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That's why I said modern leftism (critical/queer theory) struck me as an especially degenerated and secularized form of Gnosticism though. It's like they tore out the interesting aspects of Gnosticism (the drive for spiritual transcendence and enlightenment) and replaced it with nihilistic...

The only place where I'm seeing a Gnostic revival in the modern day is on the left, where its fundamentally deconstructionist worldview (rejecting all things of this world because this world is supposed to be a fundamentally tainted hellscape made by an imperfect false god, the Demiurge) meshes...

That's right, for Dulebian's base I mostly looked to Serbo-Croatian, since those guys are their neighbors and I haven't found much in the way of linguistic archaeological fragments from the RL Pannonian Slavs before they got steamrolled by the Hungarians (especially not the northern guys from...

Capital: Mogent[1]. Religion: Ionian Christianity. Certain Slavic pagan traditions have survived into the Christian period as syncretized folk practices, but by and large, Slavic paganism itself has died in Dulebia – if not in the years before, then certainly after the ascendancy of the fully...

Yeah, it's a meme that the Mongols demolished the ancient Mesopotamian canal network and turned Iraq into a desert, but from what I've found in my research that wasn't totally the case. They didn't help to be sure, but apparently those canals had been declining for a while to mirror the...

946 threw a complication into Romano-British plans for Ireland and beyond, as old Brydany (having previously survived a serious fever which took him out of action on the verge of his imperial cousin's invasion of Egypt) died of another fever early in this year. Elan's succession was smooth...

Yeah I know, but even so I don't remember RWBY being that much of a juggernaut on Tumblr. I was on Reddit when Shane's letter first broke in like 2016, and thought the reaction & fights over it on there were far more severe than the reaction I saw on Tumblr (the most notable thing I remember...

Ehh, I don't know about that one. To my knowledge, while RWBY did have a strong following on Tumblr back in the day, it never quite got giga-popular there like Steven Universe or Undertale. Both examples which, incidentally, also had even more psychotic fanbases than RWBY - I don't think even...

This is true. But even back then it should have been apparent that pandering to Tumblr would be a bad idea that would cost RWBY (and RT) more than they could hope to gain in the long run. I recall (that was the Gamergate 1.0 era) that even in 2015 or so, Tumblr was already known as a containment...

I think even the most cursory examination of what things were like behind the scenes during the production of the early seasons will amply demonstrate that the story was most certainly Monty Oum's, not M&K's, so long as he lived. I don't believe he had some epic full-length 12+ season vision for...

I did throw in a 'probably' qualifier in my previous statement. But in any case, personally I think that not only is it still unlikely had the show miraculously gotten V10 greenlit somehow, but it's for the best that that never happens. Even if RT were to bring Glynda back, I have full...

My counterpoint is that CRWBY has a really bad track record with misusing & screwing up the potential of their characters, as well as bringing those they know/think are fan-favorites back out of the blue to pander for views. Raven is probably the best example of this and certainly the first that...

Easter is here, which means I can finally post these memes about Christ the Risen King that I've been sitting on for a while

Oh wonderful, so Salem actually destroyed two kingdoms back-to-back, the latter of which was the one the story started in. Any hope represented by that airfleet at the end of V9 has been dashed, Vacuo & Mistral are looking pretty boned. They also took some time to crap on Ironwood('s grave)...

In 941 the Romans continued to digest their conquests, investing plundered riches into improving their own economy and making sense of all those Islamic secrets which they had brought back from Outremer with them. Aloysius V worked with the new Pope, Victor III, to drain more of the Pontine...

Come 936, with the First Crusade now having reached its definitive conclusion, Christendom once more began to turn its attention inward. Upon landing in Constantinople Aloysius IV went on a lengthy overland march, practically an imperial progress packed with one victory parade after another all...

The business with Sheena Oum is one of the big unanswered mysteries behind the scenes at RT/RWBY. Sheena herself seems to have kept an extremely low profile after Monty's death and her being cut out of RT (even moving to the other side of the country as Shane notes, the last remotely notable...