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Sorry to everyone who’s enjoyed the last 130 years of science and culture journalism, but Disney needs the money to fund Toy Story 9
Oh, I unsubscribed years ago when they got bought out and had all their fact-checkers fired.
The real tragedy of Victor Von Doom as a character is how he is forever cursed by his ego to squander his enormous potential for good. Doom's genius and will could save the future, could heal the world, could make him the greatest hero of all, but the well intentioned part of him that truly wants all of these things will forever lose out to the megalomaniacal manchild who could never allow it because it might involve such outlandish notions as humility, compromise and tolerating Reed Richards.
This is exactly the crux of the Doctor Doom eight-part miniseries from a couple years back. Doom is confronted again and again by the consequences of letting the petulant side win, then meets an alternate universe self who has put that nonsense behind him and healed both himself and the world. READ IT CUZ IMA SPOIL IT 616 Doom is so disgusted with this version that he grabs the Ultimate Nullifier and deletes his alternate self and his entire universe. The megalomaniacal manchild ruins an entire universe in the name of ego, because to change is to admit his flaws.
You cannot possibly guess where this is going
I ain't even ashamed how many times I watched this.
Lmao this is the content I am here for.
reblogging so I can find it later
How to manage your emotions...
and lead a healthier, happier life
Looks remarkably like my grandfather.
Who made me this when I was very little.
another question that gets me is… would u be friends with your parents if they were your not your parents/ were the age you are now?? hard to tell bc who knows what they were really like at 20 something but….. we wonder. and we wonder and wonder.
How to manage your emotions...
and lead a healthier, happier life
Looks remarkably like my grandfather.
there is no guarantee the trinkets are not cursed. choose at your own risk. reblog to keep the trinket shop traveling.
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his hands broke so easy :=(
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reblog to give somebody a fucking hug because we are all struggling to get through it. solidarity in this tough ass world.
So.... I love this and I tried looking for it but haven't had any luck soooo
Happy Herc
In a lot of northern Indian Buddhist art, Hercules is depicted as the Buddha’s bodyguard.
This tradition of depicting Hercules as Buddha’s bodyguard started in the Greco-Bactrian kingdom of Gandhara, a part of Northern India conquered by Alexander the Great. This is important because Gandhara just happens to be the place Buddhism spread to the far east (it’s “the west” in the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West).
Hercules acquired a scary, bestial mien and thunderbolt swords in Asia via association with Buddhist guardian monsters, the Vajrapani, who had the traditional job of protecting the Buddha. Hercules and the Vajrapani were confused with each other and traits of one rubbed off on the other. This slowly transformed him into a thunderer all the way to Japan and Vietnam.
So in essence, these Buddhist temple guard statues found as far away as Vietnam and Japan started as statues of Hercules. That’s why the original illustration is so fascinating to me; depicting Hercules as monster-like and fierce-faced with a double-weapon.
To those saying “the Greek name is actually HERACLES, Hercules is the Roman name…”
…you are wrong.
Hercules is a legitimate alternate and Greek pronounciation of his name. The Romans were introduced to Greek religion by Southern Italian Greek colonies founded in the 6th Century BC. Like many other languages, Greek had tremendous regional variations, and the Southern Italian Greek colonies were especially known for this. Among other things, they had distinctive pronunciations, like Hercules instead of Heracles and Ulysses instead of Odysseus, and because the Italians were introduced to Greek culture and religion by these colonies, they mirrored their pronunciations.
In fact, it is very natural to understand where this way of saying it came from if you know a thing or two about the predictable laws of linguistics and linguistic change. “Cle” sounds in the middle of a word, naturally, smooth out with the addition of a u between the c and l. Like rocks, hard sounds erode down with time. Take, for example, how many Americans intuitively say “nuclear” as “nucular” (including Homer Simpson and George W. Bush). In the case of nucular, linguistics predicted this pronounciation would develop before it even happened. Nuclear, Nucular, Heracles, Hercules.
So yes, Hercules is what Greeks called him in certain places and it is totally legitimate to refer to him by that name in a Greek context.
It is worth noting that there were accents and dialects in the Ancient World, but we know very little about them, including what they sounded like. For example, St. Augustine was said to speak Latin with a thick North African accent. What that sounded like we do not know, but we have stories of those who heard him speak live and they said St. Augustine’s accent was so thick that what he said was mostly unintelligible.
I dislike correcting people, but I do like correcting the correctors. Being pedantic is like choosing a life of violence, the life of the gun. If you choose to live by it, you will eventually die by it.
i'm the guy who writes the books that the protagonist in supernatural horror movies frantically reads somewhere in act ii. job's pretty easy. lot of "legends of vampires have recurred all throughout human history" and "demonologists agree that the quickest way to un-summon a demon is to trap it in a cursed object". no citations of course; they don't pay me citation money. i had to learn html back in the early aughts when everyone started seeking their supernatural info on websites they found via top search engines like FINDLER and WEBSIGHT but that's died down now which is great because i didn't have it in me to pick up css. currently working on a new book about horses that are evil. it's called HORSES THAT ARE EVIL in all caps so the protagonist can find it quickly to yank off the library shelf. it will be published 35 years ago.