#landmark story

[frc-ambaradan]

Do you know what came out today, 60 years ago?

"Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante" written by Abramo and Giampaolo Barosso and drawn by Giorgio Bordini is Rockerduck's very first italian story and his all time second appearance in comics.

First published on Almanacco Topolino #75 dated 1st March 1963, not only it marked the beginning of John's astonishing italian career but it also holds the merit of starting a brief new strike of stories starring Rockerduck written by american authors, first and foremost Fethry's creator Dick Kinney.

Bordini's Rockerduck is still very similar to Barks', so much so that some poses of the character are reproduced exactly from Barks' drawings in "Boat Buster". "Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante" is the only story in which Rockerduck's drawn by Bordini, starting from his third story the character then ends up in Romano Scarpa's capable hands who defines his ultimate design. A design moved forward by other great artists such as Giovan Battista Carpi and Giorgio Cavazzano.

Barks' panels from "Boat Buster" (1961) and Bordini's from "Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante" (1963) face to face.

Despite being such a corner stone for Rockerduck's character, "Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante" (which translates as "Uncle Scrooge and the flying kiwi") is not a very well known story. In Italy it got re-printed only three times (latest one being in 2006), while internationally it's been published only in Belgium, Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and Turkey with very few re-prints and in pretty old editions too 😔 (I know it's not the masterpiece of the century, but it's a fun 60s story and I'd like to see it get a re-print more often).

Fun fact: in "Zio Paperone e il kiwi volante" Rockerduck and Scrooge address each other as "Mr. Rockerduck" and "Mr. McDuck" and they use the courtesy pronoun "voi" (second person plural). They keep being... err... "formally civil" to each other until 1966 but only in stories written in italian, while in translated works (such as stories produced by Disney for the foreign market) they are on first name basis 🤷

"You'll have to walk over my dead body!" "That's exactly what I intend to do!" Their first italian brawl, rigidly on courtesy pronoun basis... history!

#paf! bonk! #yeah!!! :D #john d. rockerduck #abramo barosso #giampaolo barosso #giorgio bordini #carl barks #rockerduck's first italian story #landmark story #scrooge mcduck #disney ducks #italian disney comics #comics history #character history

[halloawhatisthis]

I was dying, and no one could see it but you. You saved my life, Joan.

#elementaryedit #elementasquee #*elementary #elementary #details #a landmark story #heroine #the marchioness #on the line #the grand experiment #bella #henny penny the sky is falling #moving targets #breathe

[claudia-kishi]

What is different now?

#elementary #elementaryedit #elementasquee #rjs*: new #elementary s1 #a landmark story #joan watson #sherlock holmes #brotp: you and i are bound #missing them hours

[queen-mabs-revenge]

there is something so exceptional about the audio form and the kind of...meta-narrative (?) of horror it creates that really leapt out at the end of this re: dracula episode (25 Sept).

seeing the runtime of each episode sets the scene - 27:06? ok, i'm in for something here -- we have a few, uhhhhh, long-winded characters in rotation so it might not be an eventful something, but at this point in the story, we've already been gutted by episodes with longer runtimes so just glimpsing the runtime already sets the scene for heightened dread. you might set aside time to experience the dread instead of maybe quickly listening to a minute long episode wherever/whenever you are.

i luckily got to listen through without interruption and so i was only vaguely aware of the passing time in that approximate way one's body clock ever is. so as this episode came to a close, and mina asks van helsing to not reply if he agrees to meet for breakfast, the dread spiked

i didn't know how long was left in the episode -- the music was still lingering. how much time has it been? 27 minutes? it feels like it could be 27 minutes, but it also feels much shorter? can't be sure. and even if the runtime is nearly elapsed, we know from previous episodes that a telegram can take mere seconds, a journal entry just a few words. is van helsing going to be called away? is he going to cancel the meeting? is mina going to be left alone again with no answers and no friends? with the count and the 'bloofer lady' closing in? how long has the music been playing? holding my breath for the morse code. holding my breath for van helsing's voice. holding my breath for 'letter by hand'. holding my breath for 'letter unopened'...

