wheatles

@wheatles.bsky.social

Woman of the people

I love that the people making cartoons in the '80s and '90s seemed to collectively get together, ask themselves, "what do kids like?", and for some reason landed on "impressions of Peter Lorre and Orson Welles".

Anyone fancy a night out Odyssey rules? * Have a standard trip to the pub * HOWEVER at home time, just pick a direction and start walking. * Have 3-6 episodic adventures * Aim to arrive home at 8am, but act like it's been twenty years * Be nice to any pets, especially dogs.

mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not

People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you

the most annoying thing about living here is tourists asking to meet She Who Slumbers in the Lake. buddy, we all want to meet her. that’s why we lure the tourists

On the second night of sword making in Wales the swordmaster read us The Odyssey. He explained it was the wrong culture for the the bronze work we were doing, but it was from the right time. We sat in a thatched roundhouse and listened to a poem as old as bronze working.

A group of tired metal workers (bronze) in a round hut, lit by candles.