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>>210291

Oh god, I'm imagining Futaba meeting Asagi and then glomping Fuuka... and Yotsuba going home to ask Koiwai about things she saw in Hitoha's 'notebook'.

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Is this Ichigo Marshmallow?

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>>210295
More or less, yeah. Only with more Kodomo no Jikan.

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>>210295

Not exactly. Ichigo Mashimaro meets South Park with a bit of "Today in Class 5-3" in it. Two of the three sisters are obsessed with girls' anatomy, and the third is a less evil and less successful Cartman.

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Based on the images I've seen on danbooru, this series also has a lady-pedo teacher, doesn't it?

The joke here, for the unfamiliar, is that the three sisters in Mitsudomoe are named Hitoha, Futaba, and Mitsuba (one leaf, two leaves, and three leaves respectively).

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>>210301

>the three sisters in Mitsudomoe are named Hitoha, Futaba, and Mitsuba (one leaf, two leaves, and three leaves respectively).

How original.؟

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I gotta feel the lady-pedo teacher trope is a dishonest reflection of the audience, whereas Kimura-sensei is showing it like it is.

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>>210327
Are you... saying I'm an obnoxious tease?

(more 4koma templates from the artist by the way)

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Just for completeness.

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naw, dude, you're one of the few people here weird, clever and dedicated enough to be truly interesting. i was making fun of the people with their backs to the camera.

vc:quaw

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a version with bonklers stitting stonefaced in frames two and four (because they're too slow to get what happened in frame three) would be mildly amusing. oops, i guess i just ruined the idea by saying it before delivering. have tomo and her boyfriend instead

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>>210335

A scene that will repeat indefinitely for whoever Tomo ends up with.

Tomo being an irritant and her partner desperately trying not to smack her.

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a challenger template appears

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>>210335
Ah, fansubs.

>>210334
Alright, so it was more of a "stands out from the crowd" sort of thing I guess?
Well cool, thanks.

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>>210338
Sure, I'll bite.

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would be better if they didn't look like chipmunks.

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vc:noung

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>>210357
If anything, Bill and Ted would have to be Tomo and Kagura, right?

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リアルだと笑えないよねww

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i was just thinking that one nighttime outside a convenience store was far better than the other one.

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>>210382
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX1oQRiA3w

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More crossover?

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I'm really sorry about this.

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Here's the template in case anyone wants to make a better one (I wish I could say I had a better idea than >>210424)

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Osakura/Yomider/Emiyukari

vc:rallen

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Here's another.

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Yotsudomoe

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>>211282
I would take it if it meant animu Yotsuba.

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>>211296
anime yots might not be all that great. it always feels weird to me when i heard and a character's voice when i've already read the manga. i give the different characters voices in my head when i read them and if the anime voice actor sounds different it makes it seem kind of messed up.
for example i read jumbo sounding like jeffrey holder, the booming, happy voice from the old 7up ads. if he sounded different, it would be off putting. jeffrey holder doesn't speak japanese, btw.

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>>211282

I dislike this crossover because I always get the feeling those three would do something bad to Yotsuba.

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>>211333
Only Mitsuba, she would force her to bring her pancakes and milk all day and destroy Duralumin for fun. The other two are sweet, if misunderstood.

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>>211344

>would force her to bring her pancakes

That sounds kind of amusing

>and destroy Duralumin for fun

That's just cruel.

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>>211345
ごめんなさいw(;◡;)

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>>211332
That argument? It's like I'm really living in Lucky★Star.

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>>211353
You might be on a right track, for example I always thought Ralen radiates kinda Kagami-ish vibes.

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>>211354
naw, kagami can't cook.

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>>211354

>Ralen = Kagami

in terms of attractiveness, I see no correlation whatsoever.

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>>211359
Yes. And I only worship one of them sexually and pledge spiritual allegiance to one of them on a daily basis. The distinction should be clear to anyone who has a true eye for sexual delicacies sexually sexing their sexy way down Sex Avenue.

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>>211361

So can you post some pics of Ralen?

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>>211361
He only eats organic food, so he's likely some frail, pale motherfucker (no offense).

