Alright Starting The Neverending Story By Michael Ende Now.

Alright starting The Neverending Story by Michael Ende now.

The chapter title for the prologue is written in reverse text, named after the bookshop's sign as seen from inside.  ɿɘbnɒiɿoƆ bɒɿnoƆ lɿɒƆ ƨʞooઘ blO   I said " oh that's brilliant" out loud to myself when I read that.

Mr Coriander is really laying into Bastian here isn't he.

Gracious this prose is good; I just want to quote like the whole thing where Bastian decides to steal the book

And now it's explaining why Bastian ran to his school after that and to the attic specifically; there's just so much in this book that just goes unexplained in the movie isn't there

Mouse. Living in the attic. We meet it then it's gone; sort of a Mario 1-1 of the fantastical characters we only catch glimpses of in the book itself

There's a teensy little bug crawling around in the pages here? Don't think it's part of anything but I wouldn't put it above them.

Been intending using this blog as a notetaking place for things I read. Might as well commence with Michael Ende's The Neverending Story, see how this goes. I read some of this book in elementary or middle school, but the green/purple print kind of hurt my eyes back then for some reason, so I didn't get very far. No problem with it now, so let's see how this goes.

(Anyway also for the record I've seen all three films ofc. The second one, doesn't suck? The third one, well... well anyway the second one doesn't suck. (There's apparently a cartoon or something as well but I don't know anything about that.))

can we stop calling it AI art? it’s an algorithmic collage. it’s literally math making a collage. that’s cool but it’s not AI.

that also helps emphasize the fact that it is, in fact, sourcing imagery from elsewhere!

I adore that moment when you’re walking and suddenly you just have ideas.  You know how to fix that plot hole. You know how that final battle is gonna play out. You come up with the most perfect line of dialogue. You find a way to link point a to point b. You have fine details to enhance everything.

That moment of sheer inspiration, that absolute spark of brain magic, is simply phenomenal. 

Been watching Jurassic Park since forever and it's only upon waking up just now that I realize that when the digger at the beginning says "Because Grant's like me- he's a digger" he's talking about Grant ??? the nAME HE SAYS?? and not referring in some weird metaphorical capacity to, Hammond?

It has been, my apprehension, the whole time somehow, that the line "Because Grant's like me, he's a digger", referred to John Hammond., CEO of inGEN, (notably neither a digger nor named anything close to Grant).

All this time I'd been reading that scene with a weirdly philosophical bent, but nope, they were being literal with it.

Both the Campbellian monomyth and the TVTropes wiki can rightly be criticised for bending over backwards to hammer every storytelling tradition everywhere into an overgeneralised set of tropes informed by a relatatively narrow body of cultural assumptions, but TVTropes is somewhat less objectionable because unlike Campbell, TVTropes doesn’t deliberately gloss over the fact that most of the stories it’s cherry-picking to prop up its ahistorical assertion of a culturally universal hero narrative are gay as hell.

The M*A*S*H peace sign on legs and the The Discrete Charms of the Bourgeoisie pair of lips on legs are dating