you are a sword.

no no no put me back in the loop I almost did it perfect please put me back just a few more tries and I think I could really nail it please put me back

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 do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

no it's fine. it's fine. it's fine that he died probably hours after telling vaelus he'd live to see the elves' dream become reality with her no matter what. it's fine. it's fine that he'll never get to have the children he wanted so dearly. it's fine. it's fine. it's fine. it's fucking FINE.

I’m still over here rotating julien ‘I refuse to acknowledge caring about anything or anyone because everything I care about keeps getting destroyed’ davinos and occtis ‘I need to be explicitly told that I am cared about and not as an object, a tool, or anything else that is about my usefulness and not merely my existence because literally only two people have ever offered me that’ tachonis around in my head forever sorry not sorry