David Icke and his conspiracy theories about the banks, the media and the government being run by “Zionists” who are actually alien lizard people, which have been repeated as an antisemitic dogwhistle for decades, even though Icke says “Zionists” isn’t meant to indicate Jews necessarily. (Related research topics include the propaganda text “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”.)
This is why it’s particularly worrisome to see that type of joke made about politicians, even clearly shitty ones. Like, even jokes about 45 and his wife being lizard-people has roots in that whole thing.
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Hm, are there any lich librarians? If they hunger for knowledge, them embracing undeath to spend eternity collecting, indexing, and organising books in a cool, dry environment seems like a winner. Only downside is if people trying to borrow the books or, foolishly, doing things like writing in the margins, folding the corners of the pages, or just flat out not returning them before the assigned date.
I have vague memories of a British supernatural show from several years back which had the guy who played a cop in Life on Mars (not John Simm, the other one), but they made him American for some reason. That show, in addition to a ridiculously overcomplicated way of killing vampires*, had an undead archivist who acts as an alternate mentor for the protagonist. ‘Cept he was explicitly called a zombie, not a lich.
The show also had Mina Harker as a reoccurring character, and her son, Quincy, shows up in an episode. Long story, her vampirism sort-of returned, granting her immortality, and after Quincy was injured in WW1, she turned him into a vampire, resulting in his spending the next century sulking.
* You had to get some of their DNA, revive it with electricity, and then shoot it back into them with a special pistol of some kind.
I do wonder why Goofy was given a son and not a nephew like Mickey and Donald. Is it because he’s more of an everyman in the old cartoons?
He’s also the one without a consistent love interest. like, sometimes he’s paired up with Clarabelle, but that’s not as iconic a couple as Mickey and Minnie or Donald and Daisy.
Like, Mickey and Donald are young bachelors while Goofy is an older, single dad.
And it didn’t start with Max, either. The old cartoons gave him a son named Junior.
Who looks… kinda like Max’s friend Bobby.
Huh
In comics Goofy does have a nephew (everybody has nephews and nieces in comics. EVERYBODY). His name is Hilbert and he’s Henry from movie The Book of Henry.
Fun fact: I started this year by writing a full-on, beginning-middle-and-end comic book for Swoop to practice my rusty script-writing abilities. I’m planning on doing one scene at a time to exercise my atrophied illustration muscles.
This story is G1-ish and totally stand alone. Nothing to do with any RPs.
I’m constantly astounded at how every so often some genius will come up with the idea to do gijinka of Godzilla kaiju except make them all the same hourglass waifus instead of something, you know…
Unique? Interesting? Fun?
I’ll admit I find the idea of giving Ghidorah and Spacegodzilla the largest breasts because of their gravity powers hilarious; but overall I agree.
Monsters and Stuff 