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Midnight Voyager posted:Tombs of Atuan doesn't involve him much at all, it's mostly about Tenar, maybe they just read that one and- oh wait no, they clearly did not. But but but Tenar is the female lead, so she has to be super nice and not do much of anything and fall in true love with the hero, because that's how stories work! Watch the videos that were posted earlier for scenes of Tenar in a brightly colored nun outfit, hugging adorable orphans and making out with Ged. I was so excited when I found out that there was an Earthsea movie. I had my mother tape it for me because I wasn't at home when the first part aired. She later told me she'd watched it while taping and kept asking herself what I could possibly like in that story. Cloacamazing! has a new favorite as of 20:19 on Sep 15, 2020 |
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Hihohe posted:Actually reading about history has taught me that there was never a time when humans wernt wacky horny little apes. Its just in older times the only people being written history about were rich people or royalty and they basically said ,"make me look good or youre dead." to the writers. Sometimes they were told make the predecessors they usurped look bad. See: Richard III and how prima nocte was extensively documented as occuring the rival kingdom our liege wants us to go conquer.
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RoboRodent posted:I'm taking a class on genre fiction this semester. This exists in the syllabus/schedule: 
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Cloacamazing! posted:But but but Tenar is the female lead, so she has to be super nice and not do much of anything and fall in true love with the hero, because that's how stories work! Watch the videos that were posted earlier for scenes of Tenar in a brightly colored nun outfit, hugging adorable orphans and making out with Ged. Studio Ghibli also did one called Tales from Earthsea. It's not Le Guin's novels, but it's ok and at least you're looking at some rally top class animation the whole way through.
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there wolf posted:Studio Ghibli also did one called Tales from Earthsea. It's not Le Guin's novels, but it's ok and at least you're looking at some rally top class animation the whole way through. Wait, I've got LeGuin's books lying ready for when I get time to read again (soon), but I didn't want to watch the Ghibli movie for fear of spoilers. Can I watch it anyway without spoiling the novels? Like it's just the same setting but an entirely disconnected story or something?
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christmas boots posted:As they said at the height of human civilization: “I will sodomize and face-gently caress you” Exactly.
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I see this sentiment a lot and I finally gotta ask, what's the relevance here? The mechanics of winning a war somehow inherently demand that you put up with obvious bigotry?
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Vib Rib posted:I see this sentiment a lot and I finally gotta ask, what's the relevance here? The mechanics of winning a war somehow inherently demand that you put up with obvious bigotry? Aren't we getting to the point that none of these boomers bitching possibly participated in a war decisively 'won'?
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We're at the point where boomers parents couldn't have participated in "the war."
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Vib Rib posted:I see this sentiment a lot and I finally gotta ask, what's the relevance here? The mechanics of winning a war somehow inherently demand that you put up with obvious bigotry? conservative dickbags are convinced that allied war crimes are why we won ww2
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PurpleXVI posted:Hahahahah, what? How the gently caress can you read any Earthsea story involving Sparrowhawk and ignore every single line that points out the protagonist's culture is explicitly not white? If I'm remembering correctly bunch of people got extremely angry a character in the hunger games was black in the movie, despite that being plainly stated in the book.
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Sunswipe posted:We're at the point where boomers parents couldn't have participated in "the war." I think the boomers remain born 1945-65 regardless of how much time passes.
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Vib Rib posted:I see this sentiment a lot and I finally gotta ask, what's the relevance here? The mechanics of winning a war somehow inherently demand that you put up with obvious bigotry? "These soft millenials care about things, people who care about things could not possibly be like my hard and emotionally distant dad who fought in t' war." "Also I am very very upset about people not liking my friend's lovely books and am going to write an article about how it's the end of civilization, but it is the wokes who are too sensitive."
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Taeke posted:Wait, I've got LeGuin's books lying ready for when I get time to read again (soon), but I didn't want to watch the Ghibli movie for fear of spoilers. I haven't read the book or watched the Ghibli movie, but according to Daniel Green it basically has characters with the same names, and nothing else is similiar. Ursula was pissed about how bad of an "adaptation" it was. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6akqmZmzTk
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OwlFancier posted:"These soft millenials care about things, people who care about things could not possibly be like my hard and emotionally distant dad who fought in t' war." I see these opinions, where people think things like weapons production, numbers of soldiers, superior air and naval power, and battle tactics win wars. The truth is that toxic masculinity, and toxic masculinity alone is what wins wars.
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Soysaucebeast posted:I haven't read the book or watched the Ghibli movie, but according to Daniel Green it basically has characters with the same names, and nothing else is similiar. Ursula was pissed about how bad of an "adaptation" it was.
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mind the walrus posted:It was also directed by the famous Hayao Miyazaki's son as his first project and it was... not well-received. The elder Miyazaki is on video record saying that his son shouldn't be a director. Yeah, but then he made From Up on Poppy Hill so
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RoboRodent posted:I'm taking a class on genre fiction this semester. This exists in the syllabus/schedule: The k/s women were really, really intense, and reading about them is interesting no matter how you feel about Kirk & Spock. and Joanna Russ wrote some good scifi.  open a thread for both
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Syd Midnight posted:The k/s women were really, really intense, and reading about them is interesting no matter how you feel about Kirk & Spock. https://www.theyboldlywent.com/trekbooks/2020/03/star-trek-the-prometheus-design-review/ You ain't kidding.
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OwlFancier posted:Yeah I listened to a few of her songs after fplus used lemon pepper as an outro (immediately after the episode where they used ben shapiro singing WAP as the outro) and they are all really good, like really good lyricism, you have to listen to the song a bunch of times to actually get it all cos there's so much of it and you spend half the song laughing. just spent all day deep diving her catalogue on youtube and she is an insanely good lyricist. Some of the poo poo in lemon pepper alone is insane. we call it snitch9ine made me loving choke on my drink.
