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Bedtime Story: The Kappa Problem (Patreon)

Published:
2018-02-27 02:07:30
Edited:
2023-05-25 07:33:07
Imported:
2018-02

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I'm off to Rhode Island tomorrow to attend StokerCon and have yet to pack. I've yet to even check what the weather is like there. 

But I did get this month's Bedtime Story done! It's called "The Kappa Problem".  A bit of a different tone that the others.

Envelopes have been sent and postcards are going out today. 

Then! I pack! ...and check to make sure my passport hasn't expired...

I'll post some photos and whatnot on here from the convention and award ceremony. Talk to you all very soon.

Thank you and XOXO,

terrie

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Paul Biba

What a great story! The music was just perfect.

Jeffrey

As you can see I am meandering through stories I haven't as yet heard. I really liked this one. You know, these being folktales, there are always angles from which they seem to reflect upon our own lives I think. Perhaps they are a kind of mirror. At any rate, I thought of a number of stories as I listened to this one. They are not the same at most ways but they include creatures of the margins who have difficult relationships with humans. One is Frankenstein, which if you haven't read, you should. The other is the Norwegian folktale, Prince Lindworm. I also couldn't help but think about our various human cultures, such as they are and how we treat each other and how this treatment is often so convoluted, messy, and violent. I wondered what it would take to have such courage as the Kappa had.

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Jeffrey, thank you so much for your thoughts. I have read Frankenstein and remember being quite shocked that it is was nothing like the Frankenstein I thought I knew. Unfortunately, I find a lot of these old tales quite devoid of, what? I'm not sure emotion is the word I'm looking for, although that is part of it. They're very cut and dry with very little human nuance to them. When I say I give them my own twist when I retell them, that is in effect what I'm trying to do. The tales themselves have very little to no depth to the characters, which would so much better drive the stories. That said, that might just be a trait of all folk and fairy tales. And maybe that's part of their magic. They are these blank slates that we can fill in with our own emotion, our own interpretation, our own story. I really enjoy translating and reading them and imagining what's going on underneath it all. Thank you for mentioning the Norwegian folktale (Prince Lindworm). I'm going to read that soon. Oh, and another aside (epiphany!) I think I'm going to translate a tale as it is and put it up here, and then add my take on it, so you can all see what has changed. Oh, cool. This feels like a cool idea. Thank you, Jeffrey! You're comment gave me the idea!

Jeffrey

Terrie, that's my super secret plan. To provide comments which consequently lead to ideas which you then follow up on brilliantly (no pressure). I agree that folktales can be very cut and dry. Actually, the version of Prince Lindworm I have is very much like that. But you know, that might be on us, I think. That is, we have, perhaps approached them a little too much as ethnographers and maybe not enough as storytellers. I have to believe that in the times in which they were told, they were done so not as folktales but as simply the stories people shared, rich and savory, full of life. In that way, you should consider yourself an admirable holder of certainly one of the oldest of lineages. Also, looking forward to your idea. That should be really interesting. If it is easy to do so, it could also be nice to include the original Japanese.