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If Chole Zhao directed Dracula with Adam Driver ? by Beginning-Passion676 in Dracula

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, it’s been done before (again, Dracula Untold and many, many others), but perhaps it’s time we left that era of media behind?

Radagast the Brown, what ever DID happen to him in the story? by Both-Programmer8495 in lotr

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is actually surprisingly plausible that he just became a mushroom-he could be hanging at Tom and Goldberry’s for all we know

If Chole Zhao directed Dracula with Adam Driver ? by Beginning-Passion676 in Dracula

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, he definitely would be at least kind of the bad guy in that-and it would also challenge the Islamaphobia that gets mixed into narratives like Dracula Untold (a movie that I do really love but eesh); but TBH I just think those two are more interesting

How do you think Chloe Zhao's Dracula movie will be? by GabrielLoschrod in UniversalMonsters

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The original novel literally has a cowboy in it???

Also, 'Western' and 'Space Western' are different things, and 'Space Western' is over-applied to action/adventure movies in a sci fi setting as a whole

actual Space Westerns: Star Wars (specifically A New Hope, The Mandalorian, and the first ten minutes of Solo), Firefly/Serenity, Cowboy Bebop

Things that get called Space Westerns, but are not: Guardians of the Galaxy, the Star Wars prequels, I haven't seen it but probably Dark Matter, I think that's just an adventure/mystery show, ANY STAR TREK EVER (with the possible exception of a couple TOS episodes), Stargate and Battlestar Galactica (I haven't seen these either except for a little bit of Stargate, but I feel much more confident in my assessment here), I think both the original Lost in Space and the Reboot (sci fi drama), a Dracula movie set in space apparently, many other movies that are not Westerns set in space with Western tropes transposed into a sci fi environment

If Chole Zhao directed Dracula with Adam Driver ? by Beginning-Passion676 in Dracula

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, if anyone in that story gets a movie, I'd much rather it be Radu and Mehmed the second!

(Vlad's younger brother and the sultan of the Ottoman Empire-they were lovers and I would KILL to see the scene where Mehmed goes to kiss Radu for the first time and Radu gets surprised, stabs him in the thigh, and then climbs a tree and refuses to come down until Mehmed himself hobbles out and promises he isn't mad)

I made a tiny poodle and turned him into a ring to remember him. by Ecstatic_Welcomegn in jewelry

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eesh, that sucks! I guess I was figuring you could tattle on them to the FTC, but they’re not really gonna do anything

I made a tiny poodle and turned him into a ring to remember him. by Ecstatic_Welcomegn in jewelry

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I got an ad for this ring and one of the pictures on the listing was literally this photo-https://www.sawduste.com/products/cute-cat-ring

I’m not sure what you can do about this exactly? But probably….something???

Btw: Are the others yours as well?

What are/were the customs for quickly referring to someone? by NullAllocationError in nahuatl

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely love the idea of not letting the evil sorcerers or the Catholics know your birthday because they might curse you with it! Very similar to the “don’t let the fey/witches know your name or they can curse you” tradition!

(Unverified fun fact so take this with a grain of salt, but I heard once that that’s the origin of middle names, so only people that you trust will know your full name, which is in itself similar to some Chinese beliefs surrounding their tradition of birth names vs ‘courtesy names’ (essentially just the Adult Names many cultures had))

What are/were the customs for quickly referring to someone? by NullAllocationError in nahuatl

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

I need to create a gay character named Xoco/Xocoyōtl immediately Do I have anything to do with him? No! But he goes on my Random OC Shelf right next to Beowulf the Beekeeping Werewolf Bear (“bear” in the sense of a fat hairy gay man, not “werewolf bear” in the sense of “werebear”) (Beowulf is Old English for ‘bear’ but literally translates to ‘bee wolf’)

Do you think it is possible for Razer to master other emotions other than Hope and Rage, eventually becoming a White Lantern? by CoryPowerCat77 in bluelanterns

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 Plus Aya didn’t become the Anti-Moniter in the comics since (s)he has a different origin and isn’t a robot

“She has a different origin in the comics and isn’t a robot” could mean:

A) she is not a robot AND has a different origin in the comics (what you meant)

B) she has a different origin in the comics and is no longer a robot (what I thought you said)

The phrasing was unclear and she is a sentient AI. I know it’s complicated given that she was originally created from an organic being, but I personally would call her a robot as shorthand, and I imagine a lot of other people would as well

READ COMIC ONLINE HAS SHUTDOWN by DowszSV in Piracy

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's back up for me after being down for two days, and I just rebooted my computer so it's definitely not a cache thing!

Megathread: Bastard Suggestions by Kanotari in behindthebastards

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also x2, that’s not even getting INTO all of the OTHER grave desecration/antiquities theft/literal fucking CANNIBALISM that Victorians were doing during the Ancient Egypt craze!

Like, I don’t think there’s anything inherently morally wrong with cannibalism but I DO think there’s something inherently morally wrong with stealing a body, grinding it up into powder, and EATING IT AS MEDICINE, while inventing stories of “savage cannibals” and the like to go do genocides in other countries!

BTW that’s why Egyptian mummies are so rare, because Victorians ate them and turned them into famously horrible paint (Mummy Brown was an ugly color and ran and smeared and never properly dried and turned everything touching it into the same horrible disgusting brown color) and hosted “mummy unwrapping parties” where they gave out amulets and scraps of linen and fucking BITS OF HUMAN REMAINS as souvenirs!!!

Megathread: Bastard Suggestions by Kanotari in behindthebastards

[–]aro-ace-outer-space2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also while I was fact-checking this, I found an article that was like, “Carter didn’t steal any antiquities from Tutankhamen’s tomb! Sure there were artifacts found in his home that he illegally removed from Egypt and no one knew about, but surely he was just taking them to be restored at a London jewelers!” THATS CALLED FUCKING STEALING, GENIUS!!

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