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to be so honest neither are looking great but sometimes u gotta make tough decisions. nobody tell my crew about this btw
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⬜ crewmate-238-deactivated12109
the sirens are dangerous to YOU. i understand them though. we are holding hands and singing and they're not even eating me
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no we’re not
⚔️ 0restes
OP being deactivated really adds something here
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the sirens killed him
🐅 circe.without.mercy
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🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka
just fucked up so bad i met queen helen from sparta and called her "helen of troy" in front of her husband who literally spent ten years fighting a war to get her back FROM TROY. about to throw myself into the sea
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omg no worries babygirl come back anytime :))) happens to everyone
🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka
was no one going to tell me helen of troy had a tumblr
🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka
FUCK i did it again
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⬜ crewmate-24-deactivated9823
for real though has anyone seen elpenor
#i could have sworn he was with us when we were at circes??
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⬜ crewmate-438-deactivated5764
dreaming of burger made of helios' cattle rn. mmm
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it is actually insane that people are reblogging this. do you know how disrespectful this is to helios and to all of the gods?? those are literally sacred cattle, i shouldn't be seeing odysseus' crew blogging about how they want to make them into burgers. it's not funny and it's not a joke.
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#it was gonna be such a perfect day for a bbq but its stormy all the sudden #:( #oh well i guess we will just eat our burgers inside
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🐗 antinous420
how long could it possibly take to weave a fucking shroud
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fun fact! it can actually take 1,543 years to weave a burial shroud for one’s father in law, depending on the materials, style, and craftsman!
🤴 telemakhos.of.ithaka
ayyy ithaca fact checker i missed you
🐗 antinous420
who the hell is running this account
#that has to be a joke right #otherwise that would mean that like only an immortal could weave these #ik athena is goddess of weaving but she cant be the only one doing it #right???
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🏐 what.up.its.nausica
not the random naked man i found on my shore who i almost got betrothed to being odysseus king of ithaca are you KIDDING me
actually disgusting that people are still following @/calyps0 when she literally kept odysseus captive on her island for seven years. yes odysseus is incredibly problematic and he should be held accountable for actions. yes i dont support what he did to polyphemus and i will block anyone who said that was deserved. but he literally has a wife and son he needs to get back to and it's disgusting that she tried to impede him like this
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hey what was going on when he stayed at your place for a year
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lmfao she blocked me
#girl this situation is messyyyy
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🦉 goddess-of-wisdom
why is everyone so mad at odysseus. he’s just a silly little guy. my silly little mortal. he does tricks. free him
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he blinded my son
🦉 goddess-of-wisdom
ok??? have you considered that maybe your son was being a little bitch
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🚣♂️ captain.odysseus
lmfaoooo ive been sending anon hate to polyphemus and he still doesn’t know it was me, odysseus, son of laertes sacker of cities king of ithaca who lives at ithaca palace and is currently sailing home on the aegean sea. click the read more to track my voyage home
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#what are you gonna do about it big guy #nobody cares
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when i find whoever it is that is sending me these you are going to be so sorry
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👑 queen-penelope-official
like this post if you want to be included in the archery contest tomorrow!
#may the best shot win!
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🍽️ suitor-37
anyone noticed the quality of penelope’s wines at ithaca palace has kind of sucked lately
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i have a strong feeling that you won’t have to worry about this for much longer :)
Rewatching Truman Show for the first time in a long time, and the detail that’s stuck with me this time is the set design.
The characters drive modern cars and hock modern products, but it’s all presented with a veneer of 1950s wholesome applecheeked Americana. Truman’s life is presented as an escape for the audience from the drudgery of the modern day, and the aesthetic they’ve chosen for this is the post-war economic boom. This is the simple time, the movie says. This is the good time. Doesn’t the modern day suck? Let’s go back and see our friends from the days when life was good.
And it’s a lie. Truman’s life is a lie, and the image of white picket fenced suburbia they’ve presented is a lie. It’s an elaborate construction to recreate a false memory that’s comfortable for advertisers. The movie is a satire, but it’s also a very blatant statement against the nostalgia for a golden age which never existed. It’s a lie. It doesn’t exist.
