Sidewalks of the Sky

DON’T become even a casual nerd about historical fashion because you’ll start looking at pseudo-medieval fantasy and going “that jacket and those breeches are 200 years apart and reflect extremely different social movements” and “oh no they were NOT making shirts like that prior to industrialization” and “a fly front? in MY ~1500s???”

Why should all citizens get a certain amount of free food from the government to supplement what they can buy on their own? That’s the sort of stupid commie thing they do in *checks notes* the ancient Roman republic.

Yeah Rome had a free grain and sometimes bread ration program for its citizens, including the very poor ones. Surprise! Government handouts aren’t a new concept!

TIL America doesn't even have food distribution

We have SNAP

Ooh what's that?

[no beers in] do you think im ever going to belong somewhere

guy who's having gauzy idealized wife flashbacks for the whole adventure but it turns out she isn't dead or anything he just really misses her and wants to get home

he's unironically 100% correct and i will hear nothing against him

y'know what? the stained glass window designers had the right idea, we need more angels with kaleidoscope wings.