19 Works in Cleo (Pinocchio)
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“Go home John. It’s late. I’ll see you bright and early tomorrow.”
Sure. Tomorrow.
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Then Perhaps I'd DESERVE Ya And Be Even *WORTHY OF Ya* If I Only Had *a Heart*... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Oz - L. Frank Baum, The Wizard Of Oz (1939), The Wizard of Oz - Arlen/Harburg/Lloyd Webber/Sams, The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire, Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024), Lies of P (Video Game), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors
07 Apr 2025
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While Pinocchio and Jiminy are *SWIMMING back* to Home and Geppetto from Pleasure Island, the Tornado in Kansas also happens to scoop THEM up- in the form of a *HURRICANE*!! A Cyclone both tropical and not plus *a SPELL* that cause 'Pinoke' and a certain now-cursed farmhand to *switch places*... meaning that in a little bit, Pinocchio's in OZ and *Hickory* plus his transgendered sweetheart 'Nimmie Amee' are in Pariva, Italy! -Meaning that now poor Pinocchio is *FAR FAR AWAY FROM* his father and Figaro and Cleo and HOME...
Pure Accident??? NOTSOMUCH (*we ALL* know who to blame for this!!)...This CRUSHES 'Pinoke(s)', of course, causing him to break down crying- which means that it's *tears* and not A Groan (TM) that Dorothy Gale, Toto, and Hunk | Scarecrow eventually hear in the apple orchard near The Forest. Which means it's PINOCCHIO THE PUPPET AND JIMINY CRICKET plus a couple more friends Old and New who join the party alongside Zeke | The Lion rather than Hickory | Tin Man and end up clearing one Witch's name, exposing and bringing another to Justice along with a *TRUE Heartless*, freeing both a 'Wizard' and a long-lost Princess... and finding Love along the way.
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- Part 3 of Someday I'll Wish Upon a Star and Wake Up Over the Rainbow...
- Part 4 of The Wicked Wooden Years (Or Days- Or Weeks- Or Months)
- Part 13 of Pinocchio & Co.'s Adventures
- Part 11 of Classic(Ish) 'Fiable'
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After The Rain Goes, There Are Rainbows... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Wind in the Willows (1996), A Bug's Life (1998), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Thumbelina (1994), Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987), Encanto (2021), Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Geppetto (Disney 2000)
02 Mar 2025
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We all know how very much both Geppetto and Thumbelina's mother wish for a child of their own in just about any universe, yes? ...Well, what happens when we mix the two stories together: Geppetto still gaining his long-wished-for little boy (emphasis on *LITTLE boy*) by way of a magical pine seed from a good witch?
Pinocchio is a sweet and kind lad who always tries his best to please his beloved Father and wants very badly to make friends, but is made fun of for being a 'goody-two-shoes' and/or not being like his fictive wooden counterpart like OTHER *'REAL' boys*; he loves his Father and their cat Figaro very much, but his large heart is still empty as Geppetto's was before 'Little Wooden-Head' came along... until one night, after a particularly bad day of bullying when he tried to go to school with the other children, he hears someone singing outside of his window and soon befriends the music-maker- Jiminy Cricket.Some years down the line, 'Pinoke' and Jiminy are still best friends, but something more blossoms between them one starry night...
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- Part 3 of Classic(Ish) 'Fiable'
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Blue Blood, Blue Eyes, Clear True Blue Heart and Soul- *Curse Or No*... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Penelope (2006), Pinocchio (1940)
06 Feb 2025
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What if Pinocchio was not able to become a "real REAL *live* *LIVING boy*" just after his original adventures ...though through *NO fault* of *his own*?? Not only that, but his wooden *donkey ears and tail* *HAVEN'T disappeared*?? You see, Geppetto's not just a fabricator of clocks, toys, and 'oddments'- he's also *a WILHERN*, though a 'disgraced' one. And unfortunately Penelope's curse has just extended to Pinocchio (it was actually ALWAYS present- the Blue Fairy, bless her heart, magicked the ears and tail invisible when she granted Geppetto's wish so that neither one would panic or be upset ...key word being TRIED; then the Coachman's gaslighting plus Pleasure Island happened...), and now it's become known that it's not just proving himself brave, truthful, unselfish, and learning the difference between right and wrong that will make him 'real': only until one of theirs' and Penelope's own kind (AKA a 'blue-blood') claims the latter girl as their own 'til death do they part, will the curse of the pig-girl and little wooden donkey-boy be broken...
