A penitent who is loud

Well Shelob explicitly isn't actually a spider, tbf, she's a horrible chimerical monstrosity that's just most like a spider.

I hate that I know this now!

Shelob in the LOTR films. the most recent RE game also had one

A bunny sea captain and a young sailor watch from the side of the boat, where a school of flying fish are 'flying' near the side of their boat

Daily bunny no.3254 sees something off the starboard bow

1: might wanna spoiler those for people.
2: no, I mean specifically like...sharp canines within a mouth behind the mandibles.

Shelob's not actually a spider!

Ok semiserious question. why do fantasy/horror spiders have teeth? and screech?

Like what the fuck? when did we all decide that the fantasy spiders screeched?

Unfamiliar

And c) knowing when they could not overtly defy the local Big Man, but d) saving up all their grudges so that on the rare occasions they could turn the tables on a despised and abusive member of the gentry, they paid it back with the sort of viciousness that only comes from long powerlessness.

We need to kill the mythology of the proud peasant dead.

Our peasant ancestors were canny, scrappy survivors. That doesn't necessarily select for pride or heroic defiance.

(especially since life as a peasant historically isn't proud and self reliant anyways, it's desperately sucking up to the local big man who runs the industrial capital)

You want the problems to be that the money isn't evenly distributed and not "there is not enough food to go around and the cities need to be fed, so the farmers get taxed within an inch of poverty & in turn do everything they can to scam the government."

Really gotta reiterate how absolute my hostility is to anyone who even remotely looks like they're advocating for a return to a golden age of supposedly leisurely subsistence as an antidote to the real but lesser problems of capitalism and industry.

I propose the stegosaurus instead. It has decorated itself.

America is not the big bad of history either.

My point is just that France's significant military and colonial power tends to get erased by people.

I'm not really sure that's even that relevant.

I mean technically it is enough, it's just his available options don't necessarily include "survive."

Even later on, Shackleton was apparently obsessed with get rich quick schemes when he wasn't on an expedition!

*whisper* if you can afford to launch a polar expedition instead of a real job, you probably are, technically, idle rich and certainly have servants.

Love your human Hornet!

Who, of course, being servants would often be treated like shit!

We're talking about academia and culture industries, where did sensible enter the equation?

I absolutely do not agree with this, especially when RFK is in the White House and his entire deal is basically RETVRN woo

If we're going to do "when has automation ever made people's lives easier" discourse, I encourage everyone to read book 1 of Caro's LBJ series, and in particular the part about what happened once the Texas Hill Country got electricity and people could suddenly put their clothes in washing machines.

This is not a small thing! Even if we account for tremendous inequality and poverty in the modern era we are orders of magnitude wealthier in real terms than Marx's own day (and the 19th century in general, we just don't think about all the servants doing all the work for the literati).

What I'm saying is also that the structure is different! A lot more people would be, to Marx, enemies of the True Working Class, that's why so many American attempts at Marxism end up weird.

Yes but we think of that differently, is my point. It's gone from "this is the middle class" to "this is the American gentry."

I'm not really sure that this is a universal premise in horror, but it is certainly important to some genres.

Palestine is the Omelas Child in the sense that the suffering of Palestinians is seen as *ideologically important*.

And not to the Western right.

I would go even further: insofar as Palestine is seen as our Omelas, it's not by mainstream Western society, & it's not in the crude fashion people see the Omelas Child.

People only care about Palestine because it's suffering. If Palestinians were not helpless, the world would not care about them.