I'm the real girl boss

my only happy place. she/her

[animebw]

So I watched Christopher Nolan's Odyssey movie earlier today, and I think it's really fascinating how it builds itself almost entirely around the ancient Greek concept of xenia, or hospitality. Most modern interpretations of The Odyssey don't really explore that angle since it was so specific to the culture of its time, but this movie is all about it! It reframes the whole poem as a collapse of civilizations, the moment when the tradition of opening your doors to strangers was replaced with paranoia, fear and abuse, shattering the Greek world as it once was. And all the big setpieces moments from Odysseus' journey, especially Circe and the cyclops, become commentary on the loss of trust on a societal level. At times it feels almost post-apocalyptic! The sacking of Troy didn't just burn a city to the ground; by violating xenia so horrifically, it burned down the entire world and all the customs that once held people together. And Odysseus must bear that sin across the ocean until he comes home to the darker, meaner world he helped usher in. That's a really powerful way to re-interpret this story for the modern day. Good shit.

[rabbitkinglune777]

by all means necessary.

[rabbitkinglune777]

also another meaning for this art: as a black person especially, I won't let anyone tell me to my face that we need to handle things "peacefully" we got our rights in the first place by physically fighting for it. I hope every other minority understands.

[rabbitkinglune777]

I wanna let you know I hesitated to criticize white libs but honestly this is my rent lowering gunshots for cowards.

[rabbitkinglune777]

before anyone else has a clearly ignorant opinion, the reason this quote is said is because libs have a history of not only being complicit in the oppression of minorities, but the reason Malcolm x said they are worse is not because he's hypocritical but because they lore minorities in with promises only to fail us miserably and prop themselves up more. it's a false promise. to be a better ally you stay committed to the voices.

[pavizi]

i dont want to make this a space about men but i feel like one of us at some point has to ask where does batman fit into all of this. did he get mauled to death by the council

i just dont talk about him that much because he's not the focus LOL.

you can have this doodle i did a few months ago of repper bruce though

there's absolutely a transfeminine narrative to woven though. more attached to his mother than his father, disassociation through deidentification, etc etc.

[importantangeldefendor]

@transsatya

[ceruleana]

"Grace and Rocky saved two planets of intelligent life." Yeah, so did Eva Stratt btw. Do you know how much caffeine that woman must've been on to get major power on earth to coordinate, to organize the world's first interstellar spaceship in just FOUR years, and you know,,, to tie her best friend to the train tracks and blast him to space. Yeah Grace and Rocky did all that. But holy shit Stratt did all that too.

[vicholas]

The fact that after the United States the countries with most mormons are Mexico, Brazil, Philippines, Peru and Chile makes me want to scream. Kill all missionaries now.

[beatbizzle]

Mormons stole my great great grandmother from her husband, married her off to a white settler, and then sold all her land because she couldn't find the deed (they destroyed it) and now there's a whole ass freeway and demolished mall on our tribe's land that I see every day on my way to work.

The white men that did this have billions in generational wealth while my mother and grandmother both died from having inadequate healthcare.

When I say fuck mormon missionaries, I mean it so deeply and if I were capable of feeling hatred, it would be at that entire establishment.

Fuck. Mormon. Missionaries.

They tricked my great great (great?) grandfather into helping build a town that became one of the largest growing cities in the country, stole his daughters, killed his sons, and "blessed" the land in their colonial god's name. And the women were forced to convert or die.

[artbyblastweave]

I love the DCAU to pieces and I think it's in the running for "best cape adaptation" generally while also perpetually sitting near the top of my subjective personal favorites list of all media ever produced.. That said. I've felt for years that they sidestepped having to come up with a satisfying answer to the thematic Dilemma they raised with the Cadmus arc (no such answer exists) by having Braniac Show Up Outta Nowhere So There's A Big Monster to Punch

[artbyblastweave]

Nonetheless no subsequent adaptation of Cadmus and Amanda Waller in particular has come within spitting distance of understanding or caring about the extent to which she Very Obviously Has A Point

[artbyblastweave]

And to circle back to the sotto voice observations in the original post- the DCAU handily mitigates the potentially apocalyptic narrative consequences of pulling such a huge thematic dodge by having a really, really, really cool Big Monster To Punch + The Flash moment of all time.

[kittiescatlover]

A cat is a smart and mysterious animal from the planet cute

[helphusam12]

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[importantangeldefendor]

Insane that the wild robot didnt hit trans girls like a baseball at 500 MPH

[picturejasper20]

The Wild Robot really captures the messages of previous Chris Sanders' filmography (Lilo and Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon and Croods to an extent): the relationship that man has with nature, redemption, finding yourself outside what you are ¨expected¨ to be, but mainly about staying true to oneself and choose to be remain kind even when you have a harsh world going against you

[azertyrobaz]

Which is robot for: she loves you, very much.

[sapphoesque]

something that actually means so much to me was that roz was a woman & a robot. like there's the obvious fact of finally (!!) having a non-sexualised female robot, but also that she's allowed to make mistakes as a person and as a mother. she's not the evil mum ruining her kid's life or the perfect angel, she's just some guy who screws up sometimes. she's a character outside of the role of mother (she's the MAIN character!!!) and a well written one at that. roz, like many people raised to be a woman, was literally programmed to be subservient but she overcame that and built a network that love and support her back. strong female characters don't need to be the ultimate girlboss, sometimes they can be robot-mums to strange little birds, yk?

[importantangeldefendor]

Also this is a DEEPLY transfem movie

[tgirlarmin]

To my trans sisters if ur cis girlfriend doesn’t respect you for being a woman and tries to force you into the closet, dump her ass. I promise you there’s better people out there and you deserve so much more. That’s domestic abuse and you shouldn’t have to put up with it.

[dailytenkoappreciation]

Happy birthday to me!! Use this day wisely to ponder the nuance of tenko

Tenko telling people to transition

[cnmcn]

I keep thinking about tgirl sanji she’s like brain worms. My awesome manhating disney princess.

[madlluna]

Oh Taylor Hebert you are my favourite repressed transgender cis woman

[importantangeldefendor]

@girlsunstablebehavior how I feel about u

[artbyblastweave]

There is this thing I see people do sometimes where they start from a position of interrogating the unacknowledged humanity and internality and material circumstances and so on of the mooks that the good guys kick to pieces during the big action sequences, but they then overcorrect and come out the other side with something that basically just sounds to me like “those poor death camp guards were just trying to feed their families ”