A.J. Ditty

@thefuzzymaskedman.bsky.social

Actor/Playwright/Slash-Mark Enthusiast. "(A.J. Ditty) is not a puppeteer." -The New York Times One-third of @worstpossible.world ajditty.com

BOURDAIN (voiceover): I found myself surrounded by discarded objects. An empty soda can, a dead battery. Life becomes death. But death can become life. The simmering pot with its spicy aroma in front of me is proof. BOURDAIN: What's in this dish? ME: Pikmin BOURDAIN: Pikmin. Oh man that's good.

Cannot stress enough how much this translation unlocked the Odyssey for me. Deeply personal, epic while retaining all the things that make the original story so delightfully weird, the way she allows Odysseus to be both a deeply sympathetic figure and an irredeemable asshole. Go give it a read!

Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago

“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”

Based solely on that trailer, my guess is that RDJ as Doom is a red herring and it's going to somehow end up being a Steve Rogers Dr. Doom (he's the first teaser trailer we saw, if Thor ends up being our POV character, it's an even greater betrayal, etc.)

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences