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Any wlw people who can help me on this? Or like anyone lgbt, female or Japanese
Here goes..
So I was in Japan this February 2023 with my family. She was our sole Japanese tour guide for the whole trip. We were all from the Philippines. We would chat here and there during the trip. We followed each other on Instagram after. Idk if she was gay, but she could be, I felt. She looked at my bikini photo on my Instagram and said sexy. So I thought, maybe.
Here's where my cringe behavior starts. I first sent her a message that went like "Sayonara [name]! Thank u for the tour 🇯🇵 take care and see u around!" She just gave it a heart react. I then typed a short list of Filipino movies and shows with explanations because she asked for recommendations on the bus. She didnt acknowledge it at all! She knows English enough to conduct the tour in English though! (Not 100% fluent yet I'd say).
Anyway, I waited for so long but no reply. But from after that trip in February to April, she would view my stories and react to many of them. Like emotions like 😍, 😂, or 👏.
2 weeks after we met. She had a story of her tour for the week. I messaged her and said, "Hi, I hope your tour went well!"
She only heart reacted. She then reacted about 4 times more to my stories. That last time in April 1, it was a workout story. I was sorta flexing. I was in my sports bra. I worked out. She reacted like this again "😍" but didnt say a word.
I was a little impatient, it seemed she's interested in me. Not everyone reacts to my stories as often as she did. So i gave it a go again. I said, "Hi, I miss u 🥲. Visit Philippines?"
Still no words again! She just reacted with an emoji like "🥹"
I tried again after she reacted. I said "What chatting app do you use hahaha"
Then she just seenzoned me.
She never viewed my stories again.
FUCK, I AM CRINGING. Tell me, why did she literally never respond to me in any way other than emojis? Why did she react to my stories so frequently and intensely? Could she tell I was flirting when I told her I missed her and if she uses another messaging app? What is the Japanese culture on this? Fuck. Idk. I know they are so hard to befriend. But idk, I was bold.
Buut as I said she looked at my bikini photo when we exchanged instagram and she said sexy to my face. And she heart reacted to selfies where I looked good or was flexing while working out. SO HELLO?? I just thought she could be interested. I dont actually know if she likes women.
I've been leaving her alone since then. But like, how do I fix this? I feel bad. She didnt unfollow me though. And I don't react to her stories, I just view them.
TL;DR. Me a (26F) is Instagram friends with my Japanese tour guide (24F) from last February. I kinda had a crush on her and thought she could like me. She reacted 😍😂👏 to my different stories and two little messages for 3 months but never responded verbally back. Some of these stories where like..kinda thirst trap pics ok. And pretty sure she knows English. It stopped suddenly when I said I missed her and asked what messaging app she used. (In a desperate attempt to get her to speak and not just use emojis). She seenzoned me and stopped viewing my stories altogether. HELP. And yeah, she was my tourguide tho. How do I make sense of what happened? I am embarrassed that she had to stop viewing my stories altogether because I was messaging her. What do I do if I still wanna be friends in the future?

