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The actual history of what happened in 1621 bears little resemblance to what most Americans are taught in grade school about Thanksgiving, historians say. There was likely no turkey served. There were no feathered headdresses worn. And, initially, there was no effort by the Pilgrims to invite the Wampanoags to the feast they’d made possible.

For the Wampanoags and many other American Indians, the fourth Thursday in November is considered a day of mourning, not a day of celebration.

Because while the Wampanoags did help the Pilgrims survive, their support was followed by years of a slow, unfolding genocide of their people and the taking of their land.

Frank James, a well-known Aquinnah Wampanoag activist, called his people’s welcoming and befriending the Pilgrims in 1621 “perhaps our biggest mistake.”

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Correction: Slide six should say 1621 not 1612.

November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM

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Started playing Dragon Age Inquisition after writing this and the nomadic close to nature and spirits wood elves (Dalish) have signature sail wagons.

Bioware was planning Jade Empire 2 before DA: Origins, wonder if their Eastern Fantasy god-emperor spirit realm disaster turned into DA's Solas arc.

November 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM

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Monster Hunter's dragon humanoid Wyvernians with their big head elders and long ears noses are a very fun modern fantasy take on Daoist Xian Immortals who ride dragons to heaven.

They have a similar role as distant and wise in Monster Hunter's setting.

November 29, 2025 at 3:56 AM

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The dialog is good, they actually are quirky characters because both of them are from super fucked up heirarchies and being themselves on Monster Hunter Planet.

One of the Yautja looks like Heihachi Mishima.

November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM

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Taiwanese-American Doug Chiang on growing up with Star Wars, then making Star Wars since prequels with George Lucas.

Among his work was the prequel's China-Japan mashup History Aesthetics. Likes seeing Asian Am leads in Hollywood.

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Doug Chiang: A lot of both, actually. I remember when I first started working on Star Wars with George Lucas in 1995, one of the biggest lessons that I learned from him was to study history, study other cultures, to design an alternate future. I didn’t expect that. At that time, my only experience with Star Wars was from watching the original trilogy and looking at the Art of books in terms of design aesthetics. When I finally started to work with George, my first intention was to repeat exactly that, and he was the one who said, “No, we’re going to try something new. Let’s look into different cultures. Let’s study history and study other cultures to come up with exotic designs.” It was such an eye-opener, because he really encouraged myself and the other artists to look at Japanese culture and Chinese culture for design motifs that we could incorporate.

Concept art by Doug Chiang inspired by Asian farmers returning from the field for 1999's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.
"It was such an eye-opener, because he really encouraged myself and the other artists to look at Japanese culture and Chinese culture for design motifs that we could incorporate." Concept art inspired by Asian farmers returning from the field for 1999's Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM

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"Camille Claudel, an apprentice of Rodin. When I learned about her personal history, I decided to use Camille as a man's name. In fact, everything about the character of Camille Claudel was transferred over to Kamille Bidan"
-Tomino on Zeta Gundam's hero

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November 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM

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Earliest* surviving depiciton of Chinese porcelain in Europe, Bellini & Titian's Feast of the Gods (1514, 1529), based on a Roman Ovid poem.

Earlier porcelain in bible paintings could be west Asian, this with nymphs and satyrs with nature patterns is undisputed.

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November 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM

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When looking up centuries of historic European Orientalism, it's important to check how they looked at themselves and often it was an even weirder way.

That 16c map aims for accuracy when they liked depicting Europe as a virgin woman with Asia peeping down her dress.
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November 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM

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Pokemon Black White 2 completes Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Sugimori's homage to Kazuma Kaneko's Shin Megami Tensei computer demon summoning RPG,
Team Plasma lost LAW Authority, immediately becoming CHAOS insurrection.

Like SMT1's Neutral (Daoist) ending- White's in Black, Black becomes White, one cycle

In general, the alignment of a demon is measured on a horizontal axis of Law-Neutral-Chaos (LNC). In addition to Alignment, Tendency is the other axis perpendicular to the Alignment axis. This axis measures the morality in the scale of Light-Neutral-Dark (LND), which further modifies the ideology represented by Alignment.

