the threshold of revelation

On this blog I'm Amelia. 30s. [Formerly hookechoes] “I want an Adam Sandler film to kill me.” - Mike Stoklasa

[angelwalking]

Man that post that said to lay on your right side after you take ibuprofen to make it work faster really changed the game for me

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

[gaius-sempronius-grackle]

I actually really dislike this framing of the whole thing.

This kind of assessment creates a false dichotomy of the Smart Reaction of Scholars and the Stupid Reaction of Hoi Polloi, when there are plenty of classical scholars (hi) who also very much dislike what Nolan has done with this text. My thoughts on the film are more aligned with the people bewailing the Nobody episode. Now not all those people have the toolbox I have for criticizing the film, and certainly some of them are being a bit myopic and histrionic about XYZ pet peeve, but that doesn’t mean that they’re seeing problems that aren’t there. I’m one of Martin’s fellow classicists, and I seriously disliked what this film was doing as an adaptation. I’ve had conversations with several of my colleagues who’ve seen the film and had similar thoughts to me. So putting it this way is at best an oversimplification, at worst insufferably smug and elitist.

And frankly, I think in this the year of our lord 2026, we can raise the bar higher than “All publicity about Homer is good publicity.” For one, I think we should also ask whether engagement with Homer, or with any aspect of antiquity, is well thought out and well crafted, or at least has some interest in the original beyond the surface—which as I note in my review linked above, I don’t think this is. And trust me, I know that Classics is kinda desperate for engagement right now and some professors are probably trying not to piss in anyone’s cornflakes lest we lose potential students. But when guys like Christopher Nolan (not one of Martin’s fellow classicists, but one of his fellow old white men with cultural capital) just use antiquity to bemoan the broad decline of civilization, I think we should question that. The film’s political resonances are weird and, to my mind at least, parrot a lot of conservative rhetoric. Nolan’s changes to the text are key to that; they are not neutral and have narrative and political implications. Regardless of whether or not he meant it to come off that way, I think it’s worth talking about, especially given the ways that classical antiquity, as supposed paragon of ~Western Civilization~, is utilized on the political right.

[angelwalking]

originally blocked you for this bc lbr it's pretty fucking annoying to be called insufferably smug by a random stranger about a pretty chill, jokey post, but then i went back and read some of your letterboxd review. and if you'd read my original tags, i think you personally are actually doing *exactly* what i said when i acknowledged that some classicists of course didn't like the movie but they are at least engaging with with it as an artistic adaptation in interesting ways. there are things i don't agree with you on, actually i think you're mostly pretty wrong in your analysis, but your review is thought provoking and has interesting things to say.

what i was referring to when i said "people on tumblr" were the multiple posts with thousands upon thousands of notes, full of people who had not seen the film at all, whining that the "nobody" scene was cut. like come on. you have to at least SEE the movie to criticize it you know what i'm saying?

[angelwalking]

Oh shut the fuck up

no ❤️

[angelwalking]

Fuck of yank

damn you couldn't even spell a three-letter word correctly, embarrassing stuff

[betterbooktitles]

[clownfish-casino]

OKAY I'm curious

where do you write your fics

ellipsus

google docs

directly in the AO3 editor

notes app

physical paper

literally wherever I can (sticky notes, your hand, scrap paper, etc)

something else (tell me in tags or comments !!)

not a fic writer but I wanna press a button too !!!

Remaining time: 3 days 6 hours

would appreciate reblogs for sample size ::]

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

[ralphlanyon]

happy odyssey weekend

[angelwalking]

not to be a provincial rube or whatever but the odyssey was so good

[deadringers2023]

SHARP OBJECTS S1 | EP 6 "Cherry"

[kuttithevangu]

the new fantasy genre, popehunk, encompasses all books in which historical figures responsible for real atrocities are presented as sexy and potentially suffering from a cute lil' anxiety disorder

[angelwalking]

i cannot stand for any reexamination or reappraisal of A Little Life as Good, Actually. like we can't be doing this. the book is just not good. it's not well constructed or well written. no offense if you love it, you're allowed to LMAO i just. i want better things for you

[csny]

the only real film director.

[weiwei-uplink]

[angelwalking]

it must have been SO crazy in 1975 to see michael corleone show everyone exactly what The Quintessential Disaster Bi looks like at his absolute messiest in dog day afternoon

[fiqhtclub]

decided to scroll through some reviews for the invite and thought i should share this one:

#WhatDatMean #IsHeBisexual #LikeCanonically

[angelwalking]

slade bratting out like "i was gonna go but now im not leaving" when his nephew starts insulting him like. is it bad to relate to a curmudgeonly suicidal old man bc if so im in trouble