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Mid 20s, pronouns Ono/jenu in PL, Fae/Faer in ENG

[eavaus]

If you see me liking your vent posts it means I'm really sorry you're struggling, I'm giving you a hug (if you want one), a kiss on the forehead (if you want it), and sending good vibes your way (non-negotiable). Hope everything works out well for you 💖

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And vice versa…

[starlightxraven]

Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google

Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.

[appalachian-werewolf]

"Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry."

It fucking better.

[mrsjdavis]

Like to charge, reblog to cast?

[newbarktownalumni]

[yappathon]

Just watched The Odyssey 2026 and my god were the characters done dirty...

Hate hate hate what they did with Odysseus's characterization like you cannot be serious. Who is Odysseus if not a sly clever liar (affectionate).

Now he's just some modern goody two shoes inner dilemma hero in a sea of them. They stripped him of his whimsy and cruelty both.

#NotmyOdysseus

There's not one moment in the film where I could go, ahh there he is Odysseus being Odysseus. Not one instance of him being clever, he's just lucky...

Didn't add the 'Nobody' scene but still made him shoot at Polyphemus which starts it all which doesn't even make sense with his characterization in the movie. The Polyphemus scene is supposed to highlight Odysseus's cleverness and hubris but the movie version of him has no pride!

Don't even get me started on Athena & Odysseus! Odysseus famously Athena's star pupil is not.... Instead she's haunting his guilt? Athena who famously interfered in the book to aid Odysseus like a lot... directly and behind the scenes.

In the book Mentor was actually Athena in disguise so I was so hoping for it to be her since Telemachus remarks multiple times about 'wise eyes' but no... it was about how you shouldn't see gods in people blah blah BORING!!!!

'Defy the Gods' Ah yes Odysseus famously devout follower of Athena...

I couldn't help but notice how dirty the female characters were done compared to their Epic counterparts and the erasure of Anticlea during the Underworld scene.

And I'd like to talk more about it, starting with Athena! She is one of the active players who guides both Odysseus's and Telemachus's journey. When Odysseus reaches Ithaca it was Athena who makes him look like an old beggar. Even in the final battle against suitors she deflects their spears to protect Odysseus and afterwards when nobles are angry Odysseus essentially killed their sons Athena steps in herself to establish the peace.

She is integral to the story, there is no Odyssey without her!! Odysseus only survived and made it back home due to her guidance and interference, removing her entirely is a disservice to the actual Epic being adapted.

And second character is Penelope, my Queen!!! I want to get this out of the way Anne Hathaway is in my personal opinion the standout of this film, she did amazing with what she was given. However that is to say, they didn't give her much. They cut off many Penelope moments that give us a taste of her own cleverness (making her a true partner for Odysseus) in favor of some simple status pin which isn't a good trade off imo.

The Olive Tree Bed moment was also not in the movie to my disappointment. A scene that clearly demonstrates how she tricks her own extremely clever trickster husband rather than some pin symbolism.

Circe and Calypso.... the less said about them the better though I hated their costuming.... Where were Circe's nymphs? or not nymphs since Nolan is allergic to whimsy even handmaidens? Circe is a powerful GODDESS 😭(Why was a raven/crow her sister? Was it supposed to be Pasiphae? If yes then I have so many more questions.)

I hate Calypso so i won't waste any words on her but its so funny that they made Odysseus eat Lotus Flower like lmaoooo you can't make this shit up..

I didn't like the costuming, the hair, the armor, the lightening either. I hated the look of Ithaca's palace and the ending like Odysseus... leaves Ithaca and his son after just arriving????

I also think it's so peculiar how Nolan didn't want an orchestra in sound design when the Homeric era didn't have that and then have everything else inaccurate from the armor design to the choice of modernised dialogue (surprisingly I didn't mind the modernised dialogue, not when the movie had larger issues).

Though props to them for making the pig transformation disturbing & sickening and not props for making Scylla lame ass design when her description is genuinely so horrifying, I believe the Odyssey could have been Nolan's first venture into VFX- nothing wrong with a little of it especially while adapting mythological creatures though disappointingly Nolan still clings to his practical only approach.

Also props for a good Eurylochus, making me side eye him and still making me feel sorry for him at the same time.

Side minor note: icky that they cast a black woman for Helen only for her to be abused and miserable when the source material makes no note of it, not a good look imo.

Also since they did deviate from the Poem of the Odyssey and included references to other Epic cycles, I wish they could have added Palamedes and Odysseus acting insane since I felt like the setup for it was there in the film with the scene of Odysseus and Penelope before war and it could be a scene to show again, his prominent cleverness that's direly missing from the film.