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>>211365

>He only eats organic food

What?! Nah, I don't believe it.

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I'm tempted to chime in, but I'm really interested in seeing where this goes.

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>>211375
Oops, that comment already changed the course of the thread. In fact you couldn't even observe the thread without affecting it's behaviour because of the observer effect or something. Also, until observed by any of us it only existed in a paradoxical state of superposition, or something!

It is intriguing indeed. Most indeedly.

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>>211376
Go back to your own board, Koizumi.

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>>211368
He also really likes brussel sprouts and eats cod liver oil regularly. Seriously.

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>>211378
I don't know about that, but he went apeshit when the discussion came up about Kid Cuisine. "Oh, that's not REAL food! You have to wake up at 5 in the morning, set up the..." forgot what it's called, it's a portable stove or something. I have nothing against boiling your own vegetables or whatnot, but like this fool's any better because he doesn't eat macaroni you make in a microwave?
Apparently, eating fried grasshoppers isn't "real" food either 'cause he'll give you shit for that, too! I bet all he shits is brussel sprouts and pisses vinegar oil.

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>>211378

>He also really likes brussel sprouts

So? I have no problem with that. Brussel sprouts can be delicious.

>and eats cod liver oil regularly

That I find nasty, personally, but if he likes that then who cares?
My problem is with this:

>He only eats organic food

I'll have to rethink my opinion of him if that happens to be true.

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>>211380
Go ahead and ask him about what's (by his definition) "real" food and what's not. I'd be surprised if he doesn't write a thesis this time.

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>>211381
Dude, you're not getting it. If he thinks Kid Cuisine and Hot Pockets are not real food, then I actually agree with him. Microwaved food is not something I'm about to put into my body.
Now, if someone wants to eat nothing but fast food and microwave meals, fine. I won't bust their balls or stop them. Live and let live. I can see myself saying "dude, that's not healthy", but they have the right to choose and I respect that.

My problem is with organic food, which is a scam and often inferior in quality. The fans of organic food are often fascists, just like vegans, and they are not happy simply eating their overpriced garbage; but feel the need to push their ideologies onto others. They don't respect other's right to choose and they generally feel superior.

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>>211382
No, you're not getting it 'cause that was my point. Just look in the archive if you care that much.

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>>211383
We have archives?
Also, I don't feel like reading old threads just to discover where all the drama originated. I prefer to ask him directly.

>>211375
Yo, Ralen! Are you a food fascist?

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Stop it! All of you! Can't you see this is TEARING US APART?

Let's refocus on Ralen. I should want to cook him a simple meal, but I shouldn't want to cut into him, to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes my key.

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>>211391
Sure, no one SHOULD want that, but lets get real here.

˙˙˙˙sqɯɐן ǝɥʇ ɟo ǝɔuǝןıs ɟo ʇno ʇıɥs buıssnɔsıp ǝɹɐ ǝʍ ʍou ¿pɐǝɹɥʇ ǝoɯopnsʇıɯ ɐ ǝq oʇ pǝsn sıɥʇ ʇɐɥʇ ǝʌıןǝq noʎ uɐɔ 'uɯɐp

Stay classy /azu/

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Alright, time to step in I guess.

Don't worry, I would never waste my money on something as dumb as organic food.
I am a vegetarian though.

>>211382
That's basically all I was trying to say.
Like, my shopping cart is more likely to include a can of beans, a package of tortillas, onions, tomatoes, and cheese, rather than a box of frozen microwave burritos.
Aside from the fact that most frozen microwaveable food tastes like cardboard, It just seems somehow more dignified cooking for yourself (but then I think it's better to do things for yourself in general).
That's not to say I'll never get lazy and have a peanutbutter sandwich, or a package of instant ramen though.

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>>211393
OK, so you're vegetarian. I don't think anyone has a problem with that. Unless your attitude sucks (Meat is murder! Blaaaaargh! Meat is bad for you! I am superior for knowing some things you're too ignorant to realize!), nobody should have something against the choices you make. I was a vegetarian when I was 25 too.
But apparently, at some point you pissed off someone and to this day that person is mad. I don't know what that was all about.