This is my headcanon for the events following Suzerain as the game played out in my (communist) playthrough:
Disclaimer 1: This obviously includes many spoilers from the game.
Disclaimer 2: This story is written with storytelling and lore at the forefront, not necessarily gameplay accuracy.
(Part 2 is on my page if you can't find it elsewhere)
Disclaimer 3: This is only the first chapter (and backstory) of this headcanon story/fanfic/whatever you want to call it. I want to write more, but would like to see what people in the Suzerain community think about the writing so far and if they’d like to see more of it. :)
Background:
Anton Rayne got elected President of Sordland in his first term by promising progress and an end to the recession. In his term, he managed to fulfill these promises and more.
He ended the recession through several economic programs including an infrastructure program that included the building of a highway in Agnland, the distribution of stimulus checks for people in need, an agricultural revitalisation program in the city of Sarna, an economic revitalisation program in the greater region of Bergia, and the establishment of the Fair Trade and Competition Commission.
Rayne had also enacted his foreign policy that prioritised self-determination and non-intervention, which resulted in improved relations with many nations and many new trade deals with Wehlen, Agnolia, and Valgsland. In slight contrast with this policy, however, Rayne entered Sordland into the Contanan Security Pact. While this move alienated Sordland from some western-alligned nations such as Lespia and Arcasia, it increased trade and cooperation with nations of the east and many of the rising powers in Rika and Xina.
Rayne had also enacted gradual reforms of the economic direction of the country by nationalising several large corporations, most notably Gasom and Bergia steel. In order to temporarily appease the oligarchs, Rayne had through his nationalisation of Bergia steel, let Marcel Koronti, one of Sordland’s most powerful oligarchs, increase his power within his circle of oligarchs. He had also, through the extra income the state had earned from nationalisation and trade deals, been able to cut taxes for all, which further appeased the oligarchs. Rayne, as a communist, saw the oligarchs as a threat, however, he saw the sollists, nationalists, and fascists as a bigger threat that required a temporary appeasement of the oligarchs in order to focus on a larger threat within the nation. Towards the end of his term, however, when the old guard had in large part been brought down, Rayne removed the independence of Sordland’s central bank, a body of financial governing that had long been an extension of the power of the Lothenburg Group.
One of Rayne’s big promises of progressive reform included an increase in the healthcare and education budgets. This was also a promise Rayne was able to deliver on, and through the skillful leadership of education minister Ciara Walda and healthcare minister Paskal Beniwoll, the government was able to efficiently use this budget to make many positive changes to the education and healthcare systems in Sordland.
The increased healthcare budget was used to improve the quality of healthcare services provided in the country, especially in rural areas, as well as a complete subsidisation of dental care and prescription medicine for all and the relocation of doctors to rural areas. The Rayne administration also enacted several taxes on consumer products harmful to the health of the people, including a tax on tobacco and alcohol products.
The large educational reform that Rayne embarked on included a large scholarship program for impoverished families, the building of several hundred schools across rural areas of the country, and the relocation of teachers to rural areas. The reform also radically changed the curriculum of Sordish schools, with desollinisation of schools and an implementation of critical pedagogy and a larger focus on science, physical education, and the teaching of subjects unburdened by sollism. Rayne later established rural education institutes across rural areas of Sordland in order to further improve the availability and quality of education in rural Sordland.
The rights of women and minorities also became a critical issue for the Rayne administration. The first lady, Monica Rayne became a large figurehead in the battle against patriarchy and alongside Ciara Walda they established the Commission on the Status of Women and passed the women’s liberation act that included policies that helped victims of domestic violence, abolished the gender pay gap, affirmed equal access to education for all, and enacted maternity leave laws and state-funded daycare. The support of this commission and its policies, along with Rayne’s personal funding of the Sordish League of Women made them a loyal political ally to Rayne and his inner circle.
President Rayne also became known for his pro-Bludish sentiment that led to a political alliance with Mansoun Leke and the declaration of the minority rights act, the establishment of the minority rights commission that would be headed by Leke, and the granting of amnesty to soll-era political prisoners, many of which were Bludish activists.
Rayne’s other progressive reforms included a vast expansion of the sordish welfare program, that came to include the establishment of the Comission of Social Progress and Uplift, the workers rights act that gave better pay and better conditions to workers across Sordland, two new social benefits programs, one for the unemployed and one for impoverished families, as well as a complete subsidy of public transport and a lowering of the retirement age.
As a communist and subscriber to the ideas of Karlos Marcias, Rayne believed that for Sordland to enter a new age of socialism and communism, the power of the existing dictatorship of the bourgeoisie had to be toppled and replaced with a dictatorship of the proletariat. He saw the judiciary and legislature as being tools of the bourgeoisie. However, the presidency, now under a communist president, was Sordland’s chance for the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. Rayne believed that he had to topple the bourgeois institutions of government, and replace them with new ones that represented the proletariat. During his first term, he started doing this with a very risky play. Namely reforming the constitution to give wide-ranging powers to the presidency while he continued to build a dictatorship of the proletariat.
The constitutional reforms included the replacement of the presidential veto with a pocket veto, removing the supreme court’s power to vote on constitutional amendments, removing the ability for the president to be impeached, decreasing the electoral threshold to 8% thus allowing Rayne’s Bludish and communist allies into the legislature, removing the requirement of reviews of presidential decrees, removing the immunity of judges, and abolishing the honorary position and immunity of Tarquin Soll.
Rayne used his new powers to crush the reactionary forces of Sordland, starting with a complete reshuffling of the supreme court. As an extension of the removal of Tarquin Soll’s immunity, Soll was then put on trial in front of a new supreme court that found him guilty and sentenced him to life in prison. After Soll’s imprisonment the Rayne administration started their de-sollinisation efforts in full. Rayne also established the anti-corruption police that he used to investigate corruption within the old guard.
The ACP found evidence of several sollists collaborating with the Young Sords in order to assassinate communist politician Bernard Circas. The investigation led to the arrest of many sollist politicians, most notably minister of interior Lilias Graff and former members of the supreme court Orso Hawker and Heron Garaci. With the old guard crippled, Rayne took advantage of the situation in order to change the manifesto of the United Sordland Party to move away from sollism and towards socialism.
In order to further consolidate his power, Rayne used his presidential decree powers to purge the general staff and thus remove the military’s power in internal political affairs. In the aftermath of this purge, minister of defence Iosef Lancea was also made commander of the sordish armed forces in place of Valken Kruger. Rayne also established the Sordish Radio and Television Supreme Council that he primarily used to further rein in the propaganda spread by the old guard, liberals and oligarchs. Rayne also started funding the Red Youth, an organisation he had previously been a member of, thus winning him another political ally outside of government.
The rising threat of Rumburg was also handled during Rayne’s first term. Using his diplomatic skill as a former diplomat in the foreign ministry, Rayne de-escalated the conflict and made Rumburg appear as an aggressor on the world stage. Any uncertainty about the threat of invasion was then put to rest when Rayne entered Sordland into a military alliance with Valgsland and later joined the Contanan Security Pact.
But as elections approached instability within the Rayne cabinet appeared. First with a political scandal that led to the arrest of Illana Vance, the Rumburg spy that had posed as President Rayne’s assistant. This scandal also led to Vice President Petr Vectern resigning, retiring from politics, and going to rehab. Lucian Galade was appointed Vice President in his stead. The instability continued however, with the resignation of several ministers including minister of economy Symon Holl due to ideological differences with the President, minister of health Paskal Beniwoll due to concern for the President’s machiavellian tactics, and minister of justice Nia Morgna and minister of education Ciara Walda both due to the President’s constitutional reforms.
This flood of resignations coupled with the arrest of minister of interior Lileas Graf and the retirement of foreign minister Deivid Wisci left a vacuum of power within the administration that Rayne had a clear plan on how to fill after his reelection.
After the election, the results came in with a big change in the political environment of Sordland. The USP came in first with a slight increase in votes since the 1953 election, the NFP came in second, thus becoming the second biggest party in the country, and the PFJP suffered a loss, losing a significant amount of votes to the USP, BFP, WPB, and CPS. The Communist party of Sordland finally made the threshold and due to the popularisation of communism under the Rayne administration they were able to become a legislative power to rival the PFJP. The Workers party of Bludia were unable to make the threshold however, due to the Bludish vote being split between the WPB and the BFP.
As Rayne took to the stage for his victory speech, he reaffirmed his commitment to a turn to the left and to the east and promised further expansion of Sordland’s welfare system and political and social reforms. He declared that this was the start of the Sordish Revolution.
Chapter 1: Inauguration Day
In the aftermath of Rayne’s victory speech and after meeting with the people of Sordland at a USP rally, Anton Rayne entered the black presidential car and was met with a smile through the rear-view mirror and the eternally joyful voice of his driver, Serge, greeting him: “That was a great speech Mr. President, I am glad you got re-elected. Where to now?” Rayne smiled slightly as he always did when hearing the voice of the man who had become one of his closest friends during the last four years. “I am glad to hear that Serge, thank you for all of your support these years, I am really grateful for all your kind words.” Rayne took a slight pause before continuing “We’re off to 137 Wisci Avenue.” “Right away, sir.”
As the two sat in the car in momentary silence, Anton regretted having to leave his wife and daughter at the rally with Lucian. But Monica was strong, he thought to himself. She would be able to handle herself against Lucian if he were to try anything. After another few moments of silence, it was finally broken when Anton realised this wasn’t the same car he had been chauffeured around in earlier in the day. It was similar enough he hadn’t noticed, but it was newer and frankly more comfortable to sit in. “When did you get a new car, Serge?” “Finally noticed it, eh Mr. President?” He continued “But it isn’t my car, it’s yours, you’re the President, I am merely your driver” “The car was a gift. Sent from Chancellor Hegel in Valgsland, as a congratulatory gift for winning the elections. It seems you made quite the impact on him when you visited him in Haelm.” Anton adjusted his posture in his seat and asked Serge what he thought of the Chancellor. “Oh, I don’t follow the politics of other countries that closely sir, but if he made a deal with you he must be a smart man.” Rayne, slightly tired after the rally, simply replied “You’re too kind, Serge” and resorted to staring out the window as the ride continued through the streets of Holsord.
After a while, the two men in the car started to see a gradual decline in the quality of the houses and infrastructure on the streets as they got further from the hill of pride. Once the car rolled onto Wisci Avenue there seemed to be a slight improvement in the quality of the street, however it was still a far cry from the hill of pride. Suddenly the car stopped. “Here we are, sir. 137 Wisci Avenue.” Before Anton could say thank you, Serge was already outside of the car opening the door for his president. Anton stepped out and was then able to thank his driver for the pleasant drive and conversation.
He stepped onto the cracked pavement as Serge got back into the car. Anton instinctively put his hands in his trouser pockets, only to find a packet of cigarettes there. As he took them out of his pocket he was reminded of the time he had caught his son, Franc, smoking, and he further was reminded of the promise he made to Franc to stop smoking. Granted it had become easier to stop after the tobacco tax had been implemented, but it was still a difficult task. Anton promised himself he would call Franc when he got home to see how he was faring in medical school in United Contana. He looked back at Serge and called out his name. “Could you take this and throw it away for me?” Anton threw his last packet of cigarettes to Serge who nodded back at him in acknowledgement. “Thanks, Serge. I’ll be back in a few minutes.” Anton said as he walked into the building ahead.
It was a two-story flat-building, more specifically it was the home of Ciara Walda, among other people. As the President walked into the building he was surprised by the interior, which was far more well kept than he expected. As he walked up the stairs however, there was still a quite distinct creak with every step he took. When Anton reached the top he stood directly in front of a door that said “1B Walda Residence”. Rayne knocked on the door and was soon met with a slightly dishevelled former minister of education. Ciara looked her usual self for the most part, aside from looking quite a lot less put together than usual. She was sporting an old bathrobe and slippers, as opposed to her usual political uniform of a pantsuit or dress. “Mr. President?” Ciara blurted out, trying to hide her slight surprise at the situation. “Please Ciara, you don’t work for me anymore, and I know you don’t care for formalities.” Ciara slightly adjusted herself and tried to put on her poker face she had become known for during her time in politics. “Would you care for a drink, Anton?” She didn’t wait for a reply however and simply entered her home, leaving Anton to catch the door and come inside.
“Tea would be nice” Anton replied as he walked into Ciara’s flat. He heard a call from the kitchen “Already started making it.” Anton let out a slight chuckle at Ciara’s unique demeanour as he followed her voice to find his way to the kitchen. The flat was a lot nicer than he expected. Far from luxurious, but it was nicely decorated and brightly lit with large windows, something that was somewhat surprising given that this flat belonged to Ciara Walda of all people.
As Anton found the kitchen, Ciara had already moved into the living room with two cups of tea in her hands. Anton sat down across from her and thanked her for the tea as she sat it down on the coffee table. “I suppose congratulations are in order” she said with a barely detectable sadness in her voice. “I hope congratulations will be in order for you too” Anton said, giving Ciara a slightly puzzled look on her face. Before she could ask what the President meant, he continued “Rejoin my cabinet. I know you miss it.” He paused for a brief moment, “And I need you.” he continued. “You are a talented politician, but you’ve been able to keep your ideals. I need ministers like you. I know you don’t approve of my methods but who will you support if not me? Ricter? Kibener? Leke and Stahler don’t stand much of a chance without my support, so by supporting either of them, you’d be supporting me still. Why not take that opportunity to rejoin the cabinet and make some real change again. Continue the reforms you started with me and Monica.”
Ciara looked down for a few seconds before replying “You know why I left. You know I cannot stand by and support your constitutional reforms, they aren’t democratic and-” Before she could continue, Anton cut her off “What would be democratic then?” He paused before continuing to speak “To give power to an indirectly elected assembly of capitalist leeches and fascists who want to kill half the country and oppress the other? To keep the institutions put in place by a sour old man who wants to stop the world from moving on?” That last comment about Soll made Ciara chuckle slightly. “I’ve never heard you talk about him like that.” Anton replied with a smile “Well, I couldn’t bad-mouth that old fool too much when his lackeys still had such a firm grasp on the country.”
“Listen, I know you might not support my constitutional changes, but-” Before he continued he stopped to rephrase himself “You are familiar with Marcian dialectical materialism I assume?” Ciara looked slightly offended. “Of course I am” “Who do you think you’re talking to?” She said with a slight scoff. “So then you know that class struggle is an antagonistic struggle. You know that capitalists won’t give away the means of production willingly. Oppressors must be taken down by force, not by the systems that gave them power in the first place.” Anton sighed “I know it isn’t ideal, but it isn’t supposed to be. If Karlos Marcias taught us anything, it’s that ideals don’t bring change, material conditions do. Reality does. And reality is messy. Ideals are pure, but as long as they remain that way they are just ideas, they cannot bring real change if they cannot exist within material reality. What does this idealist notion of liberal democracy mean compared to the real material change that comes with socialism?” Ciara sat back on her couch and sighed deeply, looking at Anton the entire time. “I still don’t know, it just doesn’t seem right.” They sat in silence for over a minute before Anton got up and sighed for a final time in defeat. “Thank you for your service to the people of Sordland, we’re going to miss you Ciara. Both me and Monica”. Ciara looked back down at her floor after Anton stopped talking and started walking towards the door.
“Wait” she said as he was on his way out. Anton turned back around. “You stood by me in my educational reforms, you stood by me-” she stopped for a moment “Us, you stood by us as we fought for the rights of our gender.” She looked away out her window for a brief few seconds, “I’m not sure even Leke or Stahler would’ve done that. At least to such an extent. I owe you at least another chance. Both you and Monica” she said with a slight glimmer in her eyes. ”Thank
you Ciara. Really, thank you. Because between Gus, Iosef and Lucian, I could really use an ally in my cabinet” They both smiled at each other as Anton exited the flat. As he started walking down the stairs he heard the door open again. As he looked back Ciara bid him farewell “Good luck, Anton.” “You too, Ciara.”
As Anton walked out of the building he saw Serge leaning on the side of the car. As he noticed Anton he quickly stood upright and opened the backseat door for his President, bowing slightly as he did it. “I got a call while I was waiting for you sir. Your wife and daughter have left the rally along with your cabinet and are on their way to the maroon palace for the celebration dinner.”
While Anton’s first term had been ceremonially opened with a grand ball at the maroon palace, the event had ended catastrophically with the assassination of Bernard Circas, which drew a lot of bad press to the tradition. It had already been criticised before for its over-the-top extravagance, a criticism Anton agreed with. However, the event still occurred during Rayne’s first inauguration as it was still a quite popular affair, particularly with sollists who wanted to honour the traditions of the nation, and with oligarchs who wanted to take the opportunity to cosy up to politicians. But with the assassination, and the loss of power suffered by sollists and oligarchs during the first Rayne administration, it became easier, and frankly more popular, to replace the event with a more modest one. Namely a televised dinner with the President and his cabinet, along with their families.
Due to the wave of resignations at the end of Anton’s first term however, the dinner might come across as a little too modest though. Especially with Lucian who was married to his work, and Iosef who was married to his own idealised version of Sordland. It was unclear if Ciara would attend. She definitely knew about the event, as she was one of the people campaigning for an end to the inaugural ball. She was welcome to attend as she was to rejoin the cabinet, but Anton hadn’t thought to ask her. Especially as she wasn’t fond of any sort of ‘style over substance’ meeting.
Anton was brought out of his deep thoughts as Serge cleared his throat, and he realised he’d stood there for a solid half a minute. He shook his head for a moment and saw a bin in the corner of his eye that he hadn’t noticed stood next to the building he’d walked into. Anton noticed his packet of cigarettes laying there along with another pack that looked just as newly thrown away. He smiled to himself and walked into the car, letting Serge close the door behind him and get back into his own seat in the front.
“You trying to quit as well Serge?” The president’s driver looked shocked for a moment, as Anton realised what that might’ve sounded like. “Cigarettes.” he assured Serge. “Oh! I got a tad confused there for a second Mr. President.” he nervously tapped the steering wheel as he started the car's engine. “Yes! I’ve decided to quit Mr. President. I couldn’t have done it without you though! I saw the press conference you and Mr. Beniwoll did on television before he resigned, warning of the dangers of tobacco.” Anton grinned slightly as he heard Paskal’s name, before Serge continued. “And as I noticed you were throwing away your last pack, I thought I’d do the same. Follow the example of a great leader.”

