polar expeditions were insane there’s just like a 200 year period in history where every european man on planet earth was simultaneously struck by the urge to run off and die horribly at one of the poles
I mean imagine what it would be like if all those guys who get so hype about Mars could get there by just flying far enough
This is actually very normal human behavior. It’s just that most people (in the USA) think “Jesus strengthens me” instead of “I am a pikmin, dandori time”
its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds
OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic
Yeah I would have guessed this was on some ancient pottery or something
also me: you realize “travelers who recognize you from your writing visit you when passing through town” is like, the real, historically well-precedented step of being a guru before “people come to town specifically to meet you”, right?
me: oh if we’re doing Jesus fantasies here who’s my John the Baptist?
also me: DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN SCOTTSTARCODEX CAME THROUGH TOWN AND AT THE CULT GATHERING THAT FORMED AROUND HIM HE PERSONALLY TOLD YOU HE THOUGHT YOU WERE ONE OF THE ONES WHO MAYBE COULD DO THAT TOO?
(time passes)
me: oh when I was telling him how to recognize me I should have mentioned the cane
also me: YEAH YOU’RE JUST SOME WIZENED-BEFORE-HIS-YEARS SPACE GENIUS WITH A CANE AND A HALF-OTHERWORLDLY MIND THAT PEOPLE FROM AFAR SEEK OUT, NO WAY IS THAT WEIRD
Even given that Star Trek was like the ur-nuts fandom and its place within broader SFF fandom and fiction scenes made it culturally central to a huge number of authors and author-aspirants, this sentiment seems like the kind of absolutely Marvel-brained shit you’d never have seen before the 2010s.
God, I wish normies who wanted to be part of something big and dumb and universal and transcendent would just go back to the church
Like the ‘80s and '90s were all hyperventilating like “what if COMIC BOOK SUPERHEROES were the gods of a new pagan polytheism!?!” but the funny thing is the MCU is how a polytheist mythology would have to look in a mass culture unmediated by Classical elite rule, all painted in the broadest strokes for the broadest possible audience, subtle quality touches – even WITHIN the canon – largely unappreciated, and the richer takes on the subject once appreciated by a narrow elite washed out by lowest common denominator popularizations.
twitter will expose you to types of guys that you thought were extinct
A funny angle of knowing American history is appreciating that a lot of the foreign papist hordes streaming in to corrupt New England in H.P. Lovecraft’s time would have been Portuguese
Lot of Barbie discoursers using Ken to work out the issues with masculinity in post-feminist crisis that Joss Whedon gave them Xander for a quarter-century ago.
I remember the military veterans in 4th of July parades being like WWII vets riding surplus Korea equipment, what’re the parades like now it’s down to like, ‘Nam and Iraq?
Or is it like the turn of the 20th century where the institution of military parades trailed off (into things like the Salvation Army and Second KKK!) as the Civil War veterans died out
Hot take: insofar as it represented domestic capital and labor overcoming divisions to cooperate in a project of national uplift amidst liberal use of canned slogans and mass gatherings and the suppression of leftist mass action, Japan’s postwar recovery was more fascist than its interwar period
@plum-soup said: I mean post war Japanese government has been very much been defined by the recruiting of former Japanese fascists, war criminals, etc to form the LDP and make sure an American friendly government maintained a stranglehold on Japanese politics. So yeah, fascism
Maybe there’s something in the way the South Korean government was pretty lineally descended from the Japanese occupation compradors too, and under the postwar settlement these two states took parallel paths, but both of self-directed development within a First World order.
And that was the capitalists’ Cold War pitch: operate within a multilateral capitalist order and you’ll be able to become a rich developed country.
And that was also the communists’: “the capitalists’ plan is really just to put the fascists back in charge!”
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