Nesi

Argentinian // She-her // 20 // please send me prompts

[animentality]

[miss-wizard]

DO NOT LET SOCIAL MEDIA TURN YOU INTO AN AMERICAN

[coleblackblood]

As an American: Seriously, please don’t

[miss-wizard]

ok well i don't

[alatismeni-theitsa]

"Americanization" is a real phenomenon, and how non-Americans should be cautious of it is taught in different countries at school. It's taught in Greece and people from other countries told me their elementary or middle school teachers (using the American grades, to make it make sense to the majority on the site) talked to them about it.

It's common sense here, except for USians, so I'll analyze it a bit more for the dominant demographic here. In a globalized setting, the most dominant culture affects the others and sets the trends. The way our language works, how we think, our levels of politeness and intimacy, and our levels of respect. (flash news, they are going down 😂)

I don't want to imply that there is nothing good in the US. There are plenty of positives in the country. It's just that for the rest of the cultures online it's a constant daily fight to not forget our roots, with the degree US media and brands have permeated our lives. In Greece at least we watch more US American media than Greek media nowadays, and many of our shows are rip-offs of USian ones, with little adaptation to Greek reality and culture.

And to demonstrate the amount of this exposure, a 22-year-old Greek asked me the other day "if something happens we call 911, right?" This might have literally cost them their life, in a dangerous situation! Because all the movies and songs they consumed (not an unusual thing for the Greek youth) were what they knew. And I found a similar comment in this comment thread.

[odysseusing]

“i love him.”

★☆☆☆☆

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

[one-and-lonely16]

ok u know that line "if only i could, i'd make a deal with god, and i'd get him to swap our places'??? yeah imagine that as achilles thinking that a few days after patroclus died

[silver-ink-iron-words-reblogs]

So I just finished reading The Song of Achilles, and forgive me if I'm stating the obvious but . . .

About two thirds of the way in, Thetis tells the boys that there is a new prophecy, that "the best of Myrmidons will die before two more years have passed." And at first they're afraid that it's Achilles, but then Thetis tells them that he will be alive when it happens

The first time I read this, I didn't understand. It was only when I read that passage again, after knowing what happens, that I realized the prophecy was about Patroclus

The book even acknowledges it later on, when Briseis is saying goodbye to him . . . "'Best of men. Best of Myrmidons.' She places her fingers to my lips, stopping my objection. 'It is truth,' she says. 'Let it stand for once.'"

In the first half of the book, a lot of Patroclus's pov is dedicated to describing how beautiful and amazing Achilles is. And when you see how ordinary and pathetic Patroclus makes himself look in comparison, you almost start to wonder why Achilles loves him in the first place

But Patroclus was the best of all of them, even better than Achilles. No one else had his kindness, his tenderness, his unwavering care for others

And Achilles knew this. Further on, Briseis says that Patroclus was worth ten of him, and Achilles doesn't disagree

[alessiajontrunfio]

"My pulse jumps, for no reason I can name. He has looked at me a thousand thousand times, but there is something different in this gaze, an intensity I do not know. " [The song of Achilles- Madeline Miller]

[bauliya]

how i feel about all those "q slur" people

[anais-ninja-bitch]

young queers watch "Paris is Burning" challenge 2023

[anais-ninja-bitch]

many years ago (probably coming up on 10), a friend of mine was TAing an undergrad art history class and he got to choose some of the extra materials. and goes on FB to ask if he should include "Paris is Burning" as the required film for the class. and he was like, "is this film even still relevant? like, it's passé bc everyone already knows all about drag balls and gender as a performance, right?"

and i was fucking floored. NO, bro, everyone does not know all about that! they didn't back then, and if anything it's gotten worse since!

if a bunch of frat boys watched it circa the 2010s, so can you.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

YES EXACTLY!! it repositions you with gender, sexuality, race, class, everything. so good.

[tfemteach-deactivated20231124]

when you're done, be sure to also read/watch up on the film's complicated legacy. pepper labeija in particular has spoken on this severalPier times, as has dorian corey with a differing opinion. it's not something which has a single simple answer, which makes it all the more important to learn about, I think. this article also discusses it, including interviews with current ballroom names and mentions (article links are mostly broken so I've tried to provide some where I could find them) several other works that are either in conversation with Paris is burning [How Do I Look? (2006)] or are more recent works on ballroom and/or qtpoc in NYC [Pier Kids: The Life (2019)- I can't find where the full film is available rn but this is an interview with the filmmaker]. I know bell hooks has also written on the subject but can't find a working link to her essay at the moment. I'm doing this all from my phone in 20 minutes so its not the most comprehensive but I love the original documentary and I think it's also important to view it as a starting point and continue to learn more about living queer history

[meanmisscharles]

bell hooks' essay "Is Paris Burning" is also not without it's controversy within the Black feminist/queer community, so be aware of that as well. The links above are as important to check out as PIB, if you're not coming at this film from the community captured in it.

[infamoussayings]

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.”

— Louise Eldrich, The Painted Drum

[schuylerpeck]

feeling incredibly small bird with an injured wing. may someone please offer up a gentle pair of cupped palms so I may sleep just a moment.