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Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Net RR	Points
1	Worcestershire	4	4	0	0	0	+1.345	8
2	Warwickshire	6	4	2	0	0	+0.867	8
3	Durham	4	3	1	0	0	+1.294	6
4	Lancashire	6	3	3	0	0	+0.269	6
5	Nottinghamshire	6	3	3	0	0	-0.279	6
6	Derbyshire	5	2	3	0	0	-0.417	4
7	Yorkshire	5	2	3	0	0	-0.426	4
8	Northamptonshire	5	2	3	0	0	-0.692	4
9	Leicestershire	5	0	5	0	0	-1.585	0

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Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Net RR	Points
1	Somerset	5	5	0	0	0	+2.475	10
2	Surrey	5	3	2	0	0	+1.136	6
3	Hampshire	5	3	2	0	0	+0.933	6
4	Glamorgan	4	3	1	0	0	+0.240	6
5	Gloucestershire	5	2	3	0	0	-0.626	4
6	Essex	3	2	1	0	0	-1.427	4
7	Kent	4	1	3	0	0	-0.311	2
8	Sussex	4	1	3	0	0	-0.919	2
9	Middlesex	5	0	5	0	0	-1.994	0

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Pos	Team	Played	Won	Lost	Tied	N/R	Net RR	Points
1	The Blaze	5	5	0	0	0	+1.478	23
2	Northern Diamonds	5	4	1	0	0	+0.351	17
3	Southern Vipers	5	3	2	0	0	+0.763	13
4	Thunder	5	2	3	0	0	-0.083	9
5	South East Stars	5	2	3	0	0	-0.032	8
6	Central Sparks	5	2	3	0	0	-0.650	8
7	Western Storm	5	2	3	0	0	-0.666	8
8	Sunrisers	5	0	5	0	0	-1.119	0

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I am currently working at a call center for about 3 weeks. Get paid weekly and paycheck is always under $200. I can't work much more due to being a homemaker as well as my disabilities.
A while back I got on the DEPO to be sure I 1) didn't have children (my disabilities are genetic and I can't afford them) 2) could save money on menses products and 3) I have severe difficulty with other forms due to memory issues. My boyfriend helps me track when I need to make birth control appointments.
Well due to being on the depot I went from a 42DDD to at least from what I've recently sized is a 38i. Both me and my boyfriend have noticed significant growth. I had already bought a new bra 6 months ago and it no longer fits. I have no bras that fit. It's becoming and sensory and financial nightmare.
All of my money goes to bills and debt. I cannot spare the money for a bra especially one that fits my sensory needs and breast shape. How do people live like this. I grew up wearing bras that were 2-3 cups sizes to small but this is 5 cup sizes bigger and I feel like I'm always wearing a binder. It's quite uncomfortable and at times painful.
How do you afford being a woman. I can't afford menstrual products so I go on a birth control, but now my breasts are growing and I can't fit any bras. I can't even find any in store. I just feel fat and gross because of it. I tried on a 3x sports bra at Walmart but it didn't fit. I tried selling pics but due to extreme eczema and scarring I'm not desirable and make little money doing it. How do you live. How do you make yourself want to live in these conditions. I can't off the birth control or try another kind. I've don't it before and it was to expensive and causes major sensory issues. I just want to vanish. I was I was born a boy

