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Artem Kaznatcheev
kaznatcheev
I'm skeptical of claims of 'underlying complexity'. Often that boils down to bad descriptions. But even if we grant that claim, we can turn to Gell-Mann: "What is the point
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guren ichinose’s catgirl
aytolis
A thread about why Burn the Witch by Tite Kubo bad.-TW for antisemetism & Nazi imagery-Feel free to ask questions. I will provide evidence and such upon request, but I
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Mick the Tired Latke
mccakela
A Series of Unfortunate Events is an allegory for the Jewish diaspora. The Baudelaires are Jewish orphans who wander from place to place after their home is destroyed in a
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ēden
revivematiIda
everyone who’s like “jkr didn’t write hp! i did!”: do u really want to be the person who decided werewolfism was an aids allegory and who decided to write in
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Possum Reviews
ReviewsPossum
Zootopia is a bad allegory for racism because racism in real life is usually based on superficial distinctions like skin color. But in a world of talking animals, the physical
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Efka #blacklivesmatter
NoPunIncluded
Thanks to these screengrabs, many DnD players are realizing today that the man who created all of it was a misogynist.So how do we keep enjoying DnD with all of
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John Horton
johnjhorton
So my house is on fire. I got out in time (sort of), but it is really cold outside. The fire dept. hasn't shown up yet---and the house is still
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Salvator R. Tarnmoor
s_r_tarnmoor
Up through Book II of #FaerieQueeneQuarantinerandom thoughts:I think what bugs me about the plot is just the combo of it being allegorical, the allegory not having an obvious structure, &
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MovieBob Productions
the_moviebob
There is no such thing in narrative. It's there whether you plan for it to be or not, or sometimes not in the way you DID plan for.This kind of
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Travis
_Guildencrantz
My brain knows that Lorde did not intentionally write Pure Heroine as a direct allegory of the French Revolution.But my heart knows that Pure Heroine is a direct, one-to-one retelling
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Paul Furber
paul_furber
Not What You're Thinking: The Matrix as masonic allegory. Hollywood elite insider guy - the same dude who confirmed Antarctica as a place of evil secrets a couple of years
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biodysphoria
Zarathustra is worse than all of Nietzsche’s aphoristic works The episodes in Zarathustra halfway want to be aphorisms, halfway want to be scripture—but both Nietzsche’s aphorisms and Jewish holy books
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harum-scarum @ please tell me to do some cosplay
HaScaCosplay
He should've stayed just the way JJ created him: an allegory for privileged white boys, who have all the love and support from their family, who are radicalized into neo-n*zism,
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Jenny Tan
byjennytan
While we're dunking on Harry Potter, something that always bothered me about the books was the tension between the Hogwarts Houses as personality types treated as essential identities vs. social
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ulysses 👁
o_li_si
I think the Holy Mountain (1973) is a great film but the dude on letterboxd who left an article-long review with a half star rating has more valid points over
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Mish (🌸^‿^) ( ♡‿♡ 💨)
DynaMightBakugo
I don't even intent to get into this fandom's deep roots specially bc a lot of ppl lack the ability to understand and separate dynamics from individual stand point writting.
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