Manga Review: Lady Snowblood Vol. 1: The Deep-Seated Grudge Pt. 1
Manga Review: Lady Snowblood Vol. 1: The Deep-Seated Grudge Pt. 1
Manga Review: Lady Snowblood Vol. 1: The Deep-Seated Grudge Pt. 1 story by Kazuo Koike, art by Kazuo Kamimura
It is the Meiji Era, and Japan is rapidly modernizing. Some have even suggested abolishing the Japanese language in favor of one easier to communicate in! But some traditions are more deeply rooted than others, like revenge. If you can find her, and pay her exorbitant price, the assassin…
EDIT: post was really long, all details in the link above.
I woke to this morning to several DM’s all directing me to online articles about a self-confessed time traveler named Noah.
“Time traveller’ man from 2030 makes specific predictions for the future” read the headline of an article from news.com.au.
“Time travel SHOCK CLAIM: Man from the ‘year 2030’ says ALIENS become ALLIES with the US” cried the Express online. “BACK TO THE FUTURE Man claiming to be a time-traveller from 2030 ‘PASSES lie-detector test’… and he has these predictions for the next 10 years” wrote the Sun.
Everyone loves a good time traveller story, just ask you tube; “Time travellers caught on tape”, “time traveller took this video in the year 2120”, “Time traveller caught on 911 call’.
Remember that photograph of the “Time travelling hipster”? Admittedly in a sea of generic folk from the 1940’s dressed in suits and hats, the dude in the shades and casual clothing holding a portable camera does stand out- but is his casual attire really undeniable evidence of time travel? After much excitement the seemingly modern items in the photograph were proven to have been available and on the market at the time the image was captured. The logo tee turned out to be a hockey jersey, the protective glasses were on sale at the time and the camera was confirmed by Kodak as likely being a Kodak 35, which was introduced in 1938.
So, friends, it’s now time for us to look into the newest time traveler on the block, a man from the year 2030- the man known only as “Noah”.
Apparently the first video of Noah appeared on YouTube on the 17th of November 2017. The first result on YouTube is a video by a channel called paranormal elite that currently has 33K subscribers. The video, titled “Time Traveler Who Has Been To The Year 2030 Shares His Experiences”, is (at the time I write this) sitting at over 2 million views.
The introduction lays out the basic information we need to know about who Noah is. The channel claims that an individual located in Guadalajara, Mexico contacted them via phone and claimed to be an ex-US government worker who was fired after failing a time-travel mission in South America. The individual identified himself as only “Noah” as he feared he would be taken out by the US government if they were to discover his identity. Noah claimed that he was 50 years old, but had taken an age reversal drug that shaved off 25 years, making him appear to be 25 years old.
He told Paranormal Elite that the constant time travel had affected him mentally that he has depression and an eating disorder as a result.After the introduction we see a video of Noah clad in a burgundy with his face obscured, reading from a pre-written statement explaining that he is a time traveler and wants to prove to us all that time travel will be available to the public in 2028. To do so, he claims that he has traveled back to the 13th of November 2017 from the year 2021- which he claims is where he existed for most of his “natural life”.
The statement is then interrupted by Noah getting seemingly overwhelmed before asking for a moment to compose himself . At one point he starts sobbing and the P.E channel slides in a message telling viewers not to feel bad as they have donated around “$700 in food and water to help him get by”. In order to prove that he really is from the future, Noah has provided us with a list of predictions for technologies that will be available to us in the near future- 2021 to be exact.
Here’s the list:
1.Electric cars that are able to cover an average of 600 miles on one full charge
2. HD video recording glasses with augmented reality. Basically like Terminator shades or an advanced pair of Google glasses that can do way more than show you maps and make a phone call. These 2021 glasses will supposedly have an augmented reality screen that will basically allow us to perceive generated data that we can see, hear and touch etc. Essentially we’ll be living in the “black mirror” universe in a couple of years.
3. Trump will be re-elected. He’s 100% certain, apparently.
After displaying some symptoms of stress, he wishes us good luck for the future and signs off.
