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There’s two ways you’d want your audience to react to a plot twist of any kind: Having them not expect it at all and being surprised when it happens at all, And the harder one, have it be that they *know* the twist is coming at some point, but for it to be such a good moment that it makes one jump up and yell, “I called it!” In excitement. Deaths reveal is pointedly part of the latter for a lot of people.

Does Jasper Fforde's 'The Constant Rabbit' fit in this category?

I agree with your title-- recent attempts to redesign state flag have yielded boring results. To be frank though, I'm a little confused how your designs are any different. They've got the same over-reliance on obvious symbolism ("a horse for Kentucky!", "put the state bird/flower/tree on there!"), random color selections ("Kentucky should be green... not bluegrass green, just a random green!," "New Hampshire should be purple!"), oversimplified geometry ("let's turn the coolest thing in Oklahoma's flag into basic shapes!", "everyone gets a center circle... but not the seal they used to have!"). I'm starting to think NAVA's "Good Flag" principles are actually bad advice (certainly when taken as gospel).

What is the name of that story that you mentioned at 50:10? I tried finding it on my own online, but am having trouble. Can you clarify that more by also telling the author's name and when it came out?

I'm from California and I really like your update of it's flag. 👍

The VA state flag should be a ticket for going 5 over.

This one on American maturing till Shrek, I agree, fully.

as a amateur writer, I myself take inspiration to this, and the films I enjoy.

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How the Lion, King of all the Beasts, sent out his commandments that all Beasts should come to his feast and court. In the time when the forests are lusty with leaves and flourishing trees, and the ground smells sweet with herbs, and is colourfully flowery, and all fowls and birds sound melodious in their harmony, the crowned King of all the Beasts, the noble lion, would hold an open court at state, and send a commandment that all Beasts should attend, so that he might come to know the news of the land. So, then, all Beasts great and small came to court, except Reynard the Fox. Because he knew himself guilty of many a fault and disport against too many Beasts, he dared not show himself. When the Lion, amid the strew of leaves, had gathered the peers of the realm, there were none of them all in the shadow of the wood but deplored all the mayhem perpetrated by Reynard the Fox-indeed, him.

I wondered if kids can even read these kinds of stories in peace, anymore.

Loved this Video! Very informative and gave me lots of New Books to read 😊 Currently reading The Named Series and am obsessed with it 🤩

One book that I found years ago is G Howells " The Human Memories" and his " Life of Riley" stories that are still on going today. It could classified as an Isekai set of full length novel.

Seria melhor o filme traduzido em portugues.

Would you please explain the economics of story-writing?

None of these have character sorry

subverting the subversion

Furry Indoctrination 101.

I'm absolutely outside this fandom, but I enjoyed the video a lot. It's always fun to hear someone talk about something they know deeply. Thank you. I might even give some of there a read!

This video is fantastic. Thank you for making such a thorough deep-dive into furry literature.

I’ve been writing a xenofiction story about my own original species, called cerriens, which are basically just demonic-looking cat-like creatures. They live on their own continent called Fintaria where there are four subspecies each adapted to living in certain habitats: The Mountain Kingdom, Desert Kingdom, the Fintarian Tribe (the first civilization to exist that live in forest/moorland habitats), and the Treetop Tribe (which live mostly in trees). When a cerrien dies they go to the Spirit World as a ghost that can visit the Living World occasionally through a portal. No mortals can see the ghosts except for one special cerrien born every century called the Spirit-Watcher. For the actual plot of the story, the Spirit World has been corrupted and is in the process of being destroyed forever by a mysterious evil ghost, and the Spirit-Watcher at the time (named Echo) and some other cerriens have to journey across Fintarian to find a portal to make it to the Spirit World and stop its corruption. (This is way too long lol)

A correction: Coffeeshop Fox stories are actually used quite often in children's literature, particularly those aimed at younger readers, i.e., Marc Brown, Rosemary Wells, and Kevin Henkes, among others. Also, you forgot to mention that sometimes the characters in those types of stories don't even acknowledge that the characters are animals.

Idk if they mentioned Tale of The Swamp Rat

I wonder if you've ever read Destroyer men series which is basically alternative history/ secondary World Xeno fiction

I missed your video essays so much!

I hope Aesop's Fables, Rudyard Kippling, and Homeward Bound (The Incredible Journey) get mentioned

When somebody wants to redraw somebody else's flag that was drawn with a pendantic mind. Don't trust them.