[bloodraven55]

the day people learn that they can express negative opinions about queer rep without misusing the word queerbait is the day i will know peace

[librarymage]

#see also: this piece of media has a popular ship that isn’t canon #that is ALSO not queerbaiting thank you! (tags by altschmerzes)

[oh-jail-for-mother]

helen brand smashing things and setting them on fire with justified rage is definitely one of the most gratifying moments i've seen on screen this year. nothing brings me more joy than seeing women absolutely fuck shit up. helen blowing up the house? yeah the destruction was so beautiful i could cry thank you janelle monáe thank you rian johnson for giving me this

[wearfinethingsalltoowell]

Okay idea—Olu’s moping between eps 7 and 8, Stede asks what’s wrong

“I love Jim but they chose revenge. I understand why, but it hurts”

Stede’s never seen emotions like this and is curious

“How does it feel, to be in love?”

[wearfinethingsalltoowell]

And so Stede realizes he’s in love before Jack shows up.

At first he’s worried that Ed would never look twice at him, then he meets Jack and “Oh! His standards are super low actually!”

[effinggravity]

“I might be able squeak on in over that low bar!”

[wearfinethingsalltoowell]

Stede starts blatantly flirting like “Look! I’m not much but I’m better than Jack!!”

[effinggravity]

Stede sticks around for the coconut war specifically to flirt. He has never intentionally flirted before in his life. He has, however, some experience in being pelted in hard objects.

It goes how it goes.

[wearfinethingsalltoowell]

Stede’s never flirted before so one of two things happens

-It’s so subtle no one notices

-He immediately comes on way too strong

[effinggravity]

-He switches between the two so rapidly that Ed get whiplash, and some member of the crew (Black Pete, maybe?) thinks that he’s the one being hit on.

[wearfinethingsalltoowell]

Oh it’s absolutely Pete: “It’s not a no, Captain, but I need to talk to Lucius first”

He goes between thinking that waving is flirting in the extreme and telling Ed how good his ass looks in the leather. Ed is *very* confused

[blueish-jay]

One of my favorite metaphors of Glass Onion is the Mona Lisa vs the Glass Onion.

Miles is constantly comparing himself, whether directly or indirectly, to the Mona Lisa. He wants to be “forever remembered in the same breath” as her. He plays up the mystery and the complexity of the painting, the artistry, the skill and the knowledge that went into it; All traits that he wants others to see in him.

But when Miles is describing the painting, who gets the closeup shot? Not Miles, but Helen. Helen is the one who gets multiple shots throughout the movie mirroring the Mona Lisa- same pose, same unreadable expression.

Because Miles isn’t the Mona Lisa, however much he wishes he was. Miles is the Glass Onion. Something trying to look complex and layered on the outside, when in reality, the center is in plain sight. Miles isn’t some enigmatic genius, he is exactly what he appears to be at first glance: an idiotic, rich, egotistical, shithead.

He didn’t make his own puzzles, he didn’t write his own murder, he didn’t create his own art, he didn’t even come up with the idea for his company. His island is filled with things made by other people. He isn’t even the person who did the thing that will forever connect him to the Mona Lisa. The thing that will forever tie him to Helen Brand.

Helen is the one with complexity. Helen is the one surrounded by mystery. Helen is the one who’s more than meets the eye. Helen is the Mona Lisa, and the Mona Lisa destroyed herself to take down Miles Bron.

[andallshallbewell]

[boyswillbeboxes]

One of my favorite things about Benoit Blanc, and this applies to both the characters in the story AND the audience, is that he's such a brilliant detective he makes you FORGET he's a brilliant detective.

He's clearly well-known in this universe, enough that apparently Google defines him as the world's greatest detective, and Miles Bron even recognizes him on SIGHT in Glass Onion. And we the audience have, presumably, seen him in Knives Out, so we already know this isn't blowing smoke and is in fact a deserved fame. And yet his bumbling, scattered persona we see in the early film is so believable it immediately fools even people who know better than to underestimate him.

Even when he finally starts slipping the mask a little, after "solving" the botched murder mystery, we don't start seeing the real picture and his real goal until we see his interactions with Helen. His brilliance comes in his comfort with being seen as stupid, as incompetent, of letting himself be undermined and making people let their guard down around him, even when they should KNOW better.

And that works even better for the audience watching the movie. We're so focused on trying to figure him out, the movie hides the clues in plain sight. Even though we should KNOW, if we watched Knives Out, that the answer is not going to be simple and straightforward, that we should be prepared for anything. But we're so caught up in the performance and the story and the layers that it makes us forget we've been here before.

Anyway, Glass Onion is 10/10 and I hope we get more movies with Benoit as a connecting thread, because he and these movies are so brilliant and I love them.

[katelyn-danger]

Unironically, vegans need to be advocating for more and better sheep, llama, and alpaca farms. Wool is one of the best fabrics we have in terms of versatility, longevity and most importantly, insulation. Even wet, it retains 80% of it's insulation potential.

AND IT DOESN'T SHED MICROPLASTICS

[katelyn-danger]

Like, there's literally nothing you can do to a sheep that's as morally reprehensible as dumping plastic down the gullet of literally every other living thing. You wanna talk about animal welfare? Talk about reducing the amount of microplastics produced by nylon, polyester, and spandex.