walk on, nothing to see

[di-elle]

Frankly I pity the anlgosphere that is reading the Emily Wilson mistralation. Forever grateful for being able to enjoy both epic tales through The Rosa Calzecchi Onesti rendition with Cesare Pavese supervision....

[matteoberrettini]

matteo berrettini after winning his round 1 match in wimbledon 2026

[lakemojave]

You know that whatever character did those problematic things isn't like. Real, right?

[lakemojave]

You are aware that a fictional character is just a rhetorical construct designed to fulfill a narrative/thematic purpose right? That their actions are written by an author who wants to use them to explore complex ideas and moral gray areas within the safe confines of fiction right? That they aren't a real person who has killed real people right?

[rottingapotheosis]

[tris-morreu]

nolan's the odyssey has such a fundamentally culturally christian understanding of religion and divinity that it is genuinely jarring to see characters in a supposedly ancient greek historical context describe divinity and its expression in those terms. characters wonder aloud why gods hide themselves (they didn't), question the existence of what nolan interprets the supernatural to be (they wouldn't) and talk of zeus's law (not real, and still somehow bastardized) in the same way we would talk about the ten commandments. it's so out of place. and it taps into that "defy the gods" thing.

like. we can defy the christian god, in a way, because we can choose to not do what he says we ought to. sure. but we cannot defy greek gods in the same way, because the god is not just an entity that commands you but the very thing you are doing. apollo does not just send plagues, he is plague. you know apollo is real because there is plague. plague is not apollo acting in the world, it is an instance of apollo, in the same way that insight is athena, love is aphrodite, harvest is demeter, storms are zeus. gods are not commanding nature and sending signs and acting upon the world, because signs and nature and human nature are themselves the gods. the gods cannot be absent, because we still get ideas, and harvest, and go to war, and feel desire, and hunt. the gods cannot be defied because you cannot defy "getting ideas" or "harvesting" or "having sex" or "dying." to attempt to is entirely futile. like you cannot defy poseidon because you cannot defy the sea. you cannot defy aphrodite because you cannot defy love and reproduction. nature and human nature are unbeatable, and so the gods are unbeatable, because they are nature and human nature.

and it's such a beautiful way of looking at the world, and he just doesn't get that.

[plumbum-art-deactivated20250302]

[di-elle]

MY FUCKING IMPACT Y'ALL

PUREFOY AS PHILIPPE 😱🙌😎

[di-elle]

That time my fancast become reality.

[nick-nellson]

The Princess Bride (1987) dir. Rob Reiner

[thanksicanthavegrapefruit]

The Matrix as textposts: Part 3

Part 1

Part 2

[thanksicanthavegrapefruit]

The Matrix as textposts: Part 2

Part 1

Part 3

[thanksicanthavegrapefruit]

The Matrix (1999) as textposts: part 1

part 2

[starshipheartofg-erti]

[gretchensinister]

Hi my name is Ebony Dark’ness Dementia Raven Way and I have long ebony black hair (that’s how I got my name) with purple streaks and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Amy Lee (AN: if u don’t know who she is get da hell out of here!). I’m not related to Gerard Way but I wish I was because he’s a major fucking hottie. I’m a vampire but my teeth are straight and white. I have pale white skin. I’m also a witch, and I go to a magic school called Hogwarts in England where I’m in the seventh year (I’m seventeen). I’m a goth (in case you couldn’t tell) and I wear mostly black. I love Hot Topic and I buy all my clothes from there. For example today I was wearing a black corset with matching lace around it and a black leather miniskirt, pink fishnets and black combat boots. I was wearing black lipstick, white foundation, black eyeliner and red eye shadow. I was walking outside Hogwarts. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of preps stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them. -The opening paragraph to My Immortal, posted 20 years ago today

[di-elle]

and lives were changed for ever.

