A Goodly Count

Mostly The Untamed; I read a lot of MDZS but I don't speak it

[penny-anna]

Anyway here is my take:

I think trying to make a movie out of The Odyssey (not the story of Odysseus, but The Odyssey as in the poem) is a bit of a doomed endeavour as the structure of The Odyssey simply does not jive with the structure of the Hollywood movie

I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.

[penny-anna]

Here are my opinions:

The Odyssey should be a musical but ☝️only some of the time. When Odysseus is narrating? Musical. Penelope and Telemachus on Ithaca? 🙅‍♀️

Odysseus can break the fourth wall during the parts where he's narrating.

Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

[penny-anna]

In essence am I implying it should be tonally similar to the emperor's new groove but with ultra violence? Perhaps

[snapscube]

can u move things with ur mind?

yeah but only if i use my hands

[tam--lin]

r/Murderbot mods really said "if you can't use it/its for a fictional character, get over yourself".

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

As a trans woman I can confirm that they indeed found an ancient forest inside a 630ft deep sinkhole in China

[gayweeddaddy69]

cis people can reblog this but keep it on subject, please

[senshibignaturals]

Happy pride month everyone always remember that the sinkhole has an ecosystem large enough to house not only insects but likely several species of small birds or mammals

[st-just]

Warhammer 40,000 is of course, uh, not unproblematic. But patterning orks specifically and incredibly blatantly off English football hooligan culture was probably simultaneously the least bigoted and most creative thing literally anyone did with the concept of 'the orc' at any point in the 1980s

[power-chords]

This Dan Piraro comic always makes me cry.

[nature-travel-photography]

The Netherlands - Author: SoftlyUnhingeddd

[mendelsohnben]

✧･ﾟ:* Jack Robinson being a lil bit slutty *:･ﾟ✧

[sourvape-deactivated20251109]

[moniquill]

Yes, I absolutely do accept Must the frog.

[frogribbit]

i wish people would stop romanticizing not eating breakfast and not getting enough sleep and being dependent on coffee to function and always being in a bad mood and treating yourself poorly because that behavior is very unhealthy for you

[flameraven]

He’s right.

[dogwoodbite]

[ID: manga panel of Laios Touden from Dungeon Meshi yelling “We’ve been eating three square meals a day and getting plenty of sleep…” “And that makes us more serious about this than you are!!” /End ID]

[girls-can-get-married]

https://href.li/?https://www.pixiv.net/stacc/menkichi

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[babe-are-you-okay]

Babe are you okay? You reblogged mｋ's Lovebirds (おしどり百合夫婦)

[heroineimages]

This is still so charming!

[transarsonist]

for 87 years that girl did Not Stop Talking and that is Why Her Wife Loved Her

[aromanticduck]

What is the earliest time that you would consider a 'lie-in'?

6am or earlier

7am

8am

9am

10am

11am

12 noon

1pm

2pm or later

I work nights/have a weird sleep schedule/can't answer for some other reason

Remaining time: 4 days 3 hours

This is for you personally, not in general.

[arandomthot]

I’ve had this same dilemma too many times

[whaile]

late summer / early fall thoughts

[me----irl]

Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.

[transcyberism]

Lady Macbeth was transmasc cmv. "Unsex me now"? Dude was literally having gender dysphoria and killing about it and honestly I get it

[anghraine]

#ok i haven't really seen macbeth in a way that my brain has processed it #so like if there's greater reading of this within the text and whatnot context #but if this is the one line #this line does not indicate transmasculinity it indicates transnull #agender lady macbeth

Normally I'm all for more interpretations than defaulting to the binary, but in this case, Lady Macbeth's yearning/rage is specifically and overwhelmingly tied to ideas around being a man. "Unsex me now" in the context of the play and Lady Macbeth's circumstances and preoccupations is about her choosing a path that's going to strip her of the sex that has determined the course of her life—that is, womanhood; she's calling for the sex she already has (as understood in her world) to be taken away so she can be a true man—the man that Macbeth is not. Lady Macbeth's whole deal is caught up in regarding Macbeth as less of a man than she is, yet reaping the rewards of it despite his failures of masculinity.

There are many ways to read this, but tbh I think it's very important to the play that Lady Macbeth's rage and ultimate insanity are not about being gendered, but about gendered as female despite a strong alignment with masculinity and tbh deep contempt for women.

[comfect]

Yeah some larger context in the speech matters here:

Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,

And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full

Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.

Stop up th’ access and passage to remorse,

That no compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

Th’ effect and it. Come to my woman’s breasts

And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

You wait on nature’s mischief. 

"Unsex me" is cast as being emptied, twice ("come to my woman's breasts/and take my milk"), and immediately connected to being refilled with something ("cruelty," "gall"). It's not about emptiness; it's about replacing what makes her a woman with something else.

What might that something else be? Well, we get a clue when she tells Macbeth later "when you durst do it, then you were a man."

The contrast here is that mercy, compunction, pity, remorse are cast as womanly--and cruelty, gall, murder as manly.

She's not asking to be nothing; she's asking to be a man, because to be a man is to be violent enough for her purpose.