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Les Miserables but it's an over-long soap opera, each chapter complete with reviews from spectators. Most of the people dying just wanted out of the show. At some point the wrong video was uploaded and instead of showing something plot relevant, there was a two-hours long video essay about the parisian sewers which the director's younger sibling was preparing for a cinema class. They decided to just roll with it because it gave them more time to film the next episode.
@elodieunderglass - This made me think of you.
Thank you so much for this
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based on these passages from the odyssey and the aeneid (and i think it might have happened in the iliad too, though i can’t remember where):
athena and aphrodite know EXACTLY what matters and that is HEROIC BIMBOFICATION!
I love Burnum Burnum ❤️💛🖤
more about Burnum Burnum
text of the declaration:
The Burnum Burnum Declaration England, 26th January, 1988
I, Burnum Burnum, being a nobleman of ancient Australia do hereby take posession of England on behalf of the Aboriginal people. In claiming this colonial outpost, we wish no harm to you natives, but assure you that we are here to bring you good manners, refinement and an opportunity to make a Koompartoo - ‘a fresh start’. Henceforth, an Aboriginal face shall appear on your coins and stamps to signify our sovreignty over this domain. For the more advanced, bring the complex language of the Pitjantjajara; we will teach you how to have a spiritual relationship with the Earth and show you how to get bush tucker.
We do not intend to souvenir, pickle and preserve the heads of your 2000 of your people, nor to publicly display the skeletal remains of your Royal Highness, as was done to our Queen Truganninni for 80 years. Neither do we intend to poison your water holes, lace your flour with strychnine or introduce you to highly toxic drugs. Based on our 50,000 year heritage, we acknowledge the need to preserve the Caucasian race as of interest to antiquity, although we may be inclined to conduct experiments by measuring the size of your skulls for levels of intelligence. We pledge not to sterilise your women, nor to separate your children from their families. We give an absolute undertaking that you shall not be placed onto the mentality of government handouts for the next five generations but you will enjoy the full benefits of Aboriginal equality. At the end of two hundred years, we will make a treaty to validate occupation by peaceful means and not by conquest.
Finally, we solemnly promise not to make a quarry of England and export your valuable minerals back to the old country Australia, and we vow never to destroy three-quarters of your trees, but to encourage Earth Repair Action to unite people, communities, religions and nations in a common, productive, peaceful purpose.
Burnum Burnum.
without Howl chasing girls and Sophie resenting him for it, the film completely erases part of the point of Sophie being old. Wynne Jones is using an idea that Beauvoir talked about - that being an old woman is both tragic (as we lose male attention/attractiveness) and freeing (as we are freed from the male gaze). the idea is that with being old comes liberation, and the true meaning of what it is to be a woman, as society no longer forces gender norms on us.
Sophie is free from Howl’s attentions and therefore safe from harm (a big part of the book is the fact that Sophie believes he eats women’s hearts, and him chasing girls proves this to her). she takes solace in the fact that she’s old, and finds it freeing. when she learns more about Howl (notably: that he doesn’t eat hearts and that he’s not evil), she starts to curse her age and resent him chasing girls. BUT she remains old OF HER OWN VOLITION - Howl notes that she’s perpetuating the spell by wishing to remain “in disguise”. there are SO many layers to this, and lots to do with gender politics - if she’s still old Sophie can’t get hurt, she likes the freedom, etc. but of course on a personal level being old is her denying her feelings for Howl, and also a representation of her low self esteem - being old is a defence mechanism and protection, both on a gender level and a personal one.
and the film kinda… loses this? the only thing that remains is being old = low self esteem. which really sucks. because there’s SO MUCH MORE to Sophie being old in the book (perspective I already mentioned), and a HUGE amount of this is gender politics. that the film just erases.
A concept, if I ever actually make it to the post-Empire period in DAV:
Anakin gets called in by Republic HR a few months into the new government’s administration. He shows up feeling vaguely nervous (as everyone does when called in by HR), but without any idea what this is about.
The Sullustan man behind the desk is very apologetic (probably a little too apologetic, Anakin thinks, cringing a little and trying to make himself look smaller and less, well, less like Darth Vader). He explains that they just need Anakin to fill out a few forms, and really they’re so sorry it’s taken them so long to get to this, but everything’s been in disarray the last few months, you know how it is. (The please don’t kill me remains unspoken.)
