Instead of the new dogshit Odyssey film you should watch Iphigenia (1977). Itâs made by actual Greek people and focuses on a mother-daughter relationship to explore how women are sacrificed by powerful men in times of war. Also the main actress has the face of an angel đ the whole movie is available on YT with English subtitles.
In the movie you feel Agamemnons conflict, Clytemnestras despair, Iphigenias agony of her fate. Most people picture Greek mythology as only focusing on action but the tales were 90% of the human conflicts through dialogue. Yes it was because back then it wouldn't make sense to have on theater live action war, but even that, to have people describe the situation provided now people to read and understand one's inner conflict, their opinions, their decisions.
Iphigenia didn't need to make a grand scale war of achilles fighting everyone to make the viewer pay attention to the screen. The movie makes you care of the characters, because it was that well written! You know from the start what is inevitable, you know how it'll end, and still you cant take your eyes out of the screen as the story reaches its climax and catharsis.
Greek mythology in pop culture has put more emphasis on action, aesthetics , rather than making the viewer care of the situation, of the culture , of the traditions, of the local people, hence why many dont understand the story or the events. Action btw isn't the worst thing, its how studios use it or have brainwashed people how to view mythologies globally.
They have mixed myths with superheroes being the same thing and you see how they make the heroes be nowadays, empty shells to show some cool moves, some epic action, but when it comes to the characters, their goals, their own arcs, suddenly studios ignore that to fill the time with more action instead of letting the movie breath, resulting in forgettable projects that earned some millions for the studios to repeat itself
Don't accept mediocrity, its okay to demand quality and not quantity
Most cop thing I've ever read. what the fuck are you talking about. The posts you're looking for might be on this website but we won't show them to you???
just so you know, if you completely ignore the search feature on the website and just type "tumblr.com/search/term" into the address bar, it bypasses all of this. broken-ass website
everyone i've talked to about this has been completely unaware so: if you didn't know already, there's going to be a solar eclipse, with totality or coverage of 90% or more in some places, over a lot of europe, on august 12th 2026. in the uk it will start just after 6pm, and the maximum will be at 7:13pm.
here is a map of the path of the eclipse (from timeanddate)
get eclipse glasses if you want to look at it. it is not safe to look at through sunglasses. ok informative post over o7
We absolutely SHOULD celebrate DC greenlighting three Black-led projects with Black creative teams because YAY but!! one of the requests of DCBlackout is that these titles be given immunity from cancellation for 2 years. Obviously we should do our part and preorder & show up for these titles, but DC is also not off the hook yet!!! Stay vigilant and keep demanding better for Black characters, fans, and creatives!!!!
Actually you SHOULD make problematic content. You SHOULD explore dark or taboo topics. You SHOULD have a space where you can cope with your traumas or explore sensitive topics in a way that doesn't hurt anyone.
Also you should make problematic content for funsies. You don't need to have had trauma or need to be coping in order to explore dark creativity. You can just be a human who wants to explore dark and taboo topics because you want to. That's completely normal, btw.
Every single person on this planet thinks about dark and taboo things. It's literally the most normal thing in the world.
tumblr keeps giving me these ads with straight up porn in them (like, nude dickriding) and while idgaf about seeing porn I really am like, exhausted by the double edged swords of "terms of service" and "advertising".
I can't post images that show too much of my stomach, because notable body fat trips whatever alarms are up in tumblr HQ. but advertisers can show me skinny white girls bouncing on it all day long bc like, they're advertisers.
we live in advertising world. companies have more rights to "expression" in public than individuals. once you notice it you won't stop seeing it. you have a moral duty to resist it.
getting tired of these kinds of responses. "you're only seeing porn because you look at porn and the ads are connected to your data huehuehuehue" like it's some kind of gotcha.
I am a sex worker - a porn creator. Yes, I spend a lot of time on porn sites! sometimes for work, sometimes for pleasure. I'm not embarrassed to admit it. Do you think I should be? I'm on testosterone, sometimes I jerk off four times a day. Get over it.