All I can say is, the attitude you have towards the choices of others, specially when you disagree with them, is what really shows your character; and that's exactly why I don't have a problem with your habits. I don't care about what you do as long as you're not feeling superior or being an asshole.

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>>211394
I don't even remember exactly what I said. It was just some one time throwaway comment about how I didn't consider microwaveable frozen dinners to be real food (or something to that effect).

I've always figured he was just joking under the guise of being pissed off though, rather than actually being pissed off.

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>>211395
I'm not pissed off. I just rather eat grasshoppers and shit. And, that's not to say I like to cook for myself, either. I just don't distinguish what would be defined as "real" food as long as I'm getting what I need in nourishment.
What I need in my diet != everybody else's

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>>211396
Grasshoppers are nutritious. Insects contain a lot of protein.
Now, when you say "shit", you don't really mean, it, right?

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>>211396
I'm not saying you can't survive on that stuff.
I'm just saying it doesn't seem like any way to live.

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>>211398
How about I let my foot live up your ass? ヾ(´・ω・`)

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>>211399
Alright, alright, I'll stop antagonizing you.

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>>211398
Not grasshopper eating guy here, but I have to say you're wrong. Insects are no different than crustaceans and shellfish. People are willing to eat shrimp but not grasshoppers? Clams but not beetle larvae? Why?
Properly cooked, insects are not only edible and nutritious, but actually delicious (according to those who have eaten them, I haven't got the chance).
It's a cultural thing. Some peoples eat frogs and some wouldn't even touch them. Some eat snails, which are considered a delicacy by some and disgusting by others.
Also, insects are already considered food by most governments. The FDA allows food companies to include them into the products they manufacture. For example, canned tomato soup contains larvae.
What's more, insects and other invertebrates are easier to farm. They are not as picky with their food as chickens and cows, they grow very quickly and they reproduce a like maniacs; so they are an alternative we should be seriously considering as a cheap and efficient answer to the growing problems the blah blah blah I'm sure nobody's reading this post at this point so I'm gonna CTRL V a joke: "Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool?" Ha ha! One liners! How could anyone not love them?.

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>>211401
I was actually talking about the frozen dinners and not the bugs.

Although now that you mention it, every time I hear someone say that, I'm reminded of #3 from this article:
http://www.cracked.com/article_16227_the-5-most-ridiculous-causes-to-ever-get-website.html

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>>211380
Well, I was just joking, but O.K. All this said, I imagine ralen to be somewhat attractive, in a creepy internet stranger kind of way. So I urge mind-him to keep up the good work.

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Also, grasshoppers are delicious.

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>>211401

>Some peoples eat frogs and some wouldn't even touch them.

What do the French and backwoods bayou-country hillbillies have in common? Now we know.

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Wasn't this board about Hidamari Sketch or something?

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>>211414
That's a historical thing. Part of that land was owned by the French so it's natural some qualities are still there (a small part of the U.S. still speaks French exclusively).

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>>211402
豆腐の角に頭を打付けて死ね

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>>211418
"Hit your head on the corner of tofu and die."

...?

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>>211419
You heard the man, sweetheart! Get the tofu and don't stop hitting your head against it's corner until you're dead. Now GO, GO GO!

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>>211414

>bayou-country hillbillies

hillbilly refers to people who live in the hills, the appalachians or the ozarks.
cajuns live in quite flat territory.

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>>211422
Same thing.

>His name, as given on the records, was Joe Slater, or Slaader, and his appearance was that of the typical denizen of the Catskill Mountain region; one of those strange, repellent scions of a primitive colonial peasant stock whose isolation for nearly three centuries in the hilly fastnesses of a little-travelled countryside has caused them to sink to a kind of barbaric degeneracy, rather than advance with their more fortunately placed brethren of the thickly settled districts. Among these odd folk, who correspond exactly to the decadent element of “white trash” in the South, law and morals are non-existent; and their general mental status is probably below that of any other section of the native American people.
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>>211425
Wow. I didn't know Jesse Jackson frequented this site. What a small world.

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>>211427
my grandmother held a sincere belief that he was the antichrist.

