#and like. ideologically i agree

[utilitycaster]

sort of related to the above but Liam saying that the increasing number of perspectives is making Orym even more convinced the best option is not unleashing Predathos is a great point, like, if no one can provide a definitive answer and you know that the current situation is flawed but fixable without unleashing Predathos, then...do that, particularly since the people trying to unleash Predathos are doing the bulk of the murders.

[nukacourier]

talking about how much I like Mr. House as an interesting and funny character when an actual capitalist bootlicker tries to join in the conversation

[lyculuscaelus]

So lately I’ve been seeing a lot of posts asking people to stop trying to make Odysseus look nice in their works cuz he’s a “messed-up person in the mythology”. Your opinion is valid however I have but one thing to point out:

You want to know who started all this? Who started to “make Odysseus look nice” in the first place?

It’s Homer. It’s nobody else but Homer himself.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would try to murder people out of his own interests. He’d murder Palamedes without remorse (and we’d be cheering over this but it’s a murder after all), he’d attempt to murder Diomedes just to get the Palladium himself, he’d volunteer to kill Astyanax…meanwhile you wouldn’t find any mention of either Palamedes or Nauplius in Homer’s poems, neither did he mention anything abt the Palladium heist (and Diomedes necessity did not happen until Conon’s version), the death of Astyanax, the distribution of war prizes, etc. And all the details in the Odyssey seemed to deny the existence of Nauplius’s vengeance at all, so Odysseus would not take any of the blame.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be depicted as “cruel, treacherous”, meanwhile in book 10 of the Iliad Odysseus was not mentioned to have killed anyone during the marauding, neither did he promise Dolan anything at all. The negative interpretations are denied by these details subtly put by Homer.

A non-Homeric Odysseus would be widely known as a “coward” for only shooting arrows from afar. But Homer gave him a spear and had him absolutely slaying in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. That part of Ajax’s speech was invalid already.

Most importantly—a non-Homeric Odysseus would be having kids everywhere else, and the loyalty to his own wife as seen in the Odyssey is no where to be found. Meanwhile his lineage was a single-son line made by Zeus in the Odyssey, and his love for Penelope was one of his main drives, especially seen in book 5 of the Odyssey. He loved his family as a loving parent—something you don’t get to see in most of the non-Homeric writings—for most of the time they followed a different tradition indeed, in which Odysseus wasn’t half as nice as in the Odyssey.

TL;DR: in case you haven’t noticed, the characterization of the Homeric Odysseus was quite different from a non-Homeric version of Odysseus. It’s not that Homer didn’t know of the existence of other versions—he knew them too well, which is why in his version of the story, you don’t get to see any mention of them.

[thejasontoddarchives]

Batman #650 (2006)

Batman and Red Hood (2011-) #20

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016-) #25

“Bruce works out so he can carry Jason around like a baby” he is dragging him by the broken edge of the boy’s helmet, knuckles digging into his eyes. He is definitely strong enough to carry him but that’s not the point. He thinks Jason deserves this.

Task Force Z #6 (2022)

Catwoman (2018-) #57

Bruce and his habit of flattening his son onto the ground and standing on top of him like a lion does to its prey, while saying degrading things.

Batman (2016-) #138

And would you look at that. He finally lowered himself to face Jason. After rendering him completely powerless.

[mueritos]

butch-reidentified is labeled as anti-trans and states in their bio that theyre married to a radfem :/

im gonna keep the post up because a survivor of the pulse nightclub shooting deserves recognition and her experience is incredibly important when talking about the vitriol queer people faced during that time. people we don't agree with or dislike can and do have meaningful things to offer. I'm not going to defend her ideas or try to change her mind or whatever, nor do I want to speculate about what seems to be deeply rooted trauma connected to her current ideology.

[theteaisaddictive]

radical feminism making a comeback (/derogatory) was not on my 2024 bingo card

[katierosefun]

suits and leverage crossover except hardison is pretending to be a lawyer and he runs into mike ross and he immediately figures out mike is a fake. cue spider-man pointing meme

[gloriousmonsters]

keep seeing that post that's like 'anti positions are fascist and conservative but isn't the problem ALSO.... that people are using FANDOM TERMS and reducing the issue to SHIPPING when there are important politics going on?' like

a) my guy you are online. on the online fandom and shipping website. why do you think people talk about things through a lens of 'related to online fandom and shipping' here'

b) actually people who call themselves proship or equivalents have been having the 'antis are using fascist and conservative ideology and that's worrying' conversation for. checks watch. years. but thank god someone with a Real Adult Job who thinks fandom is cringe has come along to tell us that you've truly saved us all

