Apr 1
I am having a small existential crisis, don't mind me
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I am having a small existential crisis, don't mind me
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The fact that the new Superman movie didn't use this song is criminal. This song actually has political themes, and the singer/songwriter admits it in an interview from back in the 90s (I think, I found the PDF citation on Wikipedia). To now provide his full quote (as copied from wikipedia):
"Superman as cast in "Superman's Song" is obviously a left-wing political figure. His activity in the community is intrinsic to his being. Superman is being juxtaposed against Tarzan, who is kind of a laissez-faire capitalist type who retreats to the forest, and rejects the idea of community. He wants to live in a so-called animal state, and he doesn't have to be bothered with any kind of political realities."
Beyond that, it's a good song. I was in the bath yesterday, and this song came up on one of the music apps my dad casts to the old tv we have in our upstairs bedroom. I believe it was spotify, but I'm being vague because I don't know if it's okay for me to explicitly name an app or something. I don't know. Anyways, this song should've been in that Superman movie.
I know James Gunn seems to prefer his punk rock music, but I think folk music fits Superman more. It's not the best music for an action film, I guess. But it's contemplative and it's soothing and it's also often incredibly sad, but folk music is one of the genres I sometimes find it's hard to hate. I don't know if this song is completely folk in it's style, but it's at least folk with a subgenre or something.
Also, Superman and Tarzan actually do represent different things. Look at their creators. Edgar Rice Burroughs was a eugenics supporter who somehow worked that into almost all his stories. Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster were the kids of jewish immigrants, and they grew up in Cleveland (although Joe Shuster actually spent the first few years of his life in Toronto). Superman wasn't immune from some amount of racism, but it's nowhere near what Tarzan stories had. Superman isn't about eugenics; Superman is about a man who cares about others to the point where selfless action is basically his whole concept. If you're looking for eugenics in 40s comics, Captain America is where you need to look. Super Soldier Serum. Need I say more?
So. I just learned that when someone reblogs your post into a community you're not part of, it just. Doesn't tell you? It's not in the notes. It's not in your notifications.
Kinda feels like an oversight to me. If the OP doesn't want their post in some communities, they should at least be able to know when their post has been reblogged there and have a way to remove it.
As y'all know, I've been playing bg3 lately, like a lot a lot- almost a ridiculous amount and it's been so much fun.
The game is so amazing, all the characters so richt that I wish for certain characters to be romancable that aren't; I have fallen for the devil with the silver tongue...
No other will do, I want Raphael.
I yearn for him to whisper his intricate, thoughtfull poetry into my ears as he holds me close to him- and only him.
Game's not even halfway over and I start hoping that he'll appear at every corner stop, to greet and speak, tell me things I otherwise wouldn't know.
Have him be a twisted kind of guardian, one who demands such a hefty price it's almost unreasonable to even just try to please him, but only almost.
Though it will not happen I'll imagine it still, forevermore I'll fantasize and sigh as I slowly slip into sleep.
...
Anyways I'll be off searching for good fanfics that include him, I don't have the highest hopes, but a boy can dream, can't he?
Percy: "If the quest required me to get pushed down a flight of stairs to succeed, you would want someone who wouldn't hesitate."
Ares: "They would push each other down a flight of stairs to get ahead"
*Percy pushes Annabeth down stairs to save her and everyone else in the arch*
Annabeth: "But he isn't like that"
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My pet peeve about Forgotten Realms' Drow lore is that despite being told that Drow Society is this super restrictive, matriarchal society with reversed gender roles, we are rarely shown Drow househusbands. In fact, most of the named male Drow characters are portrayed as either career soldiers or arcane spellcasters. This is explained by saying that drow society, as it revolves around the worship of Lolth, regards arcane spellcasting as far inferior to divine spellcasting of clerics, and that while only women are allowed to have high-ranking positions in their armies like the generals and the lieutenants, the grunts and the footsoldiers are mostly composed of men.
My problem with that is..... One, you can't claim that you're reversing the gender dynamic in your fantasy setting and have what's considered to be "a man's work (derogatory)" in said setting be wizardry and the military, two jobs whose real-world counterparts (academia and the military) are *also* considered "a man's job (complimentary)" and are highly male-dominated fields in the real world, come on.
And two, how has this supposedly super-strict matriarchy sustained itself for so long? We've got this class of abused, oppressed, and very rightfully disgruntled gender, many of whom are a. combat-trained and has to vastly outnumber their female superiors, due to how the whole "military hierarchy" thing works, or b. can shoot fireballs and blow up stuff with their minds. Meanwhile, the Drow women mostly stick to religion and politics and lounging about in boudoirs in fantasy dominatrix gear. So what's stopping the men from staging a rebellion? Not to belittle the power that religion and politics hold in a pseudo-feudalistic medieval pastiche society, but I always assumed the reason the church and the crown was so powerful in medieval Europe was because they controlled the military!*
(*don't quote me on this, I'm not a history major)
Look, I don't mind depictions of fantasy bigotry in fiction (I quite enjoy them actually!), and it's possible to reverse the oppressed and the privileged class in a fictional society so that's opposite from real life in a way that it still poses pertinent questions about real-world oppression in our real-world society (e.g. Egalia's Daughters) , but I don't think Forgotten Realms quite manages to do that. If anything, it's weirdly reminiscent of that "feminists don't *actually* want to work jobs, they just want the men to do all the work for them and for women to reap ALL the benefits" antifeminist rhetoric ☹️
(To be clear, I'm not saying that Ed Greenwood and R.A. Salvatorre are misogynists, just that they either were confused about how sexism actually operates in the real world, or that they had some unexamined biases and hangups surrounding feminism that they perhaps failed to address.)
I don't mind fantasy bigotry in my fiction, but I want my fantasy bigotry to be realistic or at least believable, y'know?
I'm kinda in hate with the whole "crying over a kid because now our life is complete/you've given me all I ever wanted" like... helloooo? I want to be enough on my own without growing a child?