[blogitalianissimo]

Dalla sua creazione l' "Unione" "Europea" è stata nulla se non un modo per agevolare l'imperialismo dei fascisti dall' altro lato del Atlantico

L'euro? Più denaro nelle casse degli US da quando ci hanno imposto il pizzo post seconda guerra mondiale collettivo

La NATO? Una formalità per dare territorio ai bombarda villaggi ammazza bambini in uniforme loro

Sfiga vuole che se esci poi fai la fine dell' Inghilterra

Dei benefici ci sono stati, cioè senza unione europea avremmo meno diritti ed economicamente la nostra situazione sarebbe ben peggiore, il problema però è che pure quello che dici tu è vero, siamo schiavi degli Stati Uniti, e, prima del conflitto anche della Russia.

[di-elle]

Senza unione europea ci saremmo autodistrutti in una guerra nucleare, invece abbiamo avuto 70 anni di pace sul nostro territorio (tranne per la dissoluzione della jugoslavia). Apritelo un libro di storia ogni tanto

[bingomann]

[monsieurmeme]

I will never not reblog this

[moriartyfortheevening]

Accurate.

[starsbythepocketful12]

This is the best post I’ve ever seen

[leejeann]

accurate 

[bingomann]

Guys, OP here. Please stop deleting my captions. How are the rest supposed to know that the receptionist is Satan

[liquid-geodes]

YALL STOP DELETING CAPTIONS THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT

[caffeinatedrogue]

holyyy shit Nolan's Odyssey looks bad as fuck. So bad it's almost comical. Has this man ever seen the Mediterranean? Or at least a picture of it? Does he perhaps simply hate the very concepts of colour and saturation? Why does this look like it's Vikings but with excruciatingly awful helmets? THOSE ARMORS?

[caffeinatedrogue]

I have to rant AGAIN because it's making me so mad haha I've been to Ithaca on a sailboat once, it was many years ago but the sea when you're sailing on a small-ish boat is something I will never forget: it's unfathomably, blindingly blue; then at dawn and dusk it looks like quicksilver, this infinite moving mass stretching as far as the eye can see. It's the most beautiful thing. It's frightening. It's the perfect subject to build a a visual poetic from. It can contain everything.

But I guess for Nolan the struggle of Man can only be portrayed or represented in the color grading one would use to replicate Manchester, as he is a SERIOUS director making a SERIOUS movie about serious men and DIRT is the colour of serious manly men or something like that so

[elf-trash]

my ex was a CGI artist on this film and told me the lead costume designer used ChatGPT to design the costumes so I'm gonna boycott this movie for that reason alone if nothing else!

[caffeinatedrogue]

@elf-trash oh my god I was bitching about the armor design and how odd it all looks to friends and I quite literally said

So this proves that GenAI is truly revolutionary! For example, before it was invented, we could not have armor that can inflict psychic damage when you look at it

Also Disclaimer edit because I do not want to get sued for slander or shit for a post that was banter: I was/am not actually claiming it is AI as truth, as I can't possibly know so it remains just an allegation, what I meant is that it looks to me like some atrocity I've seen AI generate and gave me that feeling before op said that . Given that you can find slop among references now, I do expect to see very cursed design choices popping up even if AI was not used first hand. Hope it's clear

[gemsofgreece]

Places Nolan took along all his team to shoot the film (three first pictures in Messenia Greece and fourth picture in Sicily Italy):

What appears in Nolan’s film trailer:

Like, you have to actively try to make Greece and Sicily look this washed out and bland in summer…

Now I know most Greece scenes are the Cyclops scenes so we probably did not see many of the Greek landscapes in the trailer yet (although from whatever I can discern from the blur around Odysseus and Penelope’s palace it looks like it could be some hill in Messenia with a ton of grey foggy filters) but it is clear that he has set a chromatic tone for his movie and for this tone… travelling all the way to Greece and Italy was really not needed XD

At this point this is such a train of disaster after disaster that it makes me amused rather than annoyed.

I hope he comes forth about the AI allegations though, because if this is true, it will bring his whole reputation down, even his biggest supporters may (and should) turn his back on him if he did that.

[bobdylanyaoi]

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[mxlabradorite]

My brain wouldn't shut up until I made this.

[venombomb]

Technically Goncharov is a Christmas movie