Seabook Arno isn’t some sweaty otaku.

Manga is Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Kiddie creepers trying to relabel themselves after a book featuring a kiddie creeper that they got the worst possible take from is certainly a move.

    • AstroStelar [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In his essay on Stalinism Koba the Dread, Martin Amis proposes that Lolita is an elaborate metaphor for the totalitarianism that destroyed the Russia of Nabokov’s childhood (though Nabokov states in his afterword that he “[detests] symbols and allegories”).

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        (though Nabokov states in his afterword that he “[detests] symbols and allegories”).

        “Detesting” symbols and allegories just means that the symbols and allegories show up anyway without awareness from the author.

        Blue curtain dogma, not even once.