#african pulp fiction

[uwmspeccoll]

(Not So) Steamy Saturday

"The times had brought changes to Whitebridge. Could Jane Weaver, R.N., take up her old life and duties. . . ?"

"'Jane, I'd like you to meet Dr. Boyd Daves. . . .' It took all of Jane's poise to cover her surprise. For the handsome man smiling politely at her from behind the wheel was black."

"A new black doctor had introduced the racial question . . . and Jane found not the threads of her old life but a new challenge to her heart."

Of the 500+ nurse romance novels from the 1940s to the early 1970s in our collection, it is rare to find one with African American main characters, let alone having them depicted on the cover, and even rarer are interracial relationships. In our collection, the nurse romances that do were all published after Civil Rights legislation of the mid-1960s. Such is the case this pulp novel, Homecoming Nurse by Rose Dana (one of the many pseudonyms for prolific pulp-fiction writer W.E.D. Ross, 1912-1995), published in New York by Lancer Books in 1968.

With the novel showcasing many of the social taboos of the time -- divorce, a small New England town forced to come to terms with contemporary racial issues, racially-exclusive country clubs, interracial relationships, mental illness, the village ice queen chasing after a married man -- we thought it would have the makings of a fairly steamy plot. But, alas, its narrative is plodding and pedestrian with barely a wisp of steam. Disappointing. To its credit, however, with the entire town fretting over the potential of miscegenation, the story does culminate in an interracial engagement (between the main character Jane's friend Maggie and Dr. Boyd, not Jane herself). Getting there, however, is tedious and about as exciting as an ice cream parlor on a sleepy New England main street.

View other nurse romance novels.

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[thecoastofspaceblog]

Django Decades Later

We may all clown and criticize Quinten Tarantino now. But Django Unchained is a perfect modernization of the classic western. It pulls absolutely no punches with its world or its characters. Its cruelty is shocking and necessary to understand the true horror of its setting. Its heroes are larger than life but remain relatively grounded. It earns every one of its gunfights and kills. It creates a perfect depiction of the southern strategy to make men into property. It feels like a movie that would have been made in the past three years versus all the way in 2012. Tarantino has matched his direction with his vices of intense action. Each reigning each other in and making this a tight and entertaining action film with realistic, often forgotten brutality.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Analysis: Of Mice and Men (Cultural References)

Bindle: A bag, sack, or carrying device.

Bindle Stiff: Hobo; transient who carries his belongings in a sack.

Bunk House: A sleeping quarters intended for use by multiple people.

Talcum Powder: Very similar in texture to baby powder, talcum powder was used mainly after bathing or shaving.

Apple Box: A box used for storage or as a stepstool capable of holding a person's weight.

Scourges: A widespread affliction, an epidemic illness or the consequence of some natural disaster, like fire, flood, or a migration of locusts.

Pants Rabbits: A sexually transmitted disease, known as pubic lice.

Graybacks: The equivalent of ticks or lice.

Liniment: A topical cream for the skin that helps with pain or rashes.

Jerkline Skinner: Lead driver of a team of mules

Stable Buck: A derogatory name for an African-American man who works in the stables.

Stetson Hat: A famous brand of hats, especially cowboy hats.

‍Swamper: A general assistant; handyman.

Murray and Ready: An employment agency, specializing in farm work.

Work Slips: Proof that people had been hired to do a job.

Cultivator: A farming tool used to stir and soften the soil either before or after planting.

Cesspool: A well or pit filled with drainage or sewage.

Slough: A muddy or marshy area.

Tart: A woman who tempts men or who is sexually promiscuous.

Buck Barley: To throw large bags of barley on a truck.

Lynch: To illegally execute a person, generally applied to the hanging and/or burning of African-Americans in the south.

Slug of Whiskey: Equivalent to a hip flask of whiskey.

Gut Ache: A stomach ache.

Airedale: A type of dog, specifically Terrier.

Pulp Magazine: During the 1920s-1950s, inexpensive fiction magazines. From 1950 on, the term also came to represent mass market paperbacks.

Luger: The Luger pistol was an expensive, high maintenance weapon manufactured and used primarily in the German army.

Euchre: A card game played in England, Canada, and some parts of the U.S.

Two Bits: Twenty-Five cents.

Rag Rug: Rugs created from rags that were tied together by knots.

