#trilogies

[sarnai4]

Reading brutal scenes as an author

OH MY GOSH. SOMEONE STOP THIS!

Seriously, is anybody going to step in??

Who even wro--*sees the Google Doc, ready for edits*

oh right.

If you want to see where it all begins:

Amazon.com: Changing Waters: Jiol: 9798303676169: Briar, Sarnai: Books

[guardianjameslight]

1982-2010-2025

We've come a long way.

[thatpollguy]

Favourite high school musical movie? (1, 2 or 3)

Thanks for the poll request, anonymous! Keep 'em coming, folks.

Which High School Musical movie is your favourite?

High School Musical

High School Musical 2

High School Musical 3: Senior Year

I dislike / hate all of them

I've never watched any of the High School Musical movies

Voting ended onApr 5

[nfinitefreetime]

#REVIEW: Advocate, by Daniel M. Ford

The standard disclaimers apply: Dan and I are Internet Mutuals, the origin of which is lost to time but almost certainly involves Twitter somehow. I spend a fair amount of time hanging out in his Discord server, which is, in fact, the only Discord server I spend any time in. And while I reviewed The Warden, the first book in this series, I somehow did not review Necrobane, the second book. My…

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In my opinion, trilogies go a little like this:

Book 1: You build connections and meet characters. You find out who you like and who you don't. There's usually a relatively happy ending in these, or at least an ending that ties the whole book together.

Book 2: Just when your MC is getting a breath of fresh air and thinking, "At least the worst of it is over!" someone does something to fuck up the peace. Nearly 3/4 of the way in, the MC starts to feel some stability. And of course, something happens to ruin that. These books usually end by everything turning to hell.

Book 3: The MC is trying as hard as they can to hold themselves together while trying to seem like a leader to the others. It doesn't work. By the middle of the book, something will happen that will freak the MC out so immensely that they probably have a panic attack or another episode like that. By the end of the book, the MC should be fine physically, but is so scarred mentally that they need a therapist.

Did I miss anything? Feel free to add in the comments.

[optimisticapocalypse]

Less thinky more drawy.

[fictionalnormalcy]

Heh it took me watching Kung Fu Panda 2 to realise. So if there’s one thing I’ve figured out, don’t remember if I’ve done posts on it before. 

DreamWorks has a trend, when they make trilogies of their movies. Or in Shrek’s case 4. The ideas of their movies tend to be similar to one another. 

How to Train Your Dragon Shrek Madagascar Kung Fu Panda

I mean lately others of their sequels don’t count. They’ve changed it up with The Croods, Boss Baby, and Puss in Boots. 

For the four I mentioned above? Their sequels tend to have plot lines involving parents. Be it of protagonist or those close to them. Lemme show ya.

Shrek? He meets Fiona’s parents. Madagascar? Alex found his parents who he’d been taken from years ago. Kung Fu Panda? Po discovers what happens to his parents, where he came from.  How to Train Your Dragon? Hiccup finds his long-lost thought to be deceased mother. 

Heck even Trolls fits into this. I haven’t seen World Tour for myself but I found that Cooper goes looking and finds his long-lost parents. 

There’s another point I’m coming to, hold on. But their third doesn’t mesh with another. Although, it might’ve had. Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. (I know can you believe it?) As I said above, Kung Fu Panda 2; when I watching it yesterday I took particular note of the detail where Shen eliminated an entire village of pandas. Displaying, that pandas lived isolated from the other animals, and we even see the same in Kung Fu Panda 3. Getting the occasional mention of how Po may have been the last of his kind.

Ring a bell for HTTYD?  If the answer eludes you, the question poised throughout the whole franchise of Toothless being the last of his kind.Toying with it in many installments. Riders of Berk where Hiccup and Toothless were tricked and captured with the lure being an island full of Night Furies who stay isolated because they’re hostile to other dragons. RTTE, Hiccup looking through the Dragon Eye to see the information on Night Furies. Viggo even unlocking the Dragon Eye and the first image being distinctly of a Night Fury. HTTYD 2, after mapping a new island Hiccup suggests maybe they’ll finally find another Night Fury. Eret saying he thought the Night Furies were all gone for good. Valka saying he may truly be the last of his kind.  Then comes The Hidden World. Our long-awaited answer... which came to be that one man hunted them to extinction. Cheating with using dragons who were drugged on their own venom. 

Okay we know this I ain’t a big fan of THW. I mean you don’t know how crazed I went at finding out one of the first ideas for THW was Drago coming back and there’d be whump where he captured Hiccup to get to Toothless. However I also know the behind-the-scenes bit where Art Brown and Douglas Sloan kept Dean Deblois on close tabs on the path they were taking RTTE. He was the one who said they couldn’t dabble with the Toothless being the last one idea. That was gonna be reserved for the third movie. 

I see it now. I may have been of the ones who said they absolutely should have had more Night Furies, but the thing is, with those examples, their possibilities had been exhausted. Why reuse an idea that had already been shut down? While I disagree with the fact they used the one man eliminated an entire species, it was a difficult outcome to storyboard. 

With yesterday’s viewing? Had HTTYD actually done a way to have Toothless find out he truly wasn’t the last, matches on par with Kung Fu Panda 3. I mean they needed some way to differentiate huh