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>>211427

Actually that's a paragraph from one of Lovecraft's earlier stories. He didn't just hate blacks and other "savages."

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>>211431
I don't know about "hate", but he was brought up not liking or interacting with any minority. Funny enough, I think he wife was Jewish.

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Everyone was racist in those days. It was before not being racist was invented.

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>>211433
What made Master Gilmore unracist, then? Louie Armstrong? James Brown?

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>>211432
I don't know man, the last I heard it was commonly accepted my the lovecraft scholars that he was exceptionally racist against blacks, even for the time. I mean the relish with which he derides the black man in that frankenstien-esque story he wrote was pretty incredible.

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>>211436
Okay, yeah you're right. I just came across his ditty called On the Creation of Niggers:

"When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a nigger."

Racist prick; check.
That's not all. I was about to read Cthulhu, but then there's this passage I just came across:

"the prisoners all proved to be men of a very low, mixed-blooded, and mentally aberrant type. Most were seamen, and a sprinkling of negroes and mulattos, largely West Indians or Brava Portuguese from the Cape Verde Islands, gave a colouring of voodooism to the heterogeneous cult. But before many questions were asked it became manifest that something far deeper and older than negro fetishism was involved. Degraded and ignorant as they were, the creatures held with surprising consistency to the central idea of their loathsome faith."

Can't say I enjoy his work any less. Welp, h suffered until death and I enjoy the exploitation of women in the media (porn, news, anime/manga, etc.) so que sera, sera.

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Lovecraft's most dedicated biographer is an Indian--S.T. Joshi--one of many fans of his that Lovecraft himself would have looked down upon.

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>>211425

>Same thing

Not even close, but feel free to demonstrate you ignorance some more if you'd like to.

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I've read most of Lovecraft's works over the years, and I place his petty racism as a sign of the times he wrote in - he was hardly the only offender. it goes without saying that the bulk of his stories are centred around the activities of the degenerate, and as pointed out above he was pretty much an equal-opportunity misandrist. Funny thing is, before I read his stories I thought they would be horrible in the sense of being revolting, but I've heard worse things on the evening news, insofar as the news reports awful crimes committed by people who don't even have the cause of serving an evil supernatural being as a justification.

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>>211436

I think a lot of his "exceptional even for his time" racism comes to us from what is known about him outside his writing. It's only really apparent in some of his stories. He's on record condemning the various fascist movements of the time, which had the support of many "intellectual" racists, so I guess that has to count for something.

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Lovecraft existed in a perpetual world of fear and hatred. Each and every one of his stories is a combination of his fear of one or more races, and his hatred of seafood.

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Anyone else think Lovecraft was a poor writer?

Just me?

Oh, okay.

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>>211494
His writing actually wasn't that incredible. His prose could get a bit purple at times and his sentence construction was far from the bast

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>>211494

"This thing, oh my god this thing. It's so scary, man. So scary, you can't even think of it! Trust me on this one, dude."

Yeah, I still love his stories but they definitely have their weaknesses.

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In the 1920s (that is, during Lovecraft's career), the KKK was very powerful. It wasn't a bunch of guys in the backwoods--there were senators and governors across America who were open Klan members. I've heard it said that if you're a white Protestant and had family in America back in the 1920s, there's a good chance you had an ancestor in the Klan, if only for a little while. So Lovecraft's racism wasn't so unusual...I guess people just expected better of him, because he wasn't an ignorant and uncultured person. I get the impression that while he thought Anglo-Saxon and "Aryan" people were superior, he would have disliked the Klan too, because he was an athiest, and also because he would have thought of the Klan as boring, small-town, and bourgeois with no love for his kind of literature. By contrast Lovecraft's friend Robert E. Howard (who created Conan) was a redneck and racist, but also a dreamer and a lover of fantasy, and someone who had no time for fascist groups, be it the Klan or otherwise.

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>>211503
That reminds me of every Goosebumps book ever written:

End of of Chapter 1: ...and then the black creature emerged from the shadows!
Start of Chapter 2: It was my dad.

