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good night remember that zuko always has been and always will be gay

jack kerouac went on one gayass road trip and now we have to deal with all of this

#do u guys think i can convince my brother to listen to an audiobook of on the road when we're on the road

the secret to organising any kind of trip with your friends is to become the benevolent dictator. do NOT wait for everyone to provide a consensus on things before you book anything. do it and then ask for feedback after. do not ask people what they would like to do just tell them what is happening and let them all nod along like the sheep they are. this is the ONLY way to coordinate a group of adults in their 20s/30s

#dude it's only a 2-person trip and i was still so relieved when my brother was like “ok so can u plan everything”

odyssey is a crazy name for a car

#txt #my dad's odyssey broke down a couple months ago #also like 3 or so years ago i was stuck at a waffle house until ass o'clock in the morning bc it broke down #or actually i think that time it was just a flat #i was in phoenix. another greek word

had water for the first time since the fast started bc i was feeling a bit faint and my sweat glands were like Ok time to go crazy

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the thing is i wanna get more into ancient epics bc im not all that familiar w any aside from the one god gave us and i really do love ancient stories. they persist for a reason yknow. but im getting so annoyed w the posts suggested to me by classics ppl on tumblr lol

#i didnt appreciate antigone when i read it in hs #txt

ok instead of posting about other ppls posting. here's an opinion i have about the odyssey (2026). i do think there's a certain sensibility to it that won't allow odysseus to truly be a complex character. that it wants to tell us that odysseus is flawed but isnt actually so interested in showcasing his flaws beyond the surface. and this does relate to how he didn't come across as quite as deceitful or arrogant as his character in homer's epic (as i understand it) is. and this is unfortunate but i find it interesting that the same can be said of nolan's oppenheimer; oppenheimer and odysseus are both tortured with guilt over something that the narrative never fully allowed them to have a choice over. which makes them more sympathetic at the expense of making them less interesting. and in both cases, too, the victims of the atrocities designed by the heroes aren't given any interiority. in oppenheimer, it was a very notable choice to not have a single japanese person onscreen. in a story like the odyssey, i do think the story would've benefitted from showing any of the iliad's trojan characters' perspectives on anything. also i <3 cassandra. ultimately in both of these cases it's a choice between focusing on the hero's internal processing of the events vs taking the time (in an already very long movie) to show the wider impact. i think i would've found the latter more compelling

#i did though see someone say that matt damon was a bad choice if u wanted an egotistical trickster and the thing is #have you watched the talented mr ripley. will you watch the talented mr ripley. when will you watch the talented mr ripley #txt #the odyssey 2026

i do think being annoyed by les mis fandom prompted me to develop very specific ways of thinking about political themes in fiction lol i understand that not everyone has had this same experience as me

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also i fully don't get why people are calling the odyssey fashy unless it's just the idea of the west as the inheritors of ancient greece/the occasional framing of ancient greece as one coherent entity. which like. really wasn't particularly present imo? or like. it's present so that it can be used as a storytelling device about the fall of the american empire. and obviously it's interesting to examine the assumptions necessary for that to work as a storytelling device but my goal when talking about fiction isn't to condemn stuff like this lol

#the thing is like my view of this movie was obviously very influenced by the fact that it's now a Tisha b'Av Movie in my head but like #that perception really doesn't come out of nowhere?#txt #anyway i have been reflecting recently about how i think i might think about politics in stories differently from a lot of tumblr users #in that i really don't see fiction as vessels politics like unless it's an organized propaganda effort lol #fiction to me is more about how things feel and therefore can be about politics (famously something people have feelings about)#but. the goal is not to be correct

it's crazy bc developing opinions on art is one of my favorite hobbies and i love to have opinions about things that don't matter but at the end of the day sometimes it depends. or like. part of the task of being correct about everything is acknowledging that sometimes other people have points

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can't sleep at all im stuck with reading/watching various posts where people have opinions about the odyssey

#the thing is that when it comes to positive opinions I'm usually like “yeah i mean that much is obvious”#and when it comes to negative opinions it's a scale between “i think you didn't watch the movie”#to “yeah i understand that grievance but this movie isn't gonna be everything you want” to “yeah fair point”#so i guess sometimes they're interesting but more often they annoy me #txt

aurpiment

I wish insomnia at least gave you more usable hours in the day instead of just more hours where you are stupid

nessa007

#it depends what im up to but probably not. our age of bronze is collapsing after all

i really can't sleep if its above 72f/21c and like a bit more than that if I have a fan. i don't know how other people manage

#txt #i mean at least like. soundly + for more than an hour or so

lhavdil

im trying to figure out what other movie line im reminded of with "our age of bronze is collapsing" . best comparisons i can think of are "somehow palpatine returned" and "i will no longer be the prince of shame and secrets" but they're not quite the same thing

lhavdil

i did give this movie 4.5 stars on letterboxd bc that's how affective i found it but the .5 stars lost was largely bc i could not simply ignore how clunky some of the dialogue was lol

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im trying to figure out what other movie line im reminded of with "our age of bronze is collapsing" . best comparisons i can think of are "somehow palpatine returned" and "i will no longer be the prince of shame and secrets" but they're not quite the same thing

#it's just like. me when it's the bronze age and it's collapsing #txt

ok i don't usually look much at letterboxd reviews written by ppl who idk so i imagine this is indeed common but whyyy are the top reviews for the odyssey all like 1-line jokes that have been made on twitter/tumblr a million times already like it legitimately feels disrespectful

#txt #maybe it's not this deep but when i see this im like oh wait are you all not also consumed with grief every waking moment

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