(of possibly he's only reading contemporary interpretations of Rimbaud, which largely went "well he has these incredibly intense emotions towards another man who he does not name, and who could he have such profound and deep love for but our lord and saviour Jesus Christ? what a pious man he is")
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something tells me this right-wing chud probably hasn't actually read the poetry of Rimbaud, which is mostly about gay sex
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
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I wrote a whole award-winning essay that got a legal grumble from GRRM's Dudes about this fully five years ago how is this STILL A PROBLEM aaaaargh
As respectfully as possible, if you are a Hugo MC it is your actual job to make sure you have the pronunciations of the people you are celebrating down. If you don’t get given a list from Worldcon you need to make your own or demand one in time to learn.
This is egregious.
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it's not "extremely fucking anime" it's an allusion to kurosawa dammit
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yes i do like old samurai movies why do you ask
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like when I think about Māori military history, the thing we're REALLY good at, consistently, across centuries, is combat engineering.
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man Māori get this reputation as SAVAGE WARRIORS and it's so weird because our most famous military victory involved figuring out the enemy was using a flagpole in the middle of camp to calibrate their artillery fire, and subtly moving it in the middle of the night to fuck with the British aim
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Eyalet Technical Foundries: ATLAS Model 'Harlequin's Knife'
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Spongebob? No, sorry, that's unsafe for children, I'm gonna need to see your ID
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compwetewy avewage Waedellian HEMA Sabwist
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
![Screenshot of a tweet:
British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak...
[Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at
home."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:uqonrv6u7reqli3kksljamwr/bafkreifqd3kvkwqy6k2vuajha3vrughks5bfvl72vglbaywl7nnzyxwqp4@jpeg)