The contemporary hipster

The contemporary hipster is actually very interesting compared to previous forms of what is defined as a hipster. Today hipster became more  of an actual trend where, pretending to be alienated made people unite more and be more social. Thus completely dissolving the purpose of being hipster. For a while veganism became very trendy, and people jumped on board to seem like they were helping the world, when a few months later dropped the fad and moved onto something else. being hipster is just another trend in time, that will be replaced. In 21 Jump Street it is shown what happens when someone who grew up with jocks meets the new generation of the high school hipster cool kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSa368X1Z2w
this is a prime example of how trends have changed, and being a hipster has progressively become the more popular choice.

With appreciation today, I find that people are actually beginning to have higher standards for media. Many U.S. animation companies are making around one to two films a year, each of which are typically unoriginal content, or a sequel in the works. Many of these films now are getting less and less viewers, because the audience is demanding new and original content. I could go onto what it takes to make something original, and how it still exists, but thats another topic on its own. My point is that people are beginning to wake up and want something better with media, something that is fresh and helps benefit what they do with their lives, and how they can relate to the works. Dream works just laid off 500 employees because they haven't made the profit they needed with their last 3 films. They are now taking action, and are attempting to make more higher quality content. Whether this will happen or not is for time to tell.

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/breaking-dreamworks-animation-will-shut-down-pdidreamworks-studio-over-500-jobs-will-be-eliminated-108161.html


Hipster society today comes with its ups and downs just like many trends. A lot of media is jumping on the sort of hipster train, some that are original and good for the value thats behind them. Like the incredible show Adventure Time, where a boy and his dog learn many values. Like understanding that just because someone does something bad, doesn't always make them a bad guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ6mRmtr-K8
The show has very much a modern humor, one that was obscure at first, but has slowly taken the liking among many people.

But some shows that are just plain strange, and just don't have a the same  great quality of humor behind them. Overall, just like anything else in the world of trends, some things are great fresh and new, others not so much. But thats the ups and downs with many things in both life and society.

Jemisin and world building

Jemisin has a very interesting take on world building with The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, it isn't necessarily character driven world building, but environment, and historical world building. The setup uses an idea that has already been developed, and as time passes we learn more about the world itself. At the start of the story a cosmic force already exists in this world, discussing old gods and how they each had specific role in creating the world. The story is fairly typical having a characters parents die, and the reader and hero knowing little about them, thus making them want to dive deeper into why they were murdered. However I don't necessarily root for the hero, or have any motivation to see them overcome an obstacle, because we and the protagonist knew so little about the parents, that we can't relate or feel any emotion to them passing. 

The world itself is a similar feel to greek mythology for us. Gods can take on human form, and cause my chief with mortals. The only difference is that some mortals have control over some of the gods, and others do not. Which makes the tier of power in the world very questionable and a little confusing.  

Overall its a very interestingly built world, but it has so many similarities with other works of fiction, that are very identifiable, I personally feel this subtracts from the book.  It attempts to be unpredictable with the events that occur, but the events that are labeled as unpredictable are very predictable because of the world and events that are presented to us. 

Oz Map Area

Deep in the deserts of oz, each one unite to a cave that blows the winds of every direction. It is impossible to trek, due to the confusing shifting ends, and deadly desert joining on another. The only thing to be able to make it to the cave is one without a soul. If one has no soul the deadly sands won't affect them. The cave has a small oasis in the middle, and houses only one. This person controls the wind in all of oz, and can not leave the ave, for if he or she did, the winds would run rampant in Oz. It is said each time the person attempts to leave a large storm sweeps the land, and leaves behind foreign people from other planes. The only way the person can leave is if he convinces another to take his place in the cave of winds.