#gmork of nothing

[arcadebroke]

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[tiny-elf-of-doom]

The NeverEnding Story…

One of the many films that could give us Falcor the luck dragon in one scene…

And then this scary motherfucker, Gmork, the next…

[patheticbatman]

Win a Commission! Guess the story, win a commission. This is a German book were a werewolf called Gmork who serves a force of depression called the Nothing. In the movie he’s just a regular wolf servant though. Guess by August 7th to win.

[chickensauras]

Forgot id been workin on this w.i.p. last year- its my favorite scene from The Neverending Story (book not the movie) ch. 9 Spook City

I got 12 pages sketched out but still never got to Gmork revealing what the creatures of fantastica turn into in the human world, but its such a good chapter

[unic0rnsandmurder]

The Nothing, depressed horses, and dead moms–

The Neverending Story! (Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh…)

On this week’s episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Sh*t, learn why the film adaptation of the novel of the same name so infuriated the book’s author that he sued to keep the film from being released.

Listen as @tguydecker relives the trauma of watching Artax be swallowed by the Swamp of Sadness.

Though neither the special effects nor the gender representation holds up, there is still much to enjoy in this allegory of grief that taught GenX that riding a luck dragon is the best revenge.

Listen here or check us out at guygirlsmedia.com.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Atreyu (played by Noah Hathaway) and Falkor (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer), The Neverending Story (1984)

[pinkerthings]

neverending story & stranger things?

Just rewatched the neverending story in the theatre for the 40th anniversary rerelease and……my my my i had forgotten how many parallels there are.

Will vs Bastian & Will the Wise vs Atreyu?

Will being Bastian: a quiet, creative kid with bullies for no other reason than just being himself.

And Will the Wise being Atreyu, the “hero” of the story.

The Mind Flayer/Shadow Monster being the Nothing:

The real world being Hawkins, and Fantasia being the Upside Down, attacked by the Nothing (manifestations of evil thoughts, the loss of hopes and dreams), otherwise known as the Mind Flayer, a manifestation of Will’s imagination.

Gmork, talking to Bastian: “Foolish boy. Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy. Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries.”

aka, the Upside Down is everywhere? Not just in Hawkins?

Atreyu: “But why is Fantasia dying, then?”

Gmork: “Because people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams. So the Nothing grows stronger.”

(The Upside Down leaking into the real world.)

The more you give into your despair (Max, Chrissy, Patrick, Fred), the more susceptible you are to Vecna’s (the Nothing’s) antics.

Atreyu: “Fight against the sadness, Artax. Artax, please. You’re letting the sadness of the swamps get to you. You have to try, you have to care.”

Artax died letting the sadness of the swamps get to him. Max escaped Vecna’s grasp in s4 e4 because she DIDN’T let the sadness get to her.

Upside Down vs Fantasia:

Was the Upside Down (Fantasia) a place Will went to hide from his bullies? His abusive father? But when things got too real, when Will started giving up hope, did it turn into the twisted, dark plane of existence we now know as the Upside Down?

Gmork: “Because people who have no hopes are easy to control; and whoever has the control…has the power!”

Will being mind controlled/possessed in s2 because he has given up hope:

Gmork: “I am the servant of the Power behind the Nothing. I was sent to kill the only one who could have stopped the Nothing.”

If the Nothing is the Mind Flayer (being controlled by Vecna), then Gmork is a mere demogorgon—a puppet of the Nothing’s—just as a demogrogon is a puppet/soldier of the Mind Flayer, sent to kill Atreyu (Will the Wise) because he is the only one with the power to stop the Nothing (the Mind Flayer).

D&D campaigns:

We all know the Party’s D&D campaigns (written by mostly Will) foretell the future in Hawkins. So in this case, if Fantasia = Upside Down, then the Neverending Story = the campaigns, a story that Bastian (Will) thinks he has no control over, but actually has complete control over.

Atreyu isn’t the hero of Fantasia, it’s Bastian—the human boy who thought he was useless. Just like how Will the Wise—a fictional manifestation of who Will wants to be—won’t be the hero of this story. It’s Will, the once-bullied, possibly neglected, quiet, creative kid who has the power to decide how his own story ends.

