Hello, lovely people! Welcome to my kitchen!
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[theme tune plays: Sophie Vlogs!] Essentially, Christmas
is coming,
I got drunk at my work to do and
promised all my friends pom-pom crowns
as Christmas present. I now need to
deliver on that promise, but I also
wanted to film a YouTube video, so we're
in my kitchen today because I'm gonna
hot glue some pom-pom crowns while talking
about tropes that I love. I first saw
the tropes I love video on Tea Hags
channel. I really recommend them,
they're really great and also I love
like... they remind me so strongly of Witch Please, with this sort of like riotous
laughter. I like listening to
things where like women who are just
really good friends with each other
laugh all the time, I find it really
lovely. So I highly recommend checking them
out. I have a list on my phone of some
random tropes that I thought of that I
really like, with some examples. I'm gonna
talk about these while I make pom pom
crowns. I'm also going to show you how to
make pom pom crowns should you wish. So,
if you would like to make a pom pom
crown, what you need is some pom poms.
Here's some I made earlier! I don't know how
well you can see these because I can't
see how this is framed, but I hope you
can. Here are my poms. I've got hair bands
which I have wrapped wool around which,
to be honest with you, is is the most
annoying part of this whole procedure. I
like having the colour of the hair band
match the colour of the pom poms, but
actually it's really annoying to do. So
in the future I think I'm just gonna buy
like the satin covered ones in a
neutral colour and glue onto it. And you
also need a hot glue gun. Are you hot enough or are you just melting what's on there from last time? We'll see!
If the
background noise is too bad, it's loud,
I'm sorry but I have to keep the window
open so that I don't actually gas
myself with glue fumes which, you know,
would be pretty pretty rubbish.
I have a glue gun and then some spare glue sticks because I go through
too many. I can't show you them because
I've already wrapped them, but I also
made some pom pom wreaths for people.
I'm going to trim that later. If you
follow me on Instagram or Twitter every
single time I do this before I mean it's
normal today I will have by now when
this is going up I will expected
pictures of the wreaths that I made
because they will have been given to
their recipients by now which I'd be
making columns for like couple of months
prep for making wreaths just everything
some of that this is all it's all very
make sure to I really can't emphasize
enough how makeshift this all is um yeah
I had a really good time making pottery
and now making popular bands in
comparison seems really chill because
for a wreath I need it like minimum of
60 palms per wreath pretty much whereas
oh gosh gonna glue the fingers wheeze
hey bands because I'm doing nice big
ponds you only really need like five pom
the headband that's pretty chill right
first rope while we let that dry is
proper love triangles and I don't mean
love triangles where it's like hey and
be loved see but they hate each other I
mean love triangles where it's like a
and B not C and C love a and B but it a
and B orphan love each other very
example a book that does this really
well it's the fiat-abarth the street by
guy Gavriel Kay that like emotionally
ruins me so that's good and then a teeny
show that does this really well which I
can't stop going on about cuz I love it
so much is black sails black sails is a
TV if you decide you feel about up
street is like epic high fantasy three
books series of lots of different
inspirations going on bed of it'll
brings inspiration a little bit like
King Arthur inspiration all these sorts
of things absolutely love it black sails
is a
pirate show which sort of combines which
sort of combines fictional the backstory
of Treasure Island and how long time
till we came to be how Captain Flint's
treasure got on the island but then also
it built it weaves in like real pirates
or like Blackbeard and funny stuff like
that and I said for this channel I
really like pirates enjoy them and
honestly I just think back cells grow so
much I had a really creepy love triangle
bit but everyone loved each other and I
loved it
second troop is found family but in
space so for example Becky chambers long
base with small angry planet does that
really well mmm-hmm meeting blue you
guys world but yet also Farscape one of
my favorite TV shows Jim Henson so it's
got loads of really cool aliens on it
and it's just it's slowly found
something space around it love that I
love the family trope anyway and I think
a lot of people do but something about
positing it in space just really always
works for me
and I like it very much I'm not oh dear
I don't like it the glue sometimes drips
down and I don't really like that well I
might have to figure out how I can do
