A documentary examining the cyberpunk movement across literature, technology, subculture, and art, credited to Chris Sand and David Severio. HERE- English, no subs
The program opens with an extended treatment of William Gibson's novels, including Neuromancer, Burning Chrome, Count Zero, and Mona Lisa Overdrive, situating them within postmodern science fiction and tracing their influence on real-world hackers and technophiles who adopted Gibson's mythology as their own.
In part, but not entirely. Leviticus 19:28 forbids them, although the exact meaning of that verse is debated, but tattoos were often associated with paganism (this is all precolonial btw). There is also the long tradition of marking criminals with brands or tattoos, hence the association with criminality. There are likely more factors, but I cannot remember them right now.
I know Japan also has a massive stigma against tats. Someone else will have to explain where that comes from tho
There's also the famous "well, there were a small number of Black Vikings, therefore it makes perfect sense for Vikings Valhalla turn an actual historical white male chieftan into a black woman."
The second part is implied, because not a single person in that article defending the racebending actually addressed that complaint. I had to go to Screenrant for the canon explanation of "the real guy got killed, and his wife took over".
And they immediately admitted there was no evidence of any female Viking ruler, ever, but, but, there COULD have been!
This incident was held up by some people as an example of progressives living down to memes about racebending.
Bridgerton had to invent an entire alternate history to explain black British nobility.
Of course, since musicians apparently play orchestral covers of Taylor Swift and Billy Eilish, I gotta wonder why they even bothered.
Funny thing is, when I Googled for controversy, I kept finding criticism from the left, not the right.
I also remember the times MedievalPOC said it made perfect sense to for a random African trader to head hundreds of miles out of his way, over a mountain range, to a random corner of medival Europe (that is still extremely white today) to appear in Kingdom Come:Deliverance.
Just to be clear; anti-woke people have been wrong about diversity. Both in fiction and IRL. Up to the point of riots and terrorism.
I have argued with them.
But I think it sure is curious that neither OOP nor any of the people in the reblogs had a single actual example. Heck, none of them even named a specific work.
And of course they never admitted their enemies could be right about anything, ever.
I would like context for this. Because the most recent incident I could imagine would be the Irish and considering their history I'm far from shocked that they have had enough.
Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely
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