I do wonder how the town wouldve responded if he just firebended and didnt anounce the prince bit

The fox's name is shual? That's the Hebrew word for fox. ‏‪1:09:46‬‏

This is what I love about this fandom massive video essays.

"Micheal and Robert then battled each other with swords." Yeah, that's fine for a plot synopsis in the Wikipedia article about the book but not in the actual book itself.

Washingtonian. Yet another hideous redesign. At least this one was mostly green. Leave George alone.

Shrek, when it was new, was a smart deconstruction of the fairytale Disney had spent decades profiting off of. It was raunchy and rude, abandoning the musical format expected of the genre in favor of a cynical drama that culminated in a poignant lesson for audiences of all ages. And in doing so, Shrek created a new fairytale for the modern era. Flash forward to today. What Shrek did is now the norm, and everything has been deconstructed to the point of destruction and ruin for countless franchises. In the pit of irony and cynicism Shrek helped usher in, the series would again go against the grain, and remind us why the fairytales and heroes of yore were so brilliant all along. And so once again, with Puss In Boots at the helm, the Shrek series would make an old genre new again, ushering in a fairytale for the modern era. I find that incredibly poetic in its way, and I can't imagine anyone but Shrek and Dreamworks pulling off two counter-cultural phenomenons with the same series. We have yet to see what legacy The Last Wish will have, but I genuinely hope it serves as the light to bring us back into a brighter age of media.

always a good day when you upload, cardinal! your drive to document the history of the xenofiction genre is so inspiring. very excited to read more of these wonderful books you bring much needed light to!

Did anybody else see when she first showed the US state map that Idaho kind of looked weird

I especially appreciate the acknowledgement of having faith in goodness being what prevails in the end. It is something I try to have in life as well because what is there worth fighting for if there is no way for the good in people to triumph? Cool video and I'm glad I stumbled across it.

The beach episode and the play episode were two of my favorites for very different resons.

Minor mistake at 16:58: Heat magazine was distributed by FurPlanet Productions but it was created by Sofawolf Press.

Oklahoma's flag is NOT a dreamcatcher. It's the traditional shield design of the Osage warriors adorned with a peace pipe and olive leaf to symbolize peace between the whites and natives.

The four people of Wyoming will be outraged about that map at 2:30-ish

35:42 I SEE WUT U DID THERE

Welp looks like i'm off to update my "Want to Read" list once again

Does anyone know if their is a Xenofiction series about Snow Leopards/Leopards or have any of them in it?

Does anyone know if their is a Xenofiction series about Snow Leopards/Leopards or have any of them in it?

Florida flag from Titanium_helm is attrocious

11:33, Tennessee’s flag captures the most important part of the state in that the three Grand Divisions geographically, culturally, and musically define the state. Did you know that Tennessee has three state Supreme Court buildings? 18:46, absolutely not! With its unique shape and having clearly taken inspiration from the US flag, Ohio’s flag is one of the best when flying below/beside the US flag. It is very Ohio to scream Americana, but with a twist. Also, leave Rhode Island’s square alone!

the Louisiana flag looks so light blue it actually hurts my eyes

I'm not a furry (liking the Man-Kzin wars doesn't make me one) (also, I must admit that the Chanur books are quite enjoyable -- good to see that someone else has at least heard of them) (furthermore, The Book of the New Sun had some concepts that I thought were quite interesting, such as humanized animals being used as a caste of Janissary-like servant-soldiers by the Autarch of Urth (may rays of dawning light shine from his very footprints), unfortunately we don't see them much), but I found this video very insightful. Honestly, I really appreciate your efforts; I always leave your videos feeling smarter than when I went in. Thank you.

Also, I'd recommend the Freelance Familiars series by Daniel Potter. It's about a mild-mannered librarian in an urban fantasy setting who is permanently transformed into a cougar and has to navigate the violent intrigues of wizards, witches and a mafia-like Talking Animal Union. The books suffer from overly frenetic pacing- the plot of the 6-book series could probably have been stretched into 15-20 novels and felt more naturally paced. But despite that flaw, I still found them all extremely enjoyable to read. The author is also very much a furry, and includes lot of stuff from the subculture. Vaguely similar is the The Price of Thorns by Tim Susman, which is about a trans-man thief who is changed permanently into a weasel in a fantasy setting that reads like a clever blend of the Brothers Grimm and 1001 Nights. The author Phil Geusz has also written a variety of novels about people transformed into anthros and animals. This "former human" subgenre of furry fiction is smaller than the ones you've described in the video, but also very much a thing.

This book makes me realize that Brian Jacques suffers from a decent bit of telling, not showing. Still, his books are really good.