[iloveschiaparelli]

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I'm 23 years old. I like gardening but I don't have any land right now so everything is in pots indoors. My girlfriend has a whole garden at her house which I will sometimes allude to but I probably won't post many pictures of it. Sometimes I do a gardening update post.

Primarily, besides garden stuff, I reblog artwork from my favorite fandoms and some shitposts.

I'm also an artist! I have a focus in 2D digital painting, especially landscapes/environment art. I'd like to say I'm at an intermediate level. Previously I've mostly done natural landscapes but I'm branching into more urban scenes. Below my artwork is a list of tags. I am bad at tagging and WILL forget to tag appropriately sometimes.

Sorting Tags

#text post -> posts which are exclusively text (for anyone viewing my blog with a screen reader)

#gardenblr -> garden stuff including mutual rbs

#art appreciation tag -> reblogging someone's art (usually with relevant fandom tagged: nier/sonic/etc) this works as an art gallery

#fav -> my favorite posts/post hall of fame

#saving for later -> usually a guide of some sort I intend on returning to

#important -> shit I NEED y'all to understand (???) sometimes an accidental substitute for #saving for later

Honestly I haven't settled on a tag for my own artwork, but lately I've been pretty consistently using #my art and #original artwork

Fandom Tags

#nier -> yoko taro franchise (mostly automata but I did recently start Replicant so it'll probably diversify over time)

#phm -> project hail mary (movie) (also #bloodymary when appropriate)

#sonic -> sonic the hedgehog etc

#the fall guy -> the fall guy movie

#maximum ride -> some bullshit James patterson wrote in the 2000s-2010s that had a chokehold on me in middle school and I still routinely think about

[silverirony]

unreliable narrator but it's just an aromantic writing romance

[silverirony]

the author's barely concealed aromanticism

[wordsmithic]

source: @wordsmithic / wordsmithic on insta

I also made a post about the good elements of the movie on my instagram, which are significantly fewer than the bad ones. I wanted to be fair.

[wasp-coffee]

christopher nolans odyssey makes Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (2010) look like the peak of cinematic brilliance

[galusandmalus]

This lowkey might be too far

[galusandmalus]

hot take this helmet is racist 😭

like whenever you see white supremacist symbols theres always this fucking helmet everywhere the hollywood post 9/11 ification of this godamn helmet (it got popularized because of post 9/11 desire to racify the ancient world and because 9/11 traumatized Frank Miller and he in turn got hollywood to adapt his old comic which so they can rally the american people to fight in endless wars against the "othered" people.

EVIL CORINTHIAN HELMET BE LIKE

[cpericardium]

at the euthanasia party everyone gets a sip of the forbidden lean

[tastyrepulsorboots]

Yeah, same

[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.

[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.

[adistraughtjester]

@watchanddream Sure! This got a bit lengthier than I intended, but I wanted to try and be thorough.

Put far too simply, xenia is the practice of hospitality, but it's also a ritual and in a sense a contract between guest and host. When a stranger arrives at your doorstep, you're expected to feed them and give them a gift as the host. Typically, you're not even supposed to ask them their name until they've finished their meal. Once you've done this as the host, the guest is now expected to share stories and information about themselves, and not burden you or your household. Typically, people focus on how hosts violate xenia, but guests can also violate xenia.

This is called a guest-friendship, and once it's established, you are expected to offer the same to your host should they ever visit. It's a ritual of hospitality, yes, but it's also used to establish alliances and can be passed down through generations. For example, in the Iliad, when Glaucus and Diomedes discover that their grandparents were guest-friends, they decide not to fight, but rather exchange armor.

Theoxeny is a common story you see in myth where a god (typically Zeus) disguises themselves as a mortal and requests to be hosted by someone. Should the host follow the rules of xenia, they'll be rewarded, but if they fail, they'll be punished or killed.

This is important to the Odyssey, as it comes up multiple times, but in particular, the cyclops, and the suitors. In both these instances, Odysseus arrives disguised and gives a false name, the practices of xenia are failed, and Odysseus reveals himself and punishes the one that failed to follow xenia. The suitors in particular fail xenia, as they both fail as hosts, AND as guests, for burdening Odysseus's household.

