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ZachWeinersmith

@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

The SMBC guy.
New book: A City on Mars (Nov 2)

Co-author of Soonish
Illustrator of Open Borders
Scop of Bea Wolf.

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Why has the Internet never produced a recipe site that provides a flowchart instead of list of ingredients? It's such a more intuitive way to do recipes, and I have to mark up all of mine.

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Have you noticed this thing where the most famous Western epic, The Iliad, is really non-standard as an epic? Meaning, an epic is generally about a man who embodies cultural virtues and acts them out, typically in combat or adventure. Odysseus, Rama, Beowulf, etc. But the Iliad is centered on a guy who is almost culturally perfect except has a tragic flaw of wrath.

Perhaps it'd be better to think of epic more broadly as a story about cultural values, which may feature a Beowulf-ish character.

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