will anything ever be as iconic and savage as when sally jackson, percy jackson’s mother, used the decapitated head of the medusa to turn her abusive husband to stone, and then sold him as a statue to an art gallery to critical acclaim and used the resulting funds to pay to attend college and start her dream life as a writer
im not suggesting we immediately transition to full communism or whatever, but you have to admit that Bothov had a lot of good ideas
I’m not suggesting we immediately genocide our enemies, but I think we can all agree their time is ending.
tell me, which of Bothov’s teachings do you disagree with? I bet you don’t even know who he is.
You know, you’re right, I don’t know they guy, never read anything by him, but if his ideas promote communism they’re garbage and so are you.
You’re telling me that you’ve never heard of Bothov? Come on, just ask me if you’re not sure.
Bothov is basic dialectical materialist theory, I’m against Communism myself but you really have to read Bothov to be able to form an argument against Communist on a theoretical
Seriously, @tehgore if you want me to explain Bothov to you just ask, I’m always up to talk about one of my favorite subjects.
i hate when people in movies/tv are reading ancient languages and they translate everything really smoothly and poetically, as if when people who study ancient languages aren’t consulting three different commentaries and sobbing profusely when we read
ok so like…. it says
“come you all into the deepest cavern, or maybe that’s fireplace, depends on usage, and having come may you give your…. treasures? Skin? Pants? I don’t know, something…. to the….. about-to-be-adored guy, that one who…. okay, he either causes earthquakes or sleeps a lot, I think this might be an idiom….”
“ok, sorry that took so long and i hate to disappoint but i’m still not entirely sure what it means, like, it could be something about a religious ceremony or it could be a dick joke. leaning towards dick joke, might be both. knowing the ancients, probably both. this could very well be an ancient dick temple and we should probably leave.”
man i want a whole series based around this idea with a team of people going into temples and ancient cities and shit, and trying to figure out what the fuck to do and where to go, and all the wild shenanigans that happen because they inevitably have to guess or miss important information or just plain get it wrong
the crucial difference in a culture that uses gemstones as currency between “you will be metaphorically showered with riches” and “you will be covered with rocks (from the ceiling from the trap full of boulders)” …
hell you could do it with that indiana jones reboot idea with lupita nyong'o as indiana and her putting artifacts back rather than taking them
also imagine if they had to negotiate with ancient godlike beings in these languages and they like “shit I’ve only seen these words written down pls slow down” and the godlike beings are pissed as fuck cos of stuff being stolen, and they’re trying to translate well enough to try and figure out what the hell was stolen so they can find it, and also maybe somehow talk their way out of smiting and rains of fire without accidentally calling the undead priests lazy fucks cause of bad pronounciation or unknowingly agreeing to making a sacrifice of freshly severed dicks for the dick temple
