does no one realize that robin hood was a terrible role model for young kids? i mean you are stealing from people (illegal) and those people (usually) worked hard to get their wealth. it really demotivates people to succeed when they know they can get something someone else worked for.
is this what rich people worry about lmao
who knew the sheriff of nottingham had a blog
How does someone read Robin Hood and miss the part where itâs set in feudal England. He stole from people who got their wealth by exploiting the poor, incidentally thatâs all rich people to this very day.
Tune in next week when they tell you the story of Ebeneezer Scrooge, a benevolent job creator, harassed during his sleeping hours by the hellish socialist dead.Â
I didnât think Ninjas were real, just spyâs and sometimes assassins but no one youâd specifically call âninjaâ
Ninja is something of an affectation from later eras being backwards projected onto history. However, there were a number of groups that specialized in infiltration, sabotage, assassination, espionage and other âirregular warfareâ tactics, often passed down in familial lines. The Iga clan of the Tokugawa period is a notable example.Â
The general distinction for the historical ninja groups as opposed to someone who just performed irregular warfare (like a guerrilla or a spy), was that the ninja in question had to be a mercenary, operating outside of the feudal hierarchy, and had to be a professional, so no slitting throats as a side-hobby.
Hey, wanna know why the modern idea of ninja is âwears black clothesâ?
These are âKurokoâ.
Kuroko are men and women fully dressed in black and that wear tabi on their feet. They are Kabuki theater stagehands. When they are on stage, the audience is supposed to ignore them, pretend they arenât there, as they are âspecial effectsâ, not people per se on the stage.
Well, see, some Kabuki plays liked to play with this idea.
In certain plays, a notorious character will suddenly get stabbed by a Kuroko and die. This is shocking to the audience because Kuroko are just straight up not supposed to exist as people or characters in the play, but suddenly, one of these special effects just murdered someone. Then, theyâd remove the face covering veil and reveal they were one of the characters all along.
It was a meta manner of narrative, basically. A plot twist, if you will.
Thatâs why the modern image of Ninja was derived from Kuroko: Unexpected Assassins, striking when no one is supposed to strike, and gone like the wind, just like that.
âNinjaâ actually looked like this:
Just your regular run of the mill peasant.
That was the entire point.
To not be noticed. To be one with the crowd.
Espionage history !
As both a ninja AND a theater kid- this pleases me
I love the picture from the stage up there – your eyes do sort of just slide right over the Kuroko helping the actress stand and show off. Â
Iâve seen this concept before and it is SO MUCH better with pictures
kind of tempted to leave a review every time i go through someoneâs ff.net/ao3 and reread everything but i also dont want to freak people out with the wave of emails
Please for the love of god do this. In the last⊠oh, I donât know, seven-ish years since I first discovered fandom, the culture has made a huge shift. It used to be that, whether you yourself wrote any fic or not, you reviewed every goddamn chapter of every goddamn fic that you read. Usually in detail. And plenty of people (myself included, at times) would leave a review on every chapter even if there were already twenty or thirty chapters in the fic before I ever stumbled upon it.
But weâve moved away from that. Now, plenty of authors (particularly those who arenât Big Name Fans) practically have to beg for reviews to get even a small amount of acknowledgement, and thatâs not fair. The SE fandom is better about it than plenty of others Iâve been in, but weâre not immune either.
So if you wanna go all out and leave ALL OF THE REVIEWS⊠I say do it.
D O IT
IâLL JOIN YOU
I remember the time with a custom to REVIEW EVERY SINGLE CHAPTER YOU READ AND GIVE FEEDBACK TO AUTHOR IN DETAIL. In less than 10 years it has changed to âI consume but donât interactâ (why? what has given peeps the belief that authors donât want to have comments and feedback from you? That leaving your comment is âbotheringâ them and they think you are stupid? WHERE DOES THIS SILLY IDEA COME FROM?)
Letâs bring it back, the habit to comment plenty!
You can always tell when, shall we say, someone Slightly older discovers your fic, because not only do you get hits, you actually get kudos and what can only be described as a Review at the end of each chapter. Usually followed by a question because they Want to engage. They Want you to know they enjoyed your thing and want to read more from you.
I canât tell you how discouraging it is for some of my work to have literal actual thousands of hits and 10 kudos and 0 comments. And then people who have never left a single note of their presence come into my messages months later like âhey youâre my fave writer why did you stop :(â
Because. It. Feels. Like. No. One. Gives. A. Shit.
Nothing makes an authorâs day faster than seeing that someone is reading a whack of their stories in a row, or re-reading one, because coming back for more is the best compliment we can possibly get. Â But we only know that is happening if you leave kudos or comments! Â So, go for it. Â Feedback is love!
I recently had somebody go through, binge-reading all of one of my fics, and leaving comments on each chapter, and I looked forward to tracking their progress.
^^^ nothing makes my day like a comment, even if itâs only a couple of words. Seriously. And there is absolutely no greater compliment than reading a fic more than once because we know thereâs so much other stuff out there.
You really donât know how important this is until itâs not there.
Seeing people write reviews for every chapter means something. Seeing people engage with what youâve written means something. Reading peopleâs thoughts on what has happened and their eager questions for what happens nextâŠ
It all means something. And seeing that engagement can be all the encouragement a person needs to continue their work. No one likes to feel like theyâre throwing their hard work (yes, even that vampire, coffee house AU slash-fic) into some uncaring abyss.
This also counts for musicians and artists too, Iâm sure.
This goes for EVERY KIND OF ART. I go through the tags of my recent art on the daily. On YouTube, I still read the comments, though I know Iâm not supposed to.
Creators LOVE it when you interact with their work. PLEASE â if you love it, donât be afraid to say so.
Maglorâs right eye is red bc he wears red contact lenses (designed and made by FĂ«anor) to reduce his photosensitivity, but his eyes are really blue.Â
This easily wins the prize for âmost time Iâve ever spent on a reference drawingââŠ
Lord Kib 