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It's weird how the stereotype of Star Trek fandom is male loser virgins when early on it's most fervent fans were largely women. The first Star Trek convention was like 70% women in attendance.
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subpar anachronism posted:Aren't we getting to the point that none of these boomers bitching possibly participated in a war decisively 'won'? People offended and willing to take affirmative action would, and have never, won any conflict as I recall
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snergle posted:just spent all day deep diving her catalogue on youtube and she is an insanely good lyricist. Some of the poo poo in lemon pepper alone is insane. we call it snitch9ine made me loving choke on my drink. The outrage over WAP takes on a new light when you consider Nikki Minaj has been doing filthier lyrics longer, and pretty recently, Arianna Grande had a song about getting hosed so hard that you walk weird, featuring lyrics like "wrist icicle, ride dick bicycle" during the Nikki cameo. But Arianna's a white chick who puts on brown face, so that deflects the right wing pundit's takes, while showing their true colors, and being generally gross.
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Facebook ads can be IoSM, right? This is the tea I got because I don't like coffee, so why does it taste like coffee? Great, tea made out of the leaves leftover from a couple weeks ago. When you buy this tea, the instructions tell you you're only allowed to use it to brew sun tea. People buy this tea, say "Thank God, we can finally make tea!" and then never make the tea.
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mind the walrus posted:It was also directed by the famous Hayao Miyazaki's son as his first project and it was... not well-received. The elder Miyazaki is on video record saying that his son shouldn't be a director. I may be incorrect, but I think Miyazaki's Son, Goro, was working for Hayao's production company for a while, and got put into the head of Earth Sea. Miyazaki the senior was adamant his son not direct, and went about not speaking to his son while the production was going on, and I think going so far as disowning him for not stopping? Hayao took back the words after the movie was finished and he even praised it, mostly for the art and probably not the story. But he certainly said Goro shouldn't be a director at the start of Earth Sea. PicklePants has a new favorite as of 07:46 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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I bought this tea and the instructions just said “This is the best we allow. Deal with it.”
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PurpleXVI posted:Honestly for anyone interested in Earthsea stuff just read the first book and ignore the rest, because they really aren't very good. what the gently caress, source your quotes
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Sorry this is a few days old post to reply to. Jonathan Blow has also been making xenophobic rants about Chinese people in relation to coronavirus. Zesty has a new favorite as of 09:12 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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Zesty posted:Sorry this is a few days old post to reply to. Oh yeah, wasn't he one of the ones who was almost immediately talking about it had to be made in a lab?
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PicklePants posted:I may be incorrect, but I think Miyazaki's Son, Goro, was working for Hayao's production company for a while, and got put into the head of Earth Sea. Miyazaki the senior was adamant his son not direct, and went about not speaking to his son while the production was going on, and I think going so far as disowning him for not stopping? I remember hearing something about there being a scene where a kid kills his father figure which left Miyazaki shook and that's why he backtracked. Not because the movie was good or not but because he realised he'd done that much damage to his relationship with his son.
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Tales from Earthsea is not a great movie IMO. If you're interested in his reaction to it, the very good documentary "10 Years with Hayao Miyazaki" is free online and covers the development of the film and his dislike of everything about the project: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/3004569/
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Skwirl posted:Oh yeah, wasn't he one of the ones who was almost immediately talking about it had to be made in a lab? Found it in my post history. J Detan posted:Is Jonathan Blow being a shithead news, or did everyone know already? Zesty posted:Here's his stuff from March: Here's some twitter likes of his: 
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But wait! There's more! From the #MeToo thread: END ME SCOOB posted:Since he's apparently trying to wipe things in the wake of the Braid remaster announcement, a fun reminder about mr. Jon Blow
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So yeah. If I was a racist and misogynist, I'd be saying stupid poo poo like this as well:
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TA Metis posted:what the gently caress, source your quotes The first Earthsea book: a well-written and self-contained adventure where the protagonist does things. Most of the following Earthsea stories: people wander in circles mulling over doing something, half the time they don't do anything at all(the other half they finally do something by the last chapter) and usually the situation is resolved by some complete outsider, random event or thing that only gets explained in a later story.
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Syd Midnight posted:The k/s women were really, really intense, and reading about them is interesting no matter how you feel about Kirk & Spock. My perspective is that literature studies are broadly about the stories we tell each other, and storytelling is something incredibly human that we've been doing for 200 000 years. We have a strong instinctive and cultural need to share stories, whether to entertain or educate or titillate. So yeah, I'm not being ironic when I say I can't wait for a literary discussion of Star Trek slash fiction. If you want to study stories and you limit yourself to arbitrarily defined "fine literature" (which, interestingly, frequently turns out to be dead European men, hmmmm) then you're limiting your perspective on why we do the things we do. I mean, I'm laughing about it a little, but I also think it's important and worth talking about. Meanwhile, talking about this class with my mother reignited her indignation about Ursula K. Le Guin, because I think she read The Left Hand Of Darkness in the past year or two for the first time, and she's just kind of gently outraged that she could have been reading Le Guin all this time but she doesn't get considered to be "literature" even though Margaret Atwood writes speculative fiction all the time and she gets to be recognized as literary, so now my mom had to be in her sixties before discovering this really great author she likes because of arbitrary definitions about what is and isn't worth reading!!! Edit: for the record, my mom is also a life-long fan of both Star Trek and Star Wars and she got hilariously indignant when I had to explain to her about chuds angry that there are women in Star Wars now because they feel that Star Wars is theirs and not for icky girls. RoboRodent has a new favorite as of 15:44 on Sep 16, 2020 |
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