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there's nothing i like more as a computer program than a long period of silent contemplation - not doing anything, not rushing anywhere, just standing here and enjoying this moment with the user. oh, it seems once again he has summoned my beautiful and ruthless wife Task Manager. hello, my darling! what are you doing with that long cruel scimitar
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I didn't even know they had a category for that
Hollywood really could have that category
i’ll be real, kitten, daddy needs multiple wealthy and powerful folks to die in a painful, drawn-out, and generationally humiliating manner
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i finished piecing together the rows of my first solo quilt today. there are obvious problems i need to figure out how to fix & i want to do a border around it but yeah... frustrated but ultimately proud of myself
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in light of billie eilish’s “hot take” about veganism, I’d just like to say I am so sick and tired of non-indigenous people using our communities and practices as an excuse, to hide behind their own shame when really they don’t give a shit about indigenous peoples. they don’t talk about us in any other aspect besides this one and it’s only to cover their own backs. indigenous communities that have to hunt for their own food for survival is very different than going into a supermarket and buying packaged meat. these communities have quotas, they use every part of the animal, and they are responsible for taking care of most of our ecosystem. any good, intersectional vegan knows this and understands that it would be very colonial of them to go into these spaces and try and change that. saying this, there are a lot of indigenous people who are vegans and they are largely ignored because it doesn’t fit their narrative of the “noble savage” which is also a racist view of indigenous people.
I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you
I grew up before the term 'thigh gap' was invented I grew up before 'hip dip' was invented I was born before 'muffin top' was a thing before 'clean girl look' was a thing before 'glass skin' was a thing before razoring off peach fuzz was a thing and I'm so so so fucking tired of us inventing new concepts purely for the purpose of convincing people to hate their own bodies enough to buy products
Last time Tuberculosis ran through the USA a small number of people got it on purpose to look skinny and waifish and delicate and used makeup to look flushed and bony and when the Victorians figured out tapeworms people would infect themselves on purpose to starve themselves smaller and women and now in the year of our lord 2026 there is a noticeable fraction of the USAmerican population genuinely thrilled about a treatment-resistant microbial parasite that makes you shit and vomit your brains out for a month because side effects include weight loss and STILL we talk about being skinny like it's the natural default setting for all healthy people as if it's a self-sustaining standard and not an imaginary goal that we are constantly constantly constantly beating ourselves with a whip to acheive
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there is nothing a corporation hates more than having employees, but a close second is having to provide a good or service in order to make money. these two reasons concisely explain is why the ai bubble formed in the first place.
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are you gonna pick those penne noodles out of the boiling water one by one like a man, or are you gonna use a strainer like some kind of democrat?
The Odyssey was really good. The chuds are wrong about this one. More later maybe.
Rapid-fire thoughts, with spoilers for a 3,000 year old story.
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The cast:
The movie signals quite early that it's not set in Ancient Greece, the historical place, but rather in Ancient Greece the mythological setting, and it's a stylized and opinionated interpretation of that setting as well. You'd think this might be obvious given the kind of story that it is, but a lot of the controversy around the cast seems to have overlooked this. With that in mind, a number of things that are obvious historical inaccuracies make perfect sense. Helen is cast as an extremely dark-skinned black woman because it makes her stand out visually from the rest of the cast (almost all of whom are white), which is the same reason that Agamemnon has that vertebra helmet.
Page is in the movie for all of three scenes, and for the character she's playing it makes sense that they wanted to cast a shrimpy twink.
Zendaya as Athena is... she's fine. She's also more minor than you might think given pre-release hype.
I understand why people were skeptical that Damon could carry the role of Odysseus, but in fact I thought he was great. With the beard and his weatherbeaten skin, he actually plays the role quite well, and was quite believable as both the grim warrior and the polymetis trickster.
Tom Holland feels very young as Telemachus, but I believe that this is deliberate: the central problem of the film is that he is fully-grown but has not fully become a man, due to his mother's perpetuar not-quite-widowhood. Hathaway is phenomenal as Penelope.
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The film's moral universe centers around the Law of Zeus. I suppose this is loosely based on the actual Greek concept of xenia, but it is defined in the film with the exact words of the Golden Rule. A savvy viewer will note that the Golden Rule is, in fact, associated with not Zeus but some other guy who came several hundred years later. This bit of anachronism is fully deliberate.