On the 5th of August, 2018, a YouTube channel called APEX TV boasting 686K followers posted a follow up interview with Noah titled: “Time Traveler Noah From 2030 Tells His Story”. A far cry from the 3 minute video originally posted on Paranormal Elite, this video is over 37 minutes long.It’s important to note that paranormal elite is part of APEXTV.
Now I actually sat down and watched that 37 minute video(I know) and I thought I’d recap it here for you, so you can skim-read what Noah claims to be his story:
In 2025 Noah was in his teens and attending high school. He was bullied for having a stutter as a child, but was smart and got good grades- in fact he got straight A’s across the board. One day, out of the blue, a pair of men with shaved heads, clad in suits (he accidentally describes them as “tuxedos”) had him pulled into the office and forced him into a top secret government program where he would have to travel through time to complete missions and the past and future.
He was prohibited to tell anyone about the project and began to feel isolated from the rest of the world.He was driven out to a military complex in the middle of the Nevada desert where he had to register as a worker. He was then led down a staircase into a basement level facility where he saw an unfathomably large glass time machine crawling with mechanics.
He signed an 8 year contact with the government and was put into a small class of trainees (five in total) and lived at an on-site dorm with minimal furnishings. From there he studied until it came time to take the final exam, which he passed. A chip was then implanted into his left wrist- a painful procedure that had him in intense pain for several days.
Noah hated the job, but he could be at least relieved in the knowledge that he didn’t have a contract as long as some of the others in his class, some of whom received 50 – life.
I have suddenly recieved an influx of new followers but I’m not sure why… regardless, here are some pen and ink thumbnails for chapter 1 of my comic Starfort 5! I can’t wait to work on this some more!
Long time no speak! I thought I’d come to this blog to tell you that I’m thinking of a.) starting a podcast on the supernatural with my friend and b.) going around haunted locations to get some readings and to, essentially, debunk ghosts and apparitions.
I live in a small town in Wales, which is full of rich history, culture and more importantly, reports of the paranormal!!!!
I was wondering if I could get a little insight, on where I could find some resources to getting started about why we use EMF readings and specific lights to try and see ghosts? Are ouija boards safe? Can I make myself more open to a sighting? Have any of YOU guys seen a ghost? What was it like? Am I asking too many questions? Maybe.
Anyway, I thought that I’d come to this little community I’ve cultivated, allbeit around mostly UFOs and conspiracies, but we’re obviously very open people. Any tips? Anything you would want to share with me? (on anon or not or in a little reply to this post.)
CIA Psychic Gives Reading of Ancient Life on Mars (1984)
The year is 1984, the world is obsessed with science-fiction and the government is obsessed with anything that is paranormal and not of this world. A CIA experiment was conducted where a proclaimed psychic was tricked, being handed a sealed envelope with the location of Mars, 1 million years ago and asked to give accurate reading of the faux location.
The psychic thought it was a simple experiment, to test his powers of this earth. The document below is a transcript of the experiment where the psychic describes the landscape he is seeing as having pyramids, an intelligent system, an established civilisation and alien beings roaming near him. The detail is unbelievable.
The PDF document can be found here, on the CIA’s website.
“conspiracy theories can absolutely devolve into bigotry and anti science rhetoric” and “the government does and hides shady shit and the evidence of that is often painted as a conspiracy theory” are two statements that can and should coexist
I’m sure you’ve seen at least one of my posts by now about how the conspiracy of some powerful elite cabal in the shadows to rape children is just a misogynist’s inability to understand rape culture, and I guess I should probably go in depth on some of these ideas because everyone’s posting the save our children hash tag .
So, first off, I want to start on a more constructive note and highlight some of the ways we could address the underlying issue of rape culture , so that it’s clear what I’m saying is with the sole intention of *actually protecting children* before I start critiquing the conspiracy / hashtag .
