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2 | [[caption-width-right:350: The Blue Flower Of Longing]] |
3 | A Soviet Latvian animation from the 1980s, ''Fairy Tale Sits on the Doorstep'' is about a water spirit talking to a child about the changing of the seasons. It won a Latvian National Film Award Lielais Kristaps For Jury's Special Award, and was directed by Creator/RozeStiebra with music composed by Zigmars liepiņลก. |
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5 | Known as Sed Uz Slieksna Pasacina in its home country of Latvia, it can be viewed on Website/YouTube for free. [[https://youtu.be/5D6jv0XQZPg Here you go.]] |
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8 | !!Tropes |
9 | * AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Amongst the populace of the land is a yellow bunny. |
10 | * ArcWords: ''The Blue Flower Of Longing''. |
11 | * {{Atlantis}}: There's a mermaid and an underwater civilization is seen. |
12 | * BeautyEqualsGoodness: The water spirit looks like a pretty, ethereal lady, while the villains are unholy {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. |
13 | * BizarreSeasons: Each season brings in unusual changes to the atmosphere - the sun is red and illuminates the sea into being yellow during the summer, the water overflows everything and encapsulates the top of the world during winter, and so on. |
14 | * CelestialBody: The "stars" are revealed to be a pretty crow that also turns into an ocean. The short is full of bizarre stuff like this. |
15 | * EldritchAbomination: When the climate turns from cold and wet to hot and dry, the main character is surrounded by inhuman looking monsters. |
16 | * FlyingSaucer: The seashells resemble these. Especially as near the end, the pixie and the water spirit stare at them float in the sky. |
17 | * FriendToAllLivingThings: Both the main character and the water spirit. Amongst their friends in the land are bunnies, birds and other animals, and the water spirit has her own horse. |
18 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: Ghosts here are villainous and terrorize the main character. |
19 | * GreenAesop: One AlternateCharacterInterpretation of the short is the horrors of climate change. |
20 | * OtherworldlyTechnicolourHair: |
21 | ** The BigGood is a water spirit with blue and purple hair. Though she can also change it to white when she feels like it. |
22 | ** The mermaid also has blue hair. |
23 | * OurMermaidsAreDifferent: The mermaid here is a topless woman who can breathe outside of water. |
24 | * SentientStars: The stars willingly move around to form the crow. |
25 | * WeirdWeather: At some point, the sky turns pink and several shut eyes appear on it, shedding tears. |
26 | * WhiteStallion: The water spirit has a WhiteStallion with a grey mane. |
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