megashark literature

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• jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  My favorite Tolstoy work is Anna Godzilla. It’s about a giant pre-historic lizard who has an intense affair with an imperial Russian count before completely wiping out Saint Petersburg.

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• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s kinda true, but incomplete. There’s twelve stories that we’ve told each other since antiquity

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  • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s a different number every time. All it really means is that people really like categorizing things.

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    • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s only one story we’ve been telling each other since antiquity and it’s that we only tell each other X stories to each other since antiquity.

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    • Aqarius@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There are only 2400 stories…

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I always say it’s about 12…

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I watched a movie where a wizard bound souls to puppets and then those puppets killed the people that helped him learn how to bind souls to puppets.

    Is that one of the 12?

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Unironically, yes. Creations turning against their creators, classic. The wizard was probably set up as the personalization of some force or ideal, like a Greek god

      And let me guess… This led events that set up some kind of call to adventure for a hero, who initially ignores the warning signs until something bad happens, then he goes on a journey through a wider world than he could ever have imagined, and after defeating the villain and/or ending the threat he returns home changed?

      That’s a total shot in the dark, I have no idea what movie you’re talking about, but in modern storytelling we usually have an A and B plot. And the heroes journey is by far the most common story in media

      How close was I? And what’s the movie?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yes.

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  • DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No, you seem to be relying on old data and are wrong. Newest estimate is that there are ~15.83 stories that we’ve told each other since antiquity

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• Broadfern@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Mechagodzilla erasure

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  • Glemek@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s just a strange godzilla comes to town

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A man going on a journey is just a stranger comes to town, told from someone else’s perspective.

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• x4740N@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I recently watched that ST:VOY episode with Leonardo Da Vinci so I can’t stop mentally associating this guy with him

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is this the Duck Dynasty guy?

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The third story is a sorority party not having enough money to pay the pizza delivery man

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  • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What are you doing step pizza delivery man?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can almost hear the echo from within the washing machine

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