Is this the sound of a kingdom falling?

Italian. Hopelessly in love with ladies, both in the feminist sense and in the lesbian sense. This is not a spoiler-free blog but I tag pretty much everything. Header by @asolitaryrose

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

They also filmed in illegally occupied territories in western sahara

'Cultural parasites': Calls for boycott of The Odyssey over filming in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi filmmakers criticise Christopher Nolan for complicity in Moroccan exploitation of Sahrawi land

[ladiesonscreen]

ONCE UPON A TIME (2011 – 2018) S01E19 | The Return

[autie-j]

Remember when Xbox was going to basically ban used games for the xbox one, and Playstation made fun of them with that video titled "how to share games on Playstation" and it was just one guy handing another a game disk? And now Playstation is getting rid of physical disks entirely

[thedgeofsleep]

Bigby Wolf in THE WOLF AMONG US 2

[daco-showman]

why can rockstar games institutionalise you for life like nikita kruschev for being autistic

[ivy-michaels]

He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.

Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.

Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.

And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?

Capitalism is disgusting.

[fuckblast]

Nobody should buy GTA til they free Arion Kurtaj

[ivy-michaels]

What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.

[aletheyass]

im like an older person but younger

[kira-7]

This is a spot from an italian estate agency (we are governed by the right-wing party)

The woman says "Ridiculous..."

If you want to spread it elsewhere, here's the official link

[loveyazy]

Queen Rhaenyra Targaryen, First of her name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, protector of the realm.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON (2022-?) 3.02 | Queen’s Landing

[wrenhavenriver]

dishonored 1 is literally 2 dollars on steam right now blease do yourself a favor and acquire/play it if you haven't already

[teaboot]

I feel like pirating media that isn’t sold or offered anywhere legally anymore shouldn’t be called piracy. Girl thats archaeology

[sersi]

Hayley Atwell as Isabel Fable (2027) dev. Playground Games

[punkjabi]

[vixvigil]

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

[raiponces]

CAST N CHILL (dev. Wombat Brawler, 2025)

[yenvengerberg]

SHEEPSTEALER + reddit commentary

[starstrays]

post riddled with major e33 spoilers. to my friends who haven't finished e33 yet (i'm looking at you balu), please don't open!

there's such an understated moment of how sciel's character completely subverts itself. specifically, this conversation she has with verso:

act 1 and act 2 presents us someone easygoing yet mature, playful yet empathic, a fighter who is gentle because she has endured so much grief. five years later and it's clear that she's still slowly moving towards the acceptance of pierre's and their child's deaths. she's so quick to reach out and comfort someone in any magnitude of distress and sadness because she has—and still is—in her own despair. grief is part of her most authentic self, and she comes to realize this in visages island. succeeding or failing this impossible mission matters little to her. she's in this expedition because she's got nothing else to lose, and the outcome of her journey ending in life or death will be beneficial one way or another for her.

you would think that her relationship arc would tell us that she has to move on from pierre (that could mean romantically with verso, or simply in general really). how she has to start taking steps towards living for herself. she doesn't Have to be ready for death when she's surrounded by people who love her. she should return to lumiere because she should LIVE for the loved ones she still has and especially for the loved ones she's lost. they certainly would want her to embrace what little time she has left in this cruel world that takes lives too soon.

most of the expeditioner relationship quests tackle grief in their own ways, but they're geared towards moving forward from it. monoco brings back only a version of noco, and he will have to accept that his family member will never be the same person again. lune defies her dead parents upon the journal they wrote in, even with the grief of finding out how they met their end.

then there's sciel. act 3 completely changes the direction of her sail and makes it abundantly clear that her purpose for fighting is reinvigorated, maybe with a much stronger resolve than when she first agreed to be a part of the expedition. she does this not because she's a hero, not because death can no longer harm her, not even is she in it to help maelle necessarily. more than any of those, it's to bring her husband back.

i dont think it's really been discussed how tragic her immediate shift to this priority is. such an earth-shattering revelation of the canvas is taken in such a hasty stride. she fixates onto the idea that maelle is able to repaint the people of lumiere, and immediately her gears shift to reviving her husband (and frankly, who wouldn't bring back the love of their life if they could also choose the same?). any desire she may have had to reciprocate verso's attraction is thrown out the window, when any loving partner and husband would want his wife to move on from his death, especially with the short lives they live in the context of e33. bringing back lumiere is mostly a convenient goal she can also accomplish alongside her priority to bring back pierre. her desire to fight the canvas is hinged on a man who has been long gone. whose death would guide her to be a teacher and take care of children—becoming a motherly figure for orphaned youth.

i'm not saying that she doesn't care for lumiere. death—gommaged or not—has cut short the time she should have spent with her loved ones. but i wouldve assumed that this character and the way she was presented to us would've been the first to guide maelle how emotions—most importantly, the grief of loss—can "work with her" as she had first explained during their combat lesson. that what they're condemning verso to is cruel. sciel even comes to realize that she would not want anyone to be cursed with immortality with how close she's grown to verso.

but none of this happens. all that matters to her is to bring pierre back. it is such a beautifully devastating subversion of her character that shows she isn't as well-versed in dealing with grief as we had thought her to be. she has never once let go of her grief in the past five years she's gone through. and that's okay. this is what grief's influence is, and it makes her all the more human for it.

[maemia]

This is a pet peeve of mine in the fandom (everyone is entitled to their own idea of a character of course! ) as people usually portray her as someone that's learned to deal with grief, move on and enjoy life.

My canon is that Sciel doesn't deal with her grief, she runs from it. Suicide is usually a way of running away from grief, not dealing with it, it portrays someone that's being overcomed by it.

The Sciel that we play in E33 is a person that's not living, its passing time until her time comes, something that's easier to deal with when you know when for sure your death is coming. She knows she'll live up to 33 years old and then she'll gommage, so until then she has settle on "just have fun, go with the flow".

Yes, she is empathic and I love that trait from her, but – again this is all my opinion – I feel part of her focusing into others it’s an excuse to not focus into herself, because when she does that, like when she speaks about personal stories, mostly she centers on dark stories, stories that weight on her and for which, she never forgived herself, or moved on from. Which also works well with the fact that she is not a confrontational person, in general a good thing, but sometimes you need to let people confront each other to be able to deal with their pain, worries or problems.

Also, it’s very telltelling that as soon as they find about the existence of their world, she just focuses on “death is not death anymore” and on bringing her dead husband. She doesn’t even think if it’s the correct thing; he’s been dead for years, he’s lost a child, he will find his wife has been suffering and tried suicide, he will find he’s not “real” that his whole word is just a playground for grieving adults.

All of that at the SAME time. It’s a lot.

That’s who I picture Sciel is, an empathetic, caring, cheerful woman that hides a deep, deep self hatred and has learned to just pass time until she finally can be reunited with her husband and child in death. She will take care of everyone, but herself. It truly makes me wonder if she would be the correct person to guide Maelle on her grief, maybe on a “do as I say, not as I do” way?

I truly wish they had had more time and/or money to explore this part of her, it's an extremely raw part of herself and I love it.

Sorry for the rant is just nice to find someone that doesn’t instantly jump on the “happy go round, has a positive lookout on life woman” bandwagon.

[scribeherself]

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

[scribeherself]

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