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August, 24. Please tell me if you need anything tagged. | doodle requests always open |

[finnitesimal]

If you're here to ask why you're blocked, you were probably a bitch to my friends ^^

gimme things to draw.

Read these to grasp who I am

- They Share A Kitchen by BuddyBuddyPalBuddy. intrulogical

- TBA

[girlrust]

translation: are u fucking kidding me

[archi-pelago]

ive seen multiple ppl make "grace is now an eridian" aus (which i support) so i thought id take a whack at it

he has four toes instead of three and struggles. my boy struggles. but i did want him to be sort of like a jewel tone of grace's eyes anyway goodnight i love you stay hydrated

[cloudabserk]

just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

[oldbutchdanielmolloy]

rpf isn’t enough i need a sex tape

[hocceius]

where would rpf be without the character of nondescript hotel room

[electricalsun]

[gnurbot]

Made a post before about how the uncredited sexy rocky voice was totally done by James Ortiz, but I wanted confirmation on this so I hopped over to cameo! He gives some really good behind the scenes bits here too.

[nwoexx]

Since the Odyssey is trending, now is a good time to remind people that Nolan chose the city Dakhla (Western Sahara) to shoot the film, which is occupied illegally by Morocco. Many Sahrawis are calling for the boycott of this movie.

I'm pretty sure not many people are aware of the illegal occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, so I invite everyone to do some research on the subject, especially if you support the Palestinian cause, then you should also know about the Sahrawis who, like the Palestinians, never got their freedom.

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/nolan-odyssey-western-sahara-morocco-colonialism

https://festivalsahara.org/en/the-odyssey-manifesto/

On another note, y'all should also watch this YouTube video of Farya Faraji, where he talks about the west centric/eurocentric retelling of Nolan's Odyssey (very good constructive criticisms) :

[heyfruitcake]

Reasons to boycott Nolan's The Odyssey (that I know of so far):

They shot in the illegally occupied Western Sahara as reported by Middle East Eye (thanks to @fuckyeahdavidandyonatan for bringing that up)

They dumped their props into a protected area of the Italian sea after shooting (thanks to @godslop for finding the article in English)

Zendaya wearing looted 3000 years old Iranian earrings for the premiere of the movie + having her stylist fly on a private jet just to get her a dress for the premiere in London

No Greek actors in a movie about Greek heritage

While people mentioned that Anne Hathaway was flown in to the set every day, apparently it was not on a private jet but on a helicopter that was being used anyway to fly in equipment.

None of these things are new in Hollywood or exclusive to the Odyssey, its director or its actors, but I do think we as audience should start holding Hollywood accountable when it disrespects our culture, heritage, environment, especially when it's movies that are this big and have a huge budged that would allow for more conscious choices.

Please do add anything else I missed.

[finnitesimal]

main difference between phm and the odyssey is because even though james ortiz also. barely read the book and book rocky is a whole different character to movie rocky he still managed to get what the readers would be looking for in the adaptation and what he stood for in the story and brought him to life in a way that we barely even care how different he is from the source material And this is why he's winning best supporting actor

[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

[cookbookbutch]

Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat

The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment

The simple act of holding a camera in my homeland of Western Sahara can be a crime. When Sahrawi film-makers and journalists attempt to document everyday life under Moroccan occupation, they can often end up in prison cells. For the Moroccan regime, a camera in the hands of a Sahrawi threatens its official narrative that Western Sahara is part of Morocco. In contrast, when celebrated international names in the film industry wish to capture an ideal picture for an epic journey, and decide that our land is exotic enough to shoot the desired scenes, they are welcomed, escorted and granted access by the same authorities that usually deny us that right. [...] Nolan’s choice to film in an occupied territory highlights the extractivist practices embedded in the western film industry. Western cinema has often been complicit in mining stories and immaterial culture from the global south at a scale no smaller than the material resources mined by the western colonial industrial complex. International film crews parachute in, shoot our faces, clothing, dunes and material culture, then fly off. For them, it seems we are simply decorative elements for their sets and back in New York, London or Paris, they gain prestige, box-office returns and awards. For Nolan’s Dakhla shoot, he appears to have neither sought our consent nor considered the ethics of in effect helping to prop up and legitimise Morocco’s occupation, thus making the space even more unsafe for Sahrawis living under it. He is actively participating in a state-sponsored PR campaign designed to legitimise an illegal occupation.

2026/07/16

[finnitesimal]

Realizing what Rocktiz was vaguely reminding me of. That's Michael Mell

[pangur-and-grim]

I told my little nephew that I'd wave at his airplane when it flew over my house today, and he very calmly and politely explained that it wouldn't be possible to see me due to the limitations of human vision. I said he just had to squint real hard, and he took a deep breath and went into the toddler version of "see, what you're not understanding–"

[pangur-and-grim]

[finnitesimal]

If we're americanizing greek myth can we have fun with it at least. 2000s era highschool Iliad. helen ghosts menelaus to switch schools after miss aphrodite from the district office convinces her her prospects for college are better over there (coincidentally around the time she'd brought hotshot paris around for an inter-school program and kept telling them what a cute couple theyd make) and now the big end-of-the-year game against troy high is hanging in the balance cause not only is team captain menelaus a fuckin wreck, their star player achilles wont go out in public after student council president agamemnon jumped in to take his then-girlfriend briseis to homecoming a couple weeks back. Agamemnon who keeps going haha what if we all just go home /srs (no one finds it funny) and his long-time girlfriend hasnt forgiven him for killing their tamagochi iphigenia and is now dating his weird cousin aegisthus. cassandra is in charge of the school newspaper but all the rumors in it are true and no one believes them or no one reads the newspaper anymore cause the internet is happening

[greekmythcomix]

✨How to do Xenia✨

A follow-up to my old Xenia comic: https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/xenia/

See this comic as a video here: Learn more about Xenia (hospitality) here  Image updated with clear text (hopefully legible by text reader)