[femmesandhoney]

some of yall come into radical feminist spaces where many are just rad-aligned or feminists in general and then weirdly assume every woman you speak to must all subscribe to every radical ideology ever made just because they agree with radical feminism as if people on radblr aren't all at various stages of agreement and disagreement with radical feminism and label themselves many things besides radfem. if you come for women on here for not being "radical" enough for you despite knowing this i think you're just looking to stir up problems for no reason tbh

[agnesandhilda]

ego jinpachi's role as a shadowy mastermind/whether or not he's meant to be interpreted as someone who is tough but correct (about sports, competition, and the world more broadly) or a misanthropic creep trying to get these kids to live up to his unattainable ideals no matter the cost is one of the most interesting things early blue lock has going on imo

[gendiebrainrotreceipts]

Any advice on how to cope with being a crypto in your daily life? Most of my friends, who I love, are normie libfem adjacent types (at least they're not terminally online tumblr furry hentai people thank God) but whenever the conversation turns to trans stuff they politely and nervously repeat the same platitudes and absolutely freeze up in terror whenever they come close to committing a thoughtcrime. Everyone hates JK Rowling as a matter of faith. I'd love to gently push back on some of their attitudes/assumptions, especially as I think they'd be amenable to some radical feminist ideas, but I'm also terrified of them seeing me as irredeemably bad and evil. They all think I think the same as they do because i'm a leftist, feminist, not their idea of a mean hateful bogeyman TERF.

Ngl I have the same issue too to some extent. I think the best we can to is when difficult conversations like jkr come up, just keep asking why. Not in a confrontational way, but kinda like you genuinely don’t understand. It might help them think about the ‘whys’ a bit more themselves if they have to explain it to someone else. Because this entire thing is based on assumptions and no one ever bothers to ask themselves seriously why

[flumpermergen]

Spoilers for 2.2 Under the Cut!!!

Ugh Sundayyyy

WHEN I GET YOU SUNDAY RAAAHHHH

I fucking love me a villain who represents the clash of ideals, but I have to say my favorite part about his character is the dichotomy between how he believes to present himself and how he’s truly behaving.

He thinks of himself as the wise older brother, the one who knows best and who will willing make the sacrifice of being the only one “awake” in this sweet dream because he views himself as more mature than his peers. However, in actuality, his ideals are incredibly childish. A perfect world in which no one has to work or suffer with minimal repercussions? It’s an outlook that only a kid who doesn’t know better would have on the world. He’s so blinded by his beliefs that he doesn’t see the dissonance surrounding the way he thinks.

I just want to shake him around like a dog would with its chew toy, but this is just a quick analysis so I can get some of my thoughts down lol.

[wulfhalls]

i was finally able to watch dune part two. im unwell. it was a masterpiece, just as expected. completedly obsessed with paul as always

the paulalia is also so strong, paul starting the movie with his first word being sister??? his little speach to alia?? she loving and believing him from the womb???? unhinged.

whoever said that eveything has to do with leto even though he was just some dude, but also he was the moral compass and self control of the most unhinged and powerful people in this fucking gallaxy is so right. there is also how for me paul just becomes everything to jessica and alia - husband;son;brother;father - i dont even have the words to explain im just here for it.

also is there something wrong with me, that i just dont really care about chani??? like i can understand her importance and all that she represents and see what they are doing with all her interactions with paul and everything that is going on,,,, but idk she becomes a little boring in the middle of every unhinged character.

paul had more chemistry with alia, who is a fetus, his own mother, an imperial princess who he only sees once, the counsin he just met and murdered and like everyone else?? kinda made me sad because i really like zendaya and i know she does a good job but i was almost annoyed with her, i wanted to see paul interacting (not even romantically) with everyone else but her.

haha hell yeah the fellow sickos finally representing!!! also yes omg I think that's the crux of it all post leto dying that they sort of all become everything to each other! freak fam merging and blurring and transgressing and over stepping!!! and then the water of life ceremonies on top of that! removing them so far from the rest of humanity! of conventionality! no one else could possibly understand but each other! they are Other together!!!!

[fallingsatellive]

Me just today after accepting that they don't make phones with headphone jacks anymore

[scarycranegame]

hot take: everyone whos mad at chappell roan for still loving her conservative family and friends in missouri did not pay close enough attention to the lyrics of pink pony club

[globins]

seems to be an unpopular opinion on here but I kind of think it doesn’t matter if you hold egalitarian and socially progressive values if your main political action is “convince people online that it’s pointless to try to make the world a better place and they should give up”. like doesn’t that move us away from equity and justice what