East Coast USA 🇺🇸 to East Asia🌏 Dragons, Ninja, Swords, Giant Robots. Researcher of Occidentals and their culture. Orientalism, Japonisme, Chinoiserie and the making of modern western fantasy.
"Dang this guy has really good taste..." - internet search bringing up my pinterest board from a decade ago: www.pinterest.com/ironandy/
weederBeing on day three of scouring computer forums and finding somebody who had your same problem but eventually gave up is like seeing a dead body on Everest
Interestingly the 19c Fantasy-defining Greek-Irish folklorist Lafcadio Hearn considered Ancient Greece too cultured to be called European, but part of the Orient he loves "I'm a 19c barbarian-brained westerner reincarnated as a beautiful-brained baby in modern manga Japan!!" would be a fun isekai
HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊"[Japanese] art is as far in advance of our art as old Greek art was superior to that of the earliest European art-gropings... We are the barbarians! I only wish I could be reincarnated in some little Japanese baby, so that I could see and feel the world as beautifully as a Japanese brain does."
Jack Hanma, of Keisuke Itagaki's Baki the Grappler, wears something similar to Raskol brand gym pants. RASKOL DUMP COVERS www.instagram.com/raskolapparel/
Waaagh Fit Adventure youtu.be/IBrkKnXHfb8?...
While Hemmingway's wife Martha Gelhorn fantasized of Zhou Enlai as the Dark Eldar Archon spiriting her to Commoragh pleasure domes... ...her meeting with Madam Chiang Kai Shek instead had the classic Craftworld Farseer/High Elf line of calling the PoV-Relatable-Westerner barely evolved from monkey.
HokutoAndy 🤜🤜➡️ 🦶👊"Decadent Oriental Sultan/Khan/Lord/Prince/Emperor is bored in his Pleasure Palace" is an old Western Fantasy archtype. Ernest Hemmingway's Wife No.3, Martha Gellhorn, wanted to bang "briliant" elfin-eyed Zhou Enlai, she fantasized the future China premier taking her to a "pleasure dome of Xanadu".