Meanwhile, it's not just Pinocchio who managed to escape Pleasure Island and the evil Coachman's clutches...
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*With You and I DEFYING GRAVITY*, There's NO FIGHT We Cannot Win- And *They'll Never Bring Us Down* (Or String Us Up Again)...! by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors, Lies of P (Video Game), It Takes Two (1995), Wish (Movie 2023), Wicked - Schwartz/Holzman, Wicked (Movie 2024), The Wicked Years Series - Gregory Maguire, Encanto (2021), The Wizard of Oz - Arlen/Harburg/Lloyd Webber/Sams
18 Jan 2025
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When Dorothy Gale tried to vanquish the Wicked Witch of the West as ordered to by the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of melting her, she accidentally also splashed the pages of the Grimmerie, inciting/triggering its' magic and whisking them *ALL* away- meaning the Witch, herself, and her little dog Toto, too. As a result, everyone in the land of Oz sorrowfully thinks that both she and the other Wicked Witch are dead... but they couldn't be more wrong.
No- nonono! Instead, Dorothy Gale, Miss Elphaba Thropp-Diggs, and Toto are whisked back Over the Rainbow... but NOT *back to Kansas*. Where DO they end up, then??? In New York, New York, it turns out- where Dorothy is adopted by the not-so-Wicked witch who becomes a nurse/doctor since she still wants to make good.
One of her patients just so happens to be a certain former puppet-boy no more Wicked than she... and *HIS aunt* (who happens to be a FAERIE rather than a sorceress)?? Well, she eventually becomes 'Mama Elphie's' *BELOVED* and a surrogate aunt to the sweet sweet boy mainly known as either 'Pinoke(s)' or 'Nocchi...
But Elphaba and Dorothy Gale's adventure/journey is FAR FROM over, it turns out...
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- Part 3 of The Wicked Wooden Years (Or Days- Or Weeks- Or Months)
- Part 8 of You're the *REAL Gift*, Kid- The Miracle is *YOU*...
- Part 12 of Pinocchio & Co.'s Adventures
- Part 2 of 'Figlio Mio- Mi Hija... Mi Amore'
- Part 1 of Someday I'll Wish Upon a Star and Wake Up Over the Rainbow...
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On the Wings of My Fancy, I Can Fly Anywhere, And the World Will Open Its Arms to Me... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Cinderella (Fairy Tale), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Corpse Bride (2005), Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux, Phantom - Susan Kay, Cinderella (Disney Animated Movies), Cinderella - Rodgers/Hammerstein/Beane, Cinderella (2015), Ever After (1998), Wicked (Movie 2024)
03 Oct 2024
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'Cinderella' AU basically- except that our Ash-Boy falls for someone else rather than the Princess, sweet, kind, and beautiful as she is. Someone who's been by his side pretty much all of his life through the blood, sweat, tears, soapsuds, and cinders as much as his cat companions (even though he didn't actually meet him until things had gone worse than losing his beloved Father)...
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- Part 2 of Classic(Ish) 'Fiable'
- Part 1 of 'L'Ange Noir/Fantome' and 'Il Burattinaio'
- Part 5 of A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Whether Upon a Star or Not- Asleep or Awake...
- Part 1 of The Wicked Wooden Years (Or Days- Or Weeks- Or Months)
- Part 2 of Starlight and Lightning Bolts- AKA The Puppet-Boy and The Boy Who Lived (And Friends and Family)
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Pinocchio's Adventures in The Haunted Mansion by Barlsa_Ianna for Joxie, naivesilver
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Haunted Mansion (2023), Phantom Manor (Attraction), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Elizabeth Lim & Jen Calonita, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Disney- All media types, The Haunted Mansion (2003), Le Fantôme de l'Opéra | Phantom of the Opera & Related Fandoms, Wish (Movie 2023)
09 Sep 2024
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Pinocchio's stepfather Ben and elder adopted sister Asha are both *VERY* skeptical of the existence of spirits- Ben especially so ever since his first spouse Alyssa, a paranormal tour guide, died in a car accident; never mind that he more-or-less accepts *Fae/Fairies* and other kinds of magic dark, light, and grey just fine! ...But Pinocchio believes same as Geppetto, since Jiminy is a *BORN spirit* himself as well as Fae-touched.
