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JJ Abrams has admitted... that he sets up mysteries in his movies without planning an answer and with no intention of actually ever answering the mysteries.... why does anyone let this man make movies? I think the Star Wars sequels really brought out the worst of this style of his. Like he set up all these mysteries, like Rey’s parents, who the fuck these Supreme Leader Snonk is, Finn’s connection with the force, with no plan ahead of time of what the answer to this stuff is. I felt like the last movie especially was affected by his “style” of pulling things out of his ass.

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This is just called being bad at your job. His “narrative trick” is not planning shit ahead of time. This is embarrassing.

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And then being paired with a guy who LITERALLY FAILED UP as a screenplay writer on a tighter deadline than any other Disney-era Star War was.

So so dumb for that now-catastrophe of a franchise.

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and what is “translate truthful to the time it was written” even supposed to mean like there’s no way a translation now in the US could be read the same way it was a couple thousand years ago in Greece when english didn’t even exist yet

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Yep, in the original Odyssey, in the scene where Telemachus murders the slaves who were “sullied by” Penelope’s suiters, he refers to them with a word that roughly just means “the female ones”, however most translations will use words like “whores”, “sluts” and “creatures”, these were all choices of the translators. The original text did not refer to them that way. Dr. Wilson refers to them instead as “girls”, to highlight their age and the brutality of the action. She also fixed all the times the previous male translators dodged around the existence of slaves in the text. Where they call slaves anything but slaves (housemaid, nurse, cook, ect.) Dr. Wilson’s translation correctly calls them slaves as in the original texts. It’s really a great translation, it doesn’t soften anything, and lays bare the reality of the story. One thing she did too, was she refused to make the descriptions of the women in the story more palatable to modern western beauty standards. The original text, for example, describes Penelope’s hands as “thick”. Most male translators change this to “steady” but Dr. Wilson’s translation calls them “firm, muscular hands” to correctly portray the original intent, that Penelope, as a character who weaves every day and every night undoes her weavings, has strong hands, as weaving does make one’s hands more muscular, and that was clearly what was originally intended to be said given the context of her character and the weavings. Of Odysseus himself, the original epic calls him “polytropos” poly, meaning many, and tropos, meaning turn. Some male translators used this to say the story itself had twists and turns, other ignored the word completely to write in a way that made Odysseus seem as though a straight up hero, a man “skilled in all ways of contending”, but Dr. Wilson uses it to mean “complicated”, because Odysseus isn’t a straight up hero, he does some really shitty things. So her translation got a lot of men very very mad, because they said that her being a woman has caused her to translate with bias since her translation is so different to others. She pointed out that perhaps people should have suggested that bias in the inaccurate men’s translations. Anyway, go read Dr. Wilson’s version of The Odyssey. It’s very good.

tweetingatoddhours

And if you like this read the bonkers-good Headley translation of Beowulf which is like if Eugene Peterson did a good job with The Message, but it’s Beowulf.

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ok folks

I don’t think I actually have to spell this out

but there will be no prophesying, speculating, speaking into existence, etc about next year

no “I feel really great about next year,” no “I’d love more time at home to work on my hobbies,” no “surely it can’t be any weirder than 2020,” nothing

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literally all tv shows should be limited series. figure out what ur doing and where ur going and pitch that i dont ever want to see a 5+ season show ever again

I just redownloaded tumblr for the first time in ages and uh. Hi. I know most of my recent posts here are just me checking in on tumblr from time to time.

Here is a picture of a cute dog who lives with me.

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things you will see on a road trip across america

-so much desert that you will get scared

-seriously from california to new mexico is terrifying like it’s eight straight hours of pale red desert and the sky is so large that everything, even your car, even your hands, looks like a tenuously small and fragile diorama placed on an endless pale red table and left there to dissolve.

-a gas station that for some reason has large dinosaurs made out of scrap metal. they are 1000% awesome. sometimes they move. take a million pictures.

-a fruit stand that sells the best fruit you have ever eaten. later you won’t quite remember which fruit. strawberries, maybe? peaches?

