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What if Tin Tin and my baby self lived in a beautiful desert Eden, which is a comforting oasis paradise with water, lush greenery and plenty of fruit to eat?
Monday, 17 November 2025
What If...#9: Mr Grumpy & Little Miss Hug?
What if Mr Grumpy and Little Miss Hug had a daughter together?
What If...#8: Nativity
What if Noddy, Tessie Bear and Bumpy Dog watched an episode of Channel 5's forgotten Milkshake series Wise & Wonderful?
What If...#5: Patter Of Baby Feet
What if Mr Small and Little Miss Tiny helped me take my first steps?
What If...#4: Wild
What if Brains, Alan, Tin Tin and I retreated to a wild, free, natural place where we can relax and have fun all we want?
What If...#2: Confusion
What if Furaha, Orko and Optimus realised Transformers Energon was too similar to 4Kids' dubbed anime?
What If...#1: Thunderbirds In The Stone Age?
What if Lady Penelope, Brains, Alan, Tin Tin, Jeff Tracy, Parker and I lived in nature in the stone age and discovered both fire and nature?
Furaha, Orko & Optimus' Guide To A Less Confusing Time With Creator's Block
Furaha, Orko and Optimus have had a lot of letters from Transformers fans telling them that the English dub of Transformers Energon is so awful it can compare to an English-dubbed 4Kids anime. Now, looking at it carefully we can see how this relates to a stern case of creator's block, which I too have had.
Transformers Energon, with its expressionless characters and terrible dubbing, represents the stale mind you get when you force ideas. Apparently those who dubbed the series didn't know what creativity was when they made it, leaving this series to be a pile of smelly Japanese sausages. Now, the Japanese sausages inside your brain can come instead of the bright sparks when you feel down and out with creator's block, and it can feel like you're living in a sick pit. Transformers Energon itself represents the horror that comes from not having anything to write about during creator's block, and it's just as annoying as how awful the actors voice the characters - especially Ironhide, a badly written Autobot boy who always steals the show, primarily due to budget cuts.
Now take a look at 4Kids' shows. Unlike what they did to stuff like Pokemon and One Piece, some of their shows are practically well dubbed and loved by kids, but according to the internet, they are despised by adults. It's not just anime 4Kids deals with, they do hand drawn, stop motion and CGI, as demonstrated when they made Cubix and the 2003 Ninja Turtles show, and when they distributed the classic stop motion Cabbage Patch Kids specials. They're very creative with making adultish kids' anime more kid friendly, now people on the internet are making fun of 4Kids characters being obsessed with food, especially those jelly doughnuts introduced in Pokemon. The hate side of 4Kids represents how wobbly your ideas are, but the good side of it is finally getting a story in your head after waiting this whole time.
According to what Google AI Mode told me, removal of horrid things in the original anime like death and alcohol made the characters act like spoiled toddlers, especially the whole 'Shadow Realm' meme that's been going around because of a certain tank engine. But here's the thing: there's lots of wonderfully-dubbed anime out there, such as Spirited Away and the Funimation dub of Dragon Ball Z, that didn't need to be childish and poor.
Only you can prevent the standards and practices from happening. Standards and practices are what caused your brain to get its block, but by ignoring them entirely and focusing on shows that don't use those two topics (hint: relaxing hobbies), you won't be focused on writing entirely.
And by the way: 4Kids is better than Transformers Energon, ya hear me now?
A Little Miss Guide To Creator's Block
I've had creator's block ever since I turned 19 and left school, and it's been such a tough time for me. Even when we inherited this quiet house after G.M. passed on, and then I went to therapy, it's still difficult to think up ideas due to long periods of creator's block. Luckily, Little Miss Quick, Little Miss Greedy and Little Miss Curious have their own ways of dealing with creator's block. But how, in fact, do you deal with creator's block Little Miss style? Let's hear from our three Little Misses right now.
Little Miss Greedy once had tummy ache because she ate too many savoury meat snacks from ASDA. This means that forcing too many ideas can cause your brain to stop working and thinking up bright new ideas. However, from this experience, she learnt to only eat three, which means you can do three brain-boosting things to get you through this difficult period. Say for example if Little Miss Greedy inherited three sausage rolls. These are the three things you're going to do today, so, instead of eating them all, Little Miss Greedy's going to use that experience to go for a run in the park, race against Mr Rush and then have a long talk with Little Miss Chatterbox. See? These things can help you through, even when you have a full tummy.
Little Miss Quick has been forcing ideas through her writing, and now she's become frazzled and depressed. Careless she may be, she learnt to take things slowly. With advice from Mr Strong, she watched people like Mr Slow, Mr Quiet, Little Miss Shy and Mr Calm do things at their own pace, which inspired her to do the same. For when you're around people who live at a slow pace instead of a fast one, you relax much better and easier, and that way, once you've gotten through this period, ideas will come in a snap.
Little Miss Curious kept asking the same question over and over - what am I going to do if I can't think up ideas? However, after a few days she got bored with it and turned to other subjects. She even invented a game for herself, where she thought about what her favourite characters would do in a situation where her brain produced uninspired ideas. Think of this as a day off for your story characters - just by doing some research until your inspiration comes back, you have finally mustered up the courage to write again.
So, what we've learnt from those three Little Misses are:
- Only do three, from Little Miss Greedy
- Be around slow people, from Little Miss Quick
- Think to yourself about what other people would do, from Little Miss Curious
That really is the end of the blog post, except, that if you really want your creativity to come back, you know exactly what to do, don't you?
LITTLE MISS CURIOUS: Of course! Obey all the advice written down here!
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