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itsablogmrswalker"Sickness Will Surely Take the Mind"
Tommy Walker, a few years after his miraculous recovery of speech, sight and hearing when his mother smashed the mirror, finds himself sick with an upper respiratory infection. Though able to mostly see and hear, he finds himself also suffering from laryngitis, a painful reminder of his past, as well as a double ear infection, which has left his hearing, temporarily, something to be desired. One weekend, as his symptoms have cleared up- except for the laryngitis and some stuffy ears- he goes to the mall to play at the arcade, and stumbles upon a pinball game for the Barbie movie. This seems like just the thing to cheer him up and reach new levels of consciousness again! He finds though, that only being temporarily mute, but having sight and hearing, means his pinball game is quite off and not giving him the spiritual experience it did when he was "deaf, dumb and blind," and a Pinball Wizard.
Meanwhile, things are not going particularly well for Barbie, either. After accepting a life of humanness in the Real World, Barbie finds herself occasionally still suffering from crippling depression and inescapable thoughts of death. Wanting to cheer herself up, she decides to go back to Barbieland to visit her friends (after all, Gloria and Sasha could visit her world from the Real World, so why couldn't she?).
Sparks fly on an amazing journey, and the real world and Barbieland are thrown into havoc. Ken has become... a horse breeder? What's become of Gloria and Sasha? What about Allan? How is Mrs. Walker doing? When Barbie and Tommy meet and are taken to where minds don't usually go, is it in their own pink world? What in the devil is going on??
A/N: Yes, this is a wacky, zany, weird combination. I just got the inspiration because I've been back on listening to The Who more lately, especially their Tommy album (the inspiration for my new blog name, and also a movie based on the album), and I've also been dorkily way into the Barbie movie lately. So I thought, with all of the improbable things that happen in both stories told, how awesome and weird would it be if Barbie and Tommy met?? Enjoyyyyyy.
Tommy Walker, a few years after his miraculous recovery of speech, sight and hearing when his mother smashed the mirror, finds himself sick with an upper respiratory infection. Though able to mostly see and hear, he finds himself also suffering from laryngitis, a painful reminder of his past, as well as a double ear infection, which has left his hearing, temporarily, something to be desired. One weekend, as his symptoms have cleared up- except for the laryngitis and some stuffy ears- he goes to the mall to play at the arcade, and stumbles upon a pinball game for the Barbie movie. This seems like just the thing to cheer him up and reach new levels of consciousness again! He finds though, that only being temporarily mute, but having sight and hearing, means his pinball game is quite off and not giving him the spiritual experience it did when he was "deaf, dumb and blind," and a Pinball Wizard.
Meanwhile, things are not going particularly well for Barbie, either. After accepting a life of humanness in the Real World, Barbie finds herself occasionally still suffering from crippling depression and inescapable thoughts of death. Wanting to cheer herself up, she decides to go back to Barbieland to visit her friends (after all, Gloria and Sasha could visit her world from the Real World, so why couldn't she?).
Sparks fly on an amazing journey, and the real world and Barbieland are thrown into havoc. Ken has become... a horse breeder? What's become of Gloria and Sasha? What about Allan? How is Mrs. Walker doing? When Barbie and Tommy meet and are taken to where minds don't usually go, is it in their own pink world? What in the devil is going on??
A/N: Yes, this is a wacky, zany, weird combination. I just got the inspiration because I've been back on listening to The Who more lately, especially their Tommy album (the inspiration for my new blog name, and also a movie based on the album), and I've also been dorkily way into the Barbie movie lately. So I thought, with all of the improbable things that happen in both stories told, how awesome and weird would it be if Barbie and Tommy met?? Enjoyyyyyy.
