#Fantasy on American TV

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Happy Birthday to the great @neil-gaiman 🎂

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Main D20 Seasons Ultimate Ranking: part 2

Bonus: who was the scariest villain? Who was the antagonist you most agreed with?

(Part I, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX, Part X, Part XI)

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Ostara Happy Easter

American Gods - Come to Jesus

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hello i am alive!!! ive been really really into pjo and greek mythology lately!!! heres some art of that and me and my friends ocs

[formerprincewille]

I know people hate comparisons with yr and hs, but one thing I really appreciate about yr and what I think sets it apart from most other shows (including hs), is that none of the characters feel overly groomed or stylized. Except maybe August but that fits with his personality. All tv shows have a makeup , hair, and costume crew. A lot of thought of course goes into that. But something that is SO common in tv now are characters looking very “polished”. Even in hs, other than Darcy, it is common to see this. Hair and makeup done perfectly, outfits that are never worn more than once, etc. Young Royals isn’t like that. Outfits repeat. Hair looks natural and not overdone. The characters look like people you could see in your daily life. Like REAL people. The irony is that most of the characters in yr are rich as hell. You could actually excuse them walking around looking perfect. But you don’t see it. It’s very much a skamverse vibe. I wish more shows did this.

[takaraphoenix]

Seeing Lou and Siobhan fight over whether raspberry mustard or grape jelly is more weird is so funny because I have never heard of either of these things.

This season is just The Most cultural study into both American culture and British culture, because this is like the fifth thing to come up this season where Siobhan is weirded out by American culture and the others are in return weirded out by whatever British thing Siobhan brings up to counter and I am just sitting there, weirded out by both but also deeply fascinated by them.

[daisyachain]

The nature of time is that (culturally) Christian Euro/Anglo colonial consumers (hereafter white ‘people’) fetishize the idea of being ‘close to nature’ or ‘primitive’ or ‘savage’ and latch on to the idea that there are groups of people in the world who are somehow bestial or who have some kind of special powers from holding animist beliefs/beliefs that acknowledge the body as opposed to the Christian belief that the body is a kind of useless appendage to a person. We see this across decades from the 19thC to today in the racist fetishization of indigenous people across the globe, particularly residents of the Americas, Australasia, and southern/eastern Africa.

White consumers use a warped conception of other cultures to live out the fantasies that the Christian soul/body stuff engenders. You keep getting told that your emotions and physical sensations are the devil’s work? You want to get in touch with those physical sensations, but you don’t want it to interfere with your worldview? Simply project them on to a convenient group of people with slightly different conventions from you. Imagine how cool it would be to be 100% physical sensation (especially those pesky violent and/or sexual urges) and no mental burden, then unleash that in a way that causes millions of deaths worldwide via the dehumanization of entire nations of people just trying to live their lives. White consumers love a Proud Warrior Race Guy.

Flash forward to the 2010s, it’s generally considered impolite to spread the same propaganda that justified the genocide and dispossession of many different groups of people. However white culture hasn’t changed that much and normal human activities still need to be explained away to maintain the veneer of white intellectualism that has been used to justify white violence for years and years. You can’t just stomp around and clap your hands and dance badly, you’ve got to project it somewhere else.

But wait! There’s a community of people considered ‘tribal’ and ‘savage’, considered violent and bestial, who were never colonized! It’s…the Norse. Fetishizing early medieval North Sea raiders can’t be cultural appropriation, see, they’re white! It’s not offensive to replace an entire culture with white (male) ideas of what’s cool if that culture is totally unassociated with colonizer stereotypes and is in fact a culture of colonizers!

And that’s my theory on why there are so many Norse-inspired folk bands/video games/tv shows/memes/literally anything in the 2010s. VSaga not counted because that manga has been running since 2003 and is actually well-researched and comes out of a culture with a similar but distinct tradition of racism. The Euro storytelling tendencies of needing some kind of violent avatar have taken on ye anciente Norseman now that people care a little bit about the gallons of blood used to sketch other ethnic stereotypes. Done and dusted. Except the other side is that the fetishization of early medieval Norse culture is literally just white supremacist 101 and a lot of artists don’t step around that nearly as carefully as they should

[puck1919]

"What is food if never on is fed, when with strange disposals, even death lies dead?"

Mr. Mulligan, I know you considered Call of Cthulhu for "Mice & Murder"-- Lovecraft season when???

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The tube is such a strange concept to me like wdym. I can’t believe British people exist

[phoenixtakaramono]

The Name of the Game - Ch1 Preview III

(CW: Supe terror/ism)

A/N: This might not make sense without the full context and tense build-up that’ll lead to all this, but you get the gist. The goal of Scene 1 (wordcount: 10K) is to speedrun through the important main cast of characters who’ll show up in the Task Worlds and then finagle a way to kick Billy into the System subspace—which officially starts us on Scene 2.

*Keep in mind, this snippet comes from an early draft so somethings might be subject to change in the final draft.

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May the releases be with you

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Oh noooooo Netflix Shadow and Bone is a lot of things but qualified to tackle jurda parem absolutely not

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Ostara Happy Easter

American Gods - Come to Jesus

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American Born Chinese

Disney+'s American Born Chinese was a lot of fun. Jin, a Chinese American high schooler, has to guide Wei-Chen, the son of Sun Wukong, to stop an uprising against Heaven.

The beginning of the show is pretty bad, but it's on purpose, so don't worry about it. And it's definitely not as bad as the beginning of the graphic novel, as they changed the racist humour storyline for the better.

There are a lot of scenes in Chinese. If you're familiar with the legend of Sun Wukong (aka Son Goku in Japanese), you'll notice fun details like Jin having the Dragon Ball manga. Anuj also mentions my beloved Saiyuki, a much closer adaptation than DB.

[ecandjamesvpjournal]

Decided to watch this series. Within the first few moments, I’m getting some Unknown Armies vibes from this.

Should be interesting.