this without that happening um chapter 3
affirmations of selfhood in children's
lit so for example beyond the deep woods
by Paul Stewart which is the third book
in the edge France or series does this
so well and I love it with all my heart
and like this children learning that if
they clean themselves and is exactly who
they are and all of their strengths and
weaknesses have that comes that in
itself is an act of power and you don't
have to you know it's I mean it's very
true it's very classic way to ask young
people just to be yourself but I do love
that I love it very much
another really good example of this is
the Tiffany aching book by Terry
Pratchett Tiffany aching books are
always if people don't really like
Pratchett I always suggest Tiffany
aching because I think Tiffany
have everything that is good about
Pratchett but also like me I don't know
I just think it's bring it back who's
gonna go for a pointer that I was like
it just fucking great I'm just gonna
help t okay the pump round number one
which I need to leave to dry but this is
Tom from crown number one I'm gonna trim
off bits like this and if the glue
hardens too much so that it's a bit
scratchy on the head they also turn that
they have it for the round of a one
right these are the next the next truth
is selfishness AB strength also again in
children's literature I'm guessing it
was coming off the clock so available
the wrists would be Lima from His Dark
Materials she lies a lot and stuff like
that but I don't lose my finger again
but she also like the whole reason she's
able to save a lot that's a Roger is
because she's just like she loves Rogers
so much that she's willing to like
travel these places just find her friend
and say that because that friend which
just all get me I'll have the entire
he's not material TV shows been getting
you guys I love it I think there's a
really great job
hello it's so much oh oh another example
of this was a vast year from Barren the
nightingale she does there's a lot of
this like you can't like take your Latin
or your friends or your family because
it's like bitch no joke number whatever
we're on is because subverting mythology
but I think the examples are given are
more just like reinterpreting mythology
from the perspective of someone else for
example women were having a lot of this
with science of the girls by Pat Barker
30 by Madeline Miller
Penelope ours which is an older but
still a good and that sort of thing but
also like I feel like I would be a this
is also applied to like the ones where
it's like oh this person that's always
been posited as a villain maybe they're
not actually a villain type thing I also
quite enjoyed that
example most of my head cover is to get
this done and get cracking the leaving
in something gives it power the two
examples that have a very they actually
said into each other I think in the
writing process so small gods by Terry
Pratchett and then American Gods by Neil
Gaiman which I know is inspired by small
goals I've made an extra outlet because
I haven't done an extra problem so that
was confusing myself with my problem and
so both of these have this idea that
like gods only exist because you've
believed in them and I think that's
really great and that comparing not to
be applied to I think I've seen it done
in like situations would say that sort
of thing I just like this whole playing
with the missile playing with the ideas
of beliefs and stuff and you know what
gives someone power I just I think have
a whole interesting thing to be done
about power evolved this one seems a bit
loose I might have to reglue these just
to make them more solid so this is flag
okay pom-pom crowd number two which I
definitely don't help me guys so that is
the great thing about pom-poms is that
you can sort of use the actual fullness
of the palm to hide the fact that you
absolutely glues the heck out of it
what's up here that you would do I need
to get another glue stick out okay
so just go with mister dry but my birth
greens have turned itself off so I
cannot read you I don't belong yet
okay so I have solidified it a bit once
this is what it looks like little
pom-pom I ain't gonna fluff all the
problems back up again as well before I
give them to people but I just like to
let the glue set and then I'm going to
trim them as well just to make sure that
there's no errant strands but hey
another shirt is weird it is so my two
numbers for this was the s radicals
again because it has like these floating
rocks
so like Sancta fracks I don't know if
I'm saying that
right he's off a floating city that's
like chained to the ground and that's
the only thing that stopped it from
flying off but then also mortal engines
I feel it Reeve had predator cities and
they're like big cities go around trying
to eat too little cities and then like
use all their unpacked the old city and
use that as resources which is really