I've got what I think is a mostly exhaustive list of the new fiction podcasts that came out this month, which may be of interest to those looking for new shows. Feel free to tell me any I've missed, and I'll update it. (Note, "new" here means that the Ep1 of the RSS feed was released.) Listened to any of them that you would recommend?
I've given up trying to include the full list here, as it's increasingly large, and reddit keeps throwing excess character problems. So the full list is here:
https://www.thecambridgegeek.com/posts/2023/06/20230601-a.php
Previous months are available here:
https://www.thecambridgegeek.com/results.php?proof=Releases&tag1=Audio%20fiction
And the ongoing updates (just in case you don't want to wait for the end of the month) are available here:
https://twitter.com/AudioDramaDebut
https://podvibes.co/@audiofictionuk#
Want a weekly email newsletter of all of these as I find them? Join my patreon to get access to that:
https://www.patreon.com/thecambridgegeek
(Please join, it's only £1/month and I currently make a loss with some of the resources I pay for to do this.)
And the full database is searchable here by a number of tags:
https://audiofiction.co.uk/search2.php
Want an RSS feed of new fiction podcast trailers to sample what's out there? Try this:
https://audiofiction.co.uk/trailers.php
Want occasional ramblings from me about what I'm personally listening to? Try this:
https://www.thecambridgegeek.com/archive/add/add.php
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5/1 - Adventures in Capital
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/1 - House of Sol Alpha - A Fantasy Audiobook Series
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/1 - Pleine Lune
Audio Drama - Occult and Supernatural
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5/1 - Rise of the Conduit
Audio RPG - Crime and Mystery
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5/1 - The Last Echoes
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/1 - The Trip: A Six Part Audio Drama Adventure
Audio Drama - Thriller and Psychological, Crime and Mystery
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5/1 - Wish You Were Heroes
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/1 - Wizarding Sports Network
Audio RPG - Fanfiction, Fantasy, Sport
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5/2 - Love Notes
Audio Book - Romance
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5/2 - Love, Murder, Florida
Audio Drama - Comedy, Crime and Mystery
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5/2 - Silas Gnaw
Audio Book - Horror
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5/2 - The Children of Ash
Audio RPG - Post-apocalypse
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5/2 - The Freckle Files
Audio Book - Crime and Mystery
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5/2 - The Mario Bros. Show
Audio Drama - Fanfiction, Comedy
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5/3 - El Cielo Que Nunca Vi
Audio Drama - Soap opera
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5/3 - La Séptima Puerta
Audio Drama - Horror
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5/3 - Re: Dracula
Audio Book - Adaptation, Horror
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5/4 - BlackwaterDnD
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/4 - Cositas de amor
Audio Drama - Romance, Comedy
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5/4 - Sit Down Billy!
Audio Book - Comedy
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5/5 - AND NOW LIVE
Audio Drama - Romance
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5/5 - Brandon Wilborn's Fantasy Fiction
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/5 - Conquest Of The Stars
Audio Book - Science fiction
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5/5 - CYBERLOG - a Doctor Who fan spin-off
Audio Drama - Science fiction, Fanfiction, Space opera
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5/5 - Dark Dimensions
Audio Book - Horror
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5/5 - Love Items
Audio Drama - Romance, Comedy
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5/5 - Pizza Bros Podcast
Audio Book - Comedy
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5/5 - Switch Modes
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/5 - The Crystal Viking Podcast
Audio RPG - Adventure
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5/5 - The Fire Fades: A Dark Souls Podcast
Audio Book - Fanfiction, Fantasy
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5/5 - The Romulus V
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/5 - The Walker Mysteries
Audio Drama - Comedy, Crime and Mystery
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5/5 - アジア企画の「ラジオ企画」
Audio Drama - Multigenre
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5/6 - Duskvale: A Monster of the Week Actual Play Podcast
Audio RPG - Horror
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5/6 - Modern Folktales
Audio Drama - Multigenre
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5/7 - Beacon Chronicles - By Ordinary Dice Dragons
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/7 - Gareth and the Lost Island
Audio Drama - Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
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5/7 - Juvie
Audio Book - Slice of life
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5/7 - Pat Novak 4 Hire 2023
Audio Drama - Noir, Comedy
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5/7 - When Everything Cracks
Audio Book - Historical
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5/8 - Chaotic-Stupid-Podcast
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/8 - Guayava
Audio Drama - Horror, Science fiction
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5/8 - Sailor Moon E
Audio Book - Fanfiction, Fantasy
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5/8 - Tall Tall Tower - A D&D 5e Tower Crawl Series
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/8 - Women-centric Stories by Premchand
Audio Book - Multigenre
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5/8 - 移民と野獣
Audio Drama - Crime and Mystery
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5/9 - KEYLA Y FRIDA
Audio Drama - Slice of life
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5/10 - Eagle Nine: Locked
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/10 - Hot & Dicey - D&D Podcast
Audio RPG - Science fiction, Fantasy
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5/10 - L'Affaire Louis Gaufridy
Audio Drama - Historical, Horror
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5/10 - Strange Stories from Odd Folx
Audio Book - Multigenre, Horror, Storytelling
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5/10 - The Cosmic Adventures of Ravi and Maddie: A Tale of Friendship, Nature, and Discovery
Audio Book - Adventure
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5/10 - The Foxes of Hydesville
Audio Drama - Historical
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5/11 - 999
Audio Book - Historical
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5/11 - The Metal Detective
Audio Drama - Science fiction, Cyberpunk, Dystopia
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5/12 - Flores
Audio Drama - Thriller and Psychological
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5/12 - Tales from Xaevalon
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/12 - The Red's Tales
Audio Book - Multigenre
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5/13 - Cyberpunk '66
Audio Drama - Cyberpunk, Science fiction
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5/13 - Failure, Improvised
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/13 - Longhouse
Audio Drama - Crime and Mystery
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5/13 - Santiago: A novel - Audiobook
Audio Book - Historical, Adventure
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5/13 - Story Time - by Kids for Kids
Audio Book - Multigenre
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5/14 - Anywhere But Now
Audio RPG - Science fiction
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5/14 - MOTHER, She Wrote: An EarthBound Podcast
Audio Drama - Fanfiction, Science fiction, Comedy
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5/14 - Scarlet Stiletto Bites
Audio Book - Crime and Mystery
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5/14 - Uncharted Territory: A Gamer's Adventure Beyond the Screen.
Audio Book - Science fiction
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5/14 - Vikinger
Audio Drama - Historical
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5/15 - Escape from the Dreamlands
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/15 - Haunted House House Hunters
Audio RPG - Horror
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5/16 - Huitième île
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/16 - Ida the Hobit & the Crystal Queer Deers
Audio Drama - Slice of life
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5/16 - MORNEAU
Audio Drama - Crime and Mystery, Noir
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5/16 - Our Critty Podcast
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/16 - TGB One Shots
Audio RPG - Multigenre
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5/17 - Not Necessarily Nefarious
Audio Book - Spy-fi
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5/18 - Das Buch der Ewigkeit
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/18 - Dubstep & Dragons
Audio RPG - Cyberpunk
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5/18 - La Cartographie des Chimères
Audio Book - Multigenre
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5/18 - Viaje a Viña
Audio Drama - Crime and Mystery
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5/18 - Переплетные птицы
Audio Book - Romance
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5/19 - 97toNow Productions Proudly Presents:
Audio Drama - Comedy, Noir
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5/19 - Icaro, Texas: A Radio Play
Audio Drama - Historical
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5/19 - La Mossa di Messina
Audio Book - Crime and Mystery
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5/19 - Legends of Denali: Fame, Fortune, and Enlightenment
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/19 - Minnesota Dice
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/20 - Shattered Bonds
Audio Book - Slice of life
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5/21 - Starlight: Audio Series
Audio Book - Science fiction
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5/21 - Thewordsmits
Audio Book - Cyberpunk
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5/22 - A Game of One's Own
Audio RPG - Multigenre, Fantasy, Science fiction
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5/22 - Beneath The Red Umbrella
Audio Drama - Horror
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5/22 - Cisne Rojo
Audio Drama - Thriller and Psychological
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5/22 - Reformation Abroad
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/22 - The Dockporter: a Mackinac Island Podcast
Audio Book - Historical, Slice of life
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5/23 - Shuttercreek - A Monster of the Week Actual Play
Audio RPG - Horror
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5/23 - Titania
Audio Drama - Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Psychological
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5/24 - All Charisma, No Int
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/24 - Il mostro
Audio Book - Horror
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5/24 - Il nido della masca
Audio Book - Occult and Supernatural, Crime and Mystery
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5/24 - Naragar Naduvil - Tamil Podcast Suspense Movie Screenplay Thriller Novel Horror Comedy Drama
Audio Book - Thriller and Psychological
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5/24 - Ned Beauman: Der Gemeine Lumpfisch - Sci-Fi-Satire um miese Deals und tote Tiere
Audio Book - Comedy
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5/24 - Nella pancia della scrofa
Audio Book - Horror
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5/25 - Curve Minded
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/25 - Hidden Signal: Evergreen
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/25 - Steve Piasecki
Audio Book - Crime and Mystery
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5/26 - Geen Woorden Maar Draken
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/26 - The Becoming: An audio short story
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/26 - Trouble at the Tavern - A D&D Podcast
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/28 - A Quaint English Murder
Audio Drama - Crime and Mystery
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5/28 - Surcease
Audio Drama - Horror
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5/29 - Dungeons and Dissertations
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/29 - SoundTrip
Audio Drama - Multigenre
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5/29 - Starwhal: Odyssey
Audio RPG - Fantasy, Science fiction
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5/29 - The Night of the Rabbit: The Pagecast
Audio Book - Fantasy
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5/30 - Audio Drama Lab
Audio Drama - Multigenre
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5/30 - Goodbye Blue Mondays
Audio Drama - Science fiction
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5/30 - Kater
Audio Drama - Thriller and Psychological
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5/30 - Sky Orca Tabletop
Audio RPG - Superhero
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5/30 - Tales of Darkness & Magic
Audio Book - Fables and Fairy Tales and Folklore
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5/31 - Inspired R&R: The Podcast
Audio RPG - Fantasy
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5/31 - The FangHorn Fables
Audio Drama - Horror
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5/31 - The Girlfriend Chronicles Podcast
Audio Book - Slice of life

