Belly_Beanis [he/him]

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  • Most people are at the bottom of the hierarchy. Even the Imperial Guard are among the top-tier forces of the Imperium. They have better equipment and training than PDFs (planetary defense force) or the private mercenary armies of whatever rich fuck. And being in the Guard still sucks.

    The lower castes within the Imperium have few (if any) rights. Some are slaves doing horrific labor in even worse conditions. Some are turned into servitors, performing the tasks of AI and computers without being AI. Some are harvested for organs or experimented on. Some are straight-up killed by the wealthy for sport. And this doesn’t even get into what kinds of things are done to humans by various aliens and chaos worshippers.

    It is the cruelest and bloodiest regime imaginable. An eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods.








  • I think maybe I’m ignorant, but it seems like all this discourse around evil races came up only when this movie was released and it compared orcs to minorities. Like people never associated minorities in real life with fantasy monsters. The closest thing I can think of is True Blood having vampires be an allegory of LGBTQ+ people at a time when gay marriage wasn’t legal.

    Maybe I’m out of touch and there have always been racist connotations that continued after Tolkien. It just seems like those connotations stopped with The Hobbit and only recently were revived with Harry Potter and then Bright.


  • Naw, they used to be one party, the Democratic-Republican party. They grew out of the Anti-Federalist Party and outlasted the Federalists. In the 1824 election, they were the only party in the US. They ended up fracturing in two, creating the Democratic party and the Whig/Republican party.

    The full severing of the political parties would occur just prior to the Civil War where Whigs splintered over slavery while Democrats supported it. Anti-slavery Whigs and Republicans consolidated together as the Whig factions further separated from each other.

    So the “Grand Old Party” is a splinter faction of a splinter faction that can trace its roots back to the original parties of post-Revolution America. Republicans and Democrats are technically the same age.




  • The Electric Tale of Pikachu is GOAT IMO and I wish the series had continued.

    Cover of volume 2:

    Ash’s battle with Misty for the Water Badge:

    An Ivysaur takes Ash’s Pikachu and Bulbasaur on a tour of a town guarded by an ancient Venasaur spirit. Bulbasaur doesn’t think the spirit is real:

    Ash loses control of his Charizard in the Indigo finals and forfeits the match so the other Charizard isn’t harmed any further:

    Series only ran for something like 4 or 5 volumes in 1997 to 1999ish, coinciding with the anime’s release in North America.