Arts & Culture
The Pagan King: a Latvian medieval epic loaded with Pagan imagery
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This is not a subtle film. This is like Game of Thrones without a hint of subtlety and stranger accents.
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This is not a subtle film. This is like Game of Thrones without a hint of subtlety and stranger accents.
As a child, I imagined myself in these stories with the funny, out-of-place man. I identified with him because I also felt out of place, and his not-typically masculine demeanor felt safe and somehow familiar to me. As a queer adult, I can now see myself represented in these stories even more clearly, a validation that I didn’t know was needed.
Meg Elison invites our readers to curl up on the couch for a Christ-less Christmas Classic, the 2006 miniseries adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel “Hogfather.”
“I have been a hard polytheist for a long time, sure that the gods are people with their own motivations and machinations. Somehow, I had never expected them to have feelings – or at least, not ones that I could hurt.” Luke Babb on Marvel’s Loki – and the real one.
As I watched the current two seasons, I often found myself driven to tears, not because of sadness, but because I felt it was so profoundly healing to see. Here, I saw myself in a world that still had its challenges but was still far more accepting than the one I had grown up in.