Mo, I checked your thing and it seems to be working A-Okay.
Aliroz, that reminds me. You all should read The Book of the Dun Cow. It is my favorite obscure book. It combines heavy religious imagery (mostly from Christianity) with the world of beast fables, and it does so in a way that's thought-provoking and deep. Or a morality play mixed with epic LOTR-style content.
It got a National Book Award and yet almost no one in its intended age group has heard of it. I know this because I was the one who had to make a TvTropes page for it. You should read it. You should read it. You should read it.
I'll read it if you read The Search For Delicious.
Our teacher read The Search For Delicious to us in 2nd grade.
Yay! Someone else who has read both Figgs and Phantoms and The Search for Delicious!
Aliroz, that reminds me. You all should read The Book of the Dun Cow. It is my favorite obscure book. It combines heavy religious imagery (mostly from Christianity) with the world of beast fables, and it does so in a way that's thought-provoking and deep. Or a morality play mixed with epic LOTR-style content.
One of my stated intentions way back when I started writing my thingumajig was that I wanted to write a story that took the concept of beast fables and subverted their usual intentions by exploring uncomfortable philosophical propositions and morally ambiguous conclusions through anthropomorphism. The idea has always appealed to me on some level: You say something about humans with non-human protagonists, but it is always to enforce a certain moral or virtue. Why not play with that a little?
I also really wanted to see what would happen if you wrote a heroic fantasy story with a Ligottian antagonist, but that's... related but different.
You might want to check out Dun Cow then.
It sits heavily on classic binary morality, and there's a bit of moralizing at the end, but a lot of it is just the fact that everybody's flawed and that they're not really prepared to deal with the epic elements.
Penny sitting in the store with two Frozen Yogurts while Billy works on his Death Ray to kill Captain Hammer. He would have gotten the girl if he'd just waited and spent time with her instead of trying to get her by killing Hammer.
And it IS a problem, considering he didn't have that attack in his original game...
It should be considered that Captain Hammer is an idiot, and considering how unfamiliar he is with his own speech, probably had someone else write it for him.
Why not, as long as it leads off of the previous card? The question is why the first card had nothing but "I hate the homeless" on it. Perhaps he had "CAPTAIN HAMMER'S SPEECH" written in large letters at the top of the card.
No. "I hate the homeless" was all that would fit on the card. That's why Hammer says "I don't need tiny cue cards!" right before going off script. The cue cards are tiny. That's the whole story.
Yet everything else he says before "I don't need tiny cue cards" all fit on the second one. Which was a lot more than nearly three words. This bothered me a bit too - the huge "CAPTAIN HAMMER'S SPEEH" idea makes some sense. Mere cue card size does not.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
i have acquired a birthday gift, in the form of a bluetooth keyboard to use with my nexus 7
problem
it doesn't seem to recognize the shift keys and i'm not sure why
lee4hmz said:Spotted on this page: So...Is My Little Pony some kind of Gnostic cult? --TheLateGatsby (talk) 13:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC) I laughed harder at that than I should have.
I once read a very persuasive blog post proposing that Homestuck had legitimate Gnostic overtones (vis à vis SBurb's self-perpetuating mechanics and Lord English and the Alternian trolls being two different takes on the Demiurge concept), but that's... beyond far-fetched, shall we say.
I once read a very persuasive blog post proposing that Homestuck had legitimate Gnostic overtones (vis à vis SBurb's self-perpetuating mechanics and Lord English and the Alternian trolls being two different takes on the Demiurge concept), but that's... beyond far-fetched, shall we say.
Eh?
The most powerful Denizen is literally a demiurge from Gnostic literature. Honestly, if anything, suggesting that Homestuck has Gnostic overtones isn't even going out very far on a limb.
^^ I was well aware of that fact, but the arguments were a bit more interesting than simply pointing out the Ialdabaoth name-drop, so I thought that I would mention it...
Why did I just involuntarily switch to Georgia?
Oh, yeah, Homestuck speculation does that to me. It's weird. I feel compelled by dark forces...
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
I suppose it'd be easy enough to argue for polytheistic religious undertones in general...basically anywhere where the gods interact directly with mortal folk and have very real duties that impact the planet.
Strange names are nothing new, he says. Census records in the 18th and 19th Centuries revealed people named King's Judgement, Noble Fall and Cholera Plague.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
It sits heavily on classic binary morality, and there's a bit of moralizing at the end, but a lot of it is just the fact that everybody's flawed and that they're not really prepared to deal with the epic elements.
Penny sitting in the store with two Frozen Yogurts while Billy works on his Death Ray to kill Captain Hammer. He would have gotten the girl if he'd just waited and spent time with her instead of trying to get her by killing Hammer.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Actually a very very good fanfiction. With dang great lyrics. Seriously, it would fit just right in with the original DHSAB.
Wait, so Captain Hammer had a tiny cue card that started with "ness problem"?
idiot, and considering how unfamiliar he is with his own speech,
probably had someone else write it for him.
question is why the first card had nothing but "I hate the homeless" on
it. Perhaps he had "CAPTAIN HAMMER'S SPEECH" written in large letters at
the top of the card.
cards" all fit on the second one. Which was a lot more than nearly three
words. This bothered me a bit too - the huge "CAPTAIN HAMMER'S SPEEH"
idea makes some sense. Mere cue card size does not.
The wonderful world of osu!
In case you don't get it, that's me having 100% a song. I am ranked 1645th in that song's global scores
So...Is My Little Pony some kind of Gnostic cult? --TheLateGatsby (talk) 13:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
I laughed harder at that than I should have.
I once read a very persuasive blog post proposing that Homestuck had legitimate Gnostic overtones (vis à vis SBurb's self-perpetuating mechanics and Lord English and the Alternian trolls being two different takes on the Demiurge concept), but that's... beyond far-fetched, shall we say.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
There is a Touhou called Marisa, and another one Maribel. Both of those are abbreviations of the Spanish name María Isabel.
#wow #woah
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
That feels more like Strong Sad's domain.