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when she was confronted about it, she didn’t apologise or take it down, instead she said,

“well, if he didn’t want me to take pictures, he shouldn’t be wearing a skirt and fishnets.”

+ Un dato de cada diseño:

Utiel: Basada en la ciudad homónima del interior de la Comunidad Valenciana, lleva un uniforme en referencia a que cada año recrean la Batalla del Tollo.

Requena: Ciudad vecina de Utiel, su cabello lleva dos cornucopias, como el escudo de la ciudad.

Pedanías de Requena: principalmente tienen temática de uvas (principal producción de la zona), olmos (en referencia a San Antonio Abad) y flora local, o hacen referencia a su propio nombre (ejemplos: Las Nogueras = Nuez, Los Cojos = no pie).

Fallera: La paleta la saqué de una foto de un naranjo.

Río Ebro: Las especies en su cabello que aparecen acompañando a Fluvi e Ica se pueden encontrar en el río, las de la parte más arriba son invasoras, en la parte de abajo son locales.

Ensaimada: su traje está inspirado en ropa regional de Baleares.

Crema Catalana: su traje está inspirado en el bol de barro en el que se suele servir la crema catalana.

Goxua: tiene elementos en común con la crema catalana porque son como hermanas.

What death of the author/artist does NOT mean=giving attention to a work that you know the creator will use to cause harm to real people.

They shot in the illegally occupied Western Sahara as reported by Middle East Eye (thanks to @fuckyeahdavidandyonatan for bringing that up)

They dumped their props into a protected area of the Italian sea after shooting (thanks to @godslop for finding the article in English)

Zendaya wearing looted 3000 years old Iranian earrings for the premiere of the movie + having her stylist fly on a private jet just to get her a dress for the premiere in London

No Greek actors in a movie about Greek heritage

While people mentioned that Anne Hathaway was flown in to the set every day, apparently it was not on a private jet but on a helicopter that was being used anyway to fly in equipment.

None of these things are new in Hollywood or exclusive to the Odyssey, its director or its actors, but I do think we as audience should start holding Hollywood accountable when it disrespects our culture, heritage, environment, especially when it's movies that are this big and have a huge budged that would allow for more conscious choices.

now i cant do anything. i just have to block his number, keep doing survival sex work and pray i dont get hurt anymore.

carrie is almost explicitly about the cycles of abuse. it is almost explicitly about how women and girls are taught to reproduce the patriarchy. it cannot be isolated from either message.

it shows cruel teenagers not as a random whacky plot point but instead to highlight that we are taught to mock other girls for not being fuckable; lest we ourselves be considered not-fuckable. we will eat our own kind to survive. nobody helps her because to help carrie would be to turn against the patriarchy.

carrie's mother has experienced abuse at the hands of her husband and religion not as a "sad backstory" but instead because it lampshades her behavior when she then turns and abuses her daughter while citing that same religion. we are forced to ask the question: what is the difference between the patriarchy and religion? aren't they both systems of control? we often see mothers as being the "ultimate" in innocence and kindness - but this book challenges that narrative. abusive mothers exist, and and always have. abusive women exist and always have. white women, after all, love voting for donald trump.

men are almost absent from the book, but their presence lingers. it feels almost like the red mark made after a slap - the men do not have to be there; the women will continue to abide by the rules without question. it is a devastating, haunting condemnation of the notion of feminine fragility. it accurately asserts that women are cruel, are capable, are power-hungry - and often are hiding behind perceived innocence to mask that cruelty. the abuse carrie experiences rests in a doubled betrayal: it is because of another woman. the supposed "sisterhood" is revealed to be thin, a guise of equanimity that is only offered to the "right" type of girl/woman.

many of us were not the right type of girl.

to go back on these main and obvious themes of the book - to rewrite the mother as some caring and sad creature is... a curious choice. i can't explain it, but it feels almost like censorship to me. it refuses a deeper meaning of the book (and one that questions the patriarchy) in favor of the incredibly thin plot of "what if scary girl had scary powers." i literally don't even know what level of misogyny it is that we have to defang everyone around her in order to tell her story. i'm baffled by it.

in the era of trad wives endlessly posting abusive content of their children online - the adaptation had plenty of meat to modernize her mother. in the era of AI and revenge porn and social media - there's a huge amount of space for a competent writer to play around in. after all, if the abuse is recorded and posted to media - and as the audience we're watching it without interfering - the story is now about us. it asks us who we are comfortable bullying.

it's okay if you feel like you don't have the writing chops to talk about how many religions are abusive and tacitly enable domestic violence. it's okay if you feel like you couldn't write a believable teenage bully. it's okay if you're just interested in "scary girl has scary powers."