Old Fashioned Hand

Fandom musings and fanfiction | 35 year old male | Just a nerd living near London who never quite grew out of stories

[say0ranarts]

in memory🌼

[velinxi]

My Dungeon Crawler Carl tribute art!

[Prints here]

[lustcannibalism]

you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for a nuanced reason

[crazy-minded-girl]

[nessieartss]

more hades but slayy

[noodlejaq]

✌️

[kurosvg1]

you never met a monster you couldn't love

[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.

[drizzlesdoodles]

Credit to @traskodjur for the original idea. Honestly, it's brilliant and I laughed so loudly!

Poor Hammy soaked up so many tears in ME3

[divine-bloodlines]

Nah dude don’t worry about it, she’s always saying shit like “I am bound to oaths I no longer believe in…” and trying to die in pointless battles. I wouldn’t pay it much mind

[h0ggan]

Ripe bear season

[thememedaddy]

[clementine-kesh]

obviously there’s nothing morally wrong with the projectionist lens through which a large portion of fandom operates but it does get kind of tiring to constantly feel like. hey guys what if we stopped talking about ourselves and instead talked about the character

[clementine-kesh]

and of course a degree of projectionism can be a very useful lens in certain circumstances, such as having unique insight into a character who shares certain aspects of your own experiences. but at the end of the day you still gotta recognize that there are going to be aspects of them that diverge from yourself

[drmace]

[gailynovelry]

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

[thestarlightforge]

CRYING 💀

(credit: my sister 😂)

EDIT (after this has blown up a ton, wow): the Bluesky acct is not my sister’s, she just found this screenshot & showed it to me. Lol. Oops 💀

[elliespectacular]

least-useful critique has gotta be "not your best work"

[weedle-testaburger]

for anyone who's wondering what the fuck is going on in british politics rn