Kewpie Doll: A particular style of doll, one that was usually won at carnivals.

Phonograph: The first device for recording and playing sound, most specifically music.

Parlor House: Could be considered a restaurant, but more often parlor houses were brothels.

Hutches: A form of furniture, very similar to a wardrobe.

Welter: A boxer (refers to welterweight, a weight class in boxing).

Nail keg: A wooden barrel that could usually hold 100 pounds or more inside.

Russian Hill: Affluent residential neighborhood in San Francisco, California.

Travels with a Donkey: Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), one of Robert Louis Stevenson's earliest published works.

Varro: Marcus Terentius Varro (116-29 B.C.E.), Roman scholar/author and horticulturist.

Velasquez's Cardinal: Seventeenth-century painting by Spanish painter Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez.

Zane Grey: American adventure novelist (1872-1939).

Source ⚜ Writing Notes & References

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

hii you asked for non english fantasy so id like to submit Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Marquez and La casa de los espiritus by Isabel Allende. theyre magical realism but personally i think thats fantasy so idk. Cien años de soledad is definetly the more fantastic of the two though

hello! as I elaborated on way back in the day (on like day 2 of the blog, lmao), I do not generally consider magical realism to be fantasy as such. here’s what I said at the time:

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> this will perhaps be a controversial stance, but as a rule I don’t consider magic(al) realism to be fantasy. a text like Alejo Carpentier’s El reino de este mundo / The Kingdom of This World — in conjunction with which Carpentier developed the idea of lo real maravilloso — is using apparently “fantastic” elements clearly within a “literary” and, ultimately, fundamentally realist framework: Carpentier’s contention, explored by later Boom writers, is that aspects of life in Latin America as experienced by Latin Americans cannot be adequately accounted for or expressed within the bounds of traditional European realism. [addition on 7/7/24: this is a fundamentally different theoretical and literary project than genre fantasy or even from gothic or gothic-adjacent texts.]

> this opens a much bigger can of worms re the social construction of “reality” in and by Western literary realism — Daniel Heath Justice, for example, has critiqued the reduction of work by Indigenous writers to the realm of “mere” allegory or simply to unreality. I’m not satisfied with Justice’s solution to the problem (the concept of “wonderworks”), because I think it cedes too much ground to Western literary realism’s claim to a monopoly on the real, but his underlying point stands. I have increasingly found that “magic(al) realism” is used, in popular contexts, less as a serious engagement with the theoretical problems that the authors of the Boom were grappling with and more as

a way to bracket off as “unreal” work by Indigenous, African, and other authors who are writing from within a different baseline realism than Western literary realism presupposes, without seriously engaging with the ways this work interrogates the hegemonic constructed “real” that Western states use to justify, for example, the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites for resource extraction purposes;

alternately, a kind of “fantasy lite” that wants to stay within the realm of “literary fiction” rather than risk being tarred with the genre label “fantasy”; or

a label for things that are simply fantasy, not engaged with any of the theoretical problems that define magic(al) realism as a genre, but are either liminal fantasy or more realism-adjacent than secondary-world fantasy or urban fantasy.

> things in categories 1 and 2 I would generally exclude from the category of fantasy (if you don’t want to be here, I don’t want you here either!); things in category 3 I would probably consider fantasy (and not consider magic(al) realism).

> my second and third questions / points about the gothic are also relevant here, and help clarify some fringe cases. Gabriel García Márquez and Alejo Carpentier were clearly working in the realm of literary fiction and not the “popular” literature that has come to be grouped under the label “fantasy”; conversely, Jorge Luis Borges was heavily influenced by anglophone pulp writers, including H.P. Lovecraft — I am comfortable identifying texts like “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius” as “fantasy” (for all that they predate the genre).

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while some of Allende’s other work is more definitively fantasy (e.g., the Memorias del águila y del jaguar trilogy, which is currently queued), if La casa de los espíritus is less fantastic than Cien años de soledad I’m probably inclined to exclude it.

