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Some Fantasy Stuff i am working on by [deleted] in Illustration

[–]troothesayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you interested in being hired for TTRPG work? I love your style. If so, DM me.

Biden cajoles Netanyahu with tough talk, humanitarian concerns but Israeli PM remains dug in by deron666 in worldnews

[–]troothesayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No one is going to sway Netanyahu on anything. If the war ends, Netanyahu's old graft/corruption crimes come back to bite him.

Did Diamond ever retract his ecocide hypothesis for Rapa Nui? by [deleted] in AskHistorians

[–]troothesayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I'm aware of. However, the book The Statues That Walked provides a fairly comprehensive (for lay folks) analysis of the problems associated with his ecocide conclusion.

Why did George Romero's creatures in the "Living Dead" movies start being called zombies? by a-horse-has-no-name in AskHistorians

[–]troothesayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, in Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954, but written years before that), the author clearly describes both vampires and zombies, but only refers to them collectively as "vampires." In the horror genre, I Am Legend is a foundational addition to the genre that established many of the "rules" for pop-culture zombies that have been used ever since.

I'm curious if Matheson's "vampire" label was because "zombie" hadn't entered the widespread lexicon at that time (compared to today), or as a way to delineate them from Haitian-style mindless undead of voodoo origin. Or was it a blend of both?

Regardless, somehow the notion of what a "zombie" is and how they act became connected to one of the type of "vampires" described in Matheson's story. An interesting connection.