[Fez_Head]

Shamefully impressive? I don't know whether to take that as a compliment or an insult

I don't know why I never really read them to be honest. I mean, I watched all of the movies and found the characters to be really interesting, but I just never read the books. It's weird, I know. Maybe I will one day.

What is the Jinni Wars all about? And you wrote that it sort of reads like a fanfic? Any particular reasons why?

[Meesh]

[Fez_Head]

I'm with Meesh on this one. I didn't get the feeling that all you were interested in was a genie's sexuality. There's nothing wrong with that. You're intrigued by it, which is totally cool with me. I've read a bit online about genies and how they were created, but I really like some of the ideas you have for your own fan theory. That is one thing I love about this fandom. There are so many things that make you go hmm.

Meesh, I can totally believe that that you haven't read the Harry Potter books because neither have I. I know, blasphemous! I'm an English major who never read them. How do I sleep at night?! At least it's nice to know I'm not alone.

I once saw that Gollem and Jinni book at Chapters (Canadian bookstore), but I didn't get it. It did look really cool. Maybe I can find it somewhere else? I would love to know how that author implements Arabic mythology into the text. Did that author write that Jinni wars book too or was that someone else?

And yes, I completely agree with both of you. So many books to read, so little time.

[Meesh]

I'm the same way. I plowed through the first 3 Harry Potter books last semester (I've never read them before, if you can believe it) and have been stuck on the same page of the fourth one for months.

I read the first of the Jinni wars series too. It was okay. Kinda read like a fanfic IMO.

[LillitOfBa'el]

[Meesh]

[LillitOfBa'el]

Looking back at this thread it reads like it gives the impression that I'm all about this characters sexuality and that's it. :p Yikes, that's embarrassing. When I say that this thingy im making (it's a subtitled animatic) is personal, I don't mean it in that way at all. I'm working through some very key issues that I felt lent themselves well in helping to tell the story of the magical mass incarceration of an entire species of people through a Necronomicon, haha. Yup, a Necronomicon. It's mentioned in Q'uran.

Speaking of the Q'uran, it says that djinn, a species of demon, were created with a smokeless flame in the way that man is made from the earth. It also explains that djinn, like humans, are born, have families, age, and eventually die, but their aging process takes hundreds of thousands of years. I explain it in my story like this: they start out as babies at the same aging rate as humans, but as they age the process gets slower. So they remain children for a very short period of time considering their lifespan, but it takes them foreeeeeever and damn day to grow old.

My dorky-ass fan thingy explains why djinn were all trapped in the first place, their culture and social structure before the Impriosnment, why Genie has no name (other djinn refer to him as a 'Nameless'), and where he actually came from, and how Aladdin was basically destined to free him, how he grew up in his lamp, why the hell he knows so much about modern pop culture, etc etc. We discover as he does, because he starts out the story just as clueless about himself and his kind as we are. And yeah, it might get a little dark at times, but it's mainly got a lot of humor and heart to it...or at least that's what I tried to do. :B

And I'm in no way taking from the Q'uran like its the end all be all here, I'm not at all a religious person. ^^ Like the guys on Aladdin in the late 80s, Ive taken inspiration from a ton of weird sources haha. The way I see it, Agrabah is to the Middle East as Camelot is to Great Britian, both places based on a culture, but because they are fantasy worlds with lots of magic, all the rules go out the window ^^

[LillitOfBa'el]

[Meesh]

Beautiful, as always!!

[LillitOfBa'el]

Hi guys,

Sorry for my absence - I started another job and it’s been kinda nutty. I’m still drawing plenty of these two and have lots of half-done answers to questions, so hang in there, I’ll be posting sooner than later ^^

[imekitty]

[AladdinsGenie]

[LillitOfBa'el]

[imekitty]

Amazing work as I said before.

Old comments:

"I was never sold on Eden, so I don't mind Genie being paired with someone else."

"One of her interests is 'sex,' lawlz. So blunt."

[Meesh]

Love it all