• Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My favorite part of the original Dracula is that there is a literal rootin-tootin’ yee-haw cowboy in it.

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      3 months ago

      The original Dracula is so good and the characters are so damn funny. You have the hero polycule consisting of a cowboy, a love stuck himbo, an autistic woman who’s special interest is trains, a romantic goth, a rich guy with a pack of corgis, an obsessive gadget guy and their adoptive eccentric uncle fighting against a man with a traditional harem he can’t keep happy and who spends half his time pretending to be his own servant to keep up appearances.

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          “I Was Transported to Victorian England to Defeat the Lord of Vampires, but My Party Is a Cowboy Gunslinger, a Lovestruck Himbo Solicitor, a Train-Obsessed Autistic Scholar, a Romantic Goth Girl, a Corgi-Hoarding Aristocrat, and a Gadget-Crazed Professor Led by Our Eccentric Adoptive Uncle. Meanwhile, the Demon Lord Keeps Cosplaying as His Own Butler Because He Can’t Manage Even a Single Harem?!", now available on Netflix.

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      2 months ago

      Not by a long shot. This is pretty tame. I’d go to Mexico for a long weekend just to party with these guys.

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    3 months ago

    I had to read that four times to realize it didn’t spell “technotitan.”

    I’m an idiot.

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    2 months ago

    and yet for some reason hollywood is out of ideas and keeps recycling comic stories.

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      2 months ago

      Tried-and-true is safer money. I get it from an investing perspective, I just don’t think everything should be decided by that.

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    2 months ago

    There’s a long history of trade where people would travel from China and Japan thru the Philippines and end up in michoacan then travel thru the Mexican belly and depart from Veracruz to Cuba to Europe to Africa and then sail back from those places again thru Mexico to land in the Philippines Japan and China. So there is a history of mixed families along the way from China to Europe and Africa thru America.

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    3 months ago

    I was listening to public radio in new Mexico and they had a segment on how people used specific animal names in the new world to signal back to kin in the old world which regions and families they were from.

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    2 months ago

    That is actually pretty close to Jacks gang in Neil Stevenson baroque series (bonanza)

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      2 months ago

      Which begs the question why the series isn’t more popular?

      Isaac Newton as a crimefighter should have people lining up!

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        Ow that is easy, because it’s waaay too long, I had to switch to audiobook because I really couldn’t be bothered with about half of the storylines.

        But crime fighting Isaac Newton was awesome 😎

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          I am the kind of reader who turns his nose up at a book under 12 kilos.

          Look up Adrian Tchaikovsky if you feel the same. Pure science fiction, not historical