something fruity is afoot

she/her | queer

[ladypaperwriterson]

[hoziersredguitar]

I'm gonna become even more obnoxious about defending ldpdl now. He did nothing wrong. Louis de kind du lac. Louis de brave du lac. Louis de empathetic du lac.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I wonder how it’s going in the universe where people decided to say ahoy when answering the phone instead of hello. Do you think they’ve achieved world peace?

[flopstat]

no but like lestat keeps being drawn to the non-sexual intimacy he shares with louis, with brushing of their hands, the moments of their pinkies touching......................................like that's so hugely important to lestat in a sea of hypersexualization, the fact that he and louis connect on a deep level....so to have their final scene being them lovingly touching each other's neck scars...

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’ve started listening to the book project Hail Mary and frankly there’s no room in the plot of this book for that man everyone seems to be shipping Grace with so I decided to look it up and apparently instead of letting a character not have a romantic interest y’all have yoinked a character out of some kind of Markiplier project

[beautiful-songbird]

How the new Odyssey movie sounds to me based off of what I’ve seen on tumblr

[ileftmysoulinnorway]

Hits differently.

[jumbleddufus]

The casting of nolans odyssey looks like if a preteen got really obsessed with a YA dystopia series and decided to make their own fan cast

[dramatic-dolphin]

and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

[hiveswap]

^^^ PEOPLE ARE STILL THERE. There's a metro station across the street from the colosseum where i found a hair in my pizza slice. We drove by ruins of an amphitheater next to a motorway in greece once. It's literally just real places where real people live and have lived. It's not mythical perfect lands that once existed. I went to Itacha in 2023 and there was not enough parking space.

[jumbleddufus]

Exploading rolin jones with my mind

[fay989]

Any TVL cast member being interviewed: yeah so when I first read the script I wanted to murder Rolin with my bare hands :) haha yeah he butchered my character so badly that I threw my laptop across the room :) aha and then I yelled at him for two hours which only resulted in minor tweaks to the script :) yeah I was so shocked and confused :) and he comes up with scenes that don’t make any sense in-universe. :) and I worry for the future of this tv show :) but it’s alright as long as you think about how [5 min in depth analysis of details that the cast member has come up themselves to justify the season despite these justifications not being evident in the actual show at all] aha :)

[suddenly-frankenstein]

suddenly, everyone around me disappears, like the rapture has come

[gremlininho]

let me. innnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

[kittybroker]

Don't let these prices hold you back! This fiendish kitty now coming in for only $6.89!

[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.

[mythalism]

nolan's odyssey is like fennel's wuthering heights. it's a self indulgent bastardization where the original's only purpose is for easy name-recognition marketing. nolan's odyssey is nolan's incomplete, immature interpretation of the odyssey in the same way that fennel's wuthering heights is, by her own description, a manifestation of how reading the book at 14 years old made her feel. nolan's odyssey is a manifestation of how reading the odyssey made christopher nolan personally feel. it has no larger point to make or greater question to ask or idea to explore. it is just how christopher nolan feels about the odyssey as a middle aged british man. it has absolutely zero interest in the source material and its historical and cultural context the way fennel's wuthering heights has no interest in its source material. whether you find it novel or enjoyable will depend on how much you can resonate with a white millionaire man's shallow, elementary interpretation of a story he can barely grasp the meaning of because he cannot engage with it past it's immediate effect on his own limited identity and worldview, the same way wuthering heights was enjoyable if you were able to resonate with a white, old-money british woman's shallow, elementary interpretation of a story she could barely grasp the meaning of because she could not engage with it past its immediate effect on her being horny and wanting to fuck jacob elordi. both are effectively self insert fanfiction masquerading as adaptations because the aesthetic of historical dramas makes movies marginally more exciting, or they would if the costumes weren't terrible, when really both would have worked far better as truly just modern retellings, because that is what they fundamentally are, and the time periods in which they are set are not the cultural foundation of the story, but meaningless set dressing.

[pangur-and-grim]

I hope my spider fucking book will hold universal appeal

[pangur-and-grim]

someone accused me of feigning a sexual attraction to spiders for clout. there's easier ways to get clout, man.....