Live from the Depths of my Psyche

Apparently I blog about Whatever

[thethunderbirdrising]

I don't want to go to work, I want to wander through the woods for 10,000 years

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

Irrational hatred: people believe in a pseudoscience and defend it passionately but NEVER are willing to do any science about it. My beloved friend! If you can prove that people born during a specific and predictable time have a specific and predictable trait, we will PUBLISH. If a specific rock structure results in a quantifiable effect while adjacent to the human body, we will write a BANGER paper together! If plants can form memories then let’s write a follow-up paper and get funding for a lab!! Make a survey! Generate a testable hypothesis! Don’t be so incurious about the world!

[sockssquishiiii]

big fluffy

[thethunderbirdrising]

Medieval mmorpg where literacy is a rare skill, and certain players have to read things out to everyone else in voice chat

[malinaa]

[literary-sparks]

I’m about to get on my high horse (haha Trojan horse) and complain about how everyone here is reacting to The Odyssey. I don’t think the movie was perfect but I do think it was a great version.

I am of the firm belief that if an adaptation wants to explore different textual themes more than others then it should be allowed to do it as long as it’s done well. That’s why it’s Nolan’s The Odyssey and not Homer’s. The Odyssey is one of, if not the, most famous works in human history. Everyone knows the story and its main themes, so exploring those in different ways, to me, is more interesting than just rehashing the exact text word for word.

So many of the things people are complaining about are either 1) things I also missed but saw thematically explored in different ways 2) things that really don’t have as substantial of a significance in the text the way people are acting (the bag of wind,,,brother,,,it’s a further demonstration of their unwillingness to listen to the gods and their consistent self destruction in the process. Something that is heavily explored in the movie in ways that work better cinematically. And also is shown in the text in different ways) or 3) things that already are different depending on the version of the story you’re reading.

And that’s really the crux of this. Because this is a story that was told orally for years before and after it was written down. Homer did it first but there are still different written versions of the story that change things exactly like Nolan did. Some versions Odysseus doesn’t want to go to war and only goes because they threaten to kill his son. Some versions he goes very willingly and is on board from the start. Some versions he stays with Circe in a romantic relationship for a while before leaving. Some versions he leaves. Some versions Clytemnestra is lied to and that’s why she kills Agamemnon. Some versions she does it willingly.

These different versions have always existed, many times in tandem or after Homer’s version was written down. Are these versions wrong or lesser because they aren’t the “real, true” story? No. Just like all of Greek mythology, there are many different versions of the same stories that vary based on region, storytellers, and thematic motivations. No version is better than another and the people complaining that Nolan’s is wrong/bad because it doesn’t have every single thing from Homer’s version are ignoring the fact that, technically, Nolan adapting it in this way is more true to oral tradition than making a beat for beat copy.

It feels so ridiculous to me that people are complaining about changes to a story that has changed within its own translation. Emily Wilson’s translation (the version Nolan’s is mostly based on) uses modern language because to her, using older 18th-19th century language to translate the text is unnecessary and doesn’t make it any more true to the original story. We use it because many translations were done at that time AND because it has an older, more significant feeling to us to read that language. But the text is so old that it’s no more accurate to the story than using 1920s language. It also keeps a story meant for everyone behind a barrier. So she uses modern language and makes the story accessible while still staying extremely faithful and accurate to each line.

Does that make her translation lesser? Are yall going to start coming for that one episode of Arthur that adapted the odyssey now? That one episode of wishbone? Is that not pure and good enough for you because it doesn’t identically match Homer’s text? You guys have got to learn to engage with different themes in adaptations of media and examine the messages of those instead of remaining media purists.

[thethunderbirdrising]

I am depressed but not surprised by how many people on this website are clearly just mad Nolan didn't make an adaptation of epic the musical and that Matt Damon wasn't just playing their blorbo from their YouTube animations

[cerusee]

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

[drenadon]

Probably the stupidest shit I’ve ever drawn

[parkchanwoohoo]

Genuinely evil and dark-sided to put the periods between the letters in "milf" and "dilf." Like what is M.I.L.F. that is a supervillain organization composed entirely of cougars. Whoa that's a great idea actually post canceled hold on

[oneheadtoanother]

[epicsause-official]

i think we are long overdue for a game that does the reverse of 90s first person shooters and actively makes fun of the player for picking the hard difficulty

[epicsause-official]

heres kinda what i mean

[elliespectacular]

Queer people are not attempting to "convert" or "indoctrinate" non-queer people, we just want folks to understand their options and not live a life of conformity that leaves them unfulfilled.

Except me though, I will make everyone aromantic with my sicko propaganda. Get divorced. Stop dedicating yourself to the insecurities of others. Don't let someone else restrict you from exploring your sexuality. Kill the part of you that gets jealous. Be free from cheating, breakups, and obligatory gestures. You are already a complete person.

