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20s | he/him | taiwanese + white

[afronerdism]

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[ninakaina]

my other pervasive problem with the movie (aside from its treatment of women which i cant even start on yet) is nolan's attempt to have the gods display their power in "natural" ways so that their diegetic existence or involvement remains in question. like how odysseus says his crew believes he's cursed by poseidon, it's left so explicitly ambiguous whether calypso is mortal, and athena's appearances to him are revealed to be a PTSD hallucination. I actually don't have a fundamental issue with this as an adaptational decision although i think its execution turns it into a matter of culturally christian theology, but the thing is that it's stupid. Because there's a Cyclops.

[ninakaina]

i unfortunately need to rewatch the hercules movie starring dwayne johnson because to my memory it's not a Great Film but it maintains the heart of the Hercules Question while actually accomplishing what christopher nolan tried to do with the odyssey. which is to say that if you're doing greek myth without apparent gods, everything else has to be kind of scooby doo shit. the cyclops has to be just a pretty tall dude who's missing an eye or has a birth defect and kills two of your guys per day for stealing his shit. odysseus has to invent circe's magic wholecloth to get sympathy gifts and glory from the phaeacians or whatever. there is an interesting direction to go here ESPECIALLY when the most fantastical aspects of the original story are diegetically narrated by a liar. it could be really cool to play with odysseus making shit up. but nolan wanted to eat his gritty and realistic cake and have his CGI too so whatever

[pionas]

TINASHE Pop Star Out 25/09

[omgcheckplease]

John Rich & The Big Picture, my first prose novel, is complete, and you can read all of it now on okjohnrich.site until July 25th. ✏️

[davinaclaires]

JOE BIRD and STACY CLAUSEN as NAIM and RYAN LEVITICUS (2026) written and directed by Adrian Chiarella

[sunflowermp4]

"The traffic signal changed, and the river of light formed by the cars continued on its way. The signal shone brightly, suspended in the darkness. Hitoshi had died here. A feeling of solemnity slowly came over me. In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity. If I stand on the very spot, one says to oneself, like a prayer, might I feel the pain he felt? They say that on a visit to an old castle or whatever, the history of the place, the presence of people who walked there many years ago, can be felt in the body. Before, when I heard things like that, I would think, what are they talking about? But I felt I understood it now.

This intersection, the colors of these buildings, and rows of shops in the darkness were Hitoshi's last sights. And it wasn't all that long ago.

How afraid was he? Did he think of me, if even for a flickering instant? Was the moon climbing high in the sky as it was now?"

Banana Yoshimoto, Moonlight Shadow

[sunflowermp4]

"Now I understood. His sailor outfit-my jogging. They served exactly the same purpose. I wasn't as eccentric as him, so I was satisfied with mere jogging. Because nothing so conventional would do for Hiiragi, he chose the sailor outfit, as a variation. Neither recourse was anything more than a way of trying to lend some life to a shriveled spirit. It was a way to divert our minds, to kill time.

Both Hiiragi and I, in the last two months, had unconsciously assumed facial expressions we had never worn before, expressions that showed how we were battling not to think of what we had lost. If, in a flash, we remembered, we would suddenly be crushed with the knowledge, the knowledge of our loss, and find ourselves standing alone in the darkness."

Banana Yoshimoto, Moonlight Shadow

[bfoonie]

Hermann Nitsch

[sunflowermp4]

"Isn't that nice, I thought. Hearing the grandmother's gentle words and seeing the child's face suddenly turn adorable when she smiled, I became envious. I'd never see my own grandmother again.

Never again. I don't care for the loaded sentimentality of those words or for the feeling of limitation they impose. But just then they struck me with an unforgettable intensity and authority. I intended to think them over dispas-sionately. Jostled by the motion of the bus, I was determined to keep that dirigible, so far off in the sky, in sight no matter what. But then, overpowered by their enormous weight, I found that tears were pouring down my cheeks and onto my blouse."

Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto

[sunflowermp4]

"Through conversion into Christianity, Native Americans, Africans, and Asians would supposedly become Christianized and Americanized. Minister Josiah Strong, writing for the American Home Missionary Society in 1885, declared that these "feeble" races must "assimilate or die." The notion that America is the spreader of salvation is not exclusive to White Protestant Americans, as non-White Christian converts would also come to view ancestors and unconverted relatives and friends through this violent White Christian gaze: as heathen and needing to be saved and assimilated, Perhaps one of the most dangerous consequences of colonialism, our own communities would come to internalize the fiction that Protestantism was the superior religion of the superior race."

Bianca Mabute-Louie, Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

[sunflowermp4]

"Academics often advise PhD students like me to play by the rules, get published in academic journals, and achieve tenure first. Once I do that, then I can write freely, design the studies I want, and push back on disciplinary norms and boundaries. But from what I have seen, this is a process that takes decades, with no promise of tenure. And more often than not, the academic becomes pacified as she waits. We give up so much, not just time and labor, but agency over where we live and how we use our voice, as they dangle the possibility of faculty appointments, awards, validation, and belonging in front of us. They demand our productivity, reward our compliance, and punish us when we challenge the status quo. During the genocide of Palestinians, not a single faculty member at my institution signed on to the open letter of Sociologists in Solidarity with Gaza. I witness too many academics decoupled from the radical politics and aspirations they once might have held because they are afraid to destabilize the institutional power they've sacrificed so much to secure. But is institutional power that traps you into silence actually power at all?"

Bianca Mabute-Louie, Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century

[horror-aesthete]

Is God Is, 2026, dir. Aleshea Harris

[bongjoonhoe]

Is God Is (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

[faithmitchells]

Kara Young as Racine IS GOD IS (2026) dir. Aleshea Harris

[alysmond]

SHEILA ATIM as AKASHA INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE | Season 3, Episode 5, "New York"

[thecollectibles]

Art by Jakub Rebelka

[islandoforder]

lavonte finishing that conversation with maya by doing a lil shovel talk for coming in between him and his boy bestie….. my guy you are simply never going to beat the allegations