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Ecclesiastes 10:5-7~" There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, as an error which proceedeth from the ruler: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."
**There is an evil I have seen under the sun~**Solomon overserved and analyzed all life done under the sun~ And here he saw an evil that proceeded from rulers.

1. Solomon said this evil and a error~a thing that ought never had been even consider doing, it is against common sense, which we all know is not as common as many believe.
2. God made a differences among men, in intellectual, places of authority, economic differences, etc.. Just because a man can jump high, shoot hoops, etc, does not mean he is equal in intelligent with other men, as though he can do their job as well as they can, ot better.
3. All men are not created equal regardless who think they are~they are not, period. It doesn't take a man of great intelligent to see and understand this is so. King Charles and I were born within weeks of each other, and I know were were not created equally, not even close. He got me beat on every front with a life to prove it. I may have him beat spiritually, but in no other way. He should ride the horse and I should clean up behind the horse! God made this different before we were ever conceived.

"as an error which proceedeth from the ruler:"~Every person in authority (be whatever that authority be) is ordained of God to maintain the status quo of proper roles.

1. Since civil ruler is the highest authority, and example in the land, he sets the standard to be follow.
2. Rulers exist, no matter what authority sphere we consider...to maintain righteousness to be punish unrighteousness.
3. It is a great shame concerning our present generation where rulers allow and even defend lawlessness on every level!

"Folly is set in great dignity"~Folly can be many things from foolishness, transgender, etc.
The lesson here is foolish and uneducated people allowed to have great honour, even above men and women that truly make society to propers and be bless of God.
God's word is very plain about the impropriety of giving honor to fools, we should never to so! Proverbs 19:10; 26:1,8. etc.
Fools and wicked men do not deserve honor a full blooded fool is more than the world can bear! Proverbs 30:22 Why exalt one to burden wise men with an vexation of spirit.
It is a shame to poll students~the lowest stantum in society, for anything beyond a pizza! TV sitcoms make a mockery out of fathers, preachers, policeman, etc. It is very scary to allow 18 years old not far removed from messing all over themselves. on voting equally with men like Warren Buffett...this is total insanity.. Not that I agree with Mr. Buffett, but he does have much more wisdom than a 18 years old, and not just a little more!
"and the rich sit in low place"~It was a general rule before sports took over this world tah riches were for the most part gotten by wisdom. When our government allows athletes who can barely spell their own name, make more money than CEO's~we have a major problem on our hands! It turns society upside down, and makes one big confuse mess to deal with. The rich by intelligent, are many times at the mercy of societies peasant...and this should not be.
There are many folks that by their station in life are superior than others and should ahve more rights~Landlords should have more rights than renters, but in some cases they do not. Owners of business should have the right to protect their business, but in many cases they cannot. On and on we could go.
"I have seen servants upon horses, and princes walking as servants upon the earth."...Servants are today's employees..they do not ahve the right to ride on horses! Solomon had noticed servants being treated too generously, and kindly, and it was NOT right.
Reversal of social strata by ability and wealth destroys society productivity and peace. It is hard for us to even consider that this is so, but IT IS. Read **Exodus 21:20,21~**God's view of business dealings is master never harm good and faithful workers, only the bad ones. All bad folks in our days have more rights than those who are doing things the ways society demands things to be done in order to be successful, and live peacefully.
Princes should NOT walk, servants do. Jesus spoke very plainly concerning masters and servants. Luke 17:7-10.
Communism, socialism and other forms of humanist insanity have corrupted rights roles.
Christians should stand upon God's ordained roles for society and make no apologies for them. 1st Corinthians 7:7-16

For music, television, sports and other things they dip their foot into?
NOT asking why k-culture is popular (very well studied phenomenon already) but specifically why they are good at promoting celebrities. Like for example: Japanese anime is huge but it's kind of rare for others to be able to name real Japanese personalities
Sonny is eeeaaasily the most famous and beloved Asian athlete in the world. Japan has some great soccer players too but they're given zero attention for anything off the pitch. Ohtani is the finest baseball player in the world and hardly holds a candle to Son in fame. Heck I remember mainstream news promoting some good looking Korean footballer last world cup. I cannot imagine the same treatment being given to athletes from other Asian countries (not alleging western favoritism led to Korea's popularity or anything like that)
Korea is not necessarily the richest Asian country, nor is k-culture bigger than j-culture but they are truly par excellence at promoting their living breathing PEOPLE. I don't even think it's 100% intentional/planned at this point. They certainly got some virtuous self-sustained celebrity production cycle going on
This certainly helps them in their dating market too. I've met many people who are interested in all things Japanese but not in Japanese people per se (except some gross dudes who have misconceptions about Japanese women). I didn't like how when I was younger, that Asian guys were stereotyped as weak, unattractive, only good for math but now the stereotype has completely flipped for Korean and some East Asian dudes in many parts of where I live
In my humble opinion other Asian countries should start prioritizing promoting their actual people and not just an overall national image because that's what let's others actually humanize you

