Downtown Khazan: Ice Cold Utopia

[Siriel]

In other news, I'm displaying symptoms and have had a Covid test. Awaiting results.

I wish you the best, Sharp. Let's hope it's nothing or a harmless case.

[Beadle]

I'm moved in with my girlfriend, with whom I will probably be getting married in the near future, and am continuing to kick ass in my new job as an immigration attorney.

I have so little free time nowadays, and PBP RPGs are just way too energy and time inefficent. Sorry to Cleric, Sharp and Siriel, you all deserved better from me. I'm not even able to keep up with my favorite mangas regularly anymore. It's a time in my life where, despite my desire to see some desires from my teenage years through, I've had to redirect everything I have to building my life. Thank you. I wish I could keep churning out quality posts with you.

Sounds like you have some great stuff going on. Focus on the big stuff, Falcon. And congrats.

[Beadle]

In other news, I'm displaying symptoms and have had a Covid test. Awaiting results.

Really hope it comes back negative, Sharp. Or, if not, that the symptoms stay mild. Take care, man.

[Dark Soul # 7]

In other news, I'm displaying symptoms and have had a Covid test. Awaiting results.

Hoping it's a negative result and you just have a cold or something. If that's not the case then it'll hopefully be a pretty minor case of the Covid.

Either way, good luck.

[Denkota]

In other news, I'm displaying symptoms and have had a Covid test. Awaiting results.

That's very sad to know. Hope you test negative and recover soon.

[Jcogginsa]

[Guy1]

Lol what.

[Dark Soul # 7]

Lol what.

Some day I will watch the entire Ghost Stories dub.

Some day.

[Len Ikari145]

Some day I will watch the entire Ghost Stories dub.

Some day.

Do it. Even if some of the jokes aren't exactly PC by today's standards, it's absolutely hilarious. I still find it amusing that this is the first and only "official" abridged series of an anime.

[Jcogginsa]

[Guy1]

Perfect timing, pervy sensei! I just found this!

[Nik Hasta]

just to remind everyone that SGDQ is running as of now!

Enjoy some rad speedruns, maybe donate to charity?

[Jcogginsa]

Fun Fact I discovered recently: In the Prose Edda (Which is one of the two main sources we have for Norse Myth) Thor is described as being the son of Memnon, who is a hero from the Trojan cycle who fought the side of Troy.

Memnon is also from what the Greeks called aethiopia, which was the land south of Egypt. This in turn means that Thor was partially African.

The rest of the Asgardians were, in turn, described as descending from turks

[Laevatein]

Fun Fact I discovered recently: In the Prose Edda (Which is one of the two main sources we have for Norse Myth) Thor is described as being the son of Memnon, who is a hero from the Trojan cycle who fought the side of Troy.

Memnon is also from what the Greeks called aethiopia, which was the land south of Egypt. This in turn means that Thor was partially African.

The rest of the Asgardians were, in turn, described as descending from turks

Well, I've heard that Aesir is derived from Hinduism's Asura.

[grampagen]

Fun Fact I discovered recently: In the Prose Edda (Which is one of the two main sources we have for Norse Myth) Thor is described as being the son of Memnon, who is a hero from the Trojan cycle who fought the side of Troy.

Memnon is also from what the Greeks called aethiopia, which was the land south of Egypt. This in turn means that Thor was partially African.

The rest of the Asgardians were, in turn, described as descending from turks

Yes, and the Anglo-Saxons once hyped up their lineage by including, among others in the Ancestry of Woden, Noah, Priam, Thor, Beowulf, Jupiter and Saturn.

In examining what we take for granted as historical facts, one must take care to consider what agendas may be at hand.

In this case, whoever wrote the Prose Edda likely was attempting to establish legitimacy in a similar way, by creating a connection where there was none before. Writing to your audience is one thing, but appealing to the powers that by subsuming local beliefs into a canon of literary works well-regarded by the ruling body just makes sense.

In addition, the mythological canon of the Greeks...they called the Scythians Amazonian women because they had long hair, rode horses, and shot bows, so I'm kinda skeptical what their idea of a Aethiopian was.