Good point…

Yet, in case it matters, I tortured myself over a couple days, wondering if I should make a post like this. And yet it’s just what I’m reading. At the end of the day, I don’t feel like I should be ashamed for what I’m reading. People who don’t like that can just move along…

Blaze, you know I love you, but if everything that has to do with Israel is automatically controversial, then what is the point of snipping little aspects of our lives?

This is the point where I say: “go fluff yourselves, right?”

Taken out of context, are you trying to say something, mssr?

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Pretty good beginning, sans the near constant lack of clothes for the protagonist. Not erotic per se, just needless in my opinion.

I felt almost exactly the same.

At the same time, I’m a middle-aged dude. I’m not here to scold horny teens & twenty-somethings.

EDIT EDIT: And yet… should I have posted this? I’m not sure. 😮💨

I’m not too frustrated anymore (as I was a month or two ago) about the lack of posters, and have pretty-much just resigned myself these days to people treating EGN+ as my personal blog.

Maybe in the future, contributors will organically develop and/or I’ll hit upon some method to get more people involved, I don’t know.

I think part of the problem is that while plenty of people can appreciate the cool art of ‘BD’ and the little tidbits I write up, there’s not many people across the Lemmysphere who are all that knowledgeable themselves about Euro GN’s, and who also want to spend time posting.

This actually kind of goes back to my disappointment with Reddit users, in that I thought more would jump ship after learning about the many ways they’ve been disrespected and monetised by Reddit mgmt through various means. I.e., with a bigger userbase here, chances of more engagement with niche communities like ours would increase a bit. Ah, well.

Thanks, Blaze.
Appreciate. ^^

Yes, working together can feel so good if no one steals what you make as profit.

Exactly.

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Thank you! It’s really awesome of you to make all these quality posts all the time and share these cool comics.

Ah, you just made my day! 😃

My grandfather, a machinist…

That’s so cool to me. Would you say you inherited some of his ‘working with one’s hands’ sensibility?

This totally dates me, but one thing I really liked from the film Witness (1985), is that the Pennsylvania Amish would organise building projects along the same lines.

EDIT: Oh wow, I think I found the very scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL_X7GelX5Q

Fascinating stuff, Rolando. Thanks for adding on.

Most of the pirate stuff I’ve read tends to be Caribbean-based, but I’d like to read more about those N. African coast Barbary pirates, as well as Ching Shih, the famous Chinese pirate queen.

I did start a list at the evil empire, and hope to read more of those over time, as well as expand the list.

Ah yes, I’d forgotten about them. I also can’t help but wonder if the French (who IIRC had the most powerful naval fleet for many years) intentionally allowed them to harass their Euro rivals to the south, such as Spain and Italy, until it eventually become politically expedient?

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I think when they said that, the implication was that there was no need for such. I.e. it interrupted the flow of the story and didn’t add anything useful, other than perhaps pandering to a certain crowd.

Sorry for the late reply, but I love it!

Oh, rabbits!

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I love you, Rolando <3

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Wow, cool. Hard to see many museums of this standing feature so much BD outside France & Belge, but I guess the reasons are pretty clear in this case.

Nice to hear about the Simmonds exhibit, as the cleverness of her Gemma Bovery really re-ignited in me a desire to give French another try. (now if only it didn’t have %^@#$ gender for nouns, but oh well)

the exhibition’s really made me want to give these comics a new try.

If you watched the “matttt” video above, could you tell me if the museum exhibit took a similar or divergent course?