Part 2
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Recently, I have been hit by a writing bug for a story I’m working on, where the entire thing will be a combination of Warehouse 13 and Kingdom Hearts. I want the story to be a critique of both how postmodernism functions and how it destroys contemporary culture by trying to subvert that which works and that which people enjoy. In order for me to write this story, I am required to study both postmodernism and satire of postmodernism, which has strangely led me to a little cartoon from the middle of the 2000s known as Drawn Together.
It ran for 3 seasons, had a direct-to-DVD movie, and vanished from the face of the Earth after that. Nobody dares to mention it and yet there are tons of youtube clips of it that are filled with praise in the comments. People love the show, yet nobody can mention its name without social backlash from the woke left. Why is that? Well, let’s get into what the show even is to begin with.
Like every chick who dresses as Harley Quinn for Halloween, it has some severe issues that are treated as normal.
Postmodernism was already popular by the time we hit the 2000s, and by this time we have had postmodernist media for about 40 years. An entire generation worth of rejecting modernism. With this, we gained a lot of different media styles and new genres. The internet was growing into something capable of creating flash cartoons, movies like Fredy Got Fingered popularized shock comedy and neo dada, we started to have shock jocks take over the airwaves with uncensored satellite radio, and soap operas for the ladies were being replaced with reality TV.
Postmodernism allows for a blending of media and real life to create a hyper reality where we can’t see where media begins and reality ends. Media is part of our lives, all day every day, in this highly connected and social media focused postmodernist era. Even now, we wake up to our pop music alarm clock that holds notifications to our social media and the only way to escape media is to leave society and never read anything. That’s impossible for most of us, so we’re stuck in this hyper reality where we’re always watching others and we ourselves are always being watched. We’re at a point in history where people can become popular by just filming themselves making a goofy sound, vomiting, or taking off their clothes.
Usually it’s all three.
This should concern everyone, yet we tend to embrace the absurd reality that is postmodernism and reality tv. Despite common belief, reality TV began with Candid Camera, a show from 1948 where people would be filmed while being at the butt end of a prank. This kind of filming was a look into how real people provide real reactions to things when they aren’t expecting certain situations, which is actually in relation to the neorealism film movement that was inspired by the poetic realism french film movement. We enjoy seeing pranks being done because we get to see a real person provide real emotion and it’s no different than seeing a fight break out in real life, or seeing a car crash. It’s that train wreck mentality that keeps us glued to the scene as shit gets real.
Or was it the shit that glues us to the train as our real mentality gets wrecked?
It’s the same reason we love to see game shows and court shows and Jerry Springer. Add in some sexual exploitation like busty Ukranians and you have Naked Funny, which is a show people search for without caring about any words being said, since it’s a show with zero dialogue but plenty of mouth watering mammaries. Have the exploitation be where people are horrifically injured or do something sensational, and you have Jackass. Have a bunch of people pretend to be outraged and engage in scripted events while living in a single house, and you have The Real World.
That’s right: it’s a show with fake situations and it’s called The Real World.
This type of “reality” TV caused a massive issue in media because it allowed incredibly fake situations to pass as real, and there was no way to counter it because people were convinced it’s real. Just like professional wrestling, just like any show featuring a magician and a paid audience, just like any porno, there is a mix of real things and fake things that create this ambiguous state of hyper reality. Yes, a person can actually be hit by a chair or a sledgehammer, but there’s no way someone is going to be trying to win a match by holding their hand over the head of the sledgehammer and lightly tapping the other guy with it. Obviously, they don’t want to hit their co-worker, unless they’re in a porn shoot with a white woman. That’s when it’s fair game.
Postmodernism is a term that postmodernists try to avoid defining, because of the main doctrine of postmodernism: there is no such thing as a truth that can be verified by human experience. This means that anything being stated must be an opinion and thus everything being stated is completely disconnected from one another. A postmodernist is unable to make a clear and definitive statement that is true, because it goes against their doctrine. Everything must be vague and open-ended. Everyone has an equally valid interpretation. With that kind of mentality, art can be anything we want to call art. Rules are there to be broken, especially if they are rules of a broadcasting network. The R rating, the X rating, the unrated, these are products of postmodernism, due to the intention to break rules.
Subjectivity, blurring of genres, juxtaposition, playfulness, skepticism of a grand narrative, intertextuality, irony, pastiche, appropriation; all of these things are what makes postmodernism appealing to the masses. There is no desire to make something good, so the goal is to do something else, like be blindly entertaining or blindly propagandist. There is so much art before postmodernism and so much established through modernism, like science, that the goal of the postmodernist is to deconstruct all of that and make it feel like none of it matters.
Despite all of the deconstructionism and subversion that comes with postmodernism, media still has to appeal to an audience, and an audience reacts well to archetypes. We don’t know who to cheer for if we don’t know who is the heel and who is the good guy. There can’t be drama if there isn’t some red haired succubus or pampered shrew to throw a wrench in the circle of hotties. And at the same time, we can’t have all of them being that type of person, or else there’s nobody to root for. In the most ironic way possible, postmodernism is required to appeal to archetypes even more than modernism, due to the demand for audience retention and interaction.
Every reality show had to have at least one of every archetype, but remember: it’s totally real, everyone. It just so happened that there’s only one sneaky bitch and there’s only one cool guy and there’s only one innocent girl and there’s only one slacker. It was by random, totally not on purpose, and you’re crazy if you think producers are controlling the environment of these shows in any way. Same goes for dating shows like Next. It’s obvious that these people with their one liners and bad acting are being honest with all of us.
If you didn’t get it by now: I’m being sarcastic, these shows are faker than lady boy tits and the apologies from Bud Light for advertising with such fake tits. And yet, people can’t stop watching these pointless shows. Even I enjoy it, because of how dumb it is. A big part of my life after school was relaxing late at night with MTV and watching stupid reality tv shows. Even respectable ones like Cops were dumb because the entire show was about police officers finding people breaking the law. The entertainment comes from people ruining their day or their entire life with one dumb act after another.
You’re probably wondering: What does any of this have to do with Drawn Together?
Well, imagine all of these reality shows mixed into a cartoon and then each cartoon archetype is from a different type of cartoon. That’s Drawn Together, and the show gets more insane from that point on. The eras of cartoons are represented by the cast members who are to live in one house, as a satire of things like The Real World and as parody of cartoon archetypes. You have Princess Clara(a parody of the Disney Princess), Foxxy(a parody of 70s mystery solving cartoons like Scooby-doo), Xandir(a parody of 80s Nintendo and action cartoons), Wooldoor(a parody of 90s style Nickelodeon shows like Spongebob), Ling-Ling (a parody of anime like Pokemon), Spanky(a parody of internet cartoons from the early 2000s), Toot(a parody of 1930s black and white cartoons like Betty Boop and Popeye), and Captain Hero (a parody of 90s superhero cartoons like Batman Animated Series and Animated Superman).
These character types are all based on their known stereotypes when it comes to appearance, with their appearances never really mixing since these are all different types of cartoons from different styles. You never see a Pikachu with a Batman, or a human unmasker talk to a video game character, or a human princess from a fairy tale talk to a farting pig from the internet. These things never happen in their environment because these things don’t mix. Then the show puts all of these unrelatable characters into a single house to provide random challenges in the same way reality tv does in order to juxtapose the genres.
The art styles also are juxtaposed. Captain hero is drawn with a square jaw, while Toot is drawn incredibly circular and with a giant head. Woldor has giant white eyes while Foxxy only has pupils. Xandir and Claira are drawn rather similar, but even they have their differences with colors and the thickness of the outline. To the untrained eye, these are easy to miss, but to the artist, these are great homages to the very style something is drawn in. An important part to note is that these are all based on other things and are meant to represent them as symbols. There’s no reason for any of this, yet the show does it anyway.
This is what postmodernism is all about: doing things for the sake of doing it. Juxtaposition is a big part of postmodernism. Blending genres and mixing them around is a big part of postmodernism. Subverting tropes to claim originality is a big part of postmodernism. Non-sequitur is a big part of postmodernism. This entire show is one of the most postmodernist things you can find out there and I love everything about it.
You might be thinking “Is Erwin sick? He talks day and night about how postmodernism sucks and then says he loves Drawn Together. Is this an imposter?!”No, it’s me. I’m simply able to understand the purpose of the show, and I love the meta attempt in all of it: the show is a postmodernist attack on… postmodernism. Everything in the show is designed to be a massive middle finger to how postmodernism functions, by being the dysfunctional postmodernist mess it is. From how meaningless the challenges are, to how characters can never die all the way, to how 4th wall jokes stop the show, to how there is a mundane message tacked on at the very end. Everything in this show is a jab at postmodernism, but at the cost of the show’s own integrity.
In the story I’m working on, I would be required to present postmodernism in it so that I can critique it. But, if my entire story revolves around only that, then I would be presenting postmodernism the entire time, which means I can’t separate the thing that I’m attacking from my work, just how a story about the evils of racism would have to feature a racist. Postmodernists attacking postmodernists is the same as a racist saying “racism is fine, but only in the way I do it.”
But is all postmodernism really the same? The show is hated now, after all, right?
Yes, it’s hated now, because it(ironically) went against the grand narrative that postmodernists currently hold, but it was part of the narrative that was held during the early 2000s. Barely 20 years ago, less than half of a generation, millennials were being raised by exploitation. I know that the postmodernists hate it when I use this word to describe nearly all of postmodernism, but by definition, it’s exploitation. You can blame the 80s for this, because once home media became popular, we had movies that went straight to VHS and then later DVDs that were able to push the envelope.
That’s what postmodernism started as: a way to push the envelope.
South Park and Simpsons didn’t do things that were part of the status quo. They went against it to then become the status quo right after. In fact, there’s an amazing joke from the show Bevis and Butthead(another example of postmodernism) that captures this phenomena perfectly, where the two go to a radio show because they were the only caller, and then they influence the radio show by saying stuff sucks and stuff is stupid.
Their own stupidity and negativity was seen as a sort of punk culture by the viewers and so they demanded the radio host, who was angry at them, to do the same. And so, the next day, the radio host does exactly what he threw Bevis and Butthead out for doing. This complete hypocrisy that somehow there are rules, but they can be broken if the money is there, is something Drawn Together also tackled.
The entire first season was all about having pointless challenges with a character called Jew Producer, who was a parody of both Richie Rich and Donald Trump. How did they connect these 3? Easy: Donald Trump had a show called The Apprentice, Richie Rich was a cartoon, and a Jewish producer is a Hollywood cliche that's entirely true. A lot of Jewish people produce Hollywood stuff and TV shows. I don’t know why this is a controversial statement or why the left always gets insulted by that fact, but they constantly freak out the second someone mentions that someone like Harvey Winstein exists.
While I’m talking about controversies, Adam Carolla, the voice of Spanky, was blacklisted by Hollywood because he decided to do the cardinal sin of… demanding free speech in a country with free speech as a constitutional right. I know, how dare he! It shouldn’t surprise us that the former hippies who ran Hollywood on the backbone of free speech and demanded freedom of expression are now against… freedom of speech and freedom of expression. Meanwhile, Tara Strong, a proud jewish woman, voices a character like Princess Clara, with Princess Clara being a racist, homophobic, anti-semite who is also in a sexual relationship with her father.
So, let’s recap: a jewish woman is able to do the voice for such a terrible thing, yet an Italian male comedian is not able to ask for the acceptance to joke about such topics.
Why is this even a thing?Well, at first it really puzzled me, but like when we saw the left defending drag queen acts in front of children, it finally clicked. The problem in Hollywood isn’t that something terrible is said or written or put in a show. A white princess saying terrible things is normal to them, because that’s how they view white people. Their fear is that something might make a non-white person look bad. Something might make the LGBT look bad. There might be an “uncomfortable truth” revealed in a chain of unregulated jokes.
One of the most profitable postmodernist comedians around, Dave Chappelle, was canceled over making trans jokes, despite being a good friend of a trans person who killed themselves after… trans advocates hated the trans person due to being friends with Dave Chappelle. The woke are disgusting people, to put it bluntly. Zero people were harmed by Dave’s comedy, yet the woke harassing people has a death toll that’d make Pol Pot take notes on their efficiency.
So the difference between Tara and Adam is that Adam wants to make jokes about anything, while Tara is just doing her job and reading the script. The free thinker is the threat, while the obedient follower is not. That’s why Tara still gets jobs and Adam is off doing a podcast and somehow still making millions. I’m sure he’s wiping his tears with gold bullion over the thought of no longer being able to do voices for farting animated pigs.
But what exactly makes Drawn Together hated?
To be honest, I didn’t even know someone could hate the show until I was around 20 or so. Some online people I chatted with told me how offended they were by the show and I never understood what offended even meant until that era. I watched the show throughout my teen years without a care in the world. To me, it was another adult animated show that tried to do anything offensive and it was funny all around. Some of the subject matter, contains but is not limited to:

