One thing that I'll always defend about soviet union, it took animation as a medium of art and not just a Genre for childrens intertaininment.
Soviet animation had very small budgets but experimented with very unique styles.
I will forever grieve it's loss.
I respect this more than a safe adaptation. No it cannot work for everyone, and I don’t even think a lot of it worked for me, but that risk is what makes it art. We can interrogate and critique it because it’s art! They can fall flat on their faces, get back up and keep creating
In a million years from now, creatures very much unlike us will look back on this time period as the 'plastic apocalypse' much in the same way we look back on the 'oxygen apocalypse.' 90% of all life died but the element vital for the evolution of all modern life was introduced.
@moultano Modern stories also make note of whether a character is drinking beer or champagne, for example, or whether they're ordering wagyu steak at a fancy restaurant or getting a hot dog off a street stall
@moultano I interpreted those as having social connotations in their society - what you eat denotes your social class, what you serve to guests denotes your level of respect for them and the formality level of the dinner...
@sisyphusmyths Yeah I think Louis used to have similar tendencies too but seeing Armand sort of crystalized in him that he doesn't want to be that person.
@redhead_ophelia I know German women who look like this in the summer, like she has medium brown hair and a bit of a tan, that's the Average White Woman in like 80% of Europe. I think it's the makeup style that's throwing them off, it DOES lean Latina.
reading about indian civilizational development is maddening. it’s always like “the Black-Scholes model was inadvertently invented while attempting to analyze astronomical measurements in 800 BC. the concept of charging interest was introduced by Protestant missionaries in 1881”
@Madame_Ennui Because they didn't see extremes as good. Odysseus's extreme cunning and pragmatism is both a blessing and a curse, it makes him brilliant at some things and irredeemable in other ways. Same with Achilles, for the Ancient Greeks a great man is an upsetting of balance and harmony
@Madame_Ennui The Greeks were actually pretty aware of how controversial Odysseus is too - in Philoctetes, for example, he's presented very negatively. The Greeks generally saw brilliant heroes as being in possession of drawbacks and flaws as big as the value they brought to the community
Cersei: "a queen you shall be, until there comes another, younger and more beautiful" she told me. But who is it? Sansa? Margaery? Myrcella?
Meanwhile, fAegon advancing from the south: