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]

[eliwats22]

Guys I’m sorry I’m still hanged up about the Woman King movie.

Like @beardedmrbean said they did it for the money

But I’m like “I like money too! I might play with dynamite for my story ideas I got!”

Then B*yega(I censoring his name incase of certain fools finds this post) going on and on about racial injustice

Yet this fool is part of the Yoruba Tribe, which the Dahomey constantly raid hence why I’m in America.

And played the king who said THIS

I mean played pieces of shit as much as you want

But is Black Hollywood sheltered as fuck? I would make a movie where I should where pre enslaved ancestors such as the Yoruba, and point out to Black Americans that it’s the Dahomey are the ones who destroy our ties to Africa

Just just

WHY DO I LIVE IN A UNIVERSE THAT WOMAN KING EXIST?!

Yorubaland…the Oyo Empire…black Americans came from an empire, powerful empire…before the coup that destroyed it from the inside..before we were enslaved

Why are only a few wish us to known this part of our history?

[beardedmrbean]

It's a beautiful thing that the woman king exists.

It made all kinds of people look into the history of those super strong powerful women warriors that went out and......

Wait you mean they didn't fight the French to keep them from taking and enslaving the dahomey people and it's actually the reverse of that and the dahomey were selling the slaves and the French were fighting them to make them stop!!!!!!!!!

just a beautiful way to uno reverse the situation

[tlaquetzqui]

On the other hand, all that also goes for Viking movies and you never see anyone criticizing those. Least of all the people rightly criticizing Woman King. (The film’s defenders, of course, can’t mention that because they would have to admit white people were enslaved.)

[tarragonthedragon]

i just got the "see where your blood has gone!" email from giving blood but it glitched and just showed me my current location. which. theyre not wrong. that is where most of my blood is

[arizonaconservativegal]

Katie Hobbs looks like President Coin from The Hunger Games send tweet

You're not wrong

Coin was a lot better at playing the game than Katie is though. She couldn't even work with her fellow Dems back when she was in the legislature and she certainly doesn't have a clue how to work with an opposition majority there now.

[sawbuckplus]

[ladyseabird]

I forget where, but the PotC writers once ranked the swordfighting skills and said that Will is the best, Norrington and Barbossa are next and pretty evenly matched, and Jack is the worst. And I saw a commentary (a million years ago) on that where the ranking was called into question because in the fight on the Isla Cruces, Norrington manages to knock Will down. And even though it's been a million years I'm still thinking about it.

Because the thing is that, sure, Will has excellent technique, excellent form, and follows the technically correct rules of engagement. (He is legitimately surprised when Jack Sparrow bests him by cheating, like he did not realize "cheating" was an option.) Will approaches a swordfight as a contest of skill.

Norrington looks at it like a fight, and he fights dirty. I mean, he grabs Will by the back of his coat, throws him to the ground, and kicks sand in his face (that last part might be mostly because he's being petty.) Then later he trips Jack when they're on that staircase. Also, you can't forget that during the Isla Cruces fight, Norrington is fueled by pure rage, so he has that going for him.

(Also, just because someone is "ranked" better than someone else, doesn't guarantee them an automatic win. I don't follow sports but I know what an "upset" is.)

So, would Will Turner win in a swordsmanship contest where they're being judged on form, technique, and aesthetics? Possibly. But could he beat Norrington in an actual fight? Not a chance.

Now, Norrington vs. Barbossa would be a good one.

[tlaquetzqui]

Norrington learned swordfighting as part of his military training, Will learned it for sport or at most formal duels.

One of these training methods involves “you may want to open by shooting someone or throwing a hatchet at them”, and it wasn’t the way Will learned.

[sandersstudies]

My cats hate each other and fight all the time but when we leave my boy cat (who has the world’s tiniest meow) on the porch too long our girl cat will start to yell at me to let him in. Idk where this camaraderie comes from considering they spend most of their time slapping the shit out of each other.

[sandersstudies]

[sandersstudies]

My girl cat: 🥺möther you have left my déarest dárlingest bröther on the pörch you must admit him pösthaste

My girl cat three seconds later: haha get bitchslapped idiot

[sandersstudies]

The notes on this post are gold.

