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]

[morgan5451]

[1americanconservative]

[morgan5451]

[tlaquetzqui]

Seeing the new Forerunner lore of 343 industries on Halo i had to wonder. Doesn't it destroy the entire point of the Human vs Covenant conflict?. Like for what i understand, the reason for why the Covenant decided to exterminate humanity instead of offering a place in their organization like the Sangheli or the Brutes, was because they basically destroy the narrative or their religion?. How can that work with the Forerunners being another species?.

Now the humans are just the Reclaimers but not because they were Forerunners. In fact the Forerunners usurped the Mantle from humans, in the new version: the Precursors wanted to give it to humans, and that’s why the Forerunners wiped them out.

[choppedrunawaytheorist]

So, in a way, the Covenant was right about the humans being heretics not worth it of the grace of the Forerunners, kind of convoluted tbh. I personally prefer the idea that the Forerunners were just advanced humans that were simply struggling to survive against The Flood (at least that's what i remember of the orginal lore). I supposed that is the problem with keeping a franchise going. That Master Chief line of "i thought we have a truce with The Covenant" really was a sign of things to come.

[tlaquetzqui]

That line was referring to the Arbiter, though.

[lanmangguo]

[boundless-nocturnalsoujourn]

Fun fact, many women throughout history haven’t believed the bullshit!

And then those women were labeled gypsies, heretics, witches, and other names, then stoned to death, burned at the stake, and otherwise prosecuted by men of those BS religions

[mylibertarianblog2]

Care to show me where in the bible it promotes rape slavery and misogyny?

[electronicosmos15]

Midwits have a real problem telling the difference between “acknowledging the existence of in historical context” and “promoting” 🙄😑😮‍💨

[tlaquetzqui]

Also the ancient ancient parts of one of those books, are in fact a third religion.

The number of atheists who appear to think Christians wrote the Old Testament is a bit alarming, in terms of the state of education.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

"Canada's Healthcare System is so good UwU"

https://www.thesudburystar.com/news/provincial/sudbury-man-refused-kidney-transplant-due-to-vaccination-status-dies-report

With the exception of the few Canadians I like? Fuck Canada.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturong of smallness

[tlaquetzqui]

Seeing the new Forerunner lore of 343 industries on Halo i had to wonder. Doesn't it destroy the entire point of the Human vs Covenant conflict?. Like for what i understand, the reason for why the Covenant decided to exterminate humanity instead of offering a place in their organization like the Sangheli or the Brutes, was because they basically destroy the narrative or their religion?. How can that work with the Forerunners being another species?.

Now the humans are just the Reclaimers but not because they were Forerunners. In fact the Forerunners usurped the Mantle from humans, in the new version: the Precursors wanted to give it to humans, and that’s why the Forerunners wiped them out.

[tlaquetzqui]

I have a question about Egyptian ethnicity. I konw that the Copts are native to Egypt and that they are very much white, but a lot of Ancient Egyptian artwork I've seen, and I do admit that I'm not someone who has done much dedicated research on the topic, seems to depict them as having darker skin tones than I typically see associated with "White" people. Is this a case of multiple ethnic groups? Skin tone having connotations outside of race?

Two theories for why they depict themselves with the red-brown skin: one, many groups in parts of Africa, to this day, use red-ochre body paint. Remember the controversy about Henry Cavill’s girlfriend? Two, the Afro-Asiatic name for the skin color of the “white race” is red—hence why the Hebrew name of the first man also occurs in the Jewish equivalent of the Red Cross, the Mogen David Adama.

[irishironclad]

[tlaquetzqui]

…“Von Přemyslid”?

Step over to this big window please.

[thenatsdorf]

[sandersstudies]

My favorite part is when the kitty runs to the window and looks out like “the outside stuff????? It is inside?????”

[strawberryjellystuff-deactivate]

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[naamahdarling]

Y’all this is a great video to study to observe the body language of a very happy but also very excited cat.  Lots of people see videos of excited cats doing things like climb rock climbing walls or get on small boats and think they are angry or scared, when they aren’t.  Here’s a good example of happy excitement and tension in a cat where the cat’s pleasure is easy to see.  The cat’s tail is lashing and its ears are going backward and forward like crazy, but the cat is not angry, it is merely off its shits because snow is just incredible.  This is a wildly playful cat which might play-attack a hand or other animal because it is so excited, but not out of anger.  Note the zoomies at the end to burn off some of that energy!

