Crossed Wires

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

And for whenever someone mistakenly tells you that humans can only hurt nature -

* before I was born

* 0-2 years old

* 3-5 years old

* 6-8 years old

* 9-11 years old

* 12-14 years old

* 15-17 years old

* I was an adult when my parents divorced

* it’s complicated

* my parents are still together

* see results

that’s from the teaser. this is the first scene:

odysseus makes it to the castle in phaeacia:

some choice tags:

@yourfaveisamuppet​ you are a fucking genius.

@jmbeaubier​ seeing my muppetry analysed in this way has filled me with a joy beyond human comprehension. thank you.

@whydocowsfall​ (late response im sorry) so fun fact the 1997 odyssey miniseries actually featured special effects by the jim henson creature shop, and they created polyphemus! so i’m thinking major monsters like polyphemus will be special muppets, like the ghosts in muppet christmas carol, new designs just for the film. as funny as it would be to have polyphemus be like fozzie or something i think it would be genuinely epic to utilise the full hypothetical power of the jim henson company in this hypothetical universe where disney doesn’t snipe me into a little grease spot immediately for even considering touching their property.

to everybody who said they would love to read this / watch it / would pay money to read or watch it: i love you and stay tuned because i would love to finish this script and make it available to read. to everyone who said they wanted to show this to their classics professors please tell me what they think i would love to know.

more casting thoughts

the sirens are camilla and the chickens

i think penelope is janelle monáe and telemachus might be justice smith. muppet movies have mostly a precedent of casting major characters as humans and supporting characters as muppets, so as tempted as i was to cast miss piggy as penelope, i decided to keep with tradition. breaking up piggy and kermit is also possibly an offence punishable by damnation

@theodysseyofhomer​‘s absolutely inspired ideas of sam the eagle as tiresias and statler and waldorf as scylla and charybdis will stick with me forever

the gods are all muppets. i believe hermes is rowlf. i had absolutely no reasoning for this i just liked the vibe. fozzie is zeus, because i like the idea of fozzie delivering doom but sounding like fozzie.

based on everyone’s encouragement animal has now been double cast as both himself (musician) and achilles in the underworld. but patroclus is a human man. that’s just for me.

more other thoughts

i don't know the etiquette for posting other peoples tiktoks but the delivery of this punchline hit me like a FUCKING TRUCK please

Every single one of those "original fanworks" is, simply, a complete piece of artwork.

There is no difference between a portrait of your OC and a portrait of somerich fuck's dog: THEY ARE BOTH ARTWORK. There is no requirement for art to take 75 hours to read through. Not how it works.

However, the OOP does not perceive art made by the vulgar masses as having value, whereas art commissioned or patronized by the wealthy (the Epic Sagas slaved over for Years of Artisanship, sure, but also the portraits of dogs) is more artistically legitimate.

And the fact is?

It's because OOP hates people they think of as intellectually or morally inferior to them for being "common," that is to say, for being made by commonfolk instead of dedicated artisans.

It's fucking classism.

on the way home, I encounter someone eating raspberries. I ask and they tell me that they grow their own, they got some seeds from the shop back in The Raspberry Days and kept them. They take me to a field of many beautiful raspberry plants and invite me to pick my own, they're free for all the town to pick whenever they'd like.