Maybe Geth has already started, I mean has anyone seen Icy post lately?
I'm pretty sure that Icy's posts are just Geth assuming control.
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
I also think, and this is not an attempt to be a dig at anyone in the slightest but is quite important, that Harry Potter works a lot better for older readers if you are British
because a lot of it is criticism of British politics and British media and the British class systems etc, and I feel that there's a lot of the nuance in the book which only works if you realise what kind of person and system they are supposed to be tearing into. Rita Skeeter and the Daily Prophet, for example, represents the 80s and 90s tabloid newspapers in the UK very specifically, sure she represents tabloid media in general, but there's a direct link there which readers who are not familiar with the British tabloid media might not catch (the phrasing of the headlines, the way she seeks information about Harry etc)
I started to read the series when I was about 21, and I loved it. And yeah, I agree there's a lot of stuff in there that only an adult might catch.
I had just lived in the UK for a year though, so that probably helped.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
yeah that whole cultural background in HP came into focus for me after I started listening to the News Quiz and my sister was watching the movies and going on and on and on about the books
Voldemort kind of represents what Rowling sees as the fascist spectre behind the right, the ultimate culmination of that philosophy, not so much an individual person as a kind of monster which combines the varying strains of banal regular everyday cruelty and bigotry and uncaring ambition and fantasises it as a dark lord. Underneath the Dark Lord you have the various schools of the right, the Blackshirts, the Old Boys Club, the vicious tabloid right and so on, Voldemort is kind of the apex point of all of that.
Dolores Umbridge is Thatcher, a facade of gentle matronly old-school feminity over a vicious, spiteful, authoritarian sadist
I think the key here is that Vernon Dursley can be summed up in one-word as far as Rowling is concerned; he's a Tory
All of her stereotypes are exaggerated to the extent that they are fantasy characters in a fantasy story, but the basis is there and deliberate
She's also stated before (I think) that she was/is a labour supporter because they are/were the party who supported her through their policies when she was a very broke, alone, single mother with no where to go/means to support herself.
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Maybe he didn't have a Thatcher analogue, but he certainly had Thatcherism.
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
She's also stated before (I think) that she was/is a labour supporter because they are/were the party who supported her through their policies when she was a very broke, alone, single mother with no where to go/means to support herself.
This is what won my husband over to wanting to support and expand medicaid and unemployment benefits, and become more liberal in general. He grew up with such very conservative parents that it was really a stretch for him... but then he couldn't find a job for 2 1/2 years and we were homeless and I was 9 months pregnant and the baby was breech for a while and I needed 600 ultrasounds and we were living with my parents who were only putting up with us because of the baby, and then all of a sudden his mother hating on medicaid (in my presence, no less) was much less amusing to him.
Sometimes you just don't know till it's you, and often it's a butterfly's wing-flap away from being you and you just don't know it.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I am so into Adventure Time it's a little ridiculous.
Super late but @ceres youll probably love steven universe too. Its got a similar sense of fun and whimsy plus rad music
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ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
From the exactly two episodes I've seen so far I can say that I love all the characters and find them really interesting... except Steven. While I do fully intend to watch more, he's actually the thing that kept me from watching more right then. I'm assuming this improves.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
From the exactly two episodes I've seen so far I can say that I love all the characters and find them really interesting... except Steven. While I do fully intend to watch more, he's actually the thing that kept me from watching more right then. I'm assuming this improves.
What about Steven is turning you off the show? Also, what episodes have you seen?
I mean, he does get better, but he's still a goofy little kid with magic powers.
British comics writers in the 80s did not care for Margaret Thatcher. I was just reading early Hellblazer where John Constantine is fighting demons who are literally cheering for the Conservatives to win an election.
ceresWhen the last moon is cast over the last star of morningAnd the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderatormod
From the exactly two episodes I've seen so far I can say that I love all the characters and find them really interesting... except Steven. While I do fully intend to watch more, he's actually the thing that kept me from watching more right then. I'm assuming this improves.
What about Steven is turning you off the show? Also, what episodes have you seen?
I mean, he does get better, but he's still a goofy little kid with magic powers.
Just the first two. He's just got really bad "annoying kid sidekick in a sea of cool adults" syndrome.
And it seems like all is dying, and would leave the world to mourn
I'm not very familiar with Thatcher beyond 'mining communities hate her'. Surely the shutting down of mining is just economics? Mining isn't a sustainable thing, it has to end sometime.
