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I was trolling around Facebook marketplace and it seems I found a table from the exact same maker of this one 40-year old wicker table I own. It's pretty crazy, the wicker construction looks identical.
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In "The Marriage of Mrs. Fox" (Die Hochzeit der Frau Füchsin) Mrs. Fox's husband has nine tails and is quite proud of this fact. You can see this in this Brothers Grimm cartoon from way back:
I guess this is technically an anime even though I think it was primarily made for European audiences. But the detail appears in the original fairy tale, as the very first line goes: "Es war einmal ein alter Fuchs mit neun Schwänzen" i.e. "there once was an old fox with nine tails."
Anyway, this is literally the only time I've seen references to foxes having multiple tails in a western, non-influenced by Japan work. The fact that there are nine tails specifically is stranger still, as just having multiple would be enough for the story to work.
The story is basically about worrying about getting cucked and faking his death to see what happens only for his wife to be faithful to him... until she finds another fox with nine tails and then immediately decides to marry him. The story could have had Mr. Fox get beat out with the new suitor having ten tails, but it stops at nine, like that's the max.
Anyway, I'm posting this for two reasons. One is just I thought it was an interesting tidbit. Second, I'm curious if anyone has encountered any western stories with foxes having multiple tails, discounting stuff influenced by anime. The closest thing I can think of outside of this is when Samson burns down a vineyard by tying pairs of foxes together by their tails.
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Maybe western stories preferred to give their mythical creatures more heads instead of more tails. Personally I see many heads as a downgrade over many tails for several obvious reasons, but unfortunately I can't take up these issues with the makers of myth since they're (probably) long dead.
As an aside this entire discussion made me think of the Magic card Foxfire, which has really nice art.
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mikanko foo-li coo-li
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the horror of trying to remember the four games you played this year to have a post for the goty thread ;~;
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it's just another endless monday...
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where were you when e3 dies?
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These kinds of links are the ones I get sent by users who clearly looked into their junk folders SOLELY to find things to report, ignoring that OUR TOOLS PUT THOSE IN JUNK AUTOMATICALLY SO YOU DON'T NEED TO REPORT THEM WE KNOW THEY'RE BAD LINKS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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If you watch this video ten times in a row you can almost believe that old SPUF still exists.
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I recently went out of my way to find the skyward sword saxton hale cutscene edit where he's falling after Link and that channel is like a portal back to 2011 SPUF as well
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Turns out the machine god is real and is keeping my site's welder together.
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I was fiddling around with an old mp3 player of my brother's that he had left at my parents years ago. All the buttons on the outside are busted, but I thought maybe I could get it working. I couldn't get it to play music, but I did get into the file structure and saw names that both resembled my humor far more than his and referenced stuff that he wouldn't have been interested in (like Big O and Aura Battler Dunbine.)
I hooked it up to my computer and apparently I used it as a makeshift external hard drive backup of my first personal computer. In addition to a gig of the first music I downloaded from the internet, there were also about 60 books in .txt format, lots of various school assignments, some old java programs I made, and Hello! style archives of the very first forum I was active on. I only vaguely remember making the decision to transfer this stuff over to the mp3 player, and as far as I remember I never transferred them to any other device before now.
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I was fiddling around with an old mp3 player of my brother's that he had left at my parents years ago. All the buttons on the outside are busted, but I thought maybe I could get it working. I couldn't get it to play music, but I did get into the file structure and saw names that both resembled my humor far more than his and referenced stuff that he wouldn't have been interested in (like Big O and Aura Battler Dunbine.)
I hooked it up to my computer and apparently I used it as a makeshift external hard drive backup of my first personal computer. In addition to a gig of the first music I downloaded from the internet, there were also about 60 books in .txt format, lots of various school assignments, some old java programs I made, and Hello! style archives of the very first forum I was active on. I only vaguely remember making the decision to transfer this stuff over to the mp3 player, and as far as I remember I never transferred them to any other device before now.
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Russian coup bros... we're so back
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Russian coup bros... we're so back
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damn I don't know a thing about what's going on out there but that song is good
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Pros and cons of becoming known as "that guy who still watches VHS tapes":
Pros: People will randomly give you free VHS tapes.
Cons: People will randomly give you free VHS tapes.
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The verdict? Guilty. His sentence? Loading up an in-progress strategy game save file from 5 years ago and being forced to figure out what the fuck he was trying to do.
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heist movie where a spam robocaller calls their remote controlled phone bomb at an inopportune time (nobody dies) (hijinks ensue)
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heist movie where a spam robocaller calls their remote controlled phone bomb at an inopportune time (nobody dies) (hijinks ensue)
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If June is pride month, which months correspond to the other six deadly sins?
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旅行は良好だった
Understanding this dumbass joke feels like one of the biggest steps I have taken towards fluency.
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arcana force fans eatin' good tonight
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May the 4th be with you.
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There needs to be some separate term for modern Isekai.
I've previously talked about "Western Isekai" (ex. Narnia, Three Hearts and Three Lions, John Carter, The Dragon and the George, etc.) But even in Japan if you look at classic anime like Dunbine, Escaflowne, Those Who Hunt Elves and so on and you see very little resemblance in terms of plot structure and cliches used when compared to the modern form of the genre.
(Though I'm not even sure if "modern" is the right term here. I haven't seen it, but from what I've heard about the Tanya show it doesn't seem to hit the same notes as other "isekai" shows.)
So there needs to be some new term that refers to specifically this subgenre. This is important because "other world" fiction has a long and rich history, with much of it being very creative. But the modern subgenre allows only the most minor ("gimmick based") innovation.
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Honestly I think you're right on the mark about how they treat the setting. A recent isekai that I think actually does take the world seriously is honzuki no gekkokujou. Not a super serious story and it has a lot of levity in it but it generally takes the world it's set in seriously* which I think gives it a different feel from the more boilerplate isekai shows.
*There's like ONE gag sort of but the thing is that it's both plausible for an alternate universe to have that kind of weird coincidence with the "real" world and also the main character/setting overall rolls with it and doesn't really keep pointing at it and saying "ha ha isn't this so wacky"
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There needs to be some separate term for modern Isekai.
I've previously talked about "Western Isekai" (ex. Narnia, Three Hearts and Three Lions, John Carter, The Dragon and the George, etc.) But even in Japan if you look at classic anime like Dunbine, Escaflowne, Those Who Hunt Elves and so on and you see very little resemblance in terms of plot structure and cliches used when compared to the modern form of the genre.
(Though I'm not even sure if "modern" is the right term here. I haven't seen it, but from what I've heard about the Tanya show it doesn't seem to hit the same notes as other "isekai" shows.)
So there needs to be some new term that refers to specifically this subgenre. This is important because "other world" fiction has a long and rich history, with much of it being very creative. But the modern subgenre allows only the most minor ("gimmick based") innovation.
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I feel like a general catch-all would be anything that has RPG influences/mechanics (usually in having levels, or skills, or some similar "game mechanic" informing character ability and is also directly known by the characters) but that doesn't really get all of them, despite being the one that definitely introduces the largest number of tired cliches in my opinion.
Honestly modern isekai might be the only suitable term, there's juuust enough variety in the pool that it's hard to find a unique identifier that will still hit most of the examples
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tfw your favorite band takes a new direction and you spend the next three albums liking what they put out less and less