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[I’m currently watching DS9 and the whole Jake/Mardah thing is just really terrible. I don’t understand how the show writers ever thought that making a 16 year old underage child date a 20 year old adult in a family show was a good idea.]
I was just thinking about this double standard stuff in the 2300s.
[Benjamin Sisko is the best Captain. We see him get promoted and raise a child. No other Captain has this growth. He was also a single father that relied on the village around him to help raise his child. Characters like this are rare in a TV show. This is typical of the characters in DS9.]
Crepax
I feel like I read a story in which a character with a regenerative or immortal ability is kept as a sadist’s prisoner, but I can’t think of it.
The closest may be “Calliope” in Gaiman’s Sandman.
[I used to think it was weird to want to get walloped by B’Elanna. You know, a good punch in my stomach, or maybe she’d get up close and put her hand around my neck. Now I’m cool with it. Do you think she’d be cool with it?]
Bodhidharma, Ukiyo-e woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1887.
Martin Booth’s A Very Private Gentleman.
I am fantasizing about bread, cheese, and wine. It’s pretty savage.
[Sisko is my favorite captain for his portrayal of a leader who can maintain loyalty and respect and also participate and be a part of the lives of the people around him. He’s disciplined and reserved, but then wacky and joyful. I mean Sisko’s laugh is the best, right? Especially in contrast to the moments when he’s had enough of your nonsense.]
Sisko’s laugh is still the best.
~ “Progress”, 1915 editorial cartoon
Society despairs of the Modern Woman, 1915 style
History geek note: Now I’m imagining an editorial cartoon from 1615 comparing “Ye Moderne Bible Reading Woman” with the good, old-fashioned women from 1315 who didn’t insist on learning to read the bible for themselves but were content to have a learned Man of the Church interpret it for them. I’d try drawing it myself if I could draw anything other then stick figures.
it took 300 years but women could finally wear pants without being burned as witches, agc.
Attn @beatonna