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damn.

did stan have beef? or maybe he just loved a good punchline

If the lettering is by S. Rosen then he wrote that like he used his hands and pen to write that he was 100% on board especially with that last bit

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) :

catilinas

emily wilson translating the odyssey a second time???

succumbing-song

occidentalist

I learned a very long time ago that I could post in English on the Anglo internet about my experience as a sexual minority in the #middleeastandnorthafrica region. I could vent about every slight or slur, every indiscretion, all the doors that might not have closed in my face had I not been who I am. But that all it would do is earn me a seat at a table half the world away, a seat that I would lose the second I said “but my people are still human. But we are Arab women before we are queer women. But we are muslim before we are trans women. But we are imperialised subjects of the periphery before we are bisexuals. But we are ‘combat-aged males’ before we are gay men and boys.” A seat that I could only keep if I show a willingness to betray my people. And I will not. I do not want it. The price is too steep and the value too low.

I have come to know now that this western voraciousness for our stories was never an impulse born out of empathy; it has always been little more than a gathering of intel, of reasons to hate us and to justify the destruction of our bodies and the pillaging of our lands and the looting of our resources. So I no longer see the utility in being one more primary source for the proverbial NYT opinion editorial manufacturing consent for the latest campaign of imperial slaughter in my backyard on account of our inherent backwardness.

monstress

“I’ll write on the walls: You are sacred because I have made you sacred. There is no burning that I did not create.”

— Caitlyn Siehl, “Burning”

nunhauntology

lesbiantahani

Jenny Slate, Stage Fright (2019)

ryebreadgf

Ugly, Bitter, and True by Suzanne Rivecca

homemade-ghosts

John Mulaney on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (2020)

eugeniedanglars

“Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves” by David Wong

seravph

letters from Medea, salma deera

dykeselfcest

Dearest. … If I had only had courage enuf to kill myself when you reached the climax then—then I would have known happiness, for at that moment I had complete possession of you. Now you see the yearning I am possessed with—the yearning to possess you at all times and it is impossible. What greater suffering can there be—what greater heaven—what greater hell? And how the will to live sticks in me when I wish to live after possessing you. Satisfied? Ah God, no! At this moment I am listening to the rhythm of the pulse coming thru your throat. I am surg[ing] along with your life blood, coursing thru the secret places of your body.

Letter from Almeda Sperry to Emma Goldman, 1912, quoted in Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman

rozecrest

(from the tombs of atuan afterword) this happened in utena

dykesbat

[Text ID: Rereading the book, more than forty years after I wrote it, I wonder about many of its elements. It was the first book I wrote with a woman as the true central character. Tenar’s character and the events of the story came from deep within me, so deep that the subterranean and labyrinthine imagery, and a certain volcanic quality, are hardly to be wondered at. But the darkness, the cruelty, the vengefulness… After all, I could have just let them go free— why did I destroy the whole Place of the Tombs with an earthquake? It’s a kind of suicide, the Nameless Ones annihilating the temple in a vast spasm of rage. Maybe it was the whole primitive, hateful idea of the feminine as dark, blind, weak, and evil that I saw shaking itself to pieces, imploding, crumbling into wreckage on a desert ground. And I rejoiced to see it fall. I still do. End ID.]

geryone

Judas Goat, Gabrielle Bates

theknightlywolfe

When the CEO of the company that didn't turn away Nazi business says "this isn't going to work" you know it's bad.

unrelatedwaffle

404 has been knocking it out of the park since they started. Please support their original reporting on this! If you subscribe to nothing else I highly recommend them. Their podcast is great too.

Planning documents for "Scout" say the plan is to "make people addicted" to the tool before adding new features.

thecryptkeeper

if you please i would love a really immersive and fun novel the kind that’s really really fun to read

HIII so most novels i read are not "fun" in the way of themes/subject matter (ex. Beloved by Toni Morrison) but i will list some novels i have on the list (and maybe others who are more novel-readers than i can chime in on some good reads)

- Picture Bride - Yoshiko Uchida

- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

- Martyr!: A Novel - Kaveh Akbar

- The Antidote - Karen Russell

- Land: A Novel - Maggie O'Farrell

- I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

- Kin - Tayari Jones

- Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin