ValamirCleaver
Ein Jäger aus Kurpfalz
Hence my previous specific example.As a general rule, the world is made better by watching things that include Diana Rigg.
The 1986 TV movie starred Fairuza Balk, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae & Tim Curry.
Hence my previous specific example.As a general rule, the world is made better by watching things that include Diana Rigg.
The 1986 TV movie starred Fairuza Balk, Diana Rigg, Charlotte Rae & Tim Curry.
Yes, I was responding to you.Hence my previous specific example.
I don't. I think talking about cosmic horror and omitting Lovecraft is like talking about American Gothic literature and forgeting about Edgar Allan Poe. Granted, you're right, the field is certainly a lot more open than it was in Lovecraft's day and would send the old man back to Arkham, but his shadow yet looms. We're talking about a dude who has influenced Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Guillermo del Toro, and whose derivitive works can be found in such diverse sources as South Park, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Black Sabbath, Metallica, a myriad of video games, and I'm sure I'm just scratching the surface. The dude's ghastly tentacles stretches pretty damned far for a writer who was failure during his lifetime.I think the transformative nature of CoC effectively wrests the mythos, once and for all, out of Lovecraft's ghostly hands. I am not a fan of the mythos -- at all -- but it's not hard to find lots of examples of PoC creators and others whom Lovecraft would no doubt have to return to a sanitarium if he knew about doing great work with what he started. It no longer belongs to him -- he's just one more sinister New Englander in the mythos tales at this point.
It's like carbon offsets, but for eradicating trans people.Rowling has donated $100 million+ to charities among which include childrens poverty, AIDS, Dyslexia, MS charities
I always think in terms of the concept of “reasonable accommodation” aka not making perfection the enemy of the good.Is it possible to talk about Lovecraft in the context of gaming without making others feel excluded or threatened? And if the asnwer is no, what do you think we should do about that on these boards? With the understanding that ultimately the owner makes the rules and we either abide by them or leave.
I'm not trying to deny his influence. I'm saying the mythos no longer belongs to him (were he alive) in the way that the Harry Potter universe belongs to Rowling. Even in his lifetime, he let others play in his tentacle-filled sandbox, which Rowling does not do.I don't say this to talk about the merits of his work in particular, only that he continues to be an influence. And to deny that is odd I think.
As a Jewish man I'm with Jon Stewart on this. Even if you can draw parallels between the goblins of Harry Potter and old antisemitic pictures, that doesn't mean it was done intentionally or is even based on those old pictures. I don't believe that she intentionally designed those goblins with those parallels in mind. And I feel the same way about the guys from Star Wars.Sometimes the difficulty is that particular images are so ingained in our culture that we often don't realize the origins. I was watching an episode of the Clone Wars and they introcued the Intergalactic Banking Clan. If you haven't seen the episode, the bankers had vaguely Easter Island style heads with very pronounced noses. There are many people who thought these duplicitous bankers touched on many historica Anti-Semetic beliefs from the past. Was it a deliberate call back on the part of the writers and animators? I doubt it. But it's there.
I've been reading up on the blood lipbel material in the new game...it's pretty overt anti-Semitism, even if one could give a pass to the original book and movies as just representing common lazy tropes.As a Jewish man I'm with Jon Stewart on this. Even if you can draw parallels between the goblins of Harry Potter and old antisemitic pictures, that doesn't mean it was done intentionally or is even based on those old pictures. I don't believe that she intentionally designed those goblins with those parallels in mind. And I feel the same way about the guys from Star Wars.
One of the things that really bothers me is this tendency to automatically say that something to which you can draw a parallel to racism, if it wasn't done overtly, is automatically connected subconsciously to racism. As if it isn't possible for someone to completely coincidentally come up with such a parallel. Not only is it possible to do, it's very possible. That's why I refuse to be offended by coincidence.
If you want me to be upset over something that is potentially antisemitic, you need to show me that it was deliberate. When I was in my 20's I was very poor. One day I was traveling on a bus with my 1 year old daughter in my lap. My family has dark brown to black hair, but for some reason we are born blond and it takes a year or two for the hair to darken. So here I was with my blond daughter in my lap when a guy gets up to get off of the bus. As he passed me he said, "Wow. There's more than a little Aryan in her. You must be proud." Since I had a little girl in my lap, I just sort of grunted noncommitally and he exited the bus. That was antisemitism. It was clear.
The same can't be said for JK's anti-trans sentiments. She has articulated those very clearly. They are deliberate and the bigotry is clear.
Yeah. I'm not talking about the video game. I don't know much about that other than what little I've read here. I'm speaking about JK's contributions to Harry Potter.I've been reading up on the blood lipbel material in the new game...it's pretty overt anti-Semitism, even if one could give a pass to the original book and movies as just representing common lazy tropes.