study and tea

she/her // 26 // whatever I'm currently interested in // from germany

[icaseybaybee]

[lettuce-from-the-salad-bar]

[longseasons]

"why do you want to gossip with the girls?" why do i want to learn from the poets, the writers, the thinkers, the scientists, the mathematicians, the intuitive, and the philosophers? is that what you're asking me?

[academic-vampire]

𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔪𝔫’𝔰 𝔰𝔬𝔣𝔱 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔯

[saintsatellite-deactivated20240]

when someone has "taken" in their bio it's bc they've been consumed by the fog

[shakespearesdaughters]

[saltoncity]

“i love how we as a fandom have just agreed that–” don’t include me in this. do NOT lump me in with that.

[maureen2musings]

Västerbotten, Sweden

gammsystrar

[haymitchandthegeese]

just get me out of here 😭

creds: pinterest

[notebookist]

went to the used & rare bookstore downtown to buy one book for my friend, and came back with all of these beauties. i cannot be trusted around old books.

[whimsicalfairytales]

The “nobody” scene in the odyssey is absolutely not just a clever pun—it’s a character defining moment for Odysseus because he refuses to be nobody. He devised an incredible plan that worked and he could have saved his men and returned home much sooner but he just had to yell to the cyclops that he isn’t nobody—he’s Odysseus, king of Ithaca so now Poseidon knows who to curse which severely fucks up the rest of the journey.

The “nobody” scene highlights both Odysseus’s cleverness but also his arrogance and those two traits define Odysseus throughout the entire story. It’s a foundational aspect of Odysseus’s character and cutting the scene displays a shocking level of ignorance and disregard for the themes in the source material.

[pefkaes]

11.08.2026 // feels like i'm just working 3 jobs at once.

my contextual chapter is turning out to be quite challenging to write as i figure out how to bring together the multiples strands of scholarship that i'm drawing from in my research. i have been feeling pretty frustrated with myself, but as i keep saying, i am getting somewhere. sometimes i feel like flinging my entire thesis (whatever i've written so far) out of the window. however, as a friend keeps reminding me, the drafting phase is always unpleasant.

📚 Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar (1936/2024)

📺 The East Palace (2026)

[dragonfly1302]

Big fan of robert pattinson going “shields.. SHIELDS!😯 spears… SPEARS!😧” as he cowers in the shadows with a trembling hand watching odysseus john wick the shit out of the suitors with a loose arrow

[enlitment]

spill for me, Muse, the wine-dark tea on a problematic man

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

"we cut the nobody scene from the odyssey" "we cut the religious trauma and parental abuse from carrie" i'm starting to think that studios barely funding original films is starting to have an effect where directors make up a story and then slap an IP on it in order to sell. or maybe some bitches just can't read anymore idk it's one or the other

[whencartoonsruletheworld]

hearing anything about the nolan odyssey is so funny. it's like "they cut the extremely important and infamous nobody scene" "the cyclops is a giant puppet that they put in an actual historical cave + gave circe animatronics for her pig transformation instead of cgi" "they dumped plastic skeletons in an environmentally protected location they were not supposed to be in" "they recreated ancient greek instruments in order to have an accurate score" "all of odysseus's agency is basically gone" "anne hathaway actually learned how to weave ancient looms" "the women in this movie are treated like shit" "they actually buried actors alive to get those underworld shots" "did you see what the fuck zendaya was fucking wearing holy shit you can't DO THAT, MA'AM" "what do you mean there was a legitimate epic the musical reference" "NOT A SINGLE FUCKING GREEK WAS CAST IN THIS MOVIE"

like did nolan have two guys standing at his side at all times whispering ideas in his ear and one told the truth and the other told lies and they didnt tell him which was which until they wrapped production cause

[insomniac-arrest]

I think we should figure out what age we’re living in now so we can say how it’s collapsing to each other

[evidently-endless]

the odyssey (2026)