On the first dvd of Mulan I got, the colour of Cri-Kee was wildly different from the colour he was both in the cinema and on the VHS tape

If you don’t have access to a 35mm print then a 16mm print (or 8mm) is also an option for some of these films, though there is of course the risk of colour fade depending on the quality/composition of the film base

Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle is very good if they like magic & dragons: it features many traditional fantasy elements whilst avoiding/challenging problematic stereotypes from previous fantasy series

I’m more of a literary historian, but I haven’t been watching it either: it’s mystifying seeing it get showcased on serious news programs

And all this whilst still being less than 2yrs older than your thesis viva

Wishing you the very best of luck with your job/career decisions!

I also recently turned down a publication invitation from CUP over the AI licensing rights, and have refused to sign an addendum allowing my monograph publisher to sell my book for GenAI training. Small gestures individually, but if lots of us start doing this they may start to take notice

Yes, it disappears very quickly in the early 1800s (seems to be gone by at least 1808, probably earlier)

Yes, this is it exactly!

And of course Tolkien also literally told the Nazis to get lost when they wanted to use LOTR as fascist propaganda, so it’s pretty easy to guess what his reaction would be now

Of course, they could have just put Doctor Who for all three of them… 😄

It had such a beneficial effect on people’s health that at first it was mistakenly believed to be an aphrodisiac because of the increased birth rate

Oh this is magnificent! my knowledge is centre on the 18th-19th centuries, so I only knew that curry was already popular by the mid/late 1700s