Think about it. When we humans do something fun and very physical, our bodies are often tense, at the ready, and a lot of our body language does look kind of aggressive or even scared. Cats are the same!  Animals at play or investigating new things often show some tension, but tension is not the same as anger or fear!

[monstrous-wolf-bloodied]

[scrapironflotilla]

“Found the French next to us most cheery and looking wide awake. They had an awful contraption called a “piège à Boches”, so arranged that any German jumping in was impaled and caught in barbed wire. This French division has been in this part of the line since mid-October, and their little pathetic groups of graves just behind parts of our trenches, mark places where snipers are active.”

—

Brigadier General Cecil Lowther. Unpublished diary, dated 22 January 1915.

I’ve seen these piège à Boches (which means Boche trap as far as I can tell) in more than one picture, but I hadn’t actually come across any references to them. Lowther’s mention here is a particularly early one too. Apparently they’re a particular quirk of French trench defences, along with barbed wire over the top of a trench.

From the AWM: French Army soldiers in a trench in the La Harazee sector preparing an anti-personnel spiked fence.

You can see the metal knife rest on the back of the trench here has been cut to a point, with wire over the top.

No impaling spikes here, but still wired above and down into the trench.

(via scrapironflotilla)

[tlaquetzqui]

Possible more idiomatic translation would be “Kraut bait”, since we don’t usually call the Jerrys Boche in English. Piège à clics is clickbait and piège à cons is schmuck bait. (Do not say con in polite company, it’s “cunt”. Of course, schmuck is “dick” in Yiddish.)

[anscathmarcach]

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[eretzyisrael]

Spider-Man and the Tangled Web of the Anti-Israel Boycott | HonestReporting

Anti-Israel activists declared “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” tainted by Israeli-American producer Avi Arad. The presence of Mark Ruffalo in th

by Rachel O'Donoghue

Ruffalo has become one of Hollywood’s most relentless anti-Israel voices. He has accused Israel of apartheid and genocide, backed a boycott of its film industry and called to “boycott, divest, sanction and prosecute” the country. Remarkably, he had previously apologized for using the genocide accusation, admitting it was “inaccurate” and “inflammatory,” only to revive it years later.

But the contradiction here runs deeper than Ruffalo’s rhetoric.

The so-called “cultural” arm of the BDS movement claims that its boycotts target complicit institutions, not individuals merely because of their citizenship, religion or opinions. Its guidelines explicitly reject identity-based boycotts.

Yet the campaign against Brand New Day does not appear to rest on any allegation that the film is an Israeli state project or that Marvel is an Israeli institution. The supposed and sole offense is that an Israeli-American was involved in its production.

In other words, the campaign does precisely what BDS insists it does not: it treats a person’s Israeli identity and support for Israel as enough to contaminate an entire movie production.

Ruffalo makes that contradiction impossible to ignore. He has repeatedly called to boycott Israel and signed a film-industry pledge aimed at Israeli institutions. Yet he apparently found no conflict in starring in and promoting a film produced by Arad.

Ruffalo does not merely expose the hypocrisy. He embodies it. The campaign’s silence about his participation shows that its rules disappear as soon as one of its loudest celebrity allies might actually have to sacrifice something.

This is not a principled boycott. It is a selectively enforced purity test that punishes Israeli identity while excusing celebrity allies. If Avi Arad’s involvement makes the film unacceptable, why are the same activists not condemning Mark Ruffalo for choosing to star in it?

[tlaquetzqui]

Yes, Ruffalo, “is Israeli and prefers his country not be destroyed” is the reason to attack a Jewish guy in Hollywood and boycott a production he’s involved in. There are certainly no worse Jewish people involved in the industry that covered for Harvey Weinstein, cheered Roman Polanski, and abused the Corys (themselves Jewish, contradicting a common antisemitic meme about Jewish predators).

Yet again we see that “antizionist not antisemitic” is not only no better than regular antisemitism, but far worse. The average antisemite would throw in “Avi Arad supports the Gaza gEnOcIdE” as an afterthought, at most.

[wcwit]

RIP Katsushi Murakami, designer of Leopardon from Toei's Spider-Man (among many many others!)

[tlaquetzqui]

Supposedly Murakami is also the guy who invented toys of transforming and combining mecha that can actually transform and combine like the ones in shows.