• Incest
• Self harm
• Suicide
• Homoerotic behavior
• Satanic rituals
• Genocide
• Mass murder
• Mass shootings
• Fat jokes
• Donkey shows
• Cannibalism
• Necrophilia
• Pedophila
• Mexican babies getting pregnant
• Asians and their inability to drive
• Black fathers leaving their kids
• Lewd conduct
• Shitting on a pizza
• A live action squirrel with big balls
• An old man with dirty balls
• And let’s not forget the idea that Clara’s vagina is a giant hentai tentacle monster

All of these things are put in the show to offend us, because the show intends on making people go “ew”. If the constant vomit, blood, shit, piss, burps, farts, cum, sweat, and queefs aren’t a dead give away of them trying to gross the audience out, I don’t know what is. The point of the show is to do exactly what the 90s and early 2000s is all about: doing stuff that is gross so you laugh at how gross it is. Nickelodeon was notorious for this intention of grossing people out, to the point where they would throw green slime around just for fun. As fun as it looks to be drenched in green slime like a Leprechaun bukkake, the goal is to make the audience say “ew… cool!” because that is a male oriented reaction.
And this is where we find the split in postmodernism. When postmodernism began as a means of subverting modernism and regulations, it quickly became a cesspool of creative INABILITY thanks to the woke taking over. We went from freedom of expression to being required to advocate, which is a detriment to comedy. Recently, we had a controversy over a show called Big Mouth, which was hated by the right for being considered pedophilic and indoctrination, because the characters were teenagers dealing with puberty monsters and were depicted as being sexualized.
This is one of the many areas the right is losing the battle on, because so many of them are trying to be Platoist or Mohism, meaning they want some kind of hyper utilitarian and aesthetic free environment due to a hatred of art. Plato believed that art was an “imitation”, that it was a “copy of a copy of a form”. It was a corruption and perversion of reality, thus he saw art as evil. Mo-Zi, a Chinese philosopher who shared a lot of his views, also saw art as a pointless distraction because it’s not the responsibility of the government. These kinds of “right wingers” are accidentally falling for philosophies that pave the way for socialism, so it’s hard to take their positions on art seriously when they can’t see how brainwashed their approach is.
I’m going to go with the Jews on this one and say that art is very important, and so is freedom to make art.
Big mouth is not a show that I will say is one of my favorites, but it’s nothing as how the right wanted to depict it as. Obviously these are just people who wanted the next Cuties outrage and they had a swing n’ a miss. The left, on the other hand, is able to say something like Drawn Together is offensive to them and so it must be canceled. And lo, we have the tumblr people unable to reblog about it, we have reddit radio silent about it, we have twitter people afraid to meme with it, but then it’s still prospering in places like youtube.
People want to watch it, but nobody is brave enough to talk about it in fear of being canceled.
The show is a Martyr in two ways:

1. It is a postmodernist work attacking postmodernism
2. It is a dead form of comedy due to both the left and the right trying to cancel things like it

