there will be music despite everything

niamh. 26. INFP. she/her. panromantic asexual (queer & proud). author of WE ARE SEARCHING FOR BETTER MYTHS (wip).

[atwellfilm]

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH

Season 1, Ep. 08 《 The Work of Angels 》

[borgialucrezia]

THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH (2010)

"In the book, William smothers Regan with a pillow. In a scene unique to the TV series, William murders his mother by suffocating her with a small doll (often interpreted as a symbol of the childhood she corrupted or controlled)." (x)

[orangepeelshortbreadcookies]

Having Helen and Clytemnestra be identical twins is genius because how poetic and fitting is it that Agamemnon, who used Helen as an excuse to start The Trojan War, who instigated the deaths of thousands and sacrificed his own daughter for his ambitions, only to fall by someone who bears the same face of the woman he politicized?

[malinaa]

[twostarsinthesky]

the fact that people are in the odyssey tags criticising the nolan movie for its changes to the original myth (valid) only to then turn around and recommend epic: the musical of all things as a “more accurate” alternative is hysterical like please. let’s be serious now

[omgthatdress]

The racist and transphobic tears being shed over the casting in The Odyssey almost make me want to see it.... almost.

I mean just imagine looking at Lupita Nyong'o and not thinking, "Yeah, that's the most beautiful woman in the world, I'd go to war for that." You must be seriously estranged from beauty to think anything else.

[cerusee]

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

[kebriones]

omg it's the terrible goblin himself

[daenerys-stormborn]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON Season 3 Episode 5 — "Unbowed and Unbent"

[duallpa]

baby jimothy

[gameofthronesdaily]

#choose your fighter HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 1.03 Second of His Name 3.04 Tumbleton

[gamer-0-clock]

When the schemes are gay and sinister

[hightowerflorent]

I bore Viserys three Targaryens. But with the last, my last… I wanted him to be a Hightower. In truth, I'm glad I waged that battle, seeing now what came out of our other sons. Perhaps sending Daeron away was my truest act of motherhood.

[welightthewaysource]

Daeron and Rhaenyra Targaryen parallels in House Of The Dragon season 3 [2/4]

[theghooligan]

tessarion when ormund’s weird ass got too close to her baby boy daeron:

[boringkate]

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[redstonedust]

it's usually morally correct to make fun of the usa but whenever i hear british people do it it feels kinda tone deaf. idk if we have the high ground here guys. its like your mom making fun of your mental illness like ma'am where do you think i got it from.

[flowerbobatea]