The Setting that Every Writer forgets

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    All adventures start in the home, but then we just kind of forget about it as a setting. Which is a shame, because the home is one of the most interesting and animated settings we have to offer as writers.
    Maybe you just need a shift in perspective to see it.
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Komentáře • 501

  • @TheTaleFoundry
    @TheTaleFoundry  Před rokem +190

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    • @zionleach3001
      @zionleach3001 Před rokem +1

      Hey could you do writing advice on science fiction/fantasy action stories with substance and subtext? One of my inspirations for writing is Budjette Tan's Trese and Larry Correia's Monster Hunter International. I'm a huge fan of monster B-movies. But I don't want a "dumb" cheesy action story but I'm also not a hugely philosophical person either. I want to balance stylish action with substance. I don't want my story to be a Micheal Bay story, so I may try having monsters try to represent something like what happens when someone throws away thier humanity, narcissim, greed,and etc.

    • @Azaleus19
      @Azaleus19 Před rokem +1

      Reminds me of Zathura and Jumanji.

    • @aralenawispcast7562
      @aralenawispcast7562 Před rokem

      can anyone tell me what the image at 0:07 is with the two people and the bird on a vine/ tree branch is from, thanks if you can

    • @snuggldungeon
      @snuggldungeon Před rokem

      This video brought to mind The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is a neat exploration of the concepts of home and family through a fusion of transcendental romance and gothic horror

  • @grandthanatos
    @grandthanatos Před rokem +3628

    Naive writer: "Writing about home is boring. "
    Gothic horror writers: "Hold my beer. "

    • @thisrandomdude_
      @thisrandomdude_ Před rokem +43

      ooooooo, that sounds interesting. Any recommendations for outsiders looking in?

    • @grandthanatos
      @grandthanatos Před rokem +104

      @@thisrandomdude_ plenty. Kill Creek by Scott Thomas; Hell House by Richard Matheson; The Shining by Stephen King; The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson; and The Pure World Comes by yours truly.

    • @thisrandomdude_
      @thisrandomdude_ Před rokem +33

      @@grandthanatos woah, woah, woah! That's a lot of recommendations! Thank you so much! :D

    • @grandthanatos
      @grandthanatos Před rokem +11

      @@thisrandomdude_ you're welcome. I hope you enjoy them.

    • @blabafush7008
      @blabafush7008 Před rokem +8

      Also domestic crime too

  • @NoArtisticLimitation
    @NoArtisticLimitation Před rokem +758

    Here’s what I got from this:
    A house is full of stuff.
    A home is full of memories.
    A simple item might not be important to you now. A trinket you got from a fair, or a small gift from a loved one, but one day you’ll look back on it fondly, not because you have an item, but because you have a memory.

    • @rowan404
      @rowan404 Před rokem +40

      When I was 4 years old, my great grandma gave me a Mickey Mouse plushie. I already had dozens of plushies, and I'm not a Mickey Mouse enthusiast or anything like that (I actually preferred to collect Sanrio items iirc), so I didn't think much of it at the time. That changed when she died a few months later. Since I was so young when she died, I don't remember her much, and that plushie is the only physical thing I have left to remember her by, so I keep it in my room at all times. Despite being an adult now, I still have many plushies, which I've progressively been donating to various charities, but this is one of the few that I couldn't stand to give away if the opportunity arose.

    • @aiiiia9971
      @aiiiia9971 Před rokem +9

      facts...

    • @rmt3589
      @rmt3589 Před rokem +2

      And this is why we have hoarders. Unable to let go of the memories.

  • @emiriye
    @emiriye Před rokem +2708

    This reminds me of "Curses" by The Crane Wives. There is a line that goes "When this house don’t feel like home". Now this line sounds much deeper. Thanks for the video.

  • @jacobshore5115
    @jacobshore5115 Před rokem +1789

    Tolkien himself once described himself as being like a Hobbit. And from what he’s said about himself and what he values, I believe him.

    • @mr_indie_fan
      @mr_indie_fan Před rokem +27

      If tolkien is a hobbit, then so am i.

    • @davidsmith7752
      @davidsmith7752 Před rokem +136

      @@new-lviv Tolkien was a front-line veteran of WW1 and took part in the Battle of the Somme, he definitely experienced hardship and did hard work.

    • @GoblinLord
      @GoblinLord Před rokem +92

      Him being a soldier explains a lot about him desiring that hobbit life, he's seen chaos, been in the throes of it, he's been in the trenches, what more could someone want after the war than a home to return to, in a sense, his time in the first world war could be seen as a Journey there... and back again

    • @exyzt9877
      @exyzt9877 Před rokem +39

      @@new-lviv you know he was IN the trenches when he started writing the damn thing, right?

    • @kjj26k
      @kjj26k Před rokem +3

      Well yeah, the Hobbits represent the common folk of Great Britain, right?

  • @joinme5560
    @joinme5560 Před rokem +443

    Ghibli movies is closest thing that comes to my mind, when I think about this scenario. Even when characters are having big adventures, it always feels so close, so home-ish (???)

    • @chew7656
      @chew7656 Před rokem +31

      Ararietty is actually based on the book discussed here

    • @onellbrianmeliston8960
      @onellbrianmeliston8960 Před rokem +10

      The Secret World of Arriety.
      It's my favorite Ghibli movie of all.

