Holy Hyperfixations Batman!

Christi, 20's, I'm a dumbass sapphic nerd, I hyperfixate and no I will not applogize, thats a you problem now. 

[guerrillatech]

[serialreblogger]

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[kawaiijellymonster]

I spent way too long on this.

[samreich]

[sebere-art]

Dragon breath

[animentality]

[thesecretthirdoption]

AND ANOTHER THING about Supergirl is that I was really worried the movie would be all “take the high ground” about killing human traffickers and shit, but then at the end Kara just fucking stabs that guy TWICE and I realized the movies actually about cycles of abuse and protecting the innocent

[redhoodxme]

EXACTLY. THIS IS WHY I LOVED SUPERGIRL.

[animentality]

[hotchology]

bye bye nicholas hoult.

[hotchology]

u will go to hell

[missmitchieg]

Oh COME ON HIM TOO???

[stillnotmollified]

some of you weren’t around for the fan fiction dot net purge of 2002 (when they banned explicit content and mass-deleted thousands of fics) and the livejournal purge of 2007 (when they deleted hundreds of blogs, disproportionately targeting queer & kink content) and it shows

this kind of policing is why ao3 was created

remember, kids, the three laws of fandom are:

- don’t like; don’t read

- your kink is not my kink

- ship and let ship

[phantomrose96]

After 13 years of this, it's still funny to me that detailing a full mental breakdown on tumblr is standard fare, but posting a nice selfie is a fraught decision.

[loki-zen]

this is the correct way around and every other social media site is wrong

[hungwy]

theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

[nutropes]

Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

[emilyofjane]

[cannucks-addiction]

And that love lived on Theo's wife, Johanna, who was the one who pushed for the preservation of Vincent's paintings. Johanna who made sure that her husband's beloved brother would not be forgotten. Johanna who fought tooth and nail so that Theo and Vincent would never be forgotten. Johanna who carried the family legacy, who made sure that the works of Vincent would be kept in her possession. And then Vincent Willem, named for a uncle so loved, carried this legacy and founded the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.

The van Gogh family history is deeply interwoven with love. It was the love of a brother that gave a young man the courage to paint and the resources to do so. It was the love of a woman for her husband and her husband's beloved brother that made that story known. And it was the love of a nephew, who was so deeply loved even if for such a short time, that made it possible for the world to know Vincent van Gogh.

[3madmax3]

I just watched the oddessy and I’ve gotta say, it felt quite underwhelming. I was expecting a big ACCURATE epic with nobody, the gods, the olive bed test but I got a war film. My Main gripe is how many vital moments got cut, it made Odysseus less of a trickster when he is almost constantly referred to as a trickster king.

[buteverybodylovesmee]

i j saw the odyssey and that was one of the coolest fucking movies ive ever seen shout out chris nolan for all the weird shit they did to make it it was so much better than if it was all ai and green screens

[myfanfictiongarden]

Odysseus: Why can't gods speak in ways we understand? Athena: Who doesn't understand thunder? Fire? A child's smile? A good harvest?

What I really liked about this movie is the “realistic” presence of gods in this world. They are not dressed fancy and laughing on Mount Olympus, no, they are ever present and you wonder where you not might spot them. Was the old man Telemachus spoke to in the beginning Athena in disguise, urging the young man to search for news of his father? Is she in Mentor, giving support to young Telemachus? The young prestress who was defiled by the greek soldiers in front of Odyssey’s eyes? You have to treat others kind and with respect, for you never know if one of the gods has not in that moment taken up that likeness. When thunder rumbles you know it is Zeus speaking judgment, when you see the sea you know it is Poseidon’s domain.

[palmnix]

The criticism around Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey is interesting but i think ignores a very central part to Nolan's adaptation. The point of making it in the first place. Now i am not the foremost spokesperson on The Odyssey, but i think there are 2 aspects of the movie that people are ignoring the nuance in. (Spoilers of changes to the original text below, read at your discretion)

1. Athena

Yes, the twist is interesting and to some people ruins the entire movie. I get it. It frames all the conversations Odysseus has with her as a figment of imagination. Esentially taking away another female characters' agency. HOWEVER. I don't like the idea that just because she has taken the form of his guilt that it isnt still the Goddess Athena talking to him and guiding him. As far as im aware it isn't an uncommon tactic for Gods in mythology to take other forms.

