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One year ago today I posted this miniature Star Wars Andor inspired photo I created. Shot practically using real figures, lighting & a couple of broom heads to create a crop field and a few perspective cheats.
making the radical claim "11 year old children should be taught how to make extremely simple food" has resulted in people making arguments like "I wasnt allowed to plug in electronics until I was 16 and I think this is super normal actually" and "children dont know what ratios are so its unfair to expect them to be able to comprehend the idea of adding equal amounts rice and water to a rice cooker" and I gotta say originally I thought maybe I was being too judgy but now I feel very secure in my opinion because what the fuck
Children might not know what ratios are in the sense of 1:1 notation, but they are more than capable of understanding 'you have to use the same amount of water and rice otherwise it goes wrong'.
In addition to this, cooking is an excellent way to teach children scaling and ratio in Real Life.
"Children don't understand-" AND THAT'S WHY IT IS YOUR JOB TO TEACH THEM????? LIKE HELLO??? THEY CAN LEARN??????
i dont know how people handle the world without looking at pictures of little tiny mice sitting on wheat
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“besides, I have a sister.” top contender for one liner that makes me so emotional
i can’t explain why that last sentence always feels like a punch to the gut but if you get it, you get it

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Early Bumblebee/Bombus pratorum/ängshumla on a cultvated form of Alpine Sea Holly/Eryngium alpinum/alpmartorn. Värmland, Sweden (4 July 2026).
Foul beast ate that adventurer whole, RIP
sight I saw in san francisco, twice: gaggle of tiny children leashed together being herded along, everyone in hi-vis

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i think "conservatives can't make good art" is a generally juvenile and incorrect sentiment that you'll find debunked by plenty of good art made by bad people and bad art with good politics, but it is always really stark when a piece's most monumental failings all very obviously boil down to the fact that, like, the creator does not see or write women as people with any particular interiority or purpose beyond childrearing
I am fascinated that while looking into homeric greek and translations of old epics that I keep seeing some translation of the Odyssey by the first woman being hailed as the most accurate ever. I then google "most accurate translations of the Odyssey" and I see either old forums in hot debate over a few translations over and over or articles from various mainstream sites that all list this woman's translation as the most accurate. I look up this version:
I swear some woman are hell-bent on making my entire sex appear lame. This suckssssss. Homeric Greek is supposed to sound epic and big and these other three examples do that, at least. Her's is like a 6th grade level. Maybe it is word-for-word more technically accurate, I don't know but style is still crucial to conveying the story. Plus again it just sounds so bad to the ear I don't even care if it's "more accurate."
I totally get this. Homer is supposed to be epic, breathtaking, and have a beautifully flowing sense of metre.
Wilson’s translation does entirely lack the homeric feel we associate with the epic poetry.
Despite this, I think it’s important to point out that one of the main reasons she translated it the way she did was to make it more accessible. I DONT LIKE THAT. I think being in a literacy crisis means we give people the tools to understand epic works, not dumb them down. However, she didn’t do an “awful job at translating,” she simply had a different goal with her version. Accessiblilty and a literal translation of the greek text are legitimate reasons for her to structure it like she did, and saying she’s an embarrassment to our sex is. Well. I’m reminded why this is the “piss on the poor” site.
listen. listen to me. if you read Emily Wilson's introduction to her translation. she explains all of her choices as a translator.
she talks about the act of translation itself, and its complexity. How there will always be cultural context that's missing even if your translation is accurate word-for-word, and one of the hardest parts of a translator's job is deciding how to approach that meta-textual layer of meaning.
(it's really very fascinating to read in and of itself! but I also already think about translation a lot)
She explains the reason for her more casual tone. It's not to "dumb down" the text in any way. It's not even really to make it "accessible" to modern readers – I mean, it was sort of her goal, but not the way people think when they hear an "accessible" text, exactly.
Emily Wilson makes the case for translating the Odyssey in straightforward English because the original Greek audience was everyday people listening to the language of their time.
She chose to make a translation that matched the original tone of the original language, instead of putting it into an older English vernacular so everyone would think of it as lofty and old and archaic. She wanted to create a version like the story we would hear if we were there in its era (approximately speaking, obviously).
And there's strengths to all the various versions! None of them are inherently more valuable than the others. It's helpful to have multiple people translate the same text, specifically so we can explore the various meanings of it. I think it's useful to have these different versions for teaching or reading in various contexts. You could, for example, have a 9th grade class compare two or more translations as part of an English lesson or something. But it's reductive to assume Emily Wilson made her translation in order to "dumb it down" for an illiterate populace.

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im being so serious when i say this but we need to bring back the "my genitals are none of your business" "if gender is whats in my pants then my gender is some loose change" mentality from the late 2010's because too many people on here are openly flirting with exclusionary people who spout enbyphobic rhetoric. stop caring about what people's agabs are you assholes. they literally mean nothing. they're not a zodiac sign or indicative of people's character. you are not wholly pure or wholly evil because of your assigned sex. you're just a person.
"what genitals do you have?" Is sexual harassment regardless if its from a security guard or a chronically online furry
If I were a murderer, and I'd meticulously planned a murder, and then I turned up at the place to do the murder and found that world-famous-murder-solver Hercule Poirot was also there, I would simply not do the murder.