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JayVik - Never Look Away by Vienna Teng
Thought I would start posting my fan edits here. Hope yall enjoy!
Hey everybody my sibling made this JayVik fan edit and it's REALLY GOOD. I'm not just saying that, it's really that good especially considering this is like, maybe the second fan edit they ever made. If you are a JayVik shipper or even just an Arcane fan, you should check it out and give it a reblog!
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One of the most photogenic tornadoes in history
South Dakota, June 2025. Video by eye.of.ty
"lupita nyong'o can't be helen of troy because helen was greek and there weren't black people in ancient greece"
DO YOU THINK THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE BOATS. THIS ENTIRE MOVIE IS ABOUT ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AND HIS BOAT
This is exactly what I've been saying
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Really funny one two punch on my dash this morning
Kinda crazy to me that when your phone's storage is too full, the phone is now wired to suggest you to delete your photos and the apps you chose to put on it instead of allowing you to remove the mostly malware of shit you don't use that are default on the phone
and for some reason the apps it suggests deleting are always the ones I use the most
Genre vs Geography: The Real Problem with the Grammy's "Asian Pop" Label
A few days ago, I saw on my feed that BTS won’t be submitting their music for the 2027 Grammy Awards. I was wondering what happened and decided to dig around a little. While I’m not a die-hard fan of BTS (though I do enjoy their music), I have to stand by the group on this one.
So, what happened?
The Recording Academy added five new categories for the 2027 Grammy Awards:
Best Asian Pop Music Performance: Honours K-pop, J-pop, C-pop, and other Asian pop tracks with significant use of Asian languages.
Best Latin Song: Recognises songwriters and artists behind top Latin tracks.
Best Traditional Folk Album: Splits from the wider folk field (now renamed Best Contemporary Folk Album).
Best R&B Collaboration or Duo/Group Performance: Supplements the R&B field, alongside renaming Best R&B Performance to Best R&B Solo Performance.
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance: Expands traditional pop recognition.
I completely get why BTS decided to ditch the award show next year; it’s clearly and very obviously pigeonholing the largest continent on Earth into a single category.
I know the CEO of the Recording Academy clarified that artists can still submit in general fields even if they enter their work in the Asian Pop category, framing it as a way to be more inclusive and diverse. But putting “Asian Pop” into one catch-all bucket is not inclusive, in my honest opinion.
Asian Pop is not a music genre like Latin, Folk, R&B, Rock, Alternative, or Country. Within music coming out of Asia, we have R&B, Rock, and dare I say, even Latin (shout out to Back For More by TXT and Anitta).
If the powers-that-be truly wanted to honour the impact of K-pop in the industry, they should acknowledge the distinct cultural movement on its own merits - much like how the Korean Music Awards created a dedicated K-Pop category to recognize the genre beyond just the audio track, honouring the concept-driven eras, synchronised choreography, and hybrid music styles built into the song’s structural DNA.
Lumping an entire continent - which includes Thai pop, Malay pop, Indonesian pop, Indian pop, and more - under one category isn’t cultural appreciation; it’s a geographical boundary.
If the Grammys are creating an Asian pop category, why not create American pop, European pop, or Oceanic pop? Does that sound ridiculous? Yes - and so does Asian pop.
I love music. Music transcends age, gender, time, and certainly geographical boundaries. No music should be pigeonholed based on where it’s from.
So, BTS, hats off to you guys for not conforming. Keep creating good music and pushing boundaries.
Until next time, stay curious and stay wide awake, Siti
Source: Genre vs Geography: The Real Problem with the Grammy's "Asian Pop" Label
"why did they remove the nobody scene--" because nolan's odysseus is a totally different kind of character. because nolan's odyssey is not an epic adventure but the tragic, painful, agonizing journey of loss, pain and suffering that follows troy- a war that is not a triumphant victory but a tragedy of human cruelty and violence- and that's why the encounter with polyphemus shifts from a display of cleverness and trickery with our mortal human protagonist outmaneuvering this mighty mythical beast to instead focus on the horror of being its prey. and following that, the much less glorious and triumphant reality that in having to escape it, and survive, they had to harm this living, feeling, thinking creature, only adding more to the blood already spilled. and once again it is one of many, many examples of breaking the rules of hospitality and civilization, how that is at the core of all of this tragedy.
