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House Tully bannerman, Radmure Tully Simp, occasionally posts about history, he/him, will probably follow back.

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what reading some modern adaptations of the iliad feels like

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Elliot Page has the chance to do the single funniest thing in the history of Hollywood.

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The Witcher producer blames Americans and impatient young people for the Netflix show's simplified plot | PC Gamer

Discourse regarding the show's adherence to the source material aside, I think Baginski is largely correct about how peoples' attention spans are complete dogshit nowadays.

We've just had arguments on Twitter about Oppenheimer's runtime, and whether people pulling their phones out during screenings is considered a violation of good etiquette (spoiler alert: yes it fucking is)

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Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I'm watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It's like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn't have people dressed like the founding fathers. That's how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it's usually the French.

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reading pliny the elder is SO funny because sometimes he takes a break from the natural history to moralize about the weirdest shit. he'll be like here's the biology of dolphins, remedies derived from sea urchins, facts about the reproduction of lampreys, an essay on how the consumption of seafood has led to the moral downfall of the roman race, a historical anecdote about a particularly large squid,

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this is real btw

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are you really going to pretend racist fans didn't chase Anya off of social media in 2019? really? that's what we're doing in 2023, pretending actresses of color don't regularly catch it from these racist ass fandoms that reserve special hatred for women of color? what a mess.

I did nothing of the sort.

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[ghostdrinkssoup]

tumblr is so funny it’s just scrapbooking for your hyperfixations. like yeah here’s a gifset that’s here for no reason other than the fact that I think it’s Pretty. here’s hugh dancy for the same reason. here’s me rambling about the thing that’s been itching my brain for months. here’s me giggling in the corner. here’s unadulterated mental illness

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*casts an incredibly attractive woman*

casting director: this is how we're challenging beauty standards

idk seems like an insult to anya if anything!

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oh come on, you know it's not about her being attractive 🙄 it's about casting a woc in the role of yennefer

sophie's entire quote says as much btw

there was backlash about it in 2019, there still is to this day. in a recent interview anya even talked about a "fan" coming up to her saying she wasn't yennefer. just google it idk.

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That's fair.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these "fans's" only prior exposure to the Witcher franchise is CDPR's trilogy, so they derive their preconceived notions of what the characters should be like from those games.

So when the show deviates from those expectations, said "fans" experience a critical emission of Hitler particles and begin harassing the actors/actresses.

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*casts an incredibly attractive woman*

casting director: this is how we're challenging beauty standards

idk seems like an insult to anya if anything!

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One thing to know about me is that I also have an annotated copy of the illiad. It’s an abridged version from my childhood and every time Hector’s name is mentioned it’s surrounded by glitter-gel pen hearts bc he was my first crush as a child.

[atiglain]

Insane chain of events. Homer writes the illiad. Thousands of years later, a child develops a crush.

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Clever viewers spotted this black western shirt, adorned with white fringe three times over the years. In 2011 it was seen in the pilot episode of New Girl, where Max Greenfield wore it as Schmidt. It was later seen on Park Ji-min (Jimin) in the BTS music video Permission to Dance in 2021. Finally, in 2023 it was worn by Ryan Gosling in Barbie.

Close inspection of all three of these shirts, however, reveal some slight differences in the appliqué flowers and embroidery. While the shirts are certainly all the same design, it’s likely that none of them are the same exact shirt. A quick search reveals the shirt to be fairly common.

Costume Credit: _maddie_erwin_, nostalgiachick, Zoom, ms-moussi, actualbabe

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Ts'íts'àsh Language from Elemental

Hey, I just wanted to throw this out there. I've been getting a lot of requests for info about the Ts'íts'àsh language from Pixar's Elemental, and I totally want to answer them, but I did want to make something clear. While this is my Tumblr (so I'll be answering asks, etc.), I didn't create the language by myself. Jessie Sams and I created the language together.

Now, when I say that, you might think like I did the nouns and Jessie did the verbs, etc., but that's not really how we work. We sit down together with our laptops on the couch working on the same document in Pages (shared via iCloud), and we sit there and create every single bit of the language together. There's no part of it you can point to and say that it's all me or all Jessie: The whole thing is us. That's how we work.

If you've sat through the credits of Elemental, you'll see that only I'm credited. That was, in a word, bullshit. We also had no control over it. We can say whatever we want ahead of time, but who gets credited—or whether we get credited at all—is totally at the mercy of the studio. Even when it's written into our contract it sometimes doesn't happen. We noticed that we didn't get the credit in our contract for Peacock's Vampire Academy, and we complained, and the best they could do is credit us in the episodes they hadn't finished yet—the last one. And so we're in the credits only for the very last episode in which we have no lines.

This is an unfortunate part of the job. As language creators, no one in Hollywood knows what we do, and they certainly don't care if we don't get credit. It's up to us to make sure people even know that we worked on something.

Anyway, in this case, it's really important to me that everyone knows this was a joint project of mine and Jessie's. It's our work, and we deserve equal credit.

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We call this the Dunedain hustle.

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