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Today I was made aware of a TV mini-series made by Amazon called "The Man in the High Castle" which is an adaptation of a book published in 1962 by the same name, authored by a "Phillip K. Dick". I don't watch much in the way of western TV these days, I've only really been following Game of Thrones, but the premise of this mini-series really intrigued me and seeing as how I was jokingly asked the other day why it's been so long since one of my blog posts on this board, I figure I might as well go ahead and blog about this show. So far I've only watched the pilot episode for this series, which apparently was released ages ago and got the series greenlit for a full run, so there isn't a ton of material to talk about just yet. The Man in the High Castle takes place on an alternate-universe Earth, a universe where the Axis powers won the Second World War, rather than the Allied powers. In this fictional timeline, the war ended in 1947, rather than 1945 and the US has been split in two following its defeat. On the west coast we have the "Japanese Pacific States", and taking up a lion's share of the North American land, we have the "Greater Nazi Reich". The year is 1962 and America has been under Axis rule for 15 years. Tensions are rising between the Japanese and the German due to Hitler's deteriorating health and the fact that the Nazi staff-members next in line for the Fuhrer position believe that sharing America with the Japanese was a mistake. It is also heavily implied in the show that it was the Germans who developed the nuclear bomb first in this universe and in a historical reversal, that bomb was dropped on the U.S. which is what ended the war. The Japanese are worried that the Germans will bomb them next. Of course, no story such as this would be complete without a resistance-faction and our protagonists become entangled with just that. The Man in the High Castle has two POV-characters, a young woman born and raised what became the Japanese Pacific States and a young man born and raised in what became the Greater Nazi Reich. The woman is Julianna or "Jules" and she is a law-abiding citizen who is suffering a bit of an identity crisis. Her father was killed during the war while she was still a young teenager and she's spent her adolescence under Japanese rule. Because of this, her approach towards the Japanese is more soft. She attends martial arts classes with Japanese teachers and she's approached by young Japanese men who clearly wish to court her. At the same time, her mother disapproves of this, as she bears ill will towards the Japanese. The man is Joe Blake, a young patriot who's heard stories from his father about how America used to be like and feels inspired to "Do the right thing". He gets involved with the resistance as a courier. I won't talk more on the plot as a lot of things are explained in the first episode and you're honestly better off watching the series. I will say though that the setting is meticulously crafted and you can tell that there is quite a bit of budget behind this TV series. A lot of effort has been put in to making the vision of an Axis-America to life and the sets and costumes are crazy good. It's up there with Game of Thrones in terms of production value, if not even better. The acting is also top-tier, maybe someone more experienced than me with western media can critique, but I personally found no issue. Oh and the last 30 seconds of the pilot is spine-chillingly good. The pilot can be found on Amazon's website to watch for free, but it is country-restricted (Unless you're American, in which case it's fine I imagine), so either use a proxy or find a mirror somewhere else. I highly recommend it. EDIT: Aaand here's a trailer

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my friend asked me to partner cosplay with him at glass city con he semi-jokingly asked me to dress as hatsune miku and i said yes for the hell of it it was fun as hell ?? at least 10 people wanted a picture of/with us i got a horse plushie, a statue of the approving jesus meme and a pastel chubby unicorn shirt wearing a 5 pound wig for 10 hours is a hell of a workout and tights feel like nothing

now I know why so many people wanted a picture and someone fix goddamn webms, they break entire formatting