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Hedge poet. I watch anime & am often accused of reading. 'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country's countless bells.' Read my work: https://thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlord-kinbright

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · Aug 1

Anyway please try Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright, which is free, in case you like it.
thaliarchus.itch.io/cosmic-warlo...

Cosmic Warlord Kin-Bright by Thaliarchus

Giant robot yuri space opera. In verse.

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Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 8h

ME: I felt, you know, he needs taking down a peg or two.

CHOTINER: So, after you replied to the menswear guy—

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 18h

Good night and good luck, pilots.

People on a ride pass by a view of a ruined landscape dominated by strange whorls. [RahXephon]

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 18h

Insipid: being a witch in the alps who needs to find her friend's cat

Intrepid: mongering fish and developing appreciation for the GOOD ice

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 18h

The word 'oast' (upthread) makes a return in a simile describing the top of Mount Doom.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 18h

'Out of the north […] there flowed whispering along the ground a thin cold air' is some nice reversed syntax and it's a relief when it turns out it's just air.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 18h

'Normal people must not know much about fish, like they probably can only distinguish two or three types of salmon flesh' &c &c

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Luna 💖 @sinyanju.bsky.social · 20h

YOU could be watching Simoun today.

Aaeru smiling at their music box

A silhouette of two girls dancing in a large empty cafeteria

Neviril and Aaeru kiss

Neviril kneeling in prayer

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 18h

Now, fishposting—

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Astrodolphin @astrodolphin.bsky.social · 18h

Adding to that, it definitely can be used similarly in Slavic languages in current time.
V, while polite, is also quite formal, and in many contexts would be interpreted as distancing and shutting person off from the in-group in the same way.

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Space☆Aer @aerindel.bsky.social · 19h

Amusing remark : in french you can use the V to create a social distance, not of deference, but in a "you're not part of my circle, so get out". It's ambiguous, and even more so nowadays when the V is less used in formal interactions (work etc)

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 19h

Oh, interesting! Thank you!

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 19h

guy obliged by username to pay attention if Horace is in your game

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 19h

I'm very amused that someone wound up doing this at all.

You *can* avoid 'weak' line-endings if you really want to (CWKB does, in the five-beat line sections) but it takes work, and it delivers a particular aesthetic rather than being more right (whatever that'd mean).

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 19h

My only worry is that many human-made films already feel like 98% disconnected hell nonsense.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 19h

Condemned to pick eternally between three things.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 19h

Ah, good, Hell Maiden demo.

Not a game in a genre my hands can cope with *but* I respect anything that shares my hobby of (dis)respecting classical poets.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 20h

Mazinger is pretty relaxed. You can dip in and try an instance of it and move on if it doesn't grab you.

The original's not, like, some terrible thing, but there's lots of it and it was made to be seen at a rate of one episode per week.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 20h

There're aspects of the orcs that feel like echoes of mid-century totalitarian regimes.

They each have a number, apparently, by which they can be reported to higher-ups.

Shagrat and Gorbag have a sort of evil-middle-manager conversation.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 20h

Less to remark on as I pass through the final chapters before the climax, but JRRT's skill as a landscape writer is shining through again in Mordor.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 23h

They (apparently?) didn't check whether their chosen hashtag was in use for anything else, and in fact it was used by the rather smaller online community of people from the English town of Reading.

Reading newspaper: 'RDG hashtag hijacked'

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, Genji's a remarkable work, but it's hard to place it as 'the first novel' since it's neither the earliest example of this sort of thing nor an ancestor of the novel as we have it.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 1d

The press are calling it 'unhygienic' and 'frankly concerning'.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 1d

I suspect Russia would fit broadly the same model as other parts of Europe? Literacy's more tied to religious/moral writing for centuries, fiction begins to take over in the nineteenth century, by the end of C19 the switch well underway? Which might make fiction matter to *mass* literacy, yes.

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 1d

Well, I'm thinking of the much greater amount of moral and religious writing in the eighteenth century. You will know Russian literature better than I do, but in the eighteenth century doesn't it too lean towards moral and religious writing rather than prose fiction?

Thaliarchus @thaliarchus.bsky.social · 1d

I can't speak about other parts of the world, but in Europe religion probably played a bigger role than fiction in advancing literacy for a long time.