Notes for Chapters 7 & 8 of "Giving Yourself Advice" · 3:08pm Mar 19th, 2022
Here are the notes for Chapter 7 of "On the Fine Art of Giving Yourself Advice", Stan Lee Cameo:
The Phoenix/Dark Phoenix Saga
Everybody knows this one by now right? Well, just in case you don’t, it was a storyline in the X-Men comic books from 1980, adapted unsuccessfully into film and television at least four times, written by Chris Claremont with art by John Byrne. In it, the psychic character Jean Gray appears to sacrifice her life to save her teammates after a dangerous mission and ends up in a coma. She wakes up with vastly expanded mental powers, calling herself “Phoenix”, and shortly afterwards saves the universe—that’s the Phoenix Saga. The sequel Dark Phoenix Saga starts with Jean Gray being corrupted by a group of seductive villains, becoming “Dark Phoenix”. And then she goes off and blows up a star just for the fun of it, killing off an entire civilization, and she has to be put down. (Of course she doesn’t stay dead. This is Comic Book Land—nobody truly dies in Comic Book Land.)
Sci-Twi, of course, is going to become a character whose gem-bestowed power is telekinesis, the same basic power that Jean Gray started with.
The Tangled trailer
Tangled got its widespread American release on November 24, 2010. This story is set in September of 2010. The bit about the skin colors is because before the discovery of America, Markism was only practiced in England.
Here are the notes for Chapter 8 of "On the Fine Art of Giving Yourself Advice", The Light of the Sun:
General Farrago
“Farrago” is one of those words you use to show off your vocabulary. It means “mess” or “hodgepodge”, as in “that story was a farrago of myth and fact.” The word derives from the Latin for “cattle feed”, which is a mix of grains.
A light grayish mulberry in color
Rarity is very exact with her colors.
Three diamond shapes, each one a different cut
Pony Rarity now has a slightly different cutie mark as a result of her fashion epiphany on Earth.
I admit, I'd missed the slight difference in Rarity's cutie mark. I can only imagine what impact this world may have on Applejack and Pinkie...