"To be free," said Combeferre

she/her, archaeologist

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

ohhh my god I just fact-checked, Nolan actually DID cut the "Nobody" scene from his Odyssey movie. Mfer that is like cutting the Father reveal from Star Wars. Let me speak in a language you understand this is like not dressing Batman up in his suit. "It was not possible to work it in" the TikTok musical with a budget of $4 and a scratched Hamilton CD managed to work it in in SONG form, step up your FUCKING GAME

[cannot-kill-the-sun]

I got a free ticket to this movie and i have Thoughts (below the cut in case anyone??? Is worried about spoilers??)

They cut the gods. All of them. Odysseus is overtly sceptical of their existence and refers to them as "your gods" to his men. "But wait amme" you say "zendaya was cast as Athena!" Mmhm shes a hallucination of a Priestess he watches get beheaded at troy because War Is Hell

They merged the lotus eaters and calypso?? Like they don't visit the island of the lotus eaters at all but calypso is feeding him lotus for 7 years make it make sense

Because theyres no gods they dont visit Aeolis. They don't get the storm bag. All weather is #natural and its superstition that makes the men think Odysseus is cursed and not... poseidon having cursed him

They still visit the Laestrygonians though? Super briefly because they need to kill off 2 ships of men but like they did make it where normally they dont

They did circe so dirty like 0 nymphs just a lady living in a hutt on hill who they gave a sister that she turned into a bird and keeps in a cage because "we get on better this way"

Agamemnon always looks like the black knight from monty python got given a mohawk and i swear hes on a hoverbord in like 3 scenes

Also they dont have Odysseus kill the baby at troy like he mostly wanders in a War Is Hell daze taking no punishable action

For some reason they decided the horse was a gift to athena??? Not..... poseidon? For again 0 reason

And the most atrocious change of all: they got rid of the tree bed. The super romantic tree that Odysseus builds his and Penelope's bed into. The thing Penelope uses to identify him. The Bed. Is replaced. By a pin of athena that Penelope was wearing and gave to Odysseus right before he went to troy.

[robdogdraws]

Real conversation I had with someone last semester

Full panel ver.

[penny-anna]

I realise that this is an unbelievably pedantic complaint but classic who didn't film in quarries in Wales lmao. It didn't become a BBC Wales production until 2005, prior to that it was shot out of London. The quarries were all in the south of England. 👍

[penny-anna]

I'm sure you're right but in the nicest possible way. This energy:

[kosmogrl]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so strange when people assume 'waking up early' means increased productivity bc no??? im awake so i can read fanfic in bed before breakdown

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

BREAKFAST

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

[satusepiida]

His ghost is setting those cars on fire actually

[coyotegestalt]

I hadn’t really considered “the agnostic demigod of electromagnetism is the reason Musk’s companies fail” before, but I like the concept. 

[blackwoolncrown]

Let’s help him out. Likes charge, reblogs cast

[horsefigureoftheday]

Nova's tips for beating the heatwave:

1. Check that you have good access to shade trees, a shelter custom made to fit you and all your friends, and plenty of good airflow

2. Find the hottest, sunniest, and least windy part of you pasture and lay down

3. Make sure you look as much as possible like you have died of heatstroke

4. Get your friends in on it

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[pelideswhore]

just read on instagram that apparently the nobody trick was not included in nolan’s odyssey…… genuinely explain to me how the rest of the story works without that catalytic event

[pelideswhore]

like. even if you explain away poseidon's wrath some other way (which you can't really because half of it is anger/embarassment of the cyclops getting tricked) the nobody scene sets the PERFECT precedent for odysseus' behavior, character and his arc!!!!

it is integral to his character that odysseus is a TRICKSTER, which is the whole reason he gets his own epic. he is the antithesis to achilles, a guy who wins his battles with physical prowess, while odysseus wins with his mind. he tricks and traps his opponents until they eventually bring on their own demise. the cyclops episode is the first and clearest example of this.

the version christopher nolan apparently adapted is emily wilson's odyssey, which is the same one i have. in her foreword, she brings up the clever pun behind the nobody-line (outis/metis). i have made a post about this previously so go read that before continuing!!! this hubris is the main aspect that draws the wrath of poseidon, and like i said is integral to odysseus' character. i can imagine nolan has already heavily tuned down odysseus' hubris so i'm sure he was glad to be rid of this, beyond the fact that this pun is genuinely difficult to translate to modern language.

after the cyclops, odysseus' wit is obviously tested many more times, but never as directly as with polyphemus. the most relevant test is when he eventually does arrive in ithaca and has to walk into his own palace as a beggar. as NOBODY. THAT is the character arc odysseus faces. in the beginning he can't even bear the thought of a stupid cyclops not knowing who blinded him, in the end he has no choice but to let the suitors abuse him and his family because he can't reveal who he is. if you take away the starting point of the arc, then what's left of it?? what story are you even trying to tell?

and i understand that it is difficult to translate the pun/joke to modern language and the big screen but.... you knew that from the beginning!!! christopher nolan acknowledged with this that he can't do the odyssey justice (which is an honourable take), but at that point he should have just let the idea go. why half-ass it?? why not even try if he was so hellbent on doing it? tearing the story to shreds the way he did is SO much more disrespectful...

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Who wants to hear a DIY tiling pro tip that the experts won't tell you

[hazelriver74]

Yes!

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Do not drop your phone into the bucket of tile adhesive. This step is actually completely unnecessary and massively complicates the tiling process.

[fueles]

You say this but my uncle is a tiler and he swears by the “drop phone in putty bucket” technique. I think you’re just posting this for clout

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Your uncle is caught up in a tradition that he was taught as an apprentice that he never questioned. Modern putty doesn't require phone, the formula has changed.

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[memewhore]

[mindllessdreaming]

and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team

[buggyhuman]

[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

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[californiannostalgia]