If anyone is interested I have a star wars side blog @fromryloth-tocorellia! A lot of the blog is prequels/TCW and Mando focused, but I have a billion OCs, mainly clones/TCW era and the next generation in the Rebellion/New Republic era.
I’m also on AO3 as MandoKain (Star Wars and OCs) itwillcomeback (COD and Arcane), and gethinapaperpartyhat (Mass Effect and Heated Rivalry), on Mastodon and Pillowfort as mankillercalledbunny, and on bluesky @kainthemando!
whenever people try to act like harry potter being comfort media for them matters at all i'm just like. cool i also grew up with it, i also have incredibly fond and nostalgic memories attached to it. but i'm also a complex individual capable of basing my actions on more than just immediate comfort and enjoyment
so in the 2003 Aquaman series they introduce a new backstory for archvillain Black Manta in which the entire reason for his (hyper)fixation on destroying Aquaman's life was severely maltreated autism, which Aquaman then cures him of with his magic water hand to completely redeem him. and this is obviously insanely stupid and ill-conceived and genuinely hateful, but given all of that, this is still one of the funniest speech balloons i've ever read in a comic. me @ myself when i remember how i acted in high school or whatever
>_o That does sound about right for 2003. That was the same year as Pink Kryptonite.
quite frankly i didn't realize enough people still used wattpad for this to be that big of an issue
Emily Wison, whose translation formed the basis for Nolan's version of The Odyssey, is brutal and unrelenting in her review of it.
All the food looks horrible!
Wilson also wrote a 14-post thread on Bluesky about it:
ALT1. It's a fun action movie. A line that got cut but sums up some of my overall feelings: This Odyssey is not a rich, satisfying Homeric banquet, but sometimes in the heat, an ice-cold Philly water ice is all you want - even it's mostly sugar and food coloring, and makes no nutritional sense.
2. Adaptations can do whatever the creators want with the source material, and in many cases, the more they diverge from or push back against the original, the better. e.g. I love Wild Sargasso Sea (and I also love Jane Eyre).
3. It's also totally fine to use American actors and a diverse cast. The costumes/ armor/boats are a mess, but who cares? Homer is also a mishmash, and see point #2.
4. It's less fine to waste your expensive diverse cast by terrible screen-writing, giving them zero convincing characterization or attempt to make us care about the relationships, and tokenism.
5. Adaptations are often most successful when they make clear, courageous choices about what to leave out - so, for instance, the movie "The Return" seems to me both a much more radical departure from the original source, and also a more successful film.
6. Nolan tries to pack a lot of Incidents and Big Ideas into this film, but they do not seem to me to hang together coherently on the level of his own plot and the movie's constructed system of values. Instead, it's foisting a didactic point about Our Times onto the plot without integrating it.
7. The film centers Odysseus's guilt over his war crimes, but never shows us the POV of his victims, and instead glorifies the perpetrator for feeling bad about himself. I found this unsatisfying ethically and worse, imaginatively, because Damon's character is given only one moo
7. I liked Nolan's low-budget early films - have seen Memento 3 times - but I think the money is a trap. It's easier to suspend disbelief if the actors are less famous. The huge budget leads him to attempt grand jam-packed epics, when he's better at taut, very premise-y small films.
8. I wish I liked this film more. I tried very hard to like it. I also felt it was valid to write about why it didn't work for me - especially since so much of the coverage has been so very positive, and I'm hardly punching down.
9. By far my favorite thing in the film is Robert Pattinson's hilarious and sexy Antinous. If anyone ever wants to make a spin off TV series with Antinous risen from the dead to mess with other mythical households, I would be so there for it.
10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities.
11. Was I too mean? Or not mean enough? I went through my first draft and tried to take out the snark. To quote the great poet: "Though much is taken, much remains... That which we are, we are."
12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.
Yes, it is Wide Sargasso Sea and yes, the Tennyson line is “though much is taken, much abides”. Many apologies and thank you for correcting. And thank you to all who read and engaged. I am very happy that some people respectfully disagreed with me, or had different feelings about the film from mine.
It is morally correct to be horny on main.
If we really want to fight against this puritanical culture that seems to be hell-bent on running sex workers off the internet and banning pornography wherever they can find it, you have a moral duty to post hole on main. Doesn't have to be your own hole but you got to post it.
New copypasta just dropped
Same guy
Reblog hole to destroy bloodlines and oppress Christians
One of the sweetest things is when you post a new work on AO3 and then one of your old works gets a comment because it means that somebody read the new thing and liked it so much that they went and checked what other stuff you wrote and they liked that enough to tell you about it and I just think that is so fucking precious!! thank you thank you thank you to the people who do that, keep doing it it's the best feeling as an author
First up: he's 71m tall and one of the chillest dudes in the world, sitting alongside the river he was carved to protect, it's THE LESHAN GIANT BUDDHA
And facing him we have: 11m tall, home to secret rooms and embodying the spirit of the Apennine mountains, it's THE APENNINE COLOSSUS!
This one is getting a week for fairness! I am adding on the third place poll onto this, along with a list of honourable mentions!
Our first contender for third place is 48m tall, with ten heads representing Samantabhadra’s ten great vows, it’s THE TEN DIRECTIONS SAMANTABHADRA BODHISATTVA!
Our next contender for third is 42m tall, serving as both a memorial to the fallen and as a symbol of the spirit and people of Ukraine, it’s MOTHER UKRAINE!
The Kelpies: more than tall enough at 30m, but without the full bodies their status as “statue” vs “sculpture” is highly debatable (the artist actually refers to them more as sculptures), so these were excluded in the interest of not muddying the waters. Love the giant horses tho, if you’re ever near Falkirk give them a visit!
Feel free to add on your own honourable mentions if you so desire!
First up: he’s 71m tall and one of the chillest dudes in the world, sitting alongside the river he was carved to protect, it’s THE LESHAN GIANT BUDDHA
And facing him we have: 11m tall, home to secret rooms and embodying the spirit of the Apennine mountains, it’s THE APENNINE COLOSSUS!
This one is getting a week for fairness! I am adding on the third place poll onto this, along with a list of honourable mentions!