In this parallel, the Nothing is the Mind Flayer, being controlled by Vecna. But in this case (Will taking the reigns of his own story) does this mean that Vecna isn’t in control of the Mind Flayer, but Will is?

Bastian made his wish of getting Fantasia back to normal, including destroying the Nothing. If the Upside Down is a collection of all the dark thoughts/lost hopes and dreams of Will’s, then the Mind Flayer is a manifestation of the complete and utter despair Will feels for himself and everything around him.

The Ending:

This means that Stranger Things (the Neverending Story movie) can only end once Will (Bastian) rewrites his own campaign (the Neverending Story book) and fights that despair, erasing the Mind Flayer (the Nothing) completely so the Upside Down (Fantasia) can get back to what it was before—an escape for Will. A peaceful, imaginary land to escape from the real world—a world of pain, suffering, and sadness.

[dragonfire42]

I'd like to personally apologize for the AO3 errors. I wrote a fan fiction story about it and think I caused this. I can't also currently link but if you want to see it later it's "The Neverending Archive" by Dragonfire42

- Archive of Our Own is a nonprofit, run on open source code and programmed almost exclusively by volunteers, creating a space that was ranked in Time magazine as one of the 50 best websites in 2013. Those 700 volunteers are actively defending these stories against Gmork and the Nothing, and that 2023 cyberattack. Support them, join them in the fight, donate to their cause - https://archiveofourown.org/donate

[negative-speedforce]

Your OCs have just been flung into whatever movie/show you've watched most recently! What happens, and how do they cope? How do they interact with the canon characters?

I just recently watched "The Neverending Story" for the zillionth time so this'll be interesting

Siv: Picks a fight with every single one of the characters, and ends up getting nuked by the sphynx gate because of her intense self-loathing

Jay: Gives the Empress a new name, the most beautiful name he knows (It's Cassandra)

Cassandra: Manages to banish the Nothing from Fantasia- she sends it straight into the shadow realm, where there's nothing for it to consume except shadows

Hailey: Antagonizes Gmork because she's dead, what is he gonna do? Kill her?

Arya: Is honestly just really happy because they actually get to interact with other fae-adjacent beings after being shut off from the Otherword for almost two thousand years

Esme: Nukes the Nothing with her light-based powers, then goes to find the nearest fantasy tavern because she is WAY too sober for this shit.

Gina: Figures everything out really fast, and since she's human and technically a minor, she counts as an Earthling Child, right? So she gives the Empress a new name and gets it over with.

Ember: Sees that they're having some kid fight The Nothing and ends up throwing hands with everyone because kids deserve better than that.

Cat: Ends up dying because she doesn't know how to live without modern technology and she ends up falling into a hole/getting eaten by wild beasts/falling off a horse/etc etc etc

Max: Decides to go pick a fight with the Empress because she's a... you know, Empress, and he isn't a big fan of monarchy.

Kyle: Probably passes out pretty quickly due to the lack of electricity in Fantasia

Eric: Transports anyone who wants to go home back to their universe, then faces up against the Nothing on his own.

Jacob: Joins his husband in facing off against the Nothing.

Khalil: "No.", then melts into the shadows and transports himself home.

Antonio: Introduces the world of Fantasia to skateboarding

Ameerah: Manipulates the Gmork into being more docile, then rides around Fantasia on a giant wolf for the singular reason that it is awesome.

Rania: Immediately starts studying all the strange fantasy creatures

Reggie: Helps Antonio introduce skateboarding to Fantasia.

Director Hawke: Tries to take over Fantasia with her dark magic and exterminate basically all the other sentient species, until someone stops her.

Meredith: Goes and bothers Morla the Ancient One to get more information on where the hell she is.

Cory: Immediately starts fangirling over the fact that he's in a real fantasy world, probably ends up scaring the crap out of Falkor because no one expects some random teen to be flying alongside them.

Kelsie: Just enjoys being in nature with all the plants and everything, since her powers are stronger when she's around them.

Onnie: Retreats to the Negative Speed Force until they can figure out how to get home.

Pippa: "OMG!!! A FAIRY!!!"

