I’m here to say Jasmine /Jazmín in English and Spanish, because I haven’t seen it mentioned yet

Lol

Hello. Lemmy is known for having a tech savvy userbase, not so much dabblers in the occult arts. Please don’t let that dissuade you - I would be searching for a community with an occult bent first. Try any of the find-a-community communities and see where people point you towards.

Having said that, yes I do like the occults even though I can’t say I take them seriously like I did in my youth. Traditionally the suit you would be looking for is the swords for the sciences, since the swords are associated with the domain of the mind, judgement, truth, thoughts, etc.

Edit: try !findacommunity@lemmy.ml

… not sure if there are other community finders outside of .ml but that should get you started

Yep, that’s me whenever seeing “Salsa sauce” in the mexican or sauces section in supermarkets

Good luck with everything!

Last week I visited a house overlooking the Georges River, Sydney south. Leafy area. The owners of the house told me they leave the back door open for the cat at night. That’s not a cat flap, that’s a freaking door open.

Setting aside the free ranging cat especially at night - it’s an open door. Anything can just waltz in if they want to. Anything from mozzies to people. And near the water in a leafy area everything is extra here. More bugs. More reptiles. Rats. Possums.

So, yeah. A window with no screens. I believe it. I’ve seen worse

I think that’s it, you’ve found it, it’s Shuma-Gorath. It’s really close chronologically, it’s in a very popular publication, and also in the oldest depictions I could find it also sports something like the “chitinous plates” the beholder description has. According to Wikipedia too, Shuma was/is one of the most popular kaiju-type villains in Marvel. It also says Shuma can levitate and shoot rays off his eye and tentacles.

Eyeballs on tentacles/eyestalks were much more popular back in the day than now, especially for alien or extraterrestrial designs. So there isn’t a huge leap from Shuma gorath to Beholder.

I was hoping for more sci fi or fantasy fans to crop up and point at other characters from 60’s or earlier novels, however, no luck so far. Someone pointed a beholder wouldn’t look out of place in a Lovecraft story and I agree but yours was the only concrete example so, congrats, enjoy your trophy!

There is plenty of similar, I also recall a Powerpuff girls episode with something like a beholder, also in the 90s I think. No infringement either, because it wasn’t exactly a beholder nor it was called a beholder.

That Pixar movie did use a proper beholder though.

Anyway… They’re all after 1975 so…

My question was “where were the beholder -like creatures in the media before 1975?” Specifically looking for examples of similar things that were already in circulation before.

iirc Wikipedia doesn’t mention Big Trouble in Little China as copyright infringement, but it mentions that example as something similar, whereas other media does get mentioned as infringing copyright.

Apparently the only one who got to use a beholder as such and not get a lawsuit was Pixar, who managed to get permission from WotC. I guess this means both have similarly strong lawyers

Nice connection there

Advanced D&D Monster Manual 1977

added for context not to be argumentative … it came out in '75 … my copy of the MM is from 1977>

Yes, I think I mentioned it came out in the '75? According to Wikipedia at least, although it is unclear whether it was publicly released that year. The material there cited is also from the '77.

Maybe it’s simply the growth of the Internet that diluted the culture. In its early days, most people with Internet access and time/the inclination to shitpost were mostly young, had certain other things in common such as language, a certain amount of wealth, access to commodities, etc. You also had to have a certain degree of innate curiosity and tech literacy to find platforms and engage with them. That’s reflected in the content posted.

Nowadays you have everyone and their grandma online. Platforms are aggressively finding you and even opening accounts unprompted for you (I’m looking at you, Meta). So the type of content is reflected too.

Okay and for those who live in places where ice and snow don’t happen, what’s the image supposed to be explaining? I believe you that there is something wrong here, but I’ve no idea

This is a pretty comprehensive answer, I’d say the best so far. I’d like to add two items to the list:

Surveillance: there is always surveillance implemented one way or the other. Usually this involves a scheme in which people are rewarded for reporting anything suspicious or that could be considered a form of dissent against the leader.

Borders: entering and exiting the territory can be difficult, with lots of extra screening and paperwork. The logic behind this is that the regime doesn’t want external influences disrupting their control, but also doesn’t want to lose their workforce. Deserting means your anti patriotic sentiment is too high so it gets a very severe punishment, often death.

The expansionist fever still going strong it seems

Not a showerthought either, go to casual conversation or unpopular opinions my dude

Wait until you learn about Japan

I am immediately put off by anyone talking constantly about a topic unless it’s justified by context.

For example, if you are talking non stop about your favorite game at a gaming convention or at your DnD table, let it be. Or with your friends who are in the same fandom, no prob. If you can’t shut up about it outside of that and constantly bring the topic up unprompted, well. I wonder what else you can’t tell about context.

I guess with religion it’s worse because by its own nature it implies you, the follower, know best and better than those who don’t. So not only you come across as a fool who can’t read the room, you also come across as arrogant.

Where is the joke implying that OP likes the shoes?