I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

I feel it is only fair to warn you that I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing.

[teaboot]

Me, talking to my therapist: …there were a lot of children, and I was the oldest, so I wasn’t really a child, I was just a third parent. And I get it, I do, but I still can’t shake off this compulsion to watch and take care of everyone all the time. And I’m not unhappy doing it, but it does make me tired. And I wonder what kind of person I’d be if I wasn't still like this

Me: And I mean, I don’t know. I like ensuring everyone is safe and cared for, and I’m really good at it, but sometimes I just feel like my parents raised a sheepdog instead of a kid

[sudden flashback to when I was 12 and an entire herd of sheep got loose into the front yard and dad sent me out alone to corral them back into their field by myself cause he didn’t want to deal with it]

Me: ………wait a minute

[penny-anna]

Anyway here is my take:

I think trying to make a movie out of The Odyssey (not the story of Odysseus, but The Odyssey as in the poem) is a bit of a doomed endeavour as the structure of The Odyssey simply does not jive with the structure of the Hollywood movie

I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.

[penny-anna]

Here are my opinions:

The Odyssey should be a musical but ☝️only some of the time. When Odysseus is narrating? Musical. Penelope and Telemachus on Ithaca? 🙅‍♀️

Odysseus can break the fourth wall during the parts where he's narrating.

Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

[penny-anna]

In essence am I implying it should be tonally similar to the emperor's new groove but with ultra violence? Perhaps

[penny-anna]

#but more to the point of the original post: i wish moviegoing audiences were more skeptical of the ability of Hollywood#to adapt any and everything#like. i still think about how jeff smith's bone has floated around in development hell over several different iterations for DECADES#and like. HONESTLY? good. it doesnt need to be anything other than a comic.

this is a bit tangential but. yeah. it is straight up hollywood propaganda i think. everything must eventually become a hollywood movie. books must become hollywood movies. comics must become hollywood movies. successful movies from other countries must become hollywood movies. & ur mainstream hollywood movie is a pretty narrow category of what a movie can be.

[gracerockyyes]

Think fast, you magnificent dumb-dumb

[fleetwood-mac-andcheese]

[itsbasil]

you put those tags on this post where they belong

[aropride]

joke i like to make when a baby is crying in public is “we’ve all been there.” We literally have

[elveny]

If your business can only be reached and all info about it only be accessed via Facebook or Instagram, know that it isn’t reachable or accessible AT ALL.

The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.

Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!

[cybermanes-deactivated20251227]

wow babe you’re really good at staying up incredibly late and barely sleeping every night

[bothpalms]

Baba's domain 🐈 Collab with @ceeejus 🌟

[ceeejus]

🐈‍⬛

[chaumas-deactivated20240115]

inevitably when you talk about stuff like this someone will come along like “so you think 3 year olds should be allowed to vote for milkshake video game, drive truck, and marry pedophiles?” because even just asking people to consider how an entire category of people may be harmed by being under the absolute unquestioned unlimited dominion of another is just too difficult

[pangur-and-grim]

I'm so addicted to deleting posts. not even controversial ones, just like anything. I'll briefly post an anecdote or my opinion of a movie, think about it for a few minutes, and then go NOPE no one needs to see that! this post too, I'll probably delete it before you can reply. just watch.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

*takes the hand of a period drama writer gently* A queen consort is not a queen regnant. A dowager queen is not a queen regnant either.

There is very little intrinsic institutional power in queenship. The power a consort, dowager, or queen mother has depends mostly on how much the reigning sovereign (usually a man) is willing to grant her. Needing a queen to serve as regent is exceptionally rare, and the regent is more often a male relative.

I know this is a bit of a bummer. I'm sorry.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

For clarity:

Queen regnant: woman who rules in her own right, not on behalf of someone else.

Regent: Someone who temporarily assumes the powers of the monarch on account of the monarch being too young or too incapacitated to govern.

Queen consort: Woman who is married to the monarch.

Dowager queen: Woman who was married to the monarch. The monarch is dead, and she is owed support as his widow.

Queen mother: Woman who is the mother of the monarch. Usually the dowager queen, though there are exceptions if there isn't a straight line of succession.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[abyssal-ilk]

save me loyal to the death second in command characters. save me. love you loyal second in command characters that are forced to turn against their leader. save me. loyalty

[abyssal-ilk]

SAVE ME LOYALTY BOUND CHARACTERS.

[abyssal-ilk]

ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE WOMEN❗️❗️❗️

[willpowers]

white usamericans when asked how they're doing, will never say "bad". they'll just say "I'm hanging in there" and that is universally understood as them being so so bad. like. no american is happily hanging in there. we don't like the hang.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[tahthetrickster]

[taraxippos]

I think this is the single funniest artfight rule. Like....I guess?

[taraxippos]

[taraxippos]

WHO DID THIS

[taraxippos]

Rockwith Aleaf

[pankendev]

(snaps out of it) OH MY GOD WHAT HAVE I BEEN DOING!! HOLY JESUS CHRIST FUCK WHY DID NOBODY TRY TO STOP ME (eases back into it) ahhhh. yeah this feels right