When I said "idgaf about seeing porn" I meant it! What I DO care about is the fact that I as a user and a worker cannot post my creative labour on this website, but that advertisers can show me whatever they want, including AI generated Attractive People doing my job. The implication that they're doing this with the use of tracking cookies makes it worse, actually. I don't like living under surveillance. Do you think it's funny? Or do you think that was part of the problem I was trying to talk about from the start?
PlayStation putting out a legal notice saying theyâre removing 500+ movies from user accounts days before announcing theyâre getting rid of physical discs for games is an interesting choice
Why the fuck is libro fm charging 88 dollars for A Game of Thrones audio book?!! that is 2/3s of the cost of the box set for the series!! This is one book!! Yeah, yeah, supporting local bookstores, I could buy that from my local book store for a little less than 30 dollars. Making audio books more accessible my ass you're charging nearly 90 dollars for it!!!! Are the voice actors getting a cut?? I could understand if the voice actors were also getting a cut but I have found no mention anywhere of paying voice actors, just local and independent bookstores. Could someone in this industry please explain why they are selling it for an -IN MY AREA- over 50 dollar mark up. Please explain I am angry and confused. I am also not a member
I donât think thereâs anything inherently wrong with relating to characters, âtheyâre literally meâ etc but if thatâs the only way you engage with stories youâre kinda missing the whole point of Characters being vehicles through which we can see perspectives outside of our own. and also youâre going to get upset when the Character acts in a way that is not Personally Relatable to You
doubly for shipping. at risk if biting the hand that feeds me, a well written fictional relationship should ideally be more than a didactic template for how to have a nice relationship
There is no paradox of tolerance, because tolerance is not a matter of ethics. It's a peace treaty - an agreement that only covers the people who abide by its rules.
The title of this essay should disturb you. We have been brought up to believe that tolerating other people is one of the things you do ifâŠ
And for cis white guys who are always trying to figure out how to be an ally without talking over marginalized people, without reshaping the issue to be all about you - this guy shows how.
His tactics don't work for marginalized people. They can't get away with that.
Tolerance is the value of Hospitality. Hospitality only applies to those who adhere to it. An enemy invading is not subject to hospitality. A person who is making the space inhospitable to others is breaching hospitality, and shall no longer benefit from it themself.
There is no such thing as "Hospitable hate". There is no such thing as a "Safe Fascist" or "Equitable Bigot". So there is no hospitality to offer Nazis.
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#as a brown woman who'll always be seen as the angry brown woman #I won't stop being aggressive if a fucking Nazi ever shows up #but it is more effective when a white man or somebody who has a less marginalized identity uses these tactics #because that's what these brain dead nazis respond to #we as people of color as someone 'lesser' than them #unfortunately are just proving them right when we show our aggression #but once again it doesn't mean I would personally stop being violent towards nazis #it just means more white people need to do the same
Yo BE CAREFUL with things like this because Nazis can easily weaponize the court system against you.
This is not legal advice and this is me, just talking about some jurisdiction-specific things I happen to know, as a defense attorney who's done so many A+B cases...
Assault and battery are different things. Battery is actually making contact with a person (i.e., the root of the word "battered.")
Assault can be done one of a two ways in common law.
Attempt battery and miss (throw a punch and whiff it)
Make someone think you're about to do battery even if you don't intend to
That second one can be tricky!! Generally, words are not enough for an assault. There must be some type of accompanying behavior, such as violent gestures (balling up fist, advancing, raising an item threateningly). Whether or not your words are a threat is also relevant; we have some great case law in this state that a threat involves a direct threat, not a conditional statement.
(That means you're on safer ground if you say "I will beat the shit out of you if you continue to display your heinous Nazi sign" than if you say "I will beat the shit out of you in five seconds.")