That lapse of faith is put to the test when an exorcist priest comes knocking and asks of Ben, "You wanna be *a HERO*??" And when a ghost mariner plus Jiminy Cricket follows them all home, therefore forcing Ben, Geppetto, 'Nocchi, Asha, Figaro, Cleo, Valentino, and their newest family member Tater-Tot back to the Gracey Manor in order to help Doctor Gabbie and her son Travis along with Madame Harriet, Father Kent, and Professor Bruce Davis against the evil entity hiding amongst the house dripping with souls... they've gotta FIGHT whether they like it or not, or else risk being the Haunted Mansion's 1000th soul trapped for all eternity by *HIM*.
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- Part 2 of Burattinaio nel La Dimora Infestata
- Part 1 of The Ghost of The Talking Cricket- Disney Style
- Part 2 of Pinocchio & Co.'s Adventures
- Part 8 of *DARK Disney*, One Way or Another
- Part 4 of My Blood Will Be *YOUR Blood*, *My Bed Will Be Your Bed*...
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The Disney Chronicles II: Pinocchio by Dinodisneylover1 for My Grandmother
Fandoms: My Little Pony Generation 4: Friendship Is Magic (Cartoon 2010), Pinocchio (1940), Disney - Fandom
09 Jun 2024
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After their newest adventure, Twilight and her friends were filled with new excitement. They decided to experience another and sweet little Apple Bloom and her friend Tender Taps were curious too. Witness, how they become friends with a gentle clock maker, a wise cricket and a puppet that has much to learn about the world around him.
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- Part 2 of My Little Pony: The Disney Chronicles
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*This Is NOT FAIR*, But *I've Lost Every Care*; *I WANT YOU*- Poisoned With (Yet Healed By) Love by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Lies of P (Video Game), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987), Interview With the Vampire (Movie 1994)
12 May 2024
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Rosalie Hale-Cullen does not normally pay attention to humans- that is until a certain living doll still comes into her Venom-sharpened usually-cold view. HOW can she hate or dislike *THIS one*, much less *be jealous of* her???! She. Is. *ADORABLE*!! Whether she looks as though she could be Emmett's younger sister or cousin or not-!
And so, while her brother Edwin and his Singer/'destined Mate' (Alice's words) Isabella 'Bella' Swan frustratingly dance around each other all throughout the Twilight Saga, *'Rose'* meanwhile shyly and nervously yet more than happily gets to know and falls further for Pinocchio Edythe Benjamina Belmagio 'nee Tommaso, the 'most beautiful vampire in the world' and 'Little Woodenhead' finding surprising *PAINFUL common ground* on the way owing to their respective pasts...
Rosalie *NEVER* thought that she would fall for *a HUMAN*, half-Fae or no- but even if she has *Worries and Concerns*, she's certainly not complaining!
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- Part 5 of Disney and Twilight Where *RESPECT JUICE* Is DRUNK
- Part 12 of A *REAL-Real* Live Living *GIRL*
- Part 5 of My Blood Will Be *YOUR Blood*, *My Bed Will Be Your Bed*...
- Part 10 of Tale as Old as Time... To a Point
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Just Trust Me... *Trust YOURSELF* by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Lies of P (Video Game), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Disney's House of Mouse (Cartoon), Neko no Ongaeshi | The Cat Returns, Mimi wo Sumaseba | Whisper of the Heart (1995), Geppetto (Movie 2000), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors, Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Disney Theatrical Animated Universe
16 Feb 2024
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*Eeeeppp*- PROBLEM. Anne Hathaway plays a lot of similar characters to this 'Yoshioka Haru', and given the best-seller that's just released that features a brown-eyed brunette who's more akin to a Mary-Sue than, say, Belle from 'Beauty and the Beast'... NOBODY wants to risk having a MS in Ghibli's category!!
Solution, more-or-less: young Toon!Pinocchio from the Walt Disney Company is actually pretty much like their planned protagonist of 'The Cat Returns (semi-sequel/spin-off of 1995's 'Whisper of the Heart'), so- why not go with him?? After they get his father Geppetto's and Mickey Mouse's permission, of course...
It does not matter the least little bit: Baron and Louise are *NOT engaged*, much less in love! And boy or girl (or non-binary, even), Baron Humbert von Gikkingen is *SMITTEN* at first sight with a certain 'fetching' sweet adorable brave, truthful, and unselfish raven...
