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"[I]t wasn’t until reading #YairMintzker’s new #book, I, Wandering #Jew, that I came to appreciate another dimension of its significance, namely, its evocation of the figure of the #WanderingJew.

Originally, the Wandering Jew was an #antisemitic #trope #Christians used to explain the marginality and foreignness of #Jews in #European society. A cobbler stood at the doorstep of his #Jerusalem shop, according to the story, as Jesus labored by, hauling his burden to his death. Refusing his request for help, Jesus cursed the cobbler, who inexplicably came to be known as Ahasverus, the name of a Persian king, to live eternally in exile until the Second Coming. The Jews were thus condemned to a de-territorialized, homeless fate as Christ deniers."

https://forward.com/culture/books/828265/wandering-jew-book-review/

Retracing the epic journey of the world’s oldest Jew

The book “I, Wandering Jew” takes stock of a myth that will not die

The Forward
Kpop News HubApr 26
Trope Gone Wrong: Viewers Icked By "Perfect Crown" IU And Byeon Woo Seok Linking Arms #Arms #Byeon #Crown #Icked #Linking #Perfect #Seok #Trope #Viewers #Woo #Wrong
https://kpopnewshub.com/trope-gone-wrong-viewers-icked-by-perfect-crown-iu-and-byeon-woo-seok-linking-arms/?fsp_sid=26478
Trope Gone Wrong: Viewers Icked By "Perfect Crown" IU And Byeon Woo Seok Linking Arms - KpopNewsHub – Latest K-Pop News, Idols & Korean Entertainment

A trope that usually has K-Drama fans swooning is unexpectedly backfiring, and it’s happening to two of the industry’s biggest stars.

Kpop News Hub
Show threadMidgePhotoApr 14
@Free_Press #Fermi #Paradox #DrakeEquation #LightCone #SciFi #Trope
FaintdreamsApr 5

Wait are Biblical Adam and Eve the first ever 'Soulmates ' ?

It never occured to me that the trope is sooooo old. ?

#Trope #SoulMate

HowToPhil (Phillip R)Mar 26
The "take me to your leader" #trope assumes that #aliens have a concept of #hierachy
Show threadMidgePhotoMar 20

@glynmoody
#SciFi Clarke suggested we need 3 communication satellites. #GEO
#MurrayLeinster wrote "Space station" suggesting one would be launched in #LEO
#StanleyKubrick showed us one big wheel in #2001

#Computronium is a #trope A solar system becoming concentric shells and rejecting waste heat as infrared.

#KenMacleod posited a green tinge spreading from a point as stars were surrounded by orbiting habitats, bubbles with airtrees.

I think Bezos may be premature and excessive.

TatiMitStiftMar 18

Can we please kill the movie trope of "tragic fate-ridden man who lost all hope, finds something new to live for and then dies"? It is so immensely bleak and I don't like that men around the world are taught that they only find happiness when they are willing to accept, that it will be brutally taken from them, one way or another.
Just f***ing kill this trope! Burn it, pour molten lead over it and drown it in the deepest ocean, ugh!!!!

#movie #trope #mentalhealth #hopefulthoughts

scottymarinaraMar 17
ugh this #startrek book is only getting 4 stars the author leans heavily on that old garbage #trope of thhe "bitter"barren" woman" yuuuuck and yikes! its the federation in like 2400 CE! yeetus that feetus and get a surrogate! next plotline plzzzzz ugh it was written before 2012 so things have come a looooong way for #scifi in 14+ years! #books #bookstodon i'm a cis male and i accept a cis woman may not be so cavalier about abortion but the context is making it yikes!
🅰️ndrzejMar 5
open.spotify.com/track/3f2rFh... #trope lambs

Lambs
Lambs

Trope · Eleutheromania · Song · 2021

Spotify
WIST QuotationsFeb 20

A quotation from Terry Pratchett

In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.*
 
* This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny noises in attics, and mowing lawns can eventually reduce even the strongest constitution.

Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) English author
Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990)

More about this quote: wist.info/pratchett-terry/8226…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #terrypratchett #discworld #eric #amazons #battleofthesexes #chores #genderroles #household #males #masculinity #men #trope #women #jungle

Pratchett, Terry - Discworld No. 9, Eric (1990) | WIST Quotations

In the jungles of central Klatch there are, indeed, lost kingdoms of mysterious Amazonian princesses who capture male explorers for specifically masculine duties. These are indeed rigorous and exhausting and the luckless victims do not last long.* * This is because wiring plugs, putting up shelves, sorting out the funny…

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