Tag Archive | History
TV Tropes Monday: New Neo City
Tweet of the Day: A Spell for You Your colony ship lands in a virgin world and your crew is ready to create the first settlement upon it. But what should you call it? Do you name it after the leader of your star nation? Perhaps use the name of your significant other? […]
Space for Rent: The Past is Prologue
These words were not uttered by Steven Bannon, but the fact that the American media and public cowered in fear while they were uttered led to our current situation. We were warned that trading liberty for security was a dangerous precedent. We were told that the machine of State engorged itself on the life’s […]
TV Tropes Monday: A Nazi by Any Other Name
Tweet of the Day: Hype and its Consequences Yeah, you saw this one coming a mile away, oh gentle reader. Or maybe you didn’t which makes the horror you feel right now that much more tangible. Alas, we shall proceed with the Troping none the less by presenting A Nazi by Any Other Name. You […]
TV Tropes: Balance of Power
Tweet of the Day: Short Fiction News This trope posits a situation were two or more powerful institutions or groups keep in other in check but that the acts of a third party could unbalance the systems and lead to open conflict (see page link for a common example). However, the parties […]
TV Tropes Monday: Awakening the Sleeping Giant
Tweet of the Day: Russia’s Open Book ——- There is a war going on. It might be a deadlock or one side is steamrolling the other. But there is a third party that remains neutral. They might send humanitarian aide. They might admonish the warring factions to resolve their differences through diplomacy. Then something […]
Space for Rent: Skin Deep
“Race is not real, it is a social construct.” Or…. “There is no such thing as race.” True, from a purely scientific point of view. The differences between the “races” of humanity is literally skin deep, a mixture of melanin and dietary adaptations. You can not find any significant markers at the genetic level, except […]
TV Tropes Monday: Operation “Blank”
Tweet of the Day: More on the Hugos from a Dark, Dark Place ——- This is something of a world building trope, in as much as it lends color to a setting. Most military actions carry a name of sorts hence the Operation Blank, where in depending on the setting the blank can be filled […]
TV Tropes Monday: The Quisling
Tweet of the Day: The Carpenter ——- The Quisling is not just a traitor to the cause (whatever cause that may be), he does not merely collaborate with the enemy, but serves as their puppet in ruling the nation. The Quisling is usual the local “face” of the occupation, someone of authority among the locals, […]
Space for Rent: The Roots of All Evil
Tweet of the Day: “Pete & Pete’ Was All White People!” ——- For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy, King James Bible. Greed, not money is the root of all evil. […]
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