Engrane Planetario

Editorial de ciencia ficción | Science fiction publisher

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@SanmateoDaniel Moby Dick vibes.

Me recuerda a la cátedra universitaria en ftiriología (el estudio sistemático de los piojos) que describe Giovanni Papini. Resulta que los piojos están detrás de muchos de los grandes acontecimientos de la historia.

Pero a a ti ¿con cuál te pasó?

[The American Tribune @TAmTrib]

For all the people whining that critiques of Nolan's Odyssey are just chuds trying to stay mad about ancient texts being modernized...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) took a foundational text of Western society and updated it for modern audiences.

The cast was diverse to reflect inner-city gang rivalries which were making headlines at the time, and it was set in the heart of these troubles in Verona Beach.

Handguns were called "knives" and long guns called "swords". Everything was set against a totally contemporary backdrop. You'd think everyone would be up in arms and furious, right?

Wrong, it was generally well received by critics and home audiences. It earned $132.8 million in profits.

All because it kept the original spoken script of Shakespeare's play spoken by present-day people, and stayed true to the source material. It was an interesting take on a classic that had swag and didn't subvert the original for weirdo antisocial political agendas.

All you have to do is not fundamentally hate the story you're trying to tell (or the culture it comes from) while making a concerted effort to make it shittier. Make actual art and people will be just fine with it. Who knew?

[Neal Asher @nealasher]

She thinks her degree in Marxist feminist whiffle equates to intelligence, and that her resultant job is success, when it's adult daycare for her.

[Nicolas Castillo Hinz @NicoCastillo78]

Billy Reynoso lo plantea muy bien acá. No hay de colonialismo, sino poscolonialismo: gente a la que le importa tres cominos la emancipación y que en realidad buscan puestitos en universidades de países imperialistas. No les calienta cambiar las cosas ni por asomo.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

There's an old joke about a policeman stopping a drunk who is searching for his lost car keys under a streetlamp.

He dropped them somewhere two blocks away, but the light is better over here.

Fighting marxism with superpacs, NGOs, and social media is a great way to lose slowly.

Why?

Because the real war is upstream.

The real war is fought in the culture.

People show up to politics, show up to the voting booth, show up to social media, with their opinions already formed by the shows they grew up watching, and the books they grew up reading.

The culture war for the mind of young Elon Musk was not won by a hundred million dollar superpac — it was won by a twelve-dollar Heinlein novel.

Because of that victory, the tech right understands the value of rockets.

But it has yet to fully grasp the value of Heinleins.

Big Tech stood by silently while the "Big Five" Manhattan-based publishing industry withered on the vine and its corpse was skinsuited by marxists.

And now, decades later, they are trying to build AI and go to space, while scratching their heads wondering why no one outside El Segundo and the Bay Area seems to understand their vision of the future, and just wants to steal all their stuff to pay for more Pepsi and Doritos.

You can stare all day and the rock-bottom awful marxist DEI slop that emerges from Hollywood and Manhattan these days and think that there's no way the left can win with this garbage.

But armchair warriors discuss tactics, while professional soldiers study logistics and supply.

No matter how bad woke media becomes, creating an alternative still costs money.

If a right-wing author has to self-publish, pay for his own cover artist, and market his own novels, while some lefty MFA from Bryn Mawr can pen a novel about having a lesbian affair with her professor's wife, and get a six figure "fellowship" for selling a few copies, and I wish I was making that up, then what this means is that left wing art is effectively free, or negative cost, to make.

Currently, the culture war is being fought on behalf of the right by broke middle class writers and artists, who have to fund themselves, bootstrap style, while their enemies own all the institutions and distribution networks.

It doesn't matter how poor your enemies' tactics are, if your soldiers have to buy their own uniforms and rifles.

When they lose, and they will unless the Tech Right starts helping, then the marxists are going to throw you in prison and take all your shit.

Don't want that to happen?

Fine.

Then you have to actually become a conservative, instead of just playing one on social media because you don't wanna pay more taxes.

You have to actually believe in the cause and contribute to the fight.

And it starts with art, culture, and stories.

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@Aika__06__ @AlejandroCence2 Yes, and they seem not to know their own country. But I was talking about the guy who posted the video here, @AlejandroCence2, who has either very limited experience visiting the US or chooses to go along with BS.

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@76Anabellan Creo que era la única que no sabía lo que iba a ver, pero para no sentirse tonta se contó la historia de que ella era la única que se daba cuenta.

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@DrewbieWitt @AlejandroCence2 The best thing about the States is that you can choose that (which is neat) or what this "surprised" baldy seems to have found across the ocean.

[𝕏erias @xerias_x]

I’m assembling a team.

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@MMJMIGUEL_

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Just spent the last 8 hours filming and editing my Odyssey review, which drops tomorrow morning!

The biggest problem isn't the casting. It's how the film changes the meaning of Homer's original story.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

Lord of the Rings 40000 🔥

[太阳之子 @oliver_terrones]

Ya hay programa del III Congreso Internacional de #Literatura Mexicana Siglos XVII-XXI: Rescate-edición, estudios literarios e historias. Échenle un ojo.

Andaré en la Mesa 32: #Cienciaficción, disidencias y cuerpos #queer; en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas @IIFL_UNAM.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."

— Werner Heisenberg

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@elcastillo

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

Mad MARX!!!

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

Mad Marx: A Terrifying Glimpse Into Our Future Under Socialism

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Hot take: Lupita is not ugly, and they could have at least made her look like this for The Odyssey, but they purposely decided to make her look terrible to stir up controversy.

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@JulieCFrost Sounds like a 25-year-old Portland brat fresh from an Ivy League college who just launched her literary agent website with the aim of changing the world, one piece of garbage at a time... because who needs money?

[Engrane Planetario @EngranePlaneta]

@Devon_Eriksen_ @JulieCFrost Gay muslims from outer space... That's a superb trope.