[mclennonyaoi]

[mclennonyaoi]

this is the funniest piece of graffiti i’ve ever seen. thank you mr two pens

[baygeethefirst]

The Arts of the Wise Orc

Progressivism is Barbarism with a billionaires budget.

[tlaquetzqui]

Not the image I would’ve used:

Admittedly that’s kinda insulting Gul’dan.

[fivepoint-12]

[badpenny77]

[twinflamedreams]

[tlaquetzqui]

Ancient travelers were very impressed by the cleanliness of the Indians.

Then India spent a thousand years being invaded by Somalia’s religion.

[co0l7ne3rdy]

hey friend! give me the odyssey with a full cyclop animatronic!

a full animatronic!

but hold the "nobody" trick!

and hold penelope's test!

and hold penelop's test— HEY YOU! GIVE ME AN ODYSSEY WITH NOTHING

nothing? :[

[dertaglichedan]

[simon-newman]

See what he meant?

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Hey, does anyone remember when anti-Immigration folks were doing setting immigrants' stuff - like their homes - on fire in Belfast a few weeks ago?

Except it wasn't for actually saying or doing anything, it was because they were mad one particular immigrant tried to murder a white man.

Even though he was already in jail.

[turtleduck-inc]

this is just a blatant "no u".

[siryouarebeingmocked]

Yes, I am pointing out certain people's possibly inconsistent and partisan standards for behavior, in response to their implied claims about how people should behave.

Oh, and also, I explicitly oppose both.

I hope nobody reading would go "wait, no, it's only okay to set things on fire to terrorize people when we're doing it, not when it's used against us."

EDIT:added "possibly" and the previous sentence.

[tlaquetzqui]

One was over attempted murder, the other was over statements of obvious truth.

Also, “fed-up citizens lynch random gangsters after a murder” vs “gangsters intimidate citizen for mentioning gangsters are criminals”.

Islam is a criminal enterprise whose historic economies depended on a protection racket—the “sick man of Europe” decline of the Ottomans was because they had coerced too many conversions, and all their remaining non-Muslim neighbors were strong enough to fight them off. And jizya only guarantees your life: if you pay up to the bratva, yakuza, or cosa nostra, they’re not allowed to rob or traffic you. Muslims are allowed to do both to dhimmis.

It is indeed just as illegal to lynch gangsters as it is to rub out someone who criticizes the gang. They are not remotely morally comparable.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of self-assuredness

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

if they're gonna remake The Princess Bride, it should open with a kid sick in bed scrolling on his phone. his grandpa arrives with a gift--it's a DVD player with a disc already inside. grandpa hooks it up to the TV and presses play. and we all just watch the original 1987 film again.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[tlaquetzqui]

By the dog of Egypt this can’t be happening.

[tlaquetzqui]

Honestly kinda want to start a collection of things people say about how alcohol and tobacco Taste Bad/Smell Bad, Actually that just reveal they have never tried them.

Unlit cigars, O Halo novel author, smell like chocolate or fresh-ground coffee beans. If Doctor Halsey finds the smell from a cigar box offputting, it’s odd. Especially considering how much coffee she drinks.

“Alcohol”, O Tumblr poster, is not in fact consumed on its own and is virtually flavorless, but if it did “taste like lead” that would mean it had a candy-like sweetness. That was why kids used to eat paint chips.

You don’t need to justify not wanting to drink or smoke. Good thing, too, because saying untrue things about liquor and tobacco doesn’t justify it.

[authortobenamedlater]

There was a cigar shop near our house in Alaska and on the rare occasion Mr went in there, I loved going with him because the place smelled soooooooo good.

It's really a disappointment that cigars don't taste as good as they smell. Same for coffee.

[tlaquetzqui]

Coffee could never taste as good as it smells, it smells too good. (However a bit of salt will really mellow the flavor, since salt deactivates your tongue’s bitter receptors.)

Cigars’ flavor grows on you, though. At first I couldn’t taste anything but scorched plant matter, but—particularly after I started using a mouthpiece—now I can get all the “vanilla notes” and stuff that make connoisseurs sound so pretentious. (I’ve mentioned this before but your brain insists that a cigar is spicy and it’s like, no, brain, it’s actually hot.)

[1americanconservative]