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[[File:orphans-tale.jpg|frame|Curiouser and curiouser...]]
{{quote|''Sei had never been comfortable in the presence of books. Their natural state was to be shut, closed, to grin pagily from shelves, laughing at her, promising so much and delivering such meanness, such thinness. They displayed only men and women with dead eyes and rituals of living she could not understand. When closed, books gave impressions of perfection. They did not need her.''|Cathrynne M. Valente, ''Palimpsest''}}
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: Common in such stores.
* [[Arabian Nights Days]]: Middle-Eastern influences (or outright) hommage is common.
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* [[World Building]]: Mythpunk stories often feature [[Culture Chop Suey|polycultural]] stews of elaborate degree.
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== Literature ==
* Most of the elements involved in this genre can be found in the writings of [[Angela Carter]], most obviously ''[[The Bloody Chamber]],'' ''[[Nights at the Circus]]'', and ''The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman''.
* Andrea Jones's novel ''Hook & Jill'' features a poetically perverse [[Coming of Age Story|Coming of Age]] tale. In it, Wendy Darling starts growing up and wanting someone a bit more... ''serious''... than an increasingly callous Peter Pan...
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* The writer of the webcomic ''[[Digger]]'', Ursula Vernon, obviously knows a LOT about comparative mythology, much of it apparently gained from doing research for a degree in anthropology, as shown by the story's mix of a variety of mostly Asian sources, but including influences from around the world,including in one memorable case a modification of a myth told by the children of Cuban refugees in Miami, as well as some Vernon made up on her own.
== Web Originals ==
* [[Mythpunk (blog)|The ''Mythpunk'' blog]].
== Real Life ==
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** Fans and performers were often painted with "tattoos" that recalled the mystical map-tattoos that appear on people who have been to Palimpsest. Several of them have gone on to make those tattoos permanent.
*** The [http://orphanstales.com/ajanabh/ Ajanabah] setting from the ''Orphan's Tales'' series has been spun off into artwork, jewelry, fire-spinning shows, costumes, and several albums.
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