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To be quite frank I think that every single person who thinks it matters more that they had fun than the fact that Nolan cast Helen of Sparta as a Black woman only to add a completely original scene where she is “punished” with abuse and mutilation, that the Odyssey production company dumped plastic props into the ocean, that they also refused to compensate the group in Norway who made the authentic trireme replica after they damaged it, and the fact that Zendaya wore fucking looted earrings stolen from Iran and permanently damaged just to be used on the red carpet, shouldn’t speak about how people are “annoying” for thinking that a story that completely warps and misunderstands an epic from a culture that has been appropriated by racist white people for hundreds of years is badly written. And that they should shut the fuck up

Edit: I’d like to add that the Christianizing of the Ancient Greek understanding of what gods are is rooted in white supremacy. It is this idea that there is only one way to view divinity and that way is the way of the religion that has bulldozed and annihilated any other way of believing by murdering and colonizing Black and brown and indigenous people. It’s fucking exhausting seeing people defend it over and over with “it’s his interpretation!”. People, his interpretation is rooted in white supremacy.

Edit 2: It’s also frustrating to see people misunderstand Helen of Sparta, since that’s her real title; she wasn’t politicized and she wasn’t treated like the prize in the war. She was fucking kidnapped. I understand that that makes you uncomfortable but she was stolen from her home and that’s a really important aspect of the story, actually. Making Menelaus mutilate and abuse her for being kidnapped is not only one of the most egregious misunderstandings of his character I have ever seen, but really weird when you consider that change was made in an adaptation where Helen is Black. You watched a scene in a movie directed and written by white people where a white man mutilated and humiliated a Black woman and somehow, some way, the fact that you had fun is more important.

stupidlittlespirit

This is so silly but I'm watching a short video essay on sincerity in cinema and the creator is talking about how he watched Lord of the Rings for the first time at 17. He explains that he'd grown so used to the 'ironic' meta style commentary in the movies of the 2010's that as he was watching the opening narration of LotR, he spent the entire time waiting for the joke to come. For someone to take it all back with a zinger line. He listened to Blanchett describe and explain the backstory, and he waited for the other comedic shoe to drop.

And he kept doing it. Scene after scene.

He spent the film expecting someone to make a joke about how unserious things were or to break the fourth wall or do some other self referential type thing.

Now, maybe I'm just at that point in my cycle or maybe I'm too delicate in general, but I literally teared up hearing that. Straight up cried a bit. It is so fucking sad that sincerity and genuineness is being bred out of people.

People say all the time 'this generation can't take anything seriously!' and really, is it any wonder? Younger people have been trained out of it. You are no longer encouraged to be genuine or show emotion or be honest. You are actively punished for it. In fact, you are almost guaranteed to suffer for it.

That is so fucked up. I'm sorry to go on a bit of a random ramble rant but it's so fucking gut wrenching to see younger people lose that element of themselves. You can't express your passion without being told you're 'crashing out' or 'cringe'. You have to live in this neutral state of fear of perception, and god forbid anybody step outside of it!

You're told you should only consume and succumb and be ironic and emotionless and cool.

Listen, if you're following me and you're like.... 25 or under, let's say. Please. I beg of you. Do not fall for this rhetoric. Please, for the love of all things, feel. Feel and create and be honest with yourself. Indulge in things that make you happy. Be sincere. Wear your heart on your sleeve. Do not let this hyper-capitalistic, hyper-consumerist, self-centred, individualist culture take that from you.

Bleed yourself into the work you create. Live. Don't fucking let anyone tell you different.

augutsy-deactivated20141216

isn’t it funny how people say ‘grilled cheese’ instead of ‘grilled cheese sandwich’? you could be talking about an actual piece of grilled che

i stopped typing because i realized that this is the single most worthless post ever conceived

boopjuice

No no, I wanna hear what you have to say

creatingblackcharacters

#Make Racists Scared Again 2026

creatingblackcharacters

Share if you want people to know they should be scared to be racist around you 👊🏾

creatingblackcharacters

"making them afraid will make them more racist" that's wild to me, because we live in a whole culture of social consequences for antiracism anyway. It is literally safer to be a racist than it is to speak up against it, socially.

