GratiansGhost
@HistoryGoons
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Compilation of my banger threads and reviews from the year, for your consideration:
Me: "You look like a psycopath." @HistoryGoons: "In a good way? A Nietzschean slash Faustian way?"
"We need to recreate the Weimar Republic even faster"
We need to fly over Germany and drop pornos, ketamine, and glow sticks to mellow them out again.
"He began to see that his country's cowboys, outlaws, mountain men, Indians and cavalry officers had the makings of a genuine American Mythology... One with the grandeur and complexity of the Greek tragedies, every bit as fertile ground for exploring human experience."
Now reading this biography of Hollywood maniac Sam Peckinpah.
"Get on the sIаve shіp, Afrіcаn Batman!" "Aw hell nah Јеwkеr the Gothamtu tribe aint gon stand for dis shіt" "Why, they're the ones who sold you!!" "Shееееееееіііііііііt"
“Gotham has until midnight tonight to stop committing child sacrifice.”
"That's right Guanoman! I'm holding the teopixqui hostage and you'll never find him." "You monster! Without him we can't sacrifice enough children to make the sun rise!" "The children will live! And there's nothing you can do about it! AHHHHahhahahahhaaaa"
All of life is not worth a single line of Baudelaire. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa March 1, 1892 - July 24, 1927
"Appendix carry? With a sig??? More like Appendix scary" - me
In Beyond Words: How Animals Think and Feel [well researched and cited—highly recommend] ecologist Carlo Safina speculates that the lack of orca and wolf attacks on humans are bc they recognize us as social and vengeful creatures like them, whose relatives would seek revenge
I honestly believe this is one of the biggest mysteries there is, Orcas are the most efficient predators on earth, yet they have never attacked us in the wild. They know something we don’t.
“Our laws were designed by women and weak men. You’re a goycattle of the state. You can’t act as a free man until we establish a militaristic futuristic regime with the laws of Lycurgus. Break the laws to usurp power or don’t break them at all.” “Woah cuck boy you sound like a…
The most amazing part of Emperor's New Groove is that it's actually an allegory and not about Incans, Peru, or Llamas at all but about the cutthroat struggle between Generational Ownership and Striver Middle Management in the NYC Corporate Real-estate market.
When a seemingly insignificant line of dialogue is repeated much later in a story but with greater importance.
Narmer is spelled 'Catfish, Chisel' and means "painful catfish", "stinging catfish", "harsh catfish", or "fierce catfish". WAT did Egyptians mean by this??? Mudfish of great power.
King Catfish