[briannyssey]

once, in the most pristine HOA community created in God's suburbs, there lived a topiarist. And not just any topiarist, but the finest topiarist in all of suburbia: head of the topiary society, master in the topiary guild, and hedgemaster of the institute for applied topiarastry. Now, in addition to being the most skillful topiarist in all the land, he was known for his affected folksy demeanor, and the iron gardening glove by which he controlled the topiary industry. A bully in his field and ferns on his lawn, whenever new blood tried to muscle in on his business, he used dirty tactics to keep them in line. Yes lawyers were deployed when he noticed new competition modeling their leafy sculptures after his work (copywrite inferngement is brutal stuff). And when that failed he'd employ what you might call lowyers: moles, voles, and mercenary garden gnomes to commit root crimes against the bushes of budding business opponents. All the tools that money could buy were deployed against his business rivals.

But one day, a new family rolled into town. And they did something terribly wretched to that titan of topiary. They moved to the beautiful house just across the street from our illustrious hedgemaster, and they rewilded their lawn! Neither hedges nor yard would do for them. No, they planted wildflowers, local flora, indigenous bushes, and budding beanstalks on their lawn. And worst of all they did it without paying a dime! They didn't put any money into the local lawn economy at all! That would not do for our landed gentry of green growing things, our baron of the bush, our high-minded hierophant of the hedge. But he had a problem. There were no topiarists involved in the lawn of these nasty neighbors, these ignorant intruders; so there was little that leverage or lawyers could do for him to exert his eminent influence over them.

So he went straight to the moles, voles, and all those other underworld denizens digging in the ground for - well you get the idea. However to his horror he found that moles, voles, and foul-mouthed garden gnomes had already taken up residence on the loud-lawned yard! They liked digging there, they said! It was rich with worms and humus and nutrients. There was no fussy foliage but instead the hardiest and heartiest of horticultural habitats. The plants there seemed to like the presence of these dastardly and devious things that dug!

Thwarted and bemused, that folksy businessman trotted down, past the shaggydog his new neighbors let play in their yard, all the way to the HOA offices to see what he could do. There our shrub statuarist said they were stinking up the place with flowers, violating with their violets, offending with their orchids, grandstanding with their garden grotesqueries, and quite frankly being unbecoming with their un-urbane un-suburban practices. Now that head of the HOA was a close friend of our skipper of shrubbery, and quite sympathetic to his plight. That head of the HOA promised he'd drown the new neighbors in so many fines, citations, tickets, and public complaints that they'd have to mend their ways (and hopefully hire the hedgemaster for the work they'd need done). Satisfied with his schemes, our hero decided to take his family on vacation. He'd let the HOA do its work, he'd get much needed relief, and come back in a month or so to reap his just rewards.

So off he went, to Southwest Virginiesseelaska to visit the good old country and the folks who dwelt there, who in his younger years taught him the secrets of his craft.

In the meanwhile the head of the HOA tightened up his tickets and began to march his way down to the new neighbors home. But as he marched past a great lawnmower managing the massive yard of one of the many micro-mansions in their community, a spray sprig of cut grass was kicked into the air where the head of the HOA promptly inhaled it, choked, and died. The new head of the HOA inherited the position from her father. And she was not friendly with the folksy topiarist. She had once been an aspiring artist of the hedges herself. He'd driven her out of business and into HOA management like her father before her. She "misplaced" the fines and called it a job well done. Meanwhile a little lawn rebellion was forming. Folks all across the HOA saw the bees coming to the wildflowers of those nice new neighbors' lawn. They saw their own little gardens prospering at the presence of pleasant pollinators. They saw just how cheap it was to not have to hire a horrid horticulturalist to construct mazes of maize and hemlock for their lawns. And so quickly the rewilded. They shared seeds with the new neighbors. They let the worms, snails, moles, voles, bees, and other such fauna run rampant across their once artfully artificial yards. They shared time together under the sun, swapping stories, songs, squashes, and stews. They learned to love each other in that little community.

But then the topiarist came home to see the fruits of his labors. And what did he say when he found his business ruined by a spirit of community?

"Hey jimminy! My hedge money hegemony!"

[laserwalnut]

Strong as fuck ice piggy

[thejaymaniac]

I think it should become a folk tradition that everyone does all their dishes and tries to get good sleep the night before Groundhog Day, just in case they get stuck in a timeloop

it should just be one of those superstitions that's fun I feel like I don't have enough of those in my life currently

[thethunderbirdrising]

Oh god, I never even thought about the idea of getting a horrible night's sleep before waking up in a time loop and so you're stuck being tired and miserable for eternity

[dorothylarouge]

US Presidents as Dril Tweets

George Washington: another day volunteering at the betsy ross museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the flag. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

John Adams: "ah boo hoo hoo i want to post Foul comments to content leaders" Fat Chance, Dimwit. I will annihilate you under bulwark of the Law and God.

Thomas Jefferson: Q: If your post was proven by a counsil of wise men to be racist, or bullshit, would you bar it from the record? A: I do not delete my posts

James Madison: (sniffing a crumpled up one dollar bill i found on the floor of a dog kennel) ah.. thats greenbacks baby

James Monroe: for decades i have traversed the unforgiving mountains and rivers of south america, hoping to catch a glimpse of the fabled "ass downloader"

John Quincy Adams: "This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gender," i holler as i overturn my uncle's barbeque grill and turn the 4th of July into the 4th of Shit

Andrew Jackson: handing Faves over to my enemies is FRAUD !! base, contemptible FRAUD!