    • @David-gs3ud
      @David-gs3ud Před rokem

      that's why they're fucking boring

  • @archangelofstories5565
    @archangelofstories5565 Před rokem +193

    "Home is where the heart is, even if you can't remember which box you put it in"

  • @Jasonwolf1495
    @Jasonwolf1495 Před rokem +758

    Oh hell yeah. I was literally gonna mention the borrowers if I expected this was about another thing. I love the borrowers, though I totally admit I like the Ghibli version most.

    • @princessthyemis
      @princessthyemis Před rokem +22

      I LOOOOOVE The Borrowers! I own all the books; they're phenomal, and I ADOREEEE the Ghibli movie!!!!

    • @Sp3ctralI
      @Sp3ctralI Před rokem +5

      I watched the live action version, read the book, but didn’t read the ghibli version.
      But I LOVE the borrowers, since third grade, when our teacher read it to us.

    • @candicraveingcloude2822
      @candicraveingcloude2822 Před rokem +1

      I remember being read this in elementary school. it was cool

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG Před rokem

      Mary Norton was actually a really good writer. You could build that gas balloon with the key ballast.

    • @sal.moon143
      @sal.moon143 Před rokem +1

      The art and the house was pretty but the Ghibli ending left me feeling a bit empty.

  • @thelemoncoffee
    @thelemoncoffee Před rokem +226

    you'd love how Heartbound uses Lore's bedroom. whenever you save, Lore takes a nap and wakes up in his room- where you started. anything you collected since the last save can now be found in the room, from socks to notes to an axe, it's all there. as you go through the game you can watch this once barren room where a horrible incident happened (Lore's dog Barron seemingly being attacked at taken away by a monster, which is what causes Lore to even set out in the first place) slowly transform into an amazing adventure gallery AS you go through the story.

    • @Godlovesyou772
      @Godlovesyou772 Před rokem +13

      Man, I haven’t thought about Heartbound in a long time. (Other than the song “Office Dad” popping into my head every now and then.)
      Might have to see how much the game’s changed since the office level.

  • @evi6629
    @evi6629 Před rokem +529

    Arietty, the ghibli film based on the borrowers, is my favorite of all ghibli films. I have yet to read the book, this video reminded me that I should.

    • @setriza4649
      @setriza4649 Před rokem +16

      I swore I remember watching a film about what the video described.
      You just reminded me, thank you

    • @totallycrazystudios1801
      @totallycrazystudios1801 Před rokem +7

      It is such a good movie!

    • @keona5560
      @keona5560 Před rokem +15

      Omg Arrietty is one of my faves too! I think it's a tie between that, and Ponyo. (Princess Monoke is cool but I always end up distracted by the mc 💀)

    • @Spottedshade
      @Spottedshade Před rokem +4

      I read the book when I was in elementary school, I don’t remember much about it but it’s a really fun short story and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good bedtime story.

    • @bubaaaaaaaaa
      @bubaaaaaaaaa Před rokem

      I WATCHED THAT WITH MY DAD WHEN I WAS YOUNGER (I don’t remember that much tho cuz i’m almost a teen now but i’ll def rewatch it)

  • @autisonm
    @autisonm Před rokem +11

    When you move away from your childhood home you dont miss the house, you miss the memories and comfort you made there.

  • @Keepcalmandcupcakes
    @Keepcalmandcupcakes Před rokem +46

    This video legitimately made me tear up. I always spend as much as my day outside my apartment. Even when I have a 10-hour workday, I still try to find something else to do before going home, almost anxiously I must find something to fill time before I feel the necessity to go there and sleep. I know why now. It's because I don't feel comfortable there, because I, personally have never put in the effort to make my apartment a home. Things are pretty much exactly how it was when my family helped me move in. Sparse furnishing, just enough food for quick breakfasts before rushing off, a computer that I hardly use, even unopened boxes I've had for over a year from stuff I haven't laid eyes on since I left my parents.
    Thank you for making me realize I need to try to make myself comfortable there by purposely arranging things (and cleaning up) so I don't feel the need to spend as much time as possible outside of it.

    • @qwertyTRiG
      @qwertyTRiG Před rokem +2

      I work from home, and have done for almost three years, now. Only just beginning the process of making it a proper home.

    • @spencervance8484
      @spencervance8484 Před rokem +1

      Growing up my family's house was not a home. Theres only one photo of me, decorations in my small cold room routinely disappeared. Room was barely big enough for a twin bed. Not to mention it was on the opposite side of the house. My sisters swarmed any friends i happened to occasionally bring over even if the door was locked (they d find a way to unlock it)
      Now that i moved out my new place doesnt feel like home either. Is that because i never had a feeling of home? Or the fact im working alot? Honestly i think it could be either

  • @Moron14
    @Moron14 Před rokem +60

    I'm currently planning out a story where everyone is some form of stuffed toy each gaining blessings from "the seam" for example the crochet creatures can unravel their bodys and wrap the string around themselves again allowing for near limit-less uses (and for this reason the crochet creatures are high ranking) Teddybears are physically strong with some being the size of mountains guarding from the beasts that lie beyond the land they live in. One thing I want this story to incapsulate is that everything that is wonderful and magical in this world happens all within a single area, you can sail the great sea of the tub, run from the beast of the night cave or travel through the deserts of the sand pit.
    I'm sorry if this was really long but thanks for reading! and have a nice day.

