[ntrider]

oh I see. it was the crime of wanting. that's why I deserve it.

[maziique-deactivated20250206]

[silvernevermind]

small town diner waitress voice: Omelas? Oh, oh no, easy mistake, you're in oh - MAY - las right now, with an A. Plenty' people get the name mixed up. Nope, no utopia here, just our small little town. *face gets really grim* We do still.. Okay well we do still have a kid that we... I mean it isn't working but- well- You know. It- It's fine. I'm sure it'll start working soon.

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 15-Polyxena

[adistraughtjester]

I am hoping that this is some sort of exaggeration or oversimplification because this is just blatant erasure of a major element of Greek culture and replaced by a more Christian version and I want to bang my head into a wall. That’s not what xenia is, and you just erased a major part of the Odyssey.

[cloud-in-lazure]

The only thought in my mind after watching Nolan’s Odyssey trailer:

Just… what’s that? Do they really wanna make him the Prince of Ithaca rather than a simple medieval peasant? I’m not saying they should dress him up like a rainbow clown or a Disney princess, but—hah—he looks like Antibiotic and the other suitors have already eaten all the royal supplies, the castle, Penelope, and Telemarketing is next

[sarafangirlart]

If I showed you this picture without context, would you have guessed that this film is set in Ancient Greece? Would you have guessed this was even set in Greece at all?

[pngblog]

[g0thm00n]

« Flowery stained glass...»

[wetorturedsomefolks]

love island should introduce a "scheming eunuch" islander who is like a smart and completely asexual islander exempt from being kicked off or being made to participate in any challenges and they're just there to provide advice and be a sort of sounding board for the other islanders when they need a disinterested party to talk things through with. but the scheming eunuch has secret goals unbeknownst to anyone e.g. a cash prize for talking a certain couple into breaking up etc.

[girlypopz123]

If you ever post "we need to be nicer to women with boyfriends/wear makeup/otherwise participate in some completely societally nonchallenged activity" i will be unfollowing. Lets be nicer to women who are fucking sick of not being able to escape all that anywhere

[bluejaymarin]

btw it's not normal for this many people to want to fuck animals and kids and eat shit and piss. kinks have always been around but like, it is a bad thing that antisocial paraphilias are more prevalent and it's pretty obviously because of the internet.

[beetlewoman]

[kilgarraara]

sketching!

[doubleca5t]

All these tourists having a great time at the World Cup isn't surprising b/c the first rule of America is that this place rules if you have money to blow and it's a nightmare if you don't. The prohibitively high cost of attending the World Cup filtered out all the ppl who don't have money so all the people who actually made it to the U.S. are basically guaranteed to have fun

[someforbiddenparadise]

The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses by Walter Benjamin (as appears in his 1928 treatise One-Way Street, in a section titled "Post No Bills")

[noodledesk]

i really liked this essay on why literary fiction is sounding so much Like That these days, especially work by asian american authors:

This entire process selects for homework-doers, personal entrepreneurs, and individualistic bureaucrats. It's why, like I said, the oracular outsiders, the Pauls of the world, who can't conform to society's expectations to check boxes and become legible to the powers that be, aren't in these programs and aren't getting the opportunities that are downstream of them. It's why you end up with tons of fiction about "my white boyfriend" and "everyone online is mad at me" or "anxious strivers in NYC" or "my annoying polycule." These are the obstacles this class encounters. You can't spend time, like Cormac McCarthy did, living in an unheated cabin in the Smokies, or embedding with the Mujahideen like William T. Vollman, or working as a psychotherapist like Olga Tokarczuk. You must move from strength to strength, always turning in your homework on time, and certainly never suffering a psychotic break.

-- Trip, Estragon News, The Oracular Outsiders and the Homework Doers

[symbolicinteractionism]

i quite liked the conclusion to the piece:

Maybe it's because that fiction is being written for the people already bought in. Art that is made for the purpose of institutional legibility and approval is dead on arrival. Writing must stand on the outside, viewing the world at a tilt. Our world is being eaten by word machines that can imitate us perfectly. Unless American letters find the courage to welcome back in the oracular, it will disappear, replaced by machine that can conform to the demands of institutional legibility—really, the demands of capital—better than any human ever could.

[kittyit]

July 8, 2026 / link / archive

[kittyit]

by the way no it’s not because I’m going to stop it and YOU are going to help me and WE are going to stop it and WE ARE DOING IT RIGHT NOW!

[the-rad-menace]

I was familiar with a lot of the statistics cited in this article, but I was very pleased to learn that after banning cellphone use during the school day, a Dallas school district saw an increase of over 200,000 additional library books checked out from the previous year.

Students swap screens for stories. Dallas ISD book checkouts soar amid state's first cellphone ban for public schools

From the first day of school to March 31, 2026, the district reported an increase of more than 200,000 additional books checked out compared

[segamascott]