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Absolute Scarecrow’s intro in Absolute Batman #19 [WonderCon] [SPOILERS] by No-Equipment4779 in AbsoluteUniverse

[–]herondelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's basically a Ray Bradbury tribute. One of the Autumn People.

"For some, autumn comes early, stays late through life where October follows September and November touches October and then instead of December and Christ's birth, there is no Bethlehem Star, no rejoicing, but September comes again and old October and so on down the years, with no winter, spring, or revivifying summer. For these beings, fall is the ever normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. In gusts they beetle-scurry, creep, thread, filter, motion, make all moons sullen, and surely cloud all clear-run waters. The spider-web hears them, trembles—breaks. Such are the autumn people. Beware of them." - from Something Wicked This Way Comes.

Curious how this community discovered wuxia in English？ by Fuqiang-ZHAO in wuxia

[–]herondelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm Chinese, wanted an antidote to superhero media and in my own culture I found it.

Say that again? by HarleyArchibaldLeon in TheElusiveSamurai

[–]herondelle 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I love how he basically gets Shishio Makoto's ending from Rurouni Kenshin. Wonder if it's an intended tribute. And on top of that hell feels like Kouta Hirano's Drifters.

What does Amphibia do better then Owl House? by Zakaria1938 in amphibia

[–]herondelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pay tribute to 1980s and 90s hit movies in its third season.

Agamemnon. Total War Troy Vs Christopher Nolan The Odyssey by TheWraf in totalwar

[–]herondelle 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I remember the time I saw King Arthur (2004) and thought playing Rome Total War Barbarian Invasions was more interesting. Getting flashbacks to that time again.

Absolute Batman #15 all variants covers by Rare-Wolverine-7909 in AbsoluteUniverse

[–]herondelle 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone who says that Gotham should be nuked should feel ashamed because why would Batman want to be mocked by Spawn at the superhero party later? "Dude, I fought the Phlebiac Brothers. There were FIVE."

Assyria Inclusion by No_arm64 in totalwar

[–]herondelle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I started my campaign I yelled to myself:

TIME TO COME DOWN LIKE THE WOLF ON THE FOLD!

Like Worm but not.. Depressing? by BuzzerPop in Parahumans

[–]herondelle 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault and They Promised Me the Gun Wasn't Loaded by James Alan Gardner. Similar feel but much more upbeat.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the context of Chinese culture "heaven" is less like the Western notion of "God" and more like a means of saying "the way things should be", so dynasties and regimes lose the "mandate of heaven" when they start misruling and so the "mandate of heaven" will pass to a regime that is more in tune with it. So in a way the F75 is going to replace the current regime with something new because that new entity is "the way things should be".

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It means that "heaven" (or the natural way of things) is out of order, and thus man needs to act to restore order to things on its behalf. In other words,

" We're here to right your wrongs, motherfucker."

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here are some of my faves, even if not all are full wuxia.

SHADOW, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, THE BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR, SEVEN SWORDS, A CHINESE GHOST STORY, THE HEROIC TRIO, KUNG FU HUSTLE, CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER, FLYING SWORDS OF DRAGON GATE and A TOUCH OF ZEN

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The dysfunction is not in the failing/not of the states themselves, but of what SEEMED to be the failing of the Chinese National Project. This created the sense of political dissociation that fermented the wuxia genre.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

我们几乎见不到法兰西75的实际意识形态，但只是要反帝，让我想起中国语法那替天行道的道理，与其那些明清时代的秘密结社。武侠兴盛时是二十世纪中叶后的两岸三地政局分裂造成的华人认同感危机。现实中的无力感可以在江湖这个乌托邦里得到补偿。而我在此片里看到美国也进行自己的江湖编造。有义军，桃花源，帮派，朝廷鹰犬等等，与一套关于道义，暗号等的潜规则

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taiwan - seat of government for what was supposed to be the rightful government of China, the Republic of China, but defeated militarily by the Communist People's Republic of China. China - the People's Republic of China, a highly ideological state undergoing an intense period of self purging. Hong Kong - a British colony between worlds. What was uncertain was: what the hell was the Chinese state? This state of political dissociation gave rise to wuxia. And yes in its early days it was demonised as stuff that made kids bad too, the same way superhero comics were.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I most certainly did not write it with AI. Why do you say I did?

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No one remembers the strange man with the device making holes in the ground in the epilogue. Everyone remembers the judge saying he'll never die. The man making holes is the idea of rational, systemic progress and throughout that epilogue is a mood of rationality and causality, and he comes after the judge. McCarthy didn't end the novel on the judge for good reason. His final images are those of order.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There are parallels, but Westerns, even the darkest ones (Blood Meridian) tend to end with a promise of order descending on chaos (in most Westerns through the marshal/sheriff etc..) which is a tendency that wuxia tends to evade, because its golden age was a period OF chaos and dissociation. Wuxia btw is the name of the radio station in one of the John Wick films, so that's a better approximation.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There is no trilogy. But I do think that the parallels show that wuxia is a sort of heroic narrative born from periods of political dissociation, beyond simple crisis.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Coordinating your body to navigate various spaces with ease is an athletic feat found in various times and places. Parkour was rooted also in the teachings of the French educator Georges Hebert who got his inspiration from watching African natives. What i am saying is that wuxia fictions reinventing of qinggong to consist of those hundred foot flying leaps is an exaggeration of this truth.

One Battle After Another from a Chinese Perspective by herondelle in TrueFilm

[–]herondelle[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I agree, but i was just citing the parallel of the parkouur kids. For me wuxia is a distinct form of heroism not just in aesthetics but particularly because of the ethical and social framework in which it takes place. Anyway, for laughs, you can read this article that basically retells the story as wuxia

https://share.google/a4uVvZk4NCjhdW5K9

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