I don’t know. I’m spitballing. I’m biased because I despise mid-20th century Americana and I naturally treat it with hostility, but it’s very gratifying to see a movie kind of agree with me.
Earlier in the summer, I went to Florida with my friend. We decided to visit a town nearish to where we were staying called Seaside, as we had heard it was a cute place. What I did not know at the time was that Seaside is the place where they filmed The Truman Show. It was a "master-planned community," constructed in the 80s to be the perfect beach town.
Seaside, FL
Seahaven
And yes, it really does look Like That. Not just in their tourist-agency photos, in real life it looks like that. Arguably the irl Seaside is even prettier than movie Seahaven, because the the office buildings where Truman works don't exist; the town is 100% cutesy homes and little shops.
Every single house is pastel with white trim and a white picket fence with the family's name on it in a handwritten font. The streets are paved with red bricks and lined with palmettos, and families bicycle past. The streets are clean, the lawns manicured, the sidewalks pristine.
Soon after we arrive my friend says as we walk, "God I wish I could live in a place like this. Imagine having the money to live in a place like this." I reply, "I don't actually know for me...it's gorgeous don't get me wrong, but there's no grime, you know? Where's the grime? I'd feel uncomfortable. It feels like there's not a dive bar for a hundred miles."
We reach the town center, which is a wide square lined with shops on one side, food trucks on the other. We have a lovely time looking through the shops, though I start feeling kinda weird, and I'm not sure why. Probably the extreme cleanliness of the area is making me feel off-kilter. And the surreal feeling of walking through areas I recognize from The Truman Show only adds to the weirdness.
We go into a clothing store, and it's crowded with people who appear to have stepped out of a Land's End catalog. It sells boring tshirts, shorts, and sundresses in whites and blues, all needlessly expensive. Employees walk through, refolding already-pristine shirts. So perfect. "Anyone buying from here is so rich they can probably smell the poor on us," my friend jokes, "that's why they have so many employees refolding things, it's to fix anything we brush against." "Or even breathe on!" I add.
We continue on to the grocery store where, in the movie, Truman finds Marlon stocking the vending machine and first tells him he suspects his world is wrong. I buy some pasta salad there to eat for lunch (all the cafes are quite expensive), and we find a place to sit and eat. As my friend finishes up her food, I write a postcard to my sister, telling her about my trip overall and my day in Seaside, describing the town as 'vomit-inducingly picturesque.' (It has been weeks since my visit and she still has not received that postcard)
Lunch done, we decide to walk down to the beach and have a swim. And I realize something about the surreal feeling. "Weird question," I say to my friend, "have you seen any non-white people here? Am I imagining that?"
She pauses. "The lady cleaning the bathrooms?" she asks.
"No I mean vacationers. Guests, customers. Other than you, I haven't seen a single one who wasn't white."
"...No. I haven't either."
And now that we see it, we can't unsee it. It's a wealthy area, so I had been expecting it to be pretty white, but the fact that there is not a single nonwhite person who isn't working a service job feels so gross. It's as though the place is somehow still segregated, like we have stepped back in time, but not to the fun, fake, rock-n-roll-and-soda-parlor-nostalgia version of the fifties, but to the real racism-and-repression fifties.
It is so fucking weird and sinister. I feel I have stumbled into another realm. All these people giving us sideeye, riding around on their golf carts in their pristine $45 seaside-branded tshirts, taking pictures of the perfect houses all lined up in perfect rows. A whole town of Meryls wearing lulu lemon.
We walk on. It's hot, and a swim is exactly what we need. Surely they can't ruin the ocean. I myself am extremely excited to swim, because now that we've spent a few hours among the pompous populace, I want to piss in their perfect ocean more than anything in the world.
We walk along behind the beachfront bar patios that line the beach toward the access point, and the ocean looks so blue and inviting. Although the hedge growing between us and the dunes is strangely tall. "Huh," I think. "It's weird that they'd grow it like this, it blocks the view for everyone sitting on the patios."