Sure, Anakin says, attempting a smile that probably does more harm than good. No problem.
“We just need you to fill out the basic tax forms,” the Sullustan says, still sounding abnormally nervous for someone talking about basic forms. “And we need an account for your direct deposit, of course.” He chuckles awkwardly. “And, uh, Muhil in office 382 has your pay stubs for, uh, the last…couple months? You, uh, you haven’t picked them up.”
Anakin blinks. “Pay stubs?”
The Sullustan laughs again, but it sounds even more nervous now. “Well, yes,” he says. “It’s taken a while to get everything sorted out, and we are very sorry, so I believe there’s an additional stipend included with your back pay.”
Anakin blinks again. “Back pay?”
Another awkward laugh. “Of course,” the man says. “You didn’t think you were working for free, did you?”
There’s a long, awkward silence.
Anakin shuffles his feet. He looks down at the forms on the datapad the man gave him. He’s signed off on a few underlings’ forms similar to these, though usually it was other staff with actual military ranks who handled them. But he’s never filled one out before.
The Sullustan is staring at him in slowly growing dismay. “You…have deposited a pay check before…right?”
Anakin feels like he can’t breathe. “Um,” he chokes. “Can I…can I call…”
He doesn’t manage to finish, but luckily the Mirialan woman at the other desk seems to know what to do (and later he’ll wonder what exactly Mon Mothma has told her staff about him), and in less than fifteen minutes, Leia is there and he can breathe again.
“Dad?” she says. “What’s going on?”
Wordlessly, he hands her the datapad.
Leia frowns. “Okay,” she says. “Let’s go through this.”
They sit down, and Leia walks him through the employment forms. There are a lot of questions he doesn’t have answers to. Some of them she says don’t matter, but others make her frown deepen and an angry line appear between her brows.
Luke shows up about twenty minutes later, out of breath and still dressed in his flight suit, just as Leia’s saying, “All right, that’s the hard part done, now we just have to set up the deposit into your account.”
“What account?” Anakin says, and now Leia and the Sullustan and probably everyone else in the office are staring at him.
“The one we’re going to set up today,” Luke says cheerfully. His smile is bright but there’s the desert in his eyes, and Anakin is intensely glad his son is there.
He tries not to notice the fury that’s building in Leia’s face, or the half-pitying, half-terrified glances the HR employees are shooting one another. “Can I - ” he mumbles, and the man behind the desk nods desperately and says, “Feel free to take the datapad.”
So they go to a bank. It’s the same bank Leia uses, and Luke now too, so Anakin figures it must be a decent choice. You need to have some money already to open an account, so Leia uses hers and glares so hard that Anakin doesn’t even think of protesting. He signs all the things they tell him to sign and leaves with a string of numbers to memorize. Luckily he’s always been good at that.
Leia is still fuming as they make their way back to their speeder. Luke claims the pilot seat this time, and that leaves Leia free to vent. Anakin braces himself.
“The Jedi didn’t have stipends, I suppose?” she begins levelly.
“No.”
“Of course not. And the Imperial military doesn’t pay? I’m quite certain that I signed off on more than one military funding bill in my time in the Senate.”
Anakin only sighs. She wants to make this difficult, apparently. “I wasn’t military,” he says. “You know that.”
Leia’s eyes narrow. “The Inquisitors didn’t receive any compensation?”
Anakin grinds his teeth. “I wasn’t an Inquisitor.”
To his surprise, Leia is silent for a long moment, but he doesn’t miss the way she and Luke look at each other.
“You know,” says Leia at last, almost conversationally. “Sometimes I think it’s really a shame that Palpatine is dead. There’s so much I would have liked to discuss with him.”
