Rain Dog @Leucrotta@awoo.space

SHE CAME FROM PLANET CLAIRE
I KNOW SHE CAME FROM THERE
SHE DROVE A PLYMOUTH SATELLITE
FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT

PLANET CLAIRE HAS PINK AIR
ALL THE TREES ARE RED
NO-ONE EVER DIES THERE
NO-ONE HAS A HEAD

SOME SAY SHE COMES FROM MARS
OR ONE OF THE SEVEN STARS
THAT SHINE AFTER 3:30 IN THE MORNING
BUT SHE ISN'T!

SHE CAME FROM PLANET CLAIRE

SHE CAME FROM PLANET CLAIRE

SHE CAME FROM PLANET CLAAAAAAAIRE

oh yeah it's Shpongle's "I Forgot How Much Acid I Took"

Then it hit me; a system so completely hostile is not a useful place to go for self esteem!

It really isn't, even without the parts where someone's trying to tear you down to make you convenient to them! (And following my observations, this is probably relatively infrequently; all you need is similar circumstances and a few cases where it was intentional, and it all looks intentional. It was definitely semi-intentional in childhood, between my parents being so SURE they needed a little math-reading genius that they discounted where I was potentially very skilled, and my schools wanting you to shut up and sit down because the important part was the football players.)

I could be a completely inept, ugly, charmless moron, or I could be a bright, talented, lovable person and even relatively okay looking, or ANYTHING IN BETWEEN, and it wouldn't matter, because a system that's already reduced you to a simple disposable asset can't really speak to the many ways in which you're anything else!

okay! Today's "looking for jobs in late capitalism has me thinking of cutting my wrists from self doubt and despair" is FINALLY done for today after one of those long "tell us every detail that might possibly exist about your prior jobs, fuck that you've got it on your resume" applications, so I'll eat something and figure out what I'm doing with the rest of the day.

perhaps listening to really schmaltzy Yiddish theater songs will help me feel less melancholy about *gestures*

I realize the EEO surveys are well intentioned but there's still always an element of "well why do you need to know, trying to figure out what my forearm tattoo should look like, fuck off!"

that "all my dreams of exploring below the ocean's surface, of finding out wonderful things about animals extinct long before humans even existed, of traveling across Europe and doing art for money are all gone, replaced by probably winding up in a warehouse again" feeling which probably indicates I need to eat something

we're back to "I really should make a concerted effort to learn Mandarin."

the "Desert Chase" part of the soundtrack, where it's kinda pointless to quote the movie because most of what gets said is...

"Scheisse."
"ACH SCHEISSE!"

"Take this. Wave it at anything that slithers... WATCH IT!"

"Where are you going?"
"Through that wall."

"Indy, the torch is going oooooouuuutt"

*massive John Williams*

@frost Some of the stuff around Tanis is real, too. Before and after WWII there WAS a French archaeologist (with no help from the Germans, that's a different story) excavating there. Pierre Montet was trying to prove the events of the Old Testament actually happened; he didn't, but was able to find Tanis actually does show up in the OT. The place actually was Shishanq III's capital and burial place and fell into disuse on its own, no divine sandstorm.

@frost The real kicker is that there IS in fact, a neolithic barrow outside Hazelton. There are two. There's no folklore about a golden casket buried at the site or remains of attempts to rob the barrow (I think this might be in the movie thanks to Sutton Hoo I, where there *were* remains of an Elizabethian attempt) and the dig would have been going on at the time they were filming Raiders, it was very current archaeology at the time!

"Good G-d."
"Yes, that's just what the Hebrews thought."
"What's that coming out of it?"
"Fire. Lightning. Power of G-d or something."
"I'm beginning to understand Hitler's interest in this thing."
"Oh yes. The Bible says an army which carries the Ark before it... is invincible."

NEO meaning new and LITHIC - i t h i c - meaning stone. Now let's turn our attention to this site, 13 barrow near Hazelton. This site demonstrates one of the dangers of archaeology, not to life and limb although that may, occasionally, occur. No, I'm talking about folklore. #MovieQuote

"DOC! START THE ENGINE DOC!"

"Doc! There's a big snake in the plane!"
"Oh, that's just my pet snake Reggie."
"I hate snakes, Doc! I hate 'em!"
"Come on, show a little backbone willya?"

"This is it, this is where Forrestal cashed in
"A friend of yours?"
"A competitor. He was good. He was very very good."
"Please, senhor, no-one has come out of that place alive."

@frost "anthro" as terminology gets complex, since the really technical meaning of "having human traits" like talking is pretty consistent - there are still plenty of online and art characters who are quads/ferals/etc, f'rex the characters in The Fox and the Hound are definitely anthros by the standards of early fandom! - but it tends to get shortcut into "bipedal with obvious hands." I'd argue you *can* be "anthro" and be/self-represent as a quad or feral, *but* as a caveat, I honestly don't think there's all *that* much difference between humans and other animals anyway.

@frost Furry started with some fairly imaginative people - afaik they were pretty sure they were humans, but they're coming out of a lot of 60s counter cultural holdovers in the 70s and 80s, much like the first Otherkin. Sometime in the 90s you get both "furry lifestylers" - basically therians - and Otherkin, who tended to be on alt.fan.dragons or the werewolf equivalent. Neither group liked each other; the weres were sure furries just saw it as a costume, a joke, and the furries saw the lifestylers/weres as taking it too seriously (and they took it REALLY SERIOUSLY - there was a lot of "prove you're a REAL were" equivalent to making women go through all sorts of mental gymnastics to prove they're trans).

Over the last 20 years things have shifted such that if you're a therian, you've probably been around furries and are okay with that (and most furries are cool with therians).

Fursonas get a little more complex because they're an early fandom thing that came about by accident and persisted; one of the earliest furries, Ken Sample, consistently portrayed himself as a cougar, and everyone around him thought this was a great idea. And of course, where fursonas are basically roleplaying people can and do swap out (my first fursona was a wolf, would you believe it?). Nobody's ever required a fursona - and I can think of one therian who's literally never *had* a separate fursona - but it wound up accepted as a shorthand.