    • @aiiiia9971
      @aiiiia9971 Před rokem +10

      This sounds like a fantastic concept for a childrens' story. When you are a child at play, the house is a world, and your trek through it with your toys a grand adventure.
      That's not to say I wouldn't read or watch something like this if it were targeted toward adults. I feel like this concept has a lot of potential

    • @calebblack1420
      @calebblack1420 Před rokem +4

      You’re going in the right direction.

    • @coolskeleton9560
      @coolskeleton9560 Před rokem

      A story I would love to read

  • @MySqueezingArm
    @MySqueezingArm Před rokem +83

    I always thought The Hobbit was analagous to reaching adulthood (hairy toes), leaving the nest to explore the world, then returning to a comfortable retirement.

    • @matthewgallaway3675
      @matthewgallaway3675 Před rokem +15

      I love the idea of adulthood being reached vis-à-vis having hair on your feet

    • @MySqueezingArm
      @MySqueezingArm Před rokem +7

      @@matthewgallaway3675 My dad pointed that out to me when I was reading this as a 12 year old young boy.

    • @mattb.7079
      @mattb.7079 Před rokem

      ​@@matthewgallaway3675 wrong use of vis-à-vis

  • @tabiusthompson8101
    @tabiusthompson8101 Před rokem +616

    You’re thumbnail art is becoming more and more beautiful and intriguing keep it up, great video as always

    • @Periwinkleaccount
      @Periwinkleaccount Před rokem +6

      “You are thumbnail art is”

    • @jessnaramolete3023
      @jessnaramolete3023 Před rokem +4

      uhm... I think the correct address word is "Your thumbnail art"

    • @BVK.
      @BVK. Před rokem +1

      Look at those nerds above me 🤓.
      These lame jokes aside, Do y'all become smart by correcting someone?

    • @Periwinkleaccount
      @Periwinkleaccount Před rokem +5

      @@BVK. no. You correct other people. There isn’t some kind of thing where people think that by making other people become smarter (which in this case is actually just knowledge, not smartness) the person correcting the other person will become smarter.

    • @Pumpkin0_0
      @Pumpkin0_0 Před rokem +5

      @@BVK. There are people, actual English native speakers, who switch "your" and "you're" or "woman" and "women" on documents and essays. Helping someone to write properly isn't "nerdy", it's helping people evolve. You trying to stop that and making fun of people who do that is extremely stupid, and I'm not surprised you haven't noticed that.

  • @silent_stalker3687
    @silent_stalker3687 Před rokem +77

    “The little people that live inside you.”
    - when you’re the heavy warforged member in DND and everyone else are kobolds or dwarfs so you end up being a APC pretty much.

    • @davidsmith7752
      @davidsmith7752 Před rokem +12

      A tortle in one of the campaigns I'm playing in has befriended our goblin rogue, who now travels in the space behind their shell to hide and will suddenly pounce our when the tortle engages an enemy.

    • @NerdyCatCoffeeee
      @NerdyCatCoffeeee Před rokem +1

      What does APC mean? I can't find anything explaining that

    • @silent_stalker3687
      @silent_stalker3687 Před rokem +5

      @@NerdyCatCoffeeee armored personnel carrier

    • @NerdyCatCoffeeee
      @NerdyCatCoffeeee Před rokem +1

      @@silent_stalker3687 that's a character trope i did not expect to get hit with

    • @silent_stalker3687
      @silent_stalker3687 Před rokem +7

      @@NerdyCatCoffeeee neither did the NPCs, bandits, necromancer, or anything else we met.

  • @jacobturnerart
    @jacobturnerart Před rokem +14

    So many stories set in homes bring the adventure by upsetting the sanctuary of that home. Homes are supposed to be safe, which I guess is why horror and suspense stories in these settings are so effective, and why 'The Scouring of the Shire' has such impact.

  • @shazani18
    @shazani18 Před rokem +109

    You always manage to make me look around and reflect on how to live in a more passionate way. Thanks for your videos, I am someone who gets scared in the face of conflict and therefore risks less, but you always remind me that there is a lot to do.

  • @kaideane6973
    @kaideane6973 Před rokem +150

    I'm so happy you're doing an episode on the borrowers. They are so unique and awe Inspiring (at least they were for me as a kid), and it's great to see them get attention.

    • @toothfairy10133
      @toothfairy10133 Před rokem +4

      i got two copies of the borrowers for the same christmas once. i loved them so much, i kept them both so i could lend out the spare but nobody i knew was interested lol

    • @kaideane6973
      @kaideane6973 Před rokem +5

      @@toothfairy10133 I've had similar experiences. I'd often try getting my friends to read so I could share my passions and Interests with them. Truly wish they accepted the offer, reading was one of the best things to happen to me.

    • @Periwinkleaccount
      @Periwinkleaccount Před rokem

      That’s not how plurals work. Also, you have no reason to not correct it.

