he still gets sick from time to time.
FS learned his lesson though, he's very careful when venturing out, and he built the little hover stools as a safeguard if he does fall down the wrong way again. He’s still bitter abt everything (and maybe a little unstable tbh) but thankfully, he’s an optimist.
Bonus little post-book comic:
i would want him to be voiced by richard horvitz tbh
Sorry for the lengthy explanation, I love speculative bio & I happen to have a cephalopod special interest too so . Autism ley lines yk how it is
Does anyone remember that cute alien movie by Dreamworks? Here is my OC Shirl, found in my current work-in-progress fic, Forces of Gravity. Click to expand for the link!
Who else remembers this ship <3 (it’s not my birthday)