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hoverman0:

u talk a lot of rancid shit 4 being a severed head

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beardedmrbean:

Jim Butcher still at large.

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supreme-leader-stoat:

edgar-allan-possum:

Concept I’m currently rotating in my mind right now is Galahad and Mordred, but they’re alive in modern New York for some reason and have opened a private detective agency together.

Just to be clear, are we talking Fate or are we talking Arthurian Romance?

Fate would be pretty funny, but I’m thinking based on Arthurian Romance. Obviously I want to play fast and loose with the details where it suits me, though.

I’m thinking Mordred managed to make a convincing argument to St. Peter that it wasn’t entirely his fault, so some of his purgatory time is being commuted in exchange for extra good deeds done on earth. Galahad is there because he volunteered to tag along and keep an eye on Mordred.

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helixsnake:

I remember someone saying “mad scientists in fiction aren’t scientists because there’s never a control group”

I think if you’ve created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

Girl Genius has mad scientists who experiment on orphans.

And they use control groups.

They are mad scientists, but no university would ever let them publish if they didn’t follow proper scientific methodology in turning orphans into an army of goat men.

Girl Genius is the awesome creation of two of my absolute favourite artists, Phil and Kaja Foglio. ❤️

supreme-leader-stoat:

nonegenderleftpain:

helixsnake:

I remember someone saying “mad scientists in fiction aren’t scientists because there’s never a control group”

I think if you’ve created an elixir that turns people into goat men you have sort have gone past the need for a control group. The control group is not going to placebo themselves into goat men. You can probably not run the control group, and safely assume that none of them would have turned into goat men. That said, having a control group for that would make the mad scientist seem extra crazy and be really really funny, especially if he was carefully testing them for goat like features from the dyed water they drank instead of the elixir

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saint-sacrilege-blog:

100% Disagree

It’s an underdog story about classism in which the folk hero (Johnny) is confronted by a powerful man (the Devil) who tries to exploit the hero’s perceived ignorance and inferiority by offering a great reward with impossible odds. Although Johnny warns him that looks can be deceiving, and that he’s going to regret the dare because Johnny is the “best there’s ever been”, the devil is blinded by his greed and arrogance.

The devil creates an awful cacophony of technically excellent fiddle playing that would be impossible for Johnny to replicate. It’s a trick.

But Johnny just grins at him and starts to play “simple” classic country fiddling songs - Fire On The Mountain, House Of The Rising Sun, and Daddy Cut Her Bill Off. He doesn’t rise to beat the Devil - he simply creates his own music from his home, in the style that he knows, and his love of it and the familiarity of the music make his “backwoods” fiddling more perfect than the Devil could ever achieve.

It is thus the devil’s pride, not Johnny’s, that allows Johnny to Bugs Bunny his way into a golden fiddle.

(In that sense, I do agree that it is the most American song: in a land of prejudice and inequities, great power lies - dormant but ever-present - in those we underestimate and attempt to exploit.)

Also people initially react to the devil’s part like “holy shit that’s badass” because he’s got electric guitar and bass and a whole backing band to make him sound good. Of course he sounds amazing. But if you drill down to the actual fiddling – and this is straight from Charlie Daniels – it’s not as technically difficult as what Johnny does. It’s fast? But it’s mostly just going up and down scales.

Here’s a good performance – the devil’s part starts around 2:00. Check out how long Daniels just stands there holding his fiddle while the guitar and piano carry the weight. I love that piano bassline but fiddling it ain’t.

It’s still an American narrative: if you can afford to hire a bunch of more talented people, you, too, can look like a genius. Doesn’t make you one.

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