[nonlynear]

who up mistaking oars for shovels

[bennettfinn]

FINN BENNETT as ROBERT FRANKLIN BACKROOMS (2026)

[unusual-suspects]

seven ravens, Agartaa

[weaver-z]

Mutuals do this

[swordbymyside]

[drops-of-universe]

please dont vape your blueberry ice flavor around my kid. we are raising him on marlboro reds exclusively.

[nonlynear]

when my high school english teacher made a bunch of us overachieving stem kids watch dead poets society.. i knew then that i had a big storm coming

[lokihiddleston]

DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)

[welli-moon]

“I was good, i was really good”

[spiribia]

every time with sashimi it's like well how good could it be, it's just raw fish and you take a bite and start ripping your clothes off and roaring

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I always wondered where does the extra e in "el esnupi" come from?

S + Consonant sound combos at the start of a word are allowed in English phonotactics but not in Spanish phonotactics, which makes these combos at the start of a word unfamiliar to pronounce for the vast majority of native Spanish speakers, who tend to automatically insert an E- sound at the start when pronouncing these words, as a way to sorta unconsciously "adapt" them to spanish pronunciation rules. (e.g. pronouncing Steven as "Estiven")

As someone who used to be an ESL teacher here in Latin America, I noticed the tendency to do this in the vast majority of my students. Unless they've already developed an ear for English phonotactics, it's a very hard habit to break because most people don't even consciously realize they're doing it.

It also tends to result in a lot of people who aren't fluent in written English inserting an e at the start of S + Consonant words they're unfamiliar with the spelling of, because they write them down the way they'd pronounce them.

[endof-vanity]

my prediction for the odyssey film is that ben affleck plays all of the sirens

[stelladiver81]

“bro. broooooo. i got you an iced cawfeeeee bro. lahge regulah. a LAAAAHGE. ovah heahhhh”

[hotvampireadjacent]

[endof-vanity]

my prediction for the odyssey film is that ben affleck plays all of the sirens

[requiem-on-water]

Survival (1983–85) by Jenny Holzer

[ninakaina]

everybody leaving tags on my letterboxd roundup like "they didn't do the nobody scene??" we're so fucking past that i need you to catch up. i went into the movie knowing they wouldn't do the nobody scene and frankly i had made peace with it like okay if you don't want odysseus calling himself outis because you don't feel like the joke translates well enough WHATEVER you dont need to film every line of the poem. what i was NOT prepared for is that THEY DON'T SPEAK TO POLYPHEMUS AT ALL. they don't steal a giant wheel of cheese, they don't get him drunk, odysseus doesn't taunt him after their escape, AND he doesn't cry out to poseidon or the other cyclopes on the shore. it's "revealed" that he can speak in the cave before their escape as he prays to poseidon. someone asks odysseus "should we try to reason with him?" and ODYSSEUS says "we're past that." resulting in an adaptation where odysseus does not use wit or trickery to escape polyphemus at all-- which is the case with every single obstacle he meets. this guy does not lie and he does not play tricks. his intelligence is restricted to battlefield tactics, the administration and direction of his men as units. You have to poke polyphemus so he opens his eye before you can stab it! I am very smart. the only point at which he could be described as "tricking" polyphemus is when-- because the movie is allergic to making odysseus look stupid or silly in any way-- they tie straw to their backs to be mistaken for sheep instead of riding the undersides of the sheep, and we are presented with an action sequence of trousered and armored soldiers somersaulting and army crawling under polyphemus' gently dangling hand. which i hate because it is a less clever solution that only works if polyphemus is extremely stupid (shepherd who doesn't know how many sheep he has) -- and more importantly because it removes IMO the most emotionally efficient moment in the odyssey, which is polyphemus talking to the one sheep that's walking slow because it has odysseus on its belly like "oh no are you feeling okay today? you're moving so slow, maybe you're upset because i'm in pain? you're the best sheep in the world and i love all of you my sheeps" like that scene is supposed to instantly retroactively humanize polyphemus and make you realize odysseus has been torturing a person with feelings who basically just wants to be left alone with his pet sheep and it's extremely good at that in every translation i've ever read. but not one of odysseus' enemies are allowed an inch of humanity in this entire adaptation which seems to be a veiled metaphor for the vietnam war so what can you expect. and yes because odysseus never does anything wrong or stupid or silly, OF COURSE he would never reveal his name and allow polyphemus to curse him, and his crew only "believes" that he's been cursed by poseidon thereafter, which removes the ENTIRE MAIN ANTAGONIST of the story and changes the central conflict from man vs. god to man vs. ????

[toskarinfr]

must feel good as fuck to curse a prince for being rude to you while you were larping as an old woman for no reason