Grrl Power #1331 - An ear for accents

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Sciona hasn't given much thought to the fact that Deus probably has access to Alaripidia. Or whatever subset of it the colony ship that took up residence in Galytn brought with them. As that ship was a joint venture between three houses that were aligned on more issues than not, (at least issues relating to colonization and escaping whatever it was that attacked their homeworld) he probably has access to Liglalathapedia,  Wuultensapedia, and Graff Vynda-K-pedia. All the houses have departments of Public Relations, Propaganda and Tactical Libel, so there's no one single "true" Alaripedia... well, 0utside of a few attempts by minor houses or unaligned-whatever-the-Alari-call-the-generation-that's-currently-reaching-young-adulthood. Like Gen X,Y,Z for Alari idealistic anti-establishment high-schoolers. 

The internet is such a relatively new thing, but imagine what it would be like if it had been around for 6,000 years. (And assuming it didn't just devolve and enshittify into the worst possible version of corporate algorithms and money grubbing schemes. Over optimistic, I know.) But imagine if we still had youtube channels from like Ancient Egypt. Like, "Hey fam. Today I'm going to be showing you how to whip a Jewish slave. Be sure to hit that falcon-pecking-at-wheat icon to subscribe!" 

If that was the case, a historian's job wouldn't be to look at some squiggles on a vase and decide that meant they circumcised their goats or something. It'd be to watch a jillion hours of archived youtube and conclude any society with access to social media will develop influencer culture and deserved to be swallowed by the desert. 

I mention all this because Alaripedia, or the various House flavors of it, isn't just text and the occasional animated .gif. It includes links to videos and archived digitized radio broadcasts, entire seasons of shows whose copyrights lapsed into the public domain 1,000 years ago. So really, it's not surprising Deus had access to that stuff. It's surprising that he'd be able to consume the volume of media necessary to really formulate much of an opinion about it, all while running many business concerns and at least one country while absorbing others and prosecuting a multifront war while maintaining relations with Alari colonists and an army of literal Demons. Well, like a brigade's worth at this point. Not quite "an army," but still.