#Trilogies

[optimisticapocalypse]

Less thinky more drawy.

[fictionalnormalcy]

Heh it took me watching Kung Fu Panda 2 to realise. So if there’s one thing I’ve figured out, don’t remember if I’ve done posts on it before. 

DreamWorks has a trend, when they make trilogies of their movies. Or in Shrek’s case 4. The ideas of their movies tend to be similar to one another. 

How to Train Your Dragon Shrek Madagascar Kung Fu Panda

I mean lately others of their sequels don’t count. They’ve changed it up with The Croods, Boss Baby, and Puss in Boots. 

For the four I mentioned above? Their sequels tend to have plot lines involving parents. Be it of protagonist or those close to them. Lemme show ya.

Shrek? He meets Fiona’s parents. Madagascar? Alex found his parents who he’d been taken from years ago. Kung Fu Panda? Po discovers what happens to his parents, where he came from.  How to Train Your Dragon? Hiccup finds his long-lost thought to be deceased mother. 

Heck even Trolls fits into this. I haven’t seen World Tour for myself but I found that Cooper goes looking and finds his long-lost parents. 

There’s another point I’m coming to, hold on. But their third doesn’t mesh with another. Although, it might’ve had. Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. (I know can you believe it?) As I said above, Kung Fu Panda 2; when I watching it yesterday I took particular note of the detail where Shen eliminated an entire village of pandas. Displaying, that pandas lived isolated from the other animals, and we even see the same in Kung Fu Panda 3. Getting the occasional mention of how Po may have been the last of his kind.

Ring a bell for HTTYD?  If the answer eludes you, the question poised throughout the whole franchise of Toothless being the last of his kind.Toying with it in many installments. Riders of Berk where Hiccup and Toothless were tricked and captured with the lure being an island full of Night Furies who stay isolated because they’re hostile to other dragons. RTTE, Hiccup looking through the Dragon Eye to see the information on Night Furies. Viggo even unlocking the Dragon Eye and the first image being distinctly of a Night Fury. HTTYD 2, after mapping a new island Hiccup suggests maybe they’ll finally find another Night Fury. Eret saying he thought the Night Furies were all gone for good. Valka saying he may truly be the last of his kind.  Then comes The Hidden World. Our long-awaited answer... which came to be that one man hunted them to extinction. Cheating with using dragons who were drugged on their own venom. 

Okay we know this I ain’t a big fan of THW. I mean you don’t know how crazed I went at finding out one of the first ideas for THW was Drago coming back and there’d be whump where he captured Hiccup to get to Toothless. However I also know the behind-the-scenes bit where Art Brown and Douglas Sloan kept Dean Deblois on close tabs on the path they were taking RTTE. He was the one who said they couldn’t dabble with the Toothless being the last one idea. That was gonna be reserved for the third movie. 

I see it now. I may have been of the ones who said they absolutely should have had more Night Furies, but the thing is, with those examples, their possibilities had been exhausted. Why reuse an idea that had already been shut down? While I disagree with the fact they used the one man eliminated an entire species, it was a difficult outcome to storyboard. 

With yesterday’s viewing? Had HTTYD actually done a way to have Toothless find out he truly wasn’t the last, matches on par with Kung Fu Panda 3. I mean they needed some way to differentiate huh 

[ebbyxiii]

Officially Published!!

I'm very happy to introduce the first coming novel of my trilogy series. I recently published a personal project of mine through Amazon Kindle Publishing, and you can now read my first work there. I've developed an original story and fostered its upcoming pieces since the early 2010s. Even now, I don't intend on stopping! Writing has always meant the world to me and I hope that sharing what I do with the world can either inspire others or create an environment worthwhile to those willing to discover it. Come indulge in the world called "Arogand," and unlock the secrets of a shrouded past. Meet Descendants who hail from the bloodlines of ethereal deities. Follow Ryan Edwards, an orphan whose youth ties everyone's futures together.

This is a journey into the unknown, both for me as an author, and for everyone who joins. View and purchase the first book - Venom: Injection, here on Amazon Supporting me will make all the difference. I plan on releasing a physical copy of book one very soon!

