You seem to read a lot -- are there any fiction books in a Native American or even (preferably) Mayan setting that are worth reading? Again -- without talking about whitey, and without 'strong female characters'. I found a few 'bandes dessinees', but I lost them when my hard-drive crashed.
To be honest, the standard angel/demon/knight/lady/werewolf/vampire axes of Christianity are enough for the next few centuries... but, as you know, they're being subverted before our eyes.
Con Pro is something of a safe space for people, like myself, who are wise to the JQ. You can expect a bit of, say, exuberance.
An even better place is the Unz Review -- founded by \our_jew, Ron Unz, who a few years ago wrote a series of very detailed articles culminating in his declaring that holofrost didn't happen -- it came as a surprise to him!!!
But even within the safe space, most of us are aware that not all jews are bad etc. Why would they be? They're not cartoon villains! I generally enjoy all of your comments, and that won't change based on your heritage. Why would it?
I actually read Asterix in German, too, and I remember being very impressed by the translations. I think it's because a lot of the humour is very broad, and the stories are quite simple, so the translators have a wide range for creativity.
Und ja, ich meinte in den Vereinigten Staaten!
If you want a real novelty, try Texas German! It's like they're speaking German with absolutely no effort on the accent. The same thing happened with certain pockets of Canadian French, like in Nova Scotia or Sudbury. They know all of the words/grammar, but the pronunciation is 100% English. It's... odd.
Wow! Manga sells better in France in absolute terms? I guess that makes sense, since they have massive BD sections in all of their bookstores, and the French are more literary than most peoples, for what it's worth.
Your second paragraph is probably true. I read a lot of Manga, but only because I started with Anime, and then found that reading is usually better than watching... (except Hunter X Hunter)
The live-action of Asterix was... how could the French, known for their style, make such a mistake... I'll have to check out the new CGI films. The old ones were... good enough for the time, I guess.
As for TinTin... you're probably right. For me, TinTin was a window into the wonders of the rest of the world. The depictions of South America, India, China, Communist Europe were so engagingly evocative. Now I'm here in a 3rd world country and, since there's no mystery to be solved... it's not that wonderful. I go to Angkor Wat every morning... but I'd rather see a Herge picture of the temples.
The drawing in TinTin is, (for me), perfect, and inspired the odd-but-compelling Blake and Mortimer series. Tintin was (the) best way to get a window into the diversity of the world before 2000. The pictures of 'Peru' or China are extremely evocative. As for the storytelling... you might be right, but the characters are so compelling!
There were actually about 12 of them, each several GB, and organized in alphabetical order. I had them all until my computer crashed. Now I just have volume 6. The only problem with them is that the scanning was pretty old, so some of the lettering was hard to read.
I've found them now and then, but there aren't any seeders. Are the French not weebs? Just kidding -- the French like philosophy... they're ueber-Weebs.
Katy Perry is more popular than Modest Mouse.
Quality finds an audience.
Get better.
Hey, Corto Maltese (Italian comic) is quite rightfully popular all across Europe as is (was?) Fantomas. I agree that the French didn't succeed in creating Icons outside of Asterix/Tintin/Lucky Luke -- which are amongst the top 100 best-selling comics of all time (intertwined with a massive amount of Manga).
I bet you could sell a couple Emma Peel dolls...
I'd buy them all!
Shame that Valerian and Laureline never got a movie adaptation. Yep. Real shame.
Yeah, I get what you're saying. But it's still (a) quite paltry; and (b) in keeping with what the French tradition deserves. A lot of French stuff is set in medieval times, for obvious reasons, and it's actually better suited to comics than to the big screen.
Really? A (((weinstein))) wore out his welcome? Feynman was awesome, though.
Edit: by the way, number systems are really, really easy to understand. I've explained them to party chicks in loud bars.
Creating concepts about number is much harder because, of course, who would really care about doing that. There's a reason that the Greeks thought heavily about Geometry, which is a property of the natural world, but didn't think too much about Number, which is a massive abstraction.
I'm not really sure what your first sentence means. I only know 'kitsune' from Teen Wolf!
As for your second: When I watched Buffy, I was a bit too old to want to hear that kind of "ding-dongy mallrat" speech. I really wasn't the target audience, except that I loved that sort of Christian/Medieval mythology.
Buffy is super-fun, but I watched it in French, so I wasn't exposed to the 'like, so, like, like it was so, like cool, right?' aspect of it. The French dub made the serious scenes twice as good as the paltry actors could make them.
The stupid thing about making Buffy 'woke' is that... so many cultures have mythologies of odd human-like creatures. They could make a wonderful zombie series based in Haiti, for instance. Or Asuras in India. Or Windagos in the USA. But our creatives are obviously spiritually bankrupt.
I'm a bit astonished that nobody has mined the rest of the world to construct a supernatural-type show. There must by 100 million hispanics in the US. Do something with a 'chupacabra' or la llorena!
Dark WInds was AMC. It's based on a 1970 novel by Tony Hillerman, so it avoids a bunch of stuff like excessive cell-phone-based plots. It also featured good Native acting and, I'm hoping, presages a wave of Native mythology driven shows. The Nature of the USA is magnificent, and lends itself to a completely different sense of dreaming than Europe. It would be nice to see some version of these dreams before everything is forgotten.
I get what you mean... but the show was essentially about movie production, and chicks can actually be quite good at that. There was one character set up as stronk wymon, but she ended up being a prettier version of many women that I've legit met in my life. Another one was even stonker, but she's dismissed within two episodes.
If you notice, though, I capitalized 'White' when used as a racial description. But in the phrase 'white man' it seems like more of an adjective, like it would with 'yellow man'.