When the Trojans put a spear in the horse to verify, I had thought in that moment it was a reference to the omen of Laocoon and sea serpents would appear next but then it happened again and again and was just a tool to create tension.

(Again before anyone says Laoccon is not canon to Homer but neither is anything about the Trojan Horse except a few mentions in the Odyssey. If the sack of Troy has been expanded it would have been nice to see other epics being referenced.)

Why was Apollo the Sun God? What is this Percy Jackson?

All in all, if it was just any other standalone it would be strong 3.5 to 3.75 but as something that has source material an underwhelming 2.5 to 3.

The rating 3 is the average and generous because the film does look good so there's that.

Taking creative liberties in adapting an already existing source material is a thing but it's forgivable and completely understandable only as long as it serves its purpose to enchance the original material for a new medium but I feel like this movie changed the core of who Odysseus is as a character/person completely, erased his mentorship bond with Athena, erased his cleverness and trickster nature, whitewashed him and in the end the character isn't even identifiable as Odysseus anymore.

From Time Magazine interview that Nolan did it was noted that,

For Nolan, one of the hardest things about adapting The Odyssey is that in The Iliad, Odysseus has a relatively minor role. “A lot of the characteristics of Odysseus that can be really admirable in a supporting character, like being a bit clever, being a bit slick, when your hero is like that, it doesn’t always work,” he says. “There’s a reason that in Star Wars, you’ve got Han Solo, but you’ve also got Luke Skywalker, a heroic figure that’s a little more pure and transparent. So the challenge was to be true to the complexity of Odysseus but make him relatable for the audience.”

Which I think is precisely why he got Odysseus so wrong and this movie failed as an adaptation, the rigidness and the lack of letting go of realism to the nth degree.

[pansexual-pied-piper]

I think if you're gnc or any flavour of cisn't, you've gotta be at least a little bit vain. It's important for your mental health. If you can't find your vanity yet due to dysphoria, just know that one day you'll be able to look in a mirror and go "actually, I'm fucking hot"

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[ceruleanheaven]

religion is so fucking funny the world is just too beautiful there must be a higher entity behind all this. lets oppress women

[koiagain]

Stop saying “do it scared” i do everything scared I sleep scared Boy i’ll kill u

[eavaus]

A lot of thoughts about the Odyssey:

Spoilers obviously

Music was unnecessarily tense. We know what happens,you even said it 5 minutes ago?? What emotions are you even trying to give me?

There were moments on face close-ups during dialogue scenes when the camera wasn't focused? On anything??

Also the whole thing about shooting the movie on a camera format so only select few (Americans) can watch the full movie (without trimming off the edges of the whole film because it doesn't fit on screen???) is messed up

There was a lot of conversation about clothing online. I'm not very or like at all knowledgeable about Ancient Greek fashion but there were moments when even I thought 'wait! Are they wearing sneakers? T-shirts? Linen trousers with modern pockets and zippers?' might not have been the case but that's the impression I got

I said it under another post already but: you can do whatever you want with odyssey! You can't do whatever you want with Homer's Odyssey! I'll admit it, I don't remember how it was phrased on the screen but I did get the impression that it was meant to be a screen adaptation particularly of Homer's version

(Eg. In NBC Hannibal they clearly say it's inspired by characters from Red Dragon, not the book itself. And no one had a problem with it very different also the whole point of changing the source material to do something meaningful with it vs)

The fucked up, throw-away feministic line that Penelope wants to rule Itaka... It was the most useless line? That has done a disservice to feminism actually? If you want to make a point about feminism, that women can also rule, do what men do - maybe, just maybe don't do it in a movie about one of the most misogynistic societies? If you want to focus on feminism, do a movie about feminism?? No one is stopping the almighty Christopher Nolan! (Who I gather is a big deal? Honestly no idea who the guy is, but people seem to be praising him like a cinema god)

Also why are Helen and Clytemnestra twins?

Why is Menelaus disappointed that Helen is back? He acts like he enjoyed the war (not Agamemnon) and is sad that it's over and has to be home with his wife

Why are you trying to aim for historical period and not doing it adequately? I heard a lot of opinions about this too. How it's a fantasy world, how it's not supposed to be period accurate... I,as a lot of other peopel, got the impression it was meant to be.

I don't see a point in making a vague 'ancient world's fantasy setting either. It's just more expensive. Just do a 'modern retelling' or whatever, because this seems like you tried and failed to make it 'historically accurate' It doesn't read as intentional.

