Post #4050154
2026-07-24 00:35 UTC
Replies (7)
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@paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange 2026-07-24 03:20
@RickiTarr@beige.party they won't admit it but what they really want is for history/reality to match some fantasy poem they like.
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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 04:32
@RickiTarr@beige.party well this IS the big one in a sense because even if all those legends about Odysseus were in fact legendary, there still actually was a Troy and a Trojan War and some fragmentary evidence for the existence of at least a few of the heroes named. And as for the Odyssey at least all the places named are real. To call it "fantasy" is, I think, incorrect. Fantasy is a relatively recent invention and it's not proper to apply that word to literary forms of an utterly different nature. Sticking "fantasy" on a work of incredibly durable oral tradition? For hundreds of years before it was formally committed to writing? That's no fantasy.
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@chessert@mastodon.online 2026-07-24 00:37
@RickiTarr@beige.party The cultural myth of white supremacy must be defended, at all costs! 🙄 I'm so grateful for my upbringing, where those beliefs were on the outer fringes of my awareness.
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@rlstone4dems@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 00:38
@RickiTarr@beige.party LOL, @RickiTarr@beige.party . What in "fantasy" don't they understand....?
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@parslii@mountains.social 2026-07-24 00:40
@RickiTarr@beige.party historically accurate cyclops
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@Perrin42@mastodon.social 2026-07-24 00:47
@RickiTarr@beige.party You mean there never really was a man from Nantucket?
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@franksting@theblower.au 2026-07-24 03:00
@RickiTarr@beige.party if you hear a blowhard using terms like “foundations of western civilisation” to talk about Ancient Greek Literature, they of course don’t mean “eastern mediteranean civilisation including greeks, asians and africans”, they mean “white people”