and if i said nolan's odyssey starring no greek actors and with no recognizable aspects of greek culture or involvement by greeks, is the direct legacy of white supremacist colonialism that treated ancient greece as not just the pinnacle of ancient culture, but of an artificially created "european" culture, which white western europeans and their settler descendants, as the new pinnacle of culture, were the sole spiritual inheritors of.

we might also ask: why iranian artefacts for the premiere of a film adaptation of a greek epic? & the obvious answer is because well we respect greek cultural heritage more than iranian + the greeks are better able to protect their material culture from looters than iran, currently being bombed by the us (cf. the looting of iraq's material culture during the american occupation)

& honestly there's no debate to be had the zendaya earrings are orders of magnitude worse than kim kardashian wearing that marilyn dress. yes that piece was a one of a kind unique textile made so specifically for marilyn monroe she had to be sewn into it. at the end of the day it was a ~70 year old usamerican cultural artefact being repurposed by an american for an american cultural event and everyone involved knows exactly where the dress came from + what happened to it + where it went afterwards. zendaya is wearing the looted (or forged) cultural heritage of a people her government is currently bombing & whose lives they have been deliberately making unliveable for decades to a movie premiere that has fuck all to do with iran. we don't know where those discs came from where they were found or by whom & we never will. AND the jeweller appears to have altered them substantially from their original condition. destroying a people's cultural heritage at the same time you destroy their country + their lives so you can look good on a red carpet One Time i want to fucking hurl

am I unforgivable or is it just thursday

maybe mikel merino’s gonna be the one that saves me

Camilla holds herself together remarkably well considering everything that happens: the bacchanal, being an accomplice to two murders, being abused by her own brother. She doesn’t often show her emotions. She cries towards the end when Henry and Charles have to appear in court, but that’s almost it. Bunny attempts to belittle her in a number of ways, most of which have 0 impact. She was, as Richard says, ‘impervious to slights about her appearance,’ but this doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have any insecurities in that department - she’s just good at pretending like she doesn’t or is desensitised to insults about her appearance. When Henry picks her up after she cuts her foot in the lake, she tells him to put her down, saying ‘I’m too heavy for you.’ Based on the way she’s described by Richard, she absolutely isn’t ‘too heavy,’ especially for Henry. It’s a small moment of vulnerability that we see from her. But why? Is it just natural human self consciousness? Is she worried about incurring Charles’ jealousy as she’s being held by Henry? Is it a sly allusion to Henry’s injury as we know he walks with a limp? Either way, the lake scene is one of my favourite moments of the novel.