I see in this video that this guy balled up his fist and pointed in some gestures to "get the fuck out of here." I would likely not recommend that anyone do that. I would also not recommend "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi" because, while true, it could be construed as a threat and therefore part of the relevant behavior to reach an assault charge. (Probably ok in this instance because this guy's sign said "the nazis were right" not "I'm a nazi." This seems trivial but could be an important distinction.)
Mind that my analysis is particular to my jurisdiction and there are many variants of this law. It is actually extremely difficult as a layperson to get a good picture of this in my jurisdiction specifically because the law forbids "assault & battery" without defining it, and the definition can only be found in the common law.
Be safe and don't give anyone reason to call the cops <3
Maybe it's naive of me, but whenever I see portraits like this, with just a father and daughter, it restores my faith in humanity a little. Because people seem to love this idea that fathers never loved their daughters in the past and only saw them as bargaining chips for marriage or whatever, but look at the guy in the first portrait on the left, he loves that little girl! And the dad trying to do his work while his daughter bothers him with an Old Timey Barbie. The man teaching his daughter geography, his expression is so soft! The way the man in the last portrait holds the little girl's hand! And none of these are incidental, these aren't photographs, someone (probably the father) paid good money and sat down for hours so that they could have a painting of themselves and their daughter. Probably because they loved their daughter.
From left to right: 1795 MichaĆ Jerzy Mniszech with his daughter ElĆŒbieta - Marcello Bacciarelli; Christopher Anstey and his daughter Mary Ann by William Hoare 1776; A Musician and His Daughter by Thomas de Keyser 1629; The Geography Lesson (Portrait of Monsieur G. and His Daughter), 1812; Jean-baptiste Isabey And His Daughter; Portrait of a Young Girl and Older Man by William Harrison Scarborough
(this is probably somewhat related to my other favourite genre of painting, Husband With Multiple Kids Making Come Hither Eyes At His Wife)
oh I love those! People being people is one of my favourite kinds of paintings and an important reminder that people in past times were not all that different. There were dads who loved their daughters fiercely. There were fathers who happily looked after their babies too. The German reformer Philip Melanchton for example had a cradle in his office. His wife was busy organising a household for 20 people- she was out and about, he mostly worked in his office, it made sense for him to look after their babies too babies while she dropped by at snack time.
in fact often if it was kind of safe dads had the babies in their workshops for just that reason as we can see in these paintings:
The left is âthe busy fatherâ by Theodore Weber, the right one is âAt the china repairerâs â by Wenzel Tornoe. All dads who are actively involved in childcare and a painter who thought it was a cute topic rather than anything ridiculous.
"My family thinks because im a leftist it means im radical but like whats radical about that? I just want everyone to hug, no bad things to happen, free healthcare and be nice to everyone" - the coldest, rudest most judgemental person you know.
Yeah. This. It's the refusal to acknowledge that the world is messy and complicated, that tradeoffs are a thing, and that people can disagree in good faith. Because only a Bad Person could possibly disagree with "healthcare and hugs."
"Be kind" is a good foundational philosophy, but free healthcare comes with establishing robust tax policies, education priorities, procurement programs for all kinds of hardware from hospital beds to MRI machines, drug price negotiation at the national level, building initiatives because if you're going to provide comprehensive health care to a population that previously didn't have it you're going to need more clinics and hospitals... Etc etc,
I fully endorse the idea of free healthcare for all, but there's a lot of naivete about the amount of institution building it takes to make it happen.
Mayor Mamdani declared that the democratically elected leader of the worldâs only Jewish state is a âwar criminalâ who is ânot welcome in Ne
[âŠ] After acknowledging that New York City has no independent legal authority to execute the International Criminal Courtâs arrest warrant, the mayor nevertheless chose to transform that legal reality into a televised political spectacle. Respect for the separation of powers and the legal limits of public office is a bedrock of American democracy; those limits should not be treated as an inconvenience to be exploited for political theater.
Perhaps most telling was what the mayor chose to leave out. His address made no mention of Hamas or the October 7 massacre of innocent civilians. Instead, he delivered a sweeping moral indictment of Israel while erasing the terrorist atrocities that ignited this war. Appeals to universal humanity and justice ring hollow when they exclude the victims whose suffering does not fit a preferred political narrative.
