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Week 13 Story: That Brat Krishna

Sometimes I feel like I'm going insane.  Let me explain, I am a simple villager, I'm just a cowherd, and I live in a relatively quaint village. The new son of one of the other families here is a bit odd, but no one else seems to acknowledge this at all. Apparently the mother swears that she gave birth to a girl overnight, but found a boy in her arms the next day. Regardless, she has raised him as her own, and he has grown quite strong, quite fast.  A runaway cart rolled down the street, slamming into this little boy, who is named Krishna. Rather than harming Krishna, the cart simply exploded into tiny pieces. While everyone was relieved that he was okay, no one seemed to be asking the important questions, like how the hell did Krishna escape without ANY injuries? He's a baby for goodness sake! Oh, and did I mention that he's blue? I don't mean sad or melancholy, he's literally blue. Like his skin is a shade of deep blue. People seemed genuinely surpri...

Reading Notes: Epified Krishna Section B

Epified Krishna Source: Epified TV (India) After watching the rest of the Epified Krishna videos, I think making a short parody story about Krishna's stories would be really fun. The thing I was constantly noticing was how many cliche things were happening throughout each tale. At the time of the story's creation, the cliches didn't exist, but they do now.  There are also just weird things that happen, for example, everyone is surprised when he calms the snakes and they're like, "whoa, he must be an Avatar!". Why didn't they notice something was up when he has blue skin? Or the fact that Krishna's dad takes him, breaks into a woman's house, leaves Krishna there and steals the woman's daughter, returns to prison and lets Kamsa kill the girl. And no one acts like that's weird.  There's Something Strange About That Krishna... (Source:  wikimedia.org ) I would just like to poke some playful fun at some of the narrative st...

Reading Notes: Epified Krishna Section A

Source:  Epified TV (India) I think the story of Krishna growing up could be turned into a pretty interesting story. Specifically, I think focusing on a little child repeatedly defeating powerful beings and other accidents would be pretty amusing. I'd like to put a focus on people not realizing he's an Avatar, but rather continuing to come up with excuses for why he keeps avoiding these problems. The original story for Krishna is a little weird at times, so I think I want to just lean straight into the weirdness rather than fight it to make it more normal. Make him defeat 100 ft demons with a song on the flute and other ridiculous things. Krishna Plays the Blues (Source:  flickr.com ) I actually really liked the Epified videos. They were just the right length that it didn't feel like watching each took very long. Had they all been together it would've felt like more of a time-sink, but having them all split up made the story much more digestible.