cool I can only make it a TV example for
the next stroke but it's when people
have to let you have your like you're
going into like a situation where you
have to leave all of your weapons behind
and there's one person who just keeps
like there's just so many weapons they
just keep like fun packing and unpacking
and unpacking and then they're still not
done which I thought of was a preacher
in Firefly Zoey have a moment like that
but it does happen in private in my TV
show things I find it no no I know it's
not me I find it really funny
oh this was another cool one a language
that has become forgotten or is
inaccessible so two examples of this is
Tigana by guy Gavriel Kay and then it
like Tigana is this whole place and they
had eventually they're cursed they're
not able to say the name of where
they're from and it like and they're not
able to access whether from and it like
absolutely haunt these people during
their uprising and stuff and then also
finishing of the rock by Melina
Marchetta which is a series that I still
haven't finished that I really need to
finish the compasses that was so good
and that's another similar thing they
just they can't access via matterr and
it like this where you're from so
defines you and when you're not allowed
access to that how heartbreaking that
can be I just think that there's some
really lovely ideas that get played with
their being able to twist the laws of
logic to suit you this is a very
practicing a feel like this half of the
project quite a lot but I was also
thinking of foundry size by Bennett
which I read this year I'm really
excited for the second wasn't it to come
out because the main character has this
like ability when she touches things she
can sort of stuff and it's this she
finds the key and the whole point that
the key can do is it can unlock any of
these doors because they have like these
rules on them so it's like one door
might be like oh you can only a lot one
of the can and it's the 52nd second of
the day or one hand side is like day one
Thursday and they're there on a Monday
and the key like over didn't you hear
they changed the clock and now there are
this many seconds in a minute so
identity it you Thursday now and then
the doors like okay I'll just open for
you I think that's really fun like
playing around with the logic of the
world and then finding ways to exploit
the logic of the world um not like two
versus dark but shades of grey my peak
one of these is earth be how did I show
you this this one's done don't think I
did this final one I've only got three
because I promised three people I need
to make fourth one actually but if you
have to do that after Christmas because
make and then my final one is
practicalities of time travel and we go
the only one I can think of off the top
of my head was the Chronicles of some
Mary's which is all about this group of
historians if I institution so they do
like they go and they do time travel the
specific aims to find certain research
things so there's like someone who's
involved with making sure they're all
wearing the correct period of clothing
you have to do all the research to make
sure that like you're turning up in the
right time I'm like what should you be
all this stuff like some real
practicalities of time travel I find
that very interesting well I wanted to
talk about just a few just a handful
might do a second one of these again
I'll be a second episode of crafting
with Sophie and flip drugs because I
don't know if I wanted to do more
crafting but just to remind you here is
pom crown number one here is pom crown
another tool and he respond crown number
three as you can see we're sort of um
Studies on a theme I'm buying more yarn
today so I'm gonna do more
I really like these arms where you have
multiple colors in it because then you
make these really interesting pom-pom my
friends who taught me how to make
confluence makes them so that they are
two colors you just when you're doing
the bombing you have make either sides a
different color and then when they go
together they work pretty well together
um also hi Miriam I really hope your
pom-pom crowns have got to you by the
time you're watching this because I made
yours earlier and I'm posting it today
and I'm not going to show in this video
because it's already wrapped up to post
you but I really hope you've got it
before this happened
spoiler alert I made you a plum girl yes
potentially I just keep telling my
friends if they want pump off crowns
just let me know because I'm really
having a lovely time making them those
are all the book tracks I love do you
love these trips what are your favourite
ropes what't ropes that if they're at a
book you're like mmm definitely got to
read that book
do you do crafting all this and more
please do tell me in the comments down
below but otherwise I'm gonna go get
away from the hot blue air out the room
a bit and have a little day I mean
sometime soon goodbye
