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]

[brosef-von-dudehomie]

I don't normally like to promote anything but the Lincoln has been deployed 8 months and needs to bring its ass and sailors back stateside.

Sign the Petition

Bring USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships back home for resupply

I was on the Stennis back when we were creeping up on 8 months and it sucked hard. Dick Cheney looked like he wanted to strangle our admiral for offering to stay out longer. Time to rotate the ships out. Let's get some signatures before the cabin fever starts taking lives.

Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.

It's already starting.

[dogposts]

Clover hates bath time, but she's being very brave about it ☘️

[tlirsgender]

It's called hard sci-fi because it's not as easy

[tlirsgender]

I thought it'd be fun if I made aliens that respirate CO² into O² like plants but I started thinking about how I'm not actually sure how exactly those chemical processes work and now I'm on the wikipedia page for nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate

[tlirsgender]

I feel like the media literacy ogre for biochemistry

[sigrid-antares]

hard sci-fi is when the last quarter of the book is made of research papers references, scientific footnotes and explanation of the rabbit hole that author committed

[greek-mythologies]

Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους - ΓΑΚ

🎬Πολύ πριν από την «Οδύσσεια» του Κρίστοφερ Νόλαν… αντιδράσεις στην Ελλάδα για την ταινία «Τρωικός Πόλεμος» (Helen of Troy) το 1956 Το 1956

Excellent post from the Greek National Archives.

Telegrams to the Greek government complaining about the distortion of the Homeric epic for the 1956 film Helen of Troy.

70 years later, Hollywood still distorts Homer, and we still have to tell the Americans we're an existing culture.

@alatismeni-theitsa, this might interest you 😊

[misscromwellsmonocle]

The Little Art Connoisseur (1863) August Friedrich Siegert

[darnitjack]

Last time this came around I showed my three year old and he said "He's little like me!" and stared for a whole minute (v. Long in toddler time).

[nonenosome2]

Do not ever let the Left brush 2020 under the rug as "Hehe. Woke 1.0 was craaaaazy."

They got people banned, debanked, and even fired for what they are now trying to laugh off.

[emmaubler]

You don't get to gleefully destroy people's lives and then "Lol we were so random" your way out of responsibility once your actions are politically inexpedient. Especially when they don't really believe they did anything wrong and are not actually sorry for any of it. They still hold the same views and have the same cruel impulses--they just know they can't get away with steamrolling culture they way they used to and are just trying to recalibrate to maintain their power.

[sawbuckplus]

[jardinssteve]

[tlaquetzqui]

Paying Waters to stay away and not engage with public life seems like it’s worth it.

[gsirvitor]

[snakeplisskenseyepatch]

Every problem that exists today I believe is the fault of baby boomers more or less because they turned into turbo fags in the 1960's.

[fission-mailure]

A lot of people are ragging on the 'cable diverted to avoid Dobby's grave after Harry Potter fans raise a stink' thing and while I also love ragging on Harry Potter fans being weird, in this case it looks like the story was completely made up.

tl;dr: There's no evidence the interview that this was mentioned in even exists, no evidence the route of the cable has ever changed, and the whole story seems to originate from one dude's podcast.

The story also broke into mainstream via the Daily Mail, who are ... rarely if ever honest or accurate.

[z-the-dumb]

The Dobby Grave Story is Probably True, Actually

Transcript: Okay, this is, admittedly, a little story. Part of my process for making these videos is that I read a lot of news and research

Tldr she found real interviews that more or less confirm its real its just from 2018

[jayalaw]

@prismatic-bell

[prismatic-bell]

Why on earth is it breaking NOW then?

[invenblocker]

It resurfaced in a period where shitting on Harry Potter (fans) is more popular than it was in 2018?

[beaked-whales-in-exile]

You people really need to get lives and hobbies of your own. This is getting old as hell.

[tlaquetzqui]

The most strident atheists are the people who once willingly only listened to Christian rock. These people, similarly, have probably all been screenshotted on r/ReadAnotherBook at least once.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[tlaquetzqui]

…Because communism is an ideology about how the government should be run?

I hate communists more than anyone you’ll ever meet but this is a stupid argument.

[dragonsllayer22]

[tlaquetzqui]

The Allies—who committed or were accessories to the largest mass rape in all of human history—ethnically cleansed 12 to 17 million ethnic Germans from Europe, many of whom had been there for generations. About a million and a half of them died. And they also sent a million Germans into NKVD-run reeducation camps just for belonging to the ruling party of a one-party dictatorship. Nearly all of whom died.

No but please tell me again how the Alhambra Decree and the Spanish Inquisition—which were by the people that didn’t do or enable all the raping and genocide in the Reconquista, directed against the ones who did—and the Nakba—again, against the genocidal rapists—were genocide. I had no idea they even had a history major at Clown College.

[binturong-of-the-day]

The binturongs of family portraits

[tlaquetzqui]

Apparently Carthage was founded by Tyrian Phoenicians who thought Tyre and Sidon were insufficiently enthusiastic for religious baby murder. Pretty sure the Puritan colonies in the New World have to cede the title “scariest religious colony”.

[tlaquetzqui]

Possibly the most amusing person I ever encountered online was the Romanian white supremacist who said blacks are inferior for having only written their languages in the 1400s or 1500s and still practicing ancient superstitious beliefs.