I've had a rough couple of days. Today's post is a bit of a cheat, clearing out several subjects that probably don't deserve an entire posting to themselves, but I'm not feeling up to anything very complicated.
Out on a limb. I was looking at the Mystic (Ur-ru) action figure from The Dark Crystal that sits on my desk when I suddenly thought, "How many other action figures that I own have 'extra' limbs?" The ants from Ant Z, of course, since they are insects (they're legs are very flimsy and have a tendency to fall off) but there are otherwise not many. The Ovion from Battlestar Galactica, Aracula from Skeleton Warriors, and Appa from Avatar. I considered dragons (wings, legs) but somehow they didn't seem to sit quite right. Maybe because one expects dragons to have wings as a different category.
Three popular (at least famous, mostly thanks to film adaptations) Fantasy series you will never find in my library. I have plenty of other samples of drek (Shannara, etc.) but those were before I had fully developed a more discriminating bullsh*t detector. Now, THESE are franchises, in the sense that Tolkien will never be.
And lastly, illustrations from and of my childhood. Gaze on them and see what I fed upon to grow my imagination.
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