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demiboydemon

For speed runners, this is canon.

cheshireinthemiddle

Oh, this definitely belongs on Tumblr.

thesplendidsnout

From the Nib, by Mattie Lubchansky

dubiousculturalartifact

The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.

I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:

We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.

Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?

It ain’t Kermit

anyroads

Miss Piggy tied to the mast while Statler and Waldorf heckle her from the sea

mindovermuses

But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?

muffinflarp69

There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.

sanguinifex

You gotta read and watch some old books and films that aren’t 100% modern politically correct. I’m not saying you should agree with everything in them but you need to learn where genres came from to understand what those genres are doing today and where media deconstructing old tropes is coming from.

Also, more often than you might think, they’re not actually promoting bigotry so much as “didn’t consider all the implications of something” or just used words that were polite then but considered offensive now.

Kill the censor in your head.

ashintheairlikesnow

When we choose to avoid history because it's Problematic or Says Bad Things, we are choosing to divorce ourselves from understanding how we came from that time to this one, which makes it even more likely for the cycle to repeat, with no one but a few people with shelves of old books aware that it's happened before.

swimmingblue

and this shit's important. Media from the past tells us how people from the past acted and thought and behaved.

Plus, a lot of these media pieces were socially acceptable and/or progressive for their time. For example, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, while it contains a lot of words and ideas that are offensive now, was very progressive for its time. The book is a statement piece for how a young man who's grown up in a racist environment, with no words to explain himself other than racist and bigoted ones, decides that the whole system is shit and he's not going to follow those rules any more. So not reading or engaging with it because it uses the n-word a lot really misses the point.

saxifraga-x-urbium

also like do you think your unproblematic fave of today is going to be that tomorrow? that social mores and what's reasonable or even progressive won't change?

greengableslover

MĀRAMA (2025) dir. Taratoa Stappard

balaclava-trismegistus

[Getting so angry it makes my brain disease worse] people sre supposed to be nice..

I also am a municipal worker surrounded by my fellow lesbians :) welcome to the union

oh i managed to miss this ENTIRELY when u first sent it, what a fucking delight.

hello!! for the ‘say something nice’ ask game, lord if the rings? i genuinely cannot remember if you’ve talked about it before or not and i just rewatched the movies so it’s on my mind!

honestly i do have a deep and abiding affection for these movies! i was not originally a lotr girly when they first started coming out, i think because i had acquired a sense of New Zealand Cringe (tm) from an early age and also because i didn't understand how fantasy as a genre could encompass like, both tamora pierce and whatever this was.

and then as a teenager i got More Into Fantasy As A Genre and worldbuilding as a facet of that, and the 12 disc special features on the extended addition were fuel to the hyperfixation brain. like i was out here reading World Bibles for eddings and robert jordan and getting deeply confused about how many people could be in an army and therefore how many people could fit in a cave (don't ask).

and as a very lonely only child who had not managed to find people In Real Life to enjoy fantasy fiction with, the special features on those discs really were a way of indulging in the very rabid obsession with like, Swords and Crafting Things and Movie Stuff. i never went especially deep into the fandom of it all? but the particular moment of time where i could put on a disc and watch people make armour or talk about miniatures (in a very nascent or even pre-youtube era) was absolutely riveting to me.

my favourite movie was the two towers, and i would skip all the scenes with frodo in it because i didn't care about that aspect of the story at all LMAO, i wanted to watch aragorn struggle with the burdens of leadership and also watch the battle of helm's deep over and over and over again. and over again. like the most appealing to me as a child and teenager about those movies had nothing to do with the message, the story, or - even with the special features - the movie itself? i just fuckin loved the battle scenes. i was entranced by the Scale and the way fantasy as a genre could like, contain both that Hugeness, and the emotionality of One Dude.

eternalgirlscout

i adore being confronted with the staggering breadth of what individual people can get obsessed with. there's nothing better than having That One Mutual with an advanced degree in ancient greek tragedy who writes minecraft youtube fanfiction to remind you that anyone can love anything

immortalbeingz

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daphneorsmthng

oldshrewsburyian

History and Conspiratorial Thinking

I'm not sure whether this is primarily a rant or a warning or a PSA, but one thing I've been seeing a lot of in the summer courses I'm teaching is conspiratorial thinking that flies, bafflingly, in the face of the facts.

My students (presuming this isn't an LLM thing that I haven't figured out yet) will often write, in the style of a YouTube clickbait headline, about how sad it is that so many voices are LOST TO HISTORY because NO ONE THOUGHT THEM WORTHY OF RECORDING.

And, like, on the one hand, yeah, probably 99.9% of humanity throughout history has gone through life without having their voices directly recorded. And the whole "Can the Subaltern Speak?" question is a good one to wrestle with. (I read Spivak in a 2nd-year undergrad history course. I am not making my students do the same thing because I suspect they would riot.) What baffles and confuses me is that they will write this... while reading carefully curated -- thank you very much -- sources about the very people whose experiences are allegedly LOST TO HISTORY FOREVER. We even get some firsthand accounts. And I wish I could figure out why I can assign a whole bunch of sources about the lives of marginalized people (queer, disabled, female, trans, enslaved, etc.) and still get responses about TRAGICALLY, SUCH PEOPLE'S STORIES WERE NOT WRITTEN DOWN. What do they think they're reading? Why doesn't it count if it's assigned rather than passing organically before their eyes in some other way?

thetangledsheet

Anyway I think more video game quests should make you uncomfortable and guilty and mislead you and corner you between a rock and a hard place and offer hollow victories. There's nothing more annoying than quest writing that scrambles to assure you that you're niceys and good and nothing you put your hand on can ever have negative consequences. "You cannot save everyone" and I cheer and whoop etc.

birb-tangleblog

Ask meme concept: Reverse Unpopular Opinion meme

Ppl send topics and instead of salt or hot takes, you MUST talk abt smth you like about it. Good excuse to gush abt smth you already love, OR think and find smth positive to say.

Hard mode, “missed potential” is NOT allowed as an answer.

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