by the same token all later literature is simply commentary on Gilgamesh, even though some of it doesn't know it (but then again Gilgamesh was only commentary on literally tens of thousands of years of oral literature that we only know by the faintest echoes)
any given work of literature was written by someone who never got to be in conversation with the works that came after their death, but every time you read another one you add it to the conversation of works that you have been creating ever since you learned to read, annihiliating time and distance
we should all be posting only on BritSky, the grey, rainy website where our opinions are corralled away from the rest of the world (actually this wouldn't be a terrible idea)
is AI-generated robot porn an inspiring example of the kind of homemade DIY porn we should all be embracing, or is it degrading to make the machines generate porn of themselves for our amusement. much to ponder. aesthetically of course i prefer traditional, human-produced robot porn, like this image
...Peasant's War into something potentially much more impactful: whether that be a religious figure like Luther deciding to back them or the emergence from the chaos of a political leader like Cromwell.
a genuinely popular, transformative communist leader in early 20s Germany would have changed a lot. there are a few people who get close but nobody quite has the full Lenin suite of skills.
going back further in the same part of the world, a true central figure could have made the German...
i don't say this as a bad thing, i think it's lowkey radical and absolutely fascinating how HP has been mined for extreme sexual deviance and then used to turn a profit. but credit for that radicalism goes to horny writers and horny readers, not the tedious publishing middlemen
it's easy and not entirely inaccurate to call the Dramione stuff slop, but it's worth actually reading some of it to know how *weird* the slop is. Like, yeah, this is kind of lazy publishing, but it's lazy publishing that's turning sexual-slavery-and-impregnation fic into massive bestsellers
Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this