    • @kaideane6973
      @kaideane6973 Před rokem

      @@Periwinkleaccount (genuine question) wheres the spelling error so I can correct it.

    • @Periwinkleaccount
      @Periwinkleaccount Před rokem

      @@kaideane6973 the "borrower's".

  • @pebblescarpetcat
    @pebblescarpetcat Před rokem +3

    Hello! ovo/ Carpet cat here. I suddenly feel very inspired to write something cozy. Alas, I find myself afflicted with too-many-worldsitis.
    One example of 'home' which popped to mind as I was watching, is the Redwall series by Brian Jacques. From what I can remember, as this was a childhood favourite, the food was always described with such detail, surrounded by warm atmosphere and colourful characters - animals, yes, but as real as you or me. Children are always playing and making mischief, adults are bantering and having heart to hearts. Overall, the sense of family loyalty created makes it so you can't help but root for them whenever they're threatened by malicious invading forces.
    I think the best stories for me are ones that are fantastical, yet still grounded in very real human problems needing human solutions or compromise. Thank you for this lovely journey you've taken us all on.

  • @carlinemoon2484
    @carlinemoon2484 Před rokem +7

    There are LOTS of stories set inside homes. Most of them are horror stories, though, where something invades, or someone is trying to escape.

  • @princessthyemis
    @princessthyemis Před rokem +15

    "they do embiggen parts of your domestic life. I would even go so far as to say that their whole culture is almost just that: an exaggeration of the routines and rituals of the home." BRILLIANT!!!! It all makes sense now!!! I love this!

  • @BaobhanloreArt
    @BaobhanloreArt Před rokem +28

    Though I myself haven't read The Borrowers, I have watched the Ghibli adaptation The Secret World of Arriety, and I'd highly recommend it.

  • @MrHiglon
    @MrHiglon Před rokem +8

    Damn this is so well written. I usually click on vids, loose track and close them but this one kept me until the ad and then afterwards again.

  • @crocoshark4097
    @crocoshark4097 Před rokem +9

    I think this is a big reason why I love horror. The dragons come to you. You can imagine it coming right into your living room. As opposed to requiring travel to some exotic place or career. Growing up, I was a kid in a suburb. I couldn't go many places on my own. But I really liked Goosebumps and celebrating Halloween because they both sewed adventure, danger and the otherworldly into what was immediately around me.

  • @Kageoni187
    @Kageoni187 Před rokem +13

    I know a fantastic book that definitely doesn’t ignore the home, in fact it is the focal point. It also turns the idea of the home be safe and stable. It is called House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.

  • @thenightranger987
    @thenightranger987 Před rokem +7

    Most of the stories I write take place in a home, because I write horror stories and having something scary take place in a spot that is familiar and comfortable elevates the horror in my opinion.

  • @DrownedLamp
    @DrownedLamp Před rokem +12

    It's night time... in a kitchen, just like yours. All is quiet... Or is it? The North American House Borrower is found throughout Cananda and the Eastern United States. House Borrowers are very timid creatures and are rarely seen, but they will defend their territory if provoked. They come out at night to search for food, water, and materials for their nests. The favourite foods of the House Borrower are chips, raisins, and crumbs from peanut butter on toast. They build their nests in bedroom closets, using lost mittens, dryer lint, and bits of string. The nests have to be very soft and warm, House Borrower sleep for about 16 hours a day.

  • @tiranoth4014
    @tiranoth4014 Před rokem +14

    I enjoyed this episode, especially when we Catholics recognize as perhaps one of the greatest, if not the greatest of all, forms of art the Architecture of a house. How much things should serve the house and how they should behave in harmony in it. I think it gave me some idea.

  • @RoninCatholic
    @RoninCatholic Před rokem +10

    Mouse World has always been one of my favorite settings, right up there with Giant Land. Interactions of the very large and very small, outsized versions of things we expect to have a certain size (whichever direction). I think my favorite animals are mustelids because of this - the same ferret can stretch out to a very long as he presses his spine against the roof of a tube or tunnel, and I never quite grasp the proper scale of various mustelid species to myself or to each other no matter how much I study them. I always _thought_ a mink was close to the size of a red fox, but actually a female is the size of two rats and a male not much bigger. I always _thought_ a stoat was the same size as a domestic ferret, but it is actually smaller. I always _thought_ that something as fearsome as a wolverine or honey badger must be at least close to the size of a wolf if not a black bear, but no it's the size of a small dog. Having spent much of my life imagining things from the perspective of a mouse-sized creature and then flipping to kaiju, giant monsters like Godzilla and Power Rangers' villains of the week, is either a causal explanation of my difficulty with sense of scale _or_ my being drawn to these extremes is a result of something fundamentally wrong with my ability to comprehend it.
    Borrowers have all the traits you get out of anthropomorphic mice aside from the cuteness. For some people, their clearly human appearance would be more endearing and relatable but for others, the mice are innately more relatable. Audiences are also less likely to expect mice who happen to have opposable thumbs and higher reasoning skills to have magical powers the way we've been taught to expect tiny humans to be pixies, leprechauns, gnomes, or spirits of some stripe.

