#i don't care if it's historically accurate

[katerinaaqu]

first look at Nolan's Odyssey, what are we thinking?

Literally from what I see the most interesting part is the background of this image (and even that is a bit off like...why does it have this worn-off paint feeling? Wasn't that paint supposed to look new?)

Honestly the makeup is not half-bad but compared to amazing representations before (Bekim Fehmiou or the amazing Christos Tsagas for once) this look doesn't make me go "wow" actor wise. Dunno how he will play (I assume this will be the Odysseus look they go with) but honestly Sean Bean looked immensely more interesting and fitting for Odysseus this just seems "meh". It is not as terrible as I imagined but doesn't make me go "wow 🫨" just "meh 😑"

And the armor? From this small look? Disappointed. Very basic standardized "greek warrior look" that screams "mainstream media" and of course not even the slightest bit of effort to the variety of mycenean armors and such (not that I expected an actual mycenean armor with his iconic boar-tusk helmet or anything but I expected more from a guy that worked with a historical film before so the very least he could do was double check some history books for this)

Visually? Not impressed so far. Dunno how the rest of the spectacle will go (because honestly I am not optimistic yet to call it "adaptation") but this small thing you show me just gives me "meh" vibes.

As I said the only thing that made me look was the background colorful mural. And even the mural looks like someone copy pasted the ancient murals here...with the worn off essences of the ancient paint lol like someone was taking really bad care of that wall apparently!)

The look of the figure seems like what you shop for a Halloween costume or but PJO merchandise. I expected at least more attention to detail with someone like Nolan and his fame to direction. This costume looks like a bad rip-off the armors at Troy (2004). Like I never expect us Nolan to give us some sort of amazing Odyssey adaptation but visually I was at least hoping we would get some variety (to be fair never expected actual mycenean armors just...dunno ANYTHING that doesn't scream to me "don't bother to go to the cinema just Google the movies that came before and you good". The 1968 version had more character than this. Costumes were not accurate but some of the shapes for example the short chitoniskoi (short chiton) were corresponding to some ancient paintings. Even Troy seemed to pay some attention to helmet designs and that sets the bar too low already.

But you guys definitely have no mercy hahaha try really really hard to forget these stuff and you guys keep coming hahahahaha 🤣🤣🤣

[minetteskvareninova]

You are LAUGHING. Black people are desperate for aspirational figures and instead of digging into history of subsaharan Africa they are trying to claim the last and most cringefail Egyptian dynasty, and you’re LAUGHING.

(Seriously. Jada, I know you have been trough some shit last year and probably need a pick-me-up, but seriously?! Who the fuck wants the Ptolemies?! That’s like when people claim Peter the Great slept with Menshikov; like, as a queer person, my honest answer to that is “we don’t want them”.)

[marzipanandminutiae]

every time a man assumes I'm a tradwife type because of how I dress, I just want to be like "at any given time it's been an average of three weeks since I last shaved my armpits. sometimes longer"

[gonkaccino]

Season 4 hope/prediction: Deb's show is solid, zero issues, runs flawlessly with great ratings, but her personal life is completely eroding. We start with her discovering Marcus is leaving, and it culminates in DJ going into labor right before a taping. Deb chooses the show. When it's over, and she finally flies to Vegas, it's too late -- Aiden's not letting her in because he loves his wife too much to let DJ get into a shouting match with her mom right after giving birth, and instead takes the brunt of Deb's wrath, with her making excuses and talking about how they used her money for IVF, and anyway, DJ's fine, so who cares if she wasn't there? Kathy's in the room with DJ and the baby (DJ's the closest she has to a daughter, after all) and Deb leaves too furious to think about how badly she's hurt her family.

She heads back to her Vegas mansion -- empty, obviously, Josefina and the dogs would be in LA -- and pops open a bottle of wine. Alone. Completely alone. Can't call Marty, she has no friends, the closest she's got would be Kiki and wouldn't that be embarrassing, calling your poker dealer to talk about your feelings --

and then Ava's there. She got the news about DJ's labor, she got the story from Aiden (who was distraught, by the way, man's too much of a sweetheart for Vance drama), a spare key from Damian (happy to pawn that off on her, though if it isn't returned promptly he's taking legal action) and has arrived just in time to see the Deborah Vance having a breakdown the likes of which no one thought physically possible. Crying gives you wrinkles, you know. But Ava has to be here. She's the physical embodiment of a lesson Deb never truly learned: you don't have to like someone to love them.

In my imaginary fantasy land that I am concocting this would then subsequently lead into them fucking nasty but I understand that this may be a step too far for the surprisingly large number of very normal people who watch this show and would forgive JPL for not taking it that far. However I do believe they should fuck about it and let Ava take the reigns in their relationship while they see how many of Deb's bridges they can un-burn.

[innerward]

[fielddogs]

Damn miss peregrine your peculiar children are gnc as fuck

[alexjcrowley]

I hate when people say "before the internet people weren't so rude, internet normalized insulting other people and even sending them death threats" when Archilochus and Hipponax were bragging about insulting people so badly they killed themselves in the VII and VI centuries b. C. respectively

[lomotunes2008]

I did another run with a B12! This time I tried going from Brighton to London (I sadly didn't make it but I took some really pretty pictures on the way!)

[firebird04]

I'm reading the Odyssey for the first time, so here are my designs for Odysseus, Penelope, Telemachus, Circe and Calypso.

I'll post the coloured version soon.

[awesomesaurous]

Have any pictures of Charlie is a child if Maxwell's cute as a kid how cute is Charlie as a kid

she's really really cute actually

[navree]

the crown's version of queen elizabeth is a better wife than me because if my misogynistic husband kept trying to supersede my authority all the damn day the next time he did it in front of another person i would just call him "queen philip" and make him cry because of his hatred of women

[galactic-dragoness]

Guess who finally sat down and finished watching Hamilton after putting it off for ten years

[vulpine-spectacle]

Me, writing a sentence: *Rome must handle the cards she has been dealt* Me: ... Me: ... Me: ... Me: *googles if Rome had cards back in 194 AD* Google: No Me: Oh Me: ... Me: ... Me: ... Me: :(

[ofmd-archive]

Great just end it with fucking genocide, make that seem fine to write. Totally not like living poc have trauma surrounding that. Fuck you to every fucking writer who saw a show that finally had a poc queer cast and decide "you know what this needs? the blood of asian women" and then to fucking gloat that brits will never be fucking slaves as if- you know what if you don't know history and about the trans atlantic slavery and the issues we currently have with human trafficking at this point and you're a fucking adult, that's on you and fuck you if you don't give a shit about this

once again to every single fucking person who greenlit this or heard this idea and went "yes, good."

fuck you

[livingtheparadoxlife]

🌩️

for the ask game

Sahadev scrunched his flushed pale face while pointing at the rather gross amount of pus and blood flowing out of the mare's legs. "Someone is going to have to clean that up, because I won't."

Nakul elbowed him on the side. "You'd do if it was a cow."

"Cows are calm, gentle things. Your horse has kicked me thrice already even though I was just trying to help her."

"That's because you were poking her where it hurt, brother dear. And she's not my horse. She just likes me."

[greatbritishsimchallenge]

My word is: Charlotte

Good choice!!! I've got a juicy one for you: "You should know - I don't go by Charlotte anymore. That was my human name. Now, I am Princess Morgana. And I will do whatever it takes to protect you."

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in.