This is no longer simply about Prime Minister Netanyahu. It reflects a broader pattern in which Mayor Mamdani repeatedly singles out Israel while using the prestige of his office to legitimize rhetoric that further isolates the Jewish state and deepens division here at home. At a time when Jewish New Yorkers are experiencing alarming levels of antisemitism, harassment and intimidation, they deserve a mayor who refrains from fomenting hatred against the worldâs only Jewish country while maintaining the fiction that this is not anti-Jewish.
Throughout his campaign, Mayor Mamdani repeatedly insisted that his responsibility as mayor would be to focus on New York City and the issues affecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers elected him to make their neighborhoods safer, combat hate and unite a diverse city, not to conduct foreign policy or transform City Hall into a stage for ideological declarations about world leaders.
New Yorkers elected a mayor, not a prosecutor of foreign leaders. Mayor Mamdani should spend less time trying to demonize only one leader and one country from City Hall and more time protecting the New Yorkers he was elected to serve.
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Leading Jewish groups castigate New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for inflammatory claims he made yesterday in a video announcing that he could not arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Before stating that the city could not make the arrest, Mamdani said Israel was targeting âneonatal care centers,â starving âcountless people,â âgunning down hundreds of aid workers and journalists,â and that Americans were paying âfor the bombs that do the killing.â
The claims are largely exaggerated or based on scanty or questionable evidence.
The UJA-Federation of New York, the leading Jewish group in the city, says, âNew Yorkers elected a mayor to lead this city â not to make Israel the centerpiece of your political grandstanding.â
âYour video is rife with distortions and disinformation. At a time of rising antisemitism, repeatedly singling out and vilifying the worldâs only Jewish state for perceived political benefit is repugnant, puts Jews at greater risk â and leaves many Jewish New Yorkers feeling targeted and unwelcome in the city we call home,â the federation says in a statement. âShame on you.â
Mamdani has often sparred with leading Jewish groups, but the UJA statement marked an unusually harsh criticism of the mayor.
The head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Mark Treyger, says, âThe Mayor already knew he lacked the legal authority to carry out this irresponsible campaign promise.â
Mamdaniâs video, including his call for federal authorities to arrest Netanyahu, âplaces the NYPD in an untenable position, further inflames tensions in the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel, and distracts from urgent local responsibilities⊠including responding to a deadly Legionnairesâ outbreak,â Treyger says.
The Orthodox Union, a leading national Jewish group that is headquartered in New York, says, âMayor Mamdaniâs video endangers Jewish New Yorkers.â
âHe peddles lies and misinformation that risk inciting further violence against Jews. It is a betrayal of his oath of office and his own commitment to protect all New Yorkers,â the Orthodox Union says.
âThe Mayorâs singular focus on Prime Minister Netanyahu is a telling reminder of his obsession with the actions of only one country, the Jewish state,â the statement says. âIt is time for the Mayor to focus on the considerable needs of New York instead of playing prosecutor for the cameras.â
The Anti-Defamation League says, âHate crimes. Rising cost of living. Legionnairesâ outbreak. Parasitic infections. Flash floods. But sure, letâs focus on trying to arrest Israelâs prime minister.â
âGlad to see the NYC mayor has his priorities straight,â the ADL says.
Statement on Brutal Attack in Upper West Side
Weâre horrified â but not surprised â by todayâs brutal attacks on the Upper West Side, when a man shouting âAllahu Akbarâ stabbed two New Yorkers, one Asian and one visibly Jewish. Weâre grateful to the NYPD for its swift response in apprehending the suspect and pray for the victimsâ full recovery.
Words have consequences. Particularly, words from the Mayor of New York City. These attacks came soon after Mayor Mamdani once again used his official platform to viciously attack Israel, the only Jewish state. We cannot ignore the dangerous climate created when elected leaders relentlessly portray Israel â and, by extension, the many Jewish New Yorkers who feel a deep connection to it â as uniquely evil and illegitimate.
