[ Unfortunately, banquets didn't even become obsolete -- they just lost all of the actual meaning. Anyone who has ever sat through a shitty high school sports banquet can confirm. A real banquet sounds like fun, although it's entirely possible that she only thinks that because she pictures Medieval Times (But Real). Jousting and giant turkey legs for everyone! But it can go on record that she would absolutely be down to party with Skelligers.
She catches his look and smiles with maybe a touch of bittersweetness around the edges. ] It's just kind of funny. My world didn't have magic, but they were always obsessed with the idea of it. It was in all our stories, our shows, we even had people we called magicians, even though they couldn't really do anything. Just sleight of hand and party tricks. But we never really had magic, at least not enough for us to know about. Thing is, we were probably better off for not havin' it. We just... ruined everythin', for power and money that only ever went to a few people anyway. The global warming I told you about? They knew for years and years what they were doin'. I mean, decades before I was even born, they knew and they lied, because there was money on the line. By the time Captain Trips hit, it'd been ignored so long that there was no goin' back. Same with pretty much everythin'. If humans could touch it, they'd fuck it up permanently. It's better we never had it. For every person it coulda helped, ten others would have used it to wreck things for a few dollars. We never would have made it past Babylon. I guess it just sucks realizin' that other worlds have real monsters or shit like that, and you somehow still come from the most evil one.
[ Which is possibly hyperbolic, given that she doesn't know every world, but it's true that nearly every single person she's told her story to immediately seems to pity her for being from that version of the world. And she's someone who survived it, kind of. But people from worlds with supervillains and aliens and celestial beings fucking with them, they feel sorry for her.
It's much easier to try and forget the polluted, capitalist hellscape that she'd thought was the zenith of human achievement for so long. Instead, she listens to him talk about the goddess, which rings a bell for her. ] She sounds like Hera. Hera was the queen of the Greek gods, thousands of years ago. Married to Zeus, and she was goddess of married women, mothers and childbirth. [ Does Julie only know this because of a Disney movie? Shut up, is the answer. ]
But they did a real good job wipin' out the idea of women bein' worth worshipping, at least in my part of the world. One God, always a man, who only had one son. The most important woman in the whole Bible was really only important because she was a virgin. But it's hard to treat all women like shit for a couple millennia if they have goddesses to look up to.
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[ Unfortunately, banquets didn't even become obsolete -- they just lost all of the actual meaning. Anyone who has ever sat through a shitty high school sports banquet can confirm. A real banquet sounds like fun, although it's entirely possible that she only thinks that because she pictures Medieval Times (But Real). Jousting and giant turkey legs for everyone! But it can go on record that she would absolutely be down to party with Skelligers.
She catches his look and smiles with maybe a touch of bittersweetness around the edges. ] It's just kind of funny. My world didn't have magic, but they were always obsessed with the idea of it. It was in all our stories, our shows, we even had people we called magicians, even though they couldn't really do anything. Just sleight of hand and party tricks. But we never really had magic, at least not enough for us to know about. Thing is, we were probably better off for not havin' it. We just... ruined everythin', for power and money that only ever went to a few people anyway. The global warming I told you about? They knew for years and years what they were doin'. I mean, decades before I was even born, they knew and they lied, because there was money on the line. By the time Captain Trips hit, it'd been ignored so long that there was no goin' back. Same with pretty much everythin'. If humans could touch it, they'd fuck it up permanently. It's better we never had it. For every person it coulda helped, ten others would have used it to wreck things for a few dollars. We never would have made it past Babylon. I guess it just sucks realizin' that other worlds have real monsters or shit like that, and you somehow still come from the most evil one.
[ Which is possibly hyperbolic, given that she doesn't know every world, but it's true that nearly every single person she's told her story to immediately seems to pity her for being from that version of the world. And she's someone who survived it, kind of. But people from worlds with supervillains and aliens and celestial beings fucking with them, they feel sorry for her.
It's much easier to try and forget the polluted, capitalist hellscape that she'd thought was the zenith of human achievement for so long. Instead, she listens to him talk about the goddess, which rings a bell for her. ] She sounds like Hera. Hera was the queen of the Greek gods, thousands of years ago. Married to Zeus, and she was goddess of married women, mothers and childbirth. [ Does Julie only know this because of a Disney movie? Shut up, is the answer. ]
But they did a real good job wipin' out the idea of women bein' worth worshipping, at least in my part of the world. One God, always a man, who only had one son. The most important woman in the whole Bible was really only important because she was a virgin. But it's hard to treat all women like shit for a couple millennia if they have goddesses to look up to.