Mythical Class

As one of my last assignments for this class, the TvTropes story lab was a great way to get some final information that I will be able to use with my future projects. This was such an interesting site- not at all what I was expecting. The idea of organizing characters and trope like this is such a wild resource- I can't believe that someone had the idea and exigency to put this together. I fell into a bit of an information exploration hole when I dove into the SOviet tropes. There are so many characters alone that I was inspired by. There is such a mystic about these sort of tropes that are so unfamiliar to the classic American canon- or what I associate it with at least. Another page that totally opened my eyes to the possibilities of the site was the "Dining in the Buff" definition. Watching a clip on The Big Short led me there, and it was pretty cool to see something explained in such a short clip. That is- the curators of this site took what seems like such a short pi

This week I switched over to LibroVox's version of some Grimm stories to see how the different adaptations would read. THis section had a different collection of stories alltogether from last week, but the underlying familiar tone from the Grimm brothers was still there. Thse stories were also more familiar that last week's. My favorite story for this section was one that I had no familiarity with. That would be The Straw, The Coal, and The Bean. The past few units I have been so interested to see how non-human characters are used and this story takes this much further. Here even a piece of burning coal can exit a fire and participate in both narrative and dialogue. Story: Link Image: Link