[nfinitefreetime]

Go read RED RISING

The big new plan for 2024 is to clear my reading backlog before I let myself buy any new books that aren’t part of a series that I already own. Red Rising has been sitting on my bookshelf for months, because it’s Part One of, currently, six, and the series is expected to conclude with a seventh book that has not yet been released. It was clearly originally planned as a trilogy; you can see on…

[newsfromthehouseofbourbon]

June 12, 2023: Beta Readers Wanted

Hello. How are you doing? I think I should explain a few things. Let me get this out of the way first: I will be looking for beta readers for the first part of the book XIV.

Yes, XIV is about Louis XIV. How did you know? Anyway, it is a long book and it will be here always: @lesecretdelamaisondubourbon.

Long story short: a famous person DMs me to ask to read my work and I had to make it possible. I write a lot (@tkwrtrilogy @tkwrtrilogy @tkwrtrilogy3 @trenarnolegolaslasgalen and all subsequent side projects), and this trilogy is part of my work. So, naturally, I decided that why should the famous person have all the fun? I decided to make it possible for a few beta readers to read Part I of XIV (which is a trilogy within an actual trilogy now because each part is as long as a book). Good, now that you know that...

Yes, Monsieur has his own book--which brings me to what I should explain (more about this particular trilogy).

This is Part II of Book III--NOT of XIV (which is about Louis XIV). This is a separate book. It is written by @fortunatelyclevercandy (who is also working on @thehouseofdurin). Clearly, this book is entitled Monsieur (because, as everyone knows, Monsieur was the honorific title of the second-born son of a French Monarch).

Part I of Book III is the book XIV written by @iamjaynaemarie (the person writing this blog post, and author of the abovementioned blogs about The Kingdom of the Woodland Realm Trilogy).

Yes, THIS book is about Louis XIV. This book is the one that will be available in November for a select group of readers.

This is a trilogy. Why is it a trilogy?

This is why*. It's a family affair. Interestingly enough, this family makes all other royal families look like Disney by comparison. The years of movies and television shows didn't even scratch the surface.

⚠️ BY THE WAY: People seem to be having issues with WordPress and reading this book, so I am going to figure out what is going on today and probably until tomorrow. I don't know what happened. It works for me obviously because I'm the one posting things on my website. But for some reason, it is not working for readers, so I'm going to be looking into that today and probably over the next few days to rectify this issue. In the meantime, anyone not on WordPress please try to read Tumblr for a while. I hope it doesn't take too long.

Yeah, the KING is NOT HAPPY about that.

So, that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed all that. Thank you for reading.--JMM.

Every family has a secret. Some have more than others.

Welcome to the House of Bourbon. Enjoy your stay.

*Book I will be the last book completed. It is going through some minor outline changes as the overall tone of the trilogy has shifted to deal with our favorite recurring theme: Brothers.

Note: This book is also written in multiple languages: English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. This means that the actual text of the book will casually flip between languages (mostly in dialogue). This is done because, interestingly enough, Louis XIV was fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian, and German. His brother Philippe preferred Spanish to his native French, but he was also multilingual as his best friend was Italian, his first wife was English, and his second wife spoke German. 🙂

[tkwrtnewsfeed]

Newsfeed #133 March 3, 2023 (3 Súlimë)

Before I go ANY further: Let me tell you what happened (briefly):

I was told all of this on February 16, 2023. So I had to put Book I: The Epic of Eryn Galen (@tkwrtrilogy3) on hiatus until all of my source material was replaced. All of this was on the heels of deciding what to do with all this work I've done on the life and times of the Elves of the Woodland Realm (i.e.: publishing).

NOW, for the MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT:

I just noticed that @trenarnolegolaslasgalen begins on May 2, 2023. That is on a Tuesday (aka Aldúya/Aldëa or Treesday in Quendi; Orgaladh in Sindarin). Legolas' Birthday. Fate seems to always be written in the stars. Either way, if you're on Facebook or Instagram, there's a lovely video marking the occasion of this wonderful announcement.

