when I stop for the clipboard people because yeah I'll sign a petition but they want money instead 😭 and not just cash from my pocket but my email and credit card info
I finished Chernobyl and am currently doing the wikipedia binge and damn..... those old men WERE gay ❤️🩹
watched Mulan with my younger cousins and I forgot they said she was doing drag and called her a crossdresser. shocking that this would be seen as controversial today
rewatching Chernobyl (series) and it's framed exactly like Jaws except instead of people going into the water and you going "noooooo the shark!!" it's people going outside and you're like "noooooo the radioactivity!!"
you could probably do some sort of interesting comparison between Ancient Greek Troilus (beautifully victimized boychild) vs. medieval Troilus (noble knight laid low by a woman) and ancient Achilles/Patroclus (violent warriors) vs. medieval Lancelot/Galehaut (lovesick knights)
I'm only 1/8 of the way through one volume the Lancelot Grail (it's hella long) but I might do the Emily Wilson Odyssey translation for my next classics book.... I really do need to read it at some point. also the Iliad.
I had to turn my 11 year old laptop back on just to erase its memory so I can donate it. It's chugging next to me right now.... I feel cruel.
finally read the Emily Wilson odyssey review. banger. I'm snapping my fingers after each sentence like this is a slam poetry meeting. I would screenshot a paragraph but they're all screenshotable. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Nolan makes movies for people who think they're too smart for Marvel. All the pomp and circumstance and explosions with dialogue like "it's not okay you did that to my mom". The dumb man's smart movie.
(after getting all my men killed for two decades straight) I have to go on a sexy Mediterranean cruise with my wife Anne Hathaway to honor them
people aren't brave enough to admit the odyssey was resoundingly mid. but not me. I'll sing it from the rooftops
watching a Chernobyl documentary and getting a better picture of what went wrong.... it's literally always the swiss cheese model. every single disaster is like "10 things were done incorrectly at the same time"
I love when couples are the same height, I just saw an older couple where the woman was like 5'1 and the man was like 5'2 and I was like wow.... this is how it should be. this is natural. height differences are an affront to god.
Memento is the best of these because he gets legitimately manipulated and taken advantage of and then he's like "don't worry kitten" "ok ❤️ yay ❤️" to HIMSELF
Zar 🗡️@zaruthel.bsky.social · 2w agoI didn't mind the emotional climax of the Odyssey but it was literally like every single one of Nolan's other movies where a guy goes "damnnnn I'm kinda lowkey evil (even though I didn't mean to be 🥺)... I kinda fucked everything up forever... the consequences... damnnnnn......"
I didn't mind the emotional climax of the Odyssey but it was literally like every single one of Nolan's other movies where a guy goes "damnnnn I'm kinda lowkey evil (even though I didn't mean to be 🥺)... I kinda fucked everything up forever... the consequences... damnnnnn......"
Odysseus was dumb as hell, why would you build a VERTICAL horse at low tide so half your men drown inside instead of moving it 30 yards inland
this is my favorite painting from the Monet exhibit because the dark red sun from the crazy European coal pollution looks exactly like the dark red sun you see when there's a wildfire nearby
crazy that influencers are straight up wearing latex now. baby powder and oiled up and all. what fetish material will be subsumed into popular culture next? dare we dream of mainstream fursuiting?
you think I'm a Nolan anti because I hate his movies. I'm actually a Nolan anti because Memento is one of my favorite movies.
I'm walking down the street and I hear "No Scrubs" blasting from behind me so I turn around to see what vehicle it's coming from and it's a guy on a motorcycle with a thin blue line leather jacket????????
I can't get over the part where they were like "he was so perfect but his boobs were a little too big.... he breasted too boobily.... but Guinevere thought they were just the right size ❤️"
Zar 🗡️@zaruthel.bsky.social · 3w agoI already knew that Lancelot was someone's very special Mary Sue OC but this description is even more egregious than Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way
I've only been to one sports game, and after the hometown team won they started playing celebration/hype up music. But what do they play after they lose? Simon & Garfunkel's The Sound of Silence? Nine Inch Nails' Hurt? Linkin Park's In The End?
I feel like I need to read some AI writing just so I have a feel of it because rn every time I see a flowery but unclear metaphor I'm like 🤨🤨 AI?????
currently reading one of the seminal western yaois (Lancelot-Grail Cycle)
just found out that wealthy ancient Athenians were required to sponsor plays "to improve the city-state's economic stability through the use of private wealth to fund public good" which is extremely based. wealth tax but you have to fund art. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choregos
Choregos - Wikipedia
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I'm facing a sort of interesting artistic challenge where 1) I inherited a bunch of frames that my grandma was getting rid of 2) I have an excess of brightly colored paper 3) my printer ran out of black ink
