it's the left's idea of a meme.
it's actually one of the better lefty memes i've seen, sadly...
dumb question: what ever happened to Gilda Mars?
off-topic: mistyped "dilda" and had to resist the urge to leave it
are franchises acceptable?
anita blake: vampire hunter
title character resurrects the dead for a living and consults for the police on the side in a world where vampires, werewolves, and other bogeymen not only exist, but have legally protected rights.
starts out mildly trashy, but honestly entertaining, with a certain amount of BDSM (and way more education on the subculture than you'd believe), slowly devolving into straight up porn. ironically, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the out of place lez scene between the main character and Belle Morte, a powerful member of the european "vampire council," basically the governing body for vampires throughout the world, after the former had become afflicted with vampiric sex-hunger.
frustrating thing is if the sex scenes didn't overshadow things, the story would be really engaging. it drags the plot down after a while, though, and becomes too obsessed with attention-grabbing.
here's the paper if anyone's interested. I opted for a non-archived link for readability.
probably 80-90 percent of what I read goes over my head, but the logic seems sound in my admittedly biased view.
they probably made him black, and now they know they're gonna get ripped from both sides for it, though for differences different reasons, lmao.
same. I looked it up out of curiosity, thought i'd share it for the lulz.
you know, you could actually write a pretty engaging thriller based on trump's life from about 2010 to today...
Imagine a 90's -era trailer with Don LaFontaine doing the voiceover:
<musical sting>
He had it all
money
<choom>
fame
<choom>
fame
<choom>
...but then he started asking questions
<newspaper clipping talking about the obama birth certificate scandal>
trump: is dis guy even american?
<various mocking news soundbites calling him a birther> <choom...choom-choom-choom...choomchoomchoomwhirrrrrrrrr>
now, he's running for president to get to the truth
trump: i guess i'm gonna have to run for president...
...In a world where narratives matter more than facts, can one man stand up for the truth?
H. Clinton : half of Donald Trump's followers are in what I like to call a basket of deplorables...
coming soon...
https://xcancel.com/goddeketal/status/1910052605306286266#m
shocking, i know, but he apparently deleted the tweet.
💀 good lord, that's dumb in all the right ways...
I wonder if the affected nurses worked together in the radiology dept.
years of work tamping down and working to prevent unrest in...major cities
what a fantastic job they've done, too...
talk about hyperbole.
besides, we still use mercury to 'treat' illness ffs. (it's rare, and only for specific things, but yeah)
point is all medicines are poisons of one sort or another.
yeah the vr thing was pretty much window dressing, don't feel bad, i forgot about that too.
that's just the thing, they never created dinosaurs accurately. I'm showing my nerdiness here, but everything was already going wrong. John Hammond, in spite of "sparing no expense" had apparently cheaped out when paying Dennis Nedry, leaving him disgruntled enough to be open to corporate espionage, but Nedry's betrayal was the straw that broke the camel's back rather than what set the initial films events in motion.
Speaking of accuracy, Dr. Henry Wu(full disclosure, I had to look up the name), the head geneticist, had substituted frog DNA for missing parts of the dinosaur DNA, leading to some of the dinosaurs changing sex and breeding out of control. Honestly, the scene where they were talking about all the changes Wu made to the 'indominous rex" just felt like a parody of the scene from jurassic park.
None of the ideas in jurassic world are new, even at particular to the series, they're just taken to the nth degree, except maybe, maaaayybe the idea of using controlled raptors for military purposes, and even that's only new in the context of the franchise itself.
Don't misunderstand me, if you enjoy jurassic world, that's fine, but it's hardly groundbreaking in terms of storytelling.
I forget the term, but yeah. it's a common problem with species that develop social structures. individuals raised without those social structure often lack the instincts to make up for them.
...If I remember correctly, the raptors were actually eating their own offspring.
except that it's still the plot of Jurrasic Park, only dialed up to eleven.
^Jurassic Park.
Jurassic World is the redheaded stepchild.
could have sworn they did. thought that was part of the reason they were able to emerge a leader after the games crash in the eighties, that and their willingness to buy back unsold copies of games from retailers.
hey, i could be wrong, maybe we don't actually make the precision tooling any more...
...did they stop selling consoles at a loss? that was always the strategy in the past, sell the console at a loss, make it up in the games, accessories, and merchandise.
boohoohoo. you have to make do with the game console/pc you already have, because the big mean orange man wanted to protect your country's economy.
Get. Bent.
...how is that even an argument? don't we usually produce the precision tooling here in the first place?
maybe i'm out of the loop on this, but that was my understanding.
...even if this were true, I fail to see a downside.
most art, including writing, is at least partially derivative. it's why archetypes exist.
the 'original' part is in how much you borrow from one particular story/concept and how much you put your own spin on it or apply concepts from other stories to the same idea.
an example of this is the evolution from twilight to twilight fanfiction to 50 shades of gray. not exactly good literature, but they illustrate the point.
A better example would be to compare the odyssey to the back to the future trilogy. Both are Hero's Journey archetypes, but they go about it in different ways.