everything is romantic

maeve, late 20s, india

[lucktofate]

yeah

[massive-alboner]

Watching formula one races this season got me saying shit like ‘the good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away’ as if im 14 again

[lucktofate]

i hope their upgrade in baku turns the williams into a rocketship and I hope alex albon actually CAPITALISES ON IT AND IS BLESSED AND HAS AN AMAZING SECOND HALF OF THE SEASON

[lucktofate]

wdym the baku upgrade won't close the gap

[princemick]

belgian gp 2026 .. post race

[dosmiltres]

alex albon | post-race interview - belgium gp 2026

[russelliv]

George's radio when he DNF'd HOLY SHIT

source: @/bluestar4535 on twt

[gremlininho]

[cinematicexcursions]

sorry what did you say? I was too busy thinking about that shot of Agamemnon once the gates opened in the Odessey

[trautkeinenartigenkindern]

I'm about to say something controversial. I watched Nolan's Odyssey today and overall enjoyed it. Details under the readmore

Stuff they changed that annoyed me:

- Odysseus doesn't feign madness, instead honorably follows Melenaus because he fears Agamemnon's reaction if he doesn't

- Odysseus is more honorable than he is smart, what's that stupid fucking Thing with warning the prey. Idiot (I know it ties into the overall characterization and final message, but ugh. This is ODYSSEUS)

- Doesn't even eat any of the Cyclops' sheep, the Cyclop just starts eating people willy nilly. Okay then. Kinda following that:

- His men dying is truly more whims of the immortals instead of Odysseus' decisions. Sigh.

-Sinon's change of narrative is kind of ambivalent, at least it's interesting I guess, but again. It's Sinon!

- Melantho being Like That... is not innovative at all and very much follows the misogyny of the original. Found it tiring and boring.

Stuff I liked:

- Penelope... of course they went with that casting. And I think that's fully correct, don't know what people's deal is.

- The colors are actually fine? Have you been to the Mediterranean? It looks like that when you walk around there.

- Being inside the horse felt more believable than it ever did in any book version I ever read

- The opening of the gates was also pretty realistic. It's a stealth AND speed mission and it's a close call. It has to be.

- Agamemnon being so fucking unlikeable. They put him into historical and political context pretty well. This is HIS war and he was willing to sacrifice all these people including his daughter.

- Zendaya as Athena/ Cassandra. I mean... it's Zendaya. But I really liked this version, because it focuses on her canonical horror of what she has unleashed upon Troy.

- I liked that it assumed you are here because you like the Myths and know something about it. Little references everywhere, doesn't bother immediately explaining everything

- Callipso as an ambivalent yet sympathetic character, but also the horror of her. She decides what's good for you and you WILL like it.

- Speaking of horror: Great body horror with Circe. That transformation is PAINFUL. Same with the the depiction of Hades

- How the men stop listening to Odysseus and start following Eurylochos

- Tom Holland in that wonderful outfit. The one when he does paperwork at night. That's the guy the internet fell in love with, very Umbrella reminiscent

- Pretty great depiction of the classic kind of PTSD as it was first constructed by western psychiatry. The wounds you afflict yourself with by being a war criminal

- And finally: Taking responsibility even for stuff you're not actually responsible for is a kind of hubris. Important message to myself and many people I know, actually.

- Bonus: This movie ISN'T grimdark! I know we all harp on Nolan for making everything grimdark, but this movie really isn't. They really said "most wars are crimes so terrible that we lose our own humanity when we engage in them. However, we can reforge that. We can decide to not engage again."

[onadarklingplain]

David Coulthard and Lily Muni He || Spa 2026 - Race - Photo: Mark Sutton

[meightyone]

kimi keeps violating track limits because they took him out of school before he learned to colour in the lines #SAD

[lucktofate]

the williams is just so slow

[umgeorge]

george russell is interviewed after retiring from the race, belgium - july 19, 2026 📷 francesca anna tantone / alamy

[dykeseinfeld]

the odyssey will never be adapted perfectly! it's too long, it's too dense, it's too long in scope, it's too contradictory. so much happens but also in another way almost nothing happens. the world it portrays is so foreign to us it's difficult to adapt the values and context needed to understand. you're never going to get it all onto a screen it just doesn't fit. and once you accept that it only deepens your appreciation of the original text and allows you to accept each adaptation for its own purposes and limitations

[cerusee]

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

[lucktofate]

it's so over

[albonk]

this chalex meal omg