"why aren't the gods present--" because this version of the story is about the people, and the gods are present in the way they're present in reality and would have been present to these people: not as tangible and visible beings but as something that people use to explain the world. as metaphors. they cannot be directly communicated with or give you answers on the world because you do not have these answers and these characters do not have them.
like, it's seriously not that hard, you guys. these are conscious choices that serve the story and the vision. whether you like the vision or think it works or it's a good choice for the movie is something else entirely, that's worth discussing. and obviously i think they are, but you can make an argument to the contrary. but this doesn't make them inherently bad or wrong just for being different. that's all it is. it's different. it's not a choice made out of misunderstanding or ignorance, it's made to serve the version of this story that the movie wants to tell. you just need to engage with this movie on its own terms, and these are pretty well established terms it's not really trying to fool you about. like, the odyssey is ancient; it's been adapted before, it's will be adapted again, it's been retold and it's going to be retold in ways that are wildly different from the original sometimes. it's literally fine.
I'm actually astonished it was as accurate as it was. Lots of movie adaptations in today's Hollywood take *way* more liberties than that. My lifetime alone has seen 4 different cinematic interpretations of Spiderman.
"why did they remove the nobody scene--" because nolan's odysseus is a totally different kind of character. because nolan's odyssey is not an epic adventure but the tragic, painful, agonizing journey of loss, pain and suffering that follows troy- a war that is not a triumphant victory but a tragedy of human cruelty and violence- and that's why the encounter with polyphemus shifts from a display of cleverness and trickery with our mortal human protagonist outmaneuvering this mighty mythical beast to instead focus on the horror of being its prey. and following that, the much less glorious and triumphant reality that in having to escape it, and survive, they had to harm this living, feeling, thinking creature, only adding more to the blood already spilled. and once again it is one of many, many examples of breaking the rules of hospitality and civilization, how that is at the core of all of this tragedy.
"why aren't the gods present--" because this version of the story is about the people, and the gods are present in the way they're present in reality and would have been present to these people: not as tangible and visible beings but as something that people use to explain the world. as metaphors. they cannot be directly communicated with or give you answers on the world because you do not have these answers and these characters do not have them.
like, it's seriously not that hard, you guys. these are conscious choices that serve the story and the vision. whether you like the vision or think it works or it's a good choice for the movie is something else entirely, that's worth discussing. and obviously i think they are, but you can make an argument to the contrary. but this doesn't make them inherently bad or wrong just for being different. that's all it is. it's different. it's not a choice made out of misunderstanding or ignorance, it's made to serve the version of this story that the movie wants to tell. you just need to engage with this movie on its own terms, and these are pretty well established terms it's not really trying to fool you about. like, the odyssey is ancient; it's been adapted before, it's will be adapted again, it's been retold and it's going to be retold in ways that are wildly different from the original sometimes. it's literally fine.
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Walking out of The Odyssey having enjoyed it and seeing it have rave reviews on Letterboxd and then logging onto tumblr and seeing all the criticism:
When I read it for school a few years ago I was like "This would be a great movie" and picturing scenes in my head. So when I found out the movie was happening I was really excited. Did it perfectly match my imagination? No. Did it perfectly match the original story? No. But did I fucking love it? Yes. Did I have full-body goosebumps by the time the credits rolled? You bet I did. I didn't know if there would ever even *be* a movie and I'm just really grateful I got one. Even the things that were a little disappointing (I loved Athena in the book and how involved in the story she was) are also things I deeply appreciated about the film (Athena as the personification of Wisdom wearing the face of Odysseus's shame, illustrating how wisdom is often gained following our worst mistakes).