"this episode featured..."

relief

when reading, you have the unread pages in your hand constantly telling you the story of the progress of the narrative's shape. unless every piece of ephemera of an epistolary story is set on its own separate page, you can see the next item in your eyesight. sure, even if they are on separate new pages, you can see through the printed page the shadows of the text on the next, giving you a subconscious hint of expectation.

with a film, you lose the tangibility of the physical object informing the narrative, but you have other sensory cues - something like a fade to black over the lingering music can manipulate your expectations of narrative completion (and either follow through or subvert them). if you're watching on a device, an accidental activation of the screen or cursor might give you a glimpse of the progression bar, again changing your narrative perception.

with an audio drama you're left with just the one sense as your guide. unless you're actively watching the progression bar as you're listening or actively watching a clock, you just don't know beyond your own imperfect perception of time what you're in for and fuck me the added anxiety because of that is just

whew

#re: dracula #i have a deep obsession with the inescapable narration of the material art form on the art itself #and man oh man this was a treat for me today #thinking of how other things can shape your narrative experience #if you're listening while walking on a familiar route and know how long it takes you to walk from point a to point b #passing a physical landmark might spike dread because you suddenly are aware of time passed and remaining #literally a fire hydrant. a weird tree. a crack in the sidewalk could be a meta-narrative device #something that the author has no control over can shape the perception of their story #going feral about it actually?

[creaturefeaster]

all drawn with my stupid broken mouse so it's no masterwork but still. here take it!!!!!

#my fucking mouse stops workinf every 10 seconds and i gotta unplug and replug it every fucking time #so imagine me zoomed in really far drawing lines with a stupid mouse #it took too long to do the outline of the map i swear #a good sum of these towns are not very significant to the story if at all #and theres some smaller ones that arent listed at all #diamonds are landmarks #stars are bigger/more populous towns #theres a lot of landmarks i need to add still but thats gonna take a while for me to hone #brambleramble #okay tags done. #WAIT. one more thing. garbage town is actually called indent island but for all intents and purposes in cq #it is known as garbage town at large

[zykamiliah]

me, a bingqiu shipper, watching sns and wangxian being pitted against each other:

someone: but aren't you a sns fan too-

me: yeah and that's why i think sns should lose

#i have a very strange relationship with sns currently #mdzs #naruto #sns #wangxian #on one hand it was like a religious experience to me #the closest thing to it #on the other hand what they've done with them in the last 9 years has me bitter and disappointed #they've already left their landmark in history and in STORIES they really don't need to win #wangxian on the other hand is such a HOPEFUL story #it's so perfect in itself i really don't need to read fics for it anymore #(the svsss obsession has precedence)

[spearxwind]

so does anyone actually know what happened exactly with subnautica below zero? I feel like ive asked this before but i dont recall

all i know is i remember reading developer blogs where they mentioned that the lead writer changed midway through development and there was some sort of situation where the dev team rewrote absolutely everything that the original writer had done to the point where it was unrecognizeable

cause the early access iterations of SBZ had a drastically different story and plot thread, so playing through it on full release was just... not good

#thunderclap #i tried rly hard to like it but man it was really hard. i just dont understand why they had to change all of the writing for it #especially after so much positive feedback for the early access versions. they had to redo so much voice work so many animations #idk its just so confusing to me still like!!! there was so much work done the game was basically DONE all that was missing was the ending #and they CHANGED ALL OF IT... WHY #it just felt so much sloppier than the first game the environment had nothing to do with the story there wasnt a good place to build a base #the crystal caves and below are just cool set pieces that are terrible to navigate bc there arent any landmarks #idk man its weird. i think about it a lot. i think it says a lot too that no one talked about it online everyone is still messing with S1

[scorpiothesaint]

idk i think my no nuance snippy take abt it for now is that ppl will insist that fic is universally better than any other written fiction medium bc of quality control, but also foster this culture where you can't give the gentlest correction without it being considered flames (do ppl even still say flames?? i gotta know lmfao)

#i saw a [redacted] author mess up geography im familiar with in a way that really broke the story immersion so i was gonna politely correct #them and then saw several ppl who are natives of the area calmly explain b4 me #and the author wouldnt budge bc 'its just fi fiction sorry i dont think it matters' #which is like yeah you have no obligation to change anything but it's just funny when ppl will do a bunch of research into ship dynamics but #cant google where a landmark is located or w/e

[halloawhatisthis]