I already went over the second point by talking about Big Mouth, but I will quickly reiterate: the right and the left want to cancel things that are offensive, but for different reasons. Something like Drawn Together would be hated by something like Daily Wire, and yet I am a conservative who loves the show. I understand that the show is making fun of stuff, I understand it’s gross out humor and pointless nonsense. I love that it’s aware of what it is, to the point where they had an episode where Spanky goes to see their #1 critic and it’s a Jewish, conservative, pro-life, born-again, overweight, Asian, homophobic, lesbian broad who cuts herself.
He then straight up tells her that she’s not their audience, so her opinion doesn’t matter on whether or not the show is good. And he’s right, if you aren’t the audience for something, why should anyone listen to your opinion on the thing you instantly don’t like? It’s like if I had an opinion about which sports team is better. I am 100% uninformed about anything sports related, and the only sport I ever willingly watched was professional wrestling. That’s a sport, right?
Either way, the show is aware that it’s offensive. It’s proud to be offensive. Each character has their own way of offending, both when it comes to a group and when it comes to art itself. This is when postmodernism kicks in and subversion is used to create a surreal environment suited for satire and parody.
As a quick reminder: Satire is when a subject is critiqued and parody is when a subject is used for a joke. An example of this would be where satire is when Scream uses movie tropes to figure out a murder and parody is when the alien from Signs pees with his finger in Scary Movie.
Princess Clara is the Disney princess. Usually a Disney princess seeks a prince to live happily ever after, and she is pure of heart. They subvert this by attaching a bit of reality to the word “princess” and have her in a sexual relationship with her father because princesses would sometimes do that to keep royalty in the family. She’s also a racist and Christian, because royalty in Europe was Christian and it’s “old fashion” for a rich white girl to be racist. Although they keep her desire to sing, the lyrics are still going to hold her views about people, so the humor comes in how she delivers terrible things with a cheery tone. Her character is meant to make fun of traditionalist people, all while using the Disney princess as a face.
With the way wokeness is going, I don’t see a difference between Clara and the current Disney princess now.
Foxxy Love is the Hanna-Barbera style mystery character who is meant to solve crimes, most likely inspired by Valerie Brown from Josie and the Pussycats. She suberts the role by causing crimes and being a degenerate all over. She is a slut, she acts ghetto, she constantly has abortions, you know the deal. This juxtaposition comes from the fact that Valerie is meant to be a hippie musician, and black women on reality TV are depicted as ghetto thanks to shows like Flavor of Love. And for those who don’t know, hippie musicians are usually promiscuous and incredibly loose, with zero regard for decency or sticking to one sex partner because they are all about second wave feminism.
Again, ironically the woke have caused this subversion to be their intentional norm for a lot of black female characters, only they see it as virtuous instead of comical.
Wooldoor Sockbat is the Nickelodeon style hyperactive loony toon who is meant to be both stupid and gullible. There’s not much subversion here with personality, but it’s all with how far he’s willing to go with his zany humor, such as randomly threatening to suck someone’s dick and having giant tits out of nowhere, which he will then squish into the camera while crying. He’s meant to be loud and random, just like Spongebob or Stimpy. However, with the way Spongebob has become after their first movie, the only thing separating Wooldoor from something like Spongebob is direct word usage.
Plus, Ren and Stimpy had their adult party cartoon reboot made by the creator, so doing something gay and entirely disturbing is nothing new for that kind of character. I still can’t believe that it came out in 2003. In fact, I can’t believe Ren and Stimpy was on Nickelodeon with the stuff they put in there. But, that’s the appeal of Wooldoor, because he does the stuff people have been doing with characters like him for years. I would even say he’s not much of a satire since he’s so close to the content he’s meant to make fun of.
Xandir Wifflebottom is the 80s action cartoon parody, as well as early video game cartoons. During the 80s and 90s, we had a lot of Nintendo shows like Legend of Zelda, which took after plot scripts like Transformers, GI Joe, He-Man, and other product placement shows during that time. Only a few episodes of Drawn Together make fun of these simple action plots, but this connection between the merchandise advertising shows and video game cartoons is important, since they are the same thing, and it’s a product of postmodernism. Shows during the 80s and 90s that were simply there to sell something with the show, whether it was a game or a toy, were part of this media and real life blur. His gayness comes from how people viewed both He-Man and Link, since Link was a feminine looking elf and He-Man was a muscular dude who didn’t wear a shirt when he’s fighting.
This one is kind of interesting since it touches on the subject of queer coding. The left is so desperate to feel like the LGBT is represented, they will declare something is gay because it “feels gay”. This feeling is based on whoever is attracted to a fictional character, so if gay men are attracted to He-Man, or if they like his outfit, then that means he’s totally gay. Link is a character who has sadly been considered a “gay icon” by websites like Polygon, all because the designers made him rather gender neutral in later games in order for him to appeal to a female fanbase that was growing. And when they say gender neutral, they mean “he’s not muscular and he has a pretty face”, similar to practically any 00s alt rock band memeber.
Apparently, having that and then having gay people make gay fanfics about the character instantly means the character is gay. The show made fun of this queer coding nonsense by making Xandir a raging homosexual that is constantly killed like a Mortal Kombat character.
Captain Hero, my favorite character, is the comic book show hero that we all know and love. He’s meant to save the day from evil villains, but they subvert his role by having him be entirely useless and usually the cause of mass destruction. He has superpowers, but he’s so stupid and useless that he doesn’t use them most of the time, like when he is immune to bullets but he still grabs a random woman to use her as a “hero shield” when getting shot at. His character makes fun of how postmodernist super heroes try to depict the classic hero as a terrible monster or some kind of morally warped anti-hero. This is due to how Batman went from whacky detective to psychotic nut job during the transition from the 60s to the 80s, thanks to influences like Alan Moore’s Watchman and Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns. His character is more like a Superman, which the Bizzaro Superman comics have covered that kind of thing to make way for a super powered idiot who has sex with corpses.
Why does he have sex with dead bodies? Well, because he’s “alien” to us, the point of the joke is that he’s so super powered that he can do whatever he wants, and uses his powers to have sex with something that can’t fight back. Kind of a “he can have any woman he wants, but he would rather have sex with a rotten corpse” kind of thing. Or maybe it’s making fun of how Superman cares about Lois Lane even though she might as well be a rotten corpse to him, because she’s a human and he’s an alien. Either way, it covers a big problem we started to get in the 90s where superheroes were quickly becoming hyper violent assholes who do anything disgusting for the sake of shock value.
Ling-Ling is basically a Pikachu, but here he will battle with anything and cause gory deaths upon his opponent. The joke is that kid shows featuring these little monsters, like Pokemon and Digimon, will have zero blood, and yet the attacks they do are strong enough to cause giant explosions. Thankfully, these go past the typical Dorkly joke and Ling-Ling will also have jokes centered around being Asian and have a made up language that sounds Japanese because he says “kitowa” a lot.
Just like Xandir, Ling-Ling is treated like a punching bag by the others in nearly every episode, and I think it has to do with the video game relation, since Pokemon began as a video game and the show was there as a way of advertising the product. Plus, during the 00s, there was little respect for something like anime, no matter how much someone knew about the golden age of 80s anime.
Spanky Ham is something I’m not really sure what influenced him, but it’s said it might be an early flash cartoon called Evil Piggies. However, there is a flash cartoon from 1997 made by John K, the creator of Ren and Stimpy, called The Goddamn George Liquor Program, that seems more in line with Spanky’s scat fetish. Early internet cartoons usually had people’s faces done in a South Park style, where the mouth moved by cutting the bottom half off and moving that up and down. When I went on Newgrounds during that time, all I would see were stick figures, parodies of existing cartoons, and something like Ctrl+Alt+Del where the characters were drawn as humans in that typical web comic style. He might have also been inspired by Happy Tree Friends, which first came out in 1999, so the idea of cute animals dying randomly, and the crude humor of The Goddamn George Liquor Program might have caused a farting pig to come into fruition.
The joke is that he’s a pig who likes to drink and have sex, as well as be disgusting, but then somehow he’s also like Ren where he has schemes to make money. I forget if there is a word for this kind of character, but he’s the Squidward type who always gets harmed by his own greed. There is also a lot of Fritz the Cat in his character, which was an animated movie based on an underground comic about a cat who would go on sexual escapades. This “cartoon animal doing adult stuff” has been a joke since the 60s, and even Howard the Duck had issues with what Nostalgia Critic calls “duck boobies”. Speaking of adult ducks, there is even a show called Duckman that was made by the same company that made Rugrats.
People treat Bojak Horseman as this hip new thing when it’s simply part of a long line of animated foul mouth farm animals wearing suits.
Finally, Toot Braunstein is the representative of silent cartoons. Betty Boop was seen as sexy for being curvy, and the joke is that Toot is just plain fat and old, with her body hair and repulsiveness, as well as her tits always sagging to her cankles. She is always harming herself because of a self-esteem issue, caused by her weight and age, which is joined by an alcoholic problem due to her being from the roaring 20s. The joke is that she’s that girl in every reality TV show that is completely disgusting to look at, but she’ll see herself as a hot chick despite hitting the wall so hard that illegals can pour through the cracks. Plus, people believe Betty Boop was based on Clara Bow, who was a flapper “it girl” who suffered from hard drug use, schizophrenia, and was constantly rejected for being too fat.
Toot is the only one in the list who’s not directly a product of postmodernism, but there was a particular charm to rubber hose animation(gained its name for how limbs acted like rubber hoses) that continued onward to create things like Ren and Stimpy, Loony Toons, Tom and Jerry, and even some movies that tried to revive properties of the 30s. The Popeye movie is a great example as to how studios in the postmodernist era tried to desperately mix live action with cartoons, and same goes with Who Framed Roger Rabbit with how it was a movie that mixed live action with rubber hose animation.
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