#1) LEGALIZE SEX WORK For 100% clarity, I do mean sex work between consenting adults. If anything maybe even raise the age from 18 to somewhere between 20-25, but DEFINITELY do NOT lower it, at all. Legalizing sex work for adults would free up more resources to fight child sex trafficking, since without sex work being pushed into the black market, there wouldn’t be anywhere near the demand for human trafficking when you could see a girl who can prove she is healthy, is actually consenting, and in a safe environment rather than having to enter sketchy dangerous situations where they are at far higher risks as the client as well. The average person hiring a prostitute has no interest in being a rapist, they’re just lonely. The average person hiring a prostitute probably doesn’t feel very safe around gangs and mobs and all that. And with sex work legalized, sex workers are FAR safer from the dangerous clients, or any criminal element they’re forced to endure while operating in a black market. Less profit, means less resources for the sex traffickers, while our resources are properly spent actually protecting women and children from traffickers. Under the current system most our resources are spent punishing sex workers and their clients , while preserving the black market that incentives human trafficking.
#2) REPLACE VERTICAL HIERARCHIES WITH HORIZONTAL POWER STRUCTURES
Consolidating power in the hands of one person at the top , rather than spreading it across as many people as possible very obviously creates the situations where rich and powerful people can abuse that power. It’s a lot harder to cover things up the more people you have to convince to be in on the cover up. I really feel this is self explanatory?
#3) MAKE SURE THERE ARE PROGRAMS IN PLACE TO HELP ANYONE STRUGGLING WITH THEIR PEDOPHILIA
Reminder there ARE pedophiles out there who are absolutely disgusted by their attraction to children, have never harmed a child, and are desperately seeking help to make sure they never do. There is a push to try and frame this argument as “defending pedophiles” , but would you execute someone who was molested as a child themselves, never hurt a child, and is legit disgusted by their urges? No? Well then we should probably make sure they have resources they can access to help them, yeah?
#4) NORMALIZE SEX AND STOP MORALIZING IT: A big part of pedophilia is more or less fetishizing innocence and “purity” , and is basically the mentality of “women are less valuable sexually the more sex they’ve had before you” taken to an absolutely disgusting extreme . Also kids being too sheltered and not feeling comfortable enough to talk to their parents are far more vulnerable to predators .
#5) EMBRACE COMMUNAL CHILD REARING OVER THE NUCLEAR MODEL While it would hopefully be the most basic primal instinct of a parent to protect their children from rapists , that’s clearly not the case in practice. Frequently parents are complacent , if not directly involved when it comes to children who have been abused. Making sure children have a community watching over them would be far more effective than hoping parents are good people .
Now what’s the big problem with these conspiracies ? Even if they aren’t suggesting these solutions, at least they’re raising awareness, right? Ehhhh…
I’m not accusing any INDIVIDUAL of doing this, but as a SOCIETY we have an ongoing issue of the hyper performative “execute the rapists!” ending up being super counter productive . Conservatives will swear they can’t support rape culture because they “would gladly kill a rapist” But, then they only define rape as the most stereotypical violent assault in a dark alley while insisting rape victims “wanted it”
Also there is a really weird hypocrisy from some of the people sharing this shit where a bad picture of ellen degeneres looking old is proof she rapes and eats babies , but when your favorite rapper is accused of rape you demand video evidence from 4 angles , 25 eye witnesses, and want the defendant to be able to repeat her story backwards perfectly otherwise she’s just a clout chasing whore.
And last but not least, Pizzagate literally originated on 4chan, a website over run with alt right pedophiles , and fits perfectly with the argument that conspiracies all blame society’s issues on a shadowy cabal of jews. At the center of the conspiracy, there’s the belief that donald trump is ACTUALLY the only one brave enough to fight evil satanic jewish pedophile shadow government and he’s been “playing 5d chess this whole time”. The root of the conspiracy is “Cultural marxist Jews want to rape your kids, and only Trump can save our children”
#SaveOurChildren just trims the fat to make it easier for you to chew
with all that said, if reading what someone who’s at least vaguely male-ish such as myself has to say about rape culture was the first time you realized that maybe it is an actual thing PLEASE read actual feminist writings about this stuff from women
