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Probably blue's funniest episode to date.

How much poison do you have to ingest to forget you immunized yourself to it.

A LOT. But that's universe paying you back trying to cheat death, I suppose.

Can a man not wanting to get assassinated be considerate cheating death? Like he was okay with other types of death, he just don't want to be poisoned like his father.

In the new episode of Trope Talk, Red talks about the Lancers:

Edited by jouXIII on May 29th 2020 at 8:18:32 PM

Blue does another Pope Fights video in which he covers the absolutely bonkers period of the Renaissance Papacy.

One thing I have to get out fo the way right away is that I'm somewhat disappointed that Blue fell for anti-Borgia propaganda.

Edited by DrunkenNordmann on Jun 8th 2020 at 11:03:08 AM

To celebrate Pride Month, this week's episode of Miscellaneous Myths features several LGBTQ stories from around the world, including:

• A Chinese emperor who made the cut sleeve a symbol of gayness
• The tragic story of Hi'iaka and Hopoe, or why Pele can be a jerk at times
• A few stories about the Greek gods
• Inari, the deity that appears as whatever they want to be
• The story of Tamamizu, whose story pretty closely mirrors some of the older yuri stories.
• Xochipilli, patron god of male homosexuality and temple prostitution

Makes me wonder if the Trope Codifider for the Yuri Genre and "Romantic" Two-Girl Friendship was an adaptation of the Tamamizu myth. The myth def seems like an Ur-Example

Good thing modern retellings have a chance of going for happier endings.

Maybe the people behind Mizuchi can do a version of Tamamizu's tale where she does get the girl. I'm certainly not saying no to any yuri stories involving youkai that end happily.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jun 12th 2020 at 11:17:12 AM

Blue tries to talk Confucius, an interesting challenge because the conflicting details about his early life left the teacher Shrouded in Myth in a sense.

One interesting takeaway from Confucianism, is that it seems to believe that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm regarding family and politics, and that people that rely on punishments and "discipline" make bad rulers.

Edited by MorningStar1337 on Jun 19th 2020 at 9:27:14 AM

Well, thanks to Red I learned that Pegasus is an inverse Weeb in Japanese.

This week's episode is Trope Talk, where Red talks about accents. She talks about how accents are often used as a form of coding for characters, which runs into the risk of becoming hard to read as time goes on since society changes.

I think this quote by her is a pretty good one:

I mean, we have a trope for that.

Some of what Red said can be even weirder when applied to a Constructed World. Suddenly, common phrases and objects becomes weird since they are tied to specific people, places, and/or events, like the gatling gun. Some writers may be tempted to engage in Hold Your Hippogriffs, but while that and conlang can be used to weave a very unique world, some take it to mean that good world building MUST use those tools or else it is terrible.

In fact, you can use those commonalities to the real world to create different meanings or to make it an actual story element. For example, you can still have someone who the Gatling gun was named after. Aside from that, there are still a bunch of ways to justify those sorts of things, whether that be Translation Convention, having the constructed world actually be our world (not personally my thing to be honest), or even go all weird and meta and suggest that the constructed world and our world influences each other. Basically, this is a problem that doesn't have to be a problem of a writer thinks about things.

I think Final Fantasy XIV did just that. There is a weapon the franchise pioneered in Fiction, the Gunblade, but while firearms did exist on Hydaelyn, the empire of Garlemald laid claim onto the Mix-and-Match Weapon element, leading to a necessity in a different but similar weapon for the name, which lead to that and the Job of Gunbreaker to be named after an in verse group, the former being a contraction of "Gunnhildr's Blades"

I might had flubbed some of the details (Haeven't got around to that Job yet).

It's as much of a problem as you make it. You can't avoid common language, every language has a vernacular, but trying to draw attention to some changed terms can do a lot to give flavor while only having to bring attention to what's different.

We all know the best accent in fiction belong to da Ork.

In History Summarized, Blue talks about Colonial India:

Today's episode is Miscellaneous Myths, this time talking about Orion:

Some pretty interesting information here, including:

• Early stories seem to be a map of the constellation's path across the skies
• There are a few stories where Artemis is responsible for killing Orion due to him harassing her friends.
• The Scorpius constellation's place on the celestial sphere makes it a common element in Orion's myth. One story has it sent by Gaia as a response to his "I will kill every animal!" declaration, while another has Apollo summon it on Artemis's behalf after she gets pissed off at Orion for harassing her friends.
• The "Artemis and Orion love story" seems to come from a line about Apollo worrying Orion will seduce her and translators feeling the story is more dramatic as a love story.

Edited by dragonfire5000 on Jul 10th 2020 at 9:20:04 AM

In other words: 19th century poets ruin everything.

Shame she didn’t bring up the story where he was born thanks to god pee.

It's History Hijinks with Blue, about... Plagues.

Oh boy.

Considering people REALLY can't get the message about not adding private info on the character page should we keep it locked?

I don't think this is the place to ask. You should probably bring it up on Ask The Tropers instead.