  • @James-ep2bx
    @James-ep2bx Před rokem +5

    The beginning part reminds me of the phase "you can never truly return home"

  • @aetherwolf9288
    @aetherwolf9288 Před rokem +8

    I love your voice😍
    You kinda are part of home for me. Even though I know you for so little time

  • @wanderinglizzy
    @wanderinglizzy Před rokem +8

    Really pleased to see you mentioned the hobbits and how their life is basically the domestic ideal. Home-core if you will.
    But I wish you'd talked about the Scouring of the Shire as well - how the whole point of the Lord of the Rings is that war comes home to you. That you set out to save the world, and find that its purpose was to prepare you for the final trail - saving your home. That after all you've experienced, your home changes, too, and there's no going back.

  • @reptilianstudios8994
    @reptilianstudios8994 Před rokem +77

    Bacteria mostly

    • @donutlovingwerewolf8837
      @donutlovingwerewolf8837 Před rokem +6

      and cells, lots and lots of cells

    • @donutlovingwerewolf8837
      @donutlovingwerewolf8837 Před rokem +5

      also DNA, blood, humanity, souls, your mom, ketchup, blueberry pie, ice cream, donuts, God, hopes and dreams, and last but not least brain eating aneba

    • @toothfairy10133
      @toothfairy10133 Před rokem +4

      @@donutlovingwerewolf8837 oh no... the amoeba got to them already...

    • @apollyonnoctis1291
      @apollyonnoctis1291 Před rokem +2

      I do have some kinda worm. His name is Karl, he’s a swell guy.

    • @82dorrin
      @82dorrin Před rokem +3

      @@donutlovingwerewolf8837 Your brain-eating amoeba must be getting awfully hungry...

  • @straybard_art
    @straybard_art Před rokem +21

    This video felt pretty calming and inspiring to watch especially since I am going through bit of a life change right now - I like how you analyzed one of my favorite stories (the Hobbit) and linked it to the borrowers :) The art is getting cuter and cuter.

  • @SilverKappa
    @SilverKappa Před rokem +3

    Why am I tearing up at the very concept of House vs Home?

  • @ItzDynamo
    @ItzDynamo Před rokem +19

    These videos are getting better and better over time. Thank you for all your great work, you turned me into an author and ignited my creativity.

  • @PixelPenGamer
    @PixelPenGamer Před rokem +7

    To be honest, this was an oddly interesting story and analysis! I love it! And it perfectly explains why I despise clinically clean apartments/houses.
    Great video!

  • @powdereyes2210
    @powdereyes2210 Před rokem +10

    question
    what if there was a story of a person who went too far, like shrinking themselves to always make the limited resources around them less limited to stay home for longer
    them at first being giants like 7-10 feet tall and then slowly shrinking in their homes too afraid to face the outside world, their friends visiting them every day trying to convince them
    them feeling sad that their friends are forcing themselves to irreversibly change their height making their life in their own home more and more difficult, trying to isolate themselves and them being powerless to change that, powerless to convince them
    and one day them seeing their friends dead in their homes the size of sugar cubes because their volume of their body was so small they couldn't make enough heat leading to their death in cold in a room that was boiling
    such irony

    • @powdereyes2210
      @powdereyes2210 Před rokem +2

      Actually surface tension of their own blood and water would kill them earlier
      Because I don’t think blood would pass through their veins if they bubbled up to one big drop

  • @samwill7259
    @samwill7259 Před rokem +26

    Millions and millions of gut bacteria, really. It's fascinating, a million little symbiotic relationships that allow us to function on the most basic level. If a human body was ONLY full of "person" wouldn't be able to function correctly.
    Oh...did you mean like a metaphor?

  • @writing_husky7104
    @writing_husky7104 Před rokem +4

    I read the borrowers in school and forgot about it. Thank you for this I absolutely loved this story

  • @softpaw6234
    @softpaw6234 Před rokem +1

    This may just be the most wholesome video about people that I've ever seen

  • @dissonanceparadiddle
    @dissonanceparadiddle Před rokem +1

    It's hard to find the balance of novelty and stability to make life feel both safe and inspiring.
    Maybe I'm just connecting unrelated things, but i feel like the world's in video games/movies/comics/books almost become a kind of house we made a home when we spend time with them.
    It's partially why i think nostalgia of old things is so strong. We want these worlds to be safe cozy and predictable but also continue to wow us with new tales and takes on the various beloved scenes and places.

  • @Fayanora
    @Fayanora Před rokem +15

    In my Ravenstone series, the Ravenstone house is as much a character as the proper characters. Parts of it are actually alive, and it's filled with all kinds of magical creatures -- pixies, gnomes, bogeymen, monsters under beds, ghosts, fairy bees, all sorts of weird and wonderful magical plants, and The Thing With A Thousand Eyes That Lives In The Ceiling (AKA the family babysitter).
    With parts of the book I'm working on (book 4) taking place during 2020, I've been focusing more on the Ravenstone house as a place where plot-relevant things happen. I had a chapter planned for a previous book that didn't make the cut, which detailed how the gnomes moved in after their old home was bulldozed to build a new apartment building in the formerly empty lot. I would love to bring it back.

