Week 15 Storylab: TVTropes

For this week's storylab, I decided to visit TVTropes! This is a website dedicated to ideas, themes, and even memes in popular culture. I never knew such a site existed, so exploring it and seeing what it is about was a treat.

The primary thing I dug into during my time on the site was Avengers: Infinity War! It is chock-full of interesting content, undertones of the movie that many do not catch, and even funny interesting facts. The funniest tidbit I came across was Groot's death when he disappeared into nothingness when Thanos snapped his finger and its meaning. This would indicate that Groot had some sort of soul as if he were a humanoid lifeform! This was just one of the many things I didn't entirely catch onto when watching the film. Small things like this that slip through the cracks of my viewing make me want to explore TVTropes even more.

I am glad I decided to do my Storylab on TVTropes. It's a very engaging and thought-provoking website. It being dedicated to all types of media is a very cool concept and I am glad that I discovered it.

Is it fair to call Iron Man the father of Marvel? Or at least of The Avengers? Source

Reading Notes: Rumpelstiltskin

There once was a poor miller who had a beautiful daughter
The miller found himself in a conversation with the king
The miller told the king that his daughter could spin straw into gold
The king believed the miller and summoned the miller's daughter to his castle

The miller's daughter was put in a room full of straw and the necessary tools
The king stipulated that she should turn all of the room's straw into gold before morning, or else she would be put to death
Once inside the room, the girl was sad and began to cry, because she didn't know how to spin straw into gold like her father said she could

Come evening time, a little man came in to see what was wrong
The man heard about the girl's problem and offered to spin the straw into gold for something in return
The girl offered a necklace she was wearing
The little man agreed and went to work

The following morning, the king was happy
The king assigned the girl an even bigger room of straw to complete before morning
The girl made another deal with the little man but instead had to give the man the ring off her finger
The man completed the task

The following morning, the king was pleased with what the miller's daughter was able to produce.
The king put the girl in an even bigger room but offered to marry her if she could complete the same task, but with more straw

The girl made another deal with the little man but instead had to promise the man that she would give him her first-born once she is queen
The king saw what she was able to produce the following morning
The king decided to marry the miller's daughter

The king and new queen had been married for a year when the queen begot a child
The little man came for his payment
The queen was not agreeable to fulfilling her side of the deal
The little man took pity on her and said that she could have three days to try and figure out his name, and if she could, then she could keep her child

The queen spent the next few days trying to figure out the little man's name
She sent out messengers, inquired within the city, and almost anything possible to figure out the little man's name

Fortunate for the queen, on the third day, a messenger came with a report of hearing a man singing to himself in the woods
The song that the messenger heard contained the little man's name

The little man came a third and final time to see if the queen had come to know his name
The queen provided the name from the song her messenger had heard: "Rumpelstiltskin"
Rumpelstiltskin shouted with anger and stomped his right foot so hard into the ground that he fell in up to his waist

The little man then grabbed his left foot with both of his hands and ripped himself up the middle in two

The miller's daughter and the little man. Source

Bibliography: D. L. Ashliman, The Grimm Brothers' Children's and Household Tales, Source