End of Chapter 2: I then felt a deep breathing down my next that was not human!
Start of Chapter 3: It was my dad. :/

>>211506
I think that shit he wrote was little more than just "part of the times". He wasn't lynching negros on his off time, sure, but that's a fucked up excuse. Then they had the audacity to act surprised when blacks started breaking into their homes and slit these peackerwood's necks.
But, whatever. That was then.

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>>211506
Actually Lovecraft's views of humanity were pretty simple. They can be easily summed up as:
Anglo-Saxon intellectuals are good.
Everyone else barely counts for a human being.

Also he didn't really go out of his way to hate on people, he just simply assumed he was better than them. He did soften up in his later years, when he started going out more, traveling and actually MEETING people.

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He named his cat Nigger-Man.

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He did name his cat "Nigger-Man," but in those days kids grew up rhyming "eeney meenie miney moe, catch a nigger by the toe." That wasn't just in Pulp Fiction...that's how the rhyme used to go. People said "nigger" without a second thought back then. Fortunately, no one would ever do that today, especially on the internet.

vc: I'm hoping Yomi is a bi

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>>211506
In 1915 Lovecraft wrote:

>The Birth of a Nation, is said to furnish a remarkable insight into the methods of the Ku-Klux-Klan, that noble but much maligned band of Southerners who saved half of our country from destruction at the close of the Civil War. The Conservative has not yet witnessed the picture in question, but he has seen both in literary and dramatic form The Clansman, that stirring, though crude and melodramatic story by Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., on which The Birth of a Nation is based, and has likewise made a close historical study of the Klu-Klux-Klan, finding as a result of his research nothing but Honour, Chivalry, and Patriotism in the activities of the Invisible Empire. The Klan merely did for the people what the law refused to do, removing the ballot from unfit hands and restoring to the victims of political vindictiveness their natural rights. The alleged lawbreaking of the Klan was committed only by irresponsible miscreants who, after the dissolution of the Order by its Grand Wizard, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, used its weird masks and terrifying costumes to veil their unorganised villainies.

Race prejudice is a gift of Nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.

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>>211534

This is going to sound like an absurd defense of Lovecraft (and I'm not trying to defend him), but I wonder how he felt about the Klan of his day, as opposed to the Klan of the Reconstruction era. Was it the 1920s KKK he was referring to when he said, "The alleged lawbreaking of the Klan was committed only by irresponsible miscreants who, after the dissolution of the Order by its Grand Wizard, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, used its weird masks and terrifying costumes to veil their unorganised villainies"? I know HPL wrote a zillion letters (someone said if he were alive today, he'd have a big web forum), so he probably commented on the "modern" Klan at some point.

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>>211506

'When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Iove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a nigger.' - H.P. Lovecraft, 1912

"Science shows us the infinite superiority of the Teutonic Aryan over all others, and it therefore comes to us to see his ascendancy shall remain undisputed. Any racial mixture can but lower the result. The Teutonic race, whether in Scandinavia, other parts of the continent, England, or America, is the cream of humanity." - Date unknown

"In general, America has made a fine mess of its population, and will pay for it in tears amidst a premature rottenness unless something is done extremely soon... In excluding the swarms of Mediterranean and Asiatic virmin (sic) that now ooze and creep over all the landscape we could have avoided most of that very sense of intolerable repulsion which a foreign name now creates in us... In nations, as in society, congeniality is the all-important principle." - date unknown

"Of course, they can't let Niggers use the beach at a Southern resort – can you imagine sensitive persons bathing near a pack of greasy chimpanzees? The only thing that makes life endurable where Blacks abound is the Jim Crow principle, and I wish they'd apply it in New York both to Niggers and to the more Asiatic types of puffy, rat-faced Jews"! - date unknown but you get the picture

H.P. Lovecraft was as terrible a person as he was a writer. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about him. Even his fictional works were sounding boards for his racist ideas ("The Shadow Over Innsmouth", among many other of his works, is a pathetic screed against miscegenation). That he enjoys popularity with various 'nerds' may be due to a shared fear of non-whites, as nerds are notoriously racist.

