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Todo post de subcelebridade tem uma reencarnação do Einstein que, do alto da sua iluminação, demonstra o quanto está acima de nós, mortais, soltando um "quem liga", "não sei quem é", "as pessoas se importarem mostra que o Brasil foi pra casa do chapéu"

Irmão, o nome da sub é "Futilidade Pública". Não é "Debates Intelectuais", não é "Literatura Russa". Eu tô aqui pra ver capítulos da vida do Davi Britto, zoar a reforma da mansão do Primo Rico e ver merda de influenciador. Pra quem quer debates mais aprofundados sobre assuntos mais importantes, tem sub pra isso

Só um desabafo

The stork and the patch of cabbage may be the most famous examples in the Western world. Émile Zola's Germinal, from 1885, describes parents having sex in front of their children, so I don't imagine those kids would need an explanation of where children come from. Considering how the very idea of infancy is somewhat recent, and children were seen as just "miniature adults", I don't imagine sexuality was sugarcoated or avoided like it is nowadays. At the same time, it feels impossible that these stories are as recent as our contemporary ideas of childhood

Salve, rapaziada, boa tarde

Eu tenho 33 anos e comecei a colecionar quadrinhos com 12. Quando eu comecei a ler e colecionar, a figura do colecionador era muito de alguém que ia atrás de raridades. Meus orgulhos enquanto colecionador são gibis da Ebal e da Grafipar, Sobrinhos do Capitão e a primeira aparição do Surfista Prateado

Hoje em dia, o colecionador virou o famoso lombardeiro, o cara que coleciona omnibuses, edições de luxo, coleções e etc

Nenhum é melhor que outro. Aliás, como alguém do primeiro tipo, eu fico muito feliz que o preço do quadrinho raro caiu. Só era algo que estava na minha cabeça

In 1940, Dick Grayson's (Robin/Nightwing) parents are murdered, so Bruce Wayne (Batman) get his wardship and big brother figure. The following year, Roy Harper's (Speedy/Arsenal) adoptive father becomes mortally ill and, after testing him, Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) becomes the poor lady's ward. In 1965, Garfield Logan (Changeling/Beast Boy) debuts, an orphan and heir to the the Logan fortune, already a ward to the despicable Nicholas Galtry, who's only after the poor boy's inheritance. After the Doom Patrol exposes the dastardly plans of Galtry, Gar becomes the ward of Steve Dayton (Mento) and Rita Farr (Elasti-Girl)

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I get that all of these examples include a filthy rich person getting the wardship, but it does seem interesting to a contemporary perspective

Being so near to the World Cup made me remember the Algerian tourists we got in my city for the match against Russia in 2014. We got several tourists, but none were cooler than the Algerians. The celebration y'all did is one of my best memories. Thank y'all for having such a cool culture. I hope I can visit Algeria one day

PS: what football club should I support in Algeria?

I'm doing a little research for personal reasons on music inspired by esoteric authors and it's astounding how much more influential Crowley is compared to, e.g., Mme. Blavatsky, Austin Osman Spare or Anton LaVey

While some of these were influential in other arts (AOS made its mark in comic books just by being an inspiration to Moore and Morrison), when it comes to music, Aleister Crowley is king. Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Black Sabbath, Hawkwind, Raul Seixas, David Bowie, the list goes on and on

And sure, Thelema has a lot of sex and drugs as part of its ceremonies, but it's also a pretty individualistic philosophy, and can even be "cruel" at times

Jorge Ben Jor is a Brazilian musician who single handedly put the Hermetic works in Brazilian public consciousness. As a kid, he was inspired by his grandpa, a member of the Rosacruzians, to read Nicholas Flanel (his muse, according to Ben Jor). As a teen, he learnt Latin so he could read Saint Thomas of Aquine (his brother). As an adult, he would change his name from Jorge Ben to Jorge Ben Jor for numerological reasons

In 1974 he went to an alchemists meeting in Paris at the house that Flanel lived in the 1400's, and saw "wondrous things", including the ghost of Flanel, who he called "the widow's boyfriend". In the same year, he released *A Tábua de Esmeralda* (The Emerald Table), a reference to the magical texts written by Hermes Trismegistus with a diamond tip, and the album was a commercial and critical hit, widely considered one of the greatest masterpieces of Brazilian music. With tracks such as *Os Alquimistas Estão Chegando* (The Alchemists Are Arriving), *Hermes Trismegisto*, *O Namorado da Viúva* (The Widow's Boyfriend), and powerful lyrics in *Menina Mulher da Pele Preta* (Girl Woman with the Black Skin), *Zumbi* and *Brother* (sung in English) it's a complex treatise about Alchemy, and trying to dissect it would be a post of its own. Very simplistically, it poises that alchemy is the art of mixing substances that are greater than the sum of its parts, born in Africa, developed in Arabia and later refined by Europeans such as Flanel and St. Thomas. In a sense, the album is Jorge Ben Jor's own philosophers stone: a mix of samba, soul, rock, psychedelia, jazz and spoken word; a mix of African, European, Pagan and Christian influences; that makes for a unique concoction that will make him live after death through his music

Thanks to the perennial success of the album, to this day some Brazilian college kids will find themselves studying the Hermetica. In WoD terms, he was, to the OoH in Brazil, what Jim Morrison or Raul Seixas were for the Ecstatics in the US or in Brazil, respectively. You can imagine a NWO operative fuming and an older Hermetic going "why all our new recruits are hippies"?

House Solificati seems the natural fit, but I can also see him quarreling with other members due to his views and going to House Ngoma or some other smaller house that loves this kind of inventivity