Static Noise

Edit that I made for the @merlinfanworksfest using this week's prompt.

emily wilson says ‘i wanted to avoid the clever literary allusions of lombardo and fitzgerald, since they are entirely out of place in homeric poetics; the odyssey is based on a pre-existing oral tradition, and cannot make smart little nods to earlier literature, because there was no earlier greek literature’ and on one hand i get what she means and don’t disagree with her translation choices in the passage in question. and i also think what lombardo does in the same passage (two! tennyson allusions) is over the top. on the other hand i disagree that allusions to other later literature are entirely out of place in a translation of homer, for the exact reason that emily wilson takes issue with them. sure, an english translation of homer cannot allude to a pre-homeric oral tradition, but it can allude to an entirely different earlier literary tradition, not to replicate the content of allusion but to replicate the process/sense of the text not like. springing cleanly and allusionlessly from the ether. which is of course an extremely domesticating approach, but i do think it can be done interestingly.* personally i absolutely love translations of classical texts that like. overdomesticate to the point of defamiliarity again. translation of homer that alludes to modern literature so obviously and obtrusively that you have to notice it and go wait What. surely that’s not in homer. and it’s not! but now you’ve had the experience of There was an allusion, and also been reminded of the partial futility of translation. nice

fanart for one of my favorite fics ever, The Lion, the Lady and Eternity by Dr_Chalk that everyone must go and read right now

Me trying to say something to my partner about some cool fanart I just saw on my dash.

Lizardsex I love you...

... I see now your name is probably Lizards Exposed and not in fact Lizard Sex Posed.

Blade will turn up to a party but point blank refuse to have fun.

Official Watership Down Musical Preview Clip!

It's interesting that the two most notable '80s adaptations of Jack and the Beanstalk, the Faerie Tale Theatre version and Into the Woods, both answer the original tale's unanswered question of "What happens to the Giant's Wife in the end?" but in completely different ways.

#some netizens also say chinese people like unification because only a powerful unified dynasty can survive the yellow river and sometimes #also the chang jiang when they decide to flood and change directions and kill and displace millions #also only large dynasties have the resources to do hydroengineering to try and control the yellow river #yellow river be like: if you don't hydroengineer you die #but if you do you might also die heehee #“we call these our mother rivers not because they are gentle but because we are too scared” tags on above post