Generally, the series uses the color blue to represent Law, green or white for Neutral and red for Chaos.

"Can you feel it? The world... universe... You two are part of it, yet also all of it. It includes law and chaos within it, too. I can sense it... My connection to all life... The vibration of the particles; the winding of the galaxies... The beating of Heroine's heart... All of it..."
—Taishang Laojun's final words in the Neutral ending of the game.
Taishang Laojun (太上老君, Taijōrōkun)? is a character from Shin Megami Tensei.

November 27, 2025 at 6:19 AM

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Pokemon BW finishes the "Conflict cycle" that began with Green Red Gold Silver's Team Rocket (PKMN as weapons), Ruby Sapphire (as Territory) Diamond Pearl (as Energy).

Set in not-USA with christian crusader villains preaching morals to take power.

Beyond personified "God" 僊 Arceus is The Yin Yang.

Pokemon Black/White is about coming into conflict for **IDEAOLOGY**. Team Plasma believes catching pokemon is cruel, and will forcibly ‘liberate’ Pokemon from their trainers. Unlike previous antagonist teams, Team Plasma is actively preaching their message, and will even go to such measures as using Pokemon to enter people’s dreams to incept their ideology among the masses. Team Plasma is driven by intense righteousness and view the world in Black and White terms.
Their uniforms are based off the real-world Christian crusaders, who warred to spread their beliefs. The symbol of Team Plasma also bears resemblance to the “Chi-Rho”, a symbol used by the first Christian Emperor of Rome, Constatine. When Constantine was in a war of succession for control of Rome, the Chi Ro appeared to him in a dream. He put the mark upon the shields of his men and the next day they were victorious in battle.

Left: The historical Chi-Rho, Right: The symbol of Team Plasma

Pokemon Pearl/Diamond is about coming into conflict to attain **ENERGY**. Towns in the game are themed after different energy resource such as wind power, solar power, and even coal mining, which is presented in a matter-of-fact way to show how humans harness energy.
Enter Team Galactic, an organization that is studying the energy released when a Pokemon evolves and find that it disregards the law of conservation of energy, there is more energy being created than expended. They then investigate this phenomenon as a potential new energy source. Team Galactic’s research leads them to seek the legendary Dialga, creator of time, and Palkia, creator of space. To be able to create energy from nothing is the power of creating a new world.

Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire is about coming into conflict to attain **TERRITORY**. The towns you visit are dotted among islands (some even manmade), past vibrant rainforests, through parched deserts, and even inside dormant volcanoes. The unique properties of each environment are cherished by its human occupants, for land is a finite resource and they respect what they have
Enter Team Aqua and Team Magma. Magma seeks the legendary Groudon, who can make land rise from the ocean depth. Team Aqua seek the legendary Kyogre, who can send landmasses sinking beneath the waves. Team Aqua and Magma battle to control them for they give their wielder the power to create new land by raising the earth, or making existing land scarce by raising the seas, power that would fundamentally change the human view of territory as set and finite.

Emerald adds a 3rd being, Rayquaza who dwells in the stratosphere, and the extraterrestrial Pokemon Deoxys. This generation’s movie centers around Deoxys arriving on earth as a meteor, which Rayquaza considers a violation of his territory. Conflict for territory is also within the realm of Pokemon.

Pokemon Red/Blue and Gold/Silver is about coming into conflict to attain powerful WEAPONS. The pokedex is full of colorful quips about the violent power of Pokemon able to melt steel with their breath or reduce buildings to rubble with a swing of their tail. From the Koga ninjas to Lt. Surge, we’re shown that Pokemon have fought alongside humans in conflicts ancient and recent, though there is peace in the present day. The image of Pokemon is softened through a trainer program where young kids are given Pokemon to treat as their friends and companions.

