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spiralsheep) wrote2025-10-14 01:09 pm
spiralsheep) wrote2025-10-14 01:09 pm
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In which there are populist Romantics in the hood
- Lexicophilia: I think the terms related to "popular kids" should be "populist kids" to help people think about the system they're buying into.
- In the hood, wearing my hoodie, interacting with the neighbourhood....
Me, outside in black trousers and a black hoodie with the hood up because it's raining.
Neighbour, apparently having indulged in a liquid lunch: "Has anyone ever told you that you look like a Dark Lord?"
Me, in amused retaliation: "And you look like Fred Dibnah, mate."
Neighbour: "Fred Dibnah? That's really hurtful!"
Me, still amused: "You said I looked like a Dark Lord!"
Neighbour, explaining that he didn't mean any of the cool evil geniuses but one of the second tier inadequates....
Me, now actually offended instead of mollified, lmao.
P.S. Also love the fact there's a long Fred Dibnah, aka Дибна, Фред, page on Russian language wikipedia.
- Continue musing on whether the Romantics did us more of a cultural service or disservice by reinventing castles, medieval military architecture as phenomenally expensive display of power and resource-hoarding, in their ruined and slighted state as sublimely beautiful if viewed through an approved lens (sometimes a literal Claude glass), and reinventing chivalry as graciously heroic, thus giving a sort of closure to otherwise unresolved history of war and mass violence. Interesting as a Brit to remember castles were still in use as defensible fortifications during the Second English Civil War, and later elsewhere in Europe, only 150 years before Romanticism was peaking.
- In the hood, wearing my hoodie, interacting with the neighbourhood....
Me, outside in black trousers and a black hoodie with the hood up because it's raining.
Neighbour, apparently having indulged in a liquid lunch: "Has anyone ever told you that you look like a Dark Lord?"
Me, in amused retaliation: "And you look like Fred Dibnah, mate."
Neighbour: "Fred Dibnah? That's really hurtful!"
Me, still amused: "You said I looked like a Dark Lord!"
Neighbour, explaining that he didn't mean any of the cool evil geniuses but one of the second tier inadequates....
Me, now actually offended instead of mollified, lmao.
P.S. Also love the fact there's a long Fred Dibnah, aka Дибна, Фред, page on Russian language wikipedia.
- Continue musing on whether the Romantics did us more of a cultural service or disservice by reinventing castles, medieval military architecture as phenomenally expensive display of power and resource-hoarding, in their ruined and slighted state as sublimely beautiful if viewed through an approved lens (sometimes a literal Claude glass), and reinventing chivalry as graciously heroic, thus giving a sort of closure to otherwise unresolved history of war and mass violence. Interesting as a Brit to remember castles were still in use as defensible fortifications during the Second English Civil War, and later elsewhere in Europe, only 150 years before Romanticism was peaking.
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