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- Part 2 of Actors!AU
- Part 7 of Tale as Old as Time... To a Point
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'Fiabe e Fantasia' by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Disney Theatrical Animated Universe, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), Book of Life (2014), Fairy Tales & Related Fandoms, Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms - Mercedes Lackey, Rise of the Guardians (2012), Casper (1995), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Chronicles of Narnia - All Media Types, Gay Purr-ee (1962), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors, Lies of P (Video Game)
01 Feb 2024
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Heh-! Well, more or less, fairytales featuring many various pairings in the world of 'Pinocchio', with La Muerte and Xibalba occasionally featuring as Lampwick's parents if not his canonical mother because thanks to 'Senor' de Toro, the idea will not let me go, and in my head they've adopted Lampwick for their own...
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- Part 10 of Classic(Ish) 'Fiable'
- Part 19 of Fix-it/Inspiration Fics
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It’s my time to say goodbye, but I’m not ready by artistdream1234
Fandoms: Toy Story (Movies), Pinocchio (1940)
10 Jan 2024
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Andy’s toys say goodbye forever.
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- Part 1 of Elise’s Disney crossover adventures
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Stars Don't Just *Shine*- They BURN *BRIGHT*, And the Constellations Shift... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Encanto (2021), Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Elizabeth Lim & Jen Calonita, Disney- All media types, Coco (2017), Tangled (2010), Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Big Hero 6 (2014), Lies of P (Video Game)
08 Dec 2023
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You know the whole 'best friend's brother or sister' thing, right?? Especially an *OLDER sibling*? -Well, let's turn that around on its' axis and have an elder sibling fall in love with their *LITTLE SISTER'S best friend*, shall we? Of course, the feeling's *COMPLETELY mutual* ...it's just that ABUELA and *EXPECTATIONS*- *perfect, perfect, PERFECT*!!!
Which includes Abuleo Pedro's kind of-yet not lookalike Mariano Guzman; he's *NICE* and everything, but there's just truly NOTHING *there*! (He's kind of got his eye and heart set on her just-as-sweet and pretty cousin Dolores, anyway; *shhhh*) When it comes down to it, Isabela Rosa Alma Madrigal *LIKES-likes*, lusts after, and loves *girls like her*...
But it's *HOPELESS*, right?? Because Mira knows her as 'Senorita Perfecta', and that means *her BEST FRIEND*-
Wait. *No, it doesn't*... After all, *TRUE Beauty* is found WITHIN, and Pinocchio's by no means *BLIND*, much less deaf!
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- Part 8 of A *REAL-Real* Live Living *GIRL*
- Part 5 of You're the *REAL Gift*, Kid- The Miracle is *YOU*...
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Sweet and Sincere- My Life, My Pride, My Joy by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors, Le avventure di Pinocchio | The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi, Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Disney's House of Mouse (Cartoon), Lies of P (Video Game), Coco (2017)
05 Oct 2023
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Geppetto and Pinocchio love each other *VERY MUCH*, we all know this ...but just how far does that love go??? How deep?? After all, what *his mother* lacked and lacks, 'Little Woodenhead' seems to have IN SPADES as much as his 'zia'-
Nothing comes even close to fruition, though, until a certain Man-Cub comes almost literally sniffing around, instantly putting Pinocchio on edge rather than exciting, thrilling, or flattering the other dark-haired boy, which Geppetto does not at all like...
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- Part 9 of Fix-it/Inspiration Fics
- Part 1 of *DARN YOU, Kinktober*...
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*Things And Riches* ...What Are *THEY*, Since I Freely Gave My Heart Away? I Value You, I *TREASURE* You, And That Is Why I Choose You-! by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Disney Theatrical Animated Universe, Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), The Aristocats (1970), Once Upon a Time (TV), Oliver & Company (1988), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Elizabeth Lim & Jen Calonita
23 Sep 2023
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Pinocchio's never met her Aunt Adelaide since hers' and Father's parents have been separated from the time they were children- but now due to Father's passing away from a tragic accident, the live stringless puppet-turned-Real Girl is moved from Pariva, Italy to *Paris, France*. She greatly misses her beloved Father who used to call her his 'little princess' as well as 'little woodenhead', and Jiminy who had to leave once the elder female earned her Conscience Badge, but at least 'Tante/Zia Addy' takes very good care of her, and she gets on just fine with her own dear cats Duchess, Toulouse, Marie, Berlioz, and Oliver- plus Mr. Georges, Frou-Frou, and Roquefort the mouse!
Beloved by all who know and meet her -except for Edgar the butler, who has a couple of *NASTY* surprises in wait for the lovely still-living doll, starting with her 'Aunt Addy', and then ending in a marriage contract to one of his relatives...