As we get closer to that date, I will explain (again) how you will be able to read the Extended Version (@tkwrtrilogylasttale) works. I remember how confusing it was for Thranduil's story (@tkwrtrilogy & @extendedtkwrtrilogyend).

As for my beloved stepsister Roseann Grotjan, I pray she does nothing else to hinder the completion of this trilogy and its other 3 standalone books (including @oflordsandkingstkwrtbook @tkwrtsongofsevenrivers). She has no idea how much she is going to have to replace when it comes to my Tolkien Collection I spent years building. On the upside, she did bring me some books that I asked for (even though I asked for them all). What I do have has allowed me to move Legolas' story up the ladder.

I would like to finish these books as people are dying to edit them for publication apparently. And what the world needs now more than ever is another installment of Tolkien stories for their personal libraries, I am sure. Especially the story (Amazon 🤫) keeps tabs on. To be honest, they want the entire trilogy. I wasn't born yesterday.

Note: When I said three standalone books, the final installment is about someone you adore so much. (later on that one).

Spoiler: Everything is tied to Book I: The Epic of Eryn Galen. Just so you know. And all of these books have ties to @thehouseofdurin in one way or another. On the upside, my family has no idea how far I have come as a writer (of now TWO trilogies [@lesecretdelamaisondubourbon & @thesecretofthehouseofbourbonbook) and they're missing all the fun. Because no matter how hard you try, you cannot interfere with God's plan for others. 🙂 Yay.

[honeyedbrie]

I'm rewatching the hunger games for reasons and I just had a thought that really touched me: if Rue had survived with Katniss till the end, it would have been the exact same scenario as w Peeta, bc there is no way either of those two would have killed each other, but it would have made a very different story.

the fact that remains consistent through any storyline with Katniss is that she would never intentionally harm a friend, and she will protect them at all costs. so no matter who she survived with if she had an alliance, and it came down to her and her alliance, she wouldn't have been able to do it.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that it was all doomed from the beginning: from the second that Effie drew Prim's name, there was no hope for the capitol.

[booksandpaperss]

Suzanne collins wrote a trilogy where a main media propaganda strategy was to market a horrific act of violence as a love story to distract ppl and then it got adapted into a box office breaking movie and ppl made it all about the love triangle. so then since they didn’t get the point the first time Suzanne collins wrote a prequel story about the main dictator and she makes it so that you as a reader want it to be a genuine love story so badly even tho it’s so very clearly not and instead feels extremely unsettling to make her point even more meta which then gets adapted into another box office breaking film and now ppl are making romantic snowbaird tik toks. do u think she’s gonna write another book that’s somehow even more blatant or just give up and start executing ppl? hard to say but I wouldn’t blame her for the second one

[batcavescolony]

Katniss is such an unreliable narrator. She says "Then something unexpected happens. At least, I don't expect it because I don't think of District 12 as a place that cares about me" girl you deliver strawberries to the Mayor, you hunt and trade for the district, when you fell at Prim being chosen someone caught you, when you went to Prim people parted for you, when you volunteered EVERYONE stopped. Idk how to tell you but I think you're a pillar of the community.

[enchantedchocolatebars]

THEMS!!! 💖 ❤️ 💖 ❤️ <333

♡EVERY KISS THEY’VE EVER SHARED♡ ↳ ☀︎Cinderella & Prince Charming (The Cinderella Trilogy)☀︎

[fictionalnormalcy]

I called it, I CALLED IT! When a DreamWorks movie gets a holiday short it will be a trilogy!

It happened for Shrek! It happened for Madagascar! It happened for Kung Fu Panda! It happened for HTTYD!

And it happened, for TROLLS!!!

Yesterday, here comes the trailer for Trolls 3 😑

I didn’t even care much for Trolls 2 because it was an Infinity War knockoff, now out is coming a third movie. Ay pues.

[shitpostingkats]

We need less "shy, anxious, always second guessing" Apollo in fanworks, and approximately 400% more of whatever the hell this is.

[nfinitefreetime]

#REVIEW: The Drowning Empire series, by Andrea Stewart