Friendly reminder that -
Percy’s neutral expression is a natural brooding look that he gets from Poseidon
That when he does smile it’s crooked and makes him look like a trouble maker
When he talks it’s usually very sarcastic and/or impertinent
His inner monologue is actually very negative and while we, as the readers, take it as a joke he’s usually pretty pessimistic for a good portion of the time
That when he’s fighting his expression is fierce and is hard to tell whether he is the good guy or not
That Leo Valdez equated Percy’s angry expression to the feeling he gets when Jason is about to shoot lightning. Let me repeat - just the look on Percy’s face when he’s angry was considered on par to Jason controlling flipping lightning
That he’s very very vindictive and loyal only to those he considers his friends and once you lose his trust it is nearly impossible to earn back
That while he had the curse of achilles, he laughed crazily while he was single handedly destroying hordes of monsters
He made an entire volcano erupt, awakened a giant, and almost wiped out the northwest of the united states
He tortured a godess just so she would feel his misery
That he’s actually very manipulative and it made Annabeth step back for a moment and reevaluate her perception of him
That while his dark side came to it’s peak in house of hades and wasn’t mentioned in blood of olympus, there was no confirmation that it suddenly and completely disappeared after they left Tartarus.
Has been the child of the prophecy twice.
He manipulated Bob to kill his own brother by simply convincing him that they were friends and that is what friends did for each other
He was physically abused by his step father
That with absolutely no training at all he killed the minotaur with it’s own horn at the mere age of twelve
He wins a good majority of his fights by simply outsmarting his opponent
He has scared not only Annabeth but his friends and peers on more than one occasion with his attitude and powers
That he’s considered extremely powerful for a demigod and for a child of the big three and makes the gods slightly nervous
That when he’s upset his powers act to mimic his emotions without him even trying
Has been offered immortality
That he is actually really sorta intimidating without trying
That we need to stop reducing Percy’s character to a happy-go-lucky comic relief goofball that doesn’t know his left foot from right because he is so much more than that
Well this post has unbelievably gotten more than 30k likes/reblogs and I can now die happy . To celebrate, I’m extending the list of canon moments for those of you who are interested.
Percy has been to anger management classes.
The name Perseus literally translates to “To Destroy.” Do with that what you will.
Percy and his mother systematically murdered his abusive step father. And not only did Percy not feel a bit of repulse at the idea of killing someone, he offered to kill Gabe by himself if his mother couldn’t do it, then felt regret that he wasn’t the one who strike the final blow. His exact inner thought was - “How could I turn down the perfect chance to take revenge on him?”
After Percy killed Arachne in Tartarus, his exact words to Annabeth was “She died too easy, considering how much torture he put you through. She deserved worse.” And it unsettled Annabeth so much that she was almost glad Arachne died quickly.
Like dam, if you haven’t figured it out already, Percy kinda has a thing for revenge.
Percy’s powers grow extraordinarily fast, show no signs of stopping any time soon, and are no longer bound to only salt water or pure water liquids but now encompass all water-based liquids.
Percy blood bended in Tartarus.
“He didn’t want to stop. He wanted to choke this goddess. He wanted to watch her drown in her own poison. He wanted to see just how much misery Misery could take.” - Perseus Jackson while torturing Akhlys.
Luke and Kronos when talking about Percy not only referred to him as a weapon, but an unreliable one at that.
Frank literally compared Percy’s fighting style to a demon.
Percy pretty much took out half of the Roman Legion single-handedly during the War Games and basically just caused mass chaos and panic.
When Frank, Hazel, and Percy were traveling in SoN, street gangs didn’t bother them because one look from Percy sent them running in the other direction. One look.
Percy’s wolf stare was described as “No matter how bad you think you are, I’m worse.”
Do you ascribe to Jason Todd’s streak of white hair?
If by “ascribe to” you mean “would die for, regardless of canon” then yes.
Thing 2 has been insisting they should split the difference between that and the redhead phase for so long both my sisters have become convinced it’s actually canon
and I have to keep telling them that the redhead with the white forelock is Jason Blood; they are not the same person in any way whatsoever.
(which of course inspired the idea of an AU where Jason Blood is actually Jason Todd who got sent back in time to Arthur’s Court and became a forsworn knight and bound to Etrigan and all that, and returned to his own time the slow way, because that sounds like the kind of shit that would happen to him, but i am not going to write it.)