ALL OF THAT SAID: I admit to feeling a bit more ambivalent now, having since accepted Kafka’s Die Verwandlung / The Metamorphosis (as well as Haïlji’s The Republic of Užupis, which in some ways I think resembles the Boom writers’ magical realism). my four guiding questions for fringe cases between fantasy and realism are:

does the text contain an unequivocally fantastic element (something that, as Samuel Delany puts it, “could not happen” — some sign of magic or the supernatural)?

was the text composed as fantasy or as literary fiction?

for fiction published in the English-speaking world or other areas where there exists a separate fantasy market, is the text published and marketed as fantasy or as literary fiction?

if someone came to me and said they liked (e.g.) N.K. Jemisin, Patricia McKillip, and Charles de Lint, do I feel I could recommend this book to them and expect them to enjoy it on the basis of some similarity to these other authors?

my feeling is that most Boom magical realism is a maybe on question 1 (accounting for the fact that part of the point of the genre is to interrogate the social construction of “reality”) and a solid no on questions 2-4. but if you or anyone else wants to make a strong case for either Cien años de soledad or La casa de los espíritus, I am open to being convinced otherwise!

[stormbreaker101]

I have for you a game! Below are 3 badly translated book titles:

"Honey"

"Oz"

"Red Paper"

Write for me their plots, please!

Ooh, this is funky!

"Honey" gives me the vibe of the title being incredibly poetic, but the translation went way too literal and succinct with it. Maybe the original title was something like "The Nectar of Life", and it was a story about the protagonist learning to cope with grief after inheriting their mother's massive garden. It feels like the kind of story that, if someone else wrote it, would have obligatory romance, but if I were the one writing it there wouldn't be romance. Instead, the kinds of love explored would be familial love (obviously), self-love (how do you make life worth living for yourself as well as your dead), and love for the land (the earth may be a cruel thing that buries your dead, but also is a warm living thing that nurtures present and future life).

"Oz" just makes me think of the Wizard of Oz, except all epithets and titles are just cut because they reflect certain concepts that just can't be translated easily into English. Probably a farcical absurdist comedy that uses the fantastical world of Oz as the set to exaggerate and explain a very specific political climate that just never applied to the USA.

For "Red Paper", I'm kinda hooked on the idea of satirizing the old European pulp fics like Indiana Jones and Allan Quatermain that exotified and homogenized African nations. It would be named "Crimson Pulp, Scarlet Parchment" (so, badly translated to "Red Paper Red Paper"), and it would follow a tough but charming Zulu historian's journey across the entire European continent searching for a missing scarlet parchment Tome that held ancient knowledge from 500 years ago, including the location of some good old fashioned treasure in a tomb! Because pulp fiction loves raiding tombs! Along the way, the historian works alongside the sharp and witty love interest with a soft side, and that one token European sidekick guy TM. A very typical plot, action packed but ultimately light-hearted.

This was fun! I'm gonna send you some titles too! Get your own game back :D

[ufohio]

On Kaleidoscope World, we use prompts to inspire standalone science fiction and genre stories from our writers. In the context of our collaborative setting, we use these stories to populate a fictional magazine called—you guessed it!—Kaleidoscope World. However, as standalone writing prompts, they really could be used by anybody looking to create a thematic sci-fi story. Go wild! The prompts featured here include special Pride, Valentine's Day, and Black History Month topics. The full text of these will be under the cut for anyone needing it.

Theme: The Search for a Kaleidoscope World! Prompt: Heaven. Utopia. Home. These are the words that launch voyages and sink ships. If we knew with certainty the Kaleidoscope World existed, we never would have come this far in search of it. For the first issue of the city of Earth’s favorite vintage pulp science-fiction publication, write about travelers and pilgrims who seek the titular, mythical planetary paradise—or about the people who find it when they’re not looking. Theme: Over the Rainbow Planet Prompt: Somewhere over the rainbow is a world of peace, love, acceptance, pride, romance, mystery, fantasy, and adventure. For this special issue of Kaleidoscope World, include reoccurring LGBTQ+ color schemes in a story OR write a LGBTQ+ protagonist in a classic plot from any genre. Theme: Rocket Summer Prompt: In the opening chapter of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles (1950), a rocket is launched in snowy January and creates so much warmth that winter is temporarily changed to summer in the nearby town: the ice melts, women shed their coats, and children go out to play in the streets. For the third issue of the city of Earth's favorite tales, write a story that takes place in a very hot climate or during this so-called "Rocket Summer." Theme: Fantastic Planet of Love Prompt: Love is a universal language—be you man, bug man, blob, or floating space jelly. Across the galaxy, all hearts speak, and though they can't always immediately understand the words, all creatures hear it. For this lovey-dovey issue of Kaleidoscope World, write about a couple (or more) from two (or more) different worlds and/or about aliens visiting a paradise planet on their honeymoon or honeymoon equivalent. Theme: Year on a Black Planet Prompt: Afrofuturism envisions the world of tomorrow through the lens of Black identity and history, combining science fiction and fantasy with themes of displacement, liberation, and diaspora. From P-Funk to Octavia Butler to Black Panther, Afrofuturism has been expanding American and global philosophy and imagination for years. For this special issue of Kaleidoscope World, imagine a dazzling African city in the far future, a planet influenced by African culture—or let yourself be inspired by examples of Afrofuturism in music and art.

