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The Shogun and the Ronin

[baklavasudarajako]

Bro is a lil shy :3

[heyfruitcake]

Reasons to boycott Nolan's The Odyssey (that I know of so far):

They shot in the illegally occupied Western Sahara as reported by Middle East Eye (thanks to @fuckyeahdavidandyonatan for bringing that up)

They dumped their props into a protected area of the Italian sea after shooting (thanks to @godslop for finding the article in English)

Zendaya wearing looted 3000 years old Iranian earrings for the premiere of the movie + having her stylist fly on a private jet just to get her a dress for the premiere in London

No Greek actors in a movie about Greek heritage

While people mentioned that Anne Hathaway was flown in to the set every day, apparently it was not on a private jet but on a helicopter that was being used anyway to fly in equipment.

None of these things are new in Hollywood or exclusive to the Odyssey, its director or its actors, but I do think we as audience should start holding Hollywood accountable when it disrespects our culture, heritage, environment, especially when it's movies that are this big and have a huge budged that would allow for more conscious choices.

Please do add anything else I missed.

[nivialku7]

Some very good and reasonable points, but for as much as I recognize the Iliad and Odyssey as extremely important works of literature for Greece I think it not having an all Greek cast is forgivable. No Greek actors, not even one? Yeah, that shows they probably didn’t care about including any in the first place. Is that a serious problem? Probably in the same League as giving the characters pants and filming in Iceland.

Still, if they were filming Beowulf and the cast was a bunch of Australians? I think the nords could survive such a wound.

So unless Greece is really starved for a win right now, which it very could be since my only reference for Modern Greece is 20th century civil wars and an apparently plummeting GDP, I think a swing and a miss for the Greeks on Nolan’s behalf is just going to have to be a bummer.

I don’t want to be a dick and tell Greek people their awesome folklore isn’t theirs to tell, but up against one of the biggest names in filming ignoring modern colonialism on multiple fronts and committing large scale pollution I think we can forgive a Shakespeare adaptation that isn’t an all English cast.

[anghraine]

This isn't really about the specific take I'm reblogging (offensive as it is), but I'm morbidly fascinated by how virtually every conversation about how there are zero Greek people in the cast—even counting the five million-odd members of the Greek diaspora that a number of very bankable US actors belong to as "Greek people", which the very careful, mildly-worded Guardian article linked does—seems to get conflated with the cast not being entirely Greek as if these are the same argument.

Yes, there are racists making a big deal about how the characters and text are Greek, but a) they don't want an all-Greek cast either, they want an all-white cast, they're fine with all-Anglo representations of Greek people, and b) the complaint isn't about what the entire cast should be anyway. Nolan et al. didn't have to choose between Lupita Nyong'o and Any Greek People At All. That's a pure derailing tactic to trivialize the actual criticism and conflate it with something much easier to dismiss.

It's about the defense that it's representing the entire modern world while managing to exclude Greek people from their image of the modern world in a specifically Greek context— something that goes way, way back, because the ongoing existence of actual living Greek people rather than a long-lost fallen civilization whose works and artifacts are a common property of the world has frequently been deeply inconvenient to broad Western narratives and politics around it.

It's not unrelated to the other incredibly egregious instances of careless US-centric imperialism the OP was correctly highlighting, it's another form of it.

[thecheatinghomunculus]

#yeah there's a reason that ancient greek mythology hobbyists are usually ignorant about anything to do w/ greek people for centuries#millennia if we're being real#and talk about 'the greeks believed' 'the greeks had a term' 'greeks had a culture' pretty much exclusively as a long-concluded past#as if 10 million people in greece and the 5 million of us in the diaspora never existed & the romans genocided us all.#i just think: sometimes if you listen very hard under a full moon... you can pretend you worship artemis and almost hear our voices...#fun fact: 'well really at this point greek culture belongs to the WORLD' is one of the arguments the british museum has given#for refusing repatriation :)#like 'we are also part of the world esp when it involves greek things!' = 'the rest of the world shouldn't get to be involved w/ it'#are not the same position at all but it's really convenient for a lot of people to dissolve them into one and the same (via @anghraine)

[b0ngsmoker]

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Simon

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[temeyes]

acts like him too mii thinks

[thepenisyoinker]

if you need me i will be sucking on his arms until further notice

[geccminn]

Simon!!

[gluhoi]

Here’s my cute Ghoap art ❤ One of my few finished pieces, and I’m just so proud of it!! I took the dialogue straight from the game

[niknak79]

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How low? This is really convenient, especially in Canada where it’s negative asshole degrees out. Besides, sometimes you do need your phone while walking outside, whether for light or communication or directions.

[tramampoline]

like i’ve needed to text people while outside several times this week i’d rather not literally risk frostbite to do it

[tabbibeard-deactivated20160428]

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[artist-formally-known-as-xazz-d]

I want that last line on a shirt

[savannahgambino-deactivated2023]

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genuinely they have probably saved people.

[amvs]

they HAVE saved people actually i’m 100% sure of that. i’ve learned about so many recalls i would’ve had no idea about otherwise !!!! from the bottom of all of our hearts thank you mamoru

[mamoru]

aw shucks, thank YOU! what a pick me up!

when I was younger, I got food poisoning. I was supposed to recover from it, but I wound up with a bunch of nasty medical conditions instead. I never imagined I would become disabled from food.

so I am really glad I have been able to help spread the word every now and then about food safety and recalls, since it hopefully means a few less people going through what I have.

while I have your attention, I do not post every recall, even just for the US, so here are a few of the links I use!

recalls.gov/recent.html <- aggregate of official government recall links for the US! food, drugs, products, child safety seats, motor vehicles, and tires! (half the feeds are broken half the time, but hey, it works™! check the FDA enforcement reports for a more complete list of recalls, especially drug recalls!)

recalls for canada <- recalls for canada!

RASFF <- food recalls and safety alerts for the EU!

food safety news <- news about food safety in the US, canada, and around the world!

I was poisoned <- see where people have gotten food poisoning near you, and report your own! (worldwide!)

thanks for reading, stay safe and take care!

[ozllio]

lads

[ravager82]

Ghost's entrance during the Strike mission remains one of the defining moments of Modern Warfare II.

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Whether you're replaying the campaign or experiencing Ghost's arrival for the first time, this moment never loses its impact.

[baklavasudarajako]

A quick lil drawing fromnlast night :3

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tenderness🥰

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