Xenia being treated as the golden rule comes across to me like a Christian reinterpretation, as while many Greek philosophers did have something similar to the golden rule, those were philosophers, and the idea that it's a religious command from a god seems much more in line with a Christian idea of where the rule comes from. (Note, I'm aware that other religions had something similar, even as a command from a god, but I highly doubt Nolan is drawing inspiration from those instances)

[flannel-pup]

The even more irksome thing to me is how severely this misses that christianity IS A MEDITERRANEAN RELIGION and the Bible references Xenia in a Babylonian-ized form SEVERAL TIMES!!! Specifically Theoxenia is WHAT GOT SODOM AND GOMORRA DESTROYED.

Homophobic christians love to act like Sodom was wiped out for being gay, but what actually is meant to be understood from this story is that when divine strangers came to town, Lot's family not only took them in, but also took violence upon themselves for defending the visiting angels, to stave off the other people in the city who intended to rape and rob the stranger. For this, Lot's family is spared while the city is destroyed. Skeptical? This story from genesis is even given explicit interpretation instructions later in the Bible-

Ezekiel 16:49-50 — Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy. They were haughty and did detestable things before me. Therefore I did away with them as you have seen.

The withholding of food when they had plenty is also the original definition of gluttony, but that's almost secondary.

Theoxenia is brought up again explicitly in Hebrews 13:2- "Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it." This passage gets used a lot nowadays to guilt conservative christians for their xenophobia (hey where have we seen that root word before?), but the social context of contemporary social law being codified in early christian writings is still noteworthy. Reducing Xenia to "the golden rule" is not only bad history, it's not even good biblical scholarship.

[sag-dab-sar]

Philoxenia still exists in modern Greek culture and has a lot more to it than "the golden rule." But silly me, modern Greeks don't exist they're just characters in a book.

[adistraughtjester]

Yup!!! One of the reasons this in particular annoyed me so much is while adaptations can and probably should make minor changes to their stories to suit their medium, there’s a difference between changing a part of the story and misrepresenting an important cultural custom. This is just one example of the absolute lack of interest Nolan’s shown in catering to modern Greece or representing Greek culture, while taking one of its foundational stories and making it his own. Unfortunately, he’s part of a long history of doing this to Greek culture and ancient Greek history.

[lazer-exe]

I'm gonna say it, I do think that even the laziest person imaginable should have a roof over their head, food in their stomach, and access to healthcare

[martial-art-world]

[toesucker416]

SIGNAL!!! BOOST!!! I don't care if this doesn't fit your blog's aesthetic, reblog EVERY TIME!!!

[toesucker416]

I know things are scary because they're going to strike us down with their powerful kicks, but here's what YOU (yes, YOU READING THIS RIGHT NOW) can do

1. nothing

2. we're so fucked

[martial-art-world]

WE'WE ALLLG ONNA DIE

[pukicho]

Can you ask my doctor to remove my ovaries please?

I just don’t understand why you think I have authority over your doctor. What do you see me as.

[andrevalias]

there was that time you paid lip service to doctors over furries.

[pukicho]

I saw some crazy images online and now I prefer furries

[heinouslesbian]

local woman informed that by running from her fears, her fears only get scarier, more news at eleven

[tall]

[massachusetts-official]

Official Post of Massachusetts

[miketon]

if i made a video game where you get to pick the gender of the player character i'd make both the options be nonbinary and you can either have they/them or it/its pronouns. those are your only options

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

[toesuckler]

touches you inappropriately but not in a sexual way, still very unbefitting for the scenario. the reason is entirely unclear.

[lady-of-vitreous-sight]

[bored and trying to cause problems voice] if you think about it, the social role of the 'childhood friend' as commonly explored in stories is actually identical to the social role of the 'sibling'. observe how a parent figure is permitted to scold and lecture the 'childhood friend' as proof of closeness (and as proof of 'member of family'). as well, a common trope that emerges is 'realizing we are siblings actually'. thus, it's actually correct to understand this ship as incest.