In video form:
And in good old-fashioned electronic text:
Secrets of the Seven Basic Blog Posts
In an interesting coincidence, in researching — yes, seriously — this piece, I ran into the Seven Basic Plots as recounted by Jessamyn West, librarian extraordinaire and Metafilter admin. We’ve actually met, so there was the small shock of recognition there.
There’s another set of seven basic plots out there, but as I understand it, that book adds another two plots at the end. Way to stick with your premise there, Booker.
Edit: Desktop image!
6:50 am, June 4, 2008 -- 29 comments
This Straight Dope column might be useful to you as well. Or it would have been if you hadn’t already written the thing.
To be honest, Lore, I’m surprised that your XKCD character isn’t the one with the hat.
Wait, what exactly was the topic of that symposium? Because it looks like the kind of thing I should attend next year. Y’know, before it gets too big and commercial. Like those Bacon de Mayo parties that Bobby Isosceles throws in DC.
I also like the new Lore. Now we have Lore Brand Lore, Ugly Hill Brand Lore, and XKCD Brand Lore. We need some OotS Brand Lore and Diesel Sweeties Brand Lore in there, too. I’d ask for Little Dee Brand Lore but I don’t think human secondary characters are allowed.
Is that my XKCD character? I figured it was one’s XCKD character.
An actual XKCD character generator would be cool. Presumably it would have the hat, and the girl-hair, and Cory Doctorow’s cape and goggles, and Richard Stallman’s lush crop, and so forth.
And that was the Fourth Annual International Symposium on the Psychosocial Impact of Carnival Food, held in Stockholm, Nevada.
The 7 basic plots are much more interesting if you read them as I initially did:
wolfman vs. nature
wolfman vs. man
wolfman vs. the environment
wolfman vs. machines/technology
wolfman vs. the supernatural
wolfman vs. self
wolfman vs. god/religion
And you know, I think I’ve seen every one of those on Mystery Science Theater.
The xkcd and friends drawings- marvelous!
Oh, duh. I get it. It was like one of those “Which Buffy character are you?” quizzes. I was thinking of it like the Simpsonizer where you turned a picture of yourself into the XKCD style.
No, you were right the first time. It’s like the South Park Character Generator, only with XKCD.
The question remaining in my mind is this: Which post-type does this post fit into?
Way to capture the permanent look of alarm into which Frodo’s face is frozen.
Props for the “time dodecahedron”, brought back some interesting memories from my old UseNet days.
I’m concerned that Blog Post Type #1 is perhaps too broad, it seems to cover almost all of the others…
And of course, the seven basic plot twists:
1. The person we all saw die – survived
2. Good guy’s respected leader/mentor/best bud – actually a bad guy
3. The hot babe is in fact A. a robot B. an alien C. a dude
4. The whole world is really some freaky simulation
5. The enigma that drives the plot – a non sequitur about a child’s toy
6. The hero’s grudgingly respectful adversary – converts to good at the last second; saves day
7. The “baddie” is really his/her alternate personality
Holy poop-on-yo-mama’s-shoes that was funny. So when do start selling the RSS fist t-shirts?
I did a drawing of you and had some nice things to say about you at:
http://akuterebi.deviantart.com/art/Inspiration-87766339
m.–
So how many sessions did the Fourth Annual International Symposium on the Psychosocial Impact of Carnival Food have on the subject of “Is it carnival food if it’s not deep fried?”?
Or am I reading too much into things again?
Dojimo – What about the one where the so-called “werewolf” is really the janitor wearing a werewolf mask?
As for the video, there’s so much to like about it, but I’m going to heap special praise on the jazz hands when Lore says “Me”, but only because everybody else already pointed out the xkcd character generator.
Heh, I acutally used the term “jazz hands” when taping. We were discussing keeping my hands in frame.
>”Dojimo – What about the one where the so-called “werewolf” is really the janitor wearing a werewolf mask?”
Standard procedure is to shoehorn it into whatever is the closest torturous fit, in this case, “the hot babe is actually a dude.”
mcl: Hey, thanks.
I would like someone to create a gif of the jazz hands part. Please.
Welcome Lore. Save it to say you not only make me laugh my butt off but have helped to make me rationalize getting off of it and getting stuff done, smile.
m.–
Really nice one Lore, did you feel that this was made up of a greater number of shorter segments (compared to say the optical illusion one where you’ve got relatively few segments that need explaining) made this one work well?
Gar, apologies for poor grammatarizing. Beer and online talking is bad combo.
[Insert formal request for remedial-education-cats desktop here]
Good GOD! The video version is so much better! It makes the whole thing come alive.
I wasn’t able to see that part from work, so I was just going off the text, before. And the text alone was a solid outing, but way to bring it to life.
I sincerely hope you’re doing some kind of static motion capture of your hair growth rate.
I’m not sure what to do with my hair, actually. It’s going to get seriously gnarly pretty quick.
It’s true though; she’d totally be Raphael.
Lore: I’m gonna suggest you grow out and style a topknot, but I’m kind of whimsical like that. Plus I’ve always wanted to see a guy with a topknot in a suit for some reason.
Once you’ve got the topknot well established you can shave the rest off.
If he grows a topknot then I’ll have to start thinking of him as TassleLore Ratingfoot.
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