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written a blog post...
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Cinderella
Cinderella movies bug me.
Especially the modern highschooly teen versions. My sister was watching some disney channel cinderella enters a dance competition... and the parts i saw sucked
Every time I see one I can't help but wonder what kind of psychological problems the cinderella character develops due to her treatment by her step-mother and step sisters
Its great how cinderella overcomes adversity with a smile and songs, but come on, that doesnt happen in the real world
So in the last hour, I toyed around with a concept for a sorta sequel to the traditional cinderella story, probably told from the POV of prince charming:
cinderella suffers from severe paranoid schizophrenia, imaginary characters tell her to do things
she gathers or falsifies enough evidence to have her step-mother executed for treason
her step sisters are forced to live in the palace as servats, until one of them is killed by a carriage "accident" in the town square
the second step-sister, who is neither ugly nor cruel (though she appears this way in cinderella's mind) is periodically beaten by cinderella
cinderella also becomes violently jealous to the point of becoming homocidal, she manages to smother the king in his sleep when he falls ill and she arranges several accidents and poisoning and such for the prince's childhood friends and some of his ministers
unaware of her actions, save for a growing suspision, the prince begins to wonder just what kind of woman he has married, her flights of madness and cruelty disturb him greatly, he also feels that he is unable to fullfill her sexual expectations (the cause of this being her harsh upbringing)
he eventually finds himself in building a romance with the last step sister
meanwhile, following the deaths of several nobles and politicians, a rival house begins building public support for a bid to claim the throne, political tension builds as cinderella begins "killing" individuals connected to the rival house out of some sort of twisted affection for the prince/king
somehow, in the end, they are fleeing the kingdom in the night/rain, cinderella tries to murder her step-sister, but wounds the price instead, thinking he has killed the only man she will ever love, she takes her own life
in the epilogue, the former prince and the step-sister are living in a neighboring kingdom with false identities, having entirely abandonned any claim to the throne
I think a lot of this was brought on by me rereading the wheel of time, with its fair share of political intrigue... hmm
Especially the modern highschooly teen versions. My sister was watching some disney channel cinderella enters a dance competition... and the parts i saw sucked
Every time I see one I can't help but wonder what kind of psychological problems the cinderella character develops due to her treatment by her step-mother and step sisters
Its great how cinderella overcomes adversity with a smile and songs, but come on, that doesnt happen in the real world
So in the last hour, I toyed around with a concept for a sorta sequel to the traditional cinderella story, probably told from the POV of prince charming:
cinderella suffers from severe paranoid schizophrenia, imaginary characters tell her to do things
she gathers or falsifies enough evidence to have her step-mother executed for treason
her step sisters are forced to live in the palace as servats, until one of them is killed by a carriage "accident" in the town square
the second step-sister, who is neither ugly nor cruel (though she appears this way in cinderella's mind) is periodically beaten by cinderella
cinderella also becomes violently jealous to the point of becoming homocidal, she manages to smother the king in his sleep when he falls ill and she arranges several accidents and poisoning and such for the prince's childhood friends and some of his ministers
unaware of her actions, save for a growing suspision, the prince begins to wonder just what kind of woman he has married, her flights of madness and cruelty disturb him greatly, he also feels that he is unable to fullfill her sexual expectations (the cause of this being her harsh upbringing)
he eventually finds himself in building a romance with the last step sister
meanwhile, following the deaths of several nobles and politicians, a rival house begins building public support for a bid to claim the throne, political tension builds as cinderella begins "killing" individuals connected to the rival house out of some sort of twisted affection for the prince/king
somehow, in the end, they are fleeing the kingdom in the night/rain, cinderella tries to murder her step-sister, but wounds the price instead, thinking he has killed the only man she will ever love, she takes her own life
in the epilogue, the former prince and the step-sister are living in a neighboring kingdom with false identities, having entirely abandonned any claim to the throne
I think a lot of this was brought on by me rereading the wheel of time, with its fair share of political intrigue... hmm
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Hilarity in Space
Every day, when the crew of a space shuttle wakes up, NASA twitters, telling us what song the astronauts woke up to
today's song was "i got you babe"
which, if i remember correctly, was the same song that bill murray's character wakes up to every day in the movie groundhog day
clearly the crews of ISS and space shuttle Endeavor, will be stuck in an infinite time loop, where they have to relive today over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....
today's song was "i got you babe"
which, if i remember correctly, was the same song that bill murray's character wakes up to every day in the movie groundhog day
clearly the crews of ISS and space shuttle Endeavor, will be stuck in an infinite time loop, where they have to relive today over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.....
Monday, July 27, 2009
I am a Nerd
Mostly because there was nothing else to watch but also because it was relevant to my probable career, I spent last night watching a science channel show about Saturn's moon Titan and the Cassini/Huygens mission
also my sister was working on a photoshop project relating to space, and was considering a 9-planet diagram of the solar system, to which I vehemently stated "pluto is not a planet!"
why should pluto get all the attention? the solar system has several other locations that are equally deserving of attention ... hence this blog post is dedicated to the objects in the solar system, dwarf planets and large moons, that have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, but are unfortunate in that they are not classified as planets
Ceres
Pluto
Haumea
Makemake
Eris
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Iapetus
Miranda
Umbriel
Ariel
Titania
Oberon
Triton
Charon
and, of course, our own moon, without which none of us would be here to even care
also, i meant this to be a photo blog, but i lack time and patience to copy 24 pictures of wikipedia, so ill just have to settle for this:
also my sister was working on a photoshop project relating to space, and was considering a 9-planet diagram of the solar system, to which I vehemently stated "pluto is not a planet!"
why should pluto get all the attention? the solar system has several other locations that are equally deserving of attention ... hence this blog post is dedicated to the objects in the solar system, dwarf planets and large moons, that have achieved hydrostatic equilibrium, but are unfortunate in that they are not classified as planets
Ceres
Pluto
Haumea
Makemake
Eris
Io
Europa
Ganymede
Callisto
Mimas
Enceladus
Tethys
Dione
Rhea
Titan
Iapetus
Miranda
Umbriel
Ariel
Titania
Oberon
Triton
Charon
and, of course, our own moon, without which none of us would be here to even care
also, i meant this to be a photo blog, but i lack time and patience to copy 24 pictures of wikipedia, so ill just have to settle for this:
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