They already handwring about the Haitian revolution, John Brown, Nat Turner & other slave revolts, they just know they probably couldn’t get away with saying it for US slavery as a whole. It’ll probably enter the discourse sooner than later

Just a weird memory your story dredged up

Wasn’t my teacher but my brother had an AP world history class where the teacher couldn’t be fucked to pronounce Chinese names correctly - went off about “Zee Jinping pong [RACIST RHYME WITH PING PONG] who cares…”

I had a libertarian history teacher in HS who had the class watch V for Vendetta and had the class do projects about it; she was convinced the regime in V was a leftist state.

Maybe some people shouldn’t be allowed to teach impressionable kids.

My classic go-to’s are usually DBZ/DBS, Cowboy Bebop, Space Dandy, Samurai Champloo, FMA:B, and Trigun. Some people like the Jojo and HxH dubs but I’ve only ever watched them subbed.

I thought the AoT dub was decent, but it’s AoT and therefore you shouldn’t watch it lol

If you’re looking for movies, the Ghibli catalogue usually have very good dubs. I’m a fan of the Princess Mononoke and Porco Rosso dubs myself.

Uhmm ackshually he wasn’t a samurai, he was just a retainer to the shogun who was given the weapons of office, traveled with his retinue, given residence, and fought with him. There’s a big difference.

Where he was a giant axe wielding dude with a bear guardian spirit, it’s hype as fuck

kill whitey

Favorite generator for hatemail was invading/placing a sign as a mad phantom in Carthus by the rope bridge. Make nice with the host then sprint past them and the skeleton horde, cut the ropes while they’re distracted by the crowd on the bridge

Despite the huge market share PS is so much worse & less convenient than my usual digital art program, Clip Studio. What do you mean you can’t non-destructively mirror a canvas in PS?!?

That too - same reason why racism allegories like don’t work so well. When you try to write a story as 1:1 parallel to real life using species with vast inherent physical disparities, things tend to get messy.

That’s not to say you can’t draw upon the history of racism, colonialism, etc., for your scifi or fantasy ofc, but it requires a little more effort and consideration than that to make a compelling story

Yes, that demon is literally a concept of Evil given physical form

Even then, in my worlds I still occasionally like to include the edge cases of outsiders rejecting the evil of their archfiends (or overlords, what have you) and, if not redeeming themselves, sometimes being a little bit more chill (sometimes still morally dubious but in a more fun way).

I think my tendency towards a historical materialist lens has really affected my worldbuilding lol. I always like to logic out how outsider societies would work in my settings given such concepts as soul-corruption, damnation, souls as currency, immortality, and on and on. I find it much more interesting that way.

Yeah a fiend society and most fiends are “evil” in a similar way to any of the truly evil empires in our world and their supporting people are - with the added fun factors that a large percent of the population may literally be harvesting damned souls, or be born from the greed/hate/lust/jealousy of former mortal souls. I like a demon not having to be 110% inevitably bound by their origin

I’ve always used “species” or “people”. Pathfinder using “ancestry” for species and “heritage” for the subspecies/ethnicity is cool too.

I always found it weird when I’d get online comments about how using “species” is supposedly too scifi and I honestly don’t get it.

That’s not even getting into the extremely tired rhetoric of “if you think the orcs/goblins/kobolds/etc are stand-ins for black/indigenous/etc people I think that makes you the real racist huh”

FREE KURTULMAK! DOWN WITH GLITTERGOLD AND THE GNOME OPPRESSORS!

K6BD did just have this mega based exchange… There are a lot of libs in both fanbases so I’m just going to continue assuming Abaddon is cool lol.

Abaddon, Pilot NET, or both?

aww fuckin…cmon, the game is a full throated endorsement of communism and the creator is based as hell, libs shouldn’t be allowed in!

…though I haven’t heard Abaddon/Tom Bloom’s opinions on Palestine, I suppose I just assumed he’d come out on the side of liberation considering all his other espoused views and his fiction…

their policy’s on record, check the tapes & CDs

Was the old HxH any good? Big fan of the later reboot but I’ve never watched the original or the OVAs.

the gliders coulda used a LGC-04 APOCALYPSE RAIL or two for some extra oomph yknow

I did, for a split second, read that as “Mech wearing a keffiyeh” and that’s now something I need to make a sketch of.

edit: nvm I shoulda known RetroGrade Minis would have it