THIS is the bear cave painting i was talking about, the line weight, the proportions, the fine details around the face, and the fact that this all had to be drawn from memory, idk man, it’s incredible to me. if i could meet one person from history it’d be the person that painted this bear 30,000 years ago
This one is pissing me off because there’s cheese in it. I’m not sure there’s a period of Chinese dynastic history wherein the type of dudes likely to be having rap battles would also have been familiar with hard cheese. There’d be political fucking implications to that. Fermented dairy products were often seen as uncivilized foods, and were associated in particular with northern “barbarian” cuisine (see: <lactose intolerance in Eurasia>), whereas competitive poetry was viewed as a civilized and scholarly pastime appropriate to civil servants and courtiers. Mentioning cheese in a verse which also references the heavens could be seen as an effort to legitimize the presence of these dangerous foreign elements within Chinese society, and, thus, as seditious. If dairy were to become a common theme in rap battles, it might be viewed as a dangerous sign of poor morale and defeatist thinking among the literati. “Emperor, we have got to move the capital to the south. The scholars are rapping about cheese. It’s all falling apart.”
KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant takes off his spectacles and rubs his eyes wearily. “Do you ever get so tired that you start seeing spiders?” he mumbles.
ELECTROCHEMISTRY — You sure do, brother.
YOU — “Me when I take 17 Benadryl and start seeing the hat man.”
KIM KITSURAGI — The lieutenant opens his mouth to say something, then promptly shuts it again, frowning. He slowly puts his spectacles back on just to stare at you.
EMPATHY [Easy: Success] — He’s trying very hard to process what you just said. He’s utterly failing, though.
KIM KITSURAGI — “…The *who*?”
REACTION SPEED — Oh, is this not a safe space suddenly?