At a time of rising tension and polarization, our city needs a mayor who rejects the dehumanization of every community, lowers the temperature, and brings us together. Jewish New Yorkers â all New Yorkers â deserve nothing less.
now, it is, of course, overly simplistic to blame this on him, antisemitism has been steadily rising in NYC for years, as it has globally. Mamdani isnât responsible for that, and violently radicalized antisemites donât need him, nor any elected official, to help them commit hate crimes. such perpetrators always find their reasons.
the point here isnât to uniquely call him out, or condemn him for anything except his own rhetoric. itâs not that he criticized Bibi and called him a war criminal, so do a lot of Jews and Israelis (may he soon be out of office, at the least). Mamdani purposefully used that as a springboard for inflammatory accusations, and this is a pattern of behavior for him (see: âŠmultiple previous comments he has made).
as the UJA said, what is Mamdaniâs responsibility as mayor is turning down the temperature and considering the wellbeing of all the residents of the city. he chose specific statements that raised tensions instead. thatâs whatâs being criticized.
State and city elected officials, communal figures gather at site of attack, claiming mayor's incendiary remarks on PM and Gaza war are enda
As a candidate, the New York mayor pledged to order the arrest of Israelâs prime minister if elected. The Mamdani strategist who says he pus
[âŠ] âBelieve me, he knew before the question was asked that he didnât have the power,â says Paul Begala, a longtime Democratic political adviser, when I ask for his read on things as an outside observer. âI think the guy has enormous talent,â he adds. âI question his judgment, but golly, is he gifted.â
Thatâs because it appears the mayor turned a sour momentâadmitting publicly that heâd made a campaign promise he could not keepâinto a victory, or at least something with its own political momentum. Mamdaniâs message on Netanyahu has been cheered by commenters everywhere from Ireland to Egypt and blasted by opponents like Israelâs ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, who has accused the mayor of spreading âblood libelââan apparent reference to medieval antisemitic rhetoric that was later harnessed by the Nazis.
But for Begala, a longtime critic of Netanyahu himself, the problem is that the speech was primarily a spectacle. âI think he understands the lessons of [Donald] Trumpâs success, in that diversion is a superpower.â
When you get all of the major Jewish organizations and journalism outlets to agree youâre engaging in clown behavior.
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Like, Mr. Mayor, we famously donât agree about almost anything. But we do think youâre a populist, a Jew hater, and a one trick pony. You got (((US))) to agree. Thatâs a bad look.
i really thought the point of "being lgbt+ doesn't absolve you of racism as a white person" was that white people arent absolved of racism by being marginalized but it really seems like people think other marginalizations make it okay. no being disabled doesn't do it. no being poor doesnt do it. we need to fight against racism actively no matter what.
I want to pull this post open a little while agreeing with it.
I disagree with the word 'absolved;' no one comes into this world with a mark of sin that needs absolution, including white people. After all, I didn't ask to be born. Neither did y'all. We didn't do anything wrong.
However.
Existing in a world where the structure of society, as well as the racist disgust of a subset of individuals, favors one group unfairly over another I think simply cannot be alleviated without confronting it.
If a white person wants an excuse to not confront racism, they can find one. Their excuse might be that they already confront so much prejudice along another axis of their life that their bandwidth is full up. But, realistically, the thing about being white, specifically, is that you can ignore racism. Just like the thing about being straight is that you can ignore homophobia. The thing about being male is that you can ignore misogyny. Black & brown people, queer people, women, cannot ignore these things.
There's no get-out-of-jail-free card on this one. You only get credit for fighting racism if you fight racism. You only make progress in fighting racism if you fight racism. You only overcome what our culture has ingrained into you by overcoming it.
There is no virtue in being born to an oppressed class; there is no virtue in being born into a class of oppressors. There is virtue in continuing the fight to erase that distinction.
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