Elementary playing the long game with Odker (part 1):

1x18 Déjà Vu All Over Again 1x21 A Landmark Story 2x03 We Are Everyone 2x04 The Poison Pen 2x11 Internal Audit 2x13 All In The Family 2x15 Corpse De Ballet 2x16 The One Percent Solution 2x17 Ears To You 2x23 Art In The Blood 2x24 The Grand Experiment

#elementaryedit #elementasquee #*elementary #elementary #odker #deja vu all over again #a landmark story #we are everyone #the poison pen #internal audit #all in the family #corpse de ballet #the one percent solution #ears to you #art in the blood #the grand experiment

[claudia-kishi]

Just give it to me.

#elementary #elementaryedit #elementasquee #rjs*: new #joan watson #sherlock holmes #brotp: you and i are bound #ele s1 #a landmark story #we are NOT having a moment #i just love. how she acknowledges that they have moments. like i'm crying

[essektheylyss]

I AM attempting to read at least four books this weekend and that IS ridiculous but alas, here we are.

#no one look at my other fucking post I am NOT attempting proust okay #these are books of reasonable length. #here's my thing with proust. yeah yeah 'perfect novel' fuck you. that is not a novel. that is a series. #I don't care if it's one entity. so the fuck was lord of the rings and we have deemed that three books at this point. #just because a story is sustained does NOT make it a singular novel. I'll kill. #to be clear this is a joke. as mentioned I know literally nothing about proust and I have already forgotten the novel's title. #as per fucking usual. #honestly I'm gonna read it someday solely so maybe I understand what the fuck people are talking about. #anyway the books for the weekend are: authority (vandermeer). the gift of knowledge/ttnúwit átawish nch'inch'imani (beavert). #acceptance (also vandermeer). waterlog (deakin). #YES I once again saw robert macfarlane's name and blacked out and purchase a book. do not @ me. #(I did want to read waterlog after having read landmarks and then saw the new paperback edition on a stand at the bookstore so shhhh) #megs is reading #in my defense I'm going to be spending a lot of time waiting this weekend considering my spouse is in a race not designed for spectating #(it's a massive seven-part relay. and he's in a part where you can't even get in to spectate so.) #I'm mostly tagging along with my sister and her bf's friends so. books are necessary. #I've always been that dweeb with the book in social settings and I'm not about to stop now.

[squirrels-rewrite]

TM: Wingward Territory

The Citadel:

A towering mountain peak, serving as the central command post for the Wingward's Commander and Council of the Sky. The Citadel has multiple small crevices which lead to a massive tunnel system, where the Wingward have many strategies, drawings, tools, and hold meetings with the Knights.

Starry Bazaar:

The Starry Bazaar is a mountain clearing nestled amidst the Wingward peaks, renowned as the heart of social activity within the kinship. This bustling place is characterized as one of the only places where water is accessible, and where couples often come to spend the night perched under the trees, watching the stars.

Zephyr Training Grounds:

Open fields surrounded by gentle slopes, ideal for Wingward Cadets to practice aerial combat maneuvers. The Zephyr Training Grounds are essential for honing the flying skills of Wingward cats and ensuring they are prepared for defensive and offensive tactics.

Thunderclaw Quarry:

A quarry where Wingward Knights extract stones for constructing fortifications and crafting weaponry. Thunderclaw Quarry is strategically located by The Citadel, ensuring a steady supply of durable materials for the kinship's needs; named after Thunderclaw, the Knight who discovered the caves.

Aero Spire:

An ancient spire dedicated to the Wingward's sky deities. The Aero Spire Sanctuary is a sacred space where Wingward cats come to offer prayers, seek guidance, and celebrate their connection to the skies and celestial forces.

Avalanche Pass:

A treacherous mountain pass prone to avalanches, serving as a natural barrier against potential invaders. Wingward scouts and warriors patrol Avalanche Pass to ensure the safety of their kinship and to anticipate any threats from rival kinships or outside forces.

