“She came in and she was like a shot of espresso, she’s like being bathe in sunlight. She’s incredibly energetic and enthusiastic and she had this sense of play and fun which was incredibly exciting.” - Andrew Garfield about Emma Stone
Listen, Christopher Nolan.
I stand with Homer’s Odyssey, not with a modern version created to make Odysseus easier for us to forgive. You say you did not mean to Christianize the story. But when the Trojan Horse becomes a source of guilt, the journey home becomes penance, and a warrior hungry for glory becomes ashamed of who he is, I have to wonder: are we still watching Homer’s hero, or a modern man sent to therapy in ancient armour?
Yes, Xenia matters. But so do kleos, timē, metis and nostos: glory, honour, cunning and the unbearable desire to return home.
Homer’s Odysseus is proud, violent, brilliant, selfish, loyal, wounded and deeply human. He is not asking the audience to approve of him. He is trying to reclaim his wife, his son, his home and the name the world almost took from him.
I do not need Odysseus to be more likeable. I need him to be recognizable.
Perhaps great stories are not supposed to make us comfortable. Perhaps they survive because they force us to face people whose values are not our own.
You borrowed Homer’s seas, his gods and his hero, but gave Odysseus the conscience of another age.
And I couldn’t help but wonder: when we rewrite the past until it finally agrees with us, are we bringing Homer to life or simply putting him on trial?
Writing fanfic really is catering to yourself...the amount of times I've been re-reading my own shit and been "Damn, this is exactly what I want" is genuinely so funny to me
Writing fanfic really is catering to yourself...the amount of times I've been re-reading my own shit and been "Damn, this is exactly what I want" is genuinely so funny to me
Posting a new chapter and getting radio silence feels like cooking for hours, feeling giddy, getting excited to have everyone have a taste of your hard work, only for no one to eat your food. 🥲 It's depressing, really.
peut-être qu’#il stalk mon Twitter aussi parce qu’il vient de REPOSTER ses biceps en story. mdr. on se voit pas cette semaine j’arrête de lui parler. assez de conneries.
#il vient de poster ses pecs en story mais on est mercredi et toujours pas de rdv de date. Écoutez moi très bien, j’vais faire EXPLOSER les processeurs meta, histoire qu’il arrête ses conneries.
Peter can never forget Tony. Their relationship is the best father-son dynamic Marvel accidentally created, and Peter was literally the reasons Tony created time travel. You’re telling me Peter had a flashback of everyone he loved and Tony wasn’t in it??? Come on
I’m sorry but Tony Stark being completely absent from Peter’s flashbacks pissed me OFF. Tony was one of the most important people in Peter’s teenage years. He believed in him, cared about him and was there for him. How do you show Peter remembering his past and just erase TONY???