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Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
mischiefseven
estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

i can never stop myself from swearing "jesus christ" in character when playing ttrpgs so my workaround for this has been that in every setting i run there is a different historical catastrophe that's always caused by a different guy but in each case, coincidentally, his name was jesus christ, so there's always a diegetic reason why people use that exclamation like a curse.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

in my old spelljammer campaign jesus christ was a gnome who fucked up during the construction of a space elevator between two orbit-locked planets, causing them to collide and costing the space bridge company 51 quintillion gold in resurrection costs and restitutive damages, which i think merits people 90 years later still using your name like it means "fuck me, this sure is a pickle"

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sometimes in a new game or even a one-shot, a canny player who's been at my table before will pre-emptively ask me "so who's jesus christ?"

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thestuffedalligator

Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.

The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.

And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.

I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.

drifting-knightjar

Let me tell you a story.

Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.

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Seaside, FL

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Seahaven

And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.

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lastvalyrian

Isn't this the town that Squidward moves to in that one episode

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needlesknick-knacks

Once i read all of golden age and silver age and bronze age and pre-crisis in general and post crisis and new52 and rebirth and all the different events and crossovers and learn all of the writers’ histories so i am aware of their biases and influences when creating those stories and familiarise myself with the cultural/social/political climate of when those comics were written to be able to understand and analyse them well from both a watsonian and doylist perspective it’s over for you all

dc yea 😔