Martin Van Buren: Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Candles $3,600

Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

William Henry Harrison: (spends all of 7 seconds skimming some blog posts) yep. just as i knew all along. having pnuamonia is good

John Tyler: fuck "jokes". everything i tweet is real. raw insight without the horse shit. no, i will NOT follow trolls. twitter dot com. i live for this

James K. Polk: thhere is no such thing as charisma, and art is fake. the only metrics by which we must determine the worth of a man are Strength and Wisdom

Zachary Taylor: the doctor reveals my blood pressure is 420 over 69. i hoot & holler outta the building while a bunch of losers tell me that im dying

Millard Fillmore: trying to heal..... please donate to my go fund me... $10 will make me less racist... $100 will make me extremely less racist...thank you...

Franklin Pierce: blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin

James Buchanan: #NationalGirlfriendDay please cherish your gal's.. in honor of us, the single Boys who must sacrifice all companionship to #CarryTheBrand...

Abraham Lincoln: unloading an entire belt of ammo at me with a minigun or some such device will now get you "Blocked"

Andrew Johnson: who the fuck is scraeming "LOG OFF" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never log off

Ulysses S. Grant: i regret being tasked the emotional burden of maintaining the final bastion of morality and Nice manners in this endless ocean of human SHIT

Rutherford B. Hayes: using the toilet when i hear Our national anthem start to play. i do what i must. i stand tall in complete agony; as shit runs down my leg,

James A. Garfield: too much truth in such little time. feeling the heat cominh down to silence me... signing off........ for now

Chester A. Arthur: i WILL wise the fuck up. i WILL super charge my content for 2017. i WILL get blue check mark

Grover Cleveland: the way i see it, people who come on here and submit content that is not up to par, could possibly be considered the "Villains" of this site

Benjamin Harrison: i help every body, im not racist, i keep myself nice, and when i ask for a single re-tweet in return i am told to fuck off, fuck myself, etc

William McKinley: boy oh boy do i love purchasing large amounnts of Fool's Gold. wait a minute... fools gold fucking sucks. this stuff is no good..!! Fuck !!!

Theodore Roosevelt: IF THE ZOO BANS ME FOR HOLLERING AT THE ANIMALS I WILL FACE GOD AND WALK BACKWARDS INTO HELL

William H. Taft: ah.. the perfect Souffle! cant wait to dig in to t(*EVERY PIPE IN MY HOUSE EXPLODES AT THE SAME TIME, COVERING ME IN SHIT AND BOILING WATER*

Woodrow Wilson: the conflicted supersoldier stares over the horizon as he smokes a cigarette. "war is the most fucked up thing ever." he takes a sip of beer

Warren G. Harding: somebody please Bribe me

Calvin Coolidge: aggressively joyless oaf hhere. painfully obnoxious respect demander checkign in. extremely dim witted frowning man looking for pals

Herbert Hoover: it is really quite astonishing that I have yet to win The Lottery, given how good I am at selecting six numbers and saying them out loud

Franklin D. Roosevelt: ive never heard of this “europe” but it sounds like a big bunch of shit to me

Harry Truman: everybody wants to be the guy to write the tweet that solves racism once and for all because it would look good as hell on a resume

Dwight D. Eisenhower: my "F*&k It!! Let's Go Golfin" t-shirt maintains a tenacious stranglehold on my life. after 1,125 days of Golf my body is twisted, deformed

John F. Kennedy: when you do sutuff like... shoot my jaw clean off of my face with a sniper rifle, it mostly reflects poorly on your self

Lyndon B. Johnson: incredibly handsome , charismatic famous boy credited with ending income inequality after saying that slumlords should be called "dumblords"

Richard Nixon: i attribute the complete failure of my brand to the actions of detractors, oor my “trolls”, as it were, as well as my own constant fuckups

Gerald Ford: shutting computer down until the shitty moods & attitudes can fuck off., if you need me ill be on my other computer, sititng 60° to my right

Jimmy Carter: i warnned you all that bad things would happen if you kept letting your wives wear jeans. AND NOW LOOK! the damn gas prices are up again

Ronald Reagan: spend a lot of time thinking about how sometimes even war criminals can be heroes sometimes... Dont like it? Click the unfollow buttobn

George H.W. Bush: just thought off an idea i believe to be bad ass. lets find the address of the leader of isis, and mail him/ her pieces of our SHIT

Bill Clinton: were at the point now, that when i offer to impregnate my girl followers, people assume my motives are sexual. disgusting, grow the fuck up,

George W. Bush: friday night gathering up together a big pile of things i like to respect (flags, crucifixes ,etc) and just roll around in it ,give kisses,

Barack Obama: my IQ has increased 10 points ever since i stopped tollerating people mucking about, on the time line

Donald Trump: THERAPIST: your problem is, that youre perfect, and everyone is jealous of your good posts, and that makes you rightfully upset.

ME: I agree

Joe Biden: I will shut the fuck up , IF , it will restore the Harmony. I will get on my knees like a dog and make that sacrifice, for the sake of Calm

[limbel]

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you