Jessi: Uses her sonic powers to blast open a hole in reality (that probably shatters everyone's eardrums) to go home because all this nature is really going to ruin her Prada heels.

Hyun-Ki: Fucks off with the Nighthob and his stupid bat and leaves Jessi to suck his dust

Marie: Is trying REALLY hard to hide any evidence that she is from space, as not to break the Prime Directive.

Qiara: Uses her powers to restore Fantasia to what it used to be, then runs off with her girlfriends to go live a cottage-core dream fantasy life.

Liah: Breaks the Prime Directive about 600 times because she keeps meeting all kinds of new friends and she tells them everything.

Soraya: Beams back up onto her ship and just spends the rest of her time there hanging out on the Tschaikovsky, which is floating above Fantasia, pretending that she is not, in fact, in a fantasy world.

Thalia: Goes and talks shit with Morla the Ancient One because she is way too tired for this crap.

Reyna: Spends the entirety of her time in Fantasia starry-eyed over all the fantastical creatures and magic and stuff

Athena: Takes over Fantasia and manages to stop The Nothing with a technicality- the Empress needs a new name, so why not replace her with an Empress with a different name? She gets overthrown in a week.

Laila: Joins Athena in ruling over Fantasia for like, a week, before they get overthrown

Samira: Her little scientist nerd ass is going crazy over all these new creatures and species all around her

Aldrich: Follows Sohelia around to make sure she doesn't get herself into danger (she does)

Sohelia: Figures out what's going on really fast, gives the Empress a new name and stops the whole crisis before it actually happens

Dolores: Tries to stay in Fantasia because it's so pretty there, is really disappointed when she has to go back to the real world

Vanessa: Finally feels like she fits in and isn't a freak anymore while surrounded by all these not-quite-human characters.

Matt: Tries and fails to learn how to ride a horse, ends up getting a luckdragon instead.

Victorie: Stays in the shadows until she understands what's going on, then she follows Atreyu around making sure that nothing eats this poor kid.

Kayla: Immediately gets to work trying to build some kind of portal home because HYDRA isn't going to take itself down.

Dori: Starts testing out their shapeshifting powers with all the strange creatures around them, just to see how far they can push themself.

Ellis: Nukes the Nothing with angelic light and the power of love and peace and justice and all those other things that angels stand for

[thewizardlywyrm]

Don’t you know anything about Fantasia? It’s the world of human fantasy! Every part, every creature of it, is a piece of the dreams and hopes of mankind. Therefore, it has no boundaries. 

But why is Fantasia dying, then?

Because people have begun to lose their hope and forget their dreams. 

So the Nothing grows stronger.

The Neverending Story was one of my favourite movies growing up, and is to this day ( the book as well, if your library has a physical copy of the version with different-coloured text, I highly recommend it )! The scene with Gmork was always my favourite part ( which makes sense in hindsight, but, yannow ). I remember rewatching it endlessly, I just thought he was SO. COOL. To this day, the practical effects hold up beautifully and he really is an impressive creature. Been feeling a lot like the Nothing is swallowing the world in the past few years, so I often project a lot onto that book/movie and I really wanted to finally draw Gmork. 

I do want to make a better one eventually, but this was more of a vent piece. 

[Image ID: A traditional monochromatic ballpoint pen illustration of the giant wolf character, The Gmork, from the Neverending Story, with bright red rim lighting. His eyes are also glowing red. He is emerging from his place in a wall, which is crumbling forward to show movement and the damage of The Nothing. /End ID.]

[tetraquad3prosequi]

Title: The Nothing, Gmork

Artist: Dusty Ray (@sloppjockey_ert)

[llpodcast]

(Literary License Podcast)

Pufnstuf (also known as Pufnstuf Zaps the World) is a 1970 American comedy fantasy musical film produced by Sid and Marty Krofft Enterprises and released by Universal Pictures. It is based on the children's television series H.R. Pufnstuf, a show that features a cast of puppets on a "living island."

