♥♥mystery♥♥

*dramatic music* *thunder claps* *everyone gasps* "que?"

(another post about a genre that we're starting)

Mystery, the genre that typically includes a professional or other protagonist that has to solve various mysteries and problems in order to uncover a greater scheme. This can be murder, illegal acts that don't involve murder, or maybe some other petty thing that the characters fight over. It's great.

My thoughts??

As a "reader" (quotation marks since I haven't even really read a book in months) I'm not that much of a fan of mystery. Well, its not really because I don't like having nostalgia about Scooby-Doo or anything; I just haven't come across any actual mystery books. Probably because I'm not looking hard enough though. The faintest one that I can remember is The Westing Game and I can't even recall anything that happened in the book. Hell, I only remembered the title and had to look it up to confirm that it was a mystery novel. Anyways, sure. I'm up for whatever Craddock has in store for me in like 2 weeks.

(Following the pattern of this whole year, I'm pretty sure we're going to be writing ~our own~ mystery novels which I'm probably going to have to scramble to finish because I don't get any inspiration when I'm in that hard ass uncomfortable seat and just waiting for the period to be over or we move onto something else; adding onto the 3 other assignments that I have not completed but hey life sucks)

mr craddock's blog also asks for thoughts on tropes of the genre but the gag is that idk any tropes bc i only know 1 mystery novel in existence and i can only think of the title so yeah thats how its going for me right now

^ the only tropes i can think of come from scooby doo mystery incorporated so: is the whole bad guy in a costume trope a valid trope or

thats all i know im sorry

xoxo gossip girl ~

♥fantasy pt.2♥

*a bird lands on jack's shoulder*

*jack does something*

lily: ur so clever jAck

guess what i have not finished my fantasy story yet lmao but are we even surprised though i finish all my shit like 3 years after they're assigned so wooooo lets see how i do // i also wrote this like two weeks after it was assigned so i dont even know if this is what i'm correctly supposed to do or not but lets see how this turns out or if i even get any points for this 

anyways

Legend (1985) by Ridley Scott, an early fantasy movie consisting of a troll with a uncomfortably well edited voice, a jungle boy that is familiar to Tarzan, a horny fairy, and a princess who makes the worst decisions despite the obvious consequences. Yes, an angsty introduction indeed. Since its a fantasy movie and one of the earlier ones, it might be riddled with cliches and/or strange occurrences in the story.  That might not be all that bad though, following the recipe is never an error in itself. The beginning doesn't give us much context to why Jack The Jungle Boy is in the jungle in the first place, but it was probably done to just move on with the story. It continues with the two being happy, then suddenly Jack wants to show his little girlfriend the most sacred of all creatures in the forest, the Unicorn. To sum it up, Lilli doesn't listen to Jack and ends up touching the unicorn, a band of evil trolls (one of them being mentioned in the introduction) at the same time comes and shoots a poison dart at the mare. This "indirectly" scares the unicorn away and making Jack think that Lilli touching the horse was what caused the eternal winter. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the death of one of the unicorns resulted in the loss of magic and purity in the forest. Lilli runs away, Jack then needs to embark on a journey to clean up the mess stirred on by Lilli with several other fantasy creatures such as the fairy, more goblins and dwarves, and an elf. A classic fantasy movie.

♥♥the martian chronicles♥♥

The Martian Chronicles, the riveting science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury. This author is famous for his vivid storytelling that he uses to develop the experiences of his characters and plot. The novel follows many fragmented short stories that stretch across many years; telling of telepathy, space exploration, bee guns, and most importantly, martians.

The novel is overall pretty great. But the flaws include the inconsistent story line and lack of variety for resolution. There's like 16 short stories, one about this alien woman and her asshole husband who has a gun that shoots bees and abuses her. And then it skips to colonizers from Earth in their flying tin can who get thrown into an insane asylum and the whole crew is killed like out of nowhere, what the hell.

Adding to that, most of the conflict is resolved through violence. Colonizers? Shoot em' with the bee gun. Let's also not try to reason with beings that we don't know. Literally everything in this book ends with something violent and explosive. There's this alien who can shape shift and it tries to turn into everyone, and then he bursts into dusts. There's no plan C, no E on this scan tron.

The writing style I'll say is not bad. I can imagine the desolate planet of Mars and the struggles that the many life forms that have colonized and would like to colonize the planet have been through.

In conclusion, I am bitter.