Mind the Gap

another history making marvel post I never see anyone talk about is “so is nobody helping blade kill all those vampires”

Having Helen and Clytemnestra be identical twins is genius because how poetic and fitting is it that Agamemnon, who used Helen as an excuse to start The Trojan War, who instigated the deaths of thousands and sacrificed his own daughter for his ambitions, only to fall by someone who bears the same face of the woman he politicized?

I loved everything they did with Agamemnon. With so little dialogue they established that this man was a perfectionist, that he lived for the aesthetic. Every decision he made was for the sake of the poetry of it over and above the actual consequences. He launched a war that caused the collapse of civilization to reclaim a woman who didn't even want to come home just because she shared a face with his wife, leaving said wife behind and murdering their daughter in the process. He demanded that he be there right front and center when they opened the gates of Troy. He never showed any emotion or affection to anyone except for the occasional stiff bro-hug. He constantly wore a literal mask with literal sculpted cheekbones at all times everywhere he went, and the one time he finally takes off his mask, the one time he finally relaxes and drops the larger-than-life persona he's been carrying, his wife murders him in righteous vengeance. They turned him into a walking cautionary tale about toxic masculinity and I am so happy with it. What a guy.

@dexer-von-dexer Yes it's the fact that everything Agamemnon did was profoundly performative, symbolized by the fact that we almost never saw him without his ridiculous armour obscuring his face. Odysseus was inside The Horse. Menelaus, his brother was inside The Horse. The only 2 bits of Agamemnon participating in the fighting we saw were 1. him posturing at the gates after the siege of Troy was already broken by other people doing the bloody shitty work for him, and 2. him murdering baby Iphigenia in exchange for the conditions he needed for his (literal) ego trip to Troy. And keep in mind Iphigenia was only sacrificed because Agamemnon fucked up in the first place offending Artemis. Yet this fucker still had the gall to feel slighted from beyond the grave and destroyed the rest of his children to satisfy his petty revenge. A loser for all time. He's not just toxic masculinity, he's the patriarchy. Fuck up and then make others, especially women pay the price.

new evidence shows dogs have "intuitive mastery of the bessemer steelmaking process", backing up centuries of anecdotes by blacksmiths in which a dog would whine and bark in distress when pig iron was heated without sufficient access to air in their presence. "It's possible Bessemer or others who claimed to have invented the process were inspired by the behavior of dogs, or that dogs communicated the details of this vital industrial process to them by unknown means", paper concludes

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

Now a functionally suicidal character saying “I will live for you”. Now that’s a dynamic I can sink my teeth into.

now how about a functionally suicidal character saying "I will sell hot dogs for you"

Hotdog vender lays down their life to protect their suicidal partner, who then takes over the hotdog stand to carry on their memory...

It's like talking to a 2010 Old Spice commercial with you people

Having Helen and Clytemnestra be identical twins is genius because how poetic and fitting is it that Agamemnon, who used Helen as an excuse to start The Trojan War, who instigated the deaths of thousands and sacrificed his own daughter for his ambitions, only to fall by someone who bears the same face of the woman he politicized?

I loved everything they did with Agamemnon. With so little dialogue they established that this man was a perfectionist, that he lived for the aesthetic. Every decision he made was for the sake of the poetry of it over and above the actual consequences. He launched a war that caused the collapse of civilization to reclaim a woman who didn't even want to come home just because she shared a face with his wife, leaving said wife behind and murdering their daughter in the process. He demanded that he be there right front and center when they opened the gates of Troy. He never showed any emotion or affection to anyone except for the occasional stiff bro-hug. He constantly wore a literal mask with literal sculpted cheekbones at all times everywhere he went, and the one time he finally takes off his mask, the one time he finally relaxes and drops the larger-than-life persona he's been carrying, his wife murders him in righteous vengeance. They turned him into a walking cautionary tale about toxic masculinity and I am so happy with it. What a guy.

black mackerel tabby with high white spotting

smirking bastard with grievous grin

Do you think tumblr will ever learn the difference between “I’m defending this person because I agree with them wholeheartedly and I am also like this person” and “I’m defending this person because your behavior is dangerous and you need to stop”

Okay. For my money, the entire thesis of Chris Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey is that society chokes and sputters and dies when we abuse, ignore, or violate social norms like the laws of hospitality. That is not really what The Odyssey (the book/poem) is about, but I can clearly see why in the horror that is the 2020s, someone could read The Odyssey and go oh my god that’s a lot of bad dropping in. That’s a lot of bad visits. That’s a clear vision of how the loss of social norms and cohesion fucks you up and how war, literal, brutal war, is a terrible wound that destroys your humanity and your understanding of what civilization and society is. I don’t know that the iteration of Greek society that ultimately birthed the poem would agree with Nolan’s take, but I think this movie is quite ideologically coherent, that Nolan knew exactly what he was trying to say with each and every adaptational change, and I think he wasn’t nuts for using one of the most famous classical western civilization works as a way to make that argument.

watched the odyssey movie. i enjoyed it even though it did things different from the book in many aspects, but why they are wearing pants ??