-small black birds, subtly different in every state. some have gold eyes and some are a little iridescent and some are black from beak to toes. the sparrows they compete with for crumbs look exactly the same wherever you go.

-a completely empty rest stop. no one eats at the concrete tables. no one plays in the tiny strip of grass or gravel. you will find a small and beautiful stone.

-a hawaii license plate, somewhere around ohio. i still don’t know how they get the cars across the ocean. i don’t know why anyone would leave hawaii for ohio. i don’t know why anyone lives in ohio.

-an incredibly weird duck. you had no idea ducks could look so incredibly weird, and you wish you were still ignorant of how incredibly weird ducks can, apparently, look.

-a small folksy roadside waystation that sells fudge and incredibly tacky statues of eagles and wolves and cowboys. if you like fudge, eat the fudge from here.

-a lizard doing pushups. if you are particularly fortunate: many lizards doing pushups.

-approximately one gajillion starbucks shops. don’t bother counting them. it will make you angry.

-a storm somewhere around oklahoma, if you’re lucky. the clouds tower up in fantastic fluffy castles miles and miles into the air and are painted pink and gold and purple and the sky turns a dozen impossible shades of blue and when the rain comes down over your car it sounds like the world is ending.

-weird burrs will stick to your legs. you’ll flick them out of the car eighty or eight hundred miles from where their parent plant was grown, and not be sure whether you should wish the little hitchikers well or not.

-a dog wearing sunglasses with his head hanging out of a car window. this will be the high point of the trip.

-the world’s most depressing restaurant. you will know it when you wind up there and have to eat the terrible food, and listen to the terrible music, and look at all the listless waiters and want to tell them get in my car, for god’s sake get in, i’ll take you out of whatever crapsack little town this is that you can’t get out of on your own. but you won’t say that because it’s rude. maybe they have family here. maybe they even like it here.

-a painting of a sailboat in a motel located at least a hundred miles from any significant body of water.

-several genuinely hilarious postcards. buy them.

-a cat that will not let you pet it. this will be the low point of the trip.

-corn. so much corn you will get scared. who the fuck is going to eat all this corn?

-a small stream in some small woods and the light will come down perfectly and the water will be beautiful and the grass will be beautiful and there will be flowers maybe or the leaves of the trees are starting to turn gold and there are birds chirping and it will be so perfect you will want to stand there and stay forever and live in this little magical painting off the side of the highway and be some kind of highway druid. but instead, you’ll get bored after a while, and get back in the car.

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if anyone ever wonders why i love america so much despite its many political and cultural flaws, this is why. this post explains it perfectly.

tweetingatoddhours

I’ve done this road trip. A couple times in multiple directions, mostly under “scared this is where my car will stop working so what will I do next” conditions.

It’s beautiful and thrilling.

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while were all talking abt the betsy devos defunding the special olympics thing we should also note that shes in the same move defunded even more than that from native education programs and foreign language and studies programs

don’t anyone tell screen rant that releasing three movies two years apart is releasing them over six years.

#also I doubt george spent 15 years working on the prequels #star wars

here is a very recent photo of me and also hi how’s it going? i play D&D now, and i got a promotion at work.

hoping to launch a Patreon account in the next few months for my writing too. i would say things are going pretty well.

#personal #life #updates #life updates #continued adventures

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Wtf did I just read

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I can’t believe I actually read that whole thing.

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I found it again beautiful

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IT CAME BACK! the last time i saw this was long long ago

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I have to do this when I make a gingerbread house, cause I don’t like eating them either. They taste funny and not like a gingercookie!

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just googled a training i want to see that it is v expensive so i googled another training that my bosses boss told me would be good for the skills i’m trying to develop (them signed me up for) and it’s twice as much.

ya’ll.

i’m putting this tableau training on my resume.

giving a talk today and I just finished my slides, like, this thing is in two hours.

so i was collecting funko pop for awhile, and i just started selling off some of the ones i bought because i was excited because people on reddit were excited, and today on ebay i sold a pop for $42, and a keychain for $31, so i’m feelin’ pretty good, but also feelin’ a bit like talking about it is bragging about it so idk