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- Part 5 of Fix-it/Inspiration Fics
- Part 2 of A *REAL-Real* Live Living *GIRL*
- Part 3 of *DARK Disney*, One Way or Another
- Part 1 of A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Whether Upon a Star or Not- Asleep or Awake...
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ENOUGH Of *The FRIGHT/PAIN*- *ENOUGH* *Broken Hearts*; I Will Protect You And Defend You... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Disney Theatrical Animated Universe, Disney's House of Mouse (Cartoon), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Encanto (2021), Coco (2017)
04 Apr 2023
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Sparks fly when Mowgli the Man-Cub and 'Little Woodenhead' Pinocchio meet- and *NOT* in the *GOOD way*. The way that Mowgli looks at him and talks to him reminds the 'ex-puppet' *all too well* of how ...*HE* used to, before he was Dipped along with Honest John, Gideon, and the Coachman way back when. Needless to say, Pinocchio's *TERRIFIED*; and though he's gay as Dorothy Gale's place over the rainbow, he *feels NOTHING WHATSOEVER* towards Mowgli save for fear, disgust, and anger...
But he's not alone in this dark place that he's suddenly found himself in as he fears- Father does not chuckle and wink, the Rivera Family is raring and READY with their no-blisters boots in hand, his *TRUE friends* including his pseudo godparents are *FURIOUS* ...and a certain dark-haired green-eyed 'case of bad luck' with a pure kind heart whom he meets the same time as Mowgli is by his side all the while-! (No, it's not either Harry Potter, Hiccup Haddock, or Percy Jackson.)
And one day, more-than-friends feelings are *FULLY made known* between 'Little Woodenhead' and 'El Brujo Mala Suerte... Bruno'...
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Nemo Voyeurs Geppetto's Fellatio by Kenlestations
Fandoms: Finding Nemo (Movies), Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022)
11 Dec 2022
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Kidnapped, Nemo the clownfish is forced to watch as Geppetto gets freaky with his pet fish, Cleo. Will he give in to his desires and join them? Read all about it.
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-When Will My Life Begin Out There...? by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Tangled (2010), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney Animated Movies), Zootopia (2016), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022), A Twisted Tale Collection - Liz Braswell & Various Authors
28 Nov 2022
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Geppetto loves his new dear son made of wood Pinocchio VERY *much*- so much, that he wants to keep him safe from all and any harm ...and that includes *EMOTIONAL hurt* (which he still accidentally causes). When Pinocchio expresses a wish to go to school like other 'real' kids, his Father who had lost so much before he came along gently tells him that the outside world is a dangerous place, and that he will be laughed at and told by the other children and adults that he's hideous- deformed/disfigured compared to other children. No; it is *MUCH better* to stay in here, where it's safe... Pinocchio doesn't quite understand, and is not a little hurt, but says that he does in order not to upset his Father.
-But how can one become 'real' if they are shut away from the world??
Seven years later, Pinocchio comes across a MUCH *different* Fox and Cat duo when they try to hide in his and Father's home to get away from the people chasing them, offering him a deal in the process...
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If Your Heart Is In Your Dream, Anything Your Heart Desires Will Come to You... by Barlsa_Ianna
Fandoms: Pinocchio (1940), Pinocchio (Disney 2022), Encanto (2021), What a Girl Wants (2003), Descendants (Disney Movies)
12 Nov 2022
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In this time and place, Pinocchio is born as any another human child; of *TWO fathers*. Not that he knows this for the first fifteen years of his life- he believes he was the result of a sperm bank and that his 'mother' died in childbirth, as told by Geppetto out of utmost heartbreak from having to separate from his beloved Bruno after his childhood friend Libby Reynolds and her husband (Bruno's British cousin) Lord Henry Dashwood were forced apart themselves via a scheming Alistair Payne. But when 'Little Wooden-Head' and Daphne Reynolds-Dashwood turn fifteen, the former discovers a heartbreaking secret that *near-SHATTERS* him as well as the love and trust between him and his beloved Father, and that night with the help of his godmothers Jiminy and Timothea, he leaves with Daphne for England where the Madrigals and Dashwoods are having a family reunion. Henry is skeptical of his daughter at first due to his British stiff-upper-lip upbringing, but Bruno and Pinocchio immediately get along like a house on fire (sorry, Casita; no offense!) due to their matching kind hearts, love of theater/dancing/singing, art, good books and movies, and belief that *NOTHING* is *MORE important* than family...
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