Enter Team Rocket, an underground organization that holds on to the archaic view that Pokemon are weapons to be wielded, and use them against their fellow man. When scientists obtain the genes of the phantom Pokemon Mew, they use its immense genetic potential to craft the ultimate weapon, Mewtwo. But its immense power proves uncontrollable, and the scientists are destroyed by their own creation.

November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM

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Flamethrowers were (co) invented and used in ww1 by a firefighter named "Burnhard Redman" (Bernhard Reddemann).

This is IRL history, so don't hold back in your own high gritty scifi fantasy worldbuilding.

November 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM

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Kamen Rider's "Use the power of the evil organization to fight evil" has a supernatural precedent in the Mahayana Buddhist monk Ryogen who transformed into the Horned Master to fight ghosts and demons who have gone astray.

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November 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM

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Doodle of a Warcraft Troll warrior with more Southeast Asian islands (Dayak, Nias) aesthetics, with trophy from the Alliance.

Listening to Bali Kecak and gamelan music:
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A lanky troll headhunter warrior holds a decapitated alliance head trophy by its beard. He has decorative griffon feathers on his sword holding arm.

November 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM

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A decade later became reality

November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM

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The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)- Three bladed sword.

Deathstalker (remake of 1983, trailer dropped 2025)- Four bladed sword.

November 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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The important part is the Handsome Man brings Tasty Food to the Gazing Female. Like a vibrant M bird who's plumage and dance shows he has the power to build a nest to feed the F bird in

Japan:
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Korea:
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China:
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November 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM

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"Walter Molino Born in Reggio Emilia, Molino made his professional debut as illustrator and caricaturist in 1935, collaborating with the newspaper Il Popolo d'Italia and the children's magazines Il Monello and L'Intrepido..."

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November 22, 2025 at 8:37 AM

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Ball-type cat.

November 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM

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Laab nua dib, raw beef dish.

November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM

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If you're a fan of Keisuke Itagaki's Baki the Grappler and dom't know what marvel comics to try, I highly recommend Spider-Man Kraven's Last Hunt:

(Spider-man is wearing the tighty wighties and spidey-sense dr3ams of Kraven eating him)

November 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM

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Not purely western imagination, Chinese also told westerners that the East Asian aesthetic is close to nature, one with nature, learns from nature compared to industrial gothic west.

Lin Yutang "My Country My People" (1930) says Eastern architecture IS calligraphy

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$The problem is how to make the bricks and mortar alive and speak the language of beauty. How can we inform it with a spirit and make it say something to us, as European cathedrals are informed with a spirit and speak a silent language of the greatest beauty' and sublimity to us? Let us see how the best of Chinese architecture tried to solve this problem. Chinese architecture seems to have developed along a line different from that of the West. Its main tendency is to seek harmony with nature. In many cases it has succeeded in so doing. It has succeeded because it took its inspiration from the sprig of plum blossoms — translated first into the moving, li\ing lines of calligraphy and secondarily into the lines and forms of architecture. It has supplemented this by the constant use of symbolic motives. And it has, through the prevalent superstition of geomancy, introduced the element of pantheism, which compels regard for the surrounding landscape. Its essential spirit is the spirit of peace and contentment, with its best product in the private home and garden. Its spirit does not, like the Gothic spires, aspire to heaven, but broods over the earth and is contented with its lot. While Gothic cathedrals suggest the spirit of sublimity, Chinese temples and palaces suggest the spirit of serenity. Unbelievable as it seems, the influence of calligraphy comes in even in Chinese architecture. This influence is seen in the bold use of skeleton structures, like pillars and roofs, in the hatred of straight, dead lines, notably in the evolution of the sagging roof, and in the general sense of form and proportion and grace and severity of temple and palaces. The problem of revealing or concealing skeleton structures is exactly timilar to the problem of “touch” in painting. Just a$ in Chinese painting the outl in ing strokes, instead of serving$

November 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM