📖 things i reference in my book ☁️

OVERVIEW-

Here is a list of things i reference in my book. "What book?" you may ask. If you didn't know, I'm composing a book series titled "The Guardians of Camoria". The first volume of seven has been finished (2023), and I'm drafting the second as of 2024. The starter volume is about a prince who's prophesied to save the world & must recruit seven Guardians to aid him, but struggles to convince them that the world is worth saving. If you love philosophy 📜 , fiction 🔭 , fantasy🐉, and pre-2020 YA books, then this is for you 😉.

I'm many things, including a pop culture gal. I say this as I'm wearing an Outsiders t-shirt, so there ya go 😄. My book is riddled with references from pop culture, films, shows, songs, comics, bands, mythology, politics, and books. Here's a comprehensive (and incomplete) list:

• Danny McDie (i.e. Marty McFly, the main character from Back to the Future)
• Wardrobe to a snowy realm (i.e. Narnia, a novel abour siblings who travel to another world via wardrobe)
• Nirvana (i.e. the 90s grunge band, lead by Kurt Cobain)
• Jacob's Ladder (i.e. the biblical ladder to heaven)
• Djinns (i.e. paranormal, invisible beings in Islam)
• Manbat, Superbman, Woman Wonder (i.e. Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman)
• Visions of fire (i.e. Narnia, the scene where Aslan appears before Mr. Tumnus)
• Imprint (i.e. Twilight, visions of spending days with your lover that you haven't experienced yet)
• The Dinner Club, Screwloose, The Cronies, Stay By Me, The Witchcraft, and Gorgeous in Green (i.e. Breakfast Club, Footloose, The Goonies, Stand By Me, The Craft, and Pretty in Pink)
• Guy playing with lighter (i.e. Pyro, a pyrokinetic mutant & student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters)
• Portal coming toward you (i.e. Coraline, the scene when she's escaping & the Other Mother screams "I'll die without you!")
• Nicknames for Swirly Star (i.e. Sandlot, the nicknames for Babe Ruth)
• The Hologram Captain's Slogan (i.e. Wall-E, the BNL slogan about cleaning up the planet)
• New World City (i.e. New York City)
• Swirly Star Appearing to Scott as a Wolf (i.e. Balto, his mother, a white wolf, emerging to rescue him)
• Horses Reacting to Aerial Phenomenon (i.e. Nope, the horses going into a frenzy as Jean Jacket approaches)
• "Mankind created God", (i.e. The Craft, monologue about man & god)
• Travis & Duke as birds (i.e. Two Birds on a Wire, a song about two critters growing apart)
• "We're off to visit a wizard" (i.e. Wizard of Oz, "we're off to see a wizard" lyric)
• Duke, Butch, Claire, and Lucas travel down the yellowish, spiral road (i.e. Yellow Brick Road, as travelled by Dorothy and her friends)
• Andrew Jackson Mappleton (i.e. Andrew Jackson, a US president who was a notorious slave-owner)
• Swirly Star controls the wind (i.e. Bridge to Terebithia, the wind scene)
• "Hey, Scott and Stiles" (i.e. Teen Wolf, two best friends from the hit show)
• A bat-originated virus shutting down a realm (i.e. the COVID-19 pandemic)
• Communicating through a mirror (i.e. Once Upon A Time, Regina's castle mirror)
• A realm where Humans are made out of thumbs (i.e. Spy Kids, the Thumb-Thumbs)
• A hammock of light (i.e. A Wrinkle in Time, i.e. the scene where Meg is thrown from the ribbons of light)

That concludes this spontaneous blog post 🎀💘🏹