 The NeverEnding Story is a 1984 fantasy film co-written and directed by Wolfgang Petersen (in his first English-language film), and based on the 1979 novel The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. It was produced by Bernd Eichinger and Dieter Giessler, and stars Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach, Patricia Hayes, Sydney Bromley, Gerald McRaney and Moses Gunn, with Alan Oppenheimer providing the voices of Falkor and Gmork (as well as other characters). It follows a boy who finds a magical book that tells of a young warrior who is given the task of stopping the Nothing, a dark force, from engulfing the wonderland world of Fantasia.

 At the time of its release, it was the most expensive film produced outside the United States or the Soviet Union. It was the first in The NeverEnding Story film series. It adapts only the first half of the book, and consequently does not convey the message of the title as it was portrayed in the novel. The second half of the book was subsequently used as a rough basis for the second film, The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990). The third film, The NeverEnding Story III: Escape from Fantasia (1994), has an original plot not based on the book.

 Opening Credits; Introduction (1.22); Background History (13.09); PufnStuf (1970) Trailer (29.44); Our Opening Presentation (16.29); Let's Rate (55.07); Introducing Our Next Feature (1:00.40); NeverEnding Story (1984) Trailer (1:02.11); Lights, Camera, Action (1:03.30); How Many Stars (1:41.31); End Credits (1:49.16); Closing Credits (1:51.23)

 Opening Credits– Epidemic Sound – Copyright . All rights reserved

 Closing Credits:  NeverEnding Story by Limahl.  Taken from the album Don’t Suppose.  Copyright 1984 EMI Records/Zap the World by Billie Hayes and Martha Raye. Taken from the album PufnStuf.  Copyright 1970 Capitol Records

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Original Music copyrighted 2020 Dan Hughes Music and the Literary License Podcast. 

 All rights reserved.  Used by Kind Permission.

 All songs available through Amazon Music.

[iviarellereads]

The Neverending Story Chapter 11 - The Childlike Empress

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In which insecurity can overtake even the best of us.

Knitting(1) his brow, powerless to utter a single word, Atreyu stood gazing at the Childlike Empress.

The CLE welcomes Atreyu back from his Great Quest. Atreyu feels ashamed that he didn't bring the cure, but the CLE is eternally confident that all is not lost. She even laughs and says Atreyu has brought the saviour with him, but Atreyu is alone. She says she saw him, and he saw her,(2) even if he's not in their world yet. Soon, he will join them, and give her a name, and restore Fantastica to all it ever was.

Atreyu is confused: did she know all along what the answer was? Why, then, did she send him through all that hardship? The CLE says she knows what it cost Atreyu, and it was no joke. He needed to go on the quest to call the saviour, who took the quest beside him, and who listens now to every word they exchange.(3)

Atreyu asks how she can know all this, and the CLE explains that Auryn is connected to her, and by carrying it, she was always with Atreyu. She asks him to say what happened when he lost it for a time, so he does, and she understands that he lost his colours because he came so close to the Nothing. Atreyu asks if Gmork was right, about Fantasticans becoming lies.

'Yes, it is true,' said the Childlike Empress, and her golden eyes darkened. 'All lies were once creatures of Fantastica. They are made of the same stuff - but they have lost their true nature and become unrecognizable. But, as you might expect from a half-and-half creature like Gmork, he told you only half the truth. There are two ways of crossing the dividing line between Fantastica and the human world, a right one and a wrong one. When Fantasticans are cruelly dragged across it, that's the wrong way. When humans, children of man, come to our world of their own free will, that's the right way. Every human who has been here has learned something that could be learned only here, and returned to his own world a changed person. Because he had seen you creatures in your true form, he was able to see his own world and his fellow humans with new eyes. Where he had seen only dull, everyday reality, he now discovered wonders and mysteries. That is why humans were glad to come to Fantastica. And the more these visits enriched our world, the fewer lies there were in theirs, the better it became. Just as our two worlds can injure each other, they can also make each other whole again.'(4)

She reiterates that the saviour will come, and asks if Atreyu understands, now, why his journey was necessary. He does, and asks her forgiveness for his anger. She says he had no way of knowing, which was also necessary.

Atreyu says he's tired, and she asks if he would like to rest. He says, first, he would like to see his quest pay off. The CLE wonders what the saviour is waiting for.