We arrive at the boardwalk, and there is a man standing there. He says "Hold on! Do you two have a beach access pass?" I look at him in disbelief. It's a public beach, but the sign behind the man says you have to rent a beach chair to use the beach, and it's $35 per person. We glance at each other, turn wordlessly, and head back to town.
I seriously consider trying to sneak onto the beach somehow, because at this point I am very invested in the idea of pissing in their ocean, but I realize that with the tall hedge it would be nigh-impossible.
We went home after that.
So many reviews for Seaside on travel websites mention how they love to visit Seaside because they feel transported, they feel it reflects a "simpler time" or a "peaceful life." It's been weeks and I can't stop thinking about my experience. It really drove home how...complicit people can be in their own ignorance. A lot of people want to live in that perfect bubble, and especially if they have the money, they can maintain that barrier. It reminds me that part of the reason I often have trouble persuading these types of people is because they simply do not want to be persuaded. They're so proud to be the place where The Truman Show was filmed, but I rather doubt they really think about what it means that they live on a movie set, in a surreal dream.
Honestly visiting Seaside was a 10/10 unique experience. I would highly recommend it as a place to go for a couple hours if you're gonna be nearby and want to feel like you've been kidnapped into The Truman Show and/or your brain has been put in an easy bake oven. It's like a zoo for superrich WASPS. We had a really good time loudly making fun of how insane it all was, invading their little paradise with our riffraff energy. Treat it like an excursion into the jungle; you're gonna have to park a half mile away minimum, and bring all your food and water with you so you don't have to buy anything. You don't want to give them any money. They have enough.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, next time I go to the panhandle, I will be going to the nearest free public beach access to Seaside, and I will walk to the Seaside area of the beach, and I will piss in their ocean.
Can confirm. My dad used to live 20 minutes away from Seaside and I'd make it a point to take out of town visitors there. Especially if they'd seen The Truman Show. Guaranteed to blow their minds.
But then we'd drive someplace else to eat, since we did not want to give Seaside any of our money.
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the thing they dont tell you about learning to "trust the process" is that you forget and relearn it every single time you make a new piece of art. unfortunately there is no cure either
'theatre is dying' okay but everyone is flocking to see a beautiful hit musical now that it's been released in the cinema, something more affordable and accessible to most people, and ticket sales in the west end in particular have spiked
'cinema is dying' okay but everyone is flocking to their local cinema to see a beautiful hit musical, and so many have shown up this weekend that licensers decided to extend its theatrical release for another week, a massive rarity in the current climate
maybe the answer to saving art is... seeing art?? and making art accessible??
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Throwing my two cents into the pot of trashing on Nolan’s The Odyssey outside of tags
Odysseus has this whole monologue about how guilty he feels about the war and his role in it, from my memory he essentially blames himself for ruining the concept of Xenia (“Zeus’s Law”) for everyone, etc etc etc
FIRSTLY, as so many people have already pointed out, Odysseus is prideful and clever, those are the two traits that define him and his story more than anything else. Nolan’s movie doesn’t show him as either of these things at any point other than dressing as a beggar upon returning to Ithaca (after someone else advised him to) and the famed trojan horse plan. And then Nolan decided that actually he feels crippling guilt about his horse plan, the one trick he pulled the whole movie and his arc (if you can call it that) centers around hating it.
SECONDLY, this monologue is overlayed with his memories of the siege on Troy. He goes on and on about what horrible things he’s done… but he doesn’t actually do anything in the flashbacks. In fact it seemed like Nolan went out of his way to not show Odysseus doing anything that could be considered morally reprehensible. Other Greeks are shown dragging innocents out into the street, slaughtering women and children, sacking temples, while Odysseus just watches. The only Trojans he’s ever shown killing from my memory were soldiers who attacked him first to defend their home. Odysseus just stands and watches for most of the siege after killing a couple soldiers and it’s so, so, so unfathomably dumb. The entire premise of the film is “Odysseus BUT he’s tortured by guilt” and Nolan couldn’t even bring himself to give Odysseus anything of substance to be guilty of. He can’t risk having an unsympathetic white male protagonist after all.