[ptseti]

Whilst Egypt may be the most portrayed African country in mainstream media, there is much most of us don’t know about this dynamic country. Further insight via All Things Interesting: As the first shots of World War I were being fired, Egyptian culture was changing forever. For the preceding 40 years, Egypt had lived as a free state – ruled, on paper, by the British government, but in practice allowed to live under the rule of its own leaders and to practice its own faiths. This Egypt, at the dawn of the 20th century, was a wildly different place from the one we know today. This was the Egypt that inspired pulp fiction epics and comic books, where snake charmers performed on the streets of Cairo and merchants rode from town to town on the backs of camels. It was also an Egypt that was, like the Egypt of today, overwhelmingly Muslim. Egypt, during the Khedivate period (1867-1914), was considered an Islamic state. It was where women went out with their faces veiled, children learned to read by studying the Quran, and devout men gathered in the courtyards of great mosques. But it was an Egypt whose culture was slowly eroding away. With British troops occupying the nation, the people of Egypt were being pushed to adopt Western culture like never before. Egyptian culture was changing – entering a new, modern world controlled by Western powers. The Egyptian Khedive didn’t last forever. By 1911, the British were already uneasy with the way that the Egyptians had chosen to rule themselves. And, when World War I broke out, they deposed the Egyptian leader and installed one of their own. Egypt was now no longer an independent country in any sense of the word. For the 40 years that followed, Egypt would be ruled by the British — and Egyptian culture would never be the same again. The rich and vibrant culture of the Egyptian Khedive has changed – but, today, it still lives in photographs. These images give a last glimpse into Egypt as it once was, just before the British occupation swept in. Photographs courtesy of New York Library.

[zenosanalytic]

We actl DO have some idea what ancient audiences read! I'm not going to cite anything here because 1)this was never my specific field so I don't have anything specific in mind and 2)I don't feel like putting that amount of time into this reply, but we've found quite a bit of, essentially, courtroom dramas in North African trash dumps from the Roman era(they actl seem to have had a pretty big impact on Christian Martyr literature!). So: Romans probably would have been big fans of "Law and Order" XD XD

And then there's the "Romance Literature"(literally "Roman Like Literature") of middle and late medieval times(so like: Arthuriana), which has long been known to be inspired by Roman Adventure Fiction. Roman Adventures were bscl colonial fic, and our own pulp Adventure stories aren't TOO far off, from what I've heard: Good Roman Man ends up Stranded Amongst the Foreigners, Woos the Exotic Princess, Kills the Evil Stereotypes, and Makes a Fortune before Returning to Rome And his Upstanding Roman Wife. I've never actl READ a roman adventure, but I've heard/read the Sinbad stories are a good example of what this stuff was like.

Also: Heroic literature. Obvsl this includes The Illiad, The Odyssey, and the REAMS of knockoffs and expansions both had(very little of which survived down to us tho we know OF it from surviving commentaries), but it also includes a fairly unique genre of fic; Heroic Philosopher Stories. The archetype of this is Plato's Socratic writings, though it seems to have, in Roman hands, leaned more heavily on the Martyrdom aspect of Socrates's tale, and less on the philosophical discussion. Again: this seems to have had a big influence on early Christian martyr literature.

i do think theres something sad about how largely only the literature that's considered especially good or important is intentionally preserved. i want to read stuff that ancient people thought sucked enormous balls

[delguy]