oh em GEE! it's not accurate?? can you guys wake up homer? find his corpse and ask him what he thinks? was he the first writer of the odyssey? or was he the first person to write it down? did he exist? lets wake up the first ever bard to think of the odyssey! who is he? oh we dont know? that sucks. did you guys ask ovid? did you talk to hesiod? or sophocles? does mythology have one definite story? or does it evolve over time across centuries and milleniums? is there one true translation? or version? dont stories change? should nolan have stood there for 18 hours and recite it in ancient greek while you guys ate food? oh wait sorry thats not accurate. he should speak for one hour over dinner and then you guys come back for 17 straight days and listen for an hour at a time. oh wait sorry that wrong too. he hasnt mastered speaking classical greek. oh wait no one speaks that anymore, no one alive does. let's wake up and find euripedes' ghost too. and aeschylus. and apuleius! cant forget that guy. oh but wait they all lived hundreds of years apart and all told different versions of the different mythologies and added their own messaging and ideas. and they left out other parts too. according to you guys thats not allowed. god forbid. oh sorry. gods forbid.
some of y'all just want a book report on a nearly 3,000 year old story and some of us want to see a man's personal interpretation of one of the oldest written stories we still have even if it's flawed
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.
I think Matt Damon’s take on Odysseus is really interesting and in an odd and understated way— kind of innovative? I mean, this is one of the most thought about analyzed and studied characters in the western canon and yet he’s come up with an interpretation of Odysseus I had never thought about or seen before, but which I think does make sense given the focus of the adaptation.
His Odysseus is plausible.
This got long so thoughts under the cut.
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speaking my truth i actually really enjoyed nolan’s odyssey. i walked into that theater with hate in my heart and walked out with a new kind of breath in my lungs. i think it is easy to point to the ways in which it divulges from homer’s epic as signals of it being a bad adaptation or even a bad movie, but we must remember that the point of mythology and myths is to understand the world around us. that’s why they change; you can’t understand a world that has changed so drastically if you use the same exact story. so yes i think it’s meaningful to reduce the role of the gods. yes i think it’s meaningful to focus on odysseus’ emotional/psychological journey as well as his physical one. frankly i don’t care that they cut the nobody scene because the POINT of this movie is odysseus coming to terms with his own influence and power. why would he refer to himself as nobody. polyphemus’ design mimics certain (renaissance, i believe, but i could be wrong) paintings of him, not to mention the saturn eating his son reference. zendaya plays athena but REALLY she plays one particular priestess of athena who odysseus sees being executed. she appears to him in that form for a reason. like. i don’t think nolan is The Genius Of Our Generation, i don’t think they should be dumping skeletons in protected areas or filming on occupied land, i don’t love the lack of greek people in the cast or crew. but the movie itself is saying something, despite all of that. and it’s saying something meaningful. a retelling that omits parts of the source material is not inherently a bad retelling, especially when the source itself is incomplete and only one part of an entire mythos.
I pretty much agree with all of this. Sure there are things I might have done differently but I had full-body goosebumps by the end of that movie. The specific themes Nolan leaned into really resonated with me. It helped me process things I've been dealing with lately and it's really stuck with me since.
speaking my truth i actually really enjoyed nolan’s odyssey. i walked into that theater with hate in my heart and walked out with a new kind of breath in my lungs. i think it is easy to point to the ways in which it divulges from homer’s epic as signals of it being a bad adaptation or even a bad movie, but we must remember that the point of mythology and myths is to understand the world around us. that’s why they change; you can’t understand a world that has changed so drastically if you use the same exact story. so yes i think it’s meaningful to reduce the role of the gods. yes i think it’s meaningful to focus on odysseus’ emotional/psychological journey as well as his physical one. frankly i don’t care that they cut the nobody scene because the POINT of this movie is odysseus coming to terms with his own influence and power. why would he refer to himself as nobody. polyphemus’ design mimics certain (renaissance, i believe, but i could be wrong) paintings of him, not to mention the saturn eating his son reference. zendaya plays athena but REALLY she plays one particular priestess of athena who odysseus sees being executed. she appears to him in that form for a reason. like. i don’t think nolan is The Genius Of Our Generation, i don’t think they should be dumping skeletons in protected areas or filming on occupied land, i don’t love the lack of greek people in the cast or crew. but the movie itself is saying something, despite all of that. and it’s saying something meaningful. a retelling that omits parts of the source material is not inherently a bad retelling, especially when the source itself is incomplete and only one part of an entire mythos.
