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Forum Name: Our Witches at War/Gallian Gothic
Topic ID: 87
Message ID: 24
#24, RE: GG Book 2 Act II: La Grande Rencontre
Posted by The Traitor on Sep-26-20 at 06:46 AM
In response to message #19
On the subject of the Bechdel Test: it's not really a serious test of Unreproachable Feminist Principles. It's an insanely low bar. The point (per Alison Bechdel) was to point out how many pieces of popular media don't even manage something as basic as that. Sure, lesbian porn can pass it, but a lot of beloved films and TV shows can't, and the latter is the more important part of the broader point about female representation in media.

>>The funny thing is that tarot decks, much like dice for some hard-core
>>DND and other table-top gamers, seem to have their own personalities
>>where the same two cards for different decks can have wildly different
>>interpretations.
>
>I've always kind of assumed that, like pretty much all classical
>fortune-telling tools, they mean whatever the person using them can
>convince everybody else in the room they mean.

Now I'm just imagining Eila getting freaked out by the tarot readings and turning to more esoteric modes of divination, which is about when Mio and the others find her crouched on the floor studying some molten lead in an old baked bean tin full of water and mumbling about why the shape looks like a planet made of metal but, like, evil somehow...

For reference: a common method of predicting the future in Finland is uudenvuodentina, the practice of dropping molten lead or tin in water and divining the future through the shape. It seems like something that Eila would be familiar with, though the parallels between our world and hers are not totally exact. The Karlsländerin in attendance might know of a similar practice from the Vaterland, but that's only done at the turn of the New Year; everyone else, meanwhile, is going to be horrendously confused.

Traitor Factfinding Missives: Infotainment At Its Most Infotaining. =]

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