u/SummerAndTinkles

Here's some examples I can think of. (Note that I consider chimpanzees and other species closely related to humans to be cheating, since there's a good chance they evolved that trait as part of a common ancestor instead of independently.)

• The indri is a type of large lemur that is the only mammal other than humans that can hear rhythm.
• The only other mammals other than humans to undergo menopause are certain cetaceans like orcas, belugas and narwhals.
• Beavers are the only other mammal that can actively shape their environment.
• While homosexuality is common in the animal kingdom, sheep are the only non-human animal capable of being EXCLUSIVELY attracted to the same sex, with 10 percent of rams preferring other rams.
• Ground hornbill evolution somewhat parallels humans, in that they started out as arboreal frugivores before transitioning to grassland predators.
• Many ants have domesticated livestock like aphids and caterpillars for their honeydew.
• There's a species of damselfish that farms algae, and has domesticated a type of shrimp to help fertilize it with their droppings the same way many farmers in Asia use ducks.

I'm sure he would love all the creative freedom of webcomics, especially given all the fights he had with his publishers on Calvin and Hobbes. And even though there's no way it would live up to the legacy of Calvin and Hobbes, it would be cool to see SOME new content from Bill. (Though at least we have The Mysteries for now.)

Title: Stoned Pets

Format: Animated feature

Genre: Comedy

Page length: 49 (48 if you exclude the title page)

Logline: After a group of pets gain intelligence from accidentally consuming their owner's weed, a female Golden Retriever must convince the others to help rescue their owner from becoming the pet of a drug lord hippopotamus.

Feedback concerns: I'm worried 48 pages may be a little too short for a feature film, so I'm hoping people will suggest additions to the story to pad out the page count. (Note that this is a really early draft, so I hope to make other changes in the future.)

Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YKqu3gWsLNoKbhIC_QQBOktcwslnBmhD/view?usp=sharing

I tried posting this to r/storypeer, but my post didn't show up for some reason, so I'll try here.

I was recommended to try submitting my current script to StoryPeer by a couple people on this sub, but I noticed on the FAQ it recommends copyrighting your script before you submit it.

I visited Copyright.gov, and it seems like getting your work copyrighted is a long and complicated process. I sent a PDF of my script to my mom, and she said she'd help me out, but just in case it doesn't work out, is there anything necessarily wrong with submitting a non-copyrighted screenplay to StoryPeer if I have trouble with the copyright process?

Genre: fantasy musical

Logline: A thirteen year-old Canadian girl is turned into a deer and taken to the fantastic Maple Isle, where she makes several new friends who are under threat from a wicked Kirin Empress.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XmAWXeu_I0sdj3VDS2BSsOhU9XmfQIlN/view?usp=sharing

I wrote this a few years ago, but went back and edited it last night to cut down the descriptions and hopefully make it feel less like a novel than a screenplay (since I got those complaints the last time I tried posting it here). This is basically a throwback to wholesome old-timey corny family musical films such as The Wizard of Oz or the works of Walt Disney. There's a few song numbers, but most of them are placeholders with a note saying "SONG IDEA" and a description. There's also a few cases of deliberate values dissonance (like the use of the word "Jap" at the beginning to signify the WW2 setting, or the Irish character being called a paddy) but nothing egregiously racist.

I was going to post this to StoryPeer, but they recommend copyrighting your screenplay before sharing, so I may wait until I get it copyrighted before I post it there.

Hopefully I succeeded in cutting down the descriptions.

I wrote it a few years ago, and all of my online friends and mutuals seem to be pretty satisfied with it...but unfortunately whenever I try to talk about it here, this community mostly just harshly badmouths it.

Most recently, I did a feedback post for it, and I got a bunch of comments complaining that it felt more like a novel than a screenplay. I was hoping they would go through the ReadThrough link and leave simple "change this to this" and "remove this" comments for each part that needed improvement, but instead their comments just came across as mocking and condescending (like "bruh, you wrote a fucking novel" and "boy you are getting nowhere fast"), so I deleted it out of embarrassment. (It didn't help that they didn't read more than a page.)

I spent last night going through the screenplay again and trying to reduce the descriptions as much as possible to the bare minimum based on the advice I got in this thread. I think I MAY be ready to try sharing it again...but I'm scared that it still won't be good enough and people will just be harsh again.

What should I do?