First, let's just all admit it's been a long and tiring year. To be completely honest, I'm typing this as I listen to an anime I decided to finally try to watch: Haikyu! after having gone out with my husband to watch Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. While watching this I started to compare volleyball and basketball. They almost mirror each other in a strange way. This is going to severely simplify things.
See volleyball has six players per team on the court at any time. There's an out of bounds area, but the biggest thing to remember is to keep the ball in the air - to hit it across the net in the center of the court. For basketball, there are five players on the court and an out of bounds area, but that's about it for the similarities other than taller people tend to have a better time playing the sports or at least they tend to get more recognition. Instead of keeping the ball in the air and from hitting the ground, a player has to dribble the ball. This means it has to keep hitting the ground. The only time to have the ball in the air is to either pass or shoot for a basket. Basketball keeps track of points during a specified amount of time. Volleyball takes its time to reach the points to win a game. So as I said - they mirror each other oddly.
The other reason I started to type this particular post? The new Jumanji movie got me thinking. I think I want to write a story with a similar concept, but more like really throwing the stereotypes on their heads. We've seen instances where guys and girls switch bodies and people either age or get de-aged, we've seen general change-ups in stereotypes: mostly the exact opposite. Some examples would include the jock whose actually a brain, the "ugly duckling", and my personal favorite (note the sarcasm in this bit) the gamer girl. Obviously, there are a lot more, but for this story, it would be a take on the gamer girl.
Well, that's it for this year's rants. Hopefully next year I'll be better at my weekly aimed posts. Have a Happy New Year for 2018, everyone!
