A Door on Other Time

Title is from Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories". Handle means "storyteller" in Nahuatl. This'll mostly be about pop culture, linguistics, philosophy, history, and other things that interest me, but also about writing.

[tlaquetzqui]

[greek-mythologies]

Adding to that his statements that he wanted actual modern Greek to sound like a foreign language to people who are (supposedly) Greek, do we have to make it clearer why we demand Greek representation at this point?

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,383:

Ngl, ever since I've discovered how to add images to AO3 comments, I've had to resist the urge to take screenshots of tags to use as replies to someone bitching about a ship or topic in the fic

[nerdylibertarian928]

[oldgayjew]

While the West moves slowly towards Sharia Law ... ...Christians around the world die at the hands of Pseudo-Islam infidels ...

[tlaquetzqui]

“Pseudo-Islam”? They’re 100% mainstream.

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,395:

"Proship just means anti-censorship and anti-harassment!"

Then just say you're the latter two, because at this point, proship is just synonymous with pedophile.

[nerdylibertarian928]

The only people who call proshippers pedophiles are antis, who are often predators themselves way to tell on yourself

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #16,394:

When the writers are so focused on their female character being in a commanding/leadership role, but make her into an abusive/domineering prat or have the commands she issue so self-absorb and/or stupid that if they were to occur in real life, people would have DIED. AND she gets no punishment for it.

Is this on purpose? Are you doing this on purpose? Are you trying to poison the well? 😭

[tlaquetzqui]

“If this character were a misogynistic satire on the idea of women as leaders…how would it be different?”

[uhzzurago]

바보세마리

[tlaquetzqui]

If you wondered, the sound effects say, top to bottom, “shuk shuk shuk”, “shu shuk”, and “shu shu shu shuk”.

[fivepoint-12]

[seriousfic]

You can't post female presenting nipples on Tumblr, but you can advertise your lesbian AI bondage porn.

[o-craven-canto]

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe

[bruzum]

im always saying this

[greater-than-the-sword]

Our glorious democracy, their wretched populimpery

[tlaquetzqui]

Whoever went with “television” instead of “remotoscope” should be dug up and their bones permanently pilloried, to commemorate their shame.

[forthoutoffive]

Apparently the first recorded use of the term "Television" was in 1900 at the International World Fair in a paper by the Russian scientist (and artillery officer?) Constantin Perskyi.

I guess since Telegrams and Telephones were already preexisting technologies it made since to stick with the already established naming conventions?

[tlaquetzqui]

Well except that “vision” is Latin. But “telescope” was already taken.

[narcissa-black-supermacy]

i thought the “this is the face that launched a thousand ships, although now it would maybe be five-hundred.” line was just an internet joke but apparently that's a line Menelaus actually says in Nolan's Odyssey??

Not only that the language itself sounds straight out of a marvel forcibly funny haha moment, but Menelaus? The Menelaus who all thoughout human history, from Homer, to Sappho, to Euripides, to Virgil, to Shakespeare, to Brooke, to Barth; from Classical vases to Medieval poetry to Reinessance art, has been known as the man whose sword fell from his hands at the sight of his wife after 10 years apart?

"What joy for me to hold my wife" Menelaus?

"He flung the sword away, and kissed her feet" Menelaus?

"I believe all. I understand nothing. I love you" Menelaus?

"I have no fault to find; my wife, he daughter of Zeus and Leda, is mine again, she whom her brothers on their snow-white steeds, whilst torches blazed, made my happy bride, but gods removed her from my home." Menelaus?

The Menelaus who was picked out of the suitors by Helen herself? The Menelaus who couldn't kill a begging Trojan so his brother had to do it for him? The Menelaus who rescued Odysseus and got out Patroclus' body? The Menelaus who volounteered to fight Paris one on one so everybody could go home? Who kept expressing his guilt about himself being the cause of war through every assembly he spoke at in the Iliad? Who after 10 years away at Troy, took his wife through a 7-year long journey at sea back home, where he reinstated her as the queen of Sparta? Who wept like a child in front of Telemachus recalling the war and his brother and all the friends he lost and the only consolation being his wife' gentle hand on his?

You want me to believe that man scarred Helen's face and called her only worth half the ships because of it?

I'm actually physically sick just thinking about it.

[forthoutoffive]

Every time I hear something about this movie it leaves me feeling that any Greek person should be allowed to beat Christopher Nolan with a stick if they encounter him.

At this point if someone said that Christopher Nolan said that he thought Rings of Power was too respectful and faithful to the source material I might believe them.

[tlaquetzqui]

I just finished the first Utawarerumono and man the build off those pay off with that game, like i know that VNs that are dating sims tend to go harder than you expect, but this one feels special in a way, especially when you get to the final strecth and the truth of (most of) the world is revealed and Hakuowlo's orgirin.

“What, like Elder Scrolls level worldbuilding don’t belong in a dating sim?”

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

The Problem With Hasan Piker’s Einstein Story

People scrutinizing influencers for their views should also hold them to account for their facts.

[dogpuppy]

[nightbringer24]

There's a weird sort of whiplash on finding there's a high end fashion brand and store, Rag & Bone, which shares the same name with the sort of poverty stricken people who went around collecting the literal scraps and detritus of other people for pittance.

[uncle-beanbag-mojave]

[socialmaya]

[beardedmrbean]