This is probably not very well phrased on my part but it bothers me. The whole film bothers me.
I was going to put this in the tags but apparently I have a lot to say lol
I’ve heard so many conflicting things about the movie and without having watched the movie I can’t really add anything to the conversation.
but! after reading a bunch of different takes, I think the consensus is if you don’t/don’t really know the Odyssey, the movie is visually striking and interesting and pretty good actually. I liked Amanda the Jedi’s take on Youtube and I can totally see how you could get a lot out of it. On the other hand, if you’re more than a little familiar with the original text, there’s so many confusing and conflicting changes made that its really distracting and frustrating. (and stuff like how Nolan was super committed to using ancient Greek instruments/sounds which is very cool but also the armor and costuming looks really new and disjointed. and not even mentioning the alleged ship and environmental damages.) It’s been really interesting to watch from the sidelines and try to gauge what is good criticism and takes and what is hate for hates sake.
When I heard that he removed the "nobody" part, I felt the same way I felt when it was announced that the live action Avatar show took out Sokka's misogyny. Just an immediate "Oh, so it's like a whole different thing now." I will say I thought that meant that he just skipped the cyclops part completely but having it and specifically taking out Odysseus calling himself Nobody was... interesting. Idk if Nolan has given an explanation for why but its a weird intentional choice without more context.
I will say I have finally bought Emily Wilson’s translation and I’m finally going to get around to reading it! so that’s cool!
Throwing my two cents into the pot of trashing on Nolan’s The Odyssey outside of tags
Odysseus has this whole monologue about how guilty he feels about the war and his role in it, from my memory he essentially blames himself for ruining the concept of Xenia (“Zeus’s Law”) for everyone, etc etc etc
FIRSTLY, as so many people have already pointed out, Odysseus is prideful and clever, those are the two traits that define him and his story more than anything else. Nolan’s movie doesn’t show him as either of these things at any point other than dressing as a beggar upon returning to Ithaca (after someone else advised him to) and the famed trojan horse plan. And then Nolan decided that actually he feels crippling guilt about his horse plan, the one trick he pulled the whole movie and his arc (if you can call it that) centers around hating it.
SECONDLY, this monologue is overlayed with his memories of the siege on Troy. He goes on and on about what horrible things he’s done… but he doesn’t actually do anything in the flashbacks. In fact it seemed like Nolan went out of his way to not show Odysseus doing anything that could be considered morally reprehensible. Other Greeks are shown dragging innocents out into the street, slaughtering women and children, sacking temples, while Odysseus just watches. The only Trojans he’s ever shown killing from my memory were soldiers who attacked him first to defend their home. Odysseus just stands and watches for most of the siege after killing a couple soldiers and it’s so, so, so unfathomably dumb. The entire premise of the film is “Odysseus BUT he’s tortured by guilt” and Nolan couldn’t even bring himself to give Odysseus anything of substance to be guilty of. He can’t risk having an unsympathetic white male protagonist after all.
This is probably not very well phrased on my part but it bothers me. The whole film bothers me.
I was going to put this in the tags but apparently I have a lot to say lol
I’ve heard so many conflicting things about the movie and without having watched the movie I can’t really add anything to the conversation.
but! after reading a bunch of different takes, I think the consensus is if you don’t/don’t really know the Odyssey, the movie is visually striking and interesting and pretty good actually. I liked Amanda the Jedi’s take on Youtube and I can totally see how you could get a lot out of it. On the other hand, if you’re more than a little familiar with the original text, there’s so many confusing and conflicting changes made that its really distracting and frustrating. (and stuff like how Nolan was super committed to using ancient Greek instruments/sounds which is very cool but also the armor and costuming looks really new and disjointed. and not even mentioning the alleged ship and environmental damages.) It’s been really interesting to watch from the sidelines and try to gauge what is good criticism and takes and what is hate for hates sake.