#xenomoggy #warrior cats rewrite #original story #wingward kinship #territory landmarks #landmarks

[anonprotagging]

I want to play SV so badly :(

I don’t even like....... actually care about the story or whatever at this point since I’ve seen so many spoilers (maybe 1/3 of the game’s “plot twists” if you can even call them that 🙄🙄🙄), and I don’t really like, like the pokemon designs this generation either, but I’m tired of my brain hyping it up constantly kjsdhfjksd

#every night I dream about it and my brain is like OHHHHH IT'S GONNA BE SOOOOO COOL HERE ARE ALL THESE AWESOME DESIGNS I THINK WILL BE IN IT #LOOK HERE'S A REGIONAL POOCHYENA AND A CONVERGENT MIMIKYU DESIGN CALLED MINIKYU AREN'T THEY COOL #and I'll be like I've /literally/ seen the whole dex. it's really not that cool. and my brain will be like BUT WHAT IF IT IS :( #I'll dream that guzma's there and that the story is complex and interesting and that every area is distinct and filled with landmarks #that the opening area has a bunch of gates reminiscent of kanto and there are ruins and mountains with ghibli moss and graveyards and bright #sunny plateaus and rivers with shiny colorful stones by the shores. meanwhile the game itself looks. so empty. #like swsh II: the sequel: the Wild Area But Worse #part of it is me being grouchy that it's been 6 months and I haven't had a chance to even OPEN the game yet #but the other part is genuine disgust towards gamefreak's policies and how they crush their teams' creativity with crunch #I KNOW they're capable of making a world like that. which is why it's even more upsetting that they can't. #>:( #hate hate hate attacking and biting and killing and smasha the pokemon company with a rock >:( #also I'm sorry but the paradox pokemon look bad to me. not like design wise but conceptually. I don't know the context for them yet #(somehow one of the few spoilers I HAVEN't seen 😶) but there's no way all future pokemon are just robots. that's stupid #it better be some stupid fucked up alternate reality where everything sucks like guzzlord's world bc if it's canon? #then no it's not <333333 #ksdfhksjd I know I'm being pissy I'm just. @TPC. stop it >:(

[aq2003]

the campaign vox machina people were right That "do i look like i come from money" conversation can Hit different

#yeahhh like in the campaign it's vex rly opening up to percy for the first time and in tlovm it's her trying to make sure her guard is up #and she only opens up later in the episode after the titling scene/standing up to her dad for the first time #but both moments have th element of percy realizing a bit of vex's insecurities and wanting to stand up for her #the main difference i think is that campaign perc'ahlia is v slow burn and those iconic moments are like. landmarks #whereas in the show these landmarks are recontextualized to develop/deepen their dynamic in the first place #it hits different ! both are imo what works best for the medium! i think that is cool. #cr #cr1 #may be biased seeing as i watched tlovm first but i am rly glad we have both and also that they #aren't trying to adapt 1:1. instead they lean into what's best for the shorter-form story #ive seen ppl criticize vex for being too 'cold' in tlovm or w/e but like Personally.. i love her so much for that #the front she puts up for other ppl is sooo clear to the audience while being a believable emotional barrier between her and her friends

[orcelito]

love how i got to the first page of trigun chapter 1 before i got sidetracked and made a whole post about it

im supposed to be collecting dates & location information, not getting sidetracked on random analysis posts!!!!!

#speculation nation #brain doesnt care. brain will do whatever it damn well pleases #most of the screenshots in that post r from dark horse bc i find it so much easier to jump between chapters there #also i have the general structure of trimax memorized by chapter number #trimax chapter 10 is rai-dei & the vashwood fight. chapter 20 is the hospital arc. chapter 30 is dragon's nest. chapter 40 is flashbacks #chapter 50 is ark shit (i think). chapter 60 is... :( #chapter 70 is prep for the final battle. 80 ish is elendira & legato fights #and then 90 is The End. #with these landmarks in mind i find it easy to jump between chapters throughout the entire story to find details #some things are small enough i cant quite find them. but most things i can find pretty quickly #might take a lil skimming but i have a great memory for fact finding. that encyclopedic knowledge coming in handing #NEVER encyclopedic for responsible things. only my hyperfixations. but i sure do enjoy using it for stuff like this!

[merrymorningofmay]

buddy daddies made me a worse person (aware that love is real and there is goodness to the world)

#coming of age stories for 20-30 year olds!!! coming of age stories that don't feature sex as a mandatory landmark!!!! #is there anything so undoing as a daughter: the anime!!!!! #mari rambles