Constellations (Worm/Okami)

Candesce · Feb 22, 2019

HereticalZed said:
Saying the US doesn't have a culture is nonsense because by virtue of existing and having people in it that do stuff, it has a culture.

For that matter, we've got significantly more than one.

Which might be why some people think the US doesn't have one, if they're trying to only count cultures that cover an entire nation-state - but honestly, I think there's very few countries indeed small enough to be said to have only a single culture.

beorn91 · Feb 22, 2019

Candesce said:
For that matter, we've got significantly more than one.

Which might be why some people think the US doesn't have one, if they're trying to only count cultures that cover an entire nation-state - but honestly, I think there's very few countries indeed small enough to be said to have only a single culture.

I pity the guy who said in a Briton's face that Brittany culture is the same as Paris culture, given that the Britton independentist movement died only when the Parosian elites recognized Brittany had its own culture and language and stopped the war they wagged against regional cultures and dialects since the Third Republic.

Anfan · Feb 22, 2019

Harry Leferts said:
Obviously it would be a large crow with an eye on the chest.

I thought that it was a fish with three eyes? Or is that only for nuclear reactors?

Was there a good candidate in the game Okami? Probably just part of that dark stuff that had to be wiped away.

macdjord · Feb 23, 2019

Candesce said:
Which might be why some people think the US doesn't have one, if they're trying to only count cultures that cover an entire nation-state - but honestly, I think there's very few countries indeed small enough to be said to have only a single culture.

I think it's more that the people who say that don't consider a cultural tradition 'yours' unless you can trace it back at least 500 years before hitting the point where you adopted it from someone else. As the saying goes: in Europe, a hundred miles is a long way; in America, a hundred years is a long time.

Upsm0nk3y · Feb 23, 2019

the us has a gun culture

defenestrator · Feb 23, 2019

Maybe stop this line of discussion now, since it's getting farther and farther away from the story itself.

Arcane Howitzer · Feb 23, 2019

So! Can the Simurgh's Song affect spirits? because Sunny seems like exactly the kind of do-gooder she hates...

SilentMech · Feb 23, 2019

Arawn_Emrys said:
Like I said, there was
1. Japanese yokai (jorogumo)
2. One European monster (barghest)
3. Unknown giant bird (roc? Thunderbird?)
4. Unknown fire thing
5. A ghost that Lee at least assumes is a Japanese Yuurei, but that's just a ghost so he may or may not be correct there.

So overall that night wasn't excessively one thing or the other unless you count Amaterasu herself which swings it towards the Shinto side.

You forgot the Black Dog Miss Militia wound up chasing. Gaelic death went for a run through town.

Jormuungaand · Feb 23, 2019

SilentMech said:
You forgot the Black Dog Miss Militia wound up chasing. Gaelic death went for a run through town.

I don't remember a black dog, just a white one. That stole her motorcycle. While drunk. And took out a supervillain or two.

That was fun.

ToothMaker · Feb 23, 2019

Jormuungaand said:
I don't remember a black dog, just a white one. That stole her motorcycle. While drunk. And took out a supervillain or two.

That was fun.

It was mentioned at the PRT's post-Halloween collapse interlude.

SilentMech · Feb 23, 2019

Jormuungaand said:
I don't remember a black dog, just a white one. That stole her motorcycle. While drunk. And took out a supervillain or two.

That was fun.

During the post Halloween funk when the heroes we're bitching about the bs they had to deal with the previous night.

Jormuungaand · Feb 23, 2019

ToothMaker said:
It was mentioned at the PRT's post-Halloween collapse interlude.

SilentMech said:
During the post Halloween funk when the heroes we're bitching about the bs they had to deal with the previous night.

Thank you for your help recalling that grim moment.

beorn91 · Feb 23, 2019

Jormuungaand said:
Thank you for your help recalling that grim moment.

Try to be serious here.

Harry Leferts · Feb 23, 2019

beorn91 said:
Try to be serious here.

But Sirius is from a different series then those in the crossover...

Jormuungaand · Feb 23, 2019

beorn91 said:
Try to be serious here.

Shirley you don't mean that? Do we need to have a Sirius conversation. To be Frank, I think that would be a Harry-raising discussion.

Miffychan · Feb 23, 2019

This conversation is sounding increasingly Lupin - it Severus-ly got off on the Ron foot.

wtdtd · Feb 23, 2019

All these puns are giving me Hermoinia

ltmauve · Feb 23, 2019

Arcane Howitzer said:
So! Can the Simurgh's Song affect spirits? because Sunny seems like exactly the kind of do-gooder she hates...

Chapter 28 - Armsmaster's scans of Sunny turned out "hollow" effectively. She's probably not made of anything vulnerable to TK.

ToothMaker · Feb 23, 2019

wtdtd said:
All these puns are giving me Hermoinia

Indeed, I'm Dresden hearing any more.

Arawn_Emrys · Feb 23, 2019

SilentMech said:
You forgot the Black Dog Miss Militia wound up chasing. Gaelic death went for a run through town.

That's the Barghest. Barghest - Wikipedia

UnwelcomeStorm · Feb 25, 2019

Arawn_Emrys said:
Like I said, there was
1. Japanese yokai (jorogumo)
2. One European monster (barghest)
3. Unknown giant bird (roc? Thunderbird?)
4. Unknown fire thing
5. A ghost that Lee at least assumes is a Japanese Yuurei, but that's just a ghost so he may or may not be correct there.

So overall that night wasn't excessively one thing or the other unless you count Amaterasu herself which swings it towards the Shinto side.

A bit late on this, but if it had been a roc or thunderbird there'd be a hell of a lot more damage than just Battery getting tossed into the Bay.

Amaterasu's presence and increasing prominence means that the spirit world is, in turn, gaining influence in general, though spiritual dates like Hallow's Eve and All Saint's Day make that a hell of a lot easier. The semi-pan-Asian community formed by refugees means there are a lot of Asian spirits and folklore about, but they're not the only ones running around. America is a land of immigrants, after all, and people bring their histories with them.

...and that's not even mentioning the native spirits and folklore beings.

RoninSword · Feb 25, 2019

The only Native American folklore I know about is the Wendigo. >.>

Krika · Feb 25, 2019

UnwelcomeStorm said:
A bit late on this, but if it had been a roc or thunderbird there'd be a hell of a lot more damage than just Battery getting tossed into the Bay.

Amaterasu's presence and increasing prominence means that the spirit world is, in turn, gaining influence in general, though spiritual dates like Hallow's Eve and All Saint's Day make that a hell of a lot easier. The semi-pan-Asian community formed by refugees means there are a lot of Asian spirits and folklore about, but they're not the only ones running around. America is a land of immigrants, after all, and people bring their histories with them.

...and that's not even mentioning the native spirits and folklore beings.

-side-eyes the wendigos and Coyote-

yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh

Vindictus · Feb 25, 2019

RoninSword said:
The only Native American folklore I know about is the Wendigo. >.>

I know bits and pieces of native stuff that I've picked up here and there? Books about native folklore and stuff, some of it sticks and some does not.

The Inuit, for example, have a sort of spirit that is basically a shapeshifting orca that gains wolflike characteristics to walk on land and hunt those who stray too far onto the ice floes. They call it the Akhlut.

... That's the only one I remember offhand, actually, but you can find more if you search.

RBomber · Feb 25, 2019

RoninSword said:
The only Native American folklore I know about is the Wendigo. >.>

Ah, finally Burnscar can do something positive with her power.

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