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Hm yeah I totally don't care about historical accuracy; and I do kind of like the concept that women can't be knights in whatever fictional setting, because it sets up stories where women are knights anyway despite various difficulties, and that is a favorite storyline of mine.
But now I'm reading this!
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a46918/heroin-mexico-el-chapo-cartels-don-winslow/
He put together a guide on how to disguise a stick capable of being used as a weapon as a flag pole. He's incited a lot of violence etc.
incognito mode does it too
havent tried WaPo but NYT at least
I mean, they probably would have asked you for $150 million, but still
Between the two of us, we could pool that together, right?
well 4chan so its like, one layer beneath gamefaqs
the internet is like the rolls of an impossibly fat man and the alt right is somewhere well down past anywhere that gets cleaned and fungus is growing
it's like the opposite of chekhov's gun
if someone fires a gun in act 3 it sure as hell better have been on the wall over the mantle in act 1 or it's just stupid
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
pretty sure i'd tried incognito and it didn't work for me
thing is i try to read sites like that at work, but since i'm at a company with like 500 people, i think they only allow a certain visits per ip address or something?
anyway went ahead and disabled js for wapo and yeah it works fine now whereas before i almost never was able to get onto their site
Arch,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_goGR39m2k
The twist in Sixth Sense is so powerful because you realize no one had interacted with him all movie except the kid. It is an altering of how you were viewing the entire movie.
So yeah your point exactly.
it's a fantasy universe so, no?
this is a particular white whale for me as a writer
too many fantasy writers, in particular, use this as an excuse to just be brutal towards female characters because "that's how it was"
oh yeah, back then, when dragons were real, huh
in fact, Arthur in particular created the round table because he found himself not to be different from his subordinates, and held that camelot should be different from most kingdoms and that free people should be respected
He, of all fictional characters, should be the one that respects that women can be knights just as much as men can be knights. Of all the characters, I think it fits best with him.
Someone you conflict with if you are an acid.
pleasepaypreacher.net
I honestly had so much more faith in Simon Pegg and that raw betrayal was the best thing about any of this
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
ME1 plot
I don't mean it that way. I just don't want my friends to be inadvertently signaling people I know they disagree viruntly with.
It's not like I'm braid tugging or fretting or being offended.
I'm just trying to look out for people.
I really liked rewatching Memento because of this,
i have liked them a lot
but in the way i like candy
like every once in a while it's good
but too much of it and i feel sick
and i don't want it all the time
and my mom didn't let me have any until i was like 6 years old and even then it was bullshit like star crunch
alt-right would get shit on pretty fast by tube
they probably wouldn't even make it more than 2-3 pages in chat
with magic and dragons and shit
be very careful of what kind of verisimilitude you're seeking
because you're not looking for "realism", because there's fuckin' dragons and goblins and whatever in your story
but obviously you're looking for something equatable to the real world that people reading it can relate to, even if (especially if) it's not historical fantasy but a whole-cloth fantasy world that does not and has not ever existed
which means everything you throw in is a conscious choice, and should be done with some care and deliberation
for example, having rampant institutional sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. is like... why exactly?
what does this add to your fantasy, as a texture
is there any specific reason for it, are you making any statement about those things, are they intrinsic to the arc or journey of any specific protagonist?
if the answer is no, then you're probably just throwing it in there to justify a rape scene or some shit
and you need to love yourself more
A dame is a knight. That's sort of the point.
The specific point where that happens is one of the coolest moments ever.
Base raaaaate
but bowen
we're a leading beacon of alt-right thought and terminology
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
This is basically the purpose of anagnorisis, right?
An example of that done well in Star Trek is the Eddington arc in Deep Space Nine:
In the MCU, I actually liked the plot twist in Iron Man 3. I know it fell flat for some people, but it worked for me:
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
separate but equal
Yeah that was my whole defense. Who gives a shit about what happened in medieval Europe.
Elves and dragons and wizards didn't happen so why should we pay lip service to the terrible garbage that happened with human rights during that time period? Less dark ages, more dnd fantasy realm.
When "cuckold" was only used in Shakespeare's plays
ftfy
I think, like comedy, it takes a pretty good writer to not just be creepy about it
I think Martin does an admirable job of presenting a clearly patriarchal society with lots of violence without ever fetishizing violence against women
"Yeah and Maid and Captain are the same rank."
pleasepaypreacher.net
I'm more of the opinion of "fuck them, they don't get to have nice things"
So if someone's like "oh that term is an alt-right thing" and I wasn't using it in that way or incorrectly or anything, well screw them they don't get to have things because they're assholes. And if someone comes up and is like "Oh wink wink we get what you're saying" then I will throw them in the garbage while explaining myself.
Don't give the idiots more power than they deserve.
But this is not a hard and fast rule and works better on some things than others.