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@m-bj
Well hello there, I'm Marta, a person (lei/essa/ella, she/her) from North Italy who loves nature, history and drawing. Hope you'll enjoy your stay!
You can find my art under the tag #m-bj art
Requests and commisions are closed, art trades are open but I keep the freedom of deciding if decline.
(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them
I actually really dislike this framing of the whole thing.
This kind of assessment creates a false dichotomy of the Smart Reaction of Scholars and the Stupid Reaction of Hoi Polloi, when there are plenty of classical scholars (hi) who also very much dislike what Nolan has done with this text. My thoughts on the film are more aligned with the people bewailing the Nobody episode. Now not all those people have the toolbox I have for criticizing the film, and certainly some of them are being a bit myopic and histrionic about XYZ pet peeve, but that doesn’t mean that they’re seeing problems that aren’t there. I’m one of Martin’s fellow classicists, and I seriously disliked what this film was doing as an adaptation. I’ve had conversations with several of my colleagues who’ve seen the film and had similar thoughts to me. So putting it this way is at best an oversimplification, at worst insufferably smug and elitist.
And frankly, I think in this the year of our lord 2026, we can raise the bar higher than “All publicity about Homer is good publicity.” For one, I think we should also ask whether engagement with Homer, or with any aspect of antiquity, is well thought out and well crafted, or at least has some interest in the original beyond the surface—which as I note in my review linked above, I don’t think this is. And trust me, I know that Classics is kinda desperate for engagement right now and some professors are probably trying not to piss in anyone’s cornflakes lest we lose potential students. But when guys like Christopher Nolan (not one of Martin’s fellow classicists, but one of his fellow old white men with cultural capital) just use antiquity to bemoan the broad decline of civilization, I think we should question that. The film’s political resonances are weird and, to my mind at least, parrot a lot of conservative rhetoric. Nolan’s changes to the text are key to that; they are not neutral and have narrative and political implications. Regardless of whether or not he meant it to come off that way, I think it’s worth talking about, especially given the ways that classical antiquity, as supposed paragon of ~Western Civilization~, is utilized on the political right.
how it feels to read 85 pages of a book in one sitting
reblog to give a strawberry to the person you reblogged this from
i guess i will have to save myself
Guerre stellari - Star Wars
(George Lucas, 1977)
Grazie a Gaetanosar2024
being vulnerable and admitting I don't understand a reference
The Avengers
(Joss Whedon, 2012)
Grazie a Gaetanosar2024
while u all know to me clark kent smallville is a kinsey 6 homosexual you maybe don't know i think he's the only one like i think pretty much all other clark's are straight or bisexual and i think he finds this out at the big multiverse meeting like talking about how hard it is that he doesn't want to fuck his hot girlfriend and not being attracted to women but forced to have so much sex with them and all the other supermen are like um no yeah i do like personally for myself no hate only love personally for myself i love eating pussy. yeah women are extremely attractive and then they can see he's starting to freak out so a few of them are like but you know men are great too! and birthright superman is like yeah i mean i mostly prefer men and 2025 superman is like lois pegs me which isn't the same thing but he thinks it might help. which it doesn't. and gay clark kent smallville is like oh my god even among all the other supermen in the multiverse im completely alone and a freak next thing i know you guys are going to tell me you weren't friends with lex luthor and 2025 superman is like LEX??? and current run superman is like i mean yeah sure i let him hit sometimes (shrug) and birthright superman is like the way our friendship in high school fell apart is my greatest regret. and gay clark is like oh wow at least there's that he was so much cooler and older i never understood why he'd want to waste his time with a high school kid like me and then all the supermen are like wait what. and clark's like um we met when i was in high school? and they're like and he was too right? and clark's like no he was CEO of lexcorps and they're like wait so how old and gay clark's like im not sure i should answer that and theyre all like gay clark how old was he!! and gay clark is like im MORE than just gay clark and then 2025 superman is like yeah you're also statuatory in progress clark and then he's like darn it sorry that wasn't very nice and gay clark is like (crossing his arms) i dont have to listen to this. my wife is waiting for me on the other side of the portal. and then while all the other supermen are mouthing things like wife? wasn't he gay? he jumps back through. and tells lois that they'll have to reschedule they're monthly two minute missionary because he thinks the trip did something to his body.
take my ass to torture city where the grass is ouch and the girls are hit me
nope. funkytown again
no i dont think women starving themselves and reconstructing their entire faces with makeup and plastic surgery is feminism and female empowerment
a lot of people assume psychosis hallucinations are super intense all-consuming horror movie shit like the memes about the hat man or always horrible debilitating things that make you dangerous to be around
but in my experience 95% of my hallucinations are getting spooked by very clearly hearing someone knocking on my door or calling my name from another room or hearing footsteps walking behind me which are "just" my brain recreating the horror of an abusive childhood
i *have* gotten the "bugs crawling all over me" hallucination once or twice though and yeah that one is exactly as terrible horrible as it sounds AUGH
(not trying to put you on blast specifically, you're just a good example to jump off of)
media and pop culture hypes up psychosis a lot as The Worst That Can Happen out of sanism, so even when you try and filter that cultural bias out you still assume it's based on something
when, no, psychosis is actually very simple: it's just hyperactive pattern matching. it's your brain's signal-to-noise ratio being off balance, it's seeing images in random static. it's not always this special uniquely big thing, it's in fact quite mundane a lot of the time.
no one is immune to psychosis, it's not purely the realm of the insane. anyone is one bad night of sleep or one bad case of food poisoning or one bad fever away from being just like me on my worst days.
and this, indeed, is why solidarity with the insane is so important: you, yes you too, are just one bad day from joining us, and no perceptions of being a "temporarily embarrassed sane person" will save you from the oppression of the psychiatric institution.
once I snorted a fat line of nuance and everything started depending. watch out
a lot of anti-historian stuff comes across like “i want history to be simple and i am suspicious of people who tell me it’s not” and this is a thing you see from people on any place on the political spectrum
"work in progress" is actually so misleading like it assumes that im actually making progress on my work
hotd is soooooooooooooo good when its good. highest of highs. and then it will randomly be soooooooo stupid and bad. and then it will be soooo good again and you will almost forget that it just did something stupid. but then it will do something stupid again and you go ohhh. yes thats hotd