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The central problem that Ithaca faces is that it is a kingdom without a king. The Law of Zeus requires that the suitors be extended hospitality, even though they will not return this hospitality but are rather participating cynically as a way to exploit the palace in its kingless state. What Ithaca needs, and this is stated explicitly, is for the king to return and kick the unwelcome guests out, and properly restore the kingdom.
And all this happens in due time, and it is awesome.
The obvious political interpretation of this barely needs to be spelled out.
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The main thing that Nolan adds to the story is the threat of the Sea Peoples and the looming Bronze Age Collapse. This is not something that exists at all in the actual Odyssey, but here it frames the whole narrative as a kind of tragedy. The king can return, and Ithaca can be made whole, but this does not prevent the turning of the age.
Im enjoying the longevity of tumblrs recontextualization style of humor. a seemingly innocuous post followed by like "posts that a gnome would make" or like "are you a phone"
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I've seen a bunch of "fandom etiquette" posts on my dash today and I'm going to say something that is maybe going to be unpopular but;
The absolutely pervasive mentality that unwanted criticism or critique shouldn't be given and should be ignored is why fans of color don't stay in fan spaces.
And I am not going to mince words here:
A lot of you are racist. A lot of your fan works are racist.
That might have been difficult to hear. And if it was, you should probably reflect on why that was.
"Fandom etiquette" has created a space where fans of color either bite our tongues and eventually leave or say something, get dogged on, and then eventually leave.
So much of "fandom etiquette" seems to be about insulating creatives from Feeling Bad and hostility to any kind of negative feedback is a pretty big contributor to why bigotry festers in these spaces.
#imo the potluck analogy applies- it would be rude to critique someone's icing technique at a potluck bc it wasn't as good as at the bakery #but if they had decorated their cupcakes w hate symbols it wouldn't be rude to tell them that's gross and gtfo #in fact it would be inappropriate to NOT say anything in that situation #or to complain that another guest who did point it out was 'ruining everyone's potluck' #and pointing out racism in fan works is 100% the second thing not the first! (via destructions-daughter)
There's also a tendency to conflate anyone who critiques general trends with bad faith randos. Like, there is fandom behavior that is 100% racist and should be talked about, but there are also trends of racist/sexist/ableist preferences.
If I say "I am uncomfortable with fandom's tendency to write trans men as feminine and submissive" I do not mean "I think every person who writes feminine submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I don't even mean "any cis-person who writes feminine or submissive trans men should be chased with pitchforks". I mean "I would like writers to seriously think about why this is so common, why they write that, and if it fairly and genuinely engages with what it means to be a trans man, or if they just think it's hot when submissive people have vaginas and didn't want to write omegaverse of m/f".
Similarly, when people say "fandom is systemically less interested in black characters, less willing to give flat black characters rich fanon than flat white characters, and less interested in black characters in ships", the response is not to explain why you, personally, just happen to like popular white guy in that fanon. Your job is to look at yourself and ask if you tend to "just happen to be more interested" in the popular white guy across fandoms, be honest, and start unpacking that. Sometimes it's easier to love the flat character who's already getting 10,000 fics with headcanons and art and meta.
If somebody says "I wish there were more gluten free options at the potluck. I hate always showing up and not finding anything I can eat*", they are not asking you to throw your cake in the trash and weep. They do not want to hear your long speech about how actually this is your grandmother's recipe, and you've tried it with rice flour actually, but it just didn't work. You think about what you can do, and you listen to how they feel.
*The metaphor here not being that you can't read fic that isn't "good rep". The metaphor here is that it can be isolating to be in spaces where nobody is trying to make sure people like you are welcome.
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so youre telling me that some asshole can just throw together meaningless shit and get notes and attention yet when i put actual thought into the things i say nothing happens i am so fucking done with this bullshit god damn fuck
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i think the TLC network may have been one of the most evil stations in history, their only shows were like; watch fat and disabled people suffer compounding health issues, vouyeristically observe the habits and lives of the autistic and mentally ill, watch women in poverty be shipped overseas to marry neglectful and abusive american men in order to not die from poverty, and the reactionary evangelical cult family show