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>>211552

I just want to continue into the idea of H.P. Lovecraft as a terrible writer. His prose is sickeningly purple at all opportunities save one: when it might actually be justified. He falls over himself to describe the hum-drum and mundane, but when it comes to anything beyond the ordinary, what is left is rather poor. Descriptions start and stop at 'alien geometries' and 'it was utterly indescribable in its alieness'(sp). One of the best criticisms ever laid against Lovecraft (apart from the fact that he was a vile pathetic racist) was that the only reason he was a popular writer was that his readers filled in all of his blanks without them noticing it. "In truth, we are all better writers than he [Lovecraft] is!". That people like the world he made is one thing (it can be, perhaps, rehabilitated) but the writing of the man himself is empty, broken, and purple.

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I don't want to get in to whether or not he's a bad writer but this;

>the only reason he was a popular writer was that his readers filled in all of his blanks without them noticing it.

Isn't really a good criticism.
To put it simply, the monster of Lovecrafts nightmares might be a bit scary to most, but it's nothing compared to whatever you yourself can concoct when presented with the idea of something terrifying rather than a full description.

That he can paint half the picture and leave the rest to the imagination of his readers is a talent, not a detriment.

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>>211552

Legitimate criticisms of Lovecraft and his writings are one thing, but when you cross over to "If you like Lovecraft's stories you must be a racist!" is when it gets downright silly. It is quite possible to enjoy his works in spite of, not because of, his obnoxious racism.

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But I don't think Lovecraft was a popular writer, at least, during his lifetime. And (like a lot of people online) there was a difference between the hateful things he wrote and how he acted in real life; he had a lot of kindness and generosity in him. Much like Kagura, whom HPL would have denounced for being dumb, dark-skinned, and Asian.

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>>211556
That brings up poignant question: if your favorite and beloved character in Azu and Yots turns out to be racist would you like them the same?

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>>211560
I'm pretty sure Yukari has to be at least a little racist.

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>>211562
Was it that time she ran away from that German?

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>>211563
No, it's more like her generally stubborn personality makes me think she probably has some preconceptions that would be difficult to break.

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>>211564

Although you COULD take the "No good! He's a German" thing the wrong way too. But yeah... she seems to stereotype people quite a bit. Look at how she treated Osaka, even though the latter protested that not everyone from Osaka was like the stereotype.

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>>211565
Well, Yukari did talk to that one guy who spoke English, where else Nyamo didn't.
I wouldn't say Yukari is racist in a sense that she be in the conservative party in Japan, but maybe have a few misconceptions. I think she even expressed about going abroad.
Nyamo seems like a racist type. She finds it hard enough to accept a man in her life.

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>>211344
Having seen the last episode of this season, I would like to retract this statement. Mitsuba is olev.

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>>211569
>>211565

I think you guys are reading faaaaar too much into that scene.

The whole "it's no good, he's German" could just as well been "Italian" or "Mexican" or any other nationality. The point was that he didn't speak English, not that there was anything wrong with being German.

As for Yukari talking to the English-speaking foreigner, that makes perfect sense--Yukari is an English teacher after all. Nyamo doesn't speak English so it's expected that she kept her mouth shut.

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>>211560
That was an awesome way to bring this thread back on-topic. Actually, I can almost imagine Osaka having some strange racial prejudice; it would fit with the darker/creepier aspects of her personality, and she'd manage to make it hilarious.

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>>211575

"Miss Osaka, Miss Osaka! I'm so happy!"

"Oh? Oh! What's got you all happy, Chiyo-chan?"

"My pen-pal is flying all the way from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to visit!"

"Ahhh! From Haiti?? That's no good!"

"W-w-what?? How can you say something like that, Miss Osaka?"

"It's true! I used to take rice and nori and cucumbers and make kappa maki all the time! Now I can't bring myself to do it, knowing... they're watching me do it."

"Miss Osaka, you're not making any sense! How could my friend in Port-au-Prince be watching you make sushi rolls in Japan??"

"I don't know how, but it's true! I saw it on a picture on the Internet! 'They see me rolling -- they're Haitian!'"

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>>211582
It does come off as a very Osakaesque joke.



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