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British comics writers in the 80s did not care for Margaret Thatcher. I was just reading early Hellblazer where John Constantine is fighting demons who are literally cheering for the Conservatives to win an election.
Early Hellblazer is incredibly entrenched in British current social issues and politics
It's really weird, sometimes
Like, I love Hellblazer, I think the early stuff is great, but it's a time before I was born in places I've never been, and it is indelibly linked there
I can't even imagine what it was like reading it in single issues
British comics writers in the 80s did not care for Margaret Thatcher. I was just reading early Hellblazer where John Constantine is fighting demons who are literally cheering for the Conservatives to win an election.
There's an issue of Planetary from the early 2000s by Warren Ellis where a character matter-of-factly explains that Thatcher was so crazy that she "wasn't even a woman anymore", whatever that's supposed to mean.
Solar will be able to explain it so much better than I can, its been a while since I've been able to explain it all properly and I studied it extensively, I studied politics in college and Thatcher was controversial enough to get a while term dedicated to her. But Solar and I are from the same area (where there is strong Thatcher dislike), and I've yet to see him post something political I disagree with!
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I'm pretty sure that Icy's posts are just Geth assuming control.
I started to read the series when I was about 21, and I loved it. And yeah, I agree there's a lot of stuff in there that only an adult might catch.
I had just lived in the UK for a year though, so that probably helped.
I'm so wound up after days of letting my anxiety build that I can't sleep. It sucks.
you know what helped me with that is some nice calming asmr videos
From what I understand that may be kind of rude.
To voldemort.
When her cold, metal empire is fully realized, you will come to grips with your culpability in this binary dystopia and weep for a second chance
I remember seeing the director's cut at a special screening with the director as the guest of honor.
Eight extra don'ts!
Why I fear the ocean.
Voldemort kind of represents what Rowling sees as the fascist spectre behind the right, the ultimate culmination of that philosophy, not so much an individual person as a kind of monster which combines the varying strains of banal regular everyday cruelty and bigotry and uncaring ambition and fantasises it as a dark lord. Underneath the Dark Lord you have the various schools of the right, the Blackshirts, the Old Boys Club, the vicious tabloid right and so on, Voldemort is kind of the apex point of all of that.
Dolores Umbridge is Thatcher, a facade of gentle matronly old-school feminity over a vicious, spiteful, authoritarian sadist
I think the key here is that Vernon Dursley can be summed up in one-word as far as Rowling is concerned; he's a Tory
All of her stereotypes are exaggerated to the extent that they are fantasy characters in a fantasy story, but the basis is there and deliberate
what if it were a warm metal empire
Like Robot Hell?
I'm onto your little game, tynic. Or should I say...
the Robot Devil?
Why I fear the ocean.
try and find a story written by a British writer in the last thirty years that doesn't contain a Thatcher analogue
Happiness is a warm robot
There's loads of those
Can't recall Iain M Banks ever writing about a Thatcher analogue
Well, you really only need certain parts of the robot to be warm. So you can save on energy costs.
This is what won my husband over to wanting to support and expand medicaid and unemployment benefits, and become more liberal in general. He grew up with such very conservative parents that it was really a stretch for him... but then he couldn't find a job for 2 1/2 years and we were homeless and I was 9 months pregnant and the baby was breech for a while and I needed 600 ultrasounds and we were living with my parents who were only putting up with us because of the baby, and then all of a sudden his mother hating on medicaid (in my presence, no less) was much less amusing to him.
Sometimes you just don't know till it's you, and often it's a butterfly's wing-flap away from being you and you just don't know it.
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What about Steven is turning you off the show? Also, what episodes have you seen?
I mean, he does get better, but he's still a goofy little kid with magic powers.
But fuckin Steven has heart
Except for one guy I was forced to listen to while he took my friends and I on a driving tour of the southwest. He kept calling her Saint Maggie.
Just the first two. He's just got really bad "annoying kid sidekick in a sea of cool adults" syndrome.
at the same time "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead" reached number one in the charts by a landslide
so yeah that's Margaret Thatcher in a nutshell
Early Hellblazer is incredibly entrenched in British current social issues and politics
It's really weird, sometimes
Like, I love Hellblazer, I think the early stuff is great, but it's a time before I was born in places I've never been, and it is indelibly linked there
I can't even imagine what it was like reading it in single issues
There's an issue of Planetary from the early 2000s by Warren Ellis where a character matter-of-factly explains that Thatcher was so crazy that she "wasn't even a woman anymore", whatever that's supposed to mean.