Lana V Lynx
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Avid reader and occasional writer of satire and short fiction. For my own sanity and security, I write under a pen name. My books: Moscow Calling - 2017 and President & Psychiatrist
@lanalynx.bsky.social
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Modern Russian Propaganda Street Art
May 14, 2023: pro-war “Z-patriotic” Russian street artists Sasha Montlevivh and Alexey Chizhov sprayed a triptych of Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov, Wagner chief Evgeny Prigozhin, and Vladimir Putin on the Kadyrov bridge in St.Petersburg, Russia. Referring to a classical Soviet triptych of Marx, Engels, and Lenin (below), the graffiti suggests KPP are the founders of the Russian “New Order.”
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Fiction
Identity and Communication
We all go through life wondering who we really are and who we want to be when we grow up. Identity -- the idea and image of self that makes us both distinct from and similar to other people -- is something that we become acutely aware of in teenage years and carry with us all our life. Some of it is the unshakable baggage we are saddled with at birth, but much of it is being shaped by experiences, interactions, and communication with other people, by life itself.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Humans
Rebecca's New Love Interest
Rebecca Welton’s new love interest in Ted Lasso is a mysterious handsome nameless Dutchman and I’m all in for the ride. Rebecca is one of my favorite characters on the show. She is, in fact, the core of the show as it is based on the premise that Rebecca, who got the London’s Richmond football club in a divorce settlement from her “asshole” of a rich cheating husband named Rupert Mannion, hired Ted Lasso of Kansas, who knew nothing about soccer, as the head coach deliberately, to ruin the club – Rupert’s favorite toy – and blame the failure on the clueless American.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
Rebecca Welton's Love Life
I am working on a review of the most recent Ted Lasso episode which I will publish here soon. My process was somewhat messy: I watched the episode several times, jotting down some key ideas, details and character lines. Then I decided to experiment with the ChatGPT and asked it to write a 600-word essay using my raw material. Granted, my thoughts were somewhat disconnected and out of sequence, I was still shocked by the result. I think it could very well be an alternative version for fanfic. Judge it for yourselves, below is the story in its entirety (about 60 words short of 600, so the chatbot has close to human college students' estimates of the essay length).
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
Kid on a Plane
In 2014, I wrote a series of short stories titled “Kids On Planes.” As an experienced traveler with 28 years of flying under my belt, I felt I needed to share my experience of developing tolerance and empathy toward parents who accompany what many people describe as “crying, spoiled and unruly” little travelers. This is one of those stories.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Humans
Video Salons in Late USSR
During the Cold War, very few American, British or western cultural products reached the Soviet people as the USSR government was afraid the capitalist propaganda in the form of western books, movies and music would corrupt the Soviet citizens' minds. The only genre that received an exception was French and Italian dramas and comedies, so Soviet audiences were very fond of Fellini, Visconti, Mastroiani, Delon, Belmondo, Richard, and of course De Funes in his Phantomas series.
By Lana V Lynx3 years ago in Geeks