It's like setting a movie in vague 21 century and having one person text on a smartfon, another on a flip phone and a third sending telegrams! It's less than one hundred years of history, its not that big of a problem to mix it up a little bit!!

"An average viewer won't notice" yes they will. Stop assuming people are stupid. An educated viewer will absolutely notice. Are you only making movie for the uneducated? You have all the money in the world, you can consult scholars, a lot of them doing it for few hundred bucks/free

And I do get that "historically accurate" is a misnomer, like the "real" version of odyssey but this just doesn't sit right with me

What other people said before about "Zeus's Law" and "Bronze Age Collapse" i know we say late stage capitalism a lot but we don't say final stage, end of capitalism stage

No gods? What's next? Are we removing Jesus from the Bible?

No nobody?

It reminded me how higher ups wanted to make the guy from obsession more likeable. It's what happened to Odysseus. They removed not only the most famous but easiest to understand moment about his character. That he screamed back that it was him that tricked the cyclops, he wanted them to know

Why. Are. You. Pretending. And. Trying. To. Adapt. A. Book. To. A. Movie. If . You're . Gonna. Change. Everything. About. It. Anyway.

Why bother?? Just make a new fucking movie????

How long are we gonna ignore how problematic Anne Hathaway is?

I read every possible take about Zendaya wearing the earrings. How it's fucked up to appropriate Iranian culture, how it's worse that Kim Kardashian wearing Merlin Monroe dress since they're both Americans so its fine. How that's misogynistic because it basically says it's fine to destroy history as long as it's fashion history, most feminine of history fields in comparison to male archeology. How it's racist because Zendaya as POC doesn't have the whiteness to protect her and tiniest transgression is cancelable offence. Dont want to hear more about it. Both we wrong and not everything has to be ranked

Shooting in Western Sahara? Dumping plastic into protected environment? Not hiring a since Greek person?

Out of positive things it was pretty. A lot of saturated colors, epic battles, your typical Hollywood Production

What I told my brother this morning. It was a pointless movie to make. It changed enough of Homer's version that you can't consider it its screen adaptation but the changes done didn't hold up to a coherent point being made

Read a single goddamn book in your fucking life

[bluebellhairpin]

Something about Christopher Nolan shooting The Odyssey in only IMAX film sits kinda weird with me. Like what do you mean everyone else who doesnt have access to the 41 big* IMAX screens (34 of which are in the North American continent (there's only 1 screen that size in Australia (where I live), 6 in the continent of Europe, and NONE in African/Asian countries)) will not be able to see the full frames of the movie? Will not be able to see the whole movie as intended?? Feels... I don't know. Elitist?? Classist? Definitely giving me something and it's both feeling weird and icky.

(*by 'big' I mean 70mm screens. There is only 41 of those BIGGER screens in the world. Which is the film size Nolan shot on. Most IMAX screens (so the ones you're saying are in African/Asian countries) are only 50mm. Which a lot of ppl in the notes apparently do not know the difference.)

[malfiora]

They leave us no choice....Think how much easier it was when you could just take a kitchen knife to your wrists and watch the life pour out of your veins....In being robbed of our deaths, we are robbed of our lives. (Suicide Club)

I think I just found my favorite book of the year.

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

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[jeyneofpoole]

nolan’s odyssey is such a textbook study on the idiocy and dangers of presentism. yes of course penelope is a modern day feminist who wants to rule ithaca by herself. they make telemachus say that GREECE IS THE GREATEST CIVILIZATION IN THE WORLD as if the entire point of the massing of achaeans at troy for one unified cause isn’t spectacular precisely because THERE IS NO CONCEPT OF A UNIFIED GREECE NATIONS DO NOT EXISTTTTTT YETTTTT. literally 101 on historical writing is making sure that you’re avoiding strict periodization because the people living in a “period” will not identify themselves that way. ever. five million cheeky nods to “the sea peoples” but we’re being cute and coy and calling them “the people from the sea.” the obsession with xenia but refusal to call it xenia yes let’s say “zeus’s law” a hundred times and reduce it to the literal expectation that any stranger could be a god in disguise. how was penelope just hanging out in the main hall of the palace with her husband’s dinner guests while they were playing with weapons with her HAIR COMPLETELY DOWN no veil no nothing just chilling casually. comical. stoppppp making movies that engage in historical viewpoints if you’re going to slather a modernized coat of paint over the top. “the past is a foreign country, they do things differently there.” or fucking whatever.