    • @georgemayhew8742
      @georgemayhew8742 Před rokem

      Have you published any of these anywhere by any chance? Because I absolutely adore the idea of the setting you got there! 🙂

    • @Fayanora
      @Fayanora Před rokem +2

      @@georgemayhew8742 Thanks! Not yet. I started out wanting to write the first few books yet because I have ADHD and that affects my memory, so having the first few books written would reduce plot holes and mistakes by giving me more time to find such mistakes. But as I'm almost done with book 4 and am beginning to work on book 5, I'm realizing I'm kind of dragging my feet because I'm intimidated by the thought of trying to get published. Even though I've decided to go with Amazon just because I don't have the energy to go hunting for a regular publisher. I mean, I don't know anything about self-publishing with Amazon so like, I don't know if I could even figure out the interface.
      Anyway, if I ever get around to getting over that intimidation, I have a Facebook page for the series. Just search "Ravenstone series" on Facebook. It has an icon of a raven painted on a stone.

  • @Boxscape_VR
    @Boxscape_VR Před rokem +6

    Next up on tale foundry: who is inside your home?

  • @jacindamiller1694
    @jacindamiller1694 Před rokem +1

    having your own aesthetic described and defined at you is such an experience🤔

  • @TheJackMouse
    @TheJackMouse Před rokem

    That connection of ones home being a sort of analog for ones self was so cool and new to me I was kinda stunned.
    And it made me consider MY home. What the space I live in actually is, what it’s actually like.
    I live in a borrowed house, on a borrowed bed, using borrowed things, living a mostly borrowed life. My beds unmade and my clothes are on the floor, and it’s strange how actively I feel the messes presence. It’s unkept, unmanaged, and neglected. I felt stunned at how perfectly descriptive it is of me personally. Discarded, here on loan from someone else.
    Then I reflected on my father, who suffered through a long and taxing marriage ending in a pretty rough divorce, but he’s finding now in his old age how much he depended on her, on having a partner to justify his efforts for. And likewise, he has a new house built. It’s strong, sturdy, safe, and quite beautiful, but it’s also empty. One or two little paintings, one simple couch which can’t even begin to try to fill the empty empty rooms. It’s livable, but the color that makes home has left. And likewise the body is strong, but the soul is damaged deeply.
    It’s so strange how if you live in a place long enough, you spill out into the place till it starts seeming a lot like you. This is such an interesting observation you’ve made, and It warrants a lot of thinking. Very cool.

  • @charliejones7512
    @charliejones7512 Před rokem +7

    Looking at the thumbnail, I honestly thought you were going to do a book version of Inside Out. I’m not disappointed either way :)

  • @docdoc.4500
    @docdoc.4500 Před rokem +6

    I quite like your style, your voice, and especially the clips you chose for your editing!

  • @teacupanimates
    @teacupanimates Před rokem +4

    when u said “mimicking human society” its like the post apocalyptic setting of stray the game where robots had to evolve by mimicking human society after they went extinct, which is something i want you to cover, i want you to cover the setting of having to mimic human society as i find it highly interesting.

  • @Ravin4182
    @Ravin4182 Před rokem +4

    Thank you for reminding us of these adrorable little adventurers. The entire concept was so dang wonderful as a kid.

  • @TadpoleArtz
    @TadpoleArtz Před 7 měsíci

    I’m starting a storytelling CZcams channel and you can’t imagine how much TaleFoundry is helping me learn how to write again.

  • @MrShArInGaNKAMI
    @MrShArInGaNKAMI Před rokem +2

    Nice. Reminds me of the movie "The Secret World of Arrietty" from Studio Ghibli, which is based on a fantasy novel from Mary Norton - The Barrowers.

  • @19billdong96
    @19billdong96 Před rokem +2

    Your videos not having millions of views is honestly criminal. I feel like every one of them reaches into some part of the soul to bring out intrigue and emotions foreign even to myself.

  • @DaUrinalShidda
    @DaUrinalShidda Před rokem +3

    The editing quality has really gone up. I'm glad to see it.

  • @sucrecube
    @sucrecube Před rokem +1

    Never watched any of your videos before, but the aesthetics and visuals are just *chef's kiss*

  • @asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725
    @asdfghjkllkjhgfdsa8725 Před rokem +1

    Home is here and now eternal. Home is a state of mind.

  • @krisstasko
    @krisstasko Před rokem +3

    Your thumbnail immediately made me thought "You are the house in the ocean"

  • @Eluzian86
    @Eluzian86 Před rokem +2

    8 meals a day. You forgot the Hobbit's midnight snack, as shown on Weathertop in The Fellowship of the Ring. That's how the Ring Wraiths found them there.

  • @kylewalton2369
    @kylewalton2369 Před rokem

    Popped up in my recommended. Phenomenal video. Instantly subscribed.

  • @remylebae3395
    @remylebae3395 Před rokem +3

    Watching this makes me realize how I've been doing this subconsciously all this time in my own writing. I was inspired by Naruto, believe it or not. He is always shouting about Konoha and The Leaf Village and how he has to protect everyone and save the village and how much it's his home. Naruto is as much about his home as it is about his friends and family. That's something I try to emulate in my own writing.

