I call my work historical fantasy, but it is probably closer to alternate history than fantasy. There is no system of magic. Some readers might glean that my Gottari are based on the Germanic tribe of the Goths, and their Tiberian foes will be quite recognizable as the ancient Romans. So the most fantastic thing about the books is my creation of the Skolani, and their insertion into this otherwise recognizable alt-historical world. The Skolani are an all female Teutonic warrior sect pledged to an alliance with the Gottari. More simply put, they are a tribe of kickass warrior chicks.
Skolani girls receive martial training from the time they can stand and hold a weapon, and ride from the day they can stay in a saddle unaided. The biggest and most athletic are chosen to receive blades, and aspire to be risen to the ranks of the Blade-Wielders, the most vaunted warriors in my world of Dania.
I do not know the source of your information but it looks like you did some research. The Sarmatians were reported to have some gender equality when it came to being a warrior and archaeological remains have supported those ancient reports. that being said, they were not at any point a matriarchal society.
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Born during the ancient Shang Dynasty (1300-1046 BC), most of what we know about Lady Fu Hao are records written on ancient oracle bones that were found at her tomb. The wife of Emperor Wu Ding, she was known to both participate in religious ceremonies and fight as a general in many battles. When she died, Lady Fu Hao had the distinction to be buried in a tomb separate from her husband, a sign of how well-regarded she was.
Like Ching Shih, Tang Sai Er was considered an outlaw by the Chinese government at the time, but for a different reason. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), Tang Sai Er led a peasant uprising against the Ming government after she saw that the peasants were essentially forced into slavery to help build the new Ming palace. She formed a cult called the White Lotus Sect and deemed herself the Holy Mother prophetess. At the height of the rebellion, Tang Sai Er was able to recruit 10,000 troops and the emperor sent out a warrant for her capture at any price. Tang Sai Er was able to escape and the White Lotus Sect went underground.
Born to a family of generals in the Song Dynasty (970-1279 AD), Liang Hongyu was trained in both martial arts and the fine arts such as singing, dancing and drumming. The latter proved to be useful when her father and grandfather were put to death, forcing Liang Hongyu to work as a singer and consort. It was through this line of work that Liang Hongyu met her husband-to-be Officer Han Shizong. They fell in love, had children together and then fought together in war. Liang Hongyu is known for being a great example of a devoted wife, mother and warrior.
BECOME the Jedi warrior of Architecture and Building Science. I was inspired to quit my job and start my own firm that centered on architecture and building science. I asked my teacher to be my partner, and a new business was formed. It centered on researching, designing, building, and testing to determine how well the building performed. It included joining organizations with like minded people and giving seminars on what we learned and writing and sharing our ideas with people who wanted to learn.
We bought a historic two-family house in Somerville and renovated it for my daughter to move in with her friends, and it later became our office. We insulated and water managed the basement, changed the windows, added insulation to the walls, moved the roof insulation to under the deck so that we had additional living space.
They also had closed crawl spaces instead of basements to save money but allow us to afford the systems needs for water management. We designed for combustion safety and provided whole house ventilation systems. We set criteria for Healthy Housing for the American Lung Association. We followed them.
We developed energy standards and moved the code officials to approve new methods such as advanced framing and combo systems for heating, cooling and hot water. We followed these standards for a planned community north of Chicago called Prairie Crossing.
A recent Mark Kermode interview featuring actor Jason Isaacs had him express a similar sentiment about the importance of independent films and how much they are becoming a rarity as he promoted his latest film Mass, which is an independent drama with a shit show budget of less than 350,000 dollars. The plot of the film revolves around two sets of parents, one pair mourning the loss of their son who died from a school shooting, and one pair having to confront those same parents, knowing that their son killed theirs.
Whether we look at a film like Kick-Ass or The Dark Knight, one thing is for certain, none of the super-heroic characters are conventional or even remotely capable of being as boring as the society their actions aim in the creation of a better world, as unlikely as it seems. Batman and the murderous Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz) are anything but boring, and if they were to conform to the rules of society, then one would be sitting at the board of Wayne enterprises bored out of his fucking skull after enduring round after round news of company shares, while the other would probably be urged to play with dolls or film herself on TIK TOK dancing.
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It\u2019s amazing to look at a film as colorfully playful as Kick-Ass, which never shied away from its sheer absurdity, and then look at modern-day superhero films in present 2022. Fuck, have things changed.
As monumental as Spiderman No Way Home was, the fact that there is more too come, even after experiencing what was a cinematically emotional rollercoaster definitive enough in giving the character of Spiderman the kind of resolution that illustrates his trilogy structured maturity shows that the show will go on. Now, as much as our culture has grown accustomed, and in some cases, numbed to the over-indulgent influx of one or multiple yearly superhero films, and as much as we can only pump our chests in testosterone-fueled excitement for the upcoming Matt Reeves Batman film coming this March, there is still an elephant in the room we haven\u2019t addressed.
Superheroes are kinda dumb when you think long and hard enough about the subject. Now, there can\u2019t be much expectation from a culture that is perpetually glued to their phones, while at the same time equally drowning in one over-popularized social media app after the other. But if you pay close enough attention, which is itself a stretch for anyone hooked on Twitter, the fact that every new superhero film, universe-based or not, is just a prelude of more to come. This can range from a direct sequel, or a collection of spin-offs centering on other characters within the film that started it all, or followed right after to further perpetuate the cycle of absurdity that a film as ultra-violent and super meta, though not at Deadpool level, worked to combat. Now, a film being based on or centered on a comic book is irrelevant so long as there is a story to tell. Filmmaker Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight Trilogy, Inception, and TENET) summed this up nicely when commenting on the creative freedom he and his team had in crafting The Dark Knight films that have now served as a template for the modern superhero genre of today. When we did \u2018Batman Begins,\u2019 we didn\u2019t know we\u2019d do one and it took three years to do it and then four years before the next one. We had the luxury of time. It didn\u2019t feel like a machine, an engine of commerce for the studio. As the genre becomes so successful, those pressures become greater and greater. It was the right time\u201D
As enlightening as it is for a filmmaker as renowned as Chris Nolan to praise the cinematic achievements of a genre that has become very influential in the industry figures as artistic as him work in, you can\u2019t also help but feel an equal, or at least moderately fair level of cynicism at the remark. If anything, it could easily be looked at as him saying he dodged a major bullet. In this case, that bullet is the colossal monopolization of comic book films, which have become so dominant within pop culture that for a studio to risk any capital on an independent film with alternative subject matter outside of a global catastrophe, is now becoming a rare occasion.
In addition to being an independent drama, Mass covers the themes of grief, human connection, and the ability to move forward past pain. Now, there are plenty of emotionally resonating superhero films that tackle similar ideas. But there are the half-assed popcorn spectacles that give way to a masturbatory bombastically action-packed third act, that although thematically beautiful, lack the depth most films used to showcase without compromises. The rare gem superhero films, powerful and unique as they can be, whether its the outliers like the Neo-Western Logan, or the psychological drama Joker, the fact that films with deep emotional/sociopolitical themes need to be presented in the framework of a comic book film isn\u2019t an attack on the film itself, so much as the culture that has neutered the prospect of cinema to a level of absurdity that only makes the appreciation of films like Kick-Ass that more incremental into showcasing just how dumb it really is to dress up in spandex, and risk a trip to the ER or an early grave. It all depends on the structure of the story and how egotistically confident the villain is after they have their first victory, that they decide to spare the hero without looking as foolish as the standard Bond villain who doesn\u2019t just take the safe bet and kill 007 right away.
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