When I heard that he removed the "nobody" part, I felt the same way I felt when it was announced that the live action Avatar show took out Sokka's misogyny. Just an immediate "Oh, so it's like a whole different thing now." I will say I thought that meant that he just skipped the cyclops part completely but having it and specifically taking out Odysseus calling himself Nobody was... interesting. Idk if Nolan has given an explanation for why but its a weird intentional choice without more context.
I will say I have finally bought Emily Wilson’s translation and I’m finally going to get around to reading it! so that’s cool!
the thing about the dream smp is i dont think it actually matters at all if it was good or bad. what matters is that it was a completely unparalleled media experience and because of its specific circumstances gave me shrimp emotions that absolutely cannot be replicated
The new Odyssey adaptation has inevitably gotten people talking about a Muppet version of it, and they’re frequently suggesting Kermit as Odysseus, Miss Piggy as Penelope.
I’m sorry but that’s thinking way too small, hear me out:
We need to have Miss Piggy as Odysseus, and Kermit as Penelope.
Think about it… who’s the more fickle, prideful, warlike one in that relationship? Who is absolutely ready to go ham, at a moment’s notice?
But who is the single human cast member in this tale? Who gets to put in an Oscar-worthy performance alongside the Muppets and what role are they to play?
There’s no single human, everyone is a Muppet except for one scene. Circe, played by Janice, turns Odysseus’s crew into humans who still behave animalistic and are all played by Academy Award winning actors.
Also I am asking all of you, once again, to learn about ecosystem conservation and restoration instead of wallowing in "we are already past the point of no return" or that it will take "millennia" to restore ecosystems.
You have to understand that nature does not work in the same timeframe as ours. Protecting and restoring ecosystems is RIDICULOUSLY inexpensive and requires very little industrial technology; shovels and saplings are not exactly high-tech. But it takes time and long-term projects with people determined to do it. Maybe we are too focused in our "we want it now" thinking, but what you see today is not what you may see in 10, 20, 50, even 80 years if you live that long.
But it works. It's working right now, and when capitalism is replaced by socialism and we stop thinking on short-term gain, when our societies are focused into the common welfare instead of accumulation, it will even work better. Again I could point out to individual examples but instead, I encourage you to learn about ecology. We are well past from the catastrophic "Earth will die and there's nothing we can do" predictions from the 80s. We know what to do, we know it can work.
A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nat
This article talks about this very much in the "see? ecology can help the economy too!" tone that unfortunately is sort of necessary to convince people in the current capitalist system. But I don't want you to focus on this right now.
I want you to KNOW how doable this is. How inexpensive this is, how POSSIBLE THIS IS. That people working and loving the land and nature they live in is possible. That these projects WORK, THEY DO restore and preserve ecosystems. That humanity is neither a plague that destroys everything or a passive bystander on its own destruction but that these are actual things that can be, are, and will be implemented, backed by actual science and results. This is not empty #hopecore #hopepunk feel good stuff, these are things you can learn about, even work towards, and you can most certainly demand they are part of our society.
"I'm just losing hope." Then get some fucking conviction. Millions of people around the globe are working their asses off and seeing results. What they are doing IS WORKING.
This orange peel story was huge years ago: https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/a-fruitful-experiment-in-land-conservation/
Beavers reintroduced to historic wetlands improve them at such a level that we can see the improvements from space: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/09/nasa-satellites-reveal-restoration-power-of-beavers/
Africa is successfully slowing desertification and restoring historic farming soil with their Green Wall project: https://welcomeafrica.org/en/africa-combats-desertification-with-a-belt-of-life/
There has even been success at regrowing coral reefs--something which I am old enough to be told was impossible. But people have been hard at work for decades since then, and this is one of the results: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/03/240308123248.htm
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE IS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITY.
THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE IF YOU HAVE THE CONVICTION TO BACK IT UP.
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huge fan of the depth of a good purple but another area that draws me is definitely around aquamarine/turquoise/seafoam. you can not go wrong once the green starts getting just a tinge more blue. a gal could certainly do worse than to pull over there and stay a while
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