Weed is great. Psychadelics are great. Benzos are great gor not existing but not fun. Cocaine makes you an asshole. Opium derived stuff makes you boring. Meth makes you annoying. Alcohol gives you a kinda okay buzz while physically and intellectually incapacitating you and ruining tomorrow.

That involves the ability to read critically. I dont think most fans of this series have much of that.

I feel like throwing poop at him when he leaves his castle would be much better.

Or trans women flashing their tits at him.

That depends how you read it. Uncritically for wish fulfillment? Obviously. As a portrait of the author’s mind? Not at all.

I think some experience reading fiction written for literate adults would do most people good.

Kind of.yes.

That is what i was implying, yes. Go eat some fucking salmon.

Why would anyone in power not see that as a very clear choice?

Im explaining the thing. What it means to them. Modern comic books are a close analogue to how ancient people understood their mythologies. How modern people understand their mythologies.

You have these multiple iterations/retellings/translations if these stories with the ‘same’ characters coming from different cultural contexts. Why does the original necessarily take primacy?

Fuck, even ancient rome and its empire, where the big part of christian myth takes place is largely mythologized at this point. There is a verifiable real version that existed and we can verify many details of, but what is remembered and used is largely a fantasy. Even the aesthetics are not ‘true’ to any period or popular style of the original. Go show a ‘return’ statue pervert an ancient statue of venus with what chemical analysis tells us is the original paint job, tits and all. He’ll try to fucking kill you.

The original story does not matter. Even the ‘return’ is not a desire to reproduce the original, it is a desire to create an imagined world without the courage to admit new things are possible or we can have better. Its an emotional aesthetic not an actual reasoning.

Any belief about any oft reinterpreted emotoonally charged body of knowledge is the same. Nobody actually cares about the truth. I take it from the response youre a christian. If a middle aged palestinian dude wearing plants on his head descended from the sky on a beam of light accompanied by a heavenly choir of such beauty you fell to your knees and wept, then grabbed a child and told you in a language you had never heard but somehow understood told you to rape that child, would you? Fucking of course not. Youre probably not a fucking monster. Youd find a reason that isnt really your messiah. Because it isnt. Thats not what you believe in. I hope thats not what you believe in; harder than id like to assume that these days.

I kind of want to buy a knock off best buy uniform so i can talk to people about linux.

Yeah thats why you should shop there. Read what i said again.

Why on earth would a christian care about that? You know in the first comic superman couldnt fly? Batman’s gadgets were things like a pocket tape recorder?

More that i am very used to being used as rhetorical pawn by people who precisely misunderstand the identity/experiemce theyre leveraging.

The harry potter fandom is communal. A tribal identity.

Well it was a guy. Makes it gay. You know how that mythology feels about gay.

Or saw a guy jacking it to wario hentai and was like ‘this isnt so much a sacrifice as an escape’.

Giving an erratic actor root access to all yiur systems seems foolish, even for a blood drenched imperial so-and-so.

It is now clear that is what windows is.

Which is at least good on pancakes.

Hey. Thats not true. Youre just outside europe.

Im not saying they should necessarily part with it. Only interrogate their fucking relationship with it.

you just dont understand, some kids were abused and took refuge in literature

You had no way to know how funny it is to tell me this but i really hope none of my neighbors were asleep.

Its like how one cant criticize lenin in front of a tankie without them throwing a fit.

Its not the books that are problem. Its the weird self gratification unchallenge cuddle-treats uncritical or even anti-critical consumption of media thats the problem.

For the puzzles? I have a sudoku app on my phone im quite fond of.