2. The Guilt

I strongly believe that Odysseus's guilt and all the references to the Horse and having started the chain reaction of the broken Law of Zeus is something Nolan added to make a point. Yes, it may not be historically accurate. But when making adaptations like these it is extremely common for filmmakers to inject their own politics and takes into the story. It's the same as any art. And frankly when it comes to that y'all are missing the point. Odysseus cares so deeply of the line he stepped over in Troy because Nolan is trying to draw a parallel to our world right now. He is speaking on the Hate that runs rampant in our communities and talking about the respect that we should have for each other (Zeus's Law) and how we have lost that. In that way, Odysseus is the Villain. He spelt it out for us in Oppenheimer and clearly he doesn't think it was enough because to me that was a clear theme in Odyssey.

This is all my interpretation of course. And i dont know if a 50 year old White Englishman shares these opinions. But i think one of the strengths of Nolan's works is that regardless of setting, he is commentating on something within our current, modern society. And in my opinion this is that.

Obviously the Sinion stuff was making a different point, you can find out more about that here.

[bonelai]

It's interesting to see people warn Odysseus of the men from the sea because it really tells you how lost they are and how long they have been out there. Like we might not see all the places they landed in but it's enough that word is spending faster about what they have done to survive than who they actually are. Like we are seeing in real time civilization move on from them as they try to get home. And to hear Penelope's realization? I wasn't surprised in the slightest. It was confirmation of what I already knew.

I think it's also ironic that all these years she had been begging for stories of Odysseus and she had gotten them. Just not in the shape she was looking for or knew to recognize. Not once did anyone describe the men from the sea but if they had, I think it would be a completely different story. It's like the gods whisked them off into a place shrouded, similar to Calypso's island.

[idgafak]

[the odyssey, 2026]

[velvetvexations]

Part One

This is entirely on the basis that xenia is applied to a begger, which it is in the source material as well. This is so fucking stupid. It's made repeatedly clear throughout the movie that xenia applies to everyone and not just from the rich to the poor.

Do you hear that? It's the "Emily Wilson didn't watch the fucking movie" alarm! It is repeated several times that killing the suitors would violate xenia, and is part of why Odysseus exiles himself at the end.

Incorrect once again! They don't know the Cyclops is possibly Poseidon's son until after they already blind him, which the sailors who listened to his words don't bring up until they're already on the ocean again because they're not totally sure and are only reaching that conclusion now because they think they've been cursed, and Odysseus taking a Parthian shot getting out of the cave is nonetheless depicted as arrogance that makes the escape harder than it needed to be.

The translator of the ancient Greek epic is criticizing the adaption for "king good" because apparently it's hypocritical for Odysseus to be generous or do any of the work with his men instead of being a more tyrannical autocrat.

I'm not saying a communist take on Greek myth about wealth redistribution wouldn't fuck, but this seems like a somewhat ridiculous expectation.

Yeah, I agree Emily, The Odyssey would be a better film if only Chris had given a thumbs up to murdering your daughter. His strange choice to narrative condemn that can only be the result of stubborn insistence on a USAmerican viewpoint. If there was a Canadian film Agamemnon would have fought Clytemnestra off and convinced her to give him another five daughters to fuel his ship's sails.

Why is so much of her criticism literally just that the famous wife guy is an actual wife guy this time?

The spreading violence is depicted as destroying civilization, with Greeks pillaging and setting fire to villages while reacting in confusion to being mistaken for Sea People, and the ghost of the priestess Odysseus watched be executed tells him the gods are retreating from the mortal world in disgust, so no, I would say that is depicting it as bad and not simply something Odysseus feels guilt about.

Once again, that fighting the suitors means continuing to break xenia is a central conflict.

Goddamn, I fucking get it, you're real disappointed Odysseus didn't whip his dick out, can you stop whining about it for five fucking minutes.

This is true, but considering the main scenes in which characters eat are the villainous suitors greedily leeching off of Penelope, men being cursed to eat massive amounts of food against their will while a witch enacts body horror on them, and the crew breaking a divine law that will inevitably lead to their deaths, I can't help but wonder if that was the point. If Emily WIlson's PhD were in film criticism and not jackassery she might have asked herself the same before deciding to be weirdly petty.

What an utterly insane thing to write after "I would be ashamed to have written this."

Okay, there. We've established that I am approximately one million times smarter than Emily Wilson. My goal in writing this is to extend my light of knowledge to yall so that you'll also be smarter than Emily Wilson. It shouldn't be difficult.