the song of achilles is one of those books where i understand the criticism it gets but it was so important to me when i was 13 that i can never hate it
I really do hate it that when a white person gets called out, we're all expected to coddle them, their feelings and their mental health. but the people they hurt have to just move on or they get called a stalker, mean or told they're overreacting.
bg3twt has an INSANE racism problem. Everyone loves to coddle yt people here even when they essentially PLAN this shit out.
Whether or not this person MEANT to be anti indigenous is one thing. The problem is: THEY WERE. And instead of acknowledging that —
So many visual and narrative choices struck me as bizarre or too heavily christian in its influence for my tastes, BUT the entire Polyphemus and Circe scenes had my jaw dropping. The film shines when they let the audio and visuals do the storytelling imo!
Devastated to report that despite my many critiques of it, I actually really enjoyed my viewing experience of The Odyssey. I am obsessed with scores and practical effects, and unfortunately this film is absolutely phenomenal at both
they were together in a different century, I know, but there’s something so laughable about louis depicting lestat as this hyper-masculine figure, when this is literally lestat:
the disconnect between what’s perceived as taboo and what’s actually treated as taboo is fascinating to me. on a tv show that prides itself on being so unapologetically gay we’ll get graphic incest on screen as long as it’s heterosexual, but god forbid a gay sex scene +