Oh no I got a bunch of “what the fuck are goreans” comments and I thought they were more well known and now I’m forced to explain them.
“Gor” is a fantasy setting in which the men are all buff shirtless warriors and almost all women are their willing slaves so it’s like Fifty Shades of Gray meets Conan the Barbarian and it actually has this massive BDSM roleplaying fandom of people who sometimes consider themselves “goreans” on like an otherkin sort of level.
I don’t even know what the books are like, just that the fandom used to be a popular trolling target in the 90′s internet, that it still exists primarily on Second Life and that the average person into it as a fetish lifestyle is over 50.
All I do know about the books, because this is obviously the kind of information I would know at a minimum, is that the planet Gor is secretly controlled by giantgenderless golden ant monsters who manipulate the humans into having these strict gender roles and class systems specifically to keep them from inventing guns and eventually nuclear weapons. They’re particularly afraid of the intelligence of human women, which explains basically everything.
I don’t know what the author was trying to say here because from what I know he detailed Gorean culture like it was his ultimate dream world.
Maybe a shadow government of bugs is just one of his political ideals. I can understand that, but I think the real bug government would be a lot cooler and nicer than that.
*young republican voice* i don’t see why my rich, rich, rich rich rich, rich rich rich rich, so fucking rich, father should have to pay for poorer boys school lunches. he could spend that money on a racism machine
Ba She, a comic for Divinity Re-imagined Written and drawn by Polly Guo - pollyguo Colors by Mel Tow - meltow
Where are the hornless dragons which carry bears on their backs for sport? Where is the great serpent with nine heads and where is the Shu Hu? Where is it that people do not age? Where do giants live? Where is the nine-branched weed? Where is the flower of the Great Hemp? How does the snake that can swallow an elephant digest its bones? (tr. Hawkes 1985:128)
I was instantly interested in the Ba She myth when I read about it. I wanted to write about what the idea of ‘passing’ or ‘digesting’ a relationship means to me.
“This is a full download of the art book anthology created and curated by Pamela Buchunam with the contributions of 15 artists (including herself.) Divinity Reimagined was created from the idea of tasking the artists with picking creatures, goddesses, gods, etc from mythologies the world over and recreating them in their own image. Here’s the fantastic result!”
