Star Trek Day is a great opportunity to read up on Kirk Drift if you haven't already. TL;DR Kirk in the popular imagination is very different than the Kirk who's actually in TOS. He isn't Zapp Brannigan. He's a handsome nerd who can throw a punch when necessary.
http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/columns/freshly-rememberd-kirk-drift/
Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift
There is no other way to put this: essentially everything about Popular Consciousness Kirk is bullshit.
Saw Talk to Me last night. It's great!
There's something horrifying about having to take active steps toward darkness. Solving the Lament Configuration, reading the Necronomicon, etc. It makes me afraid of my own curiosity. Afraid of myself. I would absolutely grab the hand and say "talk to me."
Just finished Pentiment. It's like if The Name of the Rose and was a point-and-click adventure game. I loved it!
A new episode of The Weird History Podcast is up. I had a great time talking with Rita Chang-Eppig about early 1800s piracy in the South China Sea!
https://www.weirdhistorypodcast.com/2023/05/11/236-piracy-in-the-south-china-sea-with-rita-chang-eppig/The Weird History Podcast | weird, odd, and horrible history
Today, while you're hunting for eggs and eating candy, remember the real reason for the season...
It's spring. Basically all cultures have spring holidays. If we didn't have Easter there would still be some kind of culturally important day on or around the equinox. Happy spring!
It makes a lot of sense that the Last Supper was on a Thursday. Probably pretty hard to get a table for thirteen on Friday or Saturday night.
And that's good! Food, holidays, religions, nationalities, and identities are ours to create and re-create. These things are malleable, and that is liberating. Looking for or insisting on primordial purity will always be a losing battle. Investigating and enjoying the flux of tradition, though, yields amazing results. It's how we got carbonara, after all.
This article combines two of my favorite things: Italian cuisine, and the British Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm.
Traditions don't just emerge from the mists of history fully-formed, prior to any sense of group identity. Traditions are constructed, created, and altered constantly. Different groups cross-pollinate and influence each other, and even if something has ancient roots it probably also has modern foliage. https://www.ft.com/content/6ac009d5-dbfd-4a86-839e-28bb44b2b64c
Myst! What if it was an FPS? Well, it is now!
https://woe-industries.itch.io/myst-fps
Myst FPS by Woe Industries
A point-and-kill adventure.
freeformz 🏳️🌈