Lyre

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[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Does anyone know the name of the number with that many zeroes?

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Thank you shepherd.com, i hadn't heard of the single most famous sci-fi writer of the last decade.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago

I did not expect such a poetic response to something I wrote while drunk at 3 am

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

So... The lotr orcs are only "pretty orcy"?.... What exactly is this orcyness scale based on? Lotr orcs are the definitive depiction that all modern orcs are inspired by.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

I mean by the by it was a funny movie and I liked it. But when you get right down to it, it was a hail-mary attempt by Matel to switch the narrative about their toys being unhealthy for young women's body image. I'd say thats the only consistent message it had.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you think so? Consider the subtext, not just the genders of the actors.

The conflict of the film is, quite literally, an oppressed sex lashing out at the society that oppressed them and taking control. The resolution is the previously dominant sex regaining control and putting the oppressed sex back in their former, subservient positition.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

It is kind of funny that the movie's ultimate message was that a society with strictly enforced gender roles and a dominant sex is good.

Also where was the queer representation? They showed magic earing Ken but no gay characters? Really??

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Tbh at some point GW kinda forgot that the imperium was supposed to be satire.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Bro whose decision was it to put Yaddle front and center on that promo art

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'll check those out! I find the subject super interesting.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Just in case you didn't know, there was a big cache of gnostic texts found in Nag Hammadi but the discovery got overshadowed by the dead sea scrolls. They were very cool to look into and shed a lot of light on pre-romanized Christianity.

[–] Lyre@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish i had something off the top of my head but I'm mostly basing this off what i remember from uni lectures.

That being said if you look up early Christianity you'll see that women filled the roles of priests and were often responsible for spreading and maintaining the faith before its roman adoption. You can even even see this in the bible where the earliest chronological chapters are extremely sympathetic to women, then become less and less so as time goes on.

I'll see if i can find a specific reference for you later today.

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