C-3PO makes me laugh because you have to remember he was assembled by a child out of things from a scrap heap. Everything about him makes sense if you bear that in mind. Anakin wanted a droid who could help his mother, but the only AI package he could find was one somebody threw out for being too fussy. The combination of tweaking to give him a worried/caring personality makes him constantly anxious. A protocol droid comes with a fair amount of language packages, but why stop there? Somebody threw out like, three different galactic language dictionaries because they weren’t the recent edition. Just load ‘em all up. all of them, even the packs that contain things like ewok and a thousand variants of different manufacturers’ droid codecs. don’t add half the other requirements most legal protocol droids have included at the factory like emergency wipe protocols or shutdown failsafes, or programmed obsolescence. Build that sucker out of non-commercial materials that are already over a hundred years old and still good, tweak it to withstand tatooine of all places.
so now you have this droid that is over thirty years old and it could never be obsolete because it was never manufactured by anybody but a kid on a sand ball somewhere, it’s never running down because it was built to last on tatooine and there’s nothing programmed in to try and urge you to buy the latest model because there is no latest model. 3P0 is simultaneously totally useless yet hyper functional because he was not made according to any specs except “the best most toughest things possible to help my mom for a long long time on a hot desert planet”
Invincible multilingual anxiety bot here to wreck your capitalist droid ideals
I did do miss you.
Mama bird and her baby Robin.
Had some Feelings about Mary Grayson lately. Whoops
time loop isms
Wynafryd and Wylla
[ID: a colored pencil drawing of Wylla and Wynafryd Manderly from A Song of Ice and Fire. The girls stand in the foreground, standing close together. Wynafryd, who is taller, wears a high-collared pink tunic, a white long sleeve undershirt, a green skirt with the image of seaweed and a shark tail visible, a double layered pearl necklace, a pink hair ribbon tying off the end of one of her braids, with large shell earrings, pearls in her hair, and two cartilage piercings in each ear. Wylla is shorter with green hair and a similar outfit, but her tunic is purple, and her skirt is blue with the image of a boat with a red sail struck by lightning on a stormy sea, a purple hair ribbon, and a shark tooth pendant necklace. Wynafryd’s right arm crosses her body to tuck into Wylla’s, in a manner that looks protective. Wylla’s left hand hangs at her side. Both girls look off to the left side of the picture, Wylla expressionless, but Wynafryd seeming suspicious or indignant. The floor is green cobblestones, the wall is turquoise with a scale pattern, a merman tapestry hangs on the wall to the right of the girls, and purple, turquoise, and green drapings hang from above. /end ID.]
Closeups below cut.
It's a shame that Renly & Loras, the most prominent canon gay couple in A Song of Ice and Fire, had such untapped potential, given that the Tyrell forces sieged Storm's End during Robert's Rebellion. Renly mentioned how they were cooped up starving until they were on the brink of cannibalism, while Mace Tyrell feasted outside of the castle walls. It's my headcanon that the siege damaged Stannis' relationship with Renly irrevocably, because Renly was just a child back then and couldn't understand why Stannis was starving him. Even when he later came to understand on a logical level, he could have still subconsciously held it against Stannis as starvation is traumatic. So for Renly to fall in love with Loras, the son of his besieger, there could have been so much psychological tension and symbolic rebellion there. Renly bit into a succulent Highgarden peach and made a mockery of Stannis as he came to parley, the peach of course symbolizing all that Stannis denied Renly that he is now partaking in with relish: Sustenance. Pleasure. Decadence. The most beautiful knight of all the realms.
I love how the adults in king’s landing were using mean nicknames coined by two 12 year olds. these trendsetters…
Sam & Jon’s friendship is so cute
I think I'm getting a bit deeper at why Mirri hits so hard in AGOT and it's kinda about the way the Dothraki horde is written, especially with how Dany is surrounded by servants she kind of buddies up with, especially her handmaiden who all have rather tragic backgrounds (Irri & Jhiqui specifically were enslaved by Khal Drogo, their former lives destroyed by his conquering ways, and they're now expected to be teachers & servants to his wife). And that tragedy just plays no part in who they are, they don't get development. They are integrated within the horde & their new life very seemlessly. Mirri, on the other hand, is a victim of that conquering violence who wants to throw in Dany's face that what was done to her is unfixable. That she cannot seemlessly forget her old life & it's destruction because of her kindness, and become Dany's faithful healer/midwife/friend. She cannot be domesticated. She purposefully will not allow what happened to her to disappear into the background, and for herself to be assimilated into the life of the wife of the man who killed & enslaved her people.