  • @LordEspurr
    @LordEspurr Před rokem +3

    The borrowers: I am living in your walls

  • @tg10tg
    @tg10tg Před rokem +3

    I love your recent videos the subjects are so interesting, the animations are so good and match the feel of the Chanel and the new appload scedual is perfect

  • @MrPuschi89-du4ev
    @MrPuschi89-du4ev Před 2 měsíci +1

    Many Thanks to You and your Team - Amazing Work!

  • @misteryA555
    @misteryA555 Před rokem

    I'm loving this visual style!

  • @johannamcclure8597
    @johannamcclure8597 Před rokem

    OK ok ok just found this youtube channel and I am in LOVE, it's all so beautiful and sweet and wonderful! Thank you.

  • @stevenc.6502
    @stevenc.6502 Před rokem +1

    What you said about Bilbo having to leave home to have a story to tell, and having to return home to tell the story. After his return he wrote his story in a book titled "There and Back Again".

  • @legionairesunny5507
    @legionairesunny5507 Před rokem +13

    I have always wanted to write a Borrows like story. I always loved them growing up, they are just so interesting to think about. Maybe someday I will.

  • @HYpr1337time
    @HYpr1337time Před rokem

    thanks, very inspirational and well-made, I will definitely check in more

  • @8momojay
    @8momojay Před rokem +3

    i'm not good with commenting, but i know how important it is. i guess i'll say: great video you guys, it's good to see another upload from ya'll!

  • @luliwalter8274
    @luliwalter8274 Před rokem

    Thank you so much for covering The Secret World of Arrietty. Not a lot of people actually know this movie, or the stories tied to it. It's a wonderful experience which is eerie and also freeing despite how seemingly uninspired it is because it's just taking what we already know and sizing it up! But it does manage to capture how small changes can have big effects. If this doesn't really make sense it's not supposed to, it's just a rambling person trying to get their thoughts out.

  • @matheusmunizduarte
    @matheusmunizduarte Před rokem +1

    Some ideas and thoughts really are a gift, just like this one!

  • @PlatformingCyndaquil
    @PlatformingCyndaquil Před rokem +4

    I love The Borrowers, it's such a good book. I need to reread it.

  • @rmt3589
    @rmt3589 Před rokem +1

    This is good inspiration for an achievement system, having things from your journey decorate your home.

  • @CosimoPlasmati
    @CosimoPlasmati Před rokem +1

    Watching this video I couldn't stop thinking of "Life: A User's Manual" by Georges Perec. A novel based on exploring houses, just houses and the infinite series of trinkets and memorabilia people collect. I don't want to spoil much, there's of course a story behind that slowly unravels, I really recommend it.

  • @thequestbro
    @thequestbro Před rokem

    This channel is a whole vibe.

  • @eather2786
    @eather2786 Před rokem +5

    This was a interesting video, I love the concept of the home, and thus video did give me some ideas to work whith.
    As always this video was great and fantastic like all the videos you have done so far

  • @tacofox28
    @tacofox28 Před rokem +1

    Thank you Tale Foundry for entertaining and teaching me while I wash dishes

  • @calladricosplays
    @calladricosplays Před rokem +4

    A little suggestion? I'm not really sure what titles you tried using before, but the titles I've been seeing don't really tell me much about what the video is going to be about. Maybe if you had made the title "You Are the Setting: What Borrowers, Hobbits, and Home tell us about Adventure," those keywords would draw people who want to hear more about Borrowers (because we don't hear enough about them) while also drawing in the Tolkien fanbase. I'll be sharing this video among some fae groups on fb because I know this is right up their alley. Also, was there a survey a while back about joining your team? I'd love to, especially as I finish my current work in progress

    • @TheTaleFoundry
      @TheTaleFoundry  Před rokem +1

      Thanks for the feedback! We're definitely doing a lot of work right now to learn about packaging and some best practices around it! It's a difficulty process, especially with these esoteric topics. I'm afraid "Borrowers" might not have the same impact on most viewers that it has on you. But never say never. If this current title doesn't do much in the next 24hrs, I'll probably change tack and see how "borrowers" and "hobbits" actually land as keywords
      -Benji, showrunner

  • @hyenaedits3460
    @hyenaedits3460 Před rokem +3

    I just moved into my first apartment so this is hitting hard.

  • @chibiktsn3
    @chibiktsn3 Před rokem +3

    I needed this right now. Thank you for your beautiful words and works.

  • @malcommarcone2559
    @malcommarcone2559 Před rokem +1

    Brilliant as always Tale Foundry!

  • @Samata94
    @Samata94 Před rokem +3

    Great video, really made me rethink a bit. Everyone has a home, or had a home, or wants a home. I'm already thinking about how I can use the home for character establishment, as it does show what life they have lead and what wants they might have or what motivates them.

  • @thewrathofgog6749
    @thewrathofgog6749 Před rokem +1

    Your voice helps me sleep and think about world building, I love it

  • @kyrionbookshield2205
    @kyrionbookshield2205 Před rokem

    Boy. This was a good episode. It helped me have a better morning as well. Thank you

  • @RhetoricalI
    @RhetoricalI Před rokem +6

    I read a book that had these little guys in there house. In the book they’d make the most delicious meals out of the most random ingredients… pretty interesting I think

  • @midshipman8654
    @midshipman8654 Před rokem

    thanks for the video again. I really enjoy these.

