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Grunvale
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Grunvale is a serialized novel posted on DeviantArt, written by Stormy Adler, formerly known as P.R. Storm, and posted on their account, 'PhoenixOfGrunvale'. Set in a world of anthropomorphic animals, the novel focuses on a group of four eleven-year-old characters, collectively called the 'Oddball Tetrad', the drama in their lives, and the strange things they encounter in their town.The story begins with Gilda Grime, a big-nosed, citrus- and retro technology-loving raccoon (referred to as a 'procyonine', the -ine name of a raccoon), who, one rainy night, decides to get revenge on her four abusive brothers by fixing up a sour drink with grapefruit, oranges, lemons and limes (which she calls the 'GOLL'). However, it works on Gilda's second-eldest brother, Truman, a little too well, burning and scarring his mouth and tongue and leaving him with impaired speech. When Gilda sees that Truman is now out for revenge for what she has done to him, she goes on the run. And the story only gets crazier from there.The novel is written in an unusual style, where the third-person narrator (who refers to themself as 'this narrator') frequently breaks the fourth wall, to talk to the readers, state what they think about the story, and to critique the characters on their actions. It is also heavy on the pop culture references. The narrator does not shy away from stating what they think of certain movies, TV shows, music albums, video games, even celebrities. And can get pretty mean-spirited with their descriptions.Adler abandoned writing the web novel in 2020, having become disillusioned with how the story was coming out.The DeviantArt edition of Grunvale can be read here. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: In "April Bails", April remarks to herself that everything will work out fine if she just apologizes for spraying Wendy. And then a mosquito/aedine falls on and accidentally bites her. The narrator themself even lampshades this. | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Margo and Paddy are fans of "The Cacophony Colony", a cartoon described as being about 'the life of a white-haired leporine boy with ten sisters'. This is played with, however, as the narrator assumes that the reader has heard of 'something' like The Cacophony Colony. | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Orphaned Series | |
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Alphabetical Theme Naming | |
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Alphabetical Theme Naming: The males in the Grime family all have names beginning with 'T' (Theodore, Terence, Truman, Troy, Tom), and both of the females have names beginning with 'G' (Gretchen and Gilda). Additionally, both the parents have eight-letter names, and each succeeding child has one letter less in their name. All of the Hynde family has five-letter first names that end in 'Y' (Harry, Sally, Tabby, Paddy, Molly). | |
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No Fourth Wall | |
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No Fourth Wall: The narrator themself frequently reacts to what's happening in the story. | |
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Big Brother Bully | |
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Big Brother Bully: Truman, inverted with Troy and Tom. Terence starts out as this in "Gilda's Brothers", but when he sees what Truman is becoming, he tries (and frequently fails) to reform himself in front of Gilda throughout the story. | |
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Funetik Aksent | |
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Funetik Aksent: April Lowry's dialogue is written this way, to reflect her Scottish accent. So is Sally Hynde's, to reflect her Bostonian accent. | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? | |
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Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: April hates insects. Even the bipedal, anthropomorphic ones. | |
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Lemony Narrator | |
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Lemony Narrator: Big time. They even occasionally pull a fake-out in their narration for the sake of a gag and fast-forward through monologues that would otherwise only serve as filler. | |
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N-Word Privileges | |
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N-Word Privileges: When a donkey/asinine takes offense to Margo uttering the word 'jackass', August remarks that equines (asinines/donkeys in particular) don't like any non-equines using the term. | |
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Curse Cut Short | |
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Curse Cut Short: In the chapter "Dazed and Confused": | |
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Middle Child Syndrome | |
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Middle Child Syndrome: Gilda Grime is a frequent abuse victim at the hands of her brothers. Her character arc involves trying to push her eldest brother Terence out of her life, and running from her second-eldest brother Truman and younger brothers Troy and Tom. | |
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World of Pun | |
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World of Pun: Many of the names of towns, cities and countries are animal puns, e.g. 'Amareica' (America), 'Eagland' (England) and 'New Pork' (New York). | |
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Reference Overdosed | |
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Reference Overdosed: Barely a page goes by where a character or the narrator doesn't crack some kind of reference to pop culture. | |
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Written Sound Effect | |
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Written Sound Effect: Several of these in every chapter. | |
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Slipping a Mickey | |
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Slipping a Mickey: In "Lunchtime", Truman does this to Gilda, so he can easily cut out her tongue, as revenge for burning his. | |
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Alliterative Name | |
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Alliterative Name: Gilda Grime, Wendy Wyler, Chandler Chromos and Harry Hynde. Gilda even remarks to Randy that she was given her alliterative name because her father thought it sounded like that of a cartoon character, like 'Bugs Bunny' or 'Woody Woodpecker'. | |
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Accents Aren't Hereditary | |
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Accents Aren't Hereditary: Despite the rest of her family having an Amareican (the Grunvaliverse's equivalent of 'American') accent, and her having not lived in Scotterland (Scotland) since early childhood, April Lowry still has her Scotterish (Scottish) brogue. | |
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Waxing Lyrical | |
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Waxing Lyrical: "April Bails" has two of these: In "Eggs and Bacon": | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Various characters' (particularly Gilda's and the narrator's) hatred for the music of James Taylor. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: In "The Grunvale Mall", Gilda remarks in passing, that 'Guh-Glenn' (a corruption of her first and middle name) sounds 'like something an idiot would mumble while watching Fatal Attraction on an iPhone.' Four chapters later, in "Eggs and Bacon", Gilda witnesses Oliver Jr. doing exactly this, and remarks, "Wow. He is an idiot." In fact, "Eggs and Bacon" itself has one. The narrator wonders the reason for this the title... and later figures out the first part when Oliver Jr. eggs Chandler's house, and the latter part when Randy finds a bloody slug (or, as it's written, 'slug?') resembling bacon outside the bathroom. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Chandler describes not being able to play "So Far Away" from Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms on Vib-Ribbon. This is a reference to the way PlayStation discs were actually programmed; the first track contains data, while the rest contains the soundtrack. In Vib-Ribbon's case, this prevents the first track on a custom CD from being played. | |
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