Araclaire

@araclaire.bsky.social

Illustrator/Animator, TransLesbian 🏳️‍⚧️⚢ No AI 🚫 No NFT 🚫

everyone: why are there no sex scenes in movies? emily wilson: why are there no sex scenes in this movie about notoriously horny guys? everyone: "NOT LIKE THAT!!!! you should be GRATEFUL to him, without HIS accomplishments your mere 'intellectual labor on a grand scale' wouldn't be SELLINGGGG!!!!"

i feel confident guessing that plenty of male classicists have the same or harsher opinions. academics love--& this will shock you--their fields of study, & they often have strong opinions about lay interpretations. but a male classicist wld NEVER be told to shut up & be grateful for the book sales

first of all: no that's me, *I* wanted that. i think that shit would go hard and i think you're a big dork who needs to be weaned off superhero movies dr wilson on the other hand was so clear, so repeatedly, that she did not want that. you just literally didn't read it, or you're lying

user one: 

honestly wonder if she thinks her vision of the perfect movie adaptation could possibly get made, and if so by whom.


user 2:
she wanted an alienating, Robert Eggers style movie that stayed true to the ethics and mores of bronze age Greece.Adaptations needn’t and shouldn’t follow the original with anything like the exactitude of a translation. Some of the best radically transform or resist the source material, providing what Harold Bloom called ‘strong misreadings’ of their ancestors. The most memorable creative responses to The Odyssey – such as Euripides’ Helen, Virgil’s Aeneid, Milton’s Paradise Lost, Joyce’s Ulysses, Walcott’s Omeros, Atwood’s Penelopiad, Madeline Miller’s Circe or Lisa Peterson’s play set in a modern migrant camp – reconsider the poem’s structure, narrative and values. In theory, Nolan seems to understand the assignment and its hazards. His first feature film, Following (1998), was a powerful black and white thriller about the fascination and dangers of tracking strangers through space and time. The hunter is more likely to become the hunted, Following suggests, if...

hey I'm nonbinary, it's nonbinary day, buy a book or something cause some of my characters are also nonbinary and gay for girls in a dyke way or just tune in to a stream and toss me a fiver if you can. If you don't got money, boosts are nice and I'll give you my shit for free if you want

🎃 Vyria Durav, Dread Wyrm Princess of Spookytown 🎃@vyriadurav.northsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm Vyria, everyone's favorite dragon princess! I'm a pngtuber as well as an author of transfem wlw books! You can catch my streams M-F 9PM UTC+7 at twitch.tv/vyria_durav and you can find my books at the following sites: vyriadurav.itch.io www.amazon.com/stores/Vyria... as well as most ebook stores!

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢@taliabhatt.itch.io · 6mo ago

Four roommates enroll in a competition for men, to grow the biggest breasts. Surely they're not all secretly trans women... Right? Preorder now! Amazon: www.amazon.com/Junkies-Rank... Itch: taliabhatt.itch.io/estro-junkies Other Storefronts: books2read.com/u/bPMn7j

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"Grow the biggest rack. Win at transition. NO GIRLS ALLOWED."

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