The public domain hero Ki-Gor is well worth seeking out. He populated Jungle Stories Magazine from until 1954. His was one of the last pulps to cease operating. At their worst his adventures are just dry and pedestrian. At their best they are spellbinding and better than, Tarzan, their inspiration. A big difference between Tarzan and Ki-Gor is their respective mates. Unlike Tarzan's Jane, who keeps trying to drag him back to civilization and become the proper upper crust British lord he was born to be or getting herself abducted and needing to be rescued; Ki-Gor's Helene is a resourceful and intelligent woman who can more than take care of herself. Helene literally fell into Ki-Gor's life when the plane she was flying in attempting to become the first woman to fly the length of the African continent developed engine trouble. He rescued her from Arab would be enslavers. Love did not ignite immediately; she feared the ape man in the beginning almost as much as the slavers. Love triumphed however and she soon went native, wearing a leopard skin bikini and nothing else. Also, unlike Jane Porter Helene Vaughn got naked as a fan service to the readers regularly Few of the stories are as good as this one, "Stalkers of the Dawn World" Ki-Gor and Helene have to go to the rescue of plane crash victims in a land controlled by a villainous bad guy and his army of marauding Neanderthals. oh yeah, there are T-Rexes lumbering around as well! During this adventure Helene's halter top gets caught in the jaws of a T-Rex and torn off. You have to read it to believe it. I love Ki-Gor so much I published my own erotic adventure novella. Since Ki-Gor is in the public domain it doesn't count as fan fiction, and I can legally profit from it. If you do dare to read my homage. I hope that you enjoy it and post a review. https://www.amazon.com/Ki-Gor-Iris-Deception-Tina-Tempest-ebook/dp/B0CTGDQNZS

[paullovescomics]

Sertorius and the Struggle for Spain, by Philip Matyszak

I'm glad I chose to read this when I did, because the events recounted here were contemporary with the wars between Rome and Mithridates that I read about last year. Like that story, this one sometimes had me wondering if the Romans would be believable if they were in fiction. Sometimes they really do seem to have plot armor. In this period, they had unrest amongst allies in Italy, a civil war, war with a very formidable rival in Asia Minor (who briefly took Greece from them), the uprising of Spartacus, and a rebel general in Spain who is widely considered a military genius. It's true that they had extremely well trained armies (often veterans) and generals, but they also get a lot of help from their enemies making poor decisions, and sometimes just plain luck.

Sertorius had been on the losing side of the civil war between Marius and Sulla. He concluded that his only options for staying alive were to either sail off for parts truly unknown, or try to hold some territory and hope that the surviving Marians in Rome could somehow mount a comeback. He had been made governor of part of Spain, and that's where he (eventually) made his stand. It was primarily a defensive guerilla war, since he had relatively few Roman legionaries, and the local troops who joined him could not match the opposing legionaries. However, they were very good ambushers and cavalrymen, and the terrain favored those strengths. For the very short time that Sertorius had enough legionaries to take on his Roman enemies in more decisive battles, his subordinate commanders let him down repeatedly.

In medieval Europe, a "Romance" story was one full of big adventure and daring-do. The name came from "Roman", and stories like Sertorius' must have been part of the inspiration for that term. This guy joins pirates to overthrow a North African ruler, he orchestrates fake miracles involving white deer to make allies think that the gods are on his side, he outfoxes rival generals and talks smack about it, one time he even got enemies to abandon some unassailable caves by piling up dirt so that the natural wind currents would blow it into the caves and make it impossible to breathe in them. That's some pulp adventure shit. Imagine what bards could do with that material.

I've read a decent amount of Roman history, and I've often wondered why there wasn't more about Spain. It's a big peninsula, and became part of the empire fairly early on. We hear that the Carthaginians had colonies there, and Hannibal marched through it on his way to the Alps. Julius Caesar fought part of his civil war there. But many times it only gets a brief mention. This book suggests that a lot of what was written has been lost. This story of Sertorius' rebellion had to be pieced together from fragmentary evidence. It also took a very long time for the area to be pacified and Roman-ized. Apparently many of the Iberian tribes had been warlike before the Romans arrived, and their tactics and knowledge of the land made it possible for them to resist for a very long time.

Also, most Roman governors saw their job not as making Iberia into good, peaceful provinces, but as extracting as much personal wealth from the place as possible. This is not the sort of thing that high-minded ancient historians wanted to investigate, and it fed the Iberians' resentment generation after generation, ensuring continued resistance. For example, when (before he went to Gaul) Julius Caesar was made governor of one of Iberia's two provinces, he was in massive debt. In order to foment a war, he made laws that he knew the locals could not accept. When they rebelled, he defeated them, looted their towns, and used that to pay off his debts. He was following a long tradition.

Reading those accounts is very reminiscent of more recent forms of imperialism. The main difference being that the modern form is of larger scale, and is usually attributed to nations rather than individual leaders. The modern type tends to be couched in some quasi-moralistic excuses (white man's burden, progress, greater good, providence, etc.), whereas the ancient form is nakedly greedy and ambitious. Or maybe it just seems that way from here. Maybe the folks back in Rome also had some sophomoric bullshit about civilizing those poor dirty barbarians.

Definitely recommended if you like ancient history.

[lboogie1906]

Lieutenant Colonel Dr. John Baldwin West (March 6, 1905 - February 22, 1960) was one of a handful of African American pulp detective fiction writers. Born in DC, one of the four children of Dr. Charles Ignatius West, a medical faculty member at Howard University and school principal, Rebekah B. West. At Howard University where he was elected president of the freshman medical school class; was captain of the varsity tennis team; played football; was a member of several Greek-letter organizations including two honor societies; and demonstrated a fondness for stage acting.

After he graduated from medical school, his friendship with a nephew of Emperor Haile Selassie led to his being appointed for a short term as a special advisor and health administrator in Addis Ababa. He became the first African American to obtain an MPH at Harvard University. He worked in Tuskegee as a Sanitary Officer for both the Veterans Administration. He became the first Black director of the District Health Officer for the Central Harlem Health District. He and his staff of 200 were credited with having dramatically lowered the infant mortality and maternal death rate. He co-authored “A Serological Reaction to Tuberculosis” in the American Review of Tuberculosis. He went to Chicago to work for several months as medical director of Provident Hospital for Negroes.

During WWII, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He served on the executive staff of the Army’s Station Hospital, Fort Huachuca, and shipped out to Liberia to command a station hospital as a senior surgeon in the Army Medical Corps. He directed the US Public Health Mission for malaria control. He found time to construct and operate the first radio station, launched other profitable businesses including hotels and restaurants, and continued doing public health work for the Liberian government.

He wrote six novels with all but the first one published posthumously. They were: An Eye For An Eye, Cobra Venom, Bullets Are My Business, Death on the Rocks, Never Kill a Cop, and A Taste For Blood.

He was survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[doubtingdebispoems]

What are your top ten favorite movies? 1. Pulp Fiction 2. Secret Window 3. African Queen 4. Gaslight 5. Psycho 6. Ten Commandments 7. Great Gatsby 8. Beetlejuice 9. Mrs. Doubtfire 10. Oppenheimer

[julierysava]

Answers to Trivia Thursday:

📚 History Trivia 📚

In which year did the United States gain its independence from Great Britain? Answer: The United States gained its independence from Great Britain in 1776.

Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? Answer: Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

🧮 Science Trivia 🧮 3. What is the chemical symbol for the element gold? Answer: The chemical symbol for gold is "Au."

Which planet is known as the "Red Planet"? Answer: Mars is known as the "Red Planet" due to its reddish appearance.

🎬 Pop Culture Trivia 🎬 5. Which famous director is known for creating the iconic movies "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill"? Answer: Quentin Tarantino is the director known for creating "Pulp Fiction" and "Kill Bill."

What is the name of the fictional wizarding school in the "Harry Potter" series? Answer: The fictional wizarding school in the "Harry Potter" series is called "Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

🌎 Geography Trivia 🌎 7. What is the largest continent by land area? Answer: Asia is the largest continent by land area.

Which African country is known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills"? Answer: Rwanda is known as the "Land of a Thousand Hills."

🎶 Music Trivia 🎶 9. Who is often referred to as the "King of Pop"? Answer: Michael Jackson is often referred to as the "King of Pop."

Which famous rock band is known for their hit songs "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "We Will Rock You"? Answer: The famous rock band known for these songs is "Queen."

💡 General Knowledge Trivia 💡 11. What is the capital city of Japan? Answer: The capital city of Japan is Tokyo.

Which novel features a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world? Answer: The novel is "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll.

