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With the Barbie Official playlist deleted from YouTube, I went to a different source and decided to try watching Barbie movies more from the beginning. Mistake! Mattel started making them in 2001, and the computer animation is very much of its time. I managed to get through Fairytopia okay, buuuut am still pretending that the end wasn't as ablist as I predicted it would be less than five minutes into the film. I got fifteen minutes into the direct sequel, Fairytopia: Mermaidia, when the most godawful uncanny valley human-faced sea turtle was introduced. I just... why? Animals do not need to look like humans to be cute!

I think I'm going to keep watching this one for now, though if it gets too unbearable, I have permission from myself to skip to whatever the next movie that catches my interest is. I know they have a fairly radical change in style by 2011, at least, by which time the animation improves pretty drastically.

Edit: The role of Humanface Turtle turned out to be mercifully brief. On to Fairytopia 3!

ATLA Renaissance

In honor of the little ATLA rebirth that's going on with Covid and everything, I've got some old links to share!

Once upon a time, when Nickelodeon was actually giving some passing thought to milking ATLA for what it was worth, they came out with these little side-books to accompany the main series. These books were roughly half first person episode-retelling, and half background worldbuilding. How official it is and how well these hold up, I have no notion! TBH, I only really remembered they even existed when I was uploading the stingray patterns and saw the files still active(!) in MediaFire. Anyway, for those who are interested, here you are!

Tasty Cultural Tidbits!

Some notes:
- When I originally scanned these, I did so two pages at a time; "Joined page" just means I didn't bother to separate the pages in editing, whereas "Split page" has the pages, well, split into individuals. Split pages are also larger in size.
- The "Culture only" versions include only the Tasty Cultural Tidbits of worldbuilding, while the "Story only" versions have only the novelized episodes. Each of these is made from split pages.
- The Water story bits retell episodes 1x01, 1x02, 1x15 and 1x18-1x20; Earth retell 1x06, 1x05 and 1x11 in that order; Fire retell 1x15, 1x06-1x07, and 1x13+1x19-1x20, in that order; and Air retell 1x03, 1x12 and 1x17
- The order, Water - Earth - Fire - Air, is as they were listed on the books themselves, but you should be able to read the cultural stuff especially in any order.
- I don't remember everything that was in these, nor can I say how well they hold up with canon after both ATLA and Korra ended, but there is some interesting stuff in there for those who care to take a look!

Oh, they should also be relatively spoiler-safe, at least up through early Season Two of ATLA. I have no actual plans to check these at the moment to find out.

Anyway, enjoy?

Edit: Files have now been successfully reuploaded to MediaFire!