Bastian says he doesn't know what he's supposed to do.

Exchanges go back and forth, as Atreyu accuses (Bastian) of not wanting to help Fantastica, the CLE having faith but being confused why Bastian won't just say her name, and Bastian worrying even after being told what to do, that he will be judged for his appearance if he shows up before the CLE.(5)

Since Bastian won't do as he's asked, the CLE says she must go and find The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, who Atreyu knows as a legendary figure who writes everything that ever happened in his book. The CLE says she has never met him, and he is her exact opposite in every way.(6) She must be alone to find him, and she's not so forsaken as Atreyu thinks she is. She tells him to sleep, and he will be moved, as Falkor was, to somewhere his wounds can heal and he can rest. Though he wants to protest, Atreyu finds he can't help but wish for sleep more than anything, and falls into it.

Bastian's clock strikes eleven.

A paragraph is spent on Atreyu's near-unconscious recollection of sleeping, and waking, and sleeping again. Then the CLE's journey in her glass litter is described. She tells her invisible but somehow corporeal powers to keep going, wherever there's a path, until they find something.

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(1) Above, Auryn surrounds the K with something behind it, perhaps the same tower as the previous chapter illumination. Below, the CLE in her litter. (2) So, Bastian was right, last chapter. How interesting. (3) They needed to get Bastian invested in the world, to empathize with their plight, to want to save it so badly that he would cross the realms. (4) I think it's interesting to think of this from both a Watsonian and Doylist perspective (or perhaps, from a Thermian and Human one, if you're more familiar with the Folding Ideas video on the subject). From within the world, it is literally true that having been to a magic world would change you, would make you more open to the wonders of the mundane world of your birth. From the perspective of one reading this book as we are, fiction can still do the same thing, to a more realistic degree. Seeing stories about people who aren't like you can make you more likely to see them as people worthy of respect in your everyday, which is why representation in fiction is so important to all kinds of humans in all our shapes and sizes and ability levels. And, being open to experiences other than your own can make you appreciate the mundane in your own life anyway. (5) Yes I'm compressing almost two pages worth of text into this one paragraph, including the fulcrum point of the whole chapter. But, Bastian's insecurity over being a pasty fat kid is literally holding him back, and as a former bullied kid still struggling to work past the stuff I was told until I believed it as a kid, I can't not relate. (6) Curious, what could this mean?

[the-kaiju-lodge]

Falkor

alkor es un ser sofisticado muy sabio, increíblemente positivo, digno y muy sociable de Fantasia. Da consejos a las personas cuando han perdido la esperanza en muchas cosas que se proponen hacer, ya sea en la búsqueda de lo que buscan o, en algunos casos, a personas y seres que se han dado por vencidos y han perdido la fe. Principalmente durante la destrucción de Fantasia por parte de Nothing, ayuda a Atreyu en su búsqueda para detener a The Nothing. La actitud optimista de Falkor proviene puramente de su corazón y está demostrado que su apertura para hacer amigos significa mucho para todos los que se encuentra, a lo que Falkor atesora cada amistad que tiene. Falkor, sin embargo, nunca quiere hacer enemigos, solo aquellos que son amenazas para sus amigos o amenazas en general hacia Fantasia misma.

No hay conocimiento de nadie ni de nada en Fantasia que haya sido hostil hacia Falkor, solo The Nothing y Gmork fueron sus únicos enemigos verdaderos. La otra cosa a señalar es que a Falkor nunca le gusta estar solo, siempre quiere estar cerca o incluso en compañía de otros seres o criaturas de Fantasia, a Falkor le encanta tener amigos y sabe que le serán leales. y no traicionar su buena voluntad y corazón abierto. A Falkor también le gusta cuidar y albergar a aquellos que han resultado heridos, están inconscientes o, en general, le gusta mantener a las personas seguras a su alcance; esto se demuestra cuando Atreyu termina durmiendo en las patas de Falkor durante el tiempo en que Atreyu estaba en su fase de recuperación después de que él lo rescatara de los Pantanos de la Tristeza.

[arcticdementor]

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[halloween-post-its]

Day 25 🐺Gmork  - The Neverending Story