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There were a wide variety of Storybooks to choose from with topics that spanned way past what I thought the project was. I loved this because it allowed for some extremely creative projects to be made. One example of this is the Storybook HiduLoverOnline (https://hinduloveronline.tumblr.com/). I audibly laughed when I opened this web page up. HinduLoverOnline is a dating site, but not for Hindu people meeting other Hindu people. Rather, it is for Hindu people getting the chance to date and even marry characters from works of Indian fiction. I myself am not Hindu, but I still want to try out this dating website. I have not had any luck from Tinder or Bumble, so maybe HinduLoverOnline will be where I find the one for me. The site itself is simple and easy to navigate, but it does look a little outdated. I saw this in the older storybook posts so I can't blame the technology of the time.
(Image: Indian Couple by Thanwan Singh, Flickr)

The next Storybook that caught my interest was about the formation of a group of demon slayers that killed with music, titled Musical Demon Slayers (https://sites.google.com/view/musicaldemonslayers/introduction). Music has always been a large part of my life and I am kind of jealous that I am not able to slay demon by blasting Beyonce from my car speakers (or maybe I am, but I just do not know it). The layout of the site is clean and consistent. I also love the use of videos throughout it because they show Indian music to help enhance the overall story. The one thing that threw me off was the picture used in the header of the introduction page. It did not mesh well with the site. This is a good thing to keep in mind when making my own because visuals can help reinforce but also hinder. 


The last Storybook that I found is titled "Indra Lord of Thunder" (https://sites.google.com/view/indralordofthunder/introduction). This intrigued me because I saw that the Greek god Zues as well as the Norse god Thor were in the story. I never expected different cultures to intermingle when it comes to gods and goddesses. How the introduction describes the story, the characters sound exactly like their characters in their respective mythology. This helps to reinforce the idea that these are not characters that were made up with coincidentally the same name, but rather a cross cultural story. These are not seen very often and I think it greatly adds appeal to the Sotrybook. One flaw that I noticed was that some of the pictures used were too large that I was unable to see them fully without having to scroll. It is important to make sure a picture fits within the screen so that it can be viewed as a whole rather than in pieces.
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