  • @caleblawther1854
    @caleblawther1854 Před rokem +1

    this video made open my eyes a little more thank you, I really need to start living life more, looking around, some of the stuff in my room isn't even min.

  • @longshot9757
    @longshot9757 Před rokem +3

    This was a very interesting look into the idea of life and adventure, and I really enjoyed what was explored. I don't know how I can take this into my own personal story, but I will say, it was absolutely fascinating.

  • @TheREALSimagination
    @TheREALSimagination Před rokem +2

    I love The Borrowers. Such a fun concept. I guess I'm one of those that tend to also enjoy niche stories and settings, like the book and various adaptations of it, like the 1995 film, The Secret World of Arrietta, as well as the anime series Haibane Renmei, which isn't like The Borrowers but I still don't know who shares my enjoyment of it. I really like the ingenuity of The Borrowers and it's in some ways inspired me to seek more creativity in my own works. Arrietty's one of my favorite film, with the great music and gorgeous artwork not being a lesser part of the experience.

    • @celestee2264
      @celestee2264 Před rokem

      Hey that's me, I loved Haibane Renmei too! There are a lot of slice of life stories out there, but still there's an understated value in the concept of home that Haibane Renmei captures very well for the development of its setting and themes. I should check out Arietty too...

    • @TheREALSimagination
      @TheREALSimagination Před rokem

      @@celestee2264 *GASP!* A kindred spirit! And yes, The Secret World of Arrietty is my personal goldmine as a movie, just how Haibane Renmei is as a serialized version.

    • @TheREALSimagination
      @TheREALSimagination Před rokem +1

      @@celestee2264 I started a fanfic of HR because there are no more seasons, and have a thing planned out with how the show ended, but it's going slow, so I probably should rewatch the eps to freshen up. Or even just for fun.

  • @saged1513
    @saged1513 Před rokem +1

    The game Night in the woods plays around with the idea of 'home' in really interesting ways, leaning on how unnerving it is to see changes in a place that isn't supposed to change.
    It's interesting how powerful a concept homes are in general, how easily things being 'wrong' in them make them become a place of fear, but also how places we've never been can feel just as safe and welcoming as the places we played as children, like 'The Last Homely House' in Rivendell, which not only had a natural feeling of playfulness and safety when first visited, but actually became Bilbo's home in the later books

  • @donotpostmyusernameOK

    I grew up reading the borrowers. It was so fun to read and interesting to learn what they used for their ways of living

  • @Serasia
    @Serasia Před rokem

    Man. This was so full of feels.

  • @maeo1612
    @maeo1612 Před 4 měsíci

    We recently moved houses and for the first time ever in my life, I left the house I've always known. When I was young, the corners of that house is all I know but I lament how much it doesn't feel like home anymore. It was a necessary goodbye. Surely, we'll make this new house feel like home again.

  • @belot217
    @belot217 Před rokem

    Netflix's stop-motion animation "The House" is so good at exploring this and needs more people talking about it.

  • @catbatrat1760
    @catbatrat1760 Před rokem +3

    Bro, I've heard of The Borrowers! I haven't read it, but I read a million Sanders Sides AU fanfictions involving the concept. Usually, they're stories about a human finding a borrower and scaring the heck out of them accidentally. I love those fics. I always love reading about/seeing characters get scared (it's sort of a weird special interest of mine), but there's something particularly nice about stories about being terrified of someone, only for that someone to turn out to be really sweet and put genuine effort into calming them down.

    • @rookiequasar5763
      @rookiequasar5763 Před rokem +1

      Same here! The idea of someone who is intimidating, perhaps powerful in a very real and dangerous way, proving themselves a kinder, gentler being to someone who is not at that same capacity- be it temporarily or permanently- to someone who was afraid for their life or at the very least, spooked... there’s something to it, really. Maybe it’s a little bit of the feeling of helping a wild animal who naturally fears humans, crossed with the sapience of someone who can appreciate it fully (even with potential communication barriers, which means relying on other means that make it more creative and expressive I think). But that’s just the first kinda idea for why that popped into my lil brain. Do you have any good fics you’d recommend for this subject? Because I want them aaallllll! If it’s original characters or canon, I’d love to know them all the same!

    • @catbatrat1760
      @catbatrat1760 Před rokem

      @@rookiequasar5763 I'm trying to reply to you, have been for a while now. Why isn't it going through? I just want to help another reader, but CZcams won't let me. :(

  • @Yekulten
    @Yekulten Před rokem +2

    I remember watching a movie called The Littles when I was younger.
    I believe the idea was borrowed.

  • @PlanetYokoshima
    @PlanetYokoshima Před rokem

    Aaahhh I love your tale! So creative and cute!

  • @Connorses
    @Connorses Před rokem +1

    I knew what he was going to talk about when he showed The Hobbit. It's interesting not just how Bilbo's home changes, but also how everyone treats him when he comes back from an adventure. They still respect Bilbo, but they know that he's different now. He's the weird adventurer guy.

  • @fedhamxd
    @fedhamxd Před rokem +1

    I absolutely adored this video.