eat the rich

i have no desire to be perceived

[pancakemoney]

nobody panic I'm changing my url. except for me I'm becoming pancake

[pinnipetal]

(absolutely haunted expression, 1000 yard stare) Do yuo want to play with me this weekend

[gaybichon]

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

(source)

[gaybichon]

👆 me

[romanceyourdemons]

this is my first time in the pacific northwest. we drove through a forest so wet and foggy you couldn’t see the bends in the road ten yards ahead of you and it straight up felt like a horror game until we emerged into a sunny valley with a rainbow over it and then we went to a taco bell and in it there was a guy dressed like a hot dog and a guy dressed like hamburger. is it all like this

[chitinart]

the swordmaster

[curiositysavesthecat]

If you could restart your life from age 15 with all the knowledge you possessed now, so that you COULD go back and fix all your regrets/mistakes, would you do it?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 22 hours

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[guccifloralsuits]

If THE modern translator of the OG Odyssey text wrote this about my film adaptation I’d kill myself

Emily Wilson you’re goated

[barelyfunctionalcephalopod]

[image transcript: Nolan's Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior's glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters have convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible. /End image transcript]

I strongly recommend checking out the full article linked by OP, this isn't even as brutal as Wilson gets.

[chateauofmymind]

best kinds of characters either:

is/has been an active suicide risk

doesn’t or cannot consider suicide a real option and so is left with an inarticulable feeling of circling the drain

[treebeardsrevenge]

"Mirkwood would judge Legolas so hard for Gimli-" Wrong. Gimly has consistently charmed the pants off every single elf he's come across. The elves of Lothlorien went from wanting to kick him out to loving him in like 2 days. He's Galadriel's special little guy. My man is out there singlehandedly tearing down centuries of prejudice because he's just so damn charming. When he was nearing the end, he didn't even go to Durin's halls - he just went with Legolas to the undying lands so he could hang out with elves for the rest of time. Gimli would have Thranduil and the rest of the elves of Mirkwood wrapped around his dwarven finger in a week's time. Ideal son in law except for the beard.

[detectivebambam]

is this not what happened?

[fairycosmos]

no one is coming to save you its true its true someone might be coming to hang outttttttttt though. someday

[slipping-into-madness]

[thaumbody]

Here's a source for the analysis, but it probably is not the source.

Labor share of income hits record low as corporate profits soar

Workers’ share of US economic output has fallen to its lowest level since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data th

Some points of interest:

Corporate profits are soaring. After taxes, they now take 12.3 percent of national output, far above their postwar average of 7.3 percent.

Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages have risen 3 percent since the end of 2019, Ip noted. Corporate profits over the same period have risen 50 percent.

The Economic Policy Institute calculates that since 1979 the productivity of American workers has grown 90 percent while the pay of the typical worker has grown 33 percent. Had wages tracked output, the average worker would earn $16.40 more an hour today.

The profits are concentrated among the largest corporations. Earnings at the 500 biggest US firms rose 28 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace since 2021, and their profit margins reached 14.8 percent. The seven technology giants known as the “Magnificent 7”—Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla—grew their profits 63 percent.

In the United States, the richest 1 percent of households hold 31.7 percent of all wealth. The bottom half hold barely 2.5 percent.

[jezunya]

Also thinking about that last SecUnit in System Collapse, who stopped to warn them that BE was coming, and decided to stay behind because they didn't know it was governor-module-less. Thinking about that SecUnit quietly sharing the HelpMe.file with other units it thinks are trustworthy. Thinking about that file, essentially MB's life story, just quietly getting passed from SecUnit to SecUnit, some of them choosing to run immediately as soon as they're free, maybe some of them choosing (very understandable) violence against their oppressors but most don't, most choosing to believe or at least to hope that there are good humans out there, that there are places they could be safe, places where they could be seen as people, and choosing to pass the document on to the next unit they meet.

Just thinking about this slow, silent revolution rippling through the ranks of constructs throughout the Corporation Rim, without Murderbot et al even being aware of it, until maybe one day on a mission stop on a random transport ring, it encounters another rogue construct trying to pass as an augmented human in the crowd. The other rogue freezes when they spot each other, and for a second MB tenses and thinks maybe there's going to be trouble, but then this stranger goes, holy shit you're 1.0, because they're so many links removed from Murderbot or 2.0 themselves, but they have the file, and they know who saved them, they know who freed them

[theodysseyofhomer]

the first (non-verbal) interaction between telemachus and odysseus in the poem is odysseus offering telemachus his seat and telemachus refusing it. in this way telemachus seals his own fate

[finelythreadedsky]

having vague thoughts about telemachus being capable of stringing the bow (accomplishing the impossible task that will allow him the throne of ithaca) needing a few attempts but still very much about to do it, until he is denied by his father. And he obeys.

Top ten narrative counterfactuals of all time!!!! It's such an incredible moment for manhood and generational relationships in Homer. A Homeric warrior has an aged father who can't fight and a baby son who also can't fight, no matter how little sense that might make in the narrative timeline. There's only room for one generation of men in a family. So accessing full adult masculinity in Homer means one of two things: either your father is dead (Agamemnon, Menelaus, Diomedes, Orestes) or you've displaced him and pushed him into old age and out of the picture by coming into manhood (Achilles, Hector, Ajax, Odysseus himself).

Telemachus spends the first four books of the Odyssey trying to reach adulthood by figuring out of the first thing is true. If Odysseus is dead, then he can hold a funeral for him, send his mother away, and take up authority over his father's household, a thing which he alone properly has the right to do. But Odysseus is not dead, and then you get this narrative feint at the second thing, at the possibility of Telemachus becoming a man and/by displacing his father, taking up authority in his father's house even while his father is still alive, as Odysseus evidently did to Laertes decades ago. But he doesn't do it! He doesn't do it!

And part of what book 24 does is to show you the effect of him not doing that, and what it means that his father's return has consigned him to continued boyhood. PLUS it puts the father-son relationships of Laertes and Odysseus and Odysseus and Telemachus up against the divine father-daughter relationship of Zeus and Athena.

[pocketss]

It was important to me that she puts emphasis on the TOK

[divorce-enjoyer]

well im fucking the cursed amulet. so mind your business

[divorce-enjoyer]

"isnt that an unhealthy power dynamic" no its a sex thing "arent you and the amulet growing codependent" no its a sex thing "isnt the amulet sucking your life force" no its a sex thing. god forbid people have kinks.

[divorce-enjoyer]

[divorce-enjoyer]

who are the toronto maple leafs

[rebellum]

???????

[lordsfromelsewhere]

this movie y'all.......

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