This is a beautifully dark mermaid origin story written based on the idea that mermaids are women that sailors threw off ships because having a…

thequantumwritings came up with this neat concept for Common as a language in fantasy settings. Usually we think of common as simply a convenient narrative…

Port Sherry Comics created this heartbreaking and strangely motivational “Origin Story” comic about a boy and his dying mother. She tells him his destiny, but…

Pixar posted this cute origin story of how director Domee Shi turned her idea into the animated movie Turning Red! The film is about Mei…

This amusing post brought to my attention that Daredevil and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles both got their power from the same radioactive goo. The…

*Yikes!* If Disney movies were faithful to their source material they would probably not be for kids. The original fairy tales that Disney’s movies are…

Benjamin Molineaux started this informative thread about the history and origin of typography terms we take for granted these days. It’s crazy that kids today don’t…

LOL! Ok so I haven’t watched Cruella yet, but these tweets and posts about ideas for sympathetic Disney villain origin stories are clearly in response…

LOL! Sam Sykes tweeted this great idea for a half-orc Dungeons & Dragons or fantasy character with embarrassing human and orc parents, instead of the usual “dead…

LOL! Kerry Callen created this silly Spider-Man origin comic originally for MAD Magazine! Here’s what he had to say about it: “I was lucky enough…