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Hitherby Dragons
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In the old days, they didn't know very much about the world. But they made maps anyway. If they had to map something they couldn't, they just drew whatever they felt like and wrote, "Here there be dragons."... We still don't know very much about the world; and there are things to map of it besides its surface. Can broken things be remade? Can destinies change? Is it worth the risk of hope? Important questions, but one can only shrug, you see: Here, there be dragons.Hitherby Dragons is a series of online short stories written by Jenna K. Moran (formerly known as Rebecca S. Borgstrom), who also created the Tabletop RPG Nobilis. (Hitherby was also the name of one of Jenna's In Nomine PCs, a Kyriotate of Animals. There are no direct links... we think).A girl called Jane, her brother (sort of) Martin, and a cast of others tell stories in the Gibbelins' Tower to make sense of their own existence, to amuse, and to understand the nature of the world around them.Hitherby has a set of story Canon, set in a strange variant of our world, telling of the current characters, as well as variants on the stories of Tantalus, Buddha, Belshazzar, Confucius, Lot and Persephone. The mythologies it creates concern the powers of suffering, the imprisonment of personal uncertainty, and the relationship between oppressor and servant.However, many of the stories are individual legends, and can generally be read without any further context. A large number of the legends are warped combinations of pop culture with philosophical, political or religious motifs. Some are reflections of the mythology of the world, and some are whatever complete nonsense blasted out of Jenna's mind that morning before coffee. Stories where Jesus pilots a Humongous Mecha, the wars of gods are fought with Sailor Moon attacks or the Buddha can be summoned from a Pokeball are by no means atypical.From a troper's point of view, there are several legends that work by playing the tropes either completely out of context, much straighter than even the original or even tropes that function as rules of the universe.Hitherby Dragons has been on hiatus since 2008, with a year-long return in 2011 and a week-long return in 2015, but it's still on Jenna's mind. The story starts here.Hitherby Dragons books: An Unclean Legacy (legend) Enemies Endure: Stomping the World Round (legend, book 1 of 3) Enemies Endure: The Storm That Saw Itself (legend, book 2 of 3) Enemies Endure: Vidar's Boot (legend, book 3 of 3) Jack o'Lantern Girl (history) Magical Bears in the Context of Contemporary Political Theory (legend collection) | |
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse | |
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse: In a high school! | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: An Unclean Legacy is this to the The Smurfs, being set in a Bad Future where Gargamel won. Another story does this to Scooby-Doo, presenting Scooby's ability to talk as coming from his status as a discarded military experiment. | |
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Framing Device | |
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Framing Device: Technically, all non- canon stories are produced by the characters of the Gibbelins' Tower. | |
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As the Good Book Says... | |
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As the Good Book Says...: There are quite a few scenes based on Biblical scenes and a few characters have Biblical names. One even quotes the verse with his own name on it. | |
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Martial Arts and Crafts | |
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Martial Arts and Crafts: Ninja weather forecasters! Pickle Ninjas! Ninja Buddha with enlightenment shurikens! | |
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Logic Bomb | |
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Logic Bomb: In "Ink And Illogic" and also Forbidden A in "The Angels" | |
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Torture Always Works | |
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Torture Always Works: Played with in "An Oracle For NP". It is discovered that, done properly, torture will always get the right answer even if the victim has no prior knowledge of what the answer is. The world becomes a utopia built on the back of torturing people until they reveal the best political system and the least environmentally-damaging method of power generation. | |
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Our Angels Are Different | |
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Our Angels Are Different: Angels answer emptiness with hope. They wear jackets with holes cut into them for their wings. | |
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks! | |
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They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: In-universe - well, in-legend - usage: | |
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Our Demons Are Different | |
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Our Demons Are Different: Demons answer emptiness with acceptance. This doesn't actually do anything about the problem, though. | |
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Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress | |
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Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress | |
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Fighting from the Inside | |
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Fighting from the Inside | |
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Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard | |
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Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard: Parodied in "Angus' Bad Day" — the store cupboard is still out of commission from a previous heroic scientist's escape plan, and so is the chemistry lab. | |
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Fractured Fairy Tale | |
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Fractured Fairy Tale | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
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Cuteness Proximity | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors | |
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Scooby-Dooby Doors & "Scooby-Doo" Hoax in "Daphne and Her Dog" | |
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Back from the Dead | |
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Back from the Dead: Jack o'Lantern Girl is, in part, the story of how Jane came back to life after a slight accident with the fire a lifetime before when she was a girl called Jenna. | |
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The Magic Comes Back | |
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The Magic Comes Back: As the current monster tells it, the fire would not serve his family, and left the world. Eventually, it came back... and the monsters found it. | |
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Anachronic Order | |
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Anachronic Order: The canon story, while roughly in chronological order, can skip around from modern day to the Biblical era to Ancient China and so on. | |
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Superpower Lottery | |
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Superpower Lottery: Supernatural abilities vary vastly - Magical Angel has a chance of being able to do anything while Realistic Angel is pragmatic. And footsoldiers question pie. | |
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Nuclear Mutant | |
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Nuclear Mutant | |
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World of Weirdness | |
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World of Weirdness: In a world where Buddha pirates roam the seas, the supernatural is common knowledge and any 'god' can be summed up in one sentence... | |
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Dissimile | |
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Dissimile: Seen here: | |
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Industrialized Evil | |
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Industrialized Evil: Central, the monster's corporation, which has turned the process of breaking people to create gods into a business. | |
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Kaiju | |
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Kaiju | |
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Wax On, Wax Off | |
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Wax On, Wax Off: | |
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Sugar Apocalypse | |
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Sugar Apocalypse: Hoo, boy. Many, many, many kid's shows and concepts are subjected to unearthly horrors in legend. | |
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Epiphanic Prison | |
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Epiphanic Prison: The nature of being an "isn't", and Ii Ma's prison. | |
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Vision Quest | |
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Vision Quest: "The Bridge" | |
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Hell Seeker | |
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Hell Seeker: Ink Catherly is a preteen adventurer determined to reach hell "because I'm an explorer". In this case, hell is located at the top of a tower inside her closet. | |
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Our Gods Are Different | |
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Our Gods Are Different: 'God' is a general term used for (almost) any supernatural being in the canon. Our Angels Are Different: Angels answer emptiness with hope. They wear jackets with holes cut into them for their wings. Our Demons Are Different: Demons answer emptiness with acceptance. This doesn't actually do anything about the problem, though. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: King Cole | |
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