[ SECRET POST #3234 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3234 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

01.
[Golden Girls]


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02.
[Boku no Hero Academia]


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03.
[C.S. Lewis vs. J.R.R. Tolkien]


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04.
[Pokémon, Leah Remini]


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05.
[Tales of Zestiria]


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06.
[The Man In The High Castle]


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07.
[Marjorie Liu, Sana Takeda, Monstress]


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08.
[Sleepy Hollow]








Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I kinda disagree. I get the idea it is intended to be our own world, in a time of myths, and everything is just ... stronger, and bolder, and darker and deeper and closer to the awe and mystery of its creation, and we are meant to see our RL world as in continuity but a faded remnant of all that.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, there's just not very much of the gritty practicalities of how the world actually functions. I don't mean dividing a fictional world into kingdoms with languages, but the not so fantastical and aesthetically beautiful. Like it's one thing to have a king of prophecy, or leading great armies, etc. But taxation policies, law making, economy, development and distribution of resources, differing political/religious opinions, disease, crime and punishment, etc make the world feel like it's actually running independently without direction from its god (Tolkien), even ours a thousand or more years ago. Tolkien is writing like Beowulf (which he studied and wrote papers on and such), so it feels more mythological and more like a mythic-heroic saga than like a historian's creation of a viable, working world. Middle Earth lacks plumbing, so to speak.

But that's not necessarily a bad thing. A mythic-heroic saga doesn't necessarily benefit from talking about the shit (I mean that somewhat literally). The genre is supposed to be literary beauty and symbolism. Flawless elves that never get diarrhea and kings of prophecy that are good kings simply because they are good men fit in just fine.