Spifflocated

Discworld, LOTR, Sherlock Holmes, Dracula Daily, nature, general procrastination  Reblogging things because I like them  *Now on AO3* (she/her)

[neiljostenpussyindulgence]

I love gay people theres a guy in my neighborhood who named his one singular dog “simon and garfunkel”

[penny-anna]

Anyway here is my take:

I think trying to make a movie out of The Odyssey (not the story of Odysseus, but The Odyssey as in the poem) is a bit of a doomed endeavour as the structure of The Odyssey simply does not jive with the structure of the Hollywood movie

I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.

[penny-anna]

Here are my opinions:

The Odyssey should be a musical but ☝️only some of the time. When Odysseus is narrating? Musical. Penelope and Telemachus on Ithaca? 🙅‍♀️

Odysseus can break the fourth wall during the parts where he's narrating.

Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

[penny-anna]

In essence am I implying it should be tonally similar to the emperor's new groove but with ultra violence? Perhaps

[wuggen]

Heard a car horn today that was tuned to a fifth. Fucked up, kinda delightful

[wuggen]

I want people to understand how jarring this was. Most car horns are either a single tone or two tones somewhere in the neighborhood of a minor third apart:

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Pretty normal rush hour sounds, yeah? But this thing sounded something like this:

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Fucked up! Didn't even realize it was a car horn at first, I didn't know what the fuck it was! It was weird as hell!

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"Benedict Cumberbatch!" Cry out the tumblfolk, "Silliest dactylic Name you could hear!"

Critical oversight - Lost to obscurity, Engelbert Humperdinck Sheds one small tear.

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[dymphnajude]

Very suspicious of people stealing his tail

[onerifle]

Rest in Peace Sam Neil

[no-sharks-on-the-sun]

[cakesandfail]

I'm gonna have to read Unseen Academicals again aren't I

[have-you-been-here]

The Emmett Clock, Victoria Centre, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Voting ended onJul 14

[omnishambolichologram]

Margo Leadbetter’s Outfits - A collection in honour of Penelope Keith

To celebrate one of Penelope Keith’s most well known roles, here are most, if not all of the outfits she wore when portraying Margo Leadbetter 🌈🤩

In the later series, when the show was more established. Penelope was given a majority of the costume budget for the show and was able to pick out the outfits she would wear as Margo.

Margo was absolutely quintessentially 70s but her character has survived so far beyond that due in part to Penelope Keith’s incredible performance.

[cerceos-deactivated20160308]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

[victusinveritas]

[frasohei]

[outofcontextsouvenirprogramme]

The weather is unusually hot for February, but then of course, it is July.

[vulpes-aestatis]

Baby sphinx trying to be like mama and waylaying travelers, but all its riddles are completely non-sensical like the ones a 1st grader would tell

[thecactifindahome]

[muppetshow2026]

WHAT IS THE CHARGE? EATING A PENGUIN? A SUCCULENT ADÉLIE PENGUIN?

[starlit-meadow]

Look it’s me

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.