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[theabstruseone]

This is common in all media and genres. For most of Western cultural history, what is considered "high brow" art has been determined by a bunch of old white men with tenure. They say, "This book/movie/song/etc. is Good" and it becomes a "Classic".

What happens is young white men grad students eventually become old white men with tenure, yet they still like the things they liked as kids. But being an old white man with tenure, they cannot like "low brow" art, so they must come up with reasons why this particular piece of art is somehow elevated above other art.

That's not REALLY a kid's movie, it's a classic of family cinema.

That's not REALLY a comic book, it's a graphic novel.

That's not REALLY science fiction, it's speculative literature.

And oh my god nothing pisses these people off more than reminding them that Charles Dickens wrote literal soap operas as his dramas focused on character relationships were used to pedal soap advertisements, every play written by Shakespeare was a remake of an existing play or a politically-motivated historically inaccurate biopic (with the exception of Titus Andronicus which is basically a Troma movie in iambic pentameter), and Isaac Asimov wrote for and edited the very pulp magazines that gave rise to the term "pulp" as a derogatory description of cheap genre fiction.

Oh, and as an aside, the terms "high brow" and "low brow" come from phrenology, which was a popular Victorian belief that one could examine the shape of a person's skull to learn about them with the idea that a "high brow" (typical of European descended people) showed culture, refinement, and intelligence while a "low brow" (typical of African descended people) showed savagery, violence, and a lack of intelligence.

ppl will conflate ‘children’s media’ w ‘bad/shallow media’ and then when they come across a bit of children’s media that’s good they’ll be like ‘aha this isn’t actually for kids!! loophole.’

[thealmightyemprex]

AFI 100 movies,the rest

Have decided to talk about the top 100 movies according the AFI that I have seen

Ben Hur:Didnt finish it but I liked what I saw 

Pulp Fiction :Fantastic movie.Tied with Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as my favorite Tarentino film 

Platoon :Solid war movie 

Easy Rider :LOVE this  film 

The Wild Bunch :Brutal western,loved it  

Forrest Gump:I have technically seen all of it in pieces,but never in one sittitng ,nor do  I plan to

Silence of the Lambs:Avoided it for years,but when I finally watched it I must say it’s a scary movie .A bit overrated maybe but it is really good 

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid :Paul Newman and Robert Redford make this movie,.Pretty good movie 

A Clockwork Orange:Malcolm McDowall is amazing 

Tootsie:Seen bits and pieces ,really should watch the whole thing 

Unforgiven:Another really good western 

Raiders of the Lost Ark:One of the most iconic action movies 

African Queen:One of my favorite movie love stories 

Rocky:Very good movie.Not one of my personal favorites but I get the love it gets 

Jaws:I think I saw it to young ,I cant get into it 

North by Northwest :Overrated .I dont like this movie 

Taxi Driver:Good movie but I HATE the ending 

West Side Story :One of my favorite musicals

Rear Window:I remember liking it but I need to rewatch it  

A Streetcar Named Desire :STELLLLLLLLLLLLLA.....Sorry had to do that .Great movie BTW ,Brando is amazing 

Shane:I am sad it took me so long to watch this one as it is awesome 

The Philadelphia Story:Saw this on the big screen,Love Hepburn,Stewart, and Grant,funny movie but mixed on the ending 

Bonnie and Clyde:Another one  I need to rewatch.

King Kong:ADORE IT .The grandpa of all monster movies 

Sound of Music:I see why it’s a classic,though not a favorite of mine 

Dr Strangelove:Oner of the greatest comedies ever mad and my absolute favorite Stanley Kubrik movie 

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre :It’s fun to see Bogart play crazy 

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs : Very simplestic movie but it is so charming 

One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest :GREAT movie .Supporting cast is excelent,Nicholson is excelent and Nurse Ratched is rightfully called one of the greatest  movie villains

Maltese Falcon :One of the great film noir .Gotta love Bogart,Lorre and Greenstreet 

Apocalypse Now :Another magnificent war movie 

High Noon :Sometimes the best movies can come from a simple story:Bad guy is coming to town,and hero is left alone ,with no one comingto his aid 

Mr Smith Goes To Washington :One of the best endings ever 

To Kill A Mockingbird :This is on a lot of great movie lists and for good reason

To be continued 

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