Idk about you, but "I'm afraid no one will want to be my friend if I'm a white supremacist" seems like a pretty logical thought process to have, and I wish THAT were the normal and not "I'm afraid my friends will hate me if I tell them they made racist jokes".

alexiaroselikethewine

I get that sex and drugs are fun but even im like. at least have a 3rd thing. at least one more hobby. you can have a 3rd hobby. this isnt a purity thing this is a some of u are fucking boring thing.

kittygirltitty

rock & roll

alexiaroselikethewine

girl i just walked into that one like a coyote with a painted tunnel

luna-azzurra

Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.

boybeetles

My only complaint about booktok is that the explosion of ‘spicy’ books causing so many to be made just for profit and not out of pervert joy. Sometimes I read a ‘spicy book’ and it feels like the smut equivalent of a marvel or live action Disney movie

rorywonder

hey so filming people without their consent is weird. you know that right? filming people you don't know and they aren't aware of what you're doing is creepy. posting strangers online is fucking weird. we're too comfortable with doing it now for shits and giggles, chasing some sort of viral hit instead of reckoning with the fact that you posted someone who did not consent to their body and face being publically used.

we're being pushed these Meta Glasses as if mass surveillance of strangers is fun and normal! it's weird!!! there are already reports that people are using these to film women without them knowing and sharing it to communities who get off on this shit. who else knows who people are filming. these glasses with cameras are not obvious and that is dangerous.

the-itzy-bitzy-spider

Okay but also this is legitimately dangerous. People hide from social media for very valid reasons. Domestic violence survivors, former trafficking victims, former cult members - all of these people rely on the ability to not be found again. Putting people's photos online absolutely endangers their lives. A cheap joke online is not worth the value of someone's life.

berdymane

transfemininomenon

broooo did you seriously disturb my eternal rest & bring me back to this mortal coil just because my ancient enemy the eternal night has returned? after i sealed it away and everything? which one of you tampered with my binding runes 🙄

transfemininomenon

where's my useless apprentice i TOLD him it was going to be the duty of the next generation to not repeat the mistakes of those before them and to make this world bet- oh my apprentice goes by her now? you're telling me she's right in front of me! my dear i'm so sorry i didn't know. you look so much more happier and more confident than the bumbling, shy apprentice i once knew. im so proud of you. were you the one who tampered with my fucking runes

beemovieerotica

you put a dog on a diet and he'll start begging for plain ass vinegar like he's christ on the cross

beemovieerotica

ok my apologies, apparently it was a big deal that jesus did NOT beg for vinegar while on the cross. and this was like, religiously important.

anyway my dog is suffering more than christ

possessable

it's fine i don't even need to be part of social groups or friend groups anyway (giant hole appears in my chest spontaneously) ? what's that

#me in high school

tavina-writes

People have real issues understanding why the absence of romance and sexual desire is such a big deal. "No one bothers you over your sexual orientation! You're basically a straight person!" No wrong. The older you get the more your life is considered a failure for failing to find a life partner and get your 2.5 kids in.

Like people make fun of middle aged women for not getting married or being divorced or "always the bridesmaid never the bride" and all like "oh she's desperate! No one wants her! Old maid!' but they become straight up hostile and upset when you tell them you never want to date.

Being unpartnered after your mid twenties is just like "oh what's wrong with you" and "don't worry you'll find your guy" "aren't you afraid of being alone" "who will take care of you" "you're running out of time to have kids" and no matter what you are or aren't people straight up don't understand that you don't want them.

bobcatdump

People tend to forget that queer is a word that means weird, and if you step out of heteronormativity you're weird in the eyes of the heteonormative society, wether you want different relationships or no relationships at all.

The core wound of this demographic is being rejected and being relentlessly asked to stop your bullshit relative to romance and sex, and to get back in the ranks. The aroace definitely qualify.

And since being rejected is obviously a veeeeery common trauma in the queer community, and people tend to reenact unhealed patterns, it's not rare to see queer people rejecting other queer people with shit like biphobia, being picky with who "qualify" as trans, dismissing aroaces etc...

Let's put rejection somewhere on a dusty shelf for a while and see how it feels. I'm sure it's freeing.

luidilovins

Also being aroace does not exempt you from having to avoid unwanted advances, threats or cohersion, medical neglect, pressuring for uneccesary medical intervention and gaslighting, issues with bodily autonomy and reproductive resources, conversion therapy, bioessentialism, sexism, misogyny and issues with legal autonomy when it comes to things like home ownership estate planning, medical power of attourney and adoption.

darlingofdots

been stewing on an analytical approach to fiction which I call "is this book afraid of me?" and in order to answer this question you determine how hard the book is trying to make sure you don't come after the writer on twitter

playwrongs

Tags via @deadpanwalking, editor and ass-kicker extraordinaire

gingisnap

Please keep making art. Please make it for yourself. Please don’t let everything become even more of the same flat general appeal nonsense that doesn’t seem to have anything to say