Lightbulb Crusher

So this guy Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth collected all these fairytales and in the 2000′s they were discovered in an attic and published. Unlike the Grimm brothers, he did not edit anything. The Grimms deliberately edited the stories to fit middle class tastes - they also were trying to create a national identity with these tales as a touchstone. Meanwhile Von Schonwerth’s goal was documenting the Bavarian oral traditions - which is why he didn’t edit the stories in his notes. 

And the stories are weird and intense. Some have the classic “beginning middle end + moral” - some are just “here’s stuff that happened….” 

And some of the endings…you know that story about a weary soldier who performs three tasks and gets to marry the princess? In this book, the soldier is continually rejected by both the king and the princess, so he brings an army to burn down the entire castle with everyone inside. The end, lol.

The other interesting thing is that while the Grimms tales had mostly female protagonists, Von Schonwerth’s have as many boys trying to escape nasty situations as girls. There are boys who cuddle up with frogs to discover that the frogs are princesses, there are boys called “King Goldenhair,” there are brothers fighting, and fathers sending sons out to stop being a burden on the family. In the introduction, Maria Tatar posits that the Grimms, having suffered from being orphans, may have avoided these types of stories. 

I recently found out that The Angry Video Game Nerd is surprisingly popular in Japan. His reviews get subbed, are thrown on NicoNico, and he’s earned somewhat of a cult following over there from it. There’s a Pixiv tag for fan-art and everything.

It’s just like Gamecenter CX over here. I love it.

I’m never playing Isabelle again

https://twitter.com/metroetta/status/1062184086356209665?s=21

He goes around scowling and saying rude one-liners like he thinks he’s fucking Shadow the Hedgehog or something.

He has a catchphrase.

Said catchphrase is a statement of being bored/exasperated which is often translated as “good grief”.

Everything he does is fucking extra for the sake of looking cool, like in the N’Doul fight when the jeep flips and he’s hanging on with one hand with the other in his pocket.

His outfit is a school uniform that’s been heavily tailored and accessorized. That fucking big-ass chain on the collar. And he liked the way it looked so much that he continues to only ever wear variations of that same outfit even when he’s ~40.

His solution to every problem is to punch it, and if that doesn’t work he either punches harder or throws something.

Star Platinum’s “ora ora” battle cry must have came from somewhere since Jotaro fucking says it himself when beating up Alessi as a 5 year old with no recent memories. So he’s probably copying some anime he saw as a little kid because he thought it looked badass.

The fact that he has such absurd analytical skills and he went on to become a PhD implies that his entire persona is a front for being a fucking nerd. And as Stone Ocean teaches us, Jotaro is genuinely awful with interpersonal relationships. In other words, SDC!Jotaro is a nerd with poor social aptitude acting hard and edgy to cover this up.

human: uh, that’s a rat. They’ve been showing up ever since we started harvesting grain. We don’t eat them, they eat our food.

cat: free game then. Cool.

human: be my guest.

cat: hey is this spot free? It looks warm and I need a place to have my litter.

humans: this is my house. Feel free, I guess, just don’t get stepped on.

cat: hey can you watch my kittens for me? I need to hunt and I don’t want predators finding them.

